Posts by Michael Habel

Tech giants at war: Google pulls plug on YouTube in Amazon kit

Re: Don't get worked up over each other

It's kinda hard to whinge on about how warm it is when your freezing your nuts off waiting to catch the Bus into Work, in the Morning. And not look like a complete douche while attempting to do so.

Re: Don't get worked up over each other

Flawed argument is seriously flawed... Or I must not live in the same dimension as the Op, where both Google, and Amazon. Live on the same plain as an AT&T, or Comcast. Which unlike them (Google, and Amazon), actually ARE ISPs.

Sorry if I fail to equate AWS with an ISP. As far as Google Fiber goes... Call me back whenever the manage to gain any real traction with that. A few Poduck Towns exclusive to the USA does not an ISP on the level of the BIG BOYs make.

But, hay don't let me disrupt your wonderful narrative....

Huawei Mate 10 Pro: The unfashionable estate car wants to go to town

Re: Price...

Hell you'd only be so lucky just to pay that over the course of a Two Year Contract. In most cases you probably could get away with buying Three.

Re: Close but no cigar .....

1) Extra cost

2) Who needs a crappy SD Card when you have a 128GBs of built in storage

3 It's current year, and it's time for you to step up your Bluetooth game

Re: 18:9 displays are 10 a penny these days...

Which is still just a 2:1 ratio, at the end of the day.

Did you unwittingly support the destruction of net neutrality rules?

So anyone who's against removing Net Neutrality. Thinks the likes of Netflix should be given a pass for all the Traffic they eat up? While paying the same freight charges as the Website to SpaceJam? Which probably is lucky to see traffic in the 10s of visitors a year. Something doesn't seem right about this.

Tiered Internet memes from 2014 (i.e. you can only visit this Site if you've paid us that amount), would be shut down faster than the next ISP that decided NOT to do that to their customers.

And, again... The so-called "hindrance" of free sprach? Seems to me... That if you just happen to hold some unpopular opinion... *cough* MAGA *cough*, or your just reasonable enough to recognize that most lifeforms have just the TWO SEXES... (And, anything else is a mental health issue). Than yeah... Let us speak of this mythical freedom of speech thing, and how repealing Obummer era Net Neutrality is somehow gonna place an even greater burden on said freedom.

Seems to me the Internet got on just fine between it's inception, and what was it? 2015 when Obummer signed the Bill. >Implying the Internet will die with it's repeal. Perhaps you lot should stop over reacting, and read the FCC proposal instead.

Re: Strange pattern

Who Sanders? I think he went back to the Senate.

Re: Strange pattern

In all fairness given a fair shot... (Which was NOT afforded to Mr. Sanders), Berry the HIV Infected Flea would've crushed ol' Killary Rotten Clinton. It happened sadly in 2008, and thankfully again in 2016. But, hay Hillary gal keep running, and give us Trump 2020!

Re: queue remoaners wanting a similar tool in the UK to validate brexit votes (:

Re: Freedom of Speech.... (See Twitter, Facebook, and Google (e.g. YouTube)...

NEWSFLASH: We haven't had this "Freedom of Speach" of which you speak of, for quite a while now.

So mythbusted...

Is Oomi the all-in-one smart home system we've been waiting for?

Re: You Car just drives itself....

Give it time.... Give it time.

Tesla reveals a less-long-legged truck, but a bigger reservation price

They mad bro :D

Barking absolutely barking....

'Urgent data corruption issue' destroys filesystems in Linux 4.14

Re: That's open source or you...

That's why the let the Plebs with Free Win X do the testing for them...

Re: That's open source or you...

Yummm tasty North Sea Pr0nz!

Iranian military hacker fingered for 'Game of p0wns' HBO leak

Surly the CIA has better things to do then bother this poor smuck? Or?

As Google clamps down, 'Droid developer warns 'breaking day' is coming

There are always innocent casualties in War.

That said, they should not just toss this idea away because a few Dev will get their Fefees hurt. Because they decided to take a shortcut instead of writing precisely targeted Code. That doesn't have to rely on such shortcuts, which may (or may not), also open the Door to other bad actors.

So this time at least I will side on the Chocolate Factory on this Issue.

