Re: Android browser only?
Nope, and not Chrome either.
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As far as I can tell, both the Yes and No campaigns are both lying as much and as often as possible.
The only thing you can tell for sure at this point, is that half of Scotland is going to be really pissed off on Friday morning. I'm just not sure which half.
Well there's the basis for an article; What have the LTO group promised in the past, and have they delivered?
As far as I know they've always managed to hit the capacities and speeds that they've planned for LTO-2 to 6, but maybe not the release dates.
I guess that's almost where Amazon Glacier is aiming for.
Currently it's supposed to be business only, but I'm sure you could get them to archive your data to tape by throwing money and a bit of pretending.
(edit, looks like I'm not the first to have that idea:
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-use-amazon-glacier-as-a-dirt-cheap-backup-solut-1460814873)
I'd agree, the Apple Watch isn't going to appeal to anyone who doesn't want to buy an iPhone, so I'd assume that the potential market for smart watches that work with Android would be larger.
That said, the Andriod market covers the cheap end of the mobile phone market, and people who have a cheap Android phone are unlikely to want a smart watch.
Personally I like my Pebble, which works with both, although Apple have just pushed them out of the iOS market, and Android Wear has started to push them out of the Android market so I'm not sure what their chances are now. Sometimes being the first to market isn't an advantage.
I had to clean some malware off a clients computer yesterday which had dumped text, html, and .lnk files across many directories claiming to have encrypted all of the files, and offering a website through which you could pay a ransom.
Thing is, we couldn't find *any* files which were encrypted. It looks like the whole plan was just to scare people into paying the ransom without even checking their files.
"'I stuck a 128GB memory card in my Note 3.' Good stuff, and miles better than tw*tify, but how does that work when you receive a call, use your Note 3 as a satnav?"
If it's anything like my phone, it either turns the volume down, or pauses the current track, which is a lot more useful than a standalone music player that you have to scramble to turn the volume down on when you receive a call.
VM have the advantage that in many areas they offer the fastest home internet connection available.
They seem to manage to cock something up like this about once a month, which is about par for the course for all of the home ISPs I've used over the years (except Be*, who _used_ to be fantastic).
You get a semi-static IP (changes every few years), the bundled Superhub is crap, but can be put in modem only mode, and they charge you more if you don't get a phone line off them.
So there you go, VM, not great, but not so bad I can be bothered to switch providers (and who is an alternative?)
Why not offer an iPlayer subscription service? Pay £X and get access to everything that is licensed for your country, maybe 24 hours after it's released so local broadcasters (ABC in this case) can get their viewers.
BBC Worldwide have probably spent time and money trying to reduce piracy of their shows, which will earn them no more money than they do now. Instead put time and money into finding new ways to sell stuff to people who clearly want to view it.
There's a difference between pirating content because it's the only way you'll get to watch it, and pirating it because you don't want to pay. I have sympathy for the former, but less so for the latter.
What exactly alarmed you about Dropbox?
After all, the entire point of it is to take your files, and upload (and sometimes download) them to the internet, so the minimum set of permissions you can give it would still be full R/W on your personal files, and network access.
You either have to trust Dropbox with your personal information, or not use it.
"Law enforcement officials would be able to get ahold of this token from a suspect's PC while hackers might be able to obtain it through more nefarious means, either malware or phishing."
The difference between hackers and law enforcement breaking into your phone only differs in viewpoint, not in the methods they use. (Although it's probably cheaper to hire some skiddy to install a RAT rather than pay some security company to rent the software to do exactly the same)
The FX-8320E has an RRP of $146, at that price on NewEgg I can't find ANY i5's, you have to spend $179 to get a i5-4440 which is a quad core, with no Hyperthreading. Even if it's slow and hot, it's still the cheapest eight threaded CPU you can buy right now.
(And Intel have been pretending for years that HT is as good as second core, so I can't blame AMD for trying the same tactic)
For gaming you're still better off with fewer, faster cores, so Intel is still the way to go for a gaming box.
I'm still waiting for AMD to be properly competitive again, it'll be good for us consumers to have the old days of AMD vs Intel again.
Mind you, $150 for 8 cores is great value if you've got a heavily multi-threaded workload, I don't think Intel sell anything with that many threads near that price.
I remember learning a few useful skills and tricks* back when I did my MCSA (back in the XP/2003 era), but most of those were just things that the instructor shared, rather than anything on the curriculum.
Mind you, I wasn't paying for the course so I was happy. I was wondering about renewing my certs, but my current employer is mainly linux based, so it's not much use to me now. Do employers still looks for Microsoft certifications any more?
* eg, Windows key+e will open an Explorer window on pretty much any version of windows, handy that, and much quicker than finding My Computer.
Or possibly it was an employee who's been collecting these pictures as they came across them, and then they (the employee) got hacked?
I'm sure that there's a few stashes of private pics that have been collected by unscrupulous employees at cloud firms and mobile phone networks etc.
