Posts by phuzz 6734 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Feb 2010
It's worth noting that the artificial limit of commercial GPS 1,900 km/h AND over 18,000m.
Of course, you can get round those limits either by constructing your own receiver, or asking a supplier very nicely, like the Copenhaagen Suborbital guys did:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/bypassin-us-gps-limits-for-active-guided-rockets/
It would be interesting to know if GLONASS also shares those limits.
Because Amazon would drop the PirateBay in a heartbeat.
There's a difference between something which is entirely legal in the US, where Amazon are based, (which presumably GreatFire are), and something which is illegal AND directly hurts Amazon's bottom line (they'd rather you paid to download/buy stuff from them, rather than do it for free).
A weather FOREcast implies that it's predicting what the weather will be like in the future.
Quite handy if you want to know if you need to wear a coat etc.
That said, the larger display of a phone or computer allows one to see if it's going to rain all day, or just at the times when one will be walking outside, a bit more useful than a single icon on a watch.
The Russians have enough Pu238 knocking around to sell some to the Chinese for their lunar program*, why not buy it from them?
Oh yeah, national pride. As my mum always says, pride always comes before a fall.
* Source:
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http://www.atomic-energy.ru/news/2012/06/21/34286&act=url
MOM is really using a Hohmann transfer orbit, which is a German 'invention', but really it's just doing the maths based on the work done by Newton and Huygens and others.
I'm not sure anybody can claim that they invented certain low energy orbital transfers, it's more about discovering what was already dictated by the laws of physics.
I did use to work with a credit card processing system from Commidea which stored all the credit card details (except the CVV, this was about 10 years ago, so CVV wasn't in wide use then) in plain text. It would then upload the transaction details via FTP (not SFTP) over it's own private ISDN line.
One of my jobs was to pop into the server room in the morning, open up the processing software, and print out the last days transactions, so our accounts team could verify they'd all gone through correctly. Of course, the full card number and expiry date were on the print out.
Funnily enough Commidea pulled the product after a while.
Not everyone knows, why don't they have an SD card slot?
I'd guess cost myself, which might be the case with this phone, but that wouldn't explain the Nexus 5 not having one.
I'd guess the iPhone doesn't have one because Apple prefer to keep things as simple as possible, after all, selling smartphones that the average person could use is how they got such a big chunk of the market in the first place.
You can put the (not-really-very-) superhub into modem mode, and use your own router. I hear that makes it much easier to live with. We don't use wifi much in our house so it's shortcomings aren't so apparent.
Not content with archiving ALL the internet*, they also store pretty much any data they can get their hands on, including in this case books, which they digitise with rather funky book scanning machines.
From a mention of "our library partners" in their press release/blog post I suspect they were helping a library scan old books.
More info here: http://archive.org/scanning
* all the internet their spiders can reach anyway
Increasing the length of the key by one bit, will double the time needed to perform a brute-force attack.
So, in your example a 513 bit key would require 11 months to crack.
A 514 bit key would require 22 months to crack and so on, a 522 bit key would require 5632 months (over 450 years).
I'll leave it up to you to work out how much more secure a 1024 bit key is, assuming that the cypher can only be attacked using brute force, but one starts hitting 'end-of-the-universe' type timespans quite quickly.
And remember, I'm not the FBI, and I'm not asking you for a budget.
I can't be the only person wanting a smaller screen can I?
A smaller screen means a smaller phone, so it would fit in my pocket easier, and drain a little less battery (although a smaller phone would have a smaller battery).
I don't need more than a 4" screen on my phone personally.
Oh, and whatever the make, it needs to be supported by Cyanogenmod.
The trouble is, although a cat might do a good job of scaring away mice and rats, some of them also do a pretty good job of bringing half dead mice back to the house from outside, where they have just enough life left to run and hide behind the fridge before dying and gently decomposing over the next few weeks...
That said, I like cats, something about their petty cruelty to lesser beings appeals to the BOFH in me.
80/6Mb is waaaay more than you need for remote desktop. Even VNC will work on less than 1Mb each way, RDP is much more efficient than VNC.
Instead of a static IP, you could use one of the dynamic DNS services available, or just write a script which checks your public IP and emails you when that changes, which won't be that often if our VM account is anything to go by.
I get a bunch of spam txts and the odd call and it's all about PPI claims.
Surely not enough people bought PPI in the first place to be miss-sold it, to make it worthwhile trying to cash in on claiming it?
And can't you claim compensation yourself, rather than needing an outside company to do it?
Draytek make good kit for the small office market, and they release regular firmware updates even for their older kit.
Mind you, they are pricier than an el cheapo netgear router, but you do get what you pay for...
(I don't work for Draytek, but I've used a lot of their kit and generally enjoyed the experience)
It's not just Citroen's, my Peugeot* puts the buttons for the electric windows not on the doors, near the actual windows (what a typically un-french, non-romantic idea!). No, the controls for the windows are in the middle of the car, just behind the handbrake.
Of course, this means every time I get into another car I fruitlessly scrabble next to the handbrake before realising that the buttons are next to the window.
I suppose I should count myself lucky that the handbrake is in the middle of the car, not on the roof or something.
*Peugeot - an impossible word for a dyslexic to spell.
Oddly, both my home machine, and now my work one both got stuck after rebooting on "Installing updates, 32% done". After a hard reset they both sorted themselves out.
I'm not sure how long it would take if I'd not updated Win 7 for a year, but I was updating some Ubuntu 10.04 machines this week that hadn't been updated for about a year, and there was well over 100Mb of updates for them.
Not only that, they're a Class A now, so according to the government, as dangerous as heroin. Personally I listen to the advice from the government's drugs advisory board, even if the government doesn't.
I don't think Anon was suggesting it was legal to pick mushrooms, just free and easy.
Although until recently the Sainsburys ones had the interesting quirk that if you finished scanning and just jammed your card in without first pressing 'Pay now' and then 'credit card', it would get stuck in a loop of complaining about your card.
They've fixed it now, but I can't see why they can't just assume that when you stick your card in then you've finished shopping and are ready to pay.
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