Posts by Beebs 14 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jan 2010
"we the taxpayer get to pay this bloke's accommodation for an extra six months"
I think not since the article clearly states:
"Jones also received a three month sentence, to run consecutively from the firearms sentences, for failing to disclose the passcodes for his phones."
which means he's actually serving no additional time for this.
same old story with all of these services... the content available on smart TVs and consoles is always a fraction of what's available on PC.
When will the industry learn that restricting access to their content (while at the same time spending a fortune on marketing) simply drives people to piracy.
"the Go program ran slightly faster – though the C++ program was slightly shorter and easier to write because the C++ code uses automatic deletes and allocation instead of a cache."
So in fact the same set of optimisations were not applied to both the Go and C++ code, since memory caching is clearly an optimisation.
'We strongly suggest that you use different passwords for each service you sign up for'
Oh yes good practical advise. If I did this then I'd quickly have to start writing them down to remember them all. I mean I'm probably using up to about 10 different variants of user credentials across everything at the moment and I that still means a hell of a lot of duplication.
So which is the more cardinal security sin? Duplicating or documenting?
In case you hadn't noticed people are already buying movies on monthly flat rate from netflix or lovefilm, people have been paying for TV on a monthly flat rate for even longer from the satellite and cable companies. Changing the delivery mechanism can only increase the number of people willing to go legitimate and subscribe, a large percentage of those that don't would never have been willing to pay in the first place, even if it meant not getting the content.
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