Posts by Ascylto

Northerners give up ID cards for Lent figures suggest

Herr Flic

And don't forget ... there are no scanners widely in use for checking ID Cards.

Instead, we are advised to 'flick' the card ... it has a particular sound.

Are these people fucking crazy?

Yes.

Government spends £11k on ID card 'branding'

Which part of 'NO' don't they understand?

They spent £3,000,000 trying to convince Mancunians that a Congestion Charge was a good idea. We saw through their lies and deceptions then and they got a resounding 'NO'. Just what made them think an ID card availability was a good idea in Manchester shows just how far from reality our politicians like to live.

The politicos are mortally afraid that they could get Poll Tax type riots if they introduce compulsory ID cards so they'll try every backdoor method they can think of ... starting, of course, with the young and gullible. The present government have already got rid of habeas corpus, have succeeded in alienating the Police from the public, have introduce law upon law getting rid of rights the people have fought for since Magna Carta. You are no longer innocent until proven guilty. The government spurns ID legislation from the EU. They are SO afraid that they HAVE to have information on us and our whereabouts.

Stalinism?

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;

when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson.

You ain't seen nothing yet!

Microsoft boffin scoops Turing Award

Prints all over it

'expressed surprising at receiving the award'

'before going on to focus of developing a'

Yep, this is Microsoft alright!

Never mind, there'll be a patch next Tuesday or whenever.

Whiny Freetard.

Android - the winning formula for tablets and netbooks?

Not usable?

"... iPad is a flop ..." It's not even available yet, FFS!

You seem not to know much about hand-eye co-ordination. Many objects we observe are moving ... the eye compensates ... it really is wonderful.

3.22. Of course the iPads in the promo are on platforms! They're making a video for goodness sake and they'll use whatever it takes to make the video (& iPad) look good. We know that if a real iPad were propped on a person's legs it would move ... again, the eye compensates.

I would guess that many people will buy the case that allows angling of the iPad.

If the iPhone behaved as you suggest the iPad will ... how come it's such a success?

The Plain Truth

El Reg and other websites attract geeky people who know more than there is to know about computers. They are (probably) real wizzes with technology and the innards of phones, pads and computers.

They totally miss the point of Apple's strategy. They are so much up their own arses they can't see the train coming down the tracks.

Apple sells usability. Shininess and good industrial design are extras which are nice to have but not essential.

The reasons I use Mac at work and at home is because I'm NOT a geek. I just want my computer and phone to do what I want without a massively expensive IT staff to look after them. They work, for me, and I don't want to know HOW they work. I don't care if I can't download Jim Sproggett's Guide to the Complexities of C++ on my iPhone. I don't care if it's difficult to swap batteries in my iPod.

The plain truth is that the majority of people haven't a clue about computers. That's why IT staff make so much money and have so much influence in companies. They want computers just to work and if that is true for a Windows UI then that's fine.

Apple don't always get it right (Cube, TV etc.,) but when they do ... it gets BIG (they knocked Sony for six because Sony had its corporate head up its corporate bum). Same with the iPad. This device is what millions of users want ... a pretty device that switches on immediately, lets me read and reply to my emails, lets me surf the web, lets me read books, lets me watch films and, if I want, lets me do some basic stuff with flyers, accounts and the like. It's an absolute dream for millions of non-geeks.

And THAT is where Apple are clever. KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid.

Doctors tell government to stop the health records roll-out

I'm Out

In that I have opted out of the NHS Spine.

I think the Spine is a wonderful idea ... a doc in X can find out what I want / need / am on when I'm well away from home.

So far, the information could be on those bracelets / necklaces / watch straps you could get (remember them?) but what's down the line? 'Mission Creep' they call it. Gordon Brown has already said he's prepared to sell ID information so what happens when the Insurance Company wants your medical records ... do you tick / untick a box?

Too many IFs for me.

Conservatives want big IT deals delayed

Law

All the Tories have to do is say "We're gonna cancel any contracts we don't like AND we'll introduce a law which gives us the right to do so which trumps any contract law."

The IT companies will run a mile.

Fujitsu president was sacked, not sick

Still ...

... shouldn't stop them getting or continuing government (euphemism) contracts,

A bit of lying and thievery should ENSURE further contracts, surely?

Sony takes aim at Apple iPhone, iPad

Too clever by half

Sony have made some great devices and great concepts. However, like Apple, they are too proprietorial. I have a Sony camcorder ... good piece of kit but you have to have MemorySticks ... FAIL.

I have a Sony e-Reader ... good kit again, solid, well-built BUT it won't work with a Mac unless you use a third-party piece of software ... FAIL.

Like so many, they stand in the middle of the tracks and don't see the train coming towards them. They thought they were invincible and went for world domination then little Apple came along and bit their arse.

Make it well. Make it easy. Make it accessible to all.

Asus will hit e-pad market this year

Spaniards

Do Asus make a phone?

