the government say do it our way and never mind the reality.
Oh yeah a panic button will fix it, yeah right of course it will.
I wonder how much Jim Gambles team(I remember when he was a cop over here and he loved the media attention) they where charged for creating the 'Panic Button'
I hate to say it, but some people need an IQ higher than their age rather than a panic button
I forgot it's also the reason that one has to be careful about the oil used in decent air rifles as along side an increase of muzzle velocity would usually be accompanied with a fragmented pellet (and unhappy air rifle)
I have vague memories of a British air rifle from the late 19th century which used the compression of ether as a propellant (technically it becomes a firearm at that point).
Actually thinking about it surely the paintball gun becomes a fully fledged firearm and therefore requires a licence
Google seems to be heading in the right direction with the Android platform.
Between
Apple insisting on 100 quid a year and the devkit being Mac only, along with horrendous NDAs and restrictions.
Symbian being a complete dogs dinner, I can see why they did certain things but try developing an app which used GPS without a $200 developer cert <shudder> and testing on a real phone.
Now if somebody would only give me a decent Android based phone (2.0 or later) I would be a very happy little home coder.
I don't know about Google as a company, but they deserve to do well in the phone market because they are making developers (both commercial and home based) feel welcome
Well atleast you can have the 3 & the proper client installed at the same time.
I didn't get any calls because everybody I know had better things to do than call me but for outgoing calls over WiFi it was fine, and I will stick with the 3 version for 'on the move' usage because I know it's free and any call quality issues are nothing to do with my data connection.
There seems to be issues on the discussion groups about incoming calls and also non English installations over at the Skype discussion boards.
This version is starting to sound more like a large scale beta rather than a finished version, which I wouldn't mind as long as they told me.
Having an e63 from 3 as my 'spare' phone is damn useful when away from home so far.
However I am not sure if this new release will coexist with Threes version and you may get hit with data charges which you where not expecting if you switch versions (as the non 3 version of messenger eats into your data allowance)
If I get time tonight I will check (but thats a big IF)
If they wanted quality programming BBC3 & Radio 1 would have bitten the dust.
Ironically the claim of not cutting across other broadcasters would have meant the death of Radio1 & 2, BBC4 (cuts across every shite channel) and News24 competes with Sky News et al.
Basically lets keep what the great unwashed and the elite (read media types & politicians) want and fuck the rest of us!
Even the Asian Network was better than Radio1 Xtra (but no damn 60s Cambodian pop or Korean psychedelia)
Radio1 Extra (sorry spelling it Xtra is not not cool it's crap) nobody listens to it and plays the same calculated demographic dross as Radio1
Some BBC local radio stations should be merged (I would prefer terminated but will settle for merged)
BBC3, crap comedys and Family Guy
Asian Network, nobody is listening so it should go, plus I assume you haven't heard the dozens of 'local' Asian stations in any of the major UK towns. From what the Asian Network seem to be trying to do is something a coalition of local stations would be a better model for
RE: AC & the Asian network, can I ask where the non generic 'white' radio stations (as you term them) are. 6Music ithe only place I stand a chance of hearing The Gang of Four in the same week as King Tubby and the 13th floor Elevators.
I'm afraid I fall into the category demographic of not having reached senility, not wanting to listen to golden oldies, dad rock or the pre-chewed pap which is sold to kids these days.
6Music is the only place I can indulge my love of Dub, decent funk, krautrock, psych or garage bands
doesn't like any scrutiny for anything he is involved in does he?
No wonder the house of commons spent so much time working on rules to prevent Mandy returning to the HOC from the Lords (minimum of 5 years between resigning as a lord & being able to stand as an MP).
if there the super yacht owners will be getting hit with some form of assault charge.
While not a fan of the press if they are in a public place it seems unfair that the super rich can take action and a normal person would be in deep shit for taking any action.
As for a puke ray vs RPG I would still think the RPG has the advantage
the majority of the world mobile phone market isn't the USA, and to be honest the US mobile market is absurdly behind the rest of the world.
Name a US mobile phone mfgr who produces a product that sells well outside of the US (the last one was the Moto Razr which was popular for a few months) apart from the iPod + strapon phone
The US mobile phone system is fragmented, the roaming is crap and the number of dropped calls you suffer is ridiculous.
Lets be honest the iPhone is an iPod Touch with a 2nd rate phone built in (I only know one iPhone user who thinks it's a decent phone).
Personally I hope Google don't make a hash of things as Nokia & Sony Ericsson need some competition even if I do have 2 nokia phones (and an iPod Touch)
If a company can post record profits then can at least pay a cost of living pay rise to those who generated those profits. It's allegedly a low rate of inflation (though my household bills don't say that) at least match that faked rate.
