Posts by Chad H.

Cameron aims to bring LibDems into government

Heven Forbid

Heaven forbid we actually move to a system where you can't claim a "Mandate" because only 60% of the Uk population voted against your party.

Voting chaos in not-fit-for-purpose electoral system

and of course...

Those pushing against PR are currently the big winners in a system thats gerrymadered so much to ensure that either the Labour Party, or Conservatives, sit at the top (if not run outright) any government.

There's a simple way to ensure that elected folk are representative... Big regions (maybe the size of an ITV franchise) with a number of seats based on population, elected PR/AV.

Well....

In Australia, they Vote on a saturday, close the polls at 5pm, have manditory voting (so 100% turnout all done before 5pm) , and you can go to any polling station in your electorate. Each polling station has a couple of copies of the roll to speed things up.

No staying up all night to learn who the PM is, you'll probably know by midnight.

Did I read that correctly?

How could this happen? After all, since the dawn of the 21st century, the system has been very simple: we just visit vote.gov.uk, tap in our unique voter number, and press a button to indicate which party we want to vote for. Voting closes at 10 pm - and the national result is declared some 60 seconds later.

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And here we build the tools of Tyrany. I think we've seen exactly (thanks to Diebold) what happens with electronic voting without a paper trail. One guy gets too many votes, and the other guy gets a negative number of votes.

There can be no true faith in our vote if there is not a physical vote to count. I'd have thought a technology news website would know all to well how easy electronic data can be manipulated. Guess I thought wrong.

UK polling stations turn away 'hundreds' of voters

Huh?

Considering the polls in Australia close at what, 5pm? How the heck do people not find an opportunity to vote before 10pm?

Vote Lib Dem, doom humanity to extinction

Dear el reg webmaster

Dear Mr Webmaster,

there appears to be a problem with the coding on your site. It appears to be pulling stories from News Ltd publications instead of your own staff. You may want to get this fixed before Mr Murdochs lawyers find out.

Jobsian Vendetta - Flash stabbed by Mac the Knife

Err

Okay, so it costs what, $99 to join the app store, but after that, if you want, you can put 0 as the price for all your apps. So that's web retail space and storage forever for as many apps you like...

Yeah, real money spinner.

It's been said a billion times already but iTunes store isn't designed to be a profit spinner in it's own right, it's there to push hardware sales. Having free flash web pages doesn't effect that in any way, unless they cause a performance hit, which they seemingly do.

Palin email jury reaches verdicts on 3 of 4 counts

Cut and run

Sarah Palin may have served as govenor, but I wouldn't describe it as capably. One, she cut and run, not serving a full term. Two, there's evidence to suggest she used her power to push personal grievences.

Steve Jobs issues open letter on Flash

Bah

If a website isn't visitable in lynx, it's not worth visiting.

BOFH: Forgive and forget

More lives than the doctor.

I knew he'd be back... Better than ever.

Cameron promises yet more Avatar

Will....

Will James Cameons next visit to the world of Warcraft feature the goblins of Undermine?

Jesus Phone in shock Opera browser benediction

Confirmed Sighting

Confirmed sighting on the UK app store. Its free and already has 67 reviews.

Adobe man to Apple: 'Go screw yourself'

Traitors?

Adobe Started it, by working with MS to push flash instead of Quicktime for video years ago.

And maybe

And maybe, someday, the average consumer will actually care about andriod.

Apple rumored to put beefy iPad on diet

Just wondering

Considering the number of "Analyists" that have claimed than an iPhone Mini is imminent, I'm going to wonder why el Reg bothered to report this.

Especially as some concrete real iNews is out on other tech websites (iPhone/Pad OS v4).

Apple's iPad - 'Will It Blend?'

Don't think its a waste

Over 1 million views of an ad that isn't forced on you (like in a TV show) for a mere $499.... Sounds like great value. Can't get that kinda value from any ad company I know of.

Virgin Media to demo 200Mb/s broadband tomorrow

I think the key word is "Business"

I think you're forgetting that these are businesses. They aren't "Internet for everyone" Charities. Their prime directive (despite their marketing campaign) isn't to look after you, its to look after the people that own the company ("Maximise Shareholder Value").

