Posts by Tom Chiverton 1

Japanese boffins tout infrared specs to thwart facial recognition

Re: Better concept follows...

You've read Pirate Cinema then ?

Google's JavaScript assassin: Web languages are harder than VMs

In what way is ColdFusion in decline ? http://blogs.coldfusion.com/post.cfm/product-roadmap-for-coldfusion

And don't get me started on what the Railo Foundation means for a FOSS implementation of the language, owned by JBoss : http://www.opencfmlfoundation.org/projects/railo/

US, UK probe HP claims of accounting mischief at Autonomy

Re: Angling to get another Brit into a US Court?

Not to be a shrill, but their wireless printer/scanner has excellent Linux support as well as fairly good quality and ongoing costs- check the review on El Reg earlier in the year.

OMG: RIM adds VoIP to its stealth social network

" the value of owning your own network layer."

Umm. RIM doesn'?. They piggy back on someone else as a VMO don't they ?

Review: Samsung Series 9 super slim notebook

Does it boot a recent Penguin flavour ?

Facebook starts going encrypted by default in North America

no one will notice the speed change. bet ya.

Lord to sue Twitter users who falsely accused him of abuse

NO, not 'because it was an easy button press', because it was an easy mistake to make - hitting the wrong link on a page or mobile app happens a lot...

Will "I went for delete, but hit retweet" be a defence ?

Wow, go directly to jail for pressing the wrong link on a web site ? Charming ...

Google Chrome app offers guided tour of known universe

Works fine for me in FireFox...

Skype IDs hijackable by ANY FOOL who knows your email address

And this is why services should allow '+' on the left hand side of the '@' ... then even if you don't want to use auto-tagging or filtering, at least you can make the address unique to the service. Handy if they leak your data too...

UK's planned copyright landgrab will spark US litigation 'firestorm'

Sounds like you want to join the Open Rights Group then, rather than just blathering here then...

Android games console jumps to Jelly Bean for penultimate test phase

Re: Even without games

But a Pi is cheaper for that, and works just as well running RaspBMC

Dell Latitude 6430u set to be first Ultrabook with gigabit wireless

Aye. The Dell *UK* site is obviously too stupid to only offer me buyable things.

Re: screen?

if you get such a tiny screen as on the Zen, then yes, it will be at a premium !

Re: screen?

14.0” HD+ (1600x900) Anti-Glare LED-backlight - "coming in February"

Oh my yes.

More interestingly, they list Ubuntu as a supported operating system !

Lenovo IdeaPad U410 14in Ultrabook review

Does Linux run on this ? IBM are normally famous for Just Working with it.

If the SSD 'can't be used for storage' just call it a 'cache', much clearer.

'Stop-gap' way to get Linux on Windows 8 machines to be issued

Re: Do we have any intelligent politicians?

"Microsoft don't make any PCs "

*didn't* - or did you miss the Surface Laptop thing ?

Re: Eh?

Because 90% of motherboards only contain the MS key. So you have to use the MS key to sign the Penguin boot loader. Which rather defeats the point of secure boot...

O2 network staggers across UK

..cough...

On the same day as : http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/10/12/1310224/lone-packet-crashes-telco-networks?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29

I don't believe in coincidence...

Hands on with BB10: Strokey dokey

"Up to 8" - so when I start the 9th I'll still have to, you know, *close* something ?

UK.gov lays out what cities will get in broadband cash divvy

Just because you live in somewhere with green doesn't mean you can't. Get 12meg by 112k ADSL2 connection from Zen south of Stockport :-)

Mars rover Curiosity gets ready to blast its first rock

s/first/second/

They already attacked one to test the gun out.

UK's pay-by-bonk mobile network threesome wins EU approval

"pay-by-bonk point of view this is a good thing"

What ? (at least) two competing standards ? Just pick one and let everyone use it. Less hassle.

You'll be on a list 3 hrs after you start downloading from pirates - study

Re: No

And now we have a home sec. who wants to tear up the human rights act.

Nice eh ?

Valve reiterates games hardware gambit

Err, why don't they just buy OnLive then ?

Bruce Willis didn't Buy Hard: His girls can't inherit his iTunes

"ou went with an alternative which supports your legacy requirement.

...and that would be...?"

Amazon MP3

Harvard boffins build cyborg skin of flesh and nanowires

Re: Skin of flesh and nanowires

"The T1000 is unable to create complex shapes"

Did you not see the film?

