Posts by Crisp

Richard Branson gets nod to strap rocket on SpaceShipTwo

Not quite SpaceX is it?

I'm surprised Mr Branson didn't just buy SpaceX and slap a Virgin Galactic sticker on it.

What? It's what Virgin Media did with Telewest, NTL, etc.

Online bookie can't scoop £50k losses made by 5-year-old

Re: Contracts

I'm not telling everyone what I think the law is. I'm asking what the law is.

Is ticking a box and clicking a button signing a contract?

Contracts

Checking a box and saying I agree to the terms of use of your website is not a contract is it? After all, nothing has been signed. You could even argue that for most people, checking the box and clicking the button is just a hurdle to jump over to do the thing that you actually wanted to do with the site.

Same goes for EULAs.

Re: Win-win

That's all very well ukgnome. But do they know how to program my TiVo?

Trojan poses as privacy tool, spies on Iranian surfers

I'm not scoffing.

At least, not over an unencrypted traceable internet connection anyway.

Olympic Wenlock plod cops condemnation from Amazon wags

Re: Is it just me....

Funny, I was just thinking the same about the members of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games...

BBC uses lifted Iraq war photo to depict Syrian slaughter

There are tools for this sort of thing.

Has no one at the BBC ever heard of Tineye?

Dot-word bidders in last-minute dash after ICANN reveals timetable

Has anyone applied for

.gullible yet?

Cisco predicts 1.3 zettabytes of annual data movements

1.8 Zettabytes

Great Scott!

Virgin Media flushes pipes clogged by piles of Spotify fans

Virgin Pipes Clogged

Is that why my Pirate Bay torrents have been running so slow lately?

Researchers find backdoor in milspec silicon

I don't think that this is a world first.

There have been plenty of chips made before that have undocumented "features".

Google now gets 250k copyright takedown requests EACH WEEK

Re: From the other point of view.

It's easier to go after Google than the actual infringer. After all, if Google doesn't index it, it doesn't exist right?

Of course, it's harder to go after every search engine. But after a listing has been taken off Google, it magically makes it disappear from Altavista, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Yahoo, Excite, and the rest..

Sheer weight of Brits' interest knackers new tax tool

Hundreds of thousands of Brits

Arrested in co-ordinated DDOS attack on HM Government website.

Chinese rocket parts land on village

One local apparently suffered a shock when they touched the wreckage.

What on Earth possessed them to touch it?

UK High Court split over Twitter airport bomb joke

If you can be jailed for joking

Then the terrorists have already won.

'Biocoal' fuels steam train comeback

Important Information Missing in Article

What will the train whistle sound like?

Deforestation

Have you seen a Leyland Cypress grow? Those buggers grow like weeds!

UK cookie law compliance takes effect today

Cookie What Now?

Didn't we go through all this cookie paranoia nonsense in the 90's? And in the 00's?

There's a bloody setting in virtually every browser to stop the menace of cookies. I don't expect people to know the ins and outs of exactly how their browser works, but I do expect them to read the fucking manual.

Reading the manual solves an awful lot of problems. Such as cookies (which seem to be a problem for some people).

Steve Jobs' death clears way for vibrating Apple tool

Re: Google "Tablet Pen"

I'm sure the Apple pen will have rounded corners.

SpaceX joy as Space Station robo-arm grabs Dragon's tail

Sweet!

That's totally awesome SpaceX.

Now do a barrel roll.

TalkTalk subsidiary's customer data placed on the web in IIS whoopsie

Re: IIS

+1 for the Stu Francis and Crackerjack reference.

Big Blue supers crunch kaon decay

Quantifying how the kaon decay departs from Standard Model.

This “unknown quantity” will then be hunted in calculations in the next generation of IBM supercomputers, and then publicly executed as an example to the others.

New Brit nano-satellite to use Xbox Kinect for docking in space

What's that overhead?

Is it a Dyson swarm?

