Posts by IGotOut

The Windows Phone keeps ringing but no one's home: Microsoft finally lets platform die

The best interface

The Win8 phone interface was by far the best. Clean and customisable. Car mode made it simple to whack a bloody great icon to launch Here Maps (which I still use on Android).

Updates did depend on carriers, but this was easily bypassed to get them straight from MS, so none of the Android abandonware.

A lot of the issues was the lack of apps... review sites (including The Reg) bemoaned the issue, ignoring the fact many add one (think the 10,000 torch apps) were already standard.

Google had no interest in supporting it and people were moaning the could get Google maps...which I never got, Here Maps and the fantastic Here Transit were far superior.

However you knew the writing was on the wall when MS decided to putits own apps out on iOS first, then Android and then maybe sometime later it's own OS.

Tesla has a smashing weekend: Model 3 on Autopilot whacks cop cars, Elon's Cybertruck demolishes part of LA

Elon's gone overboard trying to prove that the cybertruck really is rugged?

It only breaks if you are hitting it wrong.

Re: I Can't Stop Myself

You got a downvote for a statement of fact. Guess it must be a driver of a Paedomobie.

Advertisers want exemption from web privacy rules that, you know, enforce privacy

Re: Doomed

This is the US, money will change hands and you'll end up with a very watered down version of what it wanted. Think GPDR Vs Cookie consent.

Here's a bit of Intel for you: Neri a day goes by that HPE doesn't feel CPU shortage pinch

plus threadripper 3rd gen is SO hot i literally drip thinking about it

You need to getting some better cooling me old China.

Elon Musk gets thumbs up from jury for use of 'pedo guy' in cave diver defamation lawsuit

Oddly....

I asked a South African I work with about this and he said it means the same to him as it does to most of us in the UK.

Re: I think pedo Musk may come to regret this

'You spelt Paedo wrong..."

That's ok, most people use the term incorrectly anyway.

Most people accused of being a "Peado" are actually a "Hebe" or 'Ephebo"

Icahn and I will force a Xerox and HP wedding: Corporate raider urges HP shareholders to tell board to act 'NOW'

That's not true. The workers get the sack.

If there's somethin' stored in a secure enclave, who ya gonna call? Membuster!

So...

to run this, you have to gain access to a DC, the to the rack, then to a server, shut it down, open it up, power it back up. And all this without anyone noticing?

Right. Got it.

Escobar Fold 1 snort all it's cracked up to be: Readers finger similarity to slated Chinese mobe

Easy...

The are avoiding TrumpTarrif Inc by shipping them from Thailand. Once in the country, a courier will helpfully remove all the excess packaging (approx 1kg) before passing into onto you.

Newly born Firefox 71 emerges from its den – with its own VPN and some privacy tricks

Re: inviting US users of the Firefox desktop browser with Firefox Accounts

"why should I have to "opt out"? Why should I have to assume that the default"

Translation:

I'm having a rant without a fucking clue what I'm on about.

When you install it, these options are VERY clearly presented to you, with decent descriptions of what they do and what they are used for. They are not hidden options you have to spend hours looking for.

It's Hipp to be square: What happened when SQLite creator met GitHub

Re: Biassed much?

"He has an interest in, nay, is the author of a competing version control system - nuff sed?"

If you note he was invited to have his say.

If you only listen to people that agree with everything you do, eventually you stagnante and die.

If you are willing to listen and even possibly implement alternative views, it can hopefully help you improve.

Den Automation raised millions to 'reinvent' the light switch. Now it's lights out for startup

Re: Pitty, was a great idea

I have a similar thing on the wall. You press one part, light comes on, press another, light goes off.

100% reliable. Even works when the the WiFi and / or the internet connection is down.

Except for those times when strangely all the lights in the street go off as well. That must be a firmware update of something. Usually sorts itself out after a while.

Re: Hardware isn't necessarily dead

Ahh the "Man Drawer".

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RgUpDGAIdds

Am I missing something?

The whole point of ease of set up and use perhaps?

Why don't you build a car for example? I've done it and could probably do another quicker than I could learn how to do what you've suggested.

Trump Administration fast-tracks compulsory border facial recognition scans for all US citizens

Hmmmmm

Is this the same US adminstration that has put Chinese facial recognition companies on a black list?

Now it makes sense. Ban Chinese companies THEN make it a requirement.

USA! USA! US.... oh sorry, the "A" just fell off.

Register Lecture: Can portable atomic clocks end UK dependence on GNSS?

