Posts by VinceH

"Samsung willfully stole used our simple and obvious ideas and copied that we want people to think we invented for our products," Apple said in a statement today.

Fixed it for them!

Re: friggin DRM

DRM - Do (users') Rights Matter?

Re: Having met two of them...

Indeed. When I saw his episodes the first time around as a much younger person, I thought McCoy was awful - but watching them again some years later, I found I was able to appreciate his performance as the Doctor a lot better. He actually played him very well, and was definitely let down by other aspects.

Re: Wrong size

@Captain DaFt

"For comparison, say a basketball is Earth. The Moon would be a tennis ball,"

I think a tennis ball is about a 10th of the size of a basketball, whereas the moon is about 1/4 of the size of the Earth.

I've no idea of the size of a grapefruit, so I won't comment on Mars being the equivalent of one of those in your comparison. Instead, I'll leave you with this, just because I can.

Re: Have you used an Apple TV?

Something similar (in effect) to this, perhaps?

Re: ha teach those stupid users...

I think you'll find Lost All Faith was being sarcastic.

Re: I'd have thought

"calling the lead character "Snow White" smacked of blatant racism."

Which, IMO, reinforces Warwick Davis' belief that "it's all a smokescreen anyway. The profit margins for pantos are not very big and it's obviously much cheaper to involve schoolchildren than it is to pay lots of professional short actors."

If they wanted the panto to be politically correct, they'd change that aspect of its title as well - and probably a few other things in the content.

Re: I'm wondering

One that has legs and crawls around.

Re: I don't have a LinkedIn

"But why would you add somebody you don't know?"

Most of the time I can't even be bothered to add people I do know, so this concept baffles me.

Re: Err.....

"The event is on Tuesday 9th September. i.e in 5 Days time."

I know Overpuddle is in a different time zone, but I assumed the 9th would still be a Wednesday there, just like it is here in the UK.

"So what happens when you try to write about Scunthorpe or the Barnsley town of Penistone, the Berkshire village of Cockpole Green or the village of Hassocks in Sussex?"

Mentioning Scunthorpe reminds me of my first (Windows Mobile) PDA back in, what was it, 2004ish, give or take?

It had a handwriting recognition feature, so I duly tried it - with the word cunt, which it 'recognised' as (IIRC) curt.

My handwriting's a bit crap, and it's also possible it was matching the letters written against an internal dictionary, which perhaps didn't include cunt - so giving it the benefit of the doubt, I tried the individual letters, each two letter sequence (cu, un, nt) and both three letter sequences (cun, and unt). All were recognised. I think I also tried a made up word that wouldn't be in the dictionary, without a problem.

So I tried cunt again. Curt.

I also tried Scunthorpe, which got Scunthorpe.

I wasn't impressed.

(And yes, I'm fully aware that it was a pointless, childish thing to try. But I'm a bloke, not a grown up!)

Because a huge pile of cash can never be too big. There's always room for more.

Re: Move along now....

You forgot to mention that it only affected a small number of people.

Re: A 'whopping' 100GB

"Google assume want everyone can simply to just use the cloud all the time for everything."

FTFY.

Re: sorry whats happening?

"i need a dunce icon..."

I don't think you do. I read the first few paragraphs of the article a couple of times wondering where to find the explanation of what was actually happening other than "its magazine subscription service began emailing everyone on the mailing list" - which is only a part of the actual story.

It wasn't until I read that tweet that I realised what was happening - then I read the preceding article again in case I'd missed the paragraph that explained it.

I hadn't.

"British newsagent WHSmith has a major privacy hole on its website, after its magazine subscription service began forwarding emails sent to it via its contact form to everyone on the mailing list."

Would be a more explanatory first paragraph.

One of the things I like about El Reg is that it presents stories in smaller, more bite-sized chunks than some other outlets - it takes less time to read an article. It's a shame when it becomes so bite-sized that an important detail is missing, though.

Re: Hmmm

"Surely for this money you can get a proper Windows laptop theses days? Chrome isn't exactly an appealing option in that case."

Indeed. I needed a cheap laptop in a hurry the other week, and I grabbed a 15" Toshiba Satellite something or other running Win8 for £219. It's nothing special (only a Celeron running at 2.16GHz, 4Gig RAM and a 500Gig HD), but it's coping with everything thrown at it so far.

A sofa.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Re: Pwnie

As I was reading the article, I thought a word just 'fell out' and was eminently suitable - but not pwnie. I was thinking "shame" as a result of this quote from the piece:

"there's no collective noun for vulnerabilities, for shame"

Given that most vulnerabilities are a result of what should be facepalm moments for the people who let it slip in, a shame of vulnerabilities works for me.

Hmmm... saying that, a facepalm of vulnerabilities... :)

Re: Website Down Too

So I've just discovered - trying to log in on the business banking site to pay a supplier, but it's taking ages to get anywhere, and I can't be sat here all day waiting. I'll just have to try again later. :/

Re: Domain names

I'm happy to say I haven't seen one of those in a very long time.

However, there is a similar type that I do get - unofficial trademark registry non-invoices (i.e. like the domain ones, really a "request for payment" carefully crafted to look like an invoice so the less careful recipients might pay up). Slightly more pricey than the old domain ones.

That $67/hour will result in your details being removed...

... from their copy of the database.

Re: CAN you REALLY turn off those features?

"I think someone needs to set up a Windows 10 machine, turn off those settings and then analyse every packet sent, to identify it's content, purpose and destination."

According to Ars Technica (final paragraph):

"Finally, it's worth pointing out that these are just the visible config flags; without some packet-level analysis, it's hard to say exactly what data is being sent back to Microsoft, and by which service. As one commenter pointed out, even after they disabled Cortana and turned off a bunch of privacy-related settings, the search box still seemed to be sending keystroke data back to Microsoft."

Re: The things people buy...

"It's probably incurable unfortunately"

Euthanasia?

I get what you're saying. What I'm questioning is the validity of your suggestion that because Jobsy put down Flash 'Fandroids' somehow like it.

Speaking as an Android user who has a very strong dislike for Apple (the sort of person you are probably talking about) your suggestion sounds like complete nonsense.

And that's probably because it is nonsense.

What "prolonged the inevitable" (the ditching of Flash) has nothing to do with Android users, and everything to do with big names stupidly insisting on its use, such as the Beeb for iPlayer.