Posts by The Vociferous Time Waster

Now then

one claiming he had changed her life in 60 seconds

Fnarr fnarr

banksy.com

When I realised it involved graffiti and Bristol I was on the lookout for toff wall dauber and trademarked recluse Banksy dot com as a cameo amongst all the two dimensional characters.

Sure he's a freetard

but Homeland Security? Was he also branded a terror suspect for the purposes of getting appropriate sieze powers?

Meh

fusion power is just a fleisch in the pons.

@ravenviz

You're sort of right.

Not enough to be a pedant but enough to just about not be wrong.

ISO 31 has been superseded by ISO80000 so there is that to deal with if you are trying to be a pedant, and pointing out lack of white space *is* pedantic.

More importantly the ISO refers to styling of SI and derived units. The byte is not an SI unit or derived from any of the physical measures of the SI system so doesn't really apply anyway.

It's a bit like complaining that a bike doesn't comply with a car safety standard from 2008.

But thanks for taking part in the discussion.

Walking Dead

we are really going for the zombie angle today.

But..

all Apple users think they are nerds

Google results

Some results may have been removed under data protection law in Europe.

It's all fine

As the FOSS people have been telling us for years this is open source so everyone from Richard Stallman down to Tucker in his mom's basement has reviewed this code and fixed every single bug. Unlike Windows, those big companies rely on security through obscurity.

Haw haw

...and the Russians used a pencil! Snort!

</urban Legends>

Ffs

The browser uses a cloud service to check for malware. It seems entirely reasonable for it to send URLs to the cloud for checking. Just because it's China doesn't mean it's the secret police. More investigation needed rather than scaremonger churnalism.

Give everyone in the UK the vote

That should sort it quickly. I would vote for the People's Republic of Scotland under Chairman Salmond. When the economy tanks I plan to buy up cheap property there.

Why buy the electronic copy of things from a website?

1) the guy has to make some money somehow

2) there is content in the book that is not on the site

3) the kindle edition was on my kindle app before the dead tree versions were delivered

Pebble

Let's see it side by side with a pebble before we get too excited.

Cupertino?

Mountain View and Cupertino are a little way from each other. Perchance El Reg has been writing too much Crapple related click bait recently?

Some Snowdenesque plot

In some Snowdenesque plot (or maybe the Lady Bothering Couch Surfer because Snowdon was more tech savvy with encryption) a file is being transferred to a journo somewhere. Grubbymint spooks know all they have to do is pass an MD5 hash of the file to Gurgle and they will provide the deets of the email sender or recipient. Might not be flagged as a peed but will give them the time to supress the information in more traditional ways with a staged suicide or a car accident in a tunnel.

Huh?

"Comes with a windows license"

Here, buy this cake, it costs more because it comes with anthrax.

Meh

It's all just applications on my network.

Fry

http://m.videojug.com/interview/stephen-fry-the-internet

All of the above comments on equality

...says the middle class white guy.

Iplayer

Iplayer is available on the internet, I shall claim copyright on all of Doctor Who.

The cute things they say

To celebrate Friday here are some of the conversations I have had in the last year.

"The server is down."

"Which one, we have hundreds."

"I don't know, I'm not in IT."

"Yet you feel qualified to conclude that one of the servers is down."

"The firewall is blocking some JavaScript."

"Are you sure the words you are looking for aren't perhaps 'proxy server'."

"OK, smartass, the firewall is blocking the proxy server."

"The firewall between my PC and the server is blocking my traffic."

"There isn't a firewall between your PC and the server."

"The network must be down then."

"Unlikely."

User had locked their account by typing their password wrong.

"Service is down, everything is running slow."

"Surely it can only be one or the other."

"It's a network problem, the user is getting a 404 error."

"So they are receiving an error back from the server to say that the server cannot find the page in the URI? Doesn't that imply that the network connection to the server is working perfectly?"

"I don't have the actual error number."

"Right, so we're just making things up now?"

So yeah

So they could just be destroying all the modified kit they put in there to monitor the Graun.

This one?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OVnDdqD8Vuk/UADx2PL58qI/AAAAAAAAAHg/JAyY094y_7I/s1600/CondoleezaRiceOilTanker2.jpg

Leather goddess

I seem to recall this had the same engine as Leather Goddess of Phobos. Now there are a set of achievements we should tweet about. Nice gorilla.

OSI

People don't need to study preposterous acronyms.

Winkledumb and Winkledumber

So these two olympian blue bloods have all the breaks in the world and they still fail to have any real clue. Someone else who isn't doing it to make daddy proud will do it better and make billions.

But...

Tl;dr

But does it run Linux?

Utter guff

That is all

640k ought to be enough

This program won't be here past the end of the millennium so let's save a few bits on the date.

In the future there may be a telephone in *every* city.

If you build it they will come.

Rory

Rory Twitter Jones is a fantastic example of the sort of person who should not be reporting on tech. I recall the days when a journo was expected to have a basic understanding of his field however Rory is just another mac user with Fry scale incompetence whenever he strays too far from the press release he is regurgitating.

Not .1x

So that is a shared key which means it isn't really secure anyway. If they cared about security they would at least have individual logins using radius or similar.

Probably the key to the guest internet access rather than something useful.