However, Skype could block the exchange of IP addresses until both parties agree to accept the call
Something like this
1) The caller contacts Skype's servers, and asks to connect to the receiver,
2) Skype contacts the receiver and asks if the the receiver is willing to take the call
3) If yes, then, and only then does Skype inform the caller and receiver of each other's public IP addresses.
It does add more work to Skype's servers (rather than being listing service), and is slightly less resilient if the servers go down (as a listing service the caller could try asking at the receiver's last known IP address).
Most wi-fi/adsl routers allow you to map a fixed IP address to the device's MAC, so when you connect at home you'll always get the same IP address. Otherwise, they'd have to have per-wifi-point network settings in the phone, and that'll probably confuse the muggles.
There is/was a proposal that Gov. Depts. should move from 0800 and 0845 numbers to 0300 and 0345 numbers. These are free and "counts as a mobile-to-landline for your call-plan".
You can also bounce your call through 01255 84 0800 aka "0800-buster", which counts as mobile-to-landline call.
Except that the same image will be served to several (possibly many) different people. If they (almost) all agree, this will be taken as the correct number, otherwise an Oompa-Loompa will have to manually tell the googleplex the correct number.
According to the wikipedia entry, they are described as identical - presumably this is from the film, although, as you pointed out, it is almost impossible.
It is possible to be XY and physically female, or XX and physically male, but it is very rare.
Re: Stuff the payment fraud, what about the identity theft
A contactless terminal can authorise without a PIN for transactions <£10, but there is a chance that it will ask for the PIN. I'm not sure if it is the card, the terminal, or the bank that controls this, but I'd guess it is the card. If the PIN isn't provided, I'd hope that the card locks into PIN-required until it is provided.
Does any bank allow you to register your work address with them, and allow the AVS to succeed with either your home or work postcode? If this is allowed, then it would be handy for those with one fixed place of work , how many people work out of multiple offices?
Indeed it is, and this reporting annoys me. It's the relative speed that matters - its like drinking a cup of tea in a plane doing 500mph, not difficult as everything is moving slowly relative to each other.
There's a list of the BoE note reverses here, and coins here
£2 coins are here. There were two issues in 2006 in commemoration of Brunnel, one featured Paddington Station; the other a Brunel portrait with the Royal Albert Bridge, Plymouth behind him.
Didn't IBM have a range of laptops with accelerometers built in. They could detect if they were dropped and auto-park the harddrive before impact. The adverts showed them being dropped of a café table (about 0.75m) and surviving.
.org .com .net .mil .edu .gov were all originally intended to be generic top-level domains, available for world-wide use. IMHO, this was a mistake as .co.int / .org.int etc should have been the TLD for multinational companies/organisations. The last 3 became defacto US domains, and it seems all 6 are now dejure US domains.
That looks like a PCIe-x4 network card, which can only transfer data to the host a 10Gbit/sec. Seems a bit odd for a company touting 40GE cards not to make them x16 to make full use of the network...
The traction-power will be separated from the socket power. (Traction is normally 600V at several kiloamps).
However, if the fuse-board's ELCB is tripped, then it could take out several mains circuits including -
1. All other platform sockets, including vending machines.
2. Any platform ministores.
3. Ticket issuing machines.
4. Platform access gates - hopefully these fail to open, rather than to closed.
5. Platform-train screen gates used on over-crowed lines - if these fail open then people could fall onto the tracks, if they fail closed, then none can get on/off the next train.
Yes, there should be better separation, but if the sockets are only for cleaning machines, then it might not be that well designed.
As the bank knows your DoB, surely they can check if your PIN is DD/MM, MM/YY or MM/DD for your DoB.
However, the ATM back-end computer doesn't need your DoB - it's only on the initial anti-laundering part. They could do a batch-job running through all recently-changed PINs and asking the back-end if the PIN one of these 3 values, and then send a stern reminder to the customer not to be so silly.
The GPS logger has to cross-reference your location to a road database to determine the speed limit for your current location. If you are on a private road or on a race track, it should have no entry for the speed limit, and thus not penalise you for doing 70+mph.
Melt - the idea is that once you apply for it, you can not turn the speed recording functionally off, otherwise if you wanted to speed for one journey, you'd just turn it off.
> It should be interesting for the EU to comment on why premiums based on the statistics of driving style are OK, but premiums based on the statistics of sex (and soon age) are not OK.
Because you can do something about your driving-style, but it's impossible to do anything about your age, and not many people would want to do something about their sex just to reduce their premiums.
