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Beyonce deserves that gTLD more than he does.
Posts by thomas k.
589 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Aug 2007
Kanye West: Yo, DNS... Imma let you finish, but this gTLD is one of the best of all time
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Microsoft: Even cheapo Lumias to get slimmed down Windows 10
The Interview? Kim Jong-Un, you really shouldn’t have bothered
Exit Interview: Sony Pics co-chair Amy Pascal flees 'Nork' hack studio
You gotta keep a smart watch on the Swiss, Apple: Enter SWATCH
Death becomes it: Grim Fandango Remastered
Attackers sling recent Flash 0day through 1800 domains
Wednesday 4th February 2015 09:34 GMT
But ... but ...
Hulu requires Flash! You want me to miss my shows?!
Tired of all these exploit stories, I went ahead and uninstalled Flash, only to discover Hulu needed it. So I downloaded and installed it again, through IE, and Hulu worked again *in IE*. But it didn't work on Firefox (and neither of the 2 Flash Player add-ons worked, either) so I had to download and install it again, through Firefox, to get it to work on that, too. Very strange.
Google boffins PROVE security warnings don't ... LOOK! A funny cat!
FCC sexes up, er, sextuples 'broadband' speed to 25Mbps in US
Google Translate MEAT GRINDER turns gay into 'faggot', 'poof', 'queen'
FCC Commissioner argues for delaying February net neutrality ruling
Microsoft will give away Windows 10 FREE - for ONE year
It's 2015 and default creds can brick SOHO routers
Just WHY is the FBI so sure North Korea hacked Sony? NSA: *BLUSH*
Verizon sprints to crush FiOS account exposure hole
Monday 19th January 2015 07:58 GMT
Re: 5 million, hmm
@ Doug S
Possible misunderstanding on my part, then, as the article seemed to indicate the FIOS application as the culprit. I was going on the assumption that all subscribers had the app installed but, thinking back to when I first got DSL, they tried to get me to install some desktop app that, as it wasn't required for the connection to work, I quickly uninstalled. I guess it's the same with FIOS.
Monday 19th January 2015 05:08 GMT
5 million, hmm
Good thing they stopped the FIOS roll-out years ago or a lot more people would've been affected.
But, wait, does that mean there are *only* 5 million people connected to FIOS (out of ~115 million households)? If that's what Verizon means by claiming they "compete" against cable, I don't think cable has much to worry over.
OTHER EARTHS may be orbiting our Sun beyond Neptune
LIFELESS BEAGLE on MARS: A British TRIUMPH!
CIA exonerates CIA of all wrongdoing in Senate hacking probe
If cities want to run their own broadband, let 'em do it, Prez Obama tells FCC
What do UK and Iran have in common? Both want to outlaw encrypted apps
Facebook hackers work blue on Crayola coloring page
Lube company merger receiving second 'in-depth' probe
FBI boss: Sony hack was DEFINITELY North Korea, haters gonna hate
Thursday 8th January 2015 10:21 GMT
Re: dumb and incompetent
In this instance, I would say that is probably not the case, as that would imply they believe this story they're putting out. Based on the information available, however, that story would appear to be an outright and deliberate fabrication. Since we can't prove they're lying, they're free to insist it's the gospel truth.
You like that E Ink book, huh? How about an E Ink HOUSE
Enemy – Eerie double trouble from indie doppelganger chiller
UFOs in the '50s skies? CIA admits: 'IT WAS US'
Stale pizza, backup BlackBerrys, payroll panic: Sony Pictures mega-hack
Analysts claim itty bitty iPhone Mini to land next year
NORKS? Pffft. Infosec bods BLAME disgruntled insiders for savage Sony hack
Here's Johnny! Top Ten fantasy Blu-ray boxsets and special editions
Why has the Russian economy plunged SO SUDDENLY into the toilet?
Sunday 28th December 2014 13:32 GMT
Amen to that, brother/comrade
Like all deluded ubermenchen drunk with power, the oligarchs/corporatists running America have convinced themselves (like those deluded old Nazis did) that their 1000 year reign will, indeed, last 1000 years, totally ignoring the lesson history gives us over and over again - that as empires come, empires eventually go, and other empires will rise up to replace them. Ignorance is bliss, I guess.
