Posts by Keith Williams

Re: This reminds me of a Ricky Gervais joke

Thou shall not steal.

Re: British TV drama is NOT crap, merely rarer than hen's teeth

I am so glad to see that someone else shares my distaste for Torchwood's gayness. Especially when they converted Ianto from weird sexual taste (Cyberwoman) to weirder (Cap'n Jack).

OTOH, I have enjoyed both seasons of Sherlock (all 6 episodes!) and have recently enjoyed the complete David Tenneant years of Dr Who and am working my way through the 1st Matt Smith series.

Re: "never letting your kids be photographed in a uniform of any sort"

Wouldn't it be better to simply not post the pics on the various social media sites?

Re: Genius

There have been reports that Huawei raided NorTel's servers stealing all their IP, so yeah, I'd call them a thief? Have you not noticed that a huge amount of counterfeit goods comes out of china? So yeah, I'd trust them as far as I could toss the whole country.

Re: Depends on the claim

Is RRP the same as MSRP - manufacturer's suggested retail price?

Petty Cash

22.5 million dollars? The US debt is in the TRILLIONS, that's an extra 6 zeros behind 1 million.

this is 22.5 million dollars:

$22,500,000

This is 1 Trillion

$1,000,000,000,000

22.5 million dollars is a drop in the bucket for the US's financial problems.

Re: OK, I confess...

That would be at least 1/2 the posters

Re: So I need a desk to set it on?

250 Grams is actually 0.55066079295154185022026431718062 Lbs, that is a bit over 1/2 lb, not 1/4 pound.

Re: Why? Because...

Glisters, not glitters.

Re: Virgin on the silly

Yeah, see "The Mouse on the Moon"

Re: design fail

If the controls are in the middle then you can use it in both Right and Left hand drive areas.

Re: Hey Heyrick

plugh! I always wondered about that! XYZZY switches you between the building and the debris room

Re: Double standards

Wow, 1 for you and 30 for me? That's way worse than 1 for you and 19 for me. There could be a song in that.

CEO sued

even after the IPO, F***berg will be the largest/controlling shareholder( over 50%), so the board will do whatever he wants or it will be replaced. and if the majority of the shareholder wants something, he gets it.

Re: Wide of the mark?

My son was in the same situation. I was glad that he discussed it with me before proceeding to deposit the cheque and that I was able to convince him it was a scam.

and not only that

but because the atomic time is disconnected from the UTC, approximately 528000 years after that, a new Pope Gregory will have to re-adjust our dates by 11 days again.

Have any of the other tablets managed to achieve this?

Apple is in the middle of the 2nd release of their tablet. Samsung, Asus, Acer and I am sure a lot of others have all released them, HP has one based on WEBOS. Have any of them acheived this? Nope.

The cryptographic engine is the key reason people buy RIM eqipment and this has shown that they can migrate it to a different OS.

The market for playbooks has just exploded.

Yeah, right

Did anyone here hear about the G20 Thugs aka police who assaulted peaceful demonstrators in the Safe Demonstration area, and people who were standing around watching peaceful demonstrations? Yes, there were bad demonstrators dressed in black, but they were few and far between and certainly did not represent more than a tiny minority of those who were demonstrating. Cops were caught on film assaulting people and the other cops were "unable to identify them". Freedom of expression etc is fine as long as you don't piss off the authorities.

Pending other information

The article stated that it was stolen from his yacht.

The title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits.

basically, that way it possible for people to learn that there is a vulnerability and a patch available to correct the issue, should they not automatically do updates

Admittedly there will be many more who never do both

XP

or because you have ,000's of apps that all have to be tested before you migrate anyone to >XP

@ThomH

Patents are supposed to be a government granted monopoly over the specific implementation of an idea.

Stupidity

Municipalities surrounding Vancouver are sending in Safety Inspectors to review excessive use of electricity in homes. Usually with police officers sitting outside in their police cars. if they "notice" any evidence of illegal activity they can then go outside and report this information to the police, who immediately bust the homeowner. If there is no Pot found, then the town charges the homeowner for the inspection. Upto $5200 'cost recovery' for a 1/4 hour of work.

Indications of illegal cultivation include spilled soil or fertilizer, empty rooms (it was preped to be painted for a soon-to-arrive baby) and other items.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/war-on-grow-ops-in-bc-has-unexpected-casualties/article1866458/

Also, if I were a pot grower, I would keep guinea pigs in a shed, heat them excessively and after the cops came and vetted the place, switch to growing pot.

re: Hello, Title →

> Making emails uninterceptible is a highly desirable feature of the architecture, and most

> certainly NOT a limitation

It is a limitiation to Governments

This is a Ctrl-C title

Many places judge the intention rather than the fact. In Canada it is unlawful for someone to depict someone underage in porn, even if the person doing the depiction is over the age of consent. If a reasonable person were to view the image and come to a reasonable belief in it's accuracy, that is all that counts.

Re: Doesn't that cut both ways?

I think that you are misinterpreting Lewis's point - if the point of buying A400Ms is to avoid dependency on supplies of American parts for the Boeing aircraft, then this is a fail because there is so much American content in the A400Ms. Additionally, those American parts are subject to American Export controls - which will limit the foreign governments that the aircraft can be sold to.

Bible-Belt US

eliminate the "eating pork meat" and the rest of your frowned upon list would work (except possibly a plumber's vertical smile :) )

milage actually sucks

Please recheck your arithmetic 560/60 = 9.33mi/l, or 6.66 L/100Km - about the same as my 4cyl Corolla on the highway.

TI Silent 700 thermal-paper terminal

I used one of those to work on a PDP-11/45

it isn't 45!

The western boundery between Canada and the United States is the 49th Parallel. East of Manitoba it presses much farther south. Indeed most of the population of Ontario lives south of 45 (which passes through, among other places, Bracebridge Ontario, home of Santa's Village).

Re: hmmmm - Police - Crime - Inaction

good thing there's all those CCTV cameras to prevent crime in the UK.

title, I don't need no frackin' title

1/2 mile @ 60mph=1/2 minute