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India to place $11bn order for AIP hi-tech submarines

The last line

"And why it's possible to suggest that India could, perhaps, find better uses for its $11bn."

Q F Feckin' T.

Apple iPhone forums gripped by deleted thread paranoia

Not a big deal.

Change your posts content. Not that big a deal.

Steve

Sent from my iThrone.

Boeing's 'Phantom Eye' Ford Fusion powered stratocraft

Lol@tehYank

"Since you guys haven't built anything locally in the UK since the '60's as you said in the other article, reposted above, I don't quite get some of the jibes."

Don't get the jibes?

This is El Reg.

Silly Yank.

Blizzard climbs down on real names for WoW forums

wait... wait...wait..

"I have to presume that those folk complaining that they don;t want random friends talking to them in game either don't actually play, or entirely misunderstand the situation. Right now ppl can add you to a friends list and see when you are on! No really they can!! Only diff with RealID in game is you don't have to add per toon, you do it per account."

FFS mate, that's the whole point of NOT having RealID...

I mean, imagine you're on an alt just chilling... or perhaps real soon now, playing SC2... and don't want anyone in your guild to know you're on because they'll just grab you to go on some raid or other...

"Need Healz plz plz plz etc"

"Pls tank"

etc...

Sure you can tell 'em to F OFF... Or sure, you can get two accounts.. But not getting Real ID may be better :P

El Reg marks Steve Jobs for termination

A response from Apple.

Fix my face. Not that big a deal.

Steve

Sent from my _iPhone_3G_

( Because I don't have an iPhone 4 as I have made the supreme sacrifice of foregoing mine so one more of you out there could get one. See, I 'm a pretty cool guy )

Australia unbans the internet

No to filter.

I propose that we oppose this more loudly. I don't think a filter should go up. I think some of the reasons behind it are noble - stop kiddie porn etc...

but... for those whom remain unconvinced... (I reckon if you're here that's not an issue but I don't want to assume) hear me out....

Why could this filter affect me?

1. A sufficiently sensitive filter may not be sufficiently specific, and block all kinds of stuff.. It may make the everyday browsing experience we take for granted slightly irritating...

2. And of course an insensitive filter will be useless...

3. And what sort of filter will it be? something that adds significantly to network latency? I don't want to sound selfish here, but one consideration I am seriously worried about are my 'game ping times'... it's bad enough I have to connect to US based servers sometimes, but to have yet another speed bump...

4. Lastly who or what decides gets filtered? As it is, there is a little uncertainty as to what constitutes 'extreme pr0n'.... And how often will goal posts change

5. Who watches these people in (4)... what else could they get up to?

No, it's clearly a noble idea, but difficult to implement.

After all, you could go down the slippery slope and say that normal mail needs to be filtered as well. Or should be filtered as well. I know it is not the same but it is not too dissimilar in terms of what I would consider an invasion of privacy.

More efforts should be put in place dealing with the underying issues instead:

1) child molesters and sex abuse - are we doing enough here to deal with the offenders? How well are the cases worked up?

2) children and their, quite frankly, incredulous exposure to the mass media at such young ages these days that the mind boggles... Kids these days are so precocious it's frankly frightening. For example I see toys and clothes these days prepubescent girls buy that I would never have dreamed would have been sold or worn by teenagers in my time.... Call me conservative and uptight, sure... how do we deal with this?

I contend these issues are not going to be solved by an internet filter....

Piles for Windows - a pain in the arse?

Maybe their PR/Advertising person...

... is Engrish?

John Lewis 'leaks' Apple iPod refresh details, say reports

El Reg Icon request

↑ I second... no third, this request. Good idea

Malaysian politico gets knighted in Photoshop

@philbo

^ this.

Confusion over 'secret code' in US military Cyberforce crest

Correction:

Errr... I think there was one extra word in your bitstream you mistranslated. I have one word less and mine translates to:

All your oil are belong to US.

So...

... The nuclear launch codes are a hash of the Star Spangled Banner?

Let's see... clickety clickety...

* NUCLEAR LAUNCH DETECTED *

Ooops...

Sorry 'bout that.

More iPhone 4 angst: fanbois howl over head sensor

Real Techies...

"Real techies run Debian on their netbook..."

^ This.

