Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26130 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
Isn't this the same rule as cars?
If you steal a car and remove the number plates - in theory that's illegal
If you find a car that somebody else has already removed the number plate, or if the plates fell off - then you can take it for free
Seems reasonable, now wheres that screwdriver
Who decides who gets a .bank?
Just the Americans - so you would allow Lehman Brothers but no banks in the middle east
The swiss, Jersey, the Caymen islands?
Or do you let every country authorize .bank ? So liberia or somalia would happily hand out "h-s-b-c.bank" for $50
As our manufacturing dissapeared and our schools fell behind the academic standards of Uzbekistan at least we could be proud of the uniquely British export of "disgusted of Tunbridge Wells"
Although the americans could mass produce raving right wing religious nutters cheaper and in larger numbers - for pure idiocy you couldn;'t match the hand crafted quality of a classic British idiot.
Now it seems that even the faceless bureaucrats of Brussels are able to out-idiot us.
There was a Nasa study on how you would store digitized glass photographic plates where you need the data to be available in a few hundred years - we use 100 year old plates to measure star movement.
The best two options they came up with was to print the data back to photographic glass plates - as a bit pattern which seemed a bit redundant. Or to print it onto silver nitrate black-white cinefilem
>totally erasing the human imprint on the landscape or just that particular bit?
It's mostly a problem in the home counties and new forest ?
I don't see any problem in eradicating the human population south of say Nottingham.
Unleash the rapid laser beam equipped wippets of the north
You can assign an invention to anyone you want - but the inventors on the patent have to be the inventors. You have to sign a declaration that you invented it.
Stuffing the list with a 130 VIP inventors to make you look big and scary is perjury- and the federal government generally doesn't like you lying to it.
But why do we need skilled Europeans?
If we need anything high tech we can always buy it from China.
Britain should concentrate on valuable exports; Mr Bean, JK Rowling and X-pop-idol-factor.
Do you know that the ministry of silly walks receives less funding than the department of health, defence, agriculture etc...
It's there for the same reason that millions of people watch Clarkson twat around in a 250,000 supercar before they buy a Fiesta. It gets Chromebook noticed, it gets Google on the NYT technology blog, and then people buy a $200 Samsung in Walmart.
ps if anyone is visiting the USA, most Best Buys have a stack of returns of the Samsung for $200 from people who thought it would run Windows. Dumb people + dumber salesdroids = savings.
But not well. At least this Samsung Chromebook doesn't.
You can view and edit-ish documents using chrome but you don't get all the features of using IE, outlook is barely useable and you don't have lync..
If you are getting this for work, try accessing you sharepoint/office365 stuff from chrome on Windows first to see if it's good enough.
You can also run stock linux AT THE SAME TIME as Chrome0os using Crouton (http://craigerrington.com/blog/arm-chromebook-chromeos-and-xfceubuntu-at-the-same-time/) just ctrl-alt-right/left to switch between them.
I'm writing this on a $200 Samsung chromebook running chrome and ubuntu live simultaneously on the built in SSD
ps. You only have the 30sec delay the first time, or you can skip it by ctrl-D
Yes they could put in a 256Gb SSD so you never needed to be online. They could also have licensed IE and Outlook for it so you don't need to use Google..
This is nothing to do with the computer, this is making sure you are as dependent on Google in 2015 as you were on Microsoft in 1995.
It's a business decision:
Option 1 - bank refuses withdrawal because it can't get a secure realtime direct link from the foreign ATM to its HQ, or because a businessman buying a coffee in New York 12 hours after buying a heathrow express ticket is somehow "suspicous". Business man returns home furious, cancels all his accounts, moves his mortgage, pension and life insurance - bank loses $1000s in fees.
Option 2 - bank allows some extra risks on a pre-paid credit card that accounts for 0.1% of its business.
You can always add more security - the question is whether requiring a 15digit pin and a DNA sample everytime a customer uses their card is a win for you in the long term
I always pictured a bunch of ancient timelords in their ceremonial tea stained brown stores-robes.
Sucking on their teeth and saying, "a chameleon circuit for a type 40? We haven't had one of them for years have we Dr Bert?"
We could use one off a type 41 but the threads are left handed and it only works on 425 line PAL
I like people with bluetooth headsets. It lets you play the "crazy or on the phone" game.
If you see somebody in the supermarket late at night having an argument with the carrots you have to guess if they are crazy or not before you are allowed to look for the headset.
