Posts by Andrew Moore
1135 posts • joined Friday 2nd March 2007 21:07 GMT
Posted in HP's UK PC boss: We're going nowhere
"To the contrary, people want cheap tech."
to extend that- People want disposable tech- Many know that the shiny gadget they have today will be superseded by an even shinier gadget within 12 months.
Posted in A Farewell to Oates: Adios, El Reg
Surely...
The correct farewell would be 'I'm going outside; I may be awhile...'
Goodbye and good luck John, thanks for all the stories.
hmmmm....
The only problem is this 'hack' existed 10-15 years before this person was born. I remember fooling '30 day test' software by setting the clock 5 years into the future before installing.
Posted in Google failing to pay Android developers
SQL injection issue???
"these can be identified by the addition of a semi-colon to the application name"
Sounds like ole Bobby Tables has been at work again...
No rabies...
but only because Cane Toads aren't carriers...
Well...
...given the privileged background these two come from, $65m is probably regarded as pocket change.
Anyway, if I was them, I'd be dumping those stock-options very quickly...
A smarter boss?
I don't think such a thing exists.
Reminds me of the old adage-
'I thought you everything you know. However I didn't teach you everything I know.'
ahh Scott Adams...
...I used to love his text adventures
First thing I did...
...when I got my Google+ account. Interestingly Zuckerberg had not switched it on at that point.
Isn't this the same guy who reckons FB is worth 1 trillion dollars?
and yes, we've seen this movie before although last time it was MySpace and Facebook (not Project Diaspora).
Eh???
A policeman who doesn't abuse his position to go after people who have done wrong to him personally???
And then have those same people fall down the station stairs 'by accident' a couple of times.
Hang on...
...won't we need all that CO2 when the Maunder Minimum kicks in?
Posted in News of the World TO CLOSE
agreed.
How soon before we see the 'new' NotW rise from the ashes.
Isn't this the site that screwed over all it's regular writers?
when it sold out to AOL???
I'm amazed it's still going.
Bastards.
Now I'm going to have Europe stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
Posted in BOFH: Drunken Time Lord
Absolute classic...
"Remember the last episode of Sapphire and Steel where they’re trapped in the box in the middle of space"
Brilliant
Posted in Wallabies battle cattle farts
So...
Are we taking about attaching wallabies to cattle? A sort of 'Macropine/Bovine Centipede' type thing...
Posted in Moderatrix kisses the Reg goodbye
hmmmmm....
Jude doesn't sound like a girls name.
Anyway, good luck in wherever you end up Sarah.,
Posted in Feds on trail of LulzSec raid Ohio house
My guess...
Is Assange will sue the Guardian because all private/leaked documents in the world belong to him.
Posted in Digital Rupert’s bumper $545m loss
In fact...
El Reg can just Search/Replace 'MySpace' with 'Facebook' and mark the article 'hold until 30th June 2013"
Another reason to buy any mobile but iPhone...
The ability to make and receive phone calls- and once the call is taken, the ability to finish your call when you decide, not when the POS decides the (strong for every other phone) signal is too weak.
Same with the WiFi. I was out with 3 iPhone owners and had no problem hooking to 1 of the 11 available Wifi hotspots my Vivaz picked up. The iPhones could not even find 1.
£85,000 eh?
I have one of these in my desk drawer at work...
So the lesson here is...
...buy luxury items and avoid marriage. I can see ad agencies everywhere jumping on this one.
Also...
...it doesn't help that Groupon demand you give away at least 60% discount and then take 50% of the money. AND hold on to all the money in the event that the customer does not use their coupon even though it's the retailer taking the hit.
Posted in A sysadmin's top ten tales of woe
The cleaner unplugged it
I remember once client screaming and cursing me over the phone threatening all forms of abuse at me because one of his systems was down and if I did not do something about it now there would be legal action, I'd be sued for lost revenue etc, etc, etc. So after a 2 hour drive to his office I walked in, looked at the computer and then plugged it back in and powered it up. I then just turned and stared at the client.
I then I sent his boss an invoice for a half day, emergency onsite maintenance with expenses with "Problem" filled in with "System unplugged" and "Resolution" filled in with "System plugged back in"
Agreed...
the article is a little light on detail.
for instance- who was infected by the malware? The bank or the small business? If it was the bank I don't see how they could accuse the business of failing to secure their account credentials as it was their computers at fault.
