* Posts by Tom 7

8318 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009

Rebellion sees Chromium reverse plans to dump EXT filesystem

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Re: Walled garden? Whic... what walled garden?

cat fish you mean?

Here's your chance to buy an ancient, working APPLE ONE

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I've just realised - they copied the design from my MK14

If Sinclair had only patented right angled corners...

'Bill Gates swallowing bike on a beach' is ideal password say boffins

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You have typo'ed the password too many times so you now have doubts that it is

the correct one for this account after all.....

Antarctic ice at all time high: We have more to learn, says boffin

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Re: Cherry picking Ooh. Data.

The link was given above but here it is again http://www.the-cryosphere.net/8/1539/2014/tc-8-1539-2014.html

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Re: Cherry picking

The area of ice has increased but not its volume which has reduced by some 128Km**3 per year for the last 3 years.

Audio playground: How does an Oculus Rift with surround sound sound?

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Boost?

Or lock-in?

Google hauls Java-on-Android spat into US Supreme Court

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Oracle are most definitely evil

and have shit for brains - if they win this they are screwed.

LTE's backers vow to KILL OFF WI-FI and BLUETOOTH

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Re: So LTE would appear to be a powerplay by Qualcomm, then?

Upvote for nearly inventing the word Trollbooth.

First gigabit-over-COPPER chipset lands

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Cheap gigabit fibre has been possible since the late 80's

And it doesn’t go all shitty when it rains.

@bazza Its likely to be more reliable in terms of 999 calls if it can actually connect too - i was off for a few hours this weekend even though there was power and connection. And as for cost - well I've had some 200 hours of maintenance on my line over the last 8 years all because of water getting into the system. And I expect the same over the next few years until I finally get FTTH.

Sapphire glass maker's woes caused by Apple relationship 'breakdown'

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I do hope someone else buys it

or an important part of it.

Doctor Who becomes an illogical, unscientific, silly soap opera in Kill The Moon

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If I watched any program with that kind of anally retentive attitude

I'd have died as my major intestine would have strangled my brain despite not being capable of animation...

ah fuck it. Have a pan galactic gargle blaster and fucking chill out!

A moment of brilliance? UPnP for Internet of Stuff lightbulbs

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Re: Making things simple

Make things simple my arse - do all the little things you think are a pain in the arse and you will find that your arse does not need liposuction.

Best bit about a fire is going and chopping the wood and then coming in and opening the windows cos it too hot indoors.

Microsoft's nightmare DEEPENS: Windows 8 market share falling fast

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Re: Do they really care? Izal

from the latin for 'spread it around until it dries out and drops off'.

That was one shit toilet paper.

Take THAT, hated food! It's OVER, tedious chewing! Soylent strikes back with version 1.1

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Re: So sad... Cold Turkey on flavour...

so no flavour no chewing - no reason to stop until you bloat.

That's really not going to help anyone trying to diet.

Something will happen in Google 'dominance' probe. Just don't ask me what - EU antitrust chief

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In one of Milligans books

a Scot returning from war is told by the customs officer to pay import duty on a bottle of scotch. The Scot drinks some and passes it round and then finishes it off. The customs officer tries to get the MP's to arrest him - 'Why?' 'He's drunk' 'No he's not' <shrilly>'He will be'</shrilly>.

That's Margrethe Vestager that is - though I think Kafka is doing some editing too.

Supercomputer water-cooling comes to solar power

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Re: Hang on a minuite !!!!

I've been an advocate of renewables for a long time but it is remarkable how people seem to miss things that are bleeding obvious when someone spots them.

5 years ago interest rates made renewable a serious investment and windmills are precision engineered and very expensive. Now interest rates are fuck all and it actually makes a lot of sense to put up much cheaper but not quite as efficient ones - imagine pressed steel blades rather than handcrafted profiled jobies - £10 for a meter long one rather than £150 ...

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Re: Still inefficient

And it looks like they get 60% more in terms of hot water.

Not bad compared with the 40% you might get from a nuclear power station - well over twice as 'efficient'.

Want to see the back of fossil fuels? Calm down, hippies. CAPITALISM has an answer

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Capitalism is hoping it wont catch on.

There are too many vested interests to allow a truly disruptive technology like renewables catch on.

Apart from the real possibility of a reduction in energy prices due to overproduction the possibility of almost every home to be a producer rather than a consumer does tend kick the stockmarket the other way.

