Posts by LaeMing

Streak life: Oz woman flashes boobs at Google Street View car

But if they go after real criminals they might get hurt!

Re: What do you expect?

When I lived there there was a pub on every corner, a brothel on every corner, and a church on every corner.

Get drunk, get laid, get forgiven. Only cross on the green.

Re: Last action hero!

I assume he was caught viewing the image, so had to justify it.

Re: No, its not the same

If they are determined to not let someone get away with something on the grounds that someone complained, it will be a first. Complaints, even of dangerous crimes, are routinely referred to Sgt. Somebody Else's Problem.

Bristol’s ‘Smart City’ reserved for boffins. Sorry bumpkins

World's first...

...hack-able city.

Can't wait.

Apple is like HITLER says Chinese billionaire

Re: Hitler is a bit extreme.

Well, (as implemented in the field) Communisim is just the nanny-state in corporate-heirachy form, so probably yes.

Hitler is a bit extreme.

Control-obscessive sociopath, certainly, though.

Turnbull's Digital Transformation Office to 'leave you quivering with excitement'

Will there be a version of all these services for all the people who can't get NBN (or any internet at all)?

Lost WHITE CITY of the MONKEY GOD found after 500 years

Re: “ground-truthed"???

The ground is an inside job. Obama did it.

Metadata laws pass so it's time to STOP READING LISTICLES

Won't somebody think of the...

...oncoming traffic!

(and full upvotes for the quite-justified rant).

Hmmm. I wonder if enough people ran a background process that randomly walked the web with their spare bandwidth, would that completely trash the value of all this metadata?

Would running such a process provide a plausably deniable mask for one's genuine activity?

Metadata retention is no worse than STALKING: Turnbull

It is nothing like stalking.

There are laws against that!

NORK internet outage was payback for Sony hack – US politician

So...

In response to NK being pointed at for a likely unrelated hack of Sony, the NSA claims responsibility for a likely unrelated outage to NK. Sounds about right.

Lets just call this what it is - James-Bond-themed LARPing on the taxpayer's tab.

Diablo fingered in offensive ASCII art trial doc shock

Re: Not being offensive

It's a good way to calm oneself down.

NSW premier pitches 'digital licence' as election stunt

Re: Relax

Phone charging stations in every holding cell (dare you use them!).

Since I don't have any personal use for a smartphone (feature-phone does me fine). I assume if this becomes compulsory one day, the government will be shipping me a smart-phone free of charge! And my mum too.

Also, I assume it will support ALL currently actively-supported Phone OSes. Not just the iWinDroid trinity.

Also also, what if the battery dies? Or the phone gets broken? Are you banged up until it is recharged or repaired? What happens when a police officer 'accidentally' drops it in the mud?

Chief Scientist slams handcuffing research funds to uni reforms

Australian Feral Government's War on Education continues.

One does not simply ask the inventor of the WWW what he thinks about memes

Most interesting.

Re: Put the TLD first, but keep the dot separator

Yes, yyyy-mm-dd is the default international standard, which happens to be the one many countries, including China have adopted.

Re: Thank the gods they didn't do it like they do their dates!

To be fair, US dates work perfecty when written as words: "March the eleventh, 2015". Which is where I assume they took their ordering from (the archaic fuddie-duddies!).

I prefer yyyy.mm-dd myself, with the most-significant digits to the left, just like we do decimal numbers.

Intel SoCs it to 'em with new D: Tiny but powerful

A 1541 in a NUC. That would need TARDIS technology!

I want a 1540 in a NUC form-factor!

Australia threatens to pull buckets of astronomy funding

Re: Are you saying...

I don't believe I mentioned the last labor government. If I had, I doubt I would have had anything better to say about them. But a dogged inability to comprehend more than 2 (pretend-opposing) viewpoints is all most people can manage. QED things will never improve.

Re: Chris Pyne

To be fair. All their kids get posh private educations enabling them to go on to top-paid roles as industry 'leaders' (full sympathies to the respective industries). There is no benefit to them and theirs in public science - not enough payola for the managers in that field.

Thus continues...

The Australian Feral Government's "War on Education".

Tired of IoT hype? Internet of SLUGS and SPIDERS is the reality

Awwwwww.

Look at all the liddle babies!

Turnbull says no need to future-proof NBN

"Quick and cheap"

Our Feral government in a nutshell.

Afterall, why invest in a future that they personally won't be around to benefit from?

May their children build a slude-reclamation-works on their graves!

...

I deeply suspect this is part of a plan to drag us down to third-world-levels before selling us across the pacific into the Union of States.

Super SSD tech: Fancy a bonkers 8TB all-flash PC?

Re: So what happens if the ring is broken?

You get a goatse error?

