London too

No service since 10:30am (almost 7 hrs ago), in South London. Network status page lists this outage but has no resolution time posted.

How to revert iPhone Apps

1) You need the old version, this is placed in the Trash when you update so if you haven't emptied it you can drag it to your desktop, otherwise use your backups* to restore it to the desktop.

2) Delete the current App from your phone and iTunes (Right click on App).

3) Double click previous App you dragged to the desktop, it will be imported to iTunes.

4) Sync.

*you do backup right?

The Scum

I suppose if MS is going to leverage it's OS and Office profits in an attempt to unfairly compete in an unconnected market then it's always nice when they pick the sure fail.

Hotblack Jackson

Spending a year dead for tax reasons.

I love this

"And with just a click of the second button of the third row on the right hand side *click* I've switched to the oh, wait, sorry that only works in OODraw, let me just undo that with a *click* on the BUGGER!, no that was my fault, I knocked the joystick.. *click* and... *click* just a sec... *click* and there you go, rectangle tool selected!"

Where is the "FUDvertising" label?

Company that plans to sell encrypted VOIP app for iPhone announces that unnamed VOIP app that doesn't have encryption, on a smartphone that may or may not be an iPhone, can be intercepted?

How to fix the poll

Instead of wasting an option on 'Probably' which was always a half-assed attempt to load the poll, they should have used options of "Yes", "No" and "LOL".

LOL is to intertnets what shave and a haircut is to roger rabbit.

All aboard the RedHat train

"Microsoft will tell you it will slow down, we’ll tell you it will accelerate like crazy, but the truth is it’ll probably stop somewhere in the middle.”

The front carriages will tear free, the middle section will slam on the brakes leaving the rear section to pile into it?

FFS

If they sold 40,000 over the last 18 months they'd have a 1% failure rate, which sounds pessimistic considering how many of these I see in the field.

And?

"if you advertise in Vogue, or in a football magazine, you expect to reach a specific kind of reader and the specific kind of reader expects to see a specific kind of ad"

What a fantastic criticism of behavioural marketing then, seeing as advertisers will find their ads running next to totally unrelated content and ditto for consumer expectations, it's Lose:Lose.

And the fix for that is to continue doing what they're always done (with proven track record), of advertising against content that's complimentary to their market, with a simple substitution of online magazines for printed ones.

Dollars & Grenades

"I think that other countries using 'Dollars' of their own shows a distinct lack of imagination on their part or some kind of sycophancy."

Back when Europe was building empires by annexing bits of new land, Britain, Spain and the Dutch tended to create local dollars for currency in their colonies.

So technically the Dollar is like a badge for getting pwned.

Stack overflow error

it was something about bells.

I guess that impending energy crisis has been fixed?

So we can continue to push these wonderful solutions that by design piss energy all over the place.

The world needs hardware with ultra low energy requirements and compact efficient software to run on it, what we're getting is ever more transistors to compensate for sloppy bloated bug ridden software and half assed charging solutions that add a minimum of 40% to energy requirements.

Mud

Bank statements? in a flash based internet enabled pdf? with fucking adverts? really?

Wankers.

They did it for the lolz

"But when it comes to the iPhone we felt that the developers are targeting a proprietary device with proprietary tools"

So the iPhone port of the free open source version of the proprietary .Net runtime costs $400-1000 a year more than the free proprietary native iPhone SDK?

This bold move will surely open the floodgates to development on Apple's fledgling device.

God bless this ship and all who sink in her.

letters digits

Happily this will never get used in actual construction, so we're safe from a future where balconies and other random bits of building routinely crash to the earth.

The only thing Velcro is good for is kids shoes, because the shoes wear out before the Velcro fails.

pew pew pew?

Isn't this just going to kick off another arms race?

And won't these Airborne Laser platforms be seriously exposed to land based Laser defences that can be properly armoured/hidden and won't have weight or ammo constraints?

Wouldn't it be easier to use a real VM?

With all the roll backs and lockdowns that come as standard?

Fixing windows machines has never been easier since we switched to Parallels, XP running slow? Weird behaviour? *clickerty* there, all fixed.

Saw this coming

Suprised TPB fell for it, whole thing looked like a set up from the off. Score 1 for the content holders, pirate bay closed and owners shown to have been chasing profit, even though it will never materialise.

Title Goes Here

Uncrackable skype tech my arse. (NPI)

The real story here is that Ebay paid $2600,000,000.00 for Skype and didn't get all the bits needed to make it work.

If any Ebay shareholders are reading this, I'm doing great deals on Wicker men, delivery to the Annual shareholder meeting can be arranged.

This doesn't sit right with me

I mean it too perfectly illustrates the shortcomings of Amazons Kindle and their licensing agreements, It's [s]hard[/s] impossible to imagine that either Amazon or the publisher requesting the books removal were ignorant of the sort of sensational media coverage this would guarantee.

I suspect Amazon was gamed here by a competitor that saw a stinking great whole in their business model and exploited it to maximum effect.

Still facts are facts, so I guess we should thank whoever is behind this for bringing it to our attention, astonishingly incompetent of Amazon to think this issue wouldn't be a problem for Kindle sales.

Schadenfreude

Will they be re-branding as MicroFarce?

How embarrassing

I hope the Dutch media picks up on this case and highlights the shocking level of incompetence displayed.

Also, regarding folding tabloids to create new stories, It's always seemed to me that they do this themselves. Often I've glanced at a paper and seen Public figure X accused of Something Bloody Awful only to notice on closer inspection that these are really two independent stories simply positioned rather unfavourably on the page, the cynic in me suggests these frequent juxtapositions are all about sales.

TL;DR

In other news, The National Trust announced it's intention to downgrade all listed buildings by one level, effectively putting thousands of landmark buildings at risk of redevelopment.

"Granted, our entire raison d'être is the preservation of historic property" A spokesperson explained, "but after some deep reflection and an impromptu pop quiz with the pub locals, we realised that it's all too much like hard work and frankly, we can't be arsed with it anymore"