Posts by Jan Hargreaves

Facebook lets users have separated social, er, Circles

facebook does opt-in????? i can scarcely believe it...

Christ appears in phone advert, secular authorities act

claim to throne

so they want to be known as the jesus phone now?

coat. get. etc

Nearly everyone in SOUTH KOREA HACKED IN ONE GO

alibi

a new alibi for bart simpson:

the news of the world did it sir!

coat...

Bulgarian coeds exposed in hidden camera stuffed apartment

i miss bg

bulgarians are so hot...

Film studios thrash BT in Newzbin site-block test case

revenue

i think the issue here could be that newsbin makes a rather large sum of money for this "service". most of the sites i have seen that link to content (you can include google) do not charge you for the privilege. profiteering off selling access to copyrighted material... well what did they expect?

Apple unveils 'World's First Thunderbolt Display'

power problem

correct me if i am wrong but if you are running low on battery you can't use it... if the monitor goes into your magsafe port how can you charge the laptop?

Spotify trumpets move to US (and little else)

strikethrough spam

spam is unsolicited mail. mail you did not ask for. if you give a company your bloody email address so they can mail you that is not spam. for the love of...

Go Daddy on the block for $2.5bn

IP

yeah their control panel which sucks more than anything else i have seen... period.

Spear phishers target gov, military officials' Gmail accounts

you have got to be kidding me

"senior US government officials, military personnel"

excuse me but what the hell are people in these positions doing using Gmail for work related communications.

Google patches Flash bug before Adobe

double take

Wiebke Lips.... where does this name come from? a german porn star actress?

Microsoft finally says adios to Autorun

autorun not on win7?

is autorun renamed to something different in windows 7 cos it is still happily working for me (64 bit home premium).

Steen Hive - it opens up the explorer window when the device is ready, saves me having to go start, my computer. i also use autorun for having custom icons for my partitions (i have 5). it was nice to do this for usb sticks too. always seemed to impress people at internet cafes etc (yeah i know being cute for no reason haha).

security essentials has picked up any bad versions of autorun so far for me (e.g. copying files to friend's usb sticks or wiping mine having used it outside)

MP wants age verification for net smut

responsibility

you need a license to drive a car but not to have a child (and bring it up responsibly)....

Ten free apps to install on every new Mac

SuperDuper

i found carbon copy cloner to be a bit annoying. superduper is really easy and the paid version allows you to do stuff i have never needed.

PC tune-up software: does it really work?

@stu 4

i power down my computer every day when i don't need it (go out, watch tv, go to sleep). i saved an average of 25% on my electricity bill. on my side i don't understand why the rest of the world leaves their machines on when they don't need them (like i used to cos i thought it was better for the os cos some nerd know-it-all told me).

Microsoft tells US retailers Linux is rubbish

Re

Morris: cant do anything but agree. i'm afraid they are all true.

Alan: perhaps that is because you have learnt everything along the way. try giving ubuntu to john smith and asking him to set up a wireless network or sync his itunes downloads to his iPod. with windows its easier. surely you cannot disagree? don't get me wrong, linux is great - i use it on my server - but these booklets are not intended for us tech geeks.

Faux Facebook 'friend' takes US woman for $4,000

re sam liddicott

interesting what you say there. im not sure i agree. for example you pay by credit card for an item online. you don't receive any item. you can claim your money back from your credit card supplier can you not?

im not suggesting that western union should do the same thing but if they do receive numerous complaints about the same person time and again ripping people off, surely they should take some kind of action. for one thing it is giving western union a bad name even, as you rightly point out, that they have not done anything wrong themselves.

they look the other way

ahh western union. their terms desolve all responsibility for any transactions. i have a case where someone is selling domestic airline tickets. they collect the money through western union (since it is directed at tourists), .....then no ticket is issued and no further contact from said scammer. western union say its not their problem.

even contacted yahoo web hosting since the scammer advertises his services that way... they also declined to take any action.

im not a lawyer so i don't know the legal side to western union... common sense says they should be hauled in front of a court, but almost never does common sense tie in with the law.

Apple plugs QuickTime and iTunes flaws

crashed

removing mobile support after installing this update reset my pc. not particularly nice. seems to be working okay now though

Google throws secret auto-updater to open sorcerers

apple vs google

apple have their own updater that seems to run hmmm... not very often. once a day maybe? once a week. im not entirely sure. perhaps the programs search for an update then launch the updater to perform the update. makes a lot more sense than yet ANOTHER process running all the time.

EU says Microsoft violated law with IE on Windows

how to download

im a little bit stumped here. if they didnt include IE then how the hell could you download your browser of choice? (yes i now us techies probably have installers on other drives but most people have one drive and one partition with a new install, they are going to have trouble getting online at all).

if they had to include a selection of browsers to choose from whats to stop the lawyers insisting they include every browser avaiable - now that would be messy.

do correct me if im wrong here and just totally missed the boat

Boy band sings praises of Windows 7

speechless

i really don't have anything to say after watching that. indeed pass the brandy.

oh.. except.. what the hell were you thinking RICHARD KEYS?

Apple fans besieged by iPhone Trojan and iTunes attack

RE: All right, serious question: iTunes on Windows has Services; are priv elevations possible?

"By Gordon Fecyk Posted Friday 19th September 2008 15:00 GMT

The iPodService.exe (sp?) service runs as LocalSystem and iTunesHelper.exe runs as the user currently logged on. These things probably communicate with each other.

Can this combination result in a privilege elevation exploit due to this or some other vulnerability? Because this would be a "critical" problem to me, as it could grant admin access to non-admins, and allow all sorts of abuse."

Personally i disable both.

Apple grabs double-digit US laptop marketshare

uk price

could be something to do with the horrendous gbp prices compared to the dollar equivalents.

Facebook poked by XSS flaw

NoScript

awesome add-on. does any more need to be said?

Windows XP SP3 leaps into the tubes

much to my surprise...

installed sp3 using windows update. it hung first time during install. cancelled it. ran windows update again. went straight to install as i guess the file had already been downloaded and seemed to patch everything properly. i have noticed a slight speed increase and everything feels a bit cleaner.

im not a fan of windows at all, but this seems to work well.

UK.gov demands 999 ads on social networking sites

999 doesnt help

i was working in a restaurant in charlotte street (yes red light district in soho) and i had a guy threatening me with a 10 inch knife at about 11pm on a saturday night. on calling 999 they said (in a scottish accent) that they couldnt help me unless i was able to give my postcode (i guess they had no idea where soho was??). Given my predicament at that time, funnily enough the postcode of said store did not jump to the front of my mind.

hmmmmm which kids know their post codes these days?

PC World cuts £250 off the price of Apple's MacBook Air

re: keith t

"MacAirheadbook"

hahaha thats priceless. and i adore macs, but thats so funny.

Orange's Apple deal to bear unlocked iPhones

Chinese Clones

Where are the chinese clones ?

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They are here in south east asia mate for about 50 quid