Posts by Cliff

Re: Why?

"As you're" is a close approximation to my pronunciation, but as our American friends get anxious around the letter 'U' maybe this helps explain things?

Re: Pushing for an IPO the investors maybe are?

Am I the only one remembers how many big institutional investors and small speculators alike got wiped out during dotcomboomandbust1.0? Did I dream it all?

Re: 100 hours?

Alas I use my smartphone as a smartphone, so get nothing like that battery life. Must say I'm a little curious why you have a relatively expensive, bulky, fragile smartphone when you could get by with a Nokia 100 model for £10.99 (including £10 of credit)?

Re: No longer allowed to travel by helicopter

Out of interest, downvoter, how many places can you get to on a tank of fuel in a chopper from any location you care to name in NZ? Lovely country and all that, just not in the heart of things, especially in what are very versatile but rather fuel-intensive vehicles optimised for short range.

Re: Raspberry Pi

Lesson 1, build your computer!

It was always that the first thing craftsmen made was their tools...

Re: Safety features?

That was the most boring video I've watched in ages - all in anticipation of a moped stunt. Save yourself 3 minutes!

Re: 1,176,182 Scovilles?

Excellent point - seeing as it's so subjective and subject to increasing tolerance during the tasting/testing/grading.

Different publishers in the different territories? Translation into Seppo? Author launch book tour? It's hardly uncommon.

Re: Mine detectors

If they're the mine detectors I think you're talking about, some shit in Somerset bodged together bits of golf gadgets BUT the MOD were not among his customers. IIRC, they were mostly in countries where witchcraft/magic still has a public consciousness (and buyers were happy to take a kickback, quite possibly).

That man is a first class shit, though, and should spend the rest of his life in a small cell with Andrew Wakefield. Get Mbeki in there too, for his AIDS denialist business which killed appx 300,000++ people.

Re: Why not "the" cloud?

Don't get to caught up in semantics, it's all just marketing guff for 'offsite server' anyway.

Re: Vloggers, as we’re apparently meant to call them now,

You were close with 'twats', but the OED-recognised term is 'twunts'.

Re: Tromboning?

Only the reg can make a pretty dull event seem exiting and smutty all at once - congratulations!

Are they actually a monopoly? Is there anything to stop TalkTalk from digging their own holes and laying their own fibres? I seem to remember Birmingham Cable had a whole (fibre?) network of ducts etc for instance. Or is that the expensive and inconvenient bit nobody wants to do and is hoping to get for free?

Re: A banking app that requires a 5-digit passcode?

Bloody hell. That's insane.

Re: There is already DNA on the moon.

So there's diced carrot DNA?

Re: Pretty cool

So Mythbusters have Apple suits and fucking xylophone music. It makes them seem more scripted and less credible.

Re: Simple Really!

What kind of muppet side-loads illegit financial apps?

Re: Legal?

Just needs some high publicity cases for the legal status of these bogus clauses to be clarified as unfair. This is popular in the US just now with shitty companies like Roca Labs - plenty about them on techdirt for anyone interested.

Pretty sure the customisation is only to cosmetic bits, not the core phone. Maybe like a customised back or similar, and for £20 they can quite happily refit the original back. In fact my MotoG came with a *spare* back as a deal sweetener. Of course I've never used it, but they must cost a few pennies.

Re: Who says crime doesn't pay?

For anyone from the UK/ROTW who doesn't understand this US Civil Forfeiture thing, it seems to be being abused as a bit of a racket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks is entertaining and informative for a bit of background

Re: Of course

How the encryption works isn't the hardest part of decrypting anything, it's the guessing of the key. 3DEC, RSA, etc you can see the cogs, how the machine works, but how it's initialised turns meaning into gibberish.

If the baddies have any idea what they are doing (and they have the money to pay good people), they will use RSA, 3DEC or other proven standard over hand-rolled cryptography which is weak by comparison. For instance ROT-13 appears marginally secure (it was secure enough for Adobe for a while), so would reencrypting a ROT-13 make it more secure? 2ROT-13 is back to cleartext! This is why you don't roll your own encryption!

Re: Stop with the mobile requirement already

AIUI, SMS are free to receive, even overseas, on most/all UK/EU networks, so cost is not a real objection. And seeing as three and other networks are currently rolling out in-package calls for more and more roaming countries, that gets less of a deal.

Re: Longer battery life

100% thicker - most major handsets with removable batteries and backs have after market battery backs to do just as you request - make the phone thick and hefty but keeps all features and runs for days.

If you go too hefty though, they wreck the cut of your suit.

Re: F#ck me!

Goodness me - that's one of the most retarded bugs I've ever heard of. If it takes years it solve, thank the heavens I'm not in that ecosystem.

Alternatively, other nodes are able to take over, so France can do as it pleases without destabilising the system

Re: The strange thing is

...where do I sign up?

This article, though, is going to divide commentards much as Steve Bong! does - it's quite sweet seeing the protesting smartypants comments from some users.

PDFExchange is actually pretty good, I agree, but why to god do they have so many confusing and conflicting versions? I actually wanted to upgrade to a paid version for a job, but the site/version list was so confusing I gave up. Note to sales teams - don't drive potential customers away!

Re: ANY DAY NOW MARK IS GOING TO BECOME A CULT

Yes, people have been saying something VERY similar for a while, I think... ;)

Re: I think you'll find that was actually a plea to reform local government

Loud whooshing sound, several Reg commentards look up.

Re: TOR is compromised

If you killed Silk Road, knowing full well (because despite name-calling, intelligence agencies are not idiots) that other sites would pop up, wouldn't you just create a fuckload of honeytraps so you could rinse and repeat?

Re: Good and bad

Well done to him. Simple works.

As for the population rant above - the birth rates in the West were considerably higher when infant mortality was also considerably higher. When your kids are more likely to live than die, you don't have so many because you don't need to. The best way to reduce the third world birth rate is actually to reduce infant mortality.

Re: Too much bacon.

Too much bacon would make the networks FASTER wouldn't it? Yes.

Too much Bacon would make the networks FASTER wouldn't it? No.

Kevin Bacon is advertising EE 4G, must admit I've kind peaked on Bacon now.

Re: Reel 'em in

Newspapers - funnily enough the one with least political slant and celebrity tittle-tattle is the FT, and it's probably the best of the British papers. I recommend starting with the Weekend edition, it has a fantastic arts section and very good mag with real articles and no filler 'look at these dresses' articles. Best thing is the paper doesn't condescend nor does it try to show off/elitist snobbery, has good world outward-looking view, and the journalism is good.

Seriously, give it a proper try if you're sick of the rest of the press.

Re: Golf.club

TFMR - That made me smile on an otherwise bland Wednesday morning, thank you :)

Re: Corporate fines == useless

That's a little harsh - that fine represents money that shareholders will feel they've been deprived of, so the board will have to justify it with a fall guy or risk investor groups questioning /their/ suitability to sit on the gravy train.