* Posts by Arachnoid

1076 publicly visible posts • joined 17 May 2012

Internet of Stuff: Cleaner washing, more milk ... fewer COW FARTS?

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Maybe its human intervention

On the animals natural diet thats causing the excess gas problem,incidentally how does one actually measure a reduction in green cow gas [grass]?

LA air traffic meltdown: System simply 'RAN OUT OF MEMORY'

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Mushroom

I suspect alien intervention

Watch out for Vogons any time soon

Nuclear reactor sysadmin accused of hacking 220,000 US Navy sailors' details

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Had he been

In the NSA instead of the US Navy it would have been all above board

Cold War spy aircraft CRASHED Los Angeles' air traffic control

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Facepalm

Didnt you get

A High pitched collision alarm [sounds a bit like a female screaming]?

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Given its a stealth designed aircraft

It sounds like the system misinterpreted the feedback provided from external sensors which is exactly what the plane is designed to do.Maybe they forgot to add the "Its just a Spyplane" plug in to deal with such circumstance.

McAfee chap is back in crypto-wrap chat app back flap

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Alternatly for security

TextSecure

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcrime.securesms#

Red Phone

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcrime.redphone

HALF of London has outdated Wi-Fi security, says roving World of War, er, BIKER

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FAIL

only allows specified MACs to connect

MAC Blocking is not a security method to rely on.

As for the original story Id be more impressed by the report if they had actually tried to access some of the insecure systems and proved the point rather than relying on supposition.

PARTY TIME! MIT slips $100 to each student ... in Bitcoin

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not as an investment opportunity.

So its going to be unlike the normal currency exchange rates that fluctuate by the hour due to said investment opportunists.

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$100

YEA!...........Poker night

El Reg Quid-A-Day Nosh Posse crawls towards finish line

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Addidtionally

The raising of Chickens,Rabbits,Wild fowl and Pigs which can live off your scraps or natural resources whilst providing much needed protein [at the appropriate time] or in the Chickens case on a daily basis.

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You should use chopsticks

It makes the food seem to last longer and gives you time to digest properly.........Just kidding you'll still be starving. makes you wonder how the Viet Cong ever lasted so long on just rice and a few additives.

British Gas 'in talks' to outsource tech services desk, whispers insider

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Thjis has nothing to do with

No but it has to do with the ethos imagery of being a totally "British" company

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And only here yesterday

The radio advert for BG was extolling the expertise of its "British" Gas engineers

Shocking 'new iPhone' is also - BZZZZT!! - a Taser-like stun gun

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These are prison issue version

Then if found up the usual crevices the warden just turns them on till fully discharged

Please work for nothing, Mr Dabbs. What can you lose?

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Joke

Ten miutes...........

You'll never make a living as an IT journalist at that rate

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On a side note isnt it funny..........

How those on "hours as required" paid employers hate us "hourly paid" bods asking for overtime payments for work they want us to do in our own time and for free.

Oh its only this [insert highly descriptive content] and it'll only take you ten minutes [Note to self: gasp and insert expletive along description of bulls gonads]

eBay cops $3bn tax bill after moving its profits back onshore

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Time to buy shares in US internet companys

Sounds like they are buying something of high value in the US.........

NASA's Curiosity rover set to give Mars its third hard drilling

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Re: Suspicious

Its not cracked its a designer crackle finish

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Martian wurzels?

According to the author he was looking to make it ooll-la

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/14/how-we-made-war-worlds-wayne-essex

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Holmes

So lazers at dawn.........

Id suggest we watch the skys for any kind of retaliation it looks like the movies are wrong we attacked first.......

OOOH ARRGH.......Suddenly the top began moving, rotating, unscrewing, and Ogilvy feared there was a man inside, trying to escape. he rushed to the cylinder, but the intense heat stopped him before he could burn himself on the metal.

"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one," he said.

"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one - but they still

come!"........OOOH ARRGH..

And the books free on Amazon in kindle version if you want to know the outcome

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-War-Worlds-H-G-Wells-ebook/dp/B00B0X3SUK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398868646&sr=8-1&keywords=war+of+the+worlds

Grad student creates world's thinnest wires – just three atoms wide

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Re: Moore's law

Typical Scientist its not so much his work that hes remembered for but an off the cuff remark

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Joke

Re: But being a bloke....

Well thats a tom and a Dick all we need now is Harry

BBC hacks – tweet the crap out of the news, cries tech-dazzled Trust

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Rutland........

The stink your smelling is the smoke from well matured virgin rolled cigars clasped in the mouths of the old boy network, heartily clapping themselves on the back for doing such a good job getting political allies to bank roll them for another year.

As for the Dictionary I think the word "Free" needs a new definition......

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BBC Stop just Stop!

Stop regurgitating other people news stories and make your own

Stop taking the side of a particular party and report the news as is

Stop pretending all your audience are upper to middle class

Stop being so polite during interviews we want the hard truth not some tribal whimpering pandering

Stop pretending its your money your spending and not the license payers

Stop having an upper class Eton/Cambridge attitude to everyone else

Marauding quid-a-day nosh hack menaces teepee hippie villages

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Chickens

Have you thought about keeping the fowl animals or even ducks or rabbits as they will eat your left overs quite merrily [or not if you a bad cook] and at a predetermined time get to join you at the dining table providing your wind laden diet with much needed nutrition

White House to world: We don't hoard IT security vulnerabilities

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These are not vulnerabilities

They are merely undisclosed access points used by three letter agencies to mine valuable data in their fight against [fill in the enemy of your choice].

Kingston DataTraveler MicroDuo: Turn your phone into a 72GB beast

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MicroSD

Trouble is some phones and tablets like my HTC One and Nexus 7 both excellent devices,are internal memory only.So its not just the fruit bearing variety that have this design issue.

