Posts by Salts 480 publicly visible posts • joined 9 May 2013
How about if you are logged in to gmail or any other Google product or signed into another service using a Google+ account and also using Google DNS? I can imagine they could correlate the data in that instance. However, it is data and that is valuable to Google, even if they have no use for it now, they may find a use later, costs them very little in the scheme of things.
My mum when she was in her 60's decided she needed a computer now at 76, she is quite comfortable with them, but the old man refused to have anything to do with computers. Then a few years ago we bought mum an iPad and he started playing a few games(dominos, sudoku etc.) ended up we had to buy him his own iPad for the sake of family harmony. Now it's not just games, it news, sport and he is learning more everyday, he is 79. Interesting thing he has a friend who is very ill and can't get out, but has an iPad, online dominos I believe is being experimented with, FaceTime is also useful.
Now they only watch TV when the iPads need recharging:-)
With regards to monitor power, modern monitors can be had, that have low power requirements http://www.aoc-europe.com/PDF-Generator/aoc.pdml.php?uid=233& I should have been a bit more specific on small solar.
When you have seen almost $30,000 spent on a solar array to power $4,000 worth of twenty, second hand dell desktops... :-(
A Rose is still a Rose...
Will check this out tomorrow on my test setup, this is good news, why? Crappy old hardware! Takes less than 4 watts, the RPi as a server can easily handle a class of 15 with Khan Academy Lite, with the RPi also working as a desktop client with modern monitors, the implications for village schools in the back of beyond, running on small solar arrays, other renewables or limited shore power, with battery and inverters are fantastic.
Yes, fan of RPi, for a good reason, you do also realise that not all the world has affordable energy, never mind modern computers, but education is important for all?
Name = who cares?
Old = does it work and is it affordable and reliable?
$2 = don't give a shit about coding, not even close to that bridge.
Hmmm, that does seem rather aggressive for me, oh well, let it stand :-)
I am no big fan of MS, but don't dislike them either, though this is not an altruistic measure by MS, it is about their customers trust in their product, however the result is the same. A fight against just giving it all away. I have a feeling in public MS will win this one, behind the scenes will be interesting, but not something I or most people will ever know about, at least in the short term.
Just goes to show, people with a lot of money are not as clever as they think :-)
Agent, got a part for you and need a Pic of your tits
Star, oh got loads of them, bit busy doing star things, can I share it with you on my very secure cloud thingy.
Agent, sounds great, email me the details, but make sure you delete it later.
Star, Oh, well of course, (eyebrows narrow, in deep thought), exit stage left ....
nope, seems RPi mod has locked the forum, probably a good idea, judging by the 16 posts, which range from well argued to tin foil hat.
Anyone can make guesses at what has happened, but the truth is probably,
1. Hardkernel, we have worked hard on a clone of RPi, can we buy x of this SoC
2. Broadcom, yes, price will be = z
3. Hardkernel, we can't afford that price
4. Broadcom, ok if you buy 10x we can give you this price
5. Hardkernel, we can't afford that risk
6. Broadcom, sorry can't help
Perhaps RPi could offer to sell the quantities required by Hardkernel, but maybe RPi have T&C's that say they are not allowed.
The issue is probably better understood if we knew where the first batch of Broadcom SoC that Hardkernel used to develop their product, came from, was it Broadcom, a distributor getting rid of stock, bankrupt stock...
I could be wrong, but in the last few years RPi has pretty much followed the Arduino model - 'if you want to make it carry on, but don't call it Arduino'
I visit their website almost daily and they always IMHO are 'on message' with their mission about improving education in computer science and related subjects, the hardware whoever supplies it, is just another vehicle for this.
More links in this than I could be bothered to follow:-)
It's a bit late here, but really technology diverted and used differently to what the inventor envisioned, shocking, stop press :-)
It could, or could not be true that the first human to discover fire, really did mean for all to use it too cook food and keep warm, but the fact it is also a good means of torture, destruction…
Many disruptive technologies, were never intended to be used the way the inventor envisioned them, they are just the genie out of the bottle.
