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Microsoft ropes in Opera Mini as default Nokia dumbphone browser

Re: Useful as a backup

Careful - somebody in dear old blighty just got nicked for doing that sort of thing.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/07/london_cops_close_down_site_arrest_suspect/

Mini has problems with some Javascript, the "accept our terms" page on the network here won't work on mini.

RealVNC distances itself from factories, power plants, PCs hooked up to password-less VNC

Re: Legality ?

That's why lawyers would advise you to write to the owners of all websites requestign permission to access the site and read each page.

You can find the address of the company on the web site

Hear ye, young cyber warriors of the realm: GCHQ wants you

Not quite http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/19/huawei_cybersecurity_centre/

Need a green traffic light all the way home? Easy with insecure street signals, say researchers

Re: Why the different standards?

To unbolt a stop sign I have to visit your town and be visible on the street by the stop sign with a spanner for a significant time.

To do this attack on all and any city in america I just need to be one of a billion anonymous people sitting at a computer in a country on the other side of the Pacific.

Linux Foundation says many Linux admins and engineers are certifiable

Re: Good idea if they don't mess it up

Tricky not to mess up though.

If it's exclusive and hard to get, nobody has heard of it, employers don't demand it, so nobody gets it.

If it becomes too popular, people don't respect it, so good employees don't bother doing it.

Barnes & Noble: Swallow a Samsung Nook tablet, please ... pretty please

Why?

Dedicated ebook reader = cheap, charge lasts months, can read in sunlight

Phone = have one anyway, always with you, keep it charged, But small screen can't read in sunlight

Tablet = already own one or buy $50 cheap slow 7" one. But poor battery, can't read in sunlight

Dedicated ebook tablet = expensive, don't already own one, poor battery, don't always carry it, can't read in sunlight. Why am I buying this?

Hello, police, El Reg here. Are we a bunch of terrorists now?

Re: I am not urging some change in the law - I ask one question.

But you thought those shots of laser guided bombs hitting buildings were cool though?

Kill one person and it's disgusting evil video, carpet bomb a jungle killing 1000s and it's the background to a pop video.

Re: "unless we did something else to arouse suspicion"

Or, according to one Snowden leak, read the Linux Journal

Re: Two girls and a cup

But an allied general shooting a Vietnamese prisoner in the side of the head is an iconic moment?

Does it come down to which side is getting killed ? So Watching "Das Boot" is a war crime

The Register to boldly go where no Vulture has gone before: The Weekend

Re: Nubile young women lusting...

I'm available, but it's going to take some photoshop work to make my "rack" look anything other than fat and hairy

Caught red-handed: UK cops, PCSOs, specials behaving badly… on social media

Re: Run away!

And you are posting this on a social media/networking site aimed largely at old fart computer geeks ?

Re: And the point is?

Remember the Steven Lawrence case, where after the police got a wrist slap they sent undercover agents to befriend the family of the victim in the hope of digging some dirt to get revenge after the enquiry?

Might have made somebody a little touchy

Re: Shocker

Given that the disciplinary punishment for shooting a suspect while in custody is generally not being allowed to choose the chocolate biscuit with you tea for a week - the dismissals are a bit of a shock

UK fuzz want PINCODES on ALL mobile phones

Re: Call me cynical...

Thefts of more than x100quid get counted as major thefts in their statistics

So they halve the number of burglaries by diligent policing but a 1000 people get their iPhone nicked and the local paper runs a story about 1000% increase in major crime and the Chief Constable feels embarrassed down the lodge.

Stop people nicking phones and it doesn't matter how many burglaries there are - your stats go down.

Re: hello? hi, hello, is that tech support?

0000? that's the sort of password an idiot would have on their luggage (or their nukes)

Tor-rorists get sneaky Aphex Twin album peek in dance guru hypegasm

In my day

Serious bands with real lyrical and musical ability didn't go in for these sort of publicity stunts.

