* Posts by diodesign

3496 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Sep 2011

Blast at Apple gear factory hurts 61

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Re: So....

How's that for Christmas goodwill?

‘Blogger not a journalist’ says Oregon court

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FWIW in UK law, anyone who handled the copy can be sued: the writer, the news editor, the sub-editor and the editor as well as the management. Usually, plaintiffs go after the money (the publisher) or the publisher is contractually obliged to defend its employees.

I've seen people name hacks, editors and publishers in defamation writs in order to scare the heck out of them.

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Nearest supernova since 1986 blasts boffin off her chair

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It is around these parts, amigo.

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Doctor Who girl Amy Pond axed in 'heartbreaking' exit

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Apologies - but it's not like we said she will die, is it? Oh er, oops.

Alec Baldwin kicked off plane for playing with his phone

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Re: How?

Email or smoke signals or something.

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Re: Wut?

Any chance you two want to take this somewhere private? I fear this, er, debate is going to roll into 2012.

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CERN: 'New physics starts now'

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Re: You cannot be serious.

We just can't win, can we. Use boffin, get abuse, don't use boffin, get abuse. Where's the Xmas spirit? :-)

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Cosmic Cannonball snapped blazing a bloody trail of star guts

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Re: "four times closer to Earth"

According to NASA, yes: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/news/wise20111209.html

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Re: Huh?

Good point well made. I've made adjustments.

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Higgs boson hunters have god particle in their sights

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Thanks for the feedback - I'll keep it in mind.

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BUSTED! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps

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No. How exactly do you bury a story that everyone is reading? (See the 'most read' box on the front page's top right)

Woman cuffed by phone-hack probe plods

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Re: 06:35 is not early!

Is it before the pub opens? It's early hours.

(Ok, point taken)

Grooveshark bunged staff bonuses 'for pirating music'

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Re: you know son?

Well done, you've got that track stuck in my head now.

The BBC Micro turns 30

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Re: Electron?

I bought an Electron and a tonne of games for a fiver at the end of the 90s at a boot fair - just to relive some memories.

Farkin' thing didn't even work properly, although I blame its age. The ULA inside it was a bit spiffy.

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Psst, kid... Wanna learn how to hack?

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Re: 1GHz BeagleBone?

Ah, you're right - not sure where I got 1GHz. Fixed.

Shock: Council dumps data wad - doesn't break any laws

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Re: Named surrey-i?

Nope - look at http://www.surreyi.gov.uk/ and the logo in the top lefthand corner.

Global warming much less serious than thought - new science

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Re: Boffinry

Indeed, boffinry is a real word, and (like boffin, egghead et al) is used in an endearing manner. Someone must be new here!

Ofcom: ISPs can cripple the web as much as they please

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Re: Perhaps not

And also, here, cough: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/24/net_filtering_no_no/

Apple crushes High Street in UK web shopping stakes

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Re: Top 10s

8 is Amazon.com and 10 is Tesco Direct.

Murdoch junior QUITS board of Sun publisher

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Re: Please stop with the CAPS

We'll take your COMMENT on board.

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Erotica 2011 stands firm against rise of the sex machines

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Re: NSFW?

It's just a kind act of politeness - in case your employer can read over your shoulder as well as observe any porny pictures.

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Hero dev writes the CODE that COULD SAVE THE WORLD

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Re: Less likely?

From the article: space probes could carry out steps to tweak the path of the NEO and deflect the collision. It's not just tracking, it's deflection too.

Russian diplomat caught driving while 15 TIMES over booze limit

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It's 15 times the Polish drink-drive limit, though...

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As a diplomat, you'd expect him to be skilled in foreign languages. Oh dear, I'm explaining a joke.

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Mozilla stirs netizens against US anti-piracy law

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Re: am I missing something?

Moz's anti-SOPA site is just one of the SOPA articles we've published this week.