Plus a bit of well thought bloat stripping of course.

My objection to Ubuntu on a netbook (or on ANYTHING) is the bloat.

I had a nokia once...

A truck ran over it, the screen was slightly cracked but you could still make calls...

I still have a nokia.

(Seriously, nokia did make quite a few lemons, but the good ones... are/were good)

Chuck Norris does not need a phone...

All those years of playing karate means he can telepatheticate with anyone or anything with an IQ higher than that of an amoeba...

F!@# no.. no no no more Chuck Norris jokes...

Everyone knows Vin Diesel would pwn Chuck in a 1-v-1 any day.

Should I get an iPhone 4 ?????

No

If you're a techie...

Why are you running ubuntu on a netbook?

Fanbois love sex toys: Official

Linux?

who | grep -i blondie | talk; gawk; nice; date; cd ~; wine; talk; grep; touch; unzip; touch; strip; gasp; finger; gasp; mount; fsck; more; yes; fsck; gasp; umount; make clean; make mrproper; sleep

Don't be daft...

You "configure" "the machine" every time you feel you want to. At least you don't have some dozy bunch of twits in Redmond or Cupertino dictating to you how it must be done.

Getting it "right" isn't the point, sometimes.

What is "right" anyways?

Getting it exactly (or close to) the way you want it one day and finding out the next day you want it the other way and having the capability to change?

The journey is the reward. (Wow, I wonder who has a book with that title...)

FLYING CAR, full hover, fairly quiet, offered to US Marines

I hope they succeed...

I hope they succeed in getting this to fly as projected.

I don't believe we are ready for flying cars in the mainstream for many reasons frequently already discussed elsewhere but as a proof-of-concept that it can be done so easily, I hope they succeed.

I wouldn't want to be the poor jarhead driving it though...

I suspect a Hyundai Getz would be safer to be in under fire than that.

George Lucas rattles lightsabre at Jedi laser firm

Not a big deal

Change your devices shape. Not that big a deal.

George

Sent from my Death Star

What are they for?

Some really civic minded individuals point them at airplane cockpits, when they are taking off or landing at airports, amongst other unsuspecting victims. Other sterling members of society take them to raves and ... (fill in the blanks)

I honestly don't know how useful a laser aiming sight is to the general populace (I advocate a gun-free state) I can't imagine anyone would want to tie this to the end of their super soaker 5000 water gun let alone their glock ....

I suppose hikers could use them as some sort of signalling device....

Honest to god, I don't know what these are for, but as you can tell the abuse potential is there.

They are probably meant as science toys, but the people that abuse them cause so much heck that these days it's so hard to buy a laser conference pointer these days or even one of those new fangled laser things to align stuff for your DIY projects down under here.

£99 iPhone stunt backfires

Nubz...

They would have done a little bit better but for the nubz they had speaking for them alleging no vested interests...

Facebooktards... deserve what they get...

Apple iPhone 4

My nokia...

... got run over by a lorry. The LCD screen cracked, no doubt, but the phone, surprisingly could still be used to make calls...

Because I was/am a scabby bastard I continued to use the phone for months, till I decided to just get a new one (yes, another nokia).

Food for thought.

Southpaws up in arms over iPhone 4

As a rightly

As do I...

It's very important to keep the right hand free for smacking iTards.

Son of Transputer powers new Amiga box

Any mac users out there...

"Any mac users out there who wish to argue that MacOSX is not really MacOS5, 6, 7, 8 or 9?"

It isn't. Don't be daft, it most resembles a BSD, practically speaking.

And I might as you, is this new AmigaOS one in which everything runs in the same address space effectively like prior ones?

Re: There are excruciatingly few x86 developers...

"I loved developing on the A1200. Every part of the system could be fully understood, down to the last clock cycle. There are excruciatingly few x86 developers who can lay claim to the level of knowledge that quite many Amiga developers had about their hardware."

Maybe I am just paraphrasing you when I say that was possible only because the Amiga platform THEN was a very small and _constant_ platform.

The same cannot be said about today's average 'pc gaming box'

The hardware has grown more complex.

And that in itself is an understatement.

Even the cpu cannot be assumed to be the same across the board and one optimisation for one may be less desirable for another. While we are on that, ("last clock cycle"), as a whole 68ks of the amiga era were also incredibly more 'deterministic' than the current complex out-of-order jobs we have now.

