Posts by Jamie Kitson

One word

Sic!

One question: What else do they put into the phone's body, you could make it into some sort of stash.

Confiscated iPads

Confiscated iPads can be collected, with an added iBullet hole app.

http://lilysussman.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/im-sorry-but-we-blew-up-your-laptop-welcome-to-israel/

free extra magnification

"With its sensor crop factor it would do well to be used with telephoto lenses to gain that free extra magnification."

Isn't that a bit like arguing for "digital zoom"?

Blimey!

Fascinating stuff.

Same At HTC

My colleague, who is *very* careful with his phone, had HTC pull the same trick, after a lot of arguing they eventually agreed to fix it. Bother of us have had bad experiences with HTC repairs.

Pedant

Does "the second two" make sense here? There were only three films after all.

BoingBoing

Is my hon. Friend sure that a postal delivery will suffice? Many people may have chosen to form a contract with an ISP at some stage before moving, and may not have seen any particular reason to notify the ISP of a change of address.

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/08/correcting-the-ignor.html

erm

Well duh!

What you think remains a matter of opinion.

Hmmmmm

Balance

Are we going to have pieces from all the parties El Reg? I look forward to the BNP shoehorning their policies into an IT piece :)

Style

The way you are setting out these group test is really bad IMHO, linear page numbers would be much nicer.

The Daily Mail Song

For anyone who hasn't heard it, the Daily Mail song is well worth a listen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI

Ugh

This has to be the most confusingly set out story I have ever seen on the reg, apparently different comments on every page, no direct links through the story and sub-page numbers within the pages.

erm

64th Comment?!

Re: Opera - the only one not hacked

> and the one hackers themselves use..

> Says alot about it's security....

You missed the point, read it again.

@Ron1

Glad you said it first and I wasn't forced to demonstrate my pedantry :)

Oh Dear

Does this mean Gaddafi's pipes are dead in the, erm, water?

erm

Is 10 to 30 really statistically significant?

Pic

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4453821027_92d4fb8a93_b.jpg

Yeah But

Doesn't this sort of thing make you stop and think?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/8574507.stm

"a touchpoint point for training refresh"

Jesus Christ

Related Story?

http://failblog.org/2010/03/05/equal-opportunity-fail/

Love It

This is one of the comments:

If the mail considers the exposure and inevitable subsequent vilification of this individual coupled with the certainty that he will lose business, and his status he has risen too newsworthy, then why does the mail carry advertisements for massage parlours, escorts, transvestites etc. Surely the Mail are making their money in exactly the same way. It's just shere hypocrisy. Although it is entirely un-related, it reminds me of the current healthy diet nonsense wherein Supermarkets peddle "slightly salted crisps" , so in order to taste them you have to buy some salt. If they were that concerned about the dangers of excessive salt consumption they wouldn't sell salt at all. And whilst we're on the subject of ludicrous anomalies, what is all this rubbish about "You can't buy alchohol unless you look 25" when did the legal alchohol age go up from 18 to 25 I don't remember it. What ever happened to commonsense? I expect people will be trying to convince me that the moon isn't made of green cheese next

Not sure about the mail's moral stance, on this, it sounds like hypocrisy to me

Surely

Why can't Twitter filter these DMs out?

Strange Code

Really odd looking code, the list of search terms is too regular to be human entered, but then why include "ISP Filtering" at all? We can count the entries ourselves, "ISP Filtering" occurs about 20 times, compared to about 30 for "Cyber-Safety" which is the biggest looking word.

var a = 'NBN; Broadband; National Broadband Network; ABC; Broadcasting; National Broadcasters; SBS; Digital Switchover; Broadcasting; Digital Television; Youth Advisory Group; ISP Filtering; Cyber-Safety; Internet; Budget; ISP Filtering; Cyber-Safety; Internet; E-Health; ...

The post was too long to continue.

Interesting?

> Still, it's interesting to note that in Microsoft's posting, Explorer has been discretely pushed to almost the end of the list.

It is?

Really?

"This feature has only been used for the limited purpose of locating a lost, stolen or missing laptop. The District has not used the tracking feature or web cam for any other purpose or in any other manner whatsoever."

Surely that's just what happened, unless it wasn't the boy's laptop.

Reception

Sounds like anything but a "cool reception".

ID Cards To The Rescue!

What's the betting this is used as another example of why we need ID cards?

Typo?

Surely "the force estimate that the hacking spree cost a total of $3bn"?

Was Here?

I very much doubt it was ever at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/error.htm?aspxerrorpath=/blogs/post.aspx

I think it was probably at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharad/archive/2010/01/31/whats-in-store-for-the-next-windows.aspx

Windows What?

It doesn't look like it's running Windows 7 in the picture.

Popular Acceptance

Or Windows for that matter.

Men Too?

From this:

> One man and one woman have been tasked with assessing customers' assets.

I assumed it was to be men and women to be screened, surely there's a sexism suit in there otherwise.

What If...

What if Google were about to release an operating system? Maybe they'd want some bad publicity for the incumbent, dominant OS? Now, how could the engineer that?

I don't know why...

...they haven't already integrated it with normal email and chat, then people would use it, because they wouldn't have to chose between the two.

Not That Pricey

Those legs are never cheap, the sandwich shop down the road often has them, his cost him £400.

Prysm didn't say...

How massive the final product would be.

DNA

The NUJ states that Andrew Handley's DNA was deleted(!)

And stop making up words

http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/features/chref/chref.py/main?title=21st&query=instancing

What's The Betting....

...they had the volume down, or just no speakers?

Reg Affected Too?

I clicked on "Be the first to post a comment!" but low, there are already six replies.

SEVENTH!

My WinMo is unfortunately not affected :(

PR Stunt?

Do you actually know of anyone ejected?

Nothing Last Forever

Not IBM, not Microsoft, not Google, not Apple.

And I think you're wrong to assume that Mr and Mrs Average wouldn't want personalised results even if they knew and cared about it, after all, who buys a neutral newspaper? Do they even exist?

Wot a toser

dat guy si suc a LOOSER!!!!!!! HAHAHALOLROLCOPTER!!!

peter 3

Oh come on, that was one of the funniest jokes I've ever read on el Reg.

Which Applications

> O2 also reckons it's going to work more closely with handset vendors to address which applications will lead to heavy network loading, but other than blocking such applications it's hard to see what good that's going to do.

Maybe they'll ask them to compress the data? Or try to profile usage throughout a day and avoid peaks?

Ha!

This is like a doomsday cult that's passed it's doomsday making up convenient reasons why the world's not ended.

Quite Good

I thought it was quite a good tag line, though not obvious taken out of context on their site, the ads in the tube read like an ad for John Lewis or Apple "speak to the sails assistant in the saddles, view the models in spacious hall" blah blah and then ends "and then go to dixons.co.uk, the last place you want to visit."

News?

I don't know why this is so exciting or being called the googlephone. It's just another HTC handset with Android on it. Really, standard HTC hardware, standard Android software. I can't believe that it's still news either, the googlers are actually being asked to show it off and ask for feedback.