Posts by dervheid

Click here to beat David Cameron's web porn ban

Why

so much discussion about how to circumvent the filters?

Simple solution: grow a pair and TURN THE FUCKER OFF!

Surely the best way to send Cuntmoron and co the message.

RBS MELTDOWN LATEST: 'We'll be the bank we should be ... next YEAR maybe'

I think they need a bit of an incentive.

Maybe they'd make their systems a shitload more robust if they were faced with having to compensate every customer with, say, £10 each, per day/part day affected (with a day being defined as 00:00:00 to 23:59:59).

Women crap at parking: Official

Re: Empathy?

I concur. (Is that empathic? *checks dictionary - Damn...*)

And as for multitasking: if I'm reading El Reg I'm not doing anything else.

Brits won't have to pay for thieves' enormous mobe bills any more

Clarity?

What part of "no mid contract price rises" do you NOT fucking understand?

or

Price rise = material change in contract terms = customer may cancel.

It's not difficult.

MPs back call to boycott low-taxed tat from Amazon over Xmas

Instead of putting the onus onto us

Why don'y THEY do THEIR job and get this sorted out so that Amazon (and all the others) CAN'T avoid paying the tax they should be due.

DVLA declares J14 HAD on BU14 SHT and SL14 AGS

NO63 NDS

That is all

Ex-Nokia team unveil Jolla smartphone with added Sailfish OS

Wouldn't it be poetic justice

If this were to turn out to be the phone that Nokia 'should' have made.

Wish them all the luck that they're going to need.

And yes, I AM an ex Nokia user, now gone to Android.

WindowsPhone can kiss my substantial, hairy arse.

US Patent Office disputes crucial scroll-and-bounce Apple tech – Samsung demands patent trial halt

Re: "scrolling and bouncing" is patentable?

... and is part of all that is wrong in the world of technology today.

Really, who gives a monkey's if the page you've scrolled 'bounces' when you reach its limit or not?

Apple, Samsung, (and all the rest of you out there patenting shite, yes, you know who you are) please get the fuck over yourselves.

UK defamation law reforms take effect from start of 2014

But does that mean...

we'll still be able to call, say, David Cameron, a "complete and utter cuntbucket" for example?

Or will he now be able to spit out his dummy, metaphorically speaking, and have the comment taken down?

Samsung pulls Galaxy S3 update as users moan: It's PANTS

Re: I'm not having any issues

Ah yes, Kies.

Seems like every time (which isn't that often) I find myself trying to use that it's got another bloody update waiting to install.

And when I say use...

Functionality. Virtually non-existent.

But yes, they do make good TVs (hardware-wise anyway), but their 'Smart' interface is decidedly slow.

Really s l o w.

The ZOD FILES: Climate documents from 2007 'must stay secret'

Dear Met Office

Just a polite reminder that as taxpayers, YOU work for US.

NOT the other way round.

Now, if you want to retain/regain a shred of credibility, stop being a shower of utter dicks and cough up the documents.

Internet Explorer 11 for Win7 bods: Soz, no HTML5 fun for you

Not bothered

Don't use IE, except at work.

So

Basically

Fuck 'em.

BT Sport scores own goal with £897m Champions League footie rights deal

Re: On Digital

I remember getting a nice letter from ITV Digital's Liquidator, 'inviting' me to purchase their receiver.

Sent them a nice letter back politely declining and inviting them to collect their receiver from our house.

They never replied. Nor did they ever collect it.

I can only imagine it's now rotting in landfill, along with many, many of its brethren.

Will BT Sport/vision go the same way, Who knows. But I'll bet old Rupert will just bide his time...

'Only nuclear power can save humanity', say Global Warming high priests

Re: I am delighted.

i'd rather have a Nuclear Power Station on my doorstep than the equivalent output capacity in windmills.

And by "capacity" I mean actual rather than hypothetical output capacity.

The penny drops

finally.

Stop hugging those trees and embrace the atom.

Of course , there's still billions to be made peddling renewables as 'The Answer'. They're not.

They're only a part of it, and not a majority part.

ICO on beefed-up EU privacy rules: Biz bods will need 'explicit consent' to slurp data

"An obvious first move...

...would be to make sure you know which individuals you hold information about and where it is kept. Then at least if something does go wrong you will know who is affected and who you may need to contact."

