Posts by D. M

IQ test: 'Artificial intelligence system as smart as a four year-old'

already too smart

No common sense, and know a lot of facts? It is already smarter then most politicians, CEO, executive management...

This is the raise of skynet, stop it now.

Cosmic blast mystery solved in neutron star's intense death throes

My head hurt

Just try to understand what happens out there.

Turn off the mic: Nokia gets injunction on 'key' HTC One component

Maybe HTC could focus on

bringing what customers want, instead what they wanted to push, they'd sell a lot better? The crap mic doesn't matter.

I still think HTC has solid build, but the stupid copying Crapple no SD card policy, is a really killer.

Nokia, well, that company died long time ago.

Apple the victim after Chinese scammers exploit returns policy

Just usual stupidity

Nothing more. Speak with "inside" knowledge: Apple and other big companies are very good at control their service chain. You may slip couple of small jobs with no exchange parts in, or get free software, but getting a new phone is very hard, and it is almost certain the very act will be known to the management, and the punishment is not light either.

This is a simple case of few stupid employees got greedy, it can happen anywhere. And you can bet all the "lost" will be paid back.

Now, if someone smart that really took multi millions $ worth of hardware, and got away with it, that will be a real news. Oh, even that happened, I still won't feel sorry for this greedy entity.

Australia's alternative NBN plan: some taxpayer-friendly questions

most important question

Are they high, or just incredibly stupid?

Sadly those will be in power soon, and the only good thing (NBN) current gov has every done, will be throw out too.

Patent shark‘s copyright claim could bite all Unix

I thought the company name was odd

and when I saw "nsfw", everything made sense. Good one.

Google patent filing suggests Glass will be ULTIMATE REMOTE

forget remote control, I want the iron man vision

The one in movie and comic book.

Voyager goes off a (helio) cliff

In space, no one was holding it wrong

Now you know if suddenly it cannot phone home anymore, then someone (space alien???) has been holding it wrong.

Review: HTC One

No removable bettary, no SD card = no sale

I was looking at what HTC could offer before I bought my S3. Everything looked decent until you see HTC copied the worst piece of Sh*t iCrap does.

I don't use cloud storage, neither trust it, or wanted to waste my mobile data (here the amount is rather limited unless you pay outrages amount of money to buy extra block of data). And removable battery is very useful for me.

Again, I give HTC 0% which is only slightly better than I rate iCrap at -1billion%.

Samsung's new co-CEO: 'Windows isn't selling very well'

@kurt 4

Most people do care if they got windows phone, because the apps they already paid (whether to Apple or Google or other 3rd party) wont work, and you'd rather bet people care a great deal if their own money was involved.

I bought galaxy s3 because it has nice hardward, and it runs what I need to run + support the stuff I already paid + I can install apps without anyone else's approval + I can make it more or less how I wanted it to be.

Turnbull says NBN Co could offer FTTN with optional fibre-for-cash

@-tim

That's not even a good troll. You'd either have a head full of rock, or believe we are stupid enough to believe any Liberal party BS. Once they get in the gov, they'd like everyone to go back to dial-up age.

Liberal thinks wireless connection from our so call "3G" is great enough for everyone. Everyone who is not Liberal troll knows how bad our over sold, over capacity mobile network works in real life. Not forget how expensive mobile connection will cost once you made any decent use.

wireless is never going to beat wired connection for speed and reliability.

Myself is so glad my street is NBN ready, and I can finally get some real decent service. For the past nearly 20 years, I've been getting sh*t connection because of Telstra (back then it was called Telcom). Now the biggest compliant is NBN Co doesn't have enough people to connect home to fibre and they keep f*ck up their booking system (I've been told that I may have to wait a week just my ISP could book with NBN Co to get the some guy to check when he can come to my house to connect the fibre. And I'm not alone in this situation).

Judge: There'll be no US Samsung ban, BUT no new trial with Apple either

Isn't lying during void dire an offense by itself?

As title, how is this not mistrial? How much did they pay to bribe the judge?

The whole US legal system should be blowed up and start over.

'We asked firms if they were looking at Windows 8, most laughed'

The place I work, upgrade to win7 (we just started a very small number of roll out for test, full upgrade will come in following months), has already created enough problems (incompatibility). On top of it, our external support provider absolutely hate win7 since it breaks their remote access (over user machine) ability. And I can tell from our very large user base (in the upper range of 1000s users, not 10k yet), any change to the interface is going to be a nightmare. We were planned to upgrade to office 2010, which has not happening yet (the stupid interface is a major issue).

