Posts by druck 4205 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jun 2007
+Comment: It's almost impossible to expect home users en masse to learn even the most basic configuration tasks. There's no way Joe Sixpack is going to run a firmware upgrade and navigate a bunch of menus to find out where the remote management check-box is.For that reason, it's also unfair to threaten blocking services to users who don't know what's going on.
It's perfectly fair. If the police pull you over for having an mechanically unsafe vehicle on the public highway, you have to get it fixed or it will be impounded. If you can't fix it yourself, you take it to a garage. It should be the same with devices using the public internet.
Everyone with small children is guilty of packing too much shit these days.
I just managed to get my 17 month old, pram, high chair, travel cot, bedding and a weeks luggage for the wife and the self in to my RX-8 (Fiesta sized interior according to the courtesy car I was given by the insurance company once).
I took the opportunity to take the car for a long trip while the fuel prices are low (the RX-8 does 20mpg on a good day), and that we'll be back in the Mondeo in 7 months due to child no.2 being on the way. You can get plenty of shit in the Mondeo, even if it doesn't handle as well.
We've found a big drawback with key-less start in our Mondeo Titanium X; after having the tyres changed my wife was driving back up the A1 at night when it started raining, the automatic wipers came on, something flew off in to the darkness and the wipers and axillary electrics went off. She stopped on the hard shoulder and turned the engine off to investigate, it then wouldn't turn back on - no key present.
It had been the keys which flew off! The mechanic had left them on the windscreen, which was close enough to start the car, but with recessed wipers, not noticeable from inside. As my wife never normally had to take her keys out from her handbag to start the car, and it started, she didn't realise anything amiss. I'd come in to work by train, so I had to get a lift from a colleague to rescue her with my keys from over an hour spent freezing wet hard shoulder on a winters night.
Although I blame Ford for a stupid design that lets this happen, I made sure that the garage paid for the replacement car and house keys. I also got them to change their policy of leaving the keys on the windscreen, and now explicitly hand them back to the customer.
Given that some twunt posted on Facebook he was about to make an armed raid on Tesco, someone may be that stupid.
Chris Miller wrote:
The other requirement is a good deal of unoccupied area to the west of the site.
To the east, so that you get a boost from the rotation of the earth. Unless you want a hazardous retrograde orbit, with things coming at you head on at up to 36,000 miles per hour. Only the Isreali's have had to do that so far due to unfriendly nations to the east, which might construe a launch over their territories as an attack.
The introduction of the dot word idiocy has put so much money on ICANNs pockets, that they can carry on with the lack of accountability regardless, and throw money at lawyers to make any problems go away. Under these conditions, they cannot be allowed to take over the IANA - full scale reform is needed, or disbandment.
Valerion wrote:
They could go, what, 10 years without oil revenue on existing cash reserves? Then they'd have nothing. No economy at all. And we could ignore them forever.
You think they'd sit back and wait for that to happen? Or perhaps use the cash reserves to fund fellow wahhabists in their creation of an an Islamic State, taking over all the oil producing countries of the Middle East and north Africa?
Or is that what is already happening?
The bit I find hard to swallow is Lenovo support denied the malware was installed by them and wanted to charge $120 to remove it. They are truly deserving of this class action.
AC wrote:
I'm probably going to get flamed for this but did Lenovo install this kind of stuff before it went Chinese?
Lenovo have always been Chinese, IBM sold them it's PC business, and they certainly didn't do this sort of thing.
The Acorn Risc PC, which was heavily used in education, featured not one but two replaceable CPU cards, back in 1994. The first card was the native processor, which grew from a 33MHz ARM6 to a 287MHz Strong ARM. The second card was an optional x86 processor for hardware PC emulation, and grew from a 486/33 to a 586/133.
But as with anything that has replaceable components, eventually the underlying glue runs out of steam. In the Risc PC's case the motherboard's 16MHz bus between processors, memory and I/O was the bottleneck, and meant faster processors couldn't be fully utilised. The Kinetic upgrade featured a 300MHz StrongARM with its own fast RAM directly accessible, but I/O was still crippled.
Well when the BBC allows one person, Roger Harbin, decide that scientific consensus for man made global warning is so strong, the BBC can be absolved from it's responsibility of balanced reporting, then what hope does any real science have on the channel? We can only look forward to the BBC trust backing to the hilt more sensationalist drivel like the mega tsunami, and disregarding any evidence to the contrary.
The plan was to create a sail that would weigh just 110 pounds (around 50 kg) and furl to “the size of a dishwasher”. When deployed, the 0.005 mm thick sail...
What the hell is it made of to be so thin, but have such a large mass? Either it includes the sails support structure (massively hefty for such a small thrust), or it unfurls to quite a bit bigger than a dish washer.
The only compelling promotion for me at the moment is Tesco fuel save. Taking 8p off the already dropping petrol price, got me fuel for under a pound a litre for the first time in donkeys years. What a novelty seeing the litre counter go up faster than the pence counter on the pump!
CheesyTheClown wrote:
Let's not forget that Windows CE is also a real-time operating system...
Not on anyone else's planet! It's just a port of a very old Windows NT kernel, and about as real time as a brick. All Windows CE based phones had to have a separate processor to run the phone stack.
If you want whining, just take a look at the comments at the end of the article about the update to the BBC News App.
Akamai also found that Apple’s mobile devices accounted for 39 per cent of cellular web requests, with Android Webkit trailing at 31 per cent – defying the ratio you would infer from Android's dominant sales figures.
I'd guess that Akamai cache Apple's iTunes store, but don't cache Google's Play Store?
