* Posts by Known Hero

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Unhappy

Common people, I'm going to need some closure here !!!

British booter bandit walks free after pleading guilty to malware sales

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Unhappy

Re: Way too soft a sentence

better yet lets keep in line with a 1.5 million fine for downloading 24 songs!!!

Going to agree though its not life threatening to attack computer until it kills somebody :/

London to Dover 'smart' road could help make driverless cars mainstream – expert

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better start

Why dover to london ?

would not the M25 be a better choice.

What's all this? Welcome to The Register's News Bytes

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Re: Keeping paid articles on the top of the page?

I would have to be wrong to be trolling.

Known Hero

from bad to worse .....

Is this a challenge, how far do we push users before they leave ?

You know the format you used to get millions of readers, Guess what change that format millions of readers are not so interested. They came because they liked what they saw, change what they see they will leave.

our new channel for delivering breaking news, live event coverage, and alerts Keeping paid articles in view at the top of the page, to you.

Hey -- what is that oddball box on the left?

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yet ... this will be reserved for sponsored articles shortly enough.

if it were for breaking news stories I am still wondering why google bricking people's home automation still isn't on this site !!!

Waiting for your Oculus to arrive? Yeah, it's going to be some time

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Re: Be careful who you let use this

This is EXACTLY the reason people got so Fucking pissed off when facebook purchased oculus.

Well at least somebody has a couple of billion to sit on till they die :( instead of creating and managing THE next big thing in gaming.

Samsung kind of cracks the 10nm barrier with new 8GB DDR4 slabs

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Im not sure why this happened

But in my mind I can see Ram engineers practicing building ram, by building redstone circuits as compact as possible. The smaller the better.

I think I need to go have a cup of tea .....

Microsoft account-hijacking hole closed 48 hours after bug report

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well you say fixed...

But people are so adamant about not updating their Windows OS ?!

FAA doubles Section 333-exemption drone ceiling to 400 feet

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Joke

they only count if your flying over water !

Intel flops out 3D flash SSDs – and says they're the densest ever

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Paris Hilton

missing information ..

Intel says that its 3D NAND delivers ~1.3X faster read and write times.

than ......

A duck paddling backwards upstream a small river.

A car overtaking a cyclist.

Samsung 3d Nand

Google tried to be funny, cocked it up, everyone thought it was a bug

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What a useful feature.

Please could we have this implemented properly after April 1st !!!

*wheres my Mic drop icon ?

You can't dust-proof a PC with kitchen-grade plastic food wrap

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filtered !!!

Once replacing computers at Novartis, we pulled a production computer that was internally caked in 2" worth of various drugs in dust format. Machine worked fine though to its credit considering how good a insulator all that powder must of been.

Safe to say that went outside very quickly and was pushed off a cart with a long broom handle, whilst we stood round nervously chortling at the clouds of dust billowing away.

Really should of recorded it :/

Spanish launch heroic bid to seize Brit polar vessel

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Re: Offended by Blas de Lezo...

@yag, its to "cause offence".

They intentionally picked it to rub somebodies nose in it, boaty mcboatface, is just a bit of fun with no intention to piss somebody off.

They could of had both removed and called it a day, but suprised & happy they left both in the running :)

Met police commissioner: Fraud victims should not be refunded by banks

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Re: Refunds hide fundamentally insecure system

in other news, Contactless fraud up by two thirds

Govt: Citizens, we know you want 10Mbps. This is the last broadband scheme for that

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Re: No wonder it's rubbish...

Makes sense to me, The internet is just a bunch of pipes !?!?

PC World's cloudy backup failed when exposed to ransomware

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Re: "years of work and important documents"

There I fixed that for you.

If your stuff is important, then the onus is on you to make sure it is Backed up to a backup device.

This lady went to the store to get Advice and a computer, was informed that this was the best backup solution available.

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Missing Information

I presume that PC world could easily provide a list of what files were uploaded when, just check the file size and when it was last changed.

Without them providing that most basic evidence I just flat out refuse to believe them.

What to call a £200m 15,000-tonne polar vessel – how about Boaty McBoatface?

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Re: merchandising pays expenses

NAIL - HEAD - TARGET ACQUIRED

'Hot Tech Talent' IT job board ads caught up in sexism allegations

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FAIL

Both men and women pictured,

People only bitching about sexism against women. (See icon)

Boffins find a way to put your facial expression on Donald Trump's mug

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Re: I hope it's *main* result will be to teach people to believe *nothing* digital

So back to believing what the press tell us ???

*puts down The Sun & Daily Mirror ;)

Swede builds steam-powered Raspberry Pi. Nowhere to plug in micro-USB, then?

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Paris Hilton

Re: Fun project

Ìs that a suggestion or a warning not to google or do?

Known Hero

Fun project

I really do admire what people can do :)*

*other times I'm quite horrified !!

Apps that 'listen in' to your mobile get slapped by US watchdog

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Re: Ah yes. Targetted advertising

Yeah this behaviour always beffudled me as well.

I just purchased a Dash cam, researched it and purchased within 2 evenings. Now for the next 6 months I am going to get lots of ads for ... OH WAIT I don't get ads hahahahahahahaha

Swedish publishers plan summer ‘Block Party’ to thwart ad blockers

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Re: 'The End of Free'

I dunno man, I host a bunch of websites for people out of my own pocket. I dont need to advertise on them. Its a service I am providing.....

Piss off with the free or nothing campaign, It's not that expensive to host a website. A few games sites that I go to rack in over 3k per month in donations, also not 1 ad in sight !!

