Posts by Shades

Websites stagger to feet, Network Solutions wears off DDoS hangover

Re: The fun has just begun

You're still here then I see, Morris! You really should learn some new phrases!

Pwn all the Androids, part II: Flaw in Java, hidden Trojan

Not a problem with Java or the Dalvik VM. Subheading is classic El Reg click bait.

Radar gremlins GROUND FLIGHTS across southern Blighty

Re: flightradar24

Well, the last few chartered flights I've tried to track (one being a couple of weeks ago, a Thomson flight) did not appear on any (online/app) flight tracker I used, only the scheduled (and actual) departure and arrival times were displayed. Maybe I've been doing something wrong then?

Re: flightradar24

Could this be because scheduled flights are being given priority over chartered flights which, last time I looked, weren't tracked in-flight anyway?

Dancing Sepp Blatter on 'World Cup site' creates security flap

Typo-squatted?

"The official site is: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/index.html and the campaign site is: http://www.fifa-brazil-2014.com"

I think the differences between those two URLs is significantly more than a typo!

AXE-WAVING BIKER GANG SMASHES into swanky Apple UK store

Trying...

...to get in Apple's good books El Reg? Don't particularly see you doing this for any other firm, especially not with the appeal at the bottom. Whats up, do you want invites to the iOS7 launch or something?

#Facebook: Now all your hashtags ARE BELONG TO US, Twitter

Re: Court proceedings?

Just out of curiosity, and a serious question, how could Twitter have a patent on the common hash symbol followed by an undetermined word or series of words? Surely they couldn't patent the hash symbol alone as (in pseudo-patent mumbo-jumbo) a method to curate messages from multiple accounts with the same subject? Although, given some of the stupid things that have been patented I suppose its entirely possible!

I can see it now...

When Facebook get to rolling it out in your area, all your meticulously chosen privacy settings (mines as locked down as is possible from prying eyes... although not those in the NSA of course) will be steamrollered into once again being as open as a wannabe models legs at a private gathering of footballers!

Google gobbles map app Waze

Expect...

...Google will strip the bits they need, slowly hobble the app and users quickly leaving because they don't want to do the donkey work for a company the size of Google.

Hitchhikers' Guide was WRONG, Earth is not in a galactic backwater

Re: No upvotes from me

And then two people went and spoilt it! Poor show guys! :(

Unemployed? Ugly? Ugh, no thanks, says fitties-only job website

Re: Ha

"Would be totally illegal here in the UK.

Except that its not. There are 9 recognised characteristics against which one can be discriminated, of which appearance/attractiveness is not one:

• age
• disability
• gender identity and gender reassignment
• marriage or civil partnership (in employment only)
• pregnancy and maternity
• race
• religion or belief
• sex
• sexual orientation

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/discrimination_e/discrimination_about_discrimination_e/equality_act_2010_discrimination_and_your_rights.htm

Re: Poll

"Why? Is he trying to get a job?"

No, but it would be a bit like me running a website called Huge Dick Dating... I'm not extraordinary tall nor called Richard.

Re: Poll

I wouldn't go as far as saying retarded, but with that massive chin, huge forehead, wonky teeth, funny shaped ears and an eye that looks like its had its very own stroke, I certainly think its a bit rich of him to be running a site called BeautifulPeople.com!

Inside Intel's Haswell: What do 1.4 BEELLION transistors get you?

Either I'm confused, or Tony Smith is?

From the article: "So when laptop’s lid is closed, the system will drop to a power consumption level existing machines reach only when hibernating - the S3 state - but the system is nonetheless sufficiently awake to be ready to use by the time the user has lifted the lid"

Unless I'm very much mistaken current machines, when hibernating (the S4 state, not S3 as stated in the article) use zero power, or at most the same as G2/S5; so thats no power to the CPU, RAM or anything else that isn't directly related to powering the machine on.

How on earth is it possible for a future (Haswell equipped) laptop to drop the the same power consumption level of an existing machine in hibernate (zero!) yet still be "sufficiently awake" to return to a usable state "by the time the user has lifted the lid"?

Or did I miss the bit in the article that said Haswell equipped machines will be using non-volatile RAM?

Look out, fanbois! EVIL charger will inject FILTH into your iPHONE

Re: Trusting ANYTHING plugging into a USB port....

"however my devices (Moto Defy, Xperia Mini Pro, Xperia U) would auto connect as an MTP "

And therein lies the difference of what was being discussed. MTP isn't the same as USB Mass Storage. MTP is a protocol over USB which sidesteps Androids built in "Click to Enable" USB Mass Storage mode.

Re: Trusting ANYTHING plugging into a USB port....

"Do tell. Every one I've used looks like a mass storage device on plugging into A N Other machine. No intervention required."

