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691 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Oct 2006
UK Snoopers' Charter gagging order drafted for London Internet Exchange directors
Get it while it's hot: NASA's Space Poo contest winners wipe up $30k
Apple joins one wireless power group, the other one responds with so-happy forced grin
I have a Sony phone which has a magnetically attached charge coupler, much like the old Apple magcharge connector.
It's quick to connect, doesn't lose power like Qi, and the phone is still waterproof. You can still use the microUSB socket to charge if you wish.
Such a shame Sony dropped this feature, when instead it should have become a standard.
Want to come to the US? Be prepared to hand over your passwords if you're on Trump's hit list
I used to go to the USA two or three times a year to visit relatives and for a holiday, spending thousands each time on a hotel, car hire, subsistence, gifts etc.
I started to cut down after "9/11" because getting into the country made me feel like a criminal, even though I am middle class white european male to the 4th generaion with a UK passport etc.
I've not been in three years now, and I estimate it's cost their economy over $15000... and counting.
I know there are many others like me. I've heard of Chinese companies trying to send people to do trade deals being turned away, and spending millions in Europe instead as they are welcomed with open arms.
Surely His Highness Donald and all his business owning buddies would want the tourists's money rather than turning them away in droves?
Supermicro sockets it to Skylake rivals
President Donald Trump taken on by unlikely foe: Badass park rangers
One BEEELLION dollars: Apple sues Qualcomm, one of its chip designers
Samsung set a fire under battery-makers to make the Galaxy Note 7 flaming brilliant
Re: So the fires were the result of...
It's the tech bloggers masquerading as reviewers.
I'm sure many only get to keep the phone for a short while, maybe a matter of hours, so never have to live with the deficiencies, or see the beautiful device crumble or its shiny finish strip away over the a few weeks of use.
FBI let alleged pedo walk free rather than explain how they snared him
Internet of Sh*t has an early 2017 winner – a 'smart' Wi-Fi hairbrush
Spotty battery life costs Apple's MacBook Pro its gold-star rating
Stupid law of the week: South Carolina wants anti-porno chips in PCs that cost $20 to disable
Privacy Commissioner, infosec boffins, call for reform of anti-hack Bill
Bill Gates joins $170bn climate change investment club
Brexflation hits Lenovo's Phab2
These devices are all made in China and either flown in or come by boat in a container, probably to Rotterdam and/or Harwich.
There shouldn't really be more than 10% variation across Europe.
If you do try to buy the phab2 pro smartphone off one of the Lenovo European shops, they'll only let you enter that country as a shipping address.
HBO slaps takedown demand on 13-year-old girl's painting because it used 'Winter is coming'
Who killed Pebble? Easy: The vulture capitalists
Violin Memory axes staff just before Christmas, gives CFO $150k bonus
Investigatory Powers Act signed into UK law by Queen
UK Parliament waves through 'porn-blocking' Digital Economy Bill
Why I just bought a MacBook Air instead of the new Pro
Post-outage King's College London orders staff to never make their own backups
Zuckerberg says just one per cent of news on Facebook is fake
Apple drops dongle prices to make USB-C upgrade affordable
We're going to have to start making changes or the adults will do it for us
I think tabs, hard tabs, should be used as god indented, or intended, and stick with 8 columns. That's the default, it works, and as long as you don't f**k with your editor settings, everybody sees the same.
If you want anything else, use spaces. And again, everybody sees the same thing. A good editor can use any number of spaces for indentation, so if you're going to d**k around with the editor's configuration, use spaces and make the editor do all the work.
The worst messes I've ever seen in source code are when muitple people have used hard tabs and defined them as different shifts, but all done it differently.
Boffins turn phone into tracker by abusing pairing with – that's right – IoT kit
Cynical Apple gouges UK with 20 per cent price hike
Digital minister Matt Hancock promises 'full fibre' eating plan for Blighty
Re: C'mon Aussie
It's just capitalism at its worst.
BT have no real competition, and inherited a truly national copper based network, they can make decent money without upgrading the infrastructure. Why should they do more than they do, it's just good business?
Of course, it sucks to be stuck with a monopoly supplier.
Some Eastern European countries have amazing national fibre infrastructures, but their phone systems were so bad they really had to start from scratch and thus leapfrogged nations like ours.
Reports: Twitter chainsaw massacre redux on the cards
I've always thought Twitter is mostly pointless. It's generally been a write-only medium, with a few exceptions of some people that others find interesting.
There's nothing on Twitter that doesn't exist on dozens of other online services.
The fact they've never been able to make it a commercial success, and nobody wants to buy them, hasn't surprised me in any way.
That said, Twitter has some pretty clever tech to handle the volume of tweets
Como–D'oh! Infosec duo exploits OCR flaw to nab a website's HTTPS cert
Openreach split could damage broadband investment, says BT's chief exec
May blocked plans to bring in more Indian IT workers – Vince Cable
Re: We soon won't need them
We will have jobs. once all the european mainlanders go home, there will be plenty of unskilled farm jobs available, restaurant staff, cleaners and other manual labouring jobs.
It will become economical to grow food in the UK again because of the week pound hence more farm jobs.
Fuel will go up, as it's priced in dollars.
The good thing is we'll all get fitter and healthier from working outside, or because we'll be walking or cycling more. And being poorer, we'll be eating less, which is good for us
I don't see why importing the work of remote labourers shouldn't incur the same import duty as physical goods. We pay VAT/tax on insurance and eBooks and digital music.
Just as we have switched from importing physical goods for music and video to digital, and other services which incur VAT, so companies who outsource workers to other countries and then operate their business remotely should incur import duty on that imported work.
LG’s V20 may be the phone of the year. So why the fsck can’t you buy it?
Re: "a 32-bit DAC, part of a burgeoning partnership with Bang & Olufsen"
you don't need better than 16 bit DACs for playback, provided you have a variable gain headphone/speaker amp on the output so as to maintain the noise floor.
anybody who claims to hear the difference between a 24 bit DAC vs a 16 bit DAC, when fed through the same analogue amp and speakers is either a liar or an alien.
Brit ISP TalkTalk scraps line rental charges
Ofcom: Legal separation will force Openreach to eat more fibre
I think ISPs should only be able to charge you the actually achieved line speed, not the "up to" speed. They can recover the costs from BT OpenReach for the quality of the line.
So if you have an "up to 80M" service and the line can only do 20, you pay only 25% of the normal rate, and the ISP gets a refund from BT on their costs of renting the line.
Re: For whom does OFCOM work?
I think the analogy of buying a Ferrari and complaining about the roads is a poor one, because the two aren't the same.
Perhaps a better one would be that of of buying a rail season ticket with a guaranteed seat on the non-stop express every morning, only to find the service is oversold so you don't get a seat or get bumped onto a later slower train would be better.
BT Openreach boss wants you to know that deep down, they care
‘Penultimate’ BlackBerry seen on 'do not publish' page as fire sale begins
Apple seeks patent for paper bag - you read that right, a paper bag
Three outsources staff to Capita
I wonder if Capita learned anything from the last time they "helped" run a mobile phone company...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/telecoms/10087909/Capita-plans-to-close-O2-call-centres-and-cut-thousands-of-jobs.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/25/capita_voluntary_redundancy_call_centres_o2/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/29/capita_o2_staff_asked_to_stick_around/