Posts by N13L5

Good Tech: Windows is as secure as a rooted Android mobe

I agree with you, Antivirus outfits must be the seediest part of the software industry.

Aside from this, what's all this continuous BS about security?

I think corporate media is trying to convince us of this hardware security, which will only serve for OTHERS to have more control over what YOU do on YOUR computer.

The SO CALLED CHIP LEVEL SECURITY is nothing but a scam:

It starts with extra difficulty booting alternate operating systems and it ends with NSA trapdoors allowing them right from hardware to turn on your webcam, your microphone and dust off your hard drive whenever they feel like it.

Jolla's first Sailfish phone preorders 'fully booked'

Re: More Linux based fragmentation.

And you are... an anonymous shill for locked down operating systems that allow no variation?

Nobody ever bitched about the fragmentation of windows. That's not because nobody noticed, but because its simply not a problem.

But with phone operating systems, all sorts of people with an axe to grind come out of the woodworks bemoaning fragmentation.

In reality, they are either trying to malign something that's a thorn in their own cash flow, or they are simply against variety altogether, wanting to make everything identical, like communists are always accused of.

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Really, beautiful mountain villages in Switzerland are also fragmented... the houses are all different shapes built at different times, and still it works just fine and looks beautiful too.

You could get rid of fragmentation by building a huge prison instead with one giant kitchen, one kind of food and cells that all have identical shapes.

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So go cry some more about fragmentation, Darth Vader, NSA, Microcruft, Crapple

Apple sucking triple the phone switchers as Samsung – report

slightly retarded flamebait article penned by Gollum after loosing his ring?

I wonder how the math of this goes...

you pull 3 times as many customers off another brand, yet you loose market share, while the other brand makes a massive gains...?

Reality distortion field still in force, apparently - proving that the distortion didn't emanate from Jobs, but that Jobs emanated from the distortion field :D

British ankle-biters handed first mobe at the age of SEVEN - Ofcom

Re: If I were to get a phone for my kid

My 3 year old has been using her mom's Motorola Defy since she was 2. She's learned spelling, numbers and is now using language teaching software on it. Since she figured out how to get out of Toddler-lock, she doesn't throw it anymore either. (good thing the Defy is milspec, it has survived many nasty spills, some against the wall, waving her arm and letting go)

We don't need to start it for her either, she turns on the phone and finds what she wants herself, including playback of video or audio she likes.

Its definitely useful to her, but one has to be watching their kids if they get overly attached to that, or if they continue to spend most of their time in the real world, like they should.

We do control what's on that device. No games, no internet. We want her to play games outside and in the real world... So far, so good...

You're doing WHAT with friends? Zynga sues Bang With Friends maker

Re: Odd

I think that's an invalid trademark...

Both words are common dictionary words and are also commonly used together in all sorts of contexts.

Some lawyers are retarded, and so are some of the trademark office staff to let that slip through...

Samsung brings back clamshell phones with added Android

need a modernized version of the Matrix slider!

Maybe that could mesh with the star trek comms thingy...

People really liked our Xperia. Throw in a weak yen and KERCHING - Sony

Sony would be retarded to sell off 20% of its most profitable division whose future value is far more assured than a gadget business ever will be.

Why doesn't Loeb offer to buy 20% of Sony's TV business, maybe Sony's board would be more willing to talk about that :D

Loeb's suggestion is like this: Here, Sony, we'll help you out and buy a chunk of your most valuable assets so you can dump the money on the tricky parts of your business, where more money really isn't the deciding factor of success!

Go die in a Fire, Loeb!

Microsoft haters: You gotta lop off a lot of legs to slay Ballmer's monster

Shooting themselves in the foot continuously...

Quoting the Article: "that Microsoft’s senior management are aware of this and are actively taking steps to compensate."

And look what they've been doing in their panic! Shooting themselves in the foot continuously...

Completely forgetting that you have to make products tasty to customers, rather than just dishing them out like slimy soup in a prison, to match their latest monthly twist in corporate strategy.

Without their actively taken steps of fear and greed, much damage to their finances and brand perception would have been prevented.

Sammy had Sweet Fanny Adams to do with Swiss Fanny madam's blast

you wouldn't believe how hard it can be to get an original battery!

I was trying to buy a replacement for my wife's Motorola phone: I skipped ebay, expecting a high chance of counterfeit batteries and went to Amazon instead. (my worry was merely about poor performance, I hadn't really thought of explosions at the time ><)

I searched "MB525 original battery"

A load of adverts claiming to be original batteries popped up, strangely containing widely varying customer reviews. After quickly checking the overall ratio of 1 or 2 star reviews, I started reading, and a pretty high amount of reviews stated that there were indicators that the battery they received wasn't really original Motorola. Some of them were simply not recognized by their phones, refusing operation entirely.

