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Hacktivists hammer Polish govt for backing ACTA

Wednesday 25th January 2012 12:40 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

And has the UK given our rights away ?

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ICANN snubs critics, opens domain extension floodgates

Thursday 12th January 2012 13:15 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Their searched for in the application process, and it's rejected if it's too similar.

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US killer spy drone controls switch to Linux

Thursday 12th January 2012 12:14 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Well, there aren't many cross platform virii, and as the vector was probably some idiot using a USB stick at home and work, this should help.

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Hubble shows images from record-breaking 13.1 billion light-years

Tuesday 10th January 2012 21:07 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

If you squint, you can just make out a tiny little arrow saying 'you are here'.

#h2g2

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Duff Russian Mars probe spotted flying in reverse

Sunday 8th January 2012 14:57 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

That's the sort of mission that gave us the broken STS design, then the US chickened out and never actually did a less-than-one-orbit snatch and grab.

Sigh.

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Satnav mishap misery cure promised at confab

Friday 6th January 2012 11:07 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

If the makers made it cost less than the cost of a new sat nav to update it, that might help things...

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Ad slingers - obeying EU snoop code is NOT GOOD ENOUGH

Thursday 5th January 2012 15:00 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Apparently http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices can't contact Google as well as a bunch of others.

Does it work for anyone else?

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Nokia Ace to launch from $100m mountain of ad cash

Wednesday 4th January 2012 13:31 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Too little, too late ? They might spend a fortune with a company, who will in return put it up-front, but if it sucks they'll still become luke warm to the idea of free money soon enough.

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Asus asked to decrypt Eee tablet bootloader

Tuesday 3rd January 2012 20:48 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

The point is the trade off between the expected increase in returns and support costs vs. the the time and effort to produce a locked loader.

Different companies decide on different sides of the line, but I'll only buy from the freedom side.

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Samsung Series 9 900X3A laptop

Tuesday 3rd January 2012 20:40 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Please stop writing '802.11n' if you mean '802.11b/g/n'

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New Chinese space plans are all about security and strategy on Earth

Friday 30th December 2011 16:26 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Propaganda ?

So how much of that can they really deliver ?

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Blocking Twitter, Facebook during riots not such a hot idea - MPs

Friday 23rd December 2011 12:02 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

It's for your own protection, citizen. Totally different.

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Nissan Leaf battery powered electric car

Thursday 22nd December 2011 12:05 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

http://...?page=-1

I smell kludge !

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Asda knocks 20 quid off Kobo WiFi

Tuesday 6th December 2011 14:29 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Maybe you should have held the story till then then :-)

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Tuesday 6th December 2011 14:04 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Full fail compliant

No results listed for it : http://direct.asda.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-ASDA-Site/default/Search-Show?q=kobo

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ESA gives up on duff Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt

Saturday 3rd December 2011 14:24 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Stick an extra PAM in the bay, if you are going up any way. Easy.

IF we'd bothered to build some nice cheap ion drive based robots for this sort of thing, so much the better, could even station them on IIS with an old school chemical pack for getting there quicker.

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Does your smartphone run Carrier IQ? Find out here

Friday 2nd December 2011 13:46 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Not on my newish HTC on Vodafone UK either.

I suspect the fact the EU actually has a proper data privacy law prevented any of them doing it.

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EU can't discriminate between public and private personal data

Tuesday 29th November 2011 09:31 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

What does this mean for cookies?

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NASA's nuclear laser tank will hunt down any life on Mars

Friday 25th November 2011 19:04 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Even though I get it's the only way, I will still be pleasantly surprised if it manages to work

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Galaxy Tab case tweaked to evade Germany ban

Thursday 17th November 2011 11:09 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Pics

ITYM http://allaboutsamsung.de/2011/11/das-galaxy-tab-10-1-ist-zuruck-als-galaxy-tab-10-1n-im-handel-erhaltlich/

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US stealth bombers finally get nuke-nobbling super bomb

Wednesday 16th November 2011 12:01 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

90 meters

You only have to collapse the entrance tunnel, vent shafts and the like...

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Dud Mars probe's explosion will spare Earth's cities

Monday 14th November 2011 12:18 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

And this is why we should send many cheap probes. The marginal cost of duplicating a probe once it's designed is small.

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B&N fans fondleslab flames following Kindle Fire

Monday 7th November 2011 16:41 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Pictures or it didn't happen.

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Maude: Open data is UK.gov's 'new way of operating'

Friday 4th November 2011 13:28 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

(m.)traintimes.org.uk seems to have problems getting the data...

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BBC iPlayer to require TV licence

Wednesday 2nd November 2011 14:28 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

No such thing as a Radio Licence though, in the sense of a TV Licence.