Fujitsu say they are cash strapped (only £110M profit this year) but have not mentioned the payment from HMG for the NHS project as it's a one off payment (reckoned to be £400M)
Don't take the piss out of the staff if you want them to be content.
Regarding the redundancys:
The company refused to consider any other options and initially where even refusing to consider transfers to other roles, absences/sabbaticals (paid or reduce pay) like the Honda (& BA) offered.
Any sort of discussion only took place when the original strike was due.
Why not leave:
For those saying you can leave you are probably the 2nd rate web monkeys who have to switch jobs as you don't have enough Star Wars toys in your work area and have to leave when people find out you cant really do your job anyway.
Yeah I can and probably will leave Fujitsu, bit I like to show commitment to the projects I'm involved in. However for some people they either DON'T have readily transferable skills (VME experts anybody ?) or skills that everybody & their dog have.
When you have a mortgage, car payments, kids and bills it's not always easy to change jobs and people should not be ridiculed for seeking decent treatment and a bit of security, so grow up and put that saucer of milk down.
Pensions:
For some people the pension scheme was the last remaining reason to stay at Fujitsu.
Time Wasters & Poor service:
I'm all for the yearly appraisals and the like where the manager to tell a staff member they are lazy, shiftless or just plain crap. I don't like having to carry the lazy bastards either, it makes my job harder and they are usually paid more than me.
We all know that theres people in every company who take 10 minute work breaks from their coffee drinking and the problem of inept managers, sadly very few of the redundancys involve these people (as is usually the case).
Some of us put shit loads of extra hours in each week to give the best service we can (I'm going to lose 38 hours flexi-time on the 1st Jan cos I haven't had time to take as I'm only allowed to take 7.25 hours per month)
But I am doing my best for Fujitsu and the customers despite standing with a placard on Friday morning.
I want Fujitsu to succeed but they can't if they continue to take the piss out of their employees
If course if you had a clue you would know that 1690 has very little to do with it (apart from an excuse for senile old men to march about in bowler hats & sashes, and the other lot who can't live without them becasue then they would have no soapbox to shout from)
But then you are probably bitching about the French cos the Normans invaded in 1066, or perhaps the Scots regarding the Battle of Culloden or the Edwards oppression of the Welsh.
So please grow up, and gain the backbone to include your name
as a resident of Belfast I am sick to death of the Titanic (and the further commercialization of the damn thing.)
In he case of the ice cubes I find it funny, but with the developers with The Titanic Quarter, I'm hoping it will slide under the waves with all the property developers still onboard
If I lad something considered illegal encrypted on my PC what would I do ?
Would I ?
a: reveal the key and hand them the evidence, and get a suitable criminal & CRB record
or
b. Refuse to divulge the key and have a criminal record which would do less damage to my future.
Thats a hard one.
So it won't stop the people they claim to be after from getting away with a lesser charge, yet the innocents (or those who do not wish to divulge commercial, private or contact details) will receive something which will mess up their future employment prospects.
What will constitute evidence of file sharing, and who will collect this evidence.
Will it be people paid by the record/film industry as I certainly wouldn't trust them as they have to find infringements to justify being paid.
Will they be paid a commission on every person they 'discover'?
Will a government quango be setup to do all this checking?
What constitutes file sharing, just because a file is named say "Seven_Nation_Army-White_Stripes.MP3" is that what the file actually is (will they download and confirm each and every file)
Yet again I am wrong in believing that accusation is not the same as proof
I was always amused at how the MS idea of TCP/IP differed from the rest of the world (such as how many addresses would be available for hosts on a given subnet) I will await the outcome of the research.
This was based on answers which had to be given for MS qualifications that workmates where studying for (ir going through various braindumps)
I remember when my wife used to work in restaurants, several of them where health food / wholefood / veggie / vegan establishments, whats the point ?
I have so say that apart from riding bikes and supposedly eating healthy, I have yet to see people who drank & smoked to such excess.
It always struck me that they believed that they could trade one lifestyle aspect off against another (while assuming the moral high ground) this study seems to hint that I wasn't just imagining things.
believe it or not some people have to live with really crappy connections so I disagree totally, anyway scanners should not use a packers signature as a detection mechanism.
Often people don't want their executables, javascript or wsh file open to public gaze, therefore they pack it or at least obscure it
In fact even with a decent connection myself I still object to huge web pages, with shit loads of Flash, animations, javascript and their ilk.
Design we had to suffer huge numbers of fonts and rounded boxed when DTP first turned up, and it's worse than ever on web pages.
Nevermind if the site does what it's supposed to do, is there lots of crap flying around on screen ?
Also to correct Herby it's not actually compression it's "hard limiting" which is the issue with the horrible modern mixes. Compression itself even out the dynamics usually used to either limit the attack of a note or sustaining a note (in the case of a guitar)
Les Paul will be sadly missed as he was both a true innovator and a what I would term a gentleman.
