Posts by diodesign

'Dated and cheesy' Aero ripped from Windows 8

Re: Not Clausewitz?

I think you're right - thanks.

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RIM-Moto sketch THIRD nanoSIM design as peace offering

Re: "The silver block to the right of the A4 chip is where the microSIM goes"

Oh don't. It's been a long day.

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Scotland considers dishing out more iPads to schoolkids

Re: Confused.

iPads is shorter.

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Nvidia's Kepler pushes parallelism up to eleven

Re: Power vs clock speed

Yes, you're not the only one to spot that. The article has been amended.

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Bitcoin bank Bitcoinica still titsup after cyberheist

Re: Bitcoinica a bank? WTF?

The article clearly states it's an exchange. For the purposes of a punchy headline, it's a bank.

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'Shame on the register to post wrong informations'

Re: To the editors of The Registers.

FWIW, any "censorship" of comments is because a) they are legally unsafe; b) witless insults - you've got to do better than call someone a nob: step up to the plate and flash us your wit; c) they simply (and exclusively) demand someone be fired. News flash: they won't. See (a).

An amusing and intelligent putdown will be accepted over a lame duck "u r all takin bribes lol" missive, that much is obvious. Apologies if you've been rejected. Maybe you tripped the above guidelines.

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Carriers, prepare to bleed: EU pops a cap on data roaming

Re: Who is "EE"

EE is Everything Everywhere. Apologies if this isn't clear, we try to make it so.

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'Call Corporate Of Apple and tell them to stop there persuit!!'

Someone didn't read the article?

Re: Hmmm.

And where do you stand on "persuit" ?

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Re: Are you kidding me??

Here's another definition: "Whooosh" - the sound of the joke flying over your head.

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Sony blames record $5.7bn loss on everything but Sony

Re: Re: Up and down?

God dammit. Fixed.

My reaction: here

TSMC zaps 3.1GHz ARM processor with 28nm shrink ray

Re: grammar nazi here

Oops :( Fixed. Thanks.

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National Rail Enquiries

Re: Re: My recommendations

Why do people think that, on the internet, opinion disagreement == obvious corruption ?

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Apple updates iOS, mum on Wi-Fi, battery fixes

Re: Re: Conductivity?

A typo that's been fixed.

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Copyfighters jumpstart MPs' probe into Blighty's IP law

Re: House Rules

I salute your pedantry. The language used in the article was there to keep things lively. It has since been tweaked slightly.

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GCHQ's spy death riddle shines light on UK hacker war

Re: most plausible explanation

"How about a bit of sensitivity, el reg?"

It's a tricky line to walk. It's uncomfortable reading, but that shouldn't be a reason to gloss over details that were shared in a public court and could be essential to the story.

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Re: Re: Can death get any worse?

"Given that the readership of this site..."

Correction: "Given that the readership of this site who actually post comments..." :-)

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Re: "Let El Reg know by dropping us an email"

Re: public key

Fair point, which had occurred to us.

#include <std/healthwarning_about_email.h>

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Virgin Media cuts Pirate Bay access for millions of punters

Re: Lots of deleted posts here

We also assume our readership has plenty of relevant know-how.

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Re: I wonder ...

Posting links or tutorials on how to circumvent a court order has our legal brains in a tizzy. So rather than risk spaffing all our publisher's cash on QCs, we'll hold fire on those comments for the moment.

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Star Trek's Wesley Crusher blasts Google+ landgrab

Re: He's also a programmer

Cheer up, grumpy. It's nearly Friday.

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HP elbows Apple off global PC throne

Re: Le Sigh

Maybe you have to wonder why it bothers you. Do you want your news dictated by Apple - or by people who are completely independent? The reason why I like working for El Reg is that the editorial department is completely insulated from any commercial influence. Can our rivals say the same?

So we could be really nice and kiss up to a 600 billion dollar company. That would be easy. Or we could flippantly poke fun at their manufacturing empire.

The Reg is a broad church - you'll find reviews backing Apple's kit. You'll find editorial knocking their daftness.

Or we could just toe the corporate line. Who (other than Apple) benefits from that?

(Speaking personally.)

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How politicians could end droughts forever But they don't want to

Re: Math error

I think your maths are wrong. Show your working, please.

7kWh to process 1000 litres. 0.007kWh per litre. 167 litres per person per day. 1.169kWh per person per day.

Or as Lewis put it "approximately 1 kWh per day".

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Boffins bone up on rover skills as Curiosity speeds to Mars

Re: Consistent units please!

Meant to fix that! Thanks for reminding me.

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WA sex criminals get tracked by satellite

Re: I give it

Feminist bias sounds like a contradiction in terms.

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Google KNEW Street View cars were slurping Wi-Fi

Re: Re: Rogue Engineer

Re: Al Jones.

