Re: So why not call it DryPhone then?
My boy - a very very fine waterproof. Their problem is that unlike iDevices (and other droidiosh things) they just keep working. Rain 7.0 = Rain 0.1
Posts by Richard Taylor 2
765 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Oct 2009
Kiwi inventor's court win rains on Apple's parade
Station to station: Ten DAB-Bluetooth combo radios
Apple fanbois warned: No, Cupertino HASN'T built a Bitcoin mining function into Macs
Cardslurping kingpin caged for 18 years over Carderplanet forum
Friday 13th December 2013 14:16 GMT
Someone
Despite my groans at many parts of the US justice system, it is good to see someone brought to book over this (if he really did it - no plea bargain of course). One (of many) questions is that other than this wild west of justice is how do we bring people to court without US action (and dare I say it bullying)
Ten top tech toys to interface with a techie’s Christmas stocking
Thursday 12th December 2013 13:38 GMT
Re: Sphero
""I got a sphero for the wife so she can use it with the cats,"
That (and dogs) was what I first thought of when I saw it."
No no no.Having seen a Terrier happily tearing apart a '1' and subsequent arguments over who was responsible(IMHO the twit who said 'watch this - it will drive him mad') I can say (most) cats probably, most dogs no.
Speeding cops, fearsome drops and Death Star shops
Asus Transformer Book T100: Xbox One? PS4? Nah, get a cute convertible for Christmas
PS4 with Black Friday underway: TOUGH, you CAN'T HAVE ONE!
Wait, what's that shuffling from 2013's gloom? It's a bloodied but unbowed HP
NSA spied on 'radicalisers' porn surfing so as to discredit them, reveals Snowden
Wednesday 27th November 2013 12:06 GMT 
'"Assessment report on radicalization indicated that radicalizers appear to be particularly vulnerable in the area of authority when their private and public behaviors are not consistent,” the October 2012 document argues.'
And quite right too. Justification of bombings and beheadings based on the "what we say not what we do" needs to be challenged. As do our local (for me) UK politicians and business "leaders" behaviour.
How STEVE JOBS saved Apple's bacon with an outstretched ARM
Wednesday 27th November 2013 12:02 GMT 
""That processor was designed by a very small team of only four engineers," he said, "one of whom designed the instruction set, one of whom did the microarchitecture, and two others who assisted with the designing of the supporting chipset." That tiny team produced the processor in 14 months, and it first ran code in Acorn's offices in Cambridge on 26 April, 1985. "And ARM still occupies that office."
Saxby was important - subsequently. But I love the way the "iginuurs" are typically unnamed!
ICO: Private dicks broke data-protection rules when they blagged data
Micron takes on Intel with 'breakthrough' processor for streaming data
PlayStation 4 BLUE LIGHT OF DEATH blamed on power cords, TV sets, butterflies in China
What a plot of nonsense: Ten Master master plan FAILS
PUNISHMENT gluttons: The Dr Who monsters that come back for more
RETRO-GASM: The Fuze electronics kit for the Raspberry Pi
Rogue US-Israeli cyberwar weapon 'infected Russian nuclear plant'
UK.gov BANS iPads from Cabinet over foreign eavesdropper fears
OS X Mavericks mail client spews INFINITE SPAM
Hate data fees but love your HD slab? Here's a better way to pay for bytes
Man+iPhone versus artificial intelligence: Anki robot racer slot cars
MI5 boss: Snowden leaks of GCHQ methods HELPED TERRORISTS
Feds smash internet drug bazaar Silk Road, say they'll KEELHAUL 'Dread Pirate Roberts'
Amazon to hire over 85,000 temporary elves for Christmas
The target: 25% of UK gov IT from small biz... The reality: Not even close
Monday 23rd September 2013 12:10 GMT
Re: Its the corruption, stupid!
Of course there is no corruption. The rtical exit of ,many top civil servants and military personnel happens to be directed at the upper (paid) echelons of large government suppliers (of course it goes without saying that politicians make use of the same doors).
So that's ok then, no corruption thinkable.
