Posts by fandom

Tim Cook: EU lied about Apple taxes. Watch out Ireland, this is a coup!

The problem is not the coal-powered electricity, the problem only comes when using Spain own coal.

Waze to go, Google: New dial-a-ride Uber, Lyft rival 'won't vet drivers'... What could go wrong?

Re: What a shame.

Except that Google already bought Waze about three years ago.

Oracle campaigns for third Android Java infringement trial

Re: The never ending Story

If I am not getting the names wrong, it is actually the same main lawyer that worked for SCO, David Boies.

He was also hired by Theranos which makes me wonder if he is ever hired by someone who is in the right.

Harrison Ford's leg, in the Star Wars film, with the Millennium Falcon door

When it comes to work safety there is no such thing as personal responsibility, it is always a lack of training or supervision.

As far as the law goes if he had been trained to push the button while not being in the way there would have been no accident.

But even if he had been trained, as far as the law goes there should have been a supervisor checking that people didn't push the button without following proper procedures.

And no, I am not kidding.

And they pleaded guilty in case a trial would have been even worse for them.

Security firms team to take down rudimentary ransomware

Re: ..resort to rm -rf??

No, but if you have a samba server it will cheerfully encrypt those files from a windows computer.

So, backups, but you knew that already.

Apple, Facebook and Coinbase coughed data to finger alleged pirate king

There is also more than one FBI agent.

Fear not, humanity – Saint Elon has finished part two of his world-saving 'master plan'

Sweden just got an electric highway

Facebook deleted my post and made me confirm pics of my kids weren't sexually explicit

"FB's business is the collection and sale of personal data"

He can hardly admit that, they are not in the business of selling personal data, what they do sell is ad placement.

The data they keep to themselves.

FBI won't jail future US president over private email server

Re: elReg trolling?

I am afraid they are being realistic.

Seriously, H. Clinton vs. D. Trump, is that the best the US can do?

Isis crisis: Facebook makes Bristol lass an unperson

Indeed, why do people waste their time in Facebook when they could be doing something interesting in real life like posting in The Register.

It boggles the mind, it really does.

VW finds US$15 BEEELION under the couch to pay off US regulators

Re: This raises the obvious question

So, the "Petrol lobby" created the scandal to make ICE engines look bad and press governments push for stricter controls and emission limits.

Sure, makes sense to me.

Re: Profit motive.

Not exactly, Mitsibushi falsified the fuel economy data, not emissions.

The Microsoft-LinkedIn hookup will be the END of DAYS, I tell you

Re: Good, it was time for LinkedIn to die already

They already have a big chunk of Facebook.

Google doesn’t care who makes Android phones. Or who it pisses off

Re: Don't blame the OEMs

But blame them too.

The Silver program would have required OEMs to release upgrades for their silver phones.

Naturally, they refused.

Model's horrific rape case may limit crucial online free speech law

Re: law enforcement?

"If there was an open police case, then why were these guys still going about their business?"

If you had read all the way to the third paragraph you would have seen something like:

"Flanders and Callum are serving life sentences"

Well deserved if you ask me.

Universe's shock rapidly expanding waistline may squash Einstein flat

Re: Too early to tell.

And Pauli postulated the existence of neutrinos so the equations would fit even though he thought we would never be able to detect them

And yet, we now have neutrino detectors.

So, now they are postulating the existence of something called 'dark matter' and 'dark energy' to make things fit, and, certainly, they may end up going the way of Phlogiston or Aether, but then, we may also end up detecting them.

As Einstein said: If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

As for scientists not explaining clearly, well, I am nothing but a lowly engineer, and yet I am used to getting blank stare from mundanes when I try to explain something technical, so?

North Korea clones Facebook, forgot to change default creds

"Stop believing everything you read."

That's easy, after all nobody does

"Stop being a consumer"

Sounds nice, but I Iike eating from time to time.

"Stop arguing for no reason"

Again, nobody does, but then I can see why you would like your word to be taken as gospell.

"Stop pigeon holing yourself."

Whatever that means

"Eat more asparagus."

How can I possibly do that without being a consumer?

Sorry, I was wrong, you are not funny, you are hilarious.

But, for some reason, people insist on taking you seriously, talk about being gullible.

Dude, you are funny

Samsung reveals Batphone!

Re: Batshit crazy

Children have always been to known to play more with the box than with the toy it contains.

Microsoft's Windows Phone folly costs it another billion dollars

Re: North Sea or Atlantic?

The North Sea has moved to the Pacific?

Sky! Blue!, Oceans! Wet!, Yahoo! Overvalued!

Re: Failed to turn around....

I don't know if you are being serious, but anyway, it was Jerry Yang who invested in Alibaba back in 2005.

Apple assumes you'll toss the Watch after three years

Re: FIRST OWNER

Yeah, well, except they did emphasised it by putting it in a bootnote

Flying Spaghetti Monster is not God, rules mortal judge

And yet another one advocating censorship, with a 'will no one think of the children' rant.

Those self righteous pricks are all the same.

Re: Can't We All Just Get A Long?

Because the whole point of the internet is to allow people to be a dick in an anonymous way.

To ask people to be nice is, therefore, clearly against progress.

Bezos defends Amazon culture in letter to shareholders

Re: It's a Cultural Revolution

Nope, that was both of them.

