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Posts by Lockwood
420 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jul 2009
A great day for non-robots: iOS 16 will bypass CAPTCHAs
Cloudflare explains how it managed to break the internet
Germany advises citizens to uninstall Kaspersky antivirus
Jeff Bezos wants to build a business park in space
Brit accused of spying on 772 people via webcam CCTV software tells court he'd end his life if extradited to US
'An issue of survival': Why Mozilla welcomes EU attempts to regulate the internet giants
UK ads watchdog bans Burger King Twitter jibe for condoning chucking milkshakes at politicians
Oops, wait, yeah, we did hand over photos for King's Cross facial-recog CCTV, cops admit
Transcript of the meeting after Sadiq's statement
Sadiq Khan : Well, obviously. It was the one question today to which I could give a clear, simple, straightforward, honest answer
MPS : Unfortunately, although the answer was indeed clear, simple and straightforward, there is some difficulty in justifiably assigning to it the fourth of the epithets you applied to the statement inasmuch as the precise correlation between the information you communicated and the facts insofar as they can be determined and demonstrated is such as to cause epistemological problems of sufficient magnitude as to lay upon the logical and semantic resources of the English language a heavier burden than they can reasonably be expected to bear.
Sadiq Khan : Epistemological? What are you talking about?
MPS : You told a lie.
RIP 2019-2019: The first plant to grow on the Moon? Yeah, it's dead already, Chinese admit
Server retired after 18 years and ten months – beat that, readers!
Ukrainian teen created in lab passes Turing Test – famous nutty prof
Titsup Russian rocket EXPLODES, destroys $275m telly satellite
Spy back doors? That would be suicide, says Huawei
It woz the Reg wot won it: UK mobe network EE fixes voicemail hack flaw

Huzzah! A victory for common sense!
It's nice to see that El Reg has the pulling power to get a large company to fix stuff, rather than be dismissed as "some niche website"
It's good to see that we are now a step closer to having such impersonation attacks closed off.
(Actually posted by Simon, spoofing this random user's account)
Android engineer: We didn't copy Apple or follow Samsung's orders
Anatomy of OpenSSL's Heartbleed: Just four bytes trigger horror bug
Back off, Siri! Microsoft debuts Halo beauty Cortana
Homeopathic remedies contaminated with REAL medicine get recalled
MPs blast HMRC for using anti-terrorism laws against whistleblower
Fanbois SQUEAL as DNS snafu knocks out iTunes website
Top UK e-commerce sites fail to protect 'password' password-havers from selves
Cable thieves hang up on BT, cause MAJOR outage
Birds Eye releases 'mashtags' social spud snacks
NYPD dons Google tech specs: Part man. Part machine. All Glasshole
'I don't understand why they feel like they own the word CANDY'
Two guilty over 'menacing' tweets to feminist campaigner
App to manage Android app permissions
EC antitrust cops raid offices of Philips, Samsung, others
Price fixing?
I never understand how price fixing works.
Let's say that I can manufacture a McGuffin device and sell it for £5, with all the proper margins and everything, and Contoso, Northwind and Fabrikam are charging £20 for it.
We'll assume here that my McGuffins and their McGuffins are of similar quality.
The other manufacturers would have to find a way to lower their prices to compete, or I would be able to say "These guys are charging £20 for this. I could sell for £15, make more money and still undercut them"
If the latter happened, then the others would likely drop to £15 to match.
In this scenario, which is probably completely different to the one in the article, some would cry "Price fixing!" while others would say "Market effects"
Tesco instore bakery bread is about £1 a loaf. ASDA instore is about £1 a loaf. Hovis charge about £1.20, as do Kingsmill.
Is this a bread price fixing cartel, or just aligning prices to the market?
I'm not an economist, I'm just a reader with an opinion.
Thai man reportedly dies clutching his scorched iPhone 4S
If this doesn't terrify you... Google's computers OUTWIT their humans
Microsoft fears XP could cause Indian BANKOCALYPSE
Sympathy?
How long has the support cycle been known for?
There's only 100 days left? You've had at least 2 years warning!
With Y2K, people saw the problem coming, they tested it, they worked around the problem so the effects were negligible.
With the XP EOL, people refuse to see the problem coming, bury their heads in the sand and hope for the best.
This is why the two should not be compared.
Google preps Chrome password-blab bug fix
UK.gov BANS iPads from Cabinet over foreign eavesdropper fears
New Bitcoin exchange launches in the UK
Ahhh, SATISFACTION: Watch while we set a NAS on FIRE
Re: Channelling Mythbusters
Thanks.
A while back I managed to put the data transferred during the BBC Olympic coverage into floppy disc tonnage (32,900t)
I was going to get a count of termites, but my VERY quick Googling only returned people asking how much a termite weighed but no answers.
If you were to post that many termites first class, one termite per envelope, it would cost £285,714 in stamps
Do Not Track W3C murder plot fails by handful of votes
Yay, new standards
Let's see if I understand some of the history of this right.
A new standard was proposed, the DNT header.
Unlike their usual behaviour, Microsoft didn't wait for a finalised version before adding support for it to IE.
They then set it to default, which is likely to be what most users would set it to anyway. "Would you like to be tracked? Yes/No"
Apache then said "IE is supporting this and pushing it by default, therefore we shall ignore this header"
W3C are now debating it further and not really liking the idea now
Is that paraphrasing close?
RIP charging bricks: $279 HP Chromebook 11 charges via USB
Java updates too much of a bother? Maybe online banking's just not for you
How much will Apple cough for ebook conspiracy? Trial starts May 2014
WAR ON PORN: UK flicks switch on 'I am a pervert' web filters
FCC votes to bring faster internet to US schools
Malware-flingers do it back-to-front : scaM snaps, spans Macs
Report: Skype set up Project Chess to enable official snooping
Can Microsoft's U-turn stop the Xbox 360 becoming another XP?
Devil's Advocate
"Microsoft's got a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde personality. On the one hand it can be intensely pragmatic and rational - Windows 7 - but when it's got a new idea between its teeth that's when the beast takes over and when common sense is jettisoned - Windows 8."
Or Vista, the most loathed thing since ME and before 8.
Which laid the foundation for 7.
Sometimes these polar opposite views come together in ways you don't predict.