Comment Re:This thing... (Score 1) 91
No, he's dreaming he is piloting one of these, and you are the one doing the running...
Comment Re:But why .co.uk? (Score 1) 110
.co is short for COmpany or COmmercial depending on your viewpoint. The purpose of DNS is to organise things neatly. So, in the correct spirit of this the UK name space has a nice organised set of sub-domains (see above or below for someone posting the Wikipedia list of them). Because people are stupid/lazy they don't want to learn to understand why this is good, and someone proposed flattening the layout for DNS at-large (the proposed
Comment Re:Reverse notation (Score 1) 110
I believe you mean JANet and the NRS, which used names along the lines of UK.AC.
Comment Re:Translation (Score 0) 110
Or possibly, if you read the consultation documents and responses, Nominet asked it's members and listened to what they had to say.
Comment Re:Lol (Score 2) 384
If you think that is more readable than C, then you don't know how to write decent C.
Comment Re:Intel the Problem (Score 2) 320
The XP mode is still running x86 programs on an x86 processor though. To do it with ARM you have to emulate the entire x86 cpu and instruction set.
Comment Re:Ahh, the razors edge... (Score 0) 145
English is beautiful in part because it is a mongrel collection of other languages and is never afraid to borrow a word or idea from somewhere else if it is needed. Part of the beauty is in the lack of stupid restrictions, and the fact that you can write the same sentence in more than one way, changing around word order, syntax, choosing from several different words with the same meaning etc.
Comment Re:Good for them. (Score 1) 451
Considering I had a commercially available, off the shelf java development environment in 1998/1999, I think you might like to reconsider - Java may not be 30 years old, but it's older than 10.
Comment Re:mouses? (Score 1) 913
In this case nanospook is correct. The plural of a normal mouse is mice, the plural of a computer mouse is also mouses.
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/mouse
" (plural mice or mouses) a small handheld device which is moved across a mat or flat surface to move the cursor on a computer screen:"
I guess you have a dictionary available but don't use it.
Comment Re:I'm mad too (Score 1) 514
We do.
Comment Re:Oh no! 18+ (Score 1) 87
Come join the civilised world:
https://www.gov.uk/alcohol-young-people-law
"However if you’re 16 or 17 and accompanied by an adult, you can drink (but not buy) beer, wine or cider with a meal."
"It’s illegal to give alcohol to children under 5."
IQ 'a Myth,' Study Says 530
An anonymous reader send this quote from The Star:
"The idea that intelligence can be measured by a single number — your IQ — is wrong, according to a recent study led by researchers at the University of Western Ontario (abstract). The study, published in the journal Neuron on Wednesday, involved 100,000 participants around the world taking 12 cognitive tests, with a smaller sample of the group undergoing simultaneous brain-scan testing. 'When we looked at the data, the bottom line is the whole concept of IQ — or of you having a higher IQ than me — is a myth,' said Dr. Adrian Owen, the study’s senior investigator... 'There is no such thing as a single measure of IQ or a measure of general intelligence.'"
Comment Re:Stupid People (Score 1) 225
I read it on teh interwebs, so it must be
Comment Re:Not actually 70/30 (Score 1) 724
It's also because, with a gift card they get your money now, and have to give you goods at some later date. To look at it another way, it's the opposite of a credit card, you are lending the supplier your money, but you don't get interest or a handling fee.
The Rise of Feudal Computer Security 147
Hugh Pickens writes "In the old days, traditional computer security centered around users. However, Bruce Schneier writes that now some of us have pledged our allegiance to Google (using Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Android phones) while others have pledged allegiance to Apple (using Macintosh laptops, iPhones, iPads; and letting iCloud automatically synchronize and back up everything) while others of us let Microsoft do it all. 'These vendors are becoming our feudal lords, and we are becoming their vassals. We might refuse to pledge allegiance to all of them — or to a particular one we don't like. Or we can spread our allegiance around. But either way, it's becoming increasingly difficult to not pledge allegiance to at least one of them.' Classical medieval feudalism depended on overlapping, complex, hierarchical relationships. Today we users must trust the security of these hardware manufacturers, software vendors, and cloud providers and we choose to do it because of the convenience, redundancy, automation, and shareability. 'In this new world of computing, we give up a certain amount of control, and in exchange we trust that our lords will both treat us well and protect us from harm (PDF). Not only will our software be continually updated with the newest and coolest functionality, but we trust it will happen without our being overtaxed by fees and required upgrades.' In this system, we have no control over the security provided by our feudal lords. Like everything else in security, it's a trade-off. We need to balance that trade-off. 'In Europe, it was the rise of the centralized state and the rule of law that undermined the ad hoc feudal system; it provided more security and stability for both lords and vassals. But these days, government has largely abdicated its role in cyberspace, and the result is a return to the feudal relationships of yore,' concludes Schneier, adding that perhaps it's time for government to create the regulatory environments that protect us vassals. 'Otherwise, we really are just serfs.'"
