Posts by AlexS

World+dog discovers hi-res aerial maps, thanks to Google and Apple

Re: Well....Privacy?

No address - no prize.

Are you Jeremy Hunt?

Well....Privacy?

The game is on, is somebody able to publish the authors address purely on the basis of the photo?

What's copying your music really worth to you?

FLAC

If it doesn't support FLAC forget it.

If iPhone supported FLAC I just MIGHT buy one.

Seeing ads on Wikipedia? Then you're infected

OK Mr Reg

Check:

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/04/25/htc_one_x_compo/

The date of this article is almost a month old.

There are ONLY 21 comments.

It is closed for comments.

** This is labelled right now to be the MOST COMMENTED article right now **

... and just happens to be a HTC promotion.

Am I infected?

Ten... freeware gems for new PCs

Excellent

Software reviews on a hardware portal.

Keep it up ;)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail on Blu-ray

Excellent, IT website The Register does film reviews under a hardware portal.

Keep it up ;)

Apple logging passwords in plain text

well

Very trivial bug indeed.

And besides who really wants to break into an Apple?

All that will be there is somebodies music collection, somebodies holiday snaps, a few letters, and a few doodles. Maybe even next. Months Parish newsletter. If they're really lucky they might get the new Kylie single or the latest leaflet for the Green party.

Samsung shows 'designed for humans' handset

To the guy who might accidently upload his privates to facebook

If it can track your eyes I suspect it might track a persons privates as well. By deduction we can assume that if the privates stop moving, then it will upload the photo automatically.

LinkedIn buys SlideShare

Blackberry

BB is still the number one business smartphone out in the field (probably). Whatever people write we won't know if blackberry is finished or not until the end of the year (ie BB 10).

Linked-In haven't updated their BB smartphone app for two years, and it's gastly.

Glad to see they have their priorities straight when it comes to target audience.

Star Trek's Wesley Crusher blasts Google+ landgrab

Pot Kettle Black

Everytime I see him on repeats of Star Trek.... I want to press a dislike button. But there is no DISLIKE button. Urghhhh!

I blame the parents.

Ten... eight-bit classic games

Come on Reg!

Ant Attack and Phantom Slayer over 3D Monster Maze?

So many more reasons why this game should have been featured above these two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKvd0zPfBE4

PC World, Currys, Dixons websites all go titsup

It's back online

World saved.

Microsoft details Halo 4 release

In case anybody asks any questions

Has only been confirmed for XBOX 360.

MI5 stinks up website with dead SSL certificate

Ahh that's it

MI5 are using the same Calendar software as The Register. Clearly it doesn't handle leap years.

Nokia on 'brink of failure', warns analyst

The gamble....

... is on Windows Phone 8, and that will be released later this year.

That will be the make or break of it. Simple as.

This interactive wind map is a Big Data lava lamp

If you look closely the picture posted is William Shatners hair piece.

'The new iPad' revealed: Full specs, rumor scorecard

No Flying Car included - No sale.

ISP Be admits crippling iPlayer demand burst its pipes

Quit BE last year

For two years I had great service and really fast internet.

Two years after that the speed reduced by half (overnight in fact), terrible tech support dealt with my complaints. Total indifference.

Went to BT after a year of complaining. Same crappy speed but at least I'm paying a lot less.

Sysadmins: Don't get in your own way

Quite Agree

The whole article was padding. Maybe we should say the Lords Prayer afterwards?

Trevor goes hands-on with Microsoft Training

Where's the link to the original article?

Apple to appeal Italian warranty fine

Reg Anti Apple? Give me a break.

You seem to write about 15 stories on every new Apple product launch. You are the Apple marketing dept I suggest.

US military pays SETI to check Kepler-22b for aliens

Spam

What are the odds that if the alien gets contact from us, it will go straight into his/hers/its spam folder?

Salman Rushdie hissy-fit forces Facebook name U-turn

Strange

Spotted him today with his guitar. He's very polite and humble in real life to be quite honest.

Saw Mr Rushdie once

True story - I was at a members bar full of er.... younger individuals. Salman comes in with his very tall girlfriend. When he left (which was a pretty quick drink) a young man comes up and says "You are Salmon Rushdie right?" "Yes" he replies.... the man responds "I'm such a fan - I've got all your records!".

... Quick exit....

Harry Potter director takes on Doctor Who movie

Nice rewrite

BBC website (no doubt where you found out) rewrote the story as it was BBC related.

and The Register rewrote the story because......??

(ps Where has the Reg headstone icon gone? Bring it back!!!).

Go back to the future with Red Dwarf

Series 10

Actually they are making series 10 to 15 in 5 episodes after accidentally mind-merging with the Firefox marketing department.

El Reg in email address blunder

So was this...

One of those genious marketeers that did it?

You know, the type that has a skinfull the night before and cannot operate dangerous machinery?

It's official: Microsoft, Skype marriage consummated

Skype is seriously buggy but useful. There's always a new bug in an update. If it spends a year going through Microsofts QA dept maybe... just maybe... the application may stabalize.

RIM stands, staggers, falls again

Funny how...

