Posts by Rob - Denmark

Florida man (not that one) sold $100M-plus in counterfeit network gear

Re: Old saying!

Technically, a lot of them didn't buy Cisco.

Meet the merry pranksters who keep the workplace interesting, if not productive

It might be from an episode of The Office: https://youtu.be/2xbjNwgdidk?t=174

Or The Office might have gotten it from somewhere else.

USB4: Based on Thunderbolt 3. Two times the data rate, at 40Gbps. One fewer space. Zero confusing versions

Re: Thunderbolt

But then there would have been a space in the name...

FCC boss Ajit Pai emits his net neutrality extermination plan

Re: The next Google is stuffed

"It's going to be much harder for any startup to swell to worldwide dominance from a garage in future."

And that is one of the purposes of this plan

That apple.com link you clicked on? Yeah, it's actually Russian

Re: Why is this difficult?

"If you routinely browse in multiple languages, then you're sufficiently unusual that it's not unreasonable to expect you to be the one who has to do something different.

Like, maintain a separate browser window for each language. To me that doesn't sound too big an imposition."

That's only because you haven't tried it in real life.

I just got an e-mail with an update to an order i placed before Easter. The e-mail is in Danish. When I click the link, should I choose the English or the Danish browser? (Turns out, the website is in English, despite the Danish e-mail).

http://www.logitech.com - better use my English browser. Turns out, Logitech detects my location and redirects me to http://www.logitech.com/da-dk, so now I have to switch to my Danish browser?

Visiting Lenovo's Support site, I end up on http://support.lenovo.com/dk/en (DK for Denmark but EN for English, since the language on the support site is in English. So English or Danish browser?

And yes, we have domains with special Danish letters: Æ, Ø og Å.

Hacker faces 105 years inside after FBI 'sexploitation' arrest

Re: But...how??

Might be: Some girls like girls.

So attacker finds saucy pictures on Alice's (who is into girls) drive, and Alice knows Carol and Diana (also into girls - note the "details on their female friends" part).

Then Bob pretends to be Alice and sends Carol and Dinah a saucy e-mail suggesting pics for pics.

Easy to compute from here.

Just guessing though.

Japanese toilet can save penalty kicks

Why not link to the original video?

Instead of linking to someones copy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV6so87RZNQ

Experts troll 'biggest security mag in the world' with DICKish submission

Re: 2600 want free articles too

"Oh, and send you 4 issues for your trouble."

So not exactly 'free' then?

Cyber gang made £30 MILLION from fake gov certs

Re: Not good news...

Hopefully, the executions will be carried out by certified executioners.

Zuckerberg: Now share your organs with Facebook friends

Re: kidney harvesting scheme

Yep, those ready to abduct you and cut you open to harvest your kidney will definitely check your Facebook profile beforehand, and find another victim, if you haven't given your permission.

Ten... smartphone survival accessories

Re: Nasty!

"If that's a full charge in 5 minutes, you'll be lucky if you battery (or phone) survives for long."

The charger can't force the phone to charge faster than it's build for. Electronics in the phone takes care of that, so it'll drain 1 Ah (probably), no matter how many Ah the charger is able to deliver.

5 minutes will NOT give a full charge.

Apple TV third-generation (2012)

"Access LAN-linked iTunes libraries but not Nas file-shares"

Icon says it all.

Could tiny ebooks really upset the mighty Apple cart?

Re: Pity this did not happen before

Price fixing == same price at a given time != same price all the time.

Election hacked, drunken robot elected to school board

Re: Bender 4 Prez

I think you missed this part of the article:

>>"It was too good an opportunity to pass up," explained Professor Alex Halderman from the University of Michigan. "How often do you get the chance to hack a government network without the possibility of going to jail?"<<

But if you call the risk of going to jail 'a little more interesting', you are right.

Facebook shoves your face into creepy 'sponsored stories' in 2012

So now there are one moron less on Facebook then?

GCHQ code-breaking challenge cracked by Google search

Or the page uses some kind of Google service like Google Analytics.

BSA name-and-shame tactic may have backfired

Did you RTFA?

Yes, I can see how Photoshop "is very industry-specific" to a "firm specialising in call management software".

Apple recalls first iPod Nanos over battery flaw

Probably not a new one

"If it is, Apple will send you a box in which to return the player. Six weeks later, you'll receive your replacement. Will it be a new Nano 1G or a more recent model? Apple didn't say. "

Since they need 6 weeks, it's probably not a new one, me thinks.

Why your tech CV sucks

@tfewster

"And every technical word. Unless you've trained your spellchecker over many years.."

Or just used a few minutes more, to check the spelling (and to ad the words the spell checker didn't recognize), when you wrote the CV.

The Register Guide on how to stay anonymous (part 2)

They are not trying to sell you anything - you are the product!

Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

From the article:

"Indeed, Olson's database includes comments that credit The American Atlas from ACS Publications as the source for some of the historical data it contains."

Facebook deletes hacked Pages, destroying years of work

@enigmatix

"And so would using a free social media site run by a disinterested third party as the sole means to manage business relationships."

Sole means?

Where did s/he write that the social media would be the sole means?

Cisco accused of tailoring tech to aid Chinese abuses

Well...