The question is not 'if' but 'when' and whether it will come with a whimper or a bang, a slow descent into irrelevance or dragged kicking and screaming from the stage.
And why would they care, even if they've taken that into account? The millstone of history, though it grinds inexorably, generally grinds slowly, so they'll all be long gone when that day of reckoning rolls around.
A shame that they're so short-sighted, so obsessed with getting their own (and fuck the common folk), such dicks about it, in other words, when with a modicum of effort they could manage the transition with grace. That would, however, require they harbor some tiny shred of decency or altruism, qualities they have repeatedly shown themselves to be completely lacking.
One is tempted to say, "Line them all up and shoot them" but that would be wrong, right?
Tragedy strikes Vulture News Central but details remain scrambled
Staples comes clean: 1+ million bank cards at risk after hack
Movie industry's evil plan to destroy the internet is going precisely nowhere
Friday 19th December 2014 12:50 GMT
Re: better movies
When I say "make better movies", I'm including prole trash in that, not just make more artsy-fartsy stuff.
I like prole trash just as much as the next person - not everything can be Citizen Kane, nor does it need to be in order to entertain.
I was thinking, in this particular, of Aaron Eckhardt's Frankenstein movie - total waste of $1.50 and 2 hours I'll never get back.
One can't help but imagine all involved in this (and similar projects), on seeing daily rushes early on, saying, "Um, it's not turning out quite like we pictured it but ... well, fuck it, in for a penny, in for a pound." Nobody sets out to make a bad movie except, of course, Uwe Bohl.
Friday 19th December 2014 09:41 GMT
Re: Control your media better.
You mean, like, with a DRM scheme of some sort? That worked really well for the music industry, didn't it?
Not really meaning to be sarcastic here and certainly, in general, no defender of the movie industry and their absurd business practices but I have to admit that this is a kind of Catch 22 for them.
The studios have every right to try and protect their IP, but if they add stringent DRM, legitimate consumers (who *should* have the right to make copies their purchased media so they can play it on any device they own), as well as freetards, will bitch to high heaven, complain that it's pointless as the DRM will eventually be broken, etc, etc.
With the wide availability of stream-capture software, it's hard to see a streaming-only solution being the answer.
Couple of obvious suggestions to ease the losses due to piracy:
> lower prices on the product so people are more willing to buy it, rather than pirate it
> make better movies
Nork-ribbing flick The Interview AXED: Sony caves under hack terror 'menace'
Soon everyone will be doing it with a strap-on: The Reg's 20 festive wearables
Thursday 18th December 2014 14:09 GMT
Yes, I splurged
I splurged and treated myself to an LG G for Xmas.
Kind of pointless as far as what it can do since my actual cell is a Windows Phone. Google has hinted at porting the Wear app but, again, pointless for me as I only turn the phone on when I want to make a call and immediately turn it off afterwards and, as no one has the number, I've no need for notifications, either. (It's paired with an HTC One, in case you're wondering.)
The fitness features? Meh. I may try the new music control features, though.
I really just bought it for the novelty of changing the watch faces and it works pretty well for that.
I like the square design, it looks pretty sharp but the rubber strap is a flaky skin magnet so I'll have to switch the band out.
All in all, very pleased with it.
Little big phone: Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, a toothsome hand-fulla Android
30,000 people buy a box of BOVINE EXCREMENT
FCC to smack Sprint with $105m fine over 'cramming' – report
Vodafone poised to ink chumship pact with T-Mobile and get back into US enterprise
French space agency teams with Google for broadband balloons
Sony hackers PINCH early version of James Bond Spectre script
Sony to media: stop publishing our stolen stuff or we'll get nasty
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Thin plot, great CGI effects
Saturday 13th December 2014 11:26 GMT
no more Tolkein movies? really?
Still plenty of material to make more films from. There's the Silmarillion (all the parts he didn't work into the Hobbit trilogy). And he can always go back and add all the stuff that he left out of The Lord of the Rings movies, Tom Bombadil, say, or the battle for the Shire or the pretty obviously implied (in the books) marriage of Legolas and Gimli, left out as to not scotch Legolas' appeal to swooning teenage girls. That was a pretty shocking omission.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
