* Posts by Miek

1574 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2009

Eurofighter Typhoon: It's EVEN WORSE than we thought

Miek

Doh

Couldn't we have just bought into the f-35 fighter-thingy ?

Nintendo readies iTunes-like app store for 3DS

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FAIL

How about some new games nintendo ?

Great, we can buy old games for extreme prices.

Apple T&C upsets philanthropic developers

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Linux

Arrogant Dicks

"Sometimes the way you carry out your business, with your 'we know best' attitude and your refusal to discuss or negotiate, makes you look like arrogant dicks."

They are Arrogant Dicks, end of.

Gov consults on new CCTV/ANPR Code of Conduct

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FAIL

a tit is required

"The public consultation document, available here (Word doc) " -- ah a word document, the mark of a web-professional

PlayStation hacker defiantly posts 'bible' following police raid

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Loss of PS2 emulation

I was rather sad to learn that I had bought a dud when I got a slim; I wanted to install Linux and play PS2 games. I was not aware this was missing from that particular console when I purchased it. Even so, I am enjoying the games it plays, like error 800514 .

Cloud gaming storms into the UK

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FAIL

In the meantime ...

There are no available invites left, so cannot give it a whirl :(

Midnight theft left Vodafone users bereft

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FAIL

Still fixed, um, not quite

If you are not seeing a signal, turn your phone on then off (or enable then disable airplane mode) and you should see a signal. I have found I can place calls but not receive calls, my other colleagues in the office are experiencing the same symptoms.

Miek

The break in occurred when ?

I noticed a lack of communications on my handset in Oxford at around 10:20pm last night. I remember this because my Virgin broadband had died again and I was making a note of the time .

Vodafone's network knackered by thieves

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not really no ..

I think it made the news based on the number of users it affected and the fairly broad distribution of the failures.

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Ho Hum

"almost non-existent data signal that kept dying."

That would be my every-day experience of the data network, for me this has been mostly unusable.

Ads overseer told to bring down 'up to' broadband speeds

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FAIL

"Up to" !!!

What about bloody "Unlimited" ?

Unprecedented domain seizure shutters 84,000 sites

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Pitchforks

" I'm scratching my head why we aren’t' grabbing the pitchforks."

What good is a Pitchfork against the armada of lethal weaponary the US government has ?

Google undercuts Apple in publisher revenues dash

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Linux

IMHO

To me this is not just an undercutting of prices but a demonstration of a company that wishes to encourage competition and has both the User's and the Publisher's interests in mind (and obviously Google's interests).

Airport face-scanning robots switched off

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I agree

Picasa is really quite good at matching faces.

Gadget makes bombs, mines go off 'on average' 20m away

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lol

Ideally you want to be a little further away than 20 metres, something more like 200 metres.

Gov will pay £2.25m compo to ID card suppliers

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FAIL

Compo? For what?

What's there to compensate them for? System disbanded; Goodbye suppliers.

HTC shuns Honeycomb for Android tablet debut

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FAIL

2.3 !?

Won't be getting gone of those then, or at least until it gets an upgrade to Android 3

One third of Russians say Sun revolves round Earth

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Coat

That's nothing, try this ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpw_9FFhfHI

It's an old link, but worth every second

Acer shows laptop lid look tablet

Miek
Linux

mmmm tasty

This one is at the top of the list of Tablets for me.

Anonymous hacktivists: We've got Stuxnet code

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Linux

So what if it's disassembled code?

Disassembled code can be just as useful and readable as higher level source code. An accomplished/seasoned coder would be able to make sense of it.

I remember disassembling Delphi code a few years back and found that the disassembler was able to reliably reproduce function headers and such although the actual code contained in the function was still reproduced in ASM.

Admittedly, your average script kiddie isn't likely to be able to extend the functionality of the disassembled binary.

Samsung intros 10in Android tablet

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Linux

Stickers !

Looks great until you see the back of the device with those rather naff stickers stuck on it.

Patent attack launched on Google's open video codec

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Linux

Quite right, H264 is not that great

... bloated files that are not as good as they could be. Roll on WebM.

Adobe Flash: 20m phones flip Steve Jobs the bird

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Linux

The thought occurs ..

that people will still buy other smart-phones because they are not apple phones, that IS an advantage for many who don't want to run iTunes. How can apple compete with that ?

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Linux

whatever

"Are users really choosing to install Flash or is it simply that they are being forced into using it?"

You're thinking of iTunes.

Miek
Linux

MacTroll Fiesta

Queue all the noise about how bad flash is, personally I feel it works well enough.