As for the snails I mentioned it's a flat worm that does the brain control bit (sorry but it was years ago) but heres a link anyway http://people.smu.edu/eheise/Leucochloridium_paradoxum.htm
that affects slugs as I remember, which causes the the snail to climb to the top of a plant and advertise itself as food for birds (this is combined with weirdly pulsing eye stalks).. Once the snail is eaten the spores are passed out through the birds droppings to infect new snails.
(It may be slugs not snails as I was reading about it ages ago & the video footage is rank to quote my daughter)
Having lived through years of supporting Apple Mac users, Apple products just working is only partially true. When a Mac stops working it stops working bit time.
They will still have to answer the my Palm dosn't work questions(and be held to blame too)
@B9
Point 2, thats just silly would Palm will allow their device to be flashed via iTunes I don't think so
If Apple would allow me to sync MY content with MY device with the app of MY choice instead of deliberately breaking things with each firmware upgrade. I may have some sympathy for them in the Palm situation. But it's control freakery
Palm where stupid though, but hopefully Apple will miss out on large numbers of downloads.
Everytime iTunes upgrades it pisses all over my machine and insists on forcing Quicktime as my media player in the least obvious places despite what I tell it in the installer & the Program Access & Defaults settings?
No sane person willingly uses iTunes, and why can they not allow syncing via WiFi?
@jammach
It's not the aac format but the DRM that people where having foisted upon them.
@Michael C
Just because there memory leaks in an OS (they all have them) doesn't mean that developers can leak all over the place as well. I was always taught to clean up after myself when coding (and real life). Every windows dev has to cope with the same issues. Seemingly the iTunes developers are exempt from such mortal things (as I remember a 3rd party developed the MS version of iTunes)
Last time I looked NI was still part of the UK. Therefore illegal immigration et al will still occur from the ROI into NI which means they are still entering the UK.
Or in reality what they are trying to do is to prevent entry into the mainland, or more specifically England (lets face it they don't care about Scotland & Wales).
According to my passport I am a UK citizen but I would have to produce a passport to travel within my own country. That's NOT acceptable. What would the headlines be if the Scottish & Welsh parliaments insisted that English people had to produce passports to enter!
I have spent a lot of time all over the UK (& ROI) and the only place where I have been treated as & called a foreigner is in England (specifically in London). Between Easy Jet, National Express, Canary Wharf security and Strathclyde police insisting on me producing a passport I am tired of it!
If the Zune had been available in the UK I would have purchased one, after trying out a friends Zune I was actually impressed with it compared with the Apple products.
By the governments statements on this, it is perfectly fine to leave the residents of NI (who the government are happy to collect tax from) at the mercy of international terrorists.
Between Easyjet staff declaring that as a foreign national I am required by law to carry my passport at all times, and a booking clerk stating that I had to show a passport to travel to buy a bus ticket.
After years of being treated like a foreigner in my own country it's no surprise that I have such a strong desire to leave this shitty country for sunnier climes.
I like media monkey a lot even if the interface is a bit 1990's it works well and syncs with almost anything.
DoubleTwist is OK but is a few months away from being a pleasurable experience (as opposed iTunes being several years away (with the windows version being a decade or so))
Apple are complete wankers for deliberately breaking the connectivity, same as they are complete tosspots for constantly changing the database format (& encryption) for uploading music to iPods.
Surely I should be the person deciding which app I want to use on my machine, rather than being forced to use the pox ridden iToons
People here are using examples that do not tally with common sense and are being deliberately awkward (actually the phrase deliberately thick comes to mind)
What is wrong in discussing such things, possibly Bruce isn't thick enough to recommend using unmasked on-line banking passwords in a cybercafe somewhere in Russia. But then somehow I don't think that was his original intent.
I also do not think he was referring to typing in real passwords during a public demo (but then he is probably smart enough to use a demo account).
It is something worth discussing, and if your security relies on blobbed passwords then as far as I am concerned you are already well on your way to making a mistake.
There are situations such as cash machines et al where you are forced into that situation, but surely you do not continue if somebody is a little too inquisitive?
it's not as if the folks behind have their own agenda or anything.
WHAT !!!!! they have an agenda, well who would have believed it.
Disney films (amongst others) also tend not so show the characters pissing or having a crap either but everybody knows that happens in the real world.
When are these people going to grow up and give <orientation>, <skin_colour>, <religion>, <height>, <gender>, <perceived_gender>, <disability> or <species> a bit of respect & STFU about their own perception of justice (or otherwise)
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Rob Crawford
Has it got → #
Posted Friday 19th March 2010 20:46 GMT
In Chip maker to take on iPad with $99 tablet
a user replaceable battery?
Rob Crawford
Right → #
Posted Friday 19th March 2010 09:56 GMT
In Energizer site still plagued by data-stealing trojan
so why has nobody moved to have them kicked off line due to them spreading malware?
