UK MOD to spend 20 million Pounds on toy sized drones which will then be added to every McHappy meal sold in the UK so that they can watch the not quite toy sized British youth.
Hear me out. When you have a senior management douchebag (who out-douchebags you by a factor of n^32) on your case to get this fixed and back up and running yesterday
This is why sysadmin's will never dissapear.
Pointy Haired Douchebag 1: Yay, now that we've got the new Cyberdyne Systems 6000 series automated server room set up and fired all the sysadmins all is good. Pointy Haired Douchebag 2: Someone still needs to change the tapes and check the logs. Pointy Haired Douchebag 1: I bill $795 an hour, I'm far too important. Pointy Haired Douchebag 2: I bill $995 an hour, I'm even more important. Pointy Haired Douchebag 1:/blinks. Pointy Haired Douchebag 2: I'll just put out an ad for a sysadmin.
Sysadmins will be required as long as computer systems are too complex for the dumbest and laziest of it's operators.
This just goes to prove that most users aren't sophisticated enough to do computing outside of a "walled garden"
How so,
Considering that most IOS malware is inside the walled garden.
Gateway based security is no security at all, you can have the worlds most expensive, efficient packet mulching firewall defeated by a USB key some attacker left lying about in the bathroom. We've know the "walled garden" is an utter security failure long before Apple tried it.
Hookers don't get alimony and almost never get child support. It's not a "need" but more of a business decision.
When you get to 10 M p/a, you dont get hookers.
You get girlfriends that are easy to dispose of. The full on GFE (Girl Friend Experience). Then again, you can get that on 60K USD, depending on where you live.
The search Business is all about defaults. Google developed an operating system in order to be the default search engine.
Right,
How many people use Internet Exploiter, now how many people change the home page from $MSN (different for each nation, Australia is ninemsn.com) to Google.com.
With search its all about results. Google provides the best results for most people.
By the looks of it the PSU is not in the box. In any testing lab you're already running motherboards on top of motherboard boxes, personally I've done this for years. I dont think there's a significant fire risk especially since the PSU looks to be external.
This box wont replace metal/plastic cases, its designed for the few cases where "I need a PC right now". I can see this kind of thing becoming popular in testing labs and people who regularly mess with their HW, I.E. not the average user.
Municipal means community (local government) run, there are a crapload of lgov services in Oz that run at a profit, it's used to pay for other services like sanitation.
What is the difference between a for profit government run lemonade stand and a for profit corporate run stand? The government run stand does not need to increase it's profit from last year.
No, they cannot. As a German I can tell you that stores like Direct2Drive, Gamersgate, Impulse, Steam, etc. ALL enforce region restrictions
As an Australian I can tell you that stores like Play-Asia, Zest (Thailand) and DVD.co.uk will ship the Euro, UK or US version of any game to Oz.
Thus further proving the irrelevance of the Classification Board as a moral police force, they should go back to doing "recommendations" rather then restrictions (P.S. Aussies, let your local blue arsed fly that you think that way, these views wont appear on Today Tonight, their regular source of information any time soon).
General Theory of Truth: If something is true, something cool can be done with it. No exceptions. Politics don't count.
No Politics do count, when a politician tells the truth something incredibly useful can be done with it. This has not been tested in some time however.
No heating in your homes you're lived in? Why not just turn the heat up a few notches and not have a freezing house?
Not everyone grew up in a house with central heating.
Old houses etc... In many nations it's not that necessary, our winters drop to about 10 C in the dead of night, of course the 40 C days we're having at the moment also suck.
Sounds a bit like extended warranties on consumer electronics. If the deal is really a benefit to you and not some money-grubbing scheme, then why do they try SOO hard to sell them to you?
Depends if it's first of third party.
First party warranties, even extended warranties are worth their weight in gold, at least in Oz where it they cant give the court the run-around.
However 3rd party warranties are only useful as very expensive toilet paper and it's not very soft or adsorbent either. Unlike a first party, the third party can shift the blame back to the first party saying it's not their problem, the first party will of course claim it's not their warranty so not their problem and this can continue back and forth for ever in theory. It's a brilliant scheme, in a Machiavellian sense. Another popular one is "waiting for parts", I know someone who waited for parts for 9 months on a Harvey Norman (imagine Walmart but crappier) warranty for a HP laptop.
