Posts by tkioz

Single IPv6 packet kills Kaspersky-protected PCs, fix emerges

Ping of Death?

Seriously the ping of death makes a come back in 2013? Talk about crazy.

Oz Senator says Google Glass could 'end privacy as we know it'

They said the same bollocks about mobile phones with cameras a decade ago... It wont matter, some people will use it for dodgy stuff, most wont, but really, who gives a toss?

Farewell, Reg: This hack is hanging up her Apple jacket

Good luck and have a blast!

Beer for luck.

Pirate Bay to world: We're not really off to NORKS

“As a diplomat, he was a great basketball player.”

I hadn't seen that quote, which is a pity because it's one of the best quips I've heard in years, pity it was most likely written by a speech writer or PR flak... where oh where have all the Churchill style off the cuff remarks gone?

Pirate Bay 'seeks asylum' in, er, 'North Korea'

Well I'm almost certain it's a piss take, but you never know when it comes to the nutters running tPB or Best Korea for that matter.

Groupon CEO Mason sent packing as shares continue to plummet

At least he's got a sense of humour about it.

Beer for Friday.

US insurer punts 'bestiality' to wide-eyed kiddies, gasp 'mums'

With all the things that are actually wrong in the world... they decide to spend their energy on this bollocks?

Bloody Americans...

North Korean citizens told: Socialist haircuts are a thing... go get some

I guess there is something to be said for running your own country... You get to tell chicks to wear their hair in the fashion you find hottest!

US woman cuffed for 'booking strippers for 16th birthday bash'

Best.Mother.Ever.

Nuff said.

Clarkson: 'I WILL find and KILL the spammers who hacked me'

Internet tough guy syndrome anyone?

Online crims are getting away with it down under

They are too busy "investigating" copyright bollocks to bother with solving actual crimes.

NBN Co coffee budget brews caffeinated controversy

Bloody hell... they are really scraping the bottom of the barrel here aren't they... It was bad enough when the drongos against the NBN were twisting the facts and occasionally out and out lying their asses off about cost and technical specs... but this? damn... they really must be felling desperate.

Soak up CO₂ with sponges, says CSIRO

Awesome! This is the kind of science we should be spending money on, not that solar/wind bollocks that will never provide enough power to be viable, science that will provide clean-ish energy!

The only reason I can see to be spending money on "green" (synonymous with useless) energy instead of things like nuclear and technology like this is the hippys without any understanding of technology have too much lobbying power. They don't want clean and efficient energy, they want us all living a "natural" (aka hellish) existence with little to no power usage.

Apple CEO Cook: 'Bizarre' shareholder lawsuit a 'silly sideshow'

I still don't understand how they're allowed to get away with posting massive profits and refusing to pay dividends to the shareholders... Isn't that the whole point of owning stock in a company? If the company does well, they give you a chunk of change based on the amount of stock you own...

British games company says it owns the idea of space marines

Utterly ridiculous. I can not believe they think they'll get away with this bollocks, all the more proof that lawyers are the ones who are proving the case for IP reform with their over-reaching money grubbing ways.

I've been a fan of games workshop for over twenty years, but at this moment I want nothing to do with the company. Disgusting.

Earth-like planets abound in red dwarf systems

Re: If there is life out there, they're keeping quiet

While I don't doubt there is intelligent life out there, somewhere, statistically it's improbable that it doesn't exist... it doesn't mean it would be common, our galaxy alone could have thousands of civilisations at any given time... and they might never know the others exist... to quote the great man, Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is....

just 13 light years away

Just 13 huh? We'll be there next week! Seriously saying "just" when dealing with light years is like saying saying a "small battleship".

US diplomat: If EU allows 'right to be forgotten' ... it might spark TRADE WAR

Re: har har

Yep... gotta love how judges "interpret" plain English so that it doesn't do what a reasonable person thinks it would...

America threatening "trade war" over a law a democratically elected body puts in place... yeah... that sounds like a country that is into "freedom"... bloody hypocrites.

Obama calls for study into games ‘n’ guns link

Re: @tkioz

AC, so you are saying that because I think the lack of treatment for the mentally ill I'm in favour of 1984 style mind-control... yeah... bugger off please.

Maybe instead of pissing away money the yanks don't have on a study he could simply look at anyone of the dozens of accredited studies that have already been done... you know the ones that show just like any form of violent media, games don't cause violent behaviour, they might escalate it, but the person already needs to be a few bits short of a byte.

But oh no, let's not deal with the real problems like a lack of mental health treatment or controlling access to firearms, let's blame video games and movies... hell why not claim comics cause homosexuality while we're at it! Oh wait... that's already been done.