Linus Torvalds 'sorry' for swearing, blames popularity of Linux itself

The deterioration of my 'Health', and 'Well-being', are both largely do the the appalling lack of Beer-O'clock. As Carlin once remarked HSIOW. And we still have another Two gruling Days till we get there...

Amazon launches Secret Region – so secret it's endorsed by the CIA

Re: CIA + Secrets = red flag to Wikileaks & the conspiracy nuts

As theCat from the 100$(USD), Note, was noted to have remarked....

Two can keep a Secret... If One of them is dead...

Samsung shows off Linux desktops on Galaxy smartmobes

Replacing the Company Laptop? Yep talking of a real slice of Pie in the Sky stuff here... Implying I want to use a 5lb re-education tool to hammer up a Nail to hang my Pictures on the Wall. But, in this case it would be in reverse..

Just 'cause you might be able to replace your Laptop wit a Phablet... It's probably still not entirely desirable to actually do it.

Re: Still waiting

Ok forget Windows.. Has there ever been any real work done to port anything like BSD, or a proper Linux to those Atom powered Devices.

Hell it's depressing as Hell that Canonical ended up going with some no-name brand, and only sold their Phones in some British DIY Shop that traditionally doesn't sell those types of things (e.g. Phones). Thus further insuring their utter failure.

Knowing Samsung they'll make all the right noises about it coming out in some future update. That everyone will end-up hanging on their Phones for the next 6 - 8 Months for. Only to learn that this will be an exclusive feature of the Galaxy 9 Note. (And, that will be if someone in Seoul actually gives a toss about a feature, that arguably 99% of their userbase couldn't give a rats behind about.

Belgian court says Skype must provide interception facilities

Re: why does iplaye implement geo blocking

Well the nuked Top Gear... And now their doing the same with Doctor Who*. Didn't they also lose Bake Off as well? Seems all they have left are shows about Fleamarket (Bootsales), and reprocessed homes under the B&Hammer. Yeah I don't think I'm missing much either.

And since the last time I checked BBC4 was nothing but, bunch of repeates from >2010. Again saw all that crap before they cut the spot beam down. Thus ending my viewing of those Channels via Freesat.

*I shall probably stop watching this nonsense after the Christmas Special. What a shame the BBC wasted such a great actor for this role.... But, this could be said of anyone post Davidson.

That said this was One Shark too many...

Re: Belgium is a tiny country

If that's the case... The why does the BBC (i.e. iPlayer) do this?

Heads up: OnePlus phones have a secret root backdoor and the password is 'angela'

Mutti letting in undesirables in since 2015!

Boffins on alert: Brace yourselves for huge gravitational wave coming within a decade

Re: In other words,

>Implying that you better then the rest of us... We all came off the "B Ark"...

Boffins: We can identify you by your typing, and we're gonna sell the tech to biz, govt – yay!

Re: Accelerometer data

~You can tell by the way I use my walk?~

You're despicable!

Qualcomm is shipping next chip it'll perhaps get sued for: ARM server processor Centriq 2400

Where are nVIDIA on this front?

Actually FWIW I wonder why Team Green aren't exploring this market with something like their Pascal (Tegra), Chips. This almost feels like something they were aiming for before being shot down, by both Intel, and Team Red (AMD/ATi).

Stop worrying and let the machines take our jobs – report

Re: Umm?

Better than last year, in that we now have massive concrete blocks to protect us from disgruntled foreigners driving their trucks into a bunch of recently unemployed people's enjoying a local street fair.

Don't worry about those 40 Linux USB security holes. That's not a typo

Re: Who could have predicted that?

Sounds like the ideal place to store some planned Council Plans, regarding a purposed bypass.

Re: Tell me now

That's a strange use of the word "Upgrade", that I was previously unaware of...

It's 2017 and you can still pwn Android gear with Wi-Fi packets – so get patching now

Re: Dear Motorola

About the same as with those you spend 400+£€$$ on. If you stupid enough to get a Samsung Tablet.

As to how safe it all is... Is down to a mixture of how well you can read, and follow directions off a Forum. But, as always the best place to start is on XDA-Developers.

For fanbois only? Face ID is turning punters off picking up an iPhone X

What about those with optical defefficiencies?

Assuming this Face Scan is anything like Google's / Samsung Face Scan unlock that can't do sh-- when I have my Glasses on...

