However, the new terms are mainly either to block Flash or to allow Apple to decompile or read your application source code, which is in a language that they understand. And then again, Apple could change their terms at any time.
But Mono is just a pseudocode execution system, !sn't it? As is .NET's CLR? So presumably you could write a program with Apple-acceptable language and then, with a suitable compiler, compile the program to run on .NET and Mono as well?
Or perhaps Apple also has a rule against that? Apparently they have a rule against mentioning in app descriptions that other code execution environments (e.g. other handsets)exist and that a version of your app has been favourably received on such. At least one developer got dis-app-eared from the store for doing that. "I am a jealous Jobs; thou shalt have no other handsets before me." (So why do people call it the Jesus Phone, that wasn't a Jesus line...)
Well, I forget if it was Vodafone or one of the others, but some poor sod got stuck overseas in the volcanic ash shutdown and apparently got through 2.8 gigabytes of, er, listening to "Moneybox", and other programmes on BBC Radio 4. Tune in for details - unless you're "roaming" yourself, in which case the answer is just "don't". Incidentally, some of the EU regulation on charges and allowances doesn't apply until June (end of?), so watch out there, too.
Apparently somewhat comparable to the case of Gary McKinnon
......allegedly, an Asperger's Syndrome adult who hacked into United States military computers to get secret UFO evidence. Any part of which statement may be less than strictly a true description of the circumstances. Anyway they're having him (or trying to)... do you suppose this other bloke is reading up on Asperger's currently? It may not matter: fraud is nasty. In my opinion if he's allowed out on the streets pmental-wise then he can be held accountable for his actions.
Probably guessing the temperature, anyway he's dead (about a year ago)
Inquest presumably delayed for police inquiries?
A story online from the Halifax Courier, which might be the origin of The Sun's, seems to be unavailable except for instance in Google's cache ("luke holmes" hyperthermia). That version does not put a figure on the temperature. Notwithstanding the story may have been withdrawn for possible errors, apparently a friend broke into the house using a ladder and, presumably, a window, which would cool things off a bit by the time the ambulance or police arrived, which might not have been straight away. And taking the room temperature might not have been the first thought. I suppose he may have had his own thermometers but an ordinary room thermometer isn't particularly accurate - mine don't match (I have indoor/outdoor thermometers attached to fridge and freezer with the "outdoor" probe in the cool compartment). And according to a recent UK TV documentary, for several reasons when police find an indoor cannabis farm they don't switch off the lamps straight away, but the friend may have done.
Further speculation would be rather disgusting. But while some people do indeed survive temperatures above 37 degrees Celsius, many don't, and taking alcohol or other recreational drugs that affect temperature regulation may be dangerous.
So what have we learned... put the cannabis plants upstairs and sleep in the basement? But bear in mind that the police use helicopters with thermal cameras, they'll find the stuff... too bad that they didn't get around to this fellow before he croaked.
using the pressure of light to tip the thing around so it isn't pointing at Earth. But I suppose it would take quite a lot. And how accurate is a laser beam at that range...
So I can use my worldwide telecommunications capable data device to find out what's on the menu at a neighbourhood restaurant, by physically going to the restaurant and bringing my device. When I get there, the list of dining options pops up on my screen. But it is also posted up on the wall as a legal requirement, and usually printed on elegant brochures placed on each table for the convenience of patrons, so what the heck is it doing crawling onto my phone?
Well, I suppose I can use an app on the device to order a meal without directly encountering a human being...
It's like shopping in Argos... (except that the things you bought are usually brought to you by human beings...that might not be the case in Japan, they go for robots bigtime ...)
But surely the main use of such a device is essentially to find out what's going on anywhere else than where you happen to be? Dis-location services?
The space programme vindicated. Done for real of course on the Moon by Apollo 17 performing "Strolling in the Park One Day". (Finishing on a song.)
As for credible apps for a phone/tablet/PDA ... I realise that diet governance and calorie counting IS an area where a handy app would be useful. And for me it would have to be, open the thing, compare today's calorie count so far with ideal, decide whether to eat or not eat a biscuit, log it. Or maybe set an alarm to tell myself that I AM allowed to eat it thirty minutes from now. And in particular I'd want one-tap logging of what I personally eat or drink at that time of day; porridge for breakfast, half bottle of Buckfast for lunch - AT lunch; for the caffeine, you see :-)
Jon Stewart seems to get on with the Carters okay.
I too visualised shocked technicians wandering around the wreckage afterwards doing that thumb-and-two-fingers thing from physics class. Or was it finger and two thumbs... if these are nuclear powered...
My other thought was, computer equipment + powerful magnetic field = learning experience. i.e., you learn "Don't do that."
But then most of us don't know how a siphon works... I bet the U.S. Navy contractors do. They have 'em installed in the bottom of each ship to let out water when it rains. Otherwise, you know, the boat would just fill up.
I found it's kind of annoying, or dangerous, to carry around a laptop/notebook with a USB drive mounted priapically in a USB port. What could be good with this one is to slip it in at the start of a computing session and have backups happen silently and continually, then yank it when you're done and packing up to leave.
Blowing it up = debris in orbit = bad for other satellites, and space shuttles, etc. However, you could maybe melt the solar panels, or something - basically kill it dead. Or flip it around so it's only transmitting to outer space... hmm, perhaps another bad move. Lets aliens know that we're here. And that we're bozos.
