Posts by Potemkine

Internet Explorer 11 at it again, breaks Microsoft's own CRM software

Flashing news!

IE development team renamed as the "Woops! department"

Confessions of a porn site boss: How the net porn industry flopped

Very interesting indeed

Two thought:

- Porn industry is very reactive and is able to adapt its business model much faster than the other media industries

- It's better not to do this business in the US.

Re: And remember...a GOO-GIRL isn't just for Christmas...

Oh... buggar. I can resist everything except temptation.

Chester Cathedral smites net in Wi-Fi SMUT OUTRAGE

Hypocrisy

Wi-fi users could watch porn? So shocking!

Why couldn't they surf on news websites instead, where they could see people killed, children dying of hunger or dismembered women in some war...

It's weird how some societies are intolerant for everything related to sex, a natural activity required to perpetuate the species, and very tolerant for everything related to violence. Seeing boobies would be more disturbing that watching a body eviscerated by shrapnels...

US army bites the bullet in $50m software piracy pay-out

Jackpot!

Well done guys. I hope the developers will get a bonus for Christmas.

Reg man inhales the smooth, non-cancerous, taste of USB nicotine

Non Cancerous?

"research over the last decade has identified nicotine's carcinogenic potential in animal models and cell culture. Nicotine has been noted to directly cause cancer through a number of different mechanisms such as the activation of MAP Kinases. Indirectly, nicotine increases cholinergic signalling (and adrenergic signalling in the case of colon cancer), thereby impeding apoptosis (programmed cell death), promoting tumor growth, and activating growth factors and cellular mitogenic factors such as 5-LOX, and EGF. Nicotine also promotes cancer growth by stimulating angiogenesis and neovascularization.In one study, nicotine administered to mice with tumors caused increases in tumor size (twofold increase), metastasis (nine-fold increase), and tumor recurrence (threefold increase).N-Nitrosonornicotine (NNN), classified by the IARC as a Group 1 carcinogen, is produced endogenously from nitrite in saliva and nicotine."

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotin#Toxicology

Berners-Lee: 'Growing tide of surveillance' is destroying the internet

Your baby was killed years ago...

... by all the marketing/spam/business crowd who transformed a network made to exchange knowledge in a virtual mall for oil snake vendors and pickpockets.

Pirate Bay co-founder Svartholm Warg to be shipped to Denmark

Individuals can't do this.

Only the NSA is allowed to do so.

You THINK you're watching your LG smart TV - but IT's WATCHING YOU, baby

'Privacy may be an anomaly'"

Before, you were watching TV. Now it's the opposite, TV is watching you.

How d'ya make a JPMorgan banker cry? Ask him questions on Twitter

Re: The 'Credit-Monitoring' Service scam...

" I can't understand why banking pirates aren't in jail"

There are two kinds of lawyers, those who know the law and those who know the judge. I would guess banks lawyers belong to the second category.

GCHQ hijacked LinkedIn profiles to hack Belgian telecoms network – report

Re: British Intelligence?

"military intelligence" is.

Perfidious Albion

With friend like UK, who needs enemy?

Calling all PSYCHICS and ball-gazers: Can YOU predict a Microsoft strategy?

Adding insult to injury

The behavior of MS towards its clients is close to harassment. We bought Office licenses and CALs, after that and for weeks I had calls and mails from MS asking me to declare every stuff we have in IT, including Linux or Mac workstations! If I wanted to comply, it would have taken me days to complete their requests. As if I had so much time to lose to fulfill their NSA-like inquiries, when we are clean regarding licenses...

I never saw a provider putting such a pressure on its customers. The consequence is now I'm seriously thinking about the ways to get rid of MS when possible. Well done MS, not respecting your customers is such a brilliant move, if you want to go out the business.

Using LibreOffice instead of Office 2003 is probably viable

Two problems with that: compatibility with existing documents (LO makes a terrible job at reading MS Office documents, 2003 or 2007), and having to rewrite every excel macros existing in the organization.

