"that never stops the bad guy from using high-powered transmitters and ultra-sensitive antennas "
I know pretty much nothing about NFC, but why can't the handshake, if there is such a thing, why can't it measure the distance between the two objects?
1ms ping back means the objects are close 10ms, the objects are too far away, handshake failure.
Driving for 20 years in the UK and I've lost count to the amount of times I've been pulled over.
"Just a routine stop sir". Then you play twenty questions.
The last time was because of my black passenger. He was black, you see. We must have been up to no good.
During my younger days, I was pulled over once a week because I drove a nice sport car. I had the police on a harrasement charge for that.
Been pulled on a bike too, and I'll admit I was on the pavement.
For the record, m'am, five points and £600 fine for driving down a bus lane and through a red light. All quashed at a later date through police and CPS incompetence. 'effing useless, the lot of them.
"Tickets" are unusual. "Producers" are common and a pain in the arse.... You must attended a police station of your choice within the next seven days and produce your legal documents as stated below. So it says.
You've either been lucky, drive an average car, or have never carried a black passenger.
"you're now considered "abnormal" if you don't have a Facebook."
I disagree.
My very non-geek friends don't use it. They're old school and prefer the phone and knocking on doors. My not using Facebook is seen as normal to them.
The middle ground associates, who think everyone is on Facebook, often look puzzled when I tell them I don't use it. You can see the thought process going on: Inda doesn't use it, and he's Mr Geek, why doesn't he use it? Is there something better? No one asks though. They've learnt not to talk to me about computers as I'll carelessly take the conversation to another level, and that that alienates everyone.
It's changing - slowly changing. Keep nudging. Keep suggesting small changes. People will follow if you don't go full geek.
I simply plug my Android into my cheap DVD player via USB. Everything is then controlled through the DVD remote. 5.1 speaker set up. MP3 or MP4. Cheap.
Is there something special about speaker docks that I don't see?
My father was a joiner and cabinet maker. He made kitchens, and desks, and wardrobes, and bedside tables. Never windows.
One day he was asked to make a window. He had all the tools, all the materials, but the knowledge and experience was missing.
He eventually made the window. He gained the knowledge from a secondhand book he bought for pence at a bookshop.
This is also true for myself. I have woodworking skills that would top most peoples. I can scrap wood to a 0.02mm tollerance. I can turn wood on a lathe to the same spec. I can work all woodworking machines. I can name all the joints and some I made 20 years ago still slip as they were designed.
I cannot make windows though. I would need a book for that.
Skills can be transfered. Knowledge can be gained. More news after the weather.
I went looking for this game last night... on the 'pirate' download sites *arrrgh Jim-lad*. Not because I wanted to download - it's not my sort of game - because I wanted to see the piracy with my own eyes.
One forum is handy because it shows page views. Those page views for this crap game were no higher than any other game. In fact, just like all the other games, page views were less than a couple of hundred.
Unless I'm missing something, and with my 15 years of warez experience I doubt it, I don't see piracy on Android as a big issue. I have a few gigs of warez on my phone, only a bluetooth transfer away, and yet people aren't that interested. With rapid bug fix releases, pirating on Android is actually a pain in the arse (pirated versions don't connect to Play to update automagically).
99% of the apps on my phone are ad-supported or free. Let's keep it that way.
Every video I've ever posted on YouTube has been met with abuse. I posted a radio interview once and I got abuse because the interviewee was a shithead. I knew he was a shithead, that's why I posted it!
Today, everyone embeds videos in forums and we comment there like all good adults should.
I used to save cables. Then I gave a VGA cable to a friend. He connected his laptop to his TV. It worked fine for an hour. Then I left him to it.
The next day he was pissed. The TV had stopped displaying pictures. He'd mashed the remote a billion times trying to get it to work. He'd fucked all the defaults.
It was obviously all my fault.
The cable was old and broken. I felt guilty enough to buy him a brand new one.
Push faster man! You'll recharge that battery in no time at all!
Why would you run out? Programming a, um, computer in the car to warn you about low energy and the distance to the nearest charging station sounds like something easy to do.
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Did we even know the exact reason he was arrested?
He sounds like a mouthy one. If he was giving lip to the coppers, they would have had him for that alone. 'e was disturbing the peace, your honor.
Hopefully the keyboard warrior will have his prints taken, sit in the cells for a few hours and realise his fight with the world is not worth it.
1) Notification saying "Software upgrade"
2) Click through, clicking all OK buttons
3) Wait for restart.
That was the easiest OS upgrade I've ever seen.
This OS is Android.
gary.zenkel@nbcuni.com is only mentioned 5,300 times on the internet, according to Google.
You didn't "get it", and this was true for a lot of people outside the UK. We understand.
Substitute "weird" for "quaint" and you'll begin your journey to "getting it"
"that never stops the bad guy from using high-powered transmitters and ultra-sensitive antennas "
I know pretty much nothing about NFC, but why can't the handshake, if there is such a thing, why can't it measure the distance between the two objects?
1ms ping back means the objects are close
10ms, the objects are too far away, handshake failure.
Mod this AC up. He tells the truth.
Driving for 20 years in the UK and I've lost count to the amount of times I've been pulled over.
