Posts by Miek

Interpol attacks hacks

"by a wide ranging Interpol operation named ‘Operation Unmask’" -- How creative and witty Interpol.

Apple tells Siri rival Evi: Get a facelift and you can stay

ah, the Telephone Automaton

Windows Phone armed with 'military-grade' email upgrade

Re: I'd be more impressed...

"Heck, I'll see your GPG and "raise" with the more ontopic Outlook 2010 which by default provides an SHA256 hash algorithm and 256bit AES encryption algorithm."

Yeah, but then you will be stuck using LookOut!

Playboy, Virgin Galactic tout zero-grav nookie in spaaaaace!

Is it April 1st already?

ZeuS Trojan embraces P2P – becomes even more sneaky and sticky

"Even a headshot to a zombie network may no longer kill off botnets" -- I'll break out the chainsaw

Blighty's taxman offers smartphone levy refund

So if an employer gives an employee a tablet device or pda for their work; they have to pay some tax on it regularly out of their salary ? WTF?

Ten... PlayStation Vita launch games

The games seem to expensive for a portable console.

New password-snatching Mac Trojan spreading in the wild

Re: Re: Can we please have approx 200 follow up comments?

Perhaps 50 of them are actually re-installing Vista for the nth time ;)

Microsoft blasts 'web video killer' Motorola Mobility in EU gripe

" In fact, more than 70 percent of Android devices are now licensed to use Microsoft’s patent portfolio." -- regardless of whether we want to use the $MS patent portfolio or not.

PARIS soars to Guinness World Record

Beers all round!

Microsoft licensing hike sparks UK piracy, bankruptcy fears

post that as much as you like AC, it doesn't make it true ;)

Re: Re: Linux ftw

"Have you ever tried to run RHEL without support?" -- yes

"You have to manually install all packages and sort out the dependencies yourself, it's a complete nightmare." -- No you don't.

"The point I'm making is - if you want to run Linux commercially and supported it's not free." -- true, but at least you're not paying to install and use RHEL, only have it supported by Red Hat. Have you never taken out a support contract with a $MS product or another proprietary application that runs on $MSwarez?

Re: "...secondly it will "promote piracy""

Perhaps $MS should create a solid activation process and do away with OS piracy, oh wait, that might damage their worldwide uptake of their OS.

Ageing Mario blamed for Nintendo's woes

Absolutely

New Mac OS X: Mountain Lion roars at unauthorised apps

Mountain Lion? I would have called it Cougar! Rawr

Sony 'fesses to Whitney Houston price hike 'error'

Re: Re: Borrowing from another commentard on the other Sony story of today...

I thought you had to "eat shit", not "fuck off" in order to qualify for an obligatory "and die"?

Fwd: @Aaron Em

I think it boils down to ethics not harm. They are trying to capitalise on someone's demise which is a rather despicable characteristic.

Hey Commentards! This pre-populated 'reply to' is for you

"pre-populated" -- is that like 'pre-planning'?

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+1 for the ability to edit posts

"if you are perverse, depopulate the field entirely ." -- We are and I'm sure we will.

Changing room spy cam sparks privacy tsar blast

Pedant Alert!

Where does it say that the camera was IN the changing rooms? The article does say that the pair lingered in the changing room for too long. I suspect that if the camera were in the changing room itself we would know more about why they lingered in there and what they were doing. The camera is probably outside of the changing room observing the entrance. It sounds a bit odd that the changing room door would be in the same place as the car park, but not impossible just improbable.

Blighty's gov to spunk up to £2.9b on crim-stalking tech

"The MoJ says in the notice that it may in future decide to use the PSN connectivity and services frameworks to award lot four." -- It's called SEN now not PSN and what are our plods doing playing Playstation when they should be working?

Why are you handing me my coat?

UK crime-busters knock hiphop site off the Internet

I assume your company keeps logs of the traffic that enters and leaves the gateway?

