* Posts by The Bionic Man

15 publicly visible posts • joined 30 May 2017

HP to hike upfront price of printer hardware as ink biz growth runs dry

The Bionic Man

How Cn you build a financial model based on consumables when it's cheaper to replace the hardware than buy new ink?

TalkTalk bollocked after fibre marketing emails found to be full of sh!t

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Talktalk once sent out letters demanding payment for unpaid bills. The trouble was, the bills were up to date and they blamed it on an admin error. Mine was for £370. Some people paid, I didn't. It turns out it was a phishing scam by talk talk.

Hands down the worst ISP I've ever used.

F*** you talk talk

Sheer luck helped prevent mid-air drone glider prang in Blighty

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It's also illegal to fly a drone within 5 miles of an airport.

Apple whispers farewell to macOS Server

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Damn shame, I was about to pull the trigger and buy it despite the poor reviews, you know, just to have a tinker.

When you play this song backwards, you can hear Satan. Play it forwards, and it hijacks Siri, Alexa

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Now Justin Beiber can do to Alexa what he's been doing to my poor ears.

Can North Korean nukes hit US mainland? Maybe. But EMP blast threat is 'highly credible'

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Read "One Second After" by William R. Forstchen

Damn good book in which he warned the US about an EMP attack in his military service.

Drone-maker DJI's Go app contains naughty Javascript hot-patching framework

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Re: Security Concerns - Not rocket science.....

It's true, I have a Phantom 3.

Connect it to a PC and hit a button on the phone/tablet and it downloads all telemetry, gigabytes of the stuff.

There is a cut-down version within the app that's just a few megabytes, but it's on the phone/tablet too.

US engineer in the clink for wrecking ex-bosses' smart meter radio masts with Pink Floyd lyrics

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What was in the ascii?

Probably nothing nice... but in the interest of a full report, it'd be nice to know :)

France and UK want to make web firms liable for users' content

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that THEY disapprove of? Isn't that everything the the parties in opposition say and do?

I disapprove of big government, but I'm obviously in a minority.

Raspberry Pi sours thanks to mining malware

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Trollface

At last someone found a use for the Raspberry Pi.

Uber board: We accept all recommendations. Any execs left to carry them out?

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Bravo to Uber

For shaking up the taxi system the world over.

As for everything else... there's always jail, and hopefully a lot of it.

Capita call centre chap wins landmark sex discrimination lawsuit

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Sticking it to the man

It's a damn shame it had to go this far, it sounds like Crapita wanted to rewrite the rules in their favour, but the law said otherwise.

Trident nuke subs are hackable, thunders Wikipedia-based report

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Or introns infected a super AI in The Deus Machine by Pierre Ouellette

BT considers scrapping 'gold-plated' pensions in bid to plug £14bn deficit

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didn't we jail people in the 70's and 80's for dipping into private pensions? I was just a kid and vaguely remember something about it.

So why are pension pots now a commodity?

Internet of snitches: Anyone who can sniff 'Thing' traffic knows what you're doing

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Re: Watch the windows

Because people don't rob banks with guns any more, they just sit at computers emptying bank accounts.