Posts by Jags

DOJ sinks another EliteTorrent admin

Kool...

Kool...

Deceased Malayan hit with $218 trillion mobile bill

Can't they just round it off

I can understand the '806,400,000,000,000' part but not '.01'.

Can't they just round it off to '.00' LOL

American sent to the slammer for faking Windows certificates

Shweeet :)

KooL, but sentence should be one week per copy of pirated software sold, at the least. Still its kool.

AMD passes the collection plate again

AMD needs new leadership

AMD needs a new leader/CEO who can deliver the real products than just whinning...

Don't just keep releasing future plans & benchmarks, start selling 'silicon' as PC makers won't be able to build systems on just benchmarks they would need real silicon...

Finnish Football, LA riot journo join attack on YouTube

I wonder...

US media giants against US google(youtube)... O gee I wonder who all those pro-piracy, anti-copyright spinsters(applies only to those who are) will favor in this court battle ?

Usual 'hate-replies' are welcome :)

EU files anti-trust charges against Intel

Knock knock...

[guess my comments posted earlier didn't go thru]

An EU official to another: we need Money...Alott & FREE, can you think of any thing

2nd Official: D'uh...US companies...Microsoft, Google, Intel...they all are evil & they all make tons of money

1st: How do they do that(make money)? do they have like thousands of employees & spend billions on R&D or something...

2nd: Do you want FREE money or not?

1st: Sorry, I was like started 'thinking' or something

2nd: Now you just listen, let's just slap Intel for few billions

1st: But what we'd tell the world about it?

2nd: D'uh...its pretty simple...we'd just say, Intel makes better & faster processors than AMD. And you know what most of the US & rest of the world will support & celebrate 'we slapping Microsoft, Google, Intel'...

1st: What if US government protest or something...

2nd: Dude, do you ever watch/read like TV/News! US government is sooo unpopular in the US, if they even dare to protest, all of the US will beg us up to slap Intel even more...

1st: Dude you are like a genius or something

2nd: I studied at Harvard & Yale but don't tell anyone.

Knock knock...

An EU official to another: we need Money...Alott & FREE, can you think of any thing

2nd Official: D'uh...US companies...Microsoft, Google, Intel...they all are evil & they all make tons of money

1st: How do they do that(make money)? do they have like thousands of employees & spend billions on R&D or something...

2nd: Do you want FREE money or not?

1st: Sorry, I was like started 'thinking' or something

2nd: Now you just listen, let's just slap Intel for few billions

1st: But what we'd tell the world about it?

2nd: D'uh...its pretty simple...we'd just say, Intel makes better & faster processors than AMD. And you know what most of the US & rest of the world will support & celebrate 'we slapping Microsoft, Google, Intel'...

1st: What if US government protest or something...

2nd: Dude, do you ever watch/read like TV/News! US government is sooo unpopular in the US, if they even dare to protest, all of the US will beg us up to slap Intel even more...

1st: Dude you are like a genius or something

2nd: I studied at Harvard & Yale but don't tell anyone.

French court slaps poor man's YouTube

I wonder...

French Court, French Laws, French Judge, French Web Site & French Film Producers...

O gee I wonder what all those 'Pro-Piracy & Anti-Copyright Spinsters' would blame this onto...

Judge questions theft claims of Facebook rival

"Dorm room chit-chat does not make a contract."

"Dorm room chit-chat does not make a contract."

just enjoying this... :)

AllofMP3.com owner faces jail time

Really Nice :)

Really Nice :)

Very nice!

Very nice! Does Russian prosecutors read El Reg? I don't know. But now they should be chasing the clones that have came out.

I know there will be tons of replies personally against me( pointing local laws, evil US companies, Blah, blah and more Blah) but its as simple as this: They can't ditribute others material. 'Coz if Russia believes its OK, then some other country will do the same to 'em.

Oooops I forgot Russia have 'nukes' but more importantly, why in the world someone would ever want to listen/watch to Russian music/movies & haven't heard of ANY Russian software either...LOL

RFID a 'technical blunder', report says

has El Reg became a newsletter for 'Heavey RF' ??

I'm neither a Rocket nor a RFID Scientist. But as a loyal reader(and a technology enthusiast) I was shocked to see an article on El Reg that completely failed to mention a single solid reason(beside price, which eventually gonna come down as acknowledged by Heavey RF) against the technology it criticizing.

So I went ahed & read the original 'rant' ( http://www.heaveyrf.com/news_and_events/rfidbomb.453.364.html ).

And What I found that, besides Mr.Ronan Clinton's( MD, Heavey RF) anti-Wal Mart vendetta, he mentioned only a single solid reason(no ‘one size fits all’, there are hundreds of different RFID tag types, short range, medium range, long range, LF, HF, UHF, 2.4GHz, 5GHz)

While, just with one 'google', I found this:

RFID Benefits:

1, Reduce warehouse and distribution labor costs

2, Reduce point-of-sale labor costs

3, Reduce inventory

4, Improve forecasting and planning

5, Reduce theft

6, Reduce out-of stock conditions

7, Improve customer experience( details for each point is here: http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/eac/expertAnswer/0,295208,sid63_gci1153220,00.html )

So my question to El Reg chief editor: has El Reg became a newsletter for Heavey RF ?

Jesus Phone needs an exorcist

any patch/update trackers in here!

I'm NOT a patch/update tracker...does anyone know how many patches/updates have been issued to Vista/os x since Jan-'07?

Excerpts from Computerworld's email interview(found at http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/04/30/daizovi/index.php ) with Dino Dai Zovi, the New York-based security researcher:

Q: From your research on both platforms, is there a winner between Mac OS X 10.4 and Vista on security?

