Posts by Heff

Standard smartphone charger to dominate in two years

what the hell am I talking about?

Err, what you're essentially proposing here is 'that instead of using wheels, why dont we design and build our own aeroplanes?'

I also dont buy that it has to be limited to 5 watts. you're using the port hardware, not the standard*, whilst you could, in theory, charge it with a standard USB-to-microusb cable, I'd imagine that an Outlet-charger-to-micro-usb could, supply as much power as you liked. its a transformer and a pair of copper wires, yanno? you could even incorporate communication between charger-and-device to negotiate the power supplied, though I have absolutely no idea how that'd work in practical terms.

Its sad that I know how much work port standards are but dont have a clue if you can even make variable-supply transformers. fail for my fail ^_^

*IDK the actual terms of the agreement.

Mobile operators handed content billing blueprint

Err, what?

"That situation is obviously unsustainable: we're going to have to pay more for our data, the only question is how we go about doing so. ®"

Its a cute little tag line, but the question is "why"? take a lookie here: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2008/02/01/SeaCableHi.jpg

ok, so thats from 2008. are you seriously trying to tell me that backbone data transfer has tripled in the last three years? I dont buy it. laying massive transcontiental and trans-plate cables is crucifyingly expensive, but the rest of the industry; data centers, local hubs, etc, seems to be making enough revenue as-is to keep up with demand quite handily and still turn a profit. or maybe domestic overheads are set to go up. only, I seem to remember reading articles about Dark fiber in the UK... so... mebbe not.

I dont mind a move back to the days where a true 'unlimited' account cost you a hundred quid a month because it was a 'small business' line*. but I dont think its necessary. If operators were honest with clients and the rest of the industry about their overhead-per-MB-to-end-user, and how that overhead is divided (connection charges, infrastructure maintenance, residual R&D, expansion, etc) then I think we'd see much less shitting and whining about charges.

I will cheerfully pay perMB to my ISP what it costs them to supply me with data, plus a reasonable % for profit. I simply dont buy for a second that this will be as expensive as this plan seems to suggest it is, as Im guessing this was assembled by some twat in marketing who put together a study panel to see what charges the market 'would support' rather than what charges 'is fair'.

-H

*has friends on SMB accounts because their 'width is guaranteed and they dont get packetsniffed/throttled/bullshit and when they pick up the phone to ask why something is broken they dont get the 'have you plugged your cable modem in?" twats on the other end of the line.

Fail for net neutrality, collusion between primary and tertiary suppliers, and comparisons between google and phorm (there's a difference between an opt-in system and a "this is happening anyway without even the pretense of anonymisation" system.) quit being wilfully obtuse.

Coca-Cola fizzes over pornforacoke.com

wriggly-wriggly-wrong.

you mean Coca-Cola, who for years and years has been pushing the "ask for it by name" axiom because "referring to its product at 'coke' dilutes the trademark"?

a savvy lawyer could make some tidy bank over this case.

LG uncloaks six-foot 3D TV

just what is going on with TV producers?

seriously, for the last 5 years we've been barking up the 1080/720 tree and now we're at 3dTV?

If I can buy a specialist WUXGA screen, why cant I have a WUXGA TV? If I can get a decent monitor with a high refresh rate, wide view angles, good response times, and incredible contrast, why is it whenever you ask for a TV with the properties of even a decent off-the-shelf plasma or LCD monitor people look at you like you've grown an extra head, and then tell you to "find a specialist supplier"

its nice that they're going for new tech and innovation and whatnot, but christ, can they get the stuff done right for whats already out there first?

OTOH, maybe Im just raging because I already wear specs and have no desire to wear another dorky set over the pair I already own just to watch TV (I suffer it for the movies sometimes, but Ive yet to see a single '3D' Flick that would justify buying a 3D TV.)

World+Dog says 'no thanks' to 3D TV

there are zero people

in my demographic who will buy one. people that wear specs. I hate contact lenses with a grisly passion, and wearing another set of lenses over the top of my regular ones? please. the only way I can see this tech listing off is if next-gen consoles put out a helluva good tech demo for it.

as for HDTV, yes. Im sure its a great technology. its a shame my little pc monitor can cope with QXGA output but a three grand TV still cant.

Scientologist overlord declares victory over Anonymous

to echo many others

stop calling them patriot hackers. it demeans the community as a whole when you let fox news and the daily fail choose your nouns for you.

