Posts by Adze

I bet a good number of the 20K have antivirus installed and a firewall, other than the one on their router, running in the background.

"The most important part of a car is the nut behind the wheel!" analogy fits very well in this instance!

Quis accido ipsos accidiens? It's probably wrong, but I never learned Latin

This list is broken, no mention of Orac or the ships computer from Star Trek.

Security...

...by obscurity anyone? 10p a bag, get it while it's hot!

"pose an unacceptable risk to the ability of the UK to safeguard national security" and "disclosure of this could be used to avoid detection".

It's a bit...

...St. Ivel Gold isn't it? With a bit of Lurpack lurve for the colour scheme perhaps?

Will the tag line be:

"I can't believe it's not Windows!"

Advised?

"Drone units were advised to stop using the removable drives to prevent another outbreak."

There's something which makes me uneasy about use of the word "advised" in context with military hardware that I can't quite put my finger on. Perhaps if it were changed to "ordered", it would make me feel less uneasy...

I wonder...

...which newspaper will be first to crack his account?

Complexity of Android? WTF!

My 65 year old mother in law managed quite well with her HTC Wildfire, but she's a rubbish driver! Anyone who thinks Android is 'complex' should be immediately barred from getting behind the wheel of a car !

Top lad!

+10 points to the writer for getting "yanked off" into the first line!

Today's headlines...

...it's a slow news day across the globe today...

Here come pieces of...

...my God!

A good job HDD prices are already sky high then...

So supermarkets know what you (think French vous, not tu) bought and, soon, where you went to buy the stuff they don't stock (yet - but will soon just as quickly as they can drive the price down with their buying power so it's unprofitable for the place you used to buy it to stock it any longer).

I suspect it would likely benefit Tesco/Asda/Morrison/Sainsbury far more than it will benefit the smaller traders... once again we, the consumer, are product not customer.

It's wrong to exploit any animal, unless it's a bird... apparently.

Oh I dunno...

...remove the word patent from Cerf's last comment and it would be almost perfect!

You're kidding me?

3,000 users affected? That storm is so small that it can't even be seen in the teacup! The fix is laughably easy too, seriously anyone who thinks this was deliberate needs to take a reality check... preferably to the face and very hard.

Nice...

...thanks for that ;)

But it's ok! The bank will reimburse you!

NO! That's what banks and credit cards would like you to believe. In reality it's more like this:

"But it's ok, you've already overpaid by a huge margin just so we can afford insurance (which we provide to ourselves at a HUGE markup) to mitigate the costs of potential litigation ensuing from damages alleged due to our inability to adequately secure your data, with which you have entrusted us. Besides, most of you won't do any more than whine to your mates about it so our exposure is really quite small... at least compared to yours. Yours faithfully, Iain McBanker."

The bank doesn't pay anything... it's customers, collectively, do.

Not...

...the story I was expecting to read, given the last one was entitled "Zuckerberg: Give me your children."

Strange...

...mine's been almost completely unaffected. It starts, logs in, dials, connects (to a netbook on a separate network but same internet connection) voice/video.

It did crash on the netbook on first start, but an immediate restart works fine and has ever since.

Running Ubuntu 10.04 32bit Desktop/Skype (Beta) Version 2.2.0.25 on this and Ubuntu 10.10 32bit Desktop/Skype (Beta) 2.2.0.25 on the netbook.

Why am I reminded of the Ariston adverts in the 90's ?

Ariston... and on... and on... and on...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUVs7vXNZiw

Yes... it does a bit doesn't it?

LOLOLOL

...and now HTC Desire running Fennec (but with no soft keyb was a little redundant. Trackball button funtions as return key so definitely running and not hanging)