* Posts by asdf

6570 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Apr 2007

Netherlands plans to make 'copyrighted material easier to use'

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weirdly enough

The US is the king of protecting the corporations but much to Nintendo's dislike the US is also one of the few (if not only one can't remember) that explicitly allows users to make one backup copy of games, etc.

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but think of the executives

Come on we all know eternal copyright is coming as Disney can never allow steam boat willie (early Mickey Mouse) to become public domain. Its funny how copyright get extended everything this is about to happen.

EU shoves telly signals aside for next-gen mobile broadband

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Re: LTE seems like a mess

Yep the battery drop is very noticeable but at least equally noticeable is how hot a lot of the 1st gen LTE chipsets get under heavy usage.

Reflection lets astronomers trick time

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Re: Solar winds

Most of the people that use the phrase thinking outside the box, are C Suite sociopaths who only get creative in figuring out ways to destroy the company in the long term (long after they are gone) by boosting short term profits and their bonuses.

Intel pushes Ivy Bridge out a little further

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Re: Intel fail

Was meant more for their vaporware Tablet chips instead of Ultrabooks but Intel pretty consistently fails on the low end of the power usage spectrum.

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Intel fail

Yes Intel there is a market for decent performance chips that use less than 2 watts but guess what you have never been a player in it and you never will be.

Chinese woman sparks net craze with virgin website

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right on

long live those traditional Chinese values. Where starving 50 million people in the "Great" Leap Forward makes you a national hero.

HP's Whitman suggests Googorola may close Android

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Re: webos is nice

didn't explicitly say it but what gets booted up is Android (thanks CM team!).

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webos is nice

and it is much easier on the battery on my touchpad but no pulse newsreader app means webos gets booted up very infrequently. And don't say well it has redit, kitten fart videos is not what interests me. Get the basic apps people use at least. There are almost more apps on the rooted app installer than on HP official store.

Texan TSA crew accused of nude scanner ogling scheme

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think of the children

Guess we can thank pity for the survivors of 9/11 for pushing for the creation of the worst government department in US history Homeland Security. They make ATF look competent and needed.

'Predictably random' public keys can be cracked - crypto boffins

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what a need

For a true random seed can't beat radioactive decay - www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/

Official: Sony and Ericsson are divorced

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wow

The fanbois have been telling us how great Sony is for long time but all I see is 5 straight years of losses, several billion dollar loss taking out their CEO and Sony continuing down the same long road of suicide ala Hari Nokia.

Samsung boss sued by his brother over stock inheritance

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korean transparency

Honestly Chinese companies have better transparency than Korean corps who seem unable to separate big business from their government. Of course the US is now the same way but it has always been that way in Korea.

NASA plans manned Deep Space Moon outpost

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agree

Yep better to spend billions on cern than greece. Cern is less of a black hole. If usa spent half of defense budget on nasa we would have had man space flight to jupiter by now ala 2001.

Blushing HTC too coy to admit sales figures

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as an aside

Love my thunderbolt but its pretty obvious why their sales are in the dump. Being late to the ICS party is not the way to get your customer base fired up to spend now.

Sony nosedives into $2.8bn loss as Hirai grabs controls

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how could this happen?

I thought the Vita was going to be Sony's savior. Heheheheh.

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ah the fanbois never give up

I still hear the fanboys saying well Xbox has still been out for a year longer what with the PS3 still in third place 5 years on. I loathe M$ almost as much as Sony and have a PS3 but it will probably be the last Sony product I ever purchase. It no coincidence that the last company to think DRM is a long term solution is floundering.

Sony confirms 'tough-minded' Hirai as new CEO, president

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No need customers are talking with their wallets obviously.

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wow

If you think the PS3 was a failure look at the numbers on the Vita. Don't know if I would consider Sony's consoles as having any kind of momentum right now even accounting for the recession.

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come one now

Cut the guy some slack. 3rd place in the console wars isn't so bad. Even if coming from a dominant position the prior generation and still only selling a third as many.

Cosmic rays blamed for Phobos-Grunt fiasco

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what?

What are you talking about? Corruption in Russian business dealings? All lies.

iPads propel Apple to PC market top slot

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also

And unlike HP Apple was able to actually sell many more of their tablets for a profit (as a touchpad owner I do like webos and the tablet but I only bought it for Android and because it was cheap).

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All a conspiracy

Like the tablets or not HP dreams they had Apples profit margin. 15 mil iPADS is money in the bank no matter how you classify it.

Dumb salesmen are hurting us – Nokia CEO

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blame the correct people

M$ is just doing what they always do. Blame Nokia's incompetent board and clueless shareholders. Is indecision a big part of Finland's culture because I am pretty sure bureaucracy is.

