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Posts by David 164
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Giant super-laser passes 500 TRILLION watts
UK.gov to clear way for Britain's first SPACEPORT
They can ban it, but I am sure the costs ratio would mean America companies would look to UK companies or Europeans companies to build and launch their satellites for them, leaving the rest of the US launch industry and probably a large percentage of the space industry relying on Nasa and US military launches to survive. An I am sure some in congress will be asking why they are paying 100million a launch and increasing every year, when commercial companies and other governments who are not reliant of throwaway rockets are getting launches done for 10 million and decreasing costs as Skylon matures.
Dying Kodak doesn't have to leave its jewels to Apple, says court
Top US Senator to Apple, Google: 'Curb your spy planes'
Re: ?
Well you a rather crap investigator, one I do not have a wife, two I am not idiotic enough to get caught cheating with my girlfriend or future wives outside where any peeping tom/girl could catch us. Three I do not have 10K. An I consider Google and Apple catching cheats a public service, they should even help everyone out and provide proper facial recognition software, after all scouring Google Earth for one image which could be use for bribery or looking for the one photo of your husband cheating on you is time consuming. By the way that is bribery and I be straight to the police, I can live without my Girlfriend but can you live with a 10 year prison sentence.
Well some sites are already blurred on Google Maps for security reasons, so we can presume there are already protocols in place for security officials to request locations be blurred. Apple may be different.
Sound to me this senator just wanted his day in the limelight, now go back to taking bribes and pork barrel politics and leave the internet and the information revolution alone.
NASA's Curiosity rover will try risky landing near Mount Sharp
Samsung 'to launch Galaxy S III in US', snubs Apple's ban bid
Final countdown for NASA's NuSTAR X-ray black hole telescope
SpaceX signs deal to put its giant rocket to good use
Complex cyberwar tool 'Flame' found all over Middle East
Re: Of Virtual Waters and Stormy Sees ...... The Great Game has New Fab Fabless Players?
On the surface my bet would be the Chinese, they are not overly friendly with any country in the middle east, and this virus seem aimed at everyone in that part of the world. On the surface at least this virus seem design to gather intelligence in the region from all the major players, given the Chinese have relatively little to zero experience in this area of the world such an intelligence gathering campaign could be a prelude for the Chinese to take a greater role in this part of the world.
I am just speculating, Obama administration and elements within the US intelligence agencies do not trust the Israelis that much and I could see them spying on Israel, a country that has also be caught spying on America.
Google's 7in tablet stalled for last-minute tweaks
SpaceX does what it HASN'T done before: Dragon in close ISS flyby
Re: Economics of reusability
The whole Space X vehicle will be reusable, eventually.
Musk is take the computer programmer route, adding features version by version, instead of trying to build a complete reusable rocket from scratch first attempt.
In 2013 they will begin test flying the a reusable Falcon rocket but in atmosphere testing.
Hopefully by that time out own Reaction engines will be building a prototype of the sabre engine an a test vehicle.
Google snubs Euro watchdog's 'abuse of dominance' claims
To me it look like they just need to cease use snippets from websites, make some minor changes to the UI and create better export tools for Ad-words. I suspect Google founders will be pretty happy with this result. An remove an exclusivity clause in some contracts, which will not mean a lot as I doubt there many organisations around in this environment that want to take a risk and move away from Google or even diversify where there adverts come.
It also sound like the EU is less than clean on taking Google to court, which tend to point to them not having a very strong case at all and is just looking to quickly sweep the matter under the carpet as quickly as possible.
Senator probes NASA airfield deal for Google's jets
Re: Or maybe
Not from the US tax payers. An Google Europe money is kept in the Bermuda.
An Google has not stolen any money, it just uses the tax laws our politicians write to its advantage. If you want better tax laws vote in better politicians, ones that are willing and able to close loops holes.
Google Knowledge Graph straddles semantic web and Star Trek
Mystery as Google offloads SketchUp 3D drawing tool
I do not think it a shame Sketchup has left Google and been sold to another company, at least it survive intact and will still be available. Hopefully the new company will invest money into it and expand the capabilities of the program in the future. We can assume for now that its integration with Google Earth will stay and Google will maintain a close relationship with Trimble.