Don't MS learn anything? Once they found something works, leave it alone. The windows interface lasted so long, because it works, don't bloody break it.

Google Nexus 7 blighted by brightness blunder

the image does seem a little wrong

To my eyes, the photo seems a little washed out. The color just doesn't seem as good as other nice display (eg. galaxy tab).

However, as the "expert" stated, this should be easy fix by software update.

Spy under your car bonnet 'worth billions by 2016'

Re: Load of money making s#¡t!

only if the map is accurate in real time. tracking by GPS and limit car speed to the "mapped" speed is a terrible idea. And you'd also have to let the car auto speed up to the speed limit, it is annoying that someone drives 5k below the limit yet, will speed up to prevent you from overtaking.

Huawei banned from Australia’s NBN: reports

Is it clear

that they rejected Huawei, using "security" as excuse, to hide the real reason - they'd need to buy gears from US of A master, even those gears are made in China anyway.

Judge nixes Apple's bid to patent-bash bankrupt Kodak

R&D

Apple's R&D department is called "Retribution and Destroy".

Apple is always above the law

wait, Apple is the law.

I say fuck them all. Completely disallow patents. The current system is broken without any hope.

'Regrouping' Android tablet makers extend Apple reign

who's fault was that?

1. We have Android tablet makers who cannot make a sensible device at reasonable price. Who (would be sensible enough to buy non Apple products) would buy a expensive toy at a price more expensive than a decent laptop.

2. Most people are stupid beyond any hope, they would buy what ever crap Apple sells, at what ever price Apple asks.

I was looking for a tablet (for possible work use), but the only option would be a crap iPad. I'd better get the new ultra book, the only problem is my workplace may not support it, and the good ultra book are not available here.

3D: 10% of LCD TVs in 2011, 25% in 2012

Not many care about 3D

The only reason 3D TV sales are up, because their price are down and the quality is generally better. For average public, 3D sounds better too.

Passive 3D is the way to go, active 3D glasses are too much hassle. And there isn't any quality 3D contents anyway.

Flying Spaghetti Monster's works spotted in space

prove I'm wrong

The true creator of universe is the flying monster. We cannot see/feel him, but we must have faith in him. You either believe or you don't.

Now, I'll sue every school that doesn't teach the only true creationism.

New iPad 4G data connection will only work in America

USofA is not part of the world

Don't you watch Futurama?

Telstra tips assets into NBN Co

Don't blame the current gov

It was the previous Lib gov that hell bend to sell off public asset. Our up coming Lib gov will no doubt sell off NBN again as they did to Telecom (if anyone still remember the name).

Apple wins access to Google, Motorola documents

Apple can get away from everything

They get mad brainless follower who would do anything asked for, and they have enough money to buy off lawyers and judges. What else they cannot do?

The US legal system is broken beyond any hope. Nuke it from orbit, that's the only way to be sure.

Oz says 41 hits a day turn bloggers into publishers

madness

I bet each of comment here would have more than 41 views a day.

And what If I stick piece of paper outside (eg. garage sale sign), that would get more than 41 views for sure.

Apple files patent for 'polished meteorite' keyboard

crApple's target market

never seen, know or take notice of those old keyboards, keys. Remember they live inside Apple's RDF (Reality distortion field).

The problem is their army of lawyers will sue everyone else on this planet.

The whole system needs to be throw out.

Ubuntu for Android: Penguins peck at Nokia's core problem

fail

Ubuntu on desktop is disaster since the unity crap. And now they want to put it on phone? Even it works, you still get a very underpowered desktop, it might be good for limited situation, but it doesn't make any sense. If we have the sort of processor power and power source technology in ?Star Trek, then we are talking about true mobile phone/computer all in one device.

Google swings new mobile unlock patent punch at Apple

Only if I can paten stupidity

I'd solve most of the world's problem.

New stealthy botnet Trojan holds Facebook users hostage

@The BigYin

Not all of them, but very few may survive.

Intel caught faking CES ultrabook gaming demo

This is not logical

If the reason is game loading time, why can't they play a video on big screen that shows someone play the game properly (eg. clearly show the person play such game on such hardware). I'd want to see something "real" than fake movie.

Doomsday Clock ticks one minute closer to annihilation

@Khaptain

Religions and some cultures are aimed to populate the earth. They believe some how earth can support unlimited population. The answer: 1. Proper education (not some religion school bullshit) 2. Just get rid of all religions Human is doomed. We are doing our best for self destruction..

