Posts by Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse

Japan gets unlocked phones and 42Mbps HSPA

And what do we get from our mobile operators?

Locked handsets and newly imposed caps on mobile data usage.

The UK going backwards as usual.

IT recruiters warn over migration caps

Lets face it...

No one grows up wanting to work in IT recruitment. If they spent more time trying to understand the intricacies of the roles they were recruiting for, and how different skills interweave with others, they may have the nous to be able to realise that there is very often no 100% person fit to any job description.

Unfortunately, and I see it all to often... recruitment agent gets job spec and then expects to find an exact 100% match for all the skills listed, rather than understanding that that person doesn't actually exist.

The problem is also that recruitment is most of the time staffed by transients, persons that could not hack it in IT proper, or those who have drifted into the role because they didn't have any real skills at anything.

Computer grads can't even get jobs offering personal services

Perhaps...

All of these Comp Sci graduates should spend their time bettering themselves by doing a Cerco course. These lead to an industry recognised qualification and could lead to a salary of around £30,000 per year in the exciting field of PC maintenance; and demand for qualified IT maintenance technicians has never been higher. They'll even help you find your first job after "graduating".

So there you go. No excuses...

Apple iPad 3G 32GB

How much!!!!

* cough *

* splutter *

The 3G coverage picture that can't be published

Vodaphone

Have an online map service where customers can report their own reception results for both voice and 3G comms directly back to them. The web link is here:

http://online.vodafone.co.uk/mobile_services/mobile_network_coverage/Coverage_map_signal_strength_tester

But I'm sure there was also a better version that used Google maps.

Phorm's losses top $100m

@ NSLD

Phools and their money are easily pharted.

Sorry... parted.

Hulu to charge $10 for iPad and Playstation 3 TV

My guess...

Is that they'll be out of business within the year.

SAP hit by competition complaint

Not surpsrised

SAP are under an awful lot of pressure and any excuses to make their own awful (from an end users perspective anyway) software better would not be missed.

On the other hand "waaaaaaahhhhhh" for Versata. Perhaps they could spend billions developing their own ERP system.

Baidu begins search for Silicon Valley talent

So the job ad will read...

"Weren't good enough to get in at Google? Then it's open season for you at Baidu."

Nasa returns to the moon... in 3D game

I always wanted to fly one of those...

Space 1999 spaceships with the diamond shaped black and white cockpit, the 4 springy retractible landing pads and a working crane type thingymabob, and if I remember correctly a removable freight container in the middle.

Not quite as cool as the Millennium Falcon, but only by a little.

Bono doubles down on Facebook

Bonio should stick to doing dogs food...

Facebook valued at $23bn? Based on what? Ad revenue?

If that is the case it proves that marketeers really do have more money than sense.

Laid-off public sector techies better get flexible to survive

CW Jobs

CW Jobs aren't actually in the business of finding people jobs as far as I am aware.

What they actually are is an online space, similar to Jobserve and Monster - where recruitment agencies (mostly) and companies (few and far between) directly post the job vacancies that they are currently recruiting for.

It is also a space where potential candidates can post their resumes online for recruitment agencies to browse, and for those seeking work to set up specific filters and email/mobile alerts when roles suitable for their skills are posted.

LibCons bin £2bn of late Labour projects

Stonehenge

Yeah yeah I know it's a "national treasure", and that it's really old. But none the less I can't imagine how any sane person could have signed off a 25 million pound business case for a "visitor centre".

And yes, I have been there recently.

Nobel Prize winner on dodgy World Cup ball

Crap ball or not...

It does seem to be quite a bland and tedious world cup so far.

As for Mr Murrays comment "1966 was a very long time ago it's past time you got over it". I couldn't agree more, in fact, I think a very similar thought whenever Jesus comes up in conversation.

Please forward this idea immediately to the BBC, ITV and Talk Sport.

New Xbox 360 said to 'still scratch discs'

People are still buying these?

Really?

Killer piranha stalk Folkestone pond

Typical over exaggeration...

Fishermen huh!!! I'd be highly surprised if a single Pirhana could have taken his arm off lest it be on big mutant of a motherf**ing fish. OK, yes, maybe he could have gotten a fairly deep cut from the teeth, but the real threat of the Pirhana comes when there is a school of them... and only then that they are all hungry.

Incidentally, I had a nice tug on my rod last night ;-)

Privacy watchdog pack demands Facebook close the 'app gap'

Why don't...