I don't have an opinion on the green icons, I can give or take them, but the black notification bar is great. When using my phone at night I didn't like being blinded by the unnecessary white.
One of my biggest problem with phones (and UI's in general) is that the wonderfully bright pastel colour scheme some coloured crayon dreamed up whilst sipping his low fat-decaf mochachinno is that I will be viewing this in low light conditions. Iphones are the biggest offenders, the SMS system (because if I'm waking up to answer anything at 2 AM it's an SMS on the work phone) is far too brightly coloured and the light sensor seems to think "it's dark, set screen to BLIND".
My Android phone, even on older OS's ether used off white or dark coloured backgrounds, but I rarely would need to go past the notification pull down box, which was a translucent gray (and I always use a dark background, another thing I cant do on the Iphone) which was very readable even when the light sensor wanted to blind me (only the Moto MIlestone did this, my two HTC phones were fine).
Another thing, who decided I needed to open the SMS application to see an SMS, in Android I can see who sent the SMS and the first line of text scroll through the status bar on top, it's 2010 already, all smartphones should do this.
Android apps should operate within a jail that limits anomalous behavior like this - that is, the OS itself should have a form of common sense, and they should make it easy to install useful apps without giving them enough access to overwrite that part of the OS.
First off, you have to try pretty hard to overwrite parts of the OS. You need to have "rooted" your phone to do that. The simplest and least destructive way is via the bootloader which requires human intervention.
Secondly, Android already has this kind of security measure in place. The user in question downloaded pirate software and accepted the "services that cost you money" permission. Android is a very security conscious OS but nothing can trump user stupidity.
Now I do agree that Service Providers should, by default not permit a user to go over a certain limit (say the amount of SMS's/Minutes paid for under your cap/plan) to prevent them from running up a huge bill by accident. This should be active by default but can be deactivated by request but unfortunately no Telco would do this of their own accord.
The people getting these infected apps knew damn well what they were doing. They had to make at lease one nonstandard setting, download in a nonstandard way, and launch the installation in a nonstandard way
Worse yet, they actually went out of their way to find pirated software and install it with little regard for actual consequences.
Not really for or against piracy but... If you do do it and dont know how to check for things like this then you get what you deserve.
How so? If I have the slightest problem with my phone line I call Telstra, and within days they have a tech onsite repairing or replacing whatever length of cable required, and if it's outside my property at no cost to me. How are they neglecting it in
Except when you're with iinet, it takes 2 and a half months (11 weeks) to get a fault even looked at.
Telstra double-billed my former workplace (a business customer) in 5 out of every six bills. The day after I announced we'd completed our transition away from Telstra (to Amcom), I arrived at my desk to find a carton of Little Creatures Pils and a very nice thank you note from the accountant and bookkeeper.
Shared 100Mb/s bus? Where did you pull that figure from?
100 Mbit is the fastest offered by Telstra which was only made available in Melbourne only in 2009. Most of Telstra's and Optus's cable is only 30 Mb\s
Optus and Telstra Cable are available Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and only Telstra in Adelaide and Perth.
Citation.
Also which suburbs. I've lived al over Perth and not had a single cable connection. It's all been DSL because the only copper in the ground is POTS. You'll quickly find that they rolled cable out to very, very limited area's and only to tick a box that says it's in every capital city.
No. You WILL be sharing with either 32 or 64 users back to a node that runs to the backbone
Uhh...
What have you been smoking.
You'll be connected by point to point fibre back to the exchange, basically identical to POTS. There you'll be multiplexed onto the backbone (via a GPON rather then a DSLAM). In fact, they'll be using the exact same pits and ducts for the glass as is currently being used for the copper. It will be no different then the current topology.
Can you imagine the cost or even the size of the cable to run each individual house back in spread out suburbs like here in Melbourne
It will look exactly the same as the current POTS system which is also point to point from the exchange (backbone) to the node (your house).
This is the kind of FUD that I'm getting tired of disproving. Please do some research before spouting off again, you can start with the links I've provided.
Optus don't own any POTS copper, telstra own 100% of that.
POTS which was laid by Telecom Australia, not Telstra.
For those of us that have just tuned in, Telstra is the privatised remnants of our public telecom, Telecom Australia which laid the copper around Oz. Telstra have been neglecting that infrastructure for the last 15 odd years.
