* Posts by Christopher Edwards

32 publicly visible posts • joined 19 May 2010

IP mapping hell couple sues

Christopher Edwards

Re: Law of unintended consequences

Maybe the null pointer wasn't a billion dollar mistake

Millions of people forget to cancel Apple Music subscription

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How attitudes change

Remember when MS gave IE away for free in the OS and crushed Netscape. People still hate MS for this. Including some l'apple fanbois.

Official: North America COMPLETELY OUT of new IPv4 addresses

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Re: @chris 17

If all traffic is forwarded to a proxy it doesn't matter if the internal and external addressing overlap. Proxy != NAT.

SourceForge goes TITSUP thanks to storage fault

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This is so bloody Inconvenient

I know SF is an utter utter utter piece of crap that peddles crap ware etc. etc. but does it also have to be down all the time. I mean they could peddle the adware AND have decent up time.

I have to use it after all. Hopefully after this SNAFU I'll have to use it less often.

$17,000 Apple Watch: Pointless bling, right? HA! You're WRONG

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"One friend of mine who worked out East (before his marriage, of course, you understand) said that his gold Rolex was the cheapest and most effective love potion he'd ever managed to find - and its absence, at times, the best contraceptive he ever had."

I'm so glad I'm not in your milieu. Those piss hats that form part of your circle of acquaintance whose sexual attractiveness is modulated by their wrist band must surely be some of the most pathetic creatures ever to have slivered their belly across the surface of the Earth.

Skin colour's irrelevant. Just hire competent folk on their merits, FFS

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Sigh.

What a sad article and sad debate this really is.

M0n0wall comes tumbling down as dev throws in the trowel

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Manuel Kaspar === Chap

That is all.

Windows 10 heralds the Minecraft-isation of Microsoft

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Kool Aid

Has been drunk.

The STEALTH Plug-in Hybrid: Audi A3 e-tron Sportback

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Sigh, keep up..,

Around 1/3 of grid power is non-fossil fuel and even if it were 100% fossil fuel an electric car would use half the carbon, and cost less than half the amount to run because the horribly inefficient internal combustion engine is so much worse at doing it's job than a fossil fuel generator, even if you include transmission losses.

As for the grid if and when more cars are in use this can easily dealt with, since cars spend most of the time sitting around the smart chargers can change the rate of charge in line with load on the grid and even availability of generation capacity, especially useful for sources such as wind that vary in availability.

Trundle, trundle, FLEEEP: iPhone 6 production grinds to halt

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Why does it have to be thin? What is this obsession? For the first time I understand what women must think of the fashion industry.

Make it have a longer battery life, make it waterproof, make it so that it doesn't break when you drop it, make it so that it charges wirelessly, make the screen bright enough to read in the brightest sunshine, make the compass work without that roll the ball around routine. You could even add some new features. But don't make it thinner as a priority. It is adequately thin already.

EasyJet wanted to fling me off flight for diss tweet, warns cyber-law buff

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Delays

Too may of the above comments seem to miss the point. WTF has this got to do with delays????

I'm not usually paranoid but are these posters shills?

It is to do with someone posting something on twitter, which is legal and not defamatory, but only negative and then being threatening with being denied boarding. If true - and I trust the reg - then this is absolutely damming. Like giving a bad review to a film and then not being allowed to go to the cinema.

That is all.

100 million self-driving cars will be sold globally in 2035 – report

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It really, really isn't going to happen

Driverless cars isn't going to happen in any meaningful way any time in the next 100+ years (during which time the car itself may be replaced) - apart from possibly on motorways.

I refer you to the speech recognition debacle, always 10 years away, always looks likes it works, never works well enough for people to actually use it. If it worked smartphones wouldn't have screens would they?

If driverless cars worked, cars wouldn't have steering wheels. Ain't gonna happen.

Bill Gates's barbed comments pop Google's broadband balloons

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Re: Intelligence!

You can't catch Malaria from the Internet.

Facebook: 'Don't worry, your posts are SECURE with us'

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PRISM

I think you'd have to be extremely naive to think that Facebook interaction is not able to monitored by the NSA et al. Leaving aside that there may be NSA backdoors put their by FB for the NSA at their insistence and FB wouldn't be able to legally refuse to comply or tell us about (or at least that what they'd be told - as for the actual legality...). Furthermore it's also eminently possible the security services have the root keys for all the trusted browser certificates and can use PRISM to slurp up and de-crypt the data.

