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  1. Re:Why do they need ANY info? on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 1

    Ok, why do they even need to know if the car is in MOTION at all just to play music??

    My car audio system certainly hooks into vehicle telemetry - it automatically adjusts volume according to speed, to compensate for road/wind noise. Works very well.

  2. Problem with the solution? on Why In-Flight Wi-Fi Is Still Slow and Expensive · · Score: 4, Insightful

    70 Mbps per plane sounds good on the face of it, but if that's being delivered via satellite then I would expect that latency becomes much more of an issue. Is this just replacing one problem with another?

  3. Re:This doesn't seem unusual. on Nintendo Fires Employee For Speaking About Job On a Podcast · · Score: 1

    Situation here is that to discuss company details outside the company is gross misconduct, and so would lead to dismissal. Share details with the media, then you'd get killed, buried, dug up, and then your corpse would be fired for gross misconduct. And I don't think this is an unusual situation. In fact, I know some employers who get a bit twitchy if they know that you have journalists uin your social circle away from work.

  4. Re:The reason Google Hangouts is vacant. on Nintendo Fires Employee For Speaking About Job On a Podcast · · Score: 1

    I wonder how long you could repeat that cycle? I reckon that once your CV has accumulated a few entries in the "Previous Experience" section stating that you left that employment because you were sacked for gross misconduct (which would be the fate to befall me if I discussed company details outside of work) then the offers of work might dry up as you would be seen as a bit of a liability

  5. Problem? on Melinda Gates: Facebook Engineers Have Solved One of Education's Biggest Problem · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Facebook Engineers Have Solved One of Education's Biggest Problem

    Is that problem the bad use of English?

  6. Re:Would be far more impressive... on BBC Develops "Mind-Control TV" Headset For iPlayer App · · Score: 1

    Either your hardware is below par, or there's a *lot* of contention on your Internet connection. I can run iPlayer on my i3 laptop on a 5 meg connection and it runs like hot snot

  7. Re:What is a republic? on Fake Mobile Phone Towers Found To Be "Actively Listening In" On Calls In UK · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is considered an offense to open an umbrella on a street, for fear of spooking horses.
    It is illegal to sell peanuts in Lee County after sundown on Wednesday.
    It is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.
    In New York, adultery is still a crime.
    Citizens may not greet each other by “putting one’s thumb to the nose and wiggling the fingers”.
    In Alabama putting salt on railroad tracks may be punishable by death. ...

    That's my plans for the weekend shot to s**t then....

  8. Re:Using his voice is difficult work? on Harry Shearer Walks Away From "The Simpsons," and $14 Million · · Score: 1

    Exactly - he needs a paycheck that goes up to 11

  9. Re: Disgusting. on Except For Millennials, Most Americans Dislike Snowden · · Score: 1

    He should be executed for treason.

    Snowden needs a very slow and very painful death.

    Whilst I don't agree that it necessarily needs to be slow and painful, I agree with your sentiment.

  10. Re:Subject on Has Google Indexed Your Backup Drive? · · Score: 1

    A truly skilled hacker indeed if they can use a '?' character in a file name ;-)

  11. Re:The web crawler would only index it if... on Has Google Indexed Your Backup Drive? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And if you have a web interface on your WAN port then you're most likely doing things very wrong to begin with. If you want a publicly reachable interface into your LAN, don't fucking use your piece of shit router to do it. It's probably chock full of exploits anyhow, but that's a pretty moot point if you've left it wide fucking open for any random script to stumble across and access.

    Hint: If you want people to take notice of advice about IT security, it may be more effective to speak respectfully than to let loose with an expletive-filled tirade

  12. Re:Easy as 1-2-3 on Developers and the Fear of Apple · · Score: 2

    It sounds like you're talking about Apple hardware rather than Apple as an organisation...given that the article is about the latter, you're kind of comparing apples with oranges (no pun intended....oh, OK, maybe just a bit intentional)

  13. Re:thank you snowden on MI5 Chief Seeks New Powers After Paris Magazine Attack · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points to mod you up with, but I've already commented (similar to your comment) on this article

  14. Powers on MI5 Chief Seeks New Powers After Paris Magazine Attack · · Score: 1

    It doesn't say what new powers he wants. It makes it hard to decide whether this is good or bad, because general surveillance of everyone is very different from powers to monitor those who are already under suspicion - with prosper controls like court warrants, etc.