They own a HFC cable network that was overbuilt by telstra's own HFC cable in almost every place they rolled it out
Which they are under no obligation to permit other ISP's access to, hence part of the copper monopoly. They also tried some backroom deals with Foxtel combining Optus Cable and Foxtel Pay TV services to try and better Telstra, Foxtel uptake simply suffered as a result.
HFC is also no real competitor to Fibre, it's a shared bus with a maximum speed of 100 Mb\s deployed in selected area's of 2 Australian cities (out of 18 locations with a population exceeding 100,000) where as the glass NBNco is installing will not top out at 1 Gb\s although 100 Mb\s is the best NBNco will be offering at the outset, will be available to 93% of Australian homes (fixed wireless and satellite will comprise the rest) and each link is a dedicated connection to the backbone.
Do something about my competition, I dont want to compete, it's too hard.
The problem Optus has here is that it loses a valuable position as part of a copper monopoly. Optus and Telstra own pretty much all the copper in Oz (telephone and cable) and charge other ISP's, such as iinet a fortune to use it. Not to mention the DSLAM's they rent out to other ISP's. Once the NBN is completed Optus and Telstra have to compete on equal terms with competitive ISP's like iinet and Internode. NBNco leases the NBN fibre to any company that will pay the fee to lease the line, this includes Optus.
'If you take into account we operate a cable network
That can reach about 5% of Aussie homes, let me know when you were planning to cable up Vic Park, I'll be getting NBN by the end of the year. Given the reach of Optus's cable network, iinet is still number 2.
Bunch of self serving, conniving wankers. You've let the broadband situation get this bad in the first place, 15 years of doing next to nothing, you wouldn't even roll out ADSL2 until iinet gave you a swift kick in the arse. Well we're all sick of it and now the Government is doing what you refused to and you're having a big bloody cry over it.
My two year AT&T iphone bill is roughly $1700 maybe a bit more if I text a lot.
Assuming that the cost of the handset was rolled into that one and not extra.
I have had two phones in the last 2 years, a HTC Dream and Motorola Milestone, both purchased outright for A$550 a piece, A$1100.
I'm on a A$30 month by month plan that includes 1 GB downloads (because everything is metered in Oz and the telco's cant tell you how to spend it). I've never gone over it. So in total I've spent A$1820, back when I first bought the Dream the AUD was about 0.95 USD and has dropped as low as 0.55. So for about the same cost as your Iphone, I've had two modern handsets.
I've just bought a new HTC Desire Z for another $550. I'm not locked into a contract for 24 months, If I lost my job tomorrow I could cancel the contract and go on pre-paid. "Free" phones are for suckers.
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UK MOD to spend 20 million Pounds on toy sized drones which will then be added to every McHappy meal sold in the UK so that they can watch the not quite toy sized British youth.
Anything, and I mean fucking anything that can shoot beams of light out of it's stomach had better be on that watch list.
This is why sysadmin's will never dissapear.
/blinks.
Pointy Haired Douchebag 1: Yay, now that we've got the new Cyberdyne Systems 6000 series automated server room set up and fired all the sysadmins all is good.
Pointy Haired Douchebag 2: Someone still needs to change the tapes and check the logs.
Pointy Haired Douchebag 1: I bill $795 an hour, I'm far too important.
Pointy Haired Douchebag 2: I bill $995 an hour, I'm even more important.
Pointy Haired Douchebag 1:
Pointy Haired Douchebag 2: I'll just put out an ad for a sysadmin.
Sysadmins will be required as long as computer systems are too complex for the dumbest and laziest of it's operators.
How so,
Considering that most IOS malware is inside the walled garden.
Gateway based security is no security at all, you can have the worlds most expensive, efficient packet mulching firewall defeated by a USB key some attacker left lying about in the bathroom. We've know the "walled garden" is an utter security failure long before Apple tried it.
Answer, it doesn't.
Per infection and per % of infected to uninfected users there is more IOS malware then Android malware.
It just gets more press because certain people need android to fail.
The fastest selling mobile platform would not garner attention from malware writers?
UH, yeah,
I need a CSA certification to determine if a RAM module is faulty.
What planet are you from.
When you get to 10 M p/a, you dont get hookers.
You get girlfriends that are easy to dispose of. The full on GFE (Girl Friend Experience). Then again, you can get that on 60K USD, depending on where you live.
You mean like Android or Chrome or...
