Underwhelming

Soooooo, apart from screen size & CPU power it's the same as my HTC Magic Android phone but less convenient unless you like using one arm to carry it around or are into manbags. Does it even allow phone calls over that carrier connection?

Oh, same apart from camera, 3G/HSDPA as standard, GPS, multitasking and no lock-in to the manufacturer's stores.

Really don't see the attraction for non fanbois, especially at those prices.

@Just because I don't make noise doesn't make me sexless

Or police sirens!!

Hmmmmmm

Surely you can't order someone not to have sex (unless it's one of the varieties still outlawed) ?

If she can't help the noise she makes during, then should it not be treated as a disability? Being a fat git is treated as a disability and all many porkers need do is walk a mile or two each day and lay off the pies and maybe cook for themselves instead of eating packet crap AND they'll live longer and arguably happier lives for it. You can't control the noises you make when you're bonking like you can control what you stuff in your face.

Ordering folks to have crappy or no sex - which is surely the true mandate in this case - does seem like some kind of human rights issue to be fair, regardless of what tortured animals they sound like when they're at it.

If it were classed as a disability then they could likely apply for a soundproofing grant too!

Fugly and slow

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Sooo.......

Not having a disability has now become a disability ?

Cock

When that twat Zuckerberg changes Farcebook to have DEFAULT permissions at most lenient of 'friends only' for every single thing people might stop thinking of him as someone who can actually be taken at face value. Until then he's a charlatan at best. Not that I've opened a new account on FB

recently but new joiners still seem open to the whole planet until you tell them to lock their shit away and point out that everyone can see everything.

My watchword of the year - disingenuous - becomes more poignant with every passing day and it's only the 11th Jan ....

@mtcoder

Absolutely. I deliberately set my PS3 to spam game trophies to FB to counter those hateful FB game msgs that you can only block by blocking the entire friend. (OK there might be a control for those msgs but can anyone FIND it?)

Let the battle of meaningless cruft begin/continue!

Just goes to show...

MSFT have no clue what Google's strategy may be and so they poo-poo it instead cos they can't just keep their trap shut for once. Or maybe they really think people believe what they say and it loses Google customers by doing so.

It might be the hard way (in MSFT land) to do things but Google specialise in hard where MSFT just buy other people who can do hard cos they can't.

I can't imagine some of the cunning coding and architecture that goes into the Google data centre and nor, I suspect, can MSFT; and that scares them. Into making dumbass comment.

Prior art?

Can you spell OCR ?

So, let me get this right...

We're paying a full TV license for content, 50% of which we've already paid for already?

Yes?

Nice work if you can get it.

NExus?

Wasn't that also the weirdo zone inside the rainbox in the Star Trek TNG movie that crossed over from Kirk ro Picard?

Best posthumously sue Gene & Majel too then.

Isn't nexus a generic English word anyway, derived from Greek or Latin or somesuch ?

Aardvark-23 is just as litigat-able then surely ;o)

Hurrah!

Let's hope that the fckd US Patent system finally destroysa their digital economoy once and for all.. Or maybe all those co's will de-headquarter from the USA to elsewhere (there's a thought)

When the shareholders and lobbying groups start losing money because of it then someone might actually sort that pile of crap out.

Evidence?

So this is 'evidence' that Oracle has 'uncovered' that supports their case?

Like they'd produce any evidence to the contrary..

Then they say the EU's evidence is selective, presumably cos it DOESN'T support their case.

I guess they're confident that the backhander they paid some senator will sway the EU somehow - oh, hang on, didn't the EU just tell the USA to butt out ?

If Oracle are losing 100M/day over this (?) then that shows how badly they want to hold on to MySQL, so WHY do they want it THAT badly?

Because they reckon they can save that much money in the long run somehow, I guess... Doesn't sound like they have any altruistic plans up their sleeve for sure.

Good morning...

... Microsoft. Weren't you guys on the other side of this courtroom just the other week? We'll have to start charging you rent!

Anyway surely if Oracle murder MySQL then the MariaDB codefork will keep going in its stead? Might make InnoDB drivers a bit tricky though perhaps.

Ummmmmm ?

If you're looking at the barcode on the business' window then surely their opening times & website are displayed errrr right next to it or on their entryway ???

I'm sure this is more clever than it sounds, right ?

ACTA?

Amercian

Cross-borders

Totalitarianism

Agenda

underage drinking

You'd need a vide to prove that at least, not a picture.

That's just proof he held a beer can with unspecified contents, if any.

Presumably the kid didn't think about this before fessing up ?

Of course you have to have an outage

While you install the DPI trial gear for snooping on your customers

PS3 goodness

I got sick of my XBOX making it up as it goes along and bought a PS3 slim the day before yesterday.

It. Just. Works.

