Yes, I wonder if they'll be too distracted to even realize just how superior you are?
Posts by NightFox
666 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Oct 2009
Confirmed by cockup: New iPhones will be named 5S and 5C
Phone-blab plod breaks PRIVACY law after crash victim's 5hr ditch ordeal
Friday 6th September 2013 12:49 GMT
Sadly it's all too common for drivers to stuff their cars in hedges at night and get a mate to pick them up with the intention of recovering the car in the morning. Unfortunately they don't tell the police, so when another motorist reports the vehicle the police then have to spend time trying to find the driver and any passengers who might have been injured, but collapsed after leaving the scene . This should include a search of the area (in the middle of the countryside, this could potentially be miles away) and trying the address of the registered keeper (who half the time sold the car 6 months ago), but nearly every time the driver will be at his mates house or having a pint in the pub to calm down.
Of course, on this occasion the initial search wasn't good enough, but it's worth putting a bit of context to it. In flat counties like Norfolk where you have vast rural areas with ditches at the side of the road, this sort of accident happens several times a night and - rightly or wrongly - it's just not practical to call out the dogs, helicopters, search teams etc every time a driver's unaccounted for.
'Anonymous' to Reg hack: We know SEA leaders' names
Monday 2nd September 2013 12:08 GMT
Re: Scaredy cats
Even traditional soldiers tend to do "cowardly" things like hiding behind cover or using armoured vehicles rather than just stand in the middle of the battlefield shouting "come and get me you bastards!" though. The ones who tend to last longer and thus be more effective, that is.
Hey, Bill Gates! We've found 14 IT HOTSHOTS to be the next Steve Ballmer
Thursday 29th August 2013 10:01 GMT
Re: An obvious choice
Don't know about that - with Ballmer going so many people are crying out for a technologist to replace him, rather than a businessman. Some say that MS's problems of the last decade have been down to being driven by short-term financial performance rather than longer-term technological promise. KT can certainly run the business, but has he got this vision to put MS back where it was under Gates?
Nintendo is FLATLY UNHINGED: New 2DS is a handful of game
Thursday 29th August 2013 10:35 GMT
Re: Profitability
Yes, I think Nintendo has reached the point where it's not financially viable to commit to new devices at a price bracket that's going to compete with - for example - an iPod Touch. But there's still money to be made on the licensing front, so Nintendo has to keep the platform alive. Solution? Bring out a no-frills device that plays the games, costs a lot less to make, and sits on its own in a lower retail price bracket that's not going to push it head-to-head with higher segment market leaders.
Web showered in golden iPhone 5S vid glory - but is it all a DISTRACTION?
Thursday 29th August 2013 09:41 GMT
Dictating the Trends
Interesting that RFID gets mentioned in the article, it's another example of a tech that hasn't really gained momentum in mobile phones. This is where Apple used to make a difference, for good or for bad. If Steve Jobs saw a struggling technology that he liked, then he'd support and push it and that tech would take off, such was the clout of the iPhone. Of course, if SJ didn't like the tech, then it wasn't supported on the iPhone, which a few years ago was the kiss of death.
However, things have changed now, Apple are no longer calling the shots. We've got Android and even Windows Phone taking big bites out of iPhone's market share and what Apple decides to get behind with its latest iPhone iteration is no longer on the golden ticket it used to be. These keynotes used to be more that just what the latest iPhone was going to do/cost/look like, they used to be insights into the way that technology was going, steered by what SJ liked and what he didn't.
iPad classes for DOGS offered in New York
Boffins' keyboard ELECTROCUTES Facebook addicts
Wednesday 28th August 2013 09:23 GMT
History Repeats Itself
And the first alien anthropologist blew off the dust and fired up one of the old machines and noticed it had a funny photo of a cat, which he sent to an alien archeologist who liked it and discovered he could change his status to "laughing at a cat picture". He also decided he liked the alien who'd sent him the picture sooo much he wanted to be his "friend", so clicked that button and decided to tell another alien about it rather than do any boring Earth archeology work...
Air mattress blast blows German man across room
Holiday HELL: Pourquoi, monsieur, why is there no merdique Wi-Fi here?
Friday 23rd August 2013 11:06 GMT
Re: Schiphol
Jeez, even Manchester Airport has free* Wifi these days. North/South divide I guess.
As regards Schiphol, why do they have security right at the gate, so any drink you've bought in the lounge for the flight has to be binned when you go to board?
*30 mins, but there's obviously ways round that if you want longer
Delta Air Lines makes mass Windows Phone 8, Lumia 820 buy
Wow, the future is HERE: Charge your phone (wirelessly) in your CAR
'BLING BLING, BLING BLING' 'Hello, yes, my iPhone is made of GOLD'
Fanbois taught to use Apple's new killer app: Microsoft Windows
Dr Dre's Beats plans to drop HTC, hook up with rich mate – report
The man from Del Monte, he says... NO! .delmonte gTLD bid crushed, juiced
Apple: Of course we stalk your EVERY move. iOS 7 has a new map to prove it
British ankle-biters handed first mobe at the age of SEVEN - Ofcom
NO, ELEPHANTS, it's we DOLPHINS who NEVER FORGET our best pals
Thursday 8th August 2013 09:33 GMT
Re: As Sir Terry said...