Well, burn my atomic-clock-powered new human renaissance platform

Everyone knows SJ's last word was

Ahhhhhh~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Internode falls to iiNet acquisition temptation

my experience

with iiNet is very positive. Their customer service is far better than anyone else I have had. And their tech staff generally knows what they talking about. Their internet service is not flawless but it is as good as anyone else can ever be (Telstra line/exchange issues are outside their control).

A plus point to iiNet: their tech staff is Linux friendly, which is rare these days. Try Bigpond/Optus/TPG, and tell them you run Linux, they would act like you don't speak English.

The only problems I have had with them, were couple of account issues (very slow to refund, set my account wrong, etc).

Internode service is no better or no worse than iiNet, in my experience. Matter of fact, I really like iiNet customer service better than Internode.

BOFH: The day the office budget bombed – literally

They've done it before

Somehow, the life support machine stopped function...

A personal visit is not required.

Diesel burns very well (it is just slightly harder to start).

Jobs: 'I'll spend my dying breath destroying Android'

Well, what do you expect?

Any wish from such evil one, cannot be good. There is nothing would surprise me, not even it was revealed Mr Jobs was behind of all of the so called "terrorist groups", and it was Mr Jobs, those terrorists worship as their God.

As I said before, the world is a better place without him. Just let him go, we need to move on.

BOFH: Hordes unleashed... by a RAM upgrade

So true, yet so sad

People are that stupid. I really wish this is only fiction. I have to deal with this sort of users at my work.

Samsung demands iPhone 4S ban in Japan and Oz

Why not?

So only Apple can sue everyone else using their stupid worthless "patents"? It is only fair for other parties to fight back.

The whole bloody stupid patent system need to go.

Boffins whip up SELF-WIRING chip

Cool, and here is an idea

Apple's new meaning of locked down eco system - "you cannot rewire your chip".

Boffins fear killer gamma death blasts from space

Can't we start building Enterprise

It seems to have enough supply to last a long long time.

Samsung offers Apple TOP-SECRET peace deal in Australia

fight in court is expensive

If it costs less otherwise, then the likely outcome is "following the money" as always.

Personally, I'd hope blow all patent system out and start over.

GNOME emits 'head up the arse' desktop update

Another mint user

Try Mint. It works and doesn't take crap.

I think it is much to do with how Mint was financed. Mint is community based. Its users (like me) contribute to the project cost. If the developers do any crap to piss the users, they are in crap then.

Apple to Oz court: ‘Our products are lame, really’

51 state

You guys know that our informed few here have been saying for years. UK is 51st state of US of A, and Australia is backyard of UK.

US has being freely fucking our country for a long time.

Sixty-seven WIMPs spotted in the wild, maybe

how science works

is if your theory says X, you must prove it. Any disprove, doesn't matter how small part of your theory was disproved, your theory is doomed. If you cannot prove X, then X can be only a theory.

The way religion works, is your religion says X, you have to blindly believe it.

That's separate science and religion, and that's why science works and religion doesn't.

9/11: The day we lost our privacy and power

Already too late

The current generation, or even the my own generation, has already lost all sense of reason, principle and logic.

People now believe every aspect of their life should be controlled by gov or some large company.

No pain, some gain: Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot examined

I don't think develpers want to f*ck up perfectly good UI

I believe the madness was caused by a few individuals (who are in position to push their ideas). Normally, developers don't want to break things that work, just for the sack of something new.

As "Do what users want", Linux Mint is your best bet..

LMDE

Try it, everything good about Debian, plus everything works out of box, and none of the unity/gnome 3 crap.

If I want to turn my desktop to a phone interface, I'd use a phone instead desktop. Those "designers" behind unity/gnome 3 must be brain dead.

Sweden rolls out invisible infrared tank

Romulan technology?

This clearly wouldn't work. How did romulans do it?

Oz cybercrime bill passes on the nod, unchanged

It is not like someone is better

They are all the same, doesn't matter what party/country, they want power and becoming big brother.

1984 is not fiction, the end is getting closer.

UK's first Stealth fighter in successful catapult test

F18

Yes, we aussie bought F18, but it is kind of not fix for our situation. F18 would make a good buy for you brits, since you have aircraft carrier. We do not. F18 just doesn't have the range we need. You brits have carrier, F18 would make very good sense.

It's official: IE users are dumb as a bag of hammers

This is news?

It has been for years that any person who has IQ over 100 would not use IE.