* Posts by Richard Jones 1

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Apple display patent enslaves sun

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Prior Art On Trucks?

Does no one else remember the way that trucks used to have name boards on the cab which were brightened up using 'Solar Radiation', (or light to anyone who cares)?

Now let me see, that was considered old hat back in the early '50s and I well remember it being discussed in comics, (or 'children's papers') or the like back then.

Can I please have a patent for recycling any old idea that has fallen out of use due to easier methods being adopted by technology lovers who cannot believe easy solutions?

The ONLY patentable aspect is that it is so adjectivally obvious that no one believed that it was worthy of a patent.

Privacy chiefs define 'data processor' and 'data controller'

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Unhappy

Can We Have that again in English?

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No wonder the earlier attempts at clarity failed if this is the best they can do at a second attempt! Or is this an effort to confuse the yanks and their efforts to mine, oops sorry process OUR data?

BBC might pay for Tory broadband promises

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What is the point?

The rest of the world with the possible exception of Japan does not have the brain dead debt levels with which our fearless leader and total failure Brown has saddled us. They can afford and have already afforded fast broadband but it would be little use here, under the Brown Shower what use would it be anyway. After the stitch up with the BPI it would just see most users disconnected for have the front, (and I do not mean national front) to use the expensive facility.

Real Networks rolls over to Hollywood

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Dodging DVD Content Crap

Oh dear I bypass the DVD content protection rubbish, I simply do not buy or watch the trash from the studios.

Google now owns location advertising

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A Further Thought on the absurd

Here are a few other location specific thoughts, let us see, you call up and you have an emergency, so you need an, ambulance, or police, or doctor, or plumber, or breakdown crew, or even a pizza. Better call someone from the other side of the globe, oops must have been thinking about the way that British banks work or should you get someone who can actually arrive with you before you die of an emergency or hunger.

"What? You cannot send me local assistance because of Google's patent. Your telling me that the British bankers got it right the ambulance/pizza/etc. must come from Bombay/Mexico/The Philippines, etc."

Someone is having a laugh.

Just when did we introduce 999 calling to get local services from one national number?

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Location Specific Actions

Back in the 1990s and probably before that, telephone callers were being routed on the basis of caller location, if that is not an example of prior art what is?

Local newspapers, stuff stuck through letter boxes is delivered on an area specific basis, posters as already noted, even including those famous entries in telephone boxes, surely they are the ultimate location specific advertisements?

Hackers go on Tory-bothering spree

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More From the Brown shower?

If this is the best that thug brown's 'friends' can do then I can see why they are friends of gorgon.

Eurocrats mandate maximum charge for data roaming

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Why Risk it?

The first thing that I do with a new or recycled handset is enter false data for the web access(es) so that there can be no way to access the network operators private goldmine. It really keeps the unwanted shocks at bay.

Experts rubbish iPhone for health use

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Mobiles in Hospital

I understand that the number of problems caused by mobiles in hospital is in single figures, the biggest problem is those 'screen things' with their £5 a day cost. (Thinks, - is that where five a day came from?). I was told that many hospitals have/had a contract to prevent patients using mobile phones so that they would be forced onto those 5-a-day boxes.

As for using the iPhone, I guess that it is good to use off the shelf kit and good that this time it IS being piloted first, but no surprised that it has failed. Many people I know would like the iPhone to be able to make telephone calls, when they want to make them and not just if it decides to allow them to connect.

Xerox sues Google and Yahoo! over patentspeak

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Prior Art?

Many of my books have an index, is that not an application of the same foggy notions as "very clearly (not)" expressed in this 'patent'? As such I thought that prior art was excluded from patent action, not the objective of a patent. Anyone like to use MY wheel, for a fee of course!

US must redesign killer hot dogs

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Gorgon Braun has the answer

This is a simple one to answer and good old gorgon braun has the answer. Send all babies to a government crèche until they are say 6 years old and thus able to eat food as the parents cannot be trusted (sadly in some cases, clearly cannot be trusted) to care for them and teach them to eat food properly.

Mind you on second thoughts, given the UK's record of dealing with children this might not be such a good idea...

Airport scanners go live today, kids included

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When will the backlash start?

