* Posts by MrZoolook

409 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Feb 2012

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Kodak's using bankruptcy to rob us of our rights – Apple

MrZoolook
Paris Hilton

Re: Apple demonstrated ideas without patenting them first?

Quote : I too found the idea of Apple not having patented something the moment they thought of it as rather odd.

Yes, normally they patent OTHER companies innovations and ideas, and even then only after it has been in use for a few years.

Paris because she has been well used for years, so they will soon patent her. And when that happens, whatever goes on in Paris WON'T stay in Paris.

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Bankruptcy court vs. IP court

So Apple don't think that a bankruptcy court will have the expertise required to understand IP litigation?

Much as I don't like Apples business practices, I would am inclined to believe them. Not because they might be right, but because (and let's be fair to hem here) they are probably more experienced in the IP courts then most judges hearing their cases...

Larry Ellison buys island 1000x bigger than Branson's

MrZoolook
Paris Hilton

Big deal

After all, the guy running the RIAA has bought North America, and is fast purchasing the rest of the planet.

Paris because... who hasn't bought her, or at least hired?

Council chief overrules blackout on Scots 9-yr-old's school lunch blog!

MrZoolook
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Re: An Oldie Recalls

Quote: These "meals" are just pitiful. I attended a Scottish comprehensive (the Nicolson Institute, Stornoway) throughout the 60's and was fed much better than that. Lentil soup, beef rissoles with peas, cabbage, and mash, followed by sponge and custard ("doorstep and dishwater") was a typical elevenpenny lunch, as I recall

In fairness, back then we didn't get asshole TV chefs turning everyday food staples into gourmet food every time you turn the TV on. Nowadays, the likes of Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, Anthony Whorrel-Thompson et all, have taken good cheap food ingredients, and put their names to them so everything costs 3 times as much. Even un-endorsed foods have increased to loan-inducing prices simply because something similar was featured in last months Readers Digest!

Schools (or rather the schools bedgetory governing bodies) are not immune to these increases. The result is lower quality meals. The crime isn't that the quality has gone downhill, it's that the quality has been driven downhill by a combination of budget cuts (not only for meals, but basic teaching tools like books, school libraries, pens and paper) and ass-hat chefs who put their names on basic food items for money, which is paid for by the consumer (householders AND school boards alike) in increased prices!

(rant over for now)

MrZoolook
Megaphone

Re: That little bitch causing distress...

Quote: Seriously, where is all the money going that is being skimmed off on providing meals for these kids?

Books, pencils, heating, hiring quality teachers from abroad... that kinda stuff!

MrZoolook

Re: Math issues also

Quote: Giving the author the benefit of the doubt, we all know that 2+2=5 for large values of 2 (e.g.2.3) and 2+2 = 3 of r small values of 2 (eg.g 1.7). Probably a rounding error in there that' wasn't worth the explanation.

In the same way that pi=3 right?

On a serious note, are declining standards in school meals THAT big an issue when their teaching standards are in FAR more rapid decline... see the above examples for evidence of that! When I left school, no matter how many times you worked it out... 2+2 always equalled 4.

Tesco grabs Peter Gabriel's musical streamer

MrZoolook
FAIL

Re: Self-service checkouts

Troll scanner activated!

You do realise that MS are not responsible for the software that supermarkets develop and installs on these things, right? *shrug* Obvious attempt at trolling thwarted! NEXT!

MrZoolook
Holmes

Re: Self-service checkouts

Quote: I don't see the advantage for any of them.

YOU might not see an advantage in them, but the supermarkets see a £6 an hour advantage.

MrZoolook
FAIL

Re: Self-service checkouts

Ah, another troll!

Maybe in your mind, a 3rd party application will 'magically' become great on another platform. Me and the rest of the world realise that a crappy bit of software is crappy on EVERY platform.

MrZoolook
Coat

Re: Self-service checkouts

Quote: I seem to remember Visa ads from 10+ years ago where this guy in a trenchcoat goes goes grocery shopping ands simply drops the items in his pockets. The readers at the doorway auto-bills his card on the way out.

Not good news if you are called Winona Ryder!

Must try harder: Cumbria tells BT and Fujitsu to resubmit fibre plans

MrZoolook
Coat

Re: BaaBaaMesh

Isn't a cloud just a sheep without legs?

MrZoolook

Re: fairly obvious but

Your talking LONDON. Not every city has these investments and I thank you not to tar us all with the same brush!

