I know know that my fondleslab is resistant to coffee /and/ snot. not sure my sinuses are going to recover any time soon though... (and why did autocorrect come up with 'fondleslap'!)
So, I've got one set of security researchers telling me to use different passwords everywhere, and another saying we should have one central repository for authentication with some wierd scheme that involves bouncing text messages about. I must log in to different unix boxen 50+ times a day - how's this going to help?
so presumably they'll know who you are, and where you are (thanks to GSM/GPS location) at all times? UK.gov must be wetting themselves in anticipation to see how this one pans out.
A one square metre solar panel will give you roughly 100W if you park it in the sun. So to charge your 85KWh battery would take about a solid month of sunshine - ie, a whole year if you live in the UK :-) If you're lucky a full day of sunshine might get you to the end of the street, assuming that 17" panel doesn't draw more than 100W of course.
None of my customers is using IE for business (in the last 5 years), only Firefox. This idea of corporate using IE is quite far fetched. Unless they are some weird hippy corporation that hasn't yet learned better (not because IE has a problem per se, just because a lot of business software still doesn't work 100% properly in it).
If I'm calling Dell, it's because my computer has failed. If my computer is working well enough to make a video call over the internet, then it hasn't failed.
For application support it might be worth while - provided you can send the desktop rather than a mugshot of an angry customer.
"some evil worm or attack on the National infrastructure" - like, one that targes the internet kill switch for example? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_off_the_nose_to_spite_the_face
Parents of kids with ASD or indeed any other disability are so used to their children being criticised or abused or generally treated badly that they get very, very defensive, neurotic even. Someone mentioned 'majorly traumatic event' - an autistic friend likened something like that to feeling as bad as the death of a close relative. Don't ever pretend to understand how brains work, especially non-typical ones!
Why don't they just bung a few pico cells in the prison, so any calls get met with 'I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. ' followed by a rough triangulation to see which wing it came from?
"non-speaking disorders such as cerebral palsy" - one does not imply the other. Our local pool manager has cerebral palsy. My son has CP. They speak to each other in a way perfectly understandable to any other english speaker. CP is primarily a motor cortex disorder so although speech can be affected it's by no means a given.
We were using stacked memory devices 15 years ago at <insert defence co here>. Amazing that it hasn't caught on - unless all the patents on this kind of thing are just tying people's lawyers in knots and stopping progress.
He didn't say IT Uni grads, he said people who had learnt IT while at Uni. Subtle difference :-) One of our best IT guys studied hospitality management
Flash is well over 10^6 write cycles now even before write wear levelling. We've found that flash lasts longer than hard disk. Our proxy servers with disks on customer sites generally last about 3 years; we've yet to swap out a unit with a flash card but the oldest is 5 years.
The trouble with using beer in a siphon is that after a while, all the bubbles would get trapped at the top and stop the process. Anyway, have you /tried/ drinking beer through a straw?
I got through about 4 ink jet printers before getting the HP CP1215N - it's shocking how much better it is, compared with fishing damp bits of paper out the out tray, endless cleaning cycles, nasty drivers, ink cartridges that last for, oh dozens of of pages. I tend to print 50 pages, once every 6 weeks or so, so inkjet printers tend to dry out and you end up with a crappy first page. I plugged it into my network, and all my (linux) boxes just popped up a little box to say they had found it and would I like it to be my default printer. Still barely a quarter through the 'demo' toner cartridges after 1000 pages or so.
Photos are OK; agreed ink jets on coated paper do a better job for that, but it's good enough and besides, not what I bought the printer for.
Doesn't practically everyone have a landline - even if they don't use it for voice? Surely this should be added on to general taxation - then those on silly salaries (ie, the bankers that the gvnmnt bailed out) get to pay a bit more, and those of us earning peanuts don't have our nuts squeezed, so to speak.
@Giles Jones "Yet another reason why we need more fibre and less copper. You can't really sell glass fibre for scrap."
That doesn't seem to stop the usual suspects from digging it up - someone I know runs the IT at a chemical plant and they had all their fibre dug up a while back, by, how shall I put it, the residents of a local unauthorised encampment.
So your password list gets nicked along with the wallet. Exactly how do you change your password then if your list of passwords has been nicked? Especially if you have to change it before the thief looks at the contents of the wallet and logs on to your bank - I can imagine your bank's response when they find out you kept your password with your bank card!
