No need to just doubt they could repeat the 9/11 attack:that attack vector actually stopped working on 9/11 itself, when the passengers on the fourth plane charged the hijackers. If you are on a plane now, and someone tries to take it over with a knife, you know you're dead anyway, so most people will choose to spend the few moments they have left kicking the fucker to death. I would.
One of the things that's amazed me, as an long-term PalmOS and Symbian user, about moving to a Blackberry is how incredibly convenient the PDA syncing is (Calendar, Tasks, Contacts etc.)
Basically, the BB syncs all this stuff with my Exchange server over the wireless data feed, same as it does with e-mail. So I add an appointment in Outlook, and about 20 seconds later it's on my BB. There's more or less no reason why I ever need to connect it to my laptop (except to use it as a 3G wireless modem in emergencies).
If this is something Apple can do - seamless syncing without effort on the users part - then they'll have a sweet piece of kit.
I was very dubious about the BB to start out with but it's ended up doing everything important my PDA ever did. (The not importnat omissions if you care: my previous smartphone was able to be a very crappy MP3 player and an even crappier digital camera. I mean really, really crappy, but the point was that this meant I had a digicam and an audio player in my pocket at all times)
I'm no programmer, but would it be so big? It seems to me that such an application could and should off-load a lot of it's functionality onto other exsting products. In fact Exchange does this; it doens't have it's own SMTP components or web servers but uses the ones built-into Windows server.
There are plenty of good FOSS solutions for database, calendaring, sending mail, POP, IMAP, LDAP integration, etc. etc.
What is needed is a glue application together with some kind of standard for clients to use to communicate to it that sits in the middle of all this and integrates it. So that when you drag an e-mail to the calendar folder it makes an appointment for that user, and so on and so forth.
About the plans for UK ID cards, that is. While their plans are awful and broken and will damage civil liberites irreperably and lead to all sorts of trouble, at least I know that they are incapable of implementing those plans, or indeed *any* IT project.
Passports, courts, air traffic control, health, fire/police radios. the list of failed UK government IT projects is endless.
...all my clothes are from M&S... all UK geek's clothes are from there, except our batman t-shirts - because M&S is where British people shop when they want to buy a pair of nice trousers without actually knowing anything about fashion...frightened to move... can my corduroy trousers see what I'm typing.....erk.
You know, in the real world. I mean, getting a permanent internet name for your machine without you having to do anything sounds good until you think about it.
But, first off, that name is going to be biglig-p.p4562b4628ac54782dda52789038476237e7c7263 .pnrp.net so you're not going to tell your granny about it over the phone so she can browse to your holiday photos.
Secondly, if someone is connecting to your machine, that means you've got to have a service listening to it, right? So you have to configure the service, and your firewall. So why not spend another 5 minutes registering a DDNS name that doesn't look like you spilt coke on your numeric keypad?
Thirdly, what sort of service do you need to run on your PC? Web page to host your photos? Er.. Flickr. Web page of your diary? Er... Blogger. Video? Er... YourTube. Share your documents? Er... Writely. etc. etc. Only one I can think of is remote control so your granny can connect to your PC and fix it.
Woah there, if the point of the ammendment is to be able to resist against an army, then each person must be able to arm themselves at least as well as a standard infantry soldier. Which means assault rifles.
Moore wrote great Superman, and terrible Batman, but his contributions to GL are my favorite of his work in the long underwear genre. I want instructions on making a replica of Mogo's ring...
Perhaps, but someone has to write those error messages in the first place: and trying to burn a CD at too slow a speed is obscure enough an error that I can see how it might not have occurred to anyone at Apple.
Tell me about it, I installed a new HP multi-fuction printer/scanner/fax on Tuesday. As soon as I connected it to the phone line, it called up the phone company, pretended to be me, got my phone records, and faxed them to HP corporate headquarters.
My local supermarket sells USB numeric keypads for people with laptops, the device I imagine would be almost entirely identical. So manufacturing would be easy. Yes, it has to sit on a table. There's a mouse in there too, so a table is definitely a "must have".
