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Posts by Disko
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Yay! Wearables! It's the future! Uh-oh! I'm going to be sick
A gold MacBook with just ONE USB port? Apple, you're DRUNK
Thursday 12th March 2015 11:27 GMT
Re: Idiot proof - no ports that can be compromised...
What's with the condescending attitude? That shit is totally uncalled for, and FYI does not make you look like the smarter person.
I'll rephrase: having only the one port reduces the number of possible attack vectors, to not have ports that fit millions of existing usb sticks that are potentially compromised. That is all - just considering a potential benefit of not having many ports that can be compromised.
Wednesday 11th March 2015 12:40 GMT 
Idiot proof - no ports that can be compromised...
No USB, Thunderbolt or Firewire, no optical drive, and you need an adapter cable to even connect to the thing.
So no danger of rootkits and the like via those ports/discs, no nuisances like malware, adware or compromised versions of XCode or other disturbing stuff coming from USB sticks...it helps keep the machine a bit clean, and that is also very useful in a managed environment. Streaming or downloading any kind of content works fine over WiFi. The OS is installed, upgraded and even recovered from Apple's site using the internal recovery disk partition, so no need for install media there either.
With the high res screen, light weight and long battery life, it seems ideal for all those people who just need a laptop to do basic office type stuff on the go.
For pity's sake, you fool! DON'T UPGRADE it will make it worse
Saturday 21st February 2015 11:21 GMT 
Copy/paste between OS's...
...doesn't necessarily work flawlessly, given text-encodings and character interpretation and whatnot, but it might be worth a shot - I'm pretty sure Parallels has the option of copying and pasting text between the host and virtual machine (sorry I can't check this for you right now, installing software is incompatible with my weekend), so one can copy text from the cloudportalthing on the "Windows side", edit text on the "Mac side" as usual and when done paste it back into the cloudportalthing on the Windows side. HTH.
If every business is now an IT business - how are we ever going to get away from IT anymore? Logging maybe...
[Go Icon] because props for your always entertaining writings. Please do keep at it.
Microsoft turns the power of fine print onto enterprise licensing
Boffins: It's EASY to make you GRASS YOURSELF UP for crimes you never did
Saturday 17th January 2015 09:10 GMT
Remember...
...you were chosen to lead the flock through the apocalypse of your choice by your savior/prophet/supreme leader? Right, none of that happened either. People die in fires for this crap.
I remember being a student and insisting on such things as facts and proof, as exactly the means by which studying provides any useful result. I was, and am also quite sure of having my mnemonic faculties intact, and I am absolutely sure of the things I did or did not do, For instance I never killed any neighbours pet, set fire to government buildings or shot the prime minister, no matter how badly I wanted to.
The interesting question to me is: are the researchers trying to sway us with their story, towards believing that there is such a thing as linguistically implanted false memories, or have all the people who allow false memories to be germinated in this way, sustained some form of brain damage before? Are the researchers trying to have us believe that none of what we think is real actually happened, thus paving the way for total denial, and the annihilation of science itself? And how about the mental faculties of the researchers? How do we even know they remember correctly what even took place, if anything at all? I am not even joking at this point...
Citrix goes into the mouse business
Nvidia flops out teraflop X1 for self-aware cars
V. R. R. Stob's magnificent saga A Game Of Dog-and-Bones
TALE OF FAIL: Microsoft offers blow-by-blow Azure outage account
Sony Pictures email hack: The bitter 'piracy war' between Google and Hollywood laid bare
El Reg Redesign - leave your comment here.
Friday 12th December 2014 12:50 GMT
Yeah, if you could not have everything pop up whenever I'm trying to navigate to the menus
That would be great.
After browsing the site even for a little bit, the menu popups really get massively annoying.
Also, this menu bar moving around, and sticking to the top of the screen business is a nuisance.
Maybe it is better to limit the redesign to the things like social media buttons and ad placement
Thanks for asking our opinion thuogh, even though we would have given that anyway, it's nice to see some acknowledgement of the fact that people who use your site don't necessarily subscribe to your (designer's) views on user experience.
Friday 12th December 2014 12:33 GMT 
The good, the bad and the ugly...
The good - the site still looks relatively straightforward. I don't necessarily visit the Reg to see colours.
The bad - CAPS M&#$@!#%$@NG LOCK also these menus are locked and that is just wrong.
The ugly - Vultures are ugly. So is most tech I have no problem with that.
Verdict: lose the fresh modern stuff, keep it as simple as humanly possible. And for the love of Clippy don't change the basic structure, logic or layout. Having to scavenge around on a website to find familiar sections is enraging at best.
Docker part 4: Microsoft CAN'T ignore it. Aux armes, citoyens!
BOFH: WHERE did this 'fax-enabled' printer UPGRADE come from?
Fujitsu CTO: We'll be 3D-printing tech execs in 15 years
Fasthosts goes titsup, blames DNS blunder
Patch Windows boxes NOW – unless you want to be owned by a web page or network packet
Researchers show off three-domain international SDN
Interstellar: An awesome sci-fi spectacle – just cut the hamminess, please
ICANN creates 'UN Security Council for the internet', installs itself as a permanent member
Saturday 8th November 2014 09:34 GMT
Re: Even the "Think of the Children" angle feels badly put together
in my mind i saw a hand coming out of the screen - Videodrome style - to cover children's eyes whenever something deemed inappropriate by the Puritanical Institute pops up. Scary stuff, I think I'll protect my kid myself by just telling her what's what in this world.
That 'tech-free' Nophone? It was already out years ago
Would you recognise the Vans shoes logo? Neither would Euro trademark bods
Monday 3rd November 2014 13:28 GMT
No more swashes and stripes?
I guess with swashes, stripes would also be out, so the rest of the sneaker firms as well as just about anyone with a logo that may or may not depict a recognizable item can forget about registering too then. Two arches? A wavelike shape? Just a big red star? Not good enough - I guess we all need to have something like, 12 stars on a blue background as a logo. Or 12 vultures on a red background.
'I get it if you don't make money for 2 or 3 years, but Amazon's 21'
Monday 3rd November 2014 09:24 GMT
Re: AI
Friends of mine managed to trick me (and not just me) into temporarily believing their messaging robot was an actual person. A seemingly drugriddled and fragmented person with a terrible disposition and any number of disorders, but all the more human-like for all of its flaws. At first glance this output of this contraption resembled the ramblings of the average suburban teenager, which was why i paid less attention than i could have until the inevitable "gotcha" ultimately broke the spell.
We might be tempted to defer what we think of as menial tasks to some form of computer algorhythm or neural decision making structure (or a combination) but definitely should be aware of the risk involved with trusting any such contraption beyond the scope of its design - in other words, as far as we can throw it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
