* Posts by paulc

770 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Oct 2007

How Britain could have invented the iPhone: And how the Quangocracy cocked it up

paulc
Mushroom

Clowns... the lot of them...

that is all the jerks* in NESTA...

* well maybe some of them aren't jerks, but there does seem to be a serious need to whack these idiots with a cluestick...

Hey Linux newbie: If you've never had a taste, try perfect Petra ... mmm, smells like Mint 16

paulc

Re: There is still something wrong with the look of Linux desktop

will be doing an "in-place" upgrade to Petra LXDE this weekend once I've made sure my data is safely backed up in case of having to do a Windows stylee wipe and re-install.

paulc

Re: Win8 to Linux Alert

ditch the UEFI options and enable "Legacy Mode"... that's how I did it with a win 8 laptop that was being a particular b*tch to get Linux onto... nuked win 8 anyway, never wanted that carp...

Dell feels cold probe of US Dept of Justice amid Syria PC sales claims

paulc
Mushroom

bleepin rich of the Americans...

"Dell does not conduct any business directly in any country identified as a state sponsor of terrorism, including Syria"

Which country currently provides the most aid to Al Qaeda? USA...

Which country is responsible for the vast majority of terrorism around the globe? Israel... (and most of that is in the form of 'false flag' attacks...)

FreeBSD abandoning hardware randomness

paulc

Re: Linux wasn't using RDRAND directly

oh FFS, XOR is an instruction that directly maps to the hardware microcode and directly acts on the registers, there is naff all intelligence in it...

One European copyright law-to-rule-them-all? EU launches review

paulc

Harmonisation...

in EU speak always means the strictest laws from each country get mashed into one bad law for everybody, which the French and others usually ignore unless it's a chance to stop our products from competing with theirs...

Apple's 'Smart Dock' patent filing makes Siri your new roommate

paulc

Oh FFS...

come on US Patent Office, this is NOT novel to someone skilled in the art...

Brit inventors' GRAVITY POWERED LIGHT ships out after just 1 year

paulc

you mean like this?

http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/hi-gear-12-led-wind-up-style-mini-camping-lantern-p143639?gclid=CPz29tmtmbsCFRLMtAodwmkAcg

simple google search for wind up lantern

Fun-killing fireshow-flunking ZOMBIE COMET ISON only LOOKED alive

paulc

Re: It is an Ex Comet...

orbits are coils when you consider that everything in our solar system is also moving along in the same direction around the galaxy in addition to being in orbit with each other

paulc
Happy

Re: RIP Ison (5 billion BC-2013 AD)

deprived? There's still comet Lovejoy up there visible to the naked eye in dark skies...

http://beforeitsnews.com/space/2013/12/comet-lovejoy-is-the-real-show-now-comet-ison-is-dead-or-dying-2470978.html

http://www.webpronews.com/as-ison-has-fizzled-comet-lovejoy-remains-visible-2013-12

http://earthsky.org/space/how-to-see-comet-lovejoy-c2013-r1-charts-photos

paulc

It is an Ex Comet...

shuffled off this mortal coil, gone to join the choir celestial...

LOHAN embraces handsome young autopilot

paulc
Paris Hilton

Internal rejiggery ahead...

looks like you might not have much space to play around with especially as you need to keep your centre of gravity in the same place...

Best budget Android smartphone there is? Must be the Moto G

paulc

Re: Why?

Cloud? Then you'll be constantly eating data usage charges for swapping out various media files for others unless you stick to using wi-fi for that. I like to have 32 Gig of micro-SD card storage attached along with having teh luxury of on-the-go USB...

My next phone will be a Galaxy S4 in April (or S5 if that's out) unless the S3 mini in SIM-free form has a massive price reduction in the next few months

Brits won't have to pay for thieves' enormous mobe bills any more

paulc
Mushroom

the real tragedy here is...

why the bleep has it take so long????

The only way is Office: UK Parliament to migrate to Microsoft cloud

paulc
Mushroom

idiots... what better time to develop a self hosted open source solution...

keep the data in your OWN cloud, keep the source code to yourselves... no need for an expensive license payment to a foreign company every year either...