I suppose that free for personal use, licence fee for business use, public/charity use somewhere in the middle, isn't very unusual for "sharewhare" downloadable software. For that matter, cheap Microsoft bundles for home or educational use t!are not unprecedented.
And if web-based or cloud applications are serious and mature then they'll probably cost about as much as desktop/laptop software - but with reduced additional cost of ownership from matintaining the software on desktop PCs.
Still... I suppose this means you can now be penalised by FAST, or the BSA, or something, for visiting Microsoft's web site? As if it wasn't punishment enough itself...
the less electrical power is left in the machine to make things happen on it...
...is my suggested interpretation of Apple's advice.
I suppose you could hold a point of view that a wireless networked tablet display device whose battery can't fully power the wireless network and the display at the same time, if that's what it is, is more than a bit bad. I don't own or want to own an iPad and I don't care.
So, typical internet user is online for 3 hours 20 minutes a week?
Or almost 30 minutes a day, one typical web cafe session.. A life-destroying social media addiction indeed. Just think that you could spend that time smoking. Many probably do...
You are quite sure that that's social networking, and not looking at dirty pictures? (Probably not in the web cafe, unless you really are addicted.)
An exploitable vulnerabilty! I am shocked! Shocked!
Why, those noodles at the White House must be as incompetent as Microsoft, Apple, or those lunkheads who made Linux! All of whom have released software with exploitable volnerabilities!
"What is not clear is if this is pro-rata" - it isn't, I'm almost certain. 1p per megabyte was invented by The Register. Vodafone's charge is, as stated, £5 when you go over your monthly data allowance, by between 1 byte and (probably) 500,000,000.
I have a very nice 15 GB for £15 dongle allowance from Three but you can't get that now. I rarely use anything near that much.
In other details of the Vodafone thing, if Ts & Cs say they don't charge for over-use but can introduce a charge at any time - fine, they into!roduced the charge, but they aren't allowed to start it. And if they say they'll tell you when you're getting NEAR to the limit, and then they don't tell you - well, maybe there's legal language in the contract to say that they actually didn't have to do what they said. Or, as suggested, maybe you actually didn't.
By all accounts, getting money refunded or de-billed from a mobile phone company is about as easy as un-boiling an egg. It's an irreversible operation. But sometimes it does happen. (With the phone company, not with the egg.)
Yes, there's no such thing as suction really, just pressure without equal pressure on the other side. And yes, air pressure - in the typical example - pushes water up the siphon tube. But it does so only because with unequal amounts of water in the two arms of an inverted and asymmetric U - more like a J - gravity pulls unequally, more strongly, on water in the longer arm, and cancels the pressure on that side.
According to today's paper (Metro), the man claims he bought the shoes in a market, maybe second hand, and wasn't aware that they had batteries and stuff in. If so, he must be even more annoyed than I already supposed him to be.
However...at sea level, immerse the whole of a hose in a tank of water so that the hose itself is filled; stopper one end of the hose; pull that end up out of the tank, drop it into the sea (I mentioned we are at sea level), and unstopper it. Water drains from the tank without anything being sucked or blown. It's gravity.
Elsewhere, it may not be gasoline: http://www.snopes.com/autos/theft/siphon.asp
As described online, apart from the dog thing, it seems to be mainly about gang versus gang. Less or not at all about protection racket, drug dealing, prostitution, dog fighting indeed, and donating to politicians' campaign funds? So, relatively clean fun?
Goodness, I thought I was widely read there. Apparently not. And now it will be too late.
I don't know whether you're aware that figure xvii in "The Naughty Sultan" is "The Screw of Archimedes", but the Wikipedia page isn't about that at all. (Consequently the animated diagram is only intellectually exciting.)
Actually I misremember the specific instructional book and page number, but the title stuck in the memory, which shouldn't surprise you. But I still don't see how it corresponds - oh, never mind.
As for stuff relating to children, I'm disgusted, but I also don't believe the allegation. If that is still being done online, how it's done isn't with Wikipedia.
With books for the discerning mature reader, obtained second hand, a particular point of interest is where the book falls open naturally at this or that page, which is somebody's, um, favourite.
But that may not be the selling point that they emphasise...
Don't you just use a "cross-compiler"? Whatever that is.
Since we're being told that nobody likes Flash anyway, it seems inconsistent to say that smartbook computers aren't being made because you can't get Flash for them.
Opera doesn't have a timebomb but one modern equivalent is "hideous security defect"
...and they have had those. And fixed them quite promptly.
But Opera isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Unless, as I speculate from time to time, a major competitor based in Seattle crashes a plane on Opera's building, or something, and wipes the company out just like that. I genuinely don't understand why that sort of thing happens so rarely.
Also, you shouldn't really develop for Opera, you should develop for "any or every capable web browser or other suitable client, regardless of operating system". But this, evidently, can be your development tool. And even if there is a new and unfixed hideous vulnerability in Opera, you can still safely use it internally for development and testing.
What I'm not clear on yet is whether the open source part works separately from the Opera browser itself. It reads like you could write your own web browser - call it Rigoletto (or is that taken?) - that Dragonfly would plug onto, but it also reads like no one is expected to do that any time soon.
I'm not directly interested anyway, I just like Opera.
Maybe they'll notice this article. Maybe they died...