I picked one of those sellers and sent an inquiry, if they could guarantee that the battery was not counterfeit... I haven't received a response yet, and I still don't have a battery ><

BitTorrent's share 'n' sync tool comes to Android

being p2p, could you back up to a friend's computer and vice versa?

There's that cloud backup software from Crashplan, which also happens to allow backup to your friends' computers, on some designated area of their hard drive, while they could back up some of their stuff to an equal area on your machine...

Just wondering if this would be able to do the same thing...

Cloud backups: Where's my get out of jail card?

Biggest issue isn't mentioned...

All these articles critical about cloud storage being not as safe as you might like keep ignoring the biggest issue entirely.

Uncle Sam could declare martial law any day, and all your cloud data is hosed or at least inaccessible for an indefinite period of time, unless your data actually happens to reside outside of the U.S., which isn't very likely.

On another note, the NSA should start offering cloud storage. They are competent, have unlimited capacity, and could get all our data voluntarily, rather than having to steal it.

Top Mozillans dream of quarterly Firefox OS updates ... and users, too

Sneaking a PC into the Mobile Phone market... been waiting for that...

If you look at their planned spec, then you know this isn't to outcheap anyone, its to give you a pocketable Linux computer.

4GB Ram, 128GB storage.

Hook up some wearable display tech to it, and you have a computer.

Seagate drops new summer spinners, bares 'quiet', 'fast' models

Re: Is this article just the result of being sloppy or is it a blatant shill?

I'm not talking about WD Red!

HGST Deskstar 5K4000 is still branded as a Hitachi drive, even though WD owns them, they operate as an 'independent' unit.

Is this article just the result of being sloppy or is it a blatant shill?

"Neither WD, nor its subsidiary HGST, nor Toshiba, have 4TB drives spinning in the 5.900rpm area in their product ranges."

HGST's has the 5K4000 model, which has better specs than Seagate's drive...

I have one here, it spins at 5,900 rpm and has 600,000 load cycles and 24/7 rating.

Pure boffinry: We peek inside Nokia's miracle cameraphone

Re: here is an idea

Great idea!

A tiny cam w can clip to our hats, glasses, headphones, lapels etc.

Re: or

Its not the buying of an "actual camera' thats the problem, its carrying it around.

So now, if Nokia would just offer some choice in operating systems.

I'd happily take a Ubuntu version of this phone.

Monopoly abuser Microsoft with its straight jacket OS with the garishly colored tiles is just not an option.

Re: It is a marvel of modern technology...

For one thing, there is no reason to sponsor a known Monopoly abuser, who didn't spend a dime on fixing the glaring faults of WinCE for a decade, while they thought they had the market sewn up.

For another, you can't customize windphone to look and work the way you want. Its impossible to get rid of the garishly colored tiles, impossible to adapt the functionality.

And while some people say "its a phone" what apps could I possibly be missing" - a lot of the best apps on Android fix some annoyance with the phone, or with just about any detail you didn't like about Android. It can all be altered and mitigated. Not so with iron-fist Microsoft.

Microsoft actively prevents it and coders don't bother on that platform in the first place.

Caterpillar B15: The Android smartphone for the building site

You know you can drive a car over your regular galaxy S4 too.

And the active version you can drop into water or dust.

All without getting stuck with ugly stick "styling" and sub-par hardware

Chinese police probe iPhone user's death by electrocution

I guess here's a good reason to have your phone made from Plastic!

Plastic simply doesn't conduct electrical current

Apple MacBook Air 13-inch 2013: Windows struggles in Boot Camp

Poor review, full of holes where it matters!

So this review is ostensibly about running windows by way of boot camp, and all you did was cover installation and a couple of benchmarks?

You should have included the following:

- Battery life differences under windows

- fan noise differences under windows

- USB latency checker

- possible SSD upgrade issues (since you mention 128GB will be annoyingly cramped)

Further, you show your fanboi colors by claiming windows machines could only beat the macbook air on a single measure: price. This hasn't been true for a while now.

But Apple did land one coup with the 2013 refresh: an IRIS GPU toting haswell processor with immediate availability. Intel must have given Apple special treatment so as to avoid rushing Apple into the inevitable switch to their own silicon.

Asus, Samsung and Acer are still waiting for Haswell supply, while Sony and Apple are cleaning up the first wave of eager Haswell buyers.

