Posts by Stefing

Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Android Tablet

That was exactly what held me back, but my PC and phone, both of which I would normally be using now, are currently switched off.

Sent from my Prime ;)

Follow that approach and you'll never buy any tablet, the market is moving too fast.

I have had zero GPS or WiFi problems - but then I have very little use for GPS on a tablet so I've only tested it once (it locked just as fast as my phone)

The same as my phone, about 30 seconds to full usability (I have a lot of widgets!)

WikiHow

But

shouldn't an app for the technically inept be aimed at iPhone users?

Pollution-gobbling molecules in global warming SMACKDOWN

Thanks, Jezza Clarkson

Ah, that'll be why the weather has been COMPLETELY NORMAL of late.

Oh, hang on a minute...

Clearly I need to move to lovely TOTALLY SAFE Fukushima, I hear it's lovely at this time of year.

Well, burn my atomic-clock-powered new human renaissance platform

Is that a beam in El Reg's eye?

The Register's continued Clarksonesque blustering about Fukushima is a constant embarrassment, saying that wind-power has killed more people is an argument worthy of Creationists.

Facebook now has 1,000 times the referrals of Google+

So?

The Guardian's Charles Arthur probably has 1,000 times as many readers as The Register, that doesn't mean The Register should shut up shop.

(Charles Arthur should definitely shut up though)

Ofcom: ISPs can cripple the web as much as they please

"Market forces"

Very little good ever comes of them!

Too rude for the road: DVLA hot list of banned numberplates

Mmmm, spunk

A car in my neighbourhood has a PROTEIN (or near enough) plate - sneaky!

In Sweden there are, of course, far fewer restrictions, a friend has ANDY B but BOLLOX is also out there I believe.

Eleven - if you will - rocktastic music movies

Also

A good list but I would also have included Anvil - much like This is Spinal Tap but THEY'RE REAL.

Also: the ending had me in tears.

Apple gets patent for ‘unlock gesture’

Apple's patenting is beyond ridiculous, you should not be allowed to "own" something that is so obvious and fundamental!

Jobs: 'I'll spend my dying breath destroying Android'

Well...

That was his dying breath totally wasted then!

Never trust a man who goes for "natural remedies", even when his life depends on it.

Magical, my arse!

Wannabe Obama replacement tried to hire Ballmer

PowerPoint

Proof that he is indeed, Satan.

DNS hijack hits The Register: All well

Re: DUR!

The original story didn't contain those links when I posted that comment - otherwise why would I post it?!

"Methinks"!

Dur...

It wasn't in the original story - very little was!

The Grauniad...

has better coverage: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/sep/05/dns-hackers-telegraph-interview and http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/sep/05/turkish-hacker-group-diverts-users

Don't buy your iPad in a McDonald's car park

"a piece of wood painted black with an Apple logo"

I expect Apple's Army Of Lawyers (TM) to be on the case immediately.

HP chief bows to Jobsian cult

Ahem

This is the tablet that El Reg proclaimed undying love for, right?

Google+ bans real name under ‘Real Names’ policy

Put down the torches

I know El Reg loves to bash the Goog but a friend of mine could not register on Facebook due to his name - getting on Google+? No problem.

To get onto Zuckerberg's personal data mining enterprise he had to assume another name and explain to all his friend that, yes, it was indeed he.

No such problem with Google+.

Utah cops baffled in case of mysterious anonymous cuffee

But...

And if he's wanted somewhere for eating children?

Rupert Murdoch was never Keyser Soze

Yeah, right

So, the article correctly points out that Murdoch's paper organs hemorrhage money but also claims that they don't wield undue influence - if that is true then why does he have them then, hmm?

Google muzzles political dissidents with YouTube ID tweaks

Muchadoaboutbuggerall

My friend - a Mr. Chainsaw - was blocked from Facebook for years, no arguments about it being his stage name were any use, or that there were other users already on Facebook with the same surname.

Google+? No problem.

Travelodge hacked, investigating

Be all modern and fancy like

Appending a + suffix to your email address comes in very handy!

e.g. [e-mail] will be delivered to [e-mail], handy for filtering and fingering. Ahem.

Midlands council laughs at zombie-apocalypse threat

iZombies

I don't know about Leicester, but the number if people with iPhones in North London is worrying...

RedBubble’s Nazi trouble

Meanwhile

Israeli soldiers are murdering unarmed civilians in the illegally occupied West Bank and some people are getting hysterical over T-shirts. Not The Holocaust - T-shirts.

"Sympathetic"?!

You either don't get the massively obvious irony and/or you are an idiot.

I suspect both.

Sarcasm ahead

Yes and the song "Hitler has only got one ball" is clearly pro-Nazi too.

FFS.

Google rolls out fix for Android security threat

A lot of fuss over...

Was this ever exploited? No.

Would this ever have been exploited? Probably not.

