Posts by inmypjs

In this Facebook and Google-owned world, it's time to rethink privacy

"And if anyone thinks that we can continue on as we have been"

While the world is full of morons who use the services without a second thought google and facebook will carry on doing pretty much what they like.

Broadband-pushers expand user piggyback rides on private Wi-Fi

So how does this work

How about some stats on actual usage of these home provided public hotspots?

With the number of people (me included) that struggle to get a decent wifi connection in places inside the house who is going to get a decent connection to my public hotspot (if I had one). People visiting me? At a push people visiting next door and maybe people who want to stand in the road outside my house.

I just don't see much of a use case for home public hotspots especially when the limited access is further restricted by having to match service suppliers.

Folk shun UK.gov's 'expensive' subsidised satellite broadband

Re: £££££££££££

"Typically get through 50-100GB a month, but with two teenage boys, after a Steam sale we can hit 250GB."

How disgusting the government can't come up with a better scheme for the rest of us to pay for teenagers to not have to wait for their steam downloads.

The real disaster is not the scheme but the idiot politicians that thought it should be set up.

Waving Microsoft's Windows 10 stick won't help Intel's Gen 6 core

Re: People are excited???

"If he thinks people are excited by Windows 10, then I suggest"

Aww come on it was only a 'estimate' and in reality people were excited - just most of them not in a good way.

Amazon cloud increasingly powered by hot air

"That juice feeds into the local grid, which in turn nourishes AWS bit barns in Virginia"

That juice feeds into the local grid when it is windy.

When it isn't windy the AWS bit barns in Virginia use the grid as an enormous and expensive battery which someone else pays for.

Dialog box shut: Now Microchip is set to gobble up Atmel

"I know several hardware designers who will walk away if they are subsumed by PIC makers."

You know a bunch of idiots then.

Microchip silicon isn't substantially more or less buggy than anyone else's. There customer support is much better than most and Atmel,.

Atmel have a history of shitting on customers setting their fabs to make what is most profitable at the time leaving longer term customers with Atmel design ins to go fish.

They will also make parts obsolete leaving customers with expensive re-design and re-qualifaction. Microchip still make and sell parts from the 80's.

"best known to people as the designer of the processor in Arduino boards"

Microchip sells more than 3 million microprocessor chips a day, More than have been used to build all the Arduinos, clones, and derivatives ever made.

Arduino sales are trivial for Atmel and utterly trivial in the global semiconductor market.

When it comes to being gobby on the web and 'new media' the Arduino proponents are rather less trivial.

Murderous necrophiliac kangaroo briefly wins nation's heart

Can I

eat it, can I bonk it, can it eat me.

Sums up life on the planet - not necessarily in that order.

Huffing and puffing Intel needs new diet of chips if it's to stay in shape

"Microsoft dishing out free copies of Windows 10 to people hasn't helped..

– most normal people buy a new machine to get a new OS".

Most normal people don't want to get Win 10, it is a reason *not* to buy a new machine (unless its a Mac).

Australia considers mass herpes release for population control

Re: racist bastards

"I eventually thought I'd address this strange display of ignorance seriously"

Who the fuck are you to say that rabbits or carp should not be allowed to prosper in Australia? or for an example closer to home grey squirrels are vermin which you are required by law to kill if caught while you will be prosecuted for harming a red squirrel.

Dolphins caught in Tuna nets are tragic while Tuna caught in Tuna nets are tasty.

How would suggesting development of a lethal herpes virus that targets Muslims go down?

I thought I was being more observant than ignorant about how full of shit people are.

racist bastards

Funny how you can kill (and are even required to kill) some animals because they are the wrong colour or race.

Now biological weapons are ok as well.

How hard can it be to kick terrorists off the web? Tech bosses, US govt bods thrash it out

"kick terrorists off the web"

So if they think they can identify terrorists can't they think of something more effective to do than blocking them from facebook and twitter?

If you were monitoring terrorist communications on the phone or social or any other media the last thing you would do it force disconnect them from that media so you could not monitor them any more.

They can't possibly be talking about kicking terrorists off the web, they are talking about kicking off large groups of people or areas or countries because they might include some terrorists.

Or more likely they are talking about pathetic gesturing, kicking off anyone who vaguely whiffs of being a terrorist but almost certainly isn't.

Confirmed: How to stop Windows 10 forcing itself onto PCs – your essential guide

Re: Spying

"If it wasn't for that I would be quite happy with it!"

Lets see how happy you are when you have to start buying it monthly.

Do some of you seriously think Microsoft is trying to ram Win 10 down everyone's throats while it is still a free upgrade because they don't want to make money?

Reverser laments crypto game protection, says wares dead after 2018

Re: Good

"Fighting the pirates is taking away resources away from developing other games which the rest of us can enjoy."

And beating the pirates means the rest of us have to pay full price to find out if we do or don't enjoy a game so developers will worry less about making enjoyable games and more about bribing reviewers.

CD Projekt Red knows if you make good games DRM is a waste of time.

ISPs: UK.gov should pay full costs of Snooper's Charter hardware

"UK.gov should pay"

The government doesn't pay for anything. Taxpayers pay.

That said I agree with them the government should be made to raise obvious taxes to pay for this crap rather than force a stealth tax on ISP customers.

Better they didn't bother wasting my money at all.

We're all really excited about new smartphones, laptops, tablets – said no one ever

Re: Small poll but interesting

"Everyone using an iPhone (10), without exception, intends to upgrade"

They buy things because they are made by apple what the things actually do is of secondary importance.

