* Posts by Zot

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Anonymous hackers leak Scotland Yard-FBI conference call

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IT Angle

Do we know this is real?

Because they could just have made the whole recording themselves, to make them seem 'scarier'!

As they know the news channels will go for the scare stories every time.

Boffins demo time-warp cloaking device

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Can someone explain something for me

"The team estimates the effect could be stretched to a single second, long enough to allow code injection"

- does that mean into a cable or directly into RAM, or what? It's too brief to understand.

If it's hacking a data cable then surly all the parities and handshaking will catch it and return an error.

Thanks,

D.

Jonathan Ive is knighted in New Year Honours list

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When I opened my Mac Mini to upgrade the RAM...

...it was very well designed and compact. And I didn't realise there was an actual fan in there, as it was so quiet when running. An amazing piece of work, just soooo f**king expensive! :)

Well done Jon! You deserve it!

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Sony Tablet P split-screen Android fondleslab

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Meh

Should have called it....

... "The Sony Purse."

It looks clunky and unstable to use, and those black borders look 'old fashioned.'

But that's just my first impression though.

2011's Best... Premium Tablets

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~1500 new or updated apps every day on iPad...

...so that's quite impressive if you're looking for applications. In fact it's quite amazing how much developer support this thing's got.

It always seems to be the hardware that gets reviewed and compared, not the content.

GCHQ code-breaking challenge cracked by Google search

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GCHQ is based in Cheltenham.

Still peanuts though!

Fragged, fragged and thrice fragged! 20 years of id Software’s Doom

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386?

Of course they had to play it on a postage stamp size window, just to get an acceptable frame rate.

Falklands, Cardiff lie beneath track of rogue Phobos-Grunt

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Mushroom

I can eat Cobalt 57...

...for breakfast!!! Come on!

Materials on board the craft:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QJj15QGg4GE#!

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How digital audio ate itself and the music industry

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Unhappy

And they've banned my registration

What a bunch of children they are.

I've emailed the magazine about my disgust at their behaviour - not something I normally do but it provided great procrastination from doing some actual work here. : )

It doesn't matter how cheap the cable is, as long as it's built OK of course. USB carries digital data, it does not know what that data is, all it knows is that it ALL has to get to the destination. It uses handshaking and error detection, everything always gets through correctly, it simply doesn't behave like analogue cables at all, in any way!

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Unhappy

Comments have been deleted!

Not only does What Hi-Fi shove expensive crap with lying reviews, it deletes comments that disagree with them, mine and someone else's comment agreed with me have consequentially been deleted. So much for 'Your Opinion' - they've clearly been paid for good reviews, magazines need the hardware, the hardware needs the magazines. Eating themselves in neat little circles.

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Just did!

Thanks for the laugh.

Mysterious sat-pic China desert markings - EXPLAINED

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Look to me like...

Someone's been driving about in random directions harvesting the top soil.

Either that or it's test burns from satellite fired defense laser! : ) They need to sort out that joystick control though!

iOS upgrade swells iPhone battery-suckage grief

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I've heard that this was to do with Siri running and checking incoming audio whilst doing speech recognition all the time, listening out for the user to say 'Siri - make me a cup of tea' or whatever.

Turn Siri off so that you can only get it when holding the button. Also delete all the tasks from memory by double clicking the button then touch and hold the icons to bring up the delete icon.

What's potentially scary is that when speech recognition is on all the time, it could be converting the audio to text and sending it back to apple, basically transcribing everything being said in the room. But they wouldn't do that now would they. Would they? ; )

Apple's iPad not so shiny once you get it home

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It makes me wonder...

... about the people buying it and not using. Are they simply suckered in by the advertising, and don't normally use things like laptops and computers much anyway?

HSBC UK systems major outage

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"We're working hard"

Now that's funny. What they mean is they're simply doing their job, rather than swanning about on the internet and spinning in their swivel chairs!

Jobs: 'I'll spend my dying breath destroying Android'

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How do people expect him to behave?..

...like Jebus?

No... a ruthless business man and showman? Well, that's more like it.

Apple cofounder Steve Jobs is dead at 56

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They would probably look similar as...

...English designer Jonathan Ive create them.

Lancs shale to yield '15 years' of gas for UK

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Mushroom

Have fun igniting your tap water and poisoning the family all for free! Yay!

All in a tightly packed urban area? Burning tap water from leaked gas has already been on national news in the UK. They said they were going to stop...yeah, right, sure.

Deep inside Intel's 'Ivy Bridge' chip

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WTF?

No OpenGL?

I wonder why they went for DirectX instead, is it just an example?

Amazon's cloudy vid-tablet breaks cover: Not an iClone

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Yes

You can read it in daylight, it's always 'on,' and you can take it on holiday without the charger.

All the original Kindle needed was a touch screen, and faster update. This is looks like a misguided fondle slab shoe-in.

Hackers penetrate website for Nokia developers

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All those millions of Nokia phones didn't just vanish.

And business like the Windows 7 phone, although I don't know why, integration with office software I guess.

Hardware-happy HP has swallowed a Sun death pill

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Does that mean....

... the UK can't reap Autonomy's taxes, as they'll take it all to the US?

Hundreds of Brit pubs to offer free WiFi

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Right, but I prefer Merkuns...

..It sounds more like the way Bush Jnr. says it. "My fellow Merkuns!"

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Please stop using the word 'Brit'!

I personally think it sounds condescending.

Shall we start calling Americans - Amers?

That is all - having a bad day! : )

IBM PC daddy: 'The PC era is over'

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But you do very different things than the average Joe.

What percentage of computer owners are developers like ourselves? It's very small, and certainly not the biggest market for the consumer cash-tills.

For some, a windows PC desktop is a really expensive way to play 'Spider Solitaire' !

