* Posts by Hieronymus Howerd

148 publicly visible posts • joined 16 May 2012

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Hackers publish payday loan emails after failing to levy 'idiot tax'

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Re: Hackers?

Tom, the title of the article is "Hackers publish payday loan emails".

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Hackers?

Reading a robots.txt and visiting a URL referenced therein is considered hacking now?

HP asks court to force Oracle to obey Itanium contract

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Itanic

Remember when the Reg used to call this chip the "Itanic" every time it was mentioned, and it got funnier every time? I swear, I'm still laughing at that.

Apple will only reinstate mute kids' app if makers win patent case

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Wait a sec

Does that child have a TATTOO?

Facebook replaces non-Facebook mail addresses on Timeline

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Re: Delivery?

On the contrary, he can imagine it all too well. Which is why things like this happen.

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Re: Opt in vs Opt out

On the contrary, they understand it very clearly indeed.

Book-scented perfume gives eReaders whiff of authenticity

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Better this than Vulva Original.

Seriously, don't google it.

Neo-Nazis scoop YouTube ad revenue from UK telcos

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Re: Confusing

I do love all the idiots who'll downvote someone for asking a simple question.

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Confusing

If Google believe so passionately in free speech, why did they take them down (as reported)?

Tech fault at RBS and Natwest freezes millions of UK bank balances

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Re: Andrew

Yeah, but what's a "Pay Cheque"? I have literally never seen one, and I'm fairly long in the tooth.

Nigerian scams are hyper-efficient idiot finders

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@Oh4FS [Re: "People that stupid deserve to be robbed."]

Any chance you could reword that in English? I don't know whether to up- or downvote you, but I assume I very much want to do one of them.

Amount of meat we eat will barely affect future climate change

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Re: references, references, references ...

Yes, and to even call it a "debate" flatters it; it's more like reading a Clarkson column. I'm not entirely sure what the IT angle is, either.

Nice bass work on Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by the way.

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Re: If God had wanted us all to be vegetarians...

Funny thing is, that's literally true. Apart from the God bit, obviously.

William Shatner confirms Devon town actually prostitute free

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Coat

Re: A quick google...

I guess people go elsewhere to get their "lust desserts" then.

So you wanna be a Wall Street techie? Or anyway, get paid a lot

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Re: No thanks ...

> "Am I any less intellegent than..."

...

Habbo Hotel to 'unmute' chat so users can show they love it

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Re: The only time I've previously heard of Habbo Hotel

Is "griefing" a real word now? First time I've heard it. I must get out more. Or less, I'm not sure which.

Stephen Fry's Pushnote goes titsup

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too late; see above.

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Re: king kong

oh, and he doesn't even really know all that stuff anyway. He has an earpiece and a team of people giving him the answers.

New Opera 12 hooks web apps to 3D graphics acceleration

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> "Opera was recently touted as an acquisition target for Facebook"

Yes, but in the spirit of full disclosure, one should clarify that it was only touted by some guy posting on the Register.

Facebook changes data-use policy despite 87% poll opposition

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Re: Censorship alive and well at the Book of Face

The Internet: where everything you don't agree with is either "censorship" or "vandalism".

Why MongoDB? It's the developers, stupid

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Re: Well, I bought the book (MongoDB in Action)

Way to completely miss the point of this technology.

10m years ago there was less CO2 - but the Earth was warmer

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When did the Reg become one undereducated, science-oblivious redneck's personal ranty soapbox?

1,000 Foxconn iPad workers trash dorms in riot against guards

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It's Foxconn

The clue is in the way it's spelt throughout the article you just read. And the world.

O2, Be Broadband axe Pirate Bay access

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Re: Taking business elsewhere

I suspect they just want to download more illegal stuff.

You may be overthinking this one.

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Re: tell you tomorrow

> "sites hosted on the same server"

Do you think that TPB use £5.99 pcm shared hosting?

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Re: Contracts?

Depends. Did you have any contracts explicitly stating that your ISP would violate High Court orders in order to help you continue to illegally download pirated material?

Google Plus plus Meebo equals Google minus $100m

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Pint

Re: Oh, that thing?

We should hang out more.

SwaggSec claims China Telecom data breach

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Facepalm

I'm sure the Pentagon will be grateful for the help.

I'm also sure a few script kiddies and what sounds like a simple SQL injection could "destroy [China Telecom's] communication infrastructure leaving millions without communication".

Sigh.

Telefonica chooses stable of young ones to make it money in London

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Let me see.

EUR50,000 in real money is about 40k at the moment. That's for 10% of your company.

I would say that if any of these companies has a genuinely strong business case, they're vastly undervaluing their future. That said, having scanned the list of winners, I'm not sure that's an issue.

Small banking Trojan poses major risk

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Re: Sir

^what he said.

Four, hardcoded. So it should be trivial for us to block them, if only we knew what they were.

US officials confirm Stuxnet was a joint US-Israeli op

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FAIL

Re: Typo

See the "Send corrections" link, it's right there at the bottom of the article.

Ultrabooks: objects of desire but just too darn expensive

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The title says it all

I looked at Ultrabooks when my last laptop broke, and you can't help but think, well, that's a lovely piece of kit but I'm not paying £1k for a *laptop*, no matter how shiny.

10gen bags another $42m for MongoDB roadmap

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Pint

Re: They would be crazy to sell now

+1. It was crucial to our redundancy and scalability where I used to work. I miss working with it.

Also agreed that the company appears to have its head screwed on.

Study: The more science you know, the less worried you are about climate

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Re: woah there! ...

> "editor"

Explains a lot.

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Re: woah there! ...

> "It normally shows the complete opposite from whatever Lewis says it does."

Agreed. I'm even not sure why he's still writing for this particular organ. It's not like this is even vaguely related to IT.

Sheer weight of Brits' interest knackers new tax tool

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Re: I prefer

Agreed that LTT is very useful, but isn't it a completely different thing to this new HMRC dealy?

I can't check for sure, for obvious reasons.

People-powered Olympic shopping mall: A sign of utter tech illiteracy

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Re: Now I know

Exactly how I read it!

Silicon Roundabout touts startup jobs for 'ninjas' this weekend

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Re: Language

There may be several, but there's not much call for them around Shoreditch these days.

Fake Angry Birds app makers fined £50k for shock cash suck

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Unhappy

Re: Premium-rate SMS

The operators wouldn't have that. Remember that they make up to 50% on delivery or receipt of each PSMS.

Which goes some way towards explaining why scams like this aren't just nipped in the bud at network level.

Special Projects Burro pops his hooves

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Hm, yes.

Sad, but also highly suspicious. Surely at least some sort of cursory autopsy is in order, rather than "oh, whoops he's dead, quick let's hide him underground"?

Google officially buys Motorola, hits refresh on CEO

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Re: "Many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine"

A little parochial, I fear. There are parts of the world where many people have never *seen* a desktop PC, yet are increasingly well connected via mobile devices.

New Oyster online service goes live at TfL

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Re: What's new?

Oh good, not just me then. I've been using that feature for ages too. Perhaps we were the guinea pigs that the article mentions.

Txt-speak is a sign of humanity 4 U

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>> "be 1 step ahead"

The irony.

GM snatchback of $10m Facebook ad cash = amateur move

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Re: And your point is???

Exactly. And it's fairly disingenuous of the author to assume they know better than GM what works and doesn't work for GM.

Pints under attack as Lord Howe demands metric-only UK

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Pint

Bit harsh

I wouldn't mind a litre of beer just now.

Button batteries burn kids from inside

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Re: Isn't this basic common sense?

They're kids, you moron.

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