In north kent about 30 miles east of Bromley, all was well last night and has been fine all day today - I'm a network engineery type working from home so if anything goes down all merry hell breaks loose! I'm in an ex telewest area and the service here has been rock solid for the last 5 years.
My quad core box draws about 45w when doing the usual work chores - reading el Reg, email, wordprocessing etc, and about 80w at full tilt. It also goes from silent to 'Jet Engine' and warms the office up nicely - to the extent that in winter, if it gets cold I just fire up a FaH process.
Do commercial systems really hard code the vat rate ? I wrote my own as none of the commercial/FOSS ones quite suited. Here's my cron job for next sunday at midnight:
update products set vat=1.15 where vat=1.175
covers all the zero rated stuff too. Magic. Perhaps I should book 4 hours just to make it sound complicated...
How on earth does this database prevent someone from abusing their own chilldren ? We're not quite in a 24hr domestic surveilance society (yet) and as far as I know there aren't cameras in my home watching me bath my baby checking that I'm not taking /too/ much care washing his bottom...
@AC (Access point = Desk??? ) - if you have a megawatt microwave, I want to know which county you live in, so I can move to a different one :-) Military might be interested though...
Re "an (arguably) obvious idea" - you're forgetting that prior art only exists in the USA - the US patent office doesn't count anything invented outside the US.
Now if we could only get the reverse to apply, ie that US patents could safely be ignored if you are not based in the US, then we could let them patent themselves into oblivion and let them go the same way as their bankers.
That price doesn't include import duty, VAT or postage by the way, so in the UK you'll be paying about £272 .There's also very little stock in the country at the moment - we sold out our first shipment within about 8 hours, with virtually no advertising.
So the 'merkins are allowing brits to travel to the USA without a visa, provided they apply in advance for a document that allows them entry. Don't most countries call that a 'visa' ?
Remind me, is this to stop terrorists or is it 'for the children' - I lose track of which justifications are used where these days.
Looking at the demo on their website, it appears to use an activex control - I thought they went out of fashion long ago ? It begs the question, why should I trust a ropey, non-standards browser on an even more ropey, non-standards operating system to transfer money from my account to the one it fills in for you ?
This will teach non-net-savvy users that it is OK to open activex controls that fill in arbitary details into your bank website. How long before a phishing scam does /exactly/ the same thing, but redirects you to a copy of your bank's website?
If we don't ever get to see the windows source code, no-one can then be accused of stealing bits of it (a la SCO) and incorporating it into GPL'd code. "Hey, you stole the line 'int i=0;' from our code! We're gonna sue ya!".
On the flip side of course, if we got to see the source any infringements would get picked up real quick.
I'm 34, and these things irritate me far more than most teenagers do; certainly if shops decide to use them I won't be spending my money there ! To me, it's almost as loud as a car alarm and just as bloody pointless.
I also have problems with the proliferation of cat scaring devices - thankfully people don't usually notice if you take the batteries out after dark... Lots of people my age have little children too - why should they be subjected to continual noise pollution ?
My line went down at 9:20 last night and came back at 1:30pm this afternoon. Hardly a short outage, especially as I work from home and rely on the internet for just about everything I do. It's the first long outage for a while though. So much for it affecting the north - I'm in deepest Kent !
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I know know that my fondleslab is resistant to coffee /and/ snot. not sure my sinuses are going to recover any time soon though... (and why did autocorrect come up with 'fondleslap'!)
So, I've got one set of security researchers telling me to use different passwords everywhere, and another saying we should have one central repository for authentication with some wierd scheme that involves bouncing text messages about. I must log in to different unix boxen 50+ times a day - how's this going to help?
tracking
so presumably they'll know who you are, and where you are (thanks to GSM/GPS location) at all times? UK.gov must be wetting themselves in anticipation to see how this one pans out.
A one square metre solar panel will give you roughly 100W if you park it in the sun. So to charge your 85KWh battery would take about a solid month of sunshine - ie, a whole year if you live in the UK :-) If you're lucky a full day of sunshine might get you to the end of the street, assuming that 17" panel doesn't draw more than 100W of course.
Apple patented godly unugliness, so there's not much hope there.
a about f
Can we start using IP to protect the _solution_ instead of the problem please. This is all getting far too silly.
Fact!
None of my customers is using IE for business (in the last 5 years), only Firefox. This idea of corporate using IE is quite far fetched. Unless they are some weird hippy corporation that hasn't yet learned better (not because IE has a problem per se, just because a lot of business software still doesn't work 100% properly in it).