It's clear from the Snowden leaks that the Five Eyes want to be able to intercept arbitrary traffic on the Internet and they have made considerable progress in doing so. Do you imagine they would limit themselves against intercepting HTTPS traffic?

Man who pulled gun during chess game surrenders to robot cop

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Coat

I suggest a new tactic R2

Let the Wookie win...

Tim Cook: Android version fragmentation is 'terrible for developers'

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WTF?

Re: Fail...

Erm...

The clue is in the D in WWDC

Court orders Visa partner to allow donations to WikiLeaks

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WTF?

Re: Good!

@AC: 22:05GMT: Erm... I think "law" is the keyword here isn't it?

AntiLeaks boss: We'll keep pummeling WikiLeaks and Assange

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"The system is a conspiracy theorist's wet dream"

Well it isn't a theory is it?

Munich's mayor claims €4m savings from Linux switch

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WTF?

70 to 46 support calls a month????

In an administration responsible for a city of 1.3 million.

Incorrect.

Microsoft beaten down 16pc on software sales to NHS

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Don't hobble the NHS

Since most profit making organisations choose to pay for software platforms when they could choose Free or Open source software do you not think there might be a case that there are some benefits to the MS platform in the round to large organisations?

Assange™ can request final hearing against Swedish extradition

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Temporary surrender?

"Besides, they'll probably just break the law and have him shipped out in secret from Sweden"

Just keep fighting that straw man Windrose. I noticed that in your first comment you also used the voice of your imagined opponent. Easier to do battle with a caricature is it?

You imagine that somehow that the justice system is susceptible to only errors of noise ("mistakes") and cannot systematically fail or be corrupted. That is the most extreme kind of magical thinking.

I can but speculate, however maybe if you'd read more of the leaked information that Assange has helped bring to light you might find the claims that he is being "got at" more credible.

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Yes

"huge, humiliating, multi-government stitch-up job"

Yes, that is exactly what I for one think it is. And it's not remotely funny. Where is the mention of it being hidden? It's not hidden, it's happening right in front of your face and you still can't see it, because far from being the smart and savy chap who laughs down his nose at people you are in fact a naif.

Do you *really* imagine the US are not going to try and extradite him from Sweden in way they could not from the UK?

Vivid commits to east coast rollout

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Facepalm

Eastern States

Far East? US East coast? Australian east?

Google's Native Client goes live in Chrome

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FAIL

Fugly

And that is why it will fail.

Apple preps MacBook Pro refresh

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Bootcamp battery life issues

Well unless they sort out the battery life issues under bootcamp I'm not interested,,,,

Anti-gay bus baron rages at being stuffed in Google closet

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FAIL

Well done!

I can't believe I had to get to the second page before someone pointed out that google are likely considerably more interested in things other than this bloke's opinions, however interesting he thinks they are.

If they messing with what's-his-name's google ranking then they must be spending 100,000's of man hours messing with everyone's. I wonder if Mr Stagecoach even knows what an algorithm is, let alone a search one.

Maybe he should read this - http://www.google.com/explanation.html

Google Native Client: The web of the future - or the past?

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Erm...

Which is exactly what Google are planning to do eventually according to this article!

Apple's iCloud runs on Microsoft and Amazon services

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Private cloud

The datacenter that Apple are building could run private a cloud, either Azure, or possibly AWS or both in conjunction or instead of the public cloud.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/private-cloud/default.aspx

Microsoft gives glimpse of Windows Server 8

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MS Server OS

In my experience whilst it's not always true of the client OS the server OS improves with every version.

2008 R2 is "built-on" windows 7, but in any case Windows 2008 was still a lot better than vista.

Native VM guest replication would be very useful indeed for hot backups without third party software.

So, how does your economy grow?

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Utter rot

Dinner table philosophy.

The commercial cuckoo hiding in the BBC's global mission

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Commercial TV and Radio

Whatever the arguments one way or another, I'd rather any arrangement without adverts to any arrangement with adverts.

My time is worth much more than commercial TV and radio are selling it for, and that's enough to win my support for the BBC,