Posts by Frankee Llonnygog

Any storm in a port

USB

It stands for "U Sodding Bastard". Or at least that's what I usually end up calling it.

Irony alert: Pirate Bay accuses anti-piracy group of illegal copying

"There's also the question of how CIAPC got the code in the first place"

"There's also the question of how CIAPC got the code in the first place."

Above a screenshot of "view page source". There may be a clue there

Pop's Chubby Checker condemns use of Palm to check pocket-chubby

Re: Simple

"It's a well known fact small hands"

... make small things look bigger. Maybe they should have named the app after Stubby Kaye

Fashionably slate

Name and shame

Is there some company somewhere who specialises in churning out this anti-usability, bug-ridden, flaky, shit software, as used by TV makers, car manufacturers, and all those other bastards who want to saddle consumer devices with their cack-handed proprietary vanity-ware?

We need to find them, and target them with Hellfire missiles now. (Assuming, of course, that they didn't write the missile targeting software)

Forget wireless power for phones - Korea's doing it for buses

Re: @MrXavia

Wires + batteries eliminates 1) + 2) and 3) can be dealt with by good design

Re: Why under?

Yes, but if the bus has some battery capacity, there's no need for the wires at the junction, so the rat's nest goes away

Re: AC @ 10:05 -Wet blanket time

Errm - the article talks about topping up the battery as the buses roll. So those batteries could have been charged overnight while the buses are garaged.

Anyway, what's wrong with wires? Bring back trolleybuses

Twitter translated to LOLCATZ: Strangely this had not been done

Re: Internet memes !!!!!

I expect this to have been added to gov.uk by the end of the week.

WELCOM 2 GOV.UK

TEH BEST PLACE 2 FIND GUBMENT SERVICEZ AN INFORMASHUN

SIMPLR, CLEARR, FASTR

Hmmm - that IS simpler, clearer and faster

BANG and the server's gone: Man gets 8 months for destroying work computers

Wrong brand of cleanser

For server storage, use Flash

I'll get my apron

UK cookies cop changes own policy to ‘implied consent’

Re: The Silence of The Frankee. Google Analytics

Sigh.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/

OK?

Re: Thanks ICO

Having just checked out their revised cookie warning, I have serious concerns about the ICO's website. I think I'll report them to the ICO

Re: Google Analytics

Why? You're too lazy to Google the phrase "Google Analytics"?

We're not making this up: Apple trademarks the SHOP

Re: Prior art ?

Microsoft trademarked their store design in October 2011, as reported on the Reg, only that story didn't have all the phony outrage.

I can't be arsed to search, but I'm willing to bet every retailer of any significance has trademarked their store design. You'd be on okay grounds trying to shut down a bogus store if you didn't have the right trademarks in place.

So, why all the bogus outrage? Oh yes, because it's Apple.

Apple still top for slab-fondlers despite FLOOD of Xmas tablets

Sales vs shipping (again)

For the real numbers, wait for the next quarterly financials.

Microsoft dev tools to add Linux-style source code versioning

Re: VS2012

"I live in a space between appearance and reality..."

Hoxton?

First ‘three strikes’ decision handed down in NZ

Re: I suspect...

I suspect...

I suspect movie piracy in America will show to have dropped significantly in 2012.

Battleship!

Huddled immigrant masses face 'British values' quiz

People still want to immigrate to the UK?

I'd simply ask them, "why?".

Cameron's speech puts UK adoption of EU data directive in doubt

Electoral boundary review

Is there any way we could reshuffle the electoral boundaries so that all the Daily Mail readers are moved to (say) the Isle of Man? They can they get on with being the United Kingdom of Leaving-the-EU-maintaining-the-special-relationship-with-the-US-peeking-out-from-behind-their-lace-curtains-and-fearing-anyone-different-land, while the rest of us crack on and enjoy life.

Cabinet Office chucks hefty rulebook at paper-chewing gov bods

Re: Expensive train crash to come?

"Whoever is guiding the Cabinet Office on this is really out on a limb!"

We're talking about the Cabinet Office. What makes you think they'd accept advice from anyone?

Re: Impossible timescale?

Not only that, but you'll have to write bespoke adaptors to plug into their common Performance Dashboard which they've built themselves using Cool Tools. They haven't yet twigged that their habit of using reinventing the wheel condemns every one else to bespokery. Whatever happened to off-the-shelf?

Come in to my digital garden, says Maude

The Cabinet Office has so far delivered:

a couple of purchasing frameworks that have generated less in savings than they cost to implement;

a refresh of the government website aimed at removing any vestige of control from departmental subject matter experts;

and, a set of digital policy documents that list all the things departments planned to do anyway, before Cabinet Office stuck its oar in.

