Posts by Big-nosed Pengie

Did you hear? There's a critical security hole that lets web pages hijack computers. Of course it's Adobe Flash's fault

The mind boggles

Actually, it doesn't.

Microsoft has another crack at fixing Chrome problems in Windows 10

After all this time

And people are still using this Microsoft shite?

Cry me a river.

FTTP NBN gone from draft Australian Labor Party policy platform

No less than you'd expect from the Almost Liberal Party.

Australian Signals Directorate won't become domestic snoops

It's OK - we don't need DSD to collect data on us. We'll just buy it from the US.

'Your computer has a virus' cold call con artists on the rise – Microsoft

Re: Re "putting the phone down is almost always the right thing to do."

I did exactly that. Kept them on the line for an hour. :-)

Fear the Reaper: Man hospitalised after eating red hot chilli pepper

Chillis or peppers? Can't be both.

Indian comms satellite gives boffins back home the silent treatment

Re: Can you hear me Major Tom

Circuit's

Microsoft Australia flicks switch on Protected Azure-for-Gov service

Australian governments loves them that MS snake oil!

Dodo, Commander, iPrimus are very sorry about 100/40 NBN plans

Too little too late.

We all hate Word docs and PDFs, but have they ever led you to being hit with 32 indictments?

"Pled"?

Murdoch to Zuckerberg: Cough up cash, nerd

News? Since when has the Murdoch Propaganda Factory had anything to do with news?

Australia won't prescribe its national broadband network a high-fibre diet

What a shithole country!

Brandis' infrastructure security bill off to committee

Re: so this is one of a series of gummints that

Denarius for PM!

nbn™ to ISPs: share your speeds or we'll share 'em for you

I shudder at the thought of being compulsorily NBNd. I'm getting an average of ~70Mbs down and 25Mbs up under VDSL2 at the moment. The NBN will feel like going back to dialup.

Telstra drops nbn™ in it as it wears compo for broadband speed ads

Telstra has all-but-blamed nbn™

The unspeakable in hot pursuit of the uneatable.

Telstra said its 7-incher was really an 11-incher, left customers frustrated, unsatisfied

Dealing with Telstra is its own punishment.

Australia commits to establish space agency with no budget, plan, name, deadline …

I'm sure it'll be managed at least as well as the NBN.

Crackas With Attitude troll gets five years in prison for harassment

Who or what is a crackas?

Climate-change skeptic lined up to run NASA in this Trump timeline

This twunt is not a skeptic - he's a denier.

Skeptics examine the evidence and base their conclusions on it.

Chrome wants to remember which Websites to silence

Wouldn't it just be easier to install an adblocker?

Ad blocking basically doesn't exist on mobile

No ads for me since I installed Adguard.

Oz senate committee says 'robo-debt' program was 'set up to fail'

On the contrary

Its purpose was to punish poor people for being poor. And it works like a charm.

French firm notches up 50km unmanned drone inspection flight

Beyond Visual Line of Sight

No. Just no.

Australian oppn. leader wants to do something about Bitcoin, because terrorism and crypto

" leftish-of-centre " - the Labor Party??????? Shirley you jest!

Telstra to hang up on 1,400 more workers

Here's an idea! How about we nationalise Telstra?

Oh...wait...

The revolution will not be televised: How Lucas modernised audio in film

Decent stories and good acting make up for any amount of shite sound and bad projection.

No amount of sound and projection engineering can make up for the fact that Star Wars is is just cheap and nasty space opera that would have worked equally well (!) in the Wild West.

Juno's first data causing boffins to rewrite the text books on Jupiter

"as well as knuckleballs and sliders"

I understand that a slider is a type of hamburger, but wtf is a knuckleball?

Japan (lightly) regulates high-frequency algorithmic trading

It's a start.

What is this bullsh*t, Google? Nexus phones starved of security fixes after just three years

A bloody disgrace

Google is now the global village idiot. That's the last Google branded product I buy.

Did your in-flight entertainment widget suck? It's Panasonic's fault, claims software biz

Obligated?

The word you're looking for is "obliged".

You're welcome.

A non-Standards Soviet approved measure of weight? Sod off, BBC!

That's not a kelpie

This is a kelpie.

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Australia's Department of Social Services pushing ahead with data-matching plans

What a funny little 1950s banana republic Australia has become.

FBI let alleged pedo walk free rather than explain how they snared him

What have they got against foot fetishists?

Australian Internet policy remains years behind reality

Alternative headline

"Australia remains years behind reality."

If nbn™ can't say when it will arrive in your street, you're getting a Telstra HFC connection

Since I swapped to VDSL2 from cable, I've been getting consistent 70Mbps download and 30Mbps upload speeds. I understand that, when I'm compelled to change to the NBN when it arrives in my area in 2018, I can look forward to 25Mbps download and who knows what upload. No wonder they call it "fraudband".

Thank the kriste I've got a couple of years of decent service until I'm forced into this shite.

Twas the week before Xmas ... not a creature was stirring – except Microsoft admitting its Windows 10 upgrade pop-up went 'too far'

Re: 'We want people to be running Windows 10 from a security perspective'

"A security perspective! Yeah! That's it! We'll say it was a from a security perspective!"

Telstra's answers El Reg's Smart Home security questions

I wouldn't let Telstra secure a roll of toilet paper.

Australia teases binning x86 for Power CPUs in new supercomputer

"Compute"

It's a fecking verb.

DARPA hands space junk spotting scope to US Air Force

Yeah! What's that in football fields?

Who killed Cyanogen?

Re: "try to leverage its market power"

Anyone using "leverage" as a verb is automatically disqualified from entering the company of adults.

18 seconds that blacked out South Australia

Another triumph of privatisation.

High rear end winds cause F-35A ground engine fire

Can't fly in the rain, can't start in the wind. A triumph of modern marketing.

Naughty Zuck: Facebook fudged its video ad numbers

There are ads on Facebook?

Ad flog Plus: Adblock Plus now an advertising network, takes cash to broker web banners

uBlock Origin

That is all.

Good job, Oz feds: Conroy wants you investigated for privilege and contempt

Welcome to the Banana Republic of Australia.

Facebook replaces human editors with McChicken romping, Fox News faking AI bots

All I can say is thank the gods for Fluff Busting Purity.

Microsoft redfaced after Bing translation cockup enrages Saudis

MS gets it right for once

and all three of its users in Saudi Arabia are unhappy.

KFC-scented sunscreen

KFC has restaurants now???

Australia Post says use blockchain for voting. Expert: you're kidding

Re: Australia Post's search for relevance ...

"C'mon AusPost ... you can do better than this!"

No they can't.