Specs
Was it just me that read it as "Nuclear Mars tank to cause imposing crater" ? Was disappointing to read given that build up :-(
And the point is?
If I'm calling Dell, it's because my computer has failed. If my computer is working well enough to make a video call over the internet, then it hasn't failed.
For application support it might be worth while - provided you can send the desktop rather than a mugshot of an angry customer.
Massive?
Hmmm, what's the spin-up power surge going to be like on a uranium platter then?
Oh joy.
I'm guessing the Linux port of the Skype client will get even attention then.
zap!
Not sure I like the idea of laser hair removal from space!
Post your own message
"some evil worm or attack on the National infrastructure" - like, one that targes the internet kill switch for example? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_off_the_nose_to_spite_the_face
poor mum!
Parents of kids with ASD or indeed any other disability are so used to their children being criticised or abused or generally treated badly that they get very, very defensive, neurotic even. Someone mentioned 'majorly traumatic event' - an autistic friend likened something like that to feeling as bad as the death of a close relative. Don't ever pretend to understand how brains work, especially non-typical ones!
picocell?
Why don't they just bung a few pico cells in the prison, so any calls get met with 'I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. ' followed by a rough triangulation to see which wing it came from?
voting integrity
Interesting that there's usually more fuss made about vote fraud on a reality TV show than there is during a presidential election.
common misconception
"non-speaking disorders such as cerebral palsy" - one does not imply the other. Our local pool manager has cerebral palsy. My son has CP. They speak to each other in a way perfectly understandable to any other english speaker. CP is primarily a motor cortex disorder so although speech can be affected it's by no means a given.
stacked memory
We were using stacked memory devices 15 years ago at <insert defence co here>. Amazing that it hasn't caught on - unless all the patents on this kind of thing are just tying people's lawyers in knots and stopping progress.
Secure Briefcase?
Just how secure is it? Do the contents get destroyed on opening? Or can anyone get in with an angle grinder?
it grads!=people who learnt IT @ uni
He didn't say IT Uni grads, he said people who had learnt IT while at Uni. Subtle difference :-) One of our best IT guys studied hospitality management
Flash life
Flash is well over 10^6 write cycles now even before write wear levelling. We've found that flash lasts longer than hard disk. Our proxy servers with disks on customer sites generally last about 3 years; we've yet to swap out a unit with a flash card but the oldest is 5 years.
Beer?
The trouble with using beer in a siphon is that after a while, all the bubbles would get trapped at the top and stop the process. Anyway, have you /tried/ drinking beer through a straw?
laser vs inkjet
I got through about 4 ink jet printers before getting the HP CP1215N - it's shocking how much better it is, compared with fishing damp bits of paper out the out tray, endless cleaning cycles, nasty drivers, ink cartridges that last for, oh dozens of of pages. I tend to print 50 pages, once every 6 weeks or so, so inkjet printers tend to dry out and you end up with a crappy first page. I plugged it into my network, and all my (linux) boxes just popped up a little box to say they had found it and would I like it to be my default printer. Still barely a quarter through the 'demo' toner cartridges after 1000 pages or so.
Photos are OK; agreed ink jets on coated paper do a better job for that, but it's good enough and besides, not what I bought the printer for.
A perfect example of...
nominative determinism
General Taxation
Doesn't practically everyone have a landline - even if they don't use it for voice? Surely this should be added on to general taxation - then those on silly salaries (ie, the bankers that the gvnmnt bailed out) get to pay a bit more, and those of us earning peanuts don't have our nuts squeezed, so to speak.
Unsafe
That's it, I'm off to earn me a pilot's license. Fords are scary enough on the roads without them being jam packed with MS software!
Backup is cheap.
Deal with it by buying more. Oh, oops.
fibre
@Giles Jones "Yet another reason why we need more fibre and less copper. You can't really sell glass fibre for scrap."
That doesn't seem to stop the usual suspects from digging it up - someone I know runs the IT at a chemical plant and they had all their fibre dug up a while back, by, how shall I put it, the residents of a local unauthorised encampment.
Wallet
So your password list gets nicked along with the wallet. Exactly how do you change your password then if your list of passwords has been nicked? Especially if you have to change it before the thief looks at the contents of the wallet and logs on to your bank - I can imagine your bank's response when they find out you kept your password with your bank card!