WikiLeaks payment service threatens to sue Visa, MasterCard

Whoops

confused my derp and wharrgarbl there. I blame the late night dumbs.

s/DHCP/DNS, with my apologies.

/fail for fail

the whole thing just makes me rage

In reality I could give two fucks about the US state departments wants and needs of secrecy; Wikileaks could post something that basically says "Bush said fuck it, lets kill some Islamic goons for the hell of it" and I doubt there would be actually repercussions for those involved or even a change on how politics is carried out over here.

What makes me furious is that when any other country throws a shit-fit online (like Turkey, for instance) they fuck the internet up _for their country_. Turkey takes down youtube for turkey. not the entire goddamned world. Every time the USA throws a conniption fit It demands the entire internet cleave to its personal view, fucking up companies and individuals across the globe. I mean we mock people when they file lawsuits that say things like "I personally hold Bill gates, Steve Ballmer, Michael Dell, AOL Online and DARPA for the fact my computer got a virus on the internets" but seriously, thats the level of derp and wharrgarbl that the US keeps pulling.

ENOUGH, YOU BASTARDS! IT STOPPED BEING YOURS THE MOMENT A SINGLE DHCP SERVER WENT UP IN ANOTHER COUNTRY!

you'd think .com meant "entirely beholden to the USA" rather than "commerce", and personally if anonymous has to start physically visiting business addresses and slapping CEOs on the back of the head, I'm all for it.

oh please

ten years ago a DDoS storm was nasty. now its the equivalent of a "fuck you"; if your backbone provider and server farm dont have a way of handling it* and your a multinational business then you need to start sacking people.

as for the rest of this? I think wikileaks might be the forerunner of events forcing global corporations to either finally become a whole view (we'll take anyones money for anything, fuck you, local government) or schizophrenic (Visa USA will not be sending assanje money, but we will route customers to our sister company, Visa Cayman Islands). it is only a matter of time before the big two and their backers start to turn around and go

"excuse me, why do we have to listen to these assholes, anyway? Fuck the DoJ, we could buy and sell those assholes. if they want to push us, send them a letter saying we can pull our entire shit out of their country and they need to watch their goddamned mouth"

I dont expect them to go to the wall for Assange, not in a million years, but I do expect some closed-boardroom-meetings to discuss _why_ they have to suffer the tantrums of individual countries.

*should be a hiccup, a 2-3 hour outage, nothing more.

I for one welcome our credit-extending overlords and the new and immoral reign of pure capitalism; you want it, you buy it.

Governments stonewall interwebs porn domain

the word you are looking for here is 'yet'

"No one makes you take up a .xxx domain for your business."

Yet. in the Greater Sphere Of Things™ net neutrality is taking a fucking beating. content-ISPs in the Us and across Europe want to charge more for certain content. they lobby their governments and their governments lobby ICANN..e.g;

"we refuse to invest in the infrastructure necessary to roll out 8mps/max lines to every home in the UK unless you give us a reacharound with allowing us to charge for access to the BBCs' iPlayer tech, and youtube, and let us nerf torrent traffic."

The government doesnt want to pay for infrastructure, so its going to do its best to deal. non-internet-liberal governments (turkey, china, the islamic bloc) would love porn to be migrated to its own little ghetto online, so they can demand that their ISPs refuse to handle connections to that portion of the internet.

its much, much easier to blacklist *.xxx than "everything with fleshtones".

Your other, ZOMG .xxx will result in an explosion of porn are just behind the times in thinking that .xxx legitimises pornography online. I dont know what to say to these people; The internet is for porn, dude. perhaps some of their outrage is secretly borne of them living in a place where they might find their personal access to porn shuttered, so its less "there'll be an explosion of porn" and more "I'll have to justify why I should have access to a restricted service!!"

Bottom line: .xxx shouldn't be introduced. its a cute idea. it would have been cuter to have it with the original TLD stack and have those stacks enforced; .orgs for organisations .net for network providers, .com for commerce, .gov.AA for government/country websites, and so on and so on and so on... but if ICANN isn't going to regulate the 'proper usage' of TLDs, (something which is now an effectively impossible task) ICANN should NOT introduce one solely for pornography as all they would be doing is handing individual governments and ISPs a method for blacklisting and charging for extra content, as well as creating a problem in the future when governments start to lobby for "this porn problem to go away" - squeaky wheel gets the grease, and all that.

seriously ; you're creating a ghetto online for porn; for what purpose? where is the need? a sector of the marketplace and the people who lobby you find it objectionable? whats next, china wants a .dem TLD for pro-democracy websites? well, they have what, 2 billion people, you should totally treat that request seriously, right?