Personally, I use CAD, so I'm waiting till Intel puts CrystalWell on an Ultrabook chip, which would improve performance much more than the 100Mhz clock speed increase between the HD-5000 and HD-5100 and without denting the TDP.

Samsung Galaxy S3 explodes, turns young woman into 'burnt pig'

Re: Only a matter of time, and lack of protection.

These occasional battery explosions are just HAARP test runs for the eventual population reduction.

Once they are ready, they will ignite all phones remotely by bouncing high power radio waves off the stratosphere, igniting everybody's phones all at once.

They're just waiting for still higher market penetration in 3rd world countries.

If you had a burning phone in your back pocket, wouldn't you drop your pants in an instant?

Rather than hop up and down with your mouth open till your boss comes over and walks you to a bathroom in a nearby store???

Think about how long it takes to walk into a store and into the bathroom, not to mention whatever time it took for your boss to become alerted and walk over to grab you?

What would she have done if her boss didn't come? Just stand there and wait till she was ready for dinner?

HGST: Enough of those mutant hybrids. We'll do an Apple, thanks

I much prefer Hitachi's approach, but for other reasons than he mentioned

With a separate SSD and HDD, I can upgrade them independently.

Then I can throw out the "robust caching software" after upgrading the SSD part from say,30GB to 256GB like on the Asus UX32VD, and thus arrive at the true "optimal" solution of having an SSD for OS and Software and an HDD for data that doesn't get thrashed by Windows.

Asus and Gigabyte have shown that you can easily fit this type of combo into an Ultrabook, since mSata or M.2 flash drives are already being built in a form factor matching that of a gum stick.

This is my primary criterion for selecting an Ultrabook, right next to getting a high brightness IPS display.

Crusading lawmen want more details on Apple's iOS 7 'Activation Lock'

I call BS! That kill switch is NOT against thieves...

The U.S. government simply wants to be able to remotely disable anybody's phone when they feel like it.

Got a whistle blower, a dissident? Shut down their phones remotely, and their phone based wallets along with it. It goes together perfectly with all their other recent fascist moves and new laws in the phony name of "security".

George Orwell, here we come, just 30 years later than you predicted.

Is the next-gen console war already One?

Just a way to feed us more garbage

Another new way to get a media brainwash.

Anything, just so people won't wake up.

We'll sell it below cost, cause the cartel will reimburse us, so long as we can keep them dumb and too busy with pointless crap to notice what's really going on here.

It is fuggly as hell

Who is doing product design at the Xbox department?

Must have been someone who's hibernated under a rock for decades...

Firefox OS: Go away fanbois, fandroids - you wouldn't understand

horrible...

quote: "I can safely say Mozilla's vision of a web-based mobile future isn't just appealing, it feels inevitable."

Always online is total loss of control over your device and the door opener to the orwellian nightmare.

I don't use a smartphone to be connected with everything and anything.

For me, its a tiny computer, which allows me to locally store a sizeable library of books and some music. I'm not talking about trash novels, but books containing actual knowledge on how to do things, how to build things, scientific research etc.

I go many places where internet is either unavailable or sketchy. Even if it is available, I have no desire to need to download my stuff from some server farm. It is far preferable to have things under your physical control. Everything else could be turned off or gone, due to war, someone calling out martial law, a hacked server, a lost password and an infinite number of other things.

My smartphone is nothing but a lightweight PC with bookshelf and stereo.

Making phone calls and getting online with it is ok, but far from the #1 concern. If I could get a Galaxy S4 with 1TB of storage instead of a cellular radio, I'd buy that.

Samsung flogs slim, flashy new model: Protection included

Re: Money!!!

how much of it..?

I'd like to plop the 960 GB version into my Samsung 730 ultrabook...

Probably won't fit, eh?

MYSTERY Nokia Lumia with gazillion-pixel camera 'spotted'

Re: NOW will you try Windows Phone 8?

M$ must have Nokia in some nasty exclusivity contract for Windphone making.

That's gotta be the only reason the board hasn't removed the sloppy Microsoft mole from his corner office.

Apple cored: Samsung sells 10 million Galaxy S4 in a month

Re: only managed to double what Apple sold in the first two days

Will be mildly interesting to see how Apple's new Galaxy S4 competitor does in this year's ever more saturated market...

Android is a mess and needs sprucing up, admits chief

Re: Torn between them all

There are some Android phone apps, that make the phone part dominant, has beautifully done large buttons for phone use and many options and styles...

Trying to remember the name maybe 'phone screen' or something like that...

