* Posts by Jacob Reid

129 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Sep 2007

AVG slaps Trojan label on Adobe Flash

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@Wize

The only other free AV is avast. No idea on how good it is though, I would recommend NOD32 any day, DEFINITELY worth the money. I wouldn't go with anything else.

As for AVG, as I said before, they have lost it and are becoming the next norton/mcafee.

Firefox update fixes four critical flaws

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The dat the stop updating 2.x is the day I stop using Firefox

At least until they give an option to disable Ff3's bloody awful address bar.

AVG slaps Trojan label on core Windows file

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@Daniel

Isn't Yahoo spyware?

I call that security software doing its job.

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Again?

NOD32 FTW.

AVG is a case of you get what you pay for - nothing (unless you pay for it, then you are an idiot)

Wi-Fi phobes hijack disability legislation

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Natural selection

Just double the transmit power. If anyone is allergic to EM waves (hahahaha, what rubbish) it should kill them all off, then nobody will complain, or those that do will just be laughed out.

Anyway, what about TV/radio signals, or even background radiation? Why don't those affect them? Or do they want those banned too?

Porn breath tests for PCs heralds 'stop and scan'

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Source code

IIRC, with it being based on Linux, they will need to provide the source code or they are breaking the license.

Awaiting the source code here.

Also, as for hiding any files, just use truecrypt, problem solved.

Also, people could just disable boot from CD and password the BIOS, that will prevent grunts from booting it from CD.

Home Office acts to kick out Iceland's hate preachers

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Does this mean we can kick the Labour Party out?

After all, they are clearly intent on bringing the country down.

US carriers attack FCC's puritan broadband

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@Destroy All Monsters

That was what I hoped too...

McAfee update classifies Vista component as a Trojan

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Mcafee is the malware

It charges you for a useless product that does nothing except waste CPU time, storage and memory,

Oh wait, that describes vista fairly well too.

Germans seduce Jacqui over remote hacking of disks

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Just use security software...

Or alternatively, don't open dodgy attachments.

Dawkins' atheist ad campaign hits fundraising target

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'Probably'?

They made a mistake in creating the advert, it should have said 'definitely'

Run Mac OS X on a PC

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Why would anyone want this?

MAC OS is one of the biggest disadvantages of macs, along with their ugliness, overpriced hardware and marking you out as an apple fanboy.

If you want to go 'hey look I'm not running Windows LOL', install Linux.

US judge rejects lawsuit against God

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More obvious reason to dismiss it

The defendant doesn't exist.

Or can people sue fictional characters now?

Man buys new MacBooks, pulls them to bits, takes pics

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Nothing new then

All parts that have been in real computers for years, for a lower price and with a better OS and not embedded in a lump of nasty white plastic.

Das überdatabase: Inside Wacky Jacqui's motherbrain

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Well...

Good to see the .gov wasting more money while everyone who cares about privacy switches their connection to encrypted VPNs located in free countries.

Nokia's Trolltech preps embedded app breakthrough

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PEBKAC

Looks like PEBKAC to me - below, it says 'moving betn a Mac or Windows machine and Linux.' - perhaps it was typed on a laptop with accidental touchpad activation.

Apple rattles legal sabre at Canadian tech school

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what next?

Are apple going to try to take Tesco to court for selling apples?

Bosch strategy boutique fails greenwash test

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Good on them

Good to see someone is resisting this 'environment' scam.

NebuAd CEO quits

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Excellent

Now we just need the same thing to happen to phorm over here.

Vodafone says termination rate clampdown would hit the poor

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Terrible idea

If I had to pay to receive calls, I would ditch my mobile phone and rely only on email and landline.

If this is implemented, I foresee mobile phone companies losing a LOT of money.

Internet Explorer - now with 35% less FAIL

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RE: Address bar

Who cares? Just install oldbar and old location bar extensions in FF3.

Or do what I did and remove it then reinstall FF2...

I am still pissed off mozilla didn't give us an option to disable that steaming heap of rubbish that is the new address bar though.

US utilities plot remote switch off

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Easy solution

Build more nuclear energy.

Paris because its so blatantly obvious, even she could see it.

The Reg surfs for porn with a San Jose councilman

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'computer-related sex crimes'

Did anyone else see that and initially think it meant something else?

Mine's the one with the length of CAT5 sticking out of the pockets.

Canadian geeks to turn off the tech

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just to annoy the environ-mentalists

Looks like its every PC, laptop and TV in the house on then. While I listen to my mp3 player of course.

Girl-only fish species survives by cloning

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@mark

Just watch out for natural selection via STD.

UK's most popular Wi-Fi router defaults to insecurity

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Security risk

Don't forget that having a BT HomeHub leaves you open to a much bigger security risk - BT selling your browsing data to a spyware company.

Anyone who still has BT as an ISP almost deserves to get their wireless network cracked.

No sense of humour? Avoid Bootnotes

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ok, but...

Where's the Paris Hilton angle?

Nokia confirms 'iPhone killer' handset in pipeline

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Gimmick

Touch screens are still a gimmick for the kind of idiotic person who would buy an iphone based on the fact it has a picture of an apple on it, ignoring cheaper, better phones.

the truth is, touch screens will never work as long as they are still unreliable, inaccurate, expensive and easily broken.