If the author had checked with the wikifiddlers he'd find that
"In physical cosmology, baryogenesis is the generic term for hypothetical physical processes that produced an asymmetry between baryons and antibaryons in the very early universe, resulting in the substantial amounts of residual matter that make up the universe today."
which is what the author thought baryogenesis meant.
Mars Exploration Rover-B Opportunity is currently on Sol 2813 of its 90-Sol mission, preparing to hibernate the long Martian winter. 2001 Mars Odyssey is in the 10th of its 14-year mission, orbiting Mars. The Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity) is enroute, due to arrive on August 6th, 2012, for a 686-day mission, but its RTG PSU should last for 14 years.
True, there are no planned /human/ missions to Mars, but humans are squidgy and easily damaged, need more resources than robots, and are about 10x more expensive in missions.
I used to run the KDE weather taskbar applet, and sat at window-seat about 5 miles from the airport the applet was reporting. But that was as a self-deprecating joke.
If the source image is public-domain, then Incase do not need a license from The Andy Warhol Foundation, and the Velvet Underground have even less of a leg to stand on.
Shirley VU need to show that the image was created by AH for them, and exclusive rights were assigned to VU?
"Wi-Fi hotspots near popular clubs in central parts of London, such as Ministry of Sound, Proud Galleries and the Trocadero Centre, are being targeted by Scotland Yard officers."
I assume the login-page for the WiFi spot (for those that need one, FON I'm looking at you), will have a personal-safety advert/message on it., rather than intercepting the WiFi and replacing random banner adverts with the message.
Some companies have employment conditions that state
"When you are on a company business away from the office, you are a representative of the company, and must act with appropriate decorum at all times. This includes when you are relaxing in the hotel away from the client/customer/supplier".
Howe legally enforcible such conditions are, is a different matter.
is inversely proportional to the square of the radius of the planet. Thus, assuming that Kelper 22b's density is the same as the Earth, then the surface gravity is 2.4 times Earth's, to which humans can probably adapt.
http://www.0800buster.co.uk/ offers free access to 0800/0808/0500 numbers if they aren't part of your call plan. Just call 01241 22 0800 and the number you want.
A Russian space probe sent to collect rock and dust from a Martian moon has veered off course within minutes of starting its 33 month mission.
The Russian space agency said an engine designed to keep the probe on track failed to start.
It says the craft is currently stuck in an Earth orbit and engineers have three days to correct the fault before its batteries run out.
"I would not say it's a failure, it's a non-standard situation, but it is a working situation." - Vladimir Popovkin, the head of the Russian Space Agency.
Douglas Adams had a great quote about TV controls going (in the days before remote-controls) from buttons to touch pads to (paraphrasing) "waving your hands to control it, with the unfortunate side-effect of having to sit infuriatingly still lest you accidentally change channels in the middle of a program". Unfortunately my google-foo is weak today, and I can't find it.
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Re: traffic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advertisements
gives the reason why.
TL/DR - They think than an advertiser might pressure them tweak the advertiser's article in an more appealing light.
Cod lukfisk. Just make sure you don't open the case within 100km of civilisation.
How did the inflight phones (at seats in first class; outside the toilets for the plebs) work?
BA had these in 2001 and probably for a good bit before?
BetterFacebook
I can see BetterFacebook being updated to demote these posts back to normal ones...
3-phase?
As a guess, the centre is Earth, the top left/right are Live/Neutral,
and the four others are for 3-phase charging (with Neutral).
Re: Part of the system design unfortunately :(
However, Skype could block the exchange of IP addresses until both parties agree to accept the call
Something like this
1) The caller contacts Skype's servers, and asks to connect to the receiver,
2) Skype contacts the receiver and asks if the the receiver is willing to take the call
3) If yes, then, and only then does Skype inform the caller and receiver of each other's public IP addresses.
It does add more work to Skype's servers (rather than being listing service), and is slightly less resilient if the servers go down (as a listing service the caller could try asking at the receiver's last known IP address).
Re: Sir
'cept HTTPS uses port 443 by default; 80 is (unencrypted) HTTP, unless you are meaning the rarely-used SHTTP?
Re: Quote....?
If the battery deforms whilst it is inside the camera, the battery's swellings could cause the camera's battery slot to deform as well...
(C) StationX
'Cept it will still be under crown copyright.
pseduo-static DHCP
Most wi-fi/adsl routers allow you to map a fixed IP address to the device's MAC, so when you connect at home you'll always get the same IP address. Otherwise, they'd have to have per-wifi-point network settings in the phone, and that'll probably confuse the muggles.
