Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon

Snowden journalist's partner gave Brit spooks passwords to seized files

Re: this has precisely nothing to do with terrorism

"The terrorists have won."

For fucks sake, how long have you been reading the Reg?

Open your eyes, who is doing all this and why?

Hint: It isn't the fucking terrorists.

Re: DanDanDan spanner

Dear El Reg, please please please can we have an 'ignore this twat' button for particularly exacerbating posters?

Getting worried, Assange? WikiLeaks spaffs out 'insurance' info

Re: No charges have been filed

Defendants can also be tried in absentia I believe.

New tool lets single server map entire internet in 45 minutes

Re: 1300x faster.

It certainly is, now if they could only incorporate it into an ftp server/client my movie transfers would be a lot quicker.

Google proposes eye-tracking ad-tracking

Re: The Red Ball has your name on it

We'll all end up walking around with covers on like in 'A Scanner Darkly'.

Bug-finder chucked for posting to Zuck

Re: What did he expect?

"it was inevitably going to backfire"

Hmm, so he doesn't get paid, but does garnish some notoriety. Tricky call, time will tell.

As for having his account revoked, I would consider his overall position to be 'up'.

Google goes dark for 2 minutes, kills 40% of world's net traffic

Re: Ah...

"What gets me is they never seem to plug the cord back in when they're done."

They do, that's why they're always sitting at an 'ok' prompt and your disks are fsck'd

Re: Ah...

Arcane instructions..

pull the green tag, press the yellow button, unzip the toggle pocket, unscrew the air valve anticlockwise and yell “inflate you stupid bastard”

Re: Somewhere, someone is sweating bullets.

I managed to kill a fairly expensive HP rack running full tilt once by testing the redundant power supplies.

They were arrange in a block of four, can I help it if the matched supplies were diagonally opposite?

Re: my bets on a router software update

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 null0

shit

^Z ^Z ^Z ^Z

^C ^C ^C

copy start run

wr m

phew!

Re: Ah...

Since switching to duck duck go (as of last week) this one actually passed me by totally.

It's a bit weird not having predictive search results appearing anymore, but I'm sure I'll get used to that (Again).

Microsoft warns of post-April zero day hack bonanza on Windows XP

Re: Wait, hear that?

What might be considered blackmail by some, could be considering the required motivation to get off my arse and install Linux on the wifes' machine by others.

NSA coughs to 1000s of unlawful acts of snooping on US soil since 2008

I see the Fnords

"The audit only covers figures from the NSA's Maryland headquarters"

I read this as "NSA's marketing headquarters"

" so at times we find ourselves on the wrong side of the line"

I read this as "so we often find ourselves"

"The FISC does not have the capacity to investigate issues of non-compliance, and in that respect the FISC is in the same position as any other court when it comes to enforcing [government] compliance with its orders"

And I read that last 'compliance' as 'non'compliance.

Is this what is meant by the phrase 'I see the fnords" I wonder?

Attention, addicts: LEGO meth lab pays homage to Breaking Bad

Re: Grrrrrr!!

"but you're all just too damn lazy to drop the Wii controller and the bag of crisps and get your fat overweight butts out and live a real damn life."

You've inspired me to put something down I haven't heard since I was about 5 years old..

I know you are, I said you are, but what am I?

There, that should be about your level.

Re: other potential money spinners

"US DHS (no relation to UK DHSS)"

I wouldn't go as far as stating that as a fact, especially these days.

Boffins claim Voyager has already left the Solar System

Re: So Voyager 1 and 2 will constitute the *only* datasets for this problem

I'm starting to get flashbacks to 'A Fire Upon the Deep' here.

Re: Pioneer probes also provided some earlier data...

Just what is the speed of gravity anyway?

OWN GOAL! 100s of websites blocked after UK Premier League drops ball

Re: Clumsy analogy

Your right, it is clumsy. The chimps at least have a remote chance (they wrote a shakespear play after all)

Re: @ Timmay - 0.0.0.0/0

" . . and 224.0.0.0/4, as you're at it."

Sorry, but that's redundant.

Re: My attempt at a poor analogy

Actually it's more like wanting to revoke the liquor licence for the Red Lion, identifying its postcode, and then shutting down everything in that postcode.

Just add creepiness: Google Search gets even more personal

@JDX

You say that like privacy is a bad thing.

Re: Google Now

Hmm, what about an app that could measure your blood sugar level (assuming you are diabetic) and warn you when you are entering dangerous territory?

/devils advocate

Microsoft to fund Blake's 7 return as Xbox Live exclusive

Re: Was B7 a Fluke?...

Was that "Gareth Thomas" the farmer? Coz that's how he looked and acted.

Re: Firefly vs. B7

I was thinking more along the lines of being able to write a script for over half a dozen characters and make them all seem important.

Apart from Gan.

