Posts by John Tserkezis

"may choose to stop making films altogether."

Looking at the standard of crap coming out of Hollywood nowadays, would that be a bad thing?

Yeah, that's all I wanted, a server I can cuddle and hug. With love.

"Swantee told the Telegraph: "Not all ads are bad."

Sure, all ads are bad - except the ones that paid EE to be "unblocked".

That's a good deal, when you "look" like you're doing right by your consmers, but are making money at the same time.

Till your users find out what's going on, that is.

"That will help Windows 10 become Microsoft’s most widely deployed operating system, following in the footsteps of Windows 7 and Windows XP, Gartner said."

Sure, and holding a gun to user's heads is also a very persuasive technique too. Unfortunately, it has a side effect of pissing people off. However, if you're the type that needs to force-feed your products, you don't really care about that anymore do you? Do you Microsoft?

"for ideological and political reasons not for financial gain"

Ooooh! How retro!

Sounds a bit like the semiconductor industry. We've reported a variety of bugs on chips, and never received so much as, well, anything.

Though we know they get fixed in the next revision of silicon, IF there's another revision that is.

Don't worry, it's easy to fix.

Just filter ever foreign website from general users.

It works. Read it for yourself.

It's all in a document marked "Top Secret" on a publically accessible Homeland Security website.

"The organisation is yet to respond to El Reg’s query about its website crypto."

They did, and hacked it just to prove the point.

But all they got was a single credit card belonging to some guy called "Phuc Dat Bich".

He claims he's real.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/phuc-dat-bich-the-australian-man-with-a-name-so-awkward-no-one-believes-him-20151120-gl4egu.html

Oh I'm sorry, is the DMCA not good enough for them? The music and movie holders have been fucking thousands of people copying music to their MP3 players for years.

But because going through the courts (like they're supposed to) is too "hard" for them, they take the piss weak way out and aim for the ISPs, who, are not technically responsible for this anyway.

Nice work Moray & Agnew, congratulations on making yourselves look like a pack of, well, laywers.

"It's not hard to see why, as the likes of Dropbox or OneDrive offer plenty of security and redundancy."

They don't offer a way to dump half a dozen terabytes in a reasonable manner. Not everyone has one of those internet connections that uploads as fast as it downloads either.

I think I did the math for myself, and to dump my entire nas contents to a cloud service, meant it would take a solid year of uploading, without having my ISP knock me off for abusing their so-called "fair" use policy.

2G Kinda Lingers

It's not that simple. In Australia, and not all that long ago (barely a few years), all carriers swore black and blue there were no plans to extinguish 2G. Today, Telstra has had the 2G writing on the wall for some time. Optus has reported 2G's immenent doom as well. Voda (Hutchison) is in the thinking about it stage.

Telstra quotes less than 1% of their userbase on 2G, and claims they'll be assisting those subscribers to move over. So it's disuse that's causing the turnoff.

Stiff shit you say, it's simple you say, stop whining and upgrade your thousand year old phone you crybaby, you say. Too bad it's not that simple.

the bulk of the non-phone comms gear (trackers, alarm comms terminals and such) all come from Europe where 2G is plentiful, heck it grows wild in the fields. But here, it's a dying breed.

You can't "just" replace an embedded 2G comms module in an Alarm panel. You can't "just" replace trackers, you have to replace your entire gear with "modern" 3G gear that is nowhere near as plentiful as 2G. Oh, and it costs 10 times more, because 2G gear is plentiful, and 3G is not. And it doesn't help that this is Australia, remember?

It's "just" not that simple.

How about I offshore some of my workload? I could get someone in India to read the Reg articles for me.

Sure it'll cost me money, and it won't be as fun, but look at how much "work" I can get done!

"and TV broadcaster Channel 7"

I'm not sure if this stands as a correct, but the Channel 7 logos have vanished from the building, and been replaced with something else. It's been a while since I've passed the area, so can't remember what it is now.

On another note, we're running out of larger venues for exhibitions. Darling Harbour is now high density housing, ATP is becoming CBA, which leaves perhaps Homebush park. There is obscenely priced parking available, but you get a mini train/trolley/fun ride. If you came via public transport (which they're actively encouraging) you don't the the trolley and have to walk like a knob to the railway station. Sucks to be you if your legs are stuffed.

I'm just going to continue on the same vein as some of the other posters here:

"pitching Microsoft as the protector of people's global data."

Sure, after all, you can't protect data till have you have any right? Not mentioning any names Windows 10.

How will the Trans Pacific Partnership affect my plans to create a Johnotopia, where I can can play super loud music and annoy all my neighbours on the asteroid?

"the federal regulator does not want to prevent all modifications or updates"

"prevent all"...

So, then it's most then is it? Especially the useful ones? Thanks for clearing that up.

Will US vendors now magically be able to send stupid Australians such as myself, the South Park box sets? No? Then I don't care for your bullshit transvestite partnership crap.

But "no" I hear you say, "it isn't logistics, its licencing".

I still don't care.

Apple watch saves a life? Why yes, it is utter balls.

I'm a big fat unfit bastard now, but once upon a time I used to train.

Taking regular heart rate measurements soon after waking was the norm, an upturn in rate indicted over-training. The heart rate is a useful indicator, but it's not the end-all-be-all of diagnosis of impending doom.

Which brings me to an old joke that illustrates the issue:

A guy cheats death, and makes a deal with the grim reaper: "when it's finally my time to go, give me some prior warning to get my affairs in order". The grim reaper agrees and they go about their merry way. Some much time later, the guy has multiple orgain failure, and on his death bed, the reaper comes to visit. Angry, the guy says "Hey! I thought you were going to give me some warning!?". The grim reaper replies "First I gave you glucoma and cataracts, then I gave you a heart attack, then I gave you diabeties, did I not give you enough warning?".

Cough.

With the right software, I've had "offline" capability on not only Google maps, but a number of other map suppliers too. Useful when google maps might not be the most 'asthetically pleasing' of the map options too. Technically, I would not be limited to their suggested sizes either. I can grab sections at a time, perhaps days apart, and merge it all together when I'm done.

"To this day, I find SCART an amazing hardware interface"

Don't be. SCART was created to simplify the millions of different cables to cater for Audio, Composite Video, Component Video, RGB, both in and out. It was implied, if one device only had one type of video connection, the receiving device would be able to cater for that. In practice that never happened. Ever.

Worse still, while it was wildly popular in Europe, it wasn't here in Australia, so with the odd device that came into the country with only SCART, we needed adaptors apon adaptors, and made the cable situation worse.

"I purchase a handful of virtual Amazon Coins"

I'd have alarm bells ringing from there. Are they like Itchy and Scratchy money? You know, the pretend "money" you're forced to buy to use within Itchy and Scratchy Land, but no-one there takes it anyway?

stranded in tropical paradise with Indian crime lord

The title makes it sound like a 50's B-Grade horror movie.

"...it is possible that malware disguised as an Adobe update..."

You're comparing malware and Flash? I'm confused, aren't they one and the same?

I was under the impression this idea isn't new at all.

Basic gist of it is that mars doesn't have a fluid core like we do, which in turn creates a magnetic field like we have. Since that is what deflects the solar winds, it'll strip of any atmosphere that's left over.