Posts by Dan 55

Stench of confiscated dope overwhelms Catalan cop shop

That would mean they couldn't grab some before heading home.

General malaise

They're complaining that it's stopping the riot squad going out and hitting everything in sight?

Popcorn time at Popcorn Time: More vid slurpers hauled into court

Re: Causation/correlation?

I doubt it, but it's feasible they don't know where it comes from or that they're sharing it to others.

NHS to go paperless by 2020. No, really, it will, says gros fromage

In light of this...

ICO probes NHS clinic's data blunder that exposed HIV+ status of 800 patients

It's probably a good idea not to go paperless.

The 100GB PHONE! Well, it has shades of Chrome, so not quite

And with one Play Store update this phone is superseeded...

When it runs out of memory it uninstalls your least used app but keeps the data on the phone. When you want to use the app again it re-installs it and runs it again.

Very good idea which will work until Google updates Play Store to do the same.

Apple muscles in on biz world AGAIN – this time with Cisco pact

Re: Seamless experience between iPhone and desk phone

So you might as well set up your iPhone as a SIP client via WiFi onto the corporate net.

Re: Seamless experience between iPhone and desk phone

Call forwarding? Hardly revolutionary.

Seamless experience between iPhone and desk phone

Ring desk phone from iPhone, desk phone rings.

In what way do they want it to be more seamless than that?

Microsoft backports data slurp to Windows 7 and 8 via patches

Re: Not mandatory

There was however also a mandatory update KB3022345 installed several times between April and June and was not mentioned in the article, presumably because it's superseded, but it is mentioned on ghacks. As it's superseded it's not offered to new machines but if you haven't uninstalled it it's still there. That needs to go too.

Re: Does the "Keep Calm..." mug exist?

It was a mug originally sold by Microsoft on the now non-existent Scroogle store. The Chrome logo has been changed to a Windows logo by Photoshop.

Re: KB3068708 very slow to complete uninstall

They have done and do. They just raise the version number and push it out again and it is downloaded and installed despite you expressly hiding it.

You've been Scroogled

Windows 10 update roll-out not going quite as planned due to people being put off by data harvesting, phase two of data harvesting underway...

Earth wobbles on axis as Google rebrands

"Show me my photos of Lucas with the pumpkin" (1:39)

Thankfully it appears her husband's not called Lucas.

Privacy, who wants it...

Bloke clicks GitHub 'commit' button in Visual Studio, gets slapped with $6,500 AWS bill

Re: as we push the big, red "Publish" button on this story

How about a video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NITBfc1EOBo

What happens in Vulture Central before an AO article is published.

Europe yawns at EU robo-commish Ansip's digital plans

So nobody in Brussels has heard of FilmOn

Just as well or they'd screw that up for the rest of us too.

Back to school: Six of the smartest cheap 'n' cheerful laptops

Re: Windows for students: just say no

From the tone of your post I can see you haven't actually tried to rock up to an Apple store with a broken computer and see how long you have to wait...

If you don't want to throw away a morning or afternoon waiting for a Genius to tell you what you already know (it's broken) then you can always book online and wait days instead.

Re: Screen size

One thing is 768 vertical, another is 16:9 which nobody had the cheek to sell you 10 years ago.

If you want some stats...

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp

US mulls unprecedented Chinese sanctions in wake of hacks – report

I can see that working

Until China stops exports to the US in retaliation... I wonder who will blink first.

Google's Chrome to gag noisy tabs until you click on them

Re: Good, but I use SRWare Iron and firefox, rather crappy install location Chrome snoopware.

Sound icons con tabs are coming soon and you can set Flash to clixk-to-play already.

Dropbox DROPS BOX as service GOES TITSUP worldwide

We are recovering your files from our Utah data centre.

Spaniard claims WWII WAR HERO pigeon code crack. Explain please

Notary

I can't help but notice the heavy presence of the word notary as as if it were a guarantee, which usually indicates some kind of charlatanism is being practiced...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/05/ebat_sun_lawsuit/

Re: probably something like

The Red Kipper flies at midnight?

Honor 7 – heir apparent to the mid-range Android crown

Fingerprints

So how's the fingerprint stored? Because Android doesn't inspire confidence in this area (see recent security flap for one model which stored them in a world-readable file).

And what about false positives for HTC's generous fingerprint recognition?

Also dual SIM phones which sacrifice the SD card never seem to cut the mustard, you lose the SD card and it might be restricted in some other way (2G only/no data).

Google makes it official: Chrome will freeze Flash ads on sight from Sept 1

Re: Remedial

It seems any improvement in Flash is done first by Google and second back ported to NPAPI and ActiveX. So yes it is a bit embarrassing.

Wow, Barcelona really has a problem with tech disruptors. Watch out Airbnb

Re: What is a tourist?

Well actually you're not far wrong, it's letting a room privately to someone. If you do that you must be on the tourist register and you must meet minimum standards which basically don't allow you to let a room privately in a flat to someone, you've got to set your flat up as a pension.