Do someone say Stop? I better reset my Atari.

No I think you'll find they do indeed transmit to the satellite, Stephen Fry told me so.

EU wouldn't! Uncle Sam brandishes 'up to 100%' tariffs over France's Digital Services Tax

Re: US labour laws = unfair competition

Are those the same countries that Trump is also threating with tarrifs?

The US is a new colonial power. They exploit cheap labour and goods, but when they are strong enough to stand on their own two feet, they want to slap them back down.

After four years, Rust-based Redox OS is nearly self-hosting

Re: 3 seconds boot time?

Many switches I've come across bring everything up long before the management interfaces start to respond.

And if you want faster boot times over Cisco, there's a huge Chinese company you may want to check out.

Bad news: A company wants to sell artificial shooting stars. Good news: Launch delayed

Re: An alternative

So is it ok to want the deaths of people we have met? I've a list.

Re: Bad news: A company wants to sell artificial shooting stars.

Not sure if you upset people that are Kardashian fans or the fact you said they were stars

Europol wipes out 30,000+ piracy sites, three suspects cuffed to walk the legal plank

Do people have any concept of how the law works.

Oh they only seized this amount, or that amount. They didn't get XYZ.

When they make a initial raid / seizure, they only get what is initially available.

Once they have been arrested, then they can do a lot more digging and apply more more seizures. They can also start applying for "profits of crime" seizures

Think of it of "we pulled you over for a broken tail light" scenario. They find several bags of weed. This then gives them the right to go for a search of a house. They find more weed, a bundle of cash and several mobile phones. So they seize the phones and then then can go after the contacts....and on and on.

So in this case the initial seizures and arrests are a way to gather more evidence and go for bigger rewards.

Unless of course those bottles of booze are pretending to be very high end drinks of course. Think Whisk(e)y, Champagne, Run etc etc

I'll give you my Windows 7 installation when you pry it from my cold, dead hands (and other tales)

Re: Sooooo

Because VR is a runaway success on all other platforms? MS never got into VR, they always said it would be a wait and see Hololens is a niche AR product and is pretty darned good for the audience it is designed for...certainly not the home market.

Re: Refined OS or chocolate teapot?

Can you still get Media Player classic for 7? Was always on my essential download list.

Google fell for a real Looker, but now Brit competition watchdog's probing data biz slurp

Meh why bother....

They let them buy double-click and that was obviously going to mess up competition.

Money will change hands, shadey back room deals will get down and Google will get their way.

*The same goes for Facebook's blatant lies when it bought out WhatsApp.

You can forget about that Black Friday deal: Brit banks crap out just in time for pay day

It may of started before then.

I was unable to log in about 2:45 am.

Just kept getting a "Check your internet connection" . Tried both 4g and home internet.

Oracle finally responds to wage discrimination claims… by suing US Department of Labor

Re: "it's felt like they hate the government meddling"

"I get the impression it started after the war for independance as they threw off the oppression on the British rule and it's just become embedded in their culture."

The American civil war was exactly the same thing. One bunch of enlightened people trying to get freedom for everyone by overthrowing another bunch of oppressive pricks.

This is NOT the Oracle way.

They would of march up to the department door and demanded a gizzilion Dollars because you *May* be using last week's obscure licencing method and not next week's even more obscure method.

ESA toasts 10% budget boost by stretching ISS support out to 2030

Re: So jealous

Don't you need trucks, rather than cars, to transport the materials to the moon and back?

UK political parties fall over themselves to win tech contractor vote by pledging to review IR35

Re: Politicians' promises

I think you will find the tooth fairy is far more realistic. A promise of a coin under the pillow if you leave a tooth there for most kids really happens.

A promise by a political party very rarely come true.

Christmas in tatters for Nottinghamshire tots after mayor tells them Santa's too busy

Re: So much for commentard being enlightened here...

Oh boo boo.Did I upset you because you didn't get all the way down the article without feeling the need to mash away at the keys? Is it because so many others noticed your mistake? Here, have a lollipop.

So much for commentard being enlightened here...

...the Mayor is a SHE, not a HE, as so, so many have automatically presumed...I know a woman Mayor...what a fucked up world we've become.

Intel! China! Sliding enterprise spending! Dell cuts forecasts by $1.2bn to $2bn for fiscal '20

Can some cut the article down?

Cut out the management speak for me and leave the remaining sentence or two I can be arsed to read.

Thanks

Uni of London loses attempt to block mobe mast surveyors from Paddington rooftop

Any idea why they objected?

