* Posts by Sureo

732 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jun 2008

Trump cybersecurity order morphs into 2,200-plus-word extravaganza

Sureo

Trump did promise to put America back to work - writing reports.

What's the biggest danger to the power grid? Hackers? Terrorists? Er, squirrels

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Re: Treasonous Squirrels

Don't you know, they have an entire wing at Guantanamo Bay for squirrels that caused acts of sabotage (and survived). :)

Japan's terrifying techno-toilets will be made foreigner friendly, vow makers

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My toilet at home has one control on it - flush! The rest is nice but not necessary for the purpose. What they need for foreigners/ignoramuses is one icon that looks like a flush lever, perhaps larger than the rest, so we know exactly what to do and avoid unintended consequences.

SpaceX makes successful rocket launch

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Re: Well done SpaceX

FB wants me to log in or sign up .... it's to youtube for me. Blow up, FB.

Mr Angry pays taxman with five wheelbarrows worth of loose change

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Re: "...just weighed them..."

Thank god Canada did away with pennies some time ago. Weren't worth the trouble to pick one up if you dropped it.

Hapless scouser scours streets for lost Crimble drone

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There should be a "come back home, all is forgiven" button on the remote.

Microsoft scores nearly $1bn non-compete contract with US military

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"...4 million windows 10 computers..."

Oh the pain, the pain......

Windows 10 nags, Dirty Cow, Microsoft's Linux man love: The Reg's big ones for 2016

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Pint

Windows 10 upgrade suvivor

Highlight of the year - I managed to resist Microsoft's efforts to upgrade my W7 computer, in spite of repeated efforts on their part. It was hard, and I'd like to celebrate.

Cyber insurance brokers: If it makes you feel any better, 2016 was not our year either

Sureo

So if you're a policy holder and get hacked, you get paid. What about your customers/users who actually suffer?

Don't panic, friends, but the Chinese navy just nicked one of America's underwater drones

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Now they have to send a Mission: Impossible team led by Tom Cruise to go in and destroy the sub. Maybe DT can make it into another reality TV show.

Uber to Cali DMV: Back off, pal, our 'self-driving cars' aren't self driving

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You would think that the driverless cars, going through red lights and doing other dangerous things, would eventually all get smashed up, removing them from the road. Problem solved.

Poor software design led to second £1m Army spy drone crash

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"...train them as instructors ..."

Now they've learned what not to do.

Let's hope self-driving autos have more reliable sensors and software.

Beancounter nicks $5m from bosses, blows $1m on fantasy babe Kate Upton's mobe game

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Re: I call bullshit.

"Really?" The world looks different when you're pissing away other people's money.

Hackers actively stealing Wi-Fi keys from vulnerable routers

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Unhappy

"...the situation is under control..."

Every time I ask my ISP about security issues, they give me this reply, but have no further information on the matter. Essentially a brush-off and an admission nothing is being done.

Space crap: Flap, zap or strap? $30k from NASA for your pooper scooper

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Coat

Taking nourishment in liquid form would solve one of the three problems, perhaps the most unpleasant one.

Launch set for GOES-R satellite capable of 30-second weather updates

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"...most dramatic weather in near-real time"

We experience the weather here in actual real time. Too often the weather forecast tells us what happened earlier. The future is a murky haze the forecasters are often unable to penetrate.

Fire alarm sparked data centre meltdown emergency

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It might have been a thought to determine why relay #18 melted down, so it wouldn't happen again.

Hm, is that a minefield? Let me just throw my magic bomb-sniffing spinach over there

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Using spinich is very clever

You don't have to worry about people/animals stealing and eating it.

Amazon guarantees bitterly contested Ohio wind farm project

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Win - Win

Everpower will order the windmills from Amazon :

https://www.amazon.com/WINDMILL-Generator-controller-automatic-installation/dp/B01HGJH4O2/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1478051242&sr=8-7&keywords=windmill

Divide the internet into compartments to save us from the IoT fail whale

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IOTs are polluting the internet just as we are polluting the earth.

First World Problems: John Lewis clients forced to re-register after website 'upgrade'

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Nothing new

I've had numerous logins disappear from time to time. I store all my logins in a password program so I know it's not me that forgot. It's a PITA for sure.

What will happen when I'm too old to push? (buttons, that is)

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"How do old people navigate a brave new world that keeps getting braver and newer at an accelerated pace?"

We just ignore as much of it as possible and know it will eventually go away.

Microsoft keeps schtum as more battery woes hit Surface sufferers

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Re: They are all at it

For the sake of the environment if not customer relations they should ban devices with non-replaceable batteries.

Apple's car is driving nowhere

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Apple engineering

They quit because the car needs new batteries and they cannot be replaced.

The IRS spaffed $12m on Office 365 subscription IT NEVER USED

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Re: Not surprising

The politicians waste/steal/misappropriate far more than the bureaucrats.

Google may just have silently snuffed the tablet computer

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Re: Slow refresh cycle

"Stopped making them"

Still runnin' and lovin' my netbook.