    I suspect that he needs an alternative to what he has been doing, because Snowden blabbed about the surveillance techniques used and so the bad guys know how to evade them

  15. Re:Happened to me. on BT, Sky, and Virgin Enforce UK Porn Blocks By Hijacking Browsers · · Score: 1

    Exactly. And on the page you're redirected to, you answer the question, and don't get redirected again. I really don't understand why people are making such a huge deal of this. It's like a T&C page that you see when connecting to public wifi.

  16. Re:Like many inventions ... on The Magic of Pallets · · Score: 2

    Out of curiosity, how are the pallets packaged? Are they tehmselves bundled onto a pallet? (genuine question)

  17. Obligatory question on Unity 8 Will Bring 'Pure' Linux Experience To Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    So will next year be the year of the desktop on Linux?

  18. Re:It won't be long on Heathrow Plane In Near Miss With Drone · · Score: 1

    Aparently a Ruppell's Vulture wsa ingested at 37,000 feet and presumably at a cruising speed of about 600 mph. Given their weight of 8kg that must have come as an astonishing shock to the pilot.

    I bet it was a bit of a surprise for the vulture as well.

  19. Re:Haleluja ... on Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Right · · Score: 1

    If the Pope is (according to the Catholic Church) the infallible representative of God on this earth, then logically now, how can two popes say two different things? Two contradictory statements cannot both be correct, and one contradiction is enough to reject the status of infallible.

    This confirms that God is indeed a woman - what other being could make a statement as being an absolute truth, then change their mind and state categorically that the opposite is true?

  20. solution? on New OS X Backdoor Malware Roping Macs Into Botnet · · Score: 2

    The backdoor applies the MD5 hash function to the value and sends a query to reddit.com. The query template is as follows: https://www.reddit.com/search?... Here MD5_hash_first8 is the value of the first 8 bytes of the MD5 hash value from the current date. The reddit.com search returns a web page containing the list of botnet C&C servers and ports published by criminals in comments to the post minecraftserverlists under the account vtnhiaovyd.

    So...get Reddit to nix this query and deny the functionality to the botnet?

  21. Fair point, and I must admit that I was thinking more about self-inflicted rather than externally-originated extinction. That said - and I don't have any strong opinion one way or the other - should mankind really consider itself the pinnacle of evolution that must preserve itself at all costs? If an extinction-level event comes along, then maybe mankind should go the way of the dinosaurs, and let evolution come up with an alternative (an improved mankind v2.0) out of what remains. ( I realise that I've basically just paraphrases Falken's speech from the movie Wargames, but the point still stands).

  22. Why? on Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why would we need to populate Mars in order to preserve humanity? In case humanity managed to wipe itself out on this planet? If that's the case - humanity has managed to f*** up so catastrophically as to destroy itself on its home planet - then it doesn't deserve to be preserved.

  23. Re:What a fool on Piracy Police Chief Calls For State Interference To Stop Internet "Anarchy" · · Score: 1

    You will find that police dispatch radio systems aren't standardized in the UK too.

    Yes they are - the Airwave system has been in use across all UK police forces for a number of years

  24. Re:Emma Watson is full of it on Emma Watson Leaked Photo Threat Was a Plot To Attack 4chan · · Score: 1

    I think the elephant in the room is that most women have babies. They love those babies and they want to stay home with them.

    Where I work - medium-sized development shop - I can recall one or two females who went on maternity leave and never came back, and several who dropped to part-time after they had kids. Not one single male changed working patterns after fatherhood.

  25. Re:What do they mean (serious question)? on Google's Satellites Could Soon See Your Face From Space · · Score: 2

    That higher resolution is because you're looking at an image captured from an aircraft flying at a much lower altitude than a satellite.