Why the heck should they spend millions on "their childrens' Inheritence" to subsidise your lifestyle? If they aren't going to make a profit on hooking up your homestead, then it would be irresponsible of them to do so.

Perhaps we do need a charity to look after country areas that can offer internet on a not-for-profit basis... But even then it still wouldnt be at the cheap prices that you get in the cities.

And now - new stealth jumpjet makes first hover landing

Uh-Oh

Wasn't the Lightning one of the craft used by X-Com in UFO: enemy Unknown / X-Com: UFO defense.

*Runs in fear of the inevitable Sectoid/Muton horde*

'Google TV' plants Chrome on Android set-top

So....

I assume you'll be cutting Vulture central a cheque for your share of the costs in creating and displaying this content.

Apple's draconian developer docs revealed

Err

He's not being critised because he hates his mac, he's being critised because the reasons he's giving for a mac being crap are bogus.

I'd be supeised if he actually owns one.

errr..

Been playing some intensive games for well, hours now.

Burns recieved from my aluminum macbook - 0.

Safari here only seems to crash on pages with flash.

I could go on, but I'm tired.

Its simple.

Don't want to play by the rules of the sandbox?

Don't play.

That simple.

If its really that bad, developers would stay away and kill the Ecosystem... Since that hasn't happened, it can't be a big deal.

T-Orange merger approved

@ Bad News

After the merger we still have:

Three mobile networks - t/3/o, Voda, O2

three big brands on the T/3/o network (3, Torrange and virgin)

Two big brands on the O2 network (o2 and Tesco)

another virtual operator to come (TalkTalk)

and about a squilliion smaller virtual operators.

Still plenty of competition, more than enough.

NatWest suffers calamitous online banking breakdown

iPhone app failing

Can't get intoy account with the iPhone app... The server gives an invalid response

Jobs: I'll decide what to do with Apple's $40bn cash pile

Dell

They could buy Dell, shut it down, and return it's value to it's shareholders...

OFT requests T-Orange investigation

Erm... Death of 3?

From the guardian:

The main concern was about the merger's effect on the future of 3, which has driven price competition in recent years. However, over the weekend, 3, which is owned by the Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa, signed a new deal with T-Mobile and Orange, which will give it access to 3,000 more mast sites across the UK over the next few years, bringing the total to 16,000, the largest 3G network in the country.

http://m.guardian.co.uk/?id=102202&story=http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/21/orange-t-mobile-merger

I don't think 3 have anything to worry about.

Industry groups leap to Chip and PIN's defence

The defenders do a magnificent job of missing the point

From how I understand the article to be positioned, The research isn't saying that chip and pin is bad and should be eliminated, just the "it's chip and pin so there's no fraud" attitude.

Anyone taking that attidue about any computer system should be shot.

BBC clambers onto iPhone bandwagon

Over 50s

I think it's not that the BBC isn't interested in over 50s, more they don't think over 60s are interested in mobile content.

There's no point in targeting someone who isn't going to show up anyway.

BOFH: The PFY Chronicles

Dead again?

The pfy's morned the death of the bofh before, only to find he's gone on to a better (paying) place and come back for him.

Air Marshal: RAF may not have to be disbanded

There's always the corporate solution

Outsource everything to India, run none of the services directly, and then scratch your head wondering why it doesn't work....

Huawei E5 Wi-Fi/3G modem

Wep key

Any luck getting the mac to accept the wep key if you preceed it with a $?

Survey: Only 1% of Torrents non-infringing

This just shows corporate paranoia on p2p

I think this goes to show the level of paranoia corporations have for p2p. Instead of the "great way to make someone else pay our bandwith costs" that blizzard took, they've thrown the baby out with the bathwater.

Adobe heats up iPad Flash bash

Maybe someone should take this further

And create a wesbite showing how much faster downloads and the web in general would work in a world where Flash was never developed.

Adobe sounds off on iPad's Flash slap

Pfft

If a sites only visitable in flash, it's not usually worth visiting. The sooner we get rid of Flash, the better (and faster) the interwebs will be.