Re: Firefly

If they get Joss to write it, I will even stump up cash to make sure it happens!

Re: Just realised

"There are an awful lot of old farts on here that remember the series."

What are you talking about 'remember'. I have all four series and watch them back to back around once a year (with the wife - who is a B7 convert! - so much so she is the one that usually gets them out of the cupboard).

There is no way they will be able to write a script that will match the original. The special effects may have been crap, the acting a bit dodgy, but the characters and their inter-play were second to none.

Oh how we love to hate Blake.

Starwing: Nintendo, Argonaut's Brit boffinry and the Super FX chip

Sir

If my memory hasn't betrayed me, couldn't you also play 4-player onscreen at once as well? This was more of a free-roaming affair*

*albeit in a wrap-around box

Your encrypted files are 'exponentially easier' to crack, warn MIT boffins

Re: Always wondered if this is true

Didn't 3DES do this? (albeit only with a 56 bit key)

Tech war latest: Today's leather tools 'invented by NEANDERTHALS'

Re: Yes let's beat this dead horse a bit more.

Blimey, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition. (dun dun derrrrr!)

Re: @Skelband

"Are you being sarcastic or not?"

Considering what I put for the title of the post, I'm amazed that's even a question.

For the avoidance of ALL doubt, yes, I was taking the piss.

Re: @Dexter

I get the feeling there are some people out there who don't like it when people take the piss out of the belief that the Universe is < 10000 years old.

@Dexter

I know you read my post Dexter, but did you comprehend it?

Absurd opinion alert

Don't forget this stuff is all, ALL I say, less than 10,000 years old so arguing about how we 'found out' how to use these tools is totally moot.

Long live the sky fairies!

Mobe-slurping Wi-Fi SPY BINS banned from London's streets

Re: ...high-tech rubbish cans - which *display adverts*...

What happens when you are observed walking past a bin and it displays an advert :-

You're iPhone OS is a version out of date, get an upgrade now and get access to lots of new shit.

Only you've been keeping your phone in your pocket because there a couple of guys eyeing people up as they walk past the bins for some reason. Oh, and they're partially hidden in an alley.

Study finds online commentards easily duped, manipulated

Re: I can't be the only one...

no, it's meme time apparently

Re: I love the writing at El Reg

suckarse

Re: Hmm

If you say so :)

Re: Well, Eadon's gone...

One thing I discovered about the upvote requirement, it doesn't take into account downvotes.

NSA gets burned by a sysadmin, decides to burn 90% of its sysadmins

Re: that machines are probably better at doing

Screamers was pretty good, it even has robocop in it :)

Re: that machines are probably better at doing

"Gee fucking thanks for spoiling the entire movie"

Thanks for pointing out your inability to predict your standard Hollywood script.

Re: that machines are probably better at doing @Sir Runcible Spoon

Bugger, well at least I described it well enough for you to know what I meant, even if I do sound like a dumbass :)

Paris, for the blonde moment.

Re: What if the 90% let go are the honest ones?

Failure of mathematics.

If you start with 1% of 100% being dodgy, and remove 90% (who are all honest) you are left with 10% dodgy, not 100%.

Just sayin'.

Re: Closing the stable door....

Well, to be fair to the NSA (shudder) I think they may still have some horses left in the barn.

No-one did it wilfully, that would imply free will. They were ordered to do it.

Re: that machines are probably better at doing

In the film, Enemy of the State, the whole story seems to revolve around an AI gone mad, when in fact it is the AI that is defending the constitution and trying to effect a regime change to stop the traitors (i.e. the current government).

In the end the traitors win and turn off the machine, and the people lost.

Starting to sound more like a documentary every day.

Coat please, I want off this stinking rock. Where's my spaceship already!?

Should UK tear Wi-Fi a new one at 5GHz? Speak your brains, says Ofcom

Re: There's only frequency that I want

Running at a cool one point twenty one giga WATTS I presume?

Werner Herzog's latest film warns drivers not to text while driving

Re: The UK seat-belt PSA

Superbly done. Thanks for posting it.

Re: Interesting

I always wondered where Arnie got his catchphrase from.

Still, that was a genuinely spooky video.

Snowden's secure email provider Lavabit shuts down under gag order

Re: Ummmm, wait a tic.

Once upon a time I would avoid a .ru domain like malware ridden plague.

Nope, still wouldn't go there.

US taxmen told to hush up shadowy drug squad unit laundering NSA intel

Re: But note this despite *all* this highly targetted, *accurate* intel they still can't win TWOD

Why would they want to stop it?

As far as I can tell, the American government declaring 'war' on something is simply a statement of support. It is an open code telling all their subordinates what the 'fear du jour' is.

If all these terrible things suddenly stopped happening, what justification will they come up with next? Because they sure as hell won't dismantle what they've built. Too much power in too few hands and surprise, surprise, they have become corrupt.