Posts by SJRulez

London NHS trusts: Let's BORG up our patient data

Re: Data for sale?

As with pretty much every other NHS project given 12 months it will fail and disappear in to a black hole.

Apple: Samsung was in 'crisis' over our iPhone awesomeness

Lol, they designed the iPhone of which Samsung supplies about half the parts!

You've copied my house design.... how? By putting round corners on it!

Its great when two tech giants can go head to head over the style of a device, Apple are just whining because the only thing that does actually make there phone recognizable is its shape, the actual features aren't the selling point for them and never will be!

The fact that Apple are now suffering at the hands of patent trolls just adds to the fun, they're about to get their ass dragged through court over face time, siri and various other ip infringements. They seem to be getting more like MS, get a product we can sell no matter what the cost or method and throw money at any problems later once we already sold loads of them.

Wikipedia collapses threatening the very fabric of civilisation

Hmm, I wonder how many people misunderstood the suggestions about going to their local library and instead used the computers there to try and get on to wikipedia rather than actually getting a book.

Radio hams unite to fight off new powerline comms standard

When the end comes and technology is no more, we'll need the skills of those HAM's to keep in touch!

Jobless yoofs! Get on your bike, er, mobe, and look for work

Re: @sjrules

Unfortunately a lot of people who are unemployed look at the jobs out there as boring and mundane rather than the means to an end. You cant progress or better yet expect to be earning 30k+ without doing some of the shit jobs along the way. I started out picking up rubbish on the local market at 16, not a great job but it still paid. How many 16 year old's would do that now?

I've on occasion sent job details to friends who are supposedly looking for jobs and quite often get a response back of 'Nah I don't want to do that' and yet a few conversations later they'll vent anger at being stuck on benefits.

Somebody mentioned earlier in the thread, that the unemployed mass are not the benefit robbers I think they are...... Unfortunately that's also down to where you live, the road I live on has two working families, a few that work cash in hand and defraud the benefit system whilst the remaining sit on their ass outside each others house getting pissed all day.

there aren't enough jobs.

No one seems to be asking the question about the relationship between 'there aren't enough jobs' and G4S failing to fill some 30,000 jobs!!! I would be really interested to see how many people actually applied for jobs with them, if it outstripped the figure fair enough.... if it didn't then that's worrying.

Another waste of money from a council

There's plenty of apps available that already help people find jobs, much of the problem is they cant be bothered to help themselves.

Console content can cause crime, claims cop

One thing they seem to forget is the people who play these games are too busy at home playing on them rather than being out on the street causing trouble. Its just a convenient excuse to blame trouble and violence on a game!

Judge rejects Apple's calls for Samsung censure

When will Apple realize that there is more to selling products than how it looks.....

If your whole case is about whether you lost sales because somebody designed a product that looks the same then I would be seriously concerned about the need to have 'technical' engineers being paid thousands of pounds and yet admitting to breakdown other peoples phones to see how they antenna work.

Surely if your product is so good people would be saying well the samsung looks the same but the iPhone has this and that, or vice verse. It should be about which has the best tech not which looks good in your pocket!

Marlinspike demos MS-CHAPv2 crack

Re: SJ does not Rulez

The correct title would be SJ does not Rule..... SJRulez are SJ's Rules of how the world works.

Incidentally most of my comments probably don't make sense but it fills the boring hours between pushing buttons at work.

I would go for even stronger security than that, two plastic cups and some string. The only concern you have is someone getting physical access to your string and tying their cup into yours where as RSA you can just undermine that by hacking into them!

Lords call for the end of TV transmissions

What about the giv snooping charter

I wonder if anyone has also considered the effect this would have on the gov's new snooping attempts, we'll have MI5 and MI6 viewing broadcast footage just in case the terrorists and pedo's starting embedding subliminal messages or dodgy content in tv channels....

Bandwidth Caps

So are they also going to address bandwidth caps or am I going to be watching them wasting time booing and cheering like a bunch of school kids on the parliament channel and get cut off before hearing the decision!

Tracking Android phones is easy, says researcher

Re: Eh?

I suppose the easiest thing to compare it too would be DNS spoofing

Re: Eh?

My somewhat limited understanding of it is.....