Hopefully Sketchup will continue to gain fans long into the future.
CompSci boffins tout file encryption for Google Docs
Google faces WHOPPING FTC fine for Safari privacy gaffe
Google pockets card payment biz, slips it into Wallet
Google has not made a serious mistake yet
I do not trust anyone with my money but then we do not have much of a choice, if we want to live in the modern world with modern conveniences then we are always trusting someone to keep money safe, My bank, London underground, and a few other companies on top of that.
Google is just another one of those companies and frankly they yet to muck up, unlike the banks, some whom have lost hundreds of thousands of customers details over the past year and left major security flaws in their system un patch for almost a decade , when it comes to protecting my Google will probably do a better job than the banks and most of the other organisations I have to deal with. I have several different bank accounts in different banks, Google wont and does not need to know all of them anyway and it will at least in the beginning not be link to my main account with my main bank.
Report: Facebook working to improve its 'search' technology
No conclusions on EU's Google probe for weeks
Re: Right.
It seems to me they are being pressured by both sides to reach the "right" decision. Most of the companies that have complained to the EU are backed, owned by Microsoft.
All sides seems to find fun in writing letters to the EU pressing them to see things there way.
Still no one explained to me why I would want a search engine to direct me to another search engine when I am searching for a Washing Machine.
Google asked to bin autocomplete results for Japanese man's name
Wave, Buzz... Android? What Apple teaches Google
I think the reason so many are interesting in Google+ is simple, it a new toy for developers to play around with, to developed new products.
Facebook is becoming a mess interface wise and it only getting worst, and a lot of people I know got an aversion against installing new apps because they fear their an their friends streams will become full up with rubbish.
The latest numbers say that Google has close to 200 million, that double the figures the Google released, in a little over 2 months.
Buzz was a complete disaster.
But many of Wave ideas and features are being incorporated into Hangouts.
Cameron's 'Google Review' sparked by killer quote that never was
Re: The sentiment is accurate
The only point agree with is the funding. it very unlikely that Page and Brin would have found the money to start up the company, let alone the money to keep it running for 5 years without going to the markets or it being bought out by a technology giant from the US before it took off in a big way.
It actually very simple to start a company now, just a single on-line form with most of it being a copy and past job from set examples, an £18.50 fee. There several firms that will do this for £50 including the fee.
Google seem to have done okay at finding UK engineers and designers (we got some of the best designers in the world with several world renown design universities in several fields), with them employing several thousand people in the UK.
Finance is the area we really struggle in, very few individuals in the UK are willing to put there own money into businesses , in the Silicon Valley it not the banks that finance these up, it investment firms and individuals who often built technology firms themselves that finance new start ups.
Even when you do find such individual or investment firms, the equity they ask for is usually approaching double or even triple the amount they would ask in Silicon valley for the same amount of money with the same valuation on the firm, in the UK they tend to ask to have decision making powers in the company and long term business plans, neither is really brother with in Silicon valley not with the initial investment anyway, they tend to take the approach of build it and figure out how to make money from it in the future. If you take Google the bloke who gave them there start up cash, sign them a check and left them to it, that would rarely happen in the UK.
French data watchdog bends Google over for rigorous frisking
Do I support
The French and EU bureaucrats, who last time I check provide me with nothing an yet probably cost me a bob or two in taxes. An it was those bureaucrats that original gave Google the a ok of these reforms.
or Google who provide me with free email, free videos, free search engines, free multi party video conference tool, a free blogging platform at point of use, and even a small income from letting advertisers advertise on my website.
What a tough decision, not, Google all the way. If you do not like there terms conditions then leave and do not use there services.
I agree with the above poster, this would carry a lot more weight if it was not France carrying out the review, France have wage a multi year long legal and even political campaign against Google.
Google to app devs: Use our pay system ... OR ELSE
Re: Are they merging with Apple?
Nice post James. I agree we need a lot more competition in the app market. In a ideal world I would like to see all allow other players to run and build on-line markets on there hardware and allow real competition and innovation drive up standards across the board.
I doubt Apple will allow that to happen, not without government interference, Android already has other markets, and Google moving away branding its store as Android only may allow other company to gain more awareness with consumers.