£1000 is an exageration, but parts are indeed more expensive over here.
She's remaining a director after scamming the phone records of other directors? Frankly the entire board should go: the crooks should go because they're crooks, and the rest should go because they're crazy to stay on the board of a company that does this sort of thing.
By the way, isn't this sort of thing kind of illegal? Shouldn't people be going to jail?
I'm sure this is a dumb-ass question, but why don't manufacturers release a WASD+mouse controller for consoles? I mean, Guitar Hero and DDR and so on all come with their own controllers, so the idea is already there.
I can understand the stupid reasons why consoles don't just come with keyboard and mouse support and two extra USB sockets in the back (so they can sell you expensive "internet" options, so that the keyboard people don't thrash the controller people on XBox live, so they only have to code for one input device, etc. etc.)
But if you could play HalfLife 2 on an XBOX360 with a mouse and keyboard I'd probably buy one tomorrow, because I don't really want to spend £1000 replacing my home machine so it can play modern games, but I do want to play HL2 and CS-S and GTA-SA. (actually, aren't those all XBox titles?)
Well, I have a moral objection to Haliburton, but since Zero Haliburton is just the Zero company reanmed after they bought Haliburton's luggage subsidiary, I'm OK with them.
Dang, I'd done some good moderating but I gotta unwind it and post.
Anyhow, the answer to this point is to reply innocently "Oh, it wasn't my iPod, it was my $20 MP3 player I got from WalMart - I use it when I'm worried about it getting stolen. Good job I did that, eh? Anyhow, why report to the police a $20 loss? They should be out catching real criminals, like pirates. Man, pirates are nasty, what with the sinking ships and stealing gold and murder and rape and everything."
Do you tell your Finance department to fuck off, that you'll do your own accounts better than they will?
Do you tell your HR department to fuck off, that you know employment law better than they do?
Do you tell your janitor to fuck off, because if they clean your toilet they might see the stains you left?
Do you tell your product marketing manager to fuck off, that the product you designed is bound to have people who want to buy it?
Do you tell your CEO to fuck off, that new merger negotiation is something you'll handle yourself?
No? Well, then don't tell the people your boss pays to protect the companies data to fuck off when they point out that putting it somewhere that they can't protect it is a stupid idea.
How do we keep finding these people who've never heard of Goodwins law?
Anyhow, back on topic, let me ask you some questions: your work machine, did you buy it yourself? Did you pay for it out of your own pocket? Did the company give it to you to put your own private stuff on? The data your produce, did the company tell you to keep it yourself, that they don't want it? Has your company lawyer told you that it's fine to keep anything you want on that machine, that being sued is fun? Did you sign a contract saying that if the computer locks up and a vital document is lost and the company loses a big deal, that you'll pay them every penny back? Did your ISO9000 inspectors tell you the whole thing was no big deal, and that your company policies are pretty much just guidelines?
Yes, I am. Not sure what your point is, if you mean I'm not a British Subject, then you're right, I'm not.
What I actually I said above was that I am a subject of Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. Which I was, last time I looked.
Ah, I was quoting the Civil List Payments, the direct payments of their expenses as head of state. The £40 mil is total costs of everything, including upkeep of all the royal palaces.
But, put it at £40 mil. Now, what expenses in there are going to be cut under President Kinnock? Is he going to fly less, or more? Is he going to sell Buck House to Roman Abramovich?
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No need to just doubt they could repeat the 9/11 attack:that attack vector actually stopped working on 9/11 itself, when the passengers on the fourth plane charged the hijackers. If you are on a plane now, and someone tries to take it over with a knife, you know you're dead anyway, so most people will choose to spend the few moments they have left kicking the fucker to death. I would.
One of the things that's amazed me, as an long-term PalmOS and Symbian user, about moving to a Blackberry is how incredibly convenient the PDA syncing is (Calendar, Tasks, Contacts etc.)
