Posts by MrAverage

Dear hackers: If you try to pwn a website for phishing, make sure it's not the personal domain of a senior Akamai security researcher

Re: Cash Dollar?

1988 called. It want's its obsolete currency back.

Apple: Good news, everyone – sales are less bad than we thought. Not amazing but not bad. $84bn is $84bn, tho

Services business..?

"Revenue in the Services business was $10.9bn, up from $9.1bn."

What is this "Services business" that you speak of? That's a lot of service!

Presumably repairs, Apple [Dont]Care, battery replacements?

Peak Apple: This time it's SERIOUS, Tim

Re: So where is the new market ?

So I guess I'll be the one then...

WHAT!!?!??! You're still using static music files stored locally on a storage device?!?

Well, I suppose Spotify has only been around for a decade... :P

Take my advice: The only safe ID is a fake ID

Re: A different name for every site?

"A wonderful quote on names from Sir PTerry..."

FTFY.

Surely worthy of the silent 'P' given the subject matter :)

Google weeps as its home state of California passes its own GDPR

Re: Zuck on that Bitch!

I read that as being $7,500 for each offence. i.e. 5,000,000 peoples data breached = 5,000,000 x $7,500?

UK.gov: Who wants £25m... *cheers*... to trial 5G? *crickets chirping*

The Apple Connection...

Being a victim of stupidly low data allowance IMO is Steve Jobs final gift to the world. He has managed to engineer out the previous paradigm of paying for voice by the minute at stupidly low rates into paying for data by volume at stupidly high rates.

It has always baffled me as to why I can't have unlimited data on my mobile service. Are they worried that their vast warehouses full of fresh data will run out? There is no logical reason to limit your punters' usage other than you'd be missing out on an opportunity to gouge them for more cash.

No, the issue is that <insert telco> didn't invest in high enough capacity backhaul, therefore they have to limit usage but rather than choose the obvious - limit the bandwidth available - because that doesn't win shiny advertising awards, they limit volume. Enter gouging, where here in Australia it is customary to charge $10/GB extra. on a 10GB/Mth usage.

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Microsoft hits new low: Threatens to axe classic Paint from Windows 10

Re: The end

@Missing Semicolon

so Alt-35 on Numeric Keypad fails then?

Whoops! Microsoft accidentally lets out a mobile-'bricking' OS update

Just found my new password key phrase

Thanks for the inspiration.

p.s. new keyboard please

Earth resists NASA's attempts to make red and green clouds

Strontium ... dogged

Didn't even read the article, just wanted to give a shout to Johnny Alpha :D

NBN shenanigans: someone wants broadband speeds hidden

Re: New bandwidth terminology

put me down for somewhere between Non existent and Grossly inadequate. Frustratingly Grossly inadequate?

UK's tech capital named: Read it and weep, Tech City startup hipsters

Re: pubage

Now it seems it has the highest number of charity shops per square mile.

How times change...

Netflix original TV shows gamble pays off... to the tune of 10m new viewers

More Power to Netflix!

I for one welcome our new, self-content making, internet stream overlords.

Now bring the service to Australia please...

Spitzer 'scope spots Buckyballs in spaaace

Photoshopped!

I call fake! That picture definitely looks photoshopped to me!

Boffins develop greenhouse invisible to night-vision goggles

This just in...

Boffins simulate almost-invisible shed using computers!

...in other news - dark looming storm clouds precipitate rain in England

Vista-hating Microsoft throws poo at Apple's iPhone 4

Recycle

I remember being in a technology seminar in '96 where two flailing Novell marketing types spent the entirety of their alloted hour slagging off Microsoft and their products. Needless to say rather than putting us poor punters off buying Microsoft, they only really confirmed to me how perilously close to the void Novell was as a business.

This to me is clearly signalling the final demise of the great Beast of Redmond . Rest assured, in no time at all it will be the great Cupertino's turn for a recycle...