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HP boss Whitman: 'We have to offer a smartphone'

Whats the betting....

They buy Nokia ?

And then decide to invent their own OS.......

Smartmobe Wi-Fi blabs FAR TOO MUCH about us, warn experts

Re: Not breaking the law

So it was you !

How did the pictures come out ?

Not breaking the law

>only passively listening to Wi-Fi network requests, rather than complete interception, making it legal under UK law.

It does seem an odd way around. My wifi asking to connect is equivalent to me going house-house trying the door to see if it's unlocked. Yet the person who invites me in is the one who is acting illegally?

Given some of the root CA that common browsers include you wouldn't have to do much.

I'm sure there is Russian/Liberian/etc CA that would issue you a cert for google.com with no questions asked.

BT gets postcode knickers in twist, plants Shoreditch on Mount Everest

Re: There is some logic ...

Well BT should just jolly well write to these chaps and get them to change the name of their road.

One day of course they will be able to talk on the new fangled telephone - as soon as the exchange is ready.

Humanity facing GLOBAL BACON SHORTAGE

Re: Idea

What if you could genetically engineer celery to taste of bacon?

Re: Two words....

Or just feed people to pigs then eat the pigs.

That way nobody will object

VCs snaffle £200m of UK taxpayer gold ... to bet on high-risk biz

Paul Graham thinks Silicon Valley started because of rich individuals? You don't think this is a rich individual pleading for special treatment?

Silicon valley started because of large companies like HP luring techies there. HP went because there was a market for lab equipment for aircraft factories that moved there because they could build things outdoors and land was cheap.

So Silicon valley is there because of orange groves.

Microsoft seizes Chinese dot-org to kill Nitol bot army

Re: Well..

Not really a solution though is it?

You seize 3322.org, the virus dials home to 3323.org, you seize that... - what's the maximum length of a domain name?

The real problem is:

You have to buy a computer with a pre-loaded Windows OS.

Your only guarantee of security is the MS hologram, but all this means is that a chain of lowest bidder Chinese suppliers actually paid Redmond for a license.

You do your "security updates" but on a computer that's already compromised.

The only solution would be to buy a retail copy of the OS - for more than the price of the machine - and wipe the installed OEM OS. Perhaps OEM machines should actually only come with a license sticker and MS mails you a genuine install disk for free?

Dreaded redback spider's NEMESIS: Forgotten Captain Cook wasps

Re: IIRC the Hawaiians didn't have names for some things

Like there's no Scots word for vegetable ?

Re: So...

Then you just breed blue ringed tree octopuses to deal with the wasps, then vampire koalas to deal with the octopuses (octopodes?), then zombie mutant kangaroos to deal with the Koalas.

Then finally you have sharks with laser beams and reverse scuba suits......

The iPHONE 5 UNDERMINES western DEMOCRACY: 5 reasons why

BAe phone

Lewis has obviously been hired to promote the new BAe-Thales-vickers-EADS euroPhone.

Weighing in at a mere 117 euro-Kg and with a wrist mounted keypad that weighs a mere 20kg - the phone will include an internet app to strengthen the right wrist.

Although the first generation isn't capable of making or receiving calls until the new PhoneUser2000 specifications are finally agreed. Internet connectivity is available with the optional add-on module (specially reinforced Landrover required)

It will have user interchangeable batteries and the UK govt has ordered 5 sets of the batteries to be distributed among all UK users.

Unit costs is a mere million quid but subsidies will be available to qualified users (qualification include owning an oil rich country)

iPhone to account for half of US economy by 2030 - projection

Re: @ AC 20:18

Today Wolverhampton - Tomorrow the world !

Profs: Massive use of wind turbines won't destroy the environment

Re: Torque?

Yes if the other end of the windmill wasn't attached to the same Earth.

Re: Nuclear is reviled for good reasons

>Is that your preferred solution of dealing with radioactive waste too?

The obvious solution to dealing with nuclear waste is to mix it with fossil fuels, burn it and send it out of a chimney. After all we have been doing it with the radioactive material in coal for 300 years and nobody has objected.

Re: "What do you think the micro turbine can do...?"

What if everyone had a small microturbine on their hat?

This should provide power to run their iPhone - thus making us locally self-sufficient and energy independent.

