Posts by Jered Floyd

Devs claim charger uses 'photosynthesis' power battery charger

Please stop promoting scams; have some journalistic integrity!

El Reg, have you no shame?

Has it come to this? Clickbait and eyeball-scrounging?

Will we be getting listicles next? "You won't believe these 10 hot tips to wow your storage admin in the data center"?

This is yet another in the long list of blatant frauds populating IndieGoGo (along with Shiftwear, Fontus, Trtiton, and many others). Devices that claim the physically impossible, but manage to steal millions of dollars because irresponsible journalists like you fail to ask even the most basic questions before hyping them to the world. Or, perhaps worse, choose not to ask those questions because you want ad impressions.

Show some journalistic integrity, Ms. Quatch! Delete this article. And check out https://www.reddit.com/r/shittykickstarters/, or simply engage your brain, before posting things like this in the future.

MIT launches campus lunch bug bounty

Surely you jest

"Students wishing to cover the day's beer tab [...]"

This is the United States we're talking about. As an alum, I assure you that MIT eliminated all alcohol on campus over a decade ago, and even banned it at private parties. Fun is not allowed.

Web data BLEEDOUT: Users to feel the pain as Heartbleed bug revealed

Re: Your observation is flawed

Hmm; ok, that's fair. I could see this leaking the administrative password, or replication passwords, or cloud service ones. That's rather bad.

Your observation is flawed

While this vulnerability is rather catastrophic, you're looking for demons in additional places where they do not lie. To the extent that any of these home routers and access points bother with SSL _at all_, they are using self-signed certificates which are already insecure and worthless. Being able to steal the private key from a device using a self-signed certificate to begin with isn't much further of a vulnerability.

SpinVox: The Inside Story

What about the others?

I have no more information than anyone else so can't judget specifically what SpinVox is doing, but you seem skeptical on the whole concept of machine recognition and don't think SpinVox could possibly be telling the truth. Why? Do you think that PhoneTag (formerly SimulScribe) is lying as well? What about Nuance's extensive products for the OEM market? It seems that if SpinVox were using humans world-wide they could save a bundle by just licensing software from Nuance...

Palm 'innovative Wi-FI device' invite points to Foleo revamp?

Not a Foleo, probably a VOIP phone

First, I'm pretty confident it's not a Foleo. Besides the product being, er, uncompelling, the division developing the Foleo was closed and all the employees laid off. (I know this because I've hired some of those developers -- it was a team split between Massachusetts and California.)

Second, the fact you have to be a Sprint customer says to me that it's probably another VOIP-at-home program, such as T-mobile is already offering. Yawn.