Posts by Jon Egerton

Go home Google, you're drunk! Desktop Maps says The Shard's TWO MILES from actual loc

Re: I have yet...

Me too - Mosley street in Manchester was re-instated in good order.

Hacker Hammond's laptop protected by pet password

Re: Good Grief

It's pretty shameful alright. Rather undermines the site's credibility when laughing at other sites security provisions.

Would be lovely if they'd fix the Android App so that it didn't randomize the story you select as well.

Trickle-down economics works: SpaceShipTwo is a prime example

Re: Space isn't orbit

I think that is where Branson is going with this - intercontinental trips at very high speed and sub-orbital altitudes. There's little point going into orbit in this case.

The tourist thing is a nice prototype while things get ironed out, however turning it into a transit mechanism is where the money/business model will really come into its own.

Radiohead(ache): BBC wants dead duck tech in sexy new mobes

DAB - fine, but only if...

I would propose that we accept DAB adoption in this way, but only if, as a condition, the BBC is forced to use another out-moded 80s originated technology, the DAT tape, for all its audio storage.

This would seem to be a fair deal to me.

Password manager LastPass goes titsup: Users locked out

Re: Why trust any third party?

@A K Stiles

"and exactly what mechanism are various banks using to 'encrypt' my password in such a way that they can validate only characters 3,7 and 9 of my password anyway?"

Well they're either symmetrically encrypting it, or they're hashing every 3 digit permutation from your password and storing them all.

Not sure which of these is worse though - suppose it depends on the salting really.

BT FON fail: Telco CHARGES customers for FREE Wi-Fi usage

RT-AC68U? - probably

My RT-AC66U works perfectly so would imagine the AC68U would be fine.

TBH I've run a variety of routers on my infinity connection (Linksys, EdiMax and so on) with no problems.

Only one that was dodgy at all was the home hub.

Shrew'd boffins spot TINY ELEPHANT species

Time to get a cat?

"The researchers were shocked to find a unfamiliar species of round-eared creature while rooting through the university's archives."

While its fortuitous that an unknown species should be living in the universities own archives undiscovered, it does raise questions about the university's pest control standards doesn't it?

Spanish village of 'Kill the Jews' votes for rebrand

IT?

Ah yes - there it is in the Bootnote - a keyboard - very good.

Apple, Google: WE SURRENDER ... to each other in patent war truce

Re: No longer really the same market

This is why Google is going Silver - to guarantee Android a place in the high-end market.

No, we're not in an IT 'stockapoclyse' – boom (and bust) is exactly what tech world needs

Re: stock a what?

Its worse than that. I can't get sense out of "stockapoclyse" without some serious re-arranging.

The following would make more sense:

Stockalypse

Astockalypse (I like the ring of this one)

On interesting thing though - googling "stockapoclyse" (https://www.google.com/search?q=stockapoclyse) gives a good idea of just how many clone news sites there are out there.

Unmanned, autonomous ROBOT TRUCK CONVOY 'drives though town'

Re: If they want the drivers out of the cabs

And because, if there is no cab, then they have to be autonomous all the time (driving around camp etc), not just for the more routable journey between bases in the field.

Microsoft advertises Surface, Excel with maths mistake

Re: Recalculate ?

Curiously, although the cell with the value of £500 for the Car hire is highlighted, there's nothing showing in the formula bar at the top.

Looks like an airbrushing fail to me.