Posts by Tony Paulazzo

@ $1500 a pop, any nerd out in the real world wearing Google Goggles will be mugged within 15 minutes of leaving their safe zone.

Unfortunately, crap dammit! I still want a pair.

The RIAA's post bill would have bankrupted the organization back in the days of dead-tree mail, and caused a lot of postmen to retire early on worker's comp.

So what I'm hearing is that new technology is destroying the postal service, and RIAA is helping in this destruction of an entire industry, plus, they're totally failing to force the tide back out.

They should talk to king Canute. Maybe.

Governments lie.

The safest bet is to assume your government is lying to you now.

Everything they say is obfuscation and double think.

Unfortunately we can't just lay the blame on governments because The People are being complicit in the big lies.

I do not see a way out of this conundrum.

Fud!

Fud fud fud fnord fud.

FACTS:

MS has lost its way.

Linux is a viable OS.

MS Office 2013 is a UI abortion approaching Win8s colossal failure as a desktop UI (and what other improvements has it actually undergone?).

MS Office 2003 / 2007 / 2010 were fine (the non collapsible ribbon in 2k7 was 'fixed' in 2010).

I've personally never had a Google doc formatted incorrectly in MS Word of Excel (or vice versa).

Photoshop is more popular than Gimp because it's what you learned to use as a kid - same could be said for Microsoft, especially now that MS have killed Windows (replaced them with Flat Boxes - tm).

What would I have done as a monolithic software company? do what Google did, get my hardware partners to build the Surface Pro to my specifications and not released the RT, ensure each machine came with a years subscription to the new Office subscription model (lock in), and the basic keyboard (extra for the better version) and still kept the price down to $1000 (oh yea, and the Win8 Flat Boxes tm would have an optional start menu built in - just like XP and Vista gave the user the option of emulating their old version... and I wouldn't have just sacked the UI designers of Office 2013, I'd have dropped 'em into a piranha filled tank in my office).

Having watched it originally in black and white, it was only years later that I discovered the full and rich world...

Same here, it wasn't until our neighbour (and my suddenly new best friend), got a colour TV and it was like the Wizard of Oz revelation (B&W Kansas to technicolour Oz) - mindblowing!

Er, no. Dr Who, Merlin, Primeval etc. all 45 minutes (=1hour+ on commercial channels). Back in the 60s we only got to watch half hour Dr Who episodes.

The old Dr Who's had storylines running for four or more episode, (as previously noted), generally with dire cliffhangers - I was traumatised when Sarah Jane fell off a rocket and I had to wait a week to see if she survived - I was a pretty naive kid.

But back to Thunderbirds, it's a shit shame they couldn't of done this when G Anderson was still with us, pretty sure he was fighting right up to his death to bring it back.

Disinformation is just that. Still cheering for Iceland ?

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/01/11/why-did-media-keep-the-recent-peaceful-icelandic-revolution-quiet/

A new country run for the people by the people, no wonder America hates it, raw nerve...

No longer a united state but 'The Corporate State'...

I pledge allegiance to the Corporate States of America, and to the Fortune 500 for which it stands, one Nation under Hollywood, indivisible, with liberty and justice for the one percenters...

Jesus H Christ

I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition...

'Monty Python'

Wow

An article where the responses were actually more informative (and less contradictory) than the article, nice one El Reg. I was just reading on Facebook (so no doubt it's true), that there are paid shills for not just stuff you can buy, but ideological commenter's, political and so forth.

This 'comment' reads like it was written by Hollywood - Mega is bad, run by monsters trying to bring down our wonderful civilisation, it must be destroyed! Look how little money we're making, all our films make a loss, even the 'good' ones like Battleship.

C - Must try harder!

The Village

There is little I can say to abate the anger', says Ortiz

Kill yourself? (not advice, just an option, it probably would abate the anger).

the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach

Don't allow the prosecution to 'make deals' then this situation wouldn't arise, how about letting the court system reach its own conclusion of a persons guilt or innocence and effective punishment?

Any person who serves their country in any political fashion should not be allowed to go work for any other industry at retirement, but kept in villages where they could garden / write books / take it easy for the rest of their natural - and maybe give them numbers instead of names so no 'evil' corporation can 'get' at them.

I get infuriated by a pretty film with a poor plot (Prometheus)

I thought the idea and basic plot of Prometheus was fine, it was the sub standard characterisations that destroyed the film for me, the (beyond) idiot geologist / mapper and biologist being writ out so obviously, like the writer couldn't be arsed, and the archeologist douchebag who upon finding a 2000 year old dead race and artifacts turns to drink because 'he wanted to talk to them' (and treats David like a second class citizen by calling him the pejorative 'boy'). Oh yea, and the two pilots deciding to sacrifice themselves 'cause the captain wouldn't be able to push the 'go fast' button, and Charlize running into the shadow of the extremely thin ship, and all these star maps pointing to a weapons depot, and the aliens deciding to destroy us 'cause we killed Jesus (2000 year old corpse, captain and the christmas tree, it was Xmas time)...

Crap dammit! I paid to see that film three times (once at the Imax - awesome!) - still, it was still better than Avatar.

And whilst I'm sure Ridley Scot could pretty much do what he wanted, the inclusion of the alien at the end felt very much like a studio demand.

> In calendar year 2012, the search giant has spent more on Washington DC lobbyists than in any previous year<

Thank God!

They, like Hollywood, have realised the only way to set law is to buy law, and at least Google don't want to fuck the little people over - just sell us shit.

As for the ITU, why is the Reg so convinced they don't pose a threat? Is your dad working for them? 'cause everyone else seems more than a little worried...

Goddamnit! Now I want one, after reading all the comments, and how I can't actually have one... Why am I so weak?

I thought Barack Obama was all about open government and transparency, as well as health care for every American. I see less and less of this every day.

Manning was a whistleblower not a traitor and should be honoured accordingly.

Dictionary.com:

1. a person who betrays another, a cause, or any trust.

2. a person who commits treason by betraying his or her country.

He most certainly did not betray his country, but shone the light on power hungry monsters who love secrets and the dark places in the human soul.

Ok - I believe in the shadowy forces of the illuminati attempting to control the path of humanity, I believe that Hollywood are trying to usher in a one world government who's prime reason for existing is a boot on the face of humanity for ever after, I believe the world banks want to cull the Earth of the seven billion souls currently occupying it and take it back to about one billion, and I believe that Fairy washing up liquid lasts up to three times longer than cheaper brands; but this article smacks of a delusional conspiracy where Google are the bad guys and the ITU are the good guys...

Even I find it hard to subscribe to this hypothesis (plus Google just let me upload all my music onto it's servers so I can listen to it on my ipad or Android phone whenever I'm 'connected' - the ITU haven't, so, you know).

If you have to define freedom of speech then it doesn't exist, you have taken my right to shout 'Theatre!' in a crowded fire, away.

>You can easily contact Apple and complain about dodgy app that don't do what they say, I've done it for a few a few apps and always been refunded the very same day, no questions asked.<

You're lying (no offence), when I got an app that didn't do what it said, a process killer, it took about a week of emails back and forth to Apple before they refunded me. Also, in the terms and conditions, you have no right to ask for a refund on apps you don't like, and very few people do get refunds, though many people complain, which you can check out in the apple forums. Some complaints even mention not getting responses back from Apple.

>...the rules of engagement for defending the US critical infrastructure against online attack<

Take it offline?

> I guess the war is on, and less important things like the economy can safety being ignored them.<

And civil liberties, online privacy, the rights of the citizen, etc...