Rob Crawford
Once again → #
Posted Thursday 18th March 2010 12:00 GMT
In Facebook faces Home Sec over lack of 'panic button'
the government say do it our way and never mind the reality.
Oh yeah a panic button will fix it, yeah right of course it will.
I wonder how much Jim Gambles team(I remember when he was a cop over here and he loved the media attention) they where charged for creating the 'Panic Button'
I hate to say it, but some people need an IQ higher than their age rather than a panic button
Rob Crawford
Oh Yeah → #
Posted Tuesday 9th March 2010 13:00 GMT
In Nazi-doodlebug-powered father of all paintball guns patented
I forgot it's also the reason that one has to be careful about the oil used in decent air rifles as along side an increase of muzzle velocity would usually be accompanied with a fragmented pellet (and unhappy air rifle)
I have vague memories of a British air rifle from the late 19th century which used the compression of ether as a propellant (technically it becomes a firearm at that point).
Actually thinking about it surely the paintball gun becomes a fully fledged firearm and therefore requires a licence
Rob Crawford
Lacking a suitable title → #
Posted Tuesday 9th March 2010 10:51 GMT
In Android native code kit apes iPhone game 3D
Google seems to be heading in the right direction with the Android platform.
Between
Apple insisting on 100 quid a year and the devkit being Mac only, along with horrendous NDAs and restrictions.
Symbian being a complete dogs dinner, I can see why they did certain things but try developing an app which used GPS without a $200 developer cert <shudder> and testing on a real phone.
Now if somebody would only give me a decent Android based phone (2.0 or later) I would be a very happy little home coder.
I don't know about Google as a company, but they deserve to do well in the phone market because they are making developers (both commercial and home based) feel welcome
Rob Crawford
Prior art → #
Posted Tuesday 9th March 2010 09:56 GMT
In Nazi-doodlebug-powered father of all paintball guns patented
it already exists in so many forms (including the internal combustion engine) how can a patent be granted.
I had a fine spud gun that ran on ether or nitrous oxide almost 20 years ago.
Rob Crawford
3 & Skype → # ↑
Posted Friday 5th March 2010 10:26 GMT
In Skype arrives on Nokia Symbian phones
Well atleast you can have the 3 & the proper client installed at the same time.
I didn't get any calls because everybody I know had better things to do than call me but for outgoing calls over WiFi it was fine, and I will stick with the 3 version for 'on the move' usage because I know it's free and any call quality issues are nothing to do with my data connection.
There seems to be issues on the discussion groups about incoming calls and also non English installations over at the Skype discussion boards.
This version is starting to sound more like a large scale beta rather than a finished version, which I wouldn't mind as long as they told me.
Rob Crawford
3 & Skype → #
Posted Thursday 4th March 2010 15:14 GMT
In Skype arrives on Nokia Symbian phones
Having an e63 from 3 as my 'spare' phone is damn useful when away from home so far.
However I am not sure if this new release will coexist with Threes version and you may get hit with data charges which you where not expecting if you switch versions (as the non 3 version of messenger eats into your data allowance)
If I get time tonight I will check (but thats a big IF)
Rob Crawford
Quality programming my brown eye → #
Posted Tuesday 2nd March 2010 14:18 GMT
In BBC confirms death of 6Music, slashes online budget by a quarter
If they wanted quality programming BBC3 & Radio 1 would have bitten the dust.
Ironically the claim of not cutting across other broadcasters would have meant the death of Radio1 & 2, BBC4 (cuts across every shite channel) and News24 competes with Sky News et al.
Basically lets keep what the great unwashed and the elite (read media types & politicians) want and fuck the rest of us!
Even the Asian Network was better than Radio1 Xtra (but no damn 60s Cambodian pop or Korean psychedelia)
Bastards
Rob Crawford
Glad they had an intelligent panel → #
Posted Monday 1st March 2010 16:49 GMT
In 'We're on a virtual walk out of Africa', futurologist tells Intel partners
"Futurist Ray Hammond declared that computers were rapidly approaching human levels of intelligence"
If he has dais human levels of stupidity then I may have agreed but I guess I would have been shouting bollocks at him.
Rob Crawford
Things which could be lost → #
Posted Friday 26th February 2010 13:19 GMT
In BBC to cull radio stations, halve websites in painful biz review
Radio1 Extra (sorry spelling it Xtra is not not cool it's crap) nobody listens to it and plays the same calculated demographic dross as Radio1
Some BBC local radio stations should be merged (I would prefer terminated but will settle for merged)
BBC3, crap comedys and Family Guy
Asian Network, nobody is listening so it should go, plus I assume you haven't heard the dozens of 'local' Asian stations in any of the major UK towns. From what the Asian Network seem to be trying to do is something a coalition of local stations would be a better model for
RE: AC & the Asian network, can I ask where the non generic 'white' radio stations (as you term them) are. 6Music ithe only place I stand a chance of hearing The Gang of Four in the same week as King Tubby and the 13th floor Elevators.
