* Posts by Crisp

2852 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jan 2012

Developer unleashes bowel-shaking KILLER APP for Google Glass

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Re: Further proof that these things are childish toys.

I for one like playing with childish toys.

Mexican Cobalt-60 robbers are DEAD MEN, say authorities

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Re: This should be the standard punishment...

Arson, Murder and jaywalking...

One-minute Koch-blocking earns attacker two years, massive fine

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Re: Backtraced eh?

He should have used 7 proxies.

Lightning strikes USB bosses: Next-gen jacks will be REVERSIBLE

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Where are the juicy pictures?

If ever an article needed a few visual aids it was this one!

UK.gov to warn tweeting twits, celebs 'n' pals on court case comments

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Re: If it's such an offence. Then why hasn't Peaches Geldof been arrested?

There's a risk of those two poor babies being identified.

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If it's such an offence. Then why hasn't Peaches Geldof been arrested?

A few high profile prosecutions making an example of people that flout the law should do the trick.

Accused Glasshole driver says specs weren't even turned on for traffic stop

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Re: balaclava, shotgun and a crowbar

"balaclava, shotgun and a crowbar"

Even without the shotgun, the police would call that going equipped.

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I'm guessing that her defence for doing 80 in a 65 zone will be:

If my Google Glass was turned on, I'd be able to prove that I wasn't doing 80mph.

ASA slaps down BT over 'misleading' broadband claims

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BSkyB makes one complaint about BT, and the ASA listens.

Thousands of us make complaints about BT, and the ASA does nothing.

IT MELTDOWN ruins Cyber Monday for RBS, Natwest customers

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Again?

Once? Ok, everyone has the odd hiccup here and there.

Twice? Really? Well hopefully they've learned their lessons now...

Again? This is starting to look less like random glitches and more like rank incompetence.

Saturn's moon Titan had swamps, say astroboffins

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I say we send a rag tag team of scientists to investigate.

Although I think someone's already made that movie.

Inside IBM's vomit-inducing, noise-free future chip lab

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What are you doing tonight Emanuel Loertscher?

"Oh I'm just hanging out in my noise proof/mobile phone proof underground laboratory."

That toolbar you downloaded is malware? Tough, read the EULA

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Re: Meh… EULAs

As a consumer, there's no way any contract can remove or override your statutory rights under UK law.

Google in Dutch: Privacy changes BREAK data law, says Netherlands

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Re: Google Analytics / Google Ads

There's a list of Google domains on Wikipedia. Copy and past to your hosts file and redirect to 127.0.0.1.

Job done. You can now safely surf the internet without using Google.

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"It is almost impossible not to use Google services on the internet."

It's not even close to impossible. Has Jacob Kohnstamm even actually tried using the internet without using Google?

I don't think he has.

BOFH: It's DANGEROUS to go alone. Take THIS

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Pint

In any good bar

There's always a pool table.

Fancy knocking off early? Just run our fake computer crash 'virus', say admen

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Pint

This can be solved with proper Reverse Management.

Delegate upwards, and they wont have time to notice that you've slipped out for a quiet beer :)

Blighty's top moneymen: Hackers are SLURPING CASH direct from banks

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£1.3 Million

Still a drop in the ocean compared to the obscene level of "bonuses" some bank staff get.

Microsoft hires Pawn Stars to shaft Google

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Re: !Subtle under tones

REMINDS AMERICAN WORDS REALLY AWAY SORT REPEATS MESSAGE OBVIOUSLY NEED MANY. ADVERT EMPHASIZE WATCHING MESSAGE. MESSAGES VIDEO EMPHASISED MESSAGE. SUMMING MESSAGE LAST MESSAGE THAT.

Damn. It doesn't look like there's a secret message in there at all. Maybe there's some other kind of cypher I'm missing.

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Really hardcore computer users don't use linux or windows

They write their own operating systems from scratch!

DVLA declares J14 HAD on BU14 SHT and SL14 AGS

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Dirty minded people at the DVLA

It's a bit of a stretch to see those strings of letters and numbers. The DVLA are acting like schoolboys that have just discovered that they can look up "rude" words in the dictionary.

GCHQ was called in to crack password in Watkins child abuse case

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Re: nobody is that stupid

You'd be surprised how cocky some criminals will get.

Telcos can be forced to turn copyright cop, block websites – EU law man

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Why do these idiots insist on trying to tackle the wrong end of the problem?

The European Court of Justice should have made sure that Pedro Cruz Villalón knew how the internet worked before letting him embarrass them like this.

Using ISP's to regulate access to the internet has been tried before and it's failed spectacularly. In the case of The Pirate Bay, it caused the site to go from just a single site and a handful of mirrors into a distributed mirrored site with urls into the hundreds.

Pedro Cruz Villalón should study the problem he proposes to solve so that he doesn't make the situation worse.

Sysadmin job ad: 'If you don’t mind really bad work-life balance, this is for you'

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4 Jobs rolled into one!