Aussie boffins can detect orbiting SPACE JUNK using rock gods' radiation

paulc

Old tech...

just google Daventry Experiment 1935

basically they've rediscovered something that had been done yonks ago...

UK.gov's web filtering mission creep: Now it plans to block 'extremist' websites

paulc

Re: Nanny state.

we'll end up being just as inventive with our euphonism as the Russions and East Germans were back in the bad old days... also every typewriter had to be registered and a sample page of type kept in the files to try and prevent Samizdat newsletters...

REVEALED: How YOU PAY extra for iPHONES - even if you DON'T HAVE ONE

paulc

Re: Message to mobile operators

they have to sign an NDA before they can even see the contract...

Britain’s forgotten first home computer pioneer: John Miller-Kirkpatrick

paulc

affordable???

"the Scrumpi, which went on sale for just £65 but soon fell to £56, affordable for almost every electronics enthusiasts and MPU buffs"

that was two weeks wages for me back then...

Thai man reportedly dies clutching his scorched iPhone 4S

paulc

Re: It's all about the money

Apparently the CE marking as the Chinese are using it means Chinese Export...

Telcos can be forced to turn copyright cop, block websites – EU law man

paulc
Mushroom

asshats of America...

have managed to destroy common carrier status for telcos...

NSA spied on 'radicalisers' porn surfing so as to discredit them, reveals Snowden

paulc
Black Helicopters

massive blackmail database being compiled...

to be used to control politicians and anybody else who falls under their sights...

This is what's the real big deal about all the internet logging...

'MacGyver' geezer makes 'SHOTGUN, GRENADE' from airport shop tat

paulc

Re: Make the eejets go crazy bronkers

meanwhile there are 30,000 excess deaths each winter because our poor and elderly have to choose between heating or eating...

Xbox One site belly-up in global Microsoft cloud catastrophe

paulc
Mushroom

And there I was...

under the impression given by all the puff about cloud services that they were always available and would never go down on you unlike self hosted servers...

You can't have that many! China scuppers US, EU tech tariff talks

paulc
Mushroom

em.. if their goods cost more to buy in our markets because of the tariffs we impose on them, then it does matter as it levels the field for local manufacturers

Don't forget that the Chinese have been cheating and waging economic war on the west for decades now by deliberately pegging their currency to the dollar and not allowing it to float to it's true high value. This makes their goods and labour very cheap and also makes our products expensive in their market.

Super-stealth FLYING CAR prototype seen outside GOOGLE HQ

paulc

Re: I'm guessing it doesn't hover like you'd want it to.

I would expect it to have an emergency parachute system similar to the one used here only just this summer:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336815/Pilot-76-walks-away-plane-crash-just-minor-injuries-deploying-emergency-PARACHUTE-allowed-light-aircraft-float-safety-quiet-Cheltenham-garden.html

Doctor Who Episode One: Through a glass. Darkly

paulc

pedant point re supermarkets

Quick google revealed this halfway down the first page:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3532469/60-years-since-the-UKs-first-supermarket-opened-in-Streatham-South-London.html

Dry, cold and volatile: How to survive Mars, and your fellow crew

paulc
Trollface

Re: "While travel in time sadly isn’t on the cards"

with strict weight limits, you'd be lucky to take a blow-up doll, pump and puncture repair kit with you... ;)

it's that or get used to taking turns in the "Barrel"... old navy joke...

When three Linux journos go crowdfunding

paulc

advertisers?

!3) We will serve only our readers, not shareholders or a board of directors.!

and what about your advertisers then? Will we see powder puff reviews?

Brit ISPs ordered to add more movie-streaming websites to block list

paulc

Re: Don't even need to find a proxy

Just wait until that gets declared as a circumvention tool...

How d'ya make a JPMorgan banker cry? Ask him questions on Twitter

paulc
Trollface

They don't like Twitter...

they have no control over the hashtags...

SourceForge responds to GIMP grump with crowdsourcing caper

paulc

Developers specifying installers?