If the train builders made trains that had features specifically designed to help the Nazis ship people to concentration camps (and had a power point boasting 'jew detecting features'), I probably would.

Sneaky tracking code (finally) purged from Microsoft sites

@jake

"There are far more important things to be getting on with than updating our operating systems ..."

Such as handeling malware etc . as a result of NOT keeping your operating system updated?

George Lucas defeated by Stormtrooper helmet man

You are kidding, right? Right? Right?

@NomNomNom:

"All movies are based on events that happened in the past, not the future."

That goes for all ScFi movies? LIke '2001: A Space Odyssey' that was released in 1968? I'm so confused right now.

(I'm using the Icon you should have chosen).

iPhone plunges 13,500 ft from skydiver's pocket - and lives

Agree on the terminal velocity thingy, but...

Probably not a lot of skydiving being done in vacuums.

Yahoo! reads! your! emails!

Don't Panic!

No, your email messages are totally secure: Yahoo! has a copy.

Behind Microsoft's $15 Samsung Android royalty claim

It's not quite that easy

That's where the "incur years of high legal fees" comes in.

Popular FTP package download tarball poisoned

Who knew?...

There are signatures in German Sprouts?

Lul while you can!

Som much for the test, or POC if you will.

Now we can just wait for the real deal, with fake signature and all.

Fox News tweets hacked to show Obama death stories

Just guessing

Here's how tey COULD do it:

If n<5:

Try four times. Wait for the user to login (=post to Twitter), thus resetting the counter. Try four times. Repeat.

OR IF the user don't login, wait an hour (counter is reset after an hour according to http://support.twitter.com/entries/63510-i-m-locked-out-after-too-many-login-attempts) before trying four times again.

But, more likely, they've used a social hack or someone re-used the same password on other sites.

The Cube: Apple's daftest, strangest romance

What?

"After July 2001, Apple's design team never again attempted anything as daring or distinctive."

I beg to differ: That about the iMac/G4/'iLamp'?

LucasArts Day of the Tentacle

prompt=[%computername%] $d$s$t$_$p$_$_$+$g

Oh yes, them good old DOS days.

I loved DOTT. Felt so great when I had played through it, after I had been 'stuck' quite a few times. Wonder if I still have it somewhere.

Kindle Store awash with auto-generated crap 'books'

The trick

The trick is to find the point where:

money made < money spend on publishing

at the time where the publication is banned from sale.

HTTP-on-steroids busts out of Google

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"A good trick, provided the resulting code still validates and still behaves properly in all target browsers (which probably includes IE6). "

Since IE6 don't support the new protocol, data for IE6 would still be transmitted 'the old way'.

Good guess!

Well:

"At the moment, Google Chrome is the only browser that uses SPDY on the front-end."

You really get a lot of information, if you read the article.

Apple iCloud: Same old cage, new height

Title? What title?

iCloud is misleading.

How about iSilo?

Hackers pwn PBS in revenge for WikiLeaks doco

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@ Scorchio!!

"Truly, though why no one in PBS had the common sense to check with their IT people that the doors were locked properly beats me..."

And what did you expect the IT people to answer?

"Oh, pease don't air that documentary. We have to secure our servers first, otherwise know as 'something we should have done in the first place'"

?

New Mac scareware variant installs without password

Ehm...

Yep, the average user will totally do that.

Bin Laden's porn stash: Too good to be true?

Arriving in your Spam-folder anytime soon

"Click here to see Osana Bin Laden's secret porn stash. For free! (Age verification by credit card required)."

@Ted Treen

@Ted Treen

You can't just claim no one would ever find a porn stash at your house. You have to share your method of keeping it hidden.

Cops hunt man who befouled drugstore's cough drop stash

So close!

"Police say anyone who recognises the phantom pisser can call their crimeline on 1-800-423-TIPS."

Just one digit different from 1-800-423-PISS

RSA breach leaks data for hacking SecurID tokens

At least 3 antivirus/anti-adware packages?

More than one antivirus package?

You really should consider having two computers: One that you use for doing stuff, and another for running all that conflicting software.

Sony wins subpoena for PS3 hacker's PayPal records

Surely, Sony could have paid him themselves?

Sony could have made a transaction from Northern California to his account, before handing in the subpoena.

That way they can be 100% sure that they'll find a transaction that'll let them sue him in San Francisco.

iPad 2? Let's be kind and call it iPad 1.5

So Apple finally found out how to make a white iP***

Just leave out the flash!

Never mind it has proven very usefull on my last 4 or so camera phones.

I’m not a Trojan horse: Nokia’s Elop hits back at neigh sayers

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Trojan Horse?

Memo to Microsoft, RIM, Nokia: Quit copying Apple!

Math!

"It stinks to be number two in a market. Or worse, number three. But that's the position that most consumer technology companies find themselves in today,"

How is this specific for the technology market?

If there is more than two companies on the market, surely most of those companies must find themselves being number two or three? Or four or...?

Man demands police protection from sex-mad missus

I like the IT-angle on this

So the man gets a divorce and his problems are over.

But what about the poor woman? Once her identity is revealed, with a sex drive like that, how is she ever going to find another man?

(Mine is the one with the rubbers and blue pills in the pocket).

Runaway hydroponic fungus attacks real-world Starship Voyager

What smell?

Surely, a spaceship is air- and smelltight?