Posts by Craig 2

LastPass got hacked: Change your master password NOW

ahahahahahahahahahahaha... ad infinitum

I feel like smug scum for laughing at people's pain, but I just can't help it....

Testing Windows 10 on Surface 3: Perfect combo or buggy embuggerance?

Re: As it turned out, Microsoft's success was limited

"Have you ever thought about a career in diplomacy?"

They (The Reg) don't want to lose any chance of getting Microsoft review units in the same way the don't get Apple gear.

City of birth? Why password questions are a terrible idea

Re: Too old to remember

Ditto. In any case, I would bet the circles of real / virtual criminals (aka. burglars / hackers) don't have much overlap.

Feds: Bloke 'HACKED PLANE controls' – from his PASSENGER seat

In my book, just the fact that the flight control & entertainment systems are linked is proof of negligence and reckless endangerment by the manufacturer.

With WWDC looming, Apple kicks out third iOS 8.4 beta

Re: Huh?

They post stuff like that to expose suckers like you: mission accomplished.

Microsoft: It's TRUE, you'll get Android and iOS apps in WINDOWS

Embrace.......

MONSTROUS iPhone sales are CANNIBALIZING iPads, gabbles Apple CEO

Re: Showoffs

I've bought iPhones for my OH because I like an easy life. Some things are just worth the money.

Cash register maker used same password – 166816 – non-stop since 1990

"Forensics had even established which songs were played based on the logged keys."

Hmmmm, fairly impressive. Tell me their score for for bonus points...

What's broken in this week's Windows 10 build? Try the Start Menu, for one

They do not sound like "it's almost finished" type bugs!

Dot-sucks sucks, say lawyers: ICANN urged to kill 'shakedown' now

Shock horror! Domain registration companies fleecing trademark holders.

Adobe Flash fix FAIL exposes world's most popular sites

Re: Last week I finally uninstalled Flash across our office

All it needs to marginalize flash is a significant portion of people to do this. Any offending sites would soon be updated to make them HTML5 compatible. If you can't yet commit to fully uninstalling, set the plugin permission to ask; you'll be surprised how little you need it.

.Free domains at Amazon while Google says bye to .family

Really?? They're just picking random words out of the dictionary now!

Microsoft announces Windows 10 and Azure for humanity's implacable IoT foes

As far as I can see, the cloud (and persistant internet connectivity in general) is all about control. Taking it out of the hands of customers and into the hands of corporations. Revoking licences, changing terms, disabling functionality or whatever they please is simple if everything is forced through a central server.

I feel like I'm a luddite, but no thanks to all that.

The BBC wants to slap a TAX on EVERYONE in BLIGHTY

Re: Going back to the 50s

You've got bigger issues than the loss of £150, trust me.

Reckon YOU can write better headlines than us? Great – apply within

Cue sarcastic comments about inserting random unrelated pictures into every article :D

ACHTUNG! Scary Linux system backdoor turns boxes into DDoS droids

Yes, the article doesn't really specify how you get infected and whether it needs human intervention.

How are people supposed to effectively troll the security or lack thereof in their chosen favourite OSs without the full details!?

How's this for customer service: Comcast calls bloke an A**HOLE – and even puts it in print

He probably meant to put it into a "Customer notes" box that only employees can see!

'People ACTUALLY CONFUSE Facebook and the internet in some places'

eBay...

I'm not surprised eBay is losing money, its website has turned into a bloated POS. From constantly showing spurious "Sorry, can't perform that action", to the ongoing attempt to turn it into a "Shopping Destination".

For example, changing the "Saved Searches" link into "Searches you follow". WTF? Saved searches = searches that I saved. What the hell does it mean to "follow" a search? There are a million similar tweaks that don't add any functionality and just obfuscate the true meaning, all in the name of making it more "social". They should concentrate on making the best tat-selling site instead of trying to compete with the likes of Amazon.

/rant over

One Sync to rule them all: How Microsoft plans to fix OneDrive

That stage has already been reached and it's a huge improvement.

Space Commanders lock missiles on Elite's Frontier Devs

Still haven't forgiven Braben for the buggy POS that was Frontier, I think I'll wait until some comprehensive reviews come out. I think Ian Bell was responsible for most of the actual gameplay elements of the original Elite, David Braben is more a of a maths whiz who likes making "universe simulators" rather than good games. If Ian Bell's website has any truth in it, Braben is also a bit of a childish dick.

Or am I just old and bitter? ;)

TALE OF FAIL: Microsoft offers blow-by-blow Azure outage account

Cloud services: You are the beta testers.

Searching to destroy ... Bing? Facebook JILTS Microsoft

Re: Does this article...

It's the brave new world! More whitespace, more pictures, less information. I know everything has to be tablet-centric these days, but surely a lot of readers browse The Register as I do: At work on a PC, when I should be doing something more productive!

Social media data is riddled with 'human behaviour errors'

The posts of many social media users doesn't reflect their real lives?? NO SHIT!!

TalkTalk email goes titsup FOR DAYS. Cheapo telco warns: Changing password WON'T fix it

Anyone using ISP's own email is mad, and anyone using TalkTalk's is doubly mad!

DNA survives fiery heat of re-entry on test rocket

Re: Alas...

Sadly, this gives me 2 simultaneous thoughts:

1. That can't possibly be true, nobody would be that self-centered.

2. It probably is true.

Rosetta probot drilling denied: Philae has its 'leg in the air'

Re: The comet is heavier now. how will it affect its course ?

Yes, but the Earth is lighter by the mass of the probe so it all cancels out! :P

Hide your Macs, iPhones and iPads: WireLurker nasty 'heralds new era'

Re: The myth is that all malware is viruses.

The Mac is pretty irrelevant to virus writers.

