Re: Interesting FaceBook effect on El Reg links
Simple explanation:
El Reg's target audience: People who read the words.
Faceberk's target audience: People who look at the pictures.
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LinkedIn DNS hijacked, site offline
John McAfee releases NSFW video on how to uninstall security code
Thursday 20th June 2013 07:12 GMT 
Re: We have McAfee on the managed desktops at work. RETCH!
...the AV built into Win7...
Er......WTF?
Do you mean that you're using MS Security Essentials? It's a good product, but even that's not built in and has to be installed seperately.
The only thing that 7 comes with as standard is a popup box screaming blue murder at you to install something pronto!
Kim Dotcom victim of 'largest data MASSACRE in history'
Thursday 20th June 2013 07:04 GMT 
'...Kim Dotcom says he's "in tears"...'
There's nothing worse than seeing a fatboy blub.
Meanwhile, in the real world, I am afraid that his plaintive (t)witterings have utterly failed to convince me that Kim Bellend actually gives two shits about this.
Of all the things he could have done here, lounging on a sofa and stuffing his face while thumbing 140-character winges to the sheep is probably the least constructive.
EU Justice Department stalls India's security clearance
Wednesday 19th June 2013 13:48 GMT
Give up, it's unfixable.
If you have staff working with your sensitive data whose monthly salary is less than what a few rows of that data are worth on the black market, you can guarantee your data will be available on the black market. System security makes no odds, they'll copy it off the friggin' screen by hand if it's worth doing.
As usual, you get what you paid for.
Ex-Systemax veep cuffed, charged with $230m fraud
Julian Assange: I'm quite happy to sleep on Ecuador's sofa FOREVER
Wednesday 19th June 2013 11:42 GMT
Re: Bah
There is a monumental bloody difference between someone attempting to escape persecution / torture in some rogue shithole and someone trying to dodge criminal charges brought in a democratic country with a balanced, independant and open legal system.
Assisting the first makes you a good global citizen, assisting the second gets you the "rogue shithole" tag.
Sneaky Seagate slips 'world's fastest' enterprise disk mutant into the wild
Wednesday 19th June 2013 10:39 GMT
"...mechanical bits are sourced from 10,600RPM Savvio parts..."
Looking at their website, Seagate have now lumped their "slower than 15,000" parts together as "Enterprise Performance" branded rather than Savvio.
As all the ex-Savvio 10K.6 drives are self-encryting, I'd suspect that the bits are more likely from the older 10K.5 range[1]. A ST9900805SS with a cache hike and some magic flash pixie dust would fit the bill and would be a three-platter drive if so.
It would seem that IBM have let the cat out of the bag as there's not a hint of the flashed-up version at Seagate. I wonder if this beastie is only supposed to be a production prototype for priviliged customers, with the "official" launch version being the Savvio 15k based part you hint at?
[1] Also, given how long the Momentus XTs have been around, that would fit better with what was on the shelf as a base for an Enterprise version once those had been seen to be a Good Thing.
Apple's screw-up leaves tethered iPhones easily crackable
Wednesday 19th June 2013 08:08 GMT
Re: @gordon10...Smart people don't keep the default password for their hotspots.
I use Apple kit because it just works, I don't want to spend my spare time fiddling with my phone to get it to do stuff...
So a typical Apple buyer then?
Hint: "fiddling with" it would include delving into the configuration to manually specify a hotspot password rather than letting "it just work" one out for you. Way to shoot your own argument full of holes!
COLD BALLS OF FLAME light up International Space Station
When to say those three little words: 'I am quitting'
Tuesday 18th June 2013 14:18 GMT 
Yeeees.....but.....
Often working for a powerful bastard is much more pleasant than grafting for a good guy who is coming last.
The problem here is that that powerful bastard almost certainly didn't get to be a powerful bastard by being even-handed, thoughtful and taking the flak for his fuckups, but by hoovering the ceiling[1].
Thus, while it may be more challenging / rewarding, you need to be alert to the fact that you could get given the shaft at any time.
[1] A process that involves sucking up and all the crap travelling downwards.
Google Chromebooks now in over 6,600 stores
Tuesday 18th June 2013 11:52 GMT
"Major, worldwide retail push begins this summer..."