Basically, the BB syncs all this stuff with my Exchange server over the wireless data feed, same as it does with e-mail. So I add an appointment in Outlook, and about 20 seconds later it's on my BB. There's more or less no reason why I ever need to connect it to my laptop (except to use it as a 3G wireless modem in emergencies).
If this is something Apple can do - seamless syncing without effort on the users part - then they'll have a sweet piece of kit.
I was very dubious about the BB to start out with but it's ended up doing everything important my PDA ever did. (The not importnat omissions if you care: my previous smartphone was able to be a very crappy MP3 player and an even crappier digital camera. I mean really, really crappy, but the point was that this meant I had a digicam and an audio player in my pocket at all times)
I'm no programmer, but would it be so big? It seems to me that such an application could and should off-load a lot of it's functionality onto other exsting products. In fact Exchange does this; it doens't have it's own SMTP components or web servers but uses the ones built-into Windows server.
There are plenty of good FOSS solutions for database, calendaring, sending mail, POP, IMAP, LDAP integration, etc. etc.
What is needed is a glue application together with some kind of standard for clients to use to communicate to it that sits in the middle of all this and integrates it. So that when you drag an e-mail to the calendar folder it makes an appointment for that user, and so on and so forth.
Ahem: Last time I checked, Firefox was still open source software. If the code is a mess, by all means, download the source and fix it yourself.
From TFA, a quote from Mr B: "only a customer who has Suse Linux actually has paid properly for the use of intellectual property from Microsoft"
Yes, that's not threatening at all, is it.
About the plans for UK ID cards, that is. While their plans are awful and broken and will damage civil liberites irreperably and lead to all sorts of trouble, at least I know that they are incapable of implementing those plans, or indeed *any* IT project.
Passports, courts, air traffic control, health, fire/police radios. the list of failed UK government IT projects is endless.
...all my clothes are from M&S... all UK geek's clothes are from there, except our batman t-shirts - because M&S is where British people shop when they want to buy a pair of nice trousers without actually knowing anything about fashion...frightened to move... can my corduroy trousers see what I'm typing.....erk.
You know, in the real world. I mean, getting a permanent internet name for your machine without you having to do anything sounds good until you think about it.
3 .pnrp.net so you're not going to tell your granny about it over the phone so she can browse to your holiday photos.
But, first off, that name is going to be biglig-p.p4562b4628ac54782dda52789038476237e7c726
Secondly, if someone is connecting to your machine, that means you've got to have a service listening to it, right? So you have to configure the service, and your firewall. So why not spend another 5 minutes registering a DDNS name that doesn't look like you spilt coke on your numeric keypad?
Thirdly, what sort of service do you need to run on your PC? Web page to host your photos? Er.. Flickr. Web page of your diary? Er... Blogger. Video? Er... YourTube. Share your documents? Er... Writely. etc. etc. Only one I can think of is remote control so your granny can connect to your PC and fix it.
Woah there, if the point of the ammendment is to be able to resist against an army, then each person must be able to arm themselves at least as well as a standard infantry soldier. Which means assault rifles.
Otherwise the whole thing is pointless.
Moore wrote great Superman, and terrible Batman, but his contributions to GL are my favorite of his work in the long underwear genre. I want instructions on making a replica of Mogo's ring...
In loudest din or hush profound,
My ears catch evil's slightest sound.
Let those who toll out evil's knell,
Beware my power: The F-Sharp Bell!
Perhaps, but someone has to write those error messages in the first place: and trying to burn a CD at too slow a speed is obscure enough an error that I can see how it might not have occurred to anyone at Apple.
Tell me about it, I installed a new HP multi-fuction printer/scanner/fax on Tuesday. As soon as I connected it to the phone line, it called up the phone company, pretended to be me, got my phone records, and faxed them to HP corporate headquarters.
My local supermarket sells USB numeric keypads for people with laptops, the device I imagine would be almost entirely identical. So manufacturing would be easy. Yes, it has to sit on a table. There's a mouse in there too, so a table is definitely a "must have".