Anonymity Fail.

and http://netrenderer.com/ too ;)

Shuttleworth remixes Ubuntu... for biz users

Have they sorted the package and patch management yet? When I used it for OpenSuse 10/11 it was sluggish, buggy and AFAIK couldn't handle in place upgrades. This pushed me over to Ubuntu 9.10 which was quite a pleasant surprise in comparison to OpenSuse.

Black Ops has best videogame ending ever

"Black Ops peed me off with the difficulty settings implementation," -- how so ? It has three difficulties that are fairly well labelled!

Some people simply don't like cake! o_O

Apple orders PC builder to 'choose sides' in laptop battle?

"I swear the Apple faithful would watch Apple rape their wife, kill their children and rob them blind and still thank them for doing so"

They wouldn't get a thank you unless a good wallet-raping had occurred.

Grammer! You need to work on spelling first!

Sinofsky shows off Windows 8 on ARM and Office15

Woa! Said snowy!

I have to say that this WOA looks like it's had a considerable polish as compared with WP7.

Google drive cloud to rain on Apple, Dropbox parade

"Although no one could say that Google hasn't come up with some nifty ideas of its own, it does have a tendency to have a wee glance around the market to check out what people are liking and then come up with its own version of it."

-- which isn't actually that bad as you get a good quality service that integrates seamlessly with your other Gstuff and will work on just about any platform.

Canonical kicks Kubuntu to the kerb

Feeling minty here.

Toshiba releases 'world's thinnest' Android tablet

What's wrong with widescreen? Do you want a square tablet?

What's the battery's capacity? My SGS2 was thin and had a bit of lame battery as a consequence. Can anyone comment on the expected battery life ?

Beware Freedom of Info law 'privacy folktale' - ICO chief

" because governments need the guarantee of privacy to conduct their business;"

-- Bollocks, they just don't want those pesky members of public interfering in their backhand business deals and their rinsing the public purse.

Czechs, Slovaks stall on ACTA

" the government won’t allow “civic freedoms and free access to information” to be threatened, and says the real-life impact of the treaty needs to be understood." -- Wow, we need politicians like that too!

MPs rattle telcos to help kill extremist material online

Don't worry, I'm pretty sure that all telephone calls are faithfully routed via Cheltenham, for our safety.

Rioting? Black choppers for you then!

Mine's the one without the Black Choppers Icon in the pocket

* Unregulated Speech, AKA, Contra-Government Sanctioned notions.

Oh noes, there appears to be some unregulated free speech* going on. How can we stamp this out ? Perhaps we could get the BBC to run a scare story about MitB attacks and Internet banking not being safe and then label anyone posting unregulated material on the internet as a "Radical Terrorist".

It's amusing that Free Speech is seen as "Terrorism" or "Radicalisation" to Members of Government.

PSN renamed Sony Entertainment Network

Wow, that is efficient desk work. Thumbs up for the effort.

@Barry

"as nobody wants to upset Microsoft" -- haven't they suffered enough, poor darlings awww

Samsung 'Galaxy 4S' spied in benchmark results

Well, my Samsung Galaxy S2 has android 2.3.5 installed (Samsung not Cyanogen). I doubt an updated handset will be at an older android revision that it's predecessor.

New Trojan routes your bank's calls to CROOKS

My Bank regularly ask me to "fill in a land-line number" nearly every time I speak to them, fortunately, I don't have one.

Obama washes hands of O’Dwyer piracy extradition case

"LOL - then you shouldn't have made treaties with America" -- LMAO, you seem to think we had a say in it!

Just wait until 'Global Jurisdiction' gets fully under way!

Mozilla releases Firefox 10, adds developer tools

Firebug 1.8.4 running on FF10 here too.

Sick of Ubuntu's bad breath? Suck on a Linux Mint instead

I look forward to Giving Cinnamon a Whirl

Samsung reveals Advance-d Android ringer

How is this phone any different to the Galaxy S2?

Media groups propose anti-piracy 'code of practice' for UK search

You should be fine to Google that word, Top result is the Urban Dictionary ....

"Cockwomble. The best insult known to man! Don't speak to that guy, he's a complete cockwomble!" -- UrbanDictionary.com/define.php?term=Cockwomble