MrZoolook
FAIL

Re: fairly obvious but

Last I looked, food was a requirement for existence... broadband is a luxury still. But what do I know? I'm only living in a concrete jungle and am obviously biased!!!!

Apple must be tried for the bug in every fanboi's pocket

MrZoolook
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Apple should be punished moreso however, since Google's collection could be prevented by simply turning off the WiFi router or key encryption. Apple TOOK THE ABILITY TO TURN LOCATION SERVICES OFF, and thus there was no way of opting out.

Or is that point completely missed by the fanbois here. In actuality, I think that's the most worrying aspect of this. They simply LIED to their users when their users had the wherewithall to try and prevent tracking. Shamefull, at least Google didn't have the audacity to collect data from routers that were turned off!

Mystery buyer scoops working Apple 1 at auction

MrZoolook

Re: Them bidding wars is dangerous

Acivation code? Isn't RasPi open source?

MrZoolook

Re: Agh

Quote: KIT! KIT! Not 'kid'... Jeez, here I try to use some Brit lingo and this is the thanks I get?

Posted via iPhone?

MrZoolook

Re: I have one question.

I bet it won't run Flash!

MrZoolook

Re: I don't get it.

Quote:Apple I may have been a very humble beginning, but it was still the starting point of what is now a massive computing empire-- the birth-product of Apple Inc.

In other words, it's a symbol of how even a small business can eventually buy its way out of potentially illegal business practises!

MrZoolook
Devil

Re: not sure about the case

Quote: But, the Apple I was the unit that when you look at the engineering drawings looked just like an HP 2640A Communications Terminal, from HP of course.

Rubbish. Apple was mentioned in the bible before electricity was harnessed. Therefore Apple own everything electrical and everything that is mentioned after Genesis. That tree grew from Apples fore-runner you know. Not long before Apple plant a copyright infringement notice on everything in existence with an option to pay royalties. About time you paid for that oxygen that Apple trees develop you know!

Court delays Apple Proview ruling

MrZoolook

Quote: If I pay someone to wash my car for £10 and they later find out I'm a millionaire, they don't get pissed that they didn't charge me £200.

Fail @ analogy. A better analogy would be.. "Someone offers to wash my car windows at £1 per window, which I accept. After they finish, I produce a document clearly defining that all the glass in my car (minus the wind-shield) are actually 'transparent observation panels' and give them the £1 I owe."

MrZoolook
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Quote: I don't particularly like Apple as a company but they seem to be getting a bit of a shafting here

Personally, I hope they get shafted harder. The way they have bulldozed their way through everyone with litigation recently... fuck-em, they can reap the benefits of the system they use so whole-heartedly. Which other company in history has the absolute cheek to claim copyright on "slide to unlock" screens when they have been out for the last 15 years anyway?

Fuck em to hell with a corporate bastardised judicial system, and fuck anyone defending them and their corrupt business ethics!

iPhone denies existence of Gibraltar, other bits of British empire

MrZoolook
IT Angle

Re: Another controversial iOS6 place-naming snafu...

Google Earth lists them as 'Liancourt Rocks' with a note that both Japan and Korea claim them under different names.

Milky Way DOOMED to high-speed smash with Andromeda galaxy

MrZoolook
Devil

What name will be given to this new super galaxy... iNebula..?

Online bookie can't scoop £50k losses made by 5-year-old

MrZoolook
Megaphone

Re: Does anyone really think...

Quote: From what I make of the judgment it matters not who was alleged to have made the trades, the law says that the catch-all aspect of the contract is unfair, and in finding it unfair the court put the onus on the site owners to prove the account holder made each and every one of the trades,and they can not do it.

Then they would be equally able to reclaim monies paid out to him on the same basis.

Besides which, if he allows a 5yo access to such accounts, he shouldn't even be allowed to internet access anyway. It's lying cheating scum like him who turned the internet from the sharing of information it was to the dumbed down lowest common denominator it is now.

He should have his laptop confiscated in my opinion.

Facebook testing "announce important post" feature

MrZoolook
FAIL

Re: Hey Morons

Quote: The hassle that goes along with un-Friending a close personal friend or family member just isnt worth it.

Grow a spine. If you hate their s*it so much, tell them to quit posting it or use the tools available on Facebook to prevent their posts from bothering you. You don't even need to unfriend or block them you know. If you spent any time using FB instead of just bemoaning it, you'd have spotted how to block certain types of posts from specific people.

