Posts by diodesign

Global warming still stalled since 1998, WMO Doha figures show

Re: 1998 was exceptionally warm - the warming trend is very real

1. Is 50 years really that big a dataset? Is it so wrong to question this? 2. Of course, he is the editor.

Or am I being trolled?

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Quantum axes one in ten workers, insists it was not investor's idea

Re: Re: Missed opportunity

Quantum of Solace had crossed my mind, but recently we've tended to stick to straight headlines about people losing their jobs en mass.

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Re: Re: Missed opportunity

Trust me, I will not make the same mistake again. I will be keenly looking out for an opportunity to use decimate in the near future.

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Re: Missed opportunity

That word is so incorrectly used, it's immediately on my 'kill, kill, kill' list.

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Facebook invites users to vote away voting rights, some privacy

Sometimes this simple things slip through the net. I've added the link - ta.

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Oracle suffers premature remuneration: Spaffs $900m on shareholders

Tax levies

Very good point - I've clarified that paragraph again.

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IETF bakes Google's SPDY protocol into HTTP 2.0

Re: Yep

All right, all right. Relax guys. It's in the story.

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Help-desk hell

Help-desk hell

Help-desk hell: Can you beat this iPad-winning story of woe?

Post away with your top tales.

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Scoop! The inside story of the news website that saved the BBC

Re: Re: BBC on the net before 1996

Insightful comment!

Ran Mokady - wow, there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. He was listed in Acorn's RISC OS 3 easter egg of programmers who contributed to the OS, IIRC.

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Re: BBC on the net before 1996

Thanks for the comment. I've consulted with Andrew. The assertion that BBCNC was built by Brandon has been removed.

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YouView: 'Public service catch-up telly should belong to us alone'

Re: Update?

We trust Andrew's sources are accurate, but we're always happy to give both sides of a story a fair airing.

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What killed Motorola? Not Google! It was Moto's dire software

Re: UIQ, Warrington based?!

Some sort of misunderstanding has happened here. I've tweaked the article. Thanks.

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Power station, airport SCADA defences 'dead as a dodo'

Re: I would have expected...

I clearly haven't read enough Philip Roth.

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Kim Dotcom claims entrapment by US authorities

Re: Welcome to two weeks ago.

Funny, you say two weeks ago when the linked-to Twitter posts date from 22 Nov. Riddle me that.

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Google, Apple, eBay shouldn't pay taxes - people should pay taxes

Re: Naughty subs.....

Gah, apologies, Tim. I'm not sure what went wrong there. I probably made a note to include a link during the proofread stage, but forgot to sort it out by the time I got to the end - so engrossed was I in the material.

The link is in there now.

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BlackBerry 10: AWESOME. If the hardware matches it, RIM jobs are safe

Re: Split screen

He didn't say all mobile OSes.

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Glorious silicon globes could hold key to elusive PERFECT kilogram

Re: Units of Planck's constant

"Joules multiplied by seconds, not Joules per second"

Yes, I am kicking myself hard in the arse right now for not spotting that. I cannot express my rage at this moment :-(

The article's been fixed.

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Evildoers can now turn all sites on a Linux server into silent hell-pits

Re: niginx is not that "popular"

Actually, the malware will inject iframe packets into any HTTP web server listening on port 80 - so it's not nginx specific :(

I'ver amended the article.

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Cashless Comet to close 41 stores, axe 500 jobs

Re: Maplins

"a wedding reception disco DJ stockist"

Nailed it!

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Ten four-bay NAS boxes

Re: useless

"these should all be rack mount servers"

The Reg caters for a big range of hardware - from serious consumer to IT pro. If you want rack-mounted enterprise-grade kit, take a look in the servers and storage sections:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/data_centre/

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Another Microsoft Trojan? Sinofsky might just want a RIM job

Re: Seriously?

Oh my! How ever did that happen!

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GoDaddy puts gratuitous sexy pics on IT content

Re: What...

We'll leave that to Lester.

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World's LEGGIEST BLONDE is super-rare millipede living in SF

Re: Not SF

Close enough.

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Lawyer sues Microsoft rather than slot an SD card into his Surface

Re: Re: SD Card Not Same As Internal Storage

So by Bright's reckoning, what can be stored on the card? Sounds like nothing at all which seems wrong. We'll have to grab a Surface and test it.

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Re: Re: SD Card Not Same As Internal Storage

Got a source? This sounds ridiculous. Either it works or it doesn't :-(

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Re: SD Card Not Same As Internal Storage

Microsoft you can use the SD port to add up to 64GB more storage.