I have to try A 'VB to Python' converter, see if they are efficient, it could help to solve the second point.

10 Types of IT managers from hell

"I liked VB6"

... and then all credibility vanishes

Apple: How we slip YOUR data to govts – but, hey, we're not Google

Credibility problem

Apple, Yahoo, Google, Twtter and al. lied, lie and will lie again.

"Transparency club" my arse.

Reding: NSA, friends don't spy on friends. Europe, let's team up for our own SPOOK CLUB

There's already a NSA trojan in the EU

and its name is UK.

"Every time Britain had to decide between Europe and the open sea, it is always the open sea that we shall choose" - Hard to make it clearer...

RED planet, INDIAN mission: Space probe prepares for voyage to Mars orbit

Dislexya

PSLV C25 (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle), not PLSV C25...

The Schmidt hits the Man: NSA spying on Google servers? 'OUTRAGEOUS!'

Posture

Google collaborates with the NSA for years and now Schmidt plays the outraged guy... He may be a good businessman, but for being a good actor he has still much progress to make, beginning with credibility.

Anonymity is the enemy of privacy, says RSA grand fromage

"Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority"

Period.

Do+ you+ use+ Google+? Seemingly+ you+ DO+

Antisocial

I tried twitter during some times but was so disgusted by the flood of racism, xenophobia and other hate speeches I leaved the service with relief. Why would I try another 'social' network, to face another time the mediocrity of most of Earth's inhabitants? Screw you people, let me live alone in my cave and choose by myself who I want to speak with.

Don't crack that Mac: Almost NOTHING in new Retina MacBook Pros can be replaced

Applian Logic.

Everything within Apple, nothing outside Apple, nothing against Apple.

How I BLEW my co-workers' HEADS OFF ... without going to jail

Hardware, the part of the computer you can slap :)

Want to keep the users happy? Don't call them users for a start

To sum it up

how users see programmers, and vice-versa

Cook: Apple 'so very, very proud to be a FORCE FOR GOOD'

Re: Apple a place for good "good what"

Yeah, these women and children working 60 hours a week paid $1.5/hour, packed in crowded dorms at night, frequent victims of work accidents and so despaired there are many suicides should be so grateful to the great capitalistic system that enables them not to starve. Hail to economics, when giving somebody just enough not to starve is seen as the ultimate progress, as long as we westerners can enjoy iThings^TM we pay 5 times the cost of production, making Apple the richest company in the process.

'NSA approved'

'Force for good'? Yeah, right... and the marmot wraps the chocolate in tinfoil.

Swedish teen's sex video fine slashed: Unwilling co-star girlfriend furious

El Reg's Page 3

Sometimes I wonder if El Reg wasn't bought by The Sun or the Daily Mail...

Meet the 'KARDASHIAN Phone' – what Apple bods nicknamed the iPhone 5s

I thought at first the second picture was about a new zeppelin model...

11m Chinese engulfed by 'Airpocalypse' at 4000% of safe pollution levels

Re: When the sage points at the moon, the fool looks at the finger

All energies kill. Nuclear energy is still the energy that kills the less people by produced TWh.

When the sage points at the moon, the fool looks at the finger

Environmentalists blame constantly nuclear energy as being the Absolute Evil^TM,when usage of coal kills millions of people each year and help to modify the global climate system... well done guys, you truly show how useless you are.

Apple's top bean counter: New spaceship HQ won't emit 'one atom of carbon'

Modesty is the color of virtue

"It will be the most environmentally friendly building of its size we think has ever been built and may ever be built"

I like when people are so modest... reminds me the unsinkable titanic.

Azerbaijani election app announced winner before polls even opened

Poor guy...

His facebook account could not be the only one to be terminated.

Bees baffled by belching car exhausts = GLOBAL HUNGER

Good news, everyone!

Overpopulation being the main problem as for global warming as for other environmental problems, a global hunger could be the ultimate tool to regulate that growing number of these unpleasant human beings.

Soylent green anyone?

