Posts by Don S.

FCC: Thanks for the concern, telcos, but we're not delaying Open Internet rules

Re: I'm confused...

He is trying to prove he's not a dingo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkjkQ-wCZ5A

Wizard of Oz OFFICIALLY 'most significant movie' EVER, says PNAS

Based on the Criteria, I'm surprised Night of the Living Dead (1968 version) isn't number one. Given the current fascination with the whole zombie apocalypse thing.

Serial killer PYTHONS stalk Florida's Everglades

I Understand

That Samuel L. Jackson has become a spokesman for the campaign.

Alec Baldwin kicked off plane for playing with his phone

I'm surprised no one brought this up.

He probably told the Flight Attendant "It's alright, I've played a pilot."

Despite Android lead, iOS devs slurp scads more mazuma

No surprise

Friend of mine ported his iPhone app over to the Android Marketplace. Within a day, pirated copies where showing up.

For a .99 app.

Microsoft gets trademark for retail store plans

Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, oh my.

Not a patent - a copyright big difference.

Jobs confirms iCloud's murder of iWeb

Umm excuse me but

iWeb isn't tied into mobile me. It is a very rudimentary site builder that can publish to mobile me or be FTP'd to any other provider.

There are lots of service providers out there who can provide the space (and probably for a lot cheaper).

I'm sure everyone who uses iWeb on Mobile me can do the 5 minutes work required sometime before the end of June next year.

Bomb threat forces Apple campus evacuation

Anger management

I guess someone is pissed they couldn't get that iPad 2 they wanted... or maybe a white iPhone.

Sheep as smart as humans: Official

"They've hit on the idea of escape"

Monty Python has known this for 40 years.

HP reveals inaugural Palm webOS tablet

Remember when the Pre was supposed to be an iPhone Killer?

The TouchPad will meet the same fate as the Pre with that kind of lead time. Anyone wanting a pad isn't going to wait, to many options will be beating it to the market.

Online sync'n'store services

For those worried about "the cloud".

There is always pogo plug which provides cloud like usability, however you own the storage and have it located locally.

The only drawbacks are it isn't offsite backup and the horrible pink colour.

Altec Lansing Octiv 450 iPad speaker

Title required

The Airplay speaker systems on display at this years CES make this already obsolete.

Asus slips out keyboard equipped Android tablet

Having

read many Taiwanese manuals of the years I can only assume MeMO is a misspelling of MeToo.

Microsoft has shifted 1.5 million Windows phones

Title, we don't need no stinkin' title.

Read the article again, it's 1.5 million phones shipped, not sold. For all anyone knows there could be 1.49 million sitting in carrier warehouses (though I doubt it).

What are the SALES figures Microsoft? Better then the Kin I hope.

Lily Allen sues Apple over hacked Macbook

Misleading Headline of the Year Award goes to ...

Hardly Suing.

The headline suggests that Apple hacked the Macbook.

Mozilla chucks Roc at Microsoft's new hardness

So?

Can we expect a funeral march for Firefox and Opera at the upcoming Beta launch?

(I'm not disgusted with El Reg but the tombstone fit.)

Earth's first all Klingon opera debuts

Title, we don't need no stinkin' title.

It has to be Aktuh and Maylota if you wanna dance with me.

Nine nations to get Apple iPad on Friday

CCK Redux

I purchased my iPad and CCK the first day they were on sale here in the Great White North.

Cloud music: Apple set to clean up

Advantage

I would argue that the ability to purchase single tracks and not a full CD which is 90% crap is a huge advantage.

Another suicide at Apple's Chinese supplier

meh

PRC suicide rate is 13.9 people per 100,000 per year.

Foxconn reportedly has 330,000 employees.

This wouldn't even be a story if Foxconn wasn't an Apple supplier.

Playboy flashes 3D centerfold

What?

"Playboy editorial director Jimmy Jellinek said he hoped Friday's "newsstand event" would remind readers that while the internet's all well and good for perusing smut, there's nothing quite like a hard copy in your hands."

Who reads Playboy with 2 hands?

Mines the grimy raincoat.

Lost iPhone 4G vendor loaner outed

I know nothink, nothink ...

Hogan could have been a hero if he just turned the phone into the damn bar.

Any chance on a Colonel Klink icon?

Gizmodo faces visit from cops over 'found' iPhone

In the middle of "Tech Central"

The DA must prosecute for no other reason then "pour encourager les autres".

Jobsian drones shackle gamer with 'lifetime' iPad ban

Search eBay for iPad

and you will see this is a good thing.

Nothing wrong with preventing profiteering.

Apple delays UK iPad launch

@Brian Chappell

Kind of like el Reg turning the rest of the world into "The UK".

Hardware biggest cause of HDD failure, says Freecom

I would imagine ...

100% data recovery from a drive hardware failure is probably next to impossible.

Cheaper, easier and safer would be a basic backup strategy.