A cookie with a 7,984-year lifespan. Blimey, Roy Batty only got 4!

Oops.

Citing my quotes is a professonal habit. I didn't mean to start an ... ahem .... ego .. measuring contest!

$250K: That's what Lenovo earned to rat you out with Superfish

Re: @ Charles Manning -- Suckerfish

Also, reg readers represent a disproportionate portion of people with input into major corporate purchase decisions (I am just a tech, working well below management level, but the decisions in my section on what to get within the provided spec is usually left entirely up to me). And we are less inclined than the average one-off consumer to forget. Or forgive.

Re: Suckerfish

I imagine they have alrady lost more than that in sales since it came to light.

(Icon for Lenovo of course).

As a company I have had little dealings with but by default would have assumed they were one of the 'reputable' brands, they have now been relagated to 'another dodgy box slinger' status in my mind. And that will be a very hard perception to change in me now, even if I actually wanted to change it.

Ford to save you from BIKE FITNESS HORROR

Re: full-fat Transit

Those are the ones that clog the arteries, aren't they?

Re: all the wheels?

If you only have one bike, you only have to remove the wheels on the side of the van you are stowing it on. For two bike storage, all 4 wheels must be removed. If you want a handlebar basket with plastic flowers on it, you have to take out the spare too.

Botched NBN installs leave folks with no internet, or recourse

I am so glad I am still renting, and can move at will.

You're outta here! Baseball star strikes out sleazy trolls who targeted teen daughter

Doxing

always makes me think of the removal of a sheep's tail to combat fly-strike (which I believe is known as docking). Or maybe the removal of other parts.

East Timor was officially removed from the internet yesterday

While that is largely true, some of us non-ccTLD users are simply little people who don't want to associate with any particular arbitrary region on a map.

He can't give it away FAST ENOUGH: Bill Gates richest man in world again

The FSF is always looking for sponsors.

'Fry-OS 8' iPhone BLEW UP MY PANTS wails roasted Johnson

Re: Shock news!

Cats and dogs living together! et.al.

Twitter probes terror threat: Medieval murder mob ISIS allegedly puts co-founder in crosshairs

Re: They don't want Twitter shut down?

Silliest thing is that that (stolen or otherwise) Rolex doesn't actually tell the time any better than my $10 watch from an internet junk store. It is purely a symbol of wealth with no added function from the dollar 'value'. A pure symbol of aristocracy if ever there was one.

...

(I used to have fun with street-hawkers in China trying to sell me a 'Rolex' by showing them my plastic sports watch and explaining I already had a watch. They always took the message with good humor.)

Re: There are so many these days

It is endemic in the human population. Won't be fixed unless all the non-nut-cases do something drastic about it, which they won't on account of not being nutcases.

Re: They don't want Twitter shut down?

Like all fundamentalists, their doctrine is only inflexible where it concerns what other people can and can't do.

W*nkers of the world unite to save the planet one jerk-off at a time

Re: When do you break even?

Until all that is left is a shrivelled bloody nubbin, I would guess.

Microsoft man: Internet Explorer had to go because it's garbage

Re: Um, what?

Well, when it comes to IT mono-cultures, Microsoft /is/ the leading expert in the field these past few decades!

Intel, Apple and Cisco crossed off Chinese Gov's kit list

Re: Wake up, investors in China...

At which point the west would nullify all its debt owed to China. And likely nationalise all the Chinese investment in the West (and yes, there is a damned lot, in my part of the West, anyway!). The economies are a bit too inter-linked for that sort of thing anymore!

Also: A man with a million dollars is nowhere near as powerful as a man who owes you a million dollars!

Oh No, Lenovo! Lizard Squad on the attack, flashes swiped emails

Re: The wording of that tweet.

Even CloudFlare is determined to keep their distance from any association with Lenovo!

US trade bods: No, your iPhone can't detect CANCER

Re: Paging - Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard....

It's what snakes use to slither more efficiently.

Don't detect cancer. Don't cause cancer.

What dang use ARE the things, then!

Australia's Akamai ranking has nothing to do with the NBN

Re: your Mum seems to be an ideal candidate for a FTTP service.

Sadly, both Optus and Telstra wireless are so chronically oversubscribed in mum's area that, despite having a 3-4 (of 5) bar signal, I can't even connect her to the respective networks' own sites to pay their monthly fee!

They tried to blame it on increased usage due to it being school holidays. Not for the whole of the past 6 months it bloody isn't!

Hello Barbie: Hang on, this Wi-Fi doll records your child's voice?

Anatomically incorrect

This doll seems 3 eyes short of the usual complement for this kind of thing!

Passing asteroid MOONS the HUMAN RACE

Re: So what you are saying...

Either i was very slow when I posted the above, or I influenced a re-do of the article title?