* Posts by Adam 1

2545 publicly visible posts • joined 7 May 2012

How much will Google pay to bring fiber to Provo, Utah? Try $1

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Re: Wow, screw Google

You are indeed a crazy operations guy.

Notebook makers turn to Android in face of Windows woes

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Re: Metro

I don't care if TIFKAM is kept, as long as you access it from a shortcut in the start menu that they reinstate.

The fast-growing energy source set to replace oil: Yes, it's coal

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a bit more to it

Bill Gates did an interesting talk on TED about it. His basic premise was that

CO2 = population x services each person enjoys x units of energy per service x CO2 output for each unit of energy.

Basically we have an substantially increased population over the past 50 years and with places like China and India modernising the average services per person has gone through the roof.

Energy per service has reduced slightly as has CO2 per unit of energy but not enough to offset the first two points.

'Fastest storage in the WORLD' plugged into mighty boffinry Cray

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but

Can it play Crysis?

Firefox 'death sentence' threat to TeliaSonera over gov spy claims

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Re: what I do ....

I am afraid that you have misunderstood the concept of an internet forum.

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Re: This seems like the opposite of open source...

It doesn't even stop Firefox from visiting those sites. You just get a warning and a recommendation not to proceed.

FAA: 'No, you CAN'T hijack a plane with an Android app'

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assuming this is true...

How does the exploit access the flight control system?

A pretty big obstacle would be to send it data at all without being somewhere where passengers tend to not be permitted to go.

Chemical-dipped TRANSPARENT BRAINS bare all for science

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I don't see what they did there.

Android's US market share continues to slip

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You can get to its *nix base pretty easily. The file system has the layout you would largely expect.

That said, you can use android without the slightest clue it is linux under the hood and most do.

Movie bosses demand Google take down takedown notices

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Re: I'm suprised El'Reg didn't pick up on a story a couple of weeks back

> or pay someone else too,

Hmmm

Wanna put your toaster and fridge online? Over to you, Ofcom

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Re: yes, but

I suppose you could brand your toast with images of cats.

Model S selling better than expected, says Tesla

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good idea

Will make Eadon's life a bit easier.

ASA says 'unlimited' broadband can have 'moderate' limits on it

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unlimited has a very clear limit

It is the promised bandwidth multiplied by the seconds in the month.

If there is a restriction above and beyond this then just be upfront about it.

Want faster fibre? Get rid of the glass

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why

" (ignoring router hops and regeneration)."

For mine, these are the little details that shouldn't be ignored as they can be improved by way more than 30%.

Nanowires boost photovoltaics sunlight capture by 15X

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Re: One–ten thousandth of a human hair = ?

Marginally smaller than a blue whale.

Who's riddling Windows PCs with gaping holes? It's your crApps

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Re: 9 out of 10 ???

It's "it's"

Android 'splits' into the Good and the lovechild of Bad and Ugly

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Re: Misleading Marketshare Stats

So cars should only be counted as cars if they can compete with 5 series??

If BMW decide not to build sell anything suited to young girls without rich daddys that is their prerogative.

But I would point out that most of the cheapest droids would outperform iPhone 1 on any measure. Does that mean iPhone 1 isn't a smart phone?

Europe tickles Microsoft with €561m fine for browser choice gaffe

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Re: Fine, but......

More importantly, where does it come from.

Hint: check your windows license costs in 12 months time and let me know if you are ahead.

Tito's Mars mission to use HUMAN WASTE as radiation shield

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Coat

What a crappy idea

sorry, I'll get my coat.

HGST: Nano-tech will double hard disk capacity in 10 years

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really?

100x the density also means 100x the theoretical throughput.

Different technologies have different characteristics that are good in different cases. SSDs for example are very good at not damaging if dropped. They have very fast seek times but write speed and MTF is far less impressive.

I have no idea if hard disk will go the way of the zip drive or not, but even if no windows pc ships with a spinning disk it is a bit unimaginative to ignore the whole technology.

Wikileaker Bradley Manning pleads not guilty to 'aiding the enemy'

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so what you are saying is

That they have no hope of pinning him for any of the charges. Got it.

Wikipedia to TXT articles to the developing world

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a perfect solution

In search of a problem.

Ad-titan Google blocks Adblock Plus in Android security tweak

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Re: err.

Your mind must have better logical reasoning skills than mine.

I don't see the fundamental difference between blocking the revenue of a developer who is ad funded vs blocking the revenue of a website who is ad funded.

In fact I suffer the same level of guilt when I leave the TV and make a coffee during those ads that are paying for that very show.

That said, I haven't installed adblock on my mobile yet. It lives on my desktop because websites were showing ads that got in the way, made a racket or otherwise consumed half the resources of my PC. On the mobile it hasn't been as bad.

HYPERSONIC METEOR smashes into Russia, injuring hundreds

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in Soviet Russia ...

Meteorites crash into. ...

Crap, I did something wrong there.

Boffins FREEZE PHONES to crack Android on-device crypto

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ha

Icy what you did there.

iOS 6.x hack allows personal data export, free calls

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Re: its not exactly very usable

What are you on about? Front doors are frequently outside bars.

Vertu-alised Android revealed at an all-too-real €7,900

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Re: <probably mistaken pedant>

But what is that in blue whales?

