Posts by b166er

ARG! A GHOST SHIP! Pirates sunk by UK cops return from watery grave

MAFIAARR !!!!!!!

Windows XP fixes flaws for free if you turn PCs into CASH REGISTERS

It's not like we weren't warned, multiple times, over many years, that support for XP would end.

Your bleating serves no purpose other than to make me suspect you're trolling.

Help. Mailing blacklists...

Re: Happens to us as well.

You could insist they use a tunnel

Assign a different IP address to each domain hosted on your email server.

Use SSL/TLS for SMTP and block port 25.

But seriously, use the free Outlook.com or Google Apps for Business/Office 365 and save yourself the hassle. Running and maintaining an email server, unless it's purely for your own accounts or you're a masochist, is a waste of resources unless you're doing it on a very large scale.

Tech that we want (but they never seem to give us)

All IVR systems tell you what position you are in the queue.

Stronger banking regulations. Proof of WMD (or an apology and honesty).

A cure for cancer

Hello Moto... It's the Nokia Lumia 630

Re: how does this compare to phones from a few years ago?

I reckon we'd be pleasantly surprised with either the Moto or Nokia budget phones, but I have 2 SGS2s with extended batteries and I'm inheriting another soon hopefully.

Should last me 6 years with any luck, before the buttons all wear out on them.

China to become world's No 1 economy. And we still can't see why

It would seem the majority of Chinese save 50% of their income (IMF 2010).

I don't see that in the West.

To save money is a foreign concept to the majority of people around me.

JJ Abrams and Star Wars: I've got a bad feeling about this

Re: Star Wars generated plenty of imitators at the time, but few - if any - are remembered.

I'm surrounded by assholes!

iPhone-stroker-turned-fandroid sues Apple over iMessage text-slurpery

Re: @b166er - you misunderstand

From TFA:

'Since iOS 5, Apple has been using the iMessage service to deliver ordinary texts from people if those folks also have Apple devices and use the iMessage service. This is in addition to the free messages people can send from Apple-to-Apple over Wi-Fi or using mobile data.'

It's not the same as WhatsApp etc at all...

Re: I really don't see...

Sorry jai, but that doesn't work.

Until I read this story, I thought the receiving of SMS messages was irrevocably tied to the subscriber number and was unaware that an intermediary could intervene and prevent delivery.

I don't feel a third party should be able to decide whether or not I receive an SMS (or telephone calls for that matter). I have a contract with a cellular network to supply me with telephony, SMS and data services. My tariff clearly states how many phone calls, how many texts and how much data I can use. The SMS service is quite clearly provided by that contract.

Perhaps in the small print for iMessage, it says that henceforth Apple will be responsible for SMS delivery, but I think that's wrong and that most users wouldn't have understood the consequences. SMS messaging has been a function of cellular network providers since its inception.

Apple need to fix this one.

BT fibre 'availability checker' looks into FAR-OFF FUTURE. Again

Re: Same here

"Meanwhile, the average income in Romania is around £320/month. So in relation, their internet access is much more expensive"

Meanwhile, the fact STILL remains that broadband at that speed CAN be provisioned in Romania for much cheaper than Britain, in spite of the difference in GDP!

Why are you seemingly making excuses for the poor broadband provisioning in the UK?

Windows XP market share GROWS AGAIN, outstrips Win 8.1 surge

Growth being XP Mode on new Windows 7 roll-outs?

Get Quake III running on Raspberry Pi using Broadcom's open-source GPU drivers, earn $10K

20 fps? bit of a pwnfest then:)

Zuckerberg tops the list of most generous Americans with billion-dollar gift

Applause

Gameover ZeuS adds nasty trick

Just need to spot the UPATRE downloader then?

How's this helping them?

IT executive at JP Morgan dies in fall from bank's London HQ

On both sides of the fence.

Re: Hmm...

Unless you're an American in certain states where sending people to their death via electrocution or injection of lethal chemicals is not at all considered barbaric and uncivilised.

It's at this point that I might quote Voltaire.

Candy Crush King went 'too far' when it candy crushed my app – dev

Re: They have damaged their own brand

Exactly, I just uninstalled Candy Crush

Ofcom says yes to sat broadband on PLANES (and trains and ships)

If it's so good at tracking, can't they create a mesh network between planes and have the ones at in proximity to airports, hoover up bandwidth from cell towers to share with other aircraft?

That would sort out the latency problem, no? And do away with the need to bounce it all off satellites.

UK IT supplier placed on ASA naughty step over 'misleading' HDD ad

I find myself agreeing with the boss of Aria, UNLESS the claims are true (and if true, the guy needs to apologise profusely as his response is bordering on arrogant).

Either way, one should always know better than to buy a refurnished or 'clean pull' hard drive.

Best not to scrimp on these things.

Vultures circle to feast on carcass of free remote desktop service LogMeIn

Quite like Chrome Remote Desktop myself

VPN + RDP is also good, although IPSEC VPN cross-platform is a bit of a PITA

Good news: 'password' is no longer the #1 sesame opener, now it's '123456'

Re: Obligatory XKCD link

But surely two-factor authentication?

If not, why are you still with that bank???

Looking at the ophcrack rainbow tables, you now need 13 characters (from all of the 4 groups) to be secure from any Tom, Dick and Harry :(

Presumably various intelligence agencies have larger still rainbow tables, so passwords are probably a waste of time unless you can remember passwords comprised of all 4 character groups and at least 15 characters in length.

Can anyone confirm whether pass phrases (ie concatenations of dictionary words) are harder to crack?

