Posts by William Donelson

Yet Wall Street crooks can steal $8 Trillion and not a single one is in jail.

A new IMF report says the world economy is unlikely to ever recover from this theft.

Of course, if Jobs had invented a cure for H.I.V., the Register would still hate him

Of course, if Jobs had invented a cure for H.I.V., the Register would still hate him

Get a life.

Encryption is about CORPORATIONS avoiding the cost of Government demands for data

Pay attention. Encryption is not to protect you. Corporations don't care about you.

Encryption is about CORPORATIONS avoiding the cost of Government demands for data.

ONLY to iOS if you stupidly Jail Break your phone.

Apple has a walled garden that includes 100% of the 10,000 things I want to do with my phone, MUCH safer than Android.

And for those who DO jailbreak, what's to say the Chinese government hackers don't know that and entice and disguise the trojans etc? The articles I have read say their malware is disguised well, as coordinating apps for the protests.

I am sure they are very very clever in attacking Jail-broken iPhones and swiss-cheese Android.

Oil subsidies...

Then remove all the HUGE oil subsidies.

It is obscene to cut food lunches and food stamps for kids to subsidise hugely profitable oil companies. This is sick.

Grain rots in silos in the midwest because railway cars are full of oil now FOR EXPORT.

And do Oil companies pay for all that military in the Gulf? No. Your taxes subsidise the oil routes and drilling there as well.

The real cost of gasoline in the USA is as much as $15 per gallon.

"Such external costs (subsidies, military, tax breaks, etc) push the true price of gasoline as high as $15.14 a gallon, according to a new report released by the International Centre for Technology Assessment."

http://www.progress.org/tpr/true-cost-of-gasoline-artificial-subsidies/

Fastest growing Jobs...

Of the 10 occupation categories projecting the greatest growth in the next eight years, only ONE pays a middle-class wage. FOUR pay barely above poverty level and FIVE of the TEN PAY BENEATH POVERTY LEVEL.

THIS IS WHAT THE SUPER-RICH DID with the tax breaks Cheney-Bush gave them: Invested them overseas, and shifted your jobs and infrastructure to China, etc.

http://www.nationofchange.org/what-job-creation-numbers-don-t-tell-us-1403096844

Blogger Fraud, even?

Slate.com

Apple BendGate Truthers Smell a Media Plot

http://tinyurl.com/pxgybbq

Windoze.

Yet another confusion of science, religion and spirituality.

Pure science is the highest form of spirituality, seeing and perceiving the truth.

I subscribe to the anthropic principle: there are an infinite number of infinite universes, each with slightly different physical laws. Only some of them have the right parameters, such as gravity the right strength to allow stars to be born and live long. Ours is one that allows intelligent life to form, so that the universe may wonder at itself. We *are* the universe, in wonder of itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

Don't be Evil

"Don't be Evil" - Hahahahahahahahah

How Ballmer wrecked Microsoft...

I would not trust this guy with my laundry....

How Ballmer completely wrecked Microsoft: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-downfall-emails-steve-ballmer

Court orders, and enforcement.

With a court order, of the law correctly enforced, there are two situations:

1. Compelling the suspect to reveal his information, with attendant 5th Amendment considerations.

2. Compelling a 3rd party to release your information. This is what Apple and Google want to avoid. It's Expensive, it's bad publicity, it's liable to further complications.

Keep in mind that

1. Many of us have older iThings which don't run iOS 8 very well.

2. The first 12-24 hours, the iOS 8 will do a lot of housekeeping and updating, thus draining battery and causing sluggish operation. Put it on the charger, leave it on overnight, see if that helps.

3. Many are waiting for iOS 8.01 update to fix the inevitable release bugs.

Poverty gone?

Try living in fear from month to month. Especially if you also have cancer.