I will probably get the iPhone 6 in October, I will drop back to my old iPhone 4 sell the iPhone 5s and use the money to buy the 6.
My reasons are simple, resale value of the 5s is good, therefore it costs less to keep up with the latest iPhone. This effort, affords me(normally) a little better battery life, a slightly faster phone, a slightly more reliable phone, a phone in warranty and lots of other little bits.
Waiting until October, is to ensure, those little bits I mention are true, smartphones are smartphones, the brand you choose is, just the brand you choose, for the reason you choose. For me the differentiator is resale value and the iPhone and Mac products in general are clear winners in that. The buy in cost is higher, but once in, the running costs and feature set are about the same as any other product on the market, if not, well whats another year, did not miss them before, so the wait is no big deal.
El reg 7 days a week, now I will never get any work done.
Back on topic.
Having to drink instant at the moment, due to house move, filter coffee machine damaged in transit, can't find the Moka pot, too lazy to filter by hand!
Next purchase is an aeropress when I can get to a country that sells them.
The best filter coffee I have come across is from Lidl, gold packaged Arabica, don't have any left to give you the brand name, but it is really good and the price is fantastic IMHO, when I had my pubs people used to always complement the coffee(cafetière served) if that is anything to go by.
Please don't take this the wrong way.
Just because both you and me have worked with projects that fail, does not mean this one will be the same.
projects succeed, despite, lack of funds, seen it done and admired the results
What could go wrong, same as every project, but could it work?
Can they deliver? not long to wait, October, if not this year, question answered.
The real question is, what happened if it does go right?
FACT, can go F*&k themselves and the police should not be so closely linked with what is really a lobby group of interested companies.
On the other hand, you do have to be some sort of dip shit, that when arrested, you carry on doing it. From the link in the article:-
"But Wolverhampton Crown Court heard on Thursday (August 21) that despite his arrest, Danks continued to copy, sell and distribute illegal copies of films.
He even enlisted the help of his sister’s ex-boyfriend, Michael Bell, of Birmingham Road, Aldridge, who uploaded films on his behalf."
The exam is proctored, with no access allowed to anything but the command line of the exam server instance, which means only the distros installed doc's, no web browsing, pen or paper(that seems odd) no text web browser, no emacs web browsing, no mobile no ear piece, clear desk etc.
I agree not really engineer, but the proctoring at least means you can have a bit more confidence that the person waving the certificate has probably done the exam.
Are they saying that if I go to a match and capture a goal on my smartphone they own the copyright?
Or are they saying if I capture something they transmit and retransmit it I break copyright?
If the first I may break terms and conditions, but good luck to them trying to pin it down to me and even more trying to get a judgement that makes them not look like the tossers they are.
If it's the second, well ok can see their point, but still good luck to them.
The winners of this are the people with the contract to provide the technology to 'try' to stop it.
@AC 14 hours ago
Not sure of why the down votes for a statement of fact that you benefit and point out how others could also benefit from cloud services.
Without cloud services it is unlikely we would have edX, Coursera and the likes, which IMHO are a great benefit to many people.
I have major doubts about cloud services, but that they work(most of the time) for a lot of people is certainly not one of them.
IDC "Overall HDD unit demand will likely remain relatively flat through 2018, but industry revenue should grow modestly, exceeding $40 billion by 2017"
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=248130
So not just the cost, who the F&*^ is making them and that amount of drives should show up, even if the Yottabyte is the maximum expected size over x years, a bit investigation should show huge amounts of HDD capacity going some place, GCHQ, NSA or any other country for that matter.
I tried the quiz, bollocks as you would expect,
https://research.ipsosinteractive.com/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dll
one question was
I prefer to contact friends by text message than by phone call
(e.g. by SMS, BBM, iMessage)
Now the answer to that is, if I am running late for the pub I send a text, if I want to talk to them I call them, if they are overseas I will normally use VoIP because of cost, I may email them ... But there was no option for 'I use the technology appropriate for the circumstances'
Well, yes. if you use the same SoC as the RPi otherwise you maybe up the creek.