He's talking about renewing his license, not the sort of situation a cooling off period is required for.
I'm not sure, but I'd assume that the time it would take to get a firearms license in the UK is probably far longer than the cooling off period in any US state. Over here a gun is a privilege, not a right.
If you wandered into the centre of Cheltenham at a weekend, and took a picture of the crowds shopping, you'd probably be taking a picture of a GCHQ employee, or the pictures I took at my friend's wedding, which included his parents who worked at GCHQ. Nieth of these is likely to be illegal, because it's not obvious from the photo what those people do.
However, if you take a photo of the same person as they're walking through the door into the doughnut, it's pretty obvious what they do for a living, and thus they're open to blackmail, etc.
I'm guessing that's why the police can't give a snappy one line answer about which photos are legal.
I read a comment yesterday (possibly here?) saying that from the orbit it looked like the final stage had burned perfectly, but in the wrong direction, which is a plausible error to make.
The trouble is, to get back into the correct orbit they're now going to need twice the delta-v of the final stage, or some fancy orbit shenanigans.
"Wait.... wouldn't they have video on a destruction engineering run?"
They've been using a drone copter to get cool footage recently. I can see why they didn't want to send that up if they were expecting an explosion.
Also, they tend to take a few days to release footage even when they do get some, not sure why, but i suppose it's their prerogative.
I'm assuming they're referring to this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
Given that the US claims a policy of "Innocent until proven guilty", shooting a US citizen, in a foreign country where they have no official jurisdiction, was rude at best, and probably illegal under US law.
Of course in most countries, if the government does something it's legal by default, but Americans are weird about stuff like that.
Possibly they're referring to al-Awlaki's son, who was also a US citizen and who was killed two weeks later, and doesn't seem to have any connections with terrorism beyond his father.
When Valve first released Steam the only reason most people installed it was because it was necessary to run Half Life 2 (but oh how we grumbled, especially those of us still on dial-up).
Valve could do the same to drive uptake of SteamOS. Personally I can't see Half Life 3 (or L4D3 or whatever) being a Linux exclusive, but even a one week exclusive would drive a massive increase in users.
Also, just by releasing games on Linux Valve are helping the platform, whether it's passing bug fixes and performance enhancements upstream, or just raising the profile of penguin gaming. A lot of the most used game engines (eg Unity) make it pretty simple to export to Linux (and OSX) as well as Windows now.
At the last few gigs at the O2 in Bristol* that I've been to the bouncers have taken to shining torches at anyone recording with the flash on, and then going to have a word if the punter doesn't notice.
Mind you, they had never managed to catch the guy having a crafty spliff in the middle of the crowd last time I was there.
* not a particularly good venue, but it gets the big bands, so...
Is there *any* race car that can do any of that?
If you're looking for an electric vehicle to carry lots of people, dogs and cargo, at least compare your current car to something like this: http://www.smithelectric.com/smith-vehicles/models-and-configurations/
Which doesn't have the range you need, but can probably do everything else. Unlike a race car.
The scary bit is that Philae (the lander), doesn't have any thrusters, so it's landing will be more of a fall. Fortunately the comet's gravity is pretty weak, but to get an accurate landing the boffins are going to have to map it's (presumably wonky) gravity field, and take into account the pressure from any out-gassing from the surface and the solar wind.
Yup, it behaves as a USB keyboard. In our environment we use them to log into the more sensitive systems (that contain customer info etc.), and it's a case of typing your password, then press the button on the Yubikey whereupon it outputs a string of characters followed by a carriage return and you're logged straight in.
Each user has a unique yubikey, and they're so small they easily fit on a keyring.
I have a Oculus rift DK2. I do not have a facebook account. I can guarantee that there is absolutely no facebookery in the Rift.
I'm not entirely sure how facebook *could* put their oar in to be honest. Unless they only allowed sales through facebook (which is not currently the case).
When I first heard about facebook buying Oculus I was pissed off as well, as I'd just given them money, but there is really nothing to worry about. and if they ever do start inserting floating banner ads or something equally stupid, then vote with your wallet and buy one of the other VR headsets that will undoubtedly be coming out in the next few years.
All the security features in the world can't protect users from themselves, if your want to allow a program such as Dropbox, then you're also allowing enough access for a malicious program to steal your files and upload them somewhere else, no matter that either program can't directly access RAM or peripherals.
Of course, the user still needs to install/run the malware, but you can always find someone willing to click "Allow" for the promise of porn/money/free things etc.
"Senior managers at "money service businesses" face up to two years imprisonment and an unlimited fine if their neglect leads to money laundering or terrorist financing activities*"
* Unless they happen to be HSBC or one of the other large firms that we play golf with while laughing at the plebs, in which case we'll just fine them a bit. Don't want to risk that cushy consultancy gig lined up with them after you leave HMRC eh?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20673466