Re: yeah we're just going to select what posts you see mmkay
"..I don't get how this is such a big deal.."
You don't have to get it..you'll be fed that you have "338 friends".
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Facebook: Yes, we made you SAD on PURPOSE... for your own good
Street View Wi-Fi slurp nightmare: US Supremes snub Google's appeal
From corporate bod to startup star: The 10-month gig that changed everything
Thursday 27th March 2014 04:36 GMT
Economy of hell
If there are 100 devs to 10 managers (including the whole hierarchy) ratio (imaginary), it's bound to happen over time that 90 of the current devs will be left out of the managerial posts no matter how skilled they are. So, it's unreasonable not paying them more because they are still coder.
So, what this author did is the only viable option for a fair play economy. Well played.
TEN THINGS Google believes you believe about Glassholes and wishes you didn't
Saturday 22nd March 2014 07:03 GMT
Guys, you're the (beta) product
So, they accept that
- Glass is not that capable today
but
- Glass is still not the final product
See there, Google, my fear.
It's also only reasonable to declare in advance that you'll be forced to stumble in dark if you choose to be a Glasshole with prescription glasses.
US govt: You, ICANN. YOU can run the internet. We quit
Saturday 15th March 2014 09:49 GMT
Managing names
Is it me only perhaps who feels that the domain naming system is already broken.
1. If you have a name registered for your company, you can force others with similar names to change it. (Skydrive.com to Onedrive.com anyone?) So there goes millions of possible variable names in vein.
2. Ironically, if a company doesn't (can't, financially 99% of all) fight to stop impersonating and fraud sites, the end user is cheated or receive inferior service.
3. When a domain name is sold to another party, the confusion increases even more. I remember I had an email address at a decent site's domain "@xmail.com". Later it became what you can guess easily.
So, what's the solution? If 12 digit phone numbers can be managed, will 16 digit site numbers help? At least that can be managed in more decenterelized manner.
That NSA denial in full: As of right now, we're not pretending to be Facebook or Twitter
Microsoft gives away Windows Phone 8 licences in India – report
Friday 14th March 2014 07:15 GMT
Re: Almost free
"..why is it so ugly and difficult.."
Yeah.. I have latest WinPone OS patches and a flagship phone from Nokia and here is 1 incident I realized today:
In the dialer, once you paste a number, you cannot edit it (if you don't want the hassle of adding every other number as a contact).
I have more...
Dying for an Ubuntu Linux phone? Here's how much it'll cost you
Thursday 13th March 2014 11:03 GMT
Re: Choose-your OS hardware...and the Susephone was invented in 1890
"..much the same as buying a PC and choose to buy/download an OS of your choice.."
That'll be real fun.
However, sometimes I wonder whom to look for this progress in the standards.
A PC is mix of standard components from different hardware manufacturers, selling processors and RAMs in chocolate-like boxes, and that is what made the PCs popular.
Ironically, that is also the reason that even most naive person today knows what a "Hard Disk" is.
It's again manufacturers who supplied customized drivers for their components for each OS they considered worthy. Now the mainstream manufacturers have thrown hands. They think avoiding the arm race is the best solution. What else can describe that Raspberry-Pi is still a novel idea.
Thursday 13th March 2014 05:06 GMT
Phone for developers
1. A phone that has first party (or trusted) SHELL app
AND
2. Resolution high enough to show readable white text on black on a full screen shell+keyboard
AND
3. Doesn't steal your data legally
Does Ubuntu phone have it all? Or it is just about the fluid desktop UI that scales up and down?
For (1) and (2), it seems very likely to happen. For (3), I'll never be sure.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/CoreApps/Terminal
Web inventor Berners-Lee: I so did NOT see this cat vid thing coming
CIA hacked Senate PCs to delete torture reports. And Senator Feinstein is outraged
Snowden: You can't trust SPOOKS with your DATA
Tuesday 11th March 2014 04:36 GMT
Stop who?
"..he had no problem with commercial companies collecting personal data.."
Well, may be he's well intentioned and wants to tackle 1 problem at once, but how an 8-pixel-font-aggreement link unique on every site in the world is less of a problem than a constitutional statement with almost the same content?