Metro breakdown! Windows 8 UI is little gain for lots of pain
Obviously it a customer preview, hopefully the first of several Microsoft will do, so there will be some improvements.
I have not had the chance to use it yet. But I will say corporate IT people are some of the most conservative guys on the planet, more conservative than the Daily Mail and its readers.
It will take several months or even a year or two before we see applications taking advantage of Metro features.
I look forward to seeing how this evolves over time.
BlackBerry PlayBook OS gets RIM spit 'n' polish
An it only going to get better over the next year as RIM keep on releasing updates, which I suspect will come out a bit faster as they ramp up to Blackberry 10 release, they may as well get things into the wild to let people find and reports bugs they encounter, might as well find some use to all those playbook that RIM is virtually giving away, they must be making a substantial loss . If I am not mistaken Blackberry 10 is design to run on everything and should give them solid foundations to build on in the future.
If they can get a half descent media store up and running they could move to dominate the teenage markets and then work on maintaining their business customers, the last one it seem the main area they will need to work on is cutting costs for companies, and they will need a new revenue generator.
Bung a tenner to a mate's mobile number with new Barclays app
Re: Its broke already
More likely the root access would give access to your accounts for the hackers and it likely to open up hole with in the system. It the same with Google Checkout, which Google warns people not to run on rooted devices.
It seem mobile payments are only for people who do not root their phones, at least for now.
Heartland Institute documents leaked
Swiss space-cleaning bot grabs flying junk, hurls itself into furnace
Bonkers MS security update flags Google.com as malign
Alibaba! suspends! shares! amid! Yahoo! stake! buzz!
I think it about time Yahoo disposes of its Asian assets that it does not fully control, So I would not be surprise if it sold its states in Alibabas and Yahoo Jupan and it should do so quickly.
An then use the money to re-enter both markets with units its fully controls at a later stage.
To the article above, this not about Alibaba buying Yahoo, at least not yet. This article is about Alibaba buying up shares Yahoo owns in the Alibaba group.
Jackpot: astronomers tag Goldilocks planet
Not a stupid question.
But how you search for other types of life forms when you got nothing to compare it so, no signatures to compare.
Looking for life out their that resemble the life on Earth is easier with today's technology than looking life with an unknown signature.
It fairly easy for scientist to detect water and methane for example.
RIM restyles next-generation BlackBerry
I think I prefer the design here, http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2124994/rim-bbx-smartphone-leaked to this, it looks more futuristic and look different to the other phones on the market, which are all starting to look the same to me. Perhaps this is just a stand in for the real phone, at least I hope so.
Google Maps to dish out disaster alerts
Because that require people to visit and enter their details into two sites, Google combine the data into one site so now people can visit just one site and get that information. Eventually Google is hoping more national organisation will offer over their data to Google, enable Google to combine data of potentially hundreds if not thousands of sources into this service.
Plus if you got a Google account you do not have to enter in any details.
Darwin's lost fossils found down the back of a cupboard
Even if every graduate in this field spent there entire lives going through every nook and cranny in UK warehouses and archives they would still not complete the task of cataloguing everything stored for many decades. Even the British Museum says it only got an extremely rough idea what it has in it archives and still finds un-recorded items regularly.
Israel's stock exchange site knackered by hackers
I do not think so somehow I suspect the Ruskies will neutralise the Iranians and the West will take care of Israel either through political or military means long before that happen.
The way Israel is going at the moment, Israel may be in civil war long before that happen and it will be Jew on Jew, Israeli Jewish society is heavily divided with some elements even calling for democracy to be disbanded.
Iran is not in much better shape either and I doubt the Republican guards are truly interested in a full scale war anyway, they got to much to loose and to little to gain but having one. Mullahs and even Iran president have little true power in the country. Republicans guards are run pretty much like a business and as soon as there profits are threaten they will move to remove that threat, which will probably result in a civil war as the Mullahs has there own supporters.
Woz praises Android, blasts iPhone limitations
Security experts have shown ways to get passed Apple security checks. In fact one researchers got a spyware packed app release on Apple app store.
Apple security is worst than Android for the simple fact that Apple and it fanboys and girls believes Apple security is 99.99 % secure. Why Android use know that Android is far from being 100% secure.