This update has broken my iPhone with the dreaded "itunes cannot read the contents of the iPhone" problem. Reluctant to force a factory reset as although I have an almost up-to-date backup, there are a few items that I changed after the backup that I don't want to lose. Currently no idea how to fix, so iPhone-less!
The picture Mr Orlowski paints of weeping children being frog-marched into compulsory coding classes owes more to his overheated imagination than reality.
Well I agree with RCJ here - compulsory coding lessons would be no worse than compulsory reading, writing, maths, geography, French etc. lessons. Does Andrew really think that kids are frog-marched weeping into those lessons too?
The clue here is in where it was announced: The National Association of Broadcasters show. This product is designed for long-term archive of large items (such as films and television programmes) rather than a for off-line storage for normal IT users. The companies buying products like this are far more interested in how likely they are to be able to retrieve the contents in tens (or even hundreds - seriously) of years down the line than in cost per GB or speed.
If Sony can show that the contents will last for two or three times as long as tape or hard-drive, and that degradation or damage can be reversed more easily, then this may sell well. I work with some of the groups that develop archiving systems and it is a different world. The sort of thing that you might expect to find in a modern archiving system (but nor your standard disc store) is the ability to periodically scan the media for early signs of degradation and copy the contents to a new cartridge before errors happen. I see this being easier with optical media than magnetic - but I may be wrong.
Simple - If I make a site and my mum checks it out 200 times I don't want to think I have 200 visitors. And I can't just use the IP address because my mum is on an ISP with dynamic IPs and gets a new one at least once a day.
I have six sites using various off-the-shelf (free) CMS systems such as Drupal, phpBB and WordPress. I have no idea how the law applies to these - especially as some of them show Google or Amazon ads.
Unless I can figure out what I have to do to comply with the new law I can only assume that on 25th May I must replace all of these sites with a static page showing "Site closed down due to EU Cookie law"
The quoted price is about the same as a PS3 or an XBOX360 - what makes this better than either of those? The consoles can do lots of IPTV stuff and great games. As far as I can tell the Google TV does IPTV and a few basic games.
It's not about proof it's about a threat. It's like hearing an asteroid is heading our way and people are demanding proof that it will hit us and bemoaning that studies only "imply it" will hit us as if therefore it's a non-threat.
So you seem to be saying - if the claim is big enough, the level of proof required is negligible?
However ViaForensics (the company hired by Channel 4 News to do the leg work) has today demonstrated that it can lift the customer's name from any Visa-branded card.
So now you can wirelessly extract details from non-NFC cards?!
Reg readers are aware that laptop makers have been stuck in a "lets match the worst HD panels and forget progress" mentality for years now. This would start making laptops seriously useful again!
"Mr Dyke said on Sunday that everyone would in future be able to download BBC radio and TV programmes from the internet."
The problem seems to be that there is a word missing from that sentence if you want it to be 100% explicit. You seem to think the sentence means:
"Mr Dyke said on Sunday that everyone would in future be able to download all BBC radio and TV programmes from the internet."
Whereas I expect that what he meant was:
"Mr Dyke said on Sunday that everyone would in future be able to download some BBC radio and TV programmes from the internet."
But of course you are not quoting Mr Dyke's speech - you are quoting a report about the speech. So it is useful to check the original text to see what was actually said. Oh yes...
"We intend to allow parts of our programmes, where we own the rights, to be available to anyone in the UK to download so long as they don't use them for commercial purposes."
I have to say that I can't remember the last time that I stayed at a hotel that had Ethernet internet access, but not WiFi - am I visiting the wrong places? Or maybe the right ones!
I'm not 100% anti-apple (I do have two Apple products, but a huge amount more non-Apple stuff) but I have to agree that I think that proper geeks should follow Woz rather than Jobs!
The method used exposed one set of mice to active mobile phones making a call 24/7, and the control were exposed to deactivated phones. They then concluded that electromagnetic radiation in the 800-1900MHz range was the cause of any differences between the two groups. Unfortunately there are a lot of differences between a phone making a constant call and a deactivated phone. One will be using quite a lot of power, producing heat, emitting various chemicals due to heating, charging a battery (or at least keeping it charged while being used) quite possibly there are audio frequencies that we don't hear being produced.
