* Posts by Martin H Watson

116 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Feb 2007

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IT security analyst admits hijacking cyber attack to pocket ransom payments

Martin H Watson

I'm currently reading THE SENTINEL by LEE CHILD, it's the same scenario, with fist fights thrown in.

Shocks from a hairy jumper crashed a PC, but the boss wouldn't believe it

Martin H Watson

True story

We had a dot matrix printer that used to jump a line each time the lift arrived on our floor. That took a lot of trouble shooting.

Plastic fiver: 28 years' work, saves acres of cotton... may have killed less than ONE cow*

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If the tallow is to reduce static, I'd guess they use it in bank cards for the same reason.

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Re: Pandora's box?

RASH!

Cinema boss gives up making kids turn off phones: 'That's not how they live their life'

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Most of this applies to restaurants as well

UK.gov makes total pig's ear of attempt to legalise home CD ripping

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I've just finished...

... ripping my 78 RPM shellac to digital. I had to do it before the record player breaks. The alternative is for the authorities to provide me with a new 78 RPM record player please.

Dough! Dominos didn't register dominos.pizza – and now it's pizz'd off

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404.error

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Re: They dropped the Pizza anyway

About the same time they dropped the E from Dominos.

Driverless cars banished to fake Michigan 'town' until they learn to read

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New TV series...?

"The Driving Dead"

We tried using Windows 10 for real work and ... oh, the horror

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DOS 3.3

Someone at Subway is a serious security nerd

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Some days here I can't even be bothered to login to comment and I check the remember me on this computer box

Not sure what RFID is? Can't hack? You can STILL be a card fraudster with this Android app

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i removed the chip from my card with a pair of scissors and glued it on to the end of a toy magic wand. Now everytime i need to pay for anything i just wave it and shout hey presto.

Google kills CAPTCHAs: Are we human or are we spammer?

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i'm not a programmer, but surely even if you have 10 checkboxes that will only kill 9 tenths of the spam.

Poll: Yes, yes, texting while driving is bad but *ping* OH! Hey, GRAB THE WHEEL, will ya?

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living near a permanent slow moving traffic jam, i only have to look out of the window to see a driver texting or phoning at almost anytime of the day.

How many mobile apps collect data on users? Oh ... nearly all of them

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Yet everyone is happy for their phone provider to know where they are or the phone won't work. Odd.

Bosses to be banned from forcing new hires to pull personal records

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Re: I'd pass that test @PyLETS

I think it's ok if it's for your own use, whatever that means.

Google warns Glass wearers: Quit being 'CREEPY GLASSHOLES'

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I have a large collection of secretly photographed 'NO PHOTOGRAPHY' signs from all over the world. My favourite is from the souvenirs shop at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. You are welcome to snap the former crossing point, but not the gift shop!

Yahoo! Mail! users! change! your! passwords! NOW!

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Complex password, simple user Id

We read so much about the importance of complex passwords. However I wonder how many times user IDs such as John.Smith, jsmith, user2, training, sysadmin and administrator are used. Making user IDs more complex but still meaningful will help increase security. Especially for sysadmins. I've long advocated this, but it is rarely mentioned.

'You win, Kanye': Coinye creators throw in towel after rapper sues

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I'd like to say this is 'Horrid' but it sounds too much like a grocer's in Knightsbridge.

Gorilla Glass fights dirty, dirty germs with antimicrobial coating

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I read that as iconic silver screen at first.

$1,000 BOUNTY offered for FINGERPRINTS of a GLOBAL SPY CHIEF

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Try an FOI request first!

Oi, bank manager. Only you've got my email address - where're these TROJANS coming from?

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I even get spam sent to the unique address I use for my very well-known ISP. They denied any wrong doing. And it happens with at least two other unique addresses. The latter two I blackholed so it's a pointless exercise for them.

'Disruptive, irritating' in-flight cellphone call ban mulled by US Senate

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Every law we have could be replaced with good manners. Theft, murder, speeding, fraud, aggressive replies on forums etc are all bad manners.

Martin H Watson

Re: Noise cancelling headphones

People talk in a different and more assertive manner on the phone as a replacement for mannerisms and body language. Also, people inadvertently speak louder if they are struggling to hear the other person, typically due to engine nose.