Cultists aquiver as Applestore goes into hibernation

Much ado about nothing.

Back up, only change I can find is the release of Aperture 3.

Confirmed: no iPad iBooks for Blighty

Where do these ideas come from.

I really would like to know where the idea that iTunes is a DRM heavy environment?

The second that members of the PPMA (Pirate Paranoid Music Assoc.) allowed it DRM was gone from iTunes music. I have both ripped CD's and iTunes downloaded music and neither my iPod nor iTunes knows the difference.

There may be some DRM on downloaded videos as I don't download video using iTunes I wouldn't know. I do know that any DVDs ripped using Handbrake work no problems at all.

There is no reason, other then some musings from some winer from Adobe, that ebooks will be any different.

Just a reminder, Microsoft is the king of incompatible DRM, not Apple (See Zune/Plays for Sure).

P.S. I am still boycotting Amazon.ca because after 3 years they still couldn't be bothered to work out an MP3 download deal with the Canadian PPMA.

Air France offers two-seat deal for fatties

" If the plane is not full, they can get a refund"

If the plane is full there is no second seat for them to buy?

2010 will be the year of the net tablet, claims analyst

"Apple's right on the money, then?"

Post hoc ergo propter hoc?

Avatards rush to name sprogs Pandora

@Mike Richards

Probably not, but I will bet that in 97/98 there was a discernible uptick in the use of Jack, Dawson or Rose.

Yank objects to Reg cherry-popping headline

@Rob

"I bet Kelly has been down in the dumps, cause your not a full fledged reporter until you get a commentard being a 'tard about one of your stories."

So she has popped her commentard cherry then?

Thanks for the nice slow one over the plate.

Paris 'cause ... yadda, yadda, yadda.

Nokia sues Apple over iPhone

Sounds like extorsion

"By refusing to agree appropriate terms for Nokia's intellectual property"

Sounds like Nokia said "pay our exorbitant licensing fee or we will sue your ass."

On the other hand, this wasn't filed in East Texas so it must be legit.

Disney kicks 'Ho White' out of bed

I love Fridays

Sorry, but it has to be said:

It could have been worse, she could have been puffing on a dwarf.

Paris because ... well do you really need me to explain.

Judge rebukes copyright enforcer in ringtone case

I wonder

Any chance we can get this judge to move to east Texas and start hearing some patent cases?

They could use some common sense judiciary.

Amazon tosses gelded Kindle at UK readers

No Kindle Luv

It would appear that Canada has been lumped in with the likes of Pitcairn, Cuba and Iran.

No Kindle for you!

Amazon Kindle to burn into to UK next week?

Fixed it for ya

Kindle is currently only available to buy in the United States of America.

The Kindle is not available from Amazon.ca. ironically, lots of Kindle accessories are available, but not the device itself.

One of the 2 reasons I am currently boycotting Amazon.ca. The other is the lack of MP3 downloads as per Amazon.com.

Men far worse than women on password security

For me

7) all of the above.

Secret US spontaneous human combustion beam tested

Nothing new here

Dr. Evil developed this years ago, except he called it a frickin' ATL.

Dell and HP sing Microsoft tune on Word injunction

No title required.

Actually a lot of HP PCs ship with a trial version of Office these days. Come to think of it my Mother-in-Laws new Gateway has it too.

Apple won't take tablet to September iPod event, says mole

We will see what we see

Back in June the same moles were saying we would see no Mac announcements at WWDC.

I'll wait for the event thanks.

As far as there being no "target market" for the Mac tablet, it seems to me the nay-sayers thought the same thing about the iPhone before it was launched.

Extra large condoms hit UK supermarket shelves

Wouldn't you know

I guess I shouldn't have been ignoring all those enlarge your johnson emails.

Want Gmail? Best have your mobile handy

One does wonder ...

How many of these whiners have their mobile number in their email signature.

Recession ending for Western Digital

What about SSD?

The article doesn't mention WDs SSD plans.

That is where the future lies.

Apple sued for 30¢ $5m

They could have got a bargain

They should have bought 69 sent songs ... if they could find any.

Russian blows off ex-boyf's todger with firecrackers

SPAM Time

Alik D

Penis now too small?

http://yetanotherspamlink.com/enlarge.html

Microsoft loses $200m in Texas Hold 'em up patent suit

Why I hate Wikipedia

Although obviously this is an "Aren't I great" Wikipedia entry, it does shed some light on what the patent is about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Winter2009/Michel_Vulpe

Palm: Pré to launch on 6 June

Saving Pre Ryan

On d-day? Really?

HP hit by laptop recall

It's not just the battery.

I have one of the affected units. I'm more worried about the super-heating hard drive catching fire to be frank.

Animal rights group protests seal clubbing in World of Warcraft

Ummm

"PETA's sealing protest begins Saturday, April 11 at 1 PM EST."

A little late to the party, considering the hunting of baby seals has been outlawed since 1987.