I suppose if you really think they did you a favour, you don't necessarily want to invoke cybersquatting remedies on them. It could have repercussions.
Nobody made them use Flash. They could use PDF :-)
Now I think they're trying to say that your dissatisfaction with their system is Flash's fault. Well, they chose to use Flash in the first place. And I don't think a Flash-less Scribd actually will be so much fun.
As for outlawing all browser plugins, all third-party extension of browser's capability - that's quite an extreme idea., really. I mean I generally prefer the Web without Flash OR graphics, just text content. But it has its place.
And as for Flash as the Web's default video service - that was always an odd thing to me. But it was and is done because browsers just didn't have the capability in an adequate implementation, and of course Internet Explorer particularly - the majority browser of the world, by a long way.
And if there weren't plugins to compete with bare browser facilities, and, in some way or other, take away a share of their revenue, browsers wouldn't advance - only competing with each other, and that not very vigorously. Look at how long it's taken to get the progress we've got. No, plugins allow innovative technology to be pushed into the web by brave little startup companies with ideas - and eventually fused into the browser if they are worthwhile.
Find a Quote sent 25,000 spams. 200,000 is the total from all spammers to i!this one ISP.
Spam can't be entirely eliminated; any twit may take it into their head to send an improper unsolicited advertisement to their address book of family, friends, colleagues and other contacts. And if there wasn't a vigorous online culture of scams by strangers, then when they did occur, more of us would be vulnerable. Nevertheless I want the professional spam-spewers to be nailed to the wall.
We don't have PR because up to now the existing system has suited every government.
Labour made a belated move towards PR shortly before the election, and they may be interested now, because they don't look like getting popular again any time soon. And it's what the Liberals are all about. This is literally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. So expect a Conservative-Liberal deal and no change in the next fifty years.
You can intimidate the more vulnerable and less intelligent voters in the system we've got. Or just send somebody else to the polling station pretending to be them.
As for electronic voting, which can still be done in the schools and public libraries (not so dingy either), machines that count votes aren't adequate, whatever coonting machine manufacturers tell you. Each vote should be an electronic document in itself, signed and encrypted. I should be able to take my vote home and prove to my satisfaction that it is my vote and has been counted. Counters should be able to read the vote and who it is for but not that it is mine. Oh, and it needs to be blind/deaf/otherwise accessible.
When sensible humane people are made Home Secretary they appear to turn evil and stupid and vicious.
Either a radiation dose to the right side of the brain, or something they put in the tea, is my two best guesses. I mean, I don't like to think that these people were ******s all along and we just didn't notice. You turn into a ****** when you get the job. And after you lose the job, you stay as a ******. I think I'd turn the job down. Or bring a Thermos flask and a tinfoil hat. Maybe not the professional image...
I've wondered whether the job somehow involves talking like a ****** - "prison works" et cetera - when it isn't what you really believe, but then why do they go on being ******s when there's been a reshuffle and the job has been given to some other ******?
Now Foreign Secretary is different. Every country in the world has the same foreign policy, and that is "******** You". So Hillary Clinton is a ****** these days but I believe it's only a professional posture. When President Obama, whom I admire, deals with foreign affairs, he too is a ******, most of the time. A tip of the hat for his efforts in nuclear disarmament. British Foreign Secretaries are also ******s, but not on the inside. The job is to be a ******. They don't take it home with them.
I haven't heard what happened to the new Speaker. Now he had a right ****** standing agtinst him. But, troublingly, the sort of ****** that a lot of ******s will vote for.
Swipe enemy's car keys, put a couple of empty gas canisters in their trunk, drive the car to just where the CCTV can't see it, and leave it with the engine running. Back to your work station and wait for the controlled explosion.
As for Tory-proofing your kids, either tell them to yell blue murder if someone is taking photos without parent permission, or send them to school in a politically embarrassing T-shirt - "Troops Out" and "Im Bakcing Britian" come to mind, or "Made In Germany", "You're The Reason My Dad's Unemployed", "Who is this stupid man" IN German, whatever that's going to be. ("Wer ist dieser dummer Mann" is my best guess, a quarter century after leaving school.) That one can even HAVE the candidate's picture on. Then you get the last laugh.
A T-Shirt with a big picture of Gordon Brown in top Nazi uniform (artistic licence) will also offend nearly everybody.
Camera unit can probably detect phone radio signal
And has a fair chance of spotting that driver's lips are moving.
I write as a cyclist who gets a thrill out of going past community speed-limit boards fast enough to get them to switch on (20 mph, limit is 30), which means looking for one that's on a downhill bit.
Battery is probably heat tolerant and if we're talking about the UK ...
Batteries get hot. We survive, except when they explode.
I might make the solar panel fold up from the battery and serve as a sunshade for it. On the other hand... why not have an inexpensive collapsible structure to concentrate light onto the solar panel? Like a parabolic mirror?
Inside a window may be not a good place to collect solar energy, e.g. ultraviolet light is blocked(?), what do the instructions say?
Hackers - that's who. Your Windows 98 computer is owned by them.
You know who has abandoned Windows 98? Microsoft. And I may be mistaken but I think they pupblicised one or more critical vulnerabilities just about the day it died. My overheated memory may have mixed this up with a genuine, but possibly different, case of, "Pictures can hack your browser. If you visit a web site using this maliciously designed file as an image, it will secretly break into your computer. Really."
