Posts by John Tserkezis

"He didn't know how to let me be CEO, and I didn't know how to do it," Ballmer said.

I knew it had something to do with chair-throwing.

They can get someone to break it free of charge. Just say "we are unbreakable, we simply cannot be brought down, it's impossible". Then wait for every script kiddy try their luck - at the same time. They like nothing more than a good challenge...

Holy crap I'm frightened.

Follow the trail, through the labarynth of links and doublespeak, and you too can be as frightened as I am.

It's as though, they have, like, no idea what they're talking about, but throw in a few phrases to appease the lemmings.

My GF has a water kettle that is backlit by blue leds. I see it as a good thing, that such an important discovery has reached the point where the average Joe sees, and dosn't flinch at blue - in many cases, expects it.

It's unlikely many of the average Joes will understand or at least appreciate the work that went into it, but like their car engines, GPS, PCs or phones, they're not going to understand the work and maths that went into those things as well - but it doesn't matter...

As average Joes, I hope can at least not take our gadgets for granted, and thank whoever created it for making it cheap enough we can use in our everyday lives.

Good work guys.

Perspective people.

Unless I'm missing something, a drug user is offeneded the narks used her (or the likeness of her) to catch other drug users or dealers, and she's offended by that.

Not surprised. If the narks take your dealer away, you can't buy drugs anymore, and you're going to be pissed at the narks for that.

"(Remember all the user data that Redmond said went into crafting the Office Ribbon UI? Where do you suppose it came from?)"

All the idiots put together? Only question is did Microsoft herd the idiots together, or did they selectively choose them from all the entries they received?

I don't think the questions were worthy of a real Sinclair-Head (I could verify my suspisicions on the 'net), and in fact, my memory is so bad I can't even remember if I entered the comp.

I do however working intimately with the Sinclair QL early in my career. Spare parts were a bastard to come across (especially drives), but fortunately (for me) I could make enough good good ones out of lots of bad ones.

I did get to play with them before sending them out, great fun!

"through our first six days of sale, a total of nine customers have contacted Apple with a bent iPhone 6 Plus"

They forget the Note 3 has had zero complaints about bending.

In fact, looking for Note 3's that bend, all I can find are bend tests between the Note 3 and the iPhone 6 Plus.

Pussy.

A locked gate and a court appearance with an upcoming appeal. Is that the best this pussy could muster up?

It must have something to do with living on land, but in close proximity to the water, also here in Australia, it muddles their brain to get a "I own everying and all of yous can get fucked" attitude. Here they go beyond padlocking gates however, they drill holes into the base of trees, fill it with poison, then the fuckers wait for the *coucil* to get rid of the dead trees - purely coincedently the trees that were once blocking their view of the water. On council here installed nets where the trees used to be, to assist the micro ecosystem to recover faster from the changed windage conditions. It has the added bonus of holding up a massive "up yours" to the owner(s) who had their hand in taking the trees down in the first place.

Don't expect any sympathy from me Khosla.

Oh boy. There are that many technical inaccuracies in the article I have no idea where to start. Just easier that I don't.

I was going to chime in with my own comments, but it appears all the exising comments are pretty much bang on, and to save an upvote for everyone:

"What everyone else said +1".

They're not losing anything. At least not what the doomsdayers claim.

If AWS really did lose $2bn, they would have folded by now.

On paper, Amazon's profits as a whole make the local street lemonade stand look like a cut-throat money making venture. Whether or not you like it, the books are cooked to put any and all profit back into the business so it looks like they're making nothing. If this doesn't give you a nice number that you can ooh and ahh about, then tough, deal with it.

Face it, they've been running 20 years, and people are still throwing money at them - and getting their returns too.

Smells a bit like the competition wants to make them look "flakey" so they can drum up a bit of work for themselves.... Funny thing is, a lot of the cloud competition offer services that don't directly compete with AWS, so they're not even treading on each other's toes anyway. Someone's really insecure here, and it ain't AWS.

"We have been hired by celebrity publicists to bring this disgusting issue to attention," "Rantic" wrote.

Right. Because public relations firms have never done anything disgusting before...

I've been hitting TripAdvisor (and others) heavily in last few days for some up coming trips, and noticed two things: The two major popups that kept fucking popping up are booking.com and tripadvisor.com, so I'll be doing business with neither.

Not only that, I'm starting to suspect of the 1.4million customers, half of them were aliases of companies trying to talk themselves up, and the other 50% were the competition trying to talk the first half down.

So I make my bookings by that thing they call a telephone. It's a novel idea, and it gives the NSA something to listen to inbetween the drug dealers and terrorists they keep telling us they're protecting us from.

"an audiovisual interactive format for music that can't be pirated..."

Oh no, does this mean I can't play bono tunes on my ordinary MP3 player?

Horray!

It's all so pointless.

I bought my Samsung, sitting on my fat arse, all from the comfort of my spongy chair in front of my computer. It later arrives on my doorstep, where I briefly get off my fat arse to get it.

Similar to the way I'm making this post in fact.

My point being, the actual act of purchasing a mere phone shouldn't be much more than just that. Life's too short for sitting outdoors in a queue. I have more important things to do. Like writing this post frinstance...

I think everyone's reading too much into this. This is wholly about covering Apple's arse, and little else. Since you can't tell anyone your data is being peeked at, you remove any hint that it might be the case. So Apple is covering it's arse.

As far as Apple "refusing demands for data", that's bullshit, or at least marketing-influenced stretching of the truth. In the event GovCo fronts up with a valid court order, Apple has two choices, either pony up the data requested, or, suffer the steep consequences of not doing so. Without a court order on the other hand, you may very well say no without consequence. I see the reports "prune down" the legal requirements to make it look like Apple will never pony up any data under any conditions. This is not true, however, it IS better than the likes of Yahoo, who are reputed to hand over data first, and ask questions later. So kudos to them on that note.

On the subject of protecting the users (as some other non-el reg reports imply), this again is not the case, but rather, Apple making life easier for themselves. If Apple is presented with a phone for hacking, now, Apple CAN'T do it, rather than WON'T do it. There is clear legal distinction between the two, one means it's beyond your capability even if you wanted to, the other means you COULD do it, just don't want to. And there are penalties against that to "discourage" the activity. So rather than Apple manhandle phones manually where requested, now they don't have to touch them at all.

So this has nothing to do with the user, rather Apple covering it's own arse, with the reporters making it look like they're doing it out of the goodness of their own fruity hearts. Read it for what it is people.

"Can you think of any more? - Ed"

Yes, if you're going to piss your money up against the wall on fake cards, my last check has a 128Gb MicroSD card at a nice AU$0.99 each.

Your bargaining powers must be waining if you're willing to part with a tenner for what is probably 2G.

"The chaps at iFixit have given both the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus and 4.7-inch the iPhone 6 seven out of ten in terms of repairability"

Shocking. It's just shocking I tell you. What next from this topsy turvy world we live in? Samsung reduces phone bloat? Nah, never going to happen.

Oh goodie. Now a vendor need pay nothing to get a protection suite that pretends to nag the user about found "intrusions". Or "found" intrusions as the case may be.

I've dropped phones to demonstrate how well the polycarbonate and silicon rubber case works, heck, I drop the bloody things by accident often enough...

But a naked phone straight out of the box? Er, no. That's why the toughened glass screen protector and case are already ordered and delived before I get the phone.

But that's just me, I don't have a thousand bucks to test dropped a phone. Even if it did have a sapphire screen.

They also don't get the irony that the only way to get the android version is via Google Play, that is, with a google account. Anonymous and private my arse.