Perhaps

those pious hand-wringers would be better served by accompanying their children online, perhaps realising that absentee parenting and leaving the children to be raised by television and the internets isnt such a supersmart plan anyway.

I'd point them in the direction of windows* 7 and Vistas UAC controls, or any of the well promoted 'internet nanny' programs. of course, that would require that these whiny, spineless responsibility-averse mouth breathers take 10 minutes out of their day to learn something about how PCs and the internet work, rather than writing a whiny letter to the Daily Fail.

*lets not kid ourselves. if you bitch about your kids getting access to porn on the internet you probably dnt even know alternate OS's even exist

Steve Ballmer proposed $15bn Facebook acquisition

AHAHAHAHA

"Microsoft Facebook™"

I can just see it. 6 different tiers of payments, software in a box covered in product comparison tables.

and a jingle that makes me want to burn schools full of children to the ground.

Inside the Ordnance Survey's new HQ for the digital era

ok, but whts with the surprise?

The OS survives quango cuts for a reason; its actually does a job, ok, so the boffinry there is of the "keep your heads down and hope-to-out-last-the-cuts" cariety, but nevertheless; they actually do something, they arent just a report-mill for some branch of the CS. Its a little depressing that their new HQ was designed around the concept of enduring cuts and subletting stuff, but thats a model that should be extended to all branches of government, and I applaud their resourcefulness and honesty.

I for one wish them the very best of luck, and wish that all governmenty offices had the same practical ROI approach to doing work.

nice clear, down-to-earth article, too. ++ work, will read again.

WikiLeaks dubs Amazon 'The Cowardly Liar'

Paypal just dropped Wikileaks

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Issues+with+cancelling+WilkLeaks+founder+passport+Australia/3927467/story.html

We're fucked. US is apparently the global law. I hope assanje has some real meat in the safe to post before he finally gets an ice-axe to the back of the head in some mexican chicken farm in Coyoacán.*

This is going from a pantomime (he's a rapist! Oh no he isnt! Oh yes he is! Oh no he isnt! ad nauseum) To a farce (He's a terrorist!) and now we're moving into the final phase; its a tragedy, whether you agree with what he is doing or not, this is a scary word called a 'Precedent'.

I can only end with the words of Patrick Niemoller;

They came first for the Communists,

and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,

and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,

and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me

and by that time no one was left to speak up.

Interpol issues arrest notice for Wikileaks' Julian Assange

Wait, what?

"Russia is our only hope to counter this racket by standing up to USa in the Arms race."

I think you confused your derp and your wharrgarbl there.

and here we go

Im fucking clairvoyant.

http://www.schnittshow.com/pages/reward.html

Ha!

obvious troll is obvious.

the guy needs to watch his back

because at this rate its only a matter of time before the whiners stateside accuse him of 'injuring national security' to the extent he's a terrorist and then he'll be dragged from his bed in the dark and be stuffed into a sack, no matter what country he's in.

whilst I admire the endeavour, and even applaud the notion of public accountability for himself, I dont think its practical in the long run. get a kevlar vest and a food taster if you're going to go pantsing the US and China in the same week, IMO.

BURNING LUST for SEXY BUSTY BLONDES - Science explains

<3 Miss Bee.

Its a nice thought, thats some form of natural selection goes on with humans.

Its nice that he thinks its got something to do with physical attributes and not "women who cant count to 31 have more kids" and "men with poor cause-and-effect processing" have more kids. Dumb people breed more. poor people breed more because poor and dumb goes hand in hand.

@ Charlie

* smut films aren't made with real people

-the smut I watch is. porn stars are funny-lookin.

* I've read elsewhere but please don't ask for the citation that it's the women who choose their men and their preference changes over the cycle

-true, but you cant keep a chick unless you can appeal to them for the majority of the 4-week rollercoaster unless you found one with acute short term memory loss.

