After all that effort and he couldn't even be bothered to align the iPads front and back? Epic fail.
Posts by fLaMePrOoF
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Two iPads put a hole through man's wallet stomach
Stallman: Did I say Jobs was evil? I meant really evil
Winning new UK pylon design may never be used
Sunday 16th October 2011 10:30 GMT
What utter bollocks
Absolutely NO thought has gone into the actual physical feasibility of this or many of the other designs.
For goodness sake just look at the thing; how on earth are those flimsy dangling cable supports supposed to carry the weight of high power cables and stand up (quite literally) to the elements?!!
The current pylons are shaped as they are for a very good reason; they need to cary considerable weight and remain upright in the highest winds. yes, with modern materials I'm sure we could reduce the footprint and overall visual impact of pylons considerably, but these designs are nothing more than a graphic designers wet dreams, enjoyed with nothing even closely resembling a construction engineer in sight.
Apple victorious: Courts deny hackintosher's final plea
Toshiba outs 7in Android 3.2 tablet
Faster-than-light back with surprising CERN discovery
Friday 23rd September 2011 12:32 GMT
It might not sound like a big discrepancy, but as an example, for this to have been caused by a physical calibration issue the equipment at each end of the experiment would have to have been about 14.5 meters further apart than the scientists believed...
Now we just need them to discover the Higgs boson and we can have FTL star ships with on board gravity field generators :oD
NASA unveils its chosen Shuttle successor
Feds probe naked Scarlett Johansson outrage
Ballmer: Windows Phone can win third place in mobile!
Hologram Live
Malware burrows deep into computer BIOS to escape AV
Wednesday 14th September 2011 12:47 GMT
With CIH this was the only way to repair an infected machine without having access to stand-alone EPROM flashing equipment, indeed, I repaired one such dead laptop for a client back in the late nineties by simply sourcing a replacement Phoenix BIOS chip from the manufacturers and dropping it in.
With this sort of infection though the prognosis is not so grim; as the BIOS re-write does not intentionally trash the EPROM like CIH did, it should still possible to simply re-flash your BIOS with an official firmware.
Hey Commentards! [This title is optional]
Would you be seen dead with a shopping computer?
Wednesday 7th September 2011 11:52 GMT 
Title....
"I haven't seen an authoritative figure of how much Android development is costing Google annually, but I have heard $3bn touted, which seems plausible. That's a lot to pay to get beaten up. Now, some people pay money to dress in rubber and have the crap beaten out of them. But you must wonder how long Google wants to keep funding something more useful to others than itself."
Actual LoL =OD
Virgin Media preps firmware update for glitchy SuperHub
Thursday 25th August 2011 22:35 GMT
So what's your problem..?
"For example, one cannot use networks 192.168.1.x as the 1 range is reserved for "guest network" apparently"
You've only given the above example of an 'issue' which is no issue at all; VM's response was quite correct; the router provides 2 'Guest' wireless networks that can be activated simultaneously with different security settings and provide internet access to less trusted users without access to the router's admin console etc.
So you lose 2 additional class D subnets in exchange for a pretty useful feature, big deal.
If this is your main 'issue' then your rant is unjustified..?
Coders breathe Android into dead HP fondleslab
Tuesday 23rd August 2011 12:42 GMT 
Told you so...
A previous comment of mine on the 'PILES OF UNSHIFTABLE HP FONDLE-SLABS CHOKE BEST BUY' article pointing out that if HP want to sell the TouchPad they should implement Android on it drew out the naysayers; 3 thumbs down and no thumbs up...
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2011/08/17/hp_touchpads_best_buy/
However, this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone as that's what the Android developing / modding community do and do well - set devices free from greedy vendors and breath life into decent hardware with poor, obsolete or badly conceived firmware.
While I'm sure Mr Sohmers is in no way affiliated to HP, (at least there's no mention of them on his CV, which looks quite impressive I have to say - http://trsohmers.com/resume/), HP will be rubbing their hands together with a smile at this news...
Google+ bans real name under ‘Real Names’ policy
Piles of unshiftable HP fondle-slabs choke Best Buy
Facebook flashplodder to appeal against 4-yr cooler stint
Wednesday 17th August 2011 12:39 GMT
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A load of recent 'extreme' sentences are going to be knocked down in appeal, that way three 'angry mobs' are dealt with: the public, who want to see rioters & looters shot on sight / castrated / lose their benefits / thrown on the street / publicly flogged etc., the actual rioters / looters, who should eventually receive tough but fair sentences, and the press, who are the worst 'inciters' of all.
Rather expensive way to go about it though as the appeals process doubles the overall cost per case...
Isolated human genes can be patented, US court rules
Tuesday 2nd August 2011 12:25 GMT 
WTF?!
"Myriad had argued that it was the method of isolating the gene and not the gene itself that was the subject of its patent. Myriad appealed and in a majority decision the Court ruled that the company could patent isolated genes."
This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever; how do they get from patenting a METHOD for GENE ISOLATION / EXTRACTION, to patenting the ACTUAL GENES being isolated / extracted..?!
Either the article has made an error here, or else the court decision was a non-sensical farce.
Serial Web2.0 investor pumps Twitter valuation to $8bn
HCL discloses 'email deletion' requests from News International
UK, Dutch cops cuff 5 more in Anonymous-LulzSec raids
Wednesday 27th July 2011 13:23 GMT
RE:DDoS could be legal and effective...
