Re: I give up
Failure is often too long for a headline. We like punchy, fun, attention-grabbing words - and we appear to have grabbed your attention ;-)
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"Why ask the ICO about the tribunal panel make up when they have no input or influence?"
We asked the ICO because presumably, as an overseer of the implementation of FOI law, it could offer some insight on the process up to and including an information tribunal - and it did.
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Less the Daily Mail, more like The New York Post or The Sun. The Mail Online and its print cousin rarely use screaming caps.
We use them to make particular stories stand out. Eg: prototype keyboard app for iPhones? No need. New operating system insecurities? Sure, why not.
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"Yes it ran, but that' s not the point...."
Ah, this is where your argument falls down. The ARM world is so fragmented that SoC designers will stick their hardware registers and other chipset features, let alone the RAM and ROM start addresses, wherever they like (more or less). So a kernel built for one board won't boot at all on another.
However, x86 land is so backwards compatible that your basic chipset will always appear where you expect it. Yes, there are differences - such as SMP - but that's purely because new features have turned up over time. It's no where near as wild as the ARM arena.
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"Regardless of the hair-splitting"
Are you serious? The dates are the central plank of your outburst, and it splintered at the first sign of fact.
Disagree with Matt's opinion - for that is what it is, 'Open and Shut' is his regular comment piece - all you want, but you gotta be kidding me on the rest.
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"How does this kind of thing get past an editor (always assuming they have one) at The Register?"
We do, see the "contact us" page.
"The whole crux of the piece is a survey done in 2009, BEFORE Oracle had even acquired Sun"
Sun nabbed MySQL in Jan 08. Oracle wanted to buy Sun in Apr 09. Deal closed Aug 09. Survey done in Dec 09.
So your point is false. Checkmate.
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"There have been a number of stories in the past that feel the need to explain small details that surely everyone here knew."
There lies the agonising balance between explaining too much and alienating very techy readers and filling an article with jargon and driving everyone else away. It's really, really difficult to do.
Obviously with a story about, say, an IE exploit, you know programmers will read it so you can get down to the nitty-gritty. Really depends on the story. And there shouldn't be anything wrong with expanding the readerbase. How else will we pay the bills?
Also, I'd be surprised if we're publishing less. There's something like 40-45 articles a day most of the year. Forgive us if you can't love every piece.
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"the number of stories where the comments are of far more value than the piece itself is growing worryingly high"
I think there's some sort of skew involved here. Here are my own quick thoughts on it.
An article that everyone agrees with sadly generates little comment and people move on. It may be hard to add more value. No one remembers the comments on those.
Articles that spark debate and polarise readers generate a lot of comments, as expected, and if you disagree with the writer then you're bound to find someone in the forum who agrees with your PoV - so suddenly comments "with more value" appear on your personal radar.
Finally, all our writers are working as fast as possible to file their thoughts and findings in a timely manner before a story dies out. They may accidentally miss something or for whatever reason neglect to make a particular point. Hours after someone made the decision to hit 'publish', a thought may occur to someone reading the article and they post a comment. Value is added in the aftermath.
Generally speaking, referring to nothing in particular, terms and conditions apply, your mileage may vary, etc.
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"Yet again a writer can't bother giving a lick of any credit to a woman"
Actually, it's because Neil Gaiman is much more well known to readers than Amanda. Pure and simple. Neil is more of an attention grabber than Amanda. There's nothing sexist about that.
Perhaps a few more stunts like this, she'll have a headline to herself.
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"how does this guy have any credibility left"
How does that detract from what Florian has said in this particular instance? Yes, he is/was paid to write things. We do know this.
Whenever we quote the guy, all I seem to see in response is "I HATE FLORIAN RAGE RAGE RAGE", and (personally speaking) that makes me less inclined to pay attention to the comments, because such outbursts seem far more biased than the very pundit being attacked.
Ironic, isn't it?
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If you're referring to the deleted comment, it was removed for the anonymous abuse. Let's stick to technical discussions.
One thing we forgot to add is that the S III is set to get Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which has had a lot of NFC fixes and is not the 4.0.4 compromised by the team . Anyway, both hacks are significant in terms of security and skill, and a second story is in the works.
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