Posts by Daniel O'Regan

BOFH: The Great Patch Mismatch

Real BOFH fans...

Real BOFH fans don't need to be told what the halon system is...

Feds declare victory over notorious Coreflood botnet

Consequences

So they reckon they were safe running a command on remote PCs? So if the next viruses STOP command formats the hard disk who get the blame?

New York to beam disaster alerts to Xbox gamers

And the minute it's up and running....

How many games are going to include this emergency broadcast as part of the game for 'immersion' purposes?

When a real one comes it'll assumed to part of the game they're playing.

Taser rolls out taser-on-a-roll, new military zapbomb deal

Electrified face masks

Surely a simple water pistol will make these a stupid piece of protection? If it'll jolt anyone touching it by hand, the voltage should surely give anyone wearing wet clothes a bit of a jump?

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Irish data protection chief in leaked report 'hack'

Re: Hacker he aint

It is hacking per se, but in the proper sense of the word. Unfortunately the media has tarnished the image of the hacker by calling crackers hackers.

Nice one Damien!

From examiner.ie -> Asked yesterday at the official launch of the 2007 report if he was embarrassed by the latest incident, Mr Hawkes replied: "Not exceptionally."

Gotta love that! Nice find Damien!