Posts by Dave N

Amazon pulls snouts from all-you-can-eat cloud storage buffet

Re: Luddite here.

...and no backups if your house burns down or the USB drive dies. Good luck!

Tor torpedoed! Tesco Bank app won't run with privacy tool installed

> hackers and scum to access your phone because those kinds of people use Tor as well.

HAHAHA. Oh wait, you're serious? I heard hackers and scum use the Internet too, better log off mate.

Re: Best security practice

Tin foil hats at the ready. Not sure where you're getting your information, but I receive an Android security update every 4ish weeks.

Victory on mobile belongs to Google in 2013

So last year...

STUNNING NEW APPLE DEVICES that will follow the iPad 3 HD!

Bit early for the April Fools articles, isn't it?

Facebook deletes hacked Pages, destroying years of work

Capital P

Because it's a content type like Group or Chat - and not a web page (lowercase p).

Tin foil hat please

And of course their member base is decreasing in size. Oh wait, no it isn't, so I guess they're not going away any time soon. Rather than just walk away, maybe it'd be better to open a dialog with the devs to fix the problem?

Who needs a million NFC tags?

@anonymous coward

Try "NFC distance" - first hit. Was that so hard? Idiot.

What the f**k is the Internet?

Try typing NFC into Google, and prepare to be amazed.

Skype/Facebook integration spawns hijack risk

Not for Mac

This is all Skype for Windows. The latest Mac version (v5.2) is no longer usable following a botched redesign, and has never even had a sniff at Facebook integration. I used to care, but I don't use Skype any more.

Higgs Boson hiding place narrows

do one

@anadish: look mate, you really need to be posting your comments somewhere else. No one here gives a flying f**k.

Amazon cloud still on fritz after 36 hours

To restore confidence...

...Amazon need to release technical details ASAP, and explain how they're going to prevent this happening again.

Open sourcers urged to adopt dancing poultry license

Not seeing the funny side

This is just what open source needs - to be taken less seriously. I spent the best part of today convincing the enterprise that open source is a good idea, and winning developers around. If they see this, I'll have to start all over again. Seriously.

Firesheep hack catches out Mr Demi Moore

Meh

I guess he meant updated twitter, not a browser update. Just doesn't read very well.

Microsoft secretly yanks TechNet product keys

Kicked in the teeth

Why? Anti-piracy? Windows activation is bad enough, but this is ridiculous - we are paying professionals. We PAID for these keys. Why punish us?

My career is founded on Microsoft tech, but that doesn't mean I like it. Every day it gets a little bit harder to be a Microsoft professional.

Punters still puzzled by broadband ads

O2 broadband FTW

"John Petter, managing director of BT’s Consumer Division, said: “Averages are no more relevant to customers than maximum speed...The solution to consumer confusion is explaining clearly what speeds customers can expect on their individual lines when they sign-up."

When I set up O2 broadband in Leeds last year, that's exactly what they did. They noticed I was a long way from the exchange and called me to say my DSL connection would be rubbish - and asked if I still wanted to go ahead with the setup. IMO, all ISPs need to do this.

Skype: Fear and loathing in Cupertino, Mountain View

what comes around goes around

don't really feel sorry for Skype, they've dicked around for years and kept their API closed. no sympathy.

GlobalSign revokes cert of rogue security app

hahahaha

that video is brilliant. what a dip sh1t.

The IT Crowd goes west

are you serious??

the first season was so-so, but the second season was a disaster. I can't believe they're making more...!!

Apple DNS patch doesn't patch Mac clients

rubbish

who runs a DNS server on Windows XP ?? duh.

Google: 'Even in the desert, privacy does not exist'

running rings around the laws

'bout time someone pulled them up on this one. if this was my property, I'd not let this go...

Ex-Googlers reinvent web search

court case?

I'd imagine if they start associating photos of men wanking over each other, against somebodies website, there may be a court case in there somewhere...

Exploit code targets Mac OS X, iTunes, Java, Winzip...

@AC

"Isn't that open source? I thought freetard stuff was hack proof. Oh no thats right - people round here have been pointing out that in fact this is not the case.

So what's the point of open source then?"

wow, you really don't get it. I hope you're middle management, or we're all doomed!

Adobe boosts Flash media search with Google and Yahoo!

that's all we need...

...more linkspam to crappy websites entirely written in flash.

Almost half of malicious sites tied to 10 networks

here's an idea...

how about releasing the ip ranges of those networks so we can block them?

UK clamps down on bus-spotting terror menace

@Barry Shepherd

Not too sure about the paedo bit, but I've seen plenty of perves at Bondi happily snapping away with their telephoto lenses. Not many people expect to be photographed in public, especially in a bikini. Telephoto lenses on beaches - ANYWHERE - are unnecessary. Unless you've got release forms for everyone on the beach...

Windows Vista has been battered, says Wall Street fan

Vista works fine

I'm a developer and I've been using Vista since it was released. Ok, in the very early days there were a few problems with old/crappy drivers, Visual Studio had some incompatibility issues. But once the driver vendors updated their drivers and SP1 came out, it's been fine. I wouldn't go back to XP that's for sure.

Edinburgh Fringe ticket site dead as a parrot

100% defect free?

According to the Pivotal Integration website, they're software is 100% defect-free. Sounds like someone's telling porkies...

Virgin Media and BPI join forces to attack illegal filesharing

think about it

if you think VM gives a sh*t about 500,000 users - who were downloading illegal torrents, sucking up bandwidth - going to a different ISP then you are sadly mistaken. To a company like VM, that's a dip in the pond, and in the long run, the network will be better off with you.

Fasthosts customer? Change your password now

How to create strong, MEMORABLE, passwords

Bl**dy fasthosts! I've got hundreds of passwords to change now! Off the back of this I've made a little tool which automates creating strong memorable passwords. Some of you might find it useful - if you don't, sorry, I didn't mean to spam.

60k download - http://www.davenicoll.com/downloads/ptolemy.zip (requires .net framework)