Posts by Matt Bryant

'Stupid old white people' revenge porn ban won't work, insists selfie-peddler

Re: Boring Bernie Re: Um...

Upvote (must be a flying pigs day).

Re: AC Re: Usual politician's response - another pointless law.

".....I mean think about it for 5 seconds....." Obviously, five seconds was about all you could manage. Now try an extra five seconds and try and think what will stop the sites being hosted abroad? Nothing. In fact, it would probably be a lot cheaper to host them abroad anyway, and with $10k of advertising revenue a month that little five seconds of thought is not going to be much of a problem for the type of people that will run such sites.

Usual politician's response - another pointless law.

"Hey, we have to be seen to be doing something, so let's make a pointless law that sounds good without actually solving anything, because that might garner a few votes." How will it work with selfies hosted on revenge sites outside the US?

Digital 'activists' scramble to build Silk Road 2.0, but drug kingpins are spooked

The denial is strong with these people!

"....more secure version of Silk Road that will be 100% untraceable....." Nothing involving people is 100% untraceable, unbreakable, or undiscoverable, as shown by the Snowden farce. The Sheep herder must be an ex-Oracle employee to believe in Unbreakable Silk Road 2.0.

"......From the get-go, we have only made communications with each other through TOR so we all remain completely anonymous, even to each other....." And how do you vouch for each other? The FBI and other police agencies Worldwide have decades of experience of undercover work breaking up drug gangs. And did you miss the recent articles on the attention the NSA and GCHQ have been paying TOR?

"....He or she wrote: "I can’t help but get the feeling DPR [Dread Pirate Roberts] would be relatively happy...." LOL, at this point the dope would probably be a whole lot happier with soap-on-a-rope for the prison showers!

Re: Crisp Re: Shortage of UK drug dealers?

"Legalise the weed and there'll be hardly any!" Of course, because all those people that CHOOSE to take acid, heroin or cocaine, or any number of alternatives, all do so simply because there wasn't some guy selling weed at the time.

/If you need sarc tags then you must have smoked a lot of what Crisp seems to have been pushing.

Re: Destroyed All Braincells Re: The smell of hypocrisy in the morning

"How does this have anything to do with Goldman Sachs??" Don't you know, it's the Nu(t)Labour/Dummicrat stock excuse, opt repeated by anyone slightly Left, that everything is the fault of The Bankers. World hunger, the Downton Abbey plotline, revenge posting of sexts, people "needing" to buy and sell drugs - all due to The Bankers.

Re: DrXym Re: Sure, activism

"And absolutely nothing to do with spotting a gap in the market and the profits to be had from facilitating the sale of drugs and other illegal activities." Gosh, you cynic! Any more of that kind of insight and the regular sheeple posters will be calling you a "police-state-loving Facist"!

Snowden's email provider gave crypto keys to FBI – on paper printouts

Re: Roo Re: LMAO!

".....mobile phones....cheerlead the shutdown of Verizon...." You obviously had your head too far up your own arse to realis that the mobile companies co-operate with the authorities investigatin crime, whereas Ladar chose to attempt to deny the authorities to investigate crimes. Ladar has done the minimum to escape conviction for aiding and abetting.

LMAO!

So another "hero" of the "freedom loving people" folds and runs with tail between his legs, and you lot paint it as a "victory"? LOL! You really need someone to help you keep score - the NSA got what they want and, as a bonus, pressured Levison into shutting down a business that was no doubt being used for criminal activities. Wake up and pay attention - the gloves are off, Obambi can't serve another term so he's not bricking himself over upsetting the sheeple. The question merely becomes how far he is happy to push in the remaining time he has in power, which potentially includes targeting sheeple hot topics like TOR. Enjoy!

Thirteen alleged Anons named and charged by FBI in antipiracy web war

Re: AC Re: Thirteen down...

".....seven billion to go....." LOL, you really swallowed that "99%" bumph, didn't you! More like the 0.00001%.

Re: Suricou Raven Re: More "non-leader" leaders.

Next you'll be telling us life is like a box of chocolates....

More "non-leader" leaders.

".....the 13 suspects decided which websites to target and when before circulating instructions on the net....." What? Didn't the Anonyputzs claim they had no "leaders"? Gosh, how stupid they must feel if they actually believed that.

Violin Memory falls through basement in first day of trading

Re: AC Re: AC JAFA history in a nutshell.

