Posts by as2003

Win7 machines harder hit by infection as VXers change tactics

Stick with XP??

To the two people who say this is a reason to stick with XP; I'm just going to cut and paste a couple of lines from the second and third paragraphs of the article:

"infection rate of four Win7 PCs per 1,000"

"infection rates for Win XP SP3 machines [are] 14 per 1,000 PCs"

Were we reading the same article?

Thanks for the absolute and relative infection numbers John. This is exemplary technical writing!

Boffins devise way to hide secret data on hard drives

TrueCrypt

A novel idea, for sure, but I guess they haven't heard of TrueCrypt's hidden volume.

Bank of America retrofits BlackBerrys with NFC

not me...

I get annoyed when I'm forced to pay with cash. I always have cards on me, but I frequently have no cash!

Horses for courses I suppose.

Your mind's '.brain' jpeg-like picture file format probed

Why...

Why do we always have to congratulate ourselves when we "outsmart" an inanimate tangle of silicon, (which was conceived, designed and built by humans)?

Researcher breaks security sandbox in Adobe Flash

Down with this sort of thing.

Roll on HTML5, canvases, SGV and all that.

Who will rid me of these obsolete PCs?

Ditto.

Surely the easiest way.

Not sure why people pay companies to take this stuff away when you can get people on ebay to pay you to take it away.

I've mainly been using it to shift a lot of faulty computers and other electronics. Yup - people are even willing to buy and collect faulty old computers!

Famous 'Silhouette' Flash illusion unravelled

Huh?

What does "trick-cyclist" have to do with any of that?

Aircraft bombs may mean end to in-flight Wi-Fi, mobile

Cloning

Register a cloned handset. Switch it off. Other clone in hold turns on.

Lexmark adds Twitter to printer

srsly?

It's April 1st already?

British bank cuts 4,500 IT jobs

Err... no.

That's called protectionism and is widely considered to be harmful in the long-term.

Following your logic to the extreme, why don't we ban all imports? That'll prevent jobs and capital leaving our fair shores right?

Fruitcake profs demand strict curbs on killer robots

Credentials

In his list of credentials, you forgot to mention that he was one of the judges on the Robot Wars TV show. Probably the most pertinent item on his CV in fact!

He's seen more brutal robot on robot action than anyone. (evidently this may have coloured his predictions somewhat).

London Transport plans Oyster bypass

I wonder...

I wonder if they'll be displaying remaining balance when you beep in and out.

Devil manifests in Hungarian bathroom

What makes them so certain?

Why is it always Jesus, Satan or the Virgin Mary? And not Dave from down the road? Or one of the other 6 billion people on this planet?

Ranting Ohio Republican scares interwebs

and...

a meme is born

Google Instant – more searches, less thought

Impressive

...from a technical point of view. I was never able to get my head around how they search billions of websites, millions of times a second. And now, with this auto complete, they'll be massively ramping up that number of queries.

Hats off to them I say.

Bye-bye to bizarro bye-laws, says UK.gov

Shame...

So no longer will I be able to shoot Welsh men with my longbow from the crenellations of my Castle on the third sunday of any month beginning with the letter 'J'?

OED goes the way of all flesh paper

Most ebook readers...

Most* ebook readers are capable of displaying PDFs, and PDFs are capable of displaying all sorts of vector and non-vector information. Ergo, ebook readers would have no trouble displaying an electronic version of the OED.

You make a good point about searching though.

(* based on no research whatsoever)

Just 5% of workers ever truly leave the office

ha

no need to check your emails - the exchange server was down ;-)

Vodafone volte-face on Galaxy S

re:

...which contains random useless vodafone branded apps that can't be removed...

More choosing maths A-Level

someone is already tracking the media obsession...

http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com/