* what women think men find attractive and what men think is attractive are often very different things. We don't notice haircuts, jewellery, the myriad shades of pink and especially not shoes. Personality does count a bit.

I notice. If you cant dress yourself and look like you were made over by a retarded clown, Im not interested, no matter how stereotypically hot you may be in other areas; persnal appearance is a chance for me to gauge how in touch with reality you are (fitting into a size 6 and being a size 6 are not the same things) whether or not you're colourblind (nice green and purple eyeshadow, there) and whether you have compatible sense of aesthetics : If Im going to be sharing kids and a home with you, you better not be trying to rock lime-green slingbacks encrusted with pink rhinestones. I'm not saying you have to look like a cover girl, Im not even trying to suggest that aiming for that 'would be nice', but to say that guys dont notice when women make an effort is pretty disingenuous.

we all want a nice woman with a warm hands and a good heart! we dont care what she looks like! YMMV, but I prefer a woman who can dress herself, doesnt look or act like a spaz, and when all other non-physical 'needs' are ticked off the list Im going for the hottest woman I can find 'in my bracket', and so far the girls Ive talked to about this do the same.

IBM chips the laser light fantastic

^ ^ This ^ ^

What Lusty said, really. IBM still owns all the patents id had back from the days where you bought a Tandy, Adlib, or 100% IBM compatible clone machine, and they've only done more research (begatting more patents) since then.

as the article, the only thing I don't grasp is why use 130 for the CMOS and 65 for the optics, am I missing something fundamental and simple here? I also don't buy the 100 mill interconnects thing. thats as future-anachronistic as the old shot of "what a home computer may look like" back when Valves and DIY-soldering was bleeding edge nerdcraft. I think by the time optics-on-chip becomes a manufacturing reality you'll see more innovations in the field, and the number will drop accordingly.

Genius for Lusty

Verizon revives Microsoft's unhappy hipster phone

Ok, I'll bite.

...this is newsworthy because.... ?

Dell profits rise 144%

?! what?

Home consumers still buy Dell? FFS, even my parents scratch-build boxen.

Prof to drill camera into own skull

I miss him

Him and his wild shenanigans.

On the OP subject, though, I actually like the sound of the Bilal guy. he's got a message and a platform and he's drawning attention to it. at least he's not making a 14 ft scultupre of a shuttlecock and calling "quaking venus" and waxing lyrical about how its a stand in for his mother or something utterly disposable.

ALSO WTF REG. WE COULD HAVE SHOT A DUDE ONLINE WITH A PAINT GUN?

/very disappointed to only hear of this now.

Xbox Kinect costs just £35 to build

I dont get it

Why are you all ragin so hard about the article? Ms are turning a profit on it. good for them. they need to recoup the astronomical sum they spent pushing it.

as for everything else, Its interesting that the base hardware is only 35 quid. at launch is already has problems with image and control resolution, and with hardware this basic I dont anticipate some sort of 'hotfix' to suddenly make it magical and win.

I understand that MS needed to corner the market otherwise Sony and nintendo were essentially going to be unassailable on the "jump around" gamers front, but I think they pitched the marketing way too high for the capabilities of the hardware; but hey, maybe they'll launch uprated hardware in a years time, after getting people hooked into a line of titles they like? much like nintendo did with the improved wiimotion/wiimote thingies.

thats assuming decent titles are made for it; you can have the nicest hardwar ever, but if nobody makes you any nice games... well, then its the Atari jaguar all over again, isnt it?

'Hippy' energy kingpin's electric Noddy-car in epic FAIL

I dont hate green, I hate stupid.

I hate green advocates that cant do math, or tell me to use CFTs because encouraging the replacement of tungsten and glass in a landfill with glass and mercury is a fucking great idea; they're the same people that jog to work down the side of the road, sucking down benzine and free radicals from everyone elses exhaust. Good for you. way to think it through. the people who cry about PCBs emitted from circuit board but will cheerfully hotbox themselves in freshly-painted rooms.

you want to reduce pollution in cities, use something even more energy-efficient than an EV: a GD pushbike, a bus, or the train. its as bad is the greentards in the US that urge me to turn off my lights to save power but crank their AC down to 60' and leave all their doors open inside their homes, or the greentards in the UK that yell abuse at the royals for tooling around in ancient landrovers that do 14mpg rather than buying a brand new all-aluminium POS.