Car insurers recoil in horror from paying auto autos' speeding fines

So I'm liable for my Volkswagon exceeding CO2 emissions?~

Actually yes you probably are. But, since your Car is still likely under some Warranty or other. You could try, and take it up with VW. Though I doubt they would care much.

Re: Terrorism

Yeah... 'Cause that kind of thinking has kept the like of S0NY (PSP, PS3, PSV, and PS4), safe from any, and all whoever had an interest in hacking such a Device. Perhaps our good friends at John Deer, will find a way to criminalize the act of simply trying to attempt a cheaper DIY Job, instead of opting for the more expensive Dealership Garage to do it for you.

Forget One Windows, Microsoft says it's time to modernize your apps

Good bye, and good riddance I say!

Why the hate on salted Pork Products?

It's clearly not HALAL enough.

Wanna exorcise Intel's secretive hidden CPU from your hardware? Meet Purism's laptops

Re: We need companies like Purism

~For example, how can one be sure the government can't subvert every phone using their airwaves if all radio chips must go through them first?~

Thus we have a reason why these Companies such as Purism exist for. It's up to you if you think that they are trusty enough, or not.

A real Third Option is to NOT support Companies that pull this kind of crap. Which may on the face of it seem harder than it seems. But, I gather that this is only on the newer CPUs.

Re: We need companies like Purism

~Only when Satan has been cast from the fiery pit of hell can Google not be evil.~

Really?! I would have thought he would have scored himself a nice Desk as the CEO of the slightly melting Chocolate Factory, had he been in need of some new employment.

Re: We need companies like Purism

I down voted you while your 'Heart' may well be with-in the PCZ (Political Correctness Zone), simply miming out the motions wont make anyone more secure in the end. In the end you only have but, Two options. Either do the job, you were tasked to do, Or find someone else who can. Making chimp like noises about having done much about nothing, and in the grand scheme of things serves no purpose other then to trick the schmo into buying whatever snake oil is on tap that day.

While it may well be regarded as a better fix then not having done anything at all... it would have at least been more useful had this lot targeted Windows instead. Not that I have anything against Linux. But, like it or not, Windows is still the workplace king.

Re: Disabled? Yeah, right...

S0NY Called they want their PSP back!

Facebook, Google and pals may be hit with TV political ads rules

Demorats just can't accept reality....

http://oi66.tinypic.com/33ences.jpg

FCC Commissioner blasts new TV standard as a 'household tax'

Except I think their "Mile" is longer than ours...

It's 2017... And Windows PCs can be pwned via DNS, webpages, Office docs, fonts – and some TPM keys are fscked too

Re: The NeverEnding Story Continues...

Hopefully MicroSoft would have rolled over by then.

Re: Old vs New Bugs

Blame the lack of interest in Windows X for that... After all that's where most of the Alpha / ßeta team now sit. Saving M$ undoubtedly countless ¥€$ on internally testing their Software.

Google touts Babel Fish-esque in-ear real-time translators. And the usual computer stuff

I suspect device owners want to keep their Devices nice, and happily chugging along. Poor 'ol Marvin would cause them to permabrick themselves.

Re: Please translate:-

It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated though.

Sure thing Clippy. Just let me unbend you into a U shaped bit of wire. So as to gauge the Assistants virtual eyes out.

I for One would prefer them actually using the voice of Peter Geoffrey Francis Jones.... For obvious reasons.

Microsoft gives all staff a marked-up 'Employee Edition' of Satya Nadella's new book

Re: That's one way ...

I bet Hillary wished she though of it first...

Re: An 'Employee Edition' of Satya Nadella's Book...

For Christ why!?

Equifax's disastrous Struts patching blunder: THOUSANDS of other orgs did it too

So with this thought in mind... Tell us how you feel about MicroSoft force feeding their mostly untested, possibly unwanted 'Updates' on everyone.

So Your 'Ideal World' kinda took a misstep. Namely clued in end-users Capable of maintaining their own Machines. So I said before. I would wonder how compliant these Organizations would all become, had there actually been some rather painful discomfort to their bottom lines. And, not merely the gentle massage of the Pinkie their usually accustomed to. Case in point such idiot outfits out there that still think using Windows XP, Three, and a half plus Years is still somehow a good idea. Till they get hit upside the head with Wannacry.