* Posts by diodesign

3493 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Sep 2011

Suspected freetloaders to face piracy letters in 2014

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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

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Re: ?

Thanks a lot, click on an ad, etc.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Whoops

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

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Compulsory coding in schools: The new Nerd Tourism

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Re: Re: The only thing they need to be taught is...

Man, I really dislike source code {

that does this

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Gmail goes titsup for 30 MILLION PUNTERS

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Re: Re: Smudge mode

I'm not enough of a RD nerd to know if that line is from S1-4, sorry.

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Re: Smudge mode

It is a Red Dwarf reference.

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Apple screws UK disties, punts just 13,000 iPads to channel

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Re: If we're talking about 'rebranders'...

Er, we attribute sources. See, well, everything. Foxconn-rebrander was cooked up in the London office - and then lo and behold, a week or so later Foxconn bragged that it can and will do R&D on gear it makes, leaving tech companies to just do the marketing.

See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/23/foxconn_international_phone_division/

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Himalayan glaciers actually gaining ice, space scans show

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Re: Re: Is there any point me posting any clarifications on yet another disingenuous knobwit blog?

I was referring to you.

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Re: Is there any point me posting any clarifications on yet another disingenuous knobwit blog?

I think someone hit a nerve.

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CAPITALISM without PROFITS - Welcome to the Instagram Era!

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Re: Oh, god...

Comment of the week right here.

Student's Linux daemon 0-day triggers InfoSec Institute outcry

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Re: Re: The media once again trolled by charlatans?

Er, no. I am not John. Ironically, the headline is more-or-less right: White Hat distro screwed over by 0-day claim. And the sub-heading fingers the daemon at fault.

But still, BackTrack has one single root user anyway.

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Re: The media once again trolled by charlatans?

Hmm, yes, all good points very well made. A saving grace is that the article explains that it's a wicd bug that affects other distros - but will definitely keep this in mind next time.

And I'm speaking as a Debian+Ubuntu user who left his packaging and distro hat in the glovebox.

What bugs me is that this ethical hacking class didn't seem to get as far as responsible disclosure (see the Debian thread). Fair comment?

iPhone fanbois enraged by Instagram's Android triumph

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Everyone and anyone is welcome to drop us a line with a genuine Brit IT story.

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Hang on

I'm appalled/shocked/pleased that El Reg doesn't count as a 'hip Web 2.0 silicon roundabout social company' in your eyes.

Yahoo! countersued! by! Facebook! in patent! spat!

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Re: Please! Can! You! Drop! The! Exclamations! Now!

Impossible!

Virgin Media's latest throttling rules

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Virgin Media's latest throttling rules

Broadband ISP Virgin Media has updated its rules on download/upload use to show when it'll start throttling net speeds by 50 or 75 per cent. The chart is here.

What do you think - fair for the majority of users, or a slippery thick end of the wedge to fully choked web access?

UK.gov to unveil reborn, renamed net-snoop plans in Queen's Speech

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Re: Reg was a bit late with this one

Not late - just no one seemed to care until a newspaper woke up to it. Sad. We've covered this for years.

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Re: @Craig 12 Almost a shame it wasn't April Fools eh? -- 'Tis a Tragedy it wasn't

Late? We've been covering this for YEARS! Here's a report from 2010...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/08/imp_date_2015/

See the other related links :-)

Red Hat: Amazon love 'yes', its own cloud 'no'

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Re: Worse speling n grammer evar?

You're looking at a cached copy. Hit refresh. The article was fixed up an hour ago or more.

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Re: Worse speling n grammer evar?

Or somehow slipped past the proofreading stage accidentally. But it's been fixed up.

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Steve Jobs biopic

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Bill Gates

Good suggestions so far - let me lob in another grenade though: Kermit T. Frog as Bill Gates.

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Steve Jobs biopic

Variety mag reports that Ashton Kutcher - allegedly a film funny man and pop music siren suitor - will play Apple biz baron Steve Jobs in a biopic. And no, this isn't an April Fool.

But the question we're all wondering is, who should play electronics wizard Steve Wozniak and Microsoft kingpin Bill Gates? Or any other tech celebs you care to think of. Answers on a postcard, er, comment below..

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Vote now for the WORST movie EVER

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Re: Oh brother...

Puff piece. Amazing.

NDS says Beeb's Panorama emails were 'manipulated'

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Re: "I am hungover"

It's probably being held for legal reasons until a higher-up yays or nays it - sorry!

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Re: everything in moderation

Moderator here. I am hungover. Sorry.

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Yes, Prime Minister to return after 24 years

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IT angle...

...well as Andrew has marvellously chronicled over the years, government bureaucrats play a massive part in the way IT, technology and science develops and shapes ou- oh screw it, who doesn't like a bit of Yes, Minister?

It's Friday and we should be sipping a pint in the glorious sunshine.

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What would happen if Rupert Murdoch BOUGHT Twitter?

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For what it's worth, this pretty much sums up Murdoch on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/#!/belinda_walker/status/185318469783388160

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Presumably it would be a roaring success - just like MySpace. Joking aside, Rupe said he'd learnt his lesson after splashing millions on a website that looked like the inside of a washing machine filled with leftover paint and stuck on 800RPM. What those lessons were, I'm not sure.

Either way, I look forward to self-service shopping tills with a 'would you like to tweet this receipt?' mandatory option - with or without Murdoch's dosh.

Testicle-boiling new iPad ignites fanboi fury

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Re: Hot Hot Baby

Or great balls of ire.

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That MYSTERY Duqu Trojan language: Plain old C

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Re: Re: wtf is object orientated C?

Christ, I knew today was going too well. I have no idea how that slipped past. Long day. Fixed.

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Boffins render fibre obsolete

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Re: Boffin, Boffin, Boffin...

Three on the same front page is a bit much, fine. But there's no ban on the word.

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ICT for Highlands and Islands fire and rescue 'inadequate'

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Re: Re: What's ICT?

Indeed - we live for moments to write headlines like these: http://bit.ly/YXRU

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Facebook's viral activism is really good... for admen

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Have all my upvotes.

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Solar storm arrives, nobody notices

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Sounds like ordinary day-to-day usage to me.

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Stratfor email hackers were tricked into using Feds' server

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It was perhaps moderated for legal reasons.

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Brits trapped in confusing council website labyrinths - survey

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Re: Nostalgia ...

You just put a smile on my face.

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Tony Blair closes RSA 2012, denounces WikiLeaks

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Re: Optional

"As a site I trust to bring me entertaining and sometimes informative technology stories"

Damned by faint praise.

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Sacks of cash chucked at upstart dressed to the nines

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Re: 10 nines?

Yeah, it works out something like 0.3 seconds in a year. Sometimes we just hand over to the comments section for, er, analysis of this sort of claim.

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Feds unlock suspect's encrypted drive, avoid Constitution meltdown

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Re: "or risk a spell begins bars for contempt of court"

Whoops, indeed. More coffee needed. Typos fixed.

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Tick-like banking Trojan drills into Firefox, sucks out info

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Re: And it is spread, how, exactly?

Mostly valid points - I've added an extra line and a link. To protect against infection or to remove it, consult your favourite AV brand.

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Powerful, wallet-sized Raspberry Pi computer sells out in SECONDS

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Re: On sale at 6am.

Michael M - the Reg Hardware lads had the news up at 6.02am. This is the follow-up.

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Schmidt's $1.45bn Google stock sale compelled by adultery?

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Re: Am I the only one...

It's actually a word:

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/guesstimate

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MP allegedly cuffed after scrap in Commons bar

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Yes, that's the tech angle.

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