Such as: XKCD

EDIT: I looked up ^ and saw this has been discussed.

There needs to be a better way.

I'm in: Peter 'Dragons' Den' Jones launches bid to buy out Expansys

I just bought an HTC 8X from Expansys purely because it was the only well-known retailer selling one.

It arrived 4 days later. Anyone know if you can change the back cover? (it's yellow)

Time-rich hacking crew scrawls web graffiti all over poor old .ME

You mean hopefully the registrar for me.uk doesn't exhibit the same weakness.

Fine! We'll keep updating WinXP's malware sniffer after April, says Microsoft

Maybe the Reg should have a FinXP countdown timer in the masthead :)

Intel shutters BRAND NEW chip factory as PC market storm rages

Re: Its a mess on Intel "et al's" own making...

I daresay a computer from 2003 (advent of SATA interface), coupled to a nice new SSD, would be powerful enough for most people.

The HDD bottleneck has finally gone, which to my mind, was the one remaining piece of the puzzle.

BT 118 phone number fee howler lands telco giant with £225k fine

Re: Ofcom , 118 , 192 ... I can handle all that crap. Just ban NON geographic numbers. PLEASE.

I'm sure Neelis Kroes et al are working on those NGNs for you.

Most GOV departments have implemented 03 numbers, which are included.

If you own an 0845 number, you can claim the equivalent 0345 number for free IIRC

Haswell micro: Intel’s Next Unit of Computing desktop PC

Just need to wait for Zotac to put Haswell in their Zbox. Much better value.

<edit> They already have. ID91, ID92, IQ01 (Plus models come with memory and storage)

Coca Cola slurps millions of MAC addresses

Erm, I think the obesity problem is less to do with what we eat and more to to with the fact that we don't get anywhere near the amount of exercise that we need. This of course also contributes to many other health problems on top of obesity.

Drobo tarts up storage boxen: Now they're APP SERVER platforms

No iSCSI, which is available on competing products.

Still ReadyNAS for me ATM

Bank of America: Bitcoin could become THE currency of e-commerce

So just HOW many Bitcoins have BoA mined? (and how much are they now worth?)

Revealed: How Microsoft DNS went titsup globally on Xbox One launch day

Re: They release alpha software and charge a fortune for the privilege of you testing it.

Google it

NSA-busting secure, open, router seeks cash and code from crowd

If it was also wireless, couldn't it be auto-meshing with its neighbours?

I think it would be missing a trick without that. A true auto-meshing darknet that was incapable of being turned off would surely be the biggest guarantee of privacy?

Migrating from Windows XP – Time to move on...

Re: End of XP

You could always give pokki a look too

Re: Finally

Don't get me wrong, this isn't a platform jibe, but try running a linux program from 1999 on a modern linux.

Windows has long tried to maintain backwards compatibility and that's testament to how accessible a system it is, however, that needed to change because a new security model was desperately needed.

I glad Microsoft are canning XP and I'm pissed at Google for saying they'll continue to support it via Chrome after April 2014. Everyone in the industry should take the opportunity to slam the door on the insecurities of that platform.

However, just because Windows had to change and therefore backwards compatibility isn't as viable an option as it once was, doesn't mean Windows 7/8 is a bad idea.

Oracle pens recipe for tweeting turkey in Raspberry Pi sauce

Not the first time some poor turkey has been probed by a hole in Java

Nooo, anything but BT! Cisco gives 'stay of execution' to Phoenix IT

'Nooo, ANYTHING but BT!'

That's a phrase I'm far too familiar with. It's almost a daily utterance, usually followed by some extreme expletives.

BT Openreach boss QUITS to quench ambitious thirst

Let's hope she's better at distributing water, or some parts of the UK will see a drought for the next decade.

Late with your ransom payment? Never mind, CryptoLocker crooks will, er, give you a break

For anyone that hasn't, I recommend CryptoPrevent on all your relatives PC's

Free Cocaine giveaway from Russian search engine Yandex

Is Cocaine available on a mirrored blade?

D-Link: Oops! We'll slam shut that router backdoor by end of month

Better be quick before d-germans get here

German researchers claim 100 Gbps wireless transmission record

What about laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat'ncy?

Microsoft mocks Apple and new iPhones in vids it quickly pulls

Re: purile

Erm, have you ever seen the House of 'Commons' in session? Microsoft may run a private enterprise, the House of 'Commons' (allegedly) runs a country and they behave exactly as you describe.

Dyson takes Samsung to court in UK over vacuum cleaner

May I be the first to say I hope he takes them to the cleaners

German guardsmen growing mono-boobs from drilling with Nazi-era rifles

So, growing a top bollock to compensate for the former leader's missing item?

Robot cop called in after MAD BONGER blown up in LIQUID MARIJUANA EXPLOSION

Re: Very unfortunate...

Particularly considering recreational usage of cannabis is currently legal in Colorado!

(stealing and carrying dangerous weapons may be another matter)

Sammy had Sweet Fanny Adams to do with Swiss Fanny madam's blast

How fortunate for you that you have one of the few Apple products that you can change the battery in.

Boffins want toilets to become POWER PLANTS

How about turbines in rainwater downpipes?

Sony coughs up £250K ICO fine after security fears

Basically they're paying up so they're not forced to reveal how shockingly bad their system was during this time.

I suspect it was all down to a schoolboy error, which if revealed through a legal process would be far too damaging to Sony, so they'd rather cough up than face the consequences.

£250,000 is probably a right bargain to keep the details under wraps.