Loyal NASA rover Opportunity enters 9th year of Mars boffinry

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yeah but

Some of Nasa's success stories go on and on long after their stated shelf lives(Voyager, Rover) but lest we forget a large number of their billion dollar probes simply smash into said target (when not supposed too) and return little science.

Pwn2Own 2012 touts bigger prizes, drops mobile hacks

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Mushroom

really?

I thought it was more because their .0001 market share on the desktop rounds down to zero to most reporting outfits.

Megaupload master loses Call of Duty crown

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oops

meant to say Wow gold farmers of course.

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yep but

Its far worse for some of the gold farmers in China in the Internet cafes where it is basically a job. The government has to force them to not play 20 hours a day year round.

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not really

When you go for a high volume of kills you can't afford to hide alot and take it slow. For that number of kills we was probably sprinting into the the fight guns blazing, taking out a couple of nubs and dying every 20 seconds or so to get the 30+ kills for the round. I tend to hate dying and have a high K/D but I also seldom get more than 15 kills in a round.

MPAA threat sparks White House petition for bribery probe

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for the reading impaired

Yes I am well aware Dodd was a Democrat from Conneticut thus the bipartisanship comment.

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divide and conqueror

Meet the new boss.

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good ole Chris Dodd

The man who got very low interest loans from the banks in exchange for pushing disastrous deregulation. Republicans did alot to ruin our economy but of course it took bipartisanship to truly finish the job.

NASA shuts off Voyager 1's central heating

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wow

Cool welcome to El Reg the best IT site on the Internet. AmanfromMars like many other inside jokes (ie Paris Hilton angle, word boffin, Bulgarian Airbags, Teutonic people stapling themselves to roofs, grabbing coat etc) tend to have a long (some say too long) shelf life.

Cray's Q4 whacked by AMD's Opteron delays

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because

Their incompetence actually allows Intel to charge what they want to often due to AMD being slow to market and unable to compete.

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AMD arrogance

AMD has to be one of the most arrogant also rans to ever exist. This was especially evident in the mid 2000s when they had their one chance at Intel. Of course they blew it way overpaying for ATI due to said arrogance.

Nokia: There will be NO smartphone division selloff to Microsoft

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nobody ever mentions

Don't blame Micro$oft for all the shennigans. Blame Nokia's board and major shareholders for allowing it to happen. Micro$oft unlike Nokia is trying to increase in value. I guess Finnish are famously indecisive and bureaucratic to the point of being self destructive.

Samsung Ultrabook specced up by retailer

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funny that power point sales drone

These days in many markets a good experienced developer will command a better salary than some sad sack yes man middle manager pm with a clipboard and a tie.

BlackBerry PlayBook in US price plummet

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yep

WebOS is yet another technology that will go to the graveyard of superior technologies that were poorly marketed. HP is almost as adapt at destroying any remaining value in companies they buy as M$. WebOS does own iOS and Android but it took an admission of failure for the common man to start using the OS and by then it was too late.

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all about os updates

The biggest reason to want android on a discontinued device is if a major nasty security flaw is found your device won't be pwned for eternity or some silly stupid bug that drains your battery will be fixed.

Benchmarks are $%#&@!!

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their biz model killed them

DEC destroyed itself and its corpse was purchased by Compaq. DEC in the mid 90s had the best hardware in the industry and some of the most stable OS ever produced but alas their business model was to trap you into very expensive support contracts (couldn't just buy hardware) that limited their spread into smaller enterprises. Commodity x86 boxes were starting to get good enough and came a lot cheaper and with a lot fewer strings attached.

Anti-piracy laws will smash internet, US constitution - legal eagles

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funny that

Our Congress can't seem to agree on anything to help out the hard working men and women of the US but they sure get bipartisan support on pushing through legislation that strips away more Constitutional rights. Obama the corporate patsy wont veto it either. I am seriously voting against every single incumbent at every level next year (or course going 3rd party to avoid voting for corp whore Republicans).

Nearest supernova since 1986 blasts boffin off her chair

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yeah was wondering

Kind of a big oversight considering sn1987a is the most famous supernova in modern times.

Cosmic Cannonball snapped blazing a bloody trail of star guts

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no worries

We still got 20,000 years before the crap hits the fan.

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wow

As a neutron star it could contain a solar mass or more and is the size of a city. Travelling at that speed imagine what direct hit on earth would do. Surly the gravity alone would probably rip the earth apart perhaps even before the collusion.

New account of Flight 447 disaster published

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nothing more European

than killing 200 people due to the European love of bureaucracy. Nobody could be bothered to take ownership of preventing such an obviously preventable tragedy.

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fyi Jackwaggon

Colin is much more likely a UK name than an American one.

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300+ million people in USA

but the opinionated limey knows us all.