I've been told two things, neither of which may be true, but 1) seems the most likely:
1. TomTom Traffic and others have a 3G connection. They talk to the local mobile masts and Tom Tom can use the location data to estimate traffic volume.
2. TomTom buys mobile phone location data from mobile phone companies to estimate congestion based on the number of phones moving between base stations.
The problem is that repeated viewing of these kinds of images can de-sensitise a person enough to affect their personality.
A friend of mine is a child psychiatrist and she told me that the uk serious crimes unit have specialist child porn officers who have to sift through thousands of images on a day-to-day basis. They are only allowed to do this for a maximum of (if IRC) six months before they are taken off the job and a lot are given therapy because they become so traumatised by it.
They do this because they found that after a while people can not only become de-sensitised to it but they can actually start to be aroused and find they like what they are viewing.
I always thought a lot of C64 games, though colourful had really blocky looking graphics. The Spectrum seemed to have better detail, but with the drawback it was mostly in monochrome.
In the Spectrum's later years programmers came up with a few clever tricks to get the appearance of full colour graphics. If I recall, Uridium's title screen had a full colour title? JetSet Willy and Gilligans Gold are two games with a soundtrack - can't think of anymore though!
I wondered this too. I think it's a great idea as a tool for people to learn sign language. Not sure if the Kinect has the ability to pick out small changes in finger movement though?
Thanks for replying. I agree this is something they should be panned for, especially as they are always taking other companies to task over the same mistake, but by owning up to it almost immediately and also reporting themselves to the ICO I feel they have at least done what they could under the circumstances and I think that should have been mentioned in the summary.
Ok, maybe their hand was forced to admit the mistake due to three and a half thousand potential whistle blowers, but at least they did it and owned up to the fact in record time. It will be interesting to see how they report future data leaks - perhaps a humble pie icon each time!
Blackshaw created a Facebook event entitled 'Smash d[o]wn in Northwich Town' for August 8 but only the police showed up, and arrested him.
He deserved four years for his piss poor organisation.
On a serious note, I think that Blackshaw should perhaps have got two years max (he did create a page which tried to encourage rioting in his home town), but the other bloke perhaps six months for being a drunken dick(he took his page down as soon as he woke up sober.)
However as others have commented I'm sure the sentences will be reduced on appeal once the country has calmed down.
It would be nice if the control was a lot more fine grained within each access type e.g. Do you want to allow the app internet access to a specific URL (for example for high scores) and block any other internet access.
It unnerves me a little to see most apps requesting access to your contacts, internet etc without a more detailed explanation why.
Fair point, but history has repeatedly shown that you cannot wade into another culture and change it within a short amount of time, no matter how wrong you think it is.
The US and other countries (mine, the UK included) think that they can, which is why we have so many terrorists running around.
I guess this demonstrates Microsoft's skill in making it extremely difficult to move from their systems, even a few years down the line.
Surely the money they will spend moving back to Windows could be used to pay people to finish off the missing interoperability they are complaining about?
Surely the money they are now going to invest in switching back could be used to finish off writing whatever missing drivers and interoperability are left to do? I guess this demonstrates Microsoft's 'long game' of making it extremely difficult to move from their system.
If you modded the boiler so that it fully or semi bypassed the gas meter in order to provide cheap/free heating then the boiler manufacturer and gas companies would complain.
The prosecution argument is that modding an Xbox allows you to bypass that thing known as 'purchasing' to enable you to play games.
Another misleading tabloid headline from Taco et al.
Short story: Someone notices a perhaps too-fast result for a particular benchmark test with IE 9 and modifies the benchmark code which then throws IE 9 performance the other way. One *possible* conclusion is that MS have done some sort of hardcoding/optimisation for this test, which has been thrown out by the modifications.
There ought to be an automatic expiry based on the activity of the account.
E.g. after 2 months inactivity the account is put on hold (no reminders/messages sent to linked friends), then after say 18 months further inactivity the account is removed.
There would still be a period of shit the relatives and friends would have to go to through with getting messages etc but at least the issue could naturally resolve itself?
Exactly, he may as well glue his iPhone to a DSLR. As well as getting much better quality images he will probably not suffer reception loss by holding his iPhone 'incorrectly'.
It would be cool if he had managed to link his phone (I'll use a generic term here) directly to the memory card slot of a DSLR, so taking a picture would go straight to the phone memory. Or alternatively use wireless transmission from the camera to automatically send the pic to his phone and from there upload it to his blog/facebook page. In fact, there's a challenge for you Android coders!
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Well said. It'll not be long before there are sponsored articles polluting your trove and scandal about top curator's pushing their own news agenda.
#grammarfailinsummary, #ffs
I've been told two things, neither of which may be true, but 1) seems the most likely:
1. TomTom Traffic and others have a 3G connection. They talk to the local mobile masts and Tom Tom can use the location data to estimate traffic volume.
2. TomTom buys mobile phone location data from mobile phone companies to estimate congestion based on the number of phones moving between base stations.
The problem is that repeated viewing of these kinds of images can de-sensitise a person enough to affect their personality.