Opera has had bugs like that, at least once, but they fixed it and updated. Having said that, if their latest version isn't for Windows 98, then who knows what holes in security are still in the last one that was.
Quite seriously, you're better to consider using some version of Linux for browsing with that computer. Or a remote desktop solution.
Mozilla may not be a dead option, because some old editions of Mozilla are still maintained and updated, not only 3.6. Or if not, well, it is open source, you can maintain your own version - in theory.
Given Opera editions are free on several PCs and many handsets -
Who needs "open source"? If you mean "open like Linux, rewrite it at will."
Strictly, open source also can mean, "You can see the source code but only we get to use it." These days, I guess that mainly helps crackers to perform security violations on the product in use. So, less popular.
I don't think Ogg Theora's people or friends have said "We're in ur patents".
It's people like Apple who say, "Hey Theora! We have patents! Never mind what patents! We have patents and we are gonna come after your fundament!"
As far as the Oggists know, believe, or hope, there seem to be no such patents. But, on the other hand, suppose there's a patent that says "The invention is that video will be generated on a screen and audio system from a computer file", then it will be literally impossible, I think, to play computer video without stepping on that patent. We can only hope that it expires - and I think you can be persecuted with it even then if you had breached it, or allegedly breached it, during its lifetime.
Also, plugging any existing invention into a portable device, or a wireless network, or a phone, sometimes seems to generate a whole new patent, although not a very good one. For instance a phone app that photographs any thing and shows it on a screen as larger than actual size: you probably can patent that.
The patent office is paid by people who want to patent things, and it is paid to hand patents out, and not, mostly, to consider whether the patents are actually good. Some are tested in a court case and found to be worthless.
I assume Apple DID "ask" for an apology and that doesn't mean that they get one.
Now when Jon Stewart criticised Fox News and (if I have the name right) Bernard Goldberg on "The Daily Show", and with calm dignity and gravitas told them to "Go ***** Yourselves", and then in a later show responded to their response to that, saying, "I'm SORRY I told you to go ***** yourselves", I thought that was a retraction. But since he then brought on a gospel choir (whose name escapes me) to SING "Go **** Yourselves" at them while he performed a kind of chicken dance back and forth across our screen, apparently it wasn't a retraction. But then I thought it was a false line, since clearly he was NOT sorry that he told them to go ***** themselves. Neither am I. I just feel that you SHOULDN'T say "sorry" and then demonstrate that you aren't, even if you really aren't. Say sorry and don't mean it, that, one thing. But say sorry and then take it back, is worse. Maybe I'm taking this too seriously.
As for the iPhone, or rather the iPad, hey, remember how some of us were all excited about a new slate computer from Apple, and some of us thought it would be just a larger version of the iPhone minus the ability to make phone calls? And it turned out to be just a larger version of the iPhone minus the ability to make phone calls? And it is still, today, just a larger version of the iPhone minus the ability to make phone calls? And only runs a censored range of software? Well, I am standing up (once I finish this) to say "I Don't Care About It". And I want everyone to join me.
Yeah - maybe they did not know they fixed the bugs, it was accidental.
But in that case, wouldn't you retroactively upgrade the patch from "Important" to "You Bet Your Fundament It's Important".
Then again, all "Important" patches should be re-issued a month later as "You Are Aware Of The Meaning Of The Word 'Important', Are You Not, Perhaps You Are In The Wrong Job".
Or any of several television programmes with the words "Bang","Brain", "Bust" or "Blast" in the title. (Obviously except for "Why Britain Is Bust" or "I Must I Must Improve My Bust"... oh all right if - apparently - you must. Anyway there may be science in it.)
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From what we've been told it must be barred.
However, the new terms are mainly either to block Flash or to allow Apple to decompile or read your application source code, which is in a language that they understand. And then again, Apple could change their terms at any time.
But Mono is just a pseudocode execution system, !sn't it? As is .NET's CLR? So presumably you could write a program with Apple-acceptable language and then, with a suitable compiler, compile the program to run on .NET and Mono as well?
Or perhaps Apple also has a rule against that? Apparently they have a rule against mentioning in app descriptions that other code execution environments (e.g. other handsets)exist and that a version of your app has been favourably received on such. At least one developer got dis-app-eared from the store for doing that. "I am a jealous Jobs; thou shalt have no other handsets before me." (So why do people call it the Jesus Phone, that wasn't a Jesus line...)
As featured on BBC's "Moneybox".
Well, I forget if it was Vodafone or one of the others, but some poor sod got stuck overseas in the volcanic ash shutdown and apparently got through 2.8 gigabytes of, er, listening to "Moneybox", and other programmes on BBC Radio 4. Tune in for details - unless you're "roaming" yourself, in which case the answer is just "don't". Incidentally, some of the EU regulation on charges and allowances doesn't apply until June (end of?), so watch out there, too.
Not "USB" of course
Because that isn't proprietary!
Cosmo-Logic In-Tandem Online Resource Image Storage will be the next Apple standard!
But you won't be able to find it anywhere. Well, not in PC World anyway. Most likely they'd ask you to leave.
Apparently somewhat comparable to the case of Gary McKinnon
......allegedly, an Asperger's Syndrome adult who hacked into United States military computers to get secret UFO evidence. Any part of which statement may be less than strictly a true description of the circumstances. Anyway they're having him (or trying to)... do you suppose this other bloke is reading up on Asperger's currently? It may not matter: fraud is nasty. In my opinion if he's allowed out on the streets pmental-wise then he can be held accountable for his actions.
