Posts by BamBam

The Six Million Dollar Scam: London cops probe Travelex cyber-ransacking amid reports of £m ransomware demand, wide-open VPN server holes

Re: Is CEO going to be in next honour list

She was made a peer about a year before the TalkTalk data breach.

O2 looses legal torpedo at Everything Everywhere 4G monopoly

Looses?

Am I the only one bothered by this?

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

Fire sale

Imagine if the system was set up in such a way that a hacker could turn everyone's heating on at the same time. One step closer to the scenes in Die Hard 4?

LG pitches £7k 55in OLED TV, again

Re: Technology just marches on

> I am reading these comments on a 22 inch LG OLED screen

Really? Are you sure you mean OLED?

Digital UK names date for end of analogue TV era

Not quite - the Irish system uses MPEG4 video over DVB-T, whilst Freeview uses MPEG2 over DVB-T. So a standard Freeview box/TV won't receive Irish signals, but one that supports MPEG4 will receive both.

Apple MacBook Pro 17in 2011

Firewire

If you want to attach any sort of professional sound card, you need Firewire.

BBC explains 'All your Twitter pics are belong to us' gaffe

Solved.

Surely a simple way of helping the situation would be to allow users of twitpic and others to stipulate how much they would want for a photo to be used for commercial/editorial purposes. Twitpic would then receive the payment from the broadcaster, take a percentage and give the rest to the photographer.

HTC sinks $309m into audio tech from Dr Dre

ANGRY

As an audio research engineer I can't help but feel angry every time I see groups of lads walking around with matching Beats headphones. For the same money (~£350) you can get top-of-the-range Sennheisers with mind-blowing sound quality, but all they're paying for are bass-heavy metal fashion statement with average-quality drivers and 99.99999% OFC gold-plated unicorn-hair-screened miracle cable.