Posts by Danny 14

Peugeot 508 Active e-HDI micro-hybrid

hmm

i've always been a bit sussed about lubrication on the start-stop engines. Especially diesel ones. I'll wait a bit.

No Gingerbread snack for Desire owners, says HTC

yup

what a load of tosh. Im sure that there will be a rom out there for them sooner or later.

Blimp fireball disaster in Germany, Aussie pilot killed

so

they dont have an emergency helium vent then?

Creationists are infiltrating US geology circles

aha

but maybe god got thirsty. Or went for a big whizz in the pacific only to flush it out to somewhere else. Maybe the earths core isnt molten afterall, maybe its a big toilet.

mmm bacon.

quite easy

you dont have to believe in something in order to study, remember and pass the exams. know thine enemy?

Even advanced degrees are just exams. I suspect a doctorate may be harder as you would need a convincing viva voca

nyack nyack

"Firstly, they argue that the dating techniques are not accurate"

wut? Apart from the fact you could reproduce the experiments yourself if you want. Just take a lower half life specimen.

or

simply carbon date things. Or did radioactivity start at -10000 with varying degrees?

Duke Nukem Forever

indeed

serious sam was fun and wasnt at a premium price either.

BT earmarks 66 more exchanges for fibre-to-the-cabinet upgrade

really?

"On the other hand, you still can't get fibre through anyone but BT or a BT reseller, so no rush"

Easynet will supply fibre to me, as will smallworld. FTCC is 50 miles away at the moment.

IATA: this iPad could BRING DOWN A PLANE

but

some of us have phones that can play music, or read books on, or watch films on. Even fap too with the girly pictures.

not really

your kindle will probably be the worst out of the lot as it will have an inverter in there. Nasty things that cause EM spikes. The GPS probably the least as GPS are typically well shielded in order to accept the GPS signal. MP3 players are the middle as they probably have inverters too - your illumibrite watch will be the worst offender of them all.

Motorola Atrix dual-core Android smartphone

shame they are so expensive

1930mAh battery - it would have been worth having for this capability alone. Shame about the locked bootloader though.

No ta.

Taxman recruits fricking tax-collecting robots

eh?

So they are going to monitor public ebay records and attempt to tie them up to a real person? Or are they going to trawl individuals then get the info from ebay?

Not sure I get what they are planning to do.

Boris-Bike firm penalised by £5m over system hiccups

indeed

I rarely let my meat do the thinking. That went horribly wrong in vegas once. Oh lord the scars and pain.

Another Groupon ad complaint upheld

plus

you often block book advert runs and I doubt they will get a refund on unused blocks.

Microsoft loses Supreme patent fight over Word

indeed

but although I hate M$ for trying to do this, it WOULD undermine patent trolls.

Feds seize $15m from scareware monger's Swiss account

indeed

money leaves a trail. Paypal? Credit card transactions?

Oh no, that would be work. Lets pocket the money instead.

BioWare blows brains with intro cinematics for Star Wars MMO

indeed

it is also the content. LOTRO was just plain boring. Sure it had the mechanics spot on, the world was good, monsters were accurate but it was glued together by someone who had no idea about LOTRO. The same can be said for DDO - the world was spot on along with character progression but the dungeons were dull and uninspiring. No excuse as NVN spawned some fantastic adventures that could have been adapted (the theme of them, not the ACTUAL adventures!).

wow

so you mean we get to collect gungan tails?

Hannspree Hannspad 10.1in Android tablet

plus

the vega has more support for firmware updating. Not sure on the hannspree without looking at the community.

dont bother

Apparantly the germans have no grasp of humour.

HTC Flyer 7in Android tablet

eeeek

how much? No ta. You could put up with a few flaws and go for a vega, mifi & a netbook for that money.

Everything Everywhere goes all over the High Street

not quite

it doesnt work in the same way though, there are only a small handfull of shops that support it. For most contracts you get back about £40 to £50 using quidco as normal. Otherwise you would only get at max 4.5% from a card transaction. Even if you were mad enough to walk into a mobile shop and outright purchase one you would only get up to £25 ish - and I bet you could buy one cheaper online if you wanted to do this. Coupled with the fact someone like buymobilephones.net usually have decent offers of phones on non-native networks with auto cashback (cannot abide with the send 6th, 9th,17th bill for money etc offers) usually wins my business.

Plus there is pretty much zero chance of sending your phone back from a shop, online you have distance selling which is a godsend if you buy a mifi and your 3 signal happens to be really shite in your house - send it back and get a TMobile equivalent etc etc

I suppose the plus side is you can go in and try to use one - after shirking off the salemen.

indeed

orange used to be quite good up here but in the past year it has declined. When it autoroams onto TMobile I have very little problems but on orange it gets quite bad.

Dont get me started on the quality of their 3g(+), when it works it rocks, easily 1mb+ connection but often it connects but sits there, disconnects when stationary etc.

jebus

the last thing we want are more highstreet mobile phone shops.

Cant use quidco in the highstreets anyway.