My work computer screen appears larger than the colleague's next to me.
In fact they are the same size, but his is farther away from me than mine is.
To my colleague, his screen appears larger than mine, for a similar reason.
Presumably we are breaching the patents mentioned and can expect to be sued.
Probably guessing the temperature, anyway he's dead (about a year ago)
Inquest presumably delayed for police inquiries?
A story online from the Halifax Courier, which might be the origin of The Sun's, seems to be unavailable except for instance in Google's cache ("luke holmes" hyperthermia). That version does not put a figure on the temperature. Notwithstanding the story may have been withdrawn for possible errors, apparently a friend broke into the house using a ladder and, presumably, a window, which would cool things off a bit by the time the ambulance or police arrived, which might not have been straight away. And taking the room temperature might not have been the first thought. I suppose he may have had his own thermometers but an ordinary room thermometer isn't particularly accurate - mine don't match (I have indoor/outdoor thermometers attached to fridge and freezer with the "outdoor" probe in the cool compartment). And according to a recent UK TV documentary, for several reasons when police find an indoor cannabis farm they don't switch off the lamps straight away, but the friend may have done.
Further speculation would be rather disgusting. But while some people do indeed survive temperatures above 37 degrees Celsius, many don't, and taking alcohol or other recreational drugs that affect temperature regulation may be dangerous.
So what have we learned... put the cannabis plants upstairs and sleep in the basement? But bear in mind that the police use helicopters with thermal cameras, they'll find the stuff... too bad that they didn't get around to this fellow before he croaked.
I had in mind,
using the pressure of light to tip the thing around so it isn't pointing at Earth. But I suppose it would take quite a lot. And how accurate is a laser beam at that range...
Re: didn't exist until Apple
Actording to Wikipedia, Apple started seriously thinking about their Newton / Messagepad devices in 1987, going on sale in 1993.
I have used an almost touchscreen computer made by HP in 1983, but it wasn't a slate. It DID have a Microsoft operating system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-150
Brilliant
So I can use my worldwide telecommunications capable data device to find out what's on the menu at a neighbourhood restaurant, by physically going to the restaurant and bringing my device. When I get there, the list of dining options pops up on my screen. But it is also posted up on the wall as a legal requirement, and usually printed on elegant brochures placed on each table for the convenience of patrons, so what the heck is it doing crawling onto my phone?
Well, I suppose I can use an app on the device to order a meal without directly encountering a human being...
It's like shopping in Argos... (except that the things you bought are usually brought to you by human beings...that might not be the case in Japan, they go for robots bigtime ...)
But surely the main use of such a device is essentially to find out what's going on anywhere else than where you happen to be? Dis-location services?
"Daisy, Daisy, ..." Wasn't that HAL 9000?
The space programme vindicated. Done for real of course on the Moon by Apollo 17 performing "Strolling in the Park One Day". (Finishing on a song.)
As for credible apps for a phone/tablet/PDA ... I realise that diet governance and calorie counting IS an area where a handy app would be useful. And for me it would have to be, open the thing, compare today's calorie count so far with ideal, decide whether to eat or not eat a biscuit, log it. Or maybe set an alarm to tell myself that I AM allowed to eat it thirty minutes from now. And in particular I'd want one-tap logging of what I personally eat or drink at that time of day; porridge for breakfast, half bottle of Buckfast for lunch - AT lunch; for the caffeine, you see :-)
Is there an app for that?
Jon Stewart seems to get on with the Carters okay.
I too visualised shocked technicians wandering around the wreckage afterwards doing that thumb-and-two-fingers thing from physics class. Or was it finger and two thumbs... if these are nuclear powered...
My other thought was, computer equipment + powerful magnetic field = learning experience. i.e., you learn "Don't do that."
But then most of us don't know how a siphon works... I bet the U.S. Navy contractors do. They have 'em installed in the bottom of each ship to let out water when it rains. Otherwise, you know, the boat would just fill up.
Invisible while using
I found it's kind of annoying, or dangerous, to carry around a laptop/notebook with a USB drive mounted priapically in a USB port. What could be good with this one is to slip it in at the start of a computing session and have backups happen silently and continually, then yank it when you're done and packing up to leave.
Laser it?
Blowing it up = debris in orbit = bad for other satellites, and space shuttles, etc. However, you could maybe melt the solar panels, or something - basically kill it dead. Or flip it around so it's only transmitting to outer space... hmm, perhaps another bad move. Lets aliens know that we're here. And that we're bozos.
What's a "consumer" then?
I suppose that free for personal use, licence fee for business use, public/charity use somewhere in the middle, isn't very unusual for "sharewhare" downloadable software. For that matter, cheap Microsoft bundles for home or educational use t!are not unprecedented.
And if web-based or cloud applications are serious and mature then they'll probably cost about as much as desktop/laptop software - but with reduced additional cost of ownership from matintaining the software on desktop PCs.
Still... I suppose this means you can now be penalised by FAST, or the BSA, or something, for visiting Microsoft's web site? As if it wasn't punishment enough itself...
"Caused by loss of power"
is curiously applicable to the political world, of course. But probably not what they meant.
The brighter the screen,
the less electrical power is left in the machine to make things happen on it...
