* Posts by Jess--

381 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Nov 2009

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Bernie Madoff's coders jailed for role in $65bn ponzi scheme fiasco

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Re: 30 Months behind bars...

So far they have found about 1.26 million going to this pair (976k to O'Hara and 289k to Perez) so probably not going to keep them in comfort for too long

UK cops: Give us ONE journo's phone records. Vodafone: Take the WHOLE damn database!

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I suspect the police asked for records pertaining to one phone numbers outgoing calls,

Vodoafone dumped the outgoing calls from the account associated with that number not allowing for the fact it was a business account containing multiple phones.

depending on the wording of the original request made by the police vodafone may have given them exactly what they asked for

Pay-by-bonk 'glitch' means cards can go kaching-for-crims

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Re: UK needs to learn from other countries

hole punch through the antenna loop works quite well too, just choose your spot carefully so you don't get rid of something you need on the card

no loop means no induction to power the chip (chip n pin / magstripe all still work)

Sign off my IT project or I’ll PHONE your MUM

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Re: Toilet breaks?

or enable it to ensure a lower number of calls in the future (well in my case anyway)

Chrome 38's new HTML tag support makes fatties FIT and SKINNIER

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Re: Seems pointless.

higher resolution on a phone maybe (my phone matches one of the monitors in front of me) but there is a huge difference in usability between that resolution on an 8 inch screen and the same resolution on a 23 inch screen.

How the FLAC do I tell MP3s from lossless audio?

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can usually tell

I can usually tell the difference between lossy / lossless, however for convenience / compatibility I tend to use high bitrate mp3 and accept the difference.

It doesn't take high end equipment to be able to hear the difference (unless creative labs megaworks 250 speakers are high end)

Driving with an Apple Watch could land you with a £100 FINE

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Re: Speedo?

re: touchscreen stereos

I agree regarding the 100% touchscreen stereo systems, I went for an older model which (while still being touchscreen based) has a big volume knob next to the screen which has the nice addition of a single push of the knob (instead of turning) muting the system entirely no matter what it's doing (phone, pratnav or music)

another nice touch is that if I get an incoming phone call 1/2 of the screen is green "Answer" and the other half is red "Decline" meaning it's a big target to hit at a glance.

Pedals and wheel in that Google robo-car or it's off the road – Cali DMV

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And in tomorrows news...

Google buys an insurance company

Intel's Raspberry Pi rival Galileo can now run Windows

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Re: Standard Windows timings

you can enable AHCI post-install.

change one registry entry, reboot

then reboot again and change the setting in your bios to AHCI

job done

Video of US journalist 'beheading' pulled from social media

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Re: Western morality

I always say the media should stop referring to a ceasefire and just call it reloading

Brit infosec firm lets hackers think they've stolen something

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Re: "contains nothing of use."

Maybe the "nothing of use" means to the hacker, it doesn't say anywhere that what it does contain isn't traceable in some way (and I would be surprised if it wasn't)

Online tat bazaar eBay coughs to YET ANOTHER outage

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working perfectly here

been working perfectly here (lincs via eclipse), wasn't aware there was any sort of an outage. been buying bits for a few projects.

sounding more like a dns fault with some isp's not having picked up on changes yet.

BAD VIBES: High-speed video camera records your voice from trash

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Re: Er....

would you be referring to the eagle statue as the "Interesting Bug"?

that worked through RF resonance and harmonics which shifted very slightly with vibration (like sound)

all that was needed was a transmitter (on the right frequency) and a very sensitive receiver close by.

Still took them years to work out how it worked

Say goodbye to the noughties: Yesterday’s hi-fi biz is BUSTED, bro

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Re: Do any of the wireless BlueTooth speaker systems work well?

if you want to try a cheap bluetooth set of headphones try the logitech h800.

They won't blow you away with sound quality but what they produce is not harsh, I tend to use them on the computer when I need to hear something but can't fire up the speaker system (someone else on the phone in the office) or for long train journeys.

