Posts by Big-nosed Pengie

Haunted Empire calls Apple 'a cult built around a dead man.' Tim Cook calls it 'nonsense'

Whereas previously it was a cult built around a live man.

Good riddance to American internet oversight says Microsoft

Microsoft is in favour of it?

Gods. There must be something dramatically wrong with it!

Daring danger-drone dives into VOLCANIC eruption – what happens next has to be seen

Very good

Providing you mute the sound.

Murdoch dumps Microsoft, prepares to Hangout with Google

Re: Well, that screws...

"Don't they have Office 365 available in Aus?"

Yep. That's why they're going with Google.

Facebook, Instagram give dodgy online gun sales the BULLET

There are *legal* gun sales online?

Facepalm.

Belgian judge mulled BANNING APPLE (actually, its website) in Euro warranty row

Simple

Fine them $1M a minute until their web site complies.

Steve Ballmer: Thanks to me, Microsoft screwed up a decade in phones

"You're pretty genius in our business if..."

You're pretty idiot if you failed primary school English.

I note that there's no mention of "quality" anywhere. Plus ça change.

Google, eBay to Australian gov: 'protect us from our users'

No representation without taxation!

Confirmed: New Microsoft strategy boss advised President Clinton, ex-UK PM Blair

You know why they call him a guru?

Because it's easier to spell than charlatan.

Qantas' biggest problems are … Apple, Samsung and Google?

I've flown Emirates a few times from Oz to Europe and back. The stopover in Dubai is a PITA, though the view on departure can be pretty amazing. But the planes are new, the interiors are pleasant (for people tubes), the seats are relatively comfy (for aeroplane seats), the entertainment system (it's Linux - I saw them boot it) is awesome and the food was restaurant quality (not Michelin star, but I've had much worse).

Oh - and the prices were less than those of Qantas.

Daimler hints at Android-powered telematics in future cars

I only found out recently that my wife's car uses Windwoes. No wonder it's such a flakey piece of crap! (The connectivity system, not the car - the car's brilliant.)

Office Online rises from ashes of 'confusing' Office Web Apps

A dog turd

by any other name would smell as sweet.

SPACE VID: Watch JUMBO ASTEROID 2000 EM26 buzzing Earth

Re: As big as three football fields??

One thing that bothers me about this new and now universal unit of measurement is which brand of football it's referring to. I assume that a gridiron field and an Australian Rules field are not the same size, and that neither is the same size as a rugby union field.

This Balkanisation of units is going to get us into trouble one day.

Imprisoned Norwegian mass murderer says PlayStation 2 is 'KILLING HIM'

Re: If they were serious about punishment

That would be cruel and unusual punishment.

Renault unveils mini-SUV equipped with a QUADCOPTER DRONE

Sooooo ugly!

Sooooo stupid!

Microsoft to Australian government: our kit has no back doors

I'm in the bridge business

And I've been doing very nicely out of this, thank you.

Department of Human Services removes Medicare from internet

Idiots

As above.

Startup-land finds a sympathetic ear in Canberra

Ever heard of...

Fletcher Jones and Staff?

Australia floats plan for national social media regulator

Here we go again

See title.

Amazon workers in Delaware reject trade union membership

Idiots.

They deserve all they get.

Facebook gets a 'trending topics' box (just what its cluttered pages need)

Social Fixer

Thank JehovaJesus for it. It removes that and many other abominations.

Apple coughs up 7 hours of profit to refund kids' $32.5m app spend spree

Re: They provided FULL refunds

A better outcome would have been full refunds plus a fine of, say, 1,000 times that amount.

Foot-loving cat burglar nicks THREE THOUSAND individual socks

I suppose that makes the cat a pedophile.

Audiophiles: These Wi-Fi speakers have a stereo drift of less than 25μs – good enough for you?

Caskeid – pronounced "cascade"

Seriously - who are the fscking idiots who come up with these names?

