Posts by Anonymous IV

'Abel, you're fired!' Hear AOL supremo axe exec during conference call

Lenz and his lens

This seems to be a rather suspicious patch connection.

Xerox copier flaw changes numbers in scanned docs

Scan-dalous

You'd think that if the scanner couldn't resolve something, it would reproduce the 'something' as closely as possible, but not arbitrarily decide that the 'something' was 'something else'. Where's the fail-safe in that?

Microsoft loosens strings on Office 365, drops kimono on upgrade options

Re: SKUs by Microsoft

> They just leave a bad taste in my mouth...I don't know why.

Perhaps you feel that you have been SKreUed?

Amazon founder Bezos snaps up Washington Post

Citizen Kane 2.0

I like it!

Peter Capaldi named as 12th Doctor Who

Re: the Doctor can take on any form imaginable...

...so they've cast a white bloke again. [...] It's the 14th time.

That's probability for you - you just can't pin it down.

Davros liable to criticism for huge STRAW DALEK he never built

Snugsburys Famous Ice Cream

You really can't take a straw Dalek seriously when its website uses date formats like 1st/08/2013...

Apple launches global 'iWatch' trademark blitz

Re: Could it be...

I rather liked the supposed name of a new Apple software product, Ant iVirus.

I say "supposed" because of course Macs don't ever get viruses.

Microsoft partners seriously underwhelmed by Windows 8.1

Re: 'Much as I would love to wind Eadon up (where is he these days BTW?)'

No, the required word was "hyperbollocks"...

Pussy galore: Bubble-bath webcam spy outrage

Re: miaow?

Substitute "the correct spelling" for "a different spelling", and your sentence is beyond reproach!

Seagate reveals a NASty side, tears wraps off WD Red copycat disk

Lots of techical details

But absolutely nothing on comparative prices.

Internet fraud still stings suckers

Ah - you mean that gullible doesn't travel...

Bjarne Again: Hallelujah for C++

Hmmm. Verity's gone a bit technical, what?

Ecuador: All right, Julian, you CAN stay on our sofa - it's your human right

LAWYERS SEE THE JOKE ICON

I don't know what you're worrying about. El Reg would never, ever, reveal your real name or email address, now, would they!

You don't need phone lines or cable for ANYTHING, says Dish

Re: nice speeds

Am I missing something? If you are watching a video, does it matter that you're seeing each frame 110ms after its transmission time? Surely there's only a problem if you're sending stuff back...

UK.gov's £530m bumpkin broadband rollout: 'Train crash waiting to happen'

Re: 2 Megabits per second?

I can't begin to imagine just how much more expensive it would be to provide 10Mbps 'everywhere' in the UK. Can you?

Who's the daddy of Virgin Media now? That would be Liberty Global

An end to some of the major shambles, perhaps?

Maybe the new Chief Exec will sort out at least the following:

1) the great email domain name rationalisation débacle, which was due to be sorted out several years ago, and so postponed that it doesn't even seem to be mentioned in the forums recently (has everyone forgotten the broken promises?)

2) the partly-working SuperHub scandal, successive firmware levels each making matters slightly better, but still wireless is not completely sorted. Perhaps the new SuperHub will be the answer (once everyone gets it - free?)

3) completely-UK-based Customer Support. Fortunately it's been a few years since I've needed to talk to Customer Services...

Thank heaven VM broadband usually works.

The Reg's best-looking reader reveals list of jobs for the beautiful

Re: You don't know what it's like......

Somehow I can't see the IT chaps complaining about the "dumb blonde"...

Boffins build gesture recognition using WiFi

Why would one ever want to do this?

We have enough annoyance leaping up and down to trigger the motion-activated lights when it's dark at work.

"Gesture recognition using WiFi" looks too much like a solution looking for a problem.

[/luddite]

Dell bucks PC market tumble with Haswell business systems

Re: How many articles is that on Dell now?

I like to know which Optiplexes I'll be buying second-hand for work, in about three years' time.

WD's new disk-flogging brainwave will bring you close to tiers

Compulsory joke

I knew it would all end in tiers.

Ba-boom, Tish!

BBC suspends CTO after £100m is wasted on doomed IT system

DAB

Let's hope the DG now has a look into DAB, and bins it for a better alternative.

Cook: Apple has 'no current plan' to pull profits out of Ireland

Re: Slackers in the US

@Schultz

I think the two AC posts which follow yours seem to support the contention that Americans do not understand irony...

The iWatch is coming! The iWatch is coming!

Re: display smaller than a smartphone is going to struggle to display ... with any degree ...

Well, it is lousy - and in spite of this it caught on.

'WikiLeaks of financial data' prompts worldwide hunt for tax evaders

Easier

Presumably it's far easier to go after individuals whose tax affairs are, shall we say, slightly suspect than to go after large corporations with lots of accountants and lawyers which help the corporations to pay minimal amounts of tax...

Adobe price hike: Your money or your files, frappuccino sippers

"Can Adobe justify shifting its Creative Suite to a contentious new licensing model?2

Trivial.

Will it make more money for Adobe?

If answer is Yes, then it's justified.

On the hunt for a new ampere

@Andrew Jones 2

"The speed and distance signs in the UK are what they are because it would simply cost far too much to change them..."

Well, they did it in Eire!

"Distance signs had displayed kilometres since the 1990s but road speed limits were in miles per hour until January 2005, when they were finally changed to kilometres per hour. "

I suppose your logic would argue that changing the road signs was the direct cause of the financial crisis in Eire?