"Just a routine stop sir". Then you play twenty questions.
The last time was because of my black passenger. He was black, you see. We must have been up to no good.
During my younger days, I was pulled over once a week because I drove a nice sport car. I had the police on a harrasement charge for that.
Been pulled on a bike too, and I'll admit I was on the pavement.
For the record, m'am, five points and £600 fine for driving down a bus lane and through a red light. All quashed at a later date through police and CPS incompetence. 'effing useless, the lot of them.
"Tickets" are unusual. "Producers" are common and a pain in the arse.... You must attended a police station of your choice within the next seven days and produce your legal documents as stated below. So it says.
You've either been lucky, drive an average car, or have never carried a black passenger.
Woohoo!
This sharing of information thing they call the internet is wonderful.
"you're now considered "abnormal" if you don't have a Facebook."
I disagree.
My very non-geek friends don't use it. They're old school and prefer the phone and knocking on doors. My not using Facebook is seen as normal to them.
The middle ground associates, who think everyone is on Facebook, often look puzzled when I tell them I don't use it. You can see the thought process going on: Inda doesn't use it, and he's Mr Geek, why doesn't he use it? Is there something better? No one asks though. They've learnt not to talk to me about computers as I'll carelessly take the conversation to another level, and that that alienates everyone.
It's changing - slowly changing. Keep nudging. Keep suggesting small changes. People will follow if you don't go full geek.
Me thinks it don't work like that.
The obvious answer to these sorts of questions is: your mother.
Who's law is that?
I don't understand.
I simply plug my Android into my cheap DVD player via USB. Everything is then controlled through the DVD remote. 5.1 speaker set up. MP3 or MP4. Cheap.
Is there something special about speaker docks that I don't see?
A little tame sir. Something like this maybe?
My father was a joiner and cabinet maker. He made kitchens, and desks, and wardrobes, and bedside tables. Never windows.
One day he was asked to make a window. He had all the tools, all the materials, but the knowledge and experience was missing.
He eventually made the window. He gained the knowledge from a secondhand book he bought for pence at a bookshop.
This is also true for myself. I have woodworking skills that would top most peoples. I can scrap wood to a 0.02mm tollerance. I can turn wood on a lathe to the same spec. I can work all woodworking machines. I can name all the joints and some I made 20 years ago still slip as they were designed.
I cannot make windows though. I would need a book for that.
Skills can be transfered. Knowledge can be gained. More news after the weather.
You're still correct. A significant number of people do not pirate apps on Android.
I went looking for this game last night... on the 'pirate' download sites *arrrgh Jim-lad*. Not because I wanted to download - it's not my sort of game - because I wanted to see the piracy with my own eyes.
One forum is handy because it shows page views. Those page views for this crap game were no higher than any other game. In fact, just like all the other games, page views were less than a couple of hundred.
Unless I'm missing something, and with my 15 years of warez experience I doubt it, I don't see piracy on Android as a big issue. I have a few gigs of warez on my phone, only a bluetooth transfer away, and yet people aren't that interested. With rapid bug fix releases, pirating on Android is actually a pain in the arse (pirated versions don't connect to Play to update automagically).
99% of the apps on my phone are ad-supported or free. Let's keep it that way.
hmmm. People commenting on YouTube.
Every video I've ever posted on YouTube has been met with abuse. I posted a radio interview once and I got abuse because the interviewee was a shithead. I knew he was a shithead, that's why I posted it!
Today, everyone embeds videos in forums and we comment there like all good adults should.
Didn't read your rants. I'll assume they're the same ones as last week.
On behalf of Slashdot, I'd like to let you know the feelings of the posters:
Fuck off.
Forums slide because of ACs like yourself. There's rarely a good reason to go full AC on here.
That's unfair.
I pointed at the TV, shock my head and tutted.
I ever considered writing a letter to The Times.
I cared.
I am aware of this Facebook.
Posting stuff on other people's pages? That sounds just like pill-pushers sending emails to my inbox.
Nice one!
I've already done some of those on my G+ profile and I'm glad to see others offering the same advice.
Washed out greyscale.
Eyes made larger and further apart.
Nose smudged.
My father said something was wrong with the picture but he couldn't tell me exactly what. Here's hoping it'll fool the computers too.
It's always norovirus.
95 times out of 100, anyway.
Sorry AC, but that's wrong. I saw a program on the BBC where they tested the CCTV retrieval process using the DPA.
I used to save cables. Then I gave a VGA cable to a friend. He connected his laptop to his TV. It worked fine for an hour. Then I left him to it.
The next day he was pissed. The TV had stopped displaying pictures. He'd mashed the remote a billion times trying to get it to work. He'd fucked all the defaults.
It was obviously all my fault.
The cable was old and broken. I felt guilty enough to buy him a brand new one.
Friends don't give friends cables.
Push faster man! You'll recharge that battery in no time at all!
Why would you run out? Programming a, um, computer in the car to warn you about low energy and the distance to the nearest charging station sounds like something easy to do.
What would you give the mini-hacker?
A car? A house? A pony?
Kudos and a medal is enough. Being able to brag to classmates is enough. An iThing is more than enough (I'd prefer the kudos myself).