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  1. Re:Assisted driving tech saves lives on In-Car Technology Becoming More Important Than Horsepower · · Score: 1

    It would appear that doesn't happen in all designs of ABS systems :)

  2. Re:Assisted driving tech saves lives on In-Car Technology Becoming More Important Than Horsepower · · Score: 1

    Except ABS is crap on ice. A perfect example of this is where the middle of the road isn't that bad. However the gutter has a lump of ice in it. The ABS kick's in because the wheels in the gutter lock and prevents the other wheels which are on solid ground from breaking. Sometimes typical features can be extremely dangerous!

  3. A useful feature on In-Car Technology Becoming More Important Than Horsepower · · Score: 1

    Something that we don't normally get a lot of here is ice / snow. Except for this year we had lots. May by something more useful for it instead of stupid features would have been a limited slip diff!

  4. Re:Needs a caption on Video Showing Half a Million Asteroid Discoveries · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have worked on asteriods? Was the commute better than the average commute in china?

  5. Re: Stupid Courts on UK Courts Rule Nintendo DS R4 Cards Illegal · · Score: 1

    Damm I better sell all my knives and buy a new set of screw drivers for stabbing people instead.

  6. Re:Data protection on UK ISP TalkTalk Caught Monitoring Its Customers · · Score: 1

    What just like the valid uk computer hardware store http://www.overclockers.co.uk/ vs the gay porn site. http://www.overcockers.co.uk/ Or at least it used to be years ago when i made an accidental typo infront of my boss at the time :/ At least he did see the honest mistake and saw the funny side of it

  7. Re:Twas ever thus on UK ISP TalkTalk Caught Monitoring Its Customers · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually in UK law the digital economy act practically requires by law that isp's are to monitor their users and notify certain bodies of any possible illegal activity. TalkTalk and BT are the only people attempting to stand up to this. I guess TalkTalk are a little more two faced than we thought.

  8. UK ISP's on Washington Wants 10,000 Web Surfers · · Score: 1

    Well this is pritty simple in the UK for any BT based isp. They advertise up to 8mbit or up to 24mbit for adsl 1 / 2+. However BT have an ip profile which is always slightly lower that the archives dsl sync rate. This is the maximum data rate that will be delivered across the BT atm cloud. Therefore it is impossible to actually achieve the advertised speed using anything that is based on the BT 20cn and BT 21cn types of connections. Why do they need volunteers when "technically" is it impossible to work?

  9. Complaints on Pakistan Lifts Ban After Facebook Deletes Offending Page · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am sure we can all probably find something on facebook that each individual on the planet would find offensive. Why don't we all email them now and ask that they remove it?

  10. Bit Late? on NSA Develops USB Storage Device Detector · · Score: 1

    Don't get me wrong but this allows you to detect after the device has been and gone. Is this not a little late in finding this out? So exactly what security hole has it plugged? Though i guess it could prove possible useful in a court where you can then link the usb hardware id and unique id to a pen drive with sensitive information to prove what / when / where it plugged into.

  11. Global Warming on Japan Eyes Solar Station In Space · · Score: 1

    If we suddenly start collecting more enegry from space and beaming it into the planet wont this also cause us to heat the planet more? After all this energy will not have been collected naturally to start with.

  12. Re:Alternatives on 3 Strikes — Denying Physics Won't Save the Video Stars · · Score: 1

    What about protocols with no ports ?

  13. Shipping on Will Google and Android Kill Standalone GPS? · · Score: 1

    No Likly As an iphone normally isnt suitable for some of the following sports they simply break to easy or you dont get any signal so its usless anyway. Sailing / Hiking / Sea Canoe / Gliding / Many others ? Another fact is that my gliding instructor was told to stop flying with his phone on as he was causing havoc on the network he was jumping between multiple cell towers to fast

  14. Re:Govt does this all the time on "Three Strikes" To Go Ahead In Britain · · Score: 1

    And the last committee the goverment setup was tasks with coming up with a new design of a horse. They called there new prototype a camel

  15. Re:Margins on New UK Wireless Network Tax May Hamper Internet Rollout · · Score: 1

    Unfortunatly i was not ignoring the facts. The bottom line fact her is they advertise something for up to 24mbit. Then never provide more than 2mbit during any waking hours. It gets so slow that the connection is unstable and wont load web pages at some stages during the weekend. They are not struggling with load froma special one off event or anything. Their network is under standard loading conditions. You did read the part about 0.2mbit? Every sunday afternoon this happens between 2pm and 6pm like clockwork. For your information the line sync at around 17mbit :) The conenction should be a 20:1 contention service. That contention should be based on the "up to 24mbit" (yes this could be argued) I should get min speed of 2.2mbit. Where as in the real world it has a contention of 120:1 If you phone provider cut your sampling rate to 1000khz from what it is normaly (8000khz or something) this would be ok to? But do it every day during the day when you have to talk to other people on the phone. Would normal people stand for it? The isp's in the UK like to dig a whole for themselves. Now the end users are simply pushing them into it because they are actually using what they are paying for (well trying to) :)

