* Posts by Tony Paulazzo

1099 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Feb 2008

Thailand can't wait to wield Twitter censorship hammer

Tony Paulazzo
Alien

Can you shout theatre in a crowded fire?

>There is no right to the 'freedom of speech' in Thailand, so do not try to project Western ideals and sensibilities onto the situation.<

Our (UK) Freedom of speech allowance is pretty restricted too. No threatening, abusive or insulting speech or behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace. No incitement to racial, religious or sexual hatred. No allowance to incite or glorify terrorism, nor collection or possession of info likely to be of use to a terrorist.

Treason is also a big no no, (including 'imagining the death of a monarch'), corruption of public morales and outraging public decency.

Tons of 'no free speech' rules dedicated to the courts of law, inc. but not limited to, scandalising the court by criticising judges, harassment, privileged communications, trade secrets, classified material, copyright, patents, military conduct, and limitations on commercial speech such as advertising.

'Facts' gleaned from Wikipedia.

Tablet sales said to surge fivefold in five years

Tony Paulazzo
Facepalm

>that there will come a day when the tablet market, in units, is larger than the PC market<

Well, duh...

The desktop evolved out of necessity, it required a large box to keep the components in, a CRT monitor to output results and a keyboard to input values. Over the years it decreased in size - the only people who really still require a desktop are hobbyists and gamers (tho even that segment is shrinking thanks to consoles).

That, along with the stupidification of the masses (you only really need a keyboard and mouse if you're say, writing a book, designing 3D models, writing and testing code etc etc etc, you know, actually inputting a lot of values.

To update a status, send an email, write a comment 'that sucks!', can all easily be done on a virtual keyboard (hopefully soon to be supplanted by 'working' voice recognition), the box, input and output are all still there, just smaller - it's still a PC (Personal Computer), it's just no longer tied to IBM or Microsoft software.

As for Apple TV, the only thing that would impress me is a TV that sees what I like and records everything like that and learns to the point where it records only programs I wanna watch later and strips all the adverts out. I'd buy that TV.

US entertainment lawyer casts doubt on Megaupload case

Tony Paulazzo
FAIL

America: Fuck yea!

Shoot first, no need for questions.

Paramount opens Cloud-based movie shop

Tony Paulazzo
Thumb Up

Actually, this seems like the best way of combating piracy, it's cheap, and simple to understand, and you can watch when and where and on what you like. Is the message finally seeping in. maybe all the big studio's should get involved.

MPAA threat sparks White House petition for bribery probe

Tony Paulazzo
Thumb Up

Way to go American people. Chris Dodd has made himself the figurehead for most of this 'stuff'. Having his head on a pike on the Whitehouse lawn should at least give pause to others considering keeping the masses servile.

Google to join Wednesday's anti-SOPA protest

Tony Paulazzo
Devil

Facebook

Why hasn't Facebook joined the blackout. I know SOPA only targets foreign sites - but that's for now, once entrenched and mission creep gets going, they will be found culpable of allowing users to share links to infringing copyright (ie youtube - assuming youtube hasn't been shut down).

Or is Facebook going to start disallowing links. Point of fact, the post SOPA internet will have to work without links, since that link you innocently put to show lolcat #26413 might have a link that links to a link with infringing copyright, making all those websites guilty of encouraging infringement.

Then Hollywood wins and the consumer loses (and those who create will be no better off thanks to Hollywood's well known creative accounting that shows nothing makes a profit ever).

SOPA and PIPA aren't anti piracy, they're pro control.

UK student faces extradition to US after piracy case ruling

Tony Paulazzo
Unhappy

Jeez, just think, one honest politician, anywhere in the world, could probably change the entire world

Official: File-sharing is a religion... in Sweden

Tony Paulazzo
Happy

The church of the...

subgenius

http://www.subgenius.com/

kneel before Bob!

The new religion to teach that sharing is good (taught at our mothers teat) - what goes around, comes around and lol at science isn't a religion. Flat world, round world - all external manifestation are simply neurons firing in your brain telling you it's 'out there'.

Schrödingers cat.

Apple to appeal Italian warranty fine

Tony Paulazzo
Angel

>If you think it through, the system is geared by the lawyers, for the lawyers, to generate revenue.<

Ergo: Kill all the lawyers!

Disclaimer: Not a death threat!

Oh yea, and eat the rich... (see disclaimer).

