Posts by Mr Anonymous

Microsoft caves on Xbox One DRM and used-game controls

Price difference

Expect over the next 12 months a widening price difference between trade-able disks and one user only downloads.

Apple: iOS7 dayglo Barbie makeover is UNFINISHED - report

User choice

Don't use one myself, buy can't you change icons/colour scheme on an iphone?

Users rage as Fasthosts virtual servers go titsup... again

re: This is what happens when you use Linux.

FastHosts run Hyper-V.

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=4000007585

NSA Prism: Why I'm boycotting US cloud tech - and you should too

Pott, this is the other kettle calling

Migrated all your office365 clients yet?

Second question, is this the end of the MS eulogising?

Google accused of hypocrisy over Glass ban at shareholder shindig

Sounds like most of you guys live in Utopia.

But on the subject of children; try, as a single man, taking a camera to a playground and start taking photos of other peoples children. You can post your experiences on Monday.

Spotify and Pandora to FACE THE MUSIC as iRadio inks Sony deal

Agency agreements and most favored nation clauses?

Culture Sec: You - Google. Where's the off switch for all this filth?

Re: Cor!! I got a lot of hate - and rightly so i guess...

You seemed to have missed "I don't want to sit with me kids while they surf the Internet, I have more important things to do that teach my kids about the Internet and how to use it. I also can't be bothered with explaining to them the sides of the Internet designed for older people and what to do if they stumble across those areas."

Take responsibility for your children. I assume you receive a child allowance, but your self some good filtering software to help you control your child's access to the Internet while you sit and guide them.

My guess is that you can drive a car. You probably had a series of lessons from a professional. I suggest you do the same concerning the use of your connected devices and go so far as to learn a programming language and developing your desired system. I would expect there to be plenty of open source developers out there that would help you to learn new skills.

The current systems don't work well and "stuff" will get through whatever you do. I was responsible for a system put in place at a dyslexic school; unfortunately, when the teacher asked the children to search for "big clocks", gaping holes appeared [sic].

Young children probably need a walled garden, as children do in the physical world when young, all software, free and purchased offers this facility.

BT links with Huawei raise national security concerns, say MPs

If BT have have to ditch the kit, I'll give them a tenner for it.

Penguin chief: Apple's ebook plan 'dramatically changed' market

Ignoring a rise is in readership

Prices should be falling, there are more people reading books that ever due to the convenience and ease of purchase of e-books.

Amazon yoinks Dora and SpongeBob from Netflix for MEELLLIONS

Media types fail again

When will they realise that limiting content to one platform means people will not sign up to streaming services and BUY/RENT their content, because it can't be got from one place.

People do not want to have to sign up to several platforms to get their media, they end up being pushed to the platform that provides everything they need. That platform is currently known under various names, to ordinary people, like torrents, pirate bay, peer-to-peer or just 'downloading'. That one platform happens to be 'free' too, which makes it even more attractive.

Microsoft: Our clouds don't bleed you to death

I didn't get past the first para.

"TechEd The battle in the data center a few years back was VMware's ESXi hypervisor and its vCenter console versus Microsoft's Hyper-V and cloudy add-ons to its System Center control freak. And now, the battle is moving out into the cloud."

What a load of carp. Hyper-V was nowhere "a few years back" and probably has traction similar to windows 8 now. I'll leave others to argue about xen, zones, kvm et al.

Microsoft's Windows 8.1 secrets REVEALED ... sort of

Re: "You can even use more than two apps at once – three, to be precise."

Let me get my cut throat out to see if I can split the hair.

Re: "You can even use more than two apps at once – three, to be precise."

21 here across two 24" panels.

Hey, O2 punters: Kiss goodbye to 4 MEELLION* Openzone hotspots

Re: Baffled

@Velv

"It's a legal thing. If you make an Internet service available to the public then you become an ISP and need to be registered as such." What a load of guf, no such thing as being registered as an ISP.

Is the next-gen console war already One?