Boffins: Earth will be habitable for only 1.75 BEEELLION more years
Dyson takes Samsung to court in UK over vacuum cleaner
Phone-blab plod breaks PRIVACY law after crash victim's 5hr ditch ordeal
Boffins lay bare exotic Lara Croft meteorite element ununpentium
BRUCE WILLIS (ad) DIES HARD (in Sky broadband telly fib ban)
Feds arrest rogue trucker after GPS jamming borks New Jersey airport test
Netflix dares UK freetards: Watch new Breaking Bad NOW or torrent it?
Oracle Team USA sailors admit breaking America's Cup rules
Monday 12th August 2013 15:32 GMT 
"one of Oracle Team USA's monster AC72 catamarans in training for this year’s cup capsized, with both boat and crew in need of rescuing."
I think that if you check your facts you will find that Andrew Simpson died.(http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/sports/americas-cup-changes-are-sought-after-death-of-sailor.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0). Skunk mods to an already monster machine?
The terrifying tech behind this summer's zombie assault
PEAK APPLE: iPad market share hits the skids
Hey, Silicon Valley milky drink fans: Starbucks intros wireless charging
UK discovers Huawei UK staff auditing Huawei kit: Govt orders probe
It's all in the wrist: How to write apps for the Pebble smartwatch
Friday 19th July 2013 10:32 GMT
Re: Richard Taylor 2
I am not arguing about the right to call Linux Unix. But using your analogy, I would argue that for all practical purposes if the Champagne region got their first and other people copied/cloned, then Sparkling Wines are based on Champagne. That does not mean they use the grapes and/or finished product but just that the philosophy, structure (and in the case of Linux a lot of quite important philosophical decisions, utility management and for want of a better term - APIs) are based on Unix. Torvalds says so, Stallman says so, and while those are of course just opinions, i think they carry weight in the definition of 'based'.
Thursday 18th July 2013 17:29 GMT
Re: Richard Taylor 2
Well, "If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, then if not a duck, and if is proceeds the duck then it probably is based on one'. From the kernel README,
"Linux is a Unix clone written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with
assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net.
It aims towards POSIX compliance. " (from Linux kernel release 2.0.xx)
I can't swear that Torvalds actually wrote the above, but I'm sure he would have objected if it was incorrect. If something is considered a 'clone' then surely it i based on the original?
SCO's gripe is over code apparently copied from V (I think) to Linux - how's that going - but by a reasonable definition based upon is a perfectly good description.
Cloud backups: Where's my get out of jail card?
Friday 19th July 2013 10:27 GMT
Excellent introduction
I have just completed a review of an (unnamed) UK government departments proposal to shift some of their service out to a 'cloudish' provider. The statements about availability, recovery time and recovery point objectives made by the vendor were balls. Bringing the vendor up to the standard apparently (I use this term reservedly - much of the customers requirements seem to come more from a heavy session in a pub near Whitehall than needs) almost tripled the cost of the service.
The problem is that the bean counters just don't understand the business and also have little idea about valuing lost time and lost data (provided it does not embarrass too much a junior minister).
Now you can be the NSA: Snoop on a Google Glass hipster with a QR code
LG's curvy telly and Samsung's Galaxy camera seen in the wild
Internet Villain face-off: Spy queen Theresa May v Twit-hate Turkish PM
Friday 12th July 2013 14:04 GMT
Re: "Could rise again?"
Davis does have an IT background - by degree. As importantly he has a proper libertarian nose for interference - be that state or private sector. I don't agree with some of his other stands, but he is consistent on this and not beholden to the powers that befuddle minor politicians such as Cameron and May.
Friday 12th July 2013 14:00 GMT
Hupbert
Although a LibDem, not a bad specimen of same - let down by the Orange Bookers in his party. He at least is technically literate - and better understands enough tp realise when it's worth while talking to others. He has been consistent, even if he has not fouled his liff up in quite as spectacular a way as Snowden. Let's face it these awards are all about a free dinner for the ISPs Soc to get legless.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