Will TWO next-gen iPads be unveiled at January's iWorld?

Tony Paulazzo
Happy

Happy new year The Reg.

>It's far too early for a new iteration of the iPad<

No it's not, I predict a new model for March, you can take that rumour to the bank.

>unless it's going to be a 7" cheaper model as an answer to the Kindle Fire, but that's also very unlikely..... Also it would be seen as Apple veering away from the Jobsian view and it's far to early for that.<

The dude's dead, all bets off, I can see them introducing a smaller model, not necessarily cheaper, if the size seems popular.

I've got an ipad1, been waiting for a better any other version to come out but they either omit an sdcard, make it widescreen, or the touch component / viewing angle / price performance is off. I'm invested in enough ios apps that I'll probably upgrade to the ipad3 now.

I still can't believe how unbelievably stupid the competition has been in this arena, the playbook (sans working email), the touchpad (don't try lowering the price to find a customer friendly point, just bin the entire product line in a fire-sale).

Special shout out to Asus (transformer) who at least are obviously researching somewhat, but I don't like the widescreen aspect - I watch widescreen films on my 40in TV, I read ecomics on my tablet. It'd be nice to see both aspects catered for, maybe.

Boycott forces Go Daddy U-turn on anti-piracy law backing

Tony Paulazzo
Unhappy

American online censorship bill

Perhaps when news style websites stop calling it an anti piracy bill and give it it's real name 'American online censorship bill'...

If a commentard on this site posts a link to a site that links to infringing copyright (a snatch of Universal Music playing on a radio in a YouTube clip for eg), bam! The Reg could be blocked from American audiences.

The powers that be have been trying to destroy the Internet, like, forever, this is just step one.

Sky follows BT in blocking Newzbin2

Tony Paulazzo
Mushroom

I love that these are now optional

>If I put a CD in to my computer Itunes offers to rip it for me... wtf, that's illegal here in the UK! Does that make apple guilty of incitement?<

Heh, love that.

To all the pro-copyright anonymous cowards commenting, you all do realise those poor struggling artists don't get all the money (I thinks it's like less than 10% or 2%), but your comments read like they get what you pay for it. The lions share goes to 'the industry' which pays millions into political pockets, and the owners live in exclusive spots that aren't shown on Google street view.

I bought (an eg) all the David Bowie LPs in my youth and I'm still waiting for the music industry to send me the CD versions. 'The Industry' wants it all one way, their way (or the highway baby).

Piracy is the consumer fighting back, 'The Industry' would do well to take notice of it.

Notice: I don't pirate (anymore)

Anti-piracy laws will smash internet, US constitution - legal eagles

Tony Paulazzo
Happy

I would've thought the screams of first amendment violations would stop this thing dead in its tracks. The fact it hasn't are chilling...

But, like the rest of the comments... America, fuck yea!

It's the death cry of an empire, entropy in action - 'so long, and thanks for all the fish. (copyright D. Adams)'

IBM: 'Your PC will read your mind by 2016'

Tony Paulazzo

>VP of innovation<

Sweet job description, I'm betting he golfs a lot.

Google needs a very thorough frisking, say antitrust senators

Tony Paulazzo
Big Brother

Nobody has to use Google, it's not pre-installed on most hardware (Apple / MS), the Firefox Search bar has a dropdown list of 8 other search engines, Bing is the default search engine on IE, you have to actively choose to install Chrome.

If it's a monopoly it's because the customer has chosen it.

@Jake: Privacy is an illusion on the internet, Google are just more open about invading it.

ISP ordered to drop 'three strikes' rule against pirates

Tony Paulazzo
Gimp

The customer is always right.

Gimp mask not fanboi - cause someone's getting fucked!

Manning's lawyer calls for pre-trial officer to quit case

Tony Paulazzo
Devil

>Lucky for Manning there is no death penalty.<

I believe there is, the prosecution are just not pushing for it. I'm pretty sure the judge can do pretty much what he wants.

And guilty or no, the American elite have just started creation of a martyr for truth.

Judge dismisses charges against accused Twitter stalker

Tony Paulazzo
Alien

>The Buddhist world was surprised to learn in 1987 that an American woman named Alyce Zeoli (born in Brooklyn in 1949) had been formally recognized as a tulku, or intentional reincarnation. <

http://www.tara.org/jetsunma-ahkon-lhamo/biography/

Seems like he was pissed at her because they refuted his assertion that he was also an intentional reincarnation (as well as 'not' having cancer when he claimed he did).