I remember reading an article many years back about how a small number of dolphins had been removed from a pod and taught how to count objects. Once they were returned to their pod, not only did they set about teaching the other dolphins how to count, but they also taught it in a much more efficient way than the humans had thought up to teach them in the first place.
Amazon opens Appstore doors to web apps
Thursday 8th August 2013 09:13 GMT
I'm not familiar with the existing review process for the Amazon Appstore, but I assume it includes a degree of "safety checking" of submitted apps. However, if all that devs have to submit for webapps is a URL, what's to stop the dev changing whatever's at that URL to something malicious once that webapp is approved and goes live?
They don't recognise us as HUMAN: Disability groups want CAPTCHAs killed
Peter Capaldi named as 12th Doctor Who
Monday 5th August 2013 15:04 GMT
Re: BBC PR = news
I think you're getting "news" mixed up with "bad news". Just because something's entertainment related doesn't mean it can't be news, nor does have to detract from more serious (bad) news items. I'll wager that there's been more discussion today about the new Doctor today than there has been about Egypt - that's human nature for you though.
Apple MacBook Air 13-inch 2013: Windows struggles in Boot Camp
Monday 15th July 2013 14:28 GMT
Re: Nightfox
@DioDesign
Thanks, saw that already though - I was just expecting this article to be more about running Windows in Boot Camp on the Air. I thought the bit about installation was, whilst relevant, going to serve merely as a prelude to a review of the user experience once it was up and running. Maybe there's a Part III on the way...
Love in an elevator.... testing mast: The National Lift Tower
Apple TV 'close' to deal with Time Warner - report
El Reg encounters mObi: R2-D2 for retailers
Wednesday 3rd July 2013 08:35 GMT
Every Little Helps
If this thing's going to have any chance of replacing the staff in my local Tesco's, they're going to have be sold in pairs and programmed to spend 90% of their time locked in a secure communication protocol with each other, heavily firewalled to prevent any disruption to their comms, such as a hostile "excuse me, can you tell me where the beans are?" attack
Apple's screw-up leaves tethered iPhones easily crackable
Wednesday 19th June 2013 08:37 GMT
Re: 0118 999 881 999 119 7253
Glad I'm not the only one to have 01 811 8055 etched into the deeper recesses of my mind by endless hours of laboriously and repetitively dialling it on a rotary dial telephone every Saturday morning for more years than I care to remember. Only ever got through once, only to find I was on a crossed line with another caller and got cut straight off again.
HP sacks English employees to bag Scots gov jobs cash
Jaguar to open new car-making factory in Blighty (virtually)
Friday 14th June 2013 14:28 GMT
Re: "return car manufacturing to Britain"
Er, yes, this rather confused me too - as far as I was aware, Gaydon, Halewood, Castle Bromwich, Whitley and Solihull were all in the UK. In fact I think the only JLR manufacturing facility outside in the UK is a single site in India where some Freelanders for foreign markets are assembled.
As for the future and China, well that's a different matter...
Who's to be the next Dr Who? Sherlock beats Maurice - says you
Review: Philips Hue network enabled multicolour lightbulbs
Tuesday 4th June 2013 08:42 GMT
The Apple Store exclusivity of these recently came to an end - in the US Amazon are now selling them so I guess Amazon.co.uk (and maybe other retailers) will also start selling them too which will hopefully see prices take a bit of a fall - albeit the Amazon US price is currently about the same as the Apple one.
Tempted, but I'll wait for that price drop thanks.
Aha, I see you switched on your mobile Wi-Fi. YOU FOOL!
Thursday 23rd May 2013 12:09 GMT
Surely even without PNL disclosure, i.e. if it wasn't possible to identify which SSID a device is looking for, setting up an open AP called TheCloud in any town centre would still have a pretty high success rate for this kind of attack? Not as successful as a custom attack that PNL access might make possible, but effective none the less.
Happy 23rd birthday, Windows 3.0
Løvefïlm signs hit beards’n’berserkers series Vikings
Monday 13th May 2013 10:34 GMT
Re: Does anyone?
I hate that we move closer and closer to a US-style TV model, which seems to be completely stacked in favour of the interests of the corporates rather than the viewers, with more and more exclusives tied to single service providers or offered as PPV. TV of the future, be it IP, satellite or terrestrial is not going to be driven by quality (and I think in the UK we have still have some of the highest), but by the awful US model just because of the influence US companies are going to exert. Take the rumoured Apple TV set - I know it's all conjecture at this stage, but if it's anything like the existing Apple TV box then it's geared towards PPV/subscription IPTV and even though Smart TVs haven't really changed anything yet, companies with the clout of Apple have the influence to change the way we do things to the way America does things (or the way the company wants us to do things), be it for better or worse.
Yes, I know the likes of Sky and Virgin have already seen us off along this road, but thankfully we're still not at the stage where every new show is treated as a carrot to milk even more out of viewers (excuse the mixed metaphor).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