The device requests assistance from the mobile provider to locate nearby sat positions, it then uses this data to help get a fix quicker.

So on to the hack....

In the event your connected to a malicious wireless network or someone can hack your phone over the wifi then they could override the settings provided by the mobile provider and replace them with there own. I would assume since they stated it remains in effect afterwards there must be some mechanism which then prevents the device from either asking the network for settings and again or simply prevents the settings from being update.

Sellers flogging vid games to underage kids face jail, unlimited fine

I've said this a few times before, age ratings wont make the slightest difference because.....

The kids causing trouble aren't the ones playing video games they are just the trouble makers who when caught use it as an excuse, oh because I saw it on GTA your honor!

UK's thirst for energy falls, yet prices rise: Now why is that?

The typical british way

Were not selling enough, put up the prices to cover the gap, we sell even less, business no longer viable.

Were not making enough, put up the prices, demand drops were making too many, business no longer viable

And the gov constantly reinforce this stupid mindset.......

Business are closing, put up the taxes, more business close.

Not enough jobs, more people need benefits, put up the taxes, more businesses close, less jobs.

Cigarettes, less people are smoking, we need the money put the tax up.

Beer, people aren't spending out, we need the money, sting the supermarket shoppers.

Anonymous hits Australia

Re: Actually, "Anonymous" hasn't really ever done anything.

Incidentally while we are at it, the last time I did vote it was wasnt for any of the parties that got in to power. And the party that got in "representing the majority" did so with 34% of the votes, that's not a majority at all.

Re: Actually, "Anonymous" hasn't really ever done anything.

"And then get off your fucking high-horse arses & fucking vote"

I'll vote when there is someone worth voting for but by that time I will probably be collecting my pension if there is actually one for me to collect!

"learn how politics really works"

It doesn't work for the public, it works for the people in power, and it works to keep them in power no matter how shit they are!

U.S forces maintain fire against Megaupload

Re: Waitasec

Dotcom should count himself lucky so far, I'm surprised the US hasn't just carried out a summary execution with a drone strike or used their typical rendition tactics on him since all that's legal when they're doing it.

Microsoft unfurls patent lasso, snares Linux servers

Predictive Failure

Surely this is an attempt to drum up some revenue aheading of Windows 8 being a complete flop......

Facebook's Zuckerberg awarded privacy patent

My Patent Application

I've developed a system to stop stupid legal arguments over patents....

1) Weld mailbox shut at USPTO

2) Once staff leave for the evening weld doors shut

3) Put up sign redirecting all applications to The Readers, The Reg Forums C\O The Register

Patent pending.....

WTF is... WiGig

hate wireless

I started out with wireless all over my home a few years ago which was great but I've slowly noticed an increase in the number of networks within range of mine and ever decreasing performance of my own. I've now wired the house instead for the bulk of devices and its pretty much only visitors that use the wireless and occasionally my kids on their net books.

On another note I think most of the sales staff that try to sell you wireless equipment should be given a slap, I recently saw a young probably commissioned based sales idiot flogging an old couple wireless N because its faster, no mention of the fact that they would still be limited by internet speed, would need wireless N adapters or compatible hardware etc etc. I'll give you a hint which shop...... Begins with a P, its got a C in it and World and they screwed that couple out of nearly £150

Much of China still has rubbish net connections, stats show

They may be lagging behind now but unlike BT and the rest of our rubbish providers, you can guarantee once they get started it wont take them long to overtake us whilst ours are still arguing over duct & pole prices!

Top spook: ISP black boxes NOT key to UK's web-snoop plan

The missing %

"we are not proposing this law on the grounds that it will provide 100 per cent coverage of the communications data in this country"

Yep and you can guarantee the missing per cent will be the important terrorist communications...... or at least that will be the defending argument when there is an incident they failed to detect and they have to justify the ridiculous amounts of money that will be spent.

British Gas bets you'll pay £150 for heating remote control

Re: Hmm, how about

That is a possibility, but for some of us even that isn't.... I work in a data center so no phones allowed.

Hmm, how many people are going to get this installed and then get to work and realize the office firewalls\proxies wont let you get to the website.