(Hence Cabinet Office's attempt to claim undeserved credit for DVLA's digital efforts, for example)

Far from streamlining and shrinking purchasing agreements, they have instead added an extra layer of bureaucracy , making the whole process more expensive and inaccessible to their cherished SMEs. In return, the big consultancies have wasted no time in employing a bunch of ex-Whitehallers skilled in telling Cabinet Office what it needs to hear.

What the Cabinet Office has so far excelled in is a massive campaign of self-aggrandisement to cover a complete lack of delivering even the smallest project, of the sort that government agencies routinely and successfully deliver (yes, it does happen).

Their endless meddling, along with their complete lack of any useful experience in large-scale procurements or development, has made the most hated department in Government Their first attempt to deliver something significant will be the Digital Identity initiative. It's fair to say that the rest of the Civil Service is not wishing them good luck with this.

Decode the Maude-speak about better customer service and what it really boils down to is making call centre and back office staff redundant, and if you, dear customer, can't use the internet, well, tough luck.

Looked at in that light, if Universal Credits crashes and burns, less money gets paid out to benefits claimants – talk about snatching a manifesto-commitment from the jaws of failure!

Microsoftie's tell-all on 'rival-flinging' Ballmer: The politics of disbelief

Captain Immanence

Eating the first and second children is standard practice among the Prador

Sorry, Apple-haters, but Cupertinian doom not on the horizon

Re: Tablet bubble.

Working habits may not have changed yet but leisure habits have.

Re: Fruity Bookkeeping

"Once every six years Apple adds an additional week to the first fiscal quarter to better align fiscal quarters with calendar quarters. Apple's fiscal quarters are usually 13 weeks in length. "

http://seekingalpha.com/article/318471-apple-s-monster-quarter-will-deliver-monster-sized-results

Samsung set for compensation talks over staff death claims

Re: Unlike Apple subcontractor Foxconn ...

Errrmmm - can't find any documentation that says suicides were higher or lower at Foxconn plants making Apple than Foxconn plants making HP et el. Do please give sources for this, if you have any

National Audit Office tears government's savings claims in HALF

Cabinet Office misreporting the savings reporting from their meddling?

Surely not! The NAO needs to drop it's negativity, get with the digital programme and cease this awkward truth-telling immediately.

Roll on the happy day when the Government Digital Service gains control over NAO's web publishing and can bury its reports in a deep digital dungeon.

Chinese boffins crack cloaking tech for camouflage

Should be hugely successful for the huge

"These effectively scatter the incoming light to distort the object – making it appear smaller – and create two “ghost images” on either side of it"

Can I be first to patent its use as a fabric for fashionable clothes?

"Does my bum look big in this?"

"Nope. All 6 of your buttocks look remarkably pert, but the 4 outside cheeks look a bit fuzzy"

Asteroid-mining 'FireFlys' will be ready for action by 2015, vows space firm

Re: God, I hate it when they name projects after SciFi characters/contraptions

They could have called it "Butt-head astronomer".

All your audio, video kit is about to become OBSOLETE

Phoney

MEMs speakers might be OK for earphones. They won't be much use for filling your living room with bass - unless he's imagivisioning a flat panel speaker covered with millions of the things.

Also, the cochlear-measuring adaptive audio is going to require something in or near your ear. Won't be a fat lot of use with speakers (where there may also be more than one listener, with different hearing parameters!)

Perhaps he thinks no-one will listen to speakers in the future

Shiny new UK.gov stats website a 'disaster' - MPs

No doubt it will soon migrate to www.gov.uk

From which point, it will have greatness thrust upon it

In a mobile data eating contest, Brits would win - Ofcom

Re: TV watching time

In hour house, the TV is on while people are variously Facebooking, Youtubing etc. The TV is just that lump of moving coloured wallpaper in the corner. If it was running a screensaver of goldfish, I doubt anyone would notice.

Come to think of it - don't any of these smart TVs run screensavers?

Girl gang targets Microsoft's Seattle stores for $5,000 theft spree

Maybe they'll use the medical defence

"My doctor told me to keep taking the tablets"

Silicon Roundabout £50m THING to spew 200 startups A YEAR

Fat pipes and cheap office space

That's all you need. Fat pipes are the one thing they ain't going to provide, and the office space won't be cheap.

Digital industries don't need people to be physically congruous in a hub. The only reason for building a hub is for politicians to parachute in and boost their cool factor during election year. (Oh and possibly for Francis Maude to install his Savile-style casting couch)