Most renewables are not mass produced - a 1kw generator in a car costs about £50, the same for a windmill £400. The monolithic silicon for a grid connected inverter could easily reduce the cost to 1/4 of current prices. Mass produced but slightly less efficient windmills could be stuck anywhere the wind blows. Hydrogen generation and then reuse in fuel cells was demonstrated a 82% efficiency in the early 90's and that's before you use any O2 generated to increase the thermal efficiency of burning things you have to burn.

We have all the bits to go very largely renewable but the people who would normally invest in this stuff have too many shares in the incumbent technology to see electricity drop to 3 or 4p a unit.

Scrapping the Human Rights Act: What about privacy and freedom of expression?

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Re: In 1215 at Runnymede, do da, do da.

The fall out for the commoners was due to the black plague giving them powers that the barons have been trying to take away ever since

TEEN RAMPAGE: Kids in iPhone 6 'Will it bend' YouTube 'prank'

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Re: Great work

A friend bought a Rolex Oyster that filled with water the first time he popped his hands overboard.

Rolex had it back 3 times before they actually tried fixing it. He had to demand a glass of water very loudly in the shop to demonstrate to the unbelieving arseholes that it did indeed fill with water before it was 200m down,

Road testing can be good when the seller is a little too self confident.

Kenyan court case could sound death knell for mobile money

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Re: Big business uses laws to stop competition?

I thought they got laws written to stop competition.

What's a Chromebook good for? How about running PHOTOSHOP?

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Re: I can't find my Instamatic ...

Wireless disk at around £100 a TB. fits in your pocket, lasts longer than you do and you can 'share' with others without the bloody cloud getting in your way.

WHY did Sunday Mirror stoop to slurping selfies for smut sting?

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Stoop? Stoop?

Just cos there is an austrailian owner of newspapers it doesnt follow that the word works upside down now.

CURSE YOU, 'streaming' music services! I want a bloody CD

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Re: have an upvote - there is NO missing out.

He may be missing out on those you mentioned but to hear those you have to miss out on other stuff: two ears one life and more music than you could listen to on double speed in a cryogenic life preserver.

You dont even need audio - you can get some insights into a lot of stuff using things like musescore where you even get to mix your own arrangements! Might not be the same as having an orchestra or live album but judging from the noises coming from people ear buds and stupid little balls on tables most dont seem to give a shit about sound verity anyway.

Microsoft on the Threshold of a new name for Windows next week

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WindowsOne

Song.

Hollywood's made an intelligent science vs religion film?!

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Re: "cites disproving the existence of God"

Another corruption of text over time

Its "God moves in mysterious WHEYS" which was the advertising campaign of "Cheeses of Nazareth"

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Sounds a barrel of laughs.

I shall wait for that one to come on before teleshopping at 3am.

Ello, 'ello, what's all this then? We take a spin on the new social network driving everyone loopy

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Is diaspora shrinking?

Or is it just not paying to scream about itself.

If I had my own diaspora server so that I could keep all my data safe and under my control and not have to answer requests for friending sunglass salestwats you wouldn't know about it unless I invited you to join me on it or vice versa.

That's the whole point of it for some people.

Bubble 2.0? Moneybags VC Andreessen warns profit-free startups: 'You will be VAPORIZED'

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Re: I probably missed something

"They are shopped not to demonstrate coolness, relevance, hip. but to prevent disruption to their cash flow from more efficient ways (for the customer) of doing things"

Bruges Booze tubes to pump LOVELY BEER underneath city

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I must buy a fracking company.

and a house in Bruges.

Sun of a beach! Java biz founder loses battle to keep his shore private

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Re: huh? Beat me to it.

No I think Iain Thomson did when the wrote it. You people new to the register?

And Iain you missed the obvious one about his security being modelled on his software?

Patch Bash NOW: 'Shellshock' bug blasts OS X, Linux systems wide open

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Re: I can connect to whatever database powers your site

I'm not pretending otherwise. If people cant be arsed to put in decent security on your web site dont try and blame it something else. Its very easy to write procedures to do everything you want and prevent abuse and as a web manager its very easy to prevent coders from writing (or at least running) sql on a world facing server. You should do that anyway - not blame your fuckup on someone else finding a way to exploit it.

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I can connect to whatever database powers your site

You might be able to connect but you cant scarf any data from it. Any sensible web admin will have configured it to not to allow random sql to be run over the connection between the web server and the DB.

Or at least that's how I've been doing it, and encouraging everyone else to do it, since I discovered you could do that well over a decade ago.

