* Posts by JDX

6847 publicly visible posts • joined 28 May 2010

Tony Blair bod's Gmail hack teen gets 6 months

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Seems fair

It was seeming overly harsh BUT the fact part of it is served and he should be able to take a place at uni makes it seem reasonable. IF he ends up having uni offers retracted then I'll swing my opinion back the other way though :)

Twitter titsup: Our failover was actually just FAIL ALL OVER

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Uptime always has to be balanced against cost. Twitter (you seem to have a spelling problem) might have decided the remote possibility of a double failure was better than the cost of a more redundant system since it's not a website which actually matters.

Of course an arrogant techy arsehole wouldn't know about things like business costs, only about insulting people they think they are superior to.

Amazon crimps free Kindle 3G surfing

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Re: 50MB?

A Flash SWF isa compiled binary and therefore more efficient than encoding the same functionality in HTML/JS.

But don't let the facts distract you.

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Re: The problem has been tethering

50Mb should be fine for using it for 'emergency' internet only. You should be able to check your gmail once a day on that for instance,

Considering it's free worldwide, this is still a massive bonus in my view... the browser isn't THAT bad.

Gabe Newell: Windows 8 is a 'catastrophe' for PC biz

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Re: this is getting silly

El Reg is the 1-stop-shop for hating Apple, Amazon, Google AND MS. It's just cool to not like things which are popular.

When Opera and Linux inevitably dominate computing, they'll be mocked equally.

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Re: Store vs Store

"I suspect that he's less worried about a competing store, more being railroaded until MS have the only store on the platform."

Being able to buy software is far too ingrained for MS to take it out anytime soon - even Apple don't do that. Of course WOA is different but that's a special case more like the iPad where this IS the way things work, on a new type of device. But a PC and buying software from any vendor just go hand in hand and realistically even MS don't have the clout to make that happen.

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Not Like Newell is Biased

He's not worried it will destroy PC gaming, only that it will hurt his company's profit margin... suddenly Valve and MS are in direct competition.

Natwest freezes debit cards, online banking in fresh cock-up

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Coincidences

Is it really coincidence all these bank screw-ups are happening at the same time? It seems a bit fishy.

Apple's new Safari snubs older Macs, drops Windows version

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Re: Windows Users

Were the Win/Mac versions of Safari identical in all cases anyway?

Facebook's Zuckerberg awarded privacy patent

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"Share with no-one" == just don't upload to FB.

No because you might want to look at it yourself or show it to people face-to-face, or have it uploaded for making public at a later date.

What happens when Facebook follows MySpace?

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Re: Archive problem

Did you not bother to read the article? He isn't bothered how to save a safe copy - but a way to PRESENT the stuff on the web so he can see it and let others do so. Making a backup on DVD means everytime something new takes over, you have to re-upload them and set it all up.

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Re: Facepuke

I do love it when someone makes themselves look like a retard by calling someone else one.

Anonymous to expose 40GB of ISP data

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the organisation will take care to protect individuals' personal details

Well that's OK then.

Nike+ Fuelband activity monitor review

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Not waterproof?

It looks like it should be and if it's showerproof I think they should have gone that bit further.

Samsung flogs 10 million Galaxy S IIIs in 7 weeks

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Re: Not bad...

The only interesting thing about this post is that it helps us establish a ratio for the foaming at the mouth "Android users are better, Apple users are iSheep" types to the "Apple are great, Android users are arrogant dicks" types.

Apparently about 5:2.

Amazon to bash down Google, Apple with SIX new tablets - report

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Re: Yay

Luckily for Amazon and the rest of us, there are more people in the world than you.

Nokia woos networks with 'exclusive Windows 8 mobe deals'

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Re: The real story is

WP7 is very good. WP8 could be wonderful (or terrible of course) - and since all major operators are selling WP7 in the UK your comment doesn't even make sense... operators would sell WP8 to cover their bases.

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Re: Hmm.

Well they have to keep the negativity balanced. In fact dissing Nokia puts them on a par with Apple, MS and Google which they should be pleased about!

Windows 8 'bad' for desktop users - Gartner's one-word review

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Windows 8 is very fine on a touch device and gives Microsoft a real crack at the tablet market

Which is the whole point. W7 is great for enterprise or PC; W8 is designed to challenge iPad.

Google ordered to censor 'torrent', 'megaupload' and more words

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Re: Epic FAIL, and no messing

Damn right. Replace them all with techy know-it-all teenagers, that'll solve everything.

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Re: Gotta love those Frogs.

Then type in "torrent of rain" and hit search.

Anyway this "it could mean something else" argument is bogus... you could equally say "they shouldn't stop 'blow job' in autocomplete because that's the name of my favourite band".

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Are they really banning all results containing the word "torrent"?

No. Read the article.

Barnes & Noble: You won't need a Nook to read our ebooks

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Re: Oh god

Don't care - I can buy a Kindle book and read it on my Kindle or my PC or my iPad or even on my WinPhone. It's a fairly open type of closed :)

WinPho to eke out 4% of US smartphone biz

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Re: Sigh.