Judge: Patent litigants behave like animals

I think patents should be maintained in some form but it should be down to the actual development cost since that's what they were intended for.

Too many companies now seem to think they can patent even the slightest development (especially in software) as was the case with Apple and slide to unlock\gesture to unlock, its not a ground breaking innovation its been around since the first sliding bolt, its more a case of patent it anyway then we can use it as ammunition against someone else later.

Most of these recent patent battles are causing harm to the industry and giving creativity a back seat...... its no longer buy our product cause its the best, its buy our products because we've managed to ban the rest.

Microsoft names Zeus ringleaders and notifies FBI

Botnet or the software

Since Zeus is available widely are these guys meant to be the people that wrote the software and profited from selling the crime ware kit or are they just a subscriber who used it too build the biggest botnet?

London cops order Julian Assange to turn himself in

Re: Might as well just bite the bullet.

The US will get him anyway if they really want him, a lot of this hype is just about buying time and making himself visible so they cant just snatch him off the street.

When you break apart the situation it comes to down to a few simple points, questions and options which are:

A) Assange hasn't done anything wrong at all

B) Assange did rape\molest\abuse (delete appropriately) the two women

C) Assange was setup by the two women because each of them found out about the other

D) Assange was setup by the two women as part of a honeypot trap

As far getting him from Sweden, at the moment the Swedish public aren't in uproar about an already one sided extradition treaty with the US. If the request came into the UK gov most of the public would go ballistic that we cant extradite terrorists because of their human rights etc but the US can have anyone they like from our shores who they think is a terrorist. When you add the fact the US would want to try him for treason which is punishable by death then the Human Rights issues could get bigger.

Re: Bull

Lol Scorchio!! has it wrong again\still, if i could be bothered I would run through all the posts from the last thread on this:

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2012/06/19/assange_ecuadorian_embassy/

The statement which you keep mentioning: "The Swedes want to question him prior to officially charging him which is their legal procedure. He fled their jurisdiction prior to being brought in for this questioning and eventual arrest."

Re: typical US law extends to everything

Is totally wrong.....

Not sure what you've been smoking but if you do a little bit more research, you would actually find the initial warrant\accusations (not a Euro warrant) of rape was dismissed by Eva Finne which would potentially would have carried a custodial sentence and only the minor "annoyance" accusation remains.

It was then at the beginning of September that a new warrant (again not a euro warrant) was issued for both offenses again during which time assange was also undertaking a hearing for a Swedish work permit and was still in the country.

On Sept 15th he was given permission to leave the country following a 5week stay to answer the allegations made against him (the prosecutions own timeline\evidence supports this)

November 28th Swedish court issued the ECW followed shortly after by an Interpol red flag, these were both issues after he had already left the country and initially answered questions.

Sysadmins: Your best tale of woe wins a PRIZE

Re: RBS?

Lol,

They were probably to busy hacking it and pirating it for later.

I must of been playing on something or slacking to not spot my mistake there....

Re: RBS?

This is their new recruiting drive, they are waiting to head hunt someone with a story about CM 7

Posner to Apple, Motorola: 'And don’t come back'

Re: US Judges Getting Increasingly Smarter

He didnt just learn basic programming, he was a programmer with knowledge of a few languages.

Assange takes refuge in Ecuadorian embassy

Re: typical US law extends to everything

The Swedes want to question him prior to officially charging him which is their legal procedure. He fled their jurisdiction prior to being brought in for this questioning and eventual arrest.

Not sure what you've been smoking but if you do a little bit more research, you would actually find the initial warrant\accusations (not a Euro warrant) of rape was dismissed by Eva Finne which would potentially would have carried a custodial sentence and only the minor "annoyance" accusation remains.

It was then at the beginning of September that a new warrant (again not a euro warrant) was issued for both offenses again during which time assange was also undertaking a hearing for a Swedish work permit and was still in the country.

On Sept 15th he was given permission to leave the country following a 5week stay to answer the allegations made against him (the prosecutions own timeline\evidence supports this)

November 28th Swedish court issued the ECW followed shortly after by an Interpol red flag, these were both issues after he had already left the country and initially answered questions.

Re: typical US law extends to everything

I've already cited a number of examples, if you would like to provide your evidence to contradict and prove them incorrect then please feel free to do so.