And if availability of opt-out is your excuse, then you can opt-out of the Internet as a whole as well.
But, a big thanks for your suggestion on encryption.
Sysadmins and devs: Do these job descriptions make any sense?
Windows 8.1 Update 1 spewed online a MONTH early – by Microsoft
Blimey! ANOTHER Bitcoin bleed brouhaha
Asian messaging companies are closing in on WhatsApp
Thursday 6th March 2014 05:07 GMT
Who'll be the next F**Book
It's not even guaranteed that another FB will come in messaging business. The business has so much competition now that no one can dominate.
The nearest messaging success could be a robotic company with a machine which keeps chatting with you while impersonating your best pal (or fantasy) and likes all your talks. Oops! There goes my trillion dollars :)
Bitcoin ban row latest: 'Unstable, loved by criminals' Yup, that's the US dollar – Colorado rep
Thursday 6th March 2014 04:44 GMT
I need to study it more
I understand the wealth the BitCoins represent today is enormous but too little compared to the actual (OK, traditional) currencies. I also understand some machines do automated work to generate them. And that generating even a single BitCoin is a big achievement for that machine.
But as a layman (among the other 99.999... % of the world population), what I don't understand are:
1. why should I value a currency which is not generated based on the market need of my nation? Is it not like saying that wages of a US and Chinese worker of the same trade are same and should pay equal amount to get a bread?
2. If mining of a BitCoin is analogous to finding a gold rock, are we good paying in gold when buying a bread?
I seriously need to study before those coins grip the world (or the world lets go of the coins)
US prosecutors drop hyperlink charges against Barrett Brown
Pakistan's YouTube ban may end after Google removes anti-Muslim vid
Wednesday 5th March 2014 04:31 GMT
Re: YouTube is not about free speech and only video sharing site.
"..It's called the law..."
"..every stupid and backwards law some government comes up with.."
So, it's only the US law that applies to Pakistan. Huh? We are talking about ban in Pakistan here.
"..because their courts told them to.."
Court is supposed to intervene when a 2 parties cannot decide on a point. So, was Google sure that this video didn't offend anyone? Are you sure? Have you seen the video? Even in El Reg we have Report Abuse button for a post that might be offending the single original poster.
Tuesday 4th March 2014 04:45 GMT
YouTube is not about free speech and only video sharing site.
I don't argue that Pakistan govt is not dirty enough through blood stains. But, all they do is say "Hey, look what they say about us."
So, if millions of human beings are being offended and killed (that is proven, right?), why YouTube cannot block a video on its own common sense? Apart from that, why request from Pak govt is less valuable than a court order from US? Why Google co-operates with one government to spy over the whole world but cannot block a video on request of another govt. If Google thinks it's justified because of it's American origin then another govt has very equal right to think it unjustified. They are govt after all, right?
And here is a very unrelated post:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/07/snowden_documents_show_british_digital_spies_using_viruses_and_honey_traps/
GNU security library GnuTLS fails on cert checks: Patch now
German freemail firms defend AdBlock-nobbling campaign
Tuesday 4th March 2014 05:05 GMT
Re: "Merely...make money"
"..something on a computer screen is publishing.."
You won't stop, right? :(
By reading El Reg, are you showing your computer screen to everyone in your neighborhood? If not, then how is publishing and not consuming.
A consumer has every right to consume the product delivered to it in ways he wants, unless he's not spreading it further.
Ever get the impression a telesales op was being held prisoner?
Thanks a lot, Facebook: Microsoft turns Office 365 into social network
But... you work in IT... Why aren't we RICH?
Monday 3rd March 2014 09:02 GMT
"..keep with it until the grown ups try to make money out of it, by which time they've lost interest.."
Actually, they keep with it until.. they've lost interest.. meanwhile they keep auctioning whatever they get to know about their interest. May be, someday, we'll find big lockers of bit-coins at home of F**erb**g or at WhatsThatPlaceCalled.
Schneier: NSA snooping tactics will be copied by criminals in 3 to 5 years
Thursday 27th February 2014 06:00 GMT
Re: Security is possible (ish)
".. Some have vested interests .."