Wow. It must take really BIG blinkers to believe the only people expressing positive feelings to MS stuff are paid to do so.

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Re: Microsoft have Windows Phone fans left?

I bought my first Lumia last week, knowing full-well I can't put WP8 on it. I couldn't give 2 hoots - I don't want loads of stupid games. It was under half the cost of an iPhone and on a par with low-end Androids, which several reviews had it beating.

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The whole "can't upgrade to WP8" issue

Does anyone know enough about the technical side to explain if this is a real technical issue? Is it potentially something you could do yourself - in fact can WinPhones BE rooted/jailbroken? We've seen you can put Android on an iPad for instance, can you on a WinPhone?

Serious answers only please ;)

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There isn't even a decent torch app in the WinPho app store

I got one by accident.

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Re: "expand the number of phone models available from major partners like Nokia and Samsung"

Apple, like MS, sell a few different handsets for different pocket depths.

- MS sell the 610, a budget (£160) handset to compete with low-end Androids (and it is pretty nice)

- MS sell the 710, Apple sell the 3GS

- MS sell the 800, Apple sell the 4

- MS sell the 900, Apple sell the 4S

I don't think MS need multiple manufacturers - or that it especially will help. The Nokia models right now seem pretty sweet.

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Re: No sh¡t sherlock..

It WILL last years. You'll still be able to buy apps, music and video on it too.

Hubble spots ancient spiral galaxy that SHOULD NOT EXIST

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Re: Further proof

Or it was a practice Galaxy by a Creator ;)

Nearly 2 MILLION US Facebook users quit social network

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No it makes you a sanctimonious jerk.

People aren't jumping on those who don't use the site; they're jumping on those who like to make a song and dance about how and why they're not using the site.

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Why is failure to grow a failure?

They stopped growing because they got everyone* in the main countries they operate in. Why is holding steady at a billion users seen as a failure?

*obviously not literally but if you look at a key target market like student/20s, they really don't have much left to aim for.

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Re: Let Twatter be next

What a lot of bitchy whining kids the El Reg anti-everything cohort are. You'd fit in great on FB.

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Re: You're Welcome, Mr. Zuckerberg

Now you just need to leave this forum too.

Java won the smartphone wars (and nobody noticed)

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Presumably this is why WindowsPhone surprising runs so well on low-spec hardware... not that MS suddenly learned how to write fast code, but that Android is a bit slow compared to a C/C++-based OS?

What about iOS though - isn't OBJ-C also a fast compiled language?

Sony: Walkman, meet Android

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I want my music to sound at least as good as a CD and ideally better

On a smartphone/device you listen on a bus, good luck.

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Re: How is it crippled?

I have an iPod and I put songs on it from Windows. I don't have iTunes installed.

And, iTunes is (allegedly) much better these days.

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So, it's like a phone that can't make phone calls or take pictures or use the internet w/out wifi?

Yeah that'll never take off. Apart from the millions of iPods sold every year of course, but clearly only iDiots buy them so you're right, it's a market without any consumers.

Fake Facebook photo tag ruse smears malware on PCs

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Re: Off topic, facial recognition

You can set it so tags of yourself in pictures require your authentication/review, IIRC.

New lightest-ever material: Ideal power for electric car

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Re: Absorbs light rays completely...

Not really. In real life it WOULD look odd because you could walk around it and it would always just be a 'hole'... whereas in photos it wouldn't look odd. e.g. the Douglas Adams references...

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Re: Absorbs light rays completely...

Um it would just be black. Not going to make a great photo :)

What about other properties such as stress/strain/etc?

LG Optimus 4X HD quad-core Android phone review

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SIM

Why does the reviewer think not using a MicroSim is any kind of advantage? My new phone uses Micro and my operator simply sent me a free new SIM to replace my existing standard one.

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Re: Fab phone. Dinosaur price.

That's like saying because you can buy a TataCar for £8, the game is up for BMW.

AT&T may charge fanbois for FaceTime vid chat, hints iOS 6

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I thought FaceTime was WiFi-only? Maybe I dreamed it.

Anyway If you're using 3G, what is the fuss about being charged by your operator for it? I feel I'm missing some angle here because my operator has a tariff for video calls already.

McDonalds staff 'rough up' prof with home-made techno-spectacles

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Re: Kids

>> He was there with his kids. You going to take your kids for steak tartare? Frog legs, oysters or escargots?

Kids are actually able to eat real food, not only junk. I hope you're not a parent.

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Paris Hilton

Paris Culture

How is this different from anyone else's trip to Paris?

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Re: Hey, it's international cuisine alright

What do they call a Big Mac?

Nasa guides Mars Rover with Kinect

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Re: Nice.

Worst troll ever - Kinect is a massive success you tard.

Sony preps PS3 with old-school design

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Mine is several years old without problems. But then I live in a clean house.

Blaming Sony their hardware can't clean itself when your lungs suffer the same problem is optimistic.

Study: Users prefer Google+ over Facebook

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Re: it is better

It can't be better in EVERY way then.