you can't market a drink called "champagne" if it's not made in the champagne area - at least within europe, anyway. in much the same way, you can't sell port or parma ham unless it came from a specific region of spain or italy...
Add to this the tool who brought in an apple airport and hooked it up to the corporate network without any wireless security, so that he could sit by the window. I'd have given him a longer patch cable, if he'd asked.
Also add to this the other tool who plugged in another WAP with the internal DHCP server turned on and serving addresses in the same address range as his office network.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing? Just look what a *lot* of it can do...
Will Woodward, Patrick Wintour and Dan Milmo
Wednesday February 14, 2007
The Guardian
Downing Street will respond to a surge of support for a petition on its website condemning its road pricing plans, which could reach 2m signatures by next week.
With Douglas Alexander, the transport secretary, resisting concessions, No 10 sources acknowledged they had to deliver a gesture to the protesters. That is likely to take the form of an email to each signatory from the prime minister, explaining the pricing plans in greater detail.
Downing Street to send Blair emails to 2 million road pricing protesters
Furious minister resists policy concessions
E-petitions site creator hails changing democracy
Will Woodward, Patrick Wintour and Dan Milmo
Wednesday February 14, 2007
The Guardian
Downing Street will respond to a surge of support for a petition on its website condemning its road pricing plans, which could reach 2m signatures by next week.
With Douglas Alexander, the transport secretary, resisting concessions, No 10 sources acknowledged they had to deliver a gesture to the protesters. That is likely to take the form of an email to each signatory from the prime minister, explaining the pricing plans in greater detail.
Will Woodward, Patrick Wintour and Dan Milmo
Wednesday February 14, 2007
The Guardian
Downing Street will respond to a surge of support for a petition on its website condemning its road pricing plans, which could reach 2m signatures by next week.
With Douglas Alexander, the transport secretary, resisting concessions, No 10 sources acknowledged they had to deliver a gesture to the protesters. That is likely to take the form of an email to each signatory from the prime minister, explaining the pricing plans in greater detail.
Two million people, in a country of 60 million, sign the petition. Discount the children, the elderley who haven't voted, and consider the demographics and percentage of people in the UK who don't use a computer or wouldn't generally use one to sign a petition.
At the risk of stating the obvious, "branding" = "phone service provider has customised the phone". this can range from a simple logo silkscreened on the casing, to a fairly extensive customisation of menus, adding logos to the phone's OS, and/or removing certain features (such as the ability to play MP3 ringtones, transfer files via bluetooth, etc).
All handset manufacturers make "unbranded", vanilla handsets. You can buy them - they're just not cheap or common as the market would prefer to buy branded, discounted handsets.
In the UK you can get unbranded phones without a contract from lots of sources such as http://www.expansys.com/ - but check the non-discounted prices versus what you'll see in the highstreet.
There's a thriving backstreet industry in debranding phones in the UK - for Windows Mobile devices there are communities that provide "clean" ROMs that are faster, have better GSM performance and add features - see http://www.xda-developers.com/ for details.
Oh, and for those pesky silkscreened operator logos on the casing, rubbing it with a sugarcube will remove them without scratching the phone - mask off holes in the casing first with sticky tape!
the phone itself will work on any network, but apple have apparently insulted cingular into making a few changes to their network to allow stunt features like visual voicemail to work. no biggie: how many voicemails do you tend to have to deal with at a time?
"You cannot reverse engineer a fingerprint simply because you cannot have a clue on how the actual fingerpint is shaped" - unless of course you have a handy source of copies of the owner's fingerprints ALL OVER THE PHONE CASING ALREADY!
...on a work mobile, the contacts in your phone book may be, and probably are, sensitive.
Have a look at your own - have you got direct dial numbers, names, departments etc that could be used by a social engineer?
...what I want is for my satellite box, dvd, amplifier, projector etc to all hook up intelligently to each other: no multiple remotes, no daisy-chaining scart cables, no having to switch the TV to AV1 and the amp to DVD each time - I want it to just work. I want an interconnect that can do video, audio AND control devices. I want my DVR to change my satellite box to the right channel at the right time without messing around with IR blasters and the like. No-one wants complexity, yet look at the average geeky AV setup.
I also don't want to have to buy all my AV gear from the same manufacturer to get any of this: there should be an open standard for this.
Who said that technology = less social interaction? Why not try something like setting up a video link with another school? Hell, another school in another country. All you need is Skype and a webcam - you could even have it setup and running 24/7 as a screen on the wall that acts like a "window" to another location...
