Posts by JaitcH

Read the fine print about operating temperatures

maybe these 'defective' units were intended for Alaska, Northern Canada, Arctic or the Antarctic.

Apple doesn't do 'defective' - ask Jobs.

Sony must be very pleased about this development

I hope Shantanu Goel has readied his computers for shipping along with his Paypal account, it will save a loy of time when Sony comes a-knocking.

Jobs stealing yet more from others. What a legacy!

Apple/Jobs has no rights that others don't enjoy to use this name as it has been around for decades - even before Apple started using it.

Next Apple will be claiming Apps.

Pot to kettle: You stole our IP

Microsoft should be respected in this arena of the law for it, like a certain company in Cupertino, have been serial IP thieves over the years and have developed a depth of knowledge as to how to do it.

Actually it was a Chinese government chappy who said ....

citizens should take 3 KILOGRAMS (appropriately 6.613867865546327 pounds for fastidious readers, or 6 kati for those many Chinese readers of Reg) to ward off the effects of radiation.

Since this guy has stature in the government, he got away with no punishment.

There were even deals like: “Buy one, get one bag of salt free.” Where salt was unavailable residents resorted to cleaning out stocks of soy sauce.

You should remember that large mass of Chinese, living in the country, are largely uneducated and rely on those who had enough money to get an education, for news.

I hope they remember to build it high enough for ships to pass under unlike ...

a similar scheme in Nha Trang, central VietNam.

The developers kicked back millions of dollars and the planning department approved shorter, cheaper, support masts.

Now cruise ships can no longer use the channel below to sail into the harbour.

So when is Philip Langsdale moving on? To Capgemini to collect his appreciation

Given the mismanagement of BAA airports, this can only improve passenger conditions.

Does Capgemini do snow, too?

Mayhem made in heaven - it's bad enough selecting a smartphone, now there's an added twist

Why RIM would chose to go the solo route, given it's less than dominant position in the market, is not clear. It claims to be the business smartphone and businesses tend to be a little fixed in their ways.

On the other hand Google , in providing SWP access, at least provides a little flexibility.

The part of the NFC equation not addressed are the merchants, most of whom have card swipe terminals, and their relationships with Discovery, Mastercard and Visa cards.

Many people travel, in the past 11 days I have been to 4 countries which would also impinge on any decision as to which technology suits.

It's like the Betamax/VHS battle all over again, except this time there are more choices to be made.

Apple, for once. might have made a smart decision in opting to sit this round out by not incorporating NFC yet.

IBM never was a white knight, with or without armour

A few years ago IBM Canada had a deal to sell credit card terminals to a Canadian Bank - only the terminals hadn't been delivered because of late changes.

IBM invoiced the bank, certifying the terminals were in their warehouse when in actual fact they were sitting in production waiting. The production company was paid, also before delivery.

I had to work with a crew of 17 completing the order over Christmas, and they were paid very handsomely too. We had hire a non-delivery company who not only back-dated delivery slips but also took cash.

At the IBM warehouse there were casual hires and one manager to stack the terminals and the delivery date on their system was all before Christmas as their computers were closed down for the Christmas-New Years vacation!

The credit card terminal company management were all ex-bankers, now we understand how they operate.

Wow, even the frigid prune from Ottawa approved?

The Canadian ICANN representative is a civil servant who totes the Conservative Party flag - it's surprising she would do anything more than abstain.

There is a minority government in Canada so it doesn't really represent 'all Canadians'.

It will make it easier for the nanny states like Australia and the UK to protect their citizens from seeing what comes naturally.

Beak: “the scope of his theft was audacious.”

The Learned Beak summed up the whole of Goldman Sachs corporate mentality best demonstrated by them selling product and then betting it would decrease in value.

Of course, being bankers they are above the law. Let's hope Sergey Aleynikov made some decent bucks out of the deal.

Even with a record, Sergey Aleynikov will make ideal human resources material to work in the financial industry with his morals.