Of course, they have. If we could afford offline these 3 business activities offline, we may never need to worry about the mass-snooping:
1) Social Media: Social chit-chat. Use the crossings / lamp posts / bars of your locality. That will give so contextually relevant content that not even Giggle/FB can provide you.
2) Online Banking: Use paper cheques. You signature is the best private key ever invented.
3) Online protests: Use peaceful rallies. No online petition ever caused a policy change. They will just get delayed / sneaked (even rallies don't change anything though if though).
Woman claims she was assaulted in Google Glass 'HATE CRIME'
Microsoft: NSA snooping? Code backdoors? Our hands are clean!
Make cyberwar a no-no equal to nukes, bio, and chemical attacks, says RSA headman
iOS 7: Even if you don't jailbreak your iPhone, bugs STILL CREEP IN
Wednesday 26th February 2014 04:57 GMT
Re: Running in the background
"..but continue to play music.."
Spot on.
Besides, the usual iPhone users generally press Home button to get out of the app and forget about it. So, at a time, a general user has 20 (i have seen 30) apps in the background ready to be resumed (that you can see by the double tapping the Home button). This is supposed to be efficient because these background apps are not allotted CPUs until they come in foreground.
So, what this result seems to be is about apps which perhaps have a special permission to run (consume CPU) in the background.
If Apple is allowing such apps (which go against the users' habits) and is failing to scrutinize them thoroughly (scanning the API usage), then it is the same problem that the other stores are blamed for,
Google kills copycat TfL congestion charge payment ads
Wednesday 26th February 2014 04:44 GMT
The problem is although the ads are marked sponsored prominently, it's user's fault to trust an advertising system as an advising company. It's the laziness only that even scanning the visible area of the 1st page of the results seem too much waste of time for them.
Google for years promoted this laziness by using the phrase that suggested to use ENTER instead of click on the Search button to make the search faster.
Nokia launches Android range: X marks the growing low-cost spot
Tuesday 25th February 2014 04:04 GMT
Re: NOKIA SHOULD MAKE ANDROID
"..MS don't own Nokia yet.."
They owned it when Mr. Elop joined Nokia :)
Keeping that aside, as a human being, why'd they launch a product that looks more likely foot in mouth if they are not supported by the soon to be new masters?
And news from the same day also suggested that they are going to pursue it aggressively:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/24/mwc_2014_new_nokia_android_phones_coming_europe_toikkanen/
They wouldn't replace WinRT and WinPhone with a better alternative, that I can accept though :)
Mozilla takes wraps off 25 DOLLAR Firefox OS smartphone
Microsoft may slash price of Windows 8.1 on cheap 'slabs
Tuesday 25th February 2014 04:35 GMT
Re: Make it free
Who cares about the app crashing data. Even Google lets you turn it off on Android.
The real collection is the apps bundled with OS. MS has 1 counterpart for each app Google offers in Android.
The only remaining reason for the price is that MS is not able to sell enough Ads. There have been times in Windows App Store where developers complain that the their apps are being used but not filled with ads most of the times. Initially, MS was filling its own ads as compensation, but now even that is gone.
Please don't look at just one side of the PRISM ;)
Monday 24th February 2014 10:50 GMT
Re: Make it free
I don't want to hurt someone's feelings. I, myself, have thrown away Android for owning a WinPhone and own experience of adding value to the WinStore. But guess what? Their Dev Center download stats are updated after 2 days and they call it regular. Doesn't it give feelings that either Azure is not powerful enough or the admins who use it? Or they just don't use what they develop?
Prez Obama cyber-guru: Think your data is safe in an EU cloud? The NSA will raid your servers
What's up with that WhatsApp $19bn price tag? Answer: Voice calls
WhatsApp founder: Believe us, internet! 'Twas a DODGY network router WOT DONE IT
Saving private spying: IETF Draft reveals crypto-busting proxy proposal
Monday 24th February 2014 10:23 GMT
Re: Outrageous
".. same images.."
What I remember from my short-term web development experience is that caching is heavily based on the name of the images and it has caused big pains for many figuring out a guaranteed update of dynamic images. May I was not so good but a technology is only as good as its drivers.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
