Posts by Anonymous IV

WTF are... connected appliances?

"display [...] notes from family members"

So much cheaper with a piece of paper and a fridge magnet.

And where else would you put the calendar?

TomTom Start 20 satnav

Suction ring marks

Satnav users clean the suction ring marks off the windscreen to encourage miscreants to believe that the driver doesn't use a satnav, so there is no point breaking into the car to try to find it.

Sticking a plastic disk on the dashboard gives definitive proof that a satnav is used. Surely rates a d'oh, at least?

Creditsafe suspends website in wake of drive-by download attack

Pushing one's luck?

Calling your organisation "CreditSafe" in this day and age looks like being a red rag to a hacker, to coin a phrase...

Metro Bank in schoolboy email error snafu

Not bad going!

First they don't use the BCC field, then they try to use Recall - which doesn't work unless the recipient is on an Exchange server, and quite often not then.

The usual answer by a bank, "Additional training has been scheduled..."

World IPv6 Day fails to kill the internet

@SteveDavies3

Head across to Broadband Buyer's Router Finder Tool at http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Finders/Routers/ and put a tick in the IPV6 box, to find over 15 consumer routers from Belkin, Billion, D-Link, Draytek, Linksys and Netgear. But mostly Draytek and Netgear.

Sex-rating social pages take off in Queensland

Acting Sergeant Angela Warcon said:

"...people just don't understand that once it's out there in public it's no longer private."

With insights like this, she should be made the Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service. She has got to be brighter than the average police Bruce.

Sandi Toksvig puts the 'n' into cuts - on the Beeb

Was it in her script?

Since the "chairman's script" is credited to one or more scriptwriters, it probably originated there. Or maybe it was an ad-lib?

Rapture postponed as world inexplicably fails to end

Hymn (all sing together)

"We are the pure and chosen few,

And all the rest are damned.

There's room enough in hell for you --

We don't want heaven crammed."

Cisco refuses to deny it will sell off Linksys

Claud Cockburn said:

"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied."

Seems to apply in ever so many situations.

Boffin quests for, finds 'earphone Holy Grail'

Another instance of someone who should not present his own Stuff...

I was reminded of Bob Dylan singing badly his good songs.

Ambrose should have got someone rather more dynamic to make the video, and just used a single screen.

Interesting concept, though!

Memo gives full details of Nokia staff cull and closures

Redundant font, also?

Looks like the Nokia Pure font was a complete waste of time and money, then, since there won't be anything to use it on...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/28/nokia_pure/

Amazon cloud still on fritz after 36 hours

"I wandered, lonely, as a cloud..."

... that promised utmost reliability.

Wordsworth would be turning in his grave.

Virgin Media Superhub customers still hitting big speed bump

Turn off the (hardware) firewall? Unbelievable!

"Their solution offered to me [...] was to turn off the firewall. [...]I really would like to have this switched on - despite their claim that there was no effect on security at all."

Perhaps point out to them that router manufacturers are not going put money and effort into including a feature which had "no effect on security at all"...?

Microsoft markets 'collection' of PCs to consider

Just the one decent supplier, then?

"Models featured in The Collection will be sold at PC retailers from PC World and Currys to John Lewis and Comet."

What were John Lewis thinking of? Did they know they'd be associated with those three?

Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice

.org wart?

Some sort of magic, perhaps?

German prangs dad's £275k supercar

Insurance?

I'd be really interested to know just how much is the insurance on a £275K car for a 20-y-o.

Over €1M, perhaps?

He WAS insured. Wasn't he? Or was his father fronting...?

White iPhone 4 out by month's end

Oooooh! Excitement?

What Apple doesn't seem to realise that it has engendered copious quantities of iApathy.

In fact I'm too bored even to press Submit.

Microsoft cranks out Internet Explorer 10 preview

Surely it just depends on what you use?

It would appear to be a truism that if you have a browser, antivirus product, operating system, religion, political opinion, and so on, different from the one being propounded, then you automatically have carte blanche to slag it off!