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They could still use a laptop, it's all about what they're used to.

Of course the boxes will still be around, because that's what people are accustomed to. But, I don't see it lasting. Laptops are the new PCs, and tablets are the new internet search devices, and social media connections.

Vinyl record players are still around, as well as those ancient CD players. But they are the "old person's" preferences.

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I know what you mean, but he was talking about 'Personal' computers...

...Not business workhorses - 'personal.' I'm typing this on a PC tower at home, but If I didn't need it for my work, I would probably have a laptop to save space. And if I didn't do much typing apart from the occasional message, I would probably only need a tablet. They're more convenient, and batteries last longer than a lot of laptops. And they don't burn my legs. : )

It's all about the general public (you know, the plebs) and what they're ultimately trending towards. Do they really want a desk, taking up space?

Will the looters 'loose' their benefits?

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Looting the internet

> " "Oh, but that's different" will be the reply."

> You trying to defend looters or say both are wrong - it's not clear?"

They are both wrong and I'm pointing out that looting on the Internet is the same as in an actual shop. It's all about 'knowing' that they won't get caught.

I sell my own software on the internet and it feels like my shop is being looted all the time.

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Looting the internet all the time

An increasing number of people loot films, music and software off the internet without even caring, because they think it's highly unlikely they'll be prosecuted for it.

I wonder how many people on this forum loot on the Internet, and consider it as theft?

"Oh, but that's different" will be the reply.

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Chinese lecturer demands his students acquire iPads

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Childcatcher

Must be getting kickbacks from that kidney donor company... ; )

Or... a bad tutor, and a lazy one at that.

These things are far too expensive for students, if he's so successful at business then why doesn't he buy them all one himself!? hmm?

Adobe releases lengthy list of Apple Lion woes

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WTF?

Carbon is not available in 64 bit programs at all.

...so if you want your users to access a 64 bit address space, you'll have to ditch Carbon completely.

And, if for example you want to run Apple's Logic music workstation in 64 bits, you'll not have access to the huge library of plug-ins you've collected over the years, because Apple have decided to drop the 32 bit bridge from Lion.

I think they've taken this ditching backward compatibility thing a little too far this time, that's all.

But then they never really cared for any software that wasn't written by themselves.

Phone-hack backlash BBC in embarrassing headline gaffes

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Spelling checkers are not grammar checkers

I think there's a problem with being too reliant on spelling checkers. These errors all pass a spell check, so they don't even bother to check by eye for grammatical problems.

I heard a guy on BBC 4 a few days ago talking about the 'atrocious lack of English pronounciation' around today. Oh dear.

Is Anon ready for the social network?

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Big Brother

They say there's a 'lot of ignorance out there'

But they could at least spell check their title page! What's a "tpeople' anyway.

Music on plastic discs still popular, apparently

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16 bit uncompressed, and good D to A hardware to read them.

But people don't care about sound quality any more. Perhaps it's all those cars out there with CD players in them that keep the sales going.

The concept of a disc to play music is certainly the easiest thing to understand, and not everybody has the ability with all that fiddling about with 'puters and such! : )

Google bypasses admin controls with latest Chrome IE

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Admin wrongs

So this makes Admin rights completely useless then? Why can't Microsoft get things right for once.

Apple iMac 27in

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Coffee/keyboard

About the keyboard.

You're showing the US keyboard. The UK one has no hash key, and the enter key is seriously tiny and squashed up at the edge. My shiny new iMac's keyboard went onto a shelf almost immediately, and in went a Microsoft wireless USB keyboard. I suppose the keyboard's OK for the occasional email or internet search, but as a daily workhorse, forget it.

Apple ignores dozens of iCloud domains

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I haven't typed an actual domain name for a long time...

...unless it's a banking service of course. Just type 'apple' into the domain name bar, and you'll find the site with the highest rank - guess who. Even with an error it'll still give the correct suggestion.

Entrants called for 80s-era games coding contest

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Alert

4 hours?

Because it's old timer stuff then they think it's easy.

If they're using old hardware as well, then they'll need to use an interrupt to change the colour palette halfway in the screen for more colours and trigger a VSYNC at the bottom to draw those sprites....by hand coding the sprite drawing code efficiently of course - but do I have to delete it first or just print spaces around it, and what happens if it goes over the background, hmm then I'll have to XOR the pixels on....etc....etc... now on to the sound, what do you mean I can't use samples!...

Facebook Data Center: If it won't run ARM, what will it run?

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"If if.." ?

Smelling pistake!

Dixons whacked by profit warning

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People go into PC world / Currys to check out goods, then...

... go home and buy it on-line.

It's a place to browse, feel the weight, press a couple of buttons, then buy it 10%+ cheaper somewhere else.

Amazon jumps the gun on free clouds

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Pint

No they don't.

It's another example of a solution trying to find a problem.

Google adds tool to block shabby, dirty, vulgar sites from search results

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File sharing sites should be blocked from search.

Although a much debatable subject - as a developer myself I'd like Go-ogle to exclude all file sharing sites from it's search engine. Starting with the massive Rapidshare nightmare.

Currently it's almost as if Google agrees with piracy.

Punters 'pooh-pooh video on demand'

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I HATE adverts...

...so I rarely live TV. When I do it's either the BBC or a film channel. Also they've started to synchronise advertising across many channels, so what's the point of even flicking through them.

UK tech retailers are rubbish

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But perhaps

People go in the shops just to see what something actually looks like and if it's a TV then I think that's really important.

I go in have look around then go home and buy it on the Net!

Fanboi primer: How to move your iTunes from PC to Mac

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Badgers

50,000 tunes, you must be rich!

How can you possibly afford so many songs!?

Oh wait. Time to ring the feds... .. .

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