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  1. Re:Does these smart glasses even have a market? on Sony To Release Google Glass Competitor · · Score: 1

    Hey, I actually found a use for a smart watch the other day. Dominos pizza (at least the aussie version) app supports them to show how long your pizza/food is taking to cook and be delivered.

  2. Re:In a world seeking alpha ... on Sony To Release Google Glass Competitor · · Score: 1

    Well, they did help build the 'sue your users into oblivion' business model that became ever so popular. That counts right?

  3. Re:No thanks on Sony To Release Google Glass Competitor · · Score: 1

    This is the default state for all new laptops. Effectively this is their 'pre usable' mode of operation.

  4. Re:Since Google Glass was never sold to the public on Sony To Release Google Glass Competitor · · Score: 1

    Nah, all they need to do is put them on a store shelf ;)

  5. Re:Look at what happened the last time... on $10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It · · Score: 1

    Well then, today is your lucky day!

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...

    This one is still up for sale and comment. Have fun :D

  6. Re:...bypassing a bum sensor? on Farmers Struggling With High-Tech Farm Equipment · · Score: 1

    Depending on what currency you are converting to. For AU$, you are correct. But for US$, your two pence is worth 3c.

    As for the topic... yeah, I never planned to actually address it.

  7. Re:my bank on Why Gmail Has Better Security Than Your Bank · · Score: 1

    Whoa, scratch that.

    Your new Internet Banking Password must contain 6 or more characters including at least one character from two of the following categories:
          - upper case letters
          - lower case letters
          - numbers or
          - standard special characters (eg. !,.@#$%)

    Seems they are being much better. Time to roll a nice, heavy-bit-count password for this.

  8. Re:my bank on Why Gmail Has Better Security Than Your Bank · · Score: 1

    NAB is nothing great, but you do require 2-factor whenever transferring anything bank to bank.

    Only way to move money out of NAB online without using the 2-factor is with bpay.

  9. Re:Power Costs on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 1

    Did you see the numbers on some of those seagate batches?

    Now while I admit that 300 or so drives isn't really enough to warrant a sample size when some of their batches are in the tens of thousands, but if you get 300 drives and almost 70 of them die within a year, would you keep buying drives?

  10. Re:Power Costs on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "More work is still needed to define policies that would allow array users and manufacturers to detect unusually disk failure rates and take the appropriate actions before any data loss takes place." - Last line in the conclusion.

    This implies that not all the spare drives are active and ready to go all the time and that some/most would be kept powered down as cold spares. Of course this same guy is likely to get another paper done where he examines the cost to run the array and how many drives could be left cold and still achieve the 5-9s reliability. Heck, if the software managing the drives is smart, it would rotate active/spare drives in and out, working them in quickly to get them all past the 'first 18 months high failure' rate to the sweet spot, then swap in and out over the lifespan of the array to enable the array to be at highest reliability for longer.

    Hrmm, maybe I should look at building such an algorithm, a quick google search doesn't turn any such systems up.

  11. Re:Oh, please... Re:What's the problem? on Secret Service Investigating Small Drone On White House Grounds · · Score: 1

    Those are the ones outside of the special viewing room. They look grim and apathetic because they aren't in that room masturbating.

  12. Re:FUCK YOU WHAT THE FUCK IS IOT on One In Five Developers Now Works On IoT Projects · · Score: 1

    So cute, does your mummy know you use that language?

  13. Re:FUCK YOU WHAT THE FUCK IS IOT on One In Five Developers Now Works On IoT Projects · · Score: -1, Flamebait
  14. Re:One more reason to use a wired keyboard on Wireless Keylogger Masquerades as USB Phone Charger · · Score: 1

    I run two PCs with three displays. I typically use Synergy to mouse/keyboard share between them but, in case the network has issues, I keep a wireless controller hooked up to the second PC and the mouse/keyboard are in a drawer in the desk.

  15. Re:A Natural on Bill Gates Endorses Water From Human Waste · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And such is the fickle nature of the mods.

    On topic, people would have to note statistically, every molecule of H2O has at some time been inside a creature. So we are all drinking sewage/waste/carrion water.

  16. Re:Easier by several other methods on Quake On an Oscilloscope · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure those old scopes ran winNT, not 98 (for obvious reasons)

    If I remember rightly you could use a mouse/keyboard with them, so controls would be simple.

    As for why vectorise it? Why not!

  17. Re:MITM legalized at last on BT, Sky, and Virgin Enforce UK Porn Blocks By Hijacking Browsers · · Score: 1

    Except they aren't in the middle

    Man in the middle means to dupe both ends of the transaction that they are talking to each other correctly while injecting your own data into it.

    What they are doing is a redirect to another page that asks you if you would please answer this question so that, when the deadline arrives, they don't have to restrict/disconnect your service.

  18. Re:Nice on BT, Sky, and Virgin Enforce UK Porn Blocks By Hijacking Browsers · · Score: 1

    Typically, when doing such things, you check the user-agent.

    Their aim is to ask people a simple question. If the people had already replied to it they wouldn't get the page. If they select an answer they wont get the page in future. At worst it would be considered using a morally ambiguous technology to accomplish a neutral end.

  19. Re:ROM on Thunderbolt Rootkit Vector · · Score: 2

    Pfft, of course they are better screws. They are both more expensive and annoying to operate, just like other Apple Iproducts.

    iScrew

    Only meant to be used by the special Apple certified screwdriver, the iScrewyou.

  20. Re:uh - by design? on Thunderbolt Rootkit Vector · · Score: 1

    The whole point of Thunderbolt (and Firewire before it) was that they didn't put any load on the CPU at all, they would communicate directly to ram, reading and writing data without any load on the very limited resource that is the processor. Of course, there really should have been a boot-time restriction of what memory the bridge has access to, but I guess that would have been too much for the programmers.

  21. Re:Short sighted on Forbes Blasts Latests Windows 7 Patch as Malware · · Score: 1

    That is the issue. Windows on a laptop should specifically ask you if you want to install updates, because when you need to grab your laptop and run, you don't want to wait for twenty minutes of updates first.

    I would suggest using Hibernate instead since it powers down the machine, when you see the "I am going to delay you" indicator on the shutdown icon.

  22. Re:Cue Ayn Rand worshipping Libetarians... on Heathrow Plane In Near Miss With Drone · · Score: 1

    Really? Those same engines are tested by firing frozen chickens into them while they are running.

  23. Re:I laughed on Chinese Government Moves To Crack Down On Puns · · Score: 1

    I solve practical problems. Like how do I stop some mean-ol' mother-hubbard from [figuratively] tearing me a structurally superfluous behind?

    The answer, is a pun.

    And if that don't work... use more pun!

  24. Re:Hmmmm. on BT Blocking Private Torrent Sites? · · Score: 1

    Nah, just America. In Australia when they say 'unlimited' by law the connection has to be without any limit. So the only ones that post 'unlimited downloads' are the ones who oversell their back-haul and run like shite during peak times.

  25. Re:Could be solved be VISA, etc. immediately on UK Hotel Adds Hefty Charge For Bad Reviews Online · · Score: 1

    Australia. Basically, if you ever bounce a cheque or make any kind of fee appear as a result of cashing one, they wont approve it.

    Reason we started using them was a guy came into one of the other stores (who our owner owned) and had a bank cheque from his own, named, account. Buys a laptop and other stuff with it. Then goes to the bank and cancels the bank cheque. Used to be once issued they were practically legal tender.