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Google stealthily coalesces UK music cloud into being

Re: Re: Opposing views

"This should have been a glowing review of an outstanding and cost effective/free service, yet it was given to an iTard to review, and they clearly engineered the outcome to suit."

All I can hear is "you disagreed with my opinion! I hate you!"

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Re: Opposing views

"why this article is so down on it"

To be fair, we're down on quite a few things. When someone's actually positive about something, we're accused of taking bribes. When we point out flaws in things, we're accused of outrageous bias.

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Re: Re: User error?

Spotify is free if you put up with ads. "So fail....."

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Re: User error?

"game changer"

...that Spotify has had for ages :-)

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Meet the all-girl HPC cluster boffins of 'Team Venus' - on Video

Re: Its....

Also, the writer is American, hence the Americanisation. The Register is a globe-spanning news organisation, and copy filed from outside the UK will often feature such things. I, for one, will be in the pub by the time the San Francisco office starts work, for instance.

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China strikes blow for property rights, British move to collectivism

Re: Orlowski's Bluster over Content

"The Register should do better"

By publishing opinion/comment you only agree with? :-(

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Post-defenestration Microsoft: It's the APIs, stupid. And Metro

Re: Re: WP8

"no small achievement"

Right, so we're all agreed on one thing, then :-)

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Re: Re: Interesting.

Are you sure you've understood the article?

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Re: WP8

"when the NT kernel was originally written processor agnostic"

I take your point, but the kernel today is a different beast to the system put together by Cutler et al back in the 90s, right? Plus support for MIPS, Alpha, and PowerPC was dropped after NT 4.0, and the microkernel design is compromised by the placement of drivers - always has been. Prof Tanenbaum would have a fit.

The achievement is porting the core of a modern-day Windows OS to ARM. You may think that's small potatoes in the same way a brain surgeon considers the simplicity of routine operations; if so, I tip my hat to you.

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Windows 8 security is like a swiss cheese flak jacket - sez AV firm

Re: I always wonder...

All very good points. However, what happens when you encounter code that is able to elevate its privileges and/or bypass the UAC? I saw some good example code within the past fortnight that demonstrates this. Once the code is running on your machine, half the battle is lost. I'll try to dig up some examples.

Also, consider your friend: the kind of person who installs everything, clicks through UAC, gets thoroughly pwned. That's the sort of user Bitdefender is attempting to simulate, not a pro user able to lock down the machine.

All IMHO.

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Virgin Media vid misery blamed on unnamed peering network

Re: Why is this news?

We've written about BT downtime many times in the past; just drop an email Kelly (click on her name in the story) or to [e-mail] with some info, and if the problem looks widespread then we'll follow it up.

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EU approves push to get the unknown security in ARM chips into use

Re: 100% minus 49% is not 60% .. it is 51% !!!

It's been fixed.

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Did hackers uncover Petraeus' saucy affair webmails before FBI?

"The entire article rests heavily on whether Broadwell used the same password for Stratfor and her Yahoo account"

At least we're honest about it: it's an interesting IT angle to a rather interesting CIA case. What you see is what you get.

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Take action on climate change or the panda gets it

There are a shedload (not an invisible one) of other stories on the front-page..

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Vendors must break code of silence on software's biggest FAILS

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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How to spot a terrible tech boss within SECONDS

Re: Sarcastic or not...

I'll add a link. Oops.

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The GPL self-destruct mechanism that is killing Linux

Re: clueless

Essentially this: somewhere along the line, the Unix world went from elegance to, in some ways, "an embarrassing mess" (eg: autoconf, you either love it or hate it). Are licences, such as the GPL, encouraging the confusion or not? Liam discusses.

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FOlA judges: Secret 28 who made the BBC Green will not be named

Re: Information Tribunal

"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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Swedish boffins: An Ice Age is coming, only CO2 can save us

Re: Also...

Yup - see: www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/09/bbc_beats_blogger_/

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Windows 8, Surface slabs ALREADY need critical security patch

Re: Is it me but...

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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Nokia Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 handset review

Re: Rating?

See the article on Reg Hardware for the score..

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/11/08/review_nokia_lumia_920_windows_phone_8/

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Re: 8 Page Review

Eight pages because it's mostly photographs and there's lots to say about it.

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Maude reckons UK.gov web makeover will save £1.8bn annually

Re: Why not link to the HTML version?

Thanks, the PDF is particularly horrible. Sadly the whole thing is written for civil servants.

(Speaking personally)

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Two Texan teams tool up, ride out to enormo cluster shootout

Re: "They’re just like Fight Club, but with much more math."

Obviously, I enjoy reading them too but I'm also a little bit jealous. Not sure what we'd do with a Vulture Central cluster, though.

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