Anyway, not too hard to make the surface of a flexible system less flexible (or twiddly).

The other way round is impossible, sadly

Re: Torn between them all

I have a Galaxy Note II... I never concerned myself with the disjointedness between Google's Android and Samsung's various overlays, ranging from mildly useful to just bloat.

You need need some personal power and enough will to take control of your device and banish anything you feel is disjointed or otherwise annoys you. Android allows this, unlike M$ or Apple! I recommend you download Nova Launcher for starters. Then the Iconpack Simple Text (for samsung the black version, cause using black backgrounds saves much battery on amoled displays)

Then just remove anything from your home screens you don't want or use. place widgets and icons for the stuff you do use, and you've made the device YOURS.

Now, if your complaint is too many menus, you kinda need menus anywhere you want to choose options and actions. You can't do without them on any phone or computer platform in existence. If the look of menus bothers you, I can only recommend to use widgets that allow you to set frequently accessed settings. But otherwise, you'll just have to live with it.

Personally, I find few applications have menus that are so badly done that they're worth a complaint. Those that are really that poor, just uninstall and get something else.

New Lumia 925: This, loyalists, is the BIG ONE you've waited for

Not what I was waiting for either

Can we get OS choices anytime soon, Nokia?

You're like a restaurant offering a single dish. These are modern times, people like choice and they don't like to downgrade their software options. There are no onsite CAD and measurement taking apps on windows, there are no Pro-level audio recording, sequencing, synthesis apps on Windows the list of not available stuff goes on and on. Some of the app types they do claim to have 'available' are so barebones, they don't deserve the name.

Some people say: "soon they will have the same quality apps as iOS and Android" That'll be great, but "soon" is certainly no reason to buy a device now, cause it'll be discontinued long before the great apps happen there.

No replaceable battery and no SD slot is also a downgrade. A terminal downgrade.

And while I don't like Samsung completely dominating the industry, they dominate because they actually read what people want and build their products accordingly, offering things like SD slots and replaceable batteries of high capacity and a variety of operating systems. Samsung is like a big bakery, any size or flavor of bread or cake you want, they probably have it.

Rogue Nokia splinter cell drops its Jolla phone A-BOMB

Would be hilarious if Jolla becomes bigger than Nokia in a few years

If Nokia hold on to Elop / Winblows much longer, it might happen!

Who is Samsung trying to kid? There will NEVER be a 5G network

Schmuck Journalism... meh

Unless we wipe ourselves out in ww3, there will most certainly be 5G, 6G, 7G and so on...

I've rarely read something so wrong headed.

Obviously, this is written for the benefit of some existing power, who doesn't want people to even think about anything past 4G.

And of course, Samsung has its own purpose in teasing us with it.

But this article.. whatever.. :P

Google pools cloud storage

Re: Google+ Photos used to be Picasa

yeah, I guess the author of this article wasn't aware of Picasa, which is indeed widely used...

Not sure the forced rebranding helped Picasa, but I guess G+ is the only thing Google really cares to grow.

Just for clarification: storing pictures larger than 1600x1200 is still "free", it just counts against your total storage limit. I thought I'd add that, cause I find 1600x1200 to be an unacceptable resolution as a 'backup'. Its fine to show pictures to people on your handy or tablet, of course...

Seagate CTO hangs up his hard disks

So you're the guy who...

...allowed all those clattering drives to go into sales instead of fixing that?

...allowed different drives to be sold under identical model numbers, like a 2 platter drive with good speeds sent off for reviews, but customers who buy one, have a crapshot of getting a 3 platter drive instead, running 30% slower. (Seagate Barracuda 2TB "ST2000DM001")

Seagate: Who us... no flash cred? Check out our PCIe card, suckers

Seagate...

The Samsung "relationship" can be ended very simply by Samsung selling its shares. They will not be interested in screwing up their own business to aid Seagate.

Next thing, customers don't like the effects of the extreme consolidation in the HDD market one bit, with its inherent price fixing (500GB drives today are more expensive than they were 7 years ago, never returned to pre-flood levels).

Adding Seagate's sleazy business practices, their heaps of clattering, unreliable drives, I think you will find few customers who want them to become dominant in SSDs.

Its similar to Microsoft: customers instinctively don't want them to extend their monopoly to tablets and phones, so they stay away from the product, inspite of the massive evangelizing Microsoft has paid for.

The only thing welcome will be additional pricing pressure to the overall market. If Seagate forces down prices a bit, people will happily buy more Micron, Intel and Samsung drives. OEMs will be a vector for Seagate though, since most spec sheets fail to list the brand of SSD used, you might end up with one without knowing it.

