Posts by Graham Lockley 442 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Aug 2006
>and the son of Art Modell, the Raven's owner from 1996 to 2004
Even the dreaded Wiki can supply better info than that ! Art Modell owned a team called the Browns and the name was changed after they left Cleveland, which means he owned the team slightly longer than suggested.
I love FOOTBALL (as played over the pond) but even I cant find much enthusiasm for the game mentioned, the Bolts should have no trouble with the lame Raiders.
>Exploitation of the flaw could underscore the growing risk of satellite radio piracy
Damn, does this mean I wont be able to record satellite radio in all its lo-def glory and complete with ads anymore ?
Shame, guess I will have to download some drm and ad free music instead. Or just tune in to yet another streaming radio station..
Or maybe the risk of satellite radio piracy is greater than the actual occurence/desirability ?
Seems they have fixed a flaw that nobody was interested in exploiting.
>I bet you were one of those who said it was a bad idea to let go of the floppy drive at the time too.
Trolling is a dying art if thats the best you can do !
With regards to floppies, lets put it in perspective. When Apple decided they were old hat the rest of the world were sneaker-netting stuff around offices on a daily basis. A request for a copy of a doc from a Mac user at that time would have bought embarassed mumbles and little else.
Apple (and MS) keep trying to do the 'we know best' while the rest of the world just goes about its business.
Bloody Factard (TM), get a life !
(Im sure the US copyright system will allow me to register the synergis of 'F*ckwit' and 'M*ctard' )
>even though they have to take them in to have all the malware sucked off them every two weeks
Having had three WinMo and two Nokia smartphones, having installed dozens of apps on all them, I dont recall EVER having malware/virii on any of them ?
How ironic that the WinMo platform is the most open and the Iphone the most closed when it comes to the owners ability to install the apps of their choice. The apparent capriciousness of Apples app store with regards to what is acceptable is one more reason my next phone will either run Android or WinMo (or if Nokia ever gets its act together, mabye even S60). I stress apparent, because they may have good reasons for their decisions but they are p*ss poor at explaining them and I dont want to feel that some small app I have come rely on may be withdrawn at a moments notice (and possibly wiped from my phone).
I can just about put up with the story about Peaches Geldof (the IT connection is tenous but still just there) but this ?? Zep were over-rated even in their heyday so why the hell have they been mentioned now ?
Oh wait, maybe theres a science angle. Jurrasic Park/Dinosaurs/DNA maybe ?
Meh !
(Awaits flames from doddering Zep Heds)
>Who would have thought that thing shaped like fish, smell like fish and taste like fish would SWIM like fish!
Sorry mate but I was highly impressed by the video. Yeah they are pretty unimpressive compared to a lot of other creatures (yeah I thought bleached tadpoles as well) but when you consider the depth/temperature they are working at then its a beautiful piece of film.
Lets hope this project brings more of these scenes back, maybe all those sad Virgin space tourists could be convinced to pay for a trip with a real purpose.
>My iPod touch shows me where I am. It doesn't tell me where to go - I make that decision.
>I think a company ought to have more faith in the intelligence of its employees.
Ever tried driving through a strange city trying to find a location you have never heard of before ? I suspect you wouldnt be very popular with the local traffic police when you have to stop every few hundred yards to check the screen on your Pod :)
The point behind turn-by-turn traffic systems (TomTom et al) is that you dont need to look at the screen while driving(spoken instructions) and a little common sense usually means you avoid driving into rivers.
>the future is likely with the SSD?
Im sure Sandisk et al would like this to be the case but current tech has proved to be a little disappointing in terms of performance and longevity. Its early days though, if there is a market demand then no doubt they will solve these problems eventually.
Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording ? Sounds a little like the old Magneto-Optical drives !
At what point did WOW replace Real Life(TM) ? More importantly, whats the IT angle ? Ahhhh, obsessiveswith no tan and a fear of reality, its a Tech Support story :)
WOW is up there with Sad Life for those whose social skills could use a little honing so all this bitching about expansion packs is rather non-news.
Yup, plus nobody seems to have noticed that its a FIRST LOOK not a review. I tried out the J-Phone on a couple of occasions and had over an hour to play and decide it wasnt for me and eventually got a Touch Diamond. Eventually I will have an hour or so with one of these (mate is a T-mobile manager so I know I can have a play when I want) and I'll make up my mind then. As to the looks,well it does look rather like a Sidekick and that seemed to find favour with a certain Ms. Hilton.......
Yeah, maybe it is cheap and tacky :)
As the title says, shifting those bytes costs the ISP's money. After suffering a VM cable connection for a few months (BBC site timed out at 6pm on a regular basis) I'm cynical about any 'unlimited' claims. Packet shaping is almost certainly used by nearly all ISP's now so Sky are probably no different. The big difference is that NOTHING would tempt me to put money into the hands of the Dirty Digger, no matter how good the company they bought are (look it up, it ends with NET).