All of these various fragmented, diluted and mewing electronic privacy groups combine into one and present a single coherent and unified message. Otherwise isn't there a danger that they are all ignored and dismissed like an annoying buzzing fly, rather than as serious spokespeople for the monitoring and actioning of supposed privacy violations.

iPad beats BlackBerry for browsing

I guess business must be slow at Quantcast...

The iPad is primarily a web surfing device whereas Blackberries are more about telephony and email.

I shoud have titled this comment : "no shit sherlock".

Internet 1 - England goalkeeper 0

Love Kermit.

Love Kermit.

Ten Essential... iPad Accessories

So thats...

£500 or so quid for a device with no real purpose. And another "essential" £600 or so to make it useable for that "no real" defined purpose.

Makes my £500 laptop seem an eminently better deal.

But hey... it's not news that Apple fans have more money than sense.

Penguin chief: Linux must 'out fabulous' Apple's iPhone

Geniuses, the lot of them!!!

"Zemlin warned open sourcers their software needs to out-Apple Apple on design and functionality, and they can't bury themselves in the cryptic commands and poor user interfaces that typified Linux since it exploded in the 1990s."

Christ, 15 years down the road and they've has only just noticed? No wonder Linux has made zero inroads on the MS/Apple desktop monopolies.

O2 to step back from unlimited mobile data deals

Which is really a way of saying...

"That we've spunked all that money on advertising lies and sponsorship rather then investing it in our network infrastructure... which is shit BTW."

UK.gov unplugs Lane Fox digiquango

What the f**k has MLF done anyway that...

Makes her any sort of spokesman for any form of useful strategy on anything?

Home Office launches urgent review of illegal police stop'n'search

Welcome news.

May I suggest that the next step be a top to toe radical rethink to the way officers are trained so that they understand the laws in practice that they are supposed to be enforcing, rather than getting away with acting like the little hitlers that they want to be and simply interpreting the laws as they see of fit, or as they would like them to be.

Granted, this would also need to encompass a complete restructuring of Police administration so that those out on the streets actually have the time to learn this fairly important canon of legislation, rather than learing how to fill in forms and push pencils.

Judge to movie studios: Why shouldn't I dismiss piracy lawsuits?

Unfortunately, not only in America...

1. Make a shit film that no-one will ever watch.

2. Blame lack of revenue generated from aforementioned shit film - on piracy.

3. Generate profit by sueing anyone who might have used a PC, or an internet at some point.

Smartphones to outsell PCs by 2012

Ok...

So can we see the equivalent survey showing just how much revenue these companies make on the back on this advertising?

I would assert that most of this cash gets spunked to the ad brokering/web platforms by "marketing executives" because "everyone else is doing it" rather than on the back of any serious ROI calculations.

Me... I just ignore it.

Yahoo! signs up Becks as footie pundit

Yahoo and Beckham...

Both are well past their respective bests, so they should make ideal stablemates.

Stephen Fry's truly terrible mistake

Slightly off topic...

The Nokia Home Music thing... anyone know if it will stream media content off of my Synology DS109j as this could be jst what I am looking for.

Thanks.

Auction opens for rare single letter net domain

Come on...

Surely there isn't anyone out there still stupid enough to think that a fancy URL makes any difference to anything at all?

If/when this URL does sell, I'm hoping it does so for $1.

Ballmer says Windows will shame iPad

Whilst I have no particular love for Apple...

They do seem to be several steps ahead of MS in the useability and mobile O/S reliability stakes as my experiences of using Windows mobile have been awful, even when it is layered over by custom widgets added by the phone makers and 3rd party vendors.

I won't be buying an iPad though simply as I cannot see any functional use for it, but I would in theory welcome a reliable Windows based pad. None the less though, MS really must try harder at producing an easy to use mobile platform that actually works and that doesn't have to be constantly restarted due to crashes.

Sky snaps up Virgin TV channels

@ Objective

In response to your post I'd presume because VM as a legal entity is registered under Irish laws to take advantage of more favourable accounting/tax rules - thereby making any UK offices simply "branches" of that company.

Happy to be corrected on this though.

Salacious smut soaks 12% of web

Unlikely.

The way these results are presented makes them look more like many of those crap surveys that appear in Mens Health or GQ magazines where the population quota sampled is about 15, and then extrapolated out linearly to supposedly represent a total population.