Wrong. While an Android device appears straight away to a machine as a mass storage device it doesn't actually function as one unless mass storage mode is subsequently enabled on the Android device itself. Its a bit like how a computer can "see" an optical drive, without a disc in it, but it has to have a disc inserted to "enable" it. Furthermore, while it is possible with additional software or a custom ROM to have USB mass storage mode automatically switch on when plugged into another device, no "as manufactured" Android devices have this option.

Relax, Hollywood, ARM's got your back: New chip 'thwarts' video pirates

"The idea around this bullshit is usually that the decoder (e.g. the console, it's CPU or whatever) will only permit a full HD connection to a view (e.g. TV) over an encrypted channel (the decoder and viewer will engage in some crypto hand-shake). And yes, this is a mandatory requirement for HDMI."

You're talking about HDCP (High Definition Content Protection). There are many boxes out there that sit in the middle of a HDMI link (between the source and the actual display) which fool the source into thinking they are displays, take care of the HDCP encryption hand-shake and pass the unencrypted data onto the display device. These boxes didn't actually start life as merely a means to facilitate copying of content, they arose as a workaround to allow some early plasma/LCD TVs, which didn't support HDCP, to show content from devices which have HDCP always on (like the PS3 for instance).

More than half of Windows 8 users just treat it like Windows 7

Re: More than half?

"There are more Linux based (and its Linux kernel based Android mobile counterpart)"

Oh god, this again. In the eyes of "normal" people Android is as much Linux as a Jaguar X-Type is a Ford Mondeo (in an old frock). Hell, from many comments on El Reg many people still don't differentiate Android, as an OS that can be used on a multitude of hardware, and the manufacturer of their current handset upon which it runs (to some people Android = Samsung). To most people Windows is Windows, Android is Android and a Jaguar X-Type is a Jaguar X-Type.

You're comparing A with B + C.

Re: No it doesn't

"to have the gear shift taken down from the roof and reinstalled on the prop tunnel, the square steering knob replaced with a round wheel and the dashboard you had to rotate to view one dial at at time, replaced with a couple of convetional instruments.

Sounds more like an old school Citroen!

FLABBER-JASTED: It's 'jif', NOT '.gif', says man who should know

@Lallabalalla. Re: Sega

"Or perhaps you're that much younger and the truth was already out there?"

I wish I was, but unfortunately not. Like the OP, I too pre-date the release of Sonic.

Re: Sega

Oddly I, and everyone else I knew at school, pronounced it as "SayGa". Perhaps pronunciation differences, prior to the release of, Sonic was a regional thing, or my friends and I, pronouncing it correctly, were bigger geeks than we thought?

Orange customer clobbered with SIX-FIGURE phone bill

Re: Units?

I'm pretty sure that 1TB of data is pretty much 1TB of data even by El Reg Unit standards. I think the general rule of an El Reg Unit is that the measurement has to be quirky rather than just giving a standard unit a new name... like length measured in EU Linguine, Double decker buses and Brontosaurus.

Petshop iPad fanboi charged with filming up young model's skirt

Re: Am I the only one.....

Sorry, we all stand corrected, Jimmy!

Badges for Commentards

Re: Make up your mind El Reg!!

Aww, now I feel bad... someone at El Reg (Drew I presume?) Has re-re-ugraded my account and sent me another "upgraded" email. At 17:17. On a Friday. Thank you :)

Make up your mind El Reg!!

After getting the "Upgraded" email 4 times, losing my badge, getting the badge back, getting another "Upgraded" email it now appears my badge has vanished again!!

Is anyone actually in charge at Vulture Towers or have your computers gone rogue??

Re: FAO Drew

Thats 5 times I've got the "upgraded" email LOL... but at least I've got the formatting options back.

Cheers Drew :D

FAO Drew

Hey Drew. Don't know if your drewc@thereg[...] is just used for mailers (and thus the inbox is generally ignored?) but I've tried emailing you over two issues and got no reply so I'm trying here instead....

One issue is I got the email saying I've been "upgraded" to the bronze badge 4 times and the other is that I seem to have had the bronze badge I already had removed instead.

If you could look into these I'd be most grateful, especially the removal of the badge after saying I'd been "upgraded" to it, I miss the extra formatting options!

Cheers

Hey, Teflon Ballmer. Look, isn't it time? You know, time to quit?

"Adds adds and sales through a store. If you have choice, you'll not take the adds they will/can add to Metro."

Come again??

Don't bake your Raspberry Pi - now you can WATER COOL it

Re: Appropriate Topping

If this cooler was ever manufactured commercially that should definitely be its name!

Oz volcano's lava lake spills from crater

Re: Actually its the Predators firing up their training facility.....

"quality of that movie"

I watched it in a French cinema, with no English subs, with my French ex-girlfriend. Lacking any real skills in the French language, beyond asking for a beer, I could still follow what was happening with the most simplistic of plot ever and even I could tell the film was crap. I've since watched it in English and confirmed that it was indeed crap.