Apple CEO Cook: 'Bizarre' shareholder lawsuit a 'silly sideshow'

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he makes a fair point

.... But in order to avoid this all he has to do is to separate the 3 measures from 1 vote into 3.

That way shareholders can let their views known about the 3 measures independently rather than the carrot and stick they are trying.

Big Windows updates may ship this summer – and every summer

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Re: Time to think beyond Desktop OS

That works for Apple because they control both hardware and software side of things.

Eventually some new shiny bit of hardware isn't going to play nice with the older os and you either have to hit the forums to find a solution or upgrade.

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Re: Big updates?

Where do I begin?

Next you are going to ask that the proposed application launch menu should not take up the entire screen....

Review: Seagate Wireless Plus Wi-Fi hard drive

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are you serious?

Did a tech review on el reg really just suggest that "a better solution still would be simply to ship the thing formatted to Fat 32".

Sure compatibility is a consideration, but the difference between FAT32 and NTFS goes a bit deeper than 4GB files.

Review: Living with Microsoft's new Surface Pro

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Re: Battery life measured in Houses?

I don't really see the point in quoting it though. They deteriorate.

I mean my laptop used to get about 6 bungalows a year back. Now it is lucky to get 1.

Boffins find 17,425,170-digit prime number

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damn

That's the password on my luggage.

Report: Over 1.5 million UK drivers will have hydrogen cars by 2030

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Re: Hydrogen is not a fuel

All fuel sources have inefficiencies. It is however as you point out inappropriate to consider it like you would a hydrocarbon. It is closer to steamin that it is a material that is not easily procured without putting in your own energy to create it.

It is actually fairer to compare the technology to a battery. Except one that is about as far from practical energy density as you can get. For a practical range, you need to liquify it which wastes even more energy. You then have to truck and pump the volitile highly compressed gas to a service station and accept that you can't completely contain it so

more losses.

I guess it is lucky that the fuel cells themselves are not made from large quantities of very rare materials..... hmmm

Unlucky for you: UK crypto-duo 'crack' HTTPS in Lucky 13 attack

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Re: A bit of client-side malware is needed

Malware doesn't have to be a .exe file. It could be a JavaScript delivered to a perfectly sandboxed browser via some ad network. Therefore it wouldn't have permission to capture key strokes.

That said, it would seem rather trivial to add a fake random jitter to such responses from the server. This would prevent this attack vector.

Wikileaks reveals Icelandic FBI shenanigans

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US registers own protest

... Hrafnsson needs more vowels.

Microsoft Dell deal would restore PC makers' confidence

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Re: It's all about Linux

One could make the same case about googarolla.

We're not making this up: Apple trademarks the SHOP

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Re: Please Jobs

" Time to rise from your grave and put a stop to this."

Great, then they can sue Jesus for inventing the resurrection.

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Re: @JDX

The problem is that you need to be a special copyright mathematician before you can hope to understand how that works.

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Re: ...

I for one can't wait for Apple lawyers to argue that having rounded corners doesn't make it materially different to a rectangle with squared edges.

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Re: Prior art ?

To be fair, I have not seen any other place of worship with this sort of layout.

Google begs for secrecy as it files Glass design with FCC

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Re: Battery near ear

But unlike these glasses, your phone's battery is nowhere near your head, especially when you make a call.

First ‘three strikes’ decision handed down in NZ

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Re: She should have been fined far more...

Surely being publicly identified assomeone who liked those songs enough to download them is punishment enough.

TodDANG! Rampaging monkeys storm Indonesian village

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Re: Time for a change

I, for one, welcome our new ninja monkey overlords.

Google offers $3.14159 MILLION in prizes for hacking Chrome OS

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Re: Pi?

Pi = 3**

**for sufficiently large values of 3.

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Re: Rip off

They need that for their tax bill

Apple confirms 128GB iPad. A hundred bucks for an extra 64GB

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Re: The only tablet

Perhaps Apple could patent my new invention?

You see, what if there was a small hole in the side where a small plastic card about the size of your thumbnail could be inserted. This card could internally contain some solid state memory where files could be stored and read.

The customer could simply purchase such plastic cards with their desired capacity. They could call it a micro SD card.

Ahh, don't tell those folk at Samsung who definitely have no similar offering.

Furthermore, transferring large files could be done at over 40MB/s. Actually scrap that last point. I see no issues transferring 100 GB over Wi-Fi.

Don't like your cell network? Legal unlocking ends TONIGHT in US

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Re: American law does not acknowledge the existence of the phablet.

No, tablerobes are a bit more triangular than phablets.

Boeing 787 fleet grounded indefinitely as investigators stumped

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Re: Hmmm?

No doubt, but there is that small issue of a flaming battery pack being ejected somewhere inconvenient.

Like whilst parked on the tarmac or flying over populated areas.

Panasonic: We'll save Earth by turning CO2 into booze

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Re: "Power cars..."?

" you shouldn't use E-15 (gasoline with 15% ethanol) and car makers are saying if you do it will void your warranty"

Going out on a limb here, but perhaps better advice is to restrict yourself to the fuels your engine is engineered to work with. The same reason that you should not use petroleum in a car designed for diesel. Brazil use 85% ethanol blends.