Posts by Pete B136 posts • joined Wednesday 7th October 2009 14:57 GMT
To be fair he just said they'd found batteries that could power it for that far - he didn't say they'd actually fit in the thing!
Yeah right - because only highly intelligent people buy BB and iDevices.
It's sad but there is a large % of the population who simply shouldn't be allowed any choice in things - they're not capable of the thought processes required.
Wouldn't have helped in this case - the delivery was made via MLM (or bcc'd) the addresses were in the body of the email.
One query - does IOS correct the spelling mistakes in the grauniad?
Re (2) - tell you what; you send me your email address and I'll tell you if it's on the list they sent me ;-)
Must be one of the very few occasions Job's got his 'product' to market first.
Always wondered about this one - how are you comitting an offense by trying to stop somebody else breaking the law?
Because MS Office always has the most frequently used options in a logical place?
Apple didn't write it - they bought it in.
It isn't as though UK banks have any great history of using coherent domains as it is - you find Natwest's services scattered across umpteen different domains which have increasingly less obvious ties to their main domain. Why is the online banking service on a different frickin domain, and one that isn't even registered to them directly? (nwolb.com)
The problem isn't lack of trust in domains, but lack of trust in the banks themselves.
If they haven't been oficially destroyed though it's possible some went missing before the asumed destruction, and hence leak out that way - they seem to have assumed that because they were l;eft in a disposal room, and aren't there now that they were destroyed.
I especially like the ones who send their emails with no plain-text at all, so I see a blank email.
+1
Can't beat the "buy one minute, it's there the next"; especially when you're on the road and want something new to read. This is wat digital media should be all about.
OK - I know that I'm effectively paying a rental on the 'book' rather than actually owning it in the way I would a hard copy, but that's a risk I'm prepared to take when balanced against the convenience. (And removing the DRM isn't exactly difficult anyway!)
Co-incidentally never visited either of these since they installed the bloody things. Found other (non mega-brand) places to buy everything I used to get from them.
Yes - you'll find it in your T&Cs of service that you're still liable even if service has to be cease by your breaking the T&Cs - and they all have a section that says something like 'must not use the service to send, encourage the receipt of, upload, download, use or re-use any material which is abusive,indecent, defamatory, obscene or menacing, or in breach of copyright, confidence, privacy or any other rights or which may contain viruses or other similar programs"
Surely if security is the goal then having it recognise the Windows keys and refusing to boot would be a better idea.
Good idea - you could call it something like the 'Data Protection Act'
Fail, because that's what those responsible for enforcing the act do.
Depends what the transfer allowance is.
Did you forget the Joke Alert icon?
Don't be silly - if they did that the card companies would lose their % - much better for them to carry out charge-backs if a stolen card is used, and otherwise look the other way.
Crooks - the lot of 'em!
"We have always been clear that we will not offshore any DWP jobs, and we are exploring how future offshoring can be minimised,"
If he meant what he said at the beginning of the sentence then there would be no need to '...minimise...'.
I'll underbid you at $5m
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So you must be the ghost of Andy O'Rourke?
Heh - just because you change it doesn't mean that your "new" number won't have any history attached to it.
They could always use the CBUK number - that's what it was invented for!
Way round this is to get a multi-car policy; there are a couple of enlightened insurers about who recognise that yo ucan't actualy be driving two cars at the same time, so their risk at any one time is to the value of one+third party risks on the other, and their premiums reflect it.
I just saved over £1k/pa by switching from two seperate policies.
Top Gear beat you to that idea.
Too true: The testers have been happy enough with our "IIS 15.0" server for years!
The problem with the appeals process is that it is essentially FOC for the MAFIAA /RIAA/<whoever alleges infringement> to accuse somebody, and there's no comeback on them (that I can see anywhere at least) if the person then wins their appeal - they can't lose under this scheme.
Of course, as I can see there's also nothing to stop freetards who do collect warning letters to change ISP every time they have got 2 letters; it'd take a long time to work through the list of ISPs/VISPs etc before you ran out.
I wonder what % of people actually type a URL into the address bar nowadays, compared with those that just type something into Google and click on whatever it turns up. I'd think that whatever domain names you have is becoming less and less important; far more important that when the right search term is enetered that you are the first hit.
Probably because they've got umpteen warehouses stuffed full of parts which they don't have any other use for - basic economics says you're better off getting *anything* for them even if for less than they cost you, if the alternative is to get nothing.
Worst still he doesn't end with '...but more research is required' - how can he hope to be taken seriously without this thinly disguised request for more funding?
Out of curiosity I just tried changing my PIN to all four digits the same at my bank's ATM - the machine gives an error and doesn't change it.
The fact that they've been sentenced to at least a four year stretch makes a big difference in when they're allowed out though, than if they'd been given a slightly shorter term.
It's like any 'attempted' crimes eg attempted murder - this is usually treated almost as severely as murder, ince the *intention* was to do so - if it wasn;t then it'd be manslaughter.
In this case their intention was to cause a riot; it was just (our) good luck that they failed, so they have been (correctly in my view) dealt with in the same manner as if they'd been sucessful.
The sentences for people who have got 4/6 months were not people who tried/suceeded in *starting* the riots, but rather idiots who joined in.
No it's not thought crime - that stays in your head, and there's no risk of other people acting on it. In these cases they were merely unsucessful in their attempts.
Very true - if user education were going to work then we'd have started seeing results long since - it's now apparent that you *have* to treat users as complete idiots and try and prevent them from doing what they think might be a good idea.
Much as it grieves me for the vast majority of users Apple's approach actually isn't a bad thing!
"...a very holistic approach to moving the entire market to a different kind of form factor..."
What language is this in?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/28/reg_club/
says it all.
Having been a Nokia shop since we started we moved to Android this time round. MS have caused us enough grief with their PC software for us to consider winphone for more than 10 seconds. Don't like the Apple lockdown approach, so then it just became a matter of choosing a manufacturer who sold Android handsets. Doubt we'd move off Android now, and can't for the next 2 years. So unlikely we'll ever be looking at Nokia in the future.
How did you guess my D.O.B. ?
I do wish that companies would stop trotting this out in all their press statements - as far as I'm concerned I couldn't care less if it's .001% of their customers or 100% - if I'm in the affected list then as far as I'm concerned I'm 100% affected.
He's also looking at whatever the US equivalent of contempt of court is, since he's broken an order banning him from logging into facebook - over here they tend to take that as seriously as *any* other offence.
Talk about picking figures selectively...
To answer your question though you have two options:-
a) Put up with it.
b) If you don't like it go and look for a job outside public sector; you'd probably find things significantly worse. You moan about your pension, but compared to the vast majority of private sector workers, whatever your moans about it.
You would indeed expect them to get specific terms right, but then she goes on to say:-
"The only reason it's exposed is because there's a drought going on and the tank was under the lake,"
It's *in* the frickin lake, not under it.
Didn't say *what* they were to be suspended by though. Perhaps the SRA could have a phone-in vote for people accused by them.
"Either way, compared to the price of the kit, the price of driving down there, and the price of an hour's worth of outage, the price of a phone line and a modem might be entirely justifyable."
These sort of things are, of course, much easier to justify to bean-counters immediately *after* a prolonged outage, than when you're talking about a hypothetical outage...
Having read the earlier story on the (lack of) security in prison access hardware there probably wasn't a lot of point in locking him up, if he's supposed to be Lulzsec member - I'm sure they be up for a bit of mischief in that line.
The fact he didn't manage to release himself before being bailed might be evidence he isn't the real Topiary. :-)