Newfangled graphics engine for browsers fosters data theft

Tony Paulazzo
Facepalm

If CSS shaders already has security concerns - before even public consumption, bin it and find something more secure.

If you go down the 'fix it' road you're gonna end up with Flash v11.03.10.04 soon to be updated to .05 because of yet another security concern.

It's not frigging rocket science.

God particle hunt breakthrough expected TODAY

Tony Paulazzo
Devil

@ Artiewhitefox

>We live in a pysiucal world like we see it because of our choice. Being physical we think in a physical way.<

Wrong. We think we live in a physical world because that's the signals the brain receives. It's actually a holographic fantasy and Jesus is called Akira and the lawn mower man pwns the internet.

Altho' Philip K Dick did postulate that the Romans were still running the show, the 20th century was just a shallow veneer over the real reality of the twelfth century, so <shrug>, who knows.

Would it be funny if they found Higgs Boson on the 25th December? - (He's alive and well and living in Windermere)

CERN: 'New physics starts now'

Tony Paulazzo
Happy

So, in Star Trek, Geordie extrapolates an entire invisible (light phobic?), alien from a holovised photographic shadow mismatch. It were a good ep!

Brilliant read, thanks.

P2P veterans sue the Cloud ... for copying their stuff

Tony Paulazzo
Paris Hilton

and the schizophrenic split gets deeper and bigger and wider and higher

-random thought quote of the day.

Paris: Just because... I've never used her before the brief backlash (and surely it should be that overmade up clown that was on a reality show and is now trying to emulate that Sugar show and married that Aussie singer guy - can't recall... Katie Price).

Android, BlackBerry phone owners favour Apple tablet

Tony Paulazzo

I've got an HTC Desire Android phone (which I love) a Windows PC and an ipad 1. Whilst I'm a fanboi of Android phone and Windows PC I'm still not sure what my next tablet will be (future Transformer with SD card might be sweet but I've learned to live within the 16GB limit of the ipad and cloud).

My music library lives on my phones SD card.

Even tho' I've invested in ipad software, trust the security of the ipad ecosystem (in point of fact I now only do online shopping and banking on my ipad), and prefer the non widescreen aspect and battery life, I really dislike the Apple way of doing business (which, in reality impacts me pretty much not at all). But, if the ipad 3 comes out with retina display and comparable battery life I'll probably just upgrade to a 32 GB version, unless the competition do three things:

1. Same high quality display and battery life

2. Include an SD slot

3. Perceptibly cheaper price

US judge: Ad-pushers may be liable for 'facilitating' website piracy

Tony Paulazzo
Mushroom

So this would be 'American ad pushers' I'm assuming, as American law stops at their border.

Steve Jobs' last design: New Apple HQ pics

Tony Paulazzo

>The architects wanted the windows to open. Jobs said no. He had never liked the idea of people being able to open things.<

I'm beginning to think all those acid trips he did when younger were bad trips because my fallout from youthful tripping was open / touch & experience everything and want everyone else to also feel the wonderousness (I know but it's ok to invent words on acid), of the universe.

I kind'a like the building tho'.

China pad peddler wins iPad name from Apple

Tony Paulazzo
Devil

Ha ha! - I would say to Apple, no problem, just change the name, but like any meme it'll probably also be the next (or previous) fifteen comments.

TV writer quells rumours of Doctor Who movie

Tony Paulazzo
Coat

After watching The Thing prequel I wouldn't trust Hollywood to...

No, just no.

America didn't help torchwood at all, tho' the actors were great.

Fuel taxes don't hurt the world's poor - they don't have cars

Tony Paulazzo
Unhappy

I love the fact that as a poor, struggling, sole trader who can only afford a second hand, ten year old car, that I get to pay over £115 a year for road tax, whilst my rich neighbour (and it has to be said, friend), only pays £35 for the same roads because his car is brand new and apparently has better emissions than mine. (UK complaint).

I would love to drive a low emission brand new car but simple economics denies me this simple planet saving desire - which I don't mind, no penis envy here, but it does feel like I'm being punished for simply not being rich enough (or poor enough) to not pay taxes (gotta love the double negative).

Mind you, if the government stopped skimming two thirds of the price of petrol we'd both be happy.

