There'll be showstopping bugs in ITV Player as long as there are stars in the universe. It's utter bobbins and always has been, ITV should stop chucking money at it and outsource properly to YouTube or similar as others have done.

South Park said it best

"What garbage!"

"Well what do you expect, they're Canadian!"

Meanwhile the British LulzSec element will be sentenced to a slap on the wrist and early to bed without any cocoa, with time off for good behaviour and a guilty plea.

If, however, they had poked fun at somebody using Twitter or posted a racist joke on Facebook they'd all be off to Wakefield for 35 years. I'm not sure if the UK justice system is quaint and old fashioned, or just plain broken.

When the meteorite hits...

Only four things will survive: cockroaches; Keith Richards; "the Board"; and HR departments.

Everything else is toast.

LOL

Any "punishment" they get will be a stern talking to and early bed with no cocoa.

Also, can we please stop the "Convicted black hat swamped by white hat security job offers" please? That ship sailed and sank in the 90s. Convicted cybercriminals don't get InfoSec jobs, especially given most of them are skids and wouldn't pass the interview anyway.

Disaster

Not sure this really is an April Fools', because Facebook put out their "New home on Android" announcement quite some time ago. In any case, the FB app on Android is buggy, unusuably slow and generally a total car crash. If they can't sort that, then any such venture is DOA and a waste of everyone's time.

The re-written/re-issued iOS app, however, is honestly excellent. Slick, fast and generally very pleasant to use.

Again?

This seems to be happening about 320549 times every day now.

I got downvoted the last time for this, but I still believe Twitter needs look at two-factor auth, especially for high profile verified accounts. Either that or set more stringent password requirements.

Downvotes away.

Not a bad budget, really. Good part of it benefits me personally.

Just waiting for all the closet economic experts to get bored in their IT jobs and start spouting on here about nuances of economic theory nobody in the real world of finance bothers with. I would get some popcorn but I'm worried that the government may introduce a tax on it.

Beer, because at 1p off, why not?

Sigh

There's more to the IT industry than coding, but it seems that coding is all "computer science" students learn these days.

People shouldn't trust this. I guarantee you it will conveniently overlook the state-sponsored Chinese malware or likely even includes it.

Mind you, don't Western solutions do the same?

Missing the point here?

It's not about the iWatch which, to be honest, sounds utterly pointless and Apple must be really desperate to put something like that into production. It'll probably cost £250 and just be a tiny wrist mounted iPod.

The really exciting thing here is the fact that it might force foldable glass mainstream. That will bring a whole wealth of opportunities with it such as new breeds of phone, roll-up television sets etc.

Twitter really need to look up something called "two factor authentication". They might even find it cuts down on the frequency and embarrassment factor of verified accounts getting owned every three seconds.

The people responsible for this threatening behaviour are possibly the saddest people I have EVER come across. This is beyond ridiculous.

Obvious Photoshopped old Macbook Pro is obvious. Else Google have gone patent trolling too :)

I look forward to Europe being "liberated" some time soon. They'll bring "democracy" with them too :)

Really?

If they're illegal, how come so many fake and knock-off consoles are made by China and apparently sold to Chinese consumers?

Seems like a very odd law I never knew existed.

Bundles

Lots of people sign up for Sky Broadband because it comes as part of a bundle which gets you the absolutely beyond extortionate Sky TV ever so slightly cheaper. People want Sky TV but just getting the TV packages on their own needs a remortgage of Buckingham Palace.

Similar seems to go for Virgin these days too although their product line-up is cheaper to begin with anyway.

Both come bundled to get you the main product cheaper, both are by and large dreadful... anyone else spot a pattern here?

I suppose the Lisa would make a dent...

if you dropped it

"Spend more time with his family"

That's Corporate Gobbledigook for "jumped before being pushed".

Hmm

112 days is small fry compared to the gazillion years or life without parole he's going to get upon conviction.

He will be convicted. This is the US we're talking about.

Bow down

This is the best selling and greatest computer game of all time, written from scratch by the Great Leader and Marshal Generalissimo Kim Il Sung in one afternoon without a computer and any knowledge of programming. Every dearly loved citizen of the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea plays this game regularly and there are local championships. Such work is naturally preferable to the bourgeous south Korean "StarCraft" loathsome propaganda.

You belligerent, viperous and insidious capitalist Yankee pig dogs fail again to show the required deference, so we shall turn Seoul into a sea of fire by launching another fauly ex-Soviet rocket.

Can relate to this

This is all so true. An alarming proportion of "production" code I've seen is awful; poorly documented, shoddily written spaghetti which you are usually expected on pain of death to understand intricately within a nanosecond of opening the project.

Design patterns? Pfft. Data structures? No need, just use java.lang.io.SuperDuperSwissArmyKnifeSort or the home rolled com.enterprise.selfaware.collectionsframework.overengineerednonsense.doesthesameasthejavaoriginal.broken class instead. The latter was last updated in 2004 by someone who since left the company.

If I handed in that sort of code as an academic assignment, I could literally have failed. Whoever wrote that code got paid and the horrid code ended up in production.

What a lot of students also don't realise is that there's often very little new coding going on. Most junior/entry level roles involve taking some self-aware Cthulhu written in an outdated version of Java and poking it with a stick - horrid grunt work the regular staff really deliberately and actively avoid.

Like all other CS graduates I initially felt that going from university into a coding role was a natural progression. After just one internship I realised the absurdity of it (and reminded myself of how much I hate programming from scratch, although I write scripts to automate things and wrap around pre-existing solutions as required), went back to university to do an InfoSec MSc and now work as a penetration tester and network security analyst. Much more satisfying, much brighter prospects and a good bit better paid.

What's really funny is that universities just focus non-stop on programming these days, yet the graduates are awesomly ill-prepared for what real programming and software development actually is.

Think of the opportunities

The aliens on the dark side of the moon would surely love to give McDonald's and Starbucks a whirl. Also Amazon could set up there as another innovative tax dodge.

Not! sure! about! this!

An! awful! lot! like! rearranging! the! deckchairs! on! the! Titanic! This! sounds! like! more! hipster! Web! 2.0! rubbish! that! has! been! done! before!

CISSP is a useless, scatter-gunning vocab test. It's only good for getting past HR.

HTC

HTC had the Cha Cha and Salsa a while ago, both with hardware Facebook buttons. The phones themselves were garbage which is why you've probably forgotten about them, though.

Not surprised

Each CoD game has been a photocopy of the one before it since IW and Treyarch started sharing the engine. This series is at death's door and even the hardened fans are growing tired of it.

A friend once referred to CoD as "Duck Hunt HD" and it seems from the review that this version is no different.

Old habits die hard

I'm sure plenty of customers will continue to use the old terms and the staff will still respond as normal. Probably not much to see here.