I went to Amazon and searched for BBC series box sets at random and the first I found was something called "Playing the Field" - not sure I have ever heard of it and not my sort of thing I'm sure! However, seasons 1 and 2 (13 episodes in total) for £4.99. That works out at £0.38 per episode. Watching this on the iPlayer would cost £24.57 - and then I dare say the same again if I want to watch them again.
Does this mean that if I buy a film on iTunes it won't be delivered to me at all? Is this only true if I am an HBO customer? Is this only a problem if I have downloaded it before, but have lost the local copy and want to download it again?
Well, 1600x900 is not all that bad, but noting great on a 17" screen. My laptop has a resolution of 1680x1050 in 17" and that was nothing special when I bought it five years ago!
Here's an idea that would make me seriously consider getting an e-reader.
I have hundreds of books at home that I would be interested in reading again, and I do re-read some of them very often. This is the big thing stopping me going for an e-reader - I can't format shift my existing library.
So, how about I send my paper books back to Amazon (I would have to pay the shipping) and in return they give me a 75% or so discount on the Kindle version of the same book. They can then pulp the books if they want (so there are the same number of copies of that book in existence, one less paper and one more electronic) but they have made 25% of the cost of the e-book. Alternatively they could re-sell the book as a second-hand item in their own marketplace.
This would require some interesting deals with publishers, but if anyone has the muscle to make this sort of deal happen, it is Amazon.
When pretty much every Ultrabook that I have seen has a 1366 x 768 screen, it reduces them to the same pigeon-hole as this laptop. Sure, the screens are physically a little larger, and you get a more powerful CPU, but I doubt that there is much that you would actually do on an Ultrabook that this can not do fine for a third of the price.
I can't get that deal as I am not in a "supported area".
It seems that unless you are in a "Market 3" area (i.e. one with lots of LLU providers etc.) then you have to pay £18 per month on top of your BT line rental.
I am starting to wonder if this differs depending on which network you are on. I am in the wilds of Scotland where there used to be no Three coverage. I suspect that they may have fixed this by sharing the T-Mobile network (which has had coverage here for ages). I wonder now if this means that I get my Three bandwidth via T-mobile and they have a blanket 1Mbps cap.
I suspect Three may do the same - I have a phone on their "One Plan" which I tether at times and have never yet managed >1Mbps down, but usually >1Mbps up!
So you were comparing an SD Sky box with analogue out (probably set up as composite as well) to watching SD programmes that are up-converted in the decoder and sent digitally to the TV.
And you were surprised by the difference in quality?
No, they don't try and capture the details with a payment and then duplicate - they wait for you to log into your bank account and redirect your browser to a "copy" of the bank's website and at the same time they internally visit your website. When you type your Pin Sentry code into the fake website they use this to log into the real website; now it is them logged in not you. They may present you with a "this page is down for maintenance for the next 30 minutes" message or something else, but meanwhile they are using their validated log-in to empty your account.
So, what exactly is covered by this? I understand that MS Office would be covered, as would Windows, but what about Firefox? It's not being "sold within the EU".
How about if my company is contracted by a customer to write them a system for managing their inventory - does that count as "software sold within the EU"? How about if the software is not written by a separate company, but by a different department of the same company? What if the programmers that wrote the code are contractors to the "customer" company?
What counts as a "program"? Does every shell script I write count? Even if it is for myself? What about Javascript? PHP? HTML?
How do you get this kite-mark? Do you have to submit your code for approval to some company that will test it and award the kite-mark? If so do I need to sent each update to them to? So if a security problem is discovered in "approved" code do I then need to pay yet again and wait how ever long for the fix to be approved before I can send it to my customers?
And you do you prove that you have a kite-mark? Are you assuming malware writers won't simply lie? Or are all of our programs going to have to be signed? If so, will computers sold in the EU have to reject un-signed code? Such as Linux?
Which browser is this that doesn't show the links? All of the browsers installed on my computer show the full link in the bottom left of the screen when I hover over it.
I second the no "need to confirm up/down" but it would also help if there was some indication of what you voted for this comment as I have found myself trying to figure out if I already up/down voted a comment already and doing it again just to find out!
And block quotes - yes please.
But of course I am not yet even in the upgraded club yet (sniff)
P.S. And some way to not have to log back in so often - maybe an option somewhere to select "keep me logged in for N days"
So, huge profits made by duping consumers, but at least they will be so very inconvenienced by not being able to re-run the now finished ad campaign.