There is/was a proposal that Gov. Depts. should move from 0800 and 0845 numbers to 0300 and 0345 numbers. These are free and "counts as a mobile-to-landline for your call-plan".
You can also bounce your call through 01255 84 0800 aka "0800-buster", which counts as mobile-to-landline call.
Except that the same image will be served to several (possibly many) different people. If they (almost) all agree, this will be taken as the correct number, otherwise an Oompa-Loompa will have to manually tell the googleplex the correct number.
Re: not quite the same...
> This article is about a programmable keyboard - if memory serves didn't the ZX81 have
> programmable function keys?
There is an ANSI and/or VT100 escape sequence to remap a computer keyboard.
Re: Er, Ah, Identical Twin Sister ...?
According to the wikipedia entry, they are described as identical - presumably this is from the film, although, as you pointed out, it is almost impossible.
It is possible to be XY and physically female, or XX and physically male, but it is very rare.
Re: Stuff the payment fraud, what about the identity theft
A contactless terminal can authorise without a PIN for transactions <£10, but there is a chance that it will ask for the PIN. I'm not sure if it is the card, the terminal, or the bank that controls this, but I'd guess it is the card. If the PIN isn't provided, I'd hope that the card locks into PIN-required until it is provided.
Re: NOT Visa failing - It's AMAZON failing.
Does any bank allow you to register your work address with them, and allow the AVS to succeed with either your home or work postcode? If this is allowed, then it would be handy for those with one fixed place of work , how many people work out of multiple offices?
Re: 'Smooth, gentle' mating at 28,000 kph
Indeed it is, and this reporting annoys me. It's the relative speed that matters - its like drinking a cup of tea in a plane doing 500mph, not difficult as everything is moving slowly relative to each other.
Observes of BoE notes/coins
There's a list of the BoE note reverses here, and coins here
£2 coins are here. There were two issues in 2006 in commemoration of Brunnel, one featured Paddington Station; the other a Brunel portrait with the Royal Albert Bridge, Plymouth behind him.
Re: island
The are at least 3 "isles" in UK that are actually peninsulars, and there are several islands that are reachable at low tide by submersible causeways.
However, I have seen google maps show what is a ferry crossing as a road.
IBM
Didn't IBM have a range of laptops with accelerometers built in. They could detect if they were dropped and auto-park the harddrive before impact. The adverts showed them being dropped of a café table (about 0.75m) and surviving.
Re: Thanks El Reg
What the Farad are you on about?
Re: .com is supposed to be US
Err. .us is for the US.
.org .com .net .mil .edu .gov were all originally intended to be generic top-level domains, available for world-wide use. IMHO, this was a mistake as .co.int / .org.int etc should have been the TLD for multinational companies/organisations. The last 3 became defacto US domains, and it seems all 6 are now dejure US domains.
Congratulations! I don't know how you did it, but you managed to get two inextricably opposed enemies to unite against you.
What happens if the only physical key for a safe is inside a second safe, that has a combination lock?
bus speed?
That looks like a PCIe-x4 network card, which can only transfer data to the host a 10Gbit/sec. Seems a bit odd for a company touting 40GE cards not to make them x16 to make full use of the network...
Re: More WTF....
The traction-power will be separated from the socket power. (Traction is normally 600V at several kiloamps).
However, if the fuse-board's ELCB is tripped, then it could take out several mains circuits including -
1. All other platform sockets, including vending machines.
2. Any platform ministores.
3. Ticket issuing machines.
4. Platform access gates - hopefully these fail to open, rather than to closed.
5. Platform-train screen gates used on over-crowed lines - if these fail open then people could fall onto the tracks, if they fail closed, then none can get on/off the next train.
Yes, there should be better separation, but if the sockets are only for cleaning machines, then it might not be that well designed.
Block customer's own DoB?
As the bank knows your DoB, surely they can check if your PIN is DD/MM, MM/YY or MM/DD for your DoB.
However, the ATM back-end computer doesn't need your DoB - it's only on the initial anti-laundering part. They could do a batch-job running through all recently-changed PINs and asking the back-end if the PIN one of these 3 values, and then send a stern reminder to the customer not to be so silly.
The GPS logger has to cross-reference your location to a road database to determine the speed limit for your current location. If you are on a private road or on a race track, it should have no entry for the speed limit, and thus not penalise you for doing 70+mph.
Melt - the idea is that once you apply for it, you can not turn the speed recording functionally off, otherwise if you wanted to speed for one journey, you'd just turn it off.