Come on now, there's no way the GIMP developers would have specified a bundle installer delivery method when they already had proper installers for The GIMP up there on Sourceforge... some one from Sourceforge itself made that decision to repackage it

LOHAN sees bright red over Vulture 2 paintjob

paulc

Simulated?

You know you can feed the design into simulation programs to make sure it flies...

X-plane for one:

http://wiki.x-plane.com/Supplement:_Plane_Maker

Pwn2Own crackers leave iOS and Samsung mobe security IN RUINS

paulc

Fixes?

When will the ordinary user get to see them? It takes ages for the operators to put out an OTA update...

Virgin Media to hike broadband prices by nearly 7 per cent

paulc

here we go...

what's the bets that with prices up 7%, they still mysteriously manage to make no taxable profit in this country now that they're foreign owned?

GIMP flees SourceForge over dodgy ads and installer

paulc

GPL?

Surely this bundling is against the terms of the GPL...

Alleged Peeping Tom claims First Amendment right to upskirt

paulc

Charged him under the wrong charge...

pure and simple... the DA needs a good kicking and the case thrown out...

Dodgy Kaspersky update borks THOUSANDS of NHS computers

paulc
Trollface

but, but, but...

"falsely classified a Windows system file, specifically tcpip.sys, as malign and quarantined it"

that's the best possible way to make a windows box immune to infections... ;)

Thought you didn't need to show ID in the UK? Wrong

paulc

Re: That's Theresa May for you.

I seem to recall that a previous Home Office Minister (Baroness Scotland) got caught out employing an illegal...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8260088.stm

that article is highly relevant to the current article here... :)

Virgin Media suffers growing pains as Cable Cowboy daddy settles in

paulc

What this really means...

Is that they'll never post a profit in this country any more purely for tax reasons... they'll just be paying interest on a loan from the parent company or else pay stupid fees to licence their own intellectual property

IT'S patent WAR: Apple, Microsoft vs Google, Samsung, Huawei

paulc

So missing Groklaw...

:(

She would have had a field day with this...

'Tablet' no longer means 'iPad': Apple share PLUMMETS below 30%

paulc

low end of the market?

Just bought a whitebox Android 10.1 inch tablet for just £170... Good quad core processor, good display, decent memory, decent storage, takes up to 32 Gig of micro SD, has HDMI output, bluetooth and USB On The Go. Also has Android 4.2 (with a promised OTA update to Kit-Kat when available) and is officially blessed in having the full suite of Google apps as well.

Apple are on a hiding to nothing and have got to seriously up their game to remain relevant or else devolve into being just a litigation machine with what patents they have... Even Samsung have got to be worried by what's coming out now and in the near future...

New leak claim: NSA saw hole in Mexican prez's email box - and hacked it

paulc

Hacked to protect their own scams...

all done to protect their drug-dealing money machine... find out if the Mexicans were getting close to any of their agents...

Windows 8.1: Read this BEFORE updating - especially you, IT admins

paulc
Trollface

I have an easier solution...

Go and install Linux Mint instead... only one download needed of a .iso file to burn the install disk from... then have fun blasting window 8 off your machines and replacing it with a sane solution...

Kids hooked up with free Office subs at Microsoft-addicted schools

paulc

Typical Pusher Behaviour...

the first hit's for free and gets them hooked...

Hey banks: Use Win XP after deadline? You'll PAY if card data's snaffled

paulc

Cash Tills and self check counters?

I've seen a lot of these running XP behind the scenes...

Streaming TV Aereo's enemies lob sueball into Supreme Court

paulc

unfortunately, as far as the existing corporates are concerned, it makes perfect sense to smother disruptive technolgies at birth before they can disrupt your existing very profitable business model which consists of ripping the customer off as much as they can stand...

Imagine if buggy whip manufacturers had managed to get internal combustion engines outlawed...

500 MEELLION PCs still run Windows XP. How did we get here?

paulc

Re: But slowly – over time @Kunari

You might laugh, but I actually bought a machine with ME on it rather than XP when XP first came out...

Microsoft sold out of Surface tablets in the UK... YEP, all 2,000 units

paulc
Joke

hello Steve Ballmer, is that you???

paulc
Trollface

The real WTF here is that

2,000 people actually wanted one...