Posts by Wize

Several have jumped ship from Cyanogen

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/16/android_custom_roms_splinter_over_openness/

Re: Advertising revenue

And watch on the device of your own choice without having to sit through the piracy warnings or trailers you are forced to watch on the DVD copy.

Re: An unsolvable decision problem

If you are a Narwhal, it would be midnight.

Re: Banned until money

'Illegal' becomes 'treaty' becomes 'agreement' becomes mining rights.

...and that is the path to the dark side.

Re: But it is a Mac

"...your sarcasm tag is ineffective because there is no opening one."

The point was a thing called humour. Maybe you should do a little research.

And I was not trying to write code that would parse in a compiler. I was saving it as a punchline to a joke. Punchlines are normally made at the end, not at the start.

Or are you claiming you typed <sarcasm> once in a post and still haven't turned it off yet?

Re: But they can't be switched off, either.

Now is the time to promote your own Facebook app.

Re: because there's no other way to express an emotion

Because sometimes you don't know what to say to someone when their close relative dies.

Re: Will it go to the .co.uk holder? Or .org.uk? Or...

"It will go to the .co.uk holder. It's buried in the proposal somewhere."

Yea, but it won't go for free. Its all about making money.

Re: wait.. what

"I don't think i want to ever get sick and be injected with some of that."

Who says you get injected. You might have to swallow.

Re: TeleMemo lives - perfect for PINs

Also very handy for storing phone numbers for when you don't have your mobile (either stolen or working in a place that doesn't allow mobiles on site)

They look a bit better too. The Casio Edifice watches don't have all the buttons on the front. I did get a proper metal strap one, with metal body and mineral glass. The UK shops only sold plastic straps/cases/screens. Longest lasting watch I've ever had. Hope they start making smart watches to the same rugged specs.

Re: Amid the predictable puerile jokes....

"...the best place to get the results needed is from the area around the heart..."

Plenty of heard monitoring fitness devices can be strapped on without the need for an over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder.

Maybe if men want to use this device, they have to 'grow a pair'

Re: It's all about the money

"Third party adaptors from reputable shops in Europe at least will all be CE tested and safe. Safe adaptors cost more, but as their less likely to kill you or melt or catch fire, it's worth the extra."

A local shop (well, one of those mini shops in the middle of a shopping centre) was selling the fake chargers, along with its CE mark. So it isn't always easy to tell when an item is genuinely safe.

The downside is Apple will probably change their phones to not charge when plugged in to a non-Apple charger. For safety of its users, not for the extra profit it will make from selling more chargers.

Re: I've never understood the need for on-screen logos

The 'next up' are very annoying. The BBC have already had complaints over a two part Dr Who story where a cartoon image of Graham Norton popped up just at a dramatic point of the episode spoiling the fact we were being left on a cliff hanger.

'We have just that in the UK, "driving without due care and attention".'

And it is implemented differently over the UK. Some areas they lift you when drinking from a bottle of water with a sports cap when sitting at the lights (a warning I was given when flying south) but in other areas they are a little more lenient.

Re: Come to Australia

I never had the urge to go down under, and its not changing any time soon.

Re: For shame

I got mine before they got smart (no internet connection at the time) so it is not on my network. Was looking for something with DNLA for another room, but LG can go spin on it now.

Not that it would have mattered, it won't be able to tell what channel I'm watching on Sky.. What's that? Sky log details too?

Re: Missing experiences...

Ah Peri. The only reason I stuck through the Colin Baker years.

Though not his fault it was crap. He wanted a dark suit and to take the Dr's character somewhere dark. They gave him a clown suit instead. And now they are looking at the Dr's dark side.

Re: The F in FB Stands for "Fail"

That won't catch password reuse.

You could have a really good password that meets all the relevant criteria* imposed by IT overlords to secure the system, but if it is reused across other systems, and they get compromised, its game over.

Its something they will probably do with any hacked lists of passwords that come out.

*Passwords must contain a lower case letter, an upper case letter, a number, a symbol, a hieroglyphic a haiku, an odour, a directional force, a gang symbol, a heart warming story and the blood of a virgin**

**used to be blood of a unicorn, but this is harder to come by ***

***except among WoW players

Re: I read this and I think

"I sure am glad I live in the free world where this doesn't happen."

It annoys me when some idiot claims the UK is a police state.

One such example was a guy, with previous for being violent, wandering round town with a chain saw and half a bottle of rum (the other half in his blood stream).

There were armed police standing by, should he decide to go crazy with the chain saw, but normal bobbies stepped in and lifted him before he could do any damage.

He decided to resist being taken in for questioning and had to be forced in to the back of the van. He was shouting claims of it being a police state.

Had it been a police state. He would have either been shot on sight or clubbed to death by the boys in blue. He certainly would not be walking out of the police station the next day (after sobering up) with little more than a warning, while the police he struggled against had to fill in mountains of paper work and their various injuries from this chap's attempt at resisting arrest.

We should be lucky to have the freedoms that we have. We can stand in the middle of the town square and shout that we do not like the person in charge of this country without risking our lives.

Admittedly, maybe for not much longer as our every action is being documented by camera or recorded in messages to our friends, but currently, we can do it.

Re: OSI model FAIL

Didn't we all laugh when Google (just a search engine at the time) announced it was going to release an operating system?

Now they have custom hardware and move a shed load of the internet's traffic around the world on their systems.

For businesses to survive, they have to move to other markets. Facebook, under its current form, may not be around for ever, so its wise not to keep all your eggs in that one basket.

Re: Hidden in a truck?

Doesn't have to be a full nuke in a suitcase. A dirty bomb (a nice big chunk of radio active material next to the bomb) could cause chaos for years to come.