Ready for the car 2.0? Nvidia preps UPGRADABLE car system

Re: Fixing a problem that doesn't exist

Quick, oh wise sage, you better tell Ferrari, Porsche, Lexus, and no doubt other vehicle manufacturers, that they're doing it wrong by going with interactive, configurable digital displays then! Personally I quite like the idea of being able to customise my cluster and entertainment system but it won't influence my driving in an way. I can't speak for morons behind the wheel but then again there are morons behind the wheel no matter what, always has been, always will be, sticking to boring old clusters isn't going to change that.

Malware and domain-squatters target Boston Marathon bombing

WBC

One thinks they doth protest TOO much. Let he who is without sin... and all that bullocks.

Internet Explorer makes modest gains against Google Chrome

Re: Opera's share seems have gone negative...

I don't think I've had a single addon break since Mozilla moved Firefox over to the new version/update system.

Re: DEAD CAT UPWARD DEATH SPIRAL ALERT!!

If you liked Chrome, but dislike all the creepy Googly stuff, then why not give Iron a try? Its Chrome but with all the creepy stuff stripped out.

StreetView spots possible roadside nookie down under

Alternatively they could be friends of the driver of the Google car, and had been given prior warning.

Boffins say flash disk demands new RAID designs

@Gordan

Thanks for your polite and informative reply (a rarity on El Reg these days, especially during school holidays... I suppose it also helps that this isn't a topic about Apple/iPhone or Android!)

Its a shame we can't use multiple icons otherwise you'd have a beer too!

Do you mean the 10 year old 200Gb 3.5" HD I've got in a USB/NAS box? What about the 17 year old 17Gb 3.5" HD I've got that occasionally gets spun up to store small files. Or maybe you're on about the 20 year old 120Mb 2.5" HD that lives inside my Amiga A1200? Do you mean those woefully unreliable lumps of spinning rust?

Naturally usage patterns/environment affect life-time but to make such a sweeping statement about spinning HDs is silly, especially when SSDs have their own longevity problems.

Review: HP ElitePad 900 Atom tablet

Re: Stylus !

Could it be that Bob (and you, and others?) just have extraordinarily large sausage fingers (for desktop mode)? I used to operate the lighting in a nightclub with an 12" 1024x768 ELO touchscreen monitor attached to a box running WinXP and had no problems whatsoever.

Apple handed victory in Samsung text-selection patent case

Re: Bullet proof, but not B.S. proof.

"I never heard of them"

Are you seriously being serious?!?

Federal lawyers, MIT threatened following Aaron Swartz' death

Re: They make...

Jeez, why are you still lurking around here Morris?!

Holy sh*t!

Is it just me or did a amanfromMars1 post actually make sense??

Steve Jobs to supervise iPhone 6 FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE

Re: Handset manufacturers and network love stolen phones

Blacklisting is used, well, in the UK and Australia it is. All networks here (and in Oz) register the IMEI of reported lost/stolen phones with the CEIR, which then share the list of blacklisted IMEIs with the other networks. Whether or not someone can be bothered to report a lost/stolen phone (especially if its a cheapo PAYG handset with no insurance) and just chalk it up to stupidity/experience is a completely different matter.

Google extends trademarks-in-ads policy to whole world

Flash b*stards!

"With that precedent in its pocket, plus the Loius Vuitton case"

I guess a normal sized wallet wouldn't suffice for carrying round their wads of cash?

Software bug halts Curiosity: Nuke lab bot in safe mode

Re: $500/hr

Ah crap, good spot! I meant 'm' not 'k'.

Re: $500/hr

"I reckon it would be fairly impressive"

Its about $25k when Mars is at its absolute closest opposition to earth, about 33.9 million miles. At their furthest point from each other (both opposition and ophelion), around 249 million miles, the charge would be around $187k.

AdBlock Plus BLOCKED from Google Play

Re: More adverts, everywhere.

The term "sideload" amuses me when refers to Android as it actually allows you to install software from elsewhere (as long as you tick a box buried in the settings).

I always thought sideloading was used in relation to the installation of software, via an undocumented method/hack, on devices which don't specifically allow the installation of software from places other than their own app store.

Anyway, can't see the point of apps like AdBlock taking up CPU time and consuming precious elecktrickery when a perfectly good, and frequently updated, hosts file does exactly the same job with either none or very, very little extra overhead.

Elon Musk's 'Grasshopper' hover rocket scores another test success

Re: Strange URL

Glad I'm not the only one to have noticed that!

Seattle drinking den bans Google Glass geeks

Re: Pointless

"Sounds like my life, and I don't even wear the bastard things! :)"

So you have teenage kids then?

Pirate Bay to world: We're not really off to NORKS

Re: No, no, the hoax is a hoax

We need to go deeper.