Crazy Texans dunk servers in DEEP FRYERS

How do you put the dvd in the drive?

Do dvd drives even work under all that oil?

Deep Fried Chips

I'm sure the Scottish thought of it first.

Vatican in pact with Microsoft to initiate world's youths into Office

Re: Oh good

The Catholic Church is always thinking of the children!

'We're public now, so could you please click on an ad or two'

"could you please click on an ad or two'"

I would click on an ad, if they were advertising anything to me that I was interested in,

But they don't show me ads for products I'd consider buying.

So I don't click on them.

Re: I'd rather have an UI that was very much en usability.

Oh a thousand times this!

A good user interface that is easy to use trumps some graphic designers "vision" every time.

Top Facebook exec begs students: 'Click on an ad or two'

Please "Click on an add"

ROFLMAO!

No.

Oh wait, you're serious? Let me laugh harder! :D

Mars rover Opportunity spots WALL-E in crater ramble

Blue skies on Mars?

That's a new one.

SpaceX does what it HASN'T done before: Dragon in close ISS flyby

Space Elevators

They are quite hard to build from what I hear.

Re: Great but oversold?

"The biggest achievement of SpaceX is in doing what they've done at a low cost."

Wait until they get their spaceships into mass production.

Re: Go SpaceX

I thought exactly the same thing.

It's not quite the moon landings. But you've got to admit, it's pretty damn awesome.

Met cops get new pocket-sized fingerprint scanners

Suspects Fingerprints.

If the police suspect someone of a crime, then they can already arrest them on that suspicion and take their fingerprints.

While the original intent may have been to quickly ID suspects, it is quite conceivable that this device will find more use as a police fishing tool. Or as a means to provide an excuse to arrest someone.

Insect vision a template for computer ‘sight’

The most complex part of this problem

will be teaching the computers to like honey.

Minority Report-style swishery demoed with cheap webcam

Is Swishery the new Fondle?

Yet another input type to code for.

Dole Office staff snooped into private data 992 times in 10 months

Disciplined

I hope that means fired.

Fake Facebook pull-down tricks social climbers into swallowing vile load

Vile Load

Isn't the real Facebook a vile load too?

Paris. She knows how to swallow a vile load.

Vodafone's cash mountain rocked by eurozone emergency

"Vodafone is rolling in cash thanks to a massive tax dodge"

I'd be rolling in cash if I didn't pay my taxes either.

Chrome spends a week at the top of the browser charts

Article layout looks mangled in chrome.

Anyone else see that?

Chinese social network to recruit in-house censor

Governments really don't like their people talking to each other do they?

Once something has been posted and read, you can't force people to unread it.

Google snubs Euro watchdog's 'abuse of dominance' claims

To read the article

You'd think that Google was the only search engine there was.

Another NHS trust coughs up £90k fine for lax fax acts

The trust had been faxing patient lists

To where? The 1980's?

Met bobbies get CSI kit to probe perps' mobes

Just the motivation I needed

to upgrade to a more secure android rom.

It's either that or mod my phone to do a retinal scan before allowing access to the filesystem.

Smoke-belching flash drive self-destructs on command

It's awesome!

I want one.

With thermite.

Shoreditch's sparkle smokescreen leaves BBC journo 'tech-struck'

I think this is relevant

http://xkcd.com/1032/

RIM-Moto sketch THIRD nanoSIM design as peace offering

Have they patented this?

Or are they releasing this into the public domain?

Because no patent would equal no licensing restrictions which would make adoption of the standard much easier.

ICO on new Cookie Law: 'Don't expect torrent of enforcement action'

Don't expect torrent of enforcement action

Because torrents are evil and The Pirate Bay has been blocked now.

Inside Nvidia's GK110 monster GPU

So many cores!

I wonder how many neurons you could simulate with that.

UK man to spend year in the clink for Facebook account hack

Re: lol @ todays "hackers"

Yeah, he should have been behind at least 7 proxies.