Amazing the amount of media sensationalism there is over this (the front page of The Metro - really?!), it almost makes you wonder if one big tech company might be spending money smearing another... nah - that would never happen!

99% of Android phones leak secret account credentials

Misleading headline du jour

"LEAK" is not the same as "could disclose if attacked" - on that basis I'm leaking my Amex PIN code right now.

Reg ed rattles the Red-Headed League

I'm not racist, but...

Why are most red-headed women utter babes (hello Karen Gillan!) when most red-headed men are downright painful to the eye (goodbye please Mick Hucknall)?

Motorola's laptop-dock Android phone out on Orange

Fastest?

In the majority of tests the LG Optimus 2X actually beats it but they are (currently) the top 2.

End of the tether: Google plays nice with carriers

Panic! Less than 100 tethering apps available!

https://market.android.com/search?q=tether&so=1&c=apps

Open means never having to have to say I can't

On my LG Optimus 2X under 2.2 I happily used the built in tethering / portable hotspot option, it's still there under the newly installed 2.3 - I guess these options are removed for our cousins in the "Land of the Free"? Just flash a custom ROM then!

LG Optimus 2X dual core Android smartphone

I own one

I bought mine at the end of last month for £430 and am delighted with it (I previously owned a G1 and a Nexus One)

It's easily rooted and there are already a handful of custom ROMs out there with more coming every day - I've opted for pretty much stock Android, others like to keep more LG elements.

True the touch screen does need a slightly firmer touch but in terms of speed it DESTROYS all single processor phones, e.g. it benchmarks as 3 times faster than the Galaxy S mentioned in the article and even pips the yet to be generally available (and more expensive) Motorola Atrix.

Radioactive Tokyo tapwater HARMS BABIES ... if drunk for a year

Clarksonesque

I'll stick with the opinions of experts rather than journalists, thanks.

Fukushima one week on: Situation 'stable', says IAEA

All this week - on El Reg

Black is white!

Unsafe is safe!

Critical is also safe!

Level 6 nuclear emergency? Safe!

The Register is looking increasingly Clarksonesque - it's frankly embarrassing.

Fukushima update: No chance cooling fuel can breach vessels

El Reg hearts nukes

The Register's reporting has hit Clarkson levels of bias.

A new low,

Second explosion rocks Japanese nuke plant

Some people...

@ James Pickett

So, what do you suggest? Windmills?

<sarcasm>

Yes, that's exactly what I am suggesting because there aren't any other alternatives.

</sarcasm>

Now go and watch Top Gear like a good little commentard.

Unsafe at any speed

Japan is possibly the most technologically advanced country in the world.

It is certainly the most prepared for earthquakes and the Japanese are famously fastidious.

And still we get two explosions at nuclear plants with possibly more on the way.

NUCLEAR POWER IS JUST NOT WORTH IT.

Dim Brits think TARDIS IS REAL

Believe it or not!

A lot of Brits believe that they have special magic invisible friend - one that lives in the sky forever and ever and he done made everything just by thinking about it! And if you say that he doesn't then he do make you go to a bad place under the ground where you will burn and burn and nasty men with horns will prod you with sticks FOREVER - it's true!

Google squeezes thumbnails into mobile search

Now that is NICE!

Just tried it out on my Nexus One - very nicely done, adds functionality without messing up the layout.

Tearful NASA salutes space shuttle Discovery

"Farewell Discovery"

in every sense, I'm afraid.

The Space Age (as we knew it) really is coming to an end.

Illinois scrubs death penalty

Baby Jebus

"Take them out" - it's what Jesus would have wanted.

Dentist cuffed for using lost credit card to pay for pizza

Shocking!

The rich robbing the poor - whatever next!

Google opens Android front in Zuckerberg data war

Free stuff

Google's point is totally valid - give and take, Zuckerberg!

Also Facebook contacts integration wasn't that great, the often invalidly formatted phone numbers from Facebook would overwrite the valid ones from Google. Facebook - badly coded?! Whodathinkit?!

Now, where's the Zuckerberg with horns icon...

Court OK's Assange Sweden extradition, given 7 days to appeal

It's an ass

1) He hadn't been charged with anything in Sweden.

2) The allegations with which he was wanted for questioning aren't offences here.

Either one of these should have had the application thrown out on day one, and yet here we are.

Stinks, doesn't it?

Luckless Lush hammered in hack

Hmmm

Having worked in IT for decades I can't imagine any company being so coordinated as to run the same set-up in two countries.

Lush is a major backer of the Green movement. Now what agency would ever try to infiltrate of attack such a group, hmmm?

Bish says sorry for right royal Facebook rant

Don't bash the bishop!

They don't like it if they talk sense - still to the invisible friend nonsense.

Steve Jobs no longer Eggman as Beatles hits iTunes

Apple to the power of Apple

Over-rated squared.