This is acting like a dick. It's not his fault you can't configure your wife's laptop, and it's not his fault that he didn't know how to lock down his router.
What did your little episode teach him? To come ask the asshole next door (who hacks his system on the sly to annoy him) next time his computer has a problem? Why not just ask him to do it nicely, or offer in the first place? Oh yeah, because you wanted to harass him and make money out of him. Nice.
Hope your plumber/mechanic/etc neighbours pull the same trick on you sometime.
that's it: Berlusconi doesn't like that people can post videos of him getting hit with model cathedrals, so he's classing anyone who uploads video to the internet as a broadcaster subject to government regulation.
Gee, I can't think of any other use for an OLED display 11 inches across. It's already being used in smaller sizes in phones - what if someone was to come up with a form factor that was slightly larger LIKE A FREAKING TABLET or something
Wooosh!
I'm sure many are still dangerous, and many may still be functioning. My point was response to the post asking why the mines weren't manufactured out of stainless steel/teflon/spun-gold and unobtainium etc originally - i.e. they were built to a price to meet a war need.
I think the approach being taken to disarm these sounds very sensible given these can demonstrably still go BANG! 60 years after they were installed.
Mines are one of those gifts that just keep on giving - you can remove *most* of them, but removing *all* of them beyond all doubt is a tricky challenge.
DA said it, and it made us laugh. That's as deep as it gets. For the record, DA was one of the biggest geeks I can think of: he had the first Apple Macintosh ever imported into the UK, for example.
The mines weren't designed to last 60 years. They're military mines: they were designed to be be cheap enough to produce in mass numbers quickly so they could deny shipping in the areas where they were laid for the duration of a conflict, and someone else could worry about the cleanup later. This was a global conflict that the allies could easily have lost, not a modern war of predator drones against people in tents. No-one was worried about making eco-mines out of unobtainium back in WWII.
It's fairly uncontroversial, isn't it?
* there is a cost for running proprietary, closed source software - usually made up of licence costs plus support costs
* there is a cost for running FOSS - not licence costs, but support costs
* there is a cost for implementing any new software to an organisation, in terms of cost of change, reskilling, downtime, training etc.
Just because an app is free, doesn't mean it costs you nothing to implement it. Any decisions regarding moving from one set of software to another should consider the total cost of change
On top of this, governments do not consider the long term - they want to make finances look good for the period they are in power, so they can get a good economic soundbite at the end of a term and hopefully get re-elected.
Reminds me of the old story of the University of North Carolina's "missing" Novell server. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server_discovered_after/
We've lost a server! No, it's still responding to pings, we just don't know where it is" - eventually found four years later behind a drywall someone had errected.
Working here, using GPS. WHen I signed in on my iPhone it even suggested the office that I'm working in as a location, based on nearby organisations and buildings. I'm "Ric Harris" in Manchester, UK if you want to test. Be nice.
Slightly concerned that this exposes my main email address to the world though, not worked out yet if this is exploitable by spammers, but I guess I'll find out soon enough if it is...
Looks pretty promising, although it's slow as a (admittedly very clever) web app on the iPhone 3G.
I wrote to my local MP, who happens to be George Osborne, the Tory shadow chancellor, twice protesting the Digital Economy bill that this article refers to. He didn't respond.
Updated your iPhone to 3.1.13 yet then?
Granted, JBing is fairly easy but it is a ballache having to redo it from scratch each time Apple brings out an update. See also: Hackintoshes.
Case in point: MS's own Outlook Web Access requires IE for the "full" version. No tasks etc visible on the "lite" version presented when you use any other browser.
You know what'd be great on Amazon? If they tracked all the paper books you'd ever bought from them, and allowed you to download the eBook version of all of them for free. I'd put up with DRM then for the convenience...
Thing is, I pay about 150 GBP a month in diesel, and I pay 160GBP a year road tax. Chop those out, add in cheap electric charging, and the monthly cost of the vehicle on finance starts to look a lot more attractive.
Way to go with the strawman argument. How about if there's 1 dollar, and the choice is either split it between healthcare, education and a little defence, compared to just handing 99c to the Dod?
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This is acting like a dick. It's not his fault you can't configure your wife's laptop, and it's not his fault that he didn't know how to lock down his router.
What did your little episode teach him? To come ask the asshole next door (who hacks his system on the sly to annoy him) next time his computer has a problem? Why not just ask him to do it nicely, or offer in the first place? Oh yeah, because you wanted to harass him and make money out of him. Nice.
