Posts by chivo243

Majority of underage sexting suspects turn out to be underage too

Re: 16 and want to share images?

@Phil O'Sophical

What about the whole in the wall with the "other's" watching. I think the issue hinges on the fact the 'link' can be compromised. I have been known to be wrong.

Yahoo! halts! email! forwarding! to! outside! email! addresses!

Yahoo mail has only one use

To receive Yahoo Group mail... many years ago I joined a local buy and sell group(craigslist kind of thing)

Nothing sensitive there... so until Yahoo falls on their face, I just use it to get messages from the buy sell board... I'll just change my password frequently.

Internet of Things botnets: You ain’t seen nothing yet

@Olius

Because there isn't much in the way of non-smart products for sale these days...

Social media flame wars to be illegal, says top Crown prosecutor

El Reg

Is El Reg considered Social Media? This only applies to comments from now on right?

Yes, my coat with the escape plan in the pocket...

BT Yahoo! customers: Why! can't! we! grrr! delete! our! webmail! accounts!?

Re: Yeah, cos forwarding is gonna help you

@Clive Galway

If you think all the emails are being read, then exactly how do you think configuring a forwarder is gonna help you?

Probably you are 100% correct, however a lot of people like the placebo effect fingers in their ears... For those people, use a feckin mail client to forward the messages, don't piss around with a web gui.

But to be fair there is a difference between 'someone' reading your mail, and an algorithm scanning them for key words.

'Please label things so I can tell the difference between a mouse and a microphone'

Re: When we get to the stage where we have to label everything...

Funny you mention this... I recently saw an international translation helper/book with only pictures where you pointed to the image you desired, didn't see any pr0n images, but I only saw two pages with coffee.

Isn't mouse on mouse action forbidden in countries?

Also, there is an episode of Dexter's Lab where he and Dee Dee label the entire house....

That one ranks up there

with this one. One day I get an angry call, PC X isn't turning on!! We need it now! I hustle down to the office only to find the monitor is not powered on. With out a work I push the orange button, it turns to green and we all can see all the new folders created by jacking on the mouse without the monitor being turned on...

pedant as he looks about like the user did when I turned on the monitor...

FBI wants to unlock another jihadist’s iPhone

Who ya gonna call?

This guy? He may at least have some tips for you?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/19/fbi_overpaid_999900_to_crack_san_bernardino_iphone_5c_password/

BOFH: The Idiot-ware Project and the Meaningless Acronym

The bosses name

Steven Woolfe?

Bloke gets six years in slammer after fessing up to £4.75m tax scam

Re: Can't help but think as I type this

If somebody is doing this kind of scam, I highly doubt they are checking El Reg for reading material.

This IS the only place for news right?

Boy, 12, gets €100k bill from Google after confusing Adwords with Adsense

Glad to see he got

the Hillary Clinton treatment... no blood no foul.

Re: I'm confused as to how someone can be that confused

@Paul 25

I'll bet he gave the bank account number "in order" to receive the millions he was expecting. 12 yr olds understanding marketing and sales.... not many.

Yahoo! tries!, fails! to! shoot! down! email! backdoor! claim!

Now the flush

I always wondered why Yahoo! circled the drain so long without tasting the deep six... Now we know?

Where's the tinfoil had icon?

It's time for Microsoft to revisit dated defaults

Or perhaps a telegraph

Sometimes it feels like AD is replicating via telegraph ;-}

Apple to automatically cram macOS Sierra into Macs – 'cos that worked well for Windows 10

Click bait, nothing more

"Mac owners who have the "automatic update" function enabled" ??

Automatic updates have been there for a while. No new tale to tell... Either you know how to turn them off, or suffer an upgrade.

TBH, most of my Apple hardware won't run Sierra. I'm curious if Apple's Appstore is smart enough to tell?

Buggy code to the left of me, perfect source to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with EU

Love the reference

Gotta love Gerry Rafferty. Keep up the fine work!

Criticize Donald Trump, get your site smashed offline from Russia

Re: If this asshat gets elected..

(including the vanity uniforms)

Wasn't George Jr, into uniforms? I seem to remember him wearing lots of colorful costumes...

It matters not

Who becomes president, what matters is who is controls them. Whose hip pocket are they in? And how deep?

Dublin shopkeeper catches forecourt fouler with his pants down

Re: Horse did it?

@Symon

The shop keeper said: "who left dung deposits so foul that, as Buckley put it, “You’d swear a horse did it.”

I read foul to mean light a match get rid of that smell, my eyes are watering, my automatic gag reflex is in overdrive and my windpipe is involuntarily slamming shut

Horse did it?

Horses don't eat meat, or processed sugars or drink booze, why would their "business" smell bad?

Sherlock.... well you get it ;-}

BOFH: There are no wrong answers, just wrong questions. Mmm, really wrong ones

Not once, but twice

"You fell!" I said to the Boss again as I once more help him to his feet "And you hit your face on the desk!"

Low blood sugar! LOL, who, the PHB or the PFY?

It must be Friday! Beer O'clock is just around the corner!

Narcissist Heidi Powell wants her dot-com and she wants it now, now, NOW!

@Richard 81

Which one feels like a "B" Heidi?

Re: Ad hominem

@Begeleiding

Ahh... the old 'Legend in his own mind" syndrome...

Forgive me, father, for I have used an ad-blocker on news websites...

Not Guilty your Honor

Intrusive ads suck. Fat, bloated, bandwidth sucking ads suck. Targeted ads suck, and that whole kettle of fish is so very creepy.

I've never seen a skinny advertiser. They must still be eating...

Half! a! billion! Yahoo! email! accounts! raided! by! 'state! hackers!'

