Posts by Stefing

Met terror squad beats all complaints

167 - nil

What a spotless track record, it makes you proud! *sniff*

Palin email witness decries 'dog and pony' prosecution

Good for them!

Let's see which ISPs take up a similarly principled stand against the Digital Economy Act (and I don't mean TalkTalk, who are just in it for PR)

Chocolate Factory eats crow on Googlephone

Desire versus Nexus One

The Desire has more memory and the Sense UI, the Nexus One is slimmer and has noise cancellation - there's no clear winner, personally I really dislike the Sense UI but it seems lots of reviewers seem to like it.

So, to sum up

Google said they'd release the Nexus One online and then through providers - which is what they've done.

Tax

I paid NONE. Nexus One, under £400, thank you very much!

Herd of sheep, off tits on drugs, savagely Tased

El Reg misses pun opportunity!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_on_Drugs

Internet abuzz with BitTorrent bypass code

Not quite

http://torrentfreak.com/seedfucker-is-not-going-to-make-bittorrent-anonymous-100414/

In theory, SeedFucker could cause problems for the anti-piracy outfits that track BitTorrent downloads because they would run into many fake peers. However, most reputable tracking companies confirm whether the material in question is actually being shared from a particular IP-address.

“It might seem to some that this is a major change, but in reality it’s nothing new, nothing that isn’t already done by some trackers themselves,” an experienced BitTorrent developer told TorrentFreak when commenting on the code, adding, “It doesn’t substantively change anything, and will not change things in the conceivable future.”

Lib Dems demand niceness, ignore technology

2 against 1

This is the only real manifesto so far, 'the other two' having just produced substance-free vapour advertising which contradicts their past records.

Overzealous Orange cuts off customer, still bills

Virgin on the ridiculous

I had a similar situation with Virgin Mobile - they inexplicably decided my phone was constantly downloading and disconnected me once my bill was sufficiently large.

No attempt to contact me - I thought there was a problem with my phone.

They did reconnect the next day - once I'd handed over £160 for data I'd not used.

Mandybill enters pre-election wash-up

Personally

I prefer Mandelsnot.

How a Tory gov will be the most tech-savvy in history

I feel a hashtag coming on

Citing Twitter as an example and then talking about how government has massive centralised databases - they wish!

Hoist by his own petard

I suspect an El Reg honeypot - and the Tory spokes-toff fell right into it!

Meanwhile, on Twitter...

the Twitterati are (rightly) coughing up their lungs at @grantshapps idiocy - was this a deliberate honeytrap by El Reg?

Replacing "massive centralised government databases" with Twitter and the "open source iPhone" *snort*

Will it cure cancer like scrapping the NI increase will, too?

Roger Boyes probes Vienna Boys’ Choir

Murdoch wants your dosh

The lengths he'll go to so you'll stump up for his poxy paywall.

What next? Mike Hunt writes an article on vaginal discharge?

China tells Google to obey law even if it's leaving

With enemies like these...

Google on one side, Microsoft, Apple and the Chinese government on the other - this really is shaping up to be a battle of Good versus Evil.

Twitter bomb hoax man changes plea

Joke not Hoax

It's not like he rung up the airport - he posted it on Twitter.

Besides, he doesn't fit the profile of a bomber - he's not a dumb American blonde.

Ad industry OKs climate porn

El Reg gets Clarksonesque

To quote Charlie Brooker - who is right about everything:

"We fail to take painful measures in the present that could ease our existence in the future, because we think they're too arduous – unless you're a spluttering contrarian, in which case you think the whole climate change thing is a load of trumped-up phooey anyway, and that all scientists are shifty, self-serving exaggerators, apart from the brave handful who agree with you. Hey, I'm no scientist. I'm not an engineer either, but if I asked 100 engineers whether it was safe to cross a bridge, and 99 said no, I'd probably try to find another way over the ravine rather than loudly siding with the underdog and arguing about what constitutes a consensus while trundling across in my Hummer."

Bloggers spring 'baccy happy landlord from slammer

He's not a martyr

or a rebel - he's a fucking idiot.