Hope your plumber/mechanic/etc neighbours pull the same trick on you sometime.
that's it: Berlusconi doesn't like that people can post videos of him getting hit with model cathedrals, so he's classing anyone who uploads video to the internet as a broadcaster subject to government regulation.
HOMEOPATHS: avoid alcohol-free lager. It';ll get you shitfaced.
I hear a sound: as if a million [BLINK] tags and "Under Construction" animated gifs were extinguished at the same time
Aw, c'mon. We've not spent nearly $2M on Symantec licences here, and I'd hardly call their sales pitch a cyber attack.
I'm here all week, try the veal
Only for downloading music and video
Gee, I can't think of any other use for an OLED display 11 inches across. It's already being used in smaller sizes in phones - what if someone was to come up with a form factor that was slightly larger LIKE A FREAKING TABLET or something
Wooosh!
I'm sure many are still dangerous, and many may still be functioning. My point was response to the post asking why the mines weren't manufactured out of stainless steel/teflon/spun-gold and unobtainium etc originally - i.e. they were built to a price to meet a war need.
I think the approach being taken to disarm these sounds very sensible given these can demonstrably still go BANG! 60 years after they were installed.
Mines are one of those gifts that just keep on giving - you can remove *most* of them, but removing *all* of them beyond all doubt is a tricky challenge.
they do, in the rest of the world. modern turbo diesels in small cars can get 70mpg, and any euro hatch with a petrol engine will get at least 35.
DA said it, and it made us laugh. That's as deep as it gets. For the record, DA was one of the biggest geeks I can think of: he had the first Apple Macintosh ever imported into the UK, for example.
Women? Nope
The mines weren't designed to last 60 years. They're military mines: they were designed to be be cheap enough to produce in mass numbers quickly so they could deny shipping in the areas where they were laid for the duration of a conflict, and someone else could worry about the cleanup later. This was a global conflict that the allies could easily have lost, not a modern war of predator drones against people in tents. No-one was worried about making eco-mines out of unobtainium back in WWII.
My server room's been destroyed by a giant propane tank explosion, you insensitive clod!
This happened in Manchester, UK: the police networks were shut down, apparently due to Conficker: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8492669.stm
that's what the goatse posts are: it's a secret undo function. post a link to goatse.cz without posting anonymously and it deletes your last post.
It's fairly uncontroversial, isn't it?
* there is a cost for running proprietary, closed source software - usually made up of licence costs plus support costs
* there is a cost for running FOSS - not licence costs, but support costs
* there is a cost for implementing any new software to an organisation, in terms of cost of change, reskilling, downtime, training etc.
Just because an app is free, doesn't mean it costs you nothing to implement it. Any decisions regarding moving from one set of software to another should consider the total cost of change
On top of this, governments do not consider the long term - they want to make finances look good for the period they are in power, so they can get a good economic soundbite at the end of a term and hopefully get re-elected.
Reminds me of the old story of the University of North Carolina's "missing" Novell server.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server_discovered_after/
We've lost a server! No, it's still responding to pings, we just don't know where it is" - eventually found four years later behind a drywall someone had errected.
Working here, using GPS. WHen I signed in on my iPhone it even suggested the office that I'm working in as a location, based on nearby organisations and buildings. I'm "Ric Harris" in Manchester, UK if you want to test. Be nice.
Slightly concerned that this exposes my main email address to the world though, not worked out yet if this is exploitable by spammers, but I guess I'll find out soon enough if it is...
Looks pretty promising, although it's slow as a (admittedly very clever) web app on the iPhone 3G.
I wrote to my local MP, who happens to be George Osborne, the Tory shadow chancellor, twice protesting the Digital Economy bill that this article refers to. He didn't respond.
Updated your iPhone to 3.1.13 yet then? Granted, JBing is fairly easy but it is a ballache having to redo it from scratch each time Apple brings out an update. See also: Hackintoshes.
Almost certainly yes, although I suspect that the tricky bit is fitting in an antennae that works at all frequency ranges in a small handset
Case in point: MS's own Outlook Web Access requires IE for the "full" version. No tasks etc visible on the "lite" version presented when you use any other browser.
You know what'd be great on Amazon? If they tracked all the paper books you'd ever bought from them, and allowed you to download the eBook version of all of them for free. I'd put up with DRM then for the convenience...
Thing is, I pay about 150 GBP a month in diesel, and I pay 160GBP a year road tax. Chop those out, add in cheap electric charging, and the monthly cost of the vehicle on finance starts to look a lot more attractive.
Way to go with the strawman argument. How about if there's 1 dollar, and the choice is either split it between healthcare, education and a little defence, compared to just handing 99c to the Dod?