I fervently hope that it dies like the dog it is.
Last thing I want is for the "always online, cloud only" model to gain traction. You know where that goes, everyone jumps on the bandwagon and finding something that works without a connection becomes difficult/expensive....
Boffins build headless robo-kitties
Boffins fire up old dish to send interstellar SMS
Apple dangles Spangles while Dabbsy's cables rankle
Friday 14th June 2013 13:16 GMT
Re: VGA
....it just works.
You've obviously never been in the situation of desperately trying to identify a resolution[1] that some crappy projector and your laptop are prepared to agree on then?
[1] Ideally one where both the laptop screen and the projection retain some semblance of legibility.
Friday 14th June 2013 13:11 GMT
I can only see one message here.
Dabbsie needs to wake up, smell the coffee and get an Android phone and an ordinary PeeCee.
I can't quite see why anyone would pay extra to be wound up like that. Most of us find that our kit is perfectly capable of producing moments where the only sensible course of action is to go and repeatedly bang our fucking heads on the wall, without going out of our way to identify and purchase something expensive with that function deliberately built in at the time of manufacturing.
A question of forum etiquette
Friday 14th June 2013 12:58 GMT
Re: A question of forum etiquette
Apart from being an ad hominem attack, I don't think Eadon is a cunt.
Muppet? Yes. Bellend? Yes. Cunt? Not so much.
To be considered a cunt one would have to be a deeply unpleasant person with few, or ideally no, redeeming features. I've not seen anything from Eadon to indicate that he has any personal faults apart from being a misguided troll with an evangelical hatred of everything Microsoft-related for some reason. I suspect that his mother may have put a mobile that played the Win 95 startup jingle on his pram handle, scarring him for life.
But then what do I know? I resorted to calling him a twat once and got away with it.
Desperate Venezuelans wiped clean of bog roll
Friday 14th June 2013 11:31 GMT
Re: Viva de la Revolucion
...when doing as a bear does in the woods...
Which reminds me of another gag:
A rabbit is having a quick crap when a bear comes over, squats down next to him and proceeds to take a dump. The rabbit eyes the bear nervously and then the bear looks at the rabbit and says:
"Tell me. When you're having a crap, do you find that the shit sticks to your fur?"
The rabbit relaxes a bit due to the friendly banter and replies; "Oh God yes. Gets really stuck on there it does, nothing you can do about it though.".
"Fucking magic!" exclaims the bear and with that, he grabs the rabbit and wipes his arse with it.
Thursday 13th June 2013 08:23 GMT
Re: Who is in charge of the supply of bread to the population of London?
Reminds me of an old gag:
In the '70s a Soviet trade delegation is getting a tour of a tractor factory in the north of England.
The Soviet Trade Minister looks at the assembly lines and asks: "Your workers, how do you organise their shift patterns?"
The foreman replies: "We run three shifts of eight hours each. Ten minutes to clock on and ten minutes washing up time at the end of each shift. They get two tea breaks of fifteen minutes each and an hour for lunch."
"Hah!", says the Russian, "Is very inefficient. In Soviet Tractor collective number 14 we run two shifts of twelve hours each. No clocking on, no washing up, no tea break, half an hour for lunch."
The foreman looks aghast: "Eh? You'd never get this lot to stand for that, they're all bloody communists!".
Reg hack prepares to live off wondergloop Soylent
Intel bakes smaller, slower flash memory. Aah, now that's progress
#Facebook: Now all your hashtags ARE BELONG TO US, Twitter
Friday 14th June 2013 09:02 GMT
Re: Court proceedings?
Except that Twitter is an actual technology company...
Of course, what's really funny about that is they're far less of an "actual technology company" than Apple.....
The reason they won't sue is that taking a 1980's vintage mailing list system and adding a 140 character limit to postings isn't patentable....
EU signs off on eCall emergency-phone-in-every-car plan
STEVE JOBS hits back at ebook ruckus FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE
Thursday 13th June 2013 14:12 GMT
Re: pig-headed anti-corporate shill
The problem there is that anyone with a fairly open mind and offering even the most piss-poor of arguments is greater then both of them by several orders of magnitude.
