* Posts by Arachnoid

1076 publicly visible posts • joined 17 May 2012

Control panel backdoor found in D-Link home routers

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As for the WPS button

Hmmm the article I recall stated you could log on to the wifi regardless of if the key was pressed as the software in question scans for a relevant key for the system,

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Press to connect

Well since the BT device is supplied with the ever so friendly press to connect button which has been shown to be a digger size security hole all in itself,you should be fine getting a wifi connection,

Murdoch calls for world+dog to 'expose' Google

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Maybe its his memory thats fading

Trial by media seems to be his favorite editorial stance

McDonalds tells fatties to SUPERSIZE THEIR BRAINS

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Only four books?

Thats barely a weeks supply of burgers for some familys

GTA players get ersatz $0.5m each to make up for delayed hooker-beating fulfilment

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Characters disapearing from the game?

Sounds like a hit man at work, someone call the cops!

Apple bags top Windows feature: Blue Screen Of Death arrives on iPhone 5S

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1% of 365

So I guess you dont mind being unable to access your phone around 3.5 days a year?

Wheels literally FALL OFF solar race contender

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Mushroom

No need for a wheel

If they had invented an sun powered hover board instead

Microsoft: We're nearly OUT OF STOCK of Surface 2 and Pro 2

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Thumb Down

Nearly sold out

Phew that`ll save me having to buy one then.

Beat this, cloud giants! Musk rocket flings 1TB hard drive into SPAAACE

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If they could be networked

They could potentially stream packets from one to the other then to destination in a respectfully faster period.

Hundreds of hackers sought for new £500m UK cyber-bomber strike force

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Here we go again.......

Politicians discussing and making promises on a subject they have clearly been shown to know little about.At this rate it will either be Dole-ies army or Granddads pre-retirement army that will be defending our cyber boundrys.

Boffins have constructed a new LIGHT SABRE. Their skills are complete

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So all one needs.......

Is a good pair of insulated oven gloves and your good to go save the Universe

British Gas robo home remote gets itself into hot water

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Combi boilers v Old Boilers

Combi boilers are like any other tech you get the "cheap and cheerful" end and the "dearer, works better,higher spec and lasts longer type".Ergo you go for a low spec system you get more maintenance and repair bills.As for efficiency you would be lucky to get in the range of 30-40% from an older type boiler whereas a newer well built and maintained boiler can get over 70% efficiency.

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so being able to turn the heating and hot water on when I left for home

Combi boilers have instant hot water ergo don't waste unused energy storing hot water in a systern tank which leaks energy to the surrounding room or heating unused water.Sounds like you would be better investing into a new system with higher boiler efficiency than in this "toy".

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Wasting more money on energy

Another ploy for making money by telling the customer they need to interact with their home environment even when they are not there.For the softies who don't like coming home to a cold house set the clock correctly [OOH there a good way of making extra money lets have an app for that too].

I work 12 hours shifts days and nights,its not that hard to turn it off before I go out or on when I come in so stop making a big deal out of it.

Google's latest PRIVACY MELTDOWN: Web chats sent to WRONG people

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Occupant

Was it from your local energy supplier?

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Err.........

No wonder the girlfriends husband thought I was coming on to him.......

On a serious note does the protocol also shunt all messages direct to the NSA too?

Sofas with a roof and Star Trek seating: The future of office furniture?

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Star Trek furniture,

I guess his future is certain to contain lots of futuristic locks and jewelery

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Claustrophobia

Hmm......I can see people having issues with those small spaces,either that or the background music floating round the office of someone snoring

BLAST OFF! Antares launches Cygnus on commercial cargo test mission

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They turned it off and back on again

They cycled the on-board energy load systems

IT bloke denies trying to shag sheep outside football ground

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Buy it an iPhone?

All the sheep already have i Phones,ipads and ipods so technology isnt going to save them.Maybe there should be a wellie embargo and whoever said no ewes is good news never talked to a ram.

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Was it a wool jumper?

"who attended court wearing a brown suit and turquoise jumper"

It always makes me wonder why people attending court are described by the clothes they wear

Nokia Lumia 625: Quality budget 4G phone ... but where's UK's budget 4G?

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Holmes

4G......wait for the competition to enter the market

There are openings shortly in the 4G market so I believe, hence EEs [Orange] push to sell it to as many customers as possible before rivals launch similar services.As for 3G for me it looks like it might have been dialed down a tad since its inception, much like HD quality the reception seems to me anyway to have suffered.