Apple could bring out an iButtplug bluetooth rectal thermometer at $200 and still sell millions of them.

2016 in mobile: Visit a components mall in China... 30 min later, you're a manufacturer

Re: Honor 7

"For £210 (with the promotion) it's exceedingly good value. It was down as far as £175 on Amazon last week which is insane"

Looking for an upgrade from a Moto G the Honor 7 tempted me several times but in the end not as much as £225 for an LG G4 from Vodafone and £2.50 to ebay for an unlock.

"Wearables come with inconvenience?"

Dunno - most people seeing my watch and thinking I am a complete wanker who paid £150 of Cupertino idiot tax on it seems a bit inconvenient.

Intel completes epic $16.7bn Altera swallow, fills self with vitamin IoT

Re: Real-life application: GbE smart switch

"e digital oscilloscope manufacturers (probably Tektronix) introduced a new series of digital smart scopes. All were based around the same FPGA-based board "

While HP/Agilent/Keysight continued development of their Megazoom ASICs producing a range of scopes which in price/performance terms pissed all over Tektronix offerings.

"We will apply Moore's Law to grow today's FPGA business"

Wow what a load crap that is.

The FPGA business will never grow much. FPGAs use too much silicon and too much power compared with silicon designed for a specific jobs (ASICs). That means FPGAs never get used in volumes which can support the design of an ASIC.

FPGAs have and will continue to get better but so have and will ASICs which pretty much maintains the FPGA's disadvantage.

It isn't a bad business to be in but not one for growth, The idea that FPGAs are going to be used by the million in autonomous vehicles is farcical and I don't see any internet of things application other than small parts in low volume applications.

Upset Microsoft stashes hard drive encryption keys in OneDrive cloud?

Re: RE: Most people don't keep data on their devices that needs to be encrypted

"Most people keep all sorts of things on their computers that should be encrypted, bank statements, utility bills"

You mean the sort of things they have been keeping on paper for decades and how many of them feel the need to keep bank statements or utility bills in a locked safe?

For me the utility of being able to take a drive out of one computer and read it in another outweighs the benefit of drive encryption which doesn't really make a shit of difference until the computer or drive is stolen.

Surface Pro 4: Will you go the F**K to SLEEP?

Re: All quiet on the western front

"Problem was, to get any work done I had to be in Windows."

Have an upvote from me. I too use substantial windows only applications which means to get most of my work done I have to be in Windows. That's why microsoft fucking it up for the sake of fondle slabs and phones is such a piss off.

Drivers? Where we’re going, we don’t need drivers…

Re: Get a grip on reality

"On average, around 90 people die every day in car crashes, in the US alone. It's hard to imagine that "AVs" will do a worse job"

Don't have much of an imagination do you.

90 a day is about one for every 93 million miles driven. Or your typical 14k miles a year driver will be killed once every 6640 years.

All googles AVs combined have barely done 1 million (dawdling) miles so far.

Microsoft steps up Windows 10 nagging

Re: They're not helping themselves here.

"Win10 being rubbish and to be avoided, to the point that some people are wanting to go back to the good ol' days of XP. As I said, it's a non-tech forum, but it does go to show what happens when you fail to get the message across properly."

It seems those non-tech people are indeed getting the message. Microsoft are desperate to get as many as are going to running Win 10 ASAP so they can start screwing money out of them. Windows10 is NOT FREE, Windows 10 will be the most expensive Windows ever - probably about £6 a month.

Not like the plan is even secret - just the detail of how, how much, and when. Bait and switch and so many are/have taken the bait despite things like the windows update farce looking like an enormous neon sign with BAIT written on it.

If you are running windows 10 you are a fool. Microsoft asked you to bend over and you said yes please and thank you.

Tesla recalls every single Model S car in seatbelt safety probe

"Jesus, trigger finger much?"

Tesla's market cap standing at a ridiculous $1/3 million for each of those 90,000 cars they have made is almost entirely based on sentiment and speculation so yes the slightest whiff of problem or bad publicity will cause a dive.

Of course Tesla will recall them all, their idiot investors gave them $1/3 million to spend on each car if that is what it takes to fend off problems and bad publicity.

Yes, GCHQ is hiring 1,900 staffers. It's not a snap decision

Hmmm

Employ 1800 more people in the ineffective worthless war against terror or terrorists killing a handful.

Which is the greater waste of human life?

Google-chaired think tank says Google's No.1 for digital rights

"merely performed a textual analysis of their mission statements"

So in reality the ranking is not in order of respect for digital rights but in order of how much they are prepared to lie about it.

And google comes top - well I never.

Windows 10 is an antique (and you might be too) says Google man

Criticism from the morons who...

designed a UI on/off widget which slides left or right when you press down on it and gives you absolutely no indication if left or right or it being a light or dark shade of some pastel colour is supposed to be on or fucking off.

KeePass looter: Password plunderer rinses pwned sysadmins

Re: When spelling is important.

"Never leave your password manager's database unlocked if you're not using it."

If your machine is compromised with a trojan running and waiting for an instance of keypass to attach to you are going to loose all your password the first time the database is unlocked.

Your 'clear lesson' typically isn't going to protect passwords for more than a couple of hours.

Windows 10 growth stalls during October

Re: Interested to see how this turns out...

"MS seem to be getting increasingly desperate to shovel W10 out by any means necessary"

Yes, because the sooner they decide they have got as many by the balls as they are going to, the sooner they can start squeezing.