If so, the Spaniards would regard it as the 'Asus phone"!

Apple, prepare your lawyers.

Used

Used.

Naomi Campbell bitchslaps NY limo driver

I want ...

A Playmobil reconstruction or it remains a mere complaint.

iPad launch may be limited to US, says analyst

Think

Think Different(ly)

Don't listen to Trolls.

I'll bet you've got a floppy drive!

NHS denies pre-election stitch-up

Con-tracts

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

That is all.

ID cards: the first year report

Loyal?

And now that Microsoft are paying for their postage, are you still a supporter?

Which part of 'NO' don't they understand?

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C. S. Lewis

More workers poisoned by supplier for Apple, Nokia

And ...

I'll bet you think yours is bigger than theirs as well.

Anonymous Twat!

O2 revamps Sim-only tariffs for end-of-contract iPhone owners

Good so far, o2.

My o2 iPhone contract was for 18 months at £35 a month for 600 minutes and 500 texts and 'unlimited' internet. My new simplicity tariff with o2 is £20 a month (monthly tariff) and I get 700 minutes and 700 texts and 'unlimited' internet. It suits me just fine as I use about half of the available minutes and just a few of the texts. There MAY be better deals with Orange or Vodafone but, currently, the one thing the others can't manage is Customer Service which, in o2's case has been superb for me. I just hope o2 don't go the way of Orange and reduce their CS to one star out of ten (I don't think Voda ever had any service at all).

I want o2 to give us some tariffs for the iPad.

Experts rubbish iPhone for health use

PFI

"The trust is currently building two new hospitals through the private finance initiative..."

Enough said, really.

Who employs these wankers, anyway? We need nurses and doctors, not these superficial administrative tossers. Their likes have already bolloxed the NHS with IT schemes.

Apple uncovers child workers in its plants

Child(ish) labour

Considering the subject matter, your response says a lot about your mindset. Indeed, according to Apple's stated principles, you are definitely under-age, if not under the bridge.

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

I can help.

I'll send him my name and address.

Siemens' IT workers ballot for strike action at Beeb

Semens - What a waste!

The title is deliberate ... what a bunch of ouanquerres!

I thought the BBC would have got rid of them after they bolloxed the phone system!

They could have got EDS in instead!

Apple to take iPad orders this week?

Ha ha ha!

It's shiny.

It has an Apple on it.

It'll work.

I WILL have one.

I don't give a shit about the naysayers who poo-poo'd the iPhone, the lack of floppy drives, the fact that Flash is shite.

I WILL have one and ...

I WANT ONE!

Fanbois Unite!

I for one welcome Steve as my master and guru.

McKinnon gets a date for 'final' appeal

Not him!

Send the Civil Servant/Minister twat who signed this extradition agreement instead.

How can we have an agreement to extradite our citizens without evidence? Even to a country which boasts it's the "Land of the Free"(ish)?

The US wouldn't treat THEIR citizens in this way!

The myth of Britain's manufacturing decline

Rule, Britannia!

This country became 'Great' on the back of slavery and warfare. We once had a great navy and armed forces with which we could subdue much of the world. We haven't got them now so let's get real and become the country we really are ... a relatively small offshore island with little power in the world.

It's the turn of Asia and China to dominate and if we're clever (which we usually have been) we'll stay their 'mates'. Otherwise ... Ta ta!

5th verse of 'Rule, Britannia'

To thee belongs the rural reign;

Thy cities shall with commerce shine:

All thine shall be the subject main,

And every shore it circles thine.

"Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:

"Britons never will be slaves."

Look at us now ... the country of CCTV Cameras and ID Cards!

Newspapers slam BBC iPhone app plans

Rupert - bare

Rupert be damned. I'm happy for part of my licence fee to support smartphone content ... far happier than for part of my licence fee to support 'independent' Channel 4!

As usual, the BBC naysayers are supporters of News International and Fux Group.

BBC clambers onto iPhone bandwagon

And in case you should be in any doubt ...

The BBC person responsible for signing the contract with Siemens for the BBC phone system which doesn't work and will probably never work has left the BBC.

Who does he work for?

Well, Microsoft, of course!

Sounds about right!

Flash - in the pan

"An Adobe product manager has apologized for allowing a potentially serious bug in Flash Player to remain unfixed for more than 16 months," (El Reg)

Oh! That was after Steve Jobs described Adobe as 'lazy'!

Oh yeah?

This is no longer true!

Some unemployed people (and scruffy people) now have iPhones. I'll have to change. But to what?

Oh look...

it's another Microsoft troll.

Do just a little research and you'll see the influence the BBC has. There is far more Microsoft coverage (as you would expect) AND ex-Microsoft employees pepper the BBC.

Back under the bridge, now. Go on, off you go.

Sony backs away from OLED TV future

Hmmmmm...

