Posts by ItsNotMe

Beat this, cloud giants! Musk rocket flings 1TB hard drive into SPAAACE

Oh goody.

MORE crap floating around in space...just what we need...NOT!

US.gov - including NASA et al - quits internet. Is the UN running it now?

"'Due to a lapse in intelligence, the US federal government has shut down"

There...fixed it for you.

EasyJet wanted to fling me off flight for diss tweet, warns cyber-law buff

@JDX

You know...the more you post here...the more of an arse you make of yourself.

You are quite obviously totally clueless when it comes to the subject of CUSTOMER SERVICE.

Back under your rock bozo.

Circling the RIM: BB10 becomes chamber of horrors for BlackBerry

Re: Two years ago?

"They alienated existing users. Especially those with playbooks. (I'm glad I resisted the temptation)"

I did not resist the temptation...and am one of many who were extremely hacked off when Old Thorsten baby pulled the plug on BB10 for the PB...after "assuring" owners that RIM would indeed make it available.

http://tabtimes.com/news/ittech-os-playbookblackberry/2013/01/30/blackberry-confirms-bb10-will-come-playbook-weighs-next

After that, I wouldn't own ANY BB devices, even if they did turn the company around...which will never happen.

The NSA's hiring - and they want a CIVIL LIBERTIES officer

"Perfect job opening for 3 wise monkeys"

Sorry...they're already engaged at the CIA.

Latest Snowden reveal: It was GCHQ that hacked Belgian telco giant

Re: Why Worry? Change is Natural. Status Quo Situations Create Problematic...

"You have an awesome lot to learn about what can be done today, by a few, [who may at any time or place in space choose to be more than just a few whenever they share what they be doing] for a different tomorrow,..."

So how did that "Arab Spring" thing turn out? That ended up OK...didn't it? Everyone got what they were after.

OK...maybe not.

Apple CEO Cook: 'We're not in the junk business'

You're right Timmy...you don't make junk. Just ask your cat.

Even Cats like the new premium iPhoneS.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2425504/The-video-shows-CAT-unlock-new-iPhone-5S-paw-used-instead-fingerprint.html

So much for the crack "security" of the finger(paw)print reader.

Rotten Apple iOS 7 fury: Glitchy audio or is today's music really that bad?

Re: Colour me unsurprised

"Although it does make one wonder what the hell is going on when features that are so CORE to the product are the ones that go wrong."

Nothing new here. Apple has been using its customers as Beta Testers for years. Why should anything change now with Boy Wonder 6 feet under?

Everyone's waving their 5-inchers: BlackBerry outs new supersized Z30

Re: Slow to release

Pity it's 2 YEARS late to the game, oh well.

There...fixed it for you.

NSA spooks tooled up with zero-day PC security exploits from the FRENCH

Hmmm...

...thought they were.

They have several robots there right now motoring around, shouldn't take them too many years to get the Anthropoidnaut up and flying.

Oh snap – AWS daddy disses IT's 'old guard': You're so 2000-and-late

More unbiased opinions...

...from people SELLING commercial cloud services.

'British Bill Gates' Lynch laments HP's Autonomy 'botch-up'

@ Ledswinger

Have to agree with you.

Corporate Boards are supposed to oversee what their "employees" (CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CIOs, etc.) do in the performance of their jobs.

It is up the the Board to make sure that these folks don't screw things up, and if they do, then the Board should either call them in on the carpet, or get rid of them.

BUT...and it is a BIG BUT...due to the incestuous nature of corporate boards around the planet...there is very little...if any...true oversight.

And if someone IS given their walking papers for a major screw-up...they fairly rapidly re-appear on some other corporate board...to start the process all over again.

LOHAN test flight LIVE: All the launch action

Keeping up the family traditions...another LOHAN in the news.

You go girl!!!

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/13/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/dina-lohan-arrest-lindsay/index.html

iPhone 5S: Apple, you're BORING us to DEATH (And you too, Samsung)

Hey...there's PLENTY more to come.

"Surely nobody – not even the most avid fanboi – now believes that Jobs left "four years of new products" in the pipeline, as his biographer Walter Isaacson reported in 2011. Assuming Isaacson was inspecting Apple's lab in 2010, the first "three years" will soon be up. Which raises the question: is anything left?"

What about the iWatch? iTV anyone? Surely to be announced VERY soon...won't they? We're all on the collective edge of our seats waiting. I know Steve wants it that way. Why else would he have left 4 years worth of new products for his successors? He did do that...didn't he?

And as for "...most people look no further than some model of iPhone or some model of Galaxy S when choosing a phone." It's been Motorola and/or LG since 1994 for me. Never...ever...considered Apple or Samsung.

iPhone 5S: Fanbois, your prints are safe from the NSA, claim infosec bods

Re: This article reads a bit like

Only one slight problem with Apple's description of this.