Paper books down; e-books up;e -book prices sky high!

The introduction of the 'agency' contract with book stores where they get stock 'on consignment' and it remains the property of and controlled by publishers us bad for everyone.

Equally bad is the 'price fixing' evidenced by narrow price band between publishers,

Limiting libraries to a small number of loans AND killing 'old book sales' is really crippling them. Thank you Murdoch.

No problem when running NoScript

Only 12%, they say, sometimes with busy links to AdSense or DoubleClick there seems enough time to pour a coffee.

But NoScript cures the problems on Firefox.

Jobs will be jealous - someone making more profit than he does on ...

iThings.

Watch for sneak attack through the T & C's - only original purchasers will be entitled to 'warranty; and support in the first 12 months following sale.

Of course, Apple warranties are like jelly - hard to fix down.

Bon Jovi should be a happy camper for ...

in Montreal, Canada, there is an upstart new company, owned by a laid off financial guy which is banging out 33.3 disks and they are so busy they have to run the presses 24/7.

Now if there more decent record players incorporating the latest techniques that would be near heaven for audiophiles.

Now NASA has no shuttles, no flights, no goals and no budget ...

maybe it's a soon to be made redundant employee or contractor fighting off despondency. At least an under performing employee won't endanger crew lives.

Maybe the should send one of those crew-cut Drug Enforcement Types to the space station - just in case, you know.

R.I.P. Christa McAuliffe

Is this going to be made in China, too?

The last high-tech uniform the MOD ordered ended up being manufactured in China, will this one as well?

Given the recent kerfuffle over stolen Renault battery plans and research it would appear this Brit technology should be made right in the UK.

There was a web site somewhere that would take inputted text ...

process it and then toss it out in whatever language style you wanted.

Some were really, really different. It's a bit like a word processor with a selectable grammar option - business, casual, etc.

Bet that would bugger up even that great university, Concordia. Great for untouched e-mails but undoubtedly beatable if need be.

Sphere Analysis is likely a dummy company, ...

financed by the record and film industries, with a fancy name so people will actually believe they are real. Wouldn't be the first time, either.

Fake companies go with their fake claims about millions of jobs lost.

The clock failure could also portend the potential failure of ...

the Blair Olympics.

What a heritage! What a bill!

If Google is planning to hand shopkeepers thousands of NFC-capable terminals at no cost ...

merchants are likely to be very receptive because the banks charge a high, for small merchants, monthly fee for the credit card/debit terminals.

Pre-emptive strike to Google.

Funny - the winds coming from the west and later from the south over the ...

site means that the Phils are in the clear. Pity Korea, though.

Ah, the miracles of instant communication!

The carmaker's security boss was arrested as he boarded a plane for West Africa.

Dumb, dumb, dumb.

The worst possible way to disappear without leaving a trail is by air. You have to positively identify yourself and all police forces have access to the major GDS (Global (ticket) Distribution Systems)..

Ask Nick Leeson ( the infamous trader whose unchecked risk-taking caused the collapse of Barings Bank) or Choy, Hon-Tim (former deputy director of Singapore's PUB who took $14-million in bribes) both caught by trying to 'escape' by plane.

Smarter thing to do would be to drive to Italy or Greece and take a ferry or a regional flight on a small airline (with it's own reservation system) across the Mediterranean.

Maintain your safety vigilance to the end

Reminds me of an old Army rule: Never hang your arms, etc., over the sides of a truck/lorry.

Not so long ago a group of soldiers were returning from a small skirmish in the back of a truck/lorry and some had their arms extended over the side of it to cool off.

A vehicle coming the other way side-swiped the military truck, injuring several soldiers. As a result several soldiers had their arms or hands or fingers amputated - after surviving a shooting battle!

Does anyone know what it is supposed to depict other than poorly ...

constructed buildings, or city planning gone nuts.

What a sad example of logo design. Even the Festival of Britain was more memorable. See: < http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a3/Festival_of_Britain.JPG/300px-Festival_of_Britain.JPG >.