Research explodes myth that older programmers are obsolete

Re: Speaking as a consultant ...

I would be rather worried if asked about RS232 in a job interview, much as I would be surprised to be asked about CP/M. Surely relevant technology is a far better area for questions?

Continued lack of women in tech bemoaned by ex-techie lady MP

Getting the gender terminology correct

In the same way as we have a gender distinction between blond and blonde, would IT be more inviting to women if they could be called a nerde or a geeke?

New Google Play terms ban non-store app updates

Re: Facebook is evil

@IGnatius T Foobar "Facebook is evil. Therefore, whatever is bad for Facebook is good for everyone else. I support Google's efforts."

Aren't you being a bit binary? You have ignored the possibility of them both being evil...

Re: Disagreement is good, if you have some basis for it

Possibly people were downvoting Shannon Jacobs for putting "passed master" instead of "past master"?

Stroppy persons really need to minimise grammar, spelling and homophone errors in their posts!

Reddit: So very sorry for naming innocent man as Boston bomber

Re: Call me sceptical if you will, but...

So what happened to "where there's blame, there's a claim"?

Get a move on, you lawyers - there's an ambulance that needs chasing!

DDOS strikes BitCoin exchange Mt.Gox

Re: Qui bono ?

If someone is going to quote a Latin tag then they should spell it correctly - here Cui bono...

Are you being robbed of sleep by badly designed servers?

Re: diurnal cycle

I think the medical name for what you're suffering from is "teenage"...

It's official! Register hack is an alcohol-flushed cave dweller

Repeatable?

One assumes that you've done the test twice, with different names and postal addresses and other details?

Let us know the comparative results!

Manual override: Raspberry Pi beginners' books

Re: Heh

Right now my RasPI runs:

root@rpi / # uname -a

NetBSD rpi 6.99.19 NetBSD 6.99.19 (RPI) #4: Sat Apr 6 13:27:49 BST 2013 sysbuild@....:/home/sysbuild/Sysbuild/evbarm/obj/home/sysbuild/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/RPI evbarm

which I cross-compiled myself; presently it is slaving over pkgsrc compilations:

root@rpi / # pkg_info | wc -l

115

(doing some Common Lisp ATM...).

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why most people prefer to run Windows...

Win a Nexus 7 with reed.co.uk and El Reg

Re: Job title

Reed isn't asking you where your current job is located!

I understand from an insider that the alleged BBC job title from many years ago:

Engineering Information and Electrical Installation Officer

never existed.

Job title

I was thinking of applying, having filched the South Parks Studio job title:

E-mail, Internet and Electronic Information Officer.

Logitech launches MEGA-PRICEY 15-in-1 remote

Who are they kidding?

A remote control for the price of a small TV.

Or perhaps you can save money by watching TV programmes on the remote control's screen?

Sophos picks up axe again, 'plans to DECIMATE staff'

Re: Decimated? Decimated!?

@Androgynous Cupboard

There is a pandemic of inappropriate word usage which greatly pains the pedants among us (but we are not outraged). However I fear the correct use of 'decimated' is a lost cause.

Sorry that you didn't get "its" right, though...

Rotten spam causing more infections than ever – study

Re: I may be downvoted, but...

I usually complain about the insularity of Americans, but surely the suggestion that "no driver should be allowed to do their driving test in a car with automatic transmission" reinvents the Luddite?

In the US you'd have a hard job actually finding a car with manual transmission, unless it's a sports car imported from Europe.

And if the statement "we have automated spam filtering to the point where they protect even the more stupid of us to a relatively good degree" were true, then surely the spammers would have given up in disgust by now?

It would be unkind to downvote you...

Finance bods probe RBS over bank-crippling IT cock-up

Re: Not outsourced

"No wonder you never got promoted to management!"

The correct word should be "demoted"...

Malware-flingers target gullible corporate bods with office printer spam

Re: Hmmmm....

So it is not just the circumstances which are extenuating?!

World's first petaflops super dumped on scrap heap

Re: Just checking in

"Crysis? What's Crysis?"

(apologies to James Callaghan, or, more accurately, The Sun's deliberate misreporting of what he said...)

Rubbish IT means DEATH for UK Border Agency, announces May

Ooh goody!

Another opportunity to see how well the government can manage a Big IT Project!

Feds cuff ex-NASA boffin at airport amid state-secret leak scare

"An entity of concern"

Don't you just love the straightforward and jargon-free plain English that they use?

Yahoo! webmail! hijacks! are! back!...

Same problem as psychonaut, but only with yahoo.co.uk compromised accounts, with the person's name as the subject.

The other variant is the url, with the person's name, again, and an American-format date and time beneath.

Until the spam furore dies down I'm just quarantining *@yahoo.co.uk.

First C compiler pops up on Github

Re: mixing your metaphors

So no possibility that the author well knew these two metaphors, but mixed them for comedic effect?

"Metaphors be with you..."

Torvalds asks 'Why do PC manufacturers even bother any more?'

I've looked at the Chromebook Pixel website...

... but there's no mention of being able to wipe the hard disk and install Windows on it!

Pity - we'd have then got a Windows laptop with a decent screen resolution...

Judge slashes Apple's pile o' cash Samsung judgment

Re: Obligatory

"In British English the normal spelling in general contexts is judgement. However, the spelling judgment is conventional in legal contexts, and in North American English."

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/judgement?q=judgment