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Google attacks Twitter's search bias claim
Apple CEO Tim Cook has a massive package
Sony goes inorganic for 'eye popping' OLED TV rival
Astronomers map largest ever zone of dark matter
Duff Russian Mars probe spotted flying in reverse
E-gambling tax will spark web bet shop exodus - report
UNSW researcher creates four-atom silicon wires
iOS 5's iMessage chops carrier SMS routing traffic
Yup, I LOL'd at that too.
I recall some years back TPTB were looking at moving to SMS for on-call alerts and sunsetting pagers.
I asked what the delivery times were for SMS and was told it was pretty much instant. I suggested they check that with the Telco. The answer came back that there was *no* guarantee of delivery at all, SMS was a low priority service and subject to other network traffic delaying it, it was *usually* within four hours and 99.something% within 24.
The other nail in the coffin was that they couldn't find a handset that eschewed "beep once" in favour of "raucous racket until acknowledged" for SMS arrival alerts.
Parasites spark swarm of zombie bees
Apple coughs $5m for multitouch patents
"Not that Elan is a patent troll by any means....."
So they bought the patent, rather than coming up with it themselves, "for defence". Then they noticed they could screw money out of others with it by using it offensively and proceeded to do so.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck.......
Whale versus shark in KIWI DEATH MATCH!
KIBOSH 'non lethal' sticky-bomb hits a car, fills it with gas
Google tablet to tackle Kindle Fire not iPad
Man convicted of murder gets retrial after virus eats transcripts
So the rules are that both the hardcopy and electronic copy are generated, which she ignored rather than admit to not having enough paper rolls and (presumably) forcing a recess while more were obtained.
She also chose to delete the transcript from the steno machine before she'd lodged it in archive or taking a second copy, rather than coming back and doing so afterwards, ensuring that the only copy was on her own PC.
Conclusion: *She* did not back up properly, there's no "they" involved here. The anti-virus fuckup (if there was one - we could be in zero-day land here) is immaterial as disk failure, dropping the machine or a whole slew of other possibilities could have easily produced the same results.
Boffins glue self-righting ROBO-VELOCIRAPTOR tail to car
Videogame piracy figures show decline
Ubuntu hoists skirt, flashes 'concept' gadget at CES
What I want from a TV is a 50" plasma monitor with several HDMI ports, a couple of SCARTs for legacy, one or two component inputs, some decent speakers to avoid running up the surround system just to watch the news and a remote to adjust sound/picture settings and swap between inputs.
Trouble is, anything that fits the bill seems to be described as a TV and come with loads of other cruft bundled......
Microsoft celebrates the death of IE6
Not sure that's an issue. AFAIR you can still download the full installation pack for 8 with a bent XP.
What might help more is if corp admins would allow those users who *don't* use HalfArsedAccountingShitApp 1.0 to upgrade, rather than defending their standard, IE6-ridden desktop image as if it were Holy Writ.
Darth Vader dies peacefully in hospital
Next-generation materials for post-Christmas repairs: Reg investigates
Best Araldite moment for me was using it as an emergency repair to a punctured carburettor float.
Most satisfying, both from the point of view of working out that the problem *was* a punctured carb float and that of working out that I could fix it with Araldite and get to use the car while I ordered a replacement[1].
Another common use for Araldite on cars was fuel tank repair. Steel petrol tanks rust through at the bottom due to water condensation accumulating over time. Rust pinholes are easily fixed by brushing off the rust and Aralditing a coin over the hole. One lad I knew had a car with a fuel tank base almost entirely constructed out of 2p bits and Araldite.
[1] Although with hindsight I could probably have stuck (hah!) with the Araldited one.
Rupert Murdoch and 'unverified' missus in Twitter tangle
NASA's twin GRAILs reunite in lunar orbit
Apple to appeal Italian warranty fine
IIRC that's now enshrined in European law, along with the two years, courtesy of the British.
Again IIRC, the continentals were looking at making the standard practice that which was more common over here, where the manufacturer supports the warranty and the retailer's involvement ends with handing over their phone number.
Best description of that approach on the odd occasion I've had to deal with it was; "worse than fucking useless".
Solicitors from hell website unplugged by libel judge
Would that be the same Cherie Booth who founded a chambers specialising in Human Rights cases, just as her husband rammed through a raft of labyrinthine and loophole-ridden legislation lacking defined scope, ensuring a healthy supply of long and highly profitable legal arguments on the subject in perpetuity?
Conflict of interest? Surely not.......
Well, burn my atomic-clock-powered new human renaissance platform
Apple’s Siri gets sweary with British child
I remember a mate telling me that he and a colleague were developing a system and had become bored with the error messages while testing it. To relieve the tedium they played silly B's with the error message data table, with an incentive of free beer for the one making the other laugh out loud in the office. A rich vein of comedic material was supplied by the fact that the client was a Merchant Banker.
Their boss learned the value of checking with the developers before demoing the unfinished system to the client the hard way......
Latest El Reg project: Rise of the Robot Sheep
"...I'm composting the clippings back into the yard, thickening the sod."
Allowing the clippings to remain on the lawn creates what's referred to in gardening circles as "thatch". This causes waterlogging of the surface, which destroys the root mat and kills the lawn.
Compost the clippings elsewhere and dig the results into the flower beds where it'll do some good. Best thing for the lawn is to go over it with a fork, making rows of holes, followed by a light dusting of sand. This then washes into the holes made by the fork tines and improves the flow of moisture through the surface, preventing waterlogging of the root mat.
No, I do not know how I know that.......
Online Christmas orders from retailers go titsup
A simple HTML tag will crash 64-bit Windows 7
CERN: 'New physics starts now'
Apple's Galaxy Tab ban was best advertising ever - Samsung
Stolen, remote-wiped iPhones still get owner's iMessages
Nearest supernova since 1986 blasts boffin off her chair
P2P veterans sue the Cloud ... for copying their stuff
Learning about chip design from Silicon Roundabout
Cambridge puts Isaac Newton's notes online
Durban failed: Relax, everyone
Windows Defender Offline: For PCs too hosed to go online
Four Romanians charged with hacking 150 Subway shops
Yahoo! may! never! see! a! penny! of! $610m! anti-spam! win!
El Reg takes man for romantic weekend for two at Intel chip factory
Senators: Globo-domains could mean consumer chaos
RED MOON to GO DARK tonight in Pacific eclipse
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