Posts by diodesign

NASA: ALIENS and NEW EARTHS will be ours inside 20 years

Re: Bob

Perl is perfection. No need to improve it.

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Own a Cisco modem or wireless gateway? It might be owned by someone else, too

The HTTP remote management is on by default. And there is no workaround.

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OpenWRT gets native IPv6 slurping in major refresh

Re: Come on!

The key thing is DHCPv6 from what I can tell. I've tweaked the article.

Don't forget to email [e-mail] - your comments won't be seen and articles won't be fixed unless someone drops us a note. And we all want articles accurate, right?

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Re: Daniel Palmer

Yeah it was a typo - should be 3.10. Don't forget to email corrections@theregister next time.

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YES: Scotland declares independence ... from the dot co dot uk empire

Re: Or just plain offensive?

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

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Virty server bones thrown: Gartner mages see Microsoft rising

Re: What A Load Of Shit

I was going to take your comment seriously, then I saw your username.

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Two years in the making: Sneak peek at VMware's future VVOL tech

Re: NetApp is also a preferred design reference partner

Full-disclosure: gps1539 works for NetApp.

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Female! ex-Yahoo! coder! says! female! boss! fired! her! for! refusing! sex!

Re: Digital Sex

"When I saw this story on the Daily Fail"

FWIW on the time delay: we saw this story first emerge on Friday evening (California time), but held off until we were able to obtain the court filing this morning. Just to check, y'know.

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Get ready for LAYOFFS: Nadella's coma-inducing memo, with subtitles

Re: I can't believe

"I wasted a few minutes reading Nadella's memo"

We did warn you!

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Amazon Zocalo rocks Box, socks DropBox, clocks Google Docs

Re: Most obnoxious article title in history

Thanks!

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Too Much Clickbait

Re: Too Much Clickbait

"Please stop being so clickbaity"

Ah, it was a joke; a sendup of stupid headlines that claim you can make $$$s with one weird trick. Can't you tell it was out of style? Every word was capped up, and it's like no other headline on the front page.

"Jokey headlines - great"

This must be what it feels like to tell a joke on stage and be met with silence.

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What's your game, Google? Giant collared by UK civil lib minister on 'right to be forgotten'

Re: Re: right to change history

"this no-body MP"

As a point of order, he's the Minister of State for Justice and Civil Liberties; deputy leader of the Lib Dems; Lib Dem president; and been an MP since 1983.

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Vid shows how to easily hack 'anti-spy' webmail (sorry, ProtonMail)

Re: "Roth had notified them about the hole via Twitter"

Actually, Roth contests what ProtonMail suggested - and said he emailed in the vulns.

https://twitter.com/StackSmashing/status/468221482150404096

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Google de-listing of BBC article 'broke UK and Euro public interest laws' - So WHY do it?

Re: So is Andrew in favour of the law...

Yes - on both counts.

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Re: Radio 4 this morning.

"this article seems to have ignored this event"

If Barron is correct then it's even more crazy - because it's a misunderstanding by Google of the ECJ ruling. Either way, newspaper articles were delisted, not just Peston's blog post, so Andrew's point remains.

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When PR backfires: Google 'forgets' BBC TV man's banker blog post

Re: How is this Google's fault?

"It's bizarre that the author is trying to blame Google for this"

Reread the article - it's about Google's reaction to the ruling.

"You can bet that if Google could get away with waiting for a court order every time, they would"

Absolutely, so why isn't Google doing just that? Is it worried if it bats every request away the Euro authorities will get mad and fine it?

This is multibillion-dollar Google. It's not poor ickle Google in a Stanford garage being picked on by horrible nasty internet people, no matter how many cutesy doodles it comes up with.

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Re: Stupid decision, stupid story, stupid people

"So we get stories like this"

I think you've misread this article and Peston's.

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Use Tor or 'extremist' Tails Linux? Congrats, you're on an NSA list

Re: coming round for a chat

"Is that documented?"

I believe we tweeted about it - but yes, a friendly top-level chap from the DA-Notice committee (part of the MoD) came around for a chat in the wake of Duncan Campbell's GCHQ coverage. It was to share advice, rather than impose rules or guidelines.

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Google policy wonk patronises Brits over EU search biz probe

Re: Re: Over the top?

Daggerchild, the only person here using the words Google and evil is you.

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Re: Over the top?

"Guysm can you please stop with the over the top Google hate?"

No, and it's not hate. It's healthy criticism and scrutiny.

Google is the biggest thing on the web; it has near-unlimited power over the day-to-day internet lives of countless millions. Yes, it does a lot of good, but that doesn't give it a free pass. Gigantic corporations need to be kept in check, and that's why we keep the screws turning.

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Running Cisco's VoIP manager? Four words you don't want to hear: 'Backdoor SSH root key'

Re: Hang on a minute…

As per the Cisco advisory:

"The vulnerability is due to the presence of a default SSH private key, which is stored in an insecure way on the system"

:-(

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Sorry, chaps! We didn't mean to steamroller legit No-IP users – Microsoft

Re: Interesting...

"So, have Microsoft realised they have dropped a big one here and handed the domains back to noip?"

That appears to be the case - we're following this story up.

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Researchers defend Facebook emoto-furtling experiment

Re: Facebook broke the law.

"The author's bias is absurd."

I think Richard is being sarcastic.

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Microsoft's anti-malware crusade knackers '4 MILLION' No-IP users

Re: skelband

"Is there something missing from the story?"

No, but the whole thing is baffling. It's all there and in the linked-to court documents. Microsoft claimed some of the subdomains use MS protected marks, and that No-IP's service was being used to cause:

"the unlawful intrusion into, infection of, and further illegal conduct involving, the personal computers of innocent persons, thereby causing harm to those persons, Microsoft, and the public at large."

