* Posts by James 51

3426 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jun 2009

Samsung Galaxy S4 Active: The mobe for CHUCK NORRIS TYPES

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Tougher and cheaper? Can't lose.

Vodafone and Verizon update relationship status: $130bn worth of complicated

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FAIL

Re: @James 51

It's not greed or envy, I don't like free loaders. The people are entitled to protection of course but vodafone has a history of not paying taxes:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/19/vodafone_ireland_tax_hmrc_settlement/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/14/uk_firm_subsidiaries_tax_havens/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/15/vodafone_tax/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/23/vodafone_tax/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/vodafone_uk_tax_bill_court_case/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/08/vodafone_tax_row/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/01/vodafone_gets_visit/

By your logic no business should pay any tax ever and everything should fall upon the private individual but there is no way that we could ever support the level of services the state provides even if the tax rate on us was 100%. Companies need to pay their share and they are doing their dammest to dodge their responsibilities as 'citizens'. If a member of a golf club wanted to play but wouldn't pay their green fees, should the still be allowed out on the course?

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They are going through shell companies for at least part of the transaction. Thanks to Mr. Brown they may not have had to pay tax on this anyway.

It's the artifical steps taken solely to avoid tax that annoy me.

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They don't want to pay thier taxes but if some anarchists took their offices in the UK apart I bet they would like the police to investigate or have the NHS treat any injured staff.

Your nicked iPad now likelier than ever to show up in Mongolia

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One thing tht annoys me about blackberry protect is that you can't have your device encrypted and still have this service run, you have to choose (blackberry protect allows for remote data wipe and location finding).

Xbox One launch date REVEALED - and it's on the 360's birthday

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Xbox live content can't move between the 360 and the 180. there's been a lot of sales on xbox live recently, it's going to be a long time before I consider getting a 180 (preferably without the connect).

Microsoft buys Nokia's mobile business

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Nokia were basically without a phone they could sell for over a year after Elop told the world our phones are crap, don't buy them and then took his sweet time in getting the new improved models out (I know it takes a while to develop a new range but why didn't he wait till he crossed that bridge before he burned it?). They could have started selling tin cans and string and their figures would have gotten a dead cat bounce.

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Just because we're baised doesn't mean we were wrong. Nokia's biggest hope of selling high end smart phones at the moment is the 1020. The research needed to make that possible started what was it, six or seven years ago and first saw the light of day in the 808. It has the wow factor needed to shift expensive products in a competitive market place. Where is the next big innovation going to come from? You can't compete at the top end of the market without it and Nokia just don't have it any more and that's where most of the money is made. The slow pace of development for Windows 8 phones in general doesn't bode well.

BTW were did all those patients that Microsoft just licenced just come from?

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Re: Nokia stopped being a 50 billion dollar company because:

Elop's windows only stragety is the reason why nokia could not release an android handset.

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Elop killed any potential for long term independant growth. Completely gutted R&D. Windows only stragety. The day he joined Nokia a lot of people on these forums were saying this was exactly what was going to happen.

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So, how much would this have cost M$ before Elop ran them into the ground?

Also, how long before Microsoft declare their phone division to be another Zune?

Microsoft - do you really think you can take on Google with Nokia?

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The title is too long.

"Since Google has become the business juggernaut it is today, no one has beaten it at anything significant yet."

Does social networking count?

You must be croaking! Boffins reveal sound-gobbling frog's secret

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Joke

It's all gone Pete Frog

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Microsoft's Nokia plan: WHACK APPLE AND GOOGLE

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how much would this have cost M$ before Elop ran them into the ground?

Brit music body BPI lobbies hard for 'UK file-sharers database'

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When ever the spooks break the law to keep as all safe in our beds, the law is changed so they're not so naughty any more. My guess is that the music industry will 'lobby' till the same thing happens here.

'World's worst director' plans Snowden-inspired movie comedy

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The title is too long.

"but be warned, it may be the most casually and pointlessly offensive thing this Reg hack has ever seen."

Then it must be really radioactively bad. Thanks for the warning.

UK gov dials 999 over Serco prison escort fraud claims

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The title is too long

"an alleged disparity between Serco's PECS performance data and the "actual situation on the ground", the MoJ said."

I thought this was S.O.P. for all outsourced (public sector) contracts?

Boffin snatches control of colleague's body with remote control brain hat

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Re: The trigger finger experiment

No more worries about the minute men pushing the button.

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Re: The Laughing Man

or would I?

Do not adjust your eyes: This Kobo ten-incher has a 2560 x 1600 resolution

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Any chance of more details on the e-ink ereader or some coverage on the new sony model that's suppose to be annouced soon?

Three axes data-roaming fees in SEVEN countries

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Three had this years ago for RoI and then they removed it. Hope France gets on that list soon. Once my contract is up would switch just for that.

BlackBerry in talks to spin off Messenger division

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Re: The world is filled with Sheep

One advantage of a virtual keyboard is multiple language support. Other than that, I agree.

Snowden is great news for hybrid cloud says VMware

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The title is too long.

"the US has been shown to be a jurisdiction in which supposedly private data can be accessed by the government"

That isn't the problem. Any responsible goverment would be looking into the activities of suspected criminals/terrorists etc etc. It's the scale and the level of justification for what they are doing is the problem.

Eggheads turn Motorola feature phone into CITYWIDE GSM jammer

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I think it's far more likely to be used to prevent someone who is about to be arrested calling someone else if they manage to escape. Or if you know a bomb is going to be detonated by a phone call or text you could use it for that.

