Freudian Slip?

"computer with control over steering, breaking and acceleration"

Re: Do not want, and in fact this kind of thing is a fucking 'orrible idea.

Andrew Moore - I'd say the LAST generation of cars are probably smarter than this generation of drivers (or am I just getting older?)

Re: "Do we expect folks to try and download [every first issue]? We encourage it!"

I think you may be right, downloaded the app, tried to create a marvel account "connection to the server has been lost" over & over

Re: Yuck

They did say it was contactless for exactly those reasons (although it was quite near the end of the article

Re: boyf ??

Complaining about abbreviations while using an abbreviation, my Irony meter just exploded!

Re: "Blow"?

"On one side you have a table that can run any Windows application "

I'd buy that for a dollar

Re: What is the UK's take on a drone camera?

Or, If you are really concerned about what the man will let you fly you could try one of THESE

Maybe NSFW!

Re: What is the UK's take on a drone camera?

You can pick up a ready made one pretty cheap, Klaas Olsen do / did one for about £20 if I remember correctly (Helicpoter rather than "Drone" but I used it to check the gutters and I have no R/C flying experience (well, I do now obviously)

Actually, £39.99 now - Catalogue here

Disclosure - Not employed by them, satisfied customer

Re: And this same attack vector

you ever tried taking out a battery on an iPhone, quickly or otherwise?

@ arbee

Sony do this, I have the remote for the Bravia in the bedroom on my iPhone.

I also like the Sky+ app on the tablet, it's a lot better than the EPG guide on the Sky box, tells you when you have recording clashes, helps you sort them out with good suggestions for alternative recordings

Also, I hate to say it but the TV catchup services on the sky box are WAY better than those on the PS3, iPlayer on the PS3 is soooooooooo Sloooooooooooow compared to the iPlayer on the sky box.

All in all, my "dumb" TV has enough "Smart" stuff attached to it for my liking

Re: While we're on the Tesla topic,...

Or idiots forgetting to release the parking brake when they can't find it in the "usual" place - "this bloke I know" once hired a car in Australia, picked it up and couldnt find the parking brake so drove it one block to the hotel where upon relating this tale to his Aussie mate about no parking brake and performing like a dog was then introduced to the concept of the parking brake as a pedal on the very left hand side of the drivers footwell.............

Re: I tend to agree

Horses for courses though isnt it? I mean I wouldnt use my tablet for "serious" work, it's a consumption device so I use it that way, when I have any "real" work then I resort to the laptop, I couldnt imagine trying to do any of my real life day to day tasks on my iPad, it just means I can check my email from the sofa instead of having to nip upstairs every so often when I work from home :-)

Re: It's not a proper mug of tea unless it's a double bagger

Plus, you should use the same mug throughout the day without washing, the last cup of the day should be in a cup that has been thoroughly stained a bright orange colour :-)

Re: Block smut & violence

Some of those cat searches can be very smutty, imagine the wife's face when she searched for "Bengal Kittens" recently

Re: Perspective

Come on Phil, You've been round here long enough to know that the Anti-linux crowd on El Reg would have read these words from the article "Linux...... Bricked.......... Laptop" and that would have been enough, no need to read the whole thing to find out what I call "The facts"

I wish we could all just get along, why cant we all just be nice to each other?

Have a beer on me

Re: Correlation =/= Causation

I agree Dave,

Maybe they could do a study along the lines of:

Subject group 1 - Hardened gamers who are able to lay hands on fairly readily available weapons

Subject group 2 - Hardened gamers who cant get hands on weapons

Maybe then we can see how many more weapon rampages there are in one group over the other?

Re: but why are they paying pb....

Or Pornhub (or so I hear)

Oh, BTW, Porn sites, bit of a waste of time having thos share on facebook widgets don't you think?

Re: Is this a Verizon press release?

Vodafone owns 49% of Verizon "Wireless", Verizon is MUCH bigger than that.

Also, for once, this is NOT Verizons fault:

"The firm's telecommunications supplier Verizon was called in after the company set up a basic VPN system with two-factor authentication so staff could work at home. "

So Verizon were the SUPPLIER of the network and they found the info on "Bob", they were not employing him.

Re: Another day, another "Let's bash BT" article

Virgin STILL do it, My daughter recently moved and was going to sign up for "Broadband and calls for just £4.50 per month*"

I told her, see that star, have a look what is says - Installation fee, line rental from day one of £14.50 or so.

