Posts by dl

Apple tweaks AirTags to be less useful for stalkers, thieves

I’m still a bit puzzled why being stalked by these things only became an issue when apple launched them.

I mean the tile trackers have been available for years now and make no attempt to let you know it’s been slipped in your bag, but not a peep about being stalked by them.

For the price of the AirTags you can pick up a tiny gsm tracker on aliexpress or like anyway if you really want to be a stalker.

Rejecting Sonos' private data slurp basically bricks bloke's boombox

Financial trouble? No, they just launched a speaker that has builtin Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. So the privacy policy needs to be updated to allow those to function and they are too lazy to break it out for different products.

What should password managers not do? Leak your passwords? What a great idea, LastPass

The cloud storage vs local is a moot point though in this case.

It was the browser extension leaking the data, local storage wouldn't have made any difference.

DJ Hero sets up, scratches down in Blighty

Why Not?

Aren't these comments about hercules mixing consoles a bit like telling FIFA and Madden players to buy a football or Manhunt players to go and murder some people for real.

What if you just want to play a game and can't be arsed mucking about learning how to use real mixing consoles.

Nation's moral guardians snap over 'shag bands'

Missed out...

They didn't have any of these when I was in Secondary School.

Mind you it was an all boys school so maybe that was for the best.

Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X 1GB

Not bad

Pretty nice, but as you say with the DX11 cards on the way, why not wait?

Even if you don't want a DX11 card their launch should push down the prices of the older cards.

Database containing 1.8m UK postcode locations leaks online

Oh no!

Wait doen't this mean if some one has your address, they now know where you live!

Most expensive RAF aircraft ever takes to the skies

@Chris Pasiuk

The Comets problem wasn't vibration. It was the nice big square windows it originally came with and the pressurised cabin.

Metal fatigue at the corners of the windows led to the hull ripping apart in mid air.

Once they eventually figured it out they put in smaller rounder windows.

But it was too late for the Comets reputation by then.

Man blames cat for child porn downloads

RE: How did they find him

Maybe the cat also shopped him to the cops to cover its tracks?