"The authentication system features a redesigned home button and a metal sensor ring around it. Apple's promotional blurb explains: "[The sensor] uses advanced capacitive touch to take, in essence, a high-resolution image of your fingerprint from the sub-epidermal layers of your skin."

Your fingerprints are a part of the epidermal layer of your skin. Try consulting a medical dictionary next time Apple.

Brazilian TV show accuses NSA of spying on oil firm based on leaked docs

Re: Oh not to worry Brazil...

My...my...my...looks like there are 24 folks (& counting) who can't face up to the realities of life. Poor bastards.

And I never said I was in favor of spying...but it has been going on ever since the monkeys started walking upright...and isn't EVER going to stop.

So for you 24 downvoters. Have a Farcebook account? How about Twatter? Use G-mail at all? Signed up with LinkedIn by any chance? Do you have ANY cell phone? Do you use a computer? (obvious answer on the last one).

If you answered yes to ANY of the above questions...well guess what? Someone...somewhere...is most likely tracking what you are doing. And when you don't KNOW they are tracking you...that's called SPYING children. ROTFLMAO.

Oh not to worry Brazil...

...EVERYONE is spying on EVERYONE else. Just get used to it.

Torvalds suggests poison and sabotage for ARM SoC designers

Re: He's right. @ GitMeMyShootinIrons

"For someone of an esteemed background to lower himself to the gutter level, I find it disappointing and childish."

But this self-absorbed dimbulb does this ALL the time. This is not anything new.

Pair of complete tits sorry for pervy app

Re: Idiots.

So I guess there are 15 (& counting) clowns (down voters) with single digit IQs who think this sophomoric app would have been worthwhile? Grow up.

How pathetic.

Got the CLOUD FEAR? Connected Data has a black 'n' blue cone to sell you

This isn't a "cloud" device?

So instead of the data residing on someone else's storage device, it resides on this thing, which sits in YOUR possession, and you can then access it, or share it, via the Internet.

Isn't that "cloud storage" anyway?

Just that the owner of it controls the "cloud" instead of Amazon, or whomever...and who is someone probably not well versed in security. Sounds like shaky security to me. And P-2-P at that? Oh goody.

400 million Chinese people can't speak Chinese: Official

Re: Doesn't surprise me

Hey...here in the US...most folks can't speak ENGLISH...'merican or otherwise.

Mine's the one with the Webster Pocket Dictionary in it.

We made the iPhones, now we want OUR 'UNPAID' WAGES – student Pegatron toilers

OK...I'll be the first.

They're holding it wrong.

ICAHN'T with this guy: Activist investor gives up battle with Big Mike

Re: El Reg fail

And we should care about your opinion because why?

Such a shame.

Ichan is a blood-sucking, self-interested, POS who should just go away & stay away from EVERY company he has designs on.

He only cares about one thing, and that one thing is putting money in HIS pockets at the expense of everyone else.

Smartwatch news: Sleek-but-vaporous timepiece promised by... NISSAN?

One more useless product...

...for people with more money than brains...talent...etc.

How about just DRIVING the f'ing car, and leaving the electronic toys at home? Hmmm?

Boffinry breakthrough OF THE DECADE: Teens 'influenced' by friends

Re: @frankl ly - Time for some social engineering

"Reading books *while* crossing the road?! ;-)"

Absolutely. Best way I know of to cull the population.

Facebook strips away a bit more of your privacy – but won't say why

Once more with feeling...

If people are STUPID enough to use ANY of these asinine social networking sites...then just STFU and stop whining about your "privacy" being invaded.

There is no privacy with these sites.

Bionic Brit Babbage Bear boards brilliant balloon, bests ballsy Baumgartner

Re: magnetically drawn to trees

You should also consider one of those "Flying Squirrel" Suits for Lord Babbage (I'm sure HRH will be contacting him soon for his feat) for his next venture into the Stratosphere.

With that...and some well placed/designed servos...he could avoid the arboreal hazards, and land comfortably on his paws on Terra Firma.

'You've had your fun. Now we want the stuff back'

Ahh Julian...that would be MS. Manning from now on please.

"And top Wikileaker Julian Assange sees the case having the opposite effect to what the government is hoping for:

Mr Manning’s treatment has been intended to send a signal to people of conscience in the US government who might seek to bring wrongdoing to light...."

Yahoo! web! traffic! BIGGER! THAN! GOOGLE! in! July!

Re: Stop! making! this! joke!

What! in! heavens! name! are! you! talking! about! "this! joke!"? Must! be! something! wrong! with! YOUR! eyes!, because! the! rest! of! us! don't! know! what! you're! talking! about!.