...is my suggested interpretation of Apple's advice.
I suppose you could hold a point of view that a wireless networked tablet display device whose battery can't fully power the wireless network and the display at the same time, if that's what it is, is more than a bit bad. I don't own or want to own an iPad and I don't care.
So, typical internet user is online for 3 hours 20 minutes a week?
Or almost 30 minutes a day, one typical web cafe session.. A life-destroying social media addiction indeed. Just think that you could spend that time smoking. Many probably do...
You are quite sure that that's social networking, and not looking at dirty pictures? (Probably not in the web cafe, unless you really are addicted.)
Utterly without scruple
"attempted to dupe marks into downloading the latest version of iTunes software onto their PCs "
Good god that's diabolical.
But at least it wasn't Zune...
jobs and ipad and megalomania
another explanation for recent surge...
... but collecting a vast amount of personal search information may indeed yield more accurate results...
...what can they do for e.g. sexually transmitted disease...
... come to think didn't they already do this story with swine flu?
(jobs and iPad and "development tools" and "utter swine"...)
Which came first (may have been asked before)...
...Bada, or Bing?
An exploitable vulnerabilty! I am shocked! Shocked!
Why, those noodles at the White House must be as incompetent as Microsoft, Apple, or those lunkheads who made Linux! All of whom have released software with exploitable volnerabilities!
Impeachment's not out of the question, you know.
"Not clear" - actually it is.
"What is not clear is if this is pro-rata" - it isn't, I'm almost certain. 1p per megabyte was invented by The Register. Vodafone's charge is, as stated, £5 when you go over your monthly data allowance, by between 1 byte and (probably) 500,000,000.
I have a very nice 15 GB for £15 dongle allowance from Three but you can't get that now. I rarely use anything near that much.
In other details of the Vodafone thing, if Ts & Cs say they don't charge for over-use but can introduce a charge at any time - fine, they into!roduced the charge, but they aren't allowed to start it. And if they say they'll tell you when you're getting NEAR to the limit, and then they don't tell you - well, maybe there's legal language in the contract to say that they actually didn't have to do what they said. Or, as suggested, maybe you actually didn't.
By all accounts, getting money refunded or de-billed from a mobile phone company is about as easy as un-boiling an egg. It's an irreversible operation. But sometimes it does happen. (With the phone company, not with the egg.)
...no, I'll get this...
Yes, there's no such thing as suction really, just pressure without equal pressure on the other side. And yes, air pressure - in the typical example - pushes water up the siphon tube. But it does so only because with unequal amounts of water in the two arms of an inverted and asymmetric U - more like a J - gravity pulls unequally, more strongly, on water in the longer arm, and cancels the pressure on that side.
Further news: he DID NOT KNOW?
According to today's paper (Metro), the man claims he bought the shoes in a market, maybe second hand, and wasn't aware that they had batteries and stuff in. If so, he must be even more annoyed than I already supposed him to be.
You really haven't heard of US-CERT before?
Did you just get a computer for your birthday, sonny?
You'll hear a lot more about them. Get ready.
JP19: your cock will be removed.
And serve you right.
They're "therapeutic", you sickos.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/15/
good-vibrations-shoes-pack-built-in-rumble-feature/
... Didn't the wind-up radio guy (name will come back to me) experiment with shoes that use footfall energy to charge a phone battery?
Or how about the child's shoes that just flash at every footfall - makes them slightly easier to see in the dark.
If this is the nub of it, it's awfully bad luck. I hope the fellow gets his flight after all.
But to save face, the things will probably be banned.
(Admittedly, terrorist engineers are probably already studying how to make them explode. Or vibrate the plane to pieces...)
No atmosphere, no liquid.
No liquid, no siphon!
However...at sea level, immerse the whole of a hose in a tank of water so that the hose itself is filled; stopper one end of the hose; pull that end up out of the tank, drop it into the sea (I mentioned we are at sea level), and unstopper it. Water drains from the tank without anything being sucked or blown. It's gravity.
Elsewhere, it may not be gasoline: http://www.snopes.com/autos/theft/siphon.asp
Substantial amusement
Hilarious to see suggested here that Mafia Wars players (or publisher) should criticise PETA for "living in a fantasy world".
The Daily Show points out that iPad has a super-reflective screen that you can use to take a good look at yourself (I haven't tried this).
I haven't played it, but
As described online, apart from the dog thing, it seems to be mainly about gang versus gang. Less or not at all about protection racket, drug dealing, prostitution, dog fighting indeed, and donating to politicians' campaign funds? So, relatively clean fun?
What about the horse's head in the bed?
As a contented Wikipedia user: what porn?
Goodness, I thought I was widely read there. Apparently not. And now it will be too late.
I don't know whether you're aware that figure xvii in "The Naughty Sultan" is "The Screw of Archimedes", but the Wikipedia page isn't about that at all. (Consequently the animated diagram is only intellectually exciting.)
Actually I misremember the specific instructional book and page number, but the title stuck in the memory, which shouldn't surprise you. But I still don't see how it corresponds - oh, never mind.
As for stuff relating to children, I'm disgusted, but I also don't believe the allegation. If that is still being done online, how it's done isn't with Wikipedia.
Never mind cuddles
With books for the discerning mature reader, obtained second hand, a particular point of interest is where the book falls open naturally at this or that page, which is somebody's, um, favourite.
