Posts by dave 81

GSM gateway ban U-turn casts doubt on 7.5-year prosecution in Blighty

CPS Honest?

Not judging by the cases I have had to sit on. They lie and lie and lie, and then when proved to be lying by actual evidence, repeat the lie again in their summing up. CPS just give a shit about getting convictions however they can.

Startup remotely 'bricks' grumpy bloke's IoT car garage door – then hits reverse gear

Re: 6 points on your license

> But IMHO if you are stationary on public road with the handbrake on you can operate the phone as you see fit.

From personal experience; If the keys are in the ignition, they will ticket you.

Coppers 'persistently' breach data protection laws with police tech

Re: Power corrupts

And any so called accountability is laughable.

UK Home Office warns tech staff not to tweet negative Donald Trump posts

Another nail in the coffin

Of the late "free speech". God bless our benevolent overloads.

Smut-scamming copyright chaser 'fesses up, will do hard time

Re: Great to see this

And yet the so call "police" in America engaging in similar entrapment is all legal and fine. Yea, USA is totally great!

My fortnight eating Blighty's own human fart-powder

Tried huel as a breakfast.

I don't have an appetite for about an hour after I wake, combined with 2 kids and the morning rush to get them ready for school, so by the time I get to work, I am hungry, with only junk around for the vending machines. So I tried Huel off the back of this. Managed to find 2 minutes to dump water and powder into the blender take it to work with me. Not always a pleasant meal, but it fills me till lunch.

However, after 2 months of weekday Huel breakfasts, I have to report that I am feeling much healthier, more alert, and my old friend morning glory has returned after disappearing at when a hectic family life became the norm. Co-incidence perhaps.

I think that will be continuing with it.

UK Snoopers' Charter gagging order drafted for London Internet Exchange directors

Make your MP pay.

Write your MP, tell him/her what a sh1t they are for snoopers charter. And done stop. Every month, remind them what utter arse's they are for letting this law stand.

100k+ petition: MPs must consider debating Snoopers' Charter again

Re: Well...

> Next up I guess, then, will be the War On VPNs.

And if they ban VPN providers, I will get a cheap VPS somewhere that respects privacy, set it up as a personal open VPN server, and they will still be seeing nothing from me. If this act does ever come into law all they will see from me is connections to VPN's, youtube, netflix, and prime. And the only votes I will cast are for candidates who will repeal this act. I have written my MP and said as much as well.

The hated Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal will soon be dead. Yay?

The problem with the TPP

Is that it has done in secret, without public oversight. I could not write to my MP, refer to page x of the document and explain why its a good/bad idea. And that is wrong.

Internet handover is go-go-go! ICANN to take IANA from US govt

Let just make our own internet.

With hookers and blackjack...

Larry Ellison today said really nice things about rival Amazon's cloud

Re: Oracle Database

Oracle own MySQL don't they?

AMD sued: Number of Bulldozer cores in its chips is a lie, allegedly

is there a result yet?

Is this still being litigated?

No means no: Windows 10 nagware's red X will stop update – Microsoft

Re: Postpone?

GRC - Never10.

Nuff said.

US Senate strikes down open-access FBI hacking warrant by just one honest vote

I've said it before

Welcome to the United Police States of America.

'Windows 10 nagware: You can't click X. Make a date OR ELSE'

Re: What date is good for you?

https://www.grc.com/never10.htm

seems to work.

Seagate says it's scooped the 'fastest ever PCIe drive' record

Read the headline, and first thought was "Fastest time to failure, duh,"

Tell us what's wrong with the DMCA, says US Copyright office

Everything.

Virgin Media whines about Sky's customer service claims, ad watchdog agrees

It's like comparing craps.

Never had the displeasure of talk-talk, but had both sky and virgin, and saying one's customer service is better than the other is like saying one crap is less stinky that the another. Could be true, but it's still crap at the end of the day.

Windows 10 preview on death row, will be executed on Thursday

The hardware still works.

But windows 10 won't run on it. Windows 10 upgrade is not "free" if you have to buy all new hardware.

So until the hardware dies XP will still be a thing.

Another chance to win a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

City of birth? Why password questions are a terrible idea

SQRL

Seems solid.

Get coding or you'll bounce email from new dot-thing domains

Re: No, that makes things easier

Exactly, sounds like: "not a problem, won't fix" to me.

Yes, HP will still sue you if you make cartridges for its inkjet printers

Not going to save them.

Who the fuck buys HP now days anyway? God awful software and drivers, expensive ink.. Nuff said.

Ahhh, SATISFACTION: Watch while we set a NAS on FIRE

Been done.

Just google Geekbeat iosafe, and its the first link.

Still, suppose proof is in replication of the experiment....

GitHub wipes hand across bloodied face, stumbles from brutal DDoS beating

One question not covered

Why take down GitHub, What reasons for temporarily disrupting the service?

Vodafone, can you get a signal at the top of your $130bn Verizon cash pile?

Nothing to the taxman?

Um, No, the shareholder's will have to pay something,well, most of them.

Fanbois smash iPhone 5s much sooner than iPhone 3s ... but WHY?

Re: Destroyed to upgrade?

*"upgrade to an Android Model or downgrade and lose any tech credibility with a Windows Phone"

there fixed it for you.