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Adventures in Tech: Taking the plunge into IPv6

Monday 31st October 2011 13:39 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

IPng

IPng ? Really ? Oh dear, the management is in...

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Dell Vostro V131 13.3in Core i5 notebook

Monday 31st October 2011 11:24 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Linux

So, what's Linux support like on it ? Everything works out of the box or ... ?

I remember when Dell uses to offer full support for Ubuntu on Latitudes...

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BT gets 14 days to block Newzbin2

Thursday 27th October 2011 12:01 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

"any other sites or end points it uses"

So BT has to block all of Tor now ? Really ?

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Winning new UK pylon design may never be used

Friday 14th October 2011 22:50 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

In other words

We#re going to have http://www.ribapylondesign.com/images/shortlist/P12_highres.jpg because it's most like the current ones.

What was the point of the competition ?!?

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Down but not out: Flash in an HTML5 world

Thursday 13th October 2011 14:51 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Umm

You didn't mention that Flash 11's 3D stuff isn't hardware accelerated on Linux, so it runs like a dog in software.

AIR3 is also not available for Linux.

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Microsoft pops Hadoop into SQL Server and Azure

Thursday 13th October 2011 13:25 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Backwards

"we want to make sure the code base of Apache stays compatible with what we will be offering"

No, it's up to Microsoft to be compatible with Apache. This could end badly.

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Users decide Fedora 17 will be 'Beefy Miracle'

Wednesday 12th October 2011 12:49 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Sadly KDE 4.7 is broken

The Kontact migration to the new backend is flaky and risks data loss (multiple bugs in KDE and Ubuntu trackers), KMail can't delete mail correctly (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282681) nor count folder contents or reliably mark them as read (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283272).

Ktorrent's UPNP support is also totally busted (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283335).

I could go on.

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Would you spend $300m to save 6ms?

Wednesday 12th October 2011 12:03 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

!Fiat

Never mind a Fiat at 75 mph, where's my Delorean at 88 gone !

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HP denies shipping TouchPad tablets with Android

Friday 7th October 2011 14:27 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

No complaints about the hardware or software from me, as one of the lucky ones.

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Can general relativity explain the OPERA neutrino result?

Friday 7th October 2011 13:41 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Wont work, one of the moving clocks is going the opposite way through the frame for a start, plus the random changes to the gravity field wont happen the same way to both.

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Here come hypervisors you can trust

Friday 7th October 2011 13:27 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Uh huh.

And where do the signatures come from ? Came I make them up so I can run my own code on the hardware I own ?

Or is this another attempt at TPM ?

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Future Firefox to slurp updates silently

Thursday 6th October 2011 14:55 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Like portable FireFox you mean?

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Thursday 6th October 2011 14:55 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

You missed the bit where this is now fixed, as FF checks plugins for if they touch changed code, and if they don't, allows them to run.

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Thursday 6th October 2011 13:29 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

This has nothing to do with enterprise or not.

Users can not be trusted to update their machines themselves, so the machine must do it for them. This applies to the O/S and all the apps, I'm looking at you Adobe/Oracle - do I really need to be told Yet Another Version is out ? Just do it !

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Unity: 'We'll make a terabit chip by 2014'

Thursday 6th October 2011 13:13 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Yeah, we only discover physics that's already there, not make new ones up. Unless you think Newton invented gravity ;-)

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Fedora 16: Linux home for lost Ubuntu GNOMEs

Wednesday 5th October 2011 12:44 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Well, apart from KMail folders being full of grey'ed out ghost messages.... https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276853

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Apple stuffs Intel desktop CPU into iPhone 4S ad

Tuesday 4th October 2011 20:20 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

or, just a thought

the ad company fucked up.

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Check your machines for malware, Linux developers told

Tuesday 4th October 2011 11:52 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

TPM protects software vendors from users, not users from themselves.

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Crazy square barcodes can point your phone to MALWARE

Monday 3rd October 2011 19:52 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

!serious

SO it's exactly the same risk/reward trade off as typing a random server URL from an advert into your phone.

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US lawmakers call for FTC probe of supercookies

Wednesday 28th September 2011 12:32 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

I have no idea what you are on about

'supercookies' ?

Couldn't you just use the real technical terms, given your audience ?

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HideMyAss defends role in LulzSec hack arrest

Monday 26th September 2011 13:47 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Bizarre

Why would the VPN company have any need to keep this information ? If they hadn't, sounds like they'd be on to a winner, and would have got a good story out of it. As it is, burnt !

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PC games to outsell console software in 2014

Friday 23rd September 2011 19:33 GMT Tom Chiverton 1

Console graphics don't need to improve. We're done there now. Gimme a good playable story with a difficulty where I can complete it instead of more lens flare or whatever the effect-of-the-month is that's chewing through idiots over-priced games PCs.

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