But that may not be the selling point that they emphasise...
Don't you just use a "cross-compiler"? Whatever that is.
Since we're being told that nobody likes Flash anyway, it seems inconsistent to say that smartbook computers aren't being made because you can't get Flash for them.
Opera doesn't have a timebomb but one modern equivalent is "hideous security defect"
...and they have had those. And fixed them quite promptly.
But Opera isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Unless, as I speculate from time to time, a major competitor based in Seattle crashes a plane on Opera's building, or something, and wipes the company out just like that. I genuinely don't understand why that sort of thing happens so rarely.
Also, you shouldn't really develop for Opera, you should develop for "any or every capable web browser or other suitable client, regardless of operating system". But this, evidently, can be your development tool. And even if there is a new and unfixed hideous vulnerability in Opera, you can still safely use it internally for development and testing.
What I'm not clear on yet is whether the open source part works separately from the Opera browser itself. It reads like you could write your own web browser - call it Rigoletto (or is that taken?) - that Dragonfly would plug onto, but it also reads like no one is expected to do that any time soon.
I'm not directly interested anyway, I just like Opera.
An anonymous nice person?
Maybe they'll notice this article. Maybe they died...
I suppose if you really think they did you a favour, you don't necessarily want to invoke cybersquatting remedies on them. It could have repercussions.
Scribd itself is quite annoying.
Nobody made them use Flash. They could use PDF :-)
Now I think they're trying to say that your dissatisfaction with their system is Flash's fault. Well, they chose to use Flash in the first place. And I don't think a Flash-less Scribd actually will be so much fun.
As for outlawing all browser plugins, all third-party extension of browser's capability - that's quite an extreme idea., really. I mean I generally prefer the Web without Flash OR graphics, just text content. But it has its place.
And as for Flash as the Web's default video service - that was always an odd thing to me. But it was and is done because browsers just didn't have the capability in an adequate implementation, and of course Internet Explorer particularly - the majority browser of the world, by a long way.
And if there weren't plugins to compete with bare browser facilities, and, in some way or other, take away a share of their revenue, browsers wouldn't advance - only competing with each other, and that not very vigorously. Look at how long it's taken to get the progress we've got. No, plugins allow innovative technology to be pushed into the web by brave little startup companies with ideas - and eventually fused into the browser if they are worthwhile.
The numbers
Find a Quote sent 25,000 spams. 200,000 is the total from all spammers to i!this one ISP.
Spam can't be entirely eliminated; any twit may take it into their head to send an improper unsolicited advertisement to their address book of family, friends, colleagues and other contacts. And if there wasn't a vigorous online culture of scams by strangers, then when they did occur, more of us would be vulnerable. Nevertheless I want the professional spam-spewers to be nailed to the wall.
We don't have PR because up to now the existing system has suited every government.
Labour made a belated move towards PR shortly before the election, and they may be interested now, because they don't look like getting popular again any time soon. And it's what the Liberals are all about. This is literally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. So expect a Conservative-Liberal deal and no change in the next fifty years.
You can intimidate the more vulnerable and less intelligent voters in the system we've got. Or just send somebody else to the polling station pretending to be them.
As for electronic voting, which can still be done in the schools and public libraries (not so dingy either), machines that count votes aren't adequate, whatever coonting machine manufacturers tell you. Each vote should be an electronic document in itself, signed and encrypted. I should be able to take my vote home and prove to my satisfaction that it is my vote and has been counted. Counters should be able to read the vote and who it is for but not that it is mine. Oh, and it needs to be blind/deaf/otherwise accessible.
When sensible humane people are made Home Secretary they appear to turn evil and stupid and vicious.
Either a radiation dose to the right side of the brain, or something they put in the tea, is my two best guesses. I mean, I don't like to think that these people were ******s all along and we just didn't notice. You turn into a ****** when you get the job. And after you lose the job, you stay as a ******. I think I'd turn the job down. Or bring a Thermos flask and a tinfoil hat. Maybe not the professional image...
I've wondered whether the job somehow involves talking like a ****** - "prison works" et cetera - when it isn't what you really believe, but then why do they go on being ******s when there's been a reshuffle and the job has been given to some other ******?
Now Foreign Secretary is different. Every country in the world has the same foreign policy, and that is "******** You". So Hillary Clinton is a ****** these days but I believe it's only a professional posture. When President Obama, whom I admire, deals with foreign affairs, he too is a ******, most of the time. A tip of the hat for his efforts in nuclear disarmament. British Foreign Secretaries are also ******s, but not on the inside. The job is to be a ******. They don't take it home with them.
I haven't heard what happened to the new Speaker. Now he had a right ****** standing agtinst him. But, troublingly, the sort of ****** that a lot of ******s will vote for.
Should be more creative.
Swipe enemy's car keys, put a couple of empty gas canisters in their trunk, drive the car to just where the CCTV can't see it, and leave it with the engine running. Back to your work station and wait for the controlled explosion.
BNP usually use international photo agencies
...apparently.
As for Tory-proofing your kids, either tell them to yell blue murder if someone is taking photos without parent permission, or send them to school in a politically embarrassing T-shirt - "Troops Out" and "Im Bakcing Britian" come to mind, or "Made In Germany", "You're The Reason My Dad's Unemployed", "Who is this stupid man" IN German, whatever that's going to be. ("Wer ist dieser dummer Mann" is my best guess, a quarter century after leaving school.) That one can even HAVE the candidate's picture on. Then you get the last laugh.