I'm afraid I fall into the category demographic of not having reached senility, not wanting to listen to golden oldies, dad rock or the pre-chewed pap which is sold to kids these days.
6Music is the only place I can indulge my love of Dub, decent funk, krautrock, psych or garage bands
Rob Crawford
@Workstation → #
Posted Tuesday 23rd February 2010 14:47 GMT
In Mandybill petition puts hacks in a spin
Indeed the combination of alleged 'orphan works' and the lack of clarification of what constitutes evidence (and appeal procedure) are my concerns
Rob Crawford
Hmmm → #
Posted Thursday 4th February 2010 16:03 GMT
In Does Apple patent claim show iPad with built-in camera?
I like the term "Ear Speaker"
Rob Crawford
Still not managed to actually read the article? → # ↑
Posted Thursday 4th February 2010 12:55 GMT
In iPad forces operators to shave their SIMs
MICRO & MINI BOTH SUPPORT THESE FEATURES
Just because the feature is there doesn't mean it's used, whats so hard about that?
Using the features is not mandatory
FFS learn to read th whole thing
Rob Crawford
Seems Mandy → #
Posted Wednesday 27th January 2010 13:38 GMT
In MPs demand UK government end secrecy over ACTA
doesn't like any scrutiny for anything he is involved in does he?
No wonder the house of commons spent so much time working on rules to prevent Mandy returning to the HOC from the Lords (minimum of 5 years between resigning as a lord & being able to stand as an MP).
He would be like a rubber ball,
Mandy becomes a peer,
Resign as peer when safe seet is available
Stand in a safe seat
Become MP
Get kicked out for something dodgy (again)
& repeat ad nausium
Rob Crawford
Hmmm I wonder → #
Posted Wednesday 20th January 2010 10:41 GMT
In Vomit cannon to protect vessels from pirates, paparazzi
if there the super yacht owners will be getting hit with some form of assault charge.
While not a fan of the press if they are in a public place it seems unfair that the super rich can take action and a normal person would be in deep shit for taking any action.
As for a puke ray vs RPG I would still think the RPG has the advantage
Rob Crawford
Scratches head → #
Posted Tuesday 12th January 2010 16:06 GMT
In Brown offers free laptops to deprived UK schoolkids
UK wide call for the funding for English laptops
If so then fuck off
Rob Crawford
Bad news → # ↑
Posted Tuesday 5th January 2010 17:10 GMT
In Google tries to quietly trample on Apple's toes
the majority of the world mobile phone market isn't the USA, and to be honest the US mobile market is absurdly behind the rest of the world.
Name a US mobile phone mfgr who produces a product that sells well outside of the US (the last one was the Moto Razr which was popular for a few months) apart from the iPod + strapon phone
The US mobile phone system is fragmented, the roaming is crap and the number of dropped calls you suffer is ridiculous.
Lets be honest the iPhone is an iPod Touch with a 2nd rate phone built in (I only know one iPhone user who thinks it's a decent phone).
Personally I hope Google don't make a hash of things as Nokia & Sony Ericsson need some competition even if I do have 2 nokia phones (and an iPod Touch)
Rob Crawford
FYI → #
Posted Tuesday 22nd December 2009 13:44 GMT
In Fujitsu workers picket London HQ
They said Thatcherism was dead,
If a company can post record profits then can at least pay a cost of living pay rise to those who generated those profits. It's allegedly a low rate of inflation (though my household bills don't say that) at least match that faked rate.
Fujitsu say they are cash strapped (only £110M profit this year) but have not mentioned the payment from HMG for the NHS project as it's a one off payment (reckoned to be £400M)
Don't take the piss out of the staff if you want them to be content.
Regarding the redundancys:
The company refused to consider any other options and initially where even refusing to consider transfers to other roles, absences/sabbaticals (paid or reduce pay) like the Honda (& BA) offered.
Any sort of discussion only took place when the original strike was due.
Why not leave:
For those saying you can leave you are probably the 2nd rate web monkeys who have to switch jobs as you don't have enough Star Wars toys in your work area and have to leave when people find out you cant really do your job anyway.
Yeah I can and probably will leave Fujitsu, bit I like to show commitment to the projects I'm involved in. However for some people they either DON'T have readily transferable skills (VME experts anybody ?) or skills that everybody & their dog have.
When you have a mortgage, car payments, kids and bills it's not always easy to change jobs and people should not be ridiculed for seeking decent treatment and a bit of security, so grow up and put that saucer of milk down.