A friend of mine is a child psychiatrist and she told me that the uk serious crimes unit have specialist child porn officers who have to sift through thousands of images on a day-to-day basis. They are only allowed to do this for a maximum of (if IRC) six months before they are taken off the job and a lot are given therapy because they become so traumatised by it.
They do this because they found that after a while people can not only become de-sensitised to it but they can actually start to be aroused and find they like what they are viewing.
Yep, they do liver, kidneys and all other major organs :-)
Same here, if I'm not using it and it doesn't have to be on, then it will be powered off.
A few posts have mentioned the minimal cost to leave things on standby, but multiply that by millions of people ...
I always thought a lot of C64 games, though colourful had really blocky looking graphics. The Spectrum seemed to have better detail, but with the drawback it was mostly in monochrome.
In the Spectrum's later years programmers came up with a few clever tricks to get the appearance of full colour graphics. If I recall, Uridium's title screen had a full colour title? JetSet Willy and Gilligans Gold are two games with a soundtrack - can't think of anymore though!
Don't forget he also took an arrow to the knee but *remained* an adventurer.
I wondered this too. I think it's a great idea as a tool for people to learn sign language. Not sure if the Kinect has the ability to pick out small changes in finger movement though?
Thanks for replying. I agree this is something they should be panned for, especially as they are always taking other companies to task over the same mistake, but by owning up to it almost immediately and also reporting themselves to the ICO I feel they have at least done what they could under the circumstances and I think that should have been mentioned in the summary.
Ok, maybe their hand was forced to admit the mistake due to three and a half thousand potential whistle blowers, but at least they did it and owned up to the fact in record time. It will be interesting to see how they report future data leaks - perhaps a humble pie icon each time!
We should be able to moderate submitters on accuracy of headline and summary. Tim99 obviously left out the bit about the ICO to make his FAIL point.
There is no single player version. Co-op/multi only :-)
Blackshaw created a Facebook event entitled 'Smash d[o]wn in Northwich Town' for August 8 but only the police showed up, and arrested him.
He deserved four years for his piss poor organisation.
On a serious note, I think that Blackshaw should perhaps have got two years max (he did create a page which tried to encourage rioting in his home town), but the other bloke perhaps six months for being a drunken dick(he took his page down as soon as he woke up sober.)
However as others have commented I'm sure the sentences will be reduced on appeal once the country has calmed down.
While I'm quite enjoying what Anonymous/Lulzsec are doing, I hope it does not compromise the criminal investigations that are to follow.
I wonder how long before bars are allowed to pay a little extra to game the system e.g. tell males the bar is full of women or vice versa.
I can see promotions working quite well with this system too - "The next two men to come to this bar will get a free drink- hurry!"
It would be nice if the control was a lot more fine grained within each access type e.g. Do you want to allow the app internet access to a specific URL (for example for high scores) and block any other internet access.
It unnerves me a little to see most apps requesting access to your contacts, internet etc without a more detailed explanation why.
Fair point, but history has repeatedly shown that you cannot wade into another culture and change it within a short amount of time, no matter how wrong you think it is.
The US and other countries (mine, the UK included) think that they can, which is why we have so many terrorists running around.
I guess this demonstrates Microsoft's skill in making it extremely difficult to move from their systems, even a few years down the line.
Surely the money they will spend moving back to Windows could be used to pay people to finish off the missing interoperability they are complaining about?
Surely the money they are now going to invest in switching back could be used to finish off writing whatever missing drivers and interoperability are left to do? I guess this demonstrates Microsoft's 'long game' of making it extremely difficult to move from their system.
A BBC article mentions that any DNA sample would be contaminated.
If you modded the boiler so that it fully or semi bypassed the gas meter in order to provide cheap/free heating then the boiler manufacturer and gas companies would complain.
The prosecution argument is that modding an Xbox allows you to bypass that thing known as 'purchasing' to enable you to play games.
Another misleading tabloid headline from Taco et al.
Short story: Someone notices a perhaps too-fast result for a particular benchmark test with IE 9 and modifies the benchmark code which then throws IE 9 performance the other way. One *possible* conclusion is that MS have done some sort of hardcoding/optimisation for this test, which has been thrown out by the modifications.
Nice quote. Thankfully someone seems to understand why all this shit is happening, it's a shame those in power don't listen.
There ought to be an automatic expiry based on the activity of the account.
E.g. after 2 months inactivity the account is put on hold (no reminders/messages sent to linked friends), then after say 18 months further inactivity the account is removed.
There would still be a period of shit the relatives and friends would have to go to through with getting messages etc but at least the issue could naturally resolve itself?
Exactly, he may as well glue his iPhone to a DSLR. As well as getting much better quality images he will probably not suffer reception loss by holding his iPhone 'incorrectly'.
It would be cool if he had managed to link his phone (I'll use a generic term here) directly to the memory card slot of a DSLR, so taking a picture would go straight to the phone memory. Or alternatively use wireless transmission from the camera to automatically send the pic to his phone and from there upload it to his blog/facebook page. In fact, there's a challenge for you Android coders!