Posts by Howard 1

Banning handheld phone use by drivers had NO effect on accident rate - study

Having read the title...

...it wasn't hard to guess the name on the byline.

How Nokia managed to drive its in-house Linux train off the rails

There's a reason those N900 on ebay are cheap.

They are in all probability knackered. The BGAs separate from the mainboard without much encouragement.

First you'll lose the sensor that detects the cover is off and disables the mmc slot (you can work around this by editing and recompiling the module *OPENSOURCE FTW!*), then you'll lose the radio module (no phone functionality) and finally you'll lose the internal 32G mmc - BRICKED!

I bought a replacement on ebay (tested, the vendor said) and surprise, surprise it had the same faults as the unit I wanted to repair.

'FIRST ever' Linux, Mac OS X-only password sniffing Trojan spotted

Re: Internet Explorer

Upvoted. For the lulz.

New nuclear fuel source would power human race until 5000AD

"Future historians will regard attitudes to nuclear as bizzare and incomprehensible"

Indeed they may. Though not necessarily for the reasons you posit.

These articles...

...it's satire, yeah?

Ice core shows Antarctic Peninsula warming is nothing unusual

Re: Mmmm. Pies...

Climate Change is not a 'theory'. AGW is a 'theory'. Climate Change is a FACT.

Re: Agenda?

Because... who do you think is the editor?