* Posts by diodesign

3493 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Sep 2011

Parliament: Snoop Charter plan 'too sweeping', 'misleading', 'suspicious'

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Re: HTTPS and web accounts

It's confusing because... it is. If you see our earlier coverage, it's not clear exactly how encrypted HTTPS traffic can be intercepted without some major shenanigans going on.

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LOL: Twitter faces fines for late UK financial filings

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Re: £30 to file paperwork?

"It doesn't cost anything to file the accounts with Companies House."

Yes, apologies. I got my wires mixed in a too hasty edit and I hate it when that happens. It's been fixed.

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Behold ATLAS, the fastest computer of 50 years ago

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Re: Re: Compute time was billed at around £750-800 per hour

"I'm finding it difficult to comprehend how the author can have got something so obvious so horribly wrong."

Don't worry, the beatings will continue until morale improves.

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RIP heroic SPB playmonaut

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RIP heroic SPB playmonaut

We're obliged to all those readers who've offered condolences at the loss of our heroic playmonaut, who disappeared in the English Channel last week during a Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) mission.

Feel free to share your thoughts here.

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Windows Phone 8 must be Microsoft's priority one, two AND three

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Re: Promises?

Microsoft has been going on about it since 2011, but over time it's become clear the development platform is not that simple.

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UK climate expert warns of 3-5 degree warmer world by 2100

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Re: Re: fortwivce ?

It's Christmas party-time. These things happen. Hit the corrections button, please, if you spot any more.

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Mighty 4 Terabyte whopper crashes down on the desktop

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Re: NOT 3 platters...

Sometimes, regrettably, cock ups do happen. The article has been amended. Thanks for the feedback.

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Schmidt: Microsoft will never be as cool as the Gang of Four

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Re: Grammar

Technically, yes. You're right - I double-checked the spelling and for some reason used the plural. It's been fixed.

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Copying Wikipedia's lies is not just for hacks, right Lord Leveson?

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Re: Re: Basic Facts

Search for Straub [PDF]

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Re: Ronnie Hazlehurst

You're both right! If you click on the link in Andrew's story, Ronnie was incorrectly credited with writing the hit for S Club 7.

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Global warming still stalled since 1998, WMO Doha figures show

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Re: 1998 was exceptionally warm - the warming trend is very real

1. Is 50 years really that big a dataset? Is it so wrong to question this? 2. Of course, he is the editor.

Or am I being trolled?

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Quantum axes one in ten workers, insists it was not investor's idea

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Re: Re: Missed opportunity

Quantum of Solace had crossed my mind, but recently we've tended to stick to straight headlines about people losing their jobs en mass.

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Re: Re: Missed opportunity

Trust me, I will not make the same mistake again. I will be keenly looking out for an opportunity to use decimate in the near future.

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Re: Missed opportunity

That word is so incorrectly used, it's immediately on my 'kill, kill, kill' list.

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Facebook invites users to vote away voting rights, some privacy

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Sometimes this simple things slip through the net. I've added the link - ta.

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Oracle suffers premature remuneration: Spaffs $900m on shareholders

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Tax levies

Very good point - I've clarified that paragraph again.

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IETF bakes Google's SPDY protocol into HTTP 2.0

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Re: Yep

All right, all right. Relax guys. It's in the story.

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Help-desk hell

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Help-desk hell

Help-desk hell: Can you beat this iPad-winning story of woe?

Post away with your top tales.

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Scoop! The inside story of the news website that saved the BBC

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Re: Re: BBC on the net before 1996

Insightful comment!

Ran Mokady - wow, there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. He was listed in Acorn's RISC OS 3 easter egg of programmers who contributed to the OS, IIRC.

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Re: BBC on the net before 1996

Thanks for the comment. I've consulted with Andrew. The assertion that BBCNC was built by Brandon has been removed.

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YouView: 'Public service catch-up telly should belong to us alone'

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Re: Update?

We trust Andrew's sources are accurate, but we're always happy to give both sides of a story a fair airing.

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What killed Motorola? Not Google! It was Moto's dire software

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Re: UIQ, Warrington based?!

Some sort of misunderstanding has happened here. I've tweaked the article. Thanks.

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Power station, airport SCADA defences 'dead as a dodo'

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Re: I would have expected...

I clearly haven't read enough Philip Roth.

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Kim Dotcom claims entrapment by US authorities

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Re: Welcome to two weeks ago.

Funny, you say two weeks ago when the linked-to Twitter posts date from 22 Nov. Riddle me that.

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Google, Apple, eBay shouldn't pay taxes - people should pay taxes

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Re: Naughty subs.....

Gah, apologies, Tim. I'm not sure what went wrong there. I probably made a note to include a link during the proofread stage, but forgot to sort it out by the time I got to the end - so engrossed was I in the material.

The link is in there now.

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BlackBerry 10: AWESOME. If the hardware matches it, RIM jobs are safe

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Re: Split screen

He didn't say all mobile OSes.