My God, I've got nothing on! Microsoft's $200m Wunderlist is down

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Luddite

What's wrong with a pencil and a piece of notepaper? The real estate agents leave a notepad at the door almost every day.

Apple guilty in iPhone ringtone patent rip-off battle with Sony, Nokia

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Lawyer's fees

Just the cost of going around with a big stick threatening to beat up the other guy.

What says Internet of Things better than a Bluetooth-controlled smart candle?

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How much liability insurance do they have?

For when someone hacks into it, turns it into a blowtorch, burns the place down and perhaps kills a few people?

Lethal 4-hour-erection-causing spiders spill out of bunch of ASDA bananas

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Curious

It's curious how the company comments are at odds with the obvious facts. They should apologize and pay for the costs involved without fuss.

Pluto's emitting X-rays, and NASA doesn't quite know how

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Pluto is really a derelict interstellar space ship stuck here, and all the inhabitants can do is generate some X-rays in the hope someone will eventually notice them.

Latest F-35 bang seat* mods will stop them breaking pilots' necks, beams US

Sureo

Simples...

I suggest that they remove their helmet and put on a ball cap before ejecting.

You're guilty but broke, judge tells Wash.io – the 'Uber of laundry'

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Huh?

If the working conditions were so rotten as the article described, why wouldn't the "ninjas" just quit? Why wait for 12 months then sue?

Watch SpaceX's rocket dramatically detonate, destroying a $200m Facebook satellite

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Facebook Satellite

Don't they spy on us enough?

Error: Print job 'Money' failed for laserjet001.lan.hp.com

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"not all printers are created equal"

That's why I tossed my HP printer and now use a Dell color laser printer.

NASA tried turning lost spacecraft STEREO-B off and on again... but it didn't work. True story

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"...their orbit drifted further away to the other side of the Sun..."

If they wait awhile, they should drift back again.

Investors to be allowed to sue Volkswagen over emission row

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"required to make disclosures of their engine software"

They're going to have to hire engineers to study the code and the design of the car to understand it properly. They're going to have to verify that the code they're studying is actually what is running in the cars sold. Every code change will have to be resubmitted and studied again. The cars will have to be tested to verify. 100s of makes/models. What could possibly go wrong?

NASA test foiled by rocket shaking power cord loose from camera

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That rocket produces enough energy to run my home for a year or two.

Seriously, there are connectors available that aren't affected by vibration.

Bungling Microsoft singlehandedly proves that golden backdoor keys are a terrible idea

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Facepalm

"FBI and golden keys"

Wait .... the Feds will take much better care of the backdoor keys so they will never leak out .... oops.

Good news: Teen hacker gets 1-million-air-miles bug bounty reward. Bad news: It's United Airlines

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WTF?

€5 in airport tax

Eh? On my last air ticket (Toronto to USA) there was

$25.00 airport improvement fee

$46.12 USA transportation tax

$ 6.51 USA agriculture fee

$11.55 Canada GST

$ 5.86 US passenger facility charge

$ 3.25 Canada HST

$ 9.12 USA Immigration user fee

$12.10 Air travellers security charge

$ 7.30 September 11 security fee

$ 7.17 US Federal customs fee

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$133.98 Canadian, or €92

Good luck on getting anywhere with that €5.

Why do I feel like a fleeced sheep?

Thermostat ransomware

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Coffee/keyboard

Pay up or you freeze (or roast) in the dark. And we'll encrypt your data for free.

Jeep hackers: How we swerved past Chrysler's car security patches

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I think I'll just keep my old car, it doesn't have any of that smart crap in it.

Firefox to block crapware

Sureo

While they're at it they should block anything containing McAfee.

US state sues Comcast for $100m in row over 'worthless' repair plans

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Weasel words

Translation: "We're guilty, we're not sorry and we won't be held to account for it."

New US spy satellite in orbit

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Really, if any extraterrestrials stumbled on earth and took a look, they would just shake their heads and continue on.

Flame Canada, flame Canada ... Botched govt payroll computers spew smoke ahead of probe

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Our tax money at work.

Incidentally, when are they going to consolidate the income tax collection department?

NASA peers through its SpeX: Aha! Jupiter's globe-warming hotspot

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Can't they spend a little more time studying earth's atmosphere? Weather forecasts here are wildly inaccurate. They've gone to 'probabilities' now which basically says, 'we don't know, stick your head out the window'. At least on Jupiter the forecast is always 'storm' and 100% accurate.

Harrison Ford's leg, in the Star Wars film, with the Millennium Falcon door

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""The safety of our cast and crew was always a top priority throughout the production," a Foodles spokesperson said."

Until this incident anyway.

Zen loses its chill: UK biz ISP falls offline for four hours and counting

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Re: Argggh

Pointing fingers is a long-time tradition in this industry.

Forget your RTO*: Real world Disaster Recovery needs garbage bags and bubble wrap

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Olaf should get his PhD in moving IT gear.