"the lack of imagination continues." Actually I think it was very imaginative to think that a product based on flash alone could compete over time with the big array vendors. In an incredibly stupid kind of way. What you needed was a more rounded product, like Compellent had, which led to them being snapped up by a big vendor (Dell in Compellent's case). Flash-only companies like Violin are now trying to flog a "premium" all-flash array in a market that has plenty more flash options than even only two years ago, and will shortly be completely swamped with cheap, Chinese-manufactured, "me-too", all-flash arrays. Does Violin have an answer that will differentiate their offerings and keep them ahead of the commodity flash wave? Not by the looks of it, their recent branching out into PCIe cards looks more like a re-tread of the old ideas from ex-FusionIO bod Don Basile. TBH, I thought their best option was being bought out by Toshiba, but that option seems to have gone with the IPO.

Re: AC Re: JAFA history in a nutshell.

A bitter Violin shareholder?

Re: Thad Re: Some of the potential reasons

"....Does the company make money?....." Well, if it looked like they had an opportunity to make oodles of money in the near future, maybe by bringing a revolutionary new product to the market, then I'd take a punt on them, but it looks like the analysts don't think that is going to happen. The bottom seems to have fallen out of the Violin boat when EMC, Dell, hp, Oracle and IBM all showed no interest in buying them.

JAFA history in a nutshell.

JAFAs: "Hey, let's make a small array with just Flash in it and sell it on the promise of really freaky IOPS figures! The server vendors will have to work with us. Then we can sell the company and make meeeeeelions!"

Array vendors: "Pffft, we'll just add a layer of Flash to our arrays, bring it all under our superior management and tiering software, and pound your niche product into the sand"

Violin: "Crap, we didn't sell ourselves in time." <Insert sound of toilet flushing>

'The NSA set me up,' ex-con Qwest exec claims

Re: nsld Re: Mtech25

"....better seat in heaven...." Sorry, chap, but unlike you I don't baaaah-lieve in fairytales. If I did I'd be more inclined to hell - all the interesting people will be there, whilst heaven will probably just be full of the pious like you, riding around on their moral hobbyhorses.

Re: Mtech25

Indeed, I predict that the NSA will soon be the stock excuse for all types of jiggerypokery. No doubt next week the Whale Traders will be claiming "the NSA made me do it!"; Bill Clinton will be insisting that Monica Lewinsky was an NSA plant; and Larry Ellison will be confirming the only reason he bought SUN was because the CIA paid him to.

Hackers just POURING through unpatched Internet Explorer zero-day hole

Re: MattEvansC3

So Safari should be safe for quite a while then!

'I don't trust Microsoft' after NSA disclosures says former privacy chief

Oops!

".....Bowden said he wasn't aware of PRISM....." It appears Mr Bowden simply wasn't very good at his job. Either that or he's telling porkies....

Valve aiming to take the joy(sticks) out of gaming with Steam Controller

Re: Peter Gathercole Re: Hmmmmm..... @Matt

"....a SteamBox running in streaming mode...." Yeah, but no. Streaming = lagging like crazy, so pants for a lot of games. And my house has real internal walls so wireless is also pretty hit'n'miss, and I really don't want to start running cabling everywhere (did that in the last house, thanks). And then I have to keep a wireless keyboard and mouse in the lounge for when I'm not playing. Thanks, but no thanks.

Hmmmmm.....

Ok, so I have a meaty and pretty noisy Windoze rig I use for games in the man cave, and a titchy and discrete Linux box (and the old Wii console the kids used to play on) in the lounge for media stuff because the lounge has the biggest and best TV in the house. But the media box is not going to be good enough to play real games on, and SWMBO will throw a fit if I drag my games rig into the lounge. And I don't see the point of putting another big TV in the man cave, it's simply not big enough a room (especially with the piles of junk and books I have in there!). The old Wii doesn't get enough usage that I'd consider wanting a replacement console, and I don't want a console in the man cave where I already have too many proper systems. So I'd rather just stick with Steam on a PC and use the old keyboard and mouse, thanks. I don't think even HL3 on console only would be enough to tempt me to buy one - after all, I withstood the urge with HALO all these years.

