Posts by happygeek

My certified nerd comment, in the post itself, was meant rather more tonguie in cheek. I could have said hardcore early adopters instead. I know you weren't referring to me though :)

So Google has admitted defeat and is pulling the Google Glass Explorer Program with pretty much immediate effect. January 19 will be the last day to get the Glass Explorer Edition. In a statement, a Google Glass spokesperson said that "we’re ready to put on our big kid shoes and learn how to run" and continued hyping it up with "interest in wearables has exploded and today it’s one of the most exciting areas in technology" until almost reaching a climax by stating "we’re seeing incredible developments with Glass in the workplace" before finally dropping the closing it down bomb.

Actually, it doesn't look like the end of Google Glass altogether, just the end of Google Glass in the current format. Google says it will now have a dedicated team as part of Google itself rather than being a lab project, and that it will continue to "build for the future" with future versions of Glass being developed.

I'm sure the merry few who invested, and invested pretty heavily, in Google Glass will be thrilled to see that investment reduced to owning a failed tech; and let's be honest, that's precisely what Google Glass was and is. Even more than the smartwatch, smart glasses are a big ask of anyone other than certified nerds to get excited about. Sales kind of reflected that, along with rather a lot of well deserved negative press.

So what went wrong and why won't I miss this particular piece of technology? How …

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Hey Jack, unlike most people who have been described as a genius, the more you say the dumber you appear...

You also live in a different country, and my phone won't stop autocorrecting.

A true genius would probably be able to get to grips with editing autocorrected messages. Just saying :)

I know. All of this. One thing that I find, exceptional. I have an IQ of 192. I'm also in college. Sooo, am I a prodigy?

Not sure about the prodigy thing, but you sure have one large ego that seems to require a lot of massaging.

David Cameron is making a pretty good fist of it...

Welcome

According to the Daily Mirror, a number of official websites connected to French municipalities were hacked at the end of last week to coincide with the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the hostage taking at the Jewish supermarket. The newspaper reported that the home screens of websites belonging to the towns of Jouy-le-Moutier, Piscop, Goussainville, Val D'Oise and Ezanville (all surrounding Paris) were defaced with a Jihadist ISIS black flag and a message which translates as "The Islamic State Stay Inchallah, Free Palestine, Death to France, Death to Charlie." The hacker concerned declares himself to be an Algerian using the name L’APoca-Dz, and is also associated with a number of previous defacements of Israeli connected websites with anti-semitic messages.

All the sites concerned were quickly returned to normal. Meanwhile, the technology world as a whole has been supportive of the cause of freedom of speech and shown solidarity with Charlie Hebdo, the French people and everyone who condemns terrorist actions such as those of last week. This has been seen both in the rise of the #JeSuisCharlie hashtag and the news that Google is providing financial assistance to the publishers of Charlie Hebdo to ensure that a million copy print run will be achieved for the next issue rather than the more usual 60,000.

More worryingly, and absolutely predictably, the politicians and spymasters are using the Charlie Hebdo attack as a reason for more monitoring of our online and telephone conversations. A couple of months ago, the powers that …

Depends on whether you count a smartphone and tablet as a computer. I do, so with my laptop usage thrown in, I'd say somewhere between 10 and 11...

Result! :)

A quick search would have revealed that this was a change to the search engine architecture which happened in 2009/2010.

Yep, that's the one.

See: https://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/viruses-spyware-and-other-nasties/threads/489719/priceless-malware#post2142347

stultuske: if he had asked "can you tell me how to increase my traffic?" that would have also been a vaild question.

He didn't :)

<M/> Just in Kill Confirmed, don't play any other game type. Have broken the 1K barrier, now up to 825 out of the 2.18 million who have played KC. I probably play too much :)

Not.

What browser are you using? Check for any extension that may have been installed and remove that.

Download the free version of malwarebytes anti-malware (https://www.malwarebytes.org/mwb-download/) and set that upon it, usually does the trick.

Did you read the above response from broj1 at all?

Did you actually read the above response from broj1 at all?

Yep, looks like another SEO expert who doesn't know about SEO. Arm chancing seems to be the norm these days in the web development business...

I speak English and Cockney. Nobody needs anything else. Fact. :)

Our rules couldn't be much more brief, to be fair.

2014 was not a good year for Microsoft, with the Xbox Live network being disrupted at both ends of December by Lizard Squad DDoS attacks and then as the year was finally coming to an end a different hacking collective dropped another bomb onto Xbox. A posting on Twitter simply stated "Hey, @Xbox! We thought we'd drop on by and End 2014 with a bang ;)" along with a link to a file on Kim Dotcom's Mega cloud storage service. That file, freely available for download by anyone, was the official Xbox One Software Development Kit.