I strongly suspect the 'no limits' is a loss leader designed to win market share, lets see how quickly its dumped once its done its job.
All the changes are ok, generally sprucing up the site (and I dont give a fat rats arse about the icons) but ......
FIXED WIDTH ??????
Down with the Reg Style Nazis !
Aunty Beeb can spruce up without resorting to fixed width, why cant you ? Ok, there might be a SLIGHT difference in budget.
Not happy about having to hit Ctrl+ every time I visit.
>A camera on a phone means rubbish pictures, full stop.
There are a couple of Nokia models with Zeiss ( if I remember correctly) lenses that are far from rubbish. A friend who is an ex-pro photographer is happy to keep his in his pocket for those moments when he doesnt have his EOS to hand. The results are excellent and he can make calls with it as well !
The point is that no camera/phone is ever going to be as good as a dedicated camera but some of them will come close enough to be acceptable.
Oh and to the Psion lovers/ WM haters... try it sometime, its a flexible platform that allows almost infinite customisation and has a sh*tload of software for almost every need. Ironic really, of the all the mobile platforms its the MS one that is most open :)
HTC have been producing good WM phones for quite a while (will own up, Ive had a couple and they are reliable workhorses) but SE cant manage it ?
Even stranger is the fact that HTC are producing this phone for Sony, so whats going on ? Shame really, I thought HTC's WM experience combined with Sonys style savvy may have made this something to look forward to. The reality is probably that Sony with its huge corporate(bureaucratic ) structure and HTC's smaller/lighter structure simply couldnt communicate properly.
Hopefully they can hash out the problems between them coz the previews have shown a damn desirable phone.
>When Thatcher finally goes, there will be two queues at her grave - one for mourners, one for dancers.
I seem to recall a certain well known novelist saying he planned to p*ss on her grave but he would have to take a step ladder because it would be 6 feet deep by the time he got his turn.
'We'll stand there laughing and stamp the dirt down' - The Real Elvis
>You mean that you don't regularly have unprotected sex with several large-breasted ladies simultaneously, who you just met after going round to fix their washing machine? I feel sorry for you mate - happens to me all the time.
You bastard !! You owe me a new monitor to replace the one I just sprayed beer over after reading your post :)
Thanks Jesper for a well written and presented article, it was interesting to see how determined the malware writers were to get money out of the victim.
To all those above who give detailed explanations about how they are protected from such scams, consider this. You are not 'average' users, you have some vague idea about how computers work. For 99% of the population, computers are a flashy tool that just works regardless of what OS is installed. Social engineering of this type will always strike home when the user has some vague notion about virii etc.
Personally I dont have an answer to this sort of attack, the obvious answer is to educate users but to be really succesful this would involve a 'licence' to own a computer.
As long as computers are sold in 'white goods' stores then there is going to be a steady stream of customers for 'Antivirus 2008' and its ilk.
.. to see I aint the only one who still enjoys Bills stuff. I suspect his reaction to this proposal would have been along the lines of 'Hey, WTF, just pay me my royalty along with a fucking big bag of drugs and a few nubile virgins and Im cool with it'
Russell Crowe as Goatboy...... Im having a hard time with this thought people.
For me the whole point of using Bluetooth is for those times when the wires get in the way and a dongle round the neck negates this. Most phones/mp3 players are small/light enough that they can be worn round the neck with wired phones that are usually better quality and cheaper. I want true wires free while Im working so that Im not constantly catching a wire and pulling an earpiece out.
My previous posts here should indicate I'm no big fan of Apple but PLEASE stop trotting out the old chestnut about OSX being Linux based. Google is your friend, Google wont lie to you (much). Even so try searching, you might find where OSX's real roots are.
I used to love Olympus cameras back in the (35mm) day but this seems a little overpriced. My Lumix FZ18 has pretty much everything on offer here at nearly half the price. Ok its a bridge camera and quality at lower light levels isnt going to win awards, the important thing is that it suits my needs without the expense of a full blown DSLR. This camera simply doesnt justify the extra cost when compared to an entry level DSLR.
Oh well, back to fondling my OM-2 and OM-10's ..
>obviously no girlfriend to speak of
Umm sorry to disapoint but I DO have a girlfriend, I just hope to christ the wife doesnt find out !!!
:)
Seriously, its called argument/debate/banter, you should try it sometime. Reading El Reg is only the same as picking up a newspaper every day, you spend 30 mins or so browsing the stories and another 30 mins chuckling at some of the comments.
Of course your 'losers' comment suggests you are a mega-rich head of a multi-national company, no ?
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