...if the RIAA revoked, say, WinDVD's key and declined to provide them with a new one on proof of "better" coding. Joe Public sees his WinDVD cease to work and promptly raises class actions left, right and center against the shop that sold him his DVD, the company that sold him his PC, the media companies themselves, the individuals that broke the encryption - it'd be mayhem.
the only people who'll win out of this are the lawyers. want to know why lawyers need such big salaries? IT'S BECAUSE THEY'LL BE THE ONLY ONES SPENDING ALL THEIR CASH ON ORIGINAL HD-DVD MOVIES.
what if TPM was used in both ends of, say, a pair of encrypted walkie talkies for you? it'd allow you very, very hard encryption. it's the *use* it's put to, surely?
1) what parallels does isn't virtualisation. It looks and sounds like virtualisation, but it's not - it's using the Intel hardware natively.
2) virtualisation for servers is a good thing: you can offer separate, isolated boxes to your users and run the whole virtual farm on a single physical server. If you want an OS X server, currently you've got to physically buy an Apple server, find rackspace and power and find a support contract that you can get on with. Obviously it's doable, but it's not convenient.
..and MS retaliates with a Vista EULA on all bar the pro versions that forbids you from running it as a virtual machine.
The only way you can vote to change this is with your wallet...
IBM are schizophenic. IBM hardware and IBM Global Services. One is in the business of making hardware (and precious little of it now, too, as Lenovo do a lot of it for them) and the other is in the business of services: i.e. the death of a thousand consultants. They are separate organisations, and are emphatically NOT in the business of putting hardware in your living room...
If you were to examine the size of service contracts (including software!) then they'd typically be Very Large Indeed. The fact you don't see IBM-branded applications on the shelf at PC World is not indicative of IBM "having delusions of relevance in the software world".
...this is about IBM offering a business the ability to run the OS of their choice, and have unified collaborative working across all platforms. i'm presuming what this actually means is a) running notes/domino on windows, linux etc, and b) charging you out the wazoo for the consultancy they require to make it all work.
Quicksilver is *that* good. Anyone who uses Spotlight to launch apps hasn't tried, or doesn't fully understand, Quicksilver. Just like Coverflow, virtue desktops et al, Apple should buy them and incorporate it into Leopard. Either that, or they'll pull a Konfabulator on them and incorporate its functionality into their own code.
windows firewall is fine. it doesn't monitor outgoing traffic, but you don't need this. various third party firewall all bring their own bugs and foibles to the party...
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you can't market a drink called "champagne" if it's not made in the champagne area - at least within europe, anyway. in much the same way, you can't sell port or parma ham unless it came from a specific region of spain or italy...
I thought their earlier stuff before Pete Doherty left was the best.
Please, please write your manager a business case justifying this, using exactly this phrase, and post the response back to slashdot.
Also add to this the other tool who plugged in another WAP with the internal DHCP server turned on and serving addresses in the same address range as his office network.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing? Just look what a *lot* of it can do...
Furious minister resists policy concessions
E-petitions site creator hails changing democracy
Will Woodward, Patrick Wintour and Dan Milmo
Wednesday February 14, 2007
The Guardian
Downing Street will respond to a surge of support for a petition on its website condemning its road pricing plans, which could reach 2m signatures by next week.
With Douglas Alexander, the transport secretary, resisting concessions, No 10 sources acknowledged they had to deliver a gesture to the protesters. That is likely to take the form of an email to each signatory from the prime minister, explaining the pricing plans in greater detail.
Downing Street to send Blair emails to 2 million road pricing protesters Furious minister resists policy concessions E-petitions site creator hails changing democracy Will Woodward, Patrick Wintour and Dan Milmo Wednesday February 14, 2007 The Guardian Downing Street will respond to a surge of support for a petition on its website condemning its road pricing plans, which could reach 2m signatures by next week. With Douglas Alexander, the transport secretary, resisting concessions, No 10 sources acknowledged they had to deliver a gesture to the protesters. That is likely to take the form of an email to each signatory from the prime minister, explaining the pricing plans in greater detail.
Downing Street to send Blair emails to 2 million road pricing protesters
Furious minister resists policy concessions
E-petitions site creator hails changing democracy
Will Woodward, Patrick Wintour and Dan Milmo
Wednesday February 14, 2007
The Guardian
Downing Street will respond to a surge of support for a petition on its website condemning its road pricing plans, which could reach 2m signatures by next week.
With Douglas Alexander, the transport secretary, resisting concessions, No 10 sources acknowledged they had to deliver a gesture to the protesters. That is likely to take the form of an email to each signatory from the prime minister, explaining the pricing plans in greater detail.
Two million people, in a country of 60 million, sign the petition. Discount the children, the elderley who haven't voted, and consider the demographics and percentage of people in the UK who don't use a computer or wouldn't generally use one to sign a petition.