Very impressed with it as a system. Everyone probably already knows this but out of the box - after a firmware update online to latest rev: iPlayer (works a treat), web browser (yep FB and twitter if you want plus everything else), loads of configurable stuff if you want to get into the nitty gritty of setup, clear easy to read menus instead of those huge flippy things xbox uses, media player just works (need to get ogg transcoding sorted on Mediatomb), rips CD's to local HD, no hardware lock-in to HD swaps - just buy a bigger one if you need it.

From the get-go it was like moving from a v-tec kiddie computer to something more grown up, slicker, faster & more responsive, it obviously has more grunt than an xbox (certainly looks & feels that way). Yet to try BD out and gotta buy some more games for it but highly recommended if you're growing weary of MS's way of doing things.

Can cancel my xbox gold subscription now as I barely use it anyway (PS3 network is free though not tried any multiplayer online stuff yet to compare) :oD

Grauniad

Easiest to read ;o)

So get an Android

My HTC Magic free handset upgrade arrived from Vodafone with no network lock-in and I can install what the hell I like on it from either the Android apps marketplace or anywhere else that provides a standard installer package. The new monthly plan for the phone actually worked out cheaper by about 30 quid, too, compared to monthly bills on the previous tariff.

Quality job. Nuff said.

!! FFS !!

McKinnon was a nob for doing the hacky thing but it's plainly obvious that the UK Gov is an openly (brazenly even) corrupt organisation working only to serve its 'members' needs at the expense of the electorate.

When you get Sithlord Mandelson having a free luxury holiday on David Geffen and then copyright policy suddenly U-turns it's about as blatant as you can get without an actual video of Mandy & Geffen chortling together over Kristal & Belgua in a ball pit of $1000 bills.

Oh and Alan... SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY mate.

create an awareness of the battlespace

Or just create the battlespace fullstop, to find another way to collect military barrel pork.

"Hey Mr. Prez, we found ANOTHER way to wage 'war'"

Not big or clever

Definitely not clever, surely? Wasn't what he made basically a shell script to conenct to an open SSH with the default passwd and then run a script on the phone?

Essentially similar to :

scp astley.sh user@iphone.blah:/tmp/; ssh usr@iphone.blah '/tmp/astley.sh' < passwd.txt

No I didn't try that for syntax correctness but you get the idea ;o) The astley.sh script would find the current wallpaper and overwrite it with His Rickness.

Maybe if I write something for an iphone that adds a bunch of numbers together I'll get one of those nice contracts in the finance district for £500/day...

Maybe it was far more complicated than that, I dunno, I got an Android phone instead... ;o)

EC response to senators

Dear Senators while we note your concern with respect to potential harm to the businesses involved, unless you can somehow demonstrate that your courts have jurisdiction in the EC and we should dismantle our own legal system and let you run the show, kindly fuck off.

Love,

Kneelie

No terrorists?

If there really were that many terrorists then most people would know someone who knew someone who knew someone who'd been injured/killed by one (discounting IRA, this is in a 'modern' RIPA/Al Quaeda/etc context even including IRA I suspect the answer may be the same unless you live in Belfast).

Does anyone I don't and I don't know anyone who does? That's 3 degrees of 6...

A fearful downtrodden electorate is way easier to control & manipulate.

So....

Team Killing on by default then when you're playing as the USA?

Obviously these nobjockeys can't tell game from reality either...

Or maybe....

iphone users just use the interweb more than blackberry users, etc

@ Evil Jason

Cos Geffen has promised him a backhander for completing his side of the deal.

Short of cash?

Then form a comittee/working group/quango to 'look at' something worth lots of money to business so they know where to send their lobbying dollars/roubles/naira...

1 million?

Wouldn't the adwords revenue generated possibly be worth more over a year to the top1000 sites?

People wouldn't notice them not being in the results immediately until MS started saying 'can't find amazon? that's cos they're on bing' which then attracts attention to them paying them 1M to dump google.

I think Google would get their Office replacement done in half the time and thrash MS with it if they thought that was going to happen. Would it even be legal? Oh it's America, course it would be...

@ Michael Shaw

Nice one ;o)

Wouldn't be surprised if it were true, to boot.

The cheapest solution

So, presumably Intel could see a 3bn fine coming through successful litigation and chose the far cheaper route of a settlement.

Uh-oh

Let's hope, having already called a military system 'Skynet' these particular boffins don't call the first two talking chimps Galen & Zera ....

Tempt ye not the fates!

@ AC 'Neither Species Harmed??' ...

*W*T*F* ?????????

The Nineties called...

They'd like their exploit back...

ZZZzzz...

Climate change: It's a fiction. Save the money. All part of a natural cycle which mankind isn't contributing (significantly) to.

Crime: National Service or "It's the army for you me bucko" for long-term non-disabled unemployed. Plus bring back the stocks (honestly would YOU reoffend after a spell in the stocks??)

Careers: I can think of one job opening Gordon Brown should create TODAY... Prime Minister.

Job's a goodun.

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