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Posts by Miek
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Valve pal iBuyPower touts cut-price Steam box as powerful as PS4 or Xbox
BBC's 3D blunder BLASTED OUR BRAINS – Doctor Who fans
Re: "Tax" - really?
"Soon after I got threatening letter. Not a letter asking me to confirm whether or not someone lived there or if there was a TV there. No they went straight in first letter to threats of legal action." -- Ignore the letters, eventually they get bored and they stop sending them.
UK defamation law reforms take effect from start of 2014
NSA installed '50,000 malware sleeper cells' in world computer networks
Qatar whips covers off giant footballing vagina
Autopilot guides Texan plane home from a dizzying 30,000m
Build your own WORKING Sonic Screwdriver... for a UNDER A FIVER
Brit ISPs ordered to add more movie-streaming websites to block list
Justin BIEBER ploughs cash into NaaS: NARCISSISM-as-a-Service
'F-CK YOU GOOGLE+' ukelele missy scoops BIG WAD of $$ - for Google
Re: I don't get it
"It is theft, the resources are funded through advertising therefore denying the provider revenue by blocking ads means you're stealing content from their networks." -- It's not stealing, it's advert avoidance. All perfectly above board. Is sticking my fingers in my ears and shouting "La-La-La" during the adverts stealing ?
It's simple. Google+ has little uptake, has not really been all that interesting to most people and in order to boost uptake they are taking a swipe at the youtube community, hoping that forcing youtube users to sign in to comment and such will actually be accepted. I never really commented before, now so less likely.
"Would you like to use your real name for all your Google services?" -- No, now Foxtrot Oscar.
GCHQ hijacked LinkedIn profiles to hack Belgian telecoms network – report
BT Sport scores own goal with £897m Champions League footie rights deal
Martian MOM LAYS another EGG in SPACE - but it's not big enough
Cyber dragnet: Five new HACKERS join FBI's 'most wanted' list
Forget 'Call of Duty: Ghosts' - how does its rival from EA stack up?
Here's what YOU WON'T be able to do with your PlayStation 4
Sounds like the most retarded step-backward I have ever heard of. The PS4 < PS3 in terms of features, such as playing audio CDs, MP3s, external storage support, Media streaming from your PC (as long as you don't stream er, music and videos)
What were they thinking ? I was very much decided that I probably won't buy a PS4 until a few years from now, but, after this article I probably will just ignore the very existence of the PS4.
Cameron pledges public access to list of who REALLY owns firms
New Bitcoin exchange launches in the UK
""A few times per day, an undisclosed (more than 1) number of Coinfloor agents go to multiple underground vaults in separate locations held with separate companies to visit the USBs containing encrypted private keys. In the heart of the deposit chamber the agent signs user's withdrawal transactions on an offline computer and then once the agent is above ground, the agent takes the signed transactions to an online computer and uploads them to the Bitcoin network. We believe this protects us from all methods of online attack and prevents against physical (rubberhose) attack, as the private keys are never together in one place or accessible by one person," it said." -- A virus located on the online computer could infect the USB key that the agent is transferring the transactions from the offline computer to the online computer and setup a data passing scheme using the USB device.
Want to keep the users happy? Don't call them users for a start
How I BLEW my co-workers' HEADS OFF ... without going to jail
"My only criticism of the show is that it’s apparent none of the performers have worked in a real office. The backing soundtrack of typewriters and dot-matrix printers was a giveaway, and at one point they slap their malfunctioning LCD displays to try get them to work." -- I had a LCD monitor that bleached to white every so often, one quick and deliberate slap on the top right corner (from behind) was enough to restore normality.
Coding: 'suitable for exceptionally dull weirdos'
"I'm all for people to learning to code" -- I'm all for people learning to read what they've written, but, as for everyone needing to learn to code, probably not necessary. Perhaps students could pick and mix modules for their Computing studies and tailor their course to suit their desired career paths, as there are many facets to the subject.
New leak claim: NSA saw hole in Mexican prez's email box - and hacked it
Snowden: 'I have data on EVERY NSA operation against China'
As spying is now a seemingly legitimate activity ... I thought some might appreciate this novel consumer item aimed at a rather neglected market: Pineapple Drone
You may want to seek permission before flying that over GCHQ though!
Assange: 'Ecuadorian embassy staff are like my family'
Re: security
"How much do the Ecuadorians pay to keep him a fugitive?" - I can see that information being in the Public's interest if you pay Ecuadorian taxes, but, what about the security aspect ? This is not in the public's interest, It is not like Wikileaks exposed how to break into GCHQ or what their security procedures are. You come across like a brat throwing toys out of their pram. Your point is moot and the reasoning behind wishing Assange's security arrangements to be leaked is one of only revenge. Go stand in the corner.
"Or is Julian Assange and Wikileaks now the judiciary with power to decide what is and what is not in the public interest for the entire world?" --You have raised an interesting point here, worthy of discussion. Whom should decide what is in a given Public's interest? If we left it to politicians and security services to decide; it would be kept secret, particularly if wrongdoing would be exposed. Ultimately someone has to say "This needs to be made public!" and has to have the stern will to go head to head with some of the most resourceful, conniving and downright devious professionals known to humanity.
Re: security
""other details I don’t want to go into because of the security situation"
I wonder how he'd feel if somebody leaked that information?"
Why would they ? It's not like that information is in the Public's interest quite unlike the Diplomatic Cables and the Apache video that were released by Wikileaks.
Kids hooked up with free Office subs at Microsoft-addicted schools
Why a Robin Hood tax on filthy rich City types is the very LAST thing needed
"Why a Robin Hood tax on filthy rich City types is the very LAST thing needed" -- Indeed, I guess what is needed is to simply tax us mere "Citizens" a little harder in order to support the poor investments, decisions our Business overlords make not to mention the insignificant tax revenues they generate for the Country.
Control panel backdoor found in D-Link home routers
Web daddy Tim Berners-Lee: DRMed HTML least of all evils
MI5 boss: Snowden leaks of GCHQ methods HELPED TERRORISTS
I'm not convinced, I cannot think of a single terror plot that has been mentioned anywhere that was foiled by MI5. Weren't the Pants and Shoe bombers caught by airport security and members of the public? If MI5 have foiled so many terrorist plots in the past decade there should be some news items or something, but, no, nothing that I can see. Unless of course the MI5 boss is referring to their sterling surveillance and identification of the Terrorist Electrician, Charles De-Menezes.
Furthermore, if there have been terror plots foiled by MI5, where are the court cases that these suspected terrorists have been tried in ? Ah, I guess more secret courts, more secret proceedings and no-one finds out the fate of these individuals. I guess the UK must have it's own Guantanamo Bay somewhere else in the world where the terrorists are interrogated,tried and executed, in a similar vein to the extraordinary rendition of individuals, such as Binyam Mohamed.