Funny how the people whose businesses are "serious effected" by this, somehow manage to find the time and technology to post on this site and the BBC sites of their outrage and inconvenience

So it's down for 3 or 4 days.... so what - welcome to the world of modern technology where NOTHING is perfect. If it's superhypercritical then get some sort of back up, and then get over it.

BlackBerry services splutter back into action, again

Nope sorry

The article is 7 hours old.

I still have no internet/email services with BB.

I suspect this will go into day four.

Hey ho...

I'm not going to do the "it's the end of the world" thing or "I'm mad as hell"....

Better things to worry about...

Check your machines for malware, Linux developers told

OK Then...

Who is going to be the first Windows user to laugh?

No?

Didn't think so (superior breeding doesn't dwell on such trivial matters).

Would you sue to keep your guilty ABBA habit a secret?

I like ABBA.

There...

Now get over it.

Acid3 browser test drops DOM tripper-upper

IE9

IE9 gets 100 out of 100 but still fails.

Drop shadow not rendered.

Animation is NOT smooth like firefox.

You are the weakest link - goodbye...

RIM share price nosedives following stinky numbers

Are people forgetting?

... That RIM do great phones..... Many now available via ebay (owner in prison). Hopefully Apple users will riot next.

Duke Nukem Forever

Coming soon - Pong Forever!

After six years in development we a re PROUD to announce PONG FOREVER. Relive the experience with a modern graphics engine! Get the in depth lowdown on our stars, Bat1 and Bat2. Amazing new shrink level where your bats shrink. New 3D mode (3D tv set required). Choose the colour of your bats. High score table allows you to stare more than one score AND your name! New inter...net feature captures the ball.

Get the point here? - Pong is pong. What else were you expecting exactly? Space invaders?

Reg please do another review for the PC version.

Marketing

The main problem with this was it was overhyped. If you overhype then expect to be paid back in full... Bloody terrible marketing basically with stupid budgets to spend. Either it was a student running the campaign, or some old bat about 40+ (my age) who thinks they understand modern media because they read it in a book once. Don't they realize most reviewers are citizen journalists?

Nintendo takes control with next-gen games console

Arse

Looking at the BBC news website I see IP6 is the number one news story, the new Wii isn't even reaching top ten.

The fully scientific conclusion is then that IP6 is way cooler than Wii (don't argue with me, you are wrong ;). I guess the public have grown up (they just don't care about hype any more with 10p left in their pocket).

Footnote : Funny how BBC news calls IP6 'new'.

Apple worth more than Microsoft and Intel combined

Who wants a fight?

BBC Micros are far better than C64's or Spectrums - discuss...

Who will win in the next ten years? I wouldn't be surprised if that both Apple and MS will be joining the ranks of the past.

Is the IT Dept failing users?

To Mr dancing bears

Don't you lock down your PCs? Ever heard of group policy? OMG are you giving everybody admin access?

Sorry old bean but you deserve everything you get if this is the case. Lock 'em down! (And don't take any BS).

ET, phone back: Alien quest seeks earthling coders

Hello?

We have powerful technology to share with you HUmans.

Please add me as your friend on facebook.

Skype plugs Android privacy flaw

Blackberry is most secure

No skype app at all after many promises :( Unless you are a Verizon USA customer.

iPhones secretly track 'scary amount' of your movements

More Apple

As the register loves to publish at least 3 stories for every 1 real story here is an oppertunity. Why not talk to all your staff, download their data. and show us what you all do? :) You could compare the main bosses phone for instance to a typical 10K per year journo. In fact there's tons of milage and padding, maybe you could do a weekly feature.

Mummy, mummy, there's a nuclear monster!

Oh STUPID ME

RADIATION IS GOOD! I should feed it to my children. In fact why bother sealing the reactors in the first place.

In fact why don't we open these reactors as health spars?

Google patches Flash bug before Adobe

Fix?

"Google patches Flash bug before Adobe"

"Google has already released an update for its Chrome browser that fixes a critical vulnerability in Adobe's Flash Player that's under attack".

--->

I think you mean "does a work around"... not "fixes" or patches Flash - unless you are saying that Adobe is hacking or forking Adobe's very own source code?

Nintendo 3DS smashes advance order record

Where's todays iPad article?

I'm getting withdraw symptoms....

iPad 2, A5 chip, and Smart Cover strip-searched

I agree

The iPad is interesting, and that's why there should be an article (ney 3 articles!) EVERY SINGLE DAY about it until 2011, after all that's sod all else IT news around other than the iPad itself right? ;)

Oh good!

Yet another iPad article - keep 'em coming - we will never get bored of them :(

'iPad cads' dash fanboi fondleslab hopes

Thankyou!

I was hoping there would be another iPad article today, my wishes are fulfilled ;)... Look forward to tomorrow.

Apple cures iPad buyer's remorse

OH COME ON REGISTER!!!

Is this an all time record? Hey let's have another article on the IPAD - ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ :(

Is there any news that is NEW and INTERESTING any more? After 10 years or so or reading this website (I have greatly enjoyed) I think it's time to call it a day (sorry).

I know you won't miss me.

iPad 2? Let's be kind and call it iPad 1.5

Whatever.

FFS how many articles on the iPad 2 do you need?