Microsoft, Nokia, and MeeGo: Are they all doomed?

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Linux

lmao

we are watching two dying businesses team up to die together. I saw the interview on the BBC with the two Steves. It was hilarious.

Malware endemic even on protected PCs

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Linux

A title is not required for this post

I regularly see "Fully Protected" Norton and McAfee installations running alongside various fake-antivirus programs, trojans, the TDL3 Root/Bootkit and many more.

RIM PlayBook fondleslab to 'run Google Android apps'

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Linux

Re: is this a really good idea

At least two people have mentioned that this may affect native QNX development, which it probably will. Aside from that I see this as a good thing, isn't the Java mantra "Write once, run everywhere" ? Would this enable (in theory) a given developer to write one application for android and have it work elsewhere in another marketplace; sounds like a no-brainer to me.

Enough with the Apple App Store apathy

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Linux

"So where's the rage, open sourcerers?"

No rage required; I have Ubuntu and it's software centre.

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Linux

Not at all

"Open sourcers are working ostensibly for fun.", nah most are working and Having fun at the same time.

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Linux

Professional Software houses are usually the Amateurs

They routinely stick to dated software, out-of-date methods, insecure practices. My workplace has the most dodgy code produced by so-called professionals that are still using Access Databases and text lists to store their data. The level of programming incompetence of some software companies is absolutely stunning.

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Linux

"Without the App Store noone would know about their software in the first place."

Um, I use Google for software I am looking for, it works quite well you should try it.

Mumsnet backtracks support for net filter

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Thumb Up

Re: Here we go again

I completely agree Nigel, it should be the responsibility of the parents to ensure their little angels aren't surfing for filthy stuff, nor maxing out their parents credit cards on x-box live.

Wii Countdown conundrum brands family 'SH*THEADS'

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Traumatised, totally

That kid looks like he knew what that word meant already.

Doner kebab saves bloke's life

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Pun, I believe

I think you missed a good 'ol kebab related pun there ;)

Sony expands legal offensive to more PS3 hackers

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or alternatively ...

... A load of UK gamers loose their PSN privileges.

Sky loses pub footy case

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Not so bad

An £8k fine is probably slightly less than the actual UK monthly Sky Sports fee anyway.

Yahoo! blasts Microsoft over WinPho 7 bug blame

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FAIL

yeah but ...

$MS should have probably checked what to implement based on what Yahoo were using.

Another $MS "not-quite-compatible" FAIL

O2's free Wi-Fi in detail: How free is free exactly?

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one of my pet hates

Really? It bothers you that much that Other people use Their phones in a manner that does not identically match your own. Why not just force everyone to turn off their Wifi and Bluetooth!

Gatwick Airport security swoops on 3-inch rifle

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FAIL

Dopey Idiots

"A firearm is a firearm", so all the kids out there playing with toy guns are now armed and dangerous!?

Mexican army interdicts dope-slinging catapult

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Mediaeval Catapult

Damn someone beat me to the Trebuchet reference!

MP: Googlepoly hurts British business

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Linux

Parliament Baulking at the thought of software monopolies!

Considering that parliament currently use "Microsoft-Everything", this debate is hypocritical.

Middlesbrough cabbie relieves lad of iPhone

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FAIL

WTF

How this story made the news I cannot imagine :

"Drunk 16 year old 'Games Designer' gives away iPhone"

Videogame TRAINS TERRORISTS, yells pundit

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Joke

Black Ops

Perhaps constant server disconnections and freezing in Black Ops made these people go out and do it the 'ol fashioned way "Take that n00bs!!"

Single complaint sparks police raid and total ban on rental movie

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machete

I couldn't stop laughing during the "fight scene" near/at the end where everyone is armed and no-one is firing!

CoD: Black Ops 'not fit for purpose', fans claim

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FAIL

..........letter.........digits

Ditto, bar point 5.

Mike :)

Miek

"I swear I shot you" -- KIllcam says NO

"It's no fun when you KNOW in advance at the start of a match that you are going to get killed repeatedly because the lag compensator means that the enemy sees you and shoots you before you've even managed to get a shot off (even though you did)."

I wondered up until now what was going on there.

Man killed by own cock

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Coat

A Title Is Required

That's one Angry Bird!

Official: music is a brain stimulating drug

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Coat

Quick

Bring Out the Ban-Hammer

Mass Effect 2 for PS3

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Stop

WTF!?

Get Uncharted off the shelf and into your drive immediately.