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Re: I don't get it. Can someone answer if you have one?

Nope its just a standard USB drive with two ends one standard and one micro if you were to plug a.n.other drive into it you would need an adapter and the software may have issues recognizing the second drive.

My issue with this type of drive is the poor protection they have on the connection side after all its banging around with keys and change in your pocket all day.

Lost your credit card PIN? No worries! Get a new one - over SMS

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So........

Why dont they use the software app many customers install on mobiles for accessing accounts to transmit the updated pin as this is a secure [at least partially] method of transmission being behind a pin of its own?

MtGox chief Karpelès refuses to come to US for g-men's grilling

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100% of the rights afforded them by law

And whos actual law would that be not American by any chance as non-doms are because of their country of origin not protected by the same set of rules as US citizens?

Rounded corners? Pah! Amazon's '3D phone has eye-tracking tech'

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3D laptop

I saw a display of this at the recent show at Birmingham and the viewer really needed to be central to the screen and at a certain distance to appreciate the true 3D image.Off to the side it looked like one of those funky out of synch over layed images.

Ex-Tony Blair adviser is new top boss at UK spy-hive GCHQ

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Minister for Security

I wonder what he keeps in his portfolio?

A black box for your SUITCASE: Now your lost luggage can phone home – quite literally

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No your holding it wrong........

You just need an audio device that when it gets bumped shouts in a clearly foreign accent " Take me to Greece "

NASA to unsheath giant asteroid space probe

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So........

Space Intruder Detector ......Gerry Anderson would be proud

GoPro's new lens: Like a GOOGLE STREETMAPS car... for your life

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geonaute.com

Yea theres also a ball type device you throw up in the air and at its apogee it snaps a 360 image

http://jonaspfeil.de/ballcamera

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So........

A reinvention of a device thats been around since film cameras, are you sure theyre not partnered by a certain well known fruit company?

Windows 8.1, which you probably haven't upgraded to yet, Already obsolete

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FAIL

So........

From giving patches to one and all [even unlicensed version of windows] to prevent mass internet mayhem we have now decided to give it to the few who do have a valid license.Lets see how long that one runs its course.

Nokia offers 'voluntary retirement' to 6,000+ Indian employees

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one-day hunger strike

They missed their one hour lunch break so production went up 10% that day

Brit boffins use TARDIS to re-route data flows through time and space

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Data transportation

Much like the post you`ll know its been sent but not sure when it will arrive unless you stick an overpriced stamp on it.

ROBONAUT to find feet after Monday ISS supply mission

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Limbs

Im surprised at how small the attachments are on the "legs" I know space is weightless but they seem awful small to take a lot of stress as the robot climbs around.And as previous posts I would have thought a multi limbed device much like a spider with at least three anchor points thus two are always attached to stop the robot twisting during point changes.

Bendy or barmy: Why your next TV will be curved

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Given we normally look up to wall mounted screens

Should they not be parabolic and curve from top to bottom too if the hyperbole is anything near the truth?

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Connections

Id be more impressed if they designed a decent remote connection dock for all the cabling instead of having it all hanging off either the back or the side of the screen.Something with a small easily concealable flat cable that connected to the screen from several meters away thus eradicating the need for everything to connect directly.

Windows XP is finally DEAD, right? Er, not quite. Here's what to do if you're stuck with it

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haven't applied patches for years / ever. Nor have they been hacked.

And they know this how, rats are by their very nature virtually undetectable?

Seriously i wouldn't be surprised if a "large security hole" suddenly appears very soon and is massively publicized by an allegedly MS sponsored media outlet.

'I like big butts and I cannot lie, hackers take Pinterest on a joyride'

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Weight

Comes to something when they start attacking fluffy cats

Reg tries out Google's Chromecast: Yep, we even tested smut sites

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Tried it already

Seems to have issues when you want to change content even on an android tablet and it can at times lose connection to your tablet so you have no control at all over the dongle which carries on playing.

Setting up I had connection issues the device just wouldn't connect to the BT router and responses read via internet trawling didn't look promising.I resolved the issue by disabling the password requirement to the router successfully connected the device then after re enabling it the device worked fine with the password requirement ......why it didn't in the first place is a mystery.

As has already been stated it needs more support from other vendors I guess its akin to a new Windows version in that requirement.

CIA hacked Senate PCs to delete torture reports. And Senator Feinstein is outraged

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Dear Customers

It is with regret that due to adverse external interference the company formally known as the CIA is required to modify some system data to protect you and you beloved country from serious harm.Unfortunately it may noticed that the system has a slight lag whilst accessing some files with the new improved search engine but this will soon clear up once corrupt data eradication is complete.

Please ensure to file in the attached customer satisfaction survey so that we may provide a better service to you in the future should you still be in office.Please disable your locally installed anti virus whilst opening the file as it may corrupt the contents and prevent your survey fully opening.

SACRILEGE! Hitchhiker's Guide game's back ... and it TWEETS at you

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McDonalds

Modeled after the Restaurant at the end of the universe possibly

Police pen shortage threatens Irish public order

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the sleeves are a bit too long?

That would be your day coat ,nor does it come with a pen pocket so put it back this instant...........Im waiting to sign on when you're finished.

'Hacked docs' prove MtGox has 1 MILLION Bitcoins, claim blog-snatchers

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The Bankers 1 BitCoin 0

The nations bankers are now cosied up in their vast gold plated counting houses gleefully rubbing their hands cackling gleefully "Our dastardly plan worked!"

Show more Canadian made porn, insists Canadian government

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So.........

More mounted Mounties for Canada I wonder if they`ll make it an Olympic game