If they've not already got that covered, which they should have under the current DPA, then they should have their arses well and truly reamed out.

And by 'they' I mean anyone who keeps data covered by the DPA.

Personally, I'd rather see the on-selling of any 'personal data' outlawed.

Please, PLEASE, Skype... Don't kill our apps and headsets, plead devs

Nothing to see here...

Microstuffed buys new toy

Microstuffed breaks new toy trying to 'improve' it

Move along now...

Call me maybe: Orange loses a segment as competition bites

It says EE on my phone

although the bills still say Orange.

can't say I'm surprised they're suffering (he he he) but if their 3G/GSM signal is as woeful there as it is in my area...

Not to mention their crappy customer service.

Facebook RIPS away your veil of privacy, declares NO MORE HIDING

Good

...bye-eee, Good bye-eee,

Stick your site, from whence you shite, how the fuck do you sleep at night.

We need a ' get it up ye' icon.

Payday loans firm rapped for failing to register with Info Commissioner

Pitiful

Just goes to show that the ICO has fewer teeth than Mr Herbert.

Twitter-mad twits trade 14 million shares in BANKRUPT zombie biz

Re: the world economy

you missed out a few words between "of" and "idiots"

"complete", "total", "and", "utter" & "f***ing"

Radiation snatched from leaky microwave ovens to power gadgets

Very interesting

But less use in the 'average' household, I suspect, than a chocolate teapot. At least you could eat the teapot, presuming you're not allergic to any of the ingredients.

Sometimes the question "why?" should indeed be the first one to be asked.

EE still has fastest, fattest 4G pipe in London's M25 ring

So VF were no better than EE

on 3G, by the sound of things.

Too busy spending dosh on / promoting 4G perhaps?

4G? We dont need no steenkeeng 4G!

Just a decent, strong, reliable 3G signal out of EE would be an improvement.

Tossers.

Ex-CEO Elop's plunder to total $25m in voyage from Nokia to Microsoft

You know whst they say about Pooh-pooh...

Never pooh-pooh a pooh-pooh.

Kindle Matchbook offers cheap digital copies of Amazon print purchases

Farenheit 451

Currently 'unavailable' on Kindle

ISPs scramble to explain mouse-sniffing tool

Goes to 'Man Drawer'

Locates black 'webcam isolation' tape. Check.

Back to using keyboard shortcuts. Check.

Fuckemall. Check

Botched court doc outs Google as respondent in national security flap

Re: winds of change

If Obama had been 'transparent' then people would have been able to spot the inner Republican.

What you gonna do come the next election, people of America?

"Clowns to the left of me (you), Jokers to the right..."

Mobe-slurping Wi-Fi SPY BINS banned from London's streets

"these can be disabled. Unlike the tracking in the bins."

*turns off wifi* *walks away*

Facebook turns tables on profile stalkers with News Feed tweak

What I'd like

is that when I select "most recent" as the ordering, that it STAYED THAT WAY. Is thet TOO much to ask?

Five bods wrongly cuffed thanks to bungled comms snooping in UK

none of the mistakes

were "malicious or deliberate".

How can you 'accidently' request someones texts, voicemails or emails?

Sniff Sniff

"I can smell shite"

Motorola shows off tattoo and swallowable password hardware

Electronic 'identity' tattoos

Cos that's what they'll be. D'you *really* think it'd only be your password on there?

If I recall correctly, there was a 20th century attempt at that sort of thing.

Reports: New Xbox could DOOM second-hand games market

Dear Microsoft

Do you want your shiny new console to be a success? Yes?

Then you need to quash this rumour flat. Because if this is true, then your new console is pretty much dead in the water.

Oh, and please don't counter it with the threat of "Well, we'll just kill of the '360 and force you to buy the One", because I suspect that 99.999% of gamers will retort to that with a resounding "Fuck You"

Windows Phone 8 support to end in 2014

A turd

is just a turd, regardless of what other name you give it.

BSkyB to flick switch on network-level smut-'n'-violence filters

make your mind up, Sky...

the most recent communique from Murdoch's Empire (Dum, dum, dum, dum-dum-dum, dum-dum-dum...) is this

http://help.sky.com/security/protect-your-family/mcafee-parental-controls

Which is a lovely give-away of McAfee Parental Controls

Now, I don't WANT this POS on my machines, and have an 'understanding' of what's acceptable for my 15yo to access and the consequences of going 'outside the fence'.