Oracle hides ExaLogic price cut

Re: Ali Re: Dazed and Confused Great, you've spilled the beans

"......I wonder if the America's cup team cheated...." Bit harsh. They did make questionable use of an auto-stabilization system, but they lost the first four races with it in place. The difference seems to have been when Larry splashed extra cash to bring in Brit Olympian Sir Ben Ainslie to run the teams's tactics and strategy. One of the reasons for Oracle's success elsewhere has been that Larry has always been just smart enough to know when he needs to go out and buy-in a solution, such as RAC from Compaq, which is what makes his stupid push of the Cripple Me Tech chips all the more bizarre. He should have just stuck with Xeon as most of his customers are doing.

Re: Billl Re: Dazed and Confused Great, you've spilled the beans

"......SPARC is the most performant CPU on the market...." Up until that point I was picturing you in a little cheerleader outfit with your Big Red pompoms, but that comment definitely put you in a clown suit! What happened the last time when Sun turned their back on Fujitsu and tried making their own enterprise chip? Why, they crashed and burned, and then had to go back and use the Fujitsu option as SPARC64 was simply better. So what is Larry doing? Turning his back on the better SPARC64! And trying to push the crippled CMT design into enterprises by bolting a poorly designed cache on the side and hiding it behind shedloads of (expensive) memory. Face it, the CMT fiasco has meant Oracle has been playing catch-up ever since the Sun buy, they should have just kept it for webservers and gone with SPARC64 for the real servers. Don't beleive me? Then maybe you need to have words with TPM:

"...the S3 core at the heart of the latest Sparc T4, T5, M5, and M6 processors is modestly powerful compared to Xeon, Power, System z, and even Itanium....." (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/28/oracle_sparc_m6_bixby_interconnect/)

Larry will have to get round the awful cache problems of the T/M6, and what better way than to slap on tons of RAM? Hey, did Larry just go plug a server with 32TB of RAM....? (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/23/openworld_ellison_keynote/?page=2) ROFLMAO!

/SP&L

Re: Dazed and Confused Re: Great, you've spilled the beans

Agreed, Larry would rather cut off his Mom's fingers than cut prices if he really didn't need to dump product.

Latest Snowden reveal: It was GCHQ that hacked Belgian telco giant

Re: Don Don Jefe @Matt Bryant

"....Is not evidence...." Snowden's choice of running off abroad very publicly, rather than staying in the US to push his info through the courts, is a fact. His decision to use Greenwald as a commercial outlet, rather than giving it free to Cryptome or even Dickileaks, is also a fact. You, on the other hand, seem rather short of facts, chap.

".....merely shrieking....." More chuckling, thanks.

"...Conjecture, just like the rest of us." No. You see, any conjecture I make is based on proven facts, such as Snowden's cash having been frozen. Your bleating is purely based on conjecture, and often easily debunked due to the lack of any factual foundation. Big difference, little lambkins.

Re: Don Don Jefe @Matt Bryant

"....When does circumstantial evidence become proof....." When it stands up to professional examination in a court of law, rather than the shrieking court of sheeple opinion.

Re: Boring Bernie Re: Boring Bernie Don Jefe

"....you're quite right there...." Blimey! <Checks for flying pigs> I think I'll go buy a Lotto ticket!

Re: teebie Re: Why would Belgacom not play ball?

BICS - the international cable bit of the business actually allegedly targeted - is not the Belgians' systems, they are owned by a multinational conglomerate which includes two non-NATO based companies. If it was 100% owned by the Belgian State them it would probably have happened with their blessing anyway. I would suspect that the Belgian government is now in the sticky position of having to pretend they knew nothing about a hack which they were probably not only in on, but probably also with the VSSE quietly getting the analyzed info on Belgian nationals and threats back from GCHQ and NSA.

Re: Boring Bernie Re: Don Jefe

"....where is YOUR proof....." Well, the first obvious pointer is that Snowjob did not spread his info out as widely as possible and all in one go, instead it has been drip-fed out mainly by Greenwald for obvious Guardian profit. From there you have to ask how is Snowjob paying for his upkeep seeing as his US accounts have been frozen? Gee, do you maybe think he's taking cash payments from at least the Guardian? And then there are his continual interviews with papers which are nothing more than lifestyle pieces - they display his narcissism.

