* Posts by Figgus

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Foxconn churns out '150,000' iPhone 5s a day

Figgus
Trollface

Lost it?

"I had a Nexus One and used it for a few months until I unfortunately lost it on a drinking binge, "

Odd, I thought that only happened to iPhone prototypes....

Al Gore wants to borrow your Facebook and Twitter accounts

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It's also the same guy that flies around in a jet telling us to be "green".

PS. He's pretty fat, so #2 wouldn't be very far at all.

UK, US ink boffinry pact on laser fusion 'star power'

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Joke

And, evidently, now you can get your Nike MAG shoes too!

Figgus

I'm not sure that a lot of small neighborhood plants is a better idea than the big centralized plant. Sure, you have points about efficiency but when it comes to security I think a single bigger plant would be less vulnerable and do less damage overall if compromised.

Three in ten Americans urge feds to read their email

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@Lee

Correct. "Here" is in the USA.

And I agree with you on pensioners, they earned that over their work career as that was the agreement they made at the time they started. A little side track, but an interesting one nonetheless.

Figgus

Racism

Racism exists, of course, but Obama draws more ire over his policies than his skin color.

I'd also assert that if Obama was doing a decent job, even the racial slurs wouldn't be used. They are a symptom, not a cause. The head of the Republican National Committee was black, so I would put forth the idea that it's not Obama's race they are taking issue with.

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@Graham

No, not entirely true. They had no problem with it being used on terror suspects (indeed, it got us Bin Laden) but there is a difference between a citizen and a terror suspect who might have information that could save hundreds (thousands?) of lives. When it comes to domestic issues, the Tea Party thinks the government is eroding freedoms across the board.

Also, the "enhanced interrogation" basically means water boarding, and we do that to some of our own troops in training. The loud audio and sleep deprivation are also not that harsh, not when compared to decapitating someone with piano wire and recording it for rebroadcast.

The Tea Party can be lambasted for having 2 sets of standards (one for citizens and one for POW) but even I don't really see a problem with that as long as both standards are humane.

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Chris W

Do you think Google doesn't know where that email's final destination is, at least if it is outside the US borders?

There are much better and more effective ways to filter than by names. And yes, that would include citizens operating overseas just by the nature of the filter.

Note that I am not in favor of snooping on citizens anyway, I'm just saying they probably aren't doing it just by name.

Figgus

Well

"I have only been to the UK once, but the Britts seem to have it better. Their police were nice and polite and not threatening to people."

Britain is not the US, and they have different problems. Nearly 50% of our people get a free ride out of the system, and expect they are owed everything at someone else's expense. That shows in our crime numbers and it also dictates what sort of individuals the police deal with most often.

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Naughtyhorse

Obama isn't reviled because of his color, it's his POLICIES. You're worse than the people you are trying to revile because you can't even be arsed to learn the first thing about them that's not on the lib friendly media.

Just because YOU are racist doesn't mean that everyone else is.

Figgus

How do they know the email is sent to foreigners?

The non-us ISP probably gives it away. Just a thought... you should try that sometime!

Figgus

Actually,

If you knew anything at all about the Tea Party or the Conservatives you'd know they are most likely the ones NOT wanting to let the government eavesdrop.

Use logic for a moment: do you think a group in favor of taking power away from the Federal government would cheerfully hand that government more power?

But hey, you got to seem cool by slamming buzzwords that you know nothing about... +1 for you, then?

Patent wars: Apple attacks Samsung in Japan

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If it ain't broke...

...don't fix it! Why change the UI?

I don't own an Apple product, but this notion that change "just for change's sake" is a GOOD thing is simply daft. In fact, one of the bigger complaints about Win7 and Office 2010 is that MS moved everything around AGAIN for no good reason.

Seagate pulls out the biggest hard one in the industry

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Awesome!

A new Seagate drive that can take 4TB of valuable data with it when it crashes after 3 months (hey, it IS a Seagate after all).

Apple's ex-cop and the case of the lost iPhone 5

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Colon

He's holding it wrong!

-Steve

Ohio man cuffed for shagging inflatable pool raft

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Trollface

No, but...

... have you SEEN the "women" in Ohio?

Picnic tables and plastic rafts start to look pretty good in comparison.

Openwave sues: Asks for halt on iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry

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Endgame

The endgame is that all the existing manufacturers will cross-license just to keep producing, and this will effectively bar all newcomers from entering the market.

The same thing has happened with big Pharma in the US.

Disney did the same thing with copyright too, changing the public domain rules so no-one could use Mickey Rat after they used public domain works to establish themselves. They went through a door and closed/locked it behind them.

The real reason Google bought Motorola

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Or maybe

Ole Blighty just needs to adopt a competitive tax rate and then all the corps would declare taxes there? NAH, that would be too simple.

