Posts by Tom Chiverton 1

"We can't say how our client application works"

Oh FFS. It'll be pulled apart in about 30 minutes by some bored 14 year old kid then.

Or they could just use be using Tor hidden servers, and this is a branded Tor client ?

Did I wake up in the 80s this morning or something ?

Did you take the red or blue pill ?

But how will this magic software know it's not already running atop a compromised machine, and is in fact on the bare metal as the first 'visor in the stack ? And why wont the same 'force self to the bottom' technique work for malware ?

QubesOS has a much better approach...

Video fails to play on WinXP/FireFox. Appears to claim I don't support Silverlight (I don't), and the direct download link goes to an XML file rather than something VLC might have a hope of playing.

Flash would be a better fall back...

I hear rumours

I hear rumours that terrorists use water too. Best ban that too, unless you pay for a government approved 'pre-cracked' version.

Umm

Why is it (maybe) illegal to use a Google search to check someone out ?

Umm

Mobile pioneer ? ITYM 'patent troll'.

Be honest

It was a bit slow on the news front (despite every UK online electronics retailer crashing in sequence as they lowered HP Touchpad prices) so you just wrote up a press release as a story, didn't you ? Because theres nothing new in here...

!LInux

As this seems to require AIR3, the chance of it running on Linux is zero, as Adobe have killed AIR on Linux as of v3.

Umm

Umm... he's about to find out some of those 'large chucks of space debris' are actually just powered down bits of military kit in sleeper mode...

FAIL

Video already unavailable.

Oh

Oh, I was going to get one, then got the part on the 2nd page about it not just showing up as a USB mass storage device, so it needs magic drivers. FAIL right there, good and hard.

Umm

For a start, it's more involved then clicking a link and ticking a box, you need to enter your address, email etc. and then wait for an email with another link to click.

I think it's the F1-on-the-bbc petition http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/158 myself !

A wireless contract ?

What, like with BT's The Cloud or something ? Or do you mean mobile ? In which case, where is the news, you've been able to get most phones for zero+£/month since forever.

Umm

So we're blocking using the child porn filter for business reasons, but upgrading it to whole domains ? So foo.newsbin2.cc is banned, but foo2.newsbin2.cc wont be ?

And the rich can keep paying 20 quid a time and infringe what they like, while the poor innocents are guilty until they prove innocence, assuming they have the cash ?

This does not sound good.

Well, of course Facebook are in favour

Well, of course Facebook are in favour, they'd love nothing more than everyone in the country being forced to have a Facbook account, so they can resell the data !

Wow

[site:webstore.medvet.com.au details for order]

That's, umm, special.

Sdaly...

Sadly, there isn't any Stage3D hardware acceleration on Linux, so the upgrade is mostly pointless.

See : http://sebleedelisle.com/2011/07/no-molehill-on-linux/

Umm

So, it can't run Windows 7. Fine.

Did you try Linux or XP on it ?

You forgot

You forgot to mention it's exclusivly distributed by BT, who will either tank the whole think or charge a fortune for the heavy data use, assuming their ADSL network can even cope.