Posted in Chinese teen flogs kidney to buy iPad
Errr....
and after all that he didn't even get an iPad.
Posted in Cloud in 2011: A bright new dawn...
But the downside is...
Once you've given away the keys, can you really complain once your data is hacked and mined? At least when you host your data locally you have full control over access and control. Once you give that away, the best you can hope for is than the cloud solution provider you choose will pay up on massive data breaches. Though they probably won't because they'll have that covered in their EULAs
Liam forgot to mention...
that previous Cixen included such luminaries as Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchet.
Posted in Zuckerberg: Give me your children
My kids wouldn't use Facebook...
...it'd cut into their Club Penguin/PanFu time.
I see your point...
but I don't think that Apple have introduced such a long delay between submitting an App and it appearing on the App store simply to concentrate the minds of the developers- I do think it's because they are overwhelmed. Though there does seem to be some evidence that paid-for Apps do get priority over free Apps.
But to look at your point from the otherside. What about a scenario where a developer releases an App only to discover that there is a critical vulnerability in it and can not get a patched version out in a timely manner, leaving all his App clients compromised until Apple pull their finger out.
Made me wonder too...
Is there such a beast as a 'popular gamer'?
Is there...
...a black line?
re: Smart (ish)
I wouldn't call it a 'fob off'- more along the lines of habeas corpus
My tuppence worth...
If it is true that this is just black propaganda then it's incredibly inept (so yes, it's very feasible that it's a CIA op). Given the source of the information, none of the fundies are going to buy into it, even if it is true.
What they should have done:
1. Have a low level official drop the story on a semi-respectable blogger (preferably non-US)
2. Wait for the story to go viral with all the ensuing 'what are the US military not telling us!!!' hysteria.
3. Drop a copy of an official looking inventory of said stash on Wikileaks.
Smart (ish)
Do not tackle the huge company who can afford very expensive lawyers and who can therefore blow your crappy little patent-squat out of the water.
Of course, the correct response would be to tell Lodsys that you do not know how many of your customers are US based.
my thoughts too...
Moss: 'He was a fine young cannibal'. And the brilliant anti-piracy ad 'You wouldn't kill a policeman...'
And it neatly explains this story's IT angle...
In other news...
Harold and his missus Corrine did not make the Sunday Times Rich List this year- a major fall in grace considering that they were supposed billionaires 2 years ago.
Posted in Woz snubs Paul Allen, praises pea soup
Well...
bacon has been known to cure a few vegetarians.
Posted in Assange: Facebook a ‘spying machine’
exactly what I was thinking.
like the old saying goes 'just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you"
Posted in Aussie crowdsourcers get A$35m
Oh great...
Yet another- 'Make the people who work do more work and compete against each other- we don't care because we still get cut a cut from the winner' concept. Stick this in the same pile as Freelancer, Coder-For-Hire, oDesk et al.
Rewrite for the video- "Hi, we're the organ grinder. We don't have any monkeys right now but rest assured with our 'we will fuck them royally' business proposition, we'll have them dancing for you shortly. And the best news- if you don't like a particular monkey, we will shoot it in the face for you"
Posted in Apple breaks location-storing silence
Remember
"There is an old, and well trusted, IT adage that one should never, ever, underestimate the stupidity of the user."
plus, these are Apple users too...
Ah yes...
I think we might have a couple in the storeroom (we where a Psion distributor once upon a time).
hmmmm....
Quantify "0.07%". While it looks a small number it could be quite significant if we knew what value the percentage was of.
Funny to see the old Psion Series 3 alongside
as this was the first platform that I knew that used the term App (even the extension .app)
Food for thought...
Last time I stored a large amount of coordinates, I applied an algorithm to them to change each set by a random (but re calculable) amount- This was in order to stop people nicking the data but at the same time make those that did want to pinch it believe that it was stored unencrypted. I never thought of injecting false data (Las Vegas)- I must add that to the next version.
Also...
the data only tracks where the iPhone was- not the owner. So if you are off to commit a crime, leave your iPhone at home. Voila! Instant alibi.
