Posts by Shane Kent

Don't buy your iPad in a McDonald's car park

Robble, robble...

She can say iGotHad

WikiLeaks admits insider deleted loads of its data

At A.C.

ETs were here, but they converted themselves to light to travel at the speed of light and got absorbed by the blackness around us. No proof to be had, RIP ET.

Google lands patent for, um, estimating shipment time

Someone should patent...

make computing device run faster and/or easier to use. One patent to rule them all, lol.

Apple sued over Mac OS X 'quick boot'

Config and autoexec...

A little late to the party weren't they. The patent should have been filed obsolete. And what if msdos.sys had changed, after all it is the only configuration file required for Win9x to boot?

P.S. to my comment

MSDOS.SYS is the only one of the "DOS files" required for Win9x to boot. Binary in old DOS and configuration file in Win95 and higher.

HP board gives Leo $10bn more funny money

Or is it...

Their logo and name are overvalued?

Ex–News International boss Brooks denies bribing cops

so she is...

not a bad person, just an incompetent boss? Nice defense, fits in with Google's it was one rogue engineer and we didn't realize we were collecting excess data ALL OVER THE WORLD. She should go down regardless of her BS defense. Utter slime, she should do time in a sewer not a prison.

Mac OS X Lion to include browser-only boot

I would think...

a reboot option stating no modular nightmare piece of s#!t Internet would be better. Just think, you could iWork without crap hitting ports in the background.

Reg hack applauds asinine augmentation

Seeing it is an ass, why not...

Booty, as in show me your booty.

Cybercrooks set up shop in Canada

Lol, blame Canada...

Is microsoft's crap software made here? MS should pay because I sure as he'll don't expect to pay more taxes or higher ISP rates. MS, and all the other companies, because there ain't much made here.

Microsoft breaks own world record for IE nonsense

Phase 3...

is MS plugging the security leaks caused by all the rushed programming in Phase 1 and 2. Then Phase 4 will be to restore the performance stripped away in Phase 3.

Pre-release Windows 8 code hits PC makers

RE: Embarrasing

Embarassing was the Ultimate Extras for Computer "Enthusiast". Don't know about the rest of you, but moving wallpaper and the tinker game? That one thing alone goes to show how far off base MS really is!

RE: Windows 3, 3.11, 95, 98 and ME were just GUI front-ends to DOS

Win 3X in standard mode is a GUI for DOS. Standard mode is a VCPI client, otherwise it runs as a DPMI server. Non standard mode have 32 disk access, and later vfat 32 bit file access. Windows 95 could use dos mode disk access, but for the most part it used DOS as a spring board and not just a pretty face for DOS. Each version of Windows trapped more of DOS and emulated LPT, COM, etc. through Windows drivers.

Much more than a GUI. Non-DOS drivers, file and memory management, and virtualized/emulated DOS environment.

Fukushima fearmongers are stealing our Jetsons future

"nuclear power is far and away the safest form of energy generation.."

I grew up between Pickering and Darlington (Ontario, Canada) and I was taught this (safe, etc.) growing up. And I was very pro Nuclear Power. But then I watched a documentary that points out what is driving the power plants (other side of the coin). The mining is nasty nasty nasty. Watch "Uranium" at www.nfb.ca it is an eye opener, the videos are free to watch.

FBI asks for help to crack mystery code in 12-year-old murder case

WTF?

Is it just me, or when you save the enlarged images they appear to be a 72dpi fax? I can't tell what is what, character over character, character next to character, stroked out, etc.

Maybe the FBI needs "help to crack mystery code version 2.0" with "real" large graphics that are several MBs instead of KBs.

Microsoft man riles update-hungry Windows Phone 7 users

the guy who led Media Center down the road to irrelevance

This guy should have been walked a long time ago. I got very much into Vista MC, and even went as far as to hack the codes for IR MCE remotes and posted detailed PDF on the net.

Then the first shoe dropped, content was next to none, with what appeared to be none coming. Then no support for newer tuners without getting an OEM Vista with it bundled in. They f-d me on the update, and yes I know there are work arounds, but that ain't the point.

I dumped Media Center, what a shame, it seemed like it would have been fun should they have got content for it in Canada.

Since then I moved onto Mac front row, iTunes, iPad touch 2, iPhone3GS, iPad1, etc. All lost sales for MS's hardware partners.

MS has become absolutely pathetic!

Java daddy borged by Google

MS on the high ground...

and I thought they were part of the way down the slow deline to irrelevance.

How to slay a cellphone with a single text

special binary characters?

There are two, 1 and 0, that is binary.

HBGary's nemesis is a '16-year-old schoolgirl'

My comment had nothing to do with...

her being a girl. In fact I pointed out how I question the young BOY that took down CNN, etc.

And it should be againt the law to hack someones email account, the same as it is with postal mail. If I take someones postal mail I am a criminal. And if I plan out taking people's postal mail that makes me an orgainized criminal.