I'm alright Jack :-)
In north kent about 30 miles east of Bromley, all was well last night and has been fine all day today - I'm a network engineery type working from home so if anything goes down all merry hell breaks loose! I'm in an ex telewest area and the service here has been rock solid for the last 5 years.
very little incremental resources my arse
My quad core box draws about 45w when doing the usual work chores - reading el Reg, email, wordprocessing etc, and about 80w at full tilt. It also goes from silent to 'Jet Engine' and warms the office up nicely - to the extent that in winter, if it gets cold I just fire up a FaH process.
Debris?
What's that bit of debris bottom middle, about 30 seconds in ? Anything important ?
Ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Oh that's the best thing I've read all year.
MFM
Hell, I accidentally read the manfrommars comment. Must stick head in bucket of something cold...
@LaeMi Qian
> When can I get an OpenMoko Freerunner in Aust??? THAT would be NEWS.
We've sold a few to aussies already - most of the distributors listed on the openmoko site will ship wherever you want.
@ac - egg timer flaws
Ostrich eggs take about 2 hours, so it'd be crap for that...
vat update
Do commercial systems really hard code the vat rate ? I wrote my own as none of the commercial/FOSS ones quite suited. Here's my cron job for next sunday at midnight:
update products set vat=1.15 where vat=1.175
covers all the zero rated stuff too. Magic. Perhaps I should book 4 hours just to make it sound complicated...
What's it for??
How on earth does this database prevent someone from abusing their own chilldren ? We're not quite in a 24hr domestic surveilance society (yet) and as far as I know there aren't cameras in my home watching me bath my baby checking that I'm not taking /too/ much care washing his bottom...
mega what ??
@AC (Access point = Desk??? ) - if you have a megawatt microwave, I want to know which county you live in, so I can move to a different one :-) Military might be interested though...
prior art
Re "an (arguably) obvious idea" - you're forgetting that prior art only exists in the USA - the US patent office doesn't count anything invented outside the US.
Now if we could only get the reverse to apply, ie that US patents could safely be ignored if you are not based in the US, then we could let them patent themselves into oblivion and let them go the same way as their bankers.
made up passwords ?
Hands up who wouldn't make up a password in exchange for a £5 voucher ?
mars attacks ?
Has no-one twigged that I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects is just a reincarnation of amanfrommars ? Not heard from 'him' on this thread yet :-)
Price
That price doesn't include import duty, VAT or postage by the way, so in the UK you'll be paying about £272 .There's also very little stock in the country at the moment - we sold out our first shipment within about 8 hours, with virtually no advertising.
disclaimer - I work for the UK distributer.
visa non-waiver?
So the 'merkins are allowing brits to travel to the USA without a visa, provided they apply in advance for a document that allows them entry. Don't most countries call that a 'visa' ?
Remind me, is this to stop terrorists or is it 'for the children' - I lose track of which justifications are used where these days.
Web standards ??
Looking at the demo on their website, it appears to use an activex control - I thought they went out of fashion long ago ? It begs the question, why should I trust a ropey, non-standards browser on an even more ropey, non-standards operating system to transfer money from my account to the one it fills in for you ?
This will teach non-net-savvy users that it is OK to open activex controls that fill in arbitary details into your bank website. How long before a phishing scam does /exactly/ the same thing, but redirects you to a copy of your bank's website?
Sorry, no. Try again.
Copyright
If we don't ever get to see the windows source code, no-one can then be accused of stealing bits of it (a la SCO) and incorporating it into GPL'd code. "Hey, you stole the line 'int i=0;' from our code! We're gonna sue ya!".
On the flip side of course, if we got to see the source any infringements would get picked up real quick.
Irritating
I'm 34, and these things irritate me far more than most teenagers do; certainly if shops decide to use them I won't be spending my money there ! To me, it's almost as loud as a car alarm and just as bloody pointless.
I also have problems with the proliferation of cat scaring devices - thankfully people don't usually notice if you take the batteries out after dark... Lots of people my age have little children too - why should they be subjected to continual noise pollution ?
Finally back up
My line went down at 9:20 last night and came back at 1:30pm this afternoon. Hardly a short outage, especially as I work from home and rely on the internet for just about everything I do. It's the first long outage for a while though. So much for it affecting the north - I'm in deepest Kent !
Stakeholder
Is this the kind of stake that can be used to terminate the minister responsible for this silly idea :=)
passwords changed - by fasthosts ?
After changing passwords, it seems that some of them have been changed back again - have fasthostts restored their password database by any chance?
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