Nah

I can buy a capable but descrete media stremer with social guf for 75 quid, why would a buy this?

New Ubuntu for phones due 'by end of May' – usable this time

Sounds good to me

Simple, a phone that can make/receive calls and sms that doesn't require a loin to Google, Apple or MS.

Bonus features are allowing me to do what I want with it.

SanDisk '2-3 years' away from mass-producing 3D flash chips

Flash gets worse

As Intel makes transistors in CPUs smaller, they get more power efficient and we get more on the die and better processors.

As flash cells get smaller their ability to hold the charge that makes them a viable hard disk replacement gets worse.

Give the drives better and guaranteed life, if I want more space, I'll buy two or three drives. There's not much point in a drive that loses your data.

How to save UK's open data: Meet the 'Fair Value Licence'

Yes, that'll work just as well as tax.

Thank you for the data, we just started monetising it, but by the time we paid our offshore entity for their IP used to process the data, your share is £1. Now about that personal data you have on 56m people...

Readers, we need you... for LOHAN ignition failsafe brainwaves

Re: dont know much about them but..

There isn't enough pressure to use an absolute sensor, the BMP085 usually used to get an approximate reading is only accurate to 300hPa or about 9000M. I don't think you could rely on it and they want a mechanical fail safe in addition the several electronic ones.

Also

Rather than a pin, put a Teflon strip between the contacts and attach the line to it, less friction.

Second balloon

Attach a small under inflated balloon to the pin in the fail-safe device. When the main balloon bursts and your rocket starts to plummet, the second small balloon will still have lift and pull on the pin to set off your fail safe device.

MMA7361

0g-Detect for freefall protection for under a tenner. There's one fitted on the Habuino HAB board.

T-Mobile UK ordered into humiliating Full Monty strip

SMTP

Try port 587 which is ALT SMTP, you might be lucky with 366 too, 465 for SMTPS using SSL or TLS.

All those with their own server, just choose whatever you like and stop whining like young kids, if you can do it better set up your own mobile network!

Red Hat emulates Fedora Linux project with RDO OpenStack community

Correction

The RDO community, which is parked at http://openstack.redhat.com

Inuit all along: Pirate Bay flees Sweden for Greenland

Re: "may cost gigantic corporations a tiny fraction of their revenue."

Haven't seen many actors quitting their jobs because they loose too much cash to the, usually, young committing a _civil offence_ by disregarding copyright.

Google brings in blue-chip VC firms for 'Glass Collective'

The first guy is Beldar's brother. http://www.imdb.co.uk/title/tt0106598/

SwiftStack sucks up $6.1m, leaps through curtains with 'Amazon S3-in-a-box'

Not good enough though

So have I, but I can't see that there's enough value in what is in essence a control panel for open source swift.

Swift isn't that hard to set up and manage once you have done it a few times to get a hang of how the parts fit together.

The SwiftStack graphs are nice to look at and they make the install easy, but being as you don't get your ring builder files or know how SS have defined your storage, you could find yourself locked in by the time you have decided that the ongoing costs have mounted up a bit and your knowledge of the stack has reached a stage where you can manage it yourself. 100TB isn't that much space, but $1000 a month without support for a control panel that doesn't even email you if some thing's wrong?

Weev gets 41 months in prison for exposing iPad strokers' privates

Re: Freedom of the Internet? In your mind, chum

So have I, what a load of old guf you're spouting, closed networks = less money, therefore we will not see a return to AOL or CompuServe.

However, Fecalbook would certainly like to see a hybrid model of their users and other companies paying for the network, while they extract all the cash.

Oracle acquires Nimbula, buys way into open clouds

Close shave

Oracle already bulldozed two technologies I used to use, luckily, for me I didn't pick Nimbula.

Buying in to tech developed by start-ups is like playing Russian Roulette, esp when Oracle is the Borging entity.

cPanel: Reset your root passwords! Hackers broke into our system

Root password

If you have to give a root password to a support company, change it before you give them access then immediately after too, but be sure to use a different one than you had originally before handing control to a stranger.