Apple pilfers rips off student's rejected iPhone app

small claims court

he's uk based so file a small claims court. It isnt that expensive to do so, he could file a small claim and ask for a cease and desist. Apple will try and bounce it up the line simply resist this with some decent research and away he goes.

Apple will no doubt try to settle with him as they wouldnt like a cease and desist.

not patented

copyright, not patent.

you think so

but in the uk the civil burden is reasonable not absolute so every little helps. Student submits to apple, apple looks at app, icon, functionality and name. rejects then implements into its own iOS using same functionality, name and very similar icon.

That shows reasonable to me.

RAF Eurofighter Typhoons 'beaten by Pakistani F-16s'

so?

"more targets than you have missiles for"

then you will also lose dogfighting as more numbers = easier time for the dogfighters.

easy

you dont engage and get the hell out of dodge. the F16 wouldnt have been able to keep up.

not really the same thing

Thats because the sparrow missiles were shite so the ancient migs got through the missile screen. Coupled with the fact the phantoms radar was twitchy at best.

The F14 is hardly a major dog fighting machine but phoenix missiles are the mutts nutts.

F16 would be toast against a bunch of AMRAAMs

Win8: A beginner's guide to FondleWindows

now then!

If these beauties can be attached to a domain and have the usual GPOs applied to them then I see these being rolled out quite a bit. We would certainly purchase 1500 of them. The problem with ipads and other slabs are the lack of granular central control.

Dear Ubuntu: The netbook is toast

not really

I would still like to see what people actually use ipads for short of looking cools and reading books. Our company uses netbooks for our engineers. We have thousands of the things. They are small, lightweight, run for hours and have a keyboard on them. Engineers write reports, run technical manuals and can carry them around easy enough. Conventional USB sticks can be used to add more manuals - pdfs, exe updates for customers, tweaks can be perfomed on the netbooks before being copied to customers machines etc. ipads just wouldnt work, you simply cannot access files in the same way or type any sort of document on one.

netbooks arent being killed off, they were simply never "big" enough in the first place - they suit a purpose - same as an ipad.

Sandi Toksvig puts the 'n' into cuts - on the Beeb

Cnut eh?

Wasnt Cnut a king of england at some point?

Antimatter hangs around at CERN

yup

hypothesised a 100% conversion of matter to energy. Noone knows exactly hence the experiments.

WW2 naval dazzle-camo 'could beat Taliban RPGs'

neat idea!

Reactive koran armour. Koran with packets of pigs blood overlayed.

You dont want the two of them combined now mr muslim, especially if you did it by shooting the bags....

smoke launchers

were primarily used to disrupt laser range finders too. Smoke in hull down gets you away quicker too.

Acer writes off $150m as audit finds 'abnormalities'

aye

see if you can "find" an oem installation DVD. Same code that will have come from your laptop as pretty much all OEM dvds from each OEM are the same.

Of Windows patch management

odd

we set sophos to quarantine, that way if it goes wrong then we add that "wrong" file to the "ok" signature list on the server, all the clients miraculously work again.

Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 7 8

quite clever though

The main reason we arent using tablets is lack of a decent windows tablet. We wont use linux/android/ios simply because of GPOs. You cannot lock other beasties down in the same way you can lock down a windows system.

Sure you can probably go to EACH tablet and do it individually with apps but i'll be damned if im doing that for 1500 of them. If windows 8 runs well on tablets and logs into the domain then its sold for us.

Russian computer programmer buries himself alive

plus

20cm of soil is not that much, most able bodied people would probably have been able to bust out of that. I doubt his friend compacted the stuff down. I guess he died in his sleep when he didnt know he was in trouble.

Stealth-cam software snaps laptop looter

easy this one

Pay mates for alibis. go and burn his fucking house down. Torch his car etc etc. Make sure you have alibis, dont use your own car, wear hoodies, dont take your mobile. Use disposable gloves, dont get seen on obvious cameras but DO get seen on local cameras wearing different clothes.

I hate fucking theives.

Seagate, WD should put a gun to Brussels' head

not really

they would do what most other companies do. create a "shell" umbrella company and sell from those.

Apple nemesis sues iOS, Mac, and Android devs

europe what?

Good luck enforcing US patents in Europe.

Robot air fleet can launch mid-air from cargo plane's ramp

ok

so it is basically a missile without a warhead?

Apple sues teenager for white iPhone conversion kits

going after the parents?

Wha? Surely that wouldnt work unless he used their credit card to buy stuff.

HTC to stop locking smartphone bootloader code

about time

This influenced my decision, I got a Desire HD instead of Desire S based *purely* on the lack of signed bootloader (the wife got a Desire S and she had S-OFF on hers anyway so it could be rooted).

35m Google Profiles dumped into private database

indeed

this stuff is only compiled because people are stupid enough to put it there in the first place.

HTC Wildfire S Android smartphone

not true!

It isnt IMPOSSIBLE just very hard. I have a rooted desire S and have posted (amongst the others) on xdadeveloper my findings. S-OFF is the hardest bit to get, it depends where you get your phone from and who has been tampering with it beforehand.

Virgin Media TV Powered by TiVo

err

I didnt know you could watch sky sports (live) on XBMC/myth. That sounds great.

/sarcasm off