Nokia's debuts new 'Fastlane' UI in $99 flagship Asha 501

Re: I don't get the this Landfill Android meme

"Landfill Android" was obviously created by some wanna-be competitor...

For Microsoft's marketing department, for example, that kind of thing would be a natural... remember the roidrage attempt to malign Android...?

I think at this point in time, a lot of Microsoft employees would find a fitting home in a landfill...

They have lost the ability to get anything right, partly by being inept, partly by purely following corporate agenda instead of customer needs.

Which petite model likes a fondle and GETTING WET? Sony's Xperia ZR

A Sony phone with this year's hardware!

Maybe Sony is learning new tricks!

cool, I'll look into this for my wifey; her last phone died to water exposure in a monsoon rain...

New Ubuntu for phones due 'by end of May' – usable this time

Re: Why does the good Lord tempt us all like this?

From your post, I presume Shuttleworth is some higher-up at Canonical?

Anyway, with Ubuntu on our phones, whatever spyware there is won't last a week before someone distributes a way to cut that cancer. All we need is Canonical to complete it enough to go on phones, any imperfections will be fixed soon after.

Flat mobe battery? Just light a fire

Re: But you can already get.....

ah a proper human/machine interface

Nobody in their right mind would buy a phone without replaceable battery.. :P

Review: Nokia Lumia 520

Re: I'll check it out.

Really...

He talked about how "cute" the phone is, and the dual-tone paint job err, what?

Then he said "People friendly" Windphone 8...

What's people friendly about Windphone? I can't even arrange things the way I like....

Ohhh he must mean that all your semi-random facebook contacts automatically get merged with your actual address book?

And his coining of the "Landfill Android" phrase shows bias if not outright shilling for M$...

So, if you prefer fogging, propaganda and spin over plain facts, then this was definitely a nice review.

Your phone may not be spying on you now - but it soon will be

Re: Android Malware and Number of Infected Devices

With Apple, iOS is the malware, since they will pass on your data to any government that asks...

Apple alert as half China's fanbois consider switch to Galaxy S4

Re: damn percentages again!

Your point?

An unqualified 'all statistics are faked' statement...?

First Firefox OS developer phones to launch on Tuesday

Ubuntu! - waiting for that because....

Got tired of getting walled in and pushed around by Apple when iPhone 3 was new. now i just go for the best specced Android phone until Ubuntu comes out on high end hardware.

Sadly, Google is trying to force users into the cloud by removing SD-card slots from all its recent products. But the cloud is not always fast, available or even reliable, unless you never leave your hometown.

I resent Google for this purely self-serving act.

For users its rather unhealthy in times of re-emerging fascism pushed on us with the poor excuse of needing to protect us against terrorists, when we really need protection from Banksters, Corporate interests and hijacked governments.

Samsung vs Apple: which smartphone do Reg readers prefer?

Got tired of getting walled in and pushed around by Apple when iPhone 3 was new.

Now i just go for the best specced Android phone until Ubuntu comes out on high end hardware, which so far ends up meaning Samsung.

Sadly, Google is trying to force users into the cloud by removing SD-card slots from all recent products. But the cloud is not always fast, available or even reliable, unless you never leave your hometown.

I resent Google for this purely self-serving act.

For users its rather unhealthy in times of re-emerging fascism pushed on us with the poor excuse of needing to protect us against terrorists, when we really need protection from Banksters, Corporate interests and hijacked governments.

DataDirect in job slash bloodbath

Re: Double-digit growth?

Should they ever expect to continually grow?

Nope That's what's wrong with the economy.

Just take a 'mere' 10% annual growth as an example... Adding 10% every year results in a logarithmic curve reaching the vertical after a number of years. Even 10% is an impossible expectation.

Interest based debt-money is the driver of this unsustainable growth trap. We need a different monetary system to fix the needless boom and bust cycles.

But since there's some very powerful people profiting from this debt-money scheme beyond your wildest dreams, that's not going to happen without some cataclysmic event.

Nobody ever changed the monetary system in a history littered with failed FIAT currencies. Not because its not possible (see Austrian currency systems examples) But because there are certain people with a very strong interest to keep it the way it is, because they are getting stinking filthy rich off everybody else's hard work with their "legal" ponzi scheme - and they get to exert control over everything.

Re: Marketing VP?

Its how they teach you to word things in B-school:

Just stilted enough to make optimism sound like already achieved facts.

He's matching every press release ever written, pretty much.

He missed a duplicate word left over from excessive editing though -1 :)