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Glorious silicon globes could hold key to elusive PERFECT kilogram

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Re: Units of Planck's constant

"Joules multiplied by seconds, not Joules per second"

Yes, I am kicking myself hard in the arse right now for not spotting that. I cannot express my rage at this moment :-(

The article's been fixed.

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Evildoers can now turn all sites on a Linux server into silent hell-pits

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Re: niginx is not that "popular"

Actually, the malware will inject iframe packets into any HTTP web server listening on port 80 - so it's not nginx specific :(

I'ver amended the article.

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Cashless Comet to close 41 stores, axe 500 jobs

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Re: Maplins

"a wedding reception disco DJ stockist"

Nailed it!

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Ten four-bay NAS boxes

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Re: useless

"these should all be rack mount servers"

The Reg caters for a big range of hardware - from serious consumer to IT pro. If you want rack-mounted enterprise-grade kit, take a look in the servers and storage sections:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/data_centre/

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Another Microsoft Trojan? Sinofsky might just want a RIM job

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Re: Seriously?

Oh my! How ever did that happen!

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GoDaddy puts gratuitous sexy pics on IT content

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Re: What...

We'll leave that to Lester.

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World's LEGGIEST BLONDE is super-rare millipede living in SF

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Re: Not SF

Close enough.

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Lawyer sues Microsoft rather than slot an SD card into his Surface

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Re: Re: SD Card Not Same As Internal Storage

So by Bright's reckoning, what can be stored on the card? Sounds like nothing at all which seems wrong. We'll have to grab a Surface and test it.

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Re: Re: SD Card Not Same As Internal Storage

Got a source? This sounds ridiculous. Either it works or it doesn't :-(

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Re: SD Card Not Same As Internal Storage

Microsoft you can use the SD port to add up to 64GB more storage.

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Google stealthily coalesces UK music cloud into being

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Re: Re: Opposing views

"This should have been a glowing review of an outstanding and cost effective/free service, yet it was given to an iTard to review, and they clearly engineered the outcome to suit."

All I can hear is "you disagreed with my opinion! I hate you!"

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Re: Opposing views

"why this article is so down on it"

To be fair, we're down on quite a few things. When someone's actually positive about something, we're accused of taking bribes. When we point out flaws in things, we're accused of outrageous bias.

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Re: Re: User error?

Spotify is free if you put up with ads. "So fail....."

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Re: User error?

"game changer"

...that Spotify has had for ages :-)

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Meet the all-girl HPC cluster boffins of 'Team Venus' - on Video

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Re: Its....

Also, the writer is American, hence the Americanisation. The Register is a globe-spanning news organisation, and copy filed from outside the UK will often feature such things. I, for one, will be in the pub by the time the San Francisco office starts work, for instance.

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China strikes blow for property rights, British move to collectivism

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Re: Orlowski's Bluster over Content

"The Register should do better"

By publishing opinion/comment you only agree with? :-(

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Post-defenestration Microsoft: It's the APIs, stupid. And Metro

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Re: Re: WP8

"no small achievement"

Right, so we're all agreed on one thing, then :-)

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Re: Re: Interesting.

Are you sure you've understood the article?

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Re: WP8

"when the NT kernel was originally written processor agnostic"

I take your point, but the kernel today is a different beast to the system put together by Cutler et al back in the 90s, right? Plus support for MIPS, Alpha, and PowerPC was dropped after NT 4.0, and the microkernel design is compromised by the placement of drivers - always has been. Prof Tanenbaum would have a fit.

The achievement is porting the core of a modern-day Windows OS to ARM. You may think that's small potatoes in the same way a brain surgeon considers the simplicity of routine operations; if so, I tip my hat to you.

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Windows 8 security is like a swiss cheese flak jacket - sez AV firm

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Re: I always wonder...

All very good points. However, what happens when you encounter code that is able to elevate its privileges and/or bypass the UAC? I saw some good example code within the past fortnight that demonstrates this. Once the code is running on your machine, half the battle is lost. I'll try to dig up some examples.

Also, consider your friend: the kind of person who installs everything, clicks through UAC, gets thoroughly pwned. That's the sort of user Bitdefender is attempting to simulate, not a pro user able to lock down the machine.

All IMHO.

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Virgin Media vid misery blamed on unnamed peering network

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Re: Why is this news?

We've written about BT downtime many times in the past; just drop an email Kelly (click on her name in the story) or to news@theregister.co.uk with some info, and if the problem looks widespread then we'll follow it up.

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EU approves push to get the unknown security in ARM chips into use

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Re: 100% minus 49% is not 60% .. it is 51% !!!

It's been fixed.

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Did hackers uncover Petraeus' saucy affair webmails before FBI?

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"The entire article rests heavily on whether Broadwell used the same password for Stratfor and her Yahoo account"

At least we're honest about it: it's an interesting IT angle to a rather interesting CIA case. What you see is what you get.

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Take action on climate change or the panda gets it

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There are a shedload (not an invisible one) of other stories on the front-page..

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