Posts by Simon Collins

New guide: Bake your own Raspberry Pi Lego-crust cluster

Re: My Pi

Got mine in the first batch. Lost it within a week. Think I threw it out.

Oops

It's official: Samsung shows off i8510 8mp cameraphone

eh?

"Samsung quotes up to 510 minutes talk time and up to 310 hours standby."

So if you're constantly on the phone, the battery lasts another 3 hours? how does that work?

eBay forum mysteriously leaks account details on 1,200 users

PCI breach

eBay better hope that these numbers are ones hackers have managed to phish from outside ebay.

Under the strict PCI compliance schemes brought in, you are not allowed to store the CV2 (last 3 digits) number from the back of the card.

If they are storing this information, isn't the fine equivalent to £5,000 per breach - a cool £5million / $10million USD at a thousand users.