The main issue these people have is that people are not prepared to pay for 90% of the content out there. They will look at it if it is free, but actually pay for it ..... Not a chance.

Ad blocks will only weed out the crap sites that rely on forcing ads in your face. And good bloody riddance !

New Anti Tracking browser from Ex Mozilla co-founder

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I wuold never do that !!! I'm too honest.

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Did pop it in twiice to ensure it was intentional,

Known Hero

think you might want to add ATM, to all your comments though, remember how fast FF used to be !!!

Kinda wish there was a import manager and spellchek though, spelcheck would be nice !

Known Hero

Feels more like firefox, which doesnt suprise me much, due to icons & layout used.

But first impressions are blistingrly fast speed, The ad blocking is a bit hit an miss at the moment, but i suppose that is to be expected in such a new product. Would of loved a way to import settings from another browser to make trying it out much easier.

In regards to the coding side, i am afraid I am not qualified to comment. But happily accept your statment as an informed guide. The tracking protection I have no idea how good it is, as i never worried to much about being tracked on the web (no downvotes plz I just dont care) But the incessant ads plastering my screen I find highly irratating.

Obviously only time will tell. but did think you chaps would appreciate the concept behind it.

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New Anti Tracking browser from Ex Mozilla co-founder

Well worth taking a look at,

https://www.brave.com/

First impressions equate to silly fast browsing and good ad blocking. If it's able to keep bloat out this will easily be my browser of choice.

also interestingly they are planning to add micro-payments for sites that block ads, but done off a donation system.

AdBlock replaced blocked ads with ads for Amnesty International

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Trollface

Wehey!!! 2 feet 1 bullet !!!

Not only are you campaingning against censorship (kinda your business model), You do so Via censorship !!

My irony meter just sploded !!!

You say I mustn’t write down my password? Let me make a note of that

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Really dick move. But unfortunately he had a point, and I bet its backed up now ;)

Flash – aaah-aarrgh! Patch now as hackers exploit fresh holes

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Can we just save everybody alot of time and effort

And just sticky this news story to the front page and leave it, removes dates and specifics apart from "adobe flash" and your good to go.

Ad-slinger Opera adds ad-blocking tech to its browser

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Alert

Ok I apologise if it seems like spamming, just posted on the forums regarding a new browwser from Ex mozilla founder, based on this concept.

They have just released a new browser designed to block ads and protect privacy from the ground up.

if your interested http://www.brave.com

Best Fail I have seen in a while !!!

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Ahh not negative per say, but feedback would be nice if they read the email.

But that said, I have no idea how many emails they receive per day so could just be that they have to many to realistically reply to.

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Brings a whole new meaning to Bare metal systems :D

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I was going to submit is as a news tip, but they have never written up on one I posted before before or even given me feedback.

When the same story is written that I have sent in they have never thanked me for the tip in the article so assume they found it themselves.

So rather then let the electrons go to waste via email. I ensured some of you would be able to see it :D

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FAIL

Best Fail I have seen in a while !!!

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/561041-980ti-darwin-awards-help/?page=1

The comments are worth a read as well :)

Microsoft: Ditch your phone biz and do crazy hardware experiments

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while it looks for ways of getting people to write Universal apps.

Well if the Hololens takes off in anyway, Boom job done ! Universal apps will run over *all devices !!

*In theory :D

Fifth time's the charm as SpaceX pops satellite into orbit

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Re: Failure IS an option

Or you're just that damned good ! ;)

Vendor rep 'Stinky Sam' told to wash and brush teeth or lose job

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I found it hard to follow, and just read till the end for the conclusion.

Maybe its because its still before 12

Raspberry Pi 3: Four days old and already flying

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Unhappy

Still trying to find that one for under £25 you reported on the other day.

BBC telly tax drops onto telly-free households. Cough up, iPlayer fans

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I wonder how it will pan out if you only watch netflix which if any BBC content is there has already been paid for?

This is basically a tax on anybody who can receive Iplayer content. I am quite happy to ditch BBC altogether, only shows I watched were Dr Who & Top Gear, both of which I can happily live without, Will I be given a chance ??? I doubt it very much !

Ad-blockers are a Mafia-style 'protection racket' – UK's Minister of Fun

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Shoot yourself in the foot your going to have to live with the consequences.

Advertisers knew this was coming and did nothing to stop the runaway train.

Ofcom should be the BBC's ultimate overlord, UK.gov told

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Big Brother

This is so you don't find out its secretly the BBC that have been pushing for all the new housing and pulling in immigrants with false promises on their world service. They do this so that they can generate more TV license fee's !!! Soon they are going to take over and mindwipe everyone in their own homes !!!

Hack the planet, er, Pentagon: US Dept of Defense puts bounties on bugs

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Q: Well were not allowed to spy on everybody all the time now, what do we do?

A: I know !! Lets get people to sign themselves up to our watch list :)

Raspberry Pi 3 to sport Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE – first photos emerge

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Re: £25

so as stated not quite £25. adding VAT to the cheapest price = £31.66

So not £25 at all really. £30 is the best we can get from a reseller :/

$17 smartwatch sends something to random Chinese IP address

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what's wrong with IOT they have 25 different standards to pick from !!

More and more Brits are using ad-blockers, says survey

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Re: Same here

Trust in a brand is not equated to advertising.

I would attribute trust in a brand to past experience and judgement of that brand by my peers.

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apposite

My new word for the day, I like it :) Many thanks.

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