A true whistleblower cares about what he is revealing rather than personal glory, a good example being Perry Fellwock? "Perry who?" you say. Fellwock revealed the existence of the NSA. He didn't go on a World tour, or deliberately get a job with the intelligence services with the aim of committing treachery for cash, he simply said his piece, got the information to the right people to bring it to court via US Senate Church Committee, and then was content to fade into the background. W. Felt, AKA "Deep Throat", was content for his identity never to be revealed. Felt finally only confirmed his identity as "Deep Throat" thirty years later in order to help pay for his grandchildren's education. Snowden is probably just eager to keep paying for pole dancers.

Re: Absolute Crap Re: AC AC Why would Belgacom not play ball? @matt bryant

Gee, is that you avoiding the topic AGAIN? Now, why in Earth would you be so anxious not to discuss the topic? Oh, could it be because you keep getting your a$$ handed yo you on a plate every time you do try an express an actual relevant argument? ROFLMAO! At least you are 100% consistent in your failure.

Seeing as you and your fellow sheeple are completely u noble to show proof that GCHQ actually did hack Belgacom, why don't you please try and explain (for amusement value) why no other party could possibly have been the ones to plant the malware in question? LOL!

Re: AC Re: AC Why would Belgacom not play ball? @matt bryant @MyBackDoor

"....proving exactly the point....." LOL, once agin we have the unproven "proof", and once again you avoid the actual thread subject by trying to drag it off into the personal. Face it, your lame tactic has been busted, your attempt to poison the well has been exposed, and you have lost twice over. Maybe you should talk to someone about your obsessive behaviour.

Re: Don Re: Don Jefe

"....derides any form of proof....." Er, what proof? All you have is conjecture. You do understand the concept of circumstantial evidence, right? It may be a very strong indicator but it is still NOT proof.

"....you cite Chinese media....." Ooh, is that some racist insistence that only white, Western reporters are to be trusted? Not very progressive or liberal. Or just the usual sheeple denial that any source that does not align perfectly with your baaaah-liefs has to be ignored? If you wish to discredit the South China Morning Post article (www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1268209/snowden-sought-booz-allen-job-gather-evidence-nsa-surveillance) then please do supply a bit more meat to your argument.

Re: Jellied Eel Re: Want to gain access to a GRX core router?

"....Having rights to a percentage of the capacity doesn't automatically mean access to SLTs or muxes that would give potential access to other member's capacity....." True, but it depends what info you are after. Remember, the targeting info for PRISM was based on connections, i.e., who did Achmed call and when? I would suspect the primary target would be the billing systems where this data is held, rather than the cables themselves. The cables can be physically tapped as required, but the billing system data would probably be of greater interest in telling the spooks where to go look. And even if it was compartmentalised it is likely to be on virtualised systems, so hacking the core system would lead to accessing the shared network links and shared storage links all the virtual instances use. There's no need to hack every VM if you can peek at the data going through the physical cards, and hiding in the VM underneath would probably draw less attention than hacking into every billing VM.

Re: AC Re: Why would Belgacom not play ball? @matt bryant @MyBackDoor

"....That, I'm afraid is Matt's normal modus operandii...." <Yawn> As you shall sow, so you shall reap. If you and your numpty chums stopped trying to pass off your paranoid delusions and conjecture as facts then I wouldn't need to point out the stupidity of unquestioningly accepting paranoid delusions and conjecture. After all, if your arguments were so sound and convincing you would have no problem defending them, which you obviously have as you (and the other sheeple) have AGAIN swerved off into moaning "oh, he's so mean to me". TBH, grow a pair. If you truly want to baaaah-lieve what you post then why do you have such probelms actually PROVING what you state are actually facts?

"....an instinctive downvoting of any post that he doesn't agree with....and I'm also suspicious that he's using multiple Reg user IDs......" LOL, I'm just going to chalk that one down to your paranoia. Unless you have some form of access to El Reg's voting system you have SFA clue as to how I vote or downvote, thanks. You obviously struggle with the fact that more than one person might disagree with what you have been spoonfed as The Truth, so much so you would rather baaaaaah-lieve it is just one "nasty" opposer making wrongful use of the voting tools rather than face up to the fact your POV is not universally accepted. If I was using multiple accounts then El Reg would know and have said so, it already infringes on their Ts&Cs, IIRC. I note you somehow fail to think such an accusation might apply to those that vote with your bleated POV, presumably because you think that your "righteous" views give you and the other Faithful some form of unquestionable moral superiority and render you unable to "cheat"? LOL, this is my surprised face, honest.

