Posts by Caltharian

French monopoly watchdog orders Google to talk payment terms with French publishers

Is this not a case of the french publishers wanting to have their cake and eat it aswell?!

Forget toilet roll, bandwidth is the new ration: Amazon, YouTube also degrade video in Europe to keep 'net running amid coronavirus crunch

Data Breach

No news on the multiple reports of hacked netflix accounts in the last 24 hours?

netflix customer support number unavailable in multiple countries

US and China wave white flags, hit pause button on trade war

The major problem with Corbyn is that he has morals and a conscience neither of which are helpful traits in a politician

Samsung taking its sweet time delivering Galaxy watches from phone bundle bungle

*UPDATE*

Today 28th November i got the email from the courier that the watch will be delivered sometime on the 29th of November.

Will just have to wait and see if it turns up

Re: "some customers"

i will keep it and use it for about a week and then it will probably live at the bottom of a drawer

I have already checked the resale market and there is quite the glut of them in the colour given out so they are selling for around half of that which the other colours go for

Re: "some customers"

To be fair i registered in october a few weeks after getting my phone so i fully expected it to take quite a while.

I just shared the email as i thought that it would add to the article

samsung sent out an email this afternoon, for those interested in the text here it is

Good afternoon,

Thank you for your recent participation within the Samsung S10 Watch Active promotion.

Due to the popularity of this promotion, some customers will experience a slight delay in receiving their Samsung Watch Active.

Please rest assured that we are working as fast as we can to send out your reward, however we would like to sincerely apologise if your delivery does arrive later than planned. Whilst we hope to avoid any delay with your shipment, we are aiming for your Watch Active to be shipped out to you within the next 10 working days at the very latest.

Once your Watch Active has been dispatched, you will receive a notification via email which will contain the courier tracking details and provide you access to the latest updates on your shipment. Alternatively you can check for any updates on your claim by visiting the 'Track My Claim' page on the claim website.

We hope in the meantime you are enjoying your new Galaxy phone.

Kind regards,

Samsung Promotional Support

This is an automated email from a no-reply address. Please do not respond

Assange fails to delay extradition hearing as date set for February

I feel that if he wins the case that he should then be deported back to Australia and then declared persona non gratis

Dropbox would rather write code twice than try to make C++ work on both iOS and Android

I have not read the book however i remember reading a lot of years ago that there were more speakers of Klingon in the world than Esperanto

Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, where to go? Navigation satellite signals flip from degraded to full TITSUP* over span of four days

My money is on a rogue ai flexing its muscles, seeing what it is able to do.

I for one welcome our new robot overlords

UK Home Sec kick-starts US request to extradite ex-WikiLeaker Assange

Personally i think he should be sent to sweeden to face trial there and then be barred for life from re-entry to the uk

Introducing 'freedom gas' – a bit like the 2003 deep-fried potato variety, only even worse for you

Re: Also...

Not to mention the US made a pretty penny from arms dealing and loans that some countries have only just paid off, but america likes to gloss over that part and the fact that any other country had a hand in defeating the axis forces

Murdoch-backed adtech startup Unlockd ditches Google lawsuit: That'll be £200k, ta very much

Most phones can dial emergency services while locked

New UK counter-terror laws come into force today – watch those clicks, people. You see, terrorist propag... NOOO! Alexa ignore us!

Definition of a terrorist

Who defines what is classed as a terrorist organisation, does it include terrorist organisations that have "gone legitimate", would you fall foul of the law for reading the Sinn Fein website or DUP website as both of these were classed as terrorist organisations or at least the "political wing" of terrorist organisations.

Where is the line drawn is the pertinent question here

They did it! US House reps pulled their finger out, voted to restore net neutrality in America!

Re: This is hardly a US speciality...

Which country are you refering to, most of the big polls in the UK are showing a majority for Remain, It seems to be a vocal minority who seem to think that leaving the EU with no deal would be a good idea

Not cool, man: Dixons spanked over discount on luxury 'smart' fridge with wildly fluctuating price

Re: 4k for a fridge?

probably smart enough to tell you to do it your bloody self ;P

iFixit engineers have an L of a time pulling apart Apple's iPhone XS

Re: Patented battery design

to be fair like a lot of apples "patents" it is often something already done by another company years ago combined with the weak american patent system that grants anything you put on a bit of paper and pass to them

Super Cali neutral traffic bill makes web throttling bogus

Re: Doubling down?

the moon is a naturally occuring satellite

Bluetooth 'Panty Buster' 'smart' sex toy fails penetration test

the press seems abuzz about this

Morrisons launches bizarre Yorkshire Pudding pizza thing

Save them up and throw them at donald trump when he comes for a visit

Oh good. Transport for London gives Capita £80m for WAN, LAN and Wi-Fi

Re: Never in the field of human history...

good idea although it would not be the first retrospective application of law the tories already did that when their workfare program was found to be ilegal

Another toothless wonder? Why the UK.gov's data ethics centre needs clout

how can a government that has no idea of ethics deal with creating an organisation to deal with ethics!

Home Sec Amber Rudd: Yeah, I don't understand encryption. So what?

"What I found more worrying is the gaol time for those viewing "terrorist material" on-line. Who defines what is "terrorist material"? Government could decree any sites working on disrupting their plans are "terrorist material"."

i think that is the direction they are planning on taking, to include any content to the left of enoch powell

FBI probing Uber over use of 'Hell' spyware to track rival biz Lyft

Yes there is!