I dont hate greens. I hate dumb people that cant do comparison math, dont understand the difference between compressors and lights, dont understand the idea of "production debt" in an 'energy efficient' product, dont understand how energy intensive aluminium production is, how environmentally devastating exotic mineral production is.

Seriously. before anyone should be allowed to be an advocate for "green" _anything_ they should be forced to read up on SAX and get a calculator.

I wrote a title but there was a power cut for some reason ^_^

how many 13a sockets do you have in your house that you can run at full draw before your main breaker trips?

I can wait for you to go plug stuff in, if you like.

Stop. just stop.

right, use the tiny percentage of 'green' energy* we produce in an energy-costly process to produce a gas you need to compress and cool to store, requiring more energy, and has a pretty shitty energy density/volume compared to say; petrol.

thats without even getting into how you plan to produce said hydrogen. and if you say Carbon Sequestration Im just going to start laughing. Thermochemical processes as well as having industry-unhelpful biproducts arent really ready for industrial application and we get most of our Hydrogen from steam + methane reforming. anode-based electrolysis hasnt made it out of the lab because you're either constantly swapping out your electrodes due to oxidisation or you're running inert-metal electrodes (usually platinum) which are a) fucking expensive and b; dont solve the other problem of water electrolysis; you need pure water otherwise you're looking at salt deposits, so you have to distill out your water which requires even more energy.

Hydrogen as a 'green fuel' is decades away.

*I have my doubts about the production rate of energy from a turbine versus the energy expenditure to mine, smelt, sheet form, engineer, construct, transport, plant the turbine, and lay the line from the turbine to the grid.

really now?

are you in all seriousness going to claim a 90% efficiency conversion from battery power into motion for EVs?

[citation needed]. srsly.

Teufel System 8 THX Ultra 2 home cinema speakers

the only question I have

is how many wall outlets does it need? yes, Im serious. its supposed to be a home set.

also @tkH11 : you dont need gimmicks? have you ever heard a set of B&W 800's?

Phosphor World Time Curved E Ink watch

why

Agreeing with everyone else above, but why on earth would you go for an e-ink display and then render the time and font in.... horrible old school LCD-style fonts?

Dell dumps RIM, saves fortune

massive windows OEM reseller

to sell windows phones, move internals to windows equipment.

its not news, its Dell.

@Push ; you work for them? you have no idea how creepily accurate that is. I feel bad for the peeps stuck at Dell that now have to learn new tech just because some weakminded PHBtard went and played golf and ate dinner with an MS rep with an agenda.

"we saved some money, chained ourselves a little tighter to redmond, pissed off at least 25k employees and lost a boatload of productivity as our main infrastructure communications lines grind to a halt."

idiots.

Fate of porn domain left in government hands

...and the GAC is right.

you create a subdomain for "porn only" and pretty soon you're challenging porns rights to register under any other TLD, probably "for the children", because nobody ever stands against that arguement. we roll that logic down the line and pretty soon you're looking at paying your ISP for access to "restricted" or "premium" domains. and as soon as you create a precedent for non-psycho countries* filtering net access, you're effectively legalising ISPs saying "nah. not gonna let you have the bbc's iPlayer. not going to let you near hulu. sure as hell not going to let you send UDP/IP and torrent traffic. eventually you'll be back at the model of the internet that AOL tried to sell the common man 15 years ago, where we only typed into their 'portal' and used keywords, not URLs, and pretty much only ever saw what they chose to link us to.

Its another nail in the coffin for net neutrality, and we're selling ourselves down the river "for the children" one damned step at a time.

*as in, not china, or some other lunatic theocracy/dictatorial/CONTROLCITIZENS bullshit,

Daily Mail rails at Street View in women's refuge wrongness

seems pretty obvious

if google knew it was a womens refuge, they spidered/googled/databased/whatevered it, which means the information was freely available, which means your refuge sucks and your administrators are moronic.

as for "declained to remove picture and information" Uh. doubt it. the streetview people take down pictures at the drop of a hat. they might have said something like "um, madam, this is Ad sales, I cant do that" though. Who cares? its the daily fail.

Why is el reg even reading this drivel? you may as well debate News Of The World or the Daily Sport or something

Vulture 1 rolls out of fab bunker

FFS

its will it BLEND. Will. It. BLEND.

you people are your popculture fails. BAD AC. BAD!