This is why we think Blair = Bliar
At the risk of stating the obvious, "branding" = "phone service provider has customised the phone". this can range from a simple logo silkscreened on the casing, to a fairly extensive customisation of menus, adding logos to the phone's OS, and/or removing certain features (such as the ability to play MP3 ringtones, transfer files via bluetooth, etc).
All handset manufacturers make "unbranded", vanilla handsets. You can buy them - they're just not cheap or common as the market would prefer to buy branded, discounted handsets.
In the UK you can get unbranded phones without a contract from lots of sources such as http://www.expansys.com/ - but check the non-discounted prices versus what you'll see in the highstreet.
There's a thriving backstreet industry in debranding phones in the UK - for Windows Mobile devices there are communities that provide "clean" ROMs that are faster, have better GSM performance and add features - see http://www.xda-developers.com/ for details.
Oh, and for those pesky silkscreened operator logos on the casing, rubbing it with a sugarcube will remove them without scratching the phone - mask off holes in the casing first with sticky tape!
the phone itself will work on any network, but apple have apparently insulted cingular into making a few changes to their network to allow stunt features like visual voicemail to work. no biggie: how many voicemails do you tend to have to deal with at a time?
...on the TV compared to the monitor.
Geordie Rose's blog: http://dwave.wordpress.com/
"You cannot reverse engineer a fingerprint simply because you cannot have a clue on how the actual fingerpint is shaped" - unless of course you have a handy source of copies of the owner's fingerprints ALL OVER THE PHONE CASING ALREADY!
...on a work mobile, the contacts in your phone book may be, and probably are, sensitive. Have a look at your own - have you got direct dial numbers, names, departments etc that could be used by a social engineer?
"Plucky Canada has own laws, currency"
...what I want is for my satellite box, dvd, amplifier, projector etc to all hook up intelligently to each other: no multiple remotes, no daisy-chaining scart cables, no having to switch the TV to AV1 and the amp to DVD each time - I want it to just work. I want an interconnect that can do video, audio AND control devices. I want my DVR to change my satellite box to the right channel at the right time without messing around with IR blasters and the like. No-one wants complexity, yet look at the average geeky AV setup.
I also don't want to have to buy all my AV gear from the same manufacturer to get any of this: there should be an open standard for this.
Who said that technology = less social interaction? Why not try something like setting up a video link with another school? Hell, another school in another country. All you need is Skype and a webcam - you could even have it setup and running 24/7 as a screen on the wall that acts like a "window" to another location...
...if the RIAA revoked, say, WinDVD's key and declined to provide them with a new one on proof of "better" coding. Joe Public sees his WinDVD cease to work and promptly raises class actions left, right and center against the shop that sold him his DVD, the company that sold him his PC, the media companies themselves, the individuals that broke the encryption - it'd be mayhem.
the only people who'll win out of this are the lawyers. want to know why lawyers need such big salaries? IT'S BECAUSE THEY'LL BE THE ONLY ONES SPENDING ALL THEIR CASH ON ORIGINAL HD-DVD MOVIES.
what if TPM was used in both ends of, say, a pair of encrypted walkie talkies for you? it'd allow you very, very hard encryption. it's the *use* it's put to, surely?
..I'm only 33 and I can remember using a 300 baud modem BITD...
1) what parallels does isn't virtualisation. It looks and sounds like virtualisation, but it's not - it's using the Intel hardware natively.
2) virtualisation for servers is a good thing: you can offer separate, isolated boxes to your users and run the whole virtual farm on a single physical server. If you want an OS X server, currently you've got to physically buy an Apple server, find rackspace and power and find a support contract that you can get on with. Obviously it's doable, but it's not convenient.
..and MS retaliates with a Vista EULA on all bar the pro versions that forbids you from running it as a virtual machine.
The only way you can vote to change this is with your wallet...
If you were to examine the size of service contracts (including software!) then they'd typically be Very Large Indeed. The fact you don't see IBM-branded applications on the shelf at PC World is not indicative of IBM "having delusions of relevance in the software world".
...this is about IBM offering a business the ability to run the OS of their choice, and have unified collaborative working across all platforms. i'm presuming what this actually means is a) running notes/domino on windows, linux etc, and b) charging you out the wazoo for the consultancy they require to make it all work.
Quicksilver is *that* good. Anyone who uses Spotlight to launch apps hasn't tried, or doesn't fully understand, Quicksilver. Just like Coverflow, virtue desktops et al, Apple should buy them and incorporate it into Leopard. Either that, or they'll pull a Konfabulator on them and incorporate its functionality into their own code.
windows firewall is fine. it doesn't monitor outgoing traffic, but you don't need this. various third party firewall all bring their own bugs and foibles to the party...