Just seems weird to me the father knows and doesn't care what the daughter does.

I am not pro government and industry screwing poeple, but I sure am pro privacy.

16 year old hacker or...

fall girl for the father? If caught she is unlikely to do time and he would be guaranteed to do time.

I kinda wonder about the comment the father knows but does nothing about it, as a father should he not be keeping his daughter away from organized criminals?

I also wondered this of the Montreal kid that took down CNN, etc. His father would have done time, but the kid got a slap on the wrist after claiming responsibility.

If she is caught she should have to prove she did it, otherwise they look at the father, family, older friends, etc.

Dear US gov: Stay the hell out of Silicon Valley

Well put DemonX

I upvoted your post. Especially about MS, but it was not government, it was government(s).

Sarkozy: Microsoft represents all that is great about France

and in other news....

most of France's politicians jumped ship and work for the British government now... and now I see the resemblance.

Canadian finance ministries closed off from web after cyberspy hack

RE: why the Chinese bother!

Our resources. And knowing our governments financial status/plans would help them greatly in negotiations.

See the following

http://www.nationalpost.com/scripts/Western+business+pines+East/4240602/story.html

Will Windows on ARM sink Windows Phone 7?

Big Windows...

Big X86 Windows on a tablet/slate/etc would also mean Big Antivirus Required. And if they gut out the legacy to void older viruses and reduce AV footprint, that breaks compatibility. No compatibility, why bother running Windows at all?

Windows Phone 7 to get cut'n'paste shortly, says Ballmer

What?

I am still waiting on my Vista Ultimate Extras for Computer Enthusiast. They are done shipping crap for end users, when does the stuff for Computer Enthusiast come?

Beastly Android will batter Apple's iOS beauty

I hope...

that Apple carves out a nice niche market to keep them in, and Android becomes Wintel of phones, then all the viruses/scammers will be on Android and none or next to none for Apple's platform :)

Reason, because I would never ever ever buy anything related to Google!

Google morphs Gmail into Microsoft backup service

I would sooner not have email...

I would sooner not have email than put anything through google.

One reason:

"Google Blames Rogue Software Engineer For Intercepted Data"

And everyone else at google was too lame to notice they had extra data?

MP slams ICO for 'lily-livered' Google probe

Sounds like Canada's...

so called pivacy commisioner. I think we need an independent party to come in and investigate the investigators as this all seems fishy to me.

Mozilla man accuses Jobs of 'bypass the web' scheme

I am so split on this one....

On one hand I think of all the people that have said, Windows sucks my PC crashes/crawls all the time. Then when I went to their home/business to fix PC it turned out to be a crappy little app in the background, or a flakey driver. But people did not see it as such, and blaimed it on Windows. Not to say Windows is perfect, but a lot of the time (maybe even most of the time) it wasn't Windows crashing/crawling. A lot of people either don't know any better or wish not to take responsibility for what they do to their PC. With this in mind can you blame Apple for wanting to control what goes on their OS?

On the other hand, can we trust Apple to not get pissed off at a company and block an App because they don't like who makes it? It seems Jobs can get pissed off quite easily.

Google ends all Street View Wi-Fi data collection

And there you have it Corporations of the world....

feel free to come to Canada and violate our privacy. And when you get caught be sure to have a fall guy. Then "after your get caught" you can say you didn't mean to and won't do it again.

The presidence is set!

Google's Street View broke Canadian privacy laws

a big fail for the Canadian gov...

And what, everyone else at google was too incompetent to realize they were grabbing excess data? This sounds like a big pile of BS to me!

If they do not fine, etc. google, that should mean everyone on the planet has the right to "accidentally" violate the privacy of multiple people in Canada "until they get caught" at which point they get a warning the "same as google".

If they do not fine, etc. google then they do not have to right to fine anyone down the road!

Ballmer woos students, ogles Google's search & ad model

Getting ahead of the puck

“Trying to skate ahead as they say in hockey to where the puck will be. There’s not a science for that…"

Sure there is, first and foremost when hockey players get old and don't perform well they get rid of them!

Ruskie gang hijacks Microsoft network to push penis pills

Canada should file suit...

Defamation - that may give an individual, business, product, group, government, or nation a negative image.

Inside Windows Phone 7: ghost of Zune

I read this article and cannot...

help but think of the word FLOP. Nothing reached out and said I gotta have one. .Net and Silverlight, YAWN. Touchscreen, YAWN.

Monkey man laughed off the iPhone and then released this? 0% Innovation?

Hey world, give up your current smart phone to get a new MS phone, after all it gives you little to no functionality over your current?

No wonder people (employees) are jumping off the MS ship, it is sinking fast!

Microsoft assembles unlikely band of brothers against patent trolls

And while they are at it...

they can throw away all the bulls#!t patents these U.S. companies have? God knows Apple and MS has more b.s. patents than all the Canadian companies combined.

Steve Jobs no ninja, says Apple

I see a game from this...

