* Posts by Pid

4 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jul 2008

Microsoft enlists faceless girl band as face of Windows 7

Pid

Server: Not Windows, Apache 2.2.3 (CentOS)

I'm a PC and I invented Windows 7!

'Course I couldn't use it to run my promo websites... I have to run them on CentOS.

Das überdatabase: Inside Wacky Jacqui's motherbrain

Pid
Stop

"The data won't be intercepted..." Huh?

"This data won't be intercepted, but ISPs and telcos will provide it in real time from their own back end systems."

Won't this mean that each ISP will be able see what GCHQ is searching for?

Not a minor security issue that, I would think?

Who the hell are the imbeciles advising the Home Office? My Mum could do a better job...

Spy chiefs plot £12bn IT spree for comms überdatabase

Pid
Go

Can I stop paying for backup services then?

If big bro is storing all my emails, phone calls & texts, all I have to do is email (another personal account) my important files and they're instantly backed up.

The DPA says I can pay £10 for all the data an organisation stores about me, so all we need to do is lobby for rapid access to one's own stored data, right?

How to beat AVG's fake traffic spew

Pid
IT Angle

Pr0n Funnel

So the scanner pre-emptively grabs the content of URLs from pages in your browser?

How does it know when you don't want to download pr0n, just illegal media files on say a bittorrent site? (or vice versa). You would have a cache full of unwanted naughties, and an indefensible ISP log trail in no time at all.