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Apple scrambled to hire iOS 6 maps engineers DAYS before launch

You're right - how childish of me to suggest a business move for Google that might result in more users adopting Android. Tool.

Re: So how are software engineers going to help

Steve, you are quite the Apple apologist. Like others have said, there is no excuse for releasing an app this bad. It was billed as something ready for primetime, and it simply isn't. Whether or not it's the data that is to blame doesn't matter: either way, Apple has clearly neglected to do proper quality control and testing.

Keep drinking the KoolAid.

If I were Google, I wouldn't even release a map app for iOS. Or, if i did I would charge $0.99 or maybe $1.99.

Google declares success for Kansas City gigabit broadband

Probably some of that devil-spawn money!

UPEK fingerprint scanners insecure, says Elcomsoft

Hold on there...

Hardware access will result in an attacker getting to your files, period (unless you use TrueCrypt or similar, but let's assume that's not in play). Whether they use a Linux Live CD, rip out the HDD and boot it on another machine, or take advantage of this "vulnerability": it doesn't matter. You are owned.

The problem with this article is its passing mention of "near-plain-text" and later statement that hardware access is required to exploit the vulnerability. What are we supposed to make of that?

If it's truly near-plain-text, then a normal application should be able to read the registry entry, and we'd have a real problem (assuming someone can figure out how to get the plaintext). But the fact that hardware access is required makes me think it's not so simple. In fact, "near-plain-text" is starting to sound like "encrypted". So, does the fingerprint sensor decrypt the registry value and use it to log on?

Lacking a more technical explanation, I don't really know what to make of this.

Apple weighs in on AntiSec's alleged FBI hack

Re: What, and a million people did this, you're suggesting?

Erm, no, he's not.

Bitcoin exchange shuts after heist

Re: Education has failed, not Bitcoin

If this is true then please excuse my ignorance. I was under the impression (mainly because the term "mine" was used instead of "create") that people had created bitcoins without going through official channels, i.e. not respecting the controlled nature of bc generation.

Re: Education has failed, not Bitcoin

Or rather, my initial post was complaining about that, but not my subsequent replies. </clarify>

Re: Education has failed, not Bitcoin

I never said anything about stealing others' coins. The point is, if you can "print your own" Bitcoins, then inflation *will* be a problem. And it was, just last year.

Re: Bitcoin has never failed

I disagree. Remember back in 2011 when bot nets were discovered that could mine BitCoins? Do you really trust a currency that can be *created* by anyone with a decent video card? I don't.

Bitcoin is failing in way too many ways to take seriously anymore.

You'll be on a list 3 hrs after you start downloading from pirates - study

Re: downloading is a civil offence, uploading is a criminal offence

Where the hell did you get that idea from?

Qubes OS bakes in virty system-level security

This existed in 2001

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreenBorder

The dead reanimates as HP ships Open webOS beta

Re: <ahem />

Well yeah, if you have a single element with no structure or children.

Re: proprietary -> opensource -> dead

You must be a fan of XML, or written another way, a

<fan>

<of>

<writing>

<everything>

<twice>

</twice>

</everything>

</writing>

</of>

</fan>

Apple: You'd want hi-fi streamage from us, not poor-people Wi-Fi audio

Re: Won't they just...

Looks like you now have an answer to a previous question of yours: http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/1526050

Apple: I love to hate, and hate to love thee

Re: Counterpoint

There's always the option of not buying one at all.

Leaked Genius Bar manual shows Apple's smooth seductions

Breaking news: Stores teach employees to sell stuff

Full story at 11.

1 MILLION accounts leaked in megahack on banks, websites

Re: THE MOST BASIC FORM OF MIND CONTROL IS REPETITION

Hey, that's the same extension as a PHP script on a WAMP stack! This must mean they're actually using a WLAMP stack!

Re: Apoplectic

That battle was lost years ago. Please move on, Rick.

Lexmark dumps inkjet arm, sacks 1,700

"synergies"

Ugh, that word. Burn it with fire!

Why the Apple-Samsung verdict is good for you, your kids and tech

Re: Bent but not broken

This is the classic, "If you don't have a detailed solution to the problem, then you aren't qualified to complain about it" escape hatch.

UK ISPs crippled by undersea cable snap

Re: I'z can doo reedingz, me!

Nah, the last 398.5 Gbps will be the easy part!

Curiosity rover hijacked by will.i.am to debut science song

I really hope they didn't give Curiosity the ability to kill itself.

Office 2013 to offer one-off apps on demand

Adobe does it.

Study: If your antivirus doesn't sniff 'new' malware in 6 days, it never will

I was waiting for the part where Carbon Black introduces it's new antivirus package that guarantees detection in 5 days or less.