After their assistance, check the root account's history file to see what they have been doing, if only to help you next time the issue occurs.

Remember, it's not unusual for a root password to be recorded in your history file or a log when logging in remotely and changing user, mistyping or forgetting you just used su!

UK distie boss: My brush with death in rapper's drive-by killing

Close call

I too was almost caught up, had I not made the decision to stay in the UK...

Microsoft's own code should prevent an Azure SSL fail: So what went wrong?

So don't buy an over priced Verisign cert with an expiry date you cannot track.

Tilera etches '*ss-kicking' 72-core system-on-chip for network gear

Re: 72 cores, eh?

More likely in a Mikrotik router like the http://routerboard.com/CCR1036-12G-4S

VMware pulls more control freakage into vSphere stack

Which is better?

It might not be better to be vmware for long, as their customers will realise that other virt platforms give away tools for free. I think that is likely to be why they're giving 7% of workers the sack.

BT copper-cable choppers cop 16 months in the cooler

Re: no disincentive

What makes you think prison is a disincentive?

Taxas killed 10 prisoners in 2011, 474 since 1976, if death doesn't put someone off committing a crime, why would a number of months in a warm and comfortable prison where you're guaranteed two hot meals a day?

Plunging BT sales hit every branch of the biz on way down

They have a virtual monopoly, of course they (the monopoly) will it turn round.

We're not making this up: Apple trademarks the SHOP

If this is a result of Chinese stores copying the layout, the Chinese stores are obviously prior art.

Microsoft promises big shiny tool to cheer glum Windows resellers

Who'd a thought

MS software crashing, never heard of that before.

Here we go again: New NHS patient database plan sets off alarm bells

Beta test

I suggest a 12 month beta test before the database goes live using all 650 MP's complete medical history as the test data, then we call all test the security of the system. If no data leaks we'll have an idea of the basic security of the system.

LOHAN's cold heart beats beneath silicon breast

Re: But the important question is

You're not going in to space.

Hope there's no moisture in the relay can as it might be frozen in position when you try to fire the igniter.

Strange choice, using a transistor to switch a relay, _ALL_ modern pyro systems use mosfets to fire igniters. Igniters usually fire with <1 amp for a few 10's of millis. I have used SP8K4 dual mosfet in a small sop8 package. Make sure you don't knock the flight package when you launch, you don't want to bounce the relay contacts.

Microsoft-Netflix bid rumours feast on froth – and logic

Makes sense for MS, as there won't be another version of Windows after 8, just a thin client into MS's stormy cloud.

New York tech firms form 'bucket brigade' to fuel flagging servers

Re: SLAs

SLA, compensation is usually limited to the charges made in any one period and if it's some special insurance backed contract, probably not covered by 'acts of god'.

It's simple, do you design for a one in one hundred year event. Usually No, if hundreds or thousands of lives at risk, yes. Deaths due to Gawker being down... 0.

NAND ho! New Intel and Samsung SSDs heave over the horizon

Samsung says it "can write up to 1064TBW"

I hope Samsung's "up to" is better than my broadband providers "up to"

I just LOVE Server 2012, but count me out on Windows 8 for now

Re: Productive work

I didn't say you weren't, but most employees are paid to be productive on behalf of their employers and are not paid to decipher Microsoft's latest idea of what an Operating System should look like or the new random location of an oft used menu item.

Productive work

"With months of use, I've learned to beat the OS into submission." As opposed to just using a familiar and easy to use OS?

Head of Facebook EMEA tentacle to become Tech City UK chief

Front page their website: The Tech City Investment Organisation was established by UKTI to support the growth of the tech cluster in East London.

Re: £115K

I thought the Tories were supposed to be saving taxpayers money or is that only making savings on pleb level wages and lower?

BT and Virgin sue over £10m state-funded Birmingham broadband

If BT don't like this subsidy thing, may be they should have to pay fibre rates the same as other company. That should help create a bigger broadband development fund and persuade them to light all of the fibre they have in the ground.