People wrongly extrapolate this to it being more resistant to malware.

The Flash lives up to its name with a fast-paced pilot full of potential

Zoom, zoom, zoom!

Microsoft: Cloud-o-bile still only small slice of softening revenue pie

Re: hmmmm

In case Steve Ballmer tries to come back?

Apple tool: Buying an iPhone in a carpark? Find out if it's STOLEN

Re: "Bloke said not to open box until he leaves"

The article is about bent phones, not phones that may have been bent.

Snowden shouldn't be extradited to US if he testifies about NSA spying, says Swiss gov

So if Snowden can possibly gain immunity to extradition in any country that has a grudge against the US spying, he'd be free to travel most of the world eventually.

Tim Cook on pale, male Apple: 'As CEO, I'm NOT satisfied'

The article, and most of the comments read like an Onion story. It's getting harder to determine parody from reality these days.

SHOCK and AWS: The fall of Amazon's deflationary cloud

One of the points that always seem to be missed is that before all the price cuts, they were ALL making OVER 50% profits. (Assuming they can still turn a profit now) They were raking it in!

Motorist 'thought car had caught fire' as Adele track came on stereo

The sad thing is that before he set off, he was sat in there for 3 hours with the keys in the ignition waiting for a certain Rolling Stones track to come on...

NO TIME to read Facebook? Delegate the task to your FUTURE SELF

Re: Alternatively...

You could tag stuff you don't want to see as such and if you do it a few times it simply won't appear any more. Unfollow spammy groups and spammy people. My feed is 99% full of things I want to see posted by people I want to see it from. Also, adding everyone in the known universe to make it look like you have hundreds of friends is NOT a good idea.

Instead of moaning, try learning.

Google's Pankhurst doodle doo-doo shows the perils of using Google to find stuff out

Sounds like this would be a Q.I. "Nobody Knows!" moment...

NASA: ALIENS and NEW EARTHS will be ours inside 20 years

Much as I love all the exciting space stuff happening in recent years, seeing these new 'Earths' will be a real kid-in-a-sweetshop-look-but-don't-touch moment. We'll be able to see all these amazing things and never* touch them. Given that, still can't wait to see :)

*never - Not in my lifetime and probably quite a few more generation's lifetimes!

Conformist Google: Android devices must LOOK, WORK ALIKE

Re: Slow learners?

They're not saying one UI for all devices, just that manufacturers have to stick more to their (Google's) stock UI for each device.

Google Glass faces UK cinema ban: Heaven forbid someone films you crying in a rom-com

The MPAA need to keep cracking down on illegal recording when new devices appear, because it's been working great so far!

Who needs a ride-on mower when a ROBOT will cut your grass

Drilling holes, cursing at flat-pack furniture, removing spiders, spending hours starting the petrol mower. These are the things that build character in a man. Anyone bloke who buys one of these is chipping away at his innate manliness and will eventually start getting urges to watch box-sets of "Sex in the city" and buying stuff like Nivea exfoliating face scrub for men!

Firefighters deliver trapped student from GIANT GERMAN LADYPARTS

Why wasn't the tagline "Dick gets stuck in vagina"?

Oh, wow. US Secret Service wants a Twitter sarcasm-spotter

I really enjoy comments like this.

Police at the door? Hit the PANIC button to erase your RAM

As a byproduct, it creates a new variant of knock-a-door-run where you bang on a nervous hacker's door and shout "Open up, Police!" They then have to spend the next few hours re-installing :)

John Chambers sold millions of shares on first day of Cisco Live!

To continue the metaphor: I think that investing in someone who is keeping all his own eggs in the basket he's responsible for isn't so stupid. It's when he starts selling the eggs that he might not be so careful with the basket...

Expulsion from Garden of Steven: Apple staffers tossed out of Fruit Loop

Re: Or, to summarise

Apple have make a song and dance about the futuristic design, environmentally friendly, "great-place-to-work" features of their new flagship HQ, but the reality (as always with these mega-corporation announcements) is a load of people shoe-horned into a box shaped office block.

I love that kind of hypocrisy :)

"I've seen more exciting news items"

I've seen much more exciting comments...

OpenStreetMap declared ready for paid use after satnav app debut

We need this...

Not necessarily to use, but just to prevent Google charging for all usage of Maps.

OK, we get the message, Microsoft: Windows Defender splats 1000s of WinXP, Server 2k3 PCs

Microsoft really shouldn't piss off tech support people like this. After all, they're the ones recommending the next upgrade their users should get..

Apple DOMINATES the Valley, rakes in more profit than Google, HP, Intel, Cisco COMBINED

On the subject of overpriced Apple:

Extended family has between them: iPads, iPod touch, iPhone 3GS, iPhone4, iPhone5S, Nexus 7, MotoG & Galaxy S4. I like Google's approach of good solid hardware with low cost, but I prefer the UI on Apple devices. (Even after de-cluttering Android) I definitely prefer family members using Apple devices because they cause far less support issues. The 3GS was recently handed down, wiped and setup from scratch and it's still a viable, usable phone for a light user.

Apple kit is expensively priced, but I don't think its that much overpriced.

I feel so dirty, I'm off to the corner to hang my head in shame.

Windows XP still has 27 per cent market share on its deathbed

Re: Lots of last-minuters out there.

Personally, I think it was a mistake to make MSE complain about the end of life for XP. A lot of people ringing are worried that the antivirus is being retired and that they will be fine if they just load on AVG or something similar. It takes a lot of explaining to convince them that the OS (and usually the PC) is obsolete.

Firefox's touchy-feeling Windows 8 makeover now in beta

Now that is a REALLY impressive time to waste while looking busy. I struggle with just a Friday afternoon!