Don't buy your iPad in a McDonald's car park

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Trollface

Apple will sue them...

... for copying the look and feel of the iPad 3.

That is all.

Russian rocket flub threatens to empty ISS

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No, the liberals will save us all!

"And I'm sure neo-capitalism / tea partyism aka Ultra Thatcherism will save us all </sarcasm>

The biggest problem is nit wits, who decided that the mighty pound/dollar/currency profit was worth more than than retaining skills, keeping people in good skilled employment rather than stacking shelves, flipping burgers or washing cars on the minimum wage."

Because waste, inefficiency, and free handouts has been doing a bang-up job so far. Are you REALLY suggesting that it's better to keep an unneeded job (or 10, or a thousand) than to save the rest of the jobs in the company by cutting someone loose?

Figgus

When in Rome...

"Just as in the fall of the Roman Empire, greed, decadence, hedonism, and self-righteousness have reached levels under which civilisation cannot endure. As more and more people "look out for number one" the glue of altruism that sustained civilisation in the past will come unstuck, and, assisted by the spread of religion and superstition, we will descend into a new Dark Age."

Actually, it was altruistic motives that are bringing about our demise. Every decent person wants to take care of people, but the very act just makes people more dependent on you. The notion of "Tough Love" is a hard pill to swallow, but until we toss people out of their taxpayer funded nest and make them live on their own merits the problem is going to continue to grow.

When you start paying people to do nothing with their lives, then nothing is exactly what people will do.

Foxconn reports $17.6m 1st-half loss as robot legion grows

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Amusing

Everyone bemoaned the terrible working conditions and wages the Foxconn workers got, and now they have been improved. Of course, many of them will also be downsized as the employer tries to balance the costs. Everything has a price.

Interestingly, this is almost exactly what happened to the labor markets in the US, yet still nobody seems to have figured it out. Obama still pushes for more expenses for employers, yet laments when the jobs vanish in a puff of socio-economic smoke. Everything has a price, you see....

French letter shock: Tax us more, demand rich people

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Seems the only fair way to go about it...

... is a flat percentage tax, no deductions and no exemptions (and no minimums). It would be nice if the rich (and the poor) suddenly paid the same rate the people who actually worked for a living.

Of course, think of all the lawyers, accountants, IRS agents (and whatever they are called on your side of the pond) who would suddenly be out of work!

Vandal posts official's nude pic to protest cell shutdown

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Wrong about his being wrong...

Serving the public has nothing to do with it. Would you scream this hard about censorship if Starbucks turned off their wifi access?

I guess I don't deserve freedom of speech because I support El Reg even though they routinely delete posts...

BART owned the cells. BART owns the lights, and the restrooms too! BART can turn any of it off at a whim, but the customers ALWAYS have a recourse: they can stop giving BART their money if they don't like the service.

Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO

Figgus

To use your car analogy:

A 100% markup on a Camry with BMW emblems affixed is still a ripoff.

There is nothing special about the hardware Apple makes, but they are really good at gluing shiny badges on and charging extra for it...

Figgus

Actually...

"I meant 'creates customers for his products', not 'creates products for his customers'."

No, you had it right the first time.

Will the looters 'loose' their benefits?

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Jobs went 'round

"There are not enough to go round. Simple, anyone who really thinks that the majority of the unemployed are layabouts who have no idea of what society is like beyond their blinkered and closed social outlook. Look at any area that has had some major industry closures, entire towns are been devastated by the impact. My area has seen unemployment got from around 5% to about 11% since this crisis started, you seriously suggesting an extra 5-6% of people just decided to go on benefit? For people to just off declare that people don't get a job because they are lazy is very offending and stems from ignorance (I hope rather than the alternatives)."

Seems there were lots of jobs to go 'round before there were more taxes to fund the welfare programs to cover the people without jobs, thus obliterating more jobs, thus needing more taxes, thus more jobs gone, repeat ad nauseum.

Same thing is happening in the states, the people with money who make the jobs are having it confiscated to pay for a welfare state, and thus the jobs aren't being created... so we need more welfare money, which kills off more jobs, etc...

It's a stupid vicious cycle powered by the greed of weffies and the purchase of elections by one of our political parties. The only way to effectively break the cycle is to stop doing it.

London rioters should 'loose all benefits'

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Human Beings

Yeah, they are certainly acting like human beings now, aren't they?

And that's not getting into the whole "handouts are dehumanizing" concept...

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Extortion

"while the Metropolitan Police will certainly need guidelines on protecting law-abiding citizens' lunchboxes from packs of penniless and starving hoodies. ®"

It seems to me like you Brits are scared to stop paying extortion money (be honest, that's really what these social programs are).

Apple blocks sale of Samsung's Android fondleslab across EU

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Not quite

"Apple *did* produce the first ever *successful* computer with a GUI and mouse. Apple *did* produce the first ever *successful* HDD MP3 player. They produced the first ever *successful* touch screen tablet computer. They produce what is by far the most *successful* touch screen smartphone."

