Posts by tmTM

Re: Another one bites the dust

You would think, but have they lost $150m of their own money or $150m of other peoples money?

Re: What next?

I'm sure all three Edge users were outraged.

Re: Somehow I don't think the court will be convinced

on trial for fraud. Freely admits fraud.

Interesting move.

"Help keep Facebook free of charge."

If they introduced a charge they might suddenly realise the vast number of fake profiles active on their system.

and they wouldn't want that now would they?

Re: 268 Mil to Spend or an IT Job With Possible Jail Time?

I smell.....................desperation in the air at Poly

Re: Copyright on photos of physical objects

Two problems there tho:

I doubt anyone else went and got a picture of that broken window, and you can see when overlaid it's a match.

Also they copied the files without even bothering to change the names, so files on the original CD ROM appear in the game data with the same names.

Re: Still a lot of knockoffs

Still miles better than eBay.

They happily allow large scale scams to operate, forget knockoff goods these criminals are out to empty your bank account and eBay does absolutely nothing to prevent it.

Re: Apparently the British fish are much happier now

They certainly are considering no-one is trying to catch them anymore.

#BrexitBenefits

Re: "the C&C [command-and-control] server replies with a piece of JavaScript code"

Probably just switch to pictures/videos of scantily clad women.

They're hacking Armenia, not the Pentagon.

and in fairness at least they're trying something, even if it does appear flawed.

Re: He should of just hit normal people

$120m taken in the scam.

£26m in restitution

Is the remaining money accounted for or is this guy heading to jail laughing his head off?

Re: Want one

Looks cool, but it ends there.

Unfolded the screen isn't massive, plenty of non-folding phones are just as big.

Re: "Negotiating with the ransomware author"

An interesting business mode.

Infect lots of people with ransomware

Setup a company offering decryption of (your own) ransomware

Earn money as direct bank transfers from companies instead of Bitcoin

Re: Worthless tokens

Not real money so not a real crime.

Wait, what???

Re: Android ?

So far Xiaomi have avoided the glare of the big orange man and don't seem to be threatened with any Huawei like restrictions.

The phones run Android fine and don't come saddled with tons of bloatware.

Re: Mordor Intelligence?

More like an attempt to justify an already flagging market by simply re-labelling everything as a wearable.

Re: WTF!?

Well apparently they're willing to trade sales figures for style so I guess we'll see how that pans out.

No great surprise if they manage to sell scant few and end up scrapping the line within 18 months.

HOW the thief got into the phone!

and how did he get into Coinbase?

Surely it has additional security on the app?

Filmed from a screen, it seems.

because all CCTV in news needs to be as fuzzy and low quality as possible.

Even if they used HD cameras to capture the incident.

"Our marketing strategy is hoping people don't pay attention to our adverts"

Re: why was CCleaner the trigger?

The searches were done by un-skilled PC's, who will have just had a list of banned items to watch out for.

Find something on the list and call in the Techs.

No-one has asked how these guys got their hands on 2 million phones locked to AT&T ??

Re: Liberty Global = Virgin Media?

No they bought the LG assets in Germany, Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic.

Funding

Maybe the funding just ran out?

Especially if it's academical research where any money left after the grant ends has to be handed back.

3 years is a pretty short length of time for a grant that big though.

The question is, where did someone get 60 grand to spend on a stupid weapon skin?

Re: I'm sure humans wouldn't be that much better

Aye, parts of Rotherham haven't seen a bar of soap for decades now.

Been there...

Did the same with a mobile phone, turned the brightness all the way down then went outside on a summers day.

Though it was broken till I remembered what I'd done.

Re: Is there actually much demand from punters for this?

The ones with a genuine demand for it will be the ones who are least likely to access the service, those in rural or isolated locations with terrible coverage.

It'll be a nice gimmick for those in city centres, for the occasional times when they're not on Wi-Fi anyway.

Re: Who in the hospital ...

and just as importantly, has this colossal idiot been fired already??

Re: he might even learn how to make a good film

Maybe, but don't count on it.

Friedberg and Seltzer never learned, they made a raft of terrible rubbish before their careers finally got flushed down the toilet where they belong.

Re: Isn't it time

Isn't it time that the huge fines we've been promised are dished out??

Not just a slap on the wrist, something large enough to decimate the stock price.

Re: That's not much more than the launch price of the Nokia N97

That phone was a steaming turd as well, even if the flip out keyboard was very useful.

Re: what's the point?

Does anyone actually need 5G to begin with??

Is 300Mbps really insufficient to run your pocket device?