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Re: "The bill would still allow passengers to use mobile devices for texting"

And people who don't turn OFF the keyboard bleeps!

Reg man inhales the smooth, non-cancerous, taste of USB nicotine

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My clothes don't smell after sitting next to a smoker in the Pub any more. Leave them alone.

PANIC OVER DROOPING house prices hits MEMBER-shaped estate

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Find out what cul-de-sac actually means...

Half-blind Glassholes rejoice! 'Prescription' Google goggles a-comin'

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Whenever I see someone blue toothing on a train, I start talking very loudly to whoever is sitting next to me about how silly they look. It never lasts long...

MANUAL STIMULATION: Whack me with some proper documentation

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Web sites that insist on a mobile number when I actually don't have one really bug me. Nearly as much as free Wi-Fi that wants to send a code to my non existent mobile. Or perhaps I'm using free Wi-Fi because my mobile has died.

Microsoft CEO shortlist down to EIGHT ... appropriately enough, perhaps

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Prodigal means wasteful, not one who returns. Or was he both?

Big Beardie's watching: Alan Sugar robots spy on Tesco petrol queue

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scanners

If the cameras are as rubbish as their bar code scanners then they'll probably think I'm Darth Vader.

Facebook tests sinister CURSOR-TRACKING in hunt for more ad bucks

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log the cat in....

Then let it play with the mouse.

FIERY DEATH awaits all who stroke mobes mid-flight? Nope, says FAA

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free in flight Wi-Fi...

On Norwegian last month from Split to London was wonderful.

Three million Adobe accounts hacked? Sorry, make that 38 MILLION

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Dare I say...

...that I hope the villains get Shopped?

Google's new broadband offer: 20-days of WiFi for a quid

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Just back from a holiday in Croatia's second city, Split. I couldn't believe how many free hotspots there are in a country only twenty years out of a civil war.

Want to keep the users happy? Don't call them users for a start

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Re: Should I send this to our IT dept?

Helldesk? That says it all.

Congrats on MP3ing your music... but WHY bother? Time for my ripping yarn

Martin H Watson

Vinyl smells nicer than MP3s.

Apple Maps directs drivers INTO path of ONCOMING PLANES

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Re: don't blame the public, the sign gives permission to drive on the taxiway

Taxing Aircraft? Are they the tiring ones or the ones who work for the revenue?

Nokia quiz: Do you know what a phablet is?

Martin H Watson

Hear hear! Some of these made-up words are so crass. Tablerone is much better.

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

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Re: "Dual Purpose Grenades"

Country music is about home life and western music is about the great outdoors.

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

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auction off his own seat? Bottom Rats?

BAN THIS SICK FILCH: Which? demands end to £1.50-per-min 'help' lines

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The way ahead has to favour those companies with a web link asking you when you'd like THEM to call you.

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I'd rather talk to a friendly idiot who can't help me, than a robot.

'Peeping while you're sleeping' NSA parody T-shirt ban BACKFIRES

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Re: re: but the initials?...

Last year a shop in Surbiton got round this with a window display using square rings and the text "Lodno 0212"

Google chap reverse engineers Sinclair Scientific Calculator

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Re: Been there, done that. In 1985.

bluegrass cello! Excellent!

Acorn’s would-be ZX Spectrum killer, the Electron, is 30

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It is in the loft next to my 512kb Amstrad, but I do still have mine

Amazon DISAPPEARS from internet

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Re: Homonym hell

Not so smart... you mean homophone.

Blighty street has hottest Wi-Fi hotspot hottie in Europe: We reveal where

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I don't do anything financial or confidential on my tablet. I'm delighted with the free Wi-Fi I can get standing inside or outside my bank chain or local brewery pubs.

Comrade! If you dare f$%^ing swear on the internet, WE'LL SHOOT

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Re: I'm totally fed up with swearing ...

Khaptain, I'm quite prepared for it here On El Reg but look at current comments On CNN after a report on a 'friend'who have away a GI's dog while he was on active service. The comments are pitiful, whoever was in the right. If aliens landed and saw how we use the web they'd leave for another 10,000 years.

Martin H Watson

Re: What the fork?

I think you mean synonyms. A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning.

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