I have NEVER had any issues with syncing or gaps in the sound etc

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Re: @ Simon Harris - This new stuff looks boring

You wouldn't happen to mean the trusty wharfedale Linton 3XP's would you

Russians turn Raspberry Pi into fully-fledged autopilot

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uBlox gps chips have a flight mode command switch which allows use above 12,000m as long as the speed of movement stays below a certain limit (300mph has been mentioned elsewhere)

different makers seem to have interpreted the gps restrictions in different ways,

ublox have taken the view that max height AND max speed = restriction

others have taken the view that max height OR max speed = restriction

What data recovery software would you suggest?

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for quick / hassle free (and cost free) drive imagine have a look at SelfImage

Alphadex fires back at British Gas with overcharging allegation

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I had a house where I couldn't switch providers because of an old unpaid bill of £20.

every month a bill arrived addressed to FAO : Abbey National

turned out that three owners before me the owner had died and the house had been reposessed by abbey national.

the fun part was that without the bill being paid the power company wouldn't allow changes to the tariff or allow the change of supplier. And they wouldn't accept payment from me for the bill in question because the bill was in no way my responsibility. (nice little lock-in technique there)

That was 8 years ago, I bet the current owner still gets that bill monthly.

Stop skiving: Computers can SEE THROUGH your FAKE PAIN

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we only want pain, not torture

Google settles copyright suit with Viacom over YouTube vids

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more likely google are just paying viacom the advertising revenue

WhatsApp chats not as secret as you think

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Re: Strange (Jess)

Hmmm so having to install a file manager app and then using that to gain access to the file system counts as direct access in your mind.

In my mind if I have to go and get something that is not included as standard on the devices operating system it is not direct access.

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Re: Strange

maybe its because on most mobile devices the user doesn't have direct access to the file system or the data stored without going through the installed app they assume that means it is only ever accessible through or by the app concerned.

compare that to a laptop or desktop environment where the user has access to the file system and can usually see what is being stored where and how.

UK spies on MILLIONS of Yahoo! webcams, ogles sex vids - report

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Good luck trying to organise that without it being picked up by the very surveillance that you intend to protest against.

Apple patents touch-sensitive controls for MacBook

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Prior art within 15 feet of me

3 x Asus monitors (annoying touch buttons on the bezel)

Dell laptop (touch buttons for media control, play pause etc admittedly not on the bezel)

Sharp TV (touch buttons on the bezel for all controls)

The last place I want touch sensitive buttons is on a laptop screen bezel, sods law says that I will hit the power button when I adjust the screen angle to get rid of a reflection over what I am trying to see

It's big, it's expensive and it's an audiophile's dream: The Sonos Sub

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I always wonder how many artists play with deliberate de-phasing at low frequencies, I can think of a few tracks that have the effect in them which when played on a full stereo system (or headphones) produce an interesting effect but when played back on a 2:1 / 5:1 or 7:1 system just has the effect of ramping the bass up and down.

Three-yaarrgh! Major UK mobile network's data goes down

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knocked out in lincolnshire at around 8:30 this morning, working again now

Vice squad cuffs vice chairman of Bitcoin Foundation in $1m money-laundering probe

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"The criminal complaint against Faiella today alleges he "sold Bitcoins – the only form of payment accepted on Silk Road – to users seeking to buy illegal drugs on the site" between December 2011 and October 2013."

What next... going after ISP's because they sold internet access - the only way to access silk road - to users seeking to buy illegal drugs on the site?

Murdoch's BSkyB stares down Microsoft: Redmond renames SkyDrive to OneDrive

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The answer is not very dense.

Microsoft came out with SkyDrive at roughly the same time as bSkyb (better known as Sky) got into the ISP business with their Sky Broadband.

I know my first experience of SkyDrive was when a Sky Broadband customer used it to send some files to me (natural assumption was sky email address + file storage system with sky in the name = probably the same company)

Remember when SimCity ABSOLUTELY HAD to be online? Not any more – fancy that!