It's Lego's 80th birthday party, but only the boys are invited

You should have come to AFOLCon in Manchester this year, where some very big names from Lego talked about the company history and recent issues, as well as 'why Friends'.

You know, rather than saying 'Lego wont tell us' you could have asked.

Come next year :-)

Barnes & Noble Nooks bound for Blighty

Shrug.

I got one for the better half, they love it and do a ton of reading, buying books on it to do so.

WHSmith need to clue up and promote the hell out of it.

Sony opens cover on latest e-Reader

Bwuh ? It has a touch screen ? So why are there a ton of fisher-price style buttons along the bottom ?

Apple, Microsoft reveal their Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Ummm

"Microsoft has promised not to clone the iPhone or iPad"

See WinRT story today... ?

Sick of juggling apps on biz PCs? This install tool will save your sanity

Reads like a press release..

Cloud backup drama: Mozy kicks Carbonite after ASA's had a go

S3Sync. Cron. An Amazon account.

Done. Who do you think backs these guys up anyway ?

Skype: Nearly half of adults don't install software updates

Re: Can you say "Single Point of Failure"?

If only updates could be signed...

Gov must act on 'innocent' web-browsing copyright timebomb

Re: Nope...

Why is there even a court case. Should have been thrown out as 'stupid'.

Ten... PC games you may have missed

I'd be interested to know which ones run under WINE...

Google shakes up Android Jelly Bean to fend off malware meanies

Re: Compare and contrast

Umm, why do you think your handset costs 500 hundred quid ? Think that's all parts ?

Drones, sub-hunting planes to attack cyber-Chinese army

No chance

It's easy to saturate the air space with throw away drones while the real ones slip through...

Euro cellcos hoard nano Sims ahead of iPhone 5 launch

Re: I think I'll pass, thanks.

Last time I got a new phone, with the same operator, at the end of my contract when I renewed, they posted me a new SIM...

UK's web super-snoop powers could be extended to councils

Re: Big Brother fail

Remember yesterday they promised to close all remaining loop holes by 2018... fear....

Web snooping bill an 'odious shopping list of new gov powers'

Re: How long

No party is deeply attached to the idea. Write to your MP and express your views (nicely !) : http://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/cdb

Top spook: ISP black boxes NOT key to UK's web-snoop plan

Re: Can anyone explain

Dear $telco,

Please send me the details of everyone connected to the nearest cell tower to $murderLocation between $murderTimeStart and $murderTimeEnd.

Thanks,

Plod

Ummm

"If CSPs refuse to provide those authorities with access to such data, a black box would be placed on a network where such information could be hoovered up."

CSP was defined as Facebook/Google rather than ISPs earlier.

So if Facebook/Google wont give in to a UK court order, and we know Google does refuse them, then every one in the country has to be wire tapped ? What 'logic' ...

So, the black boxes are required, and a key plank, unless you are using Talk Talk who already do DPI for something different ?

Or black boxes are only required if you wont give the spooks direct SSH access to the ISP mail cluster ?

Sadly no one of the committee new enough to ask him what will happen when the CA for the spoofed SSL certificates is removed from every ones browser...

Re: Cunning terrorist ideas

Or stego. in youtube posts.

No ISP is going to be able to do that. And YouTube are unable, physically or electronically, to send how ever many years worth of video is uploaded each day to the spooks for checking. Assuming the spooks could check them all.

Re: HTTP

It's worse.

With Twitter, for instance, the 'who' is embeded in a packet of JSON you send to the server. So the black box needs to parse that. And Twitter can change their format any time, never mind when a new service comes along...

But it's not about the technical details of why it wont work; it's about it being wrong to intercept everyones comms.

Innocent people have a right to privacy.

Intel pops $4.1bn to save Moore's Law from repeal

Smaller still means hotter right ?

If smaller means hotter, and we can already get 4x >1Ghz CPUs into a *mobile phone* why do we need to pointless keep up with The Law ? What's the real benefit we'll see ?

Join the gov consultation on net porn ... and have your identity revealed

Oddly, my comment on the original story exposing the issue, and another separate one just saying 'click here to fill it in' have both been removed.

Did El Reg get trigger happy ?

Apple patent may foretell an end to iPhone autocorrect Tourette's

Umm

"Current models of predictive text"

Well, SwiftKey doesn't...