Councils emailed vulnerable people's data to strangers

Tony Paulazzo
Big Brother

>People who handle highly sensitive personal information need to understand the real weight of responsibility that comes with keeping it secure."<

So, instead of raising council taxes by fining the councils why not sack the employee guilty of mismanaging files? or, you know, a public flogging... I'd pay to see that. Obviously mistakes happen, so probably have to be second or third time cock up - even better, first time mistake - stocks (rotten tomatoes etc), second time - a flogging, third disembowelment...

Entertainment for the masses and proves they value our personal data.

Rock star physicist Cox: Neutrinos won't help us cheat time

Tony Paulazzo
Mushroom

Not a scientist but, aren't neutrino's really small, like sub atomic particles? which would place them in the quantum area of physical laws, which don't function at all like Newtonian physics and pretty much do their own thing. Surely scientists should be surprised if neutrino's didn't travel faster than light.

Quantum Physics is what makes physics fun :-)

Manning to get day in court

Tony Paulazzo
Big Brother

>Its the elected representatives who lie to the electorate who are guilty of treason against their own people and country<

Worth repeating.

Also, why are all governments permitted to keep state secrets, but we, the people, are not?

Best of British luck to you PFC Manning, hope it's not too much of a kangaroo court.

Also also, all those commenting on how bad he is and how good the US government are, appear to be signing off as anonymous; don't you know your government want to make that particular privilege (Prive: private, Lege: law) illegal for you.

story gone

Tony Paulazzo
Coat

Noscript

I whitelisted the reg ages ago, not caught anything nasty yet. mind you, never voted a rating, so really not sure why I'm commenting on this piece - oh yea, bored at the office.

US anti-hacking law turns computer users into criminals

Tony Paulazzo
Unhappy

Alien incursion

And so, the criminalisation of everyone proceeded apace. The illuminati master smiled. If you could afford to buy your way out of the prison trade - you kept quiet, knowing that any little misdemeanour or internet quote would see you back in the 'big house' - almost like China.

The enslavement of 'messy' humanity was almost complete.

Peace thru' threats is no peace at all. Love thy neighbour. Ignorance is freedom.

I am not a number, I am a free man!

Apple kills code-signing bug that threatened iPhone users

Tony Paulazzo
Holmes

>Apple excommunicated him from the developer program, making him ineligible to test the security of new products before they are released to the public.<

So, from having a clever bloke on their side helping make their products safe, they've now created an anti fan clever enough to find holes in their previously thought unassailable products, making them appear as secure as all the others (Android, Windows etc), clever.

If he found one vulnerability, chances are he'll find others, get a mate to sign on as developer and boom, compromised Apple products.

Apple admits iPhone battery suckage, promises fix

Tony Paulazzo

iPad 1 here

lag on virtual keypad (and sometimes system wide) and random app crashes (utterly random, works for days then crash), both Apple (particularly Safari) and others, even those updated for ios5.

Not so annoying I've bothered restoring to new and reinstalling everything, but seriously considering it.

Negroponte plans tablet airdrops to teach kids to read

Tony Paulazzo

>America, on the other hand, has both the money and the skill to have a major impact in the area, but was choosing not to, in favor of massive military spending. He pointed out that the war in Afghanistan was costing the government $2bn a week, but the US is spending less than $2m a week on all educational programs within the country.<

This, so very much this - is why we have the X factor topping the charts.

>Nicholas Negroponte, the brains behind the One Laptop Per Child initiative, is detailing a new plan to inspire the world’s poorest children to teach themselves to read using tablet computers.<

Was gonna make a <bad> joke about how if every child already has a laptop doesn't that make tablets superfluous but thought a link to get involved might be a more positive thing to do.

http://one.laptop.org/about/people/negroponte

Solar power boom 'unsustainable', says Gov

Tony Paulazzo
Happy

>if you own property and can afford the up-front cost, you are being subsidised by those who don't and can't.<

Eat the rich!

Here's an idea, any government that implemented it would be guaranteed a shoe in in the following election:

The government pays for every roof in England, Wales, Scotland and NI to have PV installations all feeding the national grid (plus I guess wave, wind and river generators), then lower the price of electricity so the companies aren't posting such obscene profits - instant popularity with the electorate.

Tony Paulazzo

Part II

They can use a couple of months defense budget for the initial outlay, they won't miss it.