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Mail Online is broken

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That may be the newspaper (in fact, more likely the Daily Express which apes the Mail), but Mail Online is a very different beast... Half-naked celebs on every page, anyone?

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Top cop calls for tougher sentencing of cybercrooks

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Re: Top Cop? Nope.

She's a 'top cop' on the basis that she's the head of Scotland Yard's e-crime unit and has 30 years, or so, of policing experience.

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ARM rolls out new GPU, loses head

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Re: Not knocking ARM

1.9 billion ARM-designed cores shipped in Q3 2011. Where does every other chip maker stand? Riddle me this.

Immigrants face £49k wage minimum to stay

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49,000 quid is about 78,000 US dollars, or twice the average salary in the UK. Roughly speaking - but it's hard to tell these days what with salaries and the job market going up and down like a yoyo - £49k is a good start for an established programmer.

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Cops cuff London Apple Store 'scooter raiders'

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Re: El Reg going all american ?

Once you're charged and appear in court, your name, age, address, occupation (if given) and allegations are a matter of public record - pop along to your nearest magistrates' court if you like and see it in action. And all the named suspects are over 18.

A good reason for publishing addresses is to avoid any cases of mistaken identity. Publishing something like 'John Smith, 18, of London' could link any number of people to an alleged crime - and cause all sorts of headaches for our lawyers.

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Father-of-three attacked teen after Call of Duty jibes

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Re: Simple

This is the internet. Searching for 'mature' anything is going to end in severe fail.

El Reg in email address blunder

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Re: Exactly 3,521?

No passwords.

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It's a selection of users, the ones who have at some point opted-in to receive events-related marketing mail from us. Quite small compared to our overall user base but that's absolutely no excuse.

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1) It's a selection of users, the ones who have at some point opted-in to receive events-related marketing mail from us.

2) If you're affected, you'll get a message shortly to say your details were leaked.

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Printable transistors usher in 'internet of things'

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I don't think you're quite right...

http://www.thinfilm.se/career

"Thin Film Electronics ASA (”Thinfilm”) is a publicly listed Norwegian technology company with its head office in Oslo and product development in Linköping, Sweden"

0.5mm2 ARM chip offers 5X energy efficiency, jacks up performance

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Re: 0.5mm2 ARM chip?

According to ARM, a single core is 0.45mm^2

http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a7.php?tab=Performance

Libel reform vows to slay anonymous trolls

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Very good, now just cough the reassuringly expensive legal fees and we'll get right on it.

Tearful skin-beaters say good bye to the BumChum

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Re: El Reg failed again?

Maybe the problem is that it's not after pub o'clock. Duly noted.

The Guardian iPad Edition

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Re: Where is the...

Well, there is The Reg iPhone app...

Report: Hacking forum is a cybercrime academy

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I'm not talking about the reporter - John knows his stuff. And I didn't down vote.

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Y'know, not every reader is clued up on the life and crimes of hacker types.

Boffins whip up SELF-WIRING chip

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I appreciate your point

But I gather this technology will be more flexible than configuring FPGA blocks - quite possibly smaller too. Plus, it's such a neat trick...

Dennis Ritchie: The C man who booted Unix

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Of course, I should have used strncat()

But strncat(obit->text.data, "Quiet revolutionary", obit->text.max_length); is starting to get a

bit unwieldy for a headline :-)

HTC Android handsets spew private data to ANY app

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Neither does the headline say the word 'all' :P

Samsung shifts 10 millionth Galaxy SII

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75 million covers all iPhone models - which is why 10m sales for one rival product is a threat but some way off.

Windows 8 secure boot would 'exclude' Linux

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Anti-malware

The only benefit is to stop malware infecting your boot-up. As soon as the boot executables are nobbled, their signatures will change and the UEFI firmware will reject them. If the machine will only start securely signed bootloaders, it's therefore game over for the trojan trying to gain control of your PC during initialisation.

Unfortunately, there's no way (as it stands) to tell the difference between an unsigned malware-infected bootloader and an unsigned bootloader for Linux.