* Posts by peter

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Defamation lawsuit seeks to unmask anonymous cowards

peter

Like the article says

Log it from RAM and bill it to legal.

If you want to play a game of threatening to rape someone then when you next come back, "no logging" will have been changed to logging everything possible. SO the next comment you make won;t be quite as anon as you thought, and you won;t even know about it.

Simple case of doing what you can post instead of pre.

For sale: Herman Munster's MasterCard number

peter

Verify

The real money is just doing a man in the middle online banking scam. You pass on the details entered by the user onto the banks site in real time, and then log them into the account once you verify you can log in. They get to bank as normal and you can sell the account to market pre tested.

Bot nets probably allow you a 10 thousand attemps assuming the bank don't ban you on if you make a couple of mistakes, as real people often do.

But like the comment above, if the banks were to monitor false details injected intot eh scam they could take down phishers really fast.

I guess the record high of card fraud using Chip & Pin is the same man in the middle where 200 petrol stations just grabbed the pin and card details while allowing the transaction to go through as normal.

Yahoo!'s pink liberation army a threat to America's youth

peter

Satirical

It has to be satire, Tom Cruise has sued and won $10,000,000 for a false story and also lost other cases but not before both sides run about $100,000 legal fees.

DrinkorDie warez leader jailed for 51 months

peter

Got to say well done

If US Customs really did catch a DOD member who wasn't in security terms suicidal or self destructive then "congratz" as the WOW peoples say. Nice work.

Registration open for reality TV style Mars mission trial

peter

Spys Like Us

Lol

If his turns out to be like that Channel 4 space program then Endomol have just made the sickest reality TV program in history. Say you get 100,000 subscribers each week with a £4.99 price tag you could fund this for real, or something.

Czech authorities report bird 'flu at turkey farm

peter

Lost or Damaged

You know Royal Mail will lose it.

Ebuyer in hard-drive warranty debacle

peter

Return Costs

You don't have to pay return postage if the goods are not as described, this isn't the DSR. Just cancel the payment (if you can) and advise the goods are available for collection at a reasonable time, you are not using a cooling off period to return them.

UK invades California in cyber MMORPG wargame

peter

Crunching power

Why not put huge amounts of money into hardware/RISC for crunching/encrypting/compressing video and audio data like my cheapo camcorder that does h.264 low profile encoding on the fly. If as I imagine the streams with problems are mainly video & were using any one of the most outdated codecs there is; a guy in China is selling the solution for 60 bucks.

There is even a Nokia N95 phone fake, advertised as such for $60, which just shows how fast you can move with cheap technology.

US prof plans to send message back in time

peter

The first time

So the first time he runs the experiment successfully he will know if it works or not.

Plazes launches location-based blather

peter

Bubble

I bid $100,000,000 and a further trillion in stock options.

Jet-powered go-kart roars onto eBay

peter

Sadly

Sadly any conventional kart will beat it at speed accelration and braking, they are amazingly fast . LIke the post above, this thing would probably accelerate at the speed of an underpowered economy car. Much more fun to put a motorcycle engine on one.

http://www.ringmini.de/English_Version/GSXR_Kart/gsxr_kart.html

Two cuffed for harassing Dave the dolphin

peter

Calling Tiao

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire..

They were hitting and abusing Tiao even dragging him up the beach and sticking ice cream sticks in his blow hole. 2 life threatening propeller cuts and numerous Jet Ski incidents later.

Tiao killed one man causing massive internal hemorrhaging

Tiao took ou twenty nine other bathers with minor injuries

Tiao broke another mans ribs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/south/series1/lone-dolphins.shtml

http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf101/sf101b07.htm

Rwanda fires up Africa's 'biggest' solar plant

peter

Sahara (2005)

But are they dumping the nuclear waste !

Paris Hilton released for 'medical reasons'

peter

RE: Er...

"Is it possible that the very rich get life threatening illnesses too?"

That require the urgent treatment of being sent home?

Olympic promotional footage provokes epileptic fits

peter

Not recorded

I don't think the footage was a pirated cam of the opening. It looks much more like they supplied a copy to all the broadcasters, or perhaps the crowd were silently fitting on the floor below the sight line.

Of course the latest bingo word is "stimulating debate" so this scores top marks within the advertising/logo fraternity along with journalists, TV producers and the general media.

If we aren't watching the cow into steak on Real Food then its undercover webcam at the sainsburys deli or some airport security tat. Of course you can't be responsible or culpable for anything if it's all one big democratic debate because in the end we all had a fair say and then the Olympic Games went ahead just like this logo will.

