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  1. Re:Um, well... on Chipped Passport Cloned In Minutes · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Hang on a minute, so what they're really saying is that the mechanism for distributing peoples public keys and the trust around those keys so signatures could be verified. So if people aren't in the chain of trust then it doesn't work, that implies not a problem with the technology but the environment where it's being implemented. That affects our trust of the issuers outside the web and consumers outside the web of passports issued inside the web.

    That implies it's sociopolitical not technological.

  2. Re:Um, well... on Chipped Passport Cloned In Minutes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The sad thing is, that as someone who has never been to the US and who can't see myself travelling frequently I don't want to have to pay for a poorly design or implemented system which my government might wind up relying on for things that actually do matter to me.

  3. Since when were AT&T and Sprint Nextel Banks? on Identity Theft Rates Among Top Banks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The article title could be more accurate.

  4. I use Vodafone and T-Mobile on In-Home Wireless Vs. Mobile Broadband · · Score: 1

    I use vodafone for wireless broadband but in a pinch I also use my MDA as a connection, both give me realworld observed speeds in London of 1.4-1.6mb/sec.

  5. Re:Eliminate it? on Airport Security Prize Announced · · Score: 1

    What? Do you think we're all Amy Winehouse?

  6. Re:What a bad idea on Startup Building Floating Data Centers · · Score: 1

    We've solved these problems in oil rigs, these aren't the issue. Although there are others.

  7. You were going fine on MS Drops Licensing Restrictions from Web Server 2008 · · Score: 1

    Right upto the last line

    "There are lies, damn lies, statistics, and netcraft website counts."

    If you can come up with tools which can provide value judgements on website content, let them know, or call google on +1 650-253-0000

  8. More accessable social networking first on Social Network Aggregation, Killer App in 2008? · · Score: 1

    Anything that avoids the, email to tell you that you have an email that you can't access syndrome would be great. I have countless mechanisms for getting hold of email and messaging from all sorts of places and devices but oweing to more and more social networking I actually have *less* access as unless you use their web app you're screwed.

    So before we get a hard on for aggregators, can we consider the point (more communication) beforehand so we this can go hand in hand.

  9. Where can I mod +1 terrifying ? on Linux-Based Phone System Phones Home · · Score: 1

    no, really.

  10. British Telecom won't need power backup anymore on FCC Requires Backup Power For 210K Cell Towers · · Score: 1

    I think they had the requirement removed from landline exchanges so they could move to IPV6

  11. UK has 999, 911 and 112 on Worry Over VZW, Sprint Phones' 911 Alarm · · Score: 1

    I was at a first aid course the other day and the guy from the ambulance service said we have three, 999 which is the uk number, which is also why in most offices you dial 9 for an outside line, so you can just keep punching 9 and you'll get through. 112 because that's what mainland europe use and 911 because of north america.

    He did point out the americans don't reciprocate.

  12. Re:Keep at it on The Obesity Epidemic — Is Medicine Scientific? · · Score: 1

    I started exercising 3 years ago, I walked initially, then I ran, I started rowing, cycling and skiing.

    I used to weigh 142 kilos and got down to about 90. I'm so much happier now. Yesterday I booked my second ski trip of this upcoming season and I can't weight ;)

  13. Re:Market for this? on High-Tech Vest Lets Gamers Take a Hit · · Score: 2, Funny

    I sort of see what you're saying, but it's so cheap,why not? I mean $189 that's what, £15? That's the cost of a pint of beer and a packet of pork scratchings where I come from.

  14. Re:One of the best policies ... on Judges Reinstate Charges In Google Age Discrimination Suit · · Score: 1

    #define asshole

  15. Re:But is it left handed? on MIT Engineers World's First Schizophrenic Mice · · Score: 1

    bugger, beat me to it.

    Yes, mod me into oblivion

  16. Re:My assessment on First Robotic Drone Squadron Deployed · · Score: 1

    For the same reason that someone can mod you insightful and someone else can mod you as a troll.

  17. Re:CS vs IT - A UK angle on Computer Science or Info Tech? · · Score: 1

    I started "Computing" at A-Level (I dropped out and got a job as a progreammer) and it covered things like, relational databases, venn diagrams, simplistic programming, but not algorithms and no real handy datastructures. For coursework we were supposed to write some faux real world system, model the problem formally and then deliver it in access. I said, why couldn't I write it in Delphi (I was into programming long before I started this course) and the teacher said, I'm not in an position to review it. So no.

    For what it's worth, any exposure to the science of computing, especially in terms of algorithms and the maths has been hugely helpful to me as a programmer. I remember when I first started out doing lots of things the hard way, time consuming, over complicated, harder to understand for the next guy and just generally just repeating the tasks implemented far more competently by libraries. As time went on (and I was exposed to better programmers) I picked things up. I learned about areas and drilled into them in great depth.

    I now work as a Senior Programmer type building massive multithreaded distributed systems on low latency interconnects because I worked *very* hard at filling in my knowledge. A CS course (I'm not saying a degree but I'm neither for or against degrees, specifically, depends on the subject) would have been tremendously helpful.

    I would try and pick up a masters in CS if I could find one which wasn't, XML, Databases and a bit of OO.

  18. Sorry Nick, we're moving you to (mumble)Sandford on Internal Microsoft Email about Life at Google · · Score: 1

    Sorry Nick, you're making us all look bad :)

  19. perhaps they are on Lake Disappears into Andes · · Score: 1

    no, seriously

  20. It's not just about the protocol on Corporate IT Hanging Up on Apple's iPhone · · Score: 1

    Define locked in?

    You can often find an upgrade path from what you have to something else. Furthermore, since when does email access stop at the. So I want to migrate to a better system, great, so I don't have to deploy new email clients but I've got to port my mail stores, get all the archiving and AV scanning, anti spam installed. Assuming we're just talking about email and not groupware. Blackberrys are rarely used in the corporate environment for email only.

  21. Re:Not a great new app! on Corporate IT Hanging Up on Apple's iPhone · · Score: 1

    My problem with the iPhone, and why I won't be buying one is, what about my applications?

    Tom Tom? GooSync?

    How am I going to port the app I wrote to use an RFID reader to tell me if in my packed bag I've forgotten anything?

  22. Re:Yawn on Corporate IT Hanging Up on Apple's iPhone · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's nothing wrong with having well supported proprietry kit, if you're already bound in, just make sure you've got a good handle on the bed you've chosen to lie in. We run exchange here, that means I can sync all my mail and appiontements to my windows mobile device (which I happened to already own). The standard device of issue here is the blackberry. It works well, the firm knows how much it costs to run, upgrade, support and what they get out of it.

    As people move from one firm to another, Crackberrys are so common the transition is often seamless. It's also nice in the fact that because there are so many users, I often overhear the execs and managers discussing tweaks and doing self-support.

    For what it's worth, OTA syncing of mail and calendering is so totally piss poor being, as it is, supported by some of the most conveluted, non standard, standards you've ever seen. Have you ever tried writing anything to use syncML?

  23. Data connections? on New System Detects Calls While Driving · · Score: 1

    I can use the GPS software on my 3G mobile to download live traffic data and re-route me accordingly, hence my data connection can be very busy while driving.

    can it tell the difference between that and say, a video call?

  24. Re:Gaming the system? on CNBC Software Flaw Worth $1 Million? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    you Sir, are an idiot.

  25. Re:Idea!!! on Sci-fi Writers Join War on Terror · · Score: 1

    Wow, how original, do yer reading. They can fly