Posts by Mikel

El Reg?

Pot: Kettle, you're black.

Over here, over here!

Pay no attention to the thing over there!

So that's one thing

14 billion to go.

Almost ten years

Please enjoy this old article about Radio Shack from TheOnion.

http://www.theonion.com/article/even-ceo-cant-figure-out-how-radioshack-still-in-b-2190

It's a nice little piece

Will be getting a few - one at a time.

Been having fun with OpenCV on the Pi3. Can't wait to try out a mini drone with this in. Power requirements are tiny.

Doom for Wintel

Not the videogame either. Well, they held off the future as long as they could - and made good money at it.

Again

Friends don't let friends use IE.

VPN

You can configure a VPN enabled router to magically transport your Internet presence to a country that respects privacy. And, just in case, you can pay for the service anonymously in various ways including cash by mail. It's not expensive.

Google's Android network assistant can now automatically do the same service when you connect to unsecured wifi.

Take care of yourself out there. It's going to be the Wild West in the US for a while as the open goal of this Administration and Congress is to eliminate any and all regulation whatsoever. It's "The weak are meat the strong do eat." - David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

How about

No?

Disturbing

In the US immigrants are taking cover wherever they can. It's a return to the bad old days.

CBP has a great deal of power over their charges. Abuse of power here really doesn't have most of the checks and balances of the rest of American society.

Listed among the charges

Gross malpractice. For recommending Office 364 in the first place.

There is a crook in this story

Actually, several. But the guy that sold the construction company got away clean with a lot of money by selling Westinghouse a sack full of debt and performance liabilities.

The former Toshiba CEO and the Chairman who just quit aren't gonna disgorge their haul either.

I guess these new nuclear power designs just aren't as lucrative as they are sold as.

Hush now baby don't you cry

Here's some money to say bye bye.

The man is a gift

To late night comedians everywhere.

It would be a conflict of interest if it were Google holding things up. I don't see that happening. I see the hitch being OEMs dragging their feet.

We paid them for universal broadband

We never got it, but we did pay for it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5839394.html

Several times. Last in 2015.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/2/2/1361802/-After-billions-of-dollars-in-subsidies-here-s-Verizon-s-broadband-coverage

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Takes-Billions-in-FCC-Subsidies-For-Broadband-Expansion-134949

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/centurylink-takes-3-billion-govt-broadband-subsidies/143693

The running total is approaching half a trillion dollars, which I'm sure you know is enough for every American to have hot fibre dangling from every orifice. It ain't gonna happen though.

The wailing and rending of garments notwithstanding

It is long past time for Microsoft to concede that the software distribution model in Windows (download and install applications from anywhere) is a legacy of insecurity horrors best left behind.

They won't get people to adopt it, obviously, but at least they've taken the time to read up on more sane methods.

Intel to divest McAffee

It was tragic when they acquired it. As I wrote at the time, the acquisition revealed that mighty Intel was run by technology illiterate MBAs who simply didn't know why this is a bonehead move.

Though they're curing the symptom, the disease remains.

Throw out the baby and keep the bathwater?

This sounds upside down. Buy a dead business and keep it, flog off your big money maker that's way ahead of the curve in demand.

Did Stephen Elop get put in charge of Toshiba? It looks like someone is deliberately sinking this boat.

Relevance

So, Google is trying their best to provide me with information more relevant to my interests?

The horror. /s

Shakes head

Intel still doesn't get it.

Sparse arrays

Most of the picture is black.

Oh

Thought this was about the Windows Phone that only got a handful of backers.

He'll say the same about Windows 10 soon enough

All Windows vendors have the same cognitive delay. For them to realize a version of Windows is unfit for purpose it has to be unavailable for sale.

Regulatory Capture

We have it. And not just in Telecom. Apparently appointing the fox to guard the henhouse is blatantly, unashamedly direct official policy now.

Incoming market glut of flash storage

That's good news for the consumer. And bad news for spinning rust.

Back in business

I look forward to watching another flight next week.

Infosec

Oxymoron

IE share

Market share of IE is down by half this year. Is that mentioned?

Deep pockets bend spacetime

The tort lawyers cannot escape the cash horizon

New for Christmas next year

First quality submarine drones for the aquatic enthusiast. Made in Taiwan from a clever engineering design quite like that used by the US military. Fully autonomous. Lithium rechargable batteries, runs for days. HD webcam standard, optional sensor packages available.

Explore your underwater world without getting cold and wet. Only at finer department stores and online via Amazon.com.

Why?

Violin on hard times too

Tough market for storage startups.

My comment from the Sun acquisition

Uncle Larry is not in the "giving stuff away" business.

You should've started migrating then, not now.

Backdoor implies deliberate intent

Of course Microsoft would plead incompetence before malice.

But does it matter?