I think the best thing to say, is "The greatest form of flattery is imitation" pretty sure we have not arrived at the IBM PC clone market. Many of the "RPi like devices" have always been, the same but different, but this seems to be a clone. Though not that cheap, when compared to a RPi B+, as you need the docking board for the Odroid-W to get the USB and ethernet, but the eMMC is interesting, if you need it.
Guess we will have to see if Odroid-W puts £1,000,000 into an education fund and more than that into open source development, with the profits they make.
OK I am a staunch support of the Raspberry Pi and more so of the achievements and direction of the RPi Foundations :-)
Have to agree, resale and the fact that it is at the spec of a similar windows machine, does level the playing field.
Mine is no my desk under a pile of paper, haven't used it this month, really must give it more attention, but I like my old Linux desktop(it's like slippers :-) and the last time I was going away I knew I had to get a ropey local fishing boat to my destination, took the chromebook, I get drenched but the chromebook was ok and if it wasn't well, $199 against $2,300 mac book, yep, no contest :-)
I like the mac book, it is a great bit of kit light weight, looks good, good battery, no upgrade path, don't care, can sell it for a good price and upgrade and not loose much and get CPU, Memory, Battery & disk upgrade all at the same time.
My Windows laptop, HP Elitebook cost a lot of money in its day, not worth jack shit now, mac book of that vintage still has value.
@Stuart H
I did not down vote you, but the person that did could have just advised you that this is a regular el reg feature. El reg recognises that the el reg commentards having to constantly deal with the worlds, political, technological and scientific problems, just need a break from time to time :-)
but well done UK
Not for open source, MS, Apple or Google, just for giving a standard that gives UK citizens a choice of what package to use, free or paid for, though I really think it is a shot in the arm for open source, after all when the government advise on a website that these documents can be accessed using free packages available for windows, osx and linux, has to help a little.
you do have gps, exif, wifi and bluetooth data, being recorded/transmitted on smart phones.
I don't see it as being easy, but possible, imagine I enter a stadium via gate 'f' smart phone in pocket, the time and location could now be known, but even if I was pointing my smart phone in the right direction, it is improbable it will capture anything worthwhile, as reference to my location, via mapping of the stadium shows this. However those that enter through gate 'c' should have a good view, with gate 'a' also possible.
You could also grab facebook and twitter for the event/incident and match up the data.
post mortem, you will certainly have something worthwhile, whether this is a 3d image or not, I can see law enforcement, marketing, sale etc. loving the idea, time to get my tinfoil hat :-)
Chromebooks are really much better than I ever expected I bought an Acer c720 for $199 a few months back, really like it, fast, only 1.25kg and the battery lasts 8 hours. It is my go to travel companion these days, however I also need access to a full blown OS, the chromebook can't do everything I need, but if you just need social networking, youtube, webmail, WP, spreadsheet, note taking(stackEdit excellent) play music & videos at the price you can't really go wrong. One last bit I can't see the need for a core i3 and 4gb ram the c720 dual core celeron & 2gb is more than enough.
I am an RPi fan, however I have looked at the faster, better, greater options, that are in 'competition' with RPi, problem is they don't quite get the energy that the pi foundation puts into the RPi, the whole 'package' is what makes it different, disruptive and IMHO better than the rest.
Before Arduino fans jump in, I am also a fan of Arduino, RPi and Arduino complement each other and they both have communities that bring even more to the party.
@nematoad
Yes, that really jumps out from the article, the answer to this now should only be, not now, not next year, not ever, can private medical data be shared outside the NHS. The government, NHS and other organisations involved have proven beyond doubt they cannot be trusted.
The great shame of this, is that done properly there was a great deal of good that could have come from it, however all involved have proven that the bad far outweighs the good.
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