British armed forces get first new pistol since World War II

@Zmodem.

Zmodem dude... real combat is no Call of Duty... seriously WTF?

Swedish school puts Minecraft on the curriculum

Sounds great, I thought it was odd games faded out of the curriculum in the '90s, when I was at school in the '80s they were a vital part of teaching kids to use computers, I still remember the entire class sitting around the Apple II taking votes on what to do next in Oregon Trail.

Minecraft is a wonderful game for children, very easy to learn, with a lot to master, and most importantly it wasn't designed to be an "educational" game. Those "games" tend to be aimed more at the parents then at the actual kids playing it.

White House rejects Death Star petition: '$850qn too pricey'

Okay that was cute, better then I expected, but given the Germans have recently demonstrated a Death Ray, I find their lack of laser-armed space stations disturbing.

China censors chat users outside China

Why anyone would trust a Chinese company with their data is beyond me... it's almost as bad as trusting an American one... both have draconian data laws and brutish police tactics... but at least China is honest about it.

Astronaut yells FIRE ... from SPAAAACE

Cool photos of a horrible situation. It's been bloody hot here and the idiots children and psychopaths (is there a difference?) out setting fires haven't helped.

Do Not Call Register operator breaches Register

Frankly I've never been very impressed with the DNC register, and this story doesn't make me feel any better. I've been listed on it for years and I still get obnoxious calls, either scams, or from groups that have an "exemption" (Religious, Charity, Political).

Frankly if I don't have a preexisting relationship with an organization and I'm on the DNC they should not be allowed to call me full bloody stop, I don't care if you want to save the whales, ban the boats, or whatever other bollocks you're peddling, stop bothering me!

Browser makers rush to block fake Google.com security cert

Methinks someone isn't having a very happy new year.

AFACT wants ushers to confront pirates

I remember working in a cinema when I was young... horrible job... they didn't pay me enough to put up with the louts then and I doubt they pay enough to enforce copyright bollocks now.

Terrible reception for Oz spectrum auction

It's always amusing when Telstra and the other major Telcos call anyone else a rip off... Maybe if they demonstrated a smidgeon of social responsibility (such as not outsourcing everything they can to other countries) they might garner more sympathy.

ITU to treaty haters: Enjoy your pricey roaming, boatloads of spam... suckers

Good. I don't want dictatorships and fundamentalist states dictating to the civilized countries that invented and developed the internet into what it is; we've got enough trouble keeping our own "Think of the Children" and "let's all live in the 5th century" idiots under control, last thing we want is some backwards prats telling us how to do things.

Copyright trolls, biz scum, freetards - it's NOT black and white

Good for them, too many people forget that copyright when it was originally envisioned was viewed as a necessary evil, a far from perfect system, but still the best solution to the problem of rewarding creators but still giving people access.

It's like democracy or the western justice systems, flawed systems to be sure, but still better then everything else we've tried in those areas.

Unfortunately if the extremists on either side aren't put in their place we'll either see a death of large scale content (stuff that costs tens of millions to produce) or the death of customer rights and small scale content. It really sucks, because the current system badly needs reform, the length of copyrights at the moment are stupidly long, leading to works being lost forever (and damnit, haven't we lost enough of our culture?). Hell some of the Sherlock Holmes books are still under copyright!

I hope to see more moderates making their voices heard!

The latest tech firm to be accused of tax dodging: Microsoft

I'm honestly staggered that MPs are actually doing the right thing for a change... it's about time big multinationals were called on their tax dodging bollocks.

John McAfee: Let me go to the USA - or old Blighty

Okay maybe he is telling the truth... but honestly it couldn't hurt to have him checked out. What harm could it do? Hell lets assume he is telling the truth, in that case the stress he would be under would be massive, so it would do him so good that way as well!

Okay this started off as funny, now it's just sad. This guy needs professional help; he's clearly off his rocker.

FCC urges rethink of aircraft personal-electronics blackout

You left out one of the major reasons for the ban to stay... PROFIT. If customers are prevented from using their own devices they'll either use the ones provided (such as in-flight movies) or other ways to dull the pain of travel (booze!).

Who the hell would use those stupid airline provided things if you could use your own stuff?

Business sues for $750,000 over bad Yelp review

Yeah this is really going to help his business... Streisand effect anyone?

When I look at reviews I don't just look at the good ones, or the bad ones, I look at the general overall tone of the entire grouping. I expect there to be a few bad ones, because of everything from personality conflicts to simply bad days, what I'm mostly interested in is the general tone of the reviews.