Pensions:
For some people the pension scheme was the last remaining reason to stay at Fujitsu.
Time Wasters & Poor service:
I'm all for the yearly appraisals and the like where the manager to tell a staff member they are lazy, shiftless or just plain crap. I don't like having to carry the lazy bastards either, it makes my job harder and they are usually paid more than me.
We all know that theres people in every company who take 10 minute work breaks from their coffee drinking and the problem of inept managers, sadly very few of the redundancys involve these people (as is usually the case).
Some of us put shit loads of extra hours in each week to give the best service we can (I'm going to lose 38 hours flexi-time on the 1st Jan cos I haven't had time to take as I'm only allowed to take 7.25 hours per month)
But I am doing my best for Fujitsu and the customers despite standing with a placard on Friday morning.
I want Fujitsu to succeed but they can't if they continue to take the piss out of their employees
Rob Crawford
Never changes does it → # ↑
Posted Wednesday 16th December 2009 15:44 GMT
In Critics aim to sink Titanic ice cubes
If course if you had a clue you would know that 1690 has very little to do with it (apart from an excuse for senile old men to march about in bowler hats & sashes, and the other lot who can't live without them becasue then they would have no soapbox to shout from)
But then you are probably bitching about the French cos the Normans invaded in 1066, or perhaps the Scots regarding the Battle of Culloden or the Edwards oppression of the Welsh.
So please grow up, and gain the backbone to include your name
Rob Crawford
Fecking Titanic → #
Posted Tuesday 15th December 2009 12:24 GMT
In Critics aim to sink Titanic ice cubes
as a resident of Belfast I am sick to death of the Titanic (and the further commercialization of the damn thing.)
In he case of the ice cubes I find it funny, but with the developers with The Titanic Quarter, I'm hoping it will slide under the waves with all the property developers still onboard
Rob Crawford
Pastel wookies and half eaten images of nature → #
Posted Tuesday 15th December 2009 12:24 GMT
In Ladies put off tech careers by sci-fi posters, Coke cans
I'd just be glad to work somewhere that isn't a fucking dungeon (and not the interesting sort either)
The current office I work in has early 80s decor & furniture, but at least the 90s are only a few years away
Rob Crawford
Ans the appropiate phrase is → #
Posted Thursday 10th December 2009 14:53 GMT
In Epson models wearable PlayStation 3
sad twat
Rob Crawford
Slight hole in this whole thing → #
Posted Thursday 26th November 2009 11:25 GMT
In RIPA III: A legislative turkey comes home to roost
If I lad something considered illegal encrypted on my PC what would I do ?
Would I ?
a: reveal the key and hand them the evidence, and get a suitable criminal & CRB record
or
b. Refuse to divulge the key and have a criminal record which would do less damage to my future.
Thats a hard one.
So it won't stop the people they claim to be after from getting away with a lesser charge, yet the innocents (or those who do not wish to divulge commercial, private or contact details) will receive something which will mess up their future employment prospects.
Hmmmm
Rob Crawford
Not for iPod touch → #
Posted Monday 23rd November 2009 22:58 GMT
In Cisco pumps out iPhone security app
Apparently it needs a microphone
Rob Crawford
Coral → #
Posted Friday 13th November 2009 11:23 GMT
In Corel receives bigger buyout offer
the company who has destroyed almost as many products as CA
Rob Crawford
Im still wondering → #
Posted Monday 2nd November 2009 12:34 GMT
In TalkTalk to fight net disconnection plan
What will constitute evidence of file sharing, and who will collect this evidence.
Will it be people paid by the record/film industry as I certainly wouldn't trust them as they have to find infringements to justify being paid.
Will they be paid a commission on every person they 'discover'?
Will a government quango be setup to do all this checking?
What constitutes file sharing, just because a file is named say "Seven_Nation_Army-White_Stripes.MP3" is that what the file actually is (will they download and confirm each and every file)
Yet again I am wrong in believing that accusation is not the same as proof
Rob Crawford
Good → #
Posted Thursday 22nd October 2009 15:07 GMT
In Lily Allen exits Twitter, bins BlackBerry
Now she will have the time to learn to fucking sing
Rob Crawford
Excellent → #
Posted Friday 16th October 2009 13:43 GMT
In DARPA, Microsoft, Lockheed team up to reinvent TCP/IP
I was always amused at how the MS idea of TCP/IP differed from the rest of the world (such as how many addresses would be available for hosts on a given subnet) I will await the outcome of the research.
This was based on answers which had to be given for MS qualifications that workmates where studying for (ir going through various braindumps)
Rob Crawford
Hmmmm → #
Posted Thursday 8th October 2009 12:00 GMT
In Greens more likely thieves and liars, says shock study
I remember when my wife used to work in restaurants, several of them where health food / wholefood / veggie / vegan establishments, whats the point ?
