Posts by Kay Burley ate my hamster

Home Sec: Let us have Snoop Charter or PEOPLE WILL DIE

No

Show us we can trust you with this power, then we will think about it... The Anti-Terrorism act was massively miss-used.

Dell launches Sputnik Linux Ultrabook

Re: It's got a lot of memory...

The author must be from the Marketing dept.

Apple chief Cook is highest paid CEO in America

He should have his pay cut after releasing the iPad mini, what a turd!

Sinofsky OFFSKI: Is Windows 9 now codenamed 'Defenestrate'?

Absent

Sinofsky was also absent from the Windows 8 launch, after showing it off for months I found that a bit strange at the time. I guess we know why now.

Mini retail empire Micro Anvika implodes, one shop to be shopped

Overpriced Apple dealers

I'm surprised they lasted this long.

China's Goophone unveils US$99 Android iPad Mini clone

Re: Howexactly is this an iPad clone?

It's a clone because the specs are way behind the competition, the lowres screen seen in this and the ipadmini would be laughed at by the likes of HTC, Motorola and Samsung.

On the other hand it's not a clone because the price actually matches the specs.

Free WiFi in London Tube stations extended until end of 2012

Pointless

Does anyone spend more than 5 mins on a tube platform? This is only useful if there are delays, I wont subscribe.

Samsung says 'yes' to iPhone 5-sized Galaxy S III

Re: Apple lawsuit in...

If rounded corners can be patented, then so can screen size right?! ;)

Who queues for an iPhone 5? Protesters, hipsters and the jobless

Re: iMuppets

Fucking hell, we are all here though aren't we.

Personally my reasons are that I wanted to read some comments against Apple, the company. The company that claims to have invented rounded corners, the company who take a 30% slice of apps sales, the company who still have that fugly striped background on their phones that OS9 used. The company who claimed Google had stolen their business by moving into the phone market.

The company who go to court rather than release a significantly better product.

Dixons bigwig dispatched to salvage gadget souk PIXmania

DSG are cowboys, the sooner these box shifters go bust the better.

Samsung tells Apple: Quit your 'frivolous' whining over court doc leak

Re: Strange they didn't use Star Trek - the devices are even called "PADD"

PADD "used as early as the 22nd century and well into the 24th century." Apple will argue that the PADD doesn't yet exist and must therefore be based on the iPad.

Ice Cream Sandwich still a no-show for most Android users

@ Neil McAllister

I'm sure you are very good at marketing and percentages but perhaps no so much at tech.

Let me explain something.

ICS has higher hardware requirements. Put simply, it is recommended that the device has 1GB or RAM rather than the 512MB required by Gingerbread and previous versions. This means ICS will never come to most devices out there. Therefore your article is pure marketing guff.

Gingerbread will be the legacy cut off, get used to it.

Apple demands Samsung flogged for 'unethical' court doc leak

Apple and Koh follow the same motto

Apple and Koh follow the same motto and it isn't "Don't be evil".

I'm gonna install Linux on my Mac mini.

Raspberry Pi served with Ice Cream Sandwich

In the pudding?

You mean in the eating.

Also... This is great! :D

Apple wins EU-wide Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 ban

FFS

Apple didn't invent the tablet PC, perhaps the rights owners of Star Trek should get themselves to Germany!

As for the design, it's a tablet, what the hell else is it supposed to look like? Should Moses be in court too??! (I accept that Moses is a fictional character)

BBC mulls seizing the wheel of Local TV

They really don't want this to happen

Why use a system of bidding that collapsed the last network of local TV stations in to one big fat pointless national TV station...

Microsoft takes on tablets with keyboard-equipped Surface

Surface: Table, Intel or Arm

How dumb are MS?! They already have a product with the name Surface. So now have three very different products all called Surface.

The table top surface.

The crippleware ARM tablet

The power hungry Intel tablet

Kogan 'taxes' IE7 users

Logo Alert

Statc#unter, that slice of pie...

That new 'Microsoft GCSE': We reveal what's in it

ICT

ICT. Does anyone outside of the public sector ever use that name?

Don't teach them MS, teach them the fundamentals so they understand something beyond "I have to click here".

Hands on with Nintendo's Wii U

Re: Pretty sure the dreamcast controller didn't have a screen

Also I'm pretty sure they aren't calling it "Mario Wii U console".

New London Bus API arrived at approximately ... 15.00

Outside of London

So what are the chances of this happening outside of London, 0%, why? Deregulation has allowed buses to be a profit making business, in London the buses are run by private companies but they are scrutinised over their costs and profits and they don't set the fares.

If you want cheaper and better out there, follow London. Buses aren't for making a profit.

82 London Underground stations to get free Wi-Fi for the Olympics

Re: Bollox to the wifi

That challenge was by Ken years ago, it was for cooling the station platforms rather than trains.

It was won and the system was trialled at Victoria, they pumped groundwater around heat exchangers and out into the sewers to remove heat (a very elegant system as they only needed to add heat exchangers to the existing pumping system), it wasn't expanded by BoJo, he's far more interested in covering everything in adverts for very little return.

Re: "Monopoly" ??

Yes, it is a Monopoly, the last time I looked McDonalds and Wetherspoons were mostly above ground with some kind of mobile data service also available.

Symantec releases software as Amazon Machine Image

Erm...

But what exactly is a 'cloud identity and access control suite' and will it be as bad as their anti-virus?

Why GM slammed the brakes on its $10m Facebook ads

By boring car ads you mean..

