* Posts by diodesign

3495 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Sep 2011

HP busts out new ProLiant rack mount based on Intel's new top o' line server chippery

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Re: Obviously not

Arghghg - that was my fault :-( Slip of the keys. It's been fixed. Please - next time, email corrections@thereg so these can be fixed asap.

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Comments Locked on El Reg - Why?

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Re: Comments Locked on El Reg - Why?

Accidents happen :-(

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"This topic is closed to new comments"

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Re: "This topic is closed for new posts"

I'll put my hand up - that was my fault. I accidentally hit the wrong button. I'm sorry about that.

Normally I can hit another switch to turn the comments back on, but this happened right in the middle of the rollout of some internal changes to our system, which delayed the regeneration of the forum for the article.

The comments are open again.

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Fiendish Internet Explorer 10 zero-day targets US soldiers

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Re: Charles 9

It's quite clever and naughty. It works kinda like this. You use a use-after-free() bug to perform an arbitrary write to fiddle with values in allocated structures - such as deleting a terminating byte or increasing the length of the object. This allows you to access memory you shouldn't. Eventually you'll be able to calculate where the OS has placed libraries and such things in memory using ASLR.

Now you know where things are, you can link together short sequences of machine code in the known objects to build up your attack code and execute it. This gets you around DEP; it's called Return Orientated Programming (ROP). Google it and spend a weekend having fun with it :-)

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NSA, GCHQ, accused of hacking Belgian smartcard crypto guru

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Re: Is it the position of the Reg is that German PM Angela Merkel was up to something nefarious?

"Is it the position of the Reg is that German PM Angela Merkel was up to something nefarious?"

No.

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Facebook's dying? HA! Get ready for another DECADE of us – Zuck

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Re: Get ready for another DECADE of us – Zuck

Mission accomplished.

;-)

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Google helps out utterly underexposed Lego brand with Chrome toy

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Re: Obscure and underexposed....

"hardly obscure"

That's the joke.

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The other end of the telescope: Intel’s Galileo developer board

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Re: 400 Mhz?

*microcontroller*

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WORLDWIDE SELFIE: Cosmonauts finally get ISS cameras working

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Don't spoil the fun.

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Vice squad cuffs vice chairman of Bitcoin Foundation in $1m money-laundering probe

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Re: Is this an error or what?

"So if the exchange was shut down in August, how the hell did they get charged with transactions taking place after that?"

Silk Road remained open until October 2013.

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A BBC-by-subscription 'would be richer', MPs told

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Re: Cageordie

"US TV is drivel."

Judging by my Xfinity cable package, I'm minded to agree. There's fun stuff on the Food Network, because I like cooking, and there's comedy like Community scattered all over the schedules, but in general – and with adverts every 10mins it seems – it's best to turn off, tune out and drop everything to go outside.

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Re: SVV

"Please tell me Murdoch hasn't bought El Reg"

Not sure if rhetorical or not. But anyway, answer is: no.

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Anonymous: Sign this petition or we'll … get mad about the media?

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Re: Re: Anonymous Core Issues - Fight for the Innocent until justice is served.

"Unfortunately we are not allowed to post links here"

Eh? You are, provided it's not Spammy Spam McSpam.

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Cryptocurrencies now being pooped out by cartoon cat

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Re: Crazy frog

Got drunk. Woke up with Crazy Frog track purchase from iTunes, sync'd to my iPod, back in the day. True story :(

NyanCat > Crazy Frog.

Back on topic: why hasn't anyone made a Sili-coin Valley cryptocurrency yet? Or a Sili-coin Roundabout.

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Windows 8.1 update 'screenshots' leak: Metro apps popped into classic desktop taskbar

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Re: Reverse

"Or am I being victimised?"

Yes, you're in the 10% of readers that's seeing the sliding 'more from the register' design in an A-B test (see the forums). Drew says it's the least popular so far.

I'm not seeing it, for instance.

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IBM plays with its Lego, hits upon System X server redesign brainwave

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Re: Power not Lego

Lego is more fun.