I have so say that apart from riding bikes and supposedly eating healthy, I have yet to see people who drank & smoked to such excess.
It always struck me that they believed that they could trade one lifestyle aspect off against another (while assuming the moral high ground) this study seems to hint that I wasn't just imagining things.
Rob Crawford
So when will → #
Posted Tuesday 6th October 2009 12:47 GMT
In Beeb unveils new Doctor Who logo
the gay Daleks and bi-curious Cybermen turn up?
As for the new Emo Doctor I assume we will have a selfharm special
Rob Crawford
A pox upon all their houses → #
Posted Tuesday 8th September 2009 09:51 GMT
In Tory MP to sue over sex smear email
WTF bloggers delivering writs, on behalf of Conservitives
I wish they would all fuck off and die (I include the Labour ones in that statement)
Rob Crawford
Nope → #
Posted Friday 4th September 2009 10:38 GMT
In McAfee false alert snares innocent JavaScript files
Conrad,
believe it or not some people have to live with really crappy connections so I disagree totally, anyway scanners should not use a packers signature as a detection mechanism.
Often people don't want their executables, javascript or wsh file open to public gaze, therefore they pack it or at least obscure it
In fact even with a decent connection myself I still object to huge web pages, with shit loads of Flash, animations, javascript and their ilk.
Design we had to suffer huge numbers of fonts and rounded boxed when DTP first turned up, and it's worse than ever on web pages.
Nevermind if the site does what it's supposed to do, is there lots of crap flying around on screen ?
Rob Crawford
@jake → #
Posted Friday 14th August 2009 09:55 GMT
In Les Paul dies at 94
You saved me pointing that out.
Also to correct Herby it's not actually compression it's "hard limiting" which is the issue with the horrible modern mixes. Compression itself even out the dynamics usually used to either limit the attack of a note or sustaining a note (in the case of a guitar)
Les Paul will be sadly missed as he was both a true innovator and a what I would term a gentleman.
Sorry to see you go Les
Rob Crawford
@Anonymous Coward 09:15 GMT → #
Posted Thursday 13th August 2009 12:29 GMT
In Blaster anniversary recalls network worm heyday
Congratulations on deliberately misunderstanding the article
Rob Crawford
Thats the one → #
Posted Wednesday 12th August 2009 15:02 GMT
In Brain-jacking fungus turns living victims into 'zombies'
Yeah Simon thats the one, unfortunitely as I said I was wrong apparently it's a flatworm not a fungi. It's still damned creepy
I also remember a mention of a cat parasite that changes cats behaviour but I could be wrong
Rob Crawford
@nextweek → #
Posted Wednesday 12th August 2009 13:22 GMT
In Brain-jacking fungus turns living victims into 'zombies'
Ohhh you are so silly
As for the snails I mentioned it's a flat worm that does the brain control bit (sorry but it was years ago) but heres a link anyway http://people.smu.edu/eheise/Leucochloridium_paradoxum.htm
Rob Crawford
Theres a similar fungus → #
Posted Wednesday 12th August 2009 11:48 GMT
In Brain-jacking fungus turns living victims into 'zombies'
that affects slugs as I remember, which causes the the snail to climb to the top of a plant and advertise itself as food for birds (this is combined with weirdly pulsing eye stalks).. Once the snail is eaten the spores are passed out through the birds droppings to infect new snails.
(It may be slugs not snails as I was reading about it ages ago & the video footage is rank to quote my daughter)
Rob Crawford
Errr → #
Posted Wednesday 22nd July 2009 11:36 GMT
In Firefox 3.7 swivels glassy eye
It's damned ugly for a start
Rob Crawford
<title> → #
Posted Thursday 16th July 2009 19:02 GMT
In Apple ends Palm Pre's iTunes charade
@TeeCee
Having lived through years of supporting Apple Mac users, Apple products just working is only partially true. When a Mac stops working it stops working bit time.
They will still have to answer the my Palm dosn't work questions(and be held to blame too)
@B9
Point 2, thats just silly would Palm will allow their device to be flashed via iTunes I don't think so
Rob Crawford
Oh really → #
Posted Thursday 16th July 2009 14:29 GMT
In Apple ends Palm Pre's iTunes charade
If Apple would allow me to sync MY content with MY device with the app of MY choice instead of deliberately breaking things with each firmware upgrade. I may have some sympathy for them in the Palm situation. But it's control freakery
Palm where stupid though, but hopefully Apple will miss out on large numbers of downloads.
Everytime iTunes upgrades it pisses all over my machine and insists on forcing Quicktime as my media player in the least obvious places despite what I tell it in the installer & the Program Access & Defaults settings?
No sane person willingly uses iTunes, and why can they not allow syncing via WiFi?
@jammach
It's not the aac format but the DRM that people where having foisted upon them.