Boffins mount campaign against France's official kilogramme

honestly?

the thing I found most fascinating about the article is wondering how these fumbling fucks get paid. you want to hold a kilo of platinum (if it were pure, you're looking at around 35 grand for a hunk that big) in several nested boxes polished by some geriatric frenchman who probably has no other job, in some specially constructed little room of wonder?

how much does this anachronistic bullshit cost us versus just defining it via non-corporeal means? hell, if you'd put the price points in and shown us how The British Taxpayer Pays for French billion-dollar paperweight, the Daily Fail woulda picked this shit up in a heartbeat.

mines the one with the quarter of bonfire toffee. mmmn. toffee.

Fable III

unfortunately

this correlates with a lot of what I'm hearing firsthand from early adopters of the xbox version; shallow as a puddle with 'for the kids' levels of inanity and easyness.

these days it feels like the more Molyneux and co. yell about depth of play and wide choices the more the end product feels like a badly-realised unfunny addition to the Monkey Island series.

Googlenet traffic now 6% of interwebs

re; bingbong

I lolled.

Fallout: New Vegas

So, you didnt actually play the game, then?

did you take a poll of friends that played, read a press packet, maybe ran around the starting area and make your verdict? I find it amusing that you list only one robotic companion, and not even the one you come across first, as your only choice.

you didnt play on hardcore. good job. you missed out on a major texture layer to the game. did you play it on easy, too? wait. probably doesnt matter. you never left the starting area.

FO:NV is, and always was pitched as FA3.5. it uses the same engine, heavily modified, and is rebranded by obsidian. fans of the genre/series are not and never were expecting FO4. what we were expecting was killer writing ; we got it. greater scope for moralist conclusions : got it in spades, I no longer have to be Praised Saint of All or Antichrist Incarnate, also back is the ability to play, and successfully finish the game from a diplomatic point of view, putting the combat, more fun as it is, in a minor role.

Im sorry the graphics of a 3 year old engine didnt match the high expectations of a PS3 gonk. but then seeing as your review basically consists of press-pack screenshots and glib references to wasteland-cliche characters (ZOMG WHERES MAD MAX) rather than talking about actual play mechanics that you used (rather than ignoring, like hardcore mode), or specific storylines you enjoyed (no mention) it feels like you didnt play the game at all, gave it an ambivalently non-controversially positive review and then gouged it with a 75%.

If you're going to review something, Play the fucking game, Lucy. I dont care if you end up hating it, just do the job you're paid for, eh?

Notorious Anonymous hacktivists launch fresh attacks

whoops

Dont stoop to to using blackhatter tactics.

because the problem is, a legal establishment with an accessible tax record is always going to lose on the internet against a group of individuals who dont have to pretend to be civilised.

seriously. dont cry about DDoSing. write them a nice letter thanking them that they arent doing what they could be.

my coats the one with the boltcutters in it.

Honestly? the fight with pirates and the IP owning people who act like slapped children reminds me of fight club more and more every day. we make your food, we drive your ambulances....

Gov axes £35bn Severn Barrage tide-energy scheme

Government subsidy product = engineering nightmare

a private firm says "here's the plan"

1. Planning Budget

2. Engineered design

3. Acquisition

4. Build the fucker.

Done.

Government subsidised projects have a tendency to go

1. planning budget plus surplus to go on buying and refitting whatever Grade II listed wreck is local and restoring it into the local project building including some sort of never-visisted visitors center.

2. engineering draft 1 to be approved by a bunch of ex-lawyer wanks that all say things like "looks good, but Ive got a concerned email here from NIMBY of wales who wants the concrete to be not as tall, cant you make a bit wider and a bit lower?

3. Repeat Step 2 for as many ministers and backbencers as want to get involved so they can say they had a hand in the creation of the green project.

4. pay all these wanks.

5. Aquisition of resources to be put up for bids

6. construction overrun costs due to problems with lowest-bidder-wins-and-then-rapes-you system

7. construction halted due to one ministers insistence that there must be a college grad to staand in the mud and look for newts

8. construction halted due to house of lord inquiry into the misallotment of funds and porkbarrelling.