"....All of this is within your gift to sort out...." The problem is it is probably outside your "gift" to actually post a coherent statement of your own POV as you have no capability for independent thought, as demonstrated by your argument-free post. Which, FYI, I did downvote just the once for it's complete lack of relevant content. Enjoy!

Re: Don Jefe

"....Snowden did the only thing he could...." Sorry to disrupt your little hero worship session, but that's complete male genetalia. As he admitted to the Chinese press, Snowjob deliberately signed up with the intent to commit treachery. He then could also have chosen to take his knowldege to plenty of politicians and journalists in the States that would have broadcast his info widely and used him at Senate hearings and the like. Instead, Snowjob chose to make money off his treachery by selling his info via Greenwald and Poitras (and now no doubt through his "friendship" with Dickileaks). Snowjob did not do the only thing he could, he did the thing that guaranteed him fame, noteriety, and a cheque or three.

Re: Why would Belgacom not play ball? @matt bryant @MyBackDoor

"....However there is no absolute 'proof' in the real world, merely a preponderance of evidence such as to tip one's scales to a personal definite conclusion....." Your scales have been deliberately bent. You also don't want to admit the measure that counts is legality and proving it in a court of law. Which is really amusing because when it is cretins like the Anonyputzs doing crimes I'm sure you're scales are miraculously bent the other way. At least you provide plenty of unintended amusement.

".... I'm just puzzled by matt's apparent decision...." Don't worry, you're not the first sheeple that's been surprised - they tend to discourage independent thought in your type of flock, so it's a bit of a shock to their system when they meet someone that doesn't just roll over and swallow whatever they are told is the hip'n'trendy POV. When you grow up and get some wordly experience you may learn that.

".....then abuse them when they don't." Sorry, but when I run into someone as deliberately blinkered as you it's hard not to poke fun at them. But I can see why you would want to drag this argument off into the personal seeing as it is yet another thread where your statements of "fact" have been thoroughly debunked. Try again, lambikins.

Re: BoringGreen Re: Why would Belgacom not play ball? @matt bryant

"....Bluegreen says: "In the United Kingdom, GCHQ is specifically required by law (and as and when tasked by the British government) to intercept foreign communications "in the interests of the economic well­being of the United Kingdom...."....." Seeing as they probably didn't cover it in your last copy of Sheep Fanciers Monthly, I suppose it's news to you that AQ top numpty Ayman al-Zawahiri spent the 9/11 anniversary desperately begging islamist nutters everywhere to attack Western economic targets (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24083314)? He has to ask "lone wolves" because TWOT has been very successful in trashing his supporter networks in the West, especially i disrupting their financial means (thanks, VISA!). But economic attacks has kind of been a theme for AZ, going right back to AQ's original attempts to bomb the World Trade Center. Indeed, fighting TWOT itself is a constant drain on the UK economy, so using coms interception as one way to find the isalmsist nutters (and other fruitcakes and criminals) is actually makes economic as well as security sense. Once again, you have been herded to the assumption that "economic" has to mean "commercial", i.e., capitalist, rather than state interest.

"....To which Plump and Bleaty responds "Again, no proof that ANY actual commercial secrets have been stolen by GCHQ"....." Indeed, you still have not proved (a) that GCHQ was the party responsible for the malware infecting Belgacom's systems, or (b) that any material was spied upon by GCHQ, either for commercial reasons or otherwise. You have made a lot of CONJECTURE based on Snowden's latest leak, but that is all it is. Personally, I don't doubt that GCHQ are all over any bit of cable and system they can get their mitts on, but that is an OPINION rather than a FACT. You are trying to state a fact. You need conclusive evidence to state a fact, which these slides are not.

I will try and put it in the type of setting you may understand, given your fascination with alternate realities like TV rather than factual situations - your claiming GCHQ MUST HAVE hacked Belgacom just because a third party said they had an interest and motive in doing so is like saying Sue Ellen MUST HAVE shot JR. Then again, you were probably still just a drug-addled glimmer in your Mom's eye back in 1980. Sorry, I can't think of an alternative example with the kind of kids shows you probably watch.

"....The article here says " leaked slides describe the exercise as already being a success and close to achieving its ultimate goal"...." Again, being "close" is no cigar - there could be any number of other parties hacking into Belgacom that may have beaten GCHQ to the punch. Once again, all you have is conjecture. I could make just as good a case for the FSB, Chinese Army hackers, the Anonyputzs or just skiddies to have hacked the Belgacom systems.