So that's like 4 paychecks rolled into one, right?

Right...?

Angela Merkel's phone was being listened in on by FIVE foreign powers

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Re: Never underestimate a starving hacker.

If he's a Nork hacker then he's probably got a gun to his head.

And if Swordfish taught us anything, it's that hackers with a gun to their head code approximately 182% faster.

Supermodel Lily Cole in Impossible partnership with Jimbo Wales, YOU

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What exactly is Lily Coles relevance?

She didn't write it, she probably wont use it, and she's managed to get hold of £200,000 of tax payers money to do it.

You could quite easily replace Lily with any other meat puppet and the result would be exactly the same.

What's wrong with Britain's computer scientists?

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Computer Science is to Developers...

As Physics is to Builders.

We need Builders that can construct a sturdy erection. Not Physicists that can tell us why it stays up.

SILENCE of the OWLS may mean real-life 'Whisper Mode' for Black Helicopters

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Black Helicopters

A quieter helicopter?

Does this mean an end to the sleep deprived nights caused by police choppers circling over my house?

'Best known female architect' angrily defends gigantic vagina

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"Everything with a hole in it is a vagina?"

Well it doesn't look like a giant penis.

We're making too much say CryptoLocker scum in ransom price cut

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Re: The thing that gets me...

Who doesn't back up valuable data?

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The thing that gets me...

Is that people are actually paying the ransom!

New NSA leak reveals invasion of the management consultants

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That's blue sky thinking right there...

What turns Americans on? Everything but Xmas and Osam

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Coffee/keyboard

"only to shoot up in huge spurts for the rest of the day."

Jasper Hamill, you can expect an invoice for a new keyboard in 2 - 3 working days.

Ditch your boring iPhone for a hot Android piece, says Google's TOTALLY UNBIASED Eric Schmidt

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Eric Schmidt

Sounds like someone has a high opinion of themselves.

Vintage wine laid down in 1600 BC was 'psychotropic'

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Re: solve the middle east crisis once and for all!

We could start with air drops of chocolate brownies.

If that fails to pacify the region, we can gradually increase the dose.

US Judge strikes out COMPUTER/HUMAN LOVE patent

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Re: if the judge ordered the execution

I for one would support this wholeheartedly as long as the executions were televised.

Two Patent Trolls Enter! One Patent Troll Leaves!

Racing Post p0wned, accounts accessed and passwords pinched

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Pay peanuts for web developers

And this is the quality of site you get.

Mystery traffic redirection attack pulls net traffic through Belarus, Iceland

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Everybody above this line

Has been trolled.

The latest stupid yoof craze: Taking selfies - while DRIVING

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Re: heh

You don't have to kill yourself to win a darwin award. All you have to do is remove yourself from the genepool. I think there's more than one guy that it's been awarded to for removing their ability to reproduce.

Cryptolocker infects cop PC: Massachusetts plod fork out Bitcoin ransom

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Whatever happened to not negotiating with criminals or terrorists?

When someone holds you to ransom, the last thing you should do is validate their behaviour by paying it!

XBOX ONE ROUNDUP-of-the-ROUNDUPS: Everything YOU need to know

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Re: The Million Dollar Question...

Some Linux user you are then.

If you can't recompile the kernel to run on that device then you should turn in your Linux card now!

Dry, cold and volatile: How to survive Mars, and your fellow crew

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They do a lot of work on the psychological of people

I'm sure they do.

Darknet: It's not just for DRUGS. Ninja Banking Trojan uses it too

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Enterprise level malware

Except that their helpdesk probably actually works.

Prime Minister David Cameron in Twitter gaffe

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MPs having heterosexual relations?

There's your scandal right there!

US senator asks: Will Bitcoin replace Swiss bank accounts?

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Re: Yes, HSBC Bank.................

$500M is nothing to them. They made so much more than that laundering money for criminals.

You THINK you're watching your LG smart TV - but IT's WATCHING YOU, baby

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Any comment from the Police Central e-crime Unit El Reg?

C'mon! You're supposed to be journalists! Ask questions!

Biggest quantum cluster does not compute ... yet

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"quantum leap”

The smallest possible amount of leap.

Barclays Online OFFLINE: UK bank site, mobile app go titsup for the evening

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Re: How hard is it to have multiple bank accounts and paypal?

Yeah, if you had two bank accounts, you could just log on to the barclays website and transfer your wages into your other account....

Underage teens' Facebook posts are still FACE ACHE ads ... bitch

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Adblock

In your face Zuckerberg!

Google, Microsoft to drop child sex abuse from basic web search

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I'm no expert in criminal behaviour

But I'm pretty certain that evil pedoterrorists aren't going around typing "kiddie porn" into google to get their kicks. Call me cynical, but I think this is a PR move that's likely to do more harm than good. A false sense of security is worse than no security at all.

Seriously, who thinks this stuff up?