Of course, that requires a bit more effort then just complaining about the evils of Facebook. I just wish El Reg had the same flexibility to block annoying posters frankly!

HTC slips One X, Evo 4G past Apple US patent ban

MrZoolook
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Careful...

Don't get used to writing in English... Apple will be going for that soon. After all, it's been in use for more then a few centuries so they are sure of some huge licensing fees. And don't even think of staying on Earth too long because that's in the public domain too, and we all know that's just a holding ground for Apple till they get the funding together for bribing the IPO.

I'm expecting the old bill to call any minute now since I haven't renewed my Apple air usage agreement.

UK High Court split over Twitter airport bomb joke

MrZoolook
Stop

Re: Seriously

Quote: Calling Fire in a theatre is likely to cause a stampede and a potential for actually bodily harm. Saying "I'm gonna blow that stupid airport sky high" in the context of being pissed off is just a figure of speech.

Well, if the airport took it seriously, and evacuated... would that not have a potential for the same injuries?

MrZoolook
Meh

He should have joked...

... about bombing LA or some other US airport. He would have got swifter justice because no judge in the UK would have been allowed to contest it.

UK.gov energy policy: You can't please all the people much of the time

MrZoolook
Holmes

Is an electricity shortage such a big deal anyway... I mean, when the entire UK is forced to use smart-meters, they can ration it as and when it becomes available anyway.

(Sherlock because we all know that scenario is coming)

Greedy LOHAN draining away mankind's vital fluid ... allegedly

MrZoolook
Coat

So am I the only one...

... who wishes Lindsay Lohan WAS taking his vital fluid?

Jailed Facebook hack Brit targeted Justin Bieber's girlfriend

MrZoolook
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Re: Why is Justin Bieber alive?

* Fixed

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I thought you said HACKED...

Quote: The takeover of the account was carried out after Crosskey successfully posed as her step-father, tricking Facebook into granting him illicit access to Gomez's account in the process.

Clearly, there was no hacking involved!

In other news...

Reg article sensationalises headline. Ignorance or just an attempt to garner readers to an otherwise insanely boring news story! Special report after these important messages from our sponsor!

Star Trek's Scotty boldly goes where he always wanted to

MrZoolook
WTF?

Re: Not bad value

£31 extra would have got her in space...

[rant]

WTG local council... that's one way to stop dead people from being a burden to you. Price them out of communicable graves. I guess it's less bodies to move when you finally decide to actually live up to your responsibilities to build houses.

[/rant]

US space programme in shock metric conversion

MrZoolook
FAIL

Quote: But Britin is metric, last week I ordered 10m of 1/2" piping and a couple of 2m lengths of 2"x4".

And London is only 93 miles from here. But before I drive it, I am going to buy a pint of milk and top up my tank with fuel. Only a few litres ... because I get 45 miles-per-gallon... Boy am I glad we went decimal :/

MrZoolook
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Re: Bah!

Quote: A metre is a unit of measurement, a meter is a measuring device. Like the one on my desk that tells me how much of a berk a commentard is, that's just wandered off scale 'cos I forgot to recalibrate it for USAians.

See, that's why we need a consistent global unit of measurement!

Orange pulls out of women's Fiction

MrZoolook
Facepalm

"awarded annually to the best English-language novel from a female human author"

As opposed to being awarded to a novel from a female bovine author?

Eugene Kaspersky frustrated by Apple’s iOS AV ban

MrZoolook
Trollface

Re: Kapersky?

Deep Blue cheated...

MrZoolook
FAIL

Re: Methinks he doth protest too much...

Quote: In all my 25 years of MAc computing I have never had a major virus, and only a couple of times had any malware at all.

In my years a Windows user, I have less then that.

Greene King pubs to offer free beer Wi-Fi

MrZoolook
Coat

Green King announces...

... their pub managers have finally learned how to install wireless routers!

Virgin Media mauls UK.gov for pumping millions into BT

MrZoolook
Megaphone

Re: Much as it pains me

Quote: At least BT bothered to cable the entire country.

Way back when there was BT or ... well, nothing. It was back then certainly worth them cabling the entire country. If the underlying cabling was being laid for the first time NOW, we would POSSIBLY end up with a situation like the rail service is now. One area served exclusively by BT, another by Virgin, and another by TalkTalk, all laying cable in a few areas and expanding from that as and when it could be paid for. But at the time, there was only BT, so every home connected to the phone network was running through BT. By being the only company laying the cable, they guaranteed massive proffits. That isn't true now, and in fact, the infrastructure is wholly looked after by a subsidiary of BT.

