Posts by Anonymous Coward 15

Samsung: Never mind Steve Jobs, let's snap off a piece of stylus biz

Re: Humbug!

On the CPC464 there was a version with the software in ROM.

Re: Have to agree

my happy places would most definitely be tingled.

The vibrations will help with that.

'Online sex abuse of children is growing trend', warn Brit net cops

>online

>forcing

The same way Nigerian princes keep forcing me to give them my bank details?

UK cookies cop changes own policy to ‘implied consent’

But there was no choice or consent

All the banners said "suck on it or leave". And you couldn't lose the banners without allowing cookies and JS.

'Gaia' Lovelock: Wind turbines 'may become like Easter Island statues'

Obligatory xkcd link

http://xkcd.com/1162/

Is your Surface Pro a bit full? Slot in an SD card, it's not from Apple

Windows machine comes loaded full of shite

More at 11.

YouTube's hilarious cat videos could soon cost you $5 a month

Because we're hooked

It's like drugs.

WTF? Been seeing a lot of recommendations for Mint Linux to newcomers, why?

I use Xubuntu myself

Still part of the Ubuntu ecosystem, but with a more familiar UI style. What's not to like?

UPnP scan shows 50 million network devices open to packet attack

Most home users use the ISP's gear

Blame the ISPs if they're vulnerable out of the box.

I like apples.

Re: Apples

Cider ftw!

Backdoor root login found in Barracuda gear - and Barracuda is OK with this

Re: Compass

Try it. You can play Zork online. (Be careful of the grues.)

Re: Service Entrance

That's what she said.

Now Spanish sperm takes a kick to the cojones

Re: Employment policy

And huge numbers of geriatrics with few current taxpayers to fund their pension payments.

Ministry of Fun builds crack team to juice up bumpkin broadband

Re: A pilot scheme will be be tested on bumpkins

You could count the number of megabits on the fingers of one h- Oh. Norfolk. Probably not then.

Sounds like it ought to be a line from Office Space, in which case I'll need the TPS report on my desk before you go.

Panasonic: We'll save Earth by turning CO2 into booze

Re: Would be useful

I'm more interested in the booze part.

McDonalds burger app gives it to you straight from the horse's mouth

Re: Please

Rem that Boddington's advert from years back? It was a cow (girl) with udders, drinking pints talking like a bloke. Someone didn't do their homework as how many blokes have mammary glands......?

Depends if they've been drinking a lot of beer.

UK.gov told to get a brain in wake of £1bn IT deals collapse

So the system for keeping track of bids for projects

needs replacing? Yo dawg...

Playboy fined £100k by Blighty watchdog for FLASHING SMUT at kids

You want me to replace my "tube" in what?

What if you don't have a credit card

even though you are over 18, because you don't need the credit facility or have been refused one?

To ban kids, you'll have to ban the act that leads to kids, and there'll be a hell of a lot more demand for porn.

Re: Credit Card Age Verification

And if you have a foreign credit card? Or mum and dad have never heard of this new over-18 PIN, and therefore have not set it up, so when the kid finds the card he sets it up himself?

Titsup Windows Phone 8 orders user to cram 'boot disc' in mobe

Re: May have a point

It shows there is some code in there to handle errors that should never happen.

Anything that Should Never Happen (tm) will happen.

Microsoft ends Mac users' Windows Phone 8 misery

Mac users with Windows 8 phones?

Wow, you mean, all 3 of them?

All your audio, video kit is about to become OBSOLETE

DVDA?

8Mbps of hardcore XXX!

Re: Quick

It's "all expenses paid" or "no expense spared".

Small speakers with decent bass

I'll believe it when I see^H^H^Hhear it.

Potty-mouthed Watson supercomputer needed filth filter

Re: Immature is as immature does

I speak profane and profane accessories.

Texas schoolgirl loses case over RFID tag suspension

Re: I'm wondering ...

The most obvious reason for the bathroom is to keep people who shouldn't be at the school out of the bathrooms. Ex students, drug dealers, creepy old men, Westbo Baptist Church members etc

Those people should already have been stopped at the perimeter.

Anonymous wants DDoS attacks recognized as speech

Re: Having spent...

Defacing rather than doing more serious damage could simply mean "we want to let you know your system is insecure, but we don't want to kill you."

Guess who'll grab Facebook Sponsored Stories payout? (Hint: Not the victims)

How big a garden can you cover in astroturf for $1M?

Japanese cops cuff cat carrying remote control virus

Japan.

Satire like Porn? How 3UK are bringing Chinese-style political censorship of web to UK

Re: Satire like Porn? How 3UK are bringing Chinese-style political censorship of web to UK

We couldn't have kids getting interested in politics! They might challenge the system!

Adobe offers free trip to PowerPC era

Re: Lets be honest

A reasonably good condition classic car that doesn't need an EE degree to fix.

Lenovo, EA, Intel unite to DESTROY our childhood memories

I seem to remember a set where the prices on the board and the cards were in £ (it being the London version) but the banknotes didn't have currency symbols.

Windows RT jailbreak smash: Run ANY app on Surface slabs

If you're a sufficiently serious dev

Won't you legitimately need a debugger and the ability to run not-yet-signed code?

Samsung confirms Tizen-based mobes to debut this year

It's pining! Beautiful plumage.

Anonymous hacks Westboro Baptists over Sandy Hook protests

As opposed to the vector colours?

Think you meant Rasta, short for Rastafarian.

Dixons and Microsoft haggling over Surface RT Ts&Cs

Re: why can I hear bells ?

Predictive typing in general ducks a great pig monkey sick.

Dexter malware targets point of sale systems worldwide

With suitably hacked cards might there be a buffer overflow somewhere?

Re: "It wasn't me. It was that POS system that swiped my card!"

Oh, it was me when I bought my groceries, but it definitely wasn't me in the offie next door. Hic.

North Korean rocket works, puts something into orbit

Re: Interesting development

>its only fear of the regime that stops them legging it across the border.

And, y'know, the armed guards, mines and barbed wire.

Major £30m cyberheist pulled off using MOBILE malware

More explanation on the Android attacks please?

One doesn't normally install an app by clicking links in e-mail. Do they offer their malware in the Play Store? Does it need root? Does it matter whether I have my bank's actual app on my phone or not? Does it work on WiFi-only tablets?

Being responsible, creative and motivated means you aren’t

Re: Dear Sirs

Are you my mum, writing on behalf of my brother?

Dozen more cities to get ultrafast broadband cash in gloomy UK budget

Re: some elite a thousand miles away is gunna vote on our broadband

Roads, aqueducts etc.

Always look on the bright side of life!

Microsoft’s so.cl network now open to all

So does everyone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

His Holiness Benedict XVI to tweet to his Catholic flock

"Romanes eunt domus"- People called Romanes, they go the house

"Romani ite domum"- Romans, go home

Children increasingly named after Apple products

@AC 15:54

Well done, Captain Obvious.

Help-desk hell

Re: "My computer is possessed by the Devil"

Smoking a pipe? You sure it wasn't Slackware rather than Red Hat?

Who's using 'password' as a password? TOO MANY OF YOU

Re: Double Fail

Boobs are always a password.