Posts by Paul Corbett 2

Reg hack tickled by Kent schoolgirl

Re: Lester Haines

And the article to which they are referring is a masterpiece of investigative journalism, I for one have changed to chocolate fingers cos i still treat jaffa cakes with suspicion.

Ford secrets thief caught red handed with stolen blueprints

Beijing Automotive Laptop Seized

Wonder how many of their blueprints where on the laptop and now in the hands of Ford.

And Fiat etc. (i mean Fiat blueprints also on the seized laptop)

I'm sure that wouldn't happen, would it ?

'It's as though I've got Jonathan Ive's personal tool in my...'

I had to check

That it wasn't written by amanfrommars

Normal Human Being™ reviews the iPad

RE: Wrong Market

"Apple product are bought by people who have no problem patching a firmware image, or finding buffer overflows in the baseband chip, because that's what you need to do to get things done on those devices."

Thats got to be a joke right ?

Apple products are generally bought by people who just want it to work, they want hand holding, they want it easy. Patching firmware is for those who want it to work properly (in there opinion) not really the average apple target audience.

I have a iPhone because work paid for it, i would replace it myself now if they took it off me because i like it but i'm under no illusions about some bits of if being CRAP.

re: With all due respect

Beancounter = Excel user = fail ?

Love my iphone (carry it everywhere) even got a Mili battery pack to make it useable, can't see me wanting a IPad anytime soon its too nichey and i don't have that niche available.

Saying that would love it mounted in a suitable frame in the kitchen if it could withstand humidity (bet it can't), then could imagine cooking apps galore but thats not the target market is it ?

Wife loves my iphone only because i have some amusing kiddie apps to keep the baby happy, otherwised she's slightly bemused by my love for it.

IBM lab builds computerized cat brain

Can it Love?

Its a cat brain of course it can simulate love and affection, until its fed.

Japanese algorithm 'can tell if you're about to die'

And also

2 more days to retirement and just bought a boat

Child porn threat to airport's 'virtual strip search' scanners

Erm

How about applying some computer power to filter the image, show just a outline of the body and areas of unusual density, surely a program could be devised that can say a normal arm has this profile, that persons arm appears to have something strapped to it ? - Flag alarm condition ?

Ooooh unusual container detected under armpit, flag, i mean if the terrorist wants to make a container to hold his/her binary explosive that has the same density on the scanner as his body then he's going to succeed even if a human is checking the image, and especially a human who's looked at several thousand images in his shift.

So outline of small child, no red flagged areas, go on child be at peace

Outline of small child with suspicious density band round waist strapped there by loving terrorist parents - flag and detain - simplez

Rogue knob could ground space shuttle Atlantis

#The First Dave

50p Item ? , it probably cost 1.2million USD and is made out of GOLD ALLOY.

Bolt cutters ?, probably NASA will commision a expensive one-off Bolt Cutting tool to remove errant knobs give it a long 42 alpha numeric code reference and order 15 of em just in case.

LOL

“Knob removal attempts should be performed by exhausting least risk options first. More evaluation is required.

I bet theres every scientist and tech there with there own pet "that'l do it try that" idea, just itching to sneak in and give it a go.

"Use pry bar to deflect dash down: Viewed as the riskiest removal method for all hardware involved." - my idea already thought of, they would have had to restrain me from already having a go, i probably would be trussed up in corner with a armed guard for suggesting it.

Symantec, McAfee cough up $750,000 on auto-renewals

Auto Renewal - Bah

My favourite method is to use one of my cards with a short expiry date !