They just released an inflatable pig from a powerstation

TV transport tech, part 1: From server to sofa at the touch of a button

Re: Interesting terminology...

They were doing our corporate video last week on a Canon 5D

They still shout "cut"

Malaria - the world's most popular disease

Cargo truck crammed with garbage explodes IN SPAAAAACE

Re: low reynolds number...

The issue is that you can't drop something from the ISS to earth.

The ISS is in orbit doing 7km/s 'sideways' if you drop something it is also doing 7km/s sideways.

Everything going 7km/s sideways is going to stay in the same orbit.

If you want it to go down you need to reduce its sideways-speed

You could just halt yourself and then fall gently (assuming you had a parachute) but to do this you need to get rid of the 7km/s. One way to do this is to have an engine capable of reaching 7km/s the other way. However a moments thought will realise that this is the same size as the rocket that it took to do the original 7km/s - which you would have to carry with you.

This is the reason for doing the spectacular "re-entry", it is to use the Earth's atmosphere to burn off that extra speed rather than carry the fuel and engines needed

The real question

Do they have to separate recyclables and organics into different coloured spacecraft?

Germany 'accidentally' snooped on John Kerry and Hillary Clinton

Re: Aww that's just unlucky

They both use the same password - F***OBAMA

Yes, but what are your plans if a DRAGON attacks?

Re: Dragone

Would dragons be repatriated to an independent Scotland?

Re: I think it's best to err on the side of caution...

If it's the aircraft carriers that can't have a catapult to launch planes and can't land VTOL ones - we have all heard it.

Re: Haha, amusing yes..

Another clever trick is to release the FOI data to everyone - I mean you can't have too much openness and transparency can you?

This means that a real investigative journalist that spends time tracking down a story and finding out what information to request, is then scooped by red-tops running out a quick story of the scandal - before the detailed story can be written.

Top Gun display for your CAR: Heads-up fighter pilot tech

Re: Why?

>Why does this need to connect with the car systems?

Tricky to show the information from the dash without asking the car for it.

>just cut out all the other crap.

Like speed, engine warning lights, fuel ?

>So how is this different from BMW incorporating a HUD i

This doesn't automatically award points for each red light you run and each Audi you overtake.

Re: So many things to consider.

>Neither do they have the potential for a facebook app to interface with their HUDs.

Not yet, but for $WTF million each on a F35 you expect some options package

And they need to recruit a new generation of younger recruits

Know what Ferguson city needs right now? It's not Anonymous doxing random people

Re: In Amerika

The obvious answer is to call in an airstrike

US regulators OK sale of IBM's x86 server biz to Lenovo

Re: Not all supercomputers are created equal

But if you were trying to find which of 1024 cups had chicken feed under it - then 1024 chickens are probably more effective than a single elephant

- Brought to you by the department of pointless analogies

Intel teams up with rap chap 50 Cent on heartbeat headphones

Re: Apple paid 3 Billion for just a brand of regular headphones. LOL

Apple paid 3Bn for an online music catalogue that had a much better deal with certain record companies than they could get. And a whole new segment of the music buying market that thought Apple was too white, middle aged and middle class

Uber alles.. NOT: Berlin bans taxi ride app over 'safety' fears

Re: Uber banned in Berlin

Berlin spends half its money promoting the city as the startup capital of europe.

And then warn that next year they might kick in your door if they decide that your blogging app qualifies you as a broadcaster and there is a 250K Eur fine for being an unlicensed TV network.

SpiderOak says you'll know it's secure because a little bird told you

Re: Nice legal argument

So you raid the US office and with a super-secret ninja court order force them to tell the other offices that everything is OK

Nice legal argument

>The service provider can't tell you that a secret warrant exists. But it can stop telling you that >everything's OK

But if a SWAT team are pointing assault rifles at your head and getting the orange jump suits ready for a long stay in gitmo - you are going to click the everything is OK button.

A-level results: Before you smile at that jump-for-joy snap...