You've kinda missed the point here - I'm not talking about a few people "waving a few signs and chanting some slogans."
Take for example the anti-iraq war march which took place in London; 3 million+ people marching around the city might not have targeted shops but I guarantee their business was disrupted.
There is certainly a point to be made about the erosion of civil liberties and the tactics used by police in the UK, however, the principle of a right to protest still stands (well, so long as you don't want to protest in Parliament Square)
However, in terms of online businesses, it is perfectly possible (and legal) to organise a delibarate denial of service by co-ordinating enough people to engage in standard activity on a site via a single browser session. (E.g. continual page refreshing to hit the web server or continually creating user accounts to hit DB servers.)
Weather it would be legal to automate the activity to any degree (such as using simple click / record software) is an interesting question but certainly manual activity does not fall foul of the law and if a cause is popular enough then it would just being a matter of getting enough people on board.
Staging the protest at a specific time (e.g. when the site has it's highest traffic) repeatedly for several days / weeks or even months would allow the protest to gather support and weight over time and hit the target where it hurts.
Why anyone would downvote this idea is a mystery to me, unless those people just think they know better or are the kind of facists who oppose any form of direct action...
Wednesday 20th July 2011 10:34 GMT 
DDoS could be legal and effective...
If PayPal had high street outlets then UK and US protesters would have the right to picket outside of the premises or march in their thousands past the front door.
In the digital world there are similar rights, but protesters and protest organisers just need to organise in such a way as to stay within the law...
Just as it would be illegal for protesters to start smashing windows or harassing customers of a business, so it's quite right that it should be illegal to hack / damage web sites or use tools specifically designed to overload web servers, however, if a million people all visit PayPal and just keep clicking refresh on their browser, surely this is exactly the same as protesting outside a physical premises - one person, one voice - nobody is doing deliberate damage or connecting to the site is any way different to that provided to them as an individual consumer.
Of course this kind of protest would be a lot more difficult to organise and many more people would need to be involved to make a difference, but IMO the effort would sometimes be worth it, and the resulting disruption would be far more difficult for the sys admins to counter as they wouldn't be able to just block a few IP ranges or predictable behaviours.
Anonymous, LulzSec go legit with PayPal boycott
Earth orbit for £1,000? You must be joking
Sony teases tablet fans with bizarre 'mousetrap' vid
Wii U has 50 per cent more power than rivals
Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade
Living, biological raygun produced in lab
Apple purges drunk-driving apps
Thursday 9th June 2011 13:24 GMT 
Title...
"So in Apple’s world it’s OK to help people avoid getting done for speeding, but not for drink driving."
This is a completely false assertion; speed traps are there to cause traffic to slow down in risk areas, this is the reason they are generally brightly coloured. Having a device or app which gives early warning of a speed camera ENHANCES their purpose by enabling drivers to check their speed earlier if necesary. That is why such devices and apps are fully supported and endoursed by the authorities, with some police forces even sharing speed camera data with companies like Road Angel so they can send promotional matterial to drivers who have been caught on some temporary cameras(generally on roadworks).
Drink driving is always wrong and the very purpose of DUI checks is to catch drunk drivers out.
Apple are inherently and absolutely evil, as we all know, but on this occasion they have gotten it absolutely right and the Reg FAILS with this critical article.
Apple opens iCloud to world+dog
Tuesday 7th June 2011 13:04 GMT 
Well done Apple... Prepare to be boarded!
Indeed, they are willingly rolling out the gang plank...
"iTunes match uses a technology reminiscent of Song Match from Lala.com – acquired by Apple in December 2009 – to look at your list of songs and match them up with their mates in the iTunes Store. Those song will then be available to you just as if they were purchsed: at 256Kbps AAC."
Effectively creating a massive laundering system for illegal music; for £24.99 / year you can now 'legalise' all of your downloaded music and Apple turns millions of 'illegal' file sharers into shiny new paying customers.
And all this from the company who several years ago signed a legal undertaking not to branch out into commercial music under the Apple brand.
The evil brilliance of it is scary!
Vatican crackdown at Rome's Playboy Mansion-style monastery
BT cheerfully admits snooping on customer LANs
HP exec: WebOS tablet will trounce iPad
O2's southeastern crash caused by 'well-organised theft'
UK public-sector union DDoS'd
Monday 16th May 2011 16:01 GMT
Bollocks of the highest order...
"It stressed that no membership data had been compromised as a result of the DDoS attack."
"It is important to note that this has had no effect on the security of the information we hold"
Have just done a few basic security tests of input fields on the site (e.g. login / password retrieval etc.) and the site is RIDDLED with XSS and code injection vulnerabilities, if someone wanted to 0wn this site and the data behind it, it would take them about 15 minutes...
Designer punts ultimate customisable keyboard
Monday 16th May 2011 15:30 GMT
Not really...
After typing on an iPad for some time it's apparent that this wuld lead to increased strain in the neck and wrists due to the lack of actual keys causing users to 'hover' over the device more.
Perhaps if it included a good palm rest and maybe some sort of physical feedback (such as Apple's recent 'suck n blow' keyboard patent?) But I'm sceptical that this concept could be made comfortable or practical for every day use.
Cable thieves cost UK rail £15m a year
Tuesday 10th May 2011 12:11 GMT 
Could be worse...
At last our infrastructure is more resilliant than Georgia and Armenia where a single theft can switch off the internet...
(I'm surprised the journo missed a cheeky a reference to this story for a possible IT angle...)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/06/net_killing_granny/
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