Posts by Spoddyhalfwit

Re: Kyorin...

I updated to Windows 10 about 3 days after official release - on my main development machine. It feels polished and finished to me, and most stuff worked after the upgrade (I had to run repair on SQLServer 2012 and Visual Studio as was getting message about a missing DLL).

Seems to me most reviewers and users (outside of the reg, which isn't a typical user-set) have liked it.

Windows 8 to me felt half finished and ill-conceived - but I'm loving 10, and it seems faster to me.

I'm looking forward to what they can do on the phone, where 8 worked much better than on the PC.

Re: I'm confused @Michael habel

Well if you find the Big Bang hard to handle, what about the question of who created God?

Re: No matter how hard you try

Football may be dull, but at least its only 90 minutes of dull rather than 5 days.

Re: BadaOS all over again.

"Without apps, Tizen,(and BadaOS before it), Windows Phone all just stack up in the queue of failed mobile operating systems."

Bit silly to include windows phone in that list... Might have been true a year or two back but now there are loads, and just like android and iOS it's all the major ones people actually use and then hundreds of thousands of fart machines and the like.

Will be interesting to see if Samsung can do what MS did and get devs to fill their AppStore. I'm not too sure they can... All the time android is so massive for them I don't see them pushing Tizen hard enough.

Re: OpenSSL is open source, most financial institutions don't use open source encryption.

If you think those bugs are on a par with heartbleed, you don't understand its seriousness.

see eg

http://threatpost.com/difficulty-of-detecting-openssl-heartbleed-attacks-adds-to-problem/105354

It might mean revoking your SSL certificates and getting new ones. Pricey if you have a lot, and time consuming.

Why heartbleed is the most dangerous security threat on the web (curiously it doesn't list any of those ones that you thought was as serious)

http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/8/5594266/how-heartbleed-broke-the-internet

Re: 'criminals don't trust Bitcoin'

Lost track of the number of times I've read bitcoin's obituary from a poster on here. But it keeps bouncing back.

If you read the article you'd see they needed cash for the electricity bill.

Weapons proliferators

Like these?

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/29/world/meast/u-s--saudi-fighter-sale/

It's okay for the USA to sell fighter planes to the nut job dictator who runs Saudi, a regime linked to numerous Al Qaeda plots

http://nypost.com/2013/12/15/inside-the-saudi-911-coverup/

The NSA are in the great tradition of the imbeciles who kept us safe by training Bin laden and his buddies in Afghanistan. But they all get to live in nice houses paid for by our taxes, for "keeping us safe"

Re: Rockstar claims to be independent from Apple and Microsoft

Google would never base it's business model on ripping off other peoples intellectual property ;)

Re: strange...

@pet peeve

"The interesting thing about bitcoin is that a bunch of people have decided that because some computers have spent a lot of time searching for chains of hashes with special attributes, that some bitstreams derived from those hashes have value"

Look through the history of currencies and you will find that this is the very essence of many of them. If something has inherent value, ie is useful for something else it doesn't make a very good currency... It would be bad for the economy to tie up useful things or commodities rather than use them.

Since bitcoin can be used right now today to transfer money, buy things online (including things, often illegal, that can't be readily bought in other ways) and since it's quantity is limited, then it has real value. I'd certainly trust it more than the pound or dollar, as our governments seem to be converts to Mubabeconomics.

Re: Hmm ...

This is where Nokia could have been if they'd stuck with it

Re: So, Why did he go to an arts quango to fund his pre-iPhone multitouch?

I guess if its called the National Endowment for SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY and the Arts, he might well have believed that it wasn't just an arts quango.

Re: banking regulator: Don't come crying to us when someone steals it

The great thing about real banks is you can put your real money in them and be guaranteed to have lost money thanks to inflation. If you're lucky the bank will even charge you for the pleasure of losing money, or spending it.

Re: Mining Costs and Speed

Tony Rogers

I looked at buying a mining rig too... I don't think the numbers add up... As you mentioned the difficulty of mining coins will rise quickly so your yield will fall rapidly. You said:

"A large hike in the future value of a Bitcoin is required and expected as the alternative is my dangly bits cut off !"

Better to have spent your 160 quid (plus cost of electricity) on bitcoins, and rely on them going up in value, because I doubt you'll ever mine the number of bitcoins you could have bought for 160 quid at time of purchase of your rig.

Re: Title is too long

"Yes, because if I was planning to stop someone aquiring nuclear weapons the first thing I'd do is warn them I was coming and how I was planning to stop them."

You're right! If I was going to implement an Orwellian spying operation on everyone including my own population's electronic communications I'd never tell them about it. So Snowden must be a hallucination/imposter. Because security services never leak.

Re: Oompa Loompa Dollars!

They aren't totally worthless if I can buy things with them. And I can.

I suspect the current price is a bubble - bitcoin price has been a series of bubbles.

But the system has real merit

- easy to send around the world without relying on third parties (like Paypal who won't deal with some users due to US sanctions, or just decide to put holds on accounts for arbitrary reasons)

- low transaction costs (free in many cases)

- finite - no mass printing by government inflating away your savings

I suspect therefore that over time (perhaps a few years) the price will stabilize somewhat and bitcoins will be ever more widely accepted

Re: Yes, HSBC Bank.................

@Evil Auditor

"Gold is freely tradeable and has, besides jewellery and some industrial niche use, no inherent value."

Worth noting that the US made it illegal for private citizens to hold gold (since repealed)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

They can try and take my Bitcoins from my cold dead hands.

Re: Regolism too far

I prefer "to ejaculate"

Probably why I get so little work done.

Re: And now the world waits...

I'm hearing lots of Mac fans in here today. Aren't they supposed to be in a queue somewhere?

Re: @Destroy All Monsters

You said something against Israel, a state that is based on the racial supremacy of a particular race.

That means you're an anti Semite, a Nazi and probably a paedophile too.

Re: Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse..

"Ballmer is heavily invested in Metro/Win8, and he's such a major stockholder in Microsoft that he effectively is impossible to dethrone. "

Great day to make that post!

Re: He was lucky :-(

Fortunately we have the Queen and her quite marvellous son, they are very concerned about the rights of us common folk, and would shoot down any draconian laws like this. Thank god for democracy eh?

Re: basics

WP8 already supports some of this.

Text or IM use the same sound, but you can separately specify sound for voicemail alert, and new email.

Re: Good looking on Radio

You missed out Alan Partridge! Once voted the second sexiest radio presenter in the whole of Norwich.

Re: Not really fixing any of the problems

@nigel 11

"Linux solved that problem ages ago. When you log in you select the UI you prefer from a list of those installed on your system. If your UI of preference isn't on the list and you have admin access to your machine, you download and install the one you want. "

In fairness that is the case with windows 8... I didnt like Metro... One classic start menu download later and a little tinkering and I had a fully working desktop with a start menu.

Re: And how many people will use that?

You're forgetting the millions of those on the Klingon home world who have it as their first language.