A:I have found the code quality, at least in terms of security, to be much better overall in Vista than Mac OS X 10.4. It is obvious from observing affected components in security patches that Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) has resulted in fewer vulnerabilities in newly-written code.

in related news

in related news... ' apple fanbois ' are goin back in time to revert the errors of steve 'god' jobs and to erase the security team that have found this...

and I guess later they'll erase this post too

:)

T-Mobile in court over Truphone call blocks

anyone for prevailing market rate?

here's a simple solution:

truphone or whatever MUST accept prevailing market rate for interconnect( from everyone not just t-mobile ) OR they just close their shop & make room for genuine businesses...

Sweden may block Pirate Bay over child porn

Would be awsome!

Child porn or not, it would be great to see #1 facilitator of online piracy shut down. 'coz its damn easy to help distribute other's contents.

If piratebay really wanna be #1 entertainment provider in the world, they should produce their own movies, music, software etc at the expense of billions/trillions of euros & then distribute it for FREE... or even better they can give away a real, brand spanking new ferrari with each free download at their own expense if they wanna be real generous.

Exploding mobile battery kills Chinese welder

height of blindness...

"Look at things from the bright side, the bloke was lucky this happened in a free country."

China, a free country???

is this the height of blindness WITH eyes or deafness of a brain.

iPhone hackers disclose vulns and hunt for clues

is that 'i' stands for inferior in 'i'phone!

in addition to the bugs mentioned in the article there are other shortcomings in i(nferior)phone:

1, NO 3G/High Speed Internet(YES, its available from the same at&t in major cities & i'm using since Nov-06, works fine between 700 to 1400 Kbps)

2, NO GPS

3, NO MMS(did apple design this in 16th century?)

4, NO A2DP(NO Support for Stereo Bluetooth & they call it best ipod ever?)

5, Just Crappy Bluetooth(only good for Headsets, Can NOT transfer pics etc between PC & phone)

6, NO Video Recording

7, NO Custom Ringtones(can NOT use your own MP3s as Ringtones)

8, NO freedom to install/run 3rd party apps(Like I watch some LIVE TV, CNN-IBN, thru TCPMP on at&t 8525 OR NO internet radio thru GS Player. There literally hundreds stations available for FREE, so u don't have to buy itunes)

9, Guess you can NOT watch Xvid/DivX videos either

10, Can NOT copy/edit text or documents(as per engadget)

So my question to all of you fine folks is...is that 'i' stands for inferior in iphone?

US porn spammers guilty as charged

Great News for Humanity!

though these spammer are tiny dots in spam universe but at least its a start...a little great news for Humanity

DrinkorDie warez leader jailed for 51 months

Al Jazeera-ization of theRegister...

Up untill now I thought of theRegister as a trusted & reputed online journal & recommended to many. has theRegister became a platform for anti-US sentiments? (just like al jazeera) 'coz if not this article writer shouldn't be at theRegister.

"But, alas, he probably believes what he is saying, just like the rest of America's copyright ayatollahs.

What a topsy-turvy world we live in"

what is he trying to say by "America's copyright ayatollahs"???

he sounds like EU & rest of the world does not have & does not believe in copyright laws...

What if someone copycates theRegister site & figures out how to divert all traffic & all revenue of the site? is that ok with theRegister ???

is the article writer gonna pay some thousands of people working at Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, Symantec, McAfee to name a few?

AMD chief condemns Intel 'abuses'

Pacifier for Hector Ruiz, Plz...

Someone need to give Hector Ruiz a pacifier PLEASE... So he stops whinnin n cryin...

Hector tries to misinterpretes Intel's innovations and R & D as a monopoly...

If Hector really cares about AMD he should step down...that would be a great & much needed favor to AMD

Hello, Apple PR. Dr. Freud will see you now

hi Ashlee Vance!

Its not just you Ashlee & its not just at apple u find ape PR

It sounds that ape PR is well spreaded outside ape PR...

And on a related note I've a Q for you (Ashlee/da reg)...there was a post about potential change in "theregister" domain name, .com or .co.uk

is it, by any chance, gonna be "theappleRegister"...OR its ALREADY that & I'm missing the silent "apple" part...

if you have to ask...

If you have to ask...you wouldn't get it...

Only Connoisseurs know Real Jewels...

Its no wonder that "apes" don't treat da Register nicely as, Only Connoisseurs would know Real Jewels( da Reg)...

And since when "apes" started making better Notebooks/Desktops...'coz otherwise they wouldn't need to rely on Negative Adverts(against MS-PC) to sell their LpTp/ DTops or is it becoz after all these ipod/iphone hype n all they still have 4 to 5% marketshare for notebook/desktop...???

So what's in a URL? The Reg URL?

.Com

Anyone outside UK would agree that to be a truly global site it should be theregister.com

Orange simplifies data by capping at 30MB

Shame on Orange!!!

30MB/Month...what a Ripoff...

I use 30MB in may be 15 minutes on my Cingular 8525(in Los Angeles)...

Guess EU needs a law or something to mandate that unlimited means UN-LIMITED. Period.

Palm reveals 'secret' smartphone buddy

HTC Shift / Kaiser, anyone...

It sounds to me that Jeff Hawkins or whatever haven't heard of HTC Shift / Kaiser apparently...

And yea, I'm posting this on my Cingular 8525...

Microsoft waves in Minority Report-style computing era

Possibilities R Unlimited...

Its nice to see a great innovative concept from Microsoft in a long time which have unlimited possibilities.

And is it just me ....that the people that can't come up with innovative / useful ideas (and make it happan into reality & beat Microsoft at Windows etc) just keep critisizing Microsoft ?