Posts by Joe Bryant

Raspberry Pi Foundation serves up an 8GB slice of mini-computing goodness

Re: What happened to the Pi Zero W?

The Pi Hut claims to have them in stock for a tenner. https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-w

Internet world despairs as non-profit .org sold for $$$$ to private equity firm, price caps axed

Re: Why not abandon DNS?

There's more to the internet than websites. I'd rather my email address wasn't a string of numbers.

Forget Game of Thrones as Android ransomware infects TVs

Re: Killing TVs, a step too far

Maybe only apps that have passed some kind of safety check (and have a signature to prove it) could be allowed to have admin rights? That way, for example, only Samsung-certified apps are allowed to have admin rights on a Samsung TV.

Arrests for 'offensive' Twitter and Facebook messages up by a third

Re: Power Mad

The explanation was pretty simple - the guy texted the wrong number, and the person who received the message passed it onto police. Nothing sinister about it.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/jun/03/terrorism.world

Good thing this dev quit. I'd have fired him. Out of a cannon. Into the sun

Re: #define spel spell

Probably to maintain compatibility with existing external code that expects the old, wrong spelling.

#define spel spell

I'm pretty sure that when I dealt with Microsoft's own SNMP library, it had a header file that used #define to make up for the fact that someone at some point had named something ELAMENT instead of ELEMENT.

GENUINE STARSHIP as used by PRINCESS LEIA sold for just $450k

Re: It's a bargain

I think Space: 1999 came out while they were making Star Wars, and they felt the ship looked too much like Space: 1999's Eagle transports, so they changed it for the round design we're familiar with.

Let's all binge on Blake’s 7 and help save the BBC ... from itself

Re: Blake's 7

So it's her fault there's no apostrophe?

Amazon just wrote a TLS crypto library in only 6,000 lines of C code

Re: OpenSSL

These days, compilers can write assembler better than humans can.