Iranian cyberwar chief shot dead. Revolutionary Guard: Assassination? Don't 'speculate'

An internal affair is not to be excluded

Current diplomatic moves by Rouhani are not well accepted by all the branches of the Iranian Powers. Pasdarans for instance are really infuriated by his attempts to discuss with the US. Destabilization and counter-moves will occur or are already occuring.

Re: Quick!!

Not far from being true, no one did more for Iran than Cheney, who could be a persian mole.

Adobe hit by 'sophisticated' mega hack ransack

At first

Why do they keep credit card numbers stored somewhere? Such a thing should be made illegal, and it would solve many problems...

Snowden's email provider gave crypto keys to FBI – on paper printouts

Re: "Just short of a criminal act"

'The land of the free'. Where is that place?

Netherlands?

Resistance may not be that futile after all

It's hopeful to see that some stick to their moral principles and don't bow to the pressure of tyranny.

Weel done Mr. Levison, you are one of the braves.

Study accuses media companies of cooking the books on piracy losses

The media industries would be liars?

Yeah right, and Earth is not flat either. I can't believe it :rolleyes:

'Stupid old white people' revenge porn ban won't work, insists selfie-peddler

Real problem, wrong solution

I'm surprised there's nothing in US law to already fight such disgraceful behavior: violation on image right, harassment, privacy violation... The US could prosecute somone like Mr Levison because he did not give his SSL certificates to the FBI in an electronic manner but couldn't do anything against such actions that could lead to destroy a human being? It sounds surprising...

500 MEELLION PCs still run Windows XP. How did we get here?

Re: If you've got to do all this work to change your OS..

why not go the whole hog and change over to Linux?

Because so many applications runs on windows only, because so many users are used to Windows UI, because finding and installing drivers on Linux can be such a pain in the arse, because WS servers, Active Directory, centralized authentication, GPO are so useful and easy....

I'm not opposed to a move o Linux, but changing all our our infrastructure for our desktops would have a very huge cost and impact that it is for now not worth the risk.

Profit healthy, sales up, 4,000 staff face axe. Cisco CEO, here's your pay doubled to $21m

4,000 to 1

We've got the masters we deserve. Staying quiet and accepting that kind of thing won't do anything to change the state of facts.

Google: Thanks for the billions in revenue, UK. Here are your taxes, that's ... £11m

Re: We are too stupid here in Europe

you've also missed the fact that European companies are enthusiastic exporters of jobs to Asia and low cost central Europe locations.

You mean some european companies already exploit slave laborers and children across the World, to exploit the poor many so the rich few have more and more? Brilliant! So we are not that stupid in Europe, we still realize that we can sell our moral values for 30 pieces of silver. I would be stupid not to follow the trend, I'm starting a virtual shop for cheap human body parts right now. I already have a promotion: pay for two child hearts and get the third one for free!

Re: We are too stupid here in Europe

Yeah, we're damn stupid in Europe! Forbidding slave labor, forbidding children to work 16 hours a day to force them to go in school instead, trying to cure people instead of letting deseases taking care of the poors, we are way too stupid. Why can't we just gouge people as the others do?

Just a matter of perspective

When someone steals an apple, he's a thief.

When someone steals billions, he's a financial genius.

Ellison ditches own cloud keynote for billionaires' America's Cup boat race

Keynotes suck anyway

That may explain the success of the strippers club then ^^

Google says it's sorry for Monday's hours-long Gmail delays

Some of our users were part of the 1.5%.

Anyway we still have a much better uptime stat than when we were hosting our own exchange server, with much more functionalities for all of our users.

So, still happy with Google Apps, for now.

Michael Gove: C'mon kids, quit sexting – send love poems instead

Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V

Unless kids learn someday to write sentences with words in them instead of acronyms or barbarisms, but I doubt about it....

'Occupy' affiliate claims Intel bakes SECRET 3G radio into vPro CPUs

Re: *epic facepalm*

Why should be narcotics legalized when we already have alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems?