Posts by James 51

I wish that I could completely fail at my job then collect enough money to set me up for a couple of life times.

There are ways of stripping the DRM out of itunes purchases so you just get that nasty taste when you buy your stuff and you can use it as you please later.

Apple products are just too expensive for them to completely dominate the industry but that won't stop them from spooking a lot of players.

Listened in for the blackberry tablet segment and had to stop. Less group think and more detail and analysis please. The random bashing of the company in general too came across like someone trying to hard to be cool and when someone like me comes out with that kind of criticism, you need help.

BTW if an FBI agent is too stupid to be able to use his equipment properly, I would hope that the solution is not to let him comprise what ever he is doing by attaching unsecured random equipment to what I am guess is suppose to be a secure network.

Was just able to go to www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer and start watch the 6 nations streaming.

If you have hacked someone's computer or phone then you've effectively bugged them, searched their house and placed a GPS tracker on them with the phone. They're taking the 'on a mobile device' standard to their powers to avoid having to fill in all that pesky paperwork or you know, obey they law on breaking and entering and the computer misuse act. Probably data protection as well.

If not the NHS perhaps NICE should be getting right on that. Improved patient outcomes and reduced costs. Double win.

I think they don't stand a snowball's chance in hell but good luck to them.

Perhaps eventually one day if we don't give a toss about security. My work does a full on site disaster recovery every six months to the point they rent an AS400 for a week and have users test it. Expensive yes but we know baring major civil disruption we can be back up in twenty four hours. I am guess with MS that might be achieved with the flick of a switch but there's always a catch.

Most of the time I make do with some loose leaf Russian earl grey (never knew there was an earl grey in Russia too) in a little steeper. One step up from sticking a tea bag in but it is nicer.

Proof if it were needed that some politicians just don't give a damm about anything except winning.

I have a Q10 which has the same CPU. Only problem it has been slow is a few framerate issues running some Android games.

Even packet prioritisation might not help if the network is being flooded by a DDOS. If driverless cars need a connection that badly, why not use a dedicated wireless network or subdivision of what is already out there.

Of course a more accurate description of net neutrality fears might be if car from manufacture X gets priority over manufacture Y because they've bought up all the high speed access or have paid to downgrade others access.

Blackberries have had this for years. Only problem is that you couldn't use it and blackberry protect on the same device.

That is probably the first time there has been a positive comment about the playbook I have seen on el reg. A nice surprise. The jolla tablet is top of my list to replace my playbook finally dies (over three years and still going strong).

It will be interesting to see if they develop something like the bridge or blend between the handsets and the tablets.

I've been using ubuntu 14.04 for a while and unity isn't that bad. Certainly a lot less frustrating that windows bloody 8 with or without a touchscreen.

It would be nice not to have to rely on notebookcheck to compare cpus.

If you can meet your goal, move the posts. I thought this was standard operating procedure for big projects.

Iif that predictive coding really works that well, after building the profile surely it could replace those traders.

I was looking for something to replace my netbook but netbooks and laptops with AMD chips were either underpowered or expensive. Not AMD's fault but there it is.

Forget the kids, I want one. Keyboard died on my netbook and it was too slow to run windows 7. Being able to replace the keyboard and cpu like that is the way things should be.

£2 for the ebook? If correct +1 sale on the back of this review.

Sometimes I wonder if Bush Sr. Just takes his heads in his hands and shakes it in despair.

And for the record, the US government is not the family business to be passed on from father to son.

I am still wondering how apple managed that with rounded corners.

"It remains a mystery why Scottish voters didn't put their homegrown politicians in charge of the entire country and economy"

Probably because Cameron and every other politician in Labour and the Lib Dems promised them more devolution. Then the following morning Cameron looked over his right shoulder and saw UKIP accelerating so decided to back track and throw in lots of umss, ahhhs and conditions he hadn't mentioned before. If the promises aren't kept the SNP would be completely justified in asking for a new referendum and I think they would win under those circumstances. Certainly bad for the rump but then we'd have no one to blame but ourselves.

With TTIP it could mean foreign companies failing their way to the bank. The company will probably make more profit if it wins than if it had completed the contract.

There has got to be a way to convince the BBC to create a documentary on CERN. It would be cool to see the various aspects of the operation in action.

Yes there are loop holes not the least of which is have someone else steal it for you but hopefully once the principal is established it will be clearer that officials are abusing due process and more pressure will be used to stop that.

I wonder if there is an e-ink other half for the jolla phone.

I had sky but just didn't watch enough to justify paying for the TV part. With the likes of amazon and netflix fast, reliable broadband is what would tempt me to switch providers. Of course living in a relatively new town only BT have any sort of infrastructure round here so everyone is piggybacking on them. Sky is incredibly slow as they have over 95% of the market share here. Switching to BT did help.

*sigh* isn't just enough to make you lose your faith in humanity. Perhaps if cable companies hadn't convinced lots of local government in the US to legislate against allowing local government to provide competition or simply plug the holes in their coverage stuff like this wouldn't be necessary.

I'd agree to the sue for profits if governments could sue companies for increase costs i.e. you just made 1,000 people redundant, that will be £x,xxx,xxx for the next year to pay for their benefits and if they are still unemployed we'll come back next year. Oh and parent companies and shareholders are fully liable with no kind of tax dodging shielding allowed.