Posts by Wize

Re: Skin of flesh and nanowires

It annoyed me when Arnie said the T2 couldn't do guns due to their chemical reactions to fire.

Why not make your arm into the barrel and stuff a bullet clip in your mouth?

Re: France

"Implicitly the speed in urban areas and road works is 50kph, no signs needed, every one knows"

Not quite everyone. Having a UK driving licence allows me to drive in the rest of Europe without needing a further test.

Most people in the UK probably don't know the implied speed limit in lieu of sineage in every single EU country.

Plus all the quirks, like being able to turn right on a red light.

Re: This depends where you are

"USA with their "frogmarch off the premises" habits - yes. Elsewhere, not so sure."

I have been escorted off the premises before. A few of us called in to an office where it was explained that the company had been having problems and we were the redundancies on a last in first out basis. We were allowed to pick up our stuff from our desks under supervision. PCs reporting that they had been disconnected from the network when I got to my desk.

Though I've heard of people being 'black bagged' before. All your stuff is waiting for you in a black bin bag outside the office.

One company always used external meeting rooms (didn't have the space in their offices) so shuttled a whole department to the meeting room in the usual company bus. Told them they were all fired. Drove them all back to be greeted in the carpark with black bags beside their cars.

I know logins for quite a few places that would still allow remote access to systems, but I've never been (and never will) be the type to abuse it.

Re: need to manually run it: proof of concept yet again

All of us on here are less likely to get a virus than the average member of the public.

The average member of the public doesn't know how to secure their computer properly (probably have more of a chance with Windows going by the number of users on Linux forums who reply 'RTFM' to general questions.)

The average member of the public will click on any box that pops up when they think they are installing something fun, like a pink pony screensaver.

Factor in the recent Java vulnerability (others will follow covering your currently installed software) and you aren't looking as safe as you thought you used to be.

Re: I believe Ecto1 was an ambulance not a hearse.

The hearse/ambulance confusion comes from the UK not having ambulances that shape. Only one type of car with room for just one in the back this side of the pond.

Re: Hey Microsoft, Windows 2.0 called...

Windows 2.0 style and only requires a monochrome monitor.

Are they putting any CRT control features back into the code?

Maybe they are planning their own version of a Kindle and want their UI to look the same on everything.

Re: Once again, thank you NoScript

Don't you hate the time between someone sitting acting smug thinking they are bullet proof and the time when malware comes out that bypasses their impenetrable security like a hot knife through butter.

Re: What do you expect if you "run" Windows?

@AlbertH

Surely you are using "security through obscurity" yourself.

If all the banks, government, etc had Linux (or what ever brand of operating system that has a group of users claiming its 100% virus free) then there would be viruses written for it.

But as things stand, there is no worth in trying to hack them. No big financial gain compared to going for the bigger target of Windows machines.

One might argue that its 'poorly configured Windows machines' being infected. I'm sure in the hands of the same users, Linux will be just as badly configured.

Re: Phones with NFC ?

Because your phone can receive as well as send via NFC. Check back in the Registers recent archives and you'll find an NFC keyboard.

Still, I can't see myself getting one. Just seems so easy to read from outside your pocket.

Re: I hate replying to myself, but ...

Big hammer and a chunky screw driver and I can open any case.

Closing it again... thats a different matter.

Re: trying it now

"...I'd rather not have its ungodly juices dipped too deep into my system."

Upvote for that alone.

Going to be a VM for me too. CBA setting up a dual boot and risking this splattering my normal boot drive with some nasty incompatible files.

I'll have to fix some machine at some point. Or at least explain to someone how to work the new interface.

Plus, I want to make sure any software I've written still looks normal and works on it.

Re: Although I don't remember the last time I saw a beer mat in a pub.

My local does have proper beer with proper hand pumps. And not a beer mat in sight, even though it serves the usual lagers at 3 degrees making the tables all wet.

There are a few pretentious ones serving all drinks on napkins, but they are are the fizzy lager/cocktail bars

Re: Customer support is a cost, thereby it has to be cheap, SMS and calls cost...

And if you work on the rigs in the north sea, you can't get a text message for up to 3 weeks.

Not very handy to send out a new password.

Re: No more paid apps for me

"I just want what I paid for..."

Its been said that locks only keep out good people.

Stick on a DRM lock and someone will crack it and send it everywhere.

Where as the average user who has paid for it is fighting with restrictions.

My usual example to throw out there is DVDs.

Buy a DVD and you can only watch it on your DVD player. You have to sit through the anti-pirate warning and the trailers for other films.

Download illegally and you can watch it on any device you own. You don't have to sit through any warnings and trailers.

You pay for it and you suffer. DRM is a bad thing.

Re: And more...

And how do they test them?

They power up one unit. On its own. With nothing to talk to.

When does it make the most noise?

When two or more units talk to each other and a nice chunk of data is sent.

Also, it doesn't include the nasty wiring of a house which does not have terminators present in any other type of network cable, causing more RF transmission.

Re: OK...

"Re New Builds, why the hell do they not have Cat5 cable, or at least conduits, between rooms? "

Because, by the time it becomes standard to install Cat5, we will want fibre between rooms or be wireless.

Re: BBC Alba

So?

Stick them all at 45. Or move Alba/S4C up to 45 and use 8.

Not tricky to align the whole UK when you are messing about with the numbers in the first place.

Re: @moiety

Maybe its lack of communication within Anonymous. It might be members who have registered it but the guy sending out the threats doesn't know who they are.

Re: What happened to the death of El Reg icon?

These days they go for the whole database.

Would be advisable to any Tesco customers who reuse their password on other sites to go round changing them before it gets hacked. Can see it being a valuable target to hackers now that the word is out.

Isn't it cheaper to fake the photo too?

Re: Measurement confusion.

I still have a few pound notes knocking about (Scottish ones were still in circulation long after the bank of England stopped using them)

Re: The MS1-3D rips CDs as 320kb MP3s

Obligatory XKCD post

http://xkcd.com/841/