Desperate RIM in 'buy two PlayBooks, get one free' offer

Tony Paulazzo

Wouldn't a better deal be a free bb phone with every playbook, then you could do email with it and everybody would be happy.

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Tony Paulazzo
Happy

Good review - it kind'a makes me want to think about possibly getting the PS3 (and I do still need a Blue Ray player)... hmm... Xmas

Why the FBI’s 'new Internet' is a dumb idea

Tony Paulazzo
Alien

Only villains are going to go to the bother of faking macs, the Feds don't care about them, their entire reason d'être is to instill fear into the general populace so governments can more easily control them, and as for why they don't read... anything, they're programmed on a need to know basis.

As for building new internets - like the natural world, the Internet can survive nukes or inbound asteroids, but it's got no hopes against man.

To serve man. 'It's a cook book, A COOK BOOK!'

BioWare Baldur's Gate

Tony Paulazzo
Happy

One of the few RPGs I played thru' to the finish, tho' the incessant battles did get a little tiring I loved the illusion of freedom the game gave you, exploring the countryside.

>Reg Hardware will be revisiting memorable titles from gaming's illustrious past every fortnight<

Midwinter by Mike Singleton - a groundbreaking game that pretty much birthed 3D extravaganza's (along with Ultima Underworld).

HTC's iPhone, iPad ban bid derailed by US judge

Tony Paulazzo

Yea but that doesn't explain the Australia and Europe rulings, 80 odd billion is a lot of money, but apple can't own all the judges in the world can they?

iOS update woes prompt gnashing of teeth for Apple fans

Tony Paulazzo
Alien

Started at 6pm or thereabouts

and just unplugged my ipad now, 11pm. It only failed once, I just left it until after nine, tried again and it worked - better restore than the last few updates too, all the ebooks, mp3's and mags (ok, ecomics), I drag n dropped from various were put back as were my photo's, fairly impressed.

I'm surprised Apple weren't more prepared for the obvious onslaught that was going to happen, esp. with all the verifications the updates seemed to do. Going to play with it now...

The life and times of Steven Paul Jobs, Part One

Tony Paulazzo
Alien

Have a smooth journey

Opened up my Google home page and saw his name and dates, from - to. My thoughts:

1) Fuck :-(

2) Flash on the ipad :-)

3) That was cheap, even for me :-(

4) Wonder if he transferred his consciousness to that server farm he built.

The only paper carrying his picture was The Guardian - classy.

Wherever you're bound Mr Jobs (assuming an afterlife), may you be happy - you made the world a more interesting place.

The plane story of galactic clusters

Tony Paulazzo
Devil

Dark matter my arse. (pun intended)

Scientist: 'The Earth is flat and we'll kill anyone who disagree's with us. The speed of light is a constant that cannot be exceeded, black holes are... (physicist breaks down crying), bumble bee's cannot fly, dark matter and dark energy is this 'stuff' that we can't prove exists but it makes our maths look good...

'The realm of quantum and macro physics still can't be shown as working together and you know what, we still haven't proved conclusively that man was descended from monkey (missing link), but rather like the flat Earth debacle we'll still teach it to our progeny as 'fact'.

Not one single politician on this planet wants peace.

RIM defends PlayBook as more execs bail

Tony Paulazzo
Alien

Kindle Fire

I might buy one (Kindle Fire that is), I like Amazon.

I would've bought the HP Touchpad for £89 with a song in my heart.

I have a first gen ipad.

But I wouldn't buy a playbook for 50 quid.

Facebook's complexity will be its doom

Tony Paulazzo

>I've hidden a few entirely, but what I would like instead is a feature that said "show only x% of Joe's posts". With me lowering the x till the volume of Joe's chattering updates is bearable.<

The new update actually allows this, or at least three options, show all, show most, show important post on a person to person basis.

3D printing for artificial blood vessels

Tony Paulazzo
Big Brother

Title

Useful maybe but the content gate keepers want it stopped anyway:

http://makezine.com/27/doctorow

Big Music trumpets ‘Cliff Richard’ term extension

Tony Paulazzo
Unhappy

What's wrong with my spelling? The it apostrophe s was iPads stupid mistake, and I guess Rupert Murdoch hasn't been bullying politicians for years? Ie the entertainment media manipulating politics.

Also - 'have seem to have'

I may be guilty of downloading a few tv shows but that's pretty much it. I agree with copyright for the artist, lasting about twenty years, but, like patents, it's been subverted.