Star throwing Steve versus chair throwing Steve. A flash game, and if Jobs is about to win it sucks up your CPU and crashes.

Bollywood 'recruits DDoS hired guns to fight movie pirates'

with millions and millions of requests...

And does that not also tie up the middle (routers) thus robbing bandwidth from legitimate Internet users? I would say it is time to start checking router logs, etc. for traces of this and bill/sue for the wasted bandwidth and time used. Not good to let them fight crime with crime, especially when it is so obvious that legitimate/innocent users are affected to some degree.

LG touts 'surprisingly productive' iPad killer

well put

nice note how nobody has touched iPod. Will be interesting to see if they do the same with Pads/Slates/Tablets/etc. But sure seems they are well on their way to doing so. Going to be hard for anyone, even MS, to beat the App distribution. Vista, Utlimate Extras, lol. MS had so much behind it and now I look at people with their iPhones and think it might very well be over. Apps, Apple really seems to have it down.

Who knows for 100% sure, but I think everyone might be late to the dinner table, except Apple, and I always thought those were for lunch. S#!t I guess it is a new world!

Ubuntu quietly breaks off Sparc affair

I thought Ubuntu was the...

home user version of Linux?

Google spins out happy-clappy autofill Chrome 6 beta

I cannot help but have my mind alter this story as I read it.

"stored in Chrome is safely stored and kept private until a" street view vehicle passes it by for upload, statistical analysis, padded with ads and stored privately back on your computer.

I am guessing that is google's definition of private.

Free Android antivirus clocks up 2.5m downloads

I have a hard time believing...

this guy knows 'anything' better. "Android will replace Windows." f-n LOL.

Google is a crappy company hell bent on collecting statistics even if it means violating people's rights. And they "accidently" collect data! What bank or business in their right mind would allow any google product on their network?

Accidently collect data, F-n LOL.

Microsoft digs Macs in back-to-school ads

let's use...

marketing to fight Apple, after all it hasn't been working for 5 years now?

Dear MS management, put down the pay cheque, leave the building, and ....

Google patents search that tracks your mouse moves

WTF, I know the icon says it but this is worth two WTFs

Google did not invent the mouse, so why should they have a patent related to mice? Or better yet, why should they have a patent related to what I do with a mouse? I know it is about tracking for marketing and not just using a mouse, but still......

One more reason to not use google or any of it's products or services.

The US Patent office is broken, someone needs to patent fixing it.

Removing SCADA worm could disrupt power plants

Wow, people (namely decision makers, if still around) should be canned!

Windows evolved off the LAN, which is why it was so full of gaping holes at the end of the 90s and the start of the 2000s. At first they stuffed all sorts of WAN in with integrated web, etc and then they secured it? Script kids that couldn't code C bitch slapped their OS over and over. Um, maybe they shouldn't have added so much scripting default? Maybe IE should have started out in a sand box and not integrated into the OS, well at least not if it was to be used for anything important. How about no HTML in email programs till they were ready? Windows is much better now, but far from perfect. And I do realize MS does not stand alone.

I wonder how much they charged the government, power companies, etc for systems that run on common-consumer software? And programs made with common-consumer libraries, compilers, API, etc. They should use something a little more cryptic and not something that school kids learn on. A system that requires tons of work to lock it down instead of tons of work to make it easy to use, the wrong system to use in anything so critical!

HP 'delays' Android tablet after death of Windows slate

Every time I see...

anything like this article, the id in me says "me want libretto".

iPad - "me want libretto"

Slate - "me want libretto"

Tablet - "me want libretto"

Microsoft PR boss sweats in face of Apollo Creed Apple, Google... world

I think this says it all for MS...

"through his marketer head."

Market all they want, won't get them out of the downward spiral they are in.

Hmmm, things that leave a bad taste in my mouth about MS. I will list just a few "basic" ones. No WinFS, bogus vista ultimate extras for end users not techies, and crappy Media Center for Canadians in Win7. A major one, IE8 sucks sh!#.

Windows Phone 7 compass mandatory but broken

No standard API...

Ain't there and app for that?

Ballmer says Windows will shame iPad

Ballmer shames Windows...

Windows would shame the iPad, but it is too busy being shamed by Ballmer.

If the iPad bubble doesn't burst, he should be canned. That would make him significantly wrong 2 for 2 (iPhone and now iPad).

Hey Ballmer you cheap f@#k, maybe start by finishing Windows 7, making a proper version of Media Center on Windows 7 for Canada. I won't buy it till you do! And hacking it to work in Canada doesn't count.

Microsoft: 'Using IE6 is like drinking 9-year-old milk'

And milk got fat in 9 years....

If IE6 was 2%, then IE8 is coffee creamer. IE8 is an inconsistent, pausing, jerky piece of crap.

'Completely useless' Windows 3.1 hits Google's Android

Standard or V86 Mode?

As the standard mode is not impressive at all. If it is standard mode then whippy shit it is a VCPI DOS Client.