Apple: SO sorry for the iOS 8.0.1 UPDATE BUNGLE HORROR

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Chineese Pirates

Mandarin AAAARRRanges?

Huawei prez: A one-speed internet is bad for everyone

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Re: MBAs?

Masters in Blame Allocation. Even when given 100% control over the resources necessary to complete a project (according to their project plan) on time it will never ever be their fault.

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Re: The difference is not traffic priority....

I have 1.7meg here. Just start downloading a long time before watching. If there are buffering problems its time for a cup of tea or making some popcorn.

Voice is never a problem. In fact the only problem is the time wasted watching so much shit!

Heatmiser digital thermostat users: For pity's sake, DON'T SWITCH ON the WI-FI

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Re: Not just once - Log Burners!

Got cavity wall insulation in the parts of the house that aren't cob and after that I found that the log burner had to be on 'no fun just put some logs on and damp it all down' and it kept the house peachy.

But even a few years ago before CW insulation it managed to keep the place warm (not hot) when it was -13C outside.

Still find sawing up and splitting a few baskets is the best warmer though. And walking the dog a few miles makes even a cold house seem warm when you get in!

But a wifi thermostat that could be hacked by the supplier in a drive buy .... I'm surprised the energy companies haven't made them compulsory.

'Space bubbles' may have helped Taliban down 'copter in bloody Afghanistan battle

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National Security.

Would have thought keeping this quiet was the 'proper' thing to do.

4chan outraged by Emma Watson nudie photo leak SCAM

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Why is it called the flappening?

NT

Range Rover to fit trendy new SUV with FRIKKIN' LASER HUDs

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Persistance of vision.

I used to design microchips on storage scopes and if you turned the main lights off (like driving at night) you ended up with transistors floating around where there should be none. Can easily see tired muppets seeing 70 when it should be 20...

Supercapacitors have the power to save you from data loss

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I've got one in an 8 year old FM radio

I use in the shed. I hit the on button and, after a month or more, it will utter a few words of radio4 before I realise its been unplugged.

Better than the DAB which just gurgles like the queen after a no vote unless I get on the ladder and put it on a beam.

Should that be gargles?

Emma Watson urges UN to back feminism – trolls threaten to leak her 'nude selfies'

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Re: ...ism

And that is what feminism is about: Equality.

Mind you it wont be long before some are calling out equality as a way of suppressing men...

US team claims PARIS paper plane launch crown

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Re: Have any contacts at SpaceX?

Is that where the US cops and TV presenters go on about an 'increasing rate of speed' or accelerating acceleration if taken literally.

Soundbites: News in brief from the Wi-Fi audiophile files

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why use a proprietary one when the are free open standards available

that are just as good.

THE DEATH OF ECONOMICS: Aircraft design vs flat-lining financial models

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Re: Expecting perfection? You're going to be disappointed.

"Economics can reasonably be judged a success if the progress between crashes is greater than the crash - and that's been the case for a very long time."

That's making the very big assumption that the economics generates the wealth rather than human ingenuity and endeavour. Correlation does not mean causation.

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Re: All been done before

The big assumption you are making here is that 'they' want the economy fixed. Its a bit like asking an undertaker to look for the water of eternal life. You dont look for solutions to the 'problems' you make a living from. In fact its even worth your while to ensure that people who supposedly teach economics continue to sell the old lies that maintain inaccurate economic theories and prevent the 'truth' coming out.

I've got a £200 computer here that can do 32Billion floating point operations a second. I'd say that can model a whole years economic activity in the UK in less than a minute. In a month it could test and forecast and improve more economic models that you can shake a stick at.

Economics remains guesswork because you wouldn't want it any other way apparently.

Bono: Apple will sort out monetising music where the labels failed

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Re: an audiovisual interactive format for music that can't be pirated

It doesnt piss me off but if I wanted to re-transcribe it I'd run up a VM and take the audio and video as-is from that. Now they could stop that but that would really really really piss of the developers of... well shit like that and take eons to debug.

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I used to think he was a tosser

It turns out he's and ignorant tosser.

Buying memory in an iPhone 6: Like wiping your bottom with dollar bills

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Re: memory...or "disk"?

you can get a 2TB portable wireless disk for around a ton. Specs seem to indicate it would work fast enough for full HD to the phone. 10hrs use too. I guess you could have 1 in each pocket too...

Critical Adobe Reader and Acrobat patches FINALLY make it out

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Re: What was it, 30? critical security flaws in Adobe products last month?

Theres a hole in your document viewer dear Lisa a hole.