Posts by Gio Ciampa

BOFH: How long does it take to complete Friday's lager-related tasks?

That's how Powerpoint should be used!

The pint icon to reflect just how bad at Barlowing I am... someone get me a drink!

WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

Helen wasn't sure the Wikipedia recipe for upside-down cake was entirely accurate...

Blighty's Bloodhound 1,000mph rocket car unveiled ahead of record attempt

Re: "It's unlikely we'll see much return from all this" - WHAT?

You sound like a government science minister

Do they know anything about science...?

You're FIRE-D: Amazon quietly extinguishes its failed smartphone

Got to generate a loss for tax purposes from somewhere...

Vodafone: Dammit Britain, your emergency services need 4G!

The emergency services could easily afford 4G...

...and much more besides!

All it needs is for Vodafone to pay up the billions in tax that "Dodgy" Dave Hartnett let them off...

The Register's resident space boffin: All you need to know about the Pluto mission

Auntie loves her iThings, so wants to show us she has them at every opportunity

Another day, ANOTHER Windows 10 build for us Insiders

From the Insider site:

"Click on one of the Download links on this page to download a special file – called an ISO file – that you can use to install the preview."

Special??? Surely most vistors will know what an ISO file is, and what to do with it?

NOBODY reading your Facebook post? TOUGH LUCK, sez Zuck

Re: Adblock

Host them yourself and they wouldn't get blocked... ;^D

'Hackers racked up $$$$s via the Android Play Store, and Google won't pay me back'

Dumb question...

I assume she didn't change her Play settings to "ask me every time"...?

UK national mobile roaming: A stupid idea that'll never work

Re: @Lee D

"BT service became better"

Utter Bull!

£125 to "connect" me (meaning: someone at a console pressing a button - the wiring was already in place)

Vodafone eyes up Liberty Global – report

I assume...

...that Vodafone's tax bill must be due soon

"We've not got any money... honest!"

Doctor Who trashing the TARDIS, Clara alone, useless UNIT – Death in Heaven

Re: I missed the end!

Spoilers! I've not watched that yet (it's on my sky box though...) ;^D

Clara goes to the dark side, with dark secrets revealed in Dark Water

Re: "Moffatt has set the precedent for Timelords switching gender"

Try this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PDyuGoKypk

"Moffatt has set the precedent for Timelords switching gender"

Apart from that time in "The Doctor's Wife"...

Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid: The plug-in for plutocrats

"Only one car maker builds truly attractive large saloons and that’s Jaguar"

Nah... they just buy a bunch of tracing paper and copy what Aston are doing (or hire the same bloke who does it for them)

NUDE SNAPS AGENCY: NSA bods love 'showing off your saucy selfies'

Re: Why am I not surprised by this? (@petur)

I can vouch for this, having worked for (if I guess right) that very company on the developing machines back in my student days - it was a common occurrence, should something deemed "interesting" be spotted, for word to find its way to the print room where an "accidental" second copy would be made...

I also spent a brief period where I was the link point between the post-checking and quality assurance departments - so every photo went through me (my job was to ensure that the paperwork matched the print roll), so I've seen it all... medical shots (lets just say, any closer and the camera would be better described as a sex toy), crime scenes (I'll not forget the caved-in skull by a tower block), as well as what were termed "holiday snaps"...

That said - word would also get around if the police were required to attend...

Apple 5S still best-selling smartphone 8 months after launch

Re: Perhaps

You forgot about the use of "Gigantic" by the Pixies

I suppose lusting after huge black male members counts as aspirational...

If Google remembers whom it has forgotten, has it complied with the ECJ judgment?

Seeing as this appears to be all about Google

Just go to Bing or Yahoo! or (if you live in 1998) Ask Jeeves

CIA rendition jet was waiting in Europe to SNATCH SNOWDEN

Re: TheOtherHobbes

Not sure Benito (or descendants thereof) would be too pleased...

'Inaccurate' media misleads public on European Court's Google ruling

Google-friendly?

Most of the reporting I heard went along the lines of "Google will have to remove data"...

...with maybe the occasional "and other search engines"...

...and never "whichever site actually has the data".

By all means remove inaccurate and outdated information - but the reporting on this was horrendous.

Linux distros fix kernel terminal root-hole bug

Re: In the Microsoft World

And the identity of the body funding the study?

Target finally implements chip and PIN card protections

Re: You miss the point.

"Fraud is never initially the victims fault. Even in America."

Until the corporate-backed lawyers decide it is...

Leaked pics show EMBIGGENED iPhone 6 screen

The limited GiffGaff tariffs allow tethering also (the unlimited ones don't)

Parent gabfest Mumsnet hit by SSL bug: My heart bleeds, grins hacker

Mumsnet: "By parents for parents"

Are dads not parents too?

Dell Wyse Cloud Connect: Pocket Android desktop

"Android desktop computing experience"

You mean... like plugging a mouse into the Android tablet I already own? No need for a monitor...

Treat yourself to some FA or NFL action at Wembley

Out of interest...