Of course I don't doubt that when they replace it with other misleading ads which also bring in loads of extra money (from consumers that can't understand why they don't get the same results) they will also be told to stop publishing those (long after they have stopped publishing them anyway)
I made the mistake of actually going to my account and hitting "Upgrade" - which is the way you would normally add this sort of feature. Perhaps they could add a link there too rather than just on the Anytime+ "brochure" page!
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Broke my iPhone
This update has broken my iPhone with the dreaded "itunes cannot read the contents of the iPhone" problem. Reluctant to force a factory reset as although I have an almost up-to-date backup, there are a few items that I changed after the backup that I don't want to lose. Currently no idea how to fix, so iPhone-less!
Huge attack!
"We saw around 10 million apparently unique IPs attack us."
Wow! - If this is true then that means about 0.25% of all possible IP addresses were taking part in that attack. That is one serious botnet.
True
The picture Mr Orlowski paints of weeping children being frog-marched into compulsory coding classes owes more to his overheated imagination than reality.
Well I agree with RCJ here - compulsory coding lessons would be no worse than compulsory reading, writing, maths, geography, French etc. lessons. Does Andrew really think that kids are frog-marched weeping into those lessons too?
Re: Sony's Optical-Disk Retread
The clue here is in where it was announced: The National Association of Broadcasters show. This product is designed for long-term archive of large items (such as films and television programmes) rather than a for off-line storage for normal IT users. The companies buying products like this are far more interested in how likely they are to be able to retrieve the contents in tens (or even hundreds - seriously) of years down the line than in cost per GB or speed.
If Sony can show that the contents will last for two or three times as long as tape or hard-drive, and that degradation or damage can be reversed more easily, then this may sell well. I work with some of the groups that develop archiving systems and it is a different world. The sort of thing that you might expect to find in a modern archiving system (but nor your standard disc store) is the ability to periodically scan the media for early signs of degradation and copy the contents to a new cartridge before errors happen. I see this being easier with optical media than magnetic - but I may be wrong.
£1199
And only one pair of glasses!
Re: Not free App
Yup - classic bait-and-switch.
El Reg should remove this article.
Re: I'm just a simple coder
Simple - If I make a site and my mum checks it out 200 times I don't want to think I have 200 visitors. And I can't just use the IP address because my mum is on an ISP with dynamic IPs and gets a new one at least once a day.
Confused - Guess I must shutter my sites!
I have six sites using various off-the-shelf (free) CMS systems such as Drupal, phpBB and WordPress. I have no idea how the law applies to these - especially as some of them show Google or Amazon ads.
Unless I can figure out what I have to do to comply with the new law I can only assume that on 25th May I must replace all of these sites with a static page showing "Site closed down due to EU Cookie law"
I don't get it
The quoted price is about the same as a PS3 or an XBOX360 - what makes this better than either of those? The consoles can do lots of IPTV stuff and great games. As far as I can tell the Google TV does IPTV and a few basic games.
HD Channels
HD channels will gain their own grouping: channels 101 to 109
So we will never have more than 9 HD channels?
Wanna bet...
They will be $199 and £230?
</moan>
Re: Doddle
It's not about proof it's about a threat. It's like hearing an asteroid is heading our way and people are demanding proof that it will hit us and bemoaning that studies only "imply it" will hit us as if therefore it's a non-threat.
So you seem to be saying - if the claim is big enough, the level of proof required is negligible?
I think there may be a flaw in your logic
Wow!
However ViaForensics (the company hired by Channel 4 News to do the leg work) has today demonstrated that it can lift the customer's name from any Visa-branded card.
So now you can wirelessly extract details from non-NFC cards?!
Wow, just wow!
Enigma
Claimed to be un-crackable and totally secure.
Now I see why they chose that name!
Please let this be true!
Reg readers are aware that laptop makers have been stuck in a "lets match the worst HD panels and forget progress" mentality for years now. This would start making laptops seriously useful again!
Re: Two points
"Mr Dyke said on Sunday that everyone would in future be able to download BBC radio and TV programmes from the internet."
The problem seems to be that there is a word missing from that sentence if you want it to be 100% explicit. You seem to think the sentence means:
"Mr Dyke said on Sunday that everyone would in future be able to download all BBC radio and TV programmes from the internet."
Whereas I expect that what he meant was:
"Mr Dyke said on Sunday that everyone would in future be able to download some BBC radio and TV programmes from the internet."