So, it would be unfair to profile passengers as that would infringe someone nutter's (in-)human right to take the human rights from others? If there is logic there it is well hidden from me.

If we did not have the problem of certain sub human psychopathic types wanting to murder and maim there would be no problem, so sod the human wrongs act and target those most likely to target others.

In the meantime shut down the damned airports by not using them, or would that deny the b*st*rds human rights to kill?

Who is for embroidered vests with suitable slogans suggesting that the perverts go home and the the terrorists get what they deserve? Surely it should be my human right to wear what I want in the privacy of my own underwear however offensive it might be to the law breakers, e.g. this bloody Goophymint..

Regulator sniffs around stonking iPhone game bills

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Software Down Grade?

You wrote that the problem arose "following a software update from Apple", now we all known that apple are a pretty arrogant bunch who were unable to secure their web site and had to stop selling itunes gift certificates via their website (should they have asked MS for help?). But calling a serious hole like this new one the result of an 'upgrade' , is like saying added cyanide in a chocolate bar improves the flavour.

Can anyone explain the chunnel fiasco?

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Snow, Snow Go No Snow

Thhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/fail_32.pnge absence of factual reports from the' villains' of this piece, whoever they may be does mean that one can only go on speculation but if the trains had total power failures then this 'might' also have affected the public address system as well.

If this was the case it is another resounding design and testing failure, if power was not the issue then a clear procedural failure has been revealed.

Given the time it took and the presence of the 'service tunnel', evacuation by 'golf cart' would have taken less than the time some people waited and it is clear that evacuation trains should have run a shuttle service from the tunnel mouth towards either London or Paris.

If we are going into speculation, even a bloke with a leaf blower could have dried the damned things out in the time that they were faffing about.

Security firm chokes sprawling spam botnet

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Grenade

Clearing up Botnets

http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/grenade_32.png While the closure of this botnet is good news I am concerned that the ISPs lack the skills, staff or understanding that they would need to help their customers remove the problem from their PCs.

Based on recent experience of their 'skills', my ISP (orange) probably could not turn the power on without someone to show them where the power plug went. If they are to help end users (with similar skill levels?) to clear up their PCs then we are in for a long haul.

UK.gov back to the drawing board on DNA retention

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Stop

Guilty of Being Suspected?

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Perhaps this is the way for Crook, Suspect and Robbem & Co., sorry the Goophymint to go forward, - make those not guilty of a crime guilty of having been a suspect in a crime.

Will they be adding dodgy MP's DNA to the database?

Richard

Landmark ISP piracy case could kick thousands offline

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Flame

A Better Solution

Why not shut down the damned film companies? After all by making restricted copies available and tempting people to waste time watching them they are guilty of:

1) Entrapment

2) Encouraging a lack of exercise while wasting time watching their pap.

3) Promoting negative stereo types.

4) Upsetting large number of innocent internet users who may have to pay to protect these companies from consequences 1~3.

5) Lets not consider the use of dodgy or illegal substances within their industry!

6) As for those god-damned awful leaders on LEGAL DVDs, are they trying to promote piracy?

Gov demand for Governator to terminate PunterNet

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Grenade

Harlot Harriman

Nhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/grenade_32.pngow, now let us be clear, the seaside often brings out the hopeful pantomime queens and in this case not only a failing, fading pantomime queen but a conservative secret weapon! What more potent force than the harlot bomb to blow gorgon brown out of his siesta and into unearned retirement?.

Nation's parents prepare to be vetted

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Unhappy

New Laws for old?

Well they do appear to have managed to repeal one law, the Law of Unintended Consequences, in favour of the Law of Total Cock-up.

Clearly badly thought out, unexamined parliamentary edicts, (one can hardly call them laws in the traditional sense) shoved through by a part time bunch of snout filling parasites is producing the expected result, chaos.

How long before we all need to be vetted to stand in a bus queue, ride a bus or, horror of horrors ride in a car with ........... fill in the blank, but make it anything silly.

T-Orange: It is possible to have too much spectrum

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New Name and New Service - Lemon

Let me see, now that is too much spectrum and not enough service, ah yes that will be orange (with or without added T-Mobile), now let us forget the name combinations and just call the new shower Lemon.

Richard

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