Posts by Peter Galbavy 367 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Feb 2010
Pretty much everyone has moved away from MySQL and Postgres to SQLite for embedded work and Berkeley DB stopped being usefully developed for it's original lightweight use years ago.
Let's see ... take a perfectly good old fashioned hash-keyed DB and turn it into some monolithic embedded SQL bloatware and then try to punt it into the position that SQLite already occupies - small, fast, truly public domain and still maintained by a single person's vision - and then try to tell the world how great you new release is. Hmm.
It's not in the interests of large corporations to have competition from fast moving and innovative small businesses. Since (our democratically elected, yeah right) politicos are owned by these aforementioned corporations it's very easy to draw the line between legislation that favours companies that can absorb the overheads. Perhaps one way to address this is to distinguish further in law between Ltd/Plc companies and "t/a" ones - where you have a personal liability you also get additional get-outs.
Anecdote: A female friend of mine started her own management consulting company. Employed three women over the course of a few years who each got pregnant within a year of starting. Given the requirements, even in a small company, to offer a certain level of maternity benefits such as a job to return to etc. she almost went bust. She said that, even as a staunch feminist, she would never employ another woman of child baring age in her own company again. Irony was, of course, she then got herself pregnant too...
Trying to use a traditional database approach and index the hashes would fail big time. Think about how indexes work and the size of the index. If the rainbow tables are organised in any sensible binary-search way already you will not gain anything except creating an index multiple times the size of the data. This is specialised data so should already be organised in a specific way.
As for Keith T and using the "law"... I do hope that was irony. I really do. Else you get a big FAIL sticker on your exercise book.
I know, let's take some standards, apply them and patent it as novel. The majority of these nonsense patents are granted by, effectively corrupt, patent officials when it should be obvious that they are just the application of a well known and agreed technology. This is just one example that should have been rejected on m,ultiple ground, the first of which should have been the novelty test.
I remember when I was a kid and visiting Oz in 1981 for the first time since leaving a few years before (and not been back since) there was a ad on the buses which showed an ashtray full of butts and ash with the words "Kiss a non-smoker. Taste the difference."
The positive message has stayed with me and I have never felt the resentment that the article says we feel from being lectured to. Just think about the "You wouldn't steal a car..." DVD piracy crap. What effect has that had on many of us ?
No, not everything has to be HD capable but the likely market for this kind of device in today's consumer market is to add a browser to your flat screen TV. If it doesn't then support the native resolution of the screen via HDMI (and probably wirelessly) then people are not going to buy it in large enough quantities to make it viable.
"The Trust has not received any complaints on this issue and has no plans to look into it further at present"
I love the way organisations like the BBC Trust push back on complaints by claiming that there are no complaints. A bit like a supermarket trying to explain to irate customers why they now put organic dairy in one aisle and normal dairy in another by saying "customers have told us they prefer it this way" - "Oh Yeah? Who? Not us..."
If you know the "secret sauce" then you can make a complaint and one that is treated as such - but the secret sauce is just that, secret. Any other "complaints" to the BBC Trust are simply treated as "comments".
"These programs basically exploit the 1982 DoD specification that defined TCP/IP to have the IP address inherently contain computer location information."
Erm, well that statement pretty much renders the rest of your troll pointless. Any of us who know our TCP/IP "for real" know how much crap you speak.
On the subject of webcams spying on users; Someone was stupid enough to get caught doing it. They will be in trouble from their employers and the practice will continue.
In the UK your statutory rights are only with respect to the seller/supplier of the goods. If a manufacturer wishes to offer you a warranty then that is additional to your statutory rights and can contain pretty much any restirctions they like - within the terms of other acts such as the Unfair Contracts stuff.
If Intel want to say that the additional manufacturers warranty only applies to the original buyer then that;s their choice. As a consumer your only statutory recourse is only against the seller of the goods.
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