"....It would appear to be none of those three, Plumps. You'd rather waste everyone's bandwidth than admit you were wrong...." The truth you want to deny is you WANT to baaaaah-lieve it was GCHQ and the NSA, but you can't prove it. That is a big legal difference you will probably need an adult to explain to you. And that is what really gets your wool in a twist! ROFLMAO!

Re: asdf Re: hmm

".....Europe and the UK are few of the places in the world we can point too and say look see how a civilized country does it...." <Sigh> It always amuses me when Libtard Septics get all misty-eyed over "les Continentals" and how "cultured" the Old European socialists are. What you fail to realise is the Special Relationship works because the UK is quite often the go-to boy for nasty stuff that the US wants done quietly. In the US you have always had much more stringent control and oversight over your intelligence services, even the NSA, whereas in the UK we spent many decades calmly turning a blind eye by insisting that our Secret Services did not officialy exist! But it gets even funnier when such Libtards try to live in denial about our European chums - you really need to go read up on some of the lovely activities of the Fwench and Belgians in their old empires. As just an example, I was most amused by a Greenpecker insisting to me the other day that the recent Russian seizing of the Artic Sunrise was "unprecedented" - how quickly the sheeple forget incidents like the sinking fo the Rainbow Warrior by the Fwench DGSE.

Why would Belgacom not play ball?

".....If GCHQ was indeed the agency concerned then this investigation is unlikely to go anywhere and the most that can be expected is some sort of diplomatic complaint from Belgium to the UK, its EU and Nato (sic) partner....." Assuming we accept slides as some form of proof (were the slides a report on an actual attack, conjecture, or just a paper exercise?), you'd have to assume that Belgacom - majority owner being NATO partner the Belgian government - didn't say "Oui" when asked politely for a backdoor. Of course, it could be the spooks couldn't ask for a backdoor as BICS is actually a combine of non-NATO Swisscom's and Chinese-friendly South Africa's MTN's international cable businesses. Also, the fact that BICS's cables outside Europe are actually third-party leases - meaning hacking BICS potentially opened non-European, non-NATO, global cable companies to eavesdropping - probably was a factor too. So the question should actually be did the Belgian government not only condone but assist in the hack?

Office 365 goes to work on an Android

Re: M Gale

"....Android could go through just a few modifications to be mouse and multiple-window-friendly and stand a good chance at taking Microsoft on, on their home turf. Wouldn't that be something?" Spot on, and most needed! No-one seems to be driving the Linux desktop with any real enthusiasm any more, it all seems to have degenerated into flamewars between GNOME3 and KDE fans with nothing to actually attract new users away from Windows. Google Office and Chrome OS are simply too limited and designed to push Google advertising services.

Without real competition, even Windows 8.1 will stagger along as the leading consumer desktop OS, and MS Office will continue to rake in the cash for M$. Remember how hated Windows XP was when it first arrived? It won because M$ kept polishing it and the Linux alternatives were - frankly - poor. I absolutely detest the Office Ribbon concept - IMHO one of the worst interface/menu designs I have ever seen - but I'll not stop using Office. We need something to drag along the Linux desktop in the same way Android dragged Linux-based phones into pole position, and if the Linux community lets them then M$ will happily let it be with subscriptions to Office365. From what I have seen (and I have used Office365), Google Office is not the answer.

Re: Pottie

"......Today there are all sorts of people saying "I wish I didn't have to bring a tablet along for portability and a notebook for productivity." I wish that I could simply use one device for all things!....." Er, did you forget the convertible tablet PCs like the hp TC1100? That is what Android needs for productivity - a docking station with keyboard and mouse which gives proper mouse capability, a full-size keyboard and output to a separate monitor, maybe even an USB printer - then detach the phone and put it in your pocket when you want to go somewhere and just consume. Then Office365 on Android would be completely useable (as long as you were within reach of your docking station). It seems there are no end of docking stations for stereo speakers, why not a desktop dock?

USB 3.1 demo shows new spec well on its way towards 1.2GB/sec goal

Re: Cliff Re: if there were ever a cabling construct that was the work of the Evil One...

"....it was never going to be a beauty...." I have to downvote as I was never interested in the prettiness of a solution, just the reliability and performance, and SCSI more than did it's job back in the day. We still have ten-year-old DAS SCSI units cheerfully grinding away 24x7 attached to old RAID cards. Indeed, SAS is just modernised SCSI (admittedly with better connectors).

