My signature doesn't resemble my name whatsoever.. it's a scrawl I made up as a teenager that's looked a bit signature-like. I've been using the same for years.
Indeed.. my time spent learning to touch type (in 6th form as it wasn't taught in mainstream education) was some of the most valuable eductation I ever had. The time they failed to get me to write cursive was completely and utterly wasted.. luckily they eventually realized I'd never be able to do it and gave up.
I find cursive horrible. They tried to teach it to me and eventually gave up.. it's just completely unnatural. Being left handed didn't help - they tried to force us to write it with 'real' pens (those ones with ink cartridges) and if you're left handed you end up with a blue hand and nothing on the paper but a smudge. Got multiple detentions for that.. which didn't endear me to cursive at all.
You access company email remotely. You don't store it locally (it goes without saying you don't use POP for company email). A compromised phone might have the latest email hanging around somewhere, but everything else is safe.
Those aren't particularly secure either... you don't *need* the code to break into luggage (anyone who's come across airport security probably has experienced this). ATMs and Chip/Pin systems rely on nobody physically getting hold of your card and/or having the time to enter enough combinations to break into the system. Alarm systems, except the most expensive ones with direct connections to the local police, are mostly snake oil - shutting one up takes under a minute and most people don't react to alarms unless they're going off for a while.
A phone that breaks from merely being dropped from a normal height *is* defective. Everyone drops things from time to time - it should be part of the design goals to cope with some moderate impact damage.
I've seen Nokia phones thrown across rooms and suffer only minor scratches.. those things are pretty durable. I believe blackberries are the same.
Patents for small inventions are already long dead. Sure you can get a patent, but it microsoft want to come along and use it anyway.. maybe file another patent.. unless you have *very* deep pockets there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.
The opposite tends to be true. I'm with a small ISP that generally ignores such threats and has never (to my knowledge) cut anyone off based on one, and will never filter, and the big ISPs like BT and Virgin are the ones bending over implementing Phorm, IWF, etc. etc.
What normally happens is they say unlimited coke for $2, reasoning that most people will drink 5 litres or less, and they can afford to offer the service at that price.
Then you come along and drink 100 litres.. they're short of coke, and it cost them more than you'll ever pay to buy it in - so they tell you go go away.
Yes. Although KT are bound by ofcom rules of equal access to exchanges etc. the physical infrastructure is different to the type BT use so you'd be pretty much starting from scratch, making it an expensive proposition.
It's also a special case, having its own telco going right back into the GPO days. We used to be quite envious of the hull residents getting free local calls when we were being charged through the nose for them, back in the day.
Unlimited internet £19.99* 50gb/month internet £19.99
* Subject to FUP, and we won't tell you it's 50gb/mo anywhere.
90% of people will go for the first. It's all about perception.
IMO it should be illegal to use the term unlimited when it clearly isn't, but that's the way the law stands at the moment.
Worse, what's started happening is people are complaining about the FUPs, so they're being rewritten with no cap just a vague paragraph about protecting other users. Competition is forcing the prices down to the point that it's hard to make a profit on normal usage let alone heavy usage, so you've got unlimited services with no written cap, massively oversubscribed and underpriced.
In that situation kicking off the high volume users is all they have left.. they've backed themselves into a corner.
Corporations are bound by a set of laws, but the CEO of a corporation can be sued if the corporation breaks the right laws (eg. corporate manslaugher).
Not sure this really comes under human rights.. an ISP aren't the government, and have the right to supply services to anyone they like, just like a shop does.
On Windows unless you're on the primary monitor you can't run games, view videos, or do much really.. open a browser maybe?
There may be drivers that allow this but to say windows has supported it for 'a long time' is simply untrue. A fully patched XP SP3 doesn't support it for a start, with a dual head NVIDIA.
No it doesn't. You have to fart around with settings to stop it putting all the dialog boxes in the bit inbetween the two monitors, for a start. Then maximise a window. Oops it just made a huge window crossing both monitors. And god help you if you're running monitors with different resolutions.. maximise does *precisely* the wrong thing and chops half the contents of your windows off.
It works with as many monitors as you like. That support has been in for as long as I've been using X, and that's a long time. The only difference is it has GUIs now.
Try 3 monitors with Windows.. hell, 2 is the pits if you want to mix resolutions.. it just doesn't hande it well at all.
Of course it does.. once you have a tunnel there is no client and server, you just route whatever you need over it.
Depending on the layer of the tunnel you may be limited to IPv4/6 or you may be able to get more imaginative.. I prefer GRE tunnels for that reason.. you can send dynamic routing over the links and get quite sophisticated with it.
Neither are most peoples IP addresses, unless they're on dialup. Dynamic IP made sense when IPs had 200 dialup ports and 2000 users, but not in these days of 24/7 connections... if you never disconnect your IP isn't changing so why make it dynamic in the first place?
If you whois'd my home IP you'd find my name, address and telephone number. It most definately does identify me. At the very least your IP is going to determine your ISP who can tell you exactly who was using that IP at the time.
Not really... eg. itunes is extremely easy. OTOH Bittorrent requires knowlege of router configuration to configure ports forwarding etc. therefore itunes is easier (considerably, for the nontechnical).
If they can make a one click download that just works then the pay step (which can be automatic as in itunes) then they'll have something that works.
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My signature doesn't resemble my name whatsoever.. it's a scrawl I made up as a teenager that's looked a bit signature-like. I've been using the same for years.
Cursive is irrelevant to signatures.
You can make it faster if you don't actually want to read the results. Just draw a line on the paper.. same result. Otherwise it's *much* slower.
Natural it aint. If it was natural they wouldn't need to spend months trying (and failing, in my case) to teach it.
