* Posts by lpopman

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Son of Transputer powers new Amiga box

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Titular Announcement

I purchased my copy of AF for the Kickstart roms to use with WHDLoad on my real Amiga. It enables me to run most games straight from HD, so no disk swaps :)

Aussies face 10 year browsing lock-up

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Probably using the same technique as people use to bypass a firewall, using an https proxy. Easy enough to implement at the isp level, and keys both ways would be available.

A man in the middle attack, so to speak.

ISP's will always be a weak link in security...

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Also send the emails with several compressed attachments at the heaviest compression settings, with a password and encryption. These will not be very compressible at the other end and will eat storage much more quickly.

Google's Wi-Fi sniff probe reveals 'criminal intent' - PI

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Re: How, exactly?

Well, they need to admit that the data collection was deliberate, not accidental for starters.

They also have to keep the data because if they destroy it, they would be open to criminal charges of destruction of evidence.

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erm, due diligence would be not capturing both encrypted and unencrypted data streams. While an accident mitigates guilt, it certainly does not absolve it.

Anyway, Negligence != Diligence.

From iPhone to iOS – Apple nabs (another) Cisco handle

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Titular Wotsit

Nintendo use the name IOS for their operating system on the wii.

See here - http://wiibrew.org/wiki/IOS

Gadget tax needed 'to save US newspapers'

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The articles in the Metro are culled from MGN's regional publications.As such, they are of better jounalistic quality than most, coming from grass roots not quite jaded yet reporters.

Drinking coffee offers no real benefit, say eggheads

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It sounds like your colleague was getting off on that other active ingredient in Red Bull, namely Taurine. Studies have shown that it can have psychoactive effects see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurine for a brief mention.

as a side note, I once drank a whole case of 24 Red Bull in the space of a couple of hours, and was tripping my box off.

US unveils planet-hugging London embassy

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Actually, moats and earthworks are time honoured defences against a ground attack.

I would presume that the air is protected with stingers as seems to be the usual US tactic.

Payment card skimmer secretly planted in gas station pump

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so that would be about two quid then

ARM strengthens low power hand, targets smart grid

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The uController core looks very interesting from an embedded point of view, as the Thumb instruction set is quite dense as it runs in 16-bit mode. Basically you save 2 bytes per opcode on average.

Compact code is a pre-requisite for embedded work, and Thumb was designed exactly for this task.

US school comes out fighting over webcam spy claim

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Blu-Tak is a kind of adhesive putty that is reusable. Generally used to put posters up on bedroom walls or office walls in a non-destructive way :)

There are more uses for it but that's the main one

Sony seeks 'universal console controller' patent

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I much prefer the ZIP-Stick joysticks on my 'miggy. I've still got three of them, and the switches aren't hard to replace when they break :)

CD32 pads (the official ones anyway) were pretty crap to use as the squared edges really chafe the palms.

A universal controller that I could use on all of my kit doesn't sound that bad at all, it's just a shame it's sony that's patented it :/

Buster's World gives Guardian Professional balloon-sized headache

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@The Fuzzy Wotnot

nah, what's to stop me from killing you before you even try it. Also my neighbours would be joining in at you too because you upset the balance of the community. That is anarchy my friend.

Some might say it was the purest form of Communism (we haven't seen any truly communistic governments on this planet to date, just corrupt dictatorships)

Sci-fi and fantasy authors wade into Amazon spat

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titular morrisism

"Quick, Peter! Get him back!"

"Peter, you've lost the news!"

The Loch Ness Stig gets pixellated

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erm, an astigmatism by itself does not blur vision, it just alters depth perception as the eyeball is distorted. Mine is that bad, I can't even drive as it is difficult to judge distance...

Amateur CCTV sleuth site probed by privacy watchdog

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erm, under the DPA your image is classed as personal data, so allowing some random joe bloggs from the internet to watch faces go by would be a technical breach.

Top Gear's Stig prowls Loch Ness

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hehe, that ain't Dredd at all. It's just that stallone guy in the absolutely shite movie that took ol' stoney faces name....

No true Squaxx acknowledges that movie at all....

hmm, that reminds me, must go and collect my 2000AD in a bit :)

Splundig vur Thrigg,

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Motorola seeks ban on US BlackBerries

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Sssshhhhhh!

Remember the first rule of Patent Law......

Do not talk about Patent Law

No World Cup anthem for England football heroes

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hehe, I think we only acknowledge Birmingham (the land of the speech impediment) as English because Ozzy came from there.....

hmm, maybe I shouldn't say anything as I'm from Coventry...

Exploit code for potent IE zero-day bug goes wild

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If fine grained tuning of DEP is impossible, could you tell me exactly how JIT compilers or even Dynamic Recompilers work around this "problem"?

They execute data as a matter of course.......

Discounts damage for Microsoft Windows 7 PC boost?

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Well, you shouldn't have accepted the licence agreement then. You could have got your money back on the OS...

Police cuff citizens for videotaping arrests

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Nah, the goto in this case wouldn't be harmful. Its destination is within the same function, and isn't even breaking out of context. The stack is not touched whatsoever, in this case ;)

Google may exit China after 'highly targeted' attack

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Nah mate, It's just old skool Captain Crunch style hacking.

1. Obtain source code

2. Examine and find exploit.

3. Use exploit to do nefarious things to the installed userbase

simples...