9. pay these wanks

10. Media gets a hold of it and stirs up a big fuss about the newts.

11. ministers abandon support, claiming its a horrid idea and god look at the money thats been spend already and we still dont have it made.

iPad tethering does disappearing trick

I'll be blunt; you're an idiot.

google approaches network operators that sell the phones and say "we arent going to cripple our device for your whims" and then the network operator decides what they want to pay for it and how much they want to sell it for.

Jobsie says "I'll do fucking anything for your approval, just buy as many damned units as possible without hurting my products percieved elite status"

"note how apples store run only just above break even point"

Note this you muppet; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/18/apple_q4_2010/

The app store can lose money. hell, they can run that thing at a massive loss and make money on the handsets. you want to malign google? BUT THEY'VE BEEN LETTING YOU USE THE SEARCH THING FOR FREE FOR AGES!!

Coalition promises to kill three-quarters of its websites

Its the blues, son

Need analysis? HAHAHA. just shut it down.

they'll start with a list with what costs the most to turn at at the top, read a 500-page overview report that says 90% of sites can go or be 'merged' and they'll interpret that as kill off 90% of all sites, starting with the most expensive, regardless of purpose, need, or HPD/w/m

seriously. expecting the tories to show even the slightest urge towards comprehending technical things is a waste of time.

Symantec HackIsWack contest packs in

norton. FML.

NORTON CRASHGUARD HAS DETECTED A PROBLEM WITH YOUR POST AND HAS LOCKED UP YOUR ENTIRE MACHINE.

Flying gyrocopter jump-jeep gets $3m from DARPA

a title is required, and must contain Sara Bee nudes.

built on forward-control 101s, actually. not landrovers. Originally made by the same firm, but not, repeat NOT the same thing at all.

cant help but feel the most practical application would be a disposable chassis and some form of coupling. picture a tractors UC slung under an apache, plugged into a skidpan with monster truck tires on. failing that, rocket motors up and then glide-autorotor away.

black helicopters because ....well, you know

Apple now world's second-largest company

Um, no.

sorry, I dont follow the specious logic that gives the entire blame and credit for a company to the CEO. I refuse to demonise Bill Gates for the performance and business ethics of MS. I refuse to lionise Jobs over Apples turnaround. I refuse to demand the public lynching of Tony Hayward just because the Transocean fuckup happened on his watch. Life isnt as simple as "CEO = Jeebus".

so yes, If you cant see that the success of a company isnt wholly dependant on the presence of one man, then I can only hope the other conclusions you reach in life aren't as wrong as that.

It has gone to his head.

Johnathan Ive, not Steve-hai-buddy-i-blacklist-ur-apps-nau-Jobs is responsible for apples market share. Every single design decision apple has made since 1998* has been a direct descendent of his design model and the spin off items since have been market derivatives, Compaq All-in-ones to imac,s Diamonds Rio players (remember those?) to ipods.

Jobs isnt a visionary. Jobs is a tool riding a minimalist design ethos thats now 13 years old.

*portentially 96 or 96, Ive no idea of the internal turnaround on the design before it was marketed.

Piracy threats lawyer mocks 4chan DDoS attack

Law degrees

I should get one, write down a few hundred IP addresses and get to blackmailing too. Its apparently legal according to his business model.

AT&T chief: 'All your iPhone are belong to us'

they aint that sticky

the majority of people I know with Iphones are on AT&T because they wanted the device, not the carrier, some are even in areas where AT&Ts signal coverage never extends to 3G anyway.

all verizon would need to do to offset it would be to do some sort of plan where you trade in your old Iphone for a 4g from them, and they cover your subscription severance and lock you into a 2-year contract. Hell, if its technically possible, let them keep their old phones, cover their subscription severance and lock em into a 2year contract.

If all verizon has to do to net 20% of AT&Ts iphone customers is cover their subscription severance, then Im pretty sure they'll find a way to do it.

Omegle invites you to show world+Facebook your bewbs

What a crock

a panic button?

You know where the panic button is, right? its in the TOP RIGHT HAND CORNER OF THE SCREEN

The $20K iPad

G/H in color

the glory of celebrity bling.

may as well have written "is coated in low-grade machine-cut trash we couldn't sell through a diamond-centric market but feel we can get more selling it to stupid E! Celebs* rather than bunging it in the industrial market."

* Kardashians, Paris, every other vapid whorebag I see on TV whose sole reason for celebrity is somehow just "being famous"

Paris for obvious.