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Almost everyone read the Verizon v FCC net neutrality verdict WRONG

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Re: You have no idea what you're takling about

As someone stuck with Comcast, I know your pain. We know that the choice of ISP in the US is shocking :( You appear to be in a particularly tight spot.

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Re: Careful with axe of myths, Eugene!

That's nice, but I don't believe our summary is inaccurate.

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Re: Tl;dr

FWIW 48% of Register readers were in the US (according to our latest readership audit, in November 2013).

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Pay-as-you-GONE: Help! T Mobile's swiped my phone credit – customers

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Re: Re: Pre-pay: lowest of the low @ Kay_terra

"my impression is women use the phone differently. Calls are conversational, often a form of social stroking. Men use phones like a walkie talkie"

If I was watching a 1980s sitcom, perhaps ;-) Let's not go back there.

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Google grabs slice of interwebs for EVERYONE (who speaks Japanese)

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Re: anonymous

"Chocolate factory has applied for over 100 domains"

You've misunderstood the article. We're talking about *top* level domains, gTLDs like .com and .org. You need to pay ICANN $185,000 a pop to apply for one. So 100 gTLDs is about 20 million bucks.

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We're not talking, so PAH: Violin Memory's big dogs blank sacked CEO

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Re: Re: Something's fishy here

"How come your name no longer has the Reg Hack icon against it?"

If I post a comment from the front-end of the website (like every normal reader) I don't get the Reg logo. If I post a comment from our comment moderation system (available to staff) then my posts get a Reg logo. Simples.

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Re: Something's fishy here

"an article per week"

Taking last Friday as a random sample, we published 30 stories. Over the course of a week, that's about 150. During busy months, such as last November, we were doing 40-50 a day, or 200-250 a week. So, that's a small percentage a week about a storage company that talked big, IPO'd at the wrong moment, saw its stock plummet and it fired its CEO.

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Yahoo! chief operating officer de Castro exits web biz after just one year

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Re: Sub! Editing! Failure!

The! Yahoo! headlines! have been discontinued. We're taking a leaf out of Google's book (Wave, Reader) and Yahoo!'s (Geocities).

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El Reg vs BBC

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Re: El Reg vs BBC

At a quick glance, it appears you're comparing two different papers on two different studies by two different sets of scientists. BTW, no need to link to the BBC, we covered the Nature Climate Change research here: http://reg.cx/29kE

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Gone

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Re: Re: Well,

"when google has an outage there's barely a ripple in el reg"

Ahem. We do write about Google outages. This was one of our most read stories last year.

As for Linux vendors wanting to run promotions, I'm sure our ad sales and ops teams will be delighted to hear from them.

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Anatomy of a 22-year-old X Window bug: Get root with newly uncovered flaw

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Re: No big deal

Or.

They could have boundary checked the font file parsing.

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Citrix counters Amazon's ambush of virtual desks with Framehawk gobble

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Re: Is this really new?

I thought that too. But at a guess, software containerization. Besides, not every thing has to be new. Just profitable.

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T-Mobile US: AT&T's mobe buyout deal is so 'desperate', we'll do it too

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Re: villandra

"are either of these two companies located in the United Kingdom? If so, is that where all of this action is taking place?"

I kinda hoped that this being specifically about T-Mobile US and AT&T would give away the fact that this is all happening in America. AT&T doesn't operate in the UK. I've made everything super clear now, though.

"wondering at why a British paper is interested"

We have millions of readers in the States (I gather you're one of them, hi!) so we're writing for you, too. We have an office in San Francisco and the article was published at 3.30am UK time - when Brits are (mostly) asleep and Americans are winding up the working day. I kinda hoped that would make it all nicely US focused :-)

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Low power WON'T bag ARM the server crown. So here's how to upset Intel

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Re: Wrong thread???

"Moderators, is there something wrong with these forums?"

No. In the words of Charles Babbage, I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

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Ex-Sun mafioso sleeps with the VCs: Netflix guru quits to help fund startups

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Re: Written in Sun headlines ..