Its just like unlimited* The * is all important, I recently had a debate with Three about this, I was looking at a SIM only deal, £12.50 per month, unlimited data, I was then told if I wanted tethering I'd have to pay £25.00 per month because "you can use much more data if you tether your phone". My reply was "If I have "unlimited*" data then WTF does it matter if I tether or not?" He didnt really have an answer to that so I decided not to join Three.

If only there was some way to stop firms making misleading claims in Advertising (Don't get me started on Plus Net or any of the others pulling this same trick!

@ Graeme

I think this is why they changed the "road tax" to "vehicle excise duty" because they sure as hell werent spending the "road" tax on th F'ing roads!

Re: Bitcasa?

I Just had a quick look and there is currently a free trial then 10Gig remains free and a deal of $10.00 / month for unlimited storage.

Now that sounds great but, as with all things cloud you have the issues of Data security (even if it is only your old photos and music)

will Bitcasa last?

will Bitcasa have an elegant back out solution should the company fold?

will they get you hooked and then up the ante by charging $20 / month?

Ultimatley will they have a "fair use policy" (since we all know nothing is "unlimited" in this day and age)

Most readers here would have enough cynicism to tell Bitcasa "you can have my data when you prise it out of my cold dead hands!"

Re: How about...

Not sure if Tesco direct and places like that do "credit" for their phones and stuff but if you really want an iThingy and want it unlocked so you can use any operators SIM in it then you can get one direct from Apple (with interest free credit if I recall) There must be other stores that sell android winpho stuff without being affiliated with any operator?

"What cheap clocks that aren't stable?"

Maybe the Cheap POS clock that's in my microwave, loses at least a minute a week!

Re: Won't happen to me

Maybe you'd also like some of the face paints for the Kiddies that have just been withdrawn from the UK market because they contain lead?

Re: Ironing?

"That's what wives are for."

My wife has never done any ironing since I told her not to spend so long ironing my trousers -

Wife - "What do you mean, it harldy took any time at all"

Me - "It must have taken AGES to get all of those creases in the front and back of each leg"!

Maybe it's my military background or my "mild" OCD but over the 20 years we have been together I think she takes advantage of me wanting to "do things right" with the retort of "Well, you'd only (hoover / wash up / iron) it again because it's not up to your standard"

Re: Is anyone else completely bored of this?

@ 1Rafayal, I may have some prior art on that trademark

Re: Silly all or nothing attitude

Your subliminal advertising worked, I downloaded the game ( free version obviously) and quite liked it, enough to upgrade? Give me a little time to play it and ill let you know!

Re: Just to add a bit of balance...part 2

Welcome Tim, I admire your spirit but come on, you have to get yourself a camp and stick to it if you want to be a regular comentard, unless you hate at least two out of the three main OS's / hardware manufacturers then you are going to be real lonely here.

Speaking as someone with an android phone, an iPad, home windows 7 PC and using many disparate versions of unix / Linux at work I confuse the hell out of the average commenter on here myself!

See that, it's a joke alert but I guarantee I'll get down voted for my "joke"

Re: what is wrong here

The first rule of the pedantry post is that you will inevitably make a mistake of your own, why do you think El Reg doesn't allow editing of comments?

Re: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is!

I've got a grand on the end of the world, if it does end on the 21st I'm due to collect £25K!!!

Re: Nice hardware, shame about the OS

Not sure but I thought the secure boot thing was just mandatory for the ARM versions of surface?

Even if that is true then I wouldn't put it past MS to make sure that the drivers aren't available for earlier versions of windows and I know Linux driver support has improved greatly in recent years but there may well be some lag before useable drivers for surface become available.

Re: I take exception to low rating of "Moon"

Caleb, you new here?

"they're not really meant to be taken too seriously."

You are discussing fictional comupters in films with some of the worlds biggest computer / film geeks and you thought they wouldnt take thing seriously :-)

So what should "they" do?

"Don't try underhanded tactics either like making the first few levels great and the rest of the game suck"

How many levels of awesomeness should "they" release for free? Personally if the 1st couple of levels are great then I'm probably willing to "invest" in the full game (admittedly after a couple of weeks when I can pick up a pre-owned copy!

Re: I'll pass on this one

Maybe the OP was actually posting in a tocuh screen with his "stonking great finers"?

Re: That's a Turing Test failure

must be outsourced then as we dont have any "indians" woking over here.................