  16. Margins on New UK Wireless Network Tax May Hamper Internet Rollout · · Score: 2, Informative

    In fact in the UK i worked out that my current isp's margins are so tight i actually cost them around £50 / month for my connection that i pay £30/month for. It also explains why the "up to 24mbit" gets the best speed of 2mbit in eveningings and 1mbit all weekends. It also gets so bad on sunday afternoons the max speed i can sometimes get is around 0.2mbit which is only double isdn speeds. The UK really needs to sort its self out when it comes to telecomes. The goverment putting more tax's on it really isnt helping it any.

  17. Support on Verizon Refuses To Provide Complete IPv6 · · Score: 1

    I assume you have some sort of support. I would suggest raising a support ticket for each unrouted block.

  18. Google List on IE Should Use Google's Malware List · · Score: 1

    I have been looking at this recently in a completly different way. I was looking around for implementing a n2h2 or websense server. However i have not been able to locate any technical information about the 2 protocols. The reasonf or doing it with these specific protocols are because that is what is currently implemented on cisco and is reasonably common against other routers. The reasons or doing this is of course obvious. To make sure all lists on a larger office network are enfored all the time and to prevent people being able to ignore the current lists from within firefox. Can anyone paste some links to info about these 2 protocols.

  19. Re:Dividers yes, obstacles no on Obstacles Near Emergency Exits Speed Evacuation · · Score: 1

    This is about the only reason why people can evacuate a plane though its emergancy exists inside the requried time. When you add panic and adrenaline the who results will change dramatically. People in japan are also quite good at running drills. In certain areas they do earthquake drills quiet a lot of the time. When was the last time you did a emergancy drill for something. I certainly did not do one since i was in school.

  20. Re:Bad news. XD on How To Stop Businesses Storing SSNs Indefinitely? · · Score: 1

    So do you know of any company that fully obey's this law? I can name more than dont than do. Heres a really simply example. I have a domain which was bought approx 4 years ago. It was for a company that went backrupt. Currently it still gets spammed by many many uk companies which should after there 3rd year have removed the email address from these lists. I have also seen many many computer systems which only support the input of data. Very few i have seen actually support the deleting / purging of older data incase its needed at a later time. I can name 5 rather large hotel chains in the UK (+worldwide) which also hold data for > 5 years. It would apear that its only illegal when you get cought ;)

  21. Keys No Problem on In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    No Problem i will give you the keys. But you dont mention anything about the encryption algorythm how its used / read or implemented. so they still will be unable to read the data. consider the following: You also need an offset to the filesystem header. Does this classify as a password / key? You store your encrypted data in a scambled format eg interleaved to make it harder to read with standard tools. You come up with some complex block allocation scheme which requires part of this fomula to be entered. eg like a more complex reed solomans implementation but you inject errors into the valid data to start with so it looks scambled. When they then tell you the keys are invalid and your going to jail you can then prove otherwise. Since they actually fail the read the encrypted data off the block device correctly in the first place. I suppose they would just re-write the law again and call it encryption in this so called free world ...

  22. Re:They force you to lease software on California Student Arrested For Console Hacking · · Score: 1

    What about microsoft? They turned a PC into an xbox (badly) but didnt they just do the same as this effectivly?

  23. Re:Is this a problem? on Calculating Password Policy Strength Vs. Cracking · · Score: 1

    For a single account it does. But does anyone actually know of an account being broken into with brute forcing the password unless the password is really simple? This leeds to the point that if you want to break into a number of accounts somewhere you keep the password a constant and brute force the username. How can this be detected which you think of somebody using a large number of proxies 1000's of attempts could be made per minute. It doesnt really matter how complex you make the password when people are shipping trojans to just take it off the wire the next time you login.

  24. Only Remot Access on Think-Tank Warns of Internet "Brownouts" Starting Next Year · · Score: 1

    it will only freeze if you are using rdp or vnc or some other thing like that !

  25. Crap Software on Why Do We Have To Restart Routers? · · Score: 1

    They need rebooted because the routers are crap. I have raised various bug issues with home router companies before and i have never seen a single issue resovled with some of its advanced features that simple dont work. Then i picked one of these up really cheaply from somewhere. Cisco IOS Software, C837 Software (C837-K9O3SY6-M), Version 12.4(5), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3) router uptime is 12 weeks, 3 days, 2 hours, 8 minutes The last 3 reboot reasons over the last 2 years has been a for power failure .... I think i have only ever had to reboot the thing once since i got it because it had crashed and that's over a 3 year period Same deal with the cisco switch i have.