Posts by Irongut

electricity wasting global ponzi scheme

Now there's a thought, maybe BitCoin was secretly started by the electricity companies to sell more electricity?

Re: Cue the selective amnesia

Spurious stats are spurious.

Re: Chumps

Windows Smartphone 2003 was more advanced than iOS 1.0. Hell, PalmOS 4 was move advanced than iOS 1.0. Did you learn your tech history from Stephen Fry?

Re: WiFi modem geolocation

Yup, that's why Maps works on my S3 even with GPS turned off. Consumes a lot less battery that way too.

Re: terrible

The first paragraph has nothing to do with the rest of the article. Its a friendly intro.

As usual when reading a Reg article, and most things, it helps if you get to the end and actually understand the English language past the level of a 4 year old. Reading comprehension 4 teh win.

Re: There is a chance of a major win ......

You're on. My money is on an advert for women who want to feel fresher... down there.

Re: I still think

I have no need for a cycling speedometer or running monitor and if my alarms only woke me up at the "right" point in my sleep cycle I'd always be late for work.

What was the other use again? Oh yeah, a fancy notification area for emails on my wrist instead of the two screens in front of me and the phone to the side. Not really a killer feature.

Re: The crazy thing...

Ah Neil you're missing the fact that it won't be the same people sat at the same desks, it will be half of those people working for half the wage they were on before sat at the same desks and doing twice as much work. And yet it will still cost the BBC more than having them in house did.

How could that not make sense?

Re: Basic physics

Basic counting. That's paragraph four.

Re: Those Sun Pillows look brilliant!

Indeed porn mags literally grow on trees. All Paul Raymond does is harvest them.

Re: Is this Tesco's fault?

> If your customer base is in the UK and the IP address come from somewhere else, then this is not likely to be your customer.

Except I used to work at a customer site in the UK that due to the nationality of their ISP all websites thought was in France. Sites that blocked non-UK IP addresses seriously pissed me off.

> Not only that, but you can easily keep a log of where your genuine customer has logged in from the last few times.

> A change in pattern for that customer (perhaps combined with an overall view of the change in pattern across your customer database) could give you a clue as to whether something's going on.

Oh yes very nice except it will inconvenience customers. Steam use a system like this and last week I had to confirm I was at a new location 3 or 4 times just to use my Steam account. Annoying for me, for your average luddite member of the public this would drive them to another supermarket.

You could have the most secure site in the world but no customers because it will be a pain in the arse to use. You have to work out a realistic threat model and apply reasonable security rules to mitigate the actual risks whilst not over inconveniencing the customer. This isn't corporate IT where you can force the users to jump through your security hoops because you say so.

Agreed. I thought Electric Dreams early on in the review and the thought never went away.

Re: Passive sensors?

Expecting a visit from James Bond and a squad of marines?

Re: For fucks sake!

Are you a new user? Well you won't see the damn things then.

Yet another reading comprehension fail.

Re: Who'd want it ?

Vaio laptops look great but the build quality is terrible. They fall apart in a few months and are very expensive to repair, only to fall apart again another few months later. Our previous IT manager had a Vaio only policy and now we are left with a pile of laptops with broken hinges, broken screens, etc.

One very high spec and expensive laptop that was bought for a director was even faulty straight from the factory. It had wires hanging out of the dvd drive!

It's worse than that

Noooo... "The researchers studied over 150 men and women"

So they studied about 80 women and asked them how attractive they found 80 men. Such a fine representative sample, it can surely be scaled up to be valid on a planet of over 7 billion people.

Re: iPhone 4, 3 years later: FUBAR

I've dropped my Galaxy S3 on to tarmac, pavement and concrete several times. Yes, I'm clumsy. The only damage is some scratches and a slight dent in the case. The screen is still perfect and it runs the latest version of Android no problem. Who needs repairs?

I know lots of people who dropped iPhones and the screen and / or back shattered. One person I know managed to bend an iPhone 4S so it looks like a banana! (I have no idea what she did with it.)

You can't compare iPhone with landfill Android. Sure you're talking about an old iPhone but it was a premium model at the time so compare like with like.

Re: Consumer Company?

They really need to ignore this consumer crap, it has caused all their problems in recent years. Let Apple be hip, trendy and bought by all the chavs. MS makes more than enough money from enterprise and professional customers and has no need to go chasing after the unwashed masses.

Re: "unmodified Androids provided they were connected to a computer."

I do not connect my Android to a computer. And, even if I did I would connect it to my computer which has not been compromised since 1999.

Break the security on your device and it can be hacked really isn't a story.

Re: OK for web browsing

Because Netflix uses Silverlight. Yes they say they support HTML5 but have you actually watched any content in HTML5? Its always Silverlight in my experience, on UK Netflix anyway.

Re: Dear Mr Satya,

They probably took one look at your use of apostrophes and speech marks and decided they'd had enough.

Re: Perhaps ..

I want FairySQL and Persil RegClean liquitabs now!

Re: Just been reminded of an old story from the 80s

Sounds like an urban legend to me. No doubt that's why you posted anon.