This is just CPU's alone.

But all points taken and yes, there is a lot to be said for being close to the metal.

But at what cost?

(Naturally I deplore cruft in OSs as much as you do and I reckon these big corporations like M$ do not decruft their OS's enough to be honest (or even worse, nor do they allow you as the end user to do so!), but you gotta see that OS's these days are sometimes big because of the way hardware's become these days).

Re: 1500UKP+

^ This...

You are absolutely spot on.

I have been an anti-intel zealot for a while but really the sun really appears to have set on ppc's as a viable high end bleeding edge desktop cpu. Your current average intel box (or amd) with an average video card will probably give you more horsepower for less.

My next machine (for messing, mind you) will be either a 6 core AMD or an i7, with a mid range nVidia cuda capable video card ( or an ATI alternative whichever appears most attractive at the time).

Plus...

I will (probably) be able to run crysis :P

Google hits coder G-spot with Linux command line tool

Filed under...

"Something possibly nice to do that I might get around to looking at someday"

Rainbow plane warps in from gay dimension

So ultimately...

Is this an easter egg or just a bad shot? If it is indeed just a bad shot, can someone explain the physics behind the colour artifacts?

Pakistani lawyer petitions for death of Mark Zuckerberg

It is interesting...

... that certain people demand the right to dictate what happens to others based on their prejudices and do not extend that same courtesy to said others.

Zuckerberg is an asshole, no doubt, and facebook is a tard site, but these guys... these guys are far worse...

Do not give them an inch.

Wow...

so many deleted posts...

How many people has our great moderator saved from Fatwa's today ? ;)

Indonesia flips over internet rock star smut clips

A Female Disney Character?

Or a great Israeli war hero.

A great man, but these guys in Indonesia probably don't think so ;)

Paris would never have been able to turn the tide in 1973.

Aussies rage at 'strings attached' iPad sales

o.O

"A but like an infatuated punter at a brothel being duped by the madame that his favourite whore is unavailable... but because he's such a special and valued 'client', she's willing to let him jump the (imaginary) queue, for an extra £20."

Is that what really happens?

How do you come to possess such familiarity with the industry ?

Innocent minds would like to know :P

(Paris... seemed like the best icon to pick)

Sony Vaio P netbook

battery

'nuff said

Apple lifts iPhone code ban (for chosen few)

PS3 and xboxen

What makes you think these platforms are not 'locked down'?

Even if they weren't you do realize the only common thing they share is the in order ppc64 cores. They are vastly different beasts.

If companies want to create code on one platform and do a half arsed port to another (PS3s seem to get shafted that way), that's not going to stop the same thing happening in iPhone like devices locked down or otherwise, imho.

However, with Apple actually governing what apps look like now, those ports may never even materialize. Or even...

Steve: "We don't like the look of your foo app ui's, Fuznub, the button shapes... the positioning and layout... Smells too much of M$"

Fuznub: "But it's a direct port of my foo windoze program. Users expect it to look the same"

Steve: "Change it, it's not like it's a big deal"

...weeks later

Steve: "Err.. we don't like the ui of your shipping foo app, Fuznub, it's too simple... bit too much like our own bar App... Too Apple! Users may get confused and buy your foo product instead of our bar one. We get less money that way. You gotta change it..."

Fuznub: "F"

Fuznub: "U"

Fuznub: "Steve"

Just write a compiler.

Clause pwnt.

Nothing interpreted in the implied sense of the word.

Not difficult for something simple. Many done on the arm. Honestly, even a simple macro assembler would technically be outside this clause.

New laser raygun tech: Our sharks kick the tyres

@Chris Miller

A cryptic reply, it would seem.

What are you implying exactly, pray tell, my good sir?

Prisoner of iTunes - the iPad file transfer horror

"100 million shipped"

Wow, that's a lot of iThingies. If the world population is close to 7 billion (10^9) then there's something mind boggling like an iThingie allegedly shipped for nigh every 70 or so people around....

Great article. WRT your filesystem woes ... another great reason not to buy an iThingie imho. Thanks for the heads up.

Have a beer!

Ballmer says Windows will shame iPad

google icon

Agree. Please consider

The 2 Steves

While Jobs is annoying and dislikable, Balmer comes across as stupid. What is he on about, this guy?