Leaked docs: NSA 'Follow the money' team slurped BANK records, CREDIT CARD data

Re: sabroni Re: whenever my name makes you cringe in fear of reality?

Just poking fun at the sheeple, chap. If you do it artfully enough you can reduce even the pacifists amongst them to such a rage I even had one kicking three-shades of brown stuff out of his own VW combi! Besides, all this childish "Baaaaah, the NSA is watching me" bleating is getting very boring.

Re: BoringGreen Re: chris lively @Matt Bryant

<Yawn> Still unable to post a coherent argument, I see? This is my surprised face, honest. Did you get the gold vulture from being El Reg's tealady?

Which of my points posted in this thread is it that is causing you such distress, or is it that you simply so hate being debunked you intend to forum stalk with more pointless posts whenever my name makes you cringe in fear of reality? Go on, try and be even mildly interesting and post a point of view. I'm not even going to ask that it be your own (it usually isn't), but it would at least be a (minor) contribution rather than just a sulking snipe. I'm sure you're just bubbling over with "righteous" indignation that the NSA may know you used your Mom's VISA card to buy your subscription to Sheep Fanciers Monthly, so try and put your objections in a post. Think of it as a possible start on the therapy you so obviously need.

Re: Destroyed All Braincells Re: chris lively

"....retarded to newspeak the meaning of "sheeple"...." What are you on? The term has always referred to those well-meaning self-delusionists that trot along behind those like Assange. I remember it being used for CND hippies with a similar level of paranoid delusion back loooong before Assange was even born! I remember some hilarious conversations with deeply deluded and paranoid ladies protesting at Greenham Common, who were so scared of their own shadows they even had punch ups where women sharing the same tent became equally convinced their tent partner just HAD to be an MI5 or US MIC undercover agent. I had great fun feeding their paranoia - these were the kind of people that really believed their TVs watched them!

"....the market for Itaniums....." Sorry to burst your bubble, but the NSA are traditionally one of IBM's biggest mainframe customers. The people that actually collect a lot of the data used by the NSA (Google, etc.) are more inclined to be using x86 platforms, except for the telecoms, which do still have a large contingent of Itanium kit. Last I heard there was still plenty of old VMS still being used in the financial houses that probably report plenty of data to the NSA, so that's probably on Itanium by now too. But I suspect the future of sifting such data, given that it requires lots of relatively low-powered streams running in parallel, will probably be Linux grids made up of racks and racks of cheap Atom or ARM servers (possibly AMD if they can get the Seamicro kit in front of the right people). But then I can probably see that because I actually work in the industry, unlike the majority of the sheeple like you.

Google smacks Surface with free Quickoffice for Android, iOS

Re: Charles 9 Re: Byz At this rate...

"Not even with Google Docs, which can ALSO access Google Drive...." Apart from the fact Office365 already has this with the real productivity suite, not the shallow clone, have you read the terms on the Google Drive license? Google gets to use your docs as they like, in perpetuity, even after you delete them, which implies they keep copies of all that stuff you may have decided was too embarrassing/incriminating to keep.

Re: Byz Re: At this rate...

Really? So you're too young to remember the MS-haters spouting exactly the same bumph about how StarOffice was just CERTAIN to kill MS Office when it was given away as Open Office? QuickOffice will be nothing more than a reader for documents produced in MS Office, as phones (and even most tablets) are good for consumption but crap for production of documents. Production will still largely be done on desktops and proper laptops, and MS Office (or Office365) will still be the tool of choice.

Cloud storage biz, one careful owner, six years on the clock... any takers?

Data out by the end of September?

Seeing as most of the vendors typically take three weeks to turn around an array order, the only viable option would seem to be migration to another cloud storage provider. I bet none of the customers kept a second copy on tape or another cloud because they probably thought "It's in the cloud, we don't need to". Doh!

One year to go: Can Scotland really declare gov IT independence?

Re: Pothead Re: John 110 Lot of interesting comments there @ Matt

Nationalisation a good idea? I take it you missed how promising the peasants the life of Reilly funded by oil has been quite a hot topic with popularist politicians. In a decade you'll be blaming English saboteurs when your economy is crumbling and you keep getting power cuts.

"....get so upset...." Upset? LOL, once again you are failing to realise when you are being laughed at.