Posts by Tom Maddox

Re: US T&C strikes again

"Whether or not your rights can be taken by T&C in product 'contracts' is a matter of State law. Some allow it, some don't."

IANAL, but I would suspect this is only true when the company does no business across state lines. At that point, it would become interstate commerce, which is governed by federal law. Since the company has a Web site, I think it would be very difficult for them to claim they were not engaging in interstate commerce.

Re: "There are some threads that are, destined to become smutty."

And one giant step forward towards reducing overpopulation!

Re: I have an "Honor" 6

"Do they spell honour correctly when attempting to sell these things outside the US of A?"

Yes: "Honor."

Re: Why the percentage shock?

Speak for yourself, dipshit. I'm a human being, not a computer, and I'm not programmed to do anything. I may have certain drives, but they influence my behavior, they don't govern it.

"its just a theory (sic)"

You mean, like gravity?

Re: I'm sorry I misconstrued it for comedy

"Stuart, you did understand that it was satirical didn't you ?"

Conservatives (the American kind, can't speak for their British counterparts) don't understand satire. Many of them appear to believe that the Colbert Report, which was specifically created to mock conservative newscasters, was an actual news show, so it's unsurprising that the satire in this piece went unobserved.

Re: “airline crack”

Fucking homophones, how do they work?

Re: El Reg units...

Actually, the reason is much simpler: it's just to annoy the French.

Sad and lonely troll is sad and lonely.

Re: Well that confirms it...

"You can't make an assumption like that, it's entirely possible that in a company that size there are several more!"

Indeed. They should start by trying their offices in The Netherlands.

Re: what is The Reg

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess "No."

Re: Not a terrible idea

"People don't buy phones for the OS, they buy them for the user experience, apps and hardware (in whatever order) It doesn't matter if the phone is running Android, QNX, iOS or Windows 10 underneath, if the phone is well designed and you like the GUI and can run your apps."

Heresy! Burn the infidel!

Cloud

"Perfect for Cloud Storage!"

Re: How would we ever detect that our traffic is throttled?

Citation, or at least evidence, needed.

Re: "trying to fly on one engine would make the aircraft very difficult to control or land safely."

"It barely reached 2,000ft before calling an emergency and tried to land, but hit an electrical pylon and crashed shortly afterwards."

That sounds like a "sub-optimal option" all right.

Re: What am I missing?

What Alistair said. There's a fairly straightforward workaround to the disk-locking issues, which is to use in-guest iSCSI, but many organizations either don't have iSCSI support for block storage or have fear and loathing about using iSCSI for performance-oriented applications.

Re: Famous Last Words

There are always a few parts left over.

Re: Nick Slater makes the most important point of the whole article

I actually prefer unicorns for servicing my all-sequential workloads, since they also don't exist. Under real-world use conditions, I have never found a use case where flash storage in an array designed to make proper use of it was not helpful. Now, some vendors are more effective than others at making use of flash storage, but that's a different issue.

Re: Just ONE MORE scumbag running a company.

While I don't condone Uber taking advantage of the drivers, you're living in a fantasy world if you think you're somehow better off or personally safer with cab drivers. To the contrary, at least taking an Uber, the Uber app is tracking your location, so you have evidence in the event that an Uber driver takes you off to some secluded location to have his way with you.

http://www.businessinsider.com/despite-its-problems-uber-is-still-the-safest-way-to-order-a-taxi-2014-12

This is purely anecdotal evidence, of course, but virtually every Uber experience I've had has been more pleasant than taking a conventional taxi would have been. If nothing else, Uber is putting pressure on the taxi companies and regulators to provide a better experience for consumers.

Re: FTFY

You don't understand--their forum is pathetic and sad; my forum is cool and enlightened!

Re: Class action?

"But then what happens when it's learned the cost to do it reasonable would price ANY home router out of the affordability range? What if the average home user can ONLY afford an insecure router?"

Your average home router is cheap commodity hardware presumably running a cut-down version of an open operating system such as Linux or *BSD. The effort involved to a) harden the OS and b) give each router a unique, difficult admin password should be minimal. These tasks are solved problems and should not raise the cost of a router by more than pennies. If they do, the vendor deserves to be priced or sued out of the market.

Re: "Surveillance is a sensitive issue in Germany"

Surveillance pretty much is everywhere these days.

Or is that not what you meant?

Re: is actually greater usage than 10 or 20 people on one bus

"Typical libtard statement."

You might have made a valid point, but no one will ever know since it followed this statement.

Re: I would comment but.........

If your work requires you to use a proxy server, they can log your http traffic . . . such as that which communicates with El Reg. Posting as AC is only a useful defense if your work doesn't care enough to do that. Actually, if they care enough, they can just capture all your network traffic. Using your work PC to do something your work doesn't want you to do is a losing bet if they want to catch you badly enough.

Re: Expectations

Quite right! I prefer my current existence wherein governments and/or corporations wield no power over me whatsoever.

Re: Do you really want....

Your anti-Google paranoia makes me think of this.

Re: It's my computer

Then install an Adblock-detector on your site and refuse to serve content to people running Adblock.