But of course you are not quoting Mr Dyke's speech - you are quoting a report about the speech. So it is useful to check the original text to see what was actually said. Oh yes...
"We intend to allow parts of our programmes, where we own the rights, to be available to anyone in the UK to download so long as they don't use them for commercial purposes."
Re: Samurai cop
Why did you make me watch that - WHY?!?!?
I must be travelling to the wrong places
I have to say that I can't remember the last time that I stayed at a hotel that had Ethernet internet access, but not WiFi - am I visiting the wrong places? Or maybe the right ones!
Re: I hate Apple....
I'm not 100% anti-apple (I do have two Apple products, but a huge amount more non-Apple stuff) but I have to agree that I think that proper geeks should follow Woz rather than Jobs!
Poor Science
Reading the report, this seems poor science.
The method used exposed one set of mice to active mobile phones making a call 24/7, and the control were exposed to deactivated phones. They then concluded that electromagnetic radiation in the 800-1900MHz range was the cause of any differences between the two groups. Unfortunately there are a lot of differences between a phone making a constant call and a deactivated phone. One will be using quite a lot of power, producing heat, emitting various chemicals due to heating, charging a battery (or at least keeping it charged while being used) quite possibly there are audio frequencies that we don't hear being produced.
Comparable?
OK, lets try comparing...
Looking at the main SKY Movies available:
Senna: Not available to stream on LoveFilm, Netflix will not even tell me if they have it without my credit card details
Faster: No stream on LoveFilm, Netflix can't find out without giving credit card details
The Green Hornet: No stream on LoveFilm, Netfilx = same again
HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban: LoveFilm = no stream, Netflix = not even bothering
The Help: LoveFilm = OMG! LoveFilm have this one!
Breaking Dawn, Pt 1: LoveFilm = no stream
Love and Other Drugs: Lovefile = no stream
The Roommate: LoveFilm = no stream
Insomnia: LoveFilm = no stream
Eat, Pray, Love: LoveFilm = no stream
The Dilemma: LoveFilm = no stream
Let Me In: LoveFilm = no stream
Gave up looking after that
£1.89 each - really?
That sounds a bit steep per episode!
I went to Amazon and searched for BBC series box sets at random and the first I found was something called "Playing the Field" - not sure I have ever heard of it and not my sort of thing I'm sure! However, seasons 1 and 2 (13 episodes in total) for £4.99. That works out at £0.38 per episode. Watching this on the iPlayer would cost £24.57 - and then I dare say the same again if I want to watch them again.
Is it just me...
...or is this story as clear as mud?
Does this mean that if I buy a film on iTunes it won't be delivered to me at all? Is this only true if I am an HBO customer? Is this only a problem if I have downloaded it before, but have lost the local copy and want to download it again?
Any ideas?
Wow - how useless
Just tried it, the local prices of my nearest stations are:
* 98.9p/L (as of 17-3-2009)
* 138.9p/L (as of 24-5-2011)
* 138.9p/L (as of 9-7-2011)
* Unknown
* Unknown
* 135.9 p/L (as of 16-10-2011)
* 134.9 p/L (as of 23-1-2012)
{{ by this point they are further away than I could be bothered to drive for fuel }}
The most up-to-date price shown is 19th February 2012 - wow, only 18 days out of date!
Re: Cue...
Well, 1600x900 is not all that bad, but noting great on a 17" screen. My laptop has a resolution of 1680x1050 in 17" and that was nothing special when I bought it five years ago!
An idea...
Here's an idea that would make me seriously consider getting an e-reader.
I have hundreds of books at home that I would be interested in reading again, and I do re-read some of them very often. This is the big thing stopping me going for an e-reader - I can't format shift my existing library.
So, how about I send my paper books back to Amazon (I would have to pay the shipping) and in return they give me a 75% or so discount on the Kindle version of the same book. They can then pulp the books if they want (so there are the same number of copies of that book in existence, one less paper and one more electronic) but they have made 25% of the cost of the e-book. Alternatively they could re-sell the book as a second-hand item in their own marketplace.
This would require some interesting deals with publishers, but if anyone has the muscle to make this sort of deal happen, it is Amazon.
Yet more proof that we are now living in a police state!
Re: Scanning stuff in shops
[citation needed]
Re: Re: Last series was awful
Um - surely it was always a family programme.
Family != Children
Spot the FAIL!