Now which icon, which icon... I know, feck'em both, I choose you, Paris Hilton.

ARM chippies cooperate on Linux

I thought about this too..

But perhaps they don't just intend to do kernel stuff. I don't know, maybe their efforts may extend as far as X... But bloody good point. Their efforts need not or may not be exclusive at any rate.

Artificial 'black hole' generator fashioned out of circuit boards

Err.. was this done before?

USS Eldridge, 1943?

Steve Jobs beheads iPad apps for acting like desktops

I'll try some common sense.

Apple likes only signed approved apps to run on the iPhone/Pad etc right? Else currently you need to jailbreak it and with that risk further hassle with OS updates etc.

Why? They like control, maybe they see it as a way of preventing malware. Whatever. They want control.

Why not just have 2 tiers of runnable apps and GIVE the user the CHOICE?

Tier 1: Appstore apps with the jobs mark of quality and stamp of approval (yeah right)

Tier 2: Unsigned apps. Non-appstore apps. Could be something you just rolled up 5 mins ago. This option could be disabled per user's desire (for perceived security, fanboism whatever)

That way no one need jailbreak their phone to run whatever they like.

Of course maybe they have some sort of financial reason that keeps them from wanting a solution like that.

I won't buy an iPhone etc because of how it's locked down and this article just goes on to prove it. However, a compromise like what I am suggesting could see me buy an iPhone.

Apple, ball's in your court.

But you won't do this will you? Not with that w4nk3r in charge.

In fairness to M$...

Stuff written that calls only venerable win32 API still runs fine. For big projects... it is... a wrestle... But for small ones, it is truly a thing of beauty.

How are you gentlemen?

All your ipad are belong to us!

Rave reviews at robotic robot-roaster raygun rollout

How long did it take...

To toast a target?

Does anyone know?

Symantec finds fat cache of swiped gaming logins

As a matter of interest.

By far and large, at least as far as WoW is concerned, I believe Social Engineering to be the main source of compromised accounts.

Unfortunately if these guys get your email address, they will spam you with emails that look almost convincing to some that look clearly fake. These direct you to a fake website (ie, something like bl!zzard.com which your eye may not catch the first time round if you are not careful) and there you go.

Apart from that you will often get in-game messages from other characters about special offers, some even purporting to be GM's. (Hint: if you were ever messaged by a GM, you'd KNOW they were a GM and not some plain vanilla toon).

Apart from that hiring someone to 'level' your toon or get you rare bind-on-pickup items is also a sure fire way of getting yourself pwned, as obviously, you need to surrender access of your account to these folks for the said transaction to happen.

I have certainly come across players that have had this happen to them. They usually target, as one might imagine, the more naive, trusting and.. I am assuming mainly younger player population that may not necessary know any better.

So... as always, a bit of paranoia is good for you!

iPad queues worldwide

Let's be positive here...

Whenever an iTard buys an iThingie, an ARM moves.

Not an ATOM.

lol...

Mozilla sidesteps iPhone code ban with Firefox Home

What's the difference?

Firstly, all those restrictions are bad. I oppose all of them. Having said that on a gaming console which was never meant to run anything else but DRM'ed games (the Sony PS3 is an exception here), that is somewhat more acceptable. Still bad, but more acceptable.

The iPhone or iPad is a mobile computing device and what this means is subject to interpretation. I interpret it as being a mobile computer that I should have full freedom use as I see fit.

IMHO, that means I should be able to easily write and run any arbitrary code on it. Given an iphone is meant to be a personal device, if I bought one I would be doing at least some of my daily computing on it. The ability to run arbitrary code as desired is TO BE EXPECTED. IMHO you should not have to go thru' some convoluted process, pay apple more money, and still have a hobbled means of customising your kit.

This is absolutely LAME. What are apple going to do next? DRM OS X apps?

This is why, despite the wonderful GUI the iPhone has I have boycotted it.

I vote with my feet.

(as an aside, I am also boycotting the PS3).

Alt rock diva's nude snap 'leaked' to tweetosphere

zomg...

Topless pix on El Reg.

Is this the first time?

I approve.

Just don't go too far the down the intellectualy challenged Ralph, FHM etc path