Posts by Steven 117 publicly visible posts • joined 7 May 2008
eBay & Co are awful for customer support and always blame the user.
My eBay account was hijacked and customer services basically said my password was too weak or I clicked a phishing email and that it must be my fault...
Not being funny but I delete any email from ebay because its always spam. Im behind a proxy server, hardware firewall and kapersky AV. I only use my account on my home machine, I have SSL encrypted email set to use plain text only, use different addresses for different things eg ebay@ paypal@ etc and my password at the time (now changed obviously) was R%£mw(n^8I9 How in gods green earth is that an easy to crack password eBay????
This whole thing with Skype sounds very similar, think eBay & Co need to stop blaming other people and take a serious look at their [lack of] security.
Were in a bloody recession, ever thought about spending some of those billions helping the people out who elected you instead of wasting obscene amounts of money we don't have on absolute shite we don't want???
Thought not... I'll get my coat, it's the one with the union jack on the back if anyone can see it amongst the swastika's.
Ladda Thangsupachai, director of Thailand's Cultural Surveillance Centre, jumped on the GTA style murder as an opportunity to criticise violent video games. “This time-bomb has already exploded and the situation could get worse.”
WTF exploded? One deranged kid in Thiland. Wonder how many inocent people have been killed in Iraq then? Yet joining the army and being given a gun is aparently a lot more socially acceptable???
Down for over a month for maintenence???
I could hand build a new exchange server, install all the software and set up a whole bunch of new email users over a weekend. What the hell can they be doing to take that long? Are they rebuilding the circuit boards by hand???
More government incompetence by the sounds...
Thanks for the heads up El Reg! Never got any email about this (just checked my email history). It would seem eBay decided they's opt me in without asking (there's a suprise)!
Opted out now, hate people doing what they like with my details in the name of 'advertising'. I use ad block anyway, but still prefer god only knows who not having my details. Thanks.
OK I have a dual boot with Vista and Ubuntu 8.04. Only installed Linux recently, but must say it is far better than Vista.
Cost:
Ubuntu 8.04 64bit = Free (I downloaded it)
Vista Ultimate 64bit = £150 (OEM Copy)
Performance:
Ubuntu = Hard drives always silent, machine always responsive
Vista = Hard drives churn constantly, often very unresponsive
Security... Do I really have to go on...
I run an overclocked quad core with an overclocked 8800 Ultra and 8GB of overclocked RAM before anyone says "well maybe Vista slow because your system cant handle it". Besides what kind of argument is that? ANY machine even really old ones run well on Linux.
"Amongst the ideas being pitched to make it cool to vote, are "schemes which recognise people who have turned out on polling day, for example every voter getting an ‘I’ve Voted’ sticker at the ballot box"."
So thats a sticker that may as well say beat me up I'm a nerd. The government REALLY don't understand playground mentality. As soon as the government say they are going to make something 'cool' I cringe.
That forum is bloody hilarious. The only positive views for ID cards are one by the guy hosting the site (i.e. being paid by the government) and a moderator (probably another government paid lacky.
So funny how they say the system will be great with no explanation as to why and then get shot down by everyone else who's registered! Lol
Sign up and help put a stop to this madness!!!
Whats their reaction to a security breach found in their travel card scheme?
1. Fix the problem and deploy a patch?
2. Come up with a better system?
3. Ask people to brush it under the carpet/bury head in sand?
Got to love it. I'm sure if someone of less moral character than a local university had 'cracked' the system, they wouldn't be willing to just hide it under the carpet. The government should give those guys at the uni a medal for finding a vuln before it was misused by nogooders and look to patch it ASAP.
I'd love a monopoly on TV. That way I wouldn't have to pay for Sky + Virgin + Setanta + TV license just to watch the sodding football. One high monthly payment of say £50 is a damn site cheaper than 4 cheap subscriptions + 2 lots of equipment + 2 lot of installation charges...
And god help me if I want to watch it in HD with extra euipment/subscription charges + freesat equipment too for ITV HD.
They have my DNA too unfortunately. They took it after an incident where some chavs decided to give my car a good kickin' and then say I ran them over (how I managed that whilst parked up and in the local shop is beyond me). The police made me give my DNA which I quite happily obliged to as a good citizen thinking the whole thing would just get dropped and my DNA later deleted. No such luck, the whole thing ended up going to court and I had to get a solicitor who told me that I shouldn't have give my DNA and that under the circumstance at the time the police were 'breaking the law' by taking it. I then found out that even though I was later found innocent, the DNA that the police illegally took would get kept forever and there was nothing I could do about it. Don't you just love the fact the the police seem to be able to break the very law they're meant to uphold? I'll just be waiting for a knock on my door from the local rozz trying to fit me up because I used some random public toilet three weeks before something happened there...
if this catches on. I get enough spam in my email, I really don't need it on my phone as well. The idea of people actually signing up to get spammed 24/7 is crazy, never mind having to give them your personal details to do it...because evrybody gives their personal details away to spam emailers...
I was hoping to see XP get the boot soon.
Not because I'm anti MS, but because I'm pro Vista!
I've been using Vista for almost a year now with no problems (and I use my computer a LOT). Infact I had more problems with XP, especially in its infancy. Everyone seems to forget how when XP was released it was slated, but now it's suddenly all things wonderful.
The sooner they axe XP and people move to Vista and actually USE it before slating it the better IMO.
Was looking forward to the iTunes movie downloads, but it seems once again us Brits are paying way more than the Americans...
£11 for a film that will take a fair few hours to download when I can go the the Supermarket in 10 minutes get the film about the same price and get all the box/packaging etc. No brainier.
If the price drops to be more in line with American users, I definitely use it.
The only reason BT FON even has so many users is the way the deploy it.
My dad has it and didn't even know. Basically a guy from BT phoned him and said he could have a free wireless router upgrade and £1 a month off his broadband. My dad obviously thought it was a good deal as he didn't even have to extend his contract. It was only when I looked into it that I found the new router was automatically set up to use BT FON, something they never even bothered to tell him about.
Between that and Phorm I've lost all respect for BT. I used to always recommend them to friends and family for broadband, but not anymore!
Shouldn't that read:
'Old Windows "XP" exploits dominate hack attack traffic'
As patched vulnerabilities from XP in theory wouldn't be present in Vista...
Don't start the Mac and Linux boys on another were more secure than you rant.
Old OS's that people don't bother to update deserve to get targeted IMO they may as well paint a target on their backs.
I run Vista SP1 at home, it runs beautifully and would love to deploy it at work. As long as its deployed right and properly (on hardware capable of running it), I really cant see any major problems.
Just deployed AutoCAD 2009 with its new Vista 'look' and instantly people started complaining... yet a day or two later after they bothered to actually try it, we've had a lot of positive feedback and changed opinions. I think people are just scared of change sometimes.
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