Posts by Shades

You mean the reports that women like men that are contently chubby rather than sted heads who only love protein? Unless there was another similar recent report I missed?

Re: Sorry, Asus

You mean the stuff it took all of 30 seconds to uninstall when I bought my Asus Transformer Book TP300L? First world problems.

Re: Things...

"I really need the reg to introduce bullet points"

El Reg did, a while ago, but you need at least a bronze commentard badge for the HTML to work. See HERE for more details.

Note to El Reg: Can you please put anchors in the above referenced page so we can directly link to sections of it?

Yes, I realise this is OT but I'm trying to get my post count up to get my badge back (I lost it after briefly finding something called a "life")... I found the extra formatting really useful.

Re: "software download sites like CNET and Softpedia"

I've found that if you look carefully enough (and I mean very carefully) there is usually a link to directly download a file hidden somewhere amongst all the crappy in your face attempts to get you to download their "installer" first. I know I've downloaded stuff from the aforementioned sites and never ever installed the sites own "installers".

Re: What about smart TVs?

No. Your TV uses the Tizen OS, not Flash, and, more than likely, pulls an MP4 stream down over HTTP/S straight from the BBC's servers (with additional "telemetry" sent back to Samsung about your viewing habits of course).

Re: FFS

Motherboard? Asus X99-A

Thunderbolt? Header on motherboard *

OSX? Err, its PC, not a Mac, so bit of a moot point.

Labour/Support? Inc. in price/Free ** (by me)

* Not that I or anyone else I know uses Thunderbolt peripherals.

** Maybe I'm lucky but NEVER had a PC need after sales support.

Re: Shameful

That's weird... My friends iPhone has iOS 9.0.1 on it and I've just managed to post a status to her Facebook account using this bug. Fixed it is not.

Re: CAN you REALLY turn off those features?

Win95 that started I think. You could turn "off" the recent docs feature in the start menu but if you navigated to your user folder they were still there, being logged anyway.

A classic case of trading on security through obscurity. Thanks to the dullards* that are forever posting pictures of Michael Kors watches, D&G accessories, bottles of "champagne" (that a French tramp would turn his nose up at) on a night out, and their latest car - you get the idea - the shiny is a little less obscure and the chickens are coming home to roost for Apple.

*Otherwise known as Weekend Credit-Card Kings/Queens

Sorry

Had to downvote your post about downvotes because, well, thats generally what happens around these parts. There's been many a time I've started to write a rant about downvotes on my posts, even on posts that contain simple undeniable facts rather than opinions, but then thought better of it. Its best just to ignore them.

What a load of absolute bollocks! So according to your little list deaf people shouldn't really be driving?

"you can hear the motorcycle or cyclist you just ran over"

Being able to hear them once you've ran over them is a little bloody late! Correct use of mirrors and proper observations, like you should be doing anyway can prevent harming anyone that isn't doing their very best to end up under your wheels themselves.

"the person behind you trying to get your attention because your car is leaking"

Proper maintenance prevents, and regular checks alert you to, those sort of things, that and on-board sensors.

"or has a flat tire"

If you can't tell if your car has a flat tyre then there is something wrong. very wrong. Then again its understandable if you can't feel a deflated tyre in those over-sized wallowing barges you call cars.

"or hear the train coming on the train crossing you are about to cross"

I'm not sure how it works in the States (where I presume you're from given your spelling of 'tyres') but most rail crossing in the UK have some form of physical barrier and/or warning sirens and lights, or sometimes gates, which one has to get out of a vehicle to open. If anyone is dumb enough to cross an open crossing, without turning down their music and making proper observations, then they probably deserve their eventual Darwin award.

"and it's important to hear the engine to make proper gear changes on manual cars"

I don't need to hear the engine to know when to change gears, neither does anybody I know given the preponderance of manual cars over here. If you need engine noise to know when to change gear then its probably best you stick to the auto-boxes you're so fond of that side of the pond.

"the engine tells you if something is wrong when it makes an unusual noise"

Again, proper maintenance and regular checks will prevent this and unless you're driving a properly old shit-box then your car will have a whole array of sensors and warning lights/display that will alert you to the fact that something is wrong long before you "hear" it.

"isolating the driver from the machine is a bad"

Again, in practice, with regards to being able to hear "road noise", what is the difference between having loud music or being deaf? According to you being deaf would similarly be a "very bad thing" when it comes to driving.

"it requires all your senses"

Taste?

"you are not sitting on a sofa in your living room listening to your favorite music, sipping coffee and smoking a cigar like car manufacturers want you feel like when driving"

That may be how cars are advertised over there, not over here.

Your post sound more like a list of your inadequacies as an owner and driver of a "dangerous machine".

Re: Wait, nearly a ton?

"When the original (as you note) was only half that?"

The original was also half its size.

Re: How else do you insure added dealer profits????

"just different firmware"

Half the time it doesn't need different firmware, just different flags setting when the car is connected to the dealers computer. Why do you think car manufacturers are pushing for it to be made illegal to modify ANYTHING to do with any electronic system on a car? It sure as sh*t ain't nothing to do with safety like they claim, its so they don't have to go to the trouble of producing different firmware and so they can continue to charge exorbitant amounts of money for options which in reality only take the press of a couple of keys to enable.

I wasn't joking, a few replies above, about manufacturers implementing remote disabling either... just you wait and see!

Re: downloaded?

That is true. But then one has to ask why, exactly, haven't Google, Bing and a few others been similarly brought to book? Are they not doing exactly the same thing albeit by one degree of separation?

Re: Fixed battery, no SD slot,

Despite the fact that its actually the "Google Services Framework" that is required, not a "Google Apps APK", I don't understand why the reviewer needed to download a "dodgy" APK when the phones own Google Installer app prompts you to download the Google Services Framework when you try to install any actual Google Apps?

Re: Small, or Far Away?

Small, far away

Interesting Legal Shenanigans

17 U.S.C. § 107

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C. § 106 and 17 U.S.C. § 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright

I'm guessing this, and The Intercepts web host having the back-bone to brush off spurious DMCA take-down requests, is why the article hasn't been pulled?