Nokia's India threat letter: 'It's cheaper to make phones in China'

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Depends on how much that data costs and who you are buying it from. Plus if they are actually making money from their programme it doesn't make sense to attack it. Look at how the US beneifted from all the spins off from their space programme.

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Re: But...

Perhaps but I am not sure that they will start spending less on fighting various insurgent groups, reduce their military presence on the border with Pakistan or tackle the corruption which is reportedly a problem there to plug the funding gaps in the programs that will be left behind.

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The whole 'they have poor people but have a space programme too, bad kitty' arguement always annoys me. Poor farmers benefit from weather forecasts, flood alerts and remote communcations access as anyone else. BTW is the programme profitable? If it's bringing money in stopping the programme would be worse than useless.

'You've had your fun. Now we want the stuff back'

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Re: No passwords = jail

Yes, refusing to hand over your passwords when asked is a crime in the UK.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/03/ripa-decryption_keys_power/

Ubuntu Edge Linux mobe: 'Made you look,' crows Shuttleworth

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Been there, done that

The n900 could run a full lunix distribuation. Was slower than a snail in treacle but it could be done. Had a scart out and supported bluetooth keyboards and mice. If it had just been a bit faster with more RAM...

Nokia's PHAB-ULOUS comeback attempt: Huge WinPho 8 mobe rumoured

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Thumb Down

You might find that building the RT device is a contractual obligation.

Who's Edward Snowden? Capita bungs its email into Microsoft's cloud

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If you made this stuff up an editor would give you a stern walking to about just how far you can push suspension of disbelief. Just when you think they can't make a bigger mess of things, crapita finds a way.

O2 tears wraps off £26-a-month mobe sport, music, games (and 4G)

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Re: All I need now

They'll probably turn GPRS off and use the specturm for 4G before that happens. Besides, they are probably rolling out 4G on the sites they already own. I doubt they are investing in new sites.

Foxconn mulls solar panels, sticking Apple where sun doesn't shine

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Power demand is higher during the day than at night. It's why tarrifs like economy 7 were launched in attempt to smooth out demand. Besides, most installations will be connected into the grid so the power won't be wasted.

Samsung Mega 6.3: Enter the PHONDLESLAB

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So, when the play book dies use one of these as a tablet and the nokia 100 for calls.

Tech war latest: Today's leather tools 'invented by NEANDERTHALS'

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"What? So we still use dinosaur bones today?"

Does coal count?

Deutsche Telekom launches 'NSA-busting' encrypted email service

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Re: Dave has huge export problems should he not engage and import this* and that**

someone must have put something in my tea because a lot of this actually made sense.

Mobe-slurping Wi-Fi SPY BINS banned from London's streets

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Black Helicopters

I do turn mine off but what happens when all the dots here and there start to get joined up. It's not just what the system is now, it's what it will grow into.

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At least they'll have the mac address of the yoofs who through them through the windows of a McDonalds now.

On a less silly note, have they ever heard of the data protection act? Hear about google getting hauled over hot coals for slurping wi-fi data? Sooner or a business that does this is going to have to be given a massive fine, possibly shut down in order to make spying on the public like this stop.

China has another go at rare earth dominance

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Same thing shirley?

Mother of Chelyabinsk spotted

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Where's VHI when you need them.

Students, rejoice ... and squint! Google rents out textbooks to mobes

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Sounds a bit like safari books. The OU has plenty of text books available through that and on their own site too. Nothing new in this, just a wider market.

Asus boss flushes down tabs, says 'Windows RT has not been successful'

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Re: Keep the hardware

Agreed.

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The problem wasn't ARM, it was RT.

Second LulzSec Sony website hacker starts a year in the cooler

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I always wondered when someone gets hit with a big fine like that, assuming they don't have much in the way of personal assets, why not declare bankruptcy? It would take most people a life time to pay off that much and that’s without any other penalties, fees or interest.

Sources spill CEO Heins' beans: BlackBerry 'open' to going private

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Not having to fend off all the short sellers must be very tempting.

Apple: Of course we stalk your EVERY move. iOS 7 has a new map to prove it

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I was going to make a joke here about how inaccurate apple maps are but on a more serious not every marketing perp on the planet needs to get it into their thick skull that tracking people like this is creepy and should be illegal. Knowing that I was being served up ads that had been selected for me using this kind of tracking would make me avoid the products they were flogging.

Vodafone flashes bulging package at Brits: New 4G service to rival EE, O2

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In a few years they are going to turn off 2G to expand 4G provision. Still, coverage is still to much of an issue for them to be complacent about it.

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The spotify premium is £10 a month, isn't it? But if the streaming comes out of your data cap, might not be that long in chewing your way through it.

Penguins, I give you: The SOLAR-POWERED Ubuntu laptop

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Re: WANT!

I have an e-ink reader, I use it every day. However the lack of colour means it's not possible to tell if text has been highlighted with different colours if the text itself is in different colours and what those colours are. Diagrams can be confusing. A colour e-ink screen, even if it is slightly washed out would get round this but no one has brought that technology to market (in the UK at least) and would I imagine drive the cost of the unit up.

The refresh rate and ghosting would be a bigger issue if all you wanted it for was browsing the web and office work. Imagine typing away at sixty words a minute or scrolling through a long article.

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Re: WANT!

No, the 5MX or even the orginal netbook.