The search Business is all about defaults. Google developed an operating system in order to be the default search engine.
Right,
How many people use Internet Exploiter, now how many people change the home page from $MSN (different for each nation, Australia is ninemsn.com) to Google.com.
With search its all about results. Google provides the best results for most people.
By the looks of it the PSU is not in the box. In any testing lab you're already running motherboards on top of motherboard boxes, personally I've done this for years. I dont think there's a significant fire risk especially since the PSU looks to be external.
This box wont replace metal/plastic cases, its designed for the few cases where "I need a PC right now". I can see this kind of thing becoming popular in testing labs and people who regularly mess with their HW, I.E. not the average user.
Heather Mills-McCartney, I didn't know you posted on Slashdot.
Municipal does not mean "runs on tax dollars".
Municipal means community (local government) run, there are a crapload of lgov services in Oz that run at a profit, it's used to pay for other services like sanitation.
What is the difference between a for profit government run lemonade stand and a for profit corporate run stand? The government run stand does not need to increase it's profit from last year.
As an Australian I can tell you that stores like Play-Asia, Zest (Thailand) and DVD.co.uk will ship the Euro, UK or US version of any game to Oz.
Thus further proving the irrelevance of the Classification Board as a moral police force, they should go back to doing "recommendations" rather then restrictions (P.S. Aussies, let your local blue arsed fly that you think that way, these views wont appear on Today Tonight, their regular source of information any time soon).
No Politics do count, when a politician tells the truth something incredibly useful can be done with it. This has not been tested in some time however.
Article says "takes hardest job at Microsft".
This simply means they have been hired to give Steve Balmer his daily back massage.
Not everyone grew up in a house with central heating.
Old houses etc... In many nations it's not that necessary, our winters drop to about 10 C in the dead of night, of course the 40 C days we're having at the moment also suck.
Depends if it's first of third party.
First party warranties, even extended warranties are worth their weight in gold, at least in Oz where it they cant give the court the run-around.
However 3rd party warranties are only useful as very expensive toilet paper and it's not very soft or adsorbent either. Unlike a first party, the third party can shift the blame back to the first party saying it's not their problem, the first party will of course claim it's not their warranty so not their problem and this can continue back and forth for ever in theory. It's a brilliant scheme, in a Machiavellian sense. Another popular one is "waiting for parts", I know someone who waited for parts for 9 months on a Harvey Norman (imagine Walmart but crappier) warranty for a HP laptop.
One of my biggest problem with phones (and UI's in general) is that the wonderfully bright pastel colour scheme some coloured crayon dreamed up whilst sipping his low fat-decaf mochachinno is that I will be viewing this in low light conditions. Iphones are the biggest offenders, the SMS system (because if I'm waking up to answer anything at 2 AM it's an SMS on the work phone) is far too brightly coloured and the light sensor seems to think "it's dark, set screen to BLIND".
My Android phone, even on older OS's ether used off white or dark coloured backgrounds, but I rarely would need to go past the notification pull down box, which was a translucent gray (and I always use a dark background, another thing I cant do on the Iphone) which was very readable even when the light sensor wanted to blind me (only the Moto MIlestone did this, my two HTC phones were fine).
Another thing, who decided I needed to open the SMS application to see an SMS, in Android I can see who sent the SMS and the first line of text scroll through the status bar on top, it's 2010 already, all smartphones should do this.
There, fixed that for you.
.apk from China, what did he expect.
He was downloading a pirated
Android apps should operate within a jail that limits anomalous behavior like this - that is, the OS itself should have a form of common sense, and they should make it easy to install useful apps without giving them enough access to overwrite that part of the OS.
First off, you have to try pretty hard to overwrite parts of the OS. You need to have "rooted" your phone to do that. The simplest and least destructive way is via the bootloader which requires human intervention.
Secondly, Android already has this kind of security measure in place. The user in question downloaded pirate software and accepted the "services that cost you money" permission. Android is a very security conscious OS but nothing can trump user stupidity.
Now I do agree that Service Providers should, by default not permit a user to go over a certain limit (say the amount of SMS's/Minutes paid for under your cap/plan) to prevent them from running up a huge bill by accident. This should be active by default but can be deactivated by request but unfortunately no Telco would do this of their own accord.
Worse yet, they actually went out of their way to find pirated software and install it with little regard for actual consequences.