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@Zacherynuk

You may not give a car a bad review if it arrived without the keys, but You probably would give it a bad review if it came with an engine that was unable to start because there were too many other people in the world running a similar engine.

In my mind not being able to play a game because of a failure of a remote system shows up a fundamental failure of the games design.

Italian woman stunned by exploding artichoke

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Re: Next food attack:

I prefer the option of Trifles

I can just picture them shuffling (and wobbling) their way across the landscape

Malware! tainted! ads! infect! thousands! of! Yahoo! users!

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makes me glad I run an older version of java so the browser refuses to allow it to run without me saying it's ok.

have to run an older version for a couple of legacy apps I work with otherwise it wouldn't be installed at all

HP mounts channel attack on EMC: We're a Bugatti, they're a VW bug

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given the other stories about HP over the last couple of days they have got the expensive to maintain part sorted

Ho, ho, HOLY CR*P, ebuyer! Etailer rates staff on returns REJECTED

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Never had a problem with ebuyer (apart from citylink who cant decide whether my house exists or not)

had my fair share of returns with them too, got a couple of memory sticks waiting to go back right now (they failed after 9 months)

I generally detail the fault finding I have done to save them having to work though it with me.

I have done work with a similar retailer to ebuyer and worked on their tech support line, Best one I had was a customer wanting to return a brand new PC

they had gone for top of the line on everything for the machine aroud £7k (built to order) and a few of us had looked at the machine when it was built simply because it really was top notch.

customer was on the phone swearing at everyone that "this f*****g machine is no good, it won't f*****g turn on, you will refund my f*****g money right now" etc etc

eventually I calmed him down enough to work out he was pressing the reset button instead of the power switch.

Fanbois, prepare to lose your sh*t as BRUSSELS KILLS IPHONE dock

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Re: Meh

Why don't they do something useful, insist every phone supports wireless charging, that way, no issue with connectors and a lot less waste as no wires to throw away.

Nice idea.....

now which standard for wireless charging were you thinking of?

Power Matters Alliance (PMA)

Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) (Qi)

Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP)

Proposed California law demands anti-theft 'kill switch' in all smartphones

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simple idea

why not make it so if you change the sim (or the phone cannot connect to it's home network for > 24 hours) lock the phone down until a password (hard coded) is entered.

the password would be supplied to the customer on paperwork when they purchased the handset.

'Leaked Intel roadmap' promises... er, gear that could die after 7 months

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Re: Where are the 1TB+ Flash drives then?

You mean like the 1 & 2TB drives mentioned already in the article

Why a plain packaging U-turn from UK.gov could cost £3bn a year

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I thought the Australian change in packaging also coincided with a massive increase in tax on cigarettes.

with that in mind it may be worth remembering that other factors than a change in packaging could be leading to an increase in imported cigarettes

You have a Skype voicemail. PSYCHE! It's just some fiendish Trojan-flinging spam

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a quick look at one of my honeypot accounts reveals the following variants all landing in the same honeypot within a short time of each other (suggesting the same source)

DHL Delivery Report - Delivery Status ID_{10 digit hex number}

DHL REPORT - DHL Report ID:{10 digit hex number}

HSBC Bank Plc - You Have (1) New Security Message

PayPal - Security measures against impairment of the safety information

Skype - Voice Message Notification

Skype Communications - You received a new message from Skype voicemail service

Skype Voice Message - New Voice Message

Microsoft hires Pawn Stars to shaft Google

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Re: What next, Storage Hunters?

A better option would be Windows RT Tablets

Coroner suggests cars should block mobile phones

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Re: Perhaps

Phones that stop working when moving would be pretty useless for passengers

iPad Air peels off in racy pics for wide-eyed geeks, reveals 'worst battery ever

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Re: Is there anybody who approves of this?

laptop screens are a doddle

tools required = small phillips screwdriver + stanley knife blade (it's thin & strong enough to release the clips around the edge and its wide enough to leave no mark)

most desktop screens need the same tools.