> It should be interesting for the EU to comment on why premiums based on the statistics of driving style are OK, but premiums based on the statistics of sex (and soon age) are not OK.
Because you can do something about your driving-style, but it's impossible to do anything about your age, and not many people would want to do something about their sex just to reduce their premiums.
Kobayashi Maru
(n/t)
If the author had checked with the wikifiddlers he'd find that
"In physical cosmology, baryogenesis is the generic term for hypothetical physical processes that produced an asymmetry between baryons and antibaryons in the very early universe, resulting in the substantial amounts of residual matter that make up the universe today."
which is what the author thought baryogenesis meant.
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Hmm...
> we (NASA) aren't going to Mars any time soon...
Mars Exploration Rover-B Opportunity is currently on Sol 2813 of its 90-Sol mission, preparing to hibernate the long Martian winter. 2001 Mars Odyssey is in the 10th of its 14-year mission, orbiting Mars. The Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity) is enroute, due to arrive on August 6th, 2012, for a 686-day mission, but its RTG PSU should last for 14 years.
True, there are no planned /human/ missions to Mars, but humans are squidgy and easily damaged, need more resources than robots, and are about 10x more expensive in missions.
Hubs like this
http://www.maplin.co.uk/cerulian-4-port-usb-2.0-metal-hub-513858
seem to be more compact. I've got a similar one that is square rather than rectangular.
It is dual bus/external powered, using a 5V powertip.
I used to run the KDE weather taskbar applet, and sat at window-seat about 5 miles from the airport the applet was reporting. But that was as a self-deprecating joke.
It's "Destiny's Child", not "Destiny Child", and I don't like Beyoncé or her oversized butt.
Hold a tick
If the source image is public-domain, then Incase do not need a license from The Andy Warhol Foundation, and the Velvet Underground have even less of a leg to stand on.
Shirley VU need to show that the image was created by AH for them, and exclusive rights were assigned to VU?
.gov
So, what happens if someone starts filing maliciously incorrect allegations against various .gov domains?
RTFA
"Wi-Fi hotspots near popular clubs in central parts of London, such as Ministry of Sound, Proud Galleries and the Trocadero Centre, are being targeted by Scotland Yard officers."
I assume the login-page for the WiFi spot (for those that need one, FON I'm looking at you), will have a personal-safety advert/message on it., rather than intercepting the WiFi and replacing random banner adverts with the message.
terms of employment
Some companies have employment conditions that state
"When you are on a company business away from the office, you are a representative of the company, and must act with appropriate decorum at all times. This includes when you are relaxing in the hotel away from the client/customer/supplier".
Howe legally enforcible such conditions are, is a different matter.
But *surfcace* gravity
is inversely proportional to the square of the radius of the planet. Thus, assuming that Kelper 22b's density is the same as the Earth, then the surface gravity is 2.4 times Earth's, to which humans can probably adapt.
g_surface = (4/3) * pi * G * density * radius
Cockburn
Has FB banned the surname "Cockburn" (normally pronounced co'burn, effin' prudes), or
several places named after Cockburns, such as Cockburn Island, Ontario, or The City of Cockburn, Western Australia?
0800 buster
http://www.0800buster.co.uk/ offers free access to 0800/0808/0500 numbers if they aren't part of your call plan. Just call 01241 22 0800 and the number you want.
Volt * Ampera = Watt, Volt/Amera = Ohm my god!
Upper stage failure
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15631472
A Russian space probe sent to collect rock and dust from a Martian moon has veered off course within minutes of starting its 33 month mission.
The Russian space agency said an engine designed to keep the probe on track failed to start.
It says the craft is currently stuck in an Earth orbit and engineers have three days to correct the fault before its batteries run out.
"I would not say it's a failure, it's a non-standard situation, but it is a working situation." - Vladimir Popovkin, the head of the Russian Space Agency.
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe...
...is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Calvin -- aka Bill Watterson.
Check the timestamps - I submitted that one minute after the Anon did. It took about 1 hour to clear moderation.
DNA
Douglas Adams had a great quote about TV controls going (in the days before remote-controls) from buttons to touch pads to (paraphrasing) "waving your hands to control it, with the unfortunate side-effect of having to sit infuriatingly still lest you accidentally change channels in the middle of a program". Unfortunately my google-foo is weak today, and I can't find it.
Does this still work if you turn off roaming and lock your mobile to your network?
Echelon is phone-taping.
Carnivore is internet tapping ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_%28software%29 ).
Tempest is stray-EMF tapping ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEMPEST )
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