I DO NOT need my ISP dictating to me what I cannot access. If you want to initiate this, Sky, then you need to make it OPT-IN.

US diplomat: If EU allows 'right to be forgotten' ... it might spark TRADE WAR

love

the general consensus;

"Fuck you USA"

The US scumvernment needs to realise that it is NOT in charge globally.

Nokia straps Qt into ejector seat and hits the shiny red button

Can't be long now

Until Nokia finally die. Thanks Microsoft. Thanks for nothing...

Chip and PIN keypads 'easily fooled' with counterfeit cards

well,

If it's the 'merchants' that are more at risk from this one than the consumers, then maybe there'll be more pressure to sort all this shitfest out.

Dead Apple titan Steve Jobs, a flippin' in his grave

No "Class Action" against Microstuffed?

Suerly that sort of clause would fall under the category of unfair terrms and conditions in this country.

Smells more of fear than confidence in your product to me.

Shower of cnuts.

Nokia dinged with shareholder lawsuit over poor Lumia sales

WinPhone on Nokia - No Thanks

As a former WinPhone user (admittedly an Orange SPV C600), I found that widows mobile sucked like a Dyson.

Maybe it's Just me , but having had Nokias for a while now, I find Symbian Belle on the N8 a fairly easy and intutive to use. It does pretty much everything I want from a smartphone, although some 3rd part app support is drying up (gmail etc).

The one thing that Nokia suck at is music (I've not seen any comments on this aspect of smartphones here.) Nokia Music has one of the WORST UI's ever. Nokia Suite's handling of music isn't ant better. NM doesn't allow you to specify which memory you want to use on the N8, and the player on the phone is seriously basic.

I hoe Nokia dump WinPhone like the turd it appears to be

Cameron hardens stance on UK web filth block

I can only imagine

that this MUST have been formulated by the (surely by now) failing Jazz-Mag industry as a last attempt to prop up their now outdated business model. Let's face it, when was the last time there was a major sighting of the now fabled 'Pornographicus Hedgii'

A bit like the thrashings of the music industry after their failure to see the potential from downloadable music.

And before anyone jumps in with "no music upset little kiddies", I would suggest that you need to broaden your musical horizons.

Ultimately though

YOUR internet connection - Your responsibility, not your ISP's, Not the scumvernment, or some faceless censor.

Medieval warming was global – new science contradicts IPCC

Well,

That's a turn up for the 'book' then...

Who'd have thought that vested interests might have got it wrong...

To repeat from my norms;

"planet warms up,

planet cools down,

planet warms up,

planet cools down,

planet warms up,

planet cools down..."

Fucking deal with it!

'Seas will rise, flood millions of homes' warns Eric Schmidt ecologist

Sea level will rise...

And in other news, the sky is blue, water is wet, and bears shit in the woods. Sea levels have historically been higher than they currently are, and no doubt will be again.

Xbox 360 video cable boasts NOISE VIRUS protection

Re: sparky input

Yup, and it needs to be connected to an earth to have any effect...

Melting Arctic leads to snowy winters

let's call it global climate change...

the 'global climate change' that's been an ongoing, ever-changing, natural process ever since the dirtball first acquired a 'climate'?

Sure.

Reptile boffins spot world's smallest chameleon

That small so...

what the smeg does it eat?

It looks like it would choke on a midge!

Higgs boson hunters have god particle in their sights

What the fuck is

an "Inverse femtobarn". Or more precicely, how much?

Globe slowly warming, insists 'Hansen's Bulldog'

Or maybe...

it's just a natural phenomenon...

Earth gets warmer,

Earth gets cooler,

Earth gets warmer,

Earth gets cooler.....

Open-sourcers suggest Linux secure boot block workarounds

Why the fuck...

should microstuffed, or anyone else for that matter, be allowed to dictate to me what I can, or can't do to MY hardware?

Yes, I KNOW there's a 'workaround', but if the swiss cheese that is a windows OS was actually secure in it's own right...

Nokia: The first year of the Elopcalypse

"Symbian still doesn't have a Kindle app. And neither does Meego"

There's lots of other 'apps' that haven't surfaced on symbian, not even on 'anna'

it's a bit of a pain in the arse, cos otherwise I'm more than happy with my N8 (free satnav, which actually works!)