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£1000 is an exageration, but parts are indeed more expensive over here.
I think I'll have to just bite the bullet.
She's remaining a director after scamming the phone records of other directors? Frankly the entire board should go: the crooks should go because they're crooks, and the rest should go because they're crazy to stay on the board of a company that does this sort of thing.
By the way, isn't this sort of thing kind of illegal? Shouldn't people be going to jail?
I'm sure this is a dumb-ass question, but why don't manufacturers release a WASD+mouse controller for consoles? I mean, Guitar Hero and DDR and so on all come with their own controllers, so the idea is already there.
I can understand the stupid reasons why consoles don't just come with keyboard and mouse support and two extra USB sockets in the back (so they can sell you expensive "internet" options, so that the keyboard people don't thrash the controller people on XBox live, so they only have to code for one input device, etc. etc.)
But if you could play HalfLife 2 on an XBOX360 with a mouse and keyboard I'd probably buy one tomorrow, because I don't really want to spend £1000 replacing my home machine so it can play modern games, but I do want to play HL2 and CS-S and GTA-SA. (actually, aren't those all XBox titles?)
"Before she went into the army, I would fire up the laptop and work from bed while she snuggled up next to me until she was ready to get up."
And now the Army has trained her in how to kill, has your approach changed, perhaps?
Well, I have a moral objection to Haliburton, but since Zero Haliburton is just the Zero company reanmed after they bought Haliburton's luggage subsidiary, I'm OK with them.
Dang, I'd done some good moderating but I gotta unwind it and post.
Anyhow, the answer to this point is to reply innocently "Oh, it wasn't my iPod, it was my $20 MP3 player I got from WalMart - I use it when I'm worried about it getting stolen. Good job I did that, eh? Anyhow, why report to the police a $20 loss? They should be out catching real criminals, like pirates. Man, pirates are nasty, what with the sinking ships and stealing gold and murder and rape and everything."
Doctor: My dog has a very small RFID...
Nurse: How does he smell?
Doctor: Oh crap, I'm in the wrong joke.
Do you tell your Finance department to fuck off, that you'll do your own accounts better than they will?
Do you tell your HR department to fuck off, that you know employment law better than they do?
Do you tell your janitor to fuck off, because if they clean your toilet they might see the stains you left?
Do you tell your product marketing manager to fuck off, that the product you designed is bound to have people who want to buy it?
Do you tell your CEO to fuck off, that new merger negotiation is something you'll handle yourself?
No? Well, then don't tell the people your boss pays to protect the companies data to fuck off when they point out that putting it somewhere that they can't protect it is a stupid idea.
How do we keep finding these people who've never heard of Goodwins law?
Anyhow, back on topic, let me ask you some questions: your work machine, did you buy it yourself? Did you pay for it out of your own pocket? Did the company give it to you to put your own private stuff on? The data your produce, did the company tell you to keep it yourself, that they don't want it? Has your company lawyer told you that it's fine to keep anything you want on that machine, that being sued is fun? Did you sign a contract saying that if the computer locks up and a vital document is lost and the company loses a big deal, that you'll pay them every penny back? Did your ISO9000 inspectors tell you the whole thing was no big deal, and that your company policies are pretty much just guidelines?
Yes, I am. Not sure what your point is, if you mean I'm not a British Subject, then you're right, I'm not.
What I actually I said above was that I am a subject of Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. Which I was, last time I looked.
Ah, I was quoting the Civil List Payments, the direct payments of their expenses as head of state. The £40 mil is total costs of everything, including upkeep of all the royal palaces.
But, put it at £40 mil. Now, what expenses in there are going to be cut under President Kinnock? Is he going to fly less, or more? Is he going to sell Buck House to Roman Abramovich?
Actually he might do that last one.
Well, that royal bungload came to slightly over £11 million in 2005, so let us ask ourselves a simple question:
"How much more do you think President Mandelson would cost each year?"