Those car ads where the driver is free to speed along winding roads with wonderful views and not another car on the road.

I've always seen those ads as a home goal for the car companies, the landscape and views would be so much nicer without that twat blaring music and speeding through it... Perhaps that view is spreading.

Big Media drags 142,000 through UK's courts in a year

Change the record...

Orlowski clearly watches too much TV...

Viewsonic Viewpad 10e tablet

Not as good as the Advent Vega

Seems like a step back in the budget tablet releases.

As for 'wall-warts' and 'ipads', everything needs charging and everything is used differently by different users.

My Advent Vega pisses over your ipad when it comes to not paying for Angry Birds. ;)

Braben sticks knife into secondhand games market

Produce a better product, if enough people are returning the game so quickly it's not a good game.

Google befriends Microsoft with WinDroid tablets

Here's why!

Coz Windows on Arm doesn't run everything does it. Android does tho... Also this gets around the Signed Kernel issue. ;)

Apple demands US ban on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus

Fuck Apple

They are using a corrupt patent system that grants patents regardless of prior art and they need to be controlled. End of.

Bill Gates' ass slams into iPhone

2 colour?

I see 4 colours, Grey, White, Magenta and Cyan.

GiffGaff boots freetards off mobile network

Oh please!

There is clearly a limit if they are complaining people are using too much. They can't seriously give someone a second chance without telling them how much is too much! Thanks El Reg for forewarning us about this bunch of cowboys.

Very tiny RF transistor made from graphene

So they can take over the backend as well.

I think it's a valid point, Apple are a modern day Marconi, it goes like this... Steal public domain function, put it in a box and patent the function of the box.

Ofcom's Local TV dream: No smut, an hour of news, endless ads

More money for the boys

This sounds like a scam, someone is asking for this to happen or they wouldn't be suggesting it.

TV broadcasting is not the best way to do this. The spectrum should be used for data, perhaps metropolitan wifi networks. Local radio with occasional livestream and youtube video would be far more cost effective and allow better production standards.

Download.com sorry for bundling Nmap with crapware

Download.com

I've avoided download.com since they started using that downloader app thing. Downloading their crapware to download what you really want was the final nail.

Although my hatred of cnet goes way back to when they murdered mp3.com.

Assange: 'iPhone, BlackBerry, Gmail users - you're all screwed'

How?

And how are these apps installed? Are you telling me El wants me to read through wiki leaks docs myself.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus Android smartphone

Terrible review

Can you get someone who knows something about the world of Android to review Android phones please? I've asked before...

Nothing about new built-in apps.

Nothing about the panoramic camera.

Nothing to say this isn't an evolution of the Galaxy S! It's based on the Nexus S, it's google's design, not Samsung.

Also the sound problem is expected, bugs are expected on Nexus phones, when you get a Nexus you get the latest Android features, not the best camera or reliability, but these bugs are also patched within days or weeks, not months.

El Reg, I used to respect you guys...

'Occupy Flash' web hippies aim to rid world of Adobe plugin

Yawn

If they thought it through they would realise that HTML5 needs codecs, and their dream of a flash-free life as prescribed by St Steve of Jobs mandates the H264 codec, which is of course proprietary just like Flash.

Kindle Fire: An open letter to Jeff Bezos

Who the fuck gives tablets as xmas gifts anyway. Are you one of these kick a granny to get the last xbox guys?

Anyway, simply put, The iPad has this exact same problem you are just blind to it. I just need to tick a box to use Grooveshark on Android, I'd need to jailbreak an iPad. The Kindle Fire is in the same position, to get Gmail you need Market, to get Market you need to cheat and flash an aftermarket OS.

Eurozone crisis: We're all dooomed! Here's why

I'm now judging this article by the comments of the author's party supporters.

!!! F A I L !!! How NOT to judge an idea !!! F A I L !!! #

He was talking about the party, not the article, your reactionary reply proved his point IMHO.

World's only twin jet-engine bike drives onto eBay

Bindun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDzDNW8DesY

EDF security bosses guilty of hacking Greenpeace

Mr Murdoch?

Oh Murdoch is prolly having lunch with Dave...

Apple applies to patent a SIM you can't remove

This is good, in a way.

If only Apple can use the embedded SIM the Telco's will still have to supply SIMs for the rest of us with proper phones. It would have been worse if they had not patented this.

Nokia Lumia 800

Oh. I get it now.

I was reading this thinking it doesn't sound like someone at El Reg wrote it! Then I checked the author...

Theresa May won't quit job over UK Border Agency fiasco

...and I'm not making this up!

She is evil.

Hague refuses to name nations which cyberattack Britain

Clearly lies

OK international diplomacy aside...

I would say he is making it up. This is a trick of the security industry, a non-specific-threat.

Google has balls, they implicated China when the Chinese gov hacked into the accounts of dissidents. I admire that move. But this stinks of the security industry lobby.

Apple gets patent for ‘unlock gesture’

I will never buy another Apple product

Even with jobs 6ft under the evil doesn't stop.

Android 'stands on Microsoft's shoulders', says MS lawyer

M$ dropped the ball ages ago

WinMo was embarrassing, WinPho useless by comparison unless you want a 'feature' phone that looks like a smart phone.

So this is how they can keep their mobile division profitable. Simple business practises like demanding money from competitors in exchange for protection from litigation.

Boss leaves robot in charge of office

Err... gaffer tape?

Across it's visual sensors!