Posts by NoneSuch

To be fair, we expected no less.

I seem to get the feeling this Pay by Bonk outing by Apple will be their Bridge too Far. Time will tell.

Re: I used to concider Yahoo! as the scourge of the email giants..

Make note that of all these corporations and the hundreds if not thousands of people who knew what was going on, NOT ONE went to a newspaper and became a confidential source. This took place over years and no one said anything until Ed Snowden snatched the honor.

If they (Google, Yahoo, MS, et al.) truly felt this was unconstitutional they should have A) Made a public declaration and fought it out in court or B) made a bee line for the newspapers as confidential informants and stopped this in the tracks.

They didn't and here we are. The one person who did something about this is vilified and on the run from American "Justice". There's only one hero in this story.

Re: Celine Dion ...

that scrawny Quebec female who supports separation and lives in Las Vegas

Fixed it for you.

Re: Licence fee to ITV and Channel 4...

I'd like to see an "Ignorant Opinion" license fee. The nations debt would be paid off in two years just by members of the House of Commons.

Re: Subcontractors

Laws are only obeyed by honest men.

The texts says "shouldn't" not "won't".

I encourage Mister Snowden to make sure there are steel clad assurances in place before he goes skiing.

Re: Verifying the source of the data

American developed "standards" are what got us here in the first place. Anything that is approved by the US Gov should be shunned by the rest of the world. We need to look at the stuff the yanks disapprove of.

Re: Brilliant headline

That the Reg staff get paid to think this stuff up amazes me. :)

Re: On YouTube

Where is the usual 1080 vid from SpaceX? Held back by their spin doctors?

C'mon Elon, pad explosions have happened since Peenemünde. Be open about the bad as much as the good. I'll have a lot more confidence in SpaceX if you did especially if you want my butt on a rocket to Mars at some point.

"The AMD Radeon R9 285 graphics card is faster than Nvidia’s GTX 760.1," the company claimed. "That’s because we designed it for a single purpose: to play demanding PC games at maximum detail better than any card in its class."

WTH? Isn't this the definition of video cards that have been made for the last twelve years?

Re: Short Development?

The key will be drivers. Good luck with that.

Having a government dictate what you can see, read, and hear for "your protection" is the first step to despotism. It only increases over time and eventually leads to a Little Red Book or Mein Kampf becoming leading literature for the masses.

Governments work for us. We tell them what to do. Once governments begin dictating edicts to the people, you no longer live in a democracy.

Re: still early days

Once I have Steam running all my games I'm off Windoze completely. The only thing left on my PC is Steam and my games. I do everything else on Kubuntu with ease.

I have 155 Steam games currently. As long as the newer ones work, I'm happy.

Re: The biggest problem with encrypted email

The biggest problem with encrypted email is not everyone is using it. Crims already do and that leaves regular folks email accounts open to government intrusion. Their going into your email account is no different than going into your home searching for evidence of wrong doing. Believe me, if this activity is not stopped soon and the paranoia curtailed that is exactly what will happen in the future. Those web cams and mics built into your TV, PC, tablet, phone, and fridge will be under government control soon.

Re: Got to agree with the "why oh why phone"

Great article.

"So far it's been fine and has handled iOS 5 6 & 7 with no problems"

Don't say that too loud. They'll have no issues building obsolescence into their OS if they have 60 million phones in their warehouse they want to shift.

Re: Is el Reg trying to out-Grauniad the Grauniad...

There's a little link at the bottom of every Reg story called "Tips & Corrections". You can click that and report these kinds of issues quietly.

Saves you coming off as a bit of an whiner. Pobody's nerfect mate.

And when they were up, they were up,

And when they were down, they were down,

And when they were only half-way up,

They were neither up nor down.

13MP camera takes magnificent hi-res shot, then gets uploaded to FB and converted to 640 x 480.

Technology.

Re: If it aint broken

It's revolutionary new security to make them even more secure.