Will they do Wikileaks?

What a coup that would be for both the cloud operator and Wikileaks!

And egg all over Amazon's face.

XP Rules! Another reason for not changing

Usually I don't even changing OS until well after the first SP.

And no one in their right mind ever adopts a SP until a few weeks after release.

Is this guy related to John Bloom of Rolls Razor fame?

Or possibly a TV sales channel?

It's the sought of tricks they play with visitors.

Apple meet the U.S. Federal Trade Commission: Up yours Apple

The mighty, but slow, U.S. Federal Trade Commission will most likely weigh in on this one possibly under restraint of trade.

Of course Mastercard and Visa aren't without their 'resources' unless Jobs wants to start his own plastic business.

Apple not changing for DST?

For 28% of the world it's not a problem as they don't use Daylight Savings Time.

For the rest, Saint Steve is waiting for you to follow him.

Only three? I wish

I keep stashes of personal stuff in 6 countries I visit most frequently; plus we company offices and facilities dotted all over.

I counted my keys on my 'local' ring - 10 - and on my travelling key ring - 19. All our stuff is company supplied and our guy in the stores carefully number locks and keys so there is no confusion.

P.S Don't think cylindrical keys are safer an appropriate number of 'rods', equalling the number of 'slots' in them, attached to a vibrator (such as a engraver) can unlock these devices. There were soft drink dispensers in the canteen of the old police headquarters in Toronto and the only way the vendor could stop theft was by fitting large steel bands, with equally large large locks to stop theft.

Dim Brits think TARDIS IS REAL

You're writing about iPhans, I presume.

Another successful Apple software release: What they need for security is fresh thinking

If Jobs is serious about keeping The Walled Garden secure they need to start from a different perspective for at the moment GeoHot and company have the Apple thought process down pat.

All this pretend security is just to satisfy Jobs penchant for locking everything up whilst most other smartphone manufacturers simply go with the flow.

"Ga Ga" - babies have a common usage claim to that,, not some tramp.

I distinctly recall babies going "Ga Ga" years before this female trash was even born, so where does she get off claiming she has IP rights.

This stuff is going too far.

Bingo! "otherwise security conscious people would have to upgrade."

That's the Jobs way, the annual upgrade cash flow program where prior models are rendered redundant or obsolescent so the dedicated iPhan can renew their pledges and enrich Apple yet again.

Whatever Apple does has money and inaccessibility (except through an Apple accessory) in mind, which is why they protect their not-so-wonderful connectors, etc. from after market developers.

How about a real tough one: RSA 4.096 bit with AES 256

Anyone cracking this baby will really be popular with the U.S. Federal Government as they hang a hell of a lot of stuff on this.

Worth a damn sight more than USD$15.000!

Murder by government is too extreme when measured against it's failing justice system

Too many people have been exonerated, after years in jail, using modern investigative techniques which proves either the investigations were botched or the court proceedings failed.

Either way, killing by government is too extreme as it can't be undone whereas improperly jailed people can always be released and small compensation made by financial resources to those found innocent.

How can this be? Apple software nis perfect - ask any iPhan

Not withstanding all the expertise his billions can hire, Jobs gang still can't do the job perfectly - despite what they claim.

At least Microsoft is more realistic, they know they are not perfect and have given the the pretence, just using the hackers for a free quality check. Still after all these versions of I.E. you would have thought they would have performed better.

Australian 'Blacklists' are great - all those no-no sites in a single document!

Can you imagine some uptight Oz civil servant rummaging around the InterNet looking for URL's to add to the Oz Blacklist? What a scream.

Still, these lists are very handy as a compendium for the alternative lifestyle that the Australian Government seems to despise so much.

Strange how a country reknowned for it's pioneering ways is prepared to let some sad excuses for humanity in Canberra dictate their personal preferences. Happened, too, in the UK.

At least Americans would stand up and protest against this.

It's as if Australia and a few other countries have become like the movie "The Stepford Wives".