Taser offers obsessive parents total mobe intrusion package

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hehe, first time I've sprayed my keyboard with coffee in ages. Cheers Dan 10, where do I send the bill? :P

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They've had to take that feature offline for the moment. It's something to do with it only triggering at about 72% efficiency. There will be a patch hopefully next tuesday.

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Actually, the US does not subscribe to any form of International Law.

Kind of ironic really, as they seem to be the World Police....

Italians take the 'p' to fight back against Big Brother

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"Voter! Come out from the shadows!"

"Oh, it's you, VoterColonel."

Just gotta love Red Dwarf :D

Google suggests Islam is nothing

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Nah mate, "google is" comes up with stuff.

It seems to be randomised though, as it showed "Google is great" on one try, and the next try it wasn't there.

Interestingly, "google is crap" appeared both times of trying....

Dadaist user manuals - a call for submissions

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Yay! bring back spaz. This autistic spazmo agrees fully ;)

To be fair to Orlowski, he was making a direct quote from one of the carriers involved...

El Reg sparks international incident with Olympics committee

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I much preferred the goatse style 2012 logo that even got as far as the BBC ;)

Google gets all Minority Report with Street View

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So if you owned a small shop, you would be happy for google to place adverts for your competitors all over your shop front in street view?

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"Constantly referring to them as the Chocolate Factory doesn't help either. That preserves the aura of geekyness and warm fuzzy ideals, and even a slightl level of incompetance."

Have you actually read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? It is a dark story about human greed, not about warm and fuzzy ideals. Kinda sounds like Google to me.....

Google to mobile industry: ‘F*ck you very much!’

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I make a conscious effort to not call back one-rings, they're fecking annoying!

Brit ISP knocked offline by Latvian DDOS

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erm, ever heard of VoIP?

VoIP servers are a target for DDoS too, you know......

Year 2010 bug wreaks havoc on German payment cards

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Thanks for the correction :)

I was thinking about the DAA instruction on the Z80 (old but reliable 8-bit cpu), The additional instruction to adjust any carry the operation may cause.

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What is so face-palming about this is the use of BCD in an embedded environment. Not only is the storage of the date in BCD less optimal in size (1 byte in BCD == decimal value up to 99 stored, whereas 1 byte in binary == decimal value up to 255), the code to handle the value would be less optimal too, using more instructions.

Size matters guys :)

HP probes 'racist' webcams

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The camera does not track the black person, because the same software is employed by CCTV systems. They can't racially profile, so they just stop tracking darker skinned persons.

It's political correctness gone mad!

TJX hacker mulls Asperger's defense

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Speaking as an aspie myself, I _do_ know right from wrong, but the social problems can work against this. The "Follow my friends" mentality can negate the "This is wrong" feeling, i.e. we are more susceptible to peer pressure than your average person.

I am not saying it should be used as a defence, after all right == right, and wrong == wrong, just that mixing with the wrong crowd can have a detrimental effect on your liberty.

Critics aim to sink Titanic ice cubes

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@Lester Haines:

"We look forward to Fred and Friends' Space Shuttle Challenger novelty firework set ("Guaranteed to make your party go with a bang!") in due course."

hehe, 7-up with a drop of Teachers would be more fitting :)

3 billion have suffered Slade's 'Merry Xmas Everybody'

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I know when it's Christmas when I hear Stop the Cavalry

Chumby internet-connected alarm clock

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Not just Open Source

If you visit the designer's blog at http://www.bunniestudios.com/ you will find the schematics, and gerbers for it as well. It's not under a GPL style licence, you need to chat to them about producing them, but you can hack it without reverse engineering a thing :)

Facebook urges public exposure in 'privacy' revision

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I had exactly the same radio buttont config as shown in the screenshot, it also recommended that I keep my current settings. I still had to set them by hand :/

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It's your way or the super-highway, I'm afraid. Friggin' annoying.......

Scammers scrape RAM for bank card data

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RTFA

They are not talking about web servers, they are talking about a private network. They don't use the public internet for transactions, in exactly the same way that ATM's use a direct line to the clearing house.

You, sir, are the alarmist here methinks

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Hmm, off the top of my head...

How about using ASM for the decrypt and check part, just use 64-bit registers instead of RAM. A CC number can easily be stored in 2 64-bit registers in BCD form, and if the OS handles debugging correctly (ie disallows it totally - as it should be on a production server anyway), there would be no way of accessing without patching and changing the signature of the process (making it easy to identify an attack).

Ok InfoSec people, pay me loads of money for that idea.......

Google: We avoid hiring too many smart people...

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I always thought that "Fuck" was the all-encompassing swiss army knife of words...

"Alright you fuckers. Time to fuck off. Fuck all the fuckers into the back of the fucker, so we can fuck off for a pint!"

:)

Dodgy Avast update classifies multiple legit files as malign

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PEBCAK error more than likely....

Gumtree comes over all queer in blocking 'offensive language'

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"puff on a fag" - I see what you did there :)

I don't suppose you could say "Drag on a fag" either without upsetting TV/TS.....

tombstone because my fag habit will send me there one day...

Fanboi site squeaks on crocked iMacs

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You can keep your speccys and C=64s, I had a Memotech MTX 512 :P

To quote the ad - "The future's not black, it's anodised"

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