"Rogue" has quite a wide definition; it's not as narrow as you imply although I appreciate that you've taken it in its strongest form. Given that Google said it was "mortified", described the traffic capture as an "error", deleted said data pretty quick, and that the whole thing has drawn widespread criticism, it's not an unreasonable word IMHO.

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Re: Re: Rogue Engineer

Re: Al Jones.

No - Google said from the start it was one engineer working alone in a "careless error", see:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/22/google_acknowledges_street_views_wifi_data_contained_emails_urls_passwords/

There's a wealth of related links to look through.

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Re: Anon

You mean this story? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/21/skype_bittorrent_stalking/

If not, drop us an email.

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Re: Anon

B'n'N story coming up..

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The truth about Apple's mind-boggling low tax rate

Re: The bigger question

Well, you guys seem enthusiastic to point out where we drop the ball.

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Space-cadet Schwartz blows chunks out of Oracle's Java suit

Re: "Essentially, he’s a lobbyist for Oracle"

"Up to you to decide which marketing budget dictated the editorial comment you're reading."

Always amuses me when people accuse others of corruption, bribery and dishonestly offhand with absolutely nothing to back it up.

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Re: Real Ale

Ah perhaps, that'll teach me for posting comments out of work hours. Still, I had hoped the "gloves are off" quip would signal that I was being a bit tongue in cheek.

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Re: For completeness...

Right, that's it. I've had enough. The gloves are off. You can only comment on trials if you understand trials from now on.

Be aware that trials are 'he said, she said' affairs. One party argues their side. The opposition fires off their side. We can only fairly, accurately and contemporaneously report on proceedings as the trial progresses.

Thus accusing us of censorship or bias implies your inability to read previous coverage, or appreciate the above point.

tldr; No one's side has been omitted. It's an ongoing trial, if you can't keep up, be quiet.

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James May 'hologram' raves about old tech at Science Museum

Re: Re: First laser?

Very very good point, my fault for a moment of lost concentration. The article's been fixed: the word we were looking for is 'focus'. I think it's fair to say that a Fresnel lens is essentially an array of prisms.

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Ofcom: The Office of Screwing Over Murdoch?

Re: Your acronym in the title doesn't work.

"Office of FuCking Over Murdoch" was deemed to be too NSFW.

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Re: Not sure about this

RE: Sir Humprehys.

I take your point - blame me rather than Andrew for that, I was using it in a general sense; the para has since been tweaked.

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Twelve... classic 1980s 8-bit micros

Re: Left out again.

I feel your pain. I had an Electron too.

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Quantum cruncher beats today's computers by 10⁸⁰

That paragraph got a bit mangled. It's been fixed, thanks for the heads up.

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Tim Cook rejects Apple's old business model of suing everyone

Re: Is it a sign...

Regarding timestamps, we use GMT/UTC+0, not local UK time (BST at the moment). So the story was published within this half-hour.

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Suspected freetloaders to face piracy letters in 2014

Re: Floating heads!

Well spotted - the article has been amended. Many thanks.

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Re: Warning: PDF

It's El Reg style to alert readers to PDF links. Just a matter of courtesy :-)

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Facebook beds silent-bonking mobe coupon biz Tagtile

Re: ?

Thanks a lot, click on an ad, etc.

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Adobe Cloud offers leg up over Creative Suite's price wall

Re: Tom Chiverton 1

Blast - that was on the list of things to-do. Now added.

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Oracle v Google round-up: The show so far

Re: Re: article fail

"But isn't the statement: 'So... it doesn’t look great for Google' rather like saying 'It doesn't look good for England' after the opening couple of overs of a 5 day test?"

Perhaps so, but that's Andrew's measured opinion; Oracle is presenting a tough case, after all.

But my point is that there should be no suggestion that we're omitting or censoring Google's defence.

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Re: Re: article fail

And I'm not referring to Mueller, because it's a one-line link in an otherwise longer analysis piece by a neutral author.

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Re: article fail

I think you're being grossly unfair - you're effectively asking "who's winning?" in the first innings of a cricket match. That's why newspapers and telly news people tend to end their reports of on-going court cases with the words "the trial continues".

You have a point about prosecution v litigant. This is a civil matter, but that doesn't distract from my above point.

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Re: Steve Knox

"Had you even tried to include the defense's side..."

Typically speaking, trials are 'he said, she said' affairs: one day the prosecution or litigants will say their piece, then the defendants will have their say at a later point. You can't preempt the full defence until it's played out in court.

It's like asking during the first innings of a cricket match, "Who's winning?"

See Andrew's previous article for more on Google's side of the argument.

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Qualcomm runs out of chips as punters wolf down SnapDragons

Re: >"incredibly thin wires (28nm)"

Point taken, fixed. Thanks.

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'I'm no visionary': Torvalds up for $1.3m life-changing gong

Re: Nexox

Basically, what this guy says. I admire Linus an awful lot, but Git...

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Public IT supplier frameworks aren't baffling – gov organ

Whoops

Should be services - now fixed, thanks! Thank God it's Friday.

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