Posts by Russell Brown
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Access: Here's to them, in reply to David Hood,
minor typo- the post starts "When Fiona and became parents"
Oops. Thanks.
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Hard News: The other kind of phone tapping, in reply to Jeremy Masters,
I ended up getting a digital keypad on the streets of Hong Kong
This is some Neuromancer shizz.
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Hard News: The other kind of phone tapping, in reply to Alfie,
I must say that I’m finding this thread to be an absolute delight. ;-)
Me too! And thanks for providing our earliest report of tapping activity.
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Hard News: The other kind of phone tapping, in reply to kevinM,
One intersting impact of this reversal was the emergency services number : 999 in the UK 911 in the US and 111 here. This was necessary as if we had used 999, it would have corresponded to three lots of one pulse, which could occur due to wind blowing the overhead lines together.
Wow! And thanks :-)
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Hard News: The GCSB and the consequences…, in reply to Ianmac,
Found Dr Pihama’s rhetoric almost impenetrable.
I understand the words, but using them constantly seems to have the paradoxical effect of limiting the discussion.
And there is plenty of room for a new slant on design put forward by Lester Hall.
On one hand, what he does is clearly not the same thing as a corporation nicking indigenous culture to turn a dollar, it's obviously a sincere attempt to work through ideas. On the other, he did himself no favours at all by claiming to be regarded as a "rangatira".
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Hard News: The other kind of phone tapping, in reply to Kim Shepherd,
Oh yes. What was the number you could dial to get an automatic call back?
I used that one night at a party to prank a drunk guy (pick up ringing phone, say "It's for you") who turned out to be a psycho violent soldier on weekend leave, and did not see the joke. Until a couple of girls intervened he was seriously going to beat me to a pulp.
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Hard News: The other kind of phone tapping, in reply to jb,
DTMF
I'm going to pretend that stands for DIAL TONE, MOTHERFUCKER.
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And here's why it worked in New Zealand!
In most countries one pulse is used for the digit 1, two pulses for 2, and so on, with ten pulses for the digit 0; this makes the code unary, excepting the digit 0. Exceptions to this are: Sweden (example dial), with one click for 0, two clicks for 1, and so on; and New Zealand with ten clicks for 0, nine clicks for 1, etc. Oslo, the capital city of Norway, used the New Zealand system, but the rest of the country did not. Systems that used this encoding of the 10 digits in a sequence of up to 10 pulses, are sometimes known as decadic dialing systems.
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Hard News: How about that cricket, eh?, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Dismissing the performance of the Blackcaps as a result of a friendly draw is both wrong and churlish.
There is certainly an advantage in hosting a tournament – ask Australia. But even then, the draw wasn't that friendly. New Zealand had to back up and play a semi-final two days after winning their quarter final.
But Boult finished with as many wickets as the tournament's best bowler, Mitchell Starc. Southee's return against England was our best bowling performance in a World Cup match and Boult's against Australia was the fourth best. Guptill's innings against WI was the second-highest score in the history of the game, and the semi in Auckland was probably the best match the tournament has ever seen. It's been an amazing few weeks.
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HEADS-UP: I've just published a blog post by Philip Lyth that raises the possibility that Peters will decline to bring in a new MP.
Very interesting.
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