Posts by Maldax

As you stare at the dead British Airways website, remember the hundreds of tech staff it laid off

The better the IT department the less it's noticed by the powers that be apart from the big negative number on the ballance sheet. Maybe we should just turn shit off now and again just to prove we are worth the money. Now that is f**ked up!

Inside our three-month effort to attend Apple's iPhone 7 launch party

Headlines

I would suggest a nice sexy clickbait headline for every Apple announcement/launch etc.

"Swanky new iPhone 7" with an 40 point font article "Nothing to see here"

Pains us to run an Apple article without the words 'fined', 'guilty' or 'on fire' in it, but here we are

Charging

So you can't charge and listen to music at the same time unless you are using wireless headphones and making them go flat.....but at least you can play Flappy Mario

Still got a floppy drive? Here's a solution for when 1.44MB isn't enough

Re: Copy protection

Oh and the noise it made!

Corbyn lied, Virgin Trains lied, Harambe died

Re: if he had a researved seat and missed his train he didnot have a valid ticket

I think you are confusing trains with planes. Train tickets don't have times on you get a separate ticket for your seat reservation. Your ticket is still valid for travel

UK universities unveil £28m hub for Internet of Things

OOOO How excitling

Even more coke machines you can telnet onto!!!

New DNA 'hard drive' could keep files intact for millions of years

Forget rise of the machines!

Just pop a DNA writer into skynets datacentre

The ball's in your court, Bezos: Falcon 9 lands after launching satellites

Re: Good show

Elon Musk is not going to let everyone see his secret base yet!!

Doctor Who: Oh, look! There's a restaurant at the end of the universe in Hell Bent

Clara dies

It was obvious Clara would be back. The way the BBC is with keeping everything hush hush they were far to eager to tell anyone who would listen "Clara Dies in this one"

So. Farewell then Betamax. We always liked you better than VHS anyway

Re: V2000 Philips

All the schools in the UK seemed to have V2000...I think one theory was no little scrote would steal the tapes for recording The Word

Need help finding a physically small wired keyboard

21.79 cm?

KeySonic ACK-3400U

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Keysonic-ACK3400U-Ultra-Compact-Mini-SoftSkin-Wired-Keyboard-USB-1-1-2-0-Black-/361395959652?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368

Boffins solve bacon crisis with newly-patented plant

It's people!!

Does no body learn from history!!!

Soylent green is made out of people!!!!

TalkTalk downplays extent of breach damage, gives extra details

Lock your credit records

You should be able to lock your credit record so any credit check will be refused. Then when you do want and credit log on and unlock it! (All my idea and I will sue)

TalkTalk attack: Lad, 15, cuffed by UK cyber-cops

Re: Yes and No

Make your mind up! goat or fish?

TalkTalk CEO admits security fail, says hacker emailed ransom demand

Firewall Bank Accounts

I think its getting to the time to have a firewall back account. With just enough in it to pay these F***wits as no one seems to be able to protect even basic information!

Crash this beauty? James Bond's concept DB10 Aston debuts in Spectre

Re: If your flush?

Unfortunately it's not going to be one of the 2 'Hero' cars. Its one of the stunt ones...With a 2ltr mondao engine I suspect!!

Phone-fondling docs, nurses sling patient info around willy-nilly

The worlds gone mad!

So people are happy to send photos of their 'anatomy" at the drop of a hat...but woe betide someone sending a photo of your ingrowing toe nail to get some advice!

But i'm sure it wouldn't be beyond the imagination for FB to market a private version of WhatApp

Doctor Who's Under the Lake splits Reg scribes: This Alien homage thing – good or bad?

Jumping the Shark

Dr Who's been trying to jump the shark since 'Blink' they should have stopped there! Not going to get any better

'A word processor so simple my PA could use it': Joyce turns 30

3" Disk Joy

I heard back in the day that the main reason A.M.S went for 3" disks was he found a warehouse somewhere in china stacked to the rafters with them and got them very cheap. To be honest I think I was told that on my PCW8256 Engineer training day at Amstrad. Yep I think I still have the certificate somewhere!

Re: Even now, I still get..

There you go...

http://www.seasip.info/Unix/Joyce/index.html

Re: Thanks for making me feel old...

I can remember installing a third party network on them. I want to call it Amsnet but that could just be my old man memory playing crazy tricks on me

Police radios will be KILLED soon – yet no one dares say 'Huawei'

I blame 24 et al.

This is what happens when people who don't really understand the technology limitations, see something Hollywood has knocked up and said "Get me that!"

NASA 'nauts have a go on Star Trek replicator IN SPAAAAACE (sort of)

Hmmmm Chicken and Egg

How does a broken printer print bit to fix itself??

While you queued for an iPhone 6, Apple's Cook sold shares worth $35m

It's called cause and effect!

Copyright thieves' cyberlockers slurp MILLIONS from honest creators, study finds

Re: Appendix A is great!

But its not always possible to pay for it...can't always have a satellite dish fitted! If you can't have a dish you CAN'T have Sky

Appendix A is great!

Read Appendix A...or as like like to put it..how we made this shit up!

The only thing I think the copyright owners should take away from this is users are more than happy to pay if you give them what they want!

In the UK until NowTV arrived it was IMPOSSIBLE to watch Game of Thrones unless you had Sky TV...they even kept if off Virgin's Cable service by sticking it on Sky Atlantic. Guess what I didn't have to download this year! (Not that I ever did of course!)

Apple's big bang: iPhone 6, ANOTHER iPhone 6 Plus and WATCH OUT

Re: Not convinced by the crown thing

I loved the "So you can see the screen (honest)"

Sonos offers updated music controller to Fandroids for testing

Re: Existing Android App not that bad

Have a look at Pocket Cast on android lets you download any BBC podcasts to your device and it has a hook in to stream from the device to a Sonos

Justice Ministry to spaff £70k finding out how prisoners like to use ILLEGAL mobes

How about....

Make a list of the people that are not using the Prison Pay Phone! Then take away their phones!

iPlayer repeat fees threaten BBC earthquake

Is the solution not easy?

Surely if the BBC wants to cash in on all it's old content then let it. It can quite easily charge the rest of the world to access content on the iplayer by subscription or PPV models. I am sure there is a huge audience out there that would pay for full access to BBC content that have not already paid for it