Indeed.. my time spent learning to touch type (in 6th form as it wasn't taught in mainstream education) was some of the most valuable eductation I ever had. The time they failed to get me to write cursive was completely and utterly wasted.. luckily they eventually realized I'd never be able to do it and gave up.
What? I'm 39 and used computers at school, and computers are older than that.
I find cursive horrible. They tried to teach it to me and eventually gave up.. it's just completely unnatural. Being left handed didn't help - they tried to force us to write it with 'real' pens (those ones with ink cartridges) and if you're left handed you end up with a blue hand and nothing on the paper but a smudge. Got multiple detentions for that.. which didn't endear me to cursive at all.
You access company email remotely. You don't store it locally (it goes without saying you don't use POP for company email). A compromised phone might have the latest email hanging around somewhere, but everything else is safe.
It probably isn't that hard, but if the software stops you and you really want the data rip the thing apart and read it directly off the chips.
Those aren't particularly secure either... you don't *need* the code to break into luggage (anyone who's come across airport security probably has experienced this). ATMs and Chip/Pin systems rely on nobody physically getting hold of your card and/or having the time to enter enough combinations to break into the system. Alarm systems, except the most expensive ones with direct connections to the local police, are mostly snake oil - shutting one up takes under a minute and most people don't react to alarms unless they're going off for a while.
A phone that breaks from merely being dropped from a normal height *is* defective. Everyone drops things from time to time - it should be part of the design goals to cope with some moderate impact damage.
I've seen Nokia phones thrown across rooms and suffer only minor scratches.. those things are pretty durable. I believe blackberries are the same.
Patents for small inventions are already long dead. Sure you can get a patent, but it microsoft want to come along and use it anyway.. maybe file another patent.. unless you have *very* deep pockets there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.
The opposite tends to be true. I'm with a small ISP that generally ignores such threats and has never (to my knowledge) cut anyone off based on one, and will never filter, and the big ISPs like BT and Virgin are the ones bending over implementing Phorm, IWF, etc. etc.
What normally happens is they say unlimited coke for $2, reasoning that most people will drink 5 litres or less, and they can afford to offer the service at that price.
Then you come along and drink 100 litres.. they're short of coke, and it cost them more than you'll ever pay to buy it in - so they tell you go go away.
Yes. Although KT are bound by ofcom rules of equal access to exchanges etc. the physical infrastructure is different to the type BT use so you'd be pretty much starting from scratch, making it an expensive proposition.
Hull is a *long* way from london.
It's also a special case, having its own telco going right back into the GPO days. We used to be quite envious of the hull residents getting free local calls when we were being charged through the nose for them, back in the day.
Which internet access isn't.
Which whould you buy?
Unlimited internet £19.99*
50gb/month internet £19.99
* Subject to FUP, and we won't tell you it's 50gb/mo anywhere.
90% of people will go for the first. It's all about perception.
IMO it should be illegal to use the term unlimited when it clearly isn't, but that's the way the law stands at the moment.
Worse, what's started happening is people are complaining about the FUPs, so they're being rewritten with no cap just a vague paragraph about protecting other users. Competition is forcing the prices down to the point that it's hard to make a profit on normal usage let alone heavy usage, so you've got unlimited services with no written cap, massively oversubscribed and underpriced.
In that situation kicking off the high volume users is all they have left.. they've backed themselves into a corner.
Corporations are bound by a set of laws, but the CEO of a corporation can be sued if the corporation breaks the right laws (eg. corporate manslaugher).
Not sure this really comes under human rights.. an ISP aren't the government, and have the right to supply services to anyone they like, just like a shop does.
On Windows unless you're on the primary monitor you can't run games, view videos, or do much really.. open a browser maybe?
There may be drivers that allow this but to say windows has supported it for 'a long time' is simply untrue. A fully patched XP SP3 doesn't support it for a start, with a dual head NVIDIA.
No it doesn't. You have to fart around with settings to stop it putting all the dialog boxes in the bit inbetween the two monitors, for a start. Then maximise a window. Oops it just made a huge window crossing both monitors. And god help you if you're running monitors with different resolutions.. maximise does *precisely* the wrong thing and chops half the contents of your windows off.
It works with as many monitors as you like. That support has been in for as long as I've been using X, and that's a long time. The only difference is it has GUIs now.
Try 3 monitors with Windows.. hell, 2 is the pits if you want to mix resolutions.. it just doesn't hande it well at all.
Of course it does.. once you have a tunnel there is no client and server, you just route whatever you need over it.
Depending on the layer of the tunnel you may be limited to IPv4/6 or you may be able to get more imaginative.. I prefer GRE tunnels for that reason.. you can send dynamic routing over the links and get quite sophisticated with it.
St. Edmund has the advantange of actually having set foot in England, unlike St. George.
The history of how we managed to get a palestinian patron saint is probably fascinating, but haven't found anything about it googling for it.
Neither are most peoples IP addresses, unless they're on dialup. Dynamic IP made sense when IPs had 200 dialup ports and 2000 users, but not in these days of 24/7 connections... if you never disconnect your IP isn't changing so why make it dynamic in the first place?
If you whois'd my home IP you'd find my name, address and telephone number. It most definately does identify me. At the very least your IP is going to determine your ISP who can tell you exactly who was using that IP at the time.
Yeah, like *that* is ever going to happen.
Not really... eg. itunes is extremely easy. OTOH Bittorrent requires knowlege of router configuration to configure ports forwarding etc. therefore itunes is easier (considerably, for the nontechnical).
If they can make a one click download that just works then the pay step (which can be automatic as in itunes) then they'll have something that works.