Micro$oft - the uppers of fuck
Posts by YeahRight
14 publicly visible posts • joined 14 May 2013
What do you call megabucks Microsoft? No really, it's not a joke. El Reg needs you
From Vega with love: Pegasus interstellar asteroid's next stop
Wake up sheeple!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rama-Omnibus-Complete-ebook/dp/B005XBUEWA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511257273&sr=8-1&keywords=rama
Seriously though, what are the chances of an asteroid travelling that far and not falling into the sun, and not just continuing on past it. It's almost like it was very carefully planned
Mars isn't the garbage wasteworld you think it is: Swirling polar ice cap photographed
CES 2017 roundup: The good, the bad, and the frankly bonkers
Well...
Satnave jeans for wimmin are justifiably getting ridiculed for being patronising nonsense. But... Satnav that nudges the wearer in the right direction might have a lot of uses. Fitted to a helmet, jacket or safety gear it could be a winner in hostile environments where holding a screen might not be practical.
I ride motorbikes and it might be preferable to having a satnav on a wobbly handlebar mount
BBC detector vans are back to spy on your home Wi-Fi – if you can believe it
I have actually seen a detector van! In the mid 90s parked ostentatiously between Bristol's Eye Hospital and the bus station miles from any residential area. Y'know, where lots and lots of people would see it. It looked like some pre WW2 experimental Bakelite radar contraption.
Anyway, if live streaming is the target of the Beeb's attention but catchup services are ok then a solution for the determined content thief springs to mind. How about a box that receives live streamed data and stores it for a minute or two, or a second or two, y'know just to smooth out the buffering, and then sends it on its way to the crim's screen. All technological mumbo jumbo aside what would the legal case against that person look like? If it's not live, if it's delayed by a certain amount of time then it's ok?
Ginormous HIDDEN BLACK HOLES flood the universe – boffins
El Reg's contraptions confessional no.5: The Sinclair Sovereign
Oooh! My NAUGHTY SKIRT keeps riding up! Hello, INTERNET EXPLORER
Put down the (cod)piece and step away: Artist cuffed after sculpture cockup
E-reader barons file FCC plea to opt out of disabled-friendly regs
Everything should be as accessible as possible.
I bought an ereader because my deteriorating eyesight prevented me from reading paper books, my ereader makes it possible to boost the text size of almost any epublication I can get hold of. To me ereaders are a primary aid to my disability. Companies that try to wriggle out of responsibilities and legal obligations just to penny pinch disgust me and deserve the full force of the law coming down on their fat, profitable arses.
You MERCILESS FIEND... you put that audio file on AUTOPLAY
I'm currently looking around half heartedly for a domain name where I intend to name. shame and mock all the terrible websites I visit. My main gripe is text that is non enlargeable or overlaps when it is enlarged making it unreadable. I'm visually impaired you see. But noisy bastards are well worth shaming as well.
Reg readers tumesce as they get their tongues round 'podule'
Apple asked me for my BANK statements, says outraged reader
On the other hand
I'm a victim of identity fraud, someone using my name and address set up a bank account and direct debit for an iThing which would eventually have brought debt recovery agents to my door. When I approached Apple they were more efficient and more help than the police, my bank and the company providing the credit agreement. I'm not a fanboi by the way.
Apple seems heavy handed asking people to send proof of identity but their products are popular with criminals so they are in a tough position.
I have had to sign up with CIFAS to make sure that any future finance agreements in my name go through more stringent checks. Something I've had to pay for. If Apple and the financial institutions involved were more on the ball I would have a lot more confidence in them and be twenty quid better off.