Apple iPad vs netbooks: fight not over yet

The pad is an easy point to miss

All of these posts that say "the iPad sucks because it's not a laptop" only succeed in showing how well they fail to understand the point.

Repeat after me: The iPad is Not a laptop. There, do we feel better now?

The iPad isn't a computer as we've cone to use the term, it's an alternative computing device. To say that the iPad is crap because it doesn't have laptop features is like saying a Helicopter is crap because it doesn't go as fast as an aeroplane - well duh, different tools for different jobs. It's an alternative style to get some of the same things done, and some other things that your laptop isn't built to do well.

There are things that both factors will do well. Are there situations where the iPad will be easier and more useful than a netbook - yes; and vice versa.

Now can we please stop critisibg the apple because you can't use it to make orange juice? (pun unintended).

Steve Jobs uncloaks the 'iPad'

Not for me, but they'll sell a few

I can actually see a few situations where it might be useful. You want to be productive on the train/plane/Carpool and using a full fledged laptop is to uncomortable, or to shut up the kids with a mini media centre in the back seat.

Not for me, and I think the Analysts sales predictions are WAY off, but I think there is a market there.

MS to issue emergency patch for potent IE vuln

So....

Will MS be withdrawin the "Upgrade to 7 or get hacked" advice?

Chavez decries evils of PlayStation

An offer to Mr Chavez

I have an offer for Mr Chavez,

I note with interest that you've rolled out the "violent video games teach you to kill" line. Well Mr Chavez, I've recently been putting a lot of time into "trauma hospital" on the Wii. If for some reason you need a surgon, I'm happy to do it. I've not been playing on the hard level, so there's no charge for my services.

Jack Thompson, if you're out there, the offer applies to you too.

Microsoft predicts Linux will fail mobile 'quality' test

Well I suppose MS are the experts on where the mobile quality bar is

Since they keep tripping over it.

Orange chief engulfed by Apple Tablet feeding frenzy

to be fair...

Thats all it sounded like to me. A couple of yeses to aknowledge what the interviewer was saying (verbal nods), until the of course bit.... That bit I'm not sure what was going on.

France floats Google music-and-movie tax

I don't see the logic here

Piracy's a problem, so we're going to tax advertising?

I just don't get it.

Google tries to quietly trample on Apple's toes

I think you're right

What I've seen online suggests that the nexus is no better than android phones already out there. So as an iPhone user I have to ask: what does it do that I don't already have, or do better than I already have.

The only answer I can see so far is that I can bypass the official app store if I want (and possibly open myself up to apps that do something other than advertised).

Me too! Isn't enough to be a hit (outside of Entertainment).

US mum calls 911 over Grand Theft Auto

But if he was in arkansas

If he was in Arkansas, all he'd have to do would be to plead baptist, claim to see the light, and huckabee would get him off.

Video surfaces of alleged Apple tablet

Wow....

I don't care if its real or just a very good fake... I want one.

Pitchfork-wielding mobs encircle smart meters

Maybe....

I know its probably a bit unlikely, but could it be that the old meters were just underreporting? - The fault not with the new, but with the old?

iPhone anti-malware stuck in state of denial

Apple is taking the malware issue proactively

Apple are taking the malware issue proactively. If you havent made unauthorised changes to your phone, all your software is installed via the app store, which is reviewed and malware rejected.

If you have made unauthorised changes to your phone, well that's not apple's fault.

If you use the device, as directed, no anti malware program required!

Ballmer waxes lyrical about Windows 7 double bubble sales

Is this really news?

Thing that is not quite shit sells better than pure shit. In other news, Dog bites man, more news at 11.

TalkTalk steps up attack on government

Is anyone seriously buying this

If you can't afford an extra 50p per month, I think you've got bigger problems than your broadband...

South Africa official calls for 'outright ban' on pornography

Surely it would be more effective....

To ensure an outright ban on children instead?

I mean if there are no children, there can be no child porn, whereas the availability of regular porn can't effect directly effect the level of kiddie porn.

It's easier for dirty mags to be passed through the black Market than children, it's also harder to hide children if you're raided.

(all comments made in jest to highlight the absurdity of the situation).