And you can't get on the tourist register now anyway because the new mayoress says there is too much tourism. But instead of restricting by zone she's knocked it on the head completely while a study is carried out.

Google tells iOS 9 app devs: Switch off HTTPS if you want that sweet sweet ad money from us

Look, it's a story about Google

Let's read it and see how they've managed to screw up security yet again.

The Raspberry Pi is succeeding in ways its makers almost imagined

Re: Grandad

If Grandad's not live on the Internet then he's just a malformed HTML form away from being it. Perhaps that's the next lesson...

Android in user-chosen lockscreen patterns are grimly predictable SHOCKER

Re: Tapping in pin in cinema

What Android needs is an option on the security settings screen which automatically sets everything to their most secure settings, or simply not offer them in the first place.

Re: re: Bootnote, in fairness to Google

In fairness to Google they should bin pattern unlock with Android M.

Perhaps the AIpocalypse isn't imminent – if Google Translate is anything to go by, that is

Re: What should have been looked at

The local economy benefiting is not the same as a couple of locals benefiting. Just because the local signmaker is the mayor's brother-in-law it doesn't mean that that EU funding's done anything useful.

What should have been looked at

The economics of why they couldn't hire a professional translator despite having a huge budget. Or cultural working practices which allow bodge jobs like this.

Not AI. Who said AI has to understand the world using human language? The original Terminator used 6502 machine code and still managed to wipe out a load of humans.

Net neutrality: How to spot an arts graduate in a tech debate

Re: On the other hand...

Net neutrality and QoS are two entirely different things, you can have net neutrality with or without QoS and vice versa. It is important not to confuse the two. Net neutrality (or lack of it) is billing concept, QoS is a technical concept.

The best solution for the surgeon is a network with QoS so video has priority and with net neutrality so their connection isn't throttled for not paying the Mafia fire insurance.

Re: Smug-Mode Enabled

Also worth noting "best effort" is a technical term which can be found in many telecoms engineering manuals and RFCs when referring to QoS. Once you get into the wonderful world of cablecos charging for content and so on then of course they redefine everything as suits them, including QoS.

Twenty years since Windows 95, and we still love our Start buttons

Re: CUA and no bloat

I think it wasn't till OSR2 or something that Windows 95 had built-in Internet access with Internet Explorer.

If you wanted the Program and File Managers back you had until Me, you could run them or change the shell in the ini file. So you had about six years transition if you wanted. It wasn't like Windows 8.

MS just copied the best ideas from the Mac, the Amiga, and the ST and ended up with system which was actually quite usable. Nobody could argue that it was worse than Windows 3.1 or DOS.

Unlike Windows 8...

Cortana Android beta goes public

Let's have a laugh

Somebody post the permissions...

Samsung smart fridge leaves Gmail logins open to attack

Academic anyway

I give it three years before Google changes the calendar API and Samsung doesn't update the fridge.

Suffering a comms blackout in the loo? Now you don't have to

Quality time

But isn't that time to post on El Reg? There is such a thing as market saturation.

Win8 inventory glut? Yep, it's all Microsoft's fault, says HP

Re: Now's the best time to buy HP

As the other two gentlemen said, it's about the EULA and what is uploaded to Redmond.

Now's the best time to buy HP

"Buy now before we foist Windows 10 on you."

Microsoft sues InterDigital for 'monopoly power' over mobile patents

Losing the lot

Something tells me that the current MS under SadNad wouldn't be too disappointed if it went that way.

Brussels taxi union to disrupt the disruptors over Uber service

Re: Ridiculous

On the other hand Uber just hopes to operate illegally in countries to gain critical mass then hopefully that will lead to the law being changed so they're legal afterwards.

Spotify climbs down on new terms and conditions

Stick with the browser and the plug-in (I hope you mean add-on not NPAPI plug-in), who knows what the desktop client is up to.

Re: "Spotify is a social platform"

It's not a social platform, it's streaming radio. People either listen to adverts for free or subscribe to not listen to them... anything else and they're getting ideas above their station, certainly if they think they've got a right to upload people's photos and contacts.

(station... did you see what I did?)

Embracing the life-changing qualities of USB power packs and battery extenders

Re: My phone regularly runs out of electric power.

Holding down power/power + volume up/power + volume down for 10 seconds usually gets you a reboot if it's frozen.

Spotify now officially even worse than the NSA

So...

Use the web version of Spotify so you're not using the desktop version which can get much more information from your computer, in a private window so it can't get to your Facebook profile, deny location information, and log in with a Spotify login instead of a Facebook log in.

Log into Facebook from a non-private window and change your Facebook password. If you use a Spotify account linked to a Facebook account then unlink it, if you log in directly with Facebook and want to carry on using the free service then open a new Spotify account.

In the longer term, look for another service.

And those of us who never linked their Spotify account to Facebook or used a Facebook account to log in can sit back feeling smug.

Oi, Google! Remove links to that removed story, yells forceful ICO

Rewriting history

Isn't this what Orwell warned about?

Trend publishes analysis of yet another Android media handling bug

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