Indestructible, badass rootkit BadBIOS: Is this tech world's Loch Ness Monster? VOTE NOW

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Joke

I think the next claim for this terrible infections capabilities will be encoding data and sending it by flashing the screen (at higher frequencies than the human eye can see) and any other device with a camera being instantly infected (your tablet, your phone, your digital camera and your old vhs camcorder)

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Re: Uh ... computer says no. @jake 04:56

re : the flyback on crt tv's

I wonder whether jake ever had the misfortune to spend time working on tv's.

I too can hear it, to the point where I could stand at a friends front door and tell them whether they had a tv on in the house. newer widescreen crt's seemed to have been demanding too much from the flyback in terms of power, they always had a nasty screech too them which changed massively with the brightness of the screen.

at the time it seemed to me that people that worked on tv's (repairing them) could clearly hear the flyback system but people that just watched tv seemed to have developed a natural notch filter around the noise since the noise (on a standard pal tv) was somewhere around 15kc and should have been well within normal hearing range but most people couldn't hear it

Pimp my office: 10 cubicle comforts

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Re: My office comforts...

Decent Keyboard (the less extras the better)

sat here typing this on an original ibm ps2 keyboard (still has its sticker on the bottom showing 1988)

Wired Mouse

I have tried and tried with wireless mice and find that they always go to sleep, leading to a couple of seconds of shaking it to wake it up, or worse having to press a button to wake it (which of course registers on the pc wherever the mouse happens to be)

Wireless Headset

currently using the Logitech H800, simple / basic PC & bluetooth headset, 6 hour battery life and usb charging.

Extra monitor

Why stop at 2 screens?

I run 3 22" screens and didnt realise how much more they allow me to get done until one failed and had to be replaced (under warranty).

My only gripe with a triple monitor setup is that if you have the center screen set as primary windows messes up the background image (XP / 7 ultimate) since it uses top left of the primary screen as 0x0 for the positioning of the background meaning that the image stretches across the right screen before wrapping onto the left screen

MPs to review laws on UK spy-snoopery after GCHQ Tempora leaks

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Joke

Re: Agencies seek to find the needles in the haystacks

A roll in the hay with the right person will almost certainly find it at an inopportune moment

Loathed wiggly-word CAPTCHAs morph into 'fun' click-'n'-drag games

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Re: This is the thin edge...

wasn't the forced looking at a different site a fairly common tactic about 14 years ago

I seem to remember some sites using the tactic of "follow this link and then tell us the 27th word in the 3rd paragraph"

Web daddy Tim Berners-Lee: DRMed HTML least of all evils

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Re: Open code

Why cant it work via the plugin framework that exists in most browsers with a couple of treaks

the browser delivers the encrypted stream to the plugin system, if there is a suitable drm plugin installed then the plugin system feeds the encrypted stream in and accepts the decrypted stream out ready to pass to the renderer.

if it can be handled in this way then the drm plugin wouldnt have access to anything like history, passwords etc

Canuck truck stuck in muck

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Re: How is the U of M supply truck doing.

I would imagine it's parked up in Coober Pedy.

from the article

"Michigan's quest to improve on three previous third places is over after it ran off the road in Coober Pedy, where it will stay overnight to effect repairs."

Web Daddy Berners-Lee DRMs HTML5 into 2016

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As I see it the standard proposes being able to pass an encrypted stream through a 3rd party plugin before handing off to the video renderer, basically think along the lines of adding a netflix plugin to your browser to enable viewing netflix content via any browser that will support the plugin.

if that is all it is then I don't see it causing any harm

Cisco email accidentally sent to 1000s of employees causes message list MAYHEM

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Re: Re:

The sending mail server was exchange (I don't know the version) the receiving server was Mailenable (used internally by that dept.)

the 4tb was 3 2tb drives in a raid5 array.

As Tom pointed out the user had submitted the email to the 1st server and it had submitted fully, and it was the 1st server that was doing the stupid re-send even though the transfer was already in progress.

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