Coming in 2014: Scary super-soldier exoskeleton suits from the US military

Re: Fielded in 2018? Optimistic, yeah...

That's the most uninformative video I've ever seen. And I include nyan cat.

RSA comes out swinging at claims it took NSA's $10m to backdoor crypto

They would say that

wouldn't they.

Australia rebukes Apple for 'false or misleading representations'

It's OK

The Trans Pacific Partnership will solve all these problems.

Your iThing is a crock? Stiff shit.

TPP leak: US babies following bathwater down the drain

Re: Good on Australia

They used to call it treason.

Australian political games could see full TPPA treaty revealed

This is treason, pure and simple.

And as much as I despise the current AU government, I despise their predecessors hardly any less.

Google underwrites Firefox another year, even as Chrome outpaces it

Re: Bizarre

"Google could care less which browser you use, as long as you conduct all your searches through them."

On the contrary - I'm sure that Google couldn't care less.

GAH: Now it's INSTAGRAM and Windows Phone 8

I don't blame him.

I used to cry every time I used WinPhone.

Cryptolocker infects cop PC: Massachusetts plod fork out Bitcoin ransom

Windows

Enough said.

Antidote for poisonous Aussie Red-Back Spider venom DOESN'T WORK

Re: Second most feared??

Funnelwebs, definitely. Huntsmans? Hardly. Not aggressive at all, though they can give you a painful nip if you tease them.

Gates chokes up, WEEPS to Microsoft shareholders amid talk of CEO hunt

Re: Dear Bill...

"You need to invest in ENGINEERING rather than viral marketing."

But MS has only ever been a marketing organisation, selling third-rate rubbish purely by virtue of marketing genius.

New Internet Explorer chief is man behind Windows Phone reboot

Who's a pretty piggy, then?

Microsoft fears XP could cause Indian BANKOCALYPSE

Stupidity is, as always, its own punishment. Some people still haven't learnt to avoid MS like the very plague.

SECRET draft copyright treaty LEAKED: Meet the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Treason.

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

Re: re: next disaster will be:

"I also noticed, she looked quite embarrassed in the end when she realised she was being filmed. "

What's to be embarrassed about? She was just stroking her pussy.

Google to deliver MOOC for Australian teachers

Anything that broadens the scope from a purely Microsoft focus can only be a Good Thing!

Nvidia CEO: Android 'the most disruptive operating system in decades'

OS?

I was under the impression that Android was a Java UI running on a Linux OS.

Australia's Electoral Commission won't release vote-counting code

WTF??? This isn't open source?

Massive fail!

Windows Azure Compute cloud goes TITSUP planet-wide

Great to see that Microsoft's continuing the tradition.

Cook: Apple 'so very, very proud to be a FORCE FOR GOOD'

Better

Better get a bucket. I'm gonna be sick.

Big Content says Pirates of the Caribbean do their worst in Australia

"In Australia it's legal to sell region-free DVD players"

IIRC it was, at one time, illegal to sell region-specific DVD players here - it was classed as a "restrictive trade practice". No doubt those days are long-gone.

Everything's going to be all white: Google Nexus 5 mobe expected Friday

Re: Kit Kat update

"Kit Kat update that Android users can only dream of.........

Unless of course THEY BUY A NEW PHONE."

Or have a Nexus 4.

Please, PLEASE, Skype... Don't kill our apps and headsets, plead devs

Skype was dead as soon as Microsoft bought it.

Apple CEO Tim Cook v Microsoft's Ballmer: Seconds out, round two!

The unspeakable in hot pursuit of the uneatable.

Huawei coming in from the cold in Oz?

Obviously we're finally realising that Chinese back doors are no worse, and probably a lot better, than American back doors.

India tops APAC ransomware table with £2.5 BEELLION losses

Good morning, sir.

My name is Murgatroid and I am being from Microsoft, good golly. We are detecting that your computer is having a naughty virus, my goodness me!