Interestingly, the leaking of the SDK would appear to have been spurred in part by Microsoft itself. A news story about a job opportunity for an engineer to work within the Xbox One Core Operating Systems Group was retweeted by the areWeH4LT account immediately before the one giving the link to the SDK. This quoted Microsoft wanting XBox security to be 'a nightmare for hackers' and it seems the leakage was a direct response to that claim. The actual job description stated: "Our mission is to realize the vision of making Xbox One the most secure and trustworthy consumer computing devices in the world. The team owns overall security implementation for Xbox platform including core hardware/firmware security and software. While delivering ground breaking features central to Microsoft strategy, you will interface with a broad array of teams looking to leverage your work to enhance the Xbox experience. …

I wouldn't waste any more time responding to this spammer: multiple posts, multiple accounts, same sigs, same IPs (although using random ones from day to day) posting a question then posting bunch of answers to expose sig links...

I wonder if the 'Internet effect' also creeps into attention span length as far as TV is concerned? We now have an Internet generation which is used to much shorter bursts of information, including video/entertainment, and when they do watch TV maybe they don't want it too much different?

Then there are shows which are just advertising vehicles, such as Gadget Man (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/gadget-man) here in the UK. Essentially, Richard Ayoade simply holds up or refers to a whole bunch of gadgets, around a very loose theme. Each gadget gets a few seconds of screen time, with a bubble giving the price, and there's a website for more info.

Still not sure how that gets broadcast, or why anyone watches it...

In which case you need to:

a) provide a lot more information than that
b) post your revised question in the appropriate forum
c) show us your code, show us you've made some effort yourself

I've not experienced any cursor jumping today, so fingers crossed.

The golden rule is: if you don't want anyone to see your stuff, don't put it on the Internet. Pretty simple really...

Hi Iva, welcome.

What Prit said.

Specifically, read the terms of service which state:

Posts contributed to the community immediately become the property of DaniWeb upon submission. Members may edit their posts for a limited time period immediately after, for the purpose of correcting spelling and grammar mistakes and accidental ommissions. After this initial period expires, posts may only be edited or deleted by DaniWeb team members, and only in cases where they do not comply with our forum rules for the purpose of making said content comply with all rules. As a discussion community, posts contributed by many members work together to form coherent discussions. Altering or deleting individual posts may have consequences that unfairly extend to other members of the community. All members are held responsible for their actions. As always, think before you permanently post something on the public Internet.

Can confirm I've had the intermittent cursor jumping experience myself, using Chrome, a couple of times during the last few days using the quick reply editor - hadn't noticed it before then.

You already asked this question, and it was answered, SIX MONTHS AGO here: https://www.daniweb.com/business-exchange/website-reviews/threads/462164/blogger

If you spam everywhere else like you do here, I'm not surprised your position sucks...

Welcome and happy new year.

Welcome, happy new year, and yes you are in the right place for sure; we have some awesome Java experts hereabouts.

Belated new year wishes from me. 2014 ended early for me with a migraine, so I'm up this morning with all the symptoms of a massive hangover but none of the joys of excess the night before. Hopefully 2015 will be the year when the migraines get under control!

It's the new year holiday today, so you can't really expect instant replies. A little patience, and someone will be along to help when they have the time.

It's no secret that I used to be a hacker back in the day (20+ years ago) and then turned my hand to consultancy and writing about it rather than doing it.

For me, has to be CoD:AW on Xbox Live. I play Kill Confirmed mainly, and am currently ranked 1250 out of 1.9 million players which isn't bad for an old grandad :)

I'm a geezer... :)

I've passed your apologies on to diafol. Wouldn't worry too much, he's made of tough Welsh stuff :)

Guess you didn't actually read the piece then?

<almostbob> I like this definition of what I do for a living:

Those who can, do
Those who can't, teach
Those who can't teach, write

<M/> see: http://www.wired.com/2014/12/sony-north-korea-hack-experts-disagree/

Use it as a door-stop, buy another 10,000 and build a HD house, paint it and use as an ornament.

Seriously Robert, if there was an award for pointless question of the year...

[hint] ONLY you know the answer to the question you have asked, as Jorge has pointed out.

Sig spammer, pure and simple. Already served a ban for posting obvious questions just to expose sig link, looks like we are starting again.

Yep, just another dumbass signature spammer...

Welcome, and best wishes of the season while I am at it :)