Quote: I'm sick and tired about VM going on about their speeds on TV and radio announcements when as far as I know they (or the companies they bought out) haven't cabled a new area in over a decade.

But you just said there were no areas left to cable... On a slightly less argumentative note, they are rolling out Fibre-Optic, rather then just talking about it, which from my talking to some of their various subscribers is what BT do... Just talk about it!

Personally, I would have given the cash to BT-Openworld (the cabling side of BT) on the provision that areas (still) without a broadband service faster then 512k were improved first. If BT (the service providing side) want a cash injection, they can bloody well improve their service and get more subscribers... the same as any business would have to do.

New UK MVNO offers white list calling for kiddies' mobes

MrZoolook
Stop

Re: SIM Swap

Most phones nowadays (all that I have used in the past few years anyway) nowadays have a security feature which will lock the phone to the inserted SIM card. Whereby, if the brat/bastard/child/little-darling inserted a new SIM, the phone would require a code to enable the SIM to be used in that phone. Kinda like an inverse SIM code. It locks the phone to 'emergency only' network access if a new SIM is installed.

'Dated and cheesy' Aero ripped from Windows 8

MrZoolook
Megaphone

Aero was always cheesy and dated, and sluggish, a drain on video ram, and generally sucked. The same was true with XP... it looked more like a Fisher Price toy then a PC-OS.

I have to question the mentality of anyone wanting to give over the majority of their system just to run the graphics of the UI.

Met bobbies get CSI kit to probe perps' mobes

MrZoolook
Devil

What mobile phones need now

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/21/runcore_self_destructing_ssd/

Backdoor sniffed in ZTE's US Android smartphones

MrZoolook
Unhappy

That sucks!

I have an S version HTC, so I can't even root my mobile even with hours of downloads and tutorials online, and those guys get a root password handed to them?

No fair man!

Smoke-belching flash drive self-destructs on command

MrZoolook
Joke

The data isn't destroyed...

That puff of smoke is telling you the data is now stored in the cloud!

MrZoolook
Windows

Re: Disk encryption?

Quote:

Besides, is overwriting with random data really that insecure?

I'm no expert on data security, but even I have software that can recover overwritten data several levels deep.

MrZoolook
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A proximity sensor would...

... maybe make this a way to stop UK-GOV from letting Abdullah The Cabbie from passing my details to Al Qaida... or something.

What's copying your music really worth to you?

MrZoolook
Stop

Re: @Dazed & Confused

Quote:

Now (almost) no one thinks 'format shifting' is morally wrong but it is the same basic process as piracy, the same technology involved so it gets bound up in the same discussions.

Except that with piracy, you haven't paid for the original copy. Format Shifting INHERANTLY requires you to already have bought and licensed a copy according to the publishers OWN guidelines and limitations. If the publisher does not want you to format shift a copy of music you have legally paid for, and now rescind the licenses they were already purchased under due to new technology issues, they are quite welcome to return to me the money I paid (plus interest of course) and I will return the recording to them.

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Re: Economic harm?

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If we want both convenient devices and musicians who can afford to eat then we need to at least consider the option of trying to mitigate the impact of piracy and as the article says this process needs to be above board and must benefit the people making the music - artists, recording studios and so on.

What utter codswallop. A musician typically gets a fixed amount of money for a performance (album/single/whatever) UNLESS they convince the publisher to give them a percentage (which nowadays is unlikely unless they have a few million album sales behind them, thus the publisher knows they will get a decent return). Therefore buying 'extra copies' for your iPod (or indeed any other and mostly superior portable player) is not going to magically give food to these hungry musicians.

If they are going hungry, they need to get a better deal from their publishers. IF I pay an extra amount of money for the 'privilege' of listening to music I already bought (even considering its just buying a license anyway, with a copy of the music in CD format), the average publisher will not pass this onto the performers, since the publisher has already fulfilled its contract for payment. The only exception would be (for example) a 1970s debut album of a NOW worldwide household and marketable act. They would then be in a position to re-negotiate the original 1970s contract.

US dope farmer in Walmart rattlesnake chomp shock

MrZoolook
Joke

Butter on head!

I once told a by a mate I was suffering with headaches. He suggested that covering your head with with butter was a good cure. I went to the fridge and covered my head with butter and sat back in the lounge talking to my mate. After an hour or so, he asked how my head was. I told him it was still hurting. He laughed and said "I can't believe its not better!"

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