Looks like a good acquisition for Microsoft, then. Innovation!

Royal hack police worker avoids jail

So ...

He didn't have Aspergers Syndrome, then?

Windows Phone 7 Series launched

Come on ...

Give Microsoft Windows Mobile a chance!

It might work!

Vodafone eyes iPhone switchers for fresh Sim-only deals

I Stuck with o2

Someone in a o2 shop switched me from my (expired) iPhone contract to the Simplicity tariff. If I joined online with my £20 a month I could get 700 minutes talk to any network, 1400 texts (no use to me) and unlimited internet (in practice over 3gb). AND I get a cheaper home broadband with o2.

More importantly than the above, however, is the one thing that, for the time being at any rate, is more important ... o2 really have got their Customer Services act together. They have been excellent in all my dealing with them and have UK call centres so I can understand them (Scots accents being OK).

So why would I change?

Let's see what deals they'll do with iPad 3g!

With MS funding, No2ID gains entry to EU eID group

Bye.

Goodbye, NOtoID.

You took the shilling.

'Clumsy' French cop tasers schoolkid

Tazered while Rome burned

So it gets Roman Emperors, then.

Microsoft erases Windows 8 optimism

Hurrah!

Windows 8:

"what people have been looking for years and it will change the way people think about PCs..."

"to listen to our customers needs and wants and get a team together than can make it happen."

AT LAST!

Oh ... wait ...

Apple bets on Mac-only photo land grab with Aperture 3

Right

After all, professional photographers wouldn’t be seen dead with a Windows-based machine, right?”

Right.

HP ordered to pay £200m in interim damages ruling

EDS + UKHMG = ££££££££££££

"EDS was found guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation"

So how come they are still considered for UK Government (euphemism) contracts.

We have more than an expenses scandal.

Chinese tablet maven threatens iPad suit

I'm with ...

the Chinese on this one.

After all, the Chinese have NEVER copied anything manufactured or designed elsewhere.

Blig Bluvver for obvious reasons.

Brits to get 3G iPad early - and at a reduced price?

Really?

"... they'll release the product they *should* have released in the first place." said Matt 89.

A bit like Windows, then.

Oh no ... Microsoft NEVER release the one they should have.

Duh! Of course the second generation will be 'enhanced'. It's known as Marketing. So will the 3rd generation ... just look at the iPods and iPhones.

Apple iPad to hit UK this March

Prices

These are going to be crucial to success.

As usual ... WE IN THE UK WILL BE RIPPED OFF!

Adobe sounds off on iPad's Flash slap

Remember ...

when Apple discontinued the Floppy Drive?

World will end.

Apple will crumble.

Bill Gates will save the World.

Flash ... Ahahh. (for film fans)

Seen one on a computer lately?

Flash is crap. Adobe know it. Stevie knows it. Apple know it. Millions of victims know it.

Apple are right ... again.

(I'm not sure about the iPad yet, though. I don't think it will go the way of Newton or the Cube but it does need a bit more Wow!)

As to Adolf ... he chooses the HP Slate ... he killed himself. Seems about right!

Gates backs China in Google censorship spat

B & M G Foundaton

"... but Bill's right when he says:

"And so you have got to decide, do you want to obey the laws of the countries you are in or not. If not, you may not end up doing business there,” Gates said."

No, Jake, he's NOT right because he SUPPORTS China.

But then what do you expect from one of the heads of a Foundation that has supported China in its 'one child' policy. How would YOU feel if your parents weren't allowed to let you have a brother or sister, or if you weren't allowed to have more than one child. Is it OK to murder girl children?

Like his father before him, Gates is a eugenicist; just like a little man with an unusual moustache who likewise wanted to dominate the world for at least a thousand years.

Steve Ballmer defaces fanboi MacBook

Worth?

It seems to me you are confusing the word "worth" with the word "paid".

Wintard

It's not a Hackintosh. You can legally run Windows on an Apple computer, using Apple's Bootcamp if you wish.

Stupid Boy!

Get it right.

So why do Apple supply (free of charge) Bootcamp which allows the use of Windows on a Apple machine?

Ouanquerre!

iPad pictures revealed

iSlate

The term 'iSlate' should have been bought by Microsoft.

As in "I's late" again.

Well, someone had to say it ... might as well be an Apple fanboi.

Manchester ID staff suffer isolation as new dawn fades

Hidey Cards

I got two unaddressed junk mails announcing the arrival of ID Cards.

Both went into the shredder.

I can't think why I've got a shredder, after all I've got nothing to hide! It must be a way to dispose of government (euphemism) junk mail.

UK HP workers will strike tomorrow

HP & EDS and Government Departments

Yet another example of these people (mostly UK Government (euphemism)) standing in the middle of the train tracks and not being able to see the express train bearing down on them.

When these people were not outsourced, when they were proper government (euphemism) employees we could have just had them shot as traitors.