Not really for or against piracy but... If you do do it and dont know how to check for things like this then you get what you deserve.
Except when you're with iinet, it takes 2 and a half months (11 weeks) to get a fault even looked at.
Telstra double-billed my former workplace (a business customer) in 5 out of every six bills. The day after I announced we'd completed our transition away from Telstra (to Amcom), I arrived at my desk to find a carton of Little Creatures Pils and a very nice thank you note from the accountant and bookkeeper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_fibre-coaxial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_Internet_access
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Australia#Residential_Internet_Access
100 Mbit is the fastest offered by Telstra which was only made available in Melbourne only in 2009. Most of Telstra's and Optus's cable is only 30 Mb\s
Citation.
Also which suburbs. I've lived al over Perth and not had a single cable connection. It's all been DSL because the only copper in the ground is POTS. You'll quickly find that they rolled cable out to very, very limited area's and only to tick a box that says it's in every capital city.
Uhh...
What have you been smoking.
You'll be connected by point to point fibre back to the exchange, basically identical to POTS. There you'll be multiplexed onto the backbone (via a GPON rather then a DSLAM). In fact, they'll be using the exact same pits and ducts for the glass as is currently being used for the copper. It will be no different then the current topology.
It will look exactly the same as the current POTS system which is also point to point from the exchange (backbone) to the node (your house). This is the kind of FUD that I'm getting tired of disproving. Please do some research before spouting off again, you can start with the links I've provided.
POTS which was laid by Telecom Australia, not Telstra.
For those of us that have just tuned in, Telstra is the privatised remnants of our public telecom, Telecom Australia which laid the copper around Oz. Telstra have been neglecting that infrastructure for the last 15 odd years.
Which they are under no obligation to permit other ISP's access to, hence part of the copper monopoly. They also tried some backroom deals with Foxtel combining Optus Cable and Foxtel Pay TV services to try and better Telstra, Foxtel uptake simply suffered as a result.
HFC is also no real competitor to Fibre, it's a shared bus with a maximum speed of 100 Mb\s deployed in selected area's of 2 Australian cities (out of 18 locations with a population exceeding 100,000) where as the glass NBNco is installing will not top out at 1 Gb\s although 100 Mb\s is the best NBNco will be offering at the outset, will be available to 93% of Australian homes (fixed wireless and satellite will comprise the rest) and each link is a dedicated connection to the backbone.
Just so everyone knows what the AC is saying, it's rhyming slang that is commonly used in Australia and England.
Yank -> Tank -> Septic Tank -> Septic -> Seppo (chopping off the back half of the word and adding an "o" makes it an Australian-ism).
The problem Optus has here is that it loses a valuable position as part of a copper monopoly. Optus and Telstra own pretty much all the copper in Oz (telephone and cable) and charge other ISP's, such as iinet a fortune to use it. Not to mention the DSLAM's they rent out to other ISP's. Once the NBN is completed Optus and Telstra have to compete on equal terms with competitive ISP's like iinet and Internode. NBNco leases the NBN fibre to any company that will pay the fee to lease the line, this includes Optus.
That can reach about 5% of Aussie homes, let me know when you were planning to cable up Vic Park, I'll be getting NBN by the end of the year. Given the reach of Optus's cable network, iinet is still number 2.
Bunch of self serving, conniving wankers. You've let the broadband situation get this bad in the first place, 15 years of doing next to nothing, you wouldn't even roll out ADSL2 until iinet gave you a swift kick in the arse. Well we're all sick of it and now the Government is doing what you refused to and you're having a big bloody cry over it.
Harden the fuck up Paul O'Sullivan.
Assuming that the cost of the handset was rolled into that one and not extra.
I have had two phones in the last 2 years, a HTC Dream and Motorola Milestone, both purchased outright for A$550 a piece, A$1100.
I'm on a A$30 month by month plan that includes 1 GB downloads (because everything is metered in Oz and the telco's cant tell you how to spend it). I've never gone over it. So in total I've spent A$1820, back when I first bought the Dream the AUD was about 0.95 USD and has dropped as low as 0.55. So for about the same cost as your Iphone, I've had two modern handsets.
I've just bought a new HTC Desire Z for another $550. I'm not locked into a contract for 24 months, If I lost my job tomorrow I could cancel the contract and go on pre-paid. "Free" phones are for suckers.