Posts by boatman

Windows Phone overtakes Apple's market share ... in India

Maybe companies should only brag about their sales of overpriced commodities to 1st world users?

Boffins FREEZE PHONES to crack Android on-device crypto

Very interesting but somewhat redundant?

Most phones are secured with a 4 character pin that usually consists numbers would make brute force a much more promising approach.

Google promises autonomous cars for all within five years

I work in the aviation industry and the second biggest reduction in crashes, after the invention of the gas turbine, was taking control away from the pilots.

A modern passenger aircraft will fly and land itself with no input from the two meat bags positioned in the room with the best view. There is a TV show "air crash investigation" where you get ample opportunity to see the chain of events leading to some of our worst incidents, and it will shock you the number of events that are directly caused by the crew or at least compounded by their actions.

A flight crew is rigorously trained with hours of simulated failure scenarios and still they make mistakes. Now compare that to some of the the fuckwits on the road.

Bring on automation, it will lower deaths and serious injury's, reduce insurance costs and taxi you home when you have had 6 pints of old peculiar in the lazy cock on a Friday night

Peeved bumpkins demand legally binding broadband promise from UK.gov

priorities

How about getting mains gas and sewerage here first. As it is i can get quite alot downloaded in the 2 hours spent dyno rodding some brown blockage.

iPhone 5: skinny li'l fella with better display, camera, software

Thinnest phone?

The Huawei Ascend P1 S is 6.68mm thick, the Oppo Finder is 6.65mm, and the ZTE Athena is 6.2mm thick so the iPhone 5 is obviously not the thinnest

Valve opens Steam store to non-gaming software

Re: no thanks

The main difference between the 2 walled gardens is the choice you make to use them.

You buy an Idevice and you really need to use Itunes

you but a PC you may never use Steam, but many people are happy with there balance between DRM and convienence

The main reason I still have a Windows dual boot is for gaming, if Steam really does bring some great titles to Linux it will save me the investment in whatever version of Windows comes after 8

Size does matter: Outlook.com punters want meatier passwords

Re: A common misconception

Maybe worth a read

http://xato.net/tag/brute-force/

Lords blast UK.gov's fixation on broadband speed over reach

how about some mains sewage or gas.

Its the 21st century and i still have to get a man to come drain my septic tank and ensure i have enough oil to see me through the winter

Streetfighter 2: The World Warrior

heavyweight boxer called M. Bison

Shame on you

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1

Alas, I've no AnTuTu benchmark score for the first generation Tab to hand

I have a galaxy tab 10.1 to hand and here are the numbers

TOTAL - 4907

CPU 2501

RAM 804

GPU 1128

I/O 475

Intel pops $4.1bn to save Moore's Law from repeal

Re: Smaller still means hotter right ?

Thanks for correcting me.

every days a school day eh :)

Re: Smaller still means hotter right ?

Smaller does not mean hotter?

One of the advantages to buying smaller nm CPU is less current leakage, so less power is required, so less heat is generated.

Hands on with the Apple iPad 3

eye strain

"Text is super-sharp, the jagged edges of letters quite invisible. It stops reading e-books being the strain on the eyes"

So eye strain is not caused by backlit displays but by low resolution text. better tell all the kindle owners they wasted there money

Jobs' 'nuclear war' is not doing Apple any good - analyst

reap what you sow...

iPhone 5: Apple 4S, pundits 0

Why not just call it the iphone 5?

Most non techy types could not give a damn whats inside it anyway

HTC sprouts smartphone for shoppers on a shoe-string

2.3.3. is available on the desire!

Boffins boost battery life with underclocked Wi-Fi

location based settings are already available

Have a gander on android market for a app called "llama" (location aware mobile app)

its has quite alot of options you can play with to toggle various phone settings depending upon location and time.

For me it turns on wifi when I get home, turns on my bluetooth for 3 mins when I leave home or work so that if i get in my car it auto connects to my hands free system. turns off bluetooth when car hands free disconnects and no other bluetooth device is connected.

I think the part in this article about this new WiFi method saving 54% of smartphone battery cant be correct, as system monitering of my phone shows that wifi is only responsible for 12% of battery usage. So I assume it will actually save 54% of that 12% used by the wifi thus actually saving only 6% of my total battery usage....

Still, interesting article.

'Poems are the original text messages,' says Laureate

shirley people are reading more

"We are reading less now than we did and a lot of young people spend a lot of time in front of a computer on Facebook or tweeting"

if people did not read when using a computer the WWW would be as much use as a handbrake on a canoe!

Domino's to serve pizzas on the Moon, apparently

flash-only jobbie

flash and job dont mix well

Nintendo lumbered with lawsuit in 3DS patent row

Cost to humanity

Anyone want to have a guess as to how much our technological advancement has been hindered by patent laws?

I have nothing against people making money, but make that money for what you do not what you think you can do in the future.

HTC Sensation dual core Android smartphone

landscape

The cradle for the sensation supports the phone in landscape not portrait.

PowerAmp

title

there is a very good music player in the android market called "cubbed" (i think) which has a far more intuitive interface, has an equilizer can get album art.

give it a go, or better yet el reg could give it a review

Death by 30% cut: Apple app tax must change

Pass The cost To The Consume

Why these companys selling through apple do not pass the 30% on to the consumer is beyond me.

The company would no linger be out of pocket from the sale, and the consumer would have the choice if they want to pay a 30% markup for the convienience of purchasing via apple.

Virgin extends 100Mb/s broadband reach

this something must contain something or something

I get trouble streaming from the beeb too, but newsgroups give me a solid 50Mb/s connection.

I just figured the beeb has a poor upload

Trucker jailed for deadly motorway gamble

so............

did anyone know if he had a good hand prior to the crash?

Mariposa mastermind arrested in Slovenia

The title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits.

did not realise it was against the law to sell crowbars, maps or point out nice houses...

Apple accuses HTC of iPhone tech theft (again)

jeez

i heard apple invented inventing, thus anything that has been invented will be liable to legal action from apple

Googlephone facing 10m more Jobsian challengers?

"The Googlephone may be coming, but Apple's commanding lead won't be easy to overcome"

And what commanding lead would that be?

because its certainly not top of the league table when it comes to smart phones features!!!

And as for sales it seems the iphone is behind both nokia and rim.