"Samsung makes money from Android - the only manufacturer to consistently do so - but at a huge cost. Samsung buys its success with $14bn a year marketing budget, allowing it to put out saturation advertising, pay sales staff to push its products at retail, and hype indifferent offerings in emerging markets. "

So true. Market share does not matter if you are losing money.

You are an Apple employee? Apply guy? Not for long.

If you ask 100 people on the street what is wrong with TV, none of them will say "Resolution" - Nicholas Negroponte, M.I.T.

Nudists? Really?

I hope someday The Register will grow up,

Hello, Jasper? The 1990s called and they want you back.

VOTE! Polls don't matter.

* Only VOTES matter.

* The BEST way to Multiply your voting power:

** Set up a Carpool Society with many cars to take voters to the polls.

* Only YOU can save democracy.

Remember the Conservatice Dream:

A sweatshop country where compliant workers live in ignorance, fear, illness and poverty, while the 2% bleed us, laugh and invest overseas.

Unless you are over 50 or need a real salary

This is CRAP. Any programmer with half a brain knows that any good password system should allow only one attempt every 1-2 seconds at most, and only 3-4 attempts before requiring more information from the account trying to log in.

Great article, for 1-2 years ago!

"As a result, Apple’s stock price has disappointed recently, at least by its usual high standards, and a new mood of caution has set in."

Apple valuation is close to it's highest ever. This whole article reeks.

You can to better than this. Talk about WHY Apple continues to dominate cellphone profitability, and WHY that might fail in the future.

Goodbye WiFi and wireless devices if you try to use USB3 ?

-- Intel's OWN report here --

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/io/universal-serial-bus/usb3-frequency-interference-paper.html

Wage slavery increases every day, though. Increases in Real incomes for 99% of the US population stopped during the Reagan era, while the top 1% have accrued all of the benefits of automation and increased productivity. You can see from this chart:

http://gyazo.com/e91db7668b1567168ad314e278b31b72

When are we going to see criminal prosecutions of the super-rich and corporate directors in America?

Nothing, nothing, nothing will change until that happens.

How Ballmer completely wrecked Microsoft: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-downfall-emails-steve-ballmer

GREED is a SICKNESS. It's why people with a million times as much money as the poor still feel they don't have enough.

Less than 2% of Apple iOS devices use iOS5 or less.

Story point: Yawn.

I have *both* PCs and Macs. It's been 20 yrs since I had a virus on my Mac, and that took 10 mins to remove.

For PCs: Kaspersky Lab is detecting 315,000 new malicious files EVERY DAY.

Very misleading title for this article

Very misleading title for this article

Fingers crossed

Since USB3 interferes so badly with WiFi and 2.4 GHz wireless devices, I am hoping this new standard will actually be reliable at 60 GHz without being polluted by other devices, or interfering with them in turn.

Are there other devices which operate commonly in the 60 GHz range? Or have significant harmonics there? Medical devices?

Truly an awesome achievement! Some of the most amazing science in history.

One of the dumbest shows ever on TV. Including Judge Judy and the agony aunts.

Yawn

Yet another lacklustre wannabe phone.

"Hey, you can get ads on this phone. No apps, but ads!"

First they came for the Gardeners, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Gardener.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Serious here. When will your job go? And.... WHO will own the robots? (Hint: NOT YOU)

Amazing, getting the customers to pay for Corporate Lobbying

Amazing, getting the customers to pay for Corporate Lobbying.

This is real chutzpah!

Criminal Prosecution

I love Apple and their products, but when they and other companies break the law, there should be criminal prosecutions, NOT SETTLEMENTS. This goes double for banks and bankers.

What's the problem>?

WINDOWS.

No no no. You don't understand.

The purpose of this nightmare is to secure the JOB of the neoPost tech staff

Honestly, Star Wars is pretty 3rd rate stuff. Acting is marginal, direction laughable, plot ham-fisted and abused.No wonder 4 year olds enjoy it so much.

I use SugarSync since you can pick folders from all over your PC, including external volumes.