Then if we needed more power on a non-windy day people could just run around.

Re: Nice

Seems like a great plan.

The Greens like it so they vote for you.

Still mine the same amount of coal so the unions vote for you

Pay lots of feed in tarrif for solar so the home owners vote for you.

The only people that lose are the poles that are now burning the dirty coal - and if they don't like it they shouldn't have put their country next door to Germany.

Re: Hmm...

I read the Express and the Economist.

I think government regulation of the markets killed Diana.

Cable offers to shower UK biz in taxpayer gold to stimulate growth

Re: Strange

Although that's one of the reasons that Jaguar, Rover, British Leyland etc got into that state in the first place =

"it doesn't matter how crap our products are - people have to buy them or we will call them unpatriotic"

Re: Strange

If we don't give 3rd World dictators £9bn a year how are they going to afford BAe's products?

ps. "foreign owned" doesn't really mean anything for a listed company. Shockingly anyone, even foreigners, are allowed to buy shares in BAe, and honest stout hearted English yeomen are allowed to buy Siemens stock.

What a card: Brit boffin Alan Turing stars in Monopoly tribute set

Re: Go to Jail

The original designer of the "litigious fruit based shiny toy maker" 's logo said he did the bite out of it because the board thought it looked like a cherry when he first showed them. He knew nothing of Turing and the logo was created in 1976 - 7 years before Hodge's biography of Turing mentioning the suicide was published.

Similarly the rainbow colours on the first version were to advertise the Apple's colour display - it was 2 years before the design of the gay-pride rainbow flag.

More 'iPad Mini' tat pics leak ahead of Apple's big unzip

Re: cases also appeared for...

The Apple TV set does exist - I have one.

It's just that only really cool and trendy people can see it - to everyone else it's invisible.

Ballmer predicts 400 MILLION Win 8 Surface and Lumia fumblers

Re: What counts as a tablet?

>I don't see that we'll be able to cleanly divide Windows 8 sales into "PCs" and "tablets"

That's the problem for developers = develop for Win8 there are 400million devices.

Ok, some of them will be corporate desktops with a keyboard and a mouse and gig ethernet, some of them will be touchscreen tablets without 3G, and some of them will be phones with location awareness but expensive internet. We don't know how many there will be of each so you just have to write an application that is useful on all of them!

The world's first Windows Phone 8 hands on – what's it like?

Slightly off topic...but

Can it make phone calls?

There doesn't seem to be any mention of that.

Re: "Is it heavy?"

That's the first rule of optics.

How to test if this is a high quality lens - pick it up!

Re: Disappointing

"Two supposed to be high end phones with measly 8MP cameras"

Perhaps somebody at Nokia is aware of the diffraction limit of a 1mm diameter lens?

Climate sceptic becomes UK Environment Secretary

Re: Paterson is an Oxford-educated public schoolboy

Possibly a few went there - I would question "educated"

Re: Paterson is an Oxford-educated public schoolboy

Perhaps you are confusing him with one of the other 300+ Oxford educated public schoolboys in the government ?

Re: denial?

Wind power is tremendously good value for money - Take for example the offshore wind farm near Barrow In Furness.

The government made a £1billion investment in renewable energy - by buying German window turbines from a Danish company.

They shipped them to Belfast - so making a £1billion peace dividend investment in Northern Ireland.

They loaded them onto a crane barge in the old H&W shipyard in Belfast - making a £1billion investment in re-energising old industry for a brighter green technology future.

And finally they hooked them up to the grid in Barrow - thus making a £1billion infrastrucre investment in a deprived area.

For only £1billion heading to Seimens bank account at least a dozen government depts and quangos were able to claim a £1billion investment - that sounds like an excellent return.

And that's before they even generate any electricity - if they ever do.

Android dev smacked with £50k fine over premium rate SMS scam

Re: Ltd Companies

But still somewhat irrelevent if the "company" is just a bit of paper and the owners are just listed as "Boris Smith" "Russia".

There isn't exactly a lot of checking to register a company in the UK - and there is no need to even register it in the UK.

Re: crime

Crim is in Russia, with a company registered in Liberia and servers in China.

