Posts by Atonnis

*sshats

'While attractive to users of social networks, it will apply generally and will require many organisations to re-engineer business processes and technologies.'

Good!

F-cking good!

Did he say....

“Attention should be paid to the various types of websites, applications and social networks which can help people today to find time for reflection and authentic questioning, as well as making space for silence and occasions for prayer, meditation or sharing of the word of God,”

....or did he say

'Take your weapon...strike me down with all of your anger and your journey toward the dark side will be complete!'

?

Good!

'Theodora Dallas, 34, told fellow jurors that the man on trial for sexual assault had previously been accused of rape after finding a newspaper article about him on the internet'

'....but I honestly wasn't influencing anyone...I wasn't trying to put any sort of preconceived notions in anyones' heads - honest, guv!'

Good. I'm glad people are getting punished properly for contempt of court. Now all we need is the criminals in this country to get punished properly for contempt of victim.

Apparently...

...from what I hear Heins is a full-on company man, completely immersed in the historical delusions of RIM's supremacy and in full belief of every lie told to them by their marketing team.

I really hope RIM sorts itself out.

I like it...

...in odd contrast to other internet-related laws, I like the core ideal of this law.

I just wonder what else is built into it. Hopefully it won't be ruined by some a-hole shoving in stupid and over-bearing addendums.

I'm sure....

.....that if you can afford to do it, then do whatever you want.

Over the years I've spent plenty on drinking, been out too late, had hangovers/sickies due to being out too late or having too much fun.

So the favourite area has shifted slightly? So what? Let them stew in their own piss and sooner or later they'll either grow out of it (or bored of it) or they'll just carry on doing what they want to do.

Provided it's in the privacy of their own homes and they aren't getting internet connectivity on my tax money who really gives a crap....?

Interesting...

...how everyone seems to think it's extremely unlikely for a US-controlled aircraft to miss the target...

The question is...

...did anyone hear a million voices cry out in terror?

Surely...

...instead of all the options of positions there should just be a big button that says 'Doesn't Matter'

Umm....

I could point out the obvious. Under UK law there are set minimum and maximum temperatures that the school is supposed to provide - otherwise the students (and teachers) are entitled to go home.

We used to love abusing that law on Wednesday afternoons during summer when we'd close all of the windows in the IT room and steadily watch the thermometer go up. 30C - BAM! HOME TIME!

Translation

'We have yet to screw a deal out of Google in order to get a percentage of every sale/purchase made through any device we have thoroughly shat-on with our 'custom' ROMs'.

I wouldn't use Google wallet anyway, but I'm well aware of the shitty devices Verizon/Vodafone pump out and then refuse to support if you decide to install the proper firmware for your device.

Dear Mr Nevada Judge...

....you really don't have the power you think you do.

Sincerely,

The Internet.

Bunch of wankers...

We pay for internet access - what we do with the damn internet access shouldn't be limited by the Internet Service Providers. If they want to do that sort of thing they should be forced to advertise as Limited Service Providers.

Well...

....are these students or 'students'?

Is it possible that the results are skewed by more women declaring themselves as 'students' in order to 'pay their way through college'?

What's the point?

Seriously - getting pelted into a sub-orbital visit for a short trip, and possibly browning one's pants at the same time - is really nothing when compared to the minimising of 30 years of interest/debt payments.

It's all very well to talk about the 'trip of a lifetime'...but once I've paid off my mortgage/debts I can easily save up to make many 'trips of a lifetime' to 5*+ resorts across the world - in comfort and luxury.

What's that, Sherlock?

Wow...no shit!

Doesn't matter!

Had....oh....wait...

Umm...

'Windows 8 is a “supercharged” version of Windows Phone'

Erm...I was kinda hoping Windows 8 was a new version of the proper Windows product, not Windows Phone.

I think...

...that Brian Martel might not have actually tried his product in a real-world example.

For instance, sitting around waiting for regeneration is boring...

....and being able to run around for 30 seconds and then waiting for a 2 minute loading screen is boring...

....and pointless stuff like a gym you can f--k around in doing pointless things is only fun if it's a fun respite from a sh*tload of action...

....and enemies that can shoot through badly placed objects is annoying...

....and overdoing the same line over and over is boring....

....and a game full of bugs is frustrating....

....and waiting for minutes at a time for a reload every time you die when you always play a game on it's hardest setting for the challenge is REALLY FU--ING BORING!!!

Knowing the Reg readers...

Alot of people just clicked through all sorts of links to try to find the pictures of Scarlett Johannson and Mila Kunis...

Well...

...this is a tough one to call, really.

If Apple has indeed made it a part of their induction that negative comments posted publicly are grounds for dismissal, then the employee did indeed break the terms of employment and should get booted.

On the other side of it, with privacy settings applied the person did not at any time make an attempt to publicly deride Apple, but was instead having a conversation with his private circle of friends.

Of course, the reality is that any social networking site is a public space, and thus there is no real grounds to declare anything on there as private.

We also don't know as to whether this guy is a 'true friends and family only' social networker, or if he's one of those people who 'friends' anyone he's ever met, talked to, or seen a picture of.

Perhaps a real distinction needs to come in on social networking sites so accounts can be declared as strictly private or not (ie with non-repeatable comments), and as such be legally classed as private conversations.

And...

...what is the statement that these people are trying to make?

Personally, I think you should be able to put up what you want in/on your vehicle. It's a real world out there and people shouldn't all have to change their personalities or their ways just because someone gets a bit snorty.

As long as it's not actually harming anyone, why shouldn't you be able to do what you want?

Well...

Boosting the speed is all well and good, even if it'll still be less than half the speed that other companies are already rolling out *cough*Virgin*cough*....and that same company is doing tests of 1.5Gb speeds in Old Street at the moment....

....but really as long as they have ridiculously small data caps then it doesn't mean all that much anyway...I'm all for fair-usage policies but I think they should apply to certain types of data or protocols.

Erm...

'Gartner reckons the inventory debacle at Acer may have permanently cost the vendor its position near the summit of the PC market.'

Well...Gartner have got it wrong. It's the shite, badly constructed products they make that have caused them to lose business. Acer seemed awesome, as people thought they were going to get the same quality of products for cheaper prices, then they realised after a while that the products were actually cheap-shit that would cost more in the long run having to replace them.

Hah!

I had to admit I was wondering if it was an April Fool's come late...

...I mean, imagine it - you can just see a thousand 1st and 2nd line support kiddies around the country all opening up their cases and pouring table salt all over the insides...

Hah!

This is what you get when you have a management team that spend too much time patting themselves on the back for stuff they did 6 years ago and gazing adoringly into mirrors ever since.

The motive?

It's to steal information, use accounts for spamming and phishing, and possibly there's a small smidgeon of 'we can f--k you up whenever we want, Sony' attitude mixed in.

But thievery is the primary motive. It always is, no matter what flowery bullsh*t is used to declare some sort of 'l33t' status.

Screw Mozilla...

The only reason Firefox is any use is because of adblock and flashblock- the two most useful addons around - otherwise it's a PITA.

As regards to the enterprise - I've blocked installation of Firefox on our company computers and I'm not turning that around any time soon. Mozilla wants to say F-U to the enterprise? Well, then it can slowly disappear from the day-to-day awareness of the users.

Now here's just hoping for adblock and flashblock add-ons for IE9...that would be ideal.