Posts by Peter H. Coffin 231 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Aug 2007
The ones about "Facebook is trying to own users' lovingly-crafted content!"? This is why those TOS changes to those sites were made in the first place: the sites know that there's no way with the current processes to ensure that photos and anicillary user content can be caascaded reliably through not jsut databases but also large numbers of content caching servers, some of which aren't even under the website's control.
How likely is one now to be able to use any other headphones or other devices with this thing now? Compounding the issue is that earbud headphone wires and cables are notorious for developing stress cracks when the wire flexes, meaning they're only good for a fraction of the expected life of the device itself. Which means replacing them with £25 official Apple headphones when they fail, instead of near-disposable £7 ones.
Emergency services fooled by apostrophes? That's someone making up scary stories to what amounts to a meaningless and arbitrary decision. Matching on this kind of thing is far, far looser than would be lost by the difference between "King's Heath" and "Kings Heath". It would probably stil find the same place given "Kinsey Heap".
While the "street cred" of the production team is quite good, I'm not sure how the material and setting will transfer into a culture where excessive drug and alcohol use are regarded as some odd mixture of lack of willpower and a disease needing medical treatment rather than as a coping mechanism or entertaining to do. I fear leaving those in the show in the US would end up making it not at all funny to a large chunk of the audience and taking them out would leave no characterization than random bitchiness. Random Bitchiness won't carry it, without a supporting cast the size of /Dallas/
I can't quite bring myself to the point of actual disagreement with either of these "false positives". A Windows machine in a "fail to boot" mode is probably safer for all concerned. Unquestioningly trusting the advice of anti-virus software is about a half-step away from trusting pop-up adverts for anti-virus software, and that seldom leads anywhere good.
It's the same arguement as "most spam comes from the US", and it's all based on tracking IP addresses. Well, what a surprise that the US has more poorly-managed and thus zombified computers than the rest of the world. There's more computers in the US, so it's not really surprising that there's more in the hands of incompetants.
Yes, I'm from the US. I *know* most of the computer-owners here are nitwits.
The AC at 11:17 GMT has sussed it perfectly. This is how one reads Sony press releases. The words that are there are less important than the words that are not there. "We have no plans to" means "We haven't agreed yet on when or if we're doing this. Maybe after tomorrow's meeting." "We are not changing the price" means "We are changing features." "We are not changinge the specifications" means "We're going to bundle stuff with it."
It's fascinating that pepole with techonlogies designed to do away with passwords because "passwords are insecure" inevitably end up replacing it with something that either replaces it with a SINGLE password on their fragile home PC, or with a physical token that can be stolen and used by whomever has your wallet, or by a giant LDAP system that every website in the would would use and pay them a fee for, thereby earning them caviar and Ferraris. (And, of course, this single authenticator would NEVER lose or sell information about their user's authentication behaviour....)
Remember, the article says "However, neither Yachtmaster nor any of the lesser, more reasonable tickets are a legal requirement. Anyone can take a yacht to sea under UK law - provided they have the owner's permission." The only possibly law involved may have been that she somehow lied on a contract. Taking the boat out broke no law, regardless of certification.
Considering that there's already pressure on NHS to not treat those with "unhealty lifestyles" (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/27/nhs127.xml) and I'm finding very conflicting studies concerning whether smoking or obesity themselves causes absenteeism or whether that's an association with other factors, such as simply being older than 25, I'm thinking that being a fat puffer would likely end up saving money in the long run.
Apparently, they're more concerned about being able to reach and put out a spontaneously-igniting battery than they are about someone using a fistful of batteries for some martial purpose. I'd kind of thought it would be the other way around. I'm sure I'm not the only one that knows how to turn a set of headphones and a battery into a dandy firestarter.
S said: As someone pointed out why pick an application based on whether it's open source or not? Pick it for it's merits.
Open standards and verifiable source code can certainly be merits, and overwhelming ones. The odds of MS releasing source code and ensuring that files are exchangeable with other packages is something one which I doubt I'll put money.
Where does irrigation and fertilising come into this? The Face study shows that regardless of how much CO2 is around, trees don't grow much more large than they usually do, about 20%. That's not really suprising; I wouldn't grow much taller eating more food growing up either. Trees grew just fine across much of the world before we humans decided we liked lawn and meadow as landscaping better than copse and forest. We could certainly decided the other way again, and plant climate-appropriate trees instead of grass, and the ones that survive grow up, bind up carbon as tree mass, Then we figure out how to make some of that mass not rot back to CO2 and dirt.
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