Password hints easily snaffled from Windows PCs

Who cares?

If your password hint is so weak (and by that I mean revealing) that the average person would be able to guess your password from the hint alone, then a physical attacker will guess it just the same.

Besides, if some haxor has access to your machine, then you have worse things to worry about. Who cares about something that is already available to anyone who enters your password incorrectly a few times.

NASA: WE'VE FOUND Four-toed NON-HUMAN FOOTPRINTS

Re: The scale is wrong.

I came here to make another half-baked dessert pun, but... oh wait. Carry on.

Boffins zapped '2,000 bugs' from Curiosity's 2 MILLION lines of code

Re: "horrendously complex bondage'n'discipline language of no-one's choice"

Perl?

Burglar steals $60,000 of computers from Steve Jobs' home

The burglar got away with, what, two or three Macs then?

Apple 'offered Samsung $30-per-mobe' patent licence truce

Re: Delenda est Pupillam

Damn you all! I thought Chrome was randomly translating into Latin for some reason...

Blizzard pwned: Gamers' email, encrypted passwords slurped

Re: snowstorm1212

Hey, that's the combination to my luggage!

Curiosity needs OS upgrade before getting down to science

0.13 Mbps? Luxury!

Back in my day we were lucky to get 0.13 Mb in any reasonable amount of time.

Higgs boson chasers: Now only 1-in-300 MILLION chance we're wrong

Re: Long odds

What's never going to happen?

Anonymous declares war after French firm trademarks its logo

Professional trolling.

The asymmetry implicit in Internet data retention

Missed an opportunity to use the icon!

Go Daddy big daddy gone

GoDaddy has no redeeming qualities

I find a bunch of things about them irritating:

- The "control panel" interface is clunky and slow

- My webserver was slow as hell (not a dedicated server, but after switching to a similar plan on HawkHost, it's magnitudes faster)

- Pricey, considering what you (don't) get. Private registration is another upcharge, databases are limited, not much flexibility when it comes to .htaccess control

W3C names four new editors of HTML5 spec

"...following a recent split that divided the HTML standardization process into two parallel efforts."

Well, shit. I guess this means we can expect two new HTML specifications to come out at the same time in a few years.

Security fail for Apple as hacker cracks iOS in-app purchasing

"ZonD80 is now asking for donations to set up a website to promote the hack."

ZonD80's reasoning: Why give your money to legitimate developers when you can give it to Russian hackers?

Google sued over mobile Chrome by patent firm

Re: 'mercans will allow anything to be patented

I think you mean: "The 'merican patent office will allow anything to be patented". That distinction is necessary because, last I checked, new patent applications don't require approval by the general public.

Chemical giant foils infected USB stick espionage bid

Re: Free USB sticks?

Yup. It would be so simple for someone to craft a keyboard emulating device hidden in a flashdrive. I remember about a year ago there was a story on the Reg about doing this, but hidden in a mouse instead.

Either way, there are exploits that work without using Autoruns. For example, the exploit involving Windows displaying maliciously-crafted icons.

ISPs step in to supply DNSChanger safety net

Re: Re: not really the users they care about

No one said that the ISP is on the hook. But that won't stop users from calling them anyway.

Computer error triggers mass rocket launch

Has anyone else read "Zero Day" by Mark Russinovich?

It's starting.

Numbers don't lie: Apple's ascent eviscerates Microsoft

Re: It's simple

Anyone else read this is the Joker's voice?

"It's simple. We kill the BatmanWindows 8"

DNSchanger shutdown may kick 300,000 offline on Monday

Finally. They should have done it months ago.

Ex-BP engineer cuffed 'for deleting Deepwater spill texts'

"Too much flow rate – over 9,000,"

Fixed it for you

iPhone fanbois enraged by Instagram's Android triumph

Re: iPhone users <> Apple fanbois

Actually, real programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand.

Zombie LulzSec brags of exposing loved-up privates

Re: @Scorchio!!

You are correct in that a certain level of intellectual understanding is required for a technical forum like this one. What you seem to forget, however, is that nothing you say matters if you come across as an intellectual douche-bag.

I called you out on using needlessly-elevated vocabulary to sound "smart" and discourage others from replying to you. Childish tactics, especially for someone with a "philosophy degree". Nowhere in my post do I claim to not understand the vocabulary you use. Is it just in your nature to assume that others are not as intelligent as you are?

@Scorchio!!

As someone with a "philosophy degree", and a hobby for calling out people using logical fallacies, you sure enjoy bludgeoning people to death with pseudo-intellectual vocabulary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_verbosity).