You say that like it's a bad thing.

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British Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing receives Royal pardon

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Re: Re: What A Crock of SHIT

"making a mockery of marriages"

More than the straight people repeatedly marrying and divorcing in their droves? Check the divorce rates. I know friends who have divorced and remarried for good reasons, and they're happy. And I'm pleased for them. But in the wider sense, what's "making a mockery of marriage" more - people recklessly exchanging vows or gay people?

Just my personal opinion.

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Snowden to warn Brits on Xmas telly: Your children will NEVER have privacy

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Re: Channel 4 is quite intrusive

I lied to the site to watch it in the US. Sue me, Abraham.

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Ubuntu unleashes dual boot tool for Android mobes'n'slabs

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Re: xmas in US

"the measly 10 days' paid holiday a year, only getting Christmas Day off, and the awful plastic cheese!"

Yeah, I was a bit surprised to find Americans don't get Dec 26 off work. Working for a UK publisher at least means Reg staff worldwide get UK-grade time off.

As for the cheese, well, I tried it on a 7-11 hotdog once. Once.

Merry Christmas from balmy northern California,

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RSA comes out swinging at claims it took NSA's $10m to backdoor crypto

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Re: Follow the money?

Sure - we've already shown that $10m would have been 30% of Bsafe's annual revenue at the time (Register passim), so we're on it.

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How Britain could have invented the iPhone: And how the Quangocracy cocked it up

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Re: Re: "the I-phone was invented"?

"how about giving coverage to ARM"

We've written thousands of articles about ARM.

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Re: Who really wrote this story ??

Ours was published first. Welcome to Fleet Street.

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Re: Acorn had this tech in 1994

True - but touch has been around for yonks. This is article is about multitouch and the user interface stuff connected to that.

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He doesn't. Welcome to Fleet Street.

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That Google ARM love-in: They want it for their own s*** and they don't want Bing having it

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"gives them a great flexibility to create customs parts that work well for processing a particular type of data"

I absolutely agree - I've made that clearer in the article.

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Smarty Ring promises technology at your fingertips

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Re: ????????

I like the look of it..

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Microsoft's licence riddles give Linux and pals a free ride to virtual domination

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Re: Virtualisation invented by IBM?

Citation needed.

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Apple iWatch due in October 2014, to wirelessly charge from one metre away – report

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Re: Battery data meaningless

Oops. The h was missing. Should be mAh.

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BlackBerry BES: Hey, biz bod, fancy an upgrade on that RIM job... for FREE?

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Re: Fancy an upgrade on that RIM Job..

Perhaps these will tickle your fancy, too.

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Amazon won't break into sweat about Google's cloud. Yet

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Re: Uh - what?

"The S3 storage service component of EC2"

I've tweaked the article. Don't forget to email corrections@theregister dot co dot uk next time you spot an error! We see those emails immediately.

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NASA Mars tank Curiosity rolls on old WET PATCH, sighs, sniffs for life signs

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Re: Re: sounding stupid

"in 2013 the term is outdated, and somewhat negative"

Yeah, well...

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BadBIOS followup story

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Re: BadBIOS followup story

Ruiu is still working away at his mystery malware; look him up on Twitter. I (for one) haven't taken my eye off the story. No doubt it'll be revisited when there's some more stuff.

The lack of patches is frustrating, sure. Oddly, the whole thing has sparked debate about spreading information over ultrasonic comms between machines (and example code), which is (IMHO) the most wild part about BadBIOS.

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REVEALED: How YOU PAY extra for iPHONES - even if you DON'T HAVE ONE

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Re: "tax"

"I wish people would stop calling things a tax"

My reaction. Tax is a fun word.

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'This BLACK HOLE just isn't BLACK AT ALL' snarl boffins

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Oops. We try not to go overboard :-)

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WATCH LIVE: Comet ISON DESTROYED by Sun, NASA brains fear

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Re: The maximum number of users has been reached for this stream

I've changed the video stream - it's now on YouTube live.

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