I reckon a pig-headed shill is a pig-headed shill and deserves to have their opinions treated with the greatest of contempt, regardless of what they're shilling for.
Wanna be a ROBOT OVERLORD? Boffins pave way with mind-controlled cursor
Chinese software pirate gets 12 years in US slammer
Wednesday 12th June 2013 13:27 GMT
Re: American world police?
Except that it's not perfectly legal in China. They do occasionally have a crackdown on this sort of thing.
The US have probably done them a favour, I suspect that a Chinese jail sentence would have been a rather more unpleasant experience.
Besides, there's bugger all difference I can see between committing a crime in Country A while sat in Country B and committing a crime in Country A and then catching a plane to Country B. Just 'cos teh internets make the former possible doesn't affect the legality.
Magpie Apple plunders the competition for cosmetics, as egos run wild
China's second woman 'naut blasts off for coupling in HEAVEN
Pttow! Ofcom kicks hams out of MoD bands
Google to punish sloppy mobile webmasters
Wednesday 12th June 2013 06:52 GMT
Great!
Now can they come down like a ton of bricks on those who persist in ignoring "request desktop site" and continue pushing the crappy mobile version? Also dropping every page from the search results that disables zoom, regardless of its content, would be nice.
Then again, if this goes some way towards de-crapifying mobile sites, the first of those might become less of an issue.
LOHAN ideas..
Tuesday 11th June 2013 09:27 GMT
Re: GPS accuracy
Hmm, that would depend on where the display in the passenger cabin is getting its feed from. If it's coming from the barometric altimeter, your Garmin may have been more accurate.
Assuming that the plane was right and the Garmin wrong for a moment, there's another factor here. The signal view through the plane's window will only get a limited subset of the sat constellation, as the metal body of the aircraft will act as a rather efficient obstruction to others, which is a bit of a downer for good triangulation. For a fix in 3D, you need a minimum of four(?) sats locked and the fix improves with more. A GPS on a balloon with a good signal view of the entire sky should get a far more accurate 3D fix than the rather one-sided bias from the plane's window.
Author Iain (M) Banks falls to cancer at 59
The fearful price of 4G data coverage: NO TELLY for 90,000 Brits
Friday 7th June 2013 14:21 GMT
Re: Freesat
From experience it has to be a really bloody tall tree, very close and directly in line. Also you have to have a choice of only one place to put the dish and a fairly low place at that.
Satellites? They're in the sky you know......
There's a common misconception that LOS is required horizontally, caused by the universal use of offset focus dishes, which look like they're not pointing upwards much.
I've got mine mounted at head height and pointed dead on at a very large tree, but as the tree's two (fairly narrow) gardens away it's not a factor.
Google says it can predict movie box office with 94% accuracy
Friday 7th June 2013 13:26 GMT
Re: Thirteen Searches!
I'm with you.
There are a few that have been condemned as stinkers which I actually like[1]. Likewise there are several that have been widely acclaimed, yet which I reckon are turds.
[1] e.g. I really liked Disney's "John Carter", despite the universal howls of derision at that from all quarters.
Students outraged: Computer refuses to do any work for entire week
BEYOND Marxism: What Google learned from staring Glassily at Norks
'I can’t believe Jobs made the statement … Incredibly stupid'
Friday 7th June 2013 12:05 GMT
"...an FDA-approved pill that uses the body to transmit passwords..."
Slight snag.
That would appear to offer two options, neither of which I like. Either you can suffer being locked out of everything on a regular[1] basis or, every time you take a shit, you can sieve your turds to retrieve the pill for a quick rinse and reingestation.
[1] YMMV, depending on your dietary habits.
Seven all-in-ones that aren't the Apple iMac - and one that is
Gourmet chemists sniff out ultimate cheese on toast
How to spot a coders comment
Police 'stumped' by car thefts using electronic skeleton key
Friday 7th June 2013 07:07 GMT
...even really, really, really rich people still actually drive around most of the time in cars that don't look that different to the standard exec saloon.
Balotelli rather famously drove a Bentley Continental GT in camouflage colours with bling wheels on it. As that's verging on being the epitome of automotive bad taste, short of adding a neon sign saying "I am a drug dealer" I'm not sure what more he could have done to attract the attention of the plod....
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