Google feasts on FeedBurner

peter

Bubble

So Google only have to make $231 profit per publisher before they break even on 431,171 feeds. Google are trying to corner a market in advertising instead of reaching people to advertise to, adwords in feeds will be on the webpage showing the content anyway.

VCPoker.com busts on saucy ad campaign

peter

The Truth

"and that the more money they had, the greater the likelihood of sexual success"

Maybe if they lose, but the advert states winning not losing, so they would get more sex i reckon.

Endemol in 'win a kidney' TV show rumpus

peter

Inheritance Tax

If BB benfit from this it is surely illegal, you can't sell organs or try and get round it by holding a raffle or gifting or advertising sponsership. Just like trying to get round inheritence tax they should be able to get you without a lot of proof.

So I expect endomol to come up with a different more legal program after the inital publicity stunt starts to wane.

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive

peter

RE: very good, but where can I buy some?

They are at loads of places, even komplett has them for £229.95

RegisterFly domain transfer imminent, ICANN reports

peter

Err

Those chihuahuas, what grade were they?

UK arrest gives AllofMP3 touts the fear

peter

It's something else now

http://mp3sparks.com/ there are a couple of others as well, the problem with the net is you could carry the entire allofmp3 system in a suitcase, like a suitcase nuke but mp3 style.

Fancy a nuclear power station in your backyard?

peter

Nuts

I did get slightly excited at the idea of a four stack, twin-turbine, uranium-235 powered fission reactor. Perhaps more Top Gear and less Greenpeace style could help swing it, how many horsepower do these things get anyway.

Drive-by Wi-Fi 'thief' heavily fined

peter

Money maker

This sounds like a good way to make money with an unsecured access point, log the mac address and computer name and look out for those who haven't paid or bought something.

"Hi do you want to go to jail for 5 years? we can settle right now for cash"

London dirty-bomb tests start this weekend

peter

Easier Ways

It may be easier to use explosive than the more complex dirty bomb attacks but the only result needed is media coverage and that cost serious money. Probably serval million per hour on the cheaper channels, but even more for talking point and newspaper coverage.

So it is easier to blow up some home made explosive but if you want even more coverage you need a gas or radioactive angle, although it does seem close at the moment in media returns I think Iraq is an example of the lowering value of blowing yourself up. I harldy notice unless it's in the 30+ range (in a single attack of course) and the bbc don't report the under 12 dead anymore.

So yeah you need dirty bombs or something to get the media back.

Judge in tech trial says he 'doesn't know what a website is'

peter

Start from basics

As terrible as it is that the Judge didn't know what the trial was about, at least he explained his ignorance to the people. I would rather that than someone half guessing what is going on.

Amnesty backs Google shareholders

peter

Google Artist

Google create nothing, no web sites , no email systems, adwords was their only creation.

UK ID card costs climb £600m in six months

peter

Peanuts

I bet the VAT fraud at £7.4 Billion per quarter according to the BBC, is coming down nicely. A complex system like this would be great for those who can talk to the human beings who input data,

Clearing swap and hibernation files properly

peter

AOL

I use the freeware Heidi's eraser as mentioned above

http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php

I'ts been around for ages

Virgin throttles national cable network

peter

I would like to go

I want to leave Virgin but they gave me 10Mbit (confirmed from usenet downloads) by mistake on the 3 for £30 deal, also after calling Customer services during the Sky battle for compensation it totals £20.50 for all 3 packages including line rental.

Cigarette fire takes out Internet2

peter

The Dishwasher

We are all homeless until IPV6

Hot-air powered railway to harvest energy from cars

peter

It's all in the shape

You can get a human powered bycicle over 80mph, through streamlining with no other vehicles involved.

http://www.recumbents.com/wisil/whpsc2001/resultsSaturday.htm

Why not streamline cars for highway use and put a giant gyroscope and very thin tyres on them. That way rolling friction would be lowered and i could have a gyroscopic car with a teardrop shape.

Don't fear the gyroscope

Orange broadband trials error hijacking

peter

everyone should tunnel

I am with NTL and they run transparent proxies that mess up one or two sites all the time.

Running everything DNS, VOIP, Email, Web through a SSH tunnel to a remote proxy means they can't proxy it to save bandwidth, because the stream of data is encapsulated.

I have a constant tiny stream of compressed data going back and forth, fully secure and protected from Voip bans or port blocking, but comparitively massive bandwidth for movie downloads I levae up to them because the faster the better and I don't care what they do with it.

Also I can use any wireless connection i can find (legally of course) and it doesn't matter how monitors or sniffs it, of course a man in the middle ssh attack would work but they may as well just sit behind me for a simpler attack.

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