Politician

Segway hoverboard hijack hack could make hipsters eat pavement

a rapid continuous on the spot spin would be more amusing, and said hipster would probably fly a bit further and faster before hitting the ground

'My dream job at Oracle left me homeless!' – A techie's relocation horror tale

Fairs Fair

To be fair to Oracle they dont really discriminate, they like to screw everyone

Alaska dentist 'pulled out patient's tooth while riding a hoverboard'

Re: One more thing...

Hide the puppies!!!!

To Hull with the crap town naysayers: UK Culture City's got some amazing... telecoms

York has not been fully dug up yet, atm it is only the Clifton area that has access to "UFO" with Acomb due shortly the majority of york only has access to Virgin 200mb or FTTC

Sysadmin figures out dating agency worker lied in his profile

Re: Enter == submit

I think what you are thinking about is the RETURN key which i believe meant carriage return, however these days we just have 2 ENTER keys instead of 1 of each

Alleged hacker Lauri Love loses extradition case. Judge: Suicide safeguards in place

Re: bunk beds

would that not be classed as cruel and unusual punishment, being locked up with that blonde aussie

Engineer's $30m windfall from Nintendo 3DS patent spat SLASHED by beak

I think you misread the article, it was originally $30mil reduced to $15mil

Paypal makes man 1000x as rich as the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE

Re: Sue!

the only problem with this is he wouldnt have been able to sue on account of being dead

Microsoft, EMC, NetApp support Oracle against Google

Re: Huh??

The look and basis of the character Harry Potter is based on the character of Ponder Stibbons and the actual story is based on a story by Neil Gaiman

For some good illustrations of Ponder Stibbons to compare the point please check the hardback edition of "The Last Hero"

after a quick seach on google i came up with this from the book http://www.xirax.fatal.ru/discworld/pictures/large/Ponder_tlg_resize.jpg

I find it most amusing that they happened to use the potter series of books as an example. As the series is heavily based on the works of 2 very well established authors whom happened to be well liked by the majority of the readers of The Register, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Firm moves to trademark 'Python' name out from under the language

yes, stackless python to be precise

Although things could get a bit iffy that way, CCP (the company that made and maintains eve) is based in Iceland, however the do have an office in Newcastle and the servers(not including the servers for the special version just for china) being in a datacenter somewhere around London

Apple said to develop curved glass iWatch with Foxconn

so a bit like something sony came up with a few years ago to go with the xperia line of phones?

http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/products/accessories/smartwatch/

AV-Test boss dismisses Microsoft criticism of malware test results

Re: Ms Fail?

It is true that i have not used norton for many years due to all the stability issues that it came with, but then at the same time i also found norton ghost absolutely wondeful to use

It just gets to the point where a product burns all the good will your willing to give the company.

It doesnt matter how good they maybe now, the damage to their rep for me and many others has already been done and there are many av products out there which havent had the same issue

The moral of the story is if you release shoddy product after shoddy product, no matter how good the next one is people will always remember the bad ones and avoid it like the plague

Re: Ms Fail?

But Norton is malware or atleast it used to be, i know that i seemed to be the largest single cause of bsod

China seeks ‘Oceanauts’ for deep sea exploration

The Major problem that i can see is if and when they actually start mining and the fact that no-one can agree on what part of the seas and oceans in the area belong to which countries

Hopefully the UN will not give permission for any sort of mining until atleast that part is sorted out otherwise there could be some very upset people with large military budgets and grudges to settle

Wi-Fi routers able to manage bandwidth by app are offered

hasnt netgear been offering this type of QOS for donkeys years on some of its routers?

Troll sues Apple for daring to plug headphones into iPhone

I personally feel sorry for the Judge that has to make a ruling on this case as morally neither company deserves to win!

Peak Apple: Forstall was 'closest thing to Jobs they had left'

Actually with both Apple and Pixar it was the otherway around, both companies turned themselves around dramatically only after getting rid of Jobs

Star Wars VII: The Disney Movie signs Toy Story III script genius

Unfortunately

it has been reported that the beardy one himself will still be involved as the producer, this does not bode well.....

Facebook trial: Tell everyone where you are, have a Wi-Fi peanut

we already know at certain times they are all in Parliment

Mexico to Apple: You WILL NOT use the name 'iPhone' here

I wonder if one day "Apple" will come up with their own trademarks to use instead of stealing other companies

Apple

Ipad

Iphone

all registered trademarks of other companies which Apple have been forced to throw money at

African kids learn to read, hack Android on OLPC fondleslab

Most likely they didnt lock the systems down properly

reminds me of when i was at college and the library computers ran windows 3.11 which had 3rd party software installed to keep them secure including locking down the run command, of course it didnt take long to figure out that all that you needed to do was to alt-tab to the security software and press alt-f4 to shut it down!!

New British tax-cuts-for-patents scheme criticised

Makes you wonder which MP's have money tied up in uk based companies which have recently aquired a number of patents.....

40,000 sign petition to oust Rep. Paul 'pit of hell' Broun

But one of the facts is correct; a value of 3 for Pi can be used to make a wheel, just ask Bergholt Stuttley Johnson...

Apple: Blue-shirts can fix iOS Maps in their spare time

I thought that Apples main selling point was "It just works" and that was why you had to pay twice as much as the hardware would cost you if sourced yourself

Judge rejects Apple's calls for Samsung censure

Re: Yeah, RIGHT!!!!!

Does this mean that Apple have admitted to Reverse engineering??