@Michael C
Just because there memory leaks in an OS (they all have them) doesn't mean that developers can leak all over the place as well. I was always taught to clean up after myself when coding (and real life). Every windows dev has to cope with the same issues. Seemingly the iTunes developers are exempt from such mortal things (as I remember a 3rd party developed the MS version of iTunes)
Rob Crawford
Errr → #
Posted Thursday 16th July 2009 13:33 GMT
In Lords cut Irish travel from e-Borders
Last time I looked NI was still part of the UK. Therefore illegal immigration et al will still occur from the ROI into NI which means they are still entering the UK.
Or in reality what they are trying to do is to prevent entry into the mainland, or more specifically England (lets face it they don't care about Scotland & Wales).
According to my passport I am a UK citizen but I would have to produce a passport to travel within my own country. That's NOT acceptable. What would the headlines be if the Scottish & Welsh parliaments insisted that English people had to produce passports to enter!
I have spent a lot of time all over the UK (& ROI) and the only place where I have been treated as & called a foreigner is in England (specifically in London). Between Easy Jet, National Express, Canary Wharf security and Strathclyde police insisting on me producing a passport I am tired of it!
Rob Crawford
Zune? → #
Posted Thursday 16th July 2009 10:58 GMT
In Microsoft apes Spotify with ad-stuffed tune streaming
If the Zune had been available in the UK I would have purchased one, after trying out a friends Zune I was actually impressed with it compared with the Apple products.
But as usual MS have stuffed it up.
Rob Crawford
Loved that ione → #
Posted Thursday 16th July 2009 09:54 GMT
In Lords cut Irish travel from e-Borders
By the governments statements on this, it is perfectly fine to leave the residents of NI (who the government are happy to collect tax from) at the mercy of international terrorists.
Between Easyjet staff declaring that as a foreign national I am required by law to carry my passport at all times, and a booking clerk stating that I had to show a passport to travel to buy a bus ticket.
After years of being treated like a foreigner in my own country it's no surprise that I have such a strong desire to leave this shitty country for sunnier climes.
I'm just too good for this damn place
Rob Crawford
Try → #
Posted Thursday 16th July 2009 09:38 GMT
In Apple ends Palm Pre's iTunes charade
Media Monkey or DoubleTwist
I like media monkey a lot even if the interface is a bit 1990's it works well and syncs with almost anything.
DoubleTwist is OK but is a few months away from being a pleasurable experience (as opposed iTunes being several years away (with the windows version being a decade or so))
Rob Crawford
Oh Yeah → #
Posted Thursday 16th July 2009 09:38 GMT
In Apple ends Palm Pre's iTunes charade
Apple are complete wankers for deliberately breaking the connectivity, same as they are complete tosspots for constantly changing the database format (& encryption) for uploading music to iPods.
Surely I should be the person deciding which app I want to use on my machine, rather than being forced to use the pox ridden iToons
Rob Crawford
@David Gosnell → #
Posted Wednesday 8th July 2009 09:51 GMT
In Schneier says he was 'probably wrong' on masked passwords
One of the few people I agree with,
People here are using examples that do not tally with common sense and are being deliberately awkward (actually the phrase deliberately thick comes to mind)
What is wrong in discussing such things, possibly Bruce isn't thick enough to recommend using unmasked on-line banking passwords in a cybercafe somewhere in Russia. But then somehow I don't think that was his original intent.
I also do not think he was referring to typing in real passwords during a public demo (but then he is probably smart enough to use a demo account).
It is something worth discussing, and if your security relies on blobbed passwords then as far as I am concerned you are already well on your way to making a mistake.
There are situations such as cash machines et al where you are forced into that situation, but surely you do not continue if somebody is a little too inquisitive?
Rob Crawford
Heh → #
Posted Monday 6th July 2009 13:52 GMT
In Olympics bosses probe mobile tracking tech
how about making a vest for a stray dog and loading it up with 50 old phones, and letting Rover roam the site.
Rob Crawford
And people → #
Posted Friday 26th June 2009 11:14 GMT
In Apple MacBook Pro firmware fritzes third-party HDDs
wonder why I dislike that companys attitude so much.
They have raised arrogance to new levels.
Rob Crawford
Fine → #
Posted Wednesday 24th June 2009 15:52 GMT
In Disney punts hetero luuurv to wide-eyed kiddies
it's not as if the folks behind have their own agenda or anything.
WHAT !!!!! they have an agenda, well who would have believed it.
Disney films (amongst others) also tend not so show the characters pissing or having a crap either but everybody knows that happens in the real world.
When are these people going to grow up and give <orientation>, <skin_colour>, <religion>, <height>, <gender>, <perceived_gender>, <disability> or <species> a bit of respect & STFU about their own perception of justice (or otherwise)
/me awaits the (first) unbiased PETA report
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