Re: phew!

I've never given my number to either google or yahoo.. there is a skip button when they ask this nonsense, then a nag screen asking if you're sure.

Behold the fruit of your techie utopia: A $43 San Francisco fog-infused martini

Re: Fog-infused martini is quite good

Just sell them a cement mixer shot...

https://youtu.be/XgbWA4JLcjo

Apple wants to buy Formula 1 car firm McLaren – report

Re: Microsoft

Won't this be an issue for Apple, don't most or all major racing team pit crews use Windows based tuning and diagnostic software? I seem to recall a story here on El Reg about F1? computers...

Hackers claim they breached Aussie point-of-sale tech firm, try to sell 'customer DB'

Re: Did I read that right?

@frank ly

Double D'oh from the story:

password; homer16

Apple seeks patent for paper bag - you read that right, a paper bag

@Filippo

That would be one of the Soylent derivatives, Soylent white, not to be confused with Ketracel white...

HP Inc's rinky-dink ink stink: Unofficial cartridges, official refills spurned by printer DRM

It's a love hate affair with HP

For a long time they were the go to guys, now they kind of smell like the old guy with greasy hair who never showers and chain smokes.

I was a bit sad they day they took all the HP's out of our building, now I'm thinking we got lucky ;-}

Brits: Can banks do biometric security? We'd trust them before the government

Re: Setting a Low Bar

@Number6

+1

I was going to say I'd trust neither, but you've put it nicely!

Alleged hacker Lauri Love loses extradition case. Judge: Suicide safeguards in place

Just drop it already

Leave the guy alone... Let the UK deal with him if they see fit. Like his life hasn't already been prison like? Ever hear of time served?

You call it 'hacking.' I call it 'investigation'

@Anonymous South African Coward

Colon scan... is the correct terminology ;-}

"a bit of a loner"

Just call me Leonard "Lenny" Kosnowski...

BOFH: The case of the suspicious red icon

1b just called

Yes, our #1 1b called during my reading of the BOFH, fortunately, he wanted to speak to someone else! Whew!

Time for a pint

Gmail suffers worldwide wobbly Wednesday

E-mail is unreliable in any case

Did you get the message I sent? No? is the server down? No? Can you try again? I've tried twice already. Fast forward to tomorrow, Hey! I got them all... but not in the order they were sent?

Just google this string: e-mail is unreliable

French hackers selling hidden .22 calibre pen guns on secret forums

Re: Pen guns

Both and an innocent bystander... I'm sure quality control is at the top of the list when producing these...

Daddy, what's 'P2P file sharing'?

Re: @BoldMan

@gmortars

"But this artist, like so many others, doesn't want me to hear his music under any circumstances unless he gets paid "

Are we talking about Lars from Metallica? He seemed pretty angry with Napster...

http://www.vh1.com/news/55111/10-times-lars-ulrich-pissed-everybody-off/

Google's become an obsessive stalker and you can't get a restraining order

Had I known

back in June 2004 what Google would become, I would not have signed up for Gmail.

That is all.

Delete Google Maps? Go ahead, says Google, we'll still track you

If somebody asks

hey, can I borrow your phone to make an emergency call? It will be me, I'll just leave the phone at home from now on, even though it is a Nokia C1...

Meet DDoSaaS: Distributed Denial of Service-as-a-Service

DDoSaaS

Hey! that was my joke at work today... Chalk it up to great minds and all that

Microsoft thinks time crystals may be viable after all

Re: Buh?

"Dabbsie will explain it better - with a bacon sandwich analogy?"

Which might just be easier to understand?

Dell swings layoffs axe at 3,000 EMC people

Out the front door

and most cases in the side door as contractors. No benefits to pay, that's a chunk of change for Dell to be saving. Move the contractor's salary to another column on the ledger, done and dusted.

And in the end, the deal is done, sink or swim.

Google hover-drones to drop burritos on campus

Fail and no buts about it

As someone who delivered pizzas etc in college, this will fail miserably. How will the drone know he's delivered the payload to the person who is expecting it? Is the an IoT app for this tom foolery?

Cue complaints: Hey you dropped my burrito from 50m, now it's a quesadilla!

Yes, my coat, the one with the Chipotle menu in the pocket.

Ten-year-old Windows Media Player hack is the new black, again

WMP?

I've never used it... Surprised to hear it's still bundled with Windoze. Shouldn't this one have been taken behind the shed and put out of our MiSery?

Hello, Star Trek? 25th Century here: It's time to move on

Re: strip bar?

Quark? Yes, the greedy little Ferengi... However a prior show already had used that name.

Quark is an American science fiction sitcom starring Richard Benjamin broadcast on NBC.[1] The pilot first aired on May 7, 1977, and the series followed as a mid-season replacement in February 1978. The series was cancelled in April 1978. Quark was created by Buck Henry, co-creator of the spy spoof Get Smart.[1]

Star Trek film theory: 50 years, 13 films, odds good, evens bad? Horta puckey!

Re: Fool

Do I smell "Danger, Will Robinson?"

Sex is bad for older men, and even worse when it's good

I don't buy it

They must have been using Excel for their calculations... ±20% error?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/25/excel_hell_messes_up_20_per_cent_of_genetic_science_papers/

It's time for humanity to embrace SEX ROBOTS. For, uh, science, of course

Futurama

I dated a robot... No, I'd rather make out with my Marilyn Monrobot.

Hollywood offers Daniel Craig $150m to (slash wrists) play James Bond

James should retire

Has to be said... Now, with all of the women he's bedded, there has to be a suitable story line to get one of his bastard love children on the screen.

C'mon people, let's think out of the box for once?