Please don't tell me it was 5g causes cancer etc...

Yes but Corbin will give FREE 5g to everyone...and if you phone can't receive 5g, you get a new GPO mobile phone. Just have to wait a few years for it to be connected.

With this bunch of assholes running for power, I now see the appeal of religion.

Googlers fired after tracking colleagues working on US border cop projects. Now, if they had monetized that stalking...

Simple...

The employees simply need to state...we take privacy seriously......a bug was discovered......only a small number were affected.

When it seems anyone can see anyone else's calendars and see the project documentation they are working on, it's no surprise the company doesn't give a toss about its end users privacy.

Cue a MS O365 / Teams advert showing how easy it is to stop others snooping on your work

No wonder Bezos wants to move industry into orbit: In space, no one can hear you* scream

McAffe is in the office waiting for you Mr Bezos

So the way to save the Earth is to move heavy industry to the moon?

We ship about 500 tonnes of materials and parts every week. Remind me how that is going to be MORE environmental friendly by using bloody great rockets.

I think he has the Moon mixed up with Cloud Cuckoo Land, which seems a lot closer to home.

As pressure builds over .org sell-off, internet governance bodies fall back into familiar pattern: Silence

A we wonder why...

Russia is building it's own internet. We say it's so they can control what the people see, but maybe they are just plain pissed off with the west (read the USA) doing what the fuck it wants with the internet without any consultantation with the rest of the countries using it.

Where's the money, Lebowski?! UK data watchdog says £7m in fines unpaid since 2015

Re: Another useless watchdog

It's at the end of the article, I know a stretch for many on here.

Directors can now be made personally liable for unpaid debts and go to prison if they fail to comply.

Intel's back. Can't keep it down. Back with 5G. Back in the game, back with modems... that have 'MediaTek' written on them

Re: 2021

Most likely it would of been late 2019, but had to find a non-chinese supplier.

We are absolutely, definitively, completely and utterly out of IPv4 addresses, warns RIPE

Re: The internet will be privatised

Rubbish. Next you'll saying .org is being sold to a for profit organisation, .UK domains were sold and "given" away in the hope no one would notice the renewal of domains they didn't ask for and that ICAAN has deliberately sold a load of vanity domains knowing they can not only rake it in selling them but also when people argue over the right to own them.

European smartphone market rallies but Apple didn't get the memo

It's odd...

That for the last couple of years the most anticipated and requested, iPhone has never arrived, namely an SE2.

Not everyone wants a 10" £1000+ phone. If they came out with a 6" for for a fraction of that price, they would fly off the shelves.

Gospel according to HPE: And lo, on the 32,768th hour did thy SSD give up the ghost

Re: Pity it's not a traditional drive...

But doesn't that allow the Devil and her* horde to walk once again upon the Earth?

* I presume the Devil is a woman as it's always a woman who is the trouble maker in religious beliefs.

We(don't)Work: Rent-a-desk outfit cuts 2,400 staff in bid to be a functioning business

Re: El Reg should check their building staffing

"I don’t have a problem with Vegans but I couldn’t eat a whole one."

I don't know, they tend to a like spare ribs, all bone, little meat.

Re: Another one bites the dust

Apart from the fact SoftBank seem to be trying to a company hemorrhaging money to one that makes a profit.

Crazy in these times I know, trying you know, not rely on handouts by rich dumb "investors".

Bad news: 'Unblockable' web trackers emerge. Good news: Firefox with uBlock Origin can stop it. Chrome, not so much

Come the revolution...

We're going to need a big wall.....

Social media exec's, advertising exec's, lawyers, patent trolls.....

You wanted flying cars and colony worlds. Instead, IKEA furniture-building-ish AI robots

Every IKEA store is laid out in exactly the same format, Showrooms for each room in the house, then the restaurant, then the marketplace (small items, eg glasses, cutlery etc), then you go either down or up to the warehouse, then the tills.

Sorry, that's wrong. For starters Wendesbury one has the Restaurant joint first on your right or the showrooms to the left or slightly right to kids section. Then downstairs to marketplace, warehouse and tills.

Been a while but pretty sure Coventry is different to how you describe as well.

We're so, so, sorry you're not able to get PC chips, says Intel to everyone who hasn't gone with AMD yet

PC World...

I literally nearly passed out* when I saw cpcw advertising Ryzen laptops on the TV the other day.

* This apparently is how you are supposed to say "slightly surprised" on social media these days.