Re: Bad news for the AMMU (Association of Mickey Mouse Universities)

When I were a lad the only way you could get experience on a computer (other than a ZX81) was to go to university or get hired by someone like ICL. Now I can hire kids with experience on industrial grade OS/ database/ languages that they gained in their bedroom.

They can also prove it to me by showing actual code in the world rather than a pointless certificate from nowhere I have heard of.

Re: Bad news for the AMMU (Association of Mickey Mouse Universities)

That's the cynical reason behind the free online courses from MIT/Stanford/etc

Who would you hire, somebody that had contributed to a bunch of opensource projects, had some apps on the app store and completed a set of MIT/Stanford CS courses on their own - or an ICT graduate from the Noweheresville State

So why would you run up a 50K student dept going to Noweheresville State - returning IVY league to its original monopoly position.

Visual Studio Online goes titsup as Microsoft wrestles with database

Opportunity

I heard of a startup near Seattle that is selling something called a microcomputer which will be small enough that you can have an actual computer in your own office

What happens in Europe, doesn't stay in Europe: US giants accused of breaking EU privacy pact

The point of safeharbour wasn't to protect your data from the CIA/MI5/KGB it was that in the Eu your medical records can't be sold to insurance companies or tabloid newspapers. But a foreign company could claim that this was legal in Liberia or Panama or where ever it is registered and do this legally.

The safe harbour provision was to show that the US company followed the same rules as an Eu one. In the same way that we have joint agreements to allow the US to claim that a US airline is safe to land at an Eu airport and v.v.

Dead Steve Jobs sued by own shareholders in no-poach pact brouhaha

Re: One argument would be

Given the pitifully small fines for most corporate naughtiness compared to the payoff for breaking the law you could claim that any director that stayed within the law violated their duty to the shareholders and so acted illegally.

Re: How does this make sense??

Sorry that should have been "class-action".

The "clash-action suit" was an ill fated attempt by the seminal punk band to launch their own range of fitness wear

Re: How does this make sense??

You own $x of stock,you hope the payout to you is $x+y

The company has a lot of cash in the bank and could afford to pay off a few troublesome small shareholders to avoid a clash action suit if the big institutional investors agreed

Totes AMAZEBALLS! Side boob, binge-watch and clickbait added to Oxford Dictionary

Re: Each year we get the 'new words' announcement...

What if you are reading a story from the 19C and need to know what a wiffleplonk is ? Removign it from the dictionary because it is no longer in everyday use rather defeats the purpose of having a book explaining words you don't use everyday.

The reason for including binge-watch is so that in 100years when we have the plot for TV series automatically downloaded into our iBrain we can understand archaic blog entries from the early C21

Five Totally Believable Things Car Makers Must Do To Thwart Hackers

Re: God luck hacking my wagon...

But if you were to load a malicious paper roll into the onboard player-piano couldn't it be compromised ?

Tim Cook on pale, male Apple: 'As CEO, I'm NOT satisfied'

Re: Well I am not happy with Cook.

It's called RPN because it was invented by Jan Łukasiewicz.

IVY league colleges have already been accused of having an 'asian quota' just like they had a Jewish quota in the 30s - in the name of equality.

Chinese Bitcoin farms: From scuzzy to sci-fi

Re: Isn't this

exactly the sort of thing that could bring gold down??

When nearly all the mining is done by a small number of professional outfits and average Joe looses interest in it all because there's nothing really in it for him anymore.

Microsoft: Just what the world needs – a $25 Nokia dumbphone

Re: Yes please

Make it black and white so the battery lasts a week

Make it with real buttons where the printing doesn't wear off

Make it from the same material that aircraft black-boxes and children's shoes following hurricanes are made of

Print Nokia 3310 on the front

Profit

Stephen Hawking biopic: Big on romance, not so much with the science?

Re: if they focus on romance...

Teenage girls who dig quantum vacuum fluctuations ?

NIST wants better SCADA security

Do we get stickers?

"Stuxnet Inside!"