Kim Kardashian's bosom pal in bling snatch Instagram unpleasantness

Re: Southhampton is not in "the city"

Right you are my good man. More like 90 miles (145km), but still, not even close.

And hey Jasper...Google Maps can be your friend. No really.

Re: To quote one of my favourite authors ...

Nothing like Darwinism.

Zuckerberg: I want the WHOLE WORLD in my hands

Re: NFC == No Frigging Chance

Agree 1000%. Have absolutely no use for any of this "social networking" tripe.

If people are so devoid of their own self-worth that they need "followers"...or "likes" (how old are you anyway FFS that you need someone to "like" you...9?) to bolster their pathetic, fragile egos...then civilization is rapidly headed straight down the Loo.

Bloke leaks '1000s' of Twitter login tokens, says he can hack ANY twit

Re: I don't even use twitter but...

"History does not record what happen to these men..."

Sure it does.

One went on to start Farcebook...the other Twatter.

iWatch rumours grow as Apple hires Nike fitness guru Jay Blahnik

@ Steve Davies 3

OK Steve...time for your two pence.

What's your take on an iWatch? Hmmm. Not sure if it will be available in gold at launch...but sure hope so for your sake.

'BLING BLING, BLING BLING' 'Hello, yes, my iPhone is made of GOLD'

@Haku

Oh this is such great sport...and save some popcorn for me please. :-)

Re: More lipstick on a pig.

My...my Stevie honey...sure got your little knickers in a tight wad...now don't you.

More lipstick on a pig.

Next article please.

BlackBerry: It's the end-to-endness, stupid

Well my Uni gave up on BB. That's 25k users gone for BB.

We are just about complete in moving away from BB, and on to Google Apps for Education.

And with 40k potential users between students, faculty & staff, BB has little chance of ever getting any of them back again.

Just add creepiness: Google Search gets even more personal

Not an issue for moi.

Don't use G-mail...use Bing for searches...nor do I use ANY of Google's "cloud" offerings.

My "personal information" is safe & sound...well between me & the NSA that is.

How much will Apple cough for ebook conspiracy? Trial starts May 2014

Not to worry.

The great-grandchildren of Apple's current legal team will be filing appeals on this until THEIR great-grandchildren have all gone through Law School...unless some Arse of a President decides circumvent the legal findings of where ever this ends up.

PEAK Apple: Cupertino's hopes died with Steve Jobs, says Larry Ellison

Re: It's all gone a bit Princess Di

Actually the comparison of Jobs to Edison is quite ironic.

Very little of what is credited to Edison was actually INVENTED by Edison. In reality, it was the workers in his labs that came up with most of it...he just took the credit for it.

Apple can't dump Samsung, it needs those iPad displays – report

Which begs the question...

...Which is the larger amount?

The amount of money Samsung have made on sales TO Apple...or the amount of money Samsung have spent on litigation WITH Apple.

See a young Brit's mobe? 55% chance it has nekkid selfies on it, claims poll

Re: Surprised? Shouldn't be.

"The numbers come from Appysnap, a social photography app whose makers asked Brits aged 18 to 35 how embarrassing the pictures stored on their handsets really were."

No...these dullards are "Gen Y"...not "Gen X". You one of them perhaps?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y

Re: Re: Surprised? Shouldn't be.

Well...Harry Truman was President when I was born. You do the math.

Surprised? Shouldn't be.

"...but it beggars belief that over half of Generation X has nudie pics of themselves in their pocket."

Because they are narcissistic little snots...just like their parents...that's why.

Yahoo! announces! plan! to! change! logo! 30! times! this! month!

No! The! !! doesn't! bother! me! at! all!

Funny! you! should! say! that!. Does! it! really! annoy! some! folks?! Well! too! effin! bad! I! say!.

Limbaugh: If you hate Apple then you're a lefty blog-o-twat hipster

Re: Disproportionate

"The Left wing bias is also prevalent and entrenched in the media (except of course the Daily Mail) including the impartial BBC."

Ahhh...did we forget about the Rupert Murdoch media empire mayhaps? Hmmm? Slightly to the right of Atilla the Hun, I do believe.

So yes...your "theory" is shot to shiite.

Assange™ names a Senatorial stand-in

Re: Can I just take this opportunity to thank the Ecuadorians

I thought I asked you not to call me "shirley".

Keep calm and carry on spying on Americans, US politicos tell NSA

I have some bad news for all of you.

If ANY of you think that the US is the only country spying in this manner, you are sorely mistaken. They just happened to be caught...that's all.

Is it right? Absolutely not. Will it ever stop? Not likely.