So a judge in Las Vegas thought applying the restraining order, and redirecting the nameservers to MS's DNS systems, was just.

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Street View Wi-Fi slurp nightmare: US Supremes snub Google's appeal

Re: Yeah, right..

The wheels later fell off that one rogue engineer claim.

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And now for someone completely brilliant: Stephen Hawking to join Monty Python on stage

Re: PaulyV

You're right - article amended.

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What's it like using the LG G smartwatch and Android Wear? Let us tell YOU

Re: Andrew Jones 2

"Journalists reporting / reviewing the Android Wear watches are doing a terrible job so far"

Iain has used the watch for, literally, a day or two. We normally spend a week or longer when preparing a review. As the article says, it's a first look. A review will follow. I'll take your point about the price though and add it in.

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Supermodel Lily Cole: 'I got a little bit upset by that Register article'

Re: Jim 59

"Articles like this indicate that not all is well at Vulture Central."

In what way?

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YouTube will nuke indie music videos in DAYS, says Google exec

Re: Anti-Google hysteria

"Google are renegotiating contracts for ALL labels."

Yes, but not all labels are treated equally. That's why the indies are upset.

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Slippery Google greases up, aims to squirm out of EU privacy grasp

Re: TopOnePercent

"simply disappearing from this story?"

No comments have been rejected AFAICT ... and we reserve the right to pre-mod comments on certain articles, subjects, authors, etc. Meta-discussion can be safely done in the feedback forums, ta.

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WORLD CUP SHOCK: England declared winner in 2-1 defeat to Italy

Re: Anonymous coward

No pleasing some people.

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Re: More socially needier?

Yeah, all right - should have caught that but it was gone 5pm and my brain was thinking about wine. Don't forget to email corrections@thereg if you spot any errors.

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Re: #thereferee'sawanker

My desire to be grammatically correct overruled hashtag bollocks.

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Ukrainian teen created in lab passes Turing Test – famous nutty prof

Re: Mike

"I wonder if Prof Cyborg will deign to publish his results in a peer-reviewed journal"

I hear the results from Saturday will be put into a paper of some sort. Waiting for the university to get back to me. I gather the uni denied the Telegraph access to the transcripts, so this could turn interesting.

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Re: Transcript

I'm hunting for transcripts. In the meantime, this is the sort of level of conversation you can have with the public online version (DDoSed under popularity)

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Has Google gone too far? Indie labels say it's crunch time for The New Economy

Re: "Indie Labels"

"An independent record label (or indie record label) is a record label operating without the funding of, or outside the organizations of, the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels." [1]

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Revealed: GCHQ's beyond top secret Middle Eastern internet spy base

Re: Re: TRAITORS

"I had a high opinion of The Register's editorial maturity"

Maturity? Christ, I need to try harder with the headline innuendo.

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Re: Oh dear oh dear...

Anonymous router person, email me. [e-mail] - PGP public key.

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Re: Re: Loyal Commenter

"OSA doesn't apply"

I'm advised the OSA applies to all – it's a law not a contract so "individuals are bound by it whether or not they have signed it".

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Re: Bit of explanation please

See above post by Lewis, Reg global editor.

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PCIe hard drives? You read that right, says WD

Re: Stop!

All right, all right - I've fixed the numbers to Gbit/s. We always try to publish as readable copy as possible, but sometimes in the heat of deadlines, things slip through.

If you emailed corrections@thereg this could have been fixed hours ago :-(

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DevOps is actually a thing – and people are willing to pay for it

Re: Really?

"Is it?"

Depends on your definition of "frequently", I guess ;-)

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Samsung in a TIZZY: OH PLEASE make apps for our Tizen Z mobe

Re: App Revenue?

A network operator CEO, speaking at MWC 2014, said he was fed up of Apple and Google getting all the action, suggesting operators want in on the app shop cash. That's our reading of the situation.

Some may say that's a courageous move on the part of the cell networks.

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FORGET OUR PAST, 12,000 Europeans implore Google

Re: Re: Why is Google in charge of the process?

"The '12,000' figure is part of a PR campaign"

Absolutely, IMHO. Google is presumably filing these complaints in /dev/null. Right now, Google wants as much "poor little Google" coverage as it can get – as its brand (in the public's mind) turns from "don't be evil" to "don't unknowingly miss the opportunity to gobble information on everyone".

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TrueCrypt turmoil latest: Bruce Schneier reveals what he'll use instead

Re: Bruce Schneier *doesn't* reveal what he'll use

"An article from years back, Bruce Schneier says what he'll use."

You've misread the article :(

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Microsoft Cortana EULA contains the Greatest Disclaimer of ALL TIME

Re: Re: THANK YOU for the text transcription

> all I see in lieu of the video is the text "YouTube Video"

We do try to put in captions and descriptions for people using terminal browsers and what have you. We'll try harder next time.

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Google TOO WHITE and MALE, says HR boss, looking in mirror

Re: Sensationalist Healine - Whites are actually UNDER-Represented at Google America

Thanks for the feedback.

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100% driverless Wonka-wagon toy cars? Oh Google, you're having a laugh

Re: Some things over-exaggerated.

"I would think that makes claims even easier to resolve"

And who pays if it's the Google car's fault? Google? Or the passenger for not pressing stop?

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TrueCrypt considered HARMFUL – downloads, website meddled to warn: 'It's not secure'

"Significantly, TrueCrypt version 7.2 was certified with the official TrueCrypt private signing key"

It appears the signing key changed for v7.2.

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Re: Re: Oh bugger!

"TrueCrypt 7.1a. Released February 7, 2012."

If you've downloaded 7.1a recently and not checked the code signing, I'd be worried. Not spreading FUD, just ... considering the worst-case scenario. How long has this project been compromised?

We're following the situation.

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