So I call "shenannigans" on these results - but in all truth don't give a flying toss either way and am off for a w**k off over the latest Jamie Brooks vid.

Synology DiskStation DS210j Nas box

Have the Synology DS109J

And it is excellent apart from the small internal memory.

It works a dream streaming content all over the house including to the PS3 and iTunes on the PC.

There are problems though using it with the Logitech Squeezebox radio so am looking for another portable audio device (like a radio) that I can stream music from my NAS, to.

Any suggestions?

Approaching space object 'artificial, not asteroid' says NASA

@ The Fuzzy Woznot...

Don't forget your towel and a packet of peanuts either.

Apple iPad

It's a FAIL from me.

It's simply for geeks who need gadgets to make themselves feel better.

TwitPic-nicking Mail nicked

Keep us updated...

Can you (or Emily) keep us updated on how this one plays out El Reg?

Twitter tw*ts ad networks

Tw@tter

It's just a fad. So don't worry it'll all pass by soon enough.

Just thought I'd share that with you all.

IT Crowd gets fifth series run

I watched...

But didn't see any of the votive El Reg offerings in the show.

Still Katherine Parkinson back on the screen is no bad thing ;-)

Google hails Pac-Man with retro gaming homepage

Fair play Google...

It doesn't allay any of the evil stuff you've been up to recently. But it's a nice touch.

Jodrell Bank gets swanky visitor centre, infuriating maze

So they couldn't find anything better to spunk £3.1m on?

As the title says.

6Music in numbers

That may be so...

But how many people actually listen to it?

Facebook gives users' names to advertisers

What FB ads?

Greasemonkey + FB ad killer = No FB ads.

Logitech Squeezebox Touch Wi-Fi music streamer

What are the alternatives?

I have all of my music on a Synology NAS running it's own itunes server, and what I'd like is almost this Logitech product, but with a built in speaker so it would be truly portable around the house.

Any products out there to recommend?

Brussels declares war on web virgins

Fuck off Brussels.

"Everyone, young and old, irrespective of social background, is entitled to the knowledge and skills they need to be part of the digital era since commerce, public, social and health services, learning and political life is increasingly moving online."

Very true - give this unelected nobody a degree for his profound thinking.

The counterpoint though, is that not everybody wants to live their life on the internet.

Sergey Brin: 'We screwed up' on Street View Wi-Fi grab

Derrr!!!!

So Brin says : "we do actually have a lot of controls in place, but obviously they didn't prevent this error from occurring"

I find it hard to comprehend that a company that is supposedly so forward thinking didn't think to test those controls before rolling this streetview fiasco out, which leads me to believe that this was definately pre-meditated and planned.

This is definately damage limitation. FORTUNATELY, in the EU anyway, I feel the damage is now done to a point where any trust Google had garnered is now gone.

Just another corp.

'Draw Mohammed' call prompts Pakistan Facebook ban

Yes but...

I'm not Islamic, have not been taught under the Isamic method, and do not subscribe to it's fictions.

So I'll draw whatever the hell I choose to.

Thanks.

The commercial cuckoo hiding in the BBC's global mission

@ Old news this...

I do agree with your post up to a point. Just to remind you though that the BBCs public service mandate doesn't just cover the requirement to pump out shit TV content (which is certainly the case the majority of the time albeit with a few exceptions).

The jewel in the BBC public service crown is the E2E local to global news service and this is I feel the REAL sector of the corporation that needs to be protected from both government interference, and actions born from anti-competition complaints from Murdoch and his cronies. BBC news is one of only two (possibly 3) news agencies in the world that have the resources, global reach, and quality standards to make the delivery of that reporting stand up to scrutiny.

Post Gilligan though, I feel that this soon could be seriously under threat as the BBC will be requiring government to stand by it as Murdochs shouts get louder, and will probably bend it's standards to deliver any message that Gov't asks it to.

Which will be a shame.

Chelsea fans hack Man Utd phone systems

I'm so shocked by this...

That I've just dropped my prawn sandwich.

UK border security ring-o-steel flagged 48,000 travellers

So that's...

£600,000 per arrest?

That's some ROI.

Brazilians ordered to have more sex

@ LuMan

Couldn't agree more, but you need to be careful that you don't do a Begby and end up with a Patricia Araujo or suchlike.

Unless that's your thing of course.