Chavscum

Archiving the web site won't pick up the details of the algorithm used by their search engine though

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/06/chavscum/

Definitely something odd going on

I've seen three different accounts compromised in the past few days: two members of a caving club, one member of a mountaineering organisation. No mobile app or Apple hardware involved in at least one of them. I'm wondering whether being a member of a Yahoo! group might be a common factor.

Moon Riven

Are the cracks wider than a mile?

Typical BT, don't care so long as they profit

They make money from these features being ordered, so why should they care?

Nothing has changed from the days when all BT Cellnet asked for was a credit card number + expiry date to top up a PAYG phone, giving rise to the inevitable fraud. If someone didn't question the £30.00 charge on their card, it was all pure profit for IT.

http://www.pardoe.net/cellnet/index.html

Charlie Ergen owns both Dish and Hughesnet

> [dishNET] will compete with HughesNet

Dish and Echostar are both owned by Charlie Ergen. Echostar bought Hughes Communications, of which

Hughes Network Systems is a subsidiary, in 2011.

Netcraft and the Full Disclosure mailing list hit

The mail servers for both Netcraft and the Full Disclosure mailing list have IP addresses that did not resolve during the outage

About time too

Checking back through my logs, I found this in my spam folder, sent in June last year to a unique e-mail address used only for eHarmony. Odd that a 419 scammer should have ended up with it.

I'm sure there are other crooks out there to whom it would have been far more valuable.

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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum

Flying robot quadrotors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sUeGC-8dyk

Two years ago Garmin had similar problems

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/10/garmin_dates/

Y2.01K hits Garmin satnav

Garmin's Geko 201 GPS kit can't decide what year it is, flipping between decades every time it's switched on, though it's performing better on days of the week.

Could this be related to the thousands of spoofed midnight phone calls last week?

Thousands of Brits bombarded in caller spoofing riddle

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/12/caller_id_spoofing_uk/

RevK of Andrews and Arnold noticed a definite spike:

http://revk.www.me.uk/2011/10/apple-melt-internet.html

"Internet traffic last night from around 18:45 to midnight was at unprecedented levels"

Certpatrol

There's a plugin for Firefox that "implements ''pinning'' for Firefox/Mozilla/SeaMonkey roughly as now recommended in the User Interface Guidelines[1] of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). "

Certificate Patrol: http://patrol.psyced.org/

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/wsc-ui/

Barrage balloons

My mother had tales to tell of sitting on top of a hydrogen cylinder in Sheffield inflating a barrage balloon during WWII.

> We're are not, under any circumstances – except possibly the complete

> exhaustion of the world's supplies of helium – going to touch hydrogen

> with a long, flameproof stick. Let that be an end to the matter.

Wimps

Number one google hit for ...

"Commemorative Royal Wedding Ring"

(NSFW)

Dilbert

The current Dilbert cartoons are rather appropriate , starting at http://www.dilbert.com/2011-02-23/

Price is now £117.00

Wednesday morning and the price now seems to be £117.00

Dilbert and Quikprotect

Dilbert once wrote some software called "Quikprotect".

http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-09-17/

Another related story

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/27/letsby_avenue/

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

Belkin tried the same thing with their routers many years ago, and also suffered for their mistake

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/07/help_my_belkin_router/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/11/belkin_disables_router_spamming_feature/

Pykrete and Mulberry Harbours

Floating landing strips should be made from Pykrete, Modular Harbours[2] from concrete.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_harbour

Geko 101 as well

My Geko 101 is showing similar symptoms. On power on the date/time flicker rapidly between

several dates in the past, it took ages to lock on to 4 satellites, and the time is now being shown

as 14:48:57 24-Apr-08 (actual is Mar 10 12:50:34 GMT 2010)

Position is correct.

There is no computer interface on the 101, so how Garmin are going to fix this I don't know

Bang Goes the Theory

But can it blow a house of straw/sticks/bricks down?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyAyd4WnvhU

Anybody remember NTK's Widdecombe of the week?

URL manipulation of this sort has been around for ages - NTK was doing it back in 2001