"Suggested Price: £1370"
"The display resolution is 1366 x 768"
This is what Ultrabooks are competing against
When pretty much every Ultrabook that I have seen has a 1366 x 768 screen, it reduces them to the same pigeon-hole as this laptop. Sure, the screens are physically a little larger, and you get a more powerful CPU, but I doubt that there is much that you would actually do on an Ultrabook that this can not do fine for a third of the price.
No luck
I can't get that deal as I am not in a "supported area".
It seems that unless you are in a "Market 3" area (i.e. one with lots of LLU providers etc.) then you have to pay £18 per month on top of your BT line rental.
I am starting to wonder if this differs depending on which network you are on. I am in the wilds of Scotland where there used to be no Three coverage. I suspect that they may have fixed this by sharing the T-Mobile network (which has had coverage here for ages). I wonder now if this means that I get my Three bandwidth via T-mobile and they have a blanket 1Mbps cap.
"I got around 3.7 the other day."
Is that on The One Plan?
Is Three the same?
I suspect Three may do the same - I have a phone on their "One Plan" which I tether at times and have never yet managed >1Mbps down, but usually >1Mbps up!
So you were comparing an SD Sky box with analogue out (probably set up as composite as well) to watching SD programmes that are up-converted in the decoder and sent digitally to the TV.
And you were surprised by the difference in quality?
Wrong idea
No, they don't try and capture the details with a payment and then duplicate - they wait for you to log into your bank account and redirect your browser to a "copy" of the bank's website and at the same time they internally visit your website. When you type your Pin Sentry code into the fake website they use this to log into the real website; now it is them logged in not you. They may present you with a "this page is down for maintenance for the next 30 minutes" message or something else, but meanwhile they are using their validated log-in to empty your account.
Or just ensure your POST is set to do a full RAM test and reboot instead of powering off.
TrueCrypt and power-down the machine before leaving the room (especially to answer the door) or if there are any sounds of someone trying to break in.
Yeah, some sort of code tag seems important on the Register!
" soooo ... am I a <b>power</b> user? "
No - but <em>nor am I</em>
P.S. Pretty please!
So, what exactly is covered by this? I understand that MS Office would be covered, as would Windows, but what about Firefox? It's not being "sold within the EU".
How about if my company is contracted by a customer to write them a system for managing their inventory - does that count as "software sold within the EU"? How about if the software is not written by a separate company, but by a different department of the same company? What if the programmers that wrote the code are contractors to the "customer" company?
What counts as a "program"? Does every shell script I write count? Even if it is for myself? What about Javascript? PHP? HTML?
How do you get this kite-mark? Do you have to submit your code for approval to some company that will test it and award the kite-mark? If so do I need to sent each update to them to? So if a security problem is discovered in "approved" code do I then need to pay yet again and wait how ever long for the fix to be approved before I can send it to my customers?
And you do you prove that you have a kite-mark? Are you assuming malware writers won't simply lie? Or are all of our programs going to have to be signed? If so, will computers sold in the EU have to reject un-signed code? Such as Linux?
>> A "In reply to" link would do.
>
>Like the "in reply to" link at the top of each reply, perhaps?
>
I don't see any "in reply to" links.
Which browser?
Which browser is this that doesn't show the links? All of the browsers installed on my computer show the full link in the bottom left of the screen when I hover over it.
Brilliant marketing point there: Windows Phone - for the old and half-blind!
I just up-voted this because...
A few additions
I second the no "need to confirm up/down" but it would also help if there was some indication of what you voted for this comment as I have found myself trying to figure out if I already up/down voted a comment already and doing it again just to find out!
And block quotes - yes please.
But of course I am not yet even in the upgraded club yet (sniff)
P.S. And some way to not have to log back in so often - maybe an option somewhere to select "keep me logged in for N days"
You would be surprised
I don't believe them, you don't believe them, but sadly we are in the minority that understand how these things work!
That'll show 'em
So, huge profits made by duping consumers, but at least they will be so very inconvenienced by not being able to re-run the now finished ad campaign.
Of course I don't doubt that when they replace it with other misleading ads which also bring in loads of extra money (from consumers that can't understand why they don't get the same results) they will also be told to stop publishing those (long after they have stopped publishing them anyway)
Way to go ASA!
You are right...
I made the mistake of actually going to my account and hitting "Upgrade" - which is the way you would normally add this sort of feature. Perhaps they could add a link there too rather than just on the Anytime+ "brochure" page!
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