A T-Shirt with a big picture of Gordon Brown in top Nazi uniform (artistic licence) will also offend nearly everybody.
Camera unit can probably detect phone radio signal
And has a fair chance of spotting that driver's lips are moving.
I write as a cyclist who gets a thrill out of going past community speed-limit boards fast enough to get them to switch on (20 mph, limit is 30), which means looking for one that's on a downhill bit.
Battery is probably heat tolerant and if we're talking about the UK ...
Batteries get hot. We survive, except when they explode.
I might make the solar panel fold up from the battery and serve as a sunshade for it. On the other hand... why not have an inexpensive collapsible structure to concentrate light onto the solar panel? Like a parabolic mirror?
Inside a window may be not a good place to collect solar energy, e.g. ultraviolet light is blocked(?), what do the instructions say?
You know who hasn't abandoned Windows 98?
Hackers - that's who. Your Windows 98 computer is owned by them.
You know who has abandoned Windows 98? Microsoft. And I may be mistaken but I think they pupblicised one or more critical vulnerabilities just about the day it died. My overheated memory may have mixed this up with a genuine, but possibly different, case of, "Pictures can hack your browser. If you visit a web site using this maliciously designed file as an image, it will secretly break into your computer. Really."
Opera has had bugs like that, at least once, but they fixed it and updated. Having said that, if their latest version isn't for Windows 98, then who knows what holes in security are still in the last one that was.
Quite seriously, you're better to consider using some version of Linux for browsing with that computer. Or a remote desktop solution.
Mozilla may not be a dead option, because some old editions of Mozilla are still maintained and updated, not only 3.6. Or if not, well, it is open source, you can maintain your own version - in theory.
Given Opera editions are free on several PCs and many handsets -
Who needs "open source"? If you mean "open like Linux, rewrite it at will."
Strictly, open source also can mean, "You can see the source code but only we get to use it." These days, I guess that mainly helps crackers to perform security violations on the product in use. So, less popular.
calls for IE9 Canvas tag"We're investing a lot in HTML5. We believe in HTML5."
Uh, obviously. If you don't, then you're in the wrong room.
I don't think Ogg Theora's people or friends have said "We're in ur patents".
It's people like Apple who say, "Hey Theora! We have patents! Never mind what patents! We have patents and we are gonna come after your fundament!"
As far as the Oggists know, believe, or hope, there seem to be no such patents. But, on the other hand, suppose there's a patent that says "The invention is that video will be generated on a screen and audio system from a computer file", then it will be literally impossible, I think, to play computer video without stepping on that patent. We can only hope that it expires - and I think you can be persecuted with it even then if you had breached it, or allegedly breached it, during its lifetime.
Also, plugging any existing invention into a portable device, or a wireless network, or a phone, sometimes seems to generate a whole new patent, although not a very good one. For instance a phone app that photographs any thing and shows it on a screen as larger than actual size: you probably can patent that.
The patent office is paid by people who want to patent things, and it is paid to hand patents out, and not, mostly, to consider whether the patents are actually good. Some are tested in a court case and found to be worthless.
I assume Apple DID "ask" for an apology and that doesn't mean that they get one.
Now when Jon Stewart criticised Fox News and (if I have the name right) Bernard Goldberg on "The Daily Show", and with calm dignity and gravitas told them to "Go ***** Yourselves", and then in a later show responded to their response to that, saying, "I'm SORRY I told you to go ***** yourselves", I thought that was a retraction. But since he then brought on a gospel choir (whose name escapes me) to SING "Go **** Yourselves" at them while he performed a kind of chicken dance back and forth across our screen, apparently it wasn't a retraction. But then I thought it was a false line, since clearly he was NOT sorry that he told them to go ***** themselves. Neither am I. I just feel that you SHOULDN'T say "sorry" and then demonstrate that you aren't, even if you really aren't. Say sorry and don't mean it, that, one thing. But say sorry and then take it back, is worse. Maybe I'm taking this too seriously.
As for the iPhone, or rather the iPad, hey, remember how some of us were all excited about a new slate computer from Apple, and some of us thought it would be just a larger version of the iPhone minus the ability to make phone calls? And it turned out to be just a larger version of the iPhone minus the ability to make phone calls? And it is still, today, just a larger version of the iPhone minus the ability to make phone calls? And only runs a censored range of software? Well, I am standing up (once I finish this) to say "I Don't Care About It". And I want everyone to join me.
Yeah - maybe they did not know they fixed the bugs, it was accidental.
But in that case, wouldn't you retroactively upgrade the patch from "Important" to "You Bet Your Fundament It's Important".
Then again, all "Important" patches should be re-issued a month later as "You Are Aware Of The Meaning Of The Word 'Important', Are You Not, Perhaps You Are In The Wrong Job".
Tell us science isn't fun after watching this
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/brainbites/nonflash/bb_home_vomitcomet.html
(Take anti nausea medicine if required)
Or any of several television programmes with the words "Bang","Brain", "Bust" or "Blast" in the title. (Obviously except for "Why Britain Is Bust" or "I Must I Must Improve My Bust"... oh all right if - apparently - you must. Anyway there may be science in it.)
Or http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ (fiction)
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