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Comment: Re: I can't wait to see this battle (Score 5, Insightful) 713

by stiggle (#43739861) Attached to: Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8

Their customers can use the YouTube website - same as everyone else who doesn't have a pre-built app installed or for their platform. Just because you can hack YouTube's website and write a wrapper around your hacks to provide the content doesn't mean its legit.

Isn't accessing web content through means other than the published API or intended URL a hacking offense with prison time after conviction?

Comment: Re: Why not? (Score 1) 55

While the data has been anonymised, studies have shown that identifying information can be obtained from it.
eg. If you know where I live and where I work - then you can search the data for those locations, you've got a pretty good chance of getting my phone from the dataset. Then with that, you can now see where else I've been with my phone switched on. If there are some suspicious locations then you pull up the phones that were also in that location, search for their 'common sites' and you have their home, work, bar locations.

Comment: Re:Scientific progress (Score 1) 586

by stiggle (#43554445) Attached to: Europe Needs Genetically Engineered Crops, Scientists Say

Depending on the genes they use, you can transfer an allergic response from one substance to another as the transfered gene is the one responsible for the allergen. But, due to the legislation sponsored by Monsanto - you can't label the food as containing the allergen.

In creating the GMOs they use certain resistance marker genes which are also embedded so they can easily wipe out the produce which does not contain the modifications. This then gives the resistance to the product, and possible transfer to other organisms - thus producing more problems as a wider population of organisms develop resistance to the weapons we have to wipe them out. But of course, Monsanto can always sell us more 'RoundUp Ready' crops. Or 'RoundUp Ready Plus' once everything is resistant to RoundUp.

Comment: Re:Summary by someone who never saw the original? (Score 1) 213

by stiggle (#43410749) Attached to: Classic BBC Sci-fi Series Blake's 7 To Return On Syfy Channel

It went downhill before 1979 - which is how she got in.
You don't remember queuing for bread during the bakers strikes? (limited to one loaf per person in most shops - go shopping with the kids so they can get a loaf too)
The power outages during the earlier coal strikes?
The mountains of garbage during the public sector strikes?
Lets not forget the lorry drivers strikes and the other transport strikes.
20% inflation and strikes for 25% payrises.

Welcome to the Callaghan government.

Comment: Re:Statistics 101 (Score 2) 204

Which is why you'd make the O-rings out of different compounds, and install no set with all the same type.
Locate the diesel generators in 2 or 3 power houses around the site.
2+ server rooms on site with replication between them (with additional replication off-site).

But how much resource do you throw at the problem? Its easy for us after the events to decide if NASA should have used O-rings of differing compounds or Fukashima have multiple power houses on different levels.

Comment: Re:Lesson: Licensing costs suck (Score 2) 286

by stiggle (#43280189) Attached to: PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack

FreeBSD (on which pfSense is based) has Hyper-V support since last year, but as pfSense and other firewalls are slower in their updates the current releases are still using FreeBSD 8.1. the beta snapshots of pfSense 2.1 use 8.3 which can include Hyper-V integration.

Currently it installs fine using the legacy network adaptors (so you only get 100MBit links).
If you want full OS intergration and to use non-legacy network adaptors then you need to use the latest 2.1 beta & install a rebuilt FreeBSD kernel with Hyper-V support.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has Hyper-V support out of the box.

Comment: Re:Not true. (Score 0) 984

by stiggle (#43137889) Attached to: Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam

No need to brake, just lift off the accelerator as you approach the lights, when you get closer to the lights than your stopping distance then you accelerate through the lights as you won't be able to stop safely, remembering to stay below the posted maximum permitted speed. Remember - its a maximum (at optimum conditions), not a requirement.

Comment: Re:so what? (Score 2, Informative) 812

by stiggle (#42980485) Attached to: Homeland Security Stole Michael Arrington's Boat

The paperwork was government supplied, not his. His paperwork showed the correct amount in Canadian dollars.
He tried to get the paperwork fixed at the time and the agent refused to amend to show the correct currency to him to sign a truthful document.

Remember there is also an exchange rate difference between US & Canadian dollars (although its not much).
So writing down that the boat is worth $100k USD when its actually only worth $98212 USD ($100k CAN) impacts on the import taxes you have to pay.

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