Posts by namelessphil

This Dianamania is a slur on Jobs

Jobs may not have changed the world, but he did more to improve MS Windows than anyone in the world.

Apple iMac 27in

Curtains?

Need to do music, architecture, astronomy, design, movies, photography - buy a Mac; it's the industry standard

Need do do accounts - buy a PC; it runs Sage.

Spy app firm charges £1.86 to remove its software

money money money

I always knew the whole virus/malware industry was a scam. Release a worm then sell a cure, and release a virus. It can't be that hard to make it difficult for the hackers.

Look at the outcry MS recently provoked among the AVS community when they released a free and easy malware fixer.

There's money in tham thar infected folk.

Sussex police try new tactic to relieve snappers of pics

Not really...

Many pros already shoot "dual": The camera makes a RAW file and also saves a lower res medium quality JPEG for thumbnail/preview/mock-up purposes. These JPEGs could be uploaded to "the cloud" as a kind of anti-tamper insurance.

Does any one know how you'd stand if you refused to relinquish the hardware because, say, you have reasonable grounds to believe the officer is technically inept, knows less than you about the equipment and may therefore damage it or the data on it?

Can they use force to physically remove the equipment from your grip? Presumably they'd have to arrest you; can they arrest you for refusing to relinquish, or relaxing your grip on, the equipment?

Wikileaks publishes encrypted 'insurance' file

I just downloaded that file (by the time the key is released the file may have "vanished").

The file modification date is Sat 1st Jan 2011; is that significant? Am I paranoid? Are Wikileaks feeling threatened? Who's threatening them? How devastating will Wikileaks' claiming on this insurance be? For whom?