Apple rewards developers with bricked iPhone

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@Jared

Depends, I wouldn't necessarily describe being bricked as irrevocable, just beyond the means/understanding of a standard luser to fix.

After all, I remember several earlier stories about apple's updates bricking iphones, and people then managing to fix them, just that the average luser with little knowledge won't be able to.

IFPI demands $2.5m in damages from The Pirate Bay

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April fools

Yeah, it is an april fool's day joke.

I wonder if this latest piece of IFPI idiocy is an april fool's day joke too...

Need a new duster? Avoid Woolies

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And its gone...

Seems El Reg linking to a website mistake speeds up its removal.

Paris because she... never mind

FBI agents lured suspects using fake child porn hyperlinks

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SWATting

Sounds like a new form of SWATting to me - just give someone a tinyurl that redirects to one of the URLs, or wait until they leave their computer unattended and type the URL in, then watch them get arrested.

Public don't want internet filters, MS tells MPs

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M$ talking sense?

Is the world coming to an end?

Or maybe it is just the nutters' day off.

Spammers crack Gmail Captcha

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'Turing test'?

No, no, no. CAPTCHA is the opposite of a Turing test - A Turing test is a human trying to tell a human and a program apart, a CAPTCHA is a program trying to tell a human and a program apart.

Microsoft releases latest XP SP3 build

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@anonymous

That is entirely why I will wait at least a month before installing SP3.

Hmm, XP is being withdrawn in June? Must remember to grab another copy for a new future computer build then.

M&S flogs lingerie model with 'durable hardwood feet'

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Page not found

Seems they removed it now.

Did anyone order one?

Greenpeace slams next-gen consoles

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Helping Sony/M$?

Ok, I actually want to buy a PS3/360 now (not the wii, it is still crap), just to annoy the environ-mentalists.

Maybe greenpeace should help reduce global warming by not producing so much hot air and bullsh*t.

w00t voted 'Word of the Year'

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OK, wtf?

since when was w00t an acronym?

Geek gifts for Christmas

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I hope that was a joke...

Vi$ta for dummies? seriously... FFS, this is supposed to be geek gifts, not n00b gifts.

Wigan man traps todger in metal ring

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@Doug

clearly a mac user - they can't get sex anywhere else.

EVE Online update kills Windows PCs

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@Paul

hmm, maybe goons will lose all their space now due to none of their members being able to log in :D

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@everyone posting so far

The problem has now supposedly been fixed, and it was caused by a file called boot.ini being used in the EVE directory, the patcher mistakenly thought that it was meant to patch boot.ini in C:\ instead.

Running not as admin would do nothing as you need to be admin to install the patch in the first place.

@Chad - it wasn't, just bad coding.

@Bryce - I see you have never tried it. Yes, part of the game is making billions on the market, but there is nothing like killing that other ship with 4% structure left then escaping just as his friends jump in and try and get you, or running missions, or ratting, or even mining and manufacturing items, plus of course it is an MMO, MMO players have something called friends, maybe you should try getting some one day - this is a reason in itself to play MMOs rather than just sitting there on CS, typing 'lolz noob' into chat every now and then.

Geek gifts for Christmas

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Government waste

Is Gordon Brown included in the book? He is a waste of air, food and biomass that could be better used elsewhere.

PS. I seriously hope that iBrick book was a joke...

@anonymous: you forgot I want to download files with 3G - you can't.

Microsoft wireless keyboards crypto cracked

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Well...

Sucks to be wireless.

People who use wireless (with the exception of properly encrypted wireless networks) don't deserve privacy. Wired is the way to go.

Intel to debut GPU-in-CPU chips in 2009

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'Gaming'?

One problem - intel graphics suck, you can get a better card for about £10. The only gaming you can do on intel graphics is solitaire, and even then, not on vista.

French record industry, ISPs in entente to boot off file-sharers

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I would like to see them try...

It is hard enough to even detect p2p applications if encrypted, and then how will they find out what is copyrighted and what is not? Stupid French.

Met Police to pilot Tasers

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surprised it hasn't been said yet, but...

'Don't taze me, bro.'

Coat --> Door

Singapore allows sale of 'lesbian' video game

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great.

Well, another victory against censorship. FFS, if people don't want to see something they they shouldn't buy it, maybe shops should just enforce age ratings instead, so under 18s need to be at least slightly intelligent to get 'unsuitable' games.

@alan: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/15/singapore_bans_mass_effect/

@chris: great idea! also, maybe if GTA:SA's 'hot coffee' mod had two women then it would have been OK.

AMD reveals 'Spider' platform

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yet more proof...

that AMD completely fucked things up by buying ATI, now their top end GPUs are struggling to compete with nVidia's mid range ones, and if AMD hadn't bought ATI, they would most likely still be scraping a profit from their mid range CPUs.

419er fears unsolicited intergalactic email

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@Cap'n

No, I meant 1 number as in changing 1 character, not 1 number as in adding 1 to one of the numbers.