BSkyB-owned BE slams into traffic pile-up over 'unlimited' broadband lie

Re: Come on 150GB a month

I call bull on this. Between crash plan, netflix and twit.tv I use 250Gb to 300Gb a month.

Typically if the wife or I work at home we use 8 to 16 Gb between us streaming tv, while working over vpns.

So, yes, p2p may be a cause, but it's not all heavy users that use it.

3 million Freesat receivers now out there, and boxes to get YouTube

Netflix

For me, Netflix is a replacement, for paying for virgin or sky.

So now when i am too busy to watch netflix's admittedly limited content, its not as bad as paying £50-£60 for TV that I just wasn't watching.

However, there is still plenty on netflix I want to watch, the daughter loves netflix for kids, and I can be anywhere and watch it. No slingbox needed.

BYOD is a PITA: Employee devices cost firms £61 a month

Re: Pay for my own device, and have them lock it down???

Agree, totally unacceptable. And imagine if the company wiped it.

Luckily, the likes of GOOD and Checkpoint (and more I am sure) will just control and lock down an app on the device rather than the whole device.

Ofcom looks at contract opt-outs as users rage over price hikes

Sale of goods and services act?

Anyone? What is bought at point of sale is binding.

Pentagon hacker McKinnon will NOT be prosecuted in the UK

Re:

He logged on to devices which were still using default passwords for the most part. The criminals here are the morons who configured the devices and computers he "hacked"

Wind, solar could provide 99.9% of ALL POWER by 2030

Re: Bullshit

Seconded. Absolute Fudged bull.

Brit retailers tell Amazon and Google to pay their taxes

Morally?

Sorry, What is so "moral" about paying taxes? As far as I am concerned if a penny of tax money goes to trade unions or to the anti-democratic EU, then paying taxes is the immoral thing.

Why one storage admin fears Justin Bieber

Re: School I work at took another approach.

Such an easy thing to bypass.

This command:

echo . >> [offending file]

and the hash check wont match the blacklist.

Check Point in domain expiry snafu

Seriously?

"The web server behind the IP address corresponding to the domain - 216.200.241.66 - was also responding slowly. "

Anybody who used this "award winning" site daily knows that this is definitely situation normal, Domain snafu or not.

NASA orders study for all astronauts over vision concerns

Now that the forum is back up and running, yea, this was going to be my point, surely the few minutes at 3-4G during launch is more likely to compress the eye, than the micro gravity enviroment?

Unlawful tweets could land Twitter in Blighty's dock

Oh dear

Thinking of all the times I have called certain Politicians complete cnuts on twitter....

FCC (finally) cracks down on BLARING! TV! ADS!

Mute button on TV remote = WIN.

NotW didn't delete Milly Dowler 'false hope' voicemail

Good Riddance

I am past caring what the NoTW did or did not do. I am just glad that that bunch of tards are no longer around to make someone do something then report it as if it was news. Real undercover work is reporting on what happens with out some pushy left wing anti royal [see you next Tuesday] steering the events so a crap paper could sell a few sheets.

Rock star physicist Cox: Neutrinos won't help us cheat time

The Barman says, "sorry, we don't serve neutrinos here."

A neutrino walks into a bar.

Massive study concludes: 'Global warming is real'

You have missed the fucking point!

Of course the climate is changing. Its always changing.

The question that is in doubt is whether its man made, or if there is a damned thing man can do about it.

Now remove that fucking unfounded climate skeptics dealt a blow line, cause that is total bullshit.

Sony insurer says it's not liable for costs of data breach

Anyone want to help out?

By boycotting Sony?

New malware ferrets out and steals Bitcoins

Bitcoin mining doesnt work like that.

If a botnet started to mine, the difficulty of generating a bitcoin hash would simply increase.

See http://bitcoin.sipa.be/ for the history on how computation in the network has increased along with the difficulty.

Anonymous hacks Sony PS3 sites

Satan will be ice skating to work

Before I buy Sony again. From root kit's on CD's to puerile legal actions, they are just another scum company.

Google contradicts own counsel in face of antitrust probe

It's not a public service

Nobody is forcing the use of google. Its not a public server!

So what right do the EU have to tell google how to run their business? From an end user point of view if I don't like the results google give me, I will use something else. (not bing though because that really is sh*t) . There is plenty of alternative search engines. And one result I hate is FSM damned link farms like this sh*tty UK company undoubtedly is.

So for FSM's sake tell the EU to f*ck off.

GM declares Ampera e-car 'production ready'

The company that killed the EV-1

expects me to buy this piece of crap? Not if they paid me.

Sony threatens to ban PS3 jailbreakers from network

EVILLE

Sony are the new evil empire.

And I am right there with the move to boycott Sony.

One-third of Aussies 'are pirates'

Greed justification.

The really sick thing is that the games and entertainment industry's will use this "research" as an excuse to further inflate their overprice wares.

So instead of lowering the price so that there is less excuse to pirate, the greed principle will just escalate with high prices, and pressure on the governments to come down harder on pirates.

UK opposes EU plans for '28th regime' for contract law

What a difference

Nice to see that the UK Gov is not just rubber stamping all EU BS into UK law, unlike those lying labour twats did for 13 years.