Are we talking about the section where - for a fair while after half time - there's usually a distinct lack of bums on seats because they're too busy stuffing their faces to watch the game ... you know, the thing they're supposed to be there for instead of schmoozing?

Osbo's booze, bingo, biz and big data Budget

Alan Turing Institute

Would "make sure the UK leads the way in big data and algorithm research".

a.k.a keeping tabs on the population in yet more devious ways...

Apple patent will see Siri remind you to keep taking your meds

Re: The scary part...

Additional:

Apart from the magic words "on a mobile device"?

(The Dell 450 boxes we were using for this back then weren't exactly portable - though they were working on something similar for tablet PCs)

Re: The scary part...

Precisely - how exactly is this significantly different from, say, a system to remind doctors when to order blood tests for a patient, based on the dates/times of previous tests, or the results of said tests...

...something that a colleague of mine (in a previous job) was working on in the early 90's?

Wii got it WRONG: How do you solve a problem like Nintendo?

Re: Opened up the casual gaming market

"same old exploitation of the same old franchises"

Sounds like most of the other consoles too - at least as far as hype is concerned

No, pesky lawyers, particle colliders WON'T destroy the Earth

What happens when 2 lawyers collide at high speeds?

Time for a Kickstarter-funded LLC?

Standing for, fairly obviously, the Large Lawyer Collider

Japanese fanboi first in queue for, er, iPhone 6

Re: O M F G!

"A new model every year is frequent? yet on Android a new model every 6 months is seen as fine?"

No - it isn't. I bought my S3 mini a couple of months after it came out... and a couple of months later the S4 was announced and it was already obsolete - so much so Samsung didn't bother going beyond the Jelly Bean 4.1.2 it shipped with, and even CyanogenMod couldn't be bothered with an official release for it (it's now happily running an unofficial CM KitKat 4.4.2 port).

A right royal pain in the arse if you ask me

Google's tax returns are trop petite says Hollande

And what's wrong with a good old corporate version of PAYE Income Tax?

Also... if it's earned here (no matter where the company is based) then it's taxed here.

Cut out 99% of the exceptions... and off we jolly well go...

(Tricky bit, as usual, is getting the politicians to agree...)

ANYONE on Google+ can now email you, with or without your Gmail addy

"Incoming emails will also be partially filtered using Gmail's new inbox buckets."

And if you don't use them...???

Merry Christmas? Not for app devs: That gold rush is officially OVER

Wish I'd seen this post .... before saying pretty much the exact same thing...

This must be a new meaning of the phrase of which I was previously unaware...

"overall download numbers have crashed" vs "downloads grew by just a quarter"

Since when did "crash" mean "didn't rise by as much"???

(Usual apologies to D.N.A.)

NSA alleges 'BIOS plot to destroy PCs'

Re: Sadly Trevor

If the Justice Department doesn't know what the President is (or is not) allowed to do... how the hell would anyone else know?

How Britain could have invented the iPhone: And how the Quangocracy cocked it up

When do you start filming the next series of Secret Millionaire...?

Mandela memorial. Yup, let's SNAP A SELFIE, say grinning Obama, Cameron

Re: Amazing how many leaders...

Why do you think there's now a G8 summit on tackling dementia?

They've obviously realised they'd forgotten their old views, and are trying to figure out what to do about it...

What a plot of nonsense: Ten Master master plan FAILS

Re: Cadfael for the Master

And then shacking up with a Plasmavore in Halifax

(with the Adipose (super) nanny in tow for good measure...)

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

Re: Mental!

I'll wager that the BBC's F1 coverage (patchy as it is) won't last long because of this - now Sky have a few bob extra to ensure exclusivity there...

Doctor Who nicked my plot and all I got was a mention in this lousy feature

Re: Original stories

Donna Noble did win the lottery in Tennant's (and her) last episode, so I suppose you could say "rags to riches" has been touched upon, even if very vaguely...

Google Chrome: Extensions now ONLY from the Company Store

Re: Morally grey?

Alternatively ... if website operators stopped being lazy and hosted their own ads rather than outsource it to <whoever> (thereby also giving up control over what appears), then much of the ad-blocker functionality would become redundant overnight...

While the BBC drools over Twitter, look what UK's up to: Hospital superbug breakthrough

Re: [snipped by mod]

Does anyone actually still watch The Gadget Show these days?

I gave up on it ages ago - when an iPhone won a "tech" challenge (something to do with GPS navigation if I recall) because (the-blonde-who-wasn't-Suzi-Perry) took forever to choose a dress to change into for the final leg...

Oooh! My NAUGHTY SKIRT keeps riding up! Hello, INTERNET EXPLORER

Re: If your not Asian, your opinion on this means nothing. (@KarlLin)

And your first paragraph says the same about yours... (even if the second one is actually valid)

Does 'Star Wars' casting call hint at DEATH of LUKE SKYWALKER?

Re: Twilight Under Two Suns

...or Disney re-hiring Miley...

The CURSE of WHO: WHY has there never been a decent videogame with the Doctor?

I'm surprised...

...that Auntie hasn't released a cash-in title for The Day Of The Doctor...