BlackBerry's Heins readies the hatchet yet again

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Im sure MS

Would be interested in the extra security Blackberry uses

Mach 8 Scramjet flies but sends no data

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Back up data

Looks like they need a stronger black box

Google driver flees after Street View car crashes

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Holmes

Smile please...........

Well there will be no shortage of evidence in those cases Watson

THE TRUTH about beaver arse milk in your cakes: There's nothing vanilla about vanilla

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Taking the Pee

Gland secretions are also an expensive additive used in perfumery so why does it surprise some people its available as a food additive.I'm sure if food manufacturers could make something from urine they would endevour to give it a "naturally produced" label.

Apple beckons fanbois back into its golden era... of, er, 2010

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Holmes

So you can install older bug ridden software with possible security issues [after all thats what updates are for]......I wonder what people would have said if MS had offered this

LOHAN hero playmonaut STRANDED on Spanish mountain

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I think any future Legonoughts need issuing with his own personal inflatable rescue balloon and flashing beacon so that they might escape any further earthward bound crisis

NSA spooks tooled up with zero-day PC security exploits from the FRENCH

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Know you enemy

and the tools he might use against you

Chap unrolls 'USB condom' to protect against viruses

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Of course if I were the unscrupulous sort.........

Id provide freely available "charger stations" or even modify some one elses free system such as at an airport, then tap into the devices as they were connected

Flying in the US? Remember to leave your hand grenades at home

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Even criminals are capable of licensing workrounds

Tell me why I don't like Moon days: Bob Geldof heads into SPAAACE

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Space but not as we know it Jim

Then hes more likely to make it into space on the Simpsons then

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It had to be said

Just another old rock floating around space

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Drum roll............

And direct from Space hosted by the renown Sir Bob Geldolph our first Charity Telethon

Brazilian TV show accuses NSA of spying on oil firm based on leaked docs

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Look out Brazil your next on the Marine Corps must visit list

Vulture 2 spaceplane rises from the powdered nylon

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Strength?

I wonder how strong these components are compared with a standard extruded plastic component ,of course both of a less intricate design?

David Attenborough warns that humans have stopped evolving

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we started being able to rear 95-99 per cent of our babies that are born

I guess he meant only in the overfed Western world and not the undernourished country's

Boris Johnson floats idea of 'London visa' to attract tech talent

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Im surprised London doesn't charge an entry fee

To keep the rest of us Brits out ...........OH they do!

Its called the congestion charge,mind they need to make up a new name for that as it clearly doesn't fit the purpose for which it was introduced.Hmmm it now sounds like something a Government department would think up.

Seagate parades spinning skinny model to oust flash from fondleslabs... almost

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For extra storage

It is possible to have a wifi enabled hard drive and stream it yourself or if your tablet supports it connect via usb but given the suggestion was about camping, I was thinking that this was supposed to be back to nature and away from modern technology,work and head aches type of holiday.

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One really has to ask

Why take this backward step when solid states main advantage apart from low power consumption, is the lack of moving parts ?

Pulse-taking ticker tech cuff to sniff out cash-snafflers

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Sponsored by

Your ever friendly local NSA tracking system

Microsoft says axed certificates were FAILING its software biz

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I understand your point but........

To me your both seem to be approaching the problem from a different direction,they are designing a new car from scratch whilst you are trying to if you`ll excuse the amateur vernacular to "pimp your ride".

Kamikaze Moon mission on track as NASA grips its tumbling LADEE

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RIAA alert!

I hope they have copyright on that film

Microsoft does a U-turn, releases Windows 8.1 to developers early after all

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Just in time

For the next price hike

Put down the (cod)piece and step away: Artist cuffed after sculpture cockup

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View the video

And see the state of his face after the altercation

http://metro.co.uk/2013/09/08/artists-steel-penis-shaped-bullets-get-him-beaten-up-by-security-guards-3954516/

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A total over reaction

Come on guys to rough someone up like this is pure knee jerking overkill its not like he took it out and threatened anyone.

Assange fails in bid for election to Australian Senate

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And I thought

English Politics was weird at times but these Aussies have beat us to the ashes yet again

Vote NOW to name LOHAN doomsday box

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Heuston

For when you have a problem

BT doles out measly 2GB to customers in Dropbox-alike BT Cloud

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Erm...............not quite

You currently have 2GB of BT Cloud storage included with your BT Broadband. Want more space? You can choose to take a new contract for your BT Broadband and we'll upgrade you to 50GB of BT Cloud Storage at no extra cost.

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Pirate

BT offering does look pretty poor.

Yea you cant upload many fil...............family images on 2GB

On a serious not its a paltry amount given whats available already and could only really be used for relatively minor priority storage