Not that Mao need a catchy title to kill millions of people.

Re: It's a Cultural Revolution

Yes, indeed, what's described in the article and killing a few million people, pretty much the same thing.

Speaking in Tech: Batman vs Superman... absolutely sucked

Re: Anyone

Indeed, in the comics Batman always wins

Dead Steve Jobs is still a crook – and Apple must cough up $450m for over-pricing ebooks

Re: hubris

"Why are they charging MORE for an eBook than a Dead Tree version."

That's easy, they don't.

Well, ok you may be able to find an example where they do, although I haven't seen it in years of buying ebooks on Amazon.

Humans – 1 Robots – 0: Mercedes deautomates production lines

Re: What Mercedes were really saying

"when farm workers lost their jobs to mechanization got jobs as doctors, correct?"

No, of course not, they moved to a city got other jobs and, you know what? Some of their children did get jobs as doctors.

Google? Great firm, lovely people, says Microsoft-backed ICOMP

Re: Going underground

Microsoft bought a stake in Facebook back in 2007, I don't think they have ever complained about Facebook policies.

Porsche-gate: Android Auto isn't slurping tons of engine data, claims Google – but questions remain

If Google, or Apple, want to know anything about Porsches, or any order cars, they don't need to be sneaky about it.

It's easier to buy a couple of them and fill them with sensors.

"the German automaker wasn't happy handing over these diagnostics to a company that is potentially a rival"

And that's why they went to Apple.

Man given positive pregnancy test in an Apple Watch box

Re: I knew I should have

You must be bursting with pride, you daughter is a real BOFH in training.

Photoshop for 40 quid: Affinity Photo pushes pixels further than most

Re: Hello AC - Are you mainlining that Kool-Aid ?

" As I said before, you don't realise just how constrained working on Windows has become until you experience a Mac"

I hear that a lot, but I have a Macbook air and using MacOs X reminds me of using a straight jacket.

Then again, after being a KDE fan for years I get the same feeling from KDE 5.

Google reveals OnHub WiFi router, complete with GLOWING RING

Re: All these downvotes?

Downvoted for whining about downvotes.

How pathetic is that?

BOFH: Why, I LOVE work courses. Please tell me more, o wise one!

Re: Been there, done that

Way I heard it was Castro trying to convince Khrushchev, what would be the point in convincing Castro who had no nukes?

Spanish developers strike gold with ‘Mr Mayor’ dodgy dealings gaming app

Re: Pardon me?

Why would the stukas bomb a city that was already controlled by their allies?

Anyway, many cities for bombed by both sides, Guernica just happened to have a Picasso painting about it.

Tesla still burning cash: each car loses $4,000

Re: The Amazon Model

On the other hand, poor little car dealerships, who doesn't enjoy dealing with them?

You must remember: An archive isn't a thing, it's a strategy

Re: "Well, I'm a bit old fashioned and I start with requirements"

Nope, they had a policy called "decimatio", "decimation" is a English word that means something else.

Lottery chief resigns as winning combo numbers appear on screen BEFORE being drawn

Re: Killing the goose that lays the golden egg?

The government running the lottery certainly doesn't want it rigged, but other people may very well want to do it

Ford's parallel PARCing: Motor giant tries to craft new tech just like Xerox

The cars would use the cameras when a user is getting out to prevent them from leaving something behind, umbrellas, handbags, the usual stuff.

If they 'see' something suspicious like puke, they can flag a human operator, and send another car to the next user.

Re: @fandom (was:"Cars already decide when to change gear for you")

"People die during sex "

They do? Are you sure it is not just an excuse they are using so you will leave them alone?

No wonder you have to drive to get some satisfaction.

Re: "Cars already decide when to change gear for you"

Don't worry, if it is only you getting killed because of your hobby, I don't want it banned, I actually encourage you to practice it as often as possible.

I'll think of it as evolution in action.

Re: @fandom (was:"Cars already decide when to change gear for you")

"Intake of nicotine, fat, alcohol, salt and sugar is far worse when it comes to mortality ... Do you want those banned in your lifetime, too?"

If my eating sugar, fat or salt sure would kill other people, then sure, does it?

But wait, smoking does kill other people, could that be the reason that smoking is illegal in many places?

This, 'but I enjoy driving, it's the one time in my life in which I feel I am in control, who cares how many people get killed?' whining, won't stop the ban, get used to the idea.

Re: "Cars already decide when to change gear for you"

"and I suspect we always will be."

I hope that will be banned in my lifetime, driving is a hobby that kills hundreds of thousands of people every year, it has to be banned as soon as feasible.

The US taxman thinks Microsoft owes billions. Prove it, says Microsoft

Re: Corporations are not people...

No, it is not true, Wesley Snipes went to prison for acting on that believe.

Apple Watch is such a flop it's the world's top-selling wearable

Expectations

Not that many years ago, if a Microsoft product didn't have a over 90% market share it was considered a bit of a flop.

Maybe the same is happening to Apple now.

Being common is tragic, but the tragedy of the commons is still true

Valencia's Water Court

When they gave the Nobel price to Olstrom I thought:

Are they really giving someone a Nobel price for describing how the Water Court works?

Kind of easy, isn't it?