How behind us are the Americans? We've had this issue for 10 years plus (and it's still on going).
Posts by Your alien overlord - fear me
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US broadband giants face 'deceptive speed' probe in New York
Capita given early Order of the Boot from £500m Post Office deal
RBS promises 'safe, secure, confidential' info-sharing on Facebook at Work
Android Security: How's BlackBerry going to fix it?
Pure Storage is giving away FREE flash arrays – but there's a catch
TalkTalk plays 'no legal obligation' card on encryption – fails to think of the children (read: its customers)
Russian subs prowling near submarine cables: report
Court to Wikimedia: Your NSA spying evidence is inadmissable, so you can't prove NSA spying
'Cancer-causing bacon would put a real dampner on processed pig sales'
El Reg revisits Battle of Agincourt on 600th anniversary
Joining the illuminati? Just how bright can a smart bulb really be?
Re: cart before horse
Alas no. Been there, tried that. Years ago (over 6 now), changed all my bulbs for LED ones (from that Emporium of Budget Asian Yuk - you know it). They are either one or off.
Putting things like dimmer switches in means replacing all the bulbs which I'm not planning on doing for the next 20 years or so. Putting things like bluetooth in them means they are drawing a little bit of power always which is not why I went that direction.
And yes, a decent 5 watt LED is comparable to ye olde 100 watt one, cheap 5 watt ones are comparable to 5 watt incandecant ones !!!
New Horizons: Pluto? Been there, done that – now for something 6.4 billion km away
If MR ROBOT was realistic, he’d be in an Iron Maiden t-shirt and SMELL of WEE
TalkTalk hush-hush on compo for up to 4 million customers after mega cyber attack
So what's the internet community doing about the NSA cracking VPN, HTTPS encryption?
Boffins: Comet Lovejoy is a cosmic booze cruise spewing alcohol across the Solar System
We applied to Google's €150m journalism fund – here's what we sent in
Apollo 15 commander's watch clocks up $1.6m at auction
Tardy TalkTalk advertised for a new infosec officer 1 week ago
Bullet points 3 & 4 - assist the Head of security & Act as expert in all matters.
Call me old skool but the Head of Security should already be fired since he/she obviously doesn't know security and is probably some 'man manager' type rather than a techie type. I don't know them, only saying from what I've observed.
TalkTalk CEO admits security fail, says hacker emailed ransom demand
Chaos at TalkTalk: Data was 'secure', not all encrypted, we took site down, were DDoSed
9 cuffed over £60 million banking scam targeting UK businesses
Bacon as deadly as cigarettes and asbestos
Joomla patches critical core shop-pwning flaw
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey hands out shares to remaining staffers
BYOD battery bloodbath? Facebook 'fesses up to crook code
IBM's SoftLayer cloud beats AWS, Azure ... at spreading spam
Hackers hit NATO, White House – then aimed at MH17 air disaster probe
No VAT on Bitcoin, rules ECJ, but capital gains still apply
Support scammers target Mac fanbois
Anons blow Japanese airports off-course in dolphin cull protest
Pointless PR stunt. Come on Anon., I know you can do better than take down a fishing unions website for an hour or two (as if many actually went there).
Come on, take out the banks that finance these fishermen or something worthwhile.
And el Reg, why can't I post under my name *and* use the Anonymous Coward icon?
Laid-off IT workers: You want free on-demand service for what now?
Sounds like my severance deal a few years ago. I was the only one who knew a major system but was allowed to take VR so I did.
Said brown stuff hit said rotational wind mover when the IT manager found out the HR manager let me go because 'I was just another IT guy'. Too late suckers, I'd signed the termination contract.
Asked if I could go back and help, maybe freelance? They never called but I found out 2 guys were brought in to replace me and build a new system from scratch.
Great cost saving there :-)
TalkTalk website STILL down on day TWO
Experts ponder improbable size of Cleopatra's asp
IoT's sub-GHz 802.11ah Wi-Fi will be dead on arrival, warn analysts
WikiLeaks leaks CIA director's private emails – including his nat sec clearance dossier
Israel joins EU in spiking Safe Harbour
Official: WD buys SanDisk
Future civilisations won't know how the universe formed
My theory (oh yes, sit down, get a nice cup of tea) - lots of stars formed early on because the Universe was nowhere near absolute zero. Now our planets global warming (and other planets, it's not just us) means we are sucking the warm from the Universe (it 's a physics thing, warmth has to come from somewhere). So, the Universe is cooling down, less stars are being formed because all that gas is getting sluggish. Simples.
Where do I go to get the Nobel prize for stating the bleedin' obvious?