Crim laughs at plod and pays 20quid to register new company,

BT hand out new premium number and they are back in business tomorrow

Re: EPIC FAIL - Sophos are clearly idiots....

So Sophos shouldn't have a market for desktop AV because internet explorer warns you when you download apps or open attachments ?

I suppose a warning on the boot screen saying - "allow code to run on this cpu?" would mean everyone is an idiot

BBC dishes out fanboi-only telly downloads ahead of ITV plans

At the time RM was the only practical solution.

el' Reg readers would have been equally annoyed if nothing was available for 3 years while they developed their own format - and the same people would be moaning about the millions being spent on a NIH solution when RM was available.

Re: Hmm... this _is_ 2012

The BBC are working on a regional coding system which will allow only "Dad's Army" and "Allo Allo" to be recorded in Germany.

Re: i™

Arrgggghhhhhh ..........

Re: i™

PAL is the standard in Britain and it's the British Broadcasting Corporation.

I think saying they are biased toward PAL is like saying that London transport is biased to driving on the left.

Re: 30 days?

The first rule of get_iplayer is that you don't talk about get_iplayer......

Re: Obviously never to MediaCity then

I don't think you can watch the new exciting dynamic multimedia customer output "product" on a tram - I think you are limited to Hovis commercials.

They did a full exhaustive market study of the 3 interns in the BBC coffee shop and discovered that 100% of the target demographic of middle class media studies students only use Apple.

RIM begs devs: Build for BlackBerry 10, we'll bung you $10K

Re: I smell desperation

The IT equivalent of limping through the lion enclosure covered in barbecue sauce hitting yourself with a meat tenderiser?

Microsoft claims Windows Server 2012 is 'first cloud OS'

Re: Nutella...

To be fair, they did birth the era of charging you 10x as much for the same code by sticking "server" in the name and adding a registry key that limited the number of IP connections

Samsung: We can't find any child labour at our Chinese contractor

Re: Very dull headline

Nope you get to be that big by the US losing (sort of) a war in your country and installing a military dictatorship who decides that there must be industry to make the country independent of it's commie neighbours.

And that company should be owned by some friends of his.

And the laws shouldn't apply to them.

Even today, if you ever have to deal with Samsung, they make the Russian mafia look like Apple.

Shocking

You shouldn't employ workers under 18 on your production line.

You should get them for free on YTS.

Over 18s you should get for free as a 6month unpaid training period or they have their benefit stopped

Iomega: SOHO punters will pay hard cash for our cheap boxes

How much ....

Can anyone explain why small home/office NAS boxes are so %^*&ing expensive?

The cheapest average about $200/2bay and $400/4bay WITHOUT the drives.

That's a 4channel SATA chip, a network port and an ARM/Atom cpu, a copy of Linux and a cheap plastic box.

For that money I can buy a full Dell PC AND the drives to go in it.

'Nutjob' serves half-baked Raspberry PI scam

Re: To make a serious point...

New Judaism - "it's a religion and a dessert topping"

TripAdvisor didn't defame hotel by putting it on 'top 10 dirtiest' list

Re: Politics

Presumably anyone that evolved would be run out of Tennessee

Apple drones reject American drone-strike tracker app

Re: hmmm

>2) did you really just suggest that targeting individuals rather than whole cities is *de*humanising war?

Yes - if you carpet bomb Dresden then the people ordering it, and the people doing it, have to think about what they have done.

If you just draw a box on Google Earth and an automated drone automatically kills anyone in it until you click cancel - then you are a lot more likely to order it, the troops are much more likely to do it, and the people at home aren't going to object.

Think of drones as virtual minefields and they are a lot less acceptable.

DOCTOR WHO world, or Magrathea, SPOTTED* orbiting twin suns

Re: There is another planet

Stars aren't IN constellations - it's just a direction, it depends where you are standing

It might be in Cygnus for us and Kasterborous from there.

... I can't believe I bothered to write this....

Number-plate spycams riddled with flaws, top cop admits

Re: Bootnote

Peterborough had that on the A1 just outside the gate to RAF Wittering.

They put a cone in the emergency vehicle access gap in the central reservation and a single "roadworks 50mph" sign was there all winter which was completely ignored. On the first bank holiday a speed camera was added. Profitable!