But to add some more and show just how openly the US interprets its own laws.

Libyan Intel documents showing direct links to CIA renditions supported by Diplomatic cables released by Wiki leaks

Water boarding of suspects which is deemed as torture under Human Rights acts to which they are signatories.

US drone attacks which have injured as many civilians as suspected terrorists, of course these cant be confirmed as terrorists since none have ever been put through a legal system. Incidentally if they are suspects and the US obviously knows there location why don't they extradite them rather than summary execution on presidential order.

Mega upload - removal of evidence without permission of the NZ gov, there justification the physical media is the evidence not data.... in that case since Manning only took the information and not the physical device then he cant have taken any evidence.

Re: typical US law extends to everything

Another note to add here is that the US plan to try him for treason, defined as an act against ones sovereign or nation... since when has he been a US citizen oh hang on that's right the rest of the world is an extension of American.

Re: typical US law extends to everything

Hmm, first proof.....

Raid against the Piratebay for copyright infringement, although not illegal in Sweden the US DOJ pressured Sweden into it:

A letter titled "Re: The Pirate Bay" from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to Dan Eliasson, State Secretary at the Swedish Ministry of Justice, was dated two months before the raid and hinted at trade reprisals.

As for terms of the warrant, they only apply whilst the warrant is in effect. Once the warrant has been executed and consider complete there would be nothing to stop the US submitting a request to the Swedish government to have him arrested on US based charges as long as they released him, didn't directly transfer him, didn't impede his ability to leave the country (i.e no fly list, confiscate passport etc) prior to re-arresting him then they could extradite him.

Incidentally I do think he's an idiot and i'm not particularly keen on him, but I'm less keen on America.

Re: typical US law extends to everything

Everything to do with the Yanks, they are already known to be pressuring the Swedish gov to get their hands on him whether he is charged or not and most recently the Swedish have been rolling over to demands from the US in respect to websites closures, copyright cases, and web based crimes of which most of them aren't actually illegal under Swedish law.

If as is stated by the Swedish\EC warrant the purpose is too question him in relation to possible offenses which as yet he hasn't been charged with then surely that can be done from a police station in the UK under interview condition, incidentally he offered to do this at the Swedish Embassy or Scotland Yard.

typical US law extends to everything

Its another case where American law applies to everyone and everything.....

Recent examples:

Christopher Tappin - Conspiring to export missiles from the US... see the the problem with that, he's not a US citizen, not a US business man and technically he was importing them and it was a bunch of US agents that were exporting them. Interesting how the manufacturer are in no way to blame for poor control.

Richard O'Dwyer - Providing links to copyrighted material, no charges bought in the UK but shipped him over to the US

Chick-lit naughty girl MP Mensch starts own web-jabber service

Ban politicans on twitter

Well I'm all for it if they ban politicians from Twitter and move them all on to that site, at least all the bullshit will be in one place and we wont see anymore immature twitter wars between Ken and Boris.

Another investor pulls out of Habbo Hotel after grooming claims

Re: 'Pulling out'

It does seem a bit dodgy really pulling out when the problem has been found and effectively losing your voice on the board.

Question is which would a company prefer being remembered for pulling out and washing their hands of a scandal or staying on board and getting to grips with it.

Re: As per usual

its more a case of when she's 16 she wont be my problem lol....

Re: As per usual

Hardly gonna market themselves as not safe, but again as a parent my definition of safe and there's differ very widely I should imagine. It still comes down to parents, my daughters is old enough for a faceb account according to their terms and conditions, she isn't old enough for one by mine and when she does get one until she is 16 she wont be using it unsupervised.

As per usual

The normal line of blame the website, how about the lazy parents actually monitor what their children are doing. As a responsible parent you would then be able to hit that report inappropriate content button straight away rather than expecting the system to try and spot it.

Reborn UK internet super-snooper charter to be unveiled today

It will only catch the stupid and the common criminals, anyone who actually thinks this will help protect national security is a complete Muppet.

One thing to point out, the gov seems to have massive failings when it comes to organising any project involving data.... chances are this will go the same way, spend 2billion and end up with a failure in about 3 years.