Let's look at amazon book reviews for an example, if there are a bunch of 1 star reviews or a bunch of 5 star reviews, with nothing in the middle, I know something hinky is going on.

A 1 star review or a 5 star review isn't going to give me much information really, but at 3 or 4 star review? That's where I find out what the real deal is.

As galling as letting a factually incorrect review stand, assuming it is factually incorrect, it's far better then throwing a hissy fit and suing is just going to make you look like a wanker who can't take criticism, and there is no way I'm hiring a company with a history of suing people over crap like that.

Republican staffer fired for copyright reform suggestions

Re: There is only one answer to Washington's issues:

Simply guarantee government funding for anyone who can raise X amounts of signatures, give those people guaranteed air time on media (limited), and then ban any contributions from any source over say 2,000$.

There fixed. It might cost the tax payer cash in the short term, but it would be well worth it in the long term to prevent the lobbyists from having so much damn influence.

Yeah... how dare someone suggest that the current system is broken and offer reasonable suggestions on how to fix it... Damn dirty commie infiltrator!

This is the problem with the whole debate, you've got Big Content on one-side completely against any form of restructuring, you've got the FreeTards on the other side wanting to completely demolish the entire system, and anyone in the middle offering reasonable compromise is smashed like a grape under a hammer.

The current system is broken, it needs fixing, throwing away people who recognize that but don't want to rip the whole thing down isn't a good move.

Copying Wikipedia's lies is not just for hacks, right Lord Leveson?

I really don't get the full on hate for Wikipedia, of course it's not something you should totally rely on without a second, more reputable source. but honestly it's a good general resource.

Littlest pirate’s Winnie-the-Pooh laptop on the way home

What an idiot... I wouldn't have given them a red cent. Hell if I had known he was considering it I'd have donated towards getting the girl a new laptop, stickers and all!

Archaeologists uncover 'Unicorn's lair'

Re: Wrong picture

Looks like something out of a MLP/Anime crossover.

Oh North Korea... you little scamp, trying so hard to be stranger than Japan.

Assange needs to get some sunlight and fresh air, say Ecuadoreans

Well to be fair to the little twerp... the human body does need sunlight, even convicted murderers get yard time.

Pirate cops bust LITTLE GIRL, take her Winnie-the-Pooh laptop

Please tell me this is a freaking joke!?

Do the police seriously have nothing better to do then chase up copyright claims?

What the hell is going on in the western world?

Patent suit targets Formlabs and Kickstarter

Yeah... patents aren't broken at all... not when a company that's primary aim is bring a technology into the reach of the general populace is being sued over some generic patent.

Can we anti-competitive bollocks? yes we can.

Human Rights Watch proposes new laws of robotics

Re: Asimov's gonna be spinning in his grave :(

Asimov's laws are good... but they are very dangerous in the real world.

Example, humans eating junk food is bad for them, robots then should enforce nutritional standards on humans... humans order robots to let them eat junk food, robots rightly consider that order to be invalid because of how the second law is worded in regards to the first law...

That's just one example of robots taking control over humans using those laws. There are many many more. Think the Nanny states are bad now? Wouldn't be a patch on a robot run world.

One of my major concerns with remote or robotic warfare is it makes war "too easy", at least politically. Now don't get me wrong, I don't want to see dead soldiers coming home on the news anymore then the next person, but the fear of those images keeps politicians, at least the ones in the first world, hesitant to go to war, and that hesitation is a very good thing (though not without it's drawbacks) for the world.

If the politicians can order a war with very little risk to their own political standing, that is a very bad thing, a destabilizing thing for the world at large. Really the only control we have over our political "masters" is their fear that we will not vote for them next time... we really don't want to let that go.

Web users: We've got NO IDEA if we're stealing content or not

Convenience

I wonder if they factored in convenience. Look at eBooks for example, one of the least pirated items, it is generally very easy to purchase them legitimately... same as music... but then look at TV and Movies, both a massive PITA to access legally due to geolocking for example, with lots of hoops to jump through before you start watching.

When it is simply easier and quicker to go to a torrent site and download the latest episode of a TV show, then the content providers have failed somewhere along the line.

Cost and Convenience matter! Make it easier to pay for content then pirate it and watch the piracy rates drop.

First FIRE TORNADO documented in Australia

While Fire Tornadoes have been know for sometime (Japan in the 1920s for example) there had never been any documented or conclusive scientific proof of their existence, so this paper is of great significance.

Plus you know... it's a freaking FIRE TORNADO...