The fact that those things were successful has less to do with any real innovation and more to do with an excellent marketing department and a veritable army of zombie twats who must have the new iShiny just so they feel cool.

Marketing + Stupidity != Innovation

AMD slips into desktop RAM biz

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Spot on!

Plus, they can make their marketing name require the use of their branded memory and get a little extra coin out of their OEMs...

Prime Minister recalls holidaying MPs after London riots

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Shoot them in the legs?

Someone's been watching too many movies, it seems.

I don't have a problem with the shooting idea, but if you're going to do it at least aim for something you're likely to hit.

Google to be hit by US anti-trust probe - report

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@Davcrav

Those other searches you cite suck runny arse juices. The poster's point still stands in that Google had the first POLISHED and USABLE goodies.

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Facepalm

What's wrong with this?

This is no different than Sony Electronics recommending Sony branded batteries in their owners manual, or General motors dealers using GMAC parts during their repairs, or basically nothing different than 99% of businesses on the planet do.

If you don't like it, don't buy Sony Electronics, don't buy GM cars, and don't use Google for searches. How is this too hard to comprehend?

European Council: Creating hacking tools should be criminal across EU

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Loony?

I guess that line is only loony until it refers to something you can see the logic in, eh?

Figgus

All well and good....

...until someone else decides to make you the cat. "It's for your own good, honest!!!"

Anonymous vows to attack Federal Reserve

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Indeed

Don't forget, though, the 600 billion in new money the fed created out of nowhere. If you think that didn't devalue the savings of the little guy, you are mistaken.

It was basically 600 billion dollars in counterfeit bills getting dumped into the economy.

Blimp fireball disaster in Germany, Aussie pilot killed

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Coat

Re: It's filled with Helium!

At least it wasn't filled with Led.

Go Daddy to sell .xxx domains

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Mandatory

I agree, I was wishing the .xxx domain was mandatory and all other domains would lose their sites.

To resolve conflicting names, just add a .xxx on the end so porn.com and porn.net would be porncom.xxx and pornnet.xxx

Filtering would be so much simpler, but that's a double edge sword, right?

Intel teaches machines to build own device drivers

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Det. Spooner...

"I suppose your father lost his job to a robot. I don't know, maybe you would have simply banned the Internet to keep the libraries open. "

Sex-rating social pages take off in Queensland

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Turnabout

Women compare notes too, this isn't a male dominated pastime at its core. Granted, the ladies usually don't compare those things so publicly, but perhaps they should. I bet they could really trash the "skills" of the partners who trashed them.

After all, a guy has to be good in a multifaceted way to satisfy his partner, a woman pretty much just needs to show up.

Reg hack cast adrift as Illuminati Online goes off-line

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bookface or linkedup

bookmyfacespace FTW

World IPv6 Day fails to kill the internet

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indeed

Yes, I know about that stuff... But I also know that a lot of internet connected devices might not have the option to change it. Think about how rudimentary some network stacks in portable stuff can be.

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Stop

No, thank you.

I personally like my internet anonymity. As soon as I found out about the MAC component in IPv6, it joined the list with Vista, iCloud, the iFad, and Facebook as just another thing to avoid.

BioWare blows brains with intro cinematics for Star Wars MMO

Figgus

re: The WoW killer ?

This won't kill WoW. The thing that is killing WoW is Blizztard's crappy game designers. Balance? Yeah, they've heard of it....

Apple iCloud: Same old cage, new height

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Re: Nonsense

Agreed, 30 days and 5 GB... for now. Do you REALLY think it will stay that way? My prediction is that the time limits and data caps will vastly increase or evaporate altogether in the near future.

Thus, the very issues these journalists are covering ARE important in the longer view.

Top telly tech fails to drive new set sales

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This is my title.

Yeah, they'll project 3D images into the room just as soon as they amend the laws of physics that require you to bounce light off of something to see it. I love Star Trek as much as the next nerd, but you're going to see people "jacking in" for immersive entertainment long before you see functional holographic projectors.

Figgus

"I suspect all that Joe Public wants now, is just lower price."

Actually, I'm going to throw out that people want bigger screens at a lower price. Given a choice between a 50" and 65", most people would take the 65" if the price/size ratio was the same.

'Leccy price hike: Greens to blame as well as energy biz

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Timing

"I'll grant you that payback without FIT with today's energy prices would be a struggle but as you point out prices will keep going up and soon even without FIT they will break even on their own."

Then wait for the tech to mature instead of tilting at windmills enacting silly fake markets in the form of subsidies...

Fact is, if you need to subsidize something then it isn't a viable option.

Farting death camels must die to save the world!

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"reeking", surely?

n/t

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