* Posts by Arachnoid

1076 publicly visible posts • joined 17 May 2012

South Korea green lights Stuxnet-like code weapons to nark Norks

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If it were true

Ones country is not likely to give forewarning about such an attack

SkyDrive is dead! All hail Microsoft OneDrive! Happy now, Uncle Rupe?

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Dont see it mentioned

But Office 365 get an additional 20Gb so 27GB in total and I had read elsewhere Grandfather hotmail accounts also get 27GB.

Apple Mac Pro: It's a death star, not a nappy bin, OK?

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As a PC user

Ill say it certainly seems an very innovative design and very art nouveau I guess the fan system works just like a cyclone floor cleaner so Id love to see some pics of one after a few months use.

'The Mystery of the Martian Doughnut' solved by NASA sleuths

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If it were a moss or fungus on Mars

What is to stop the darn stuff growing on the nice warm solar panels and gradually reducing their efficacy

Silk Road reboot claims: Hacker STOLE all our Bitcoin funds

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" ... maintenance work that required funds to be placed in a vulnerable location.

Somebody stole his usb thumb drive...........or its down the back of the couch somewhere

IT'S ALIVE! China's Jade Rabbit rover RETURNS from the DEAD

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So your saying its got an erection problem?

Strange for a country so over populated.........or I wonder if Fox News caught it out in the open?

Boffin talks WATER on MARS: Granted, no 'smoking gun', but all clues flow there...

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it could be because the observations were made in the afternoons, missing morning moisture.

So why don't the Boffins start the tests earlier and additionally set up a shaded area to allow extra time before the "moisture" evaporates.

Boffins hose down fiery Li-ion batteries with industrial lubricant

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So......

Not Plumbers Tape For Everything but Prevent Fire Protect Everyone

Snowden documents show British digital spies use viruses and 'honey traps'

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Cameras in every ones bedrooms

Well given the technology is going the way of putting cameras in all devices for social media connectivity Id say our Government ........sorry I`ll rephrase that"Chinese hackers", have nearly reached that pinnacle of connecting with all end users in the West.

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Nope

Its about targeting the Enemy of the State ergo whomever the "state" deems a valid target, be they @home or abroad

Yahoo! Mail users see crying baby who says firm is 'over capacity'

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Maybe if

They had fed the baby that morning the issue would have never got so bad

CCTV warning notices NOT compliant with data protection laws – ICO

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I fear we can't have this both ways....

In regard to video footage or photography not made for personal use why not?

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What about Bus Lane cameras

Do they not fall in to the same category as being generally unsign posted and a waste of tax payers money.

Friends don't do tech support for friends running Windows XP

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Please stop saying its 13 years old

If clearly one reader has already stated it was still on sale 4 years ago ergo its quite a different animal than the 13 year old version in much the same sense as the difference between 8 and 8.1.

Yahoo! Mail! users! change! your! passwords! NOW!

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Thumb Up

Maybe its time.......

That Yahoo let you change your log in credentials to something other that your well known email address

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Password complexity

Doesn't make much difference if someone elses server is hacked and the user data is ransaked especially if its left in plain text.

NHS website hit by MASSIVE malware security COCKUP

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IT Angle

You`ll be glad to know...

Its not a virus you've got its just the flu

ISS astronauts to grow tomatoes and rice …. IN SPAAAAACE

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Holmes

Shirley..........Inquiring minds like to know

With the lack of gravitational influence the fruit or tuber does not form to the same extent as on Earth?

Unmanned, autonomous ROBOT TRUCK CONVOY 'drives though town'

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Mushroom

Yes but.........

These would have an automated armed helicopter overhead

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Alert

Danger ,Danger Will Robinson!!

I hope they forewarned pedestrians and other road users that there was an increased danger of

A: Getting run into

B: Unable to claim from the driver for any injuries or damage

C: That the soldier/Scientist sat in the cab txting or using Google glasses is not actually driving

On a serious note they may still need the cab and human control instrumentation because the vehicles may still need shunting by an actual real person in depots for loading and unloading.

LogMeIn: We're stopping our free offering from now

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Team viewer pricing

Well they only need to raise it to 50% oflog me in and they are still on a win win situation

Do cops need a warrant to search your phone? US Supreme Court will rule

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officers could confiscate the phone

Sorry Turtle but this may not work as many of us keep our data in the cloud one would only need to remove the data using a.n.other device or even simply send a wipe signal to the device under question.

On the other hand I dont expect an officer of the law to be able to access my data without a court order ,we are not after all the star turn in another NCIS program where hacking is the norm.

Haribo gummy bears implicated in 'gastric exorcism'

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Coat

Taste

There's no replacement for naturally formed suga.....er I'll get me coat

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Donations

So maybe the UK government should give these away instead of millions of pounds to wealthy countrys as the small investment may be worth the sacrifice and give big returns.

SPAM supposedly spotted leaving the fridge

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Bit mining

Hmm me wonders if one hacks enough kitchen appliances they would make a good mining colony?

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Mushroom

I'm voting it cold

Just goes to show you can trust electronic appliances further than you can throw em .Now what the hells my kettle been up to its gone in to melt down?

Look out, Earth! Here comes China Operating System (aka Linux)

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Chinux or maybe Plinux

The peoples linux where security matters

Amazon patents caches for physical goods

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Pint

maybe

There's an app for that....

DOOMSDAY still just MINUTES AWAY: As it has been since 1947

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Re: 5 minutes to midnight?

Only if you can get to the bar before the rest of us........mind I could do with my tan topping up as well a my pint

Your round I think.

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And what about Iran

They are vying to join the radioactive top table

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Re: Only 5 minutes before the hour?

Possibly directly related to the spread of both the devices or parts thereof,the means and the Scientific experts from what was once USSR to other countrys trying to make "nuclear power stations" of their own.

Five UK banks sign up to hook up customers' ACCOUNTS to their MOBILE DEVICES

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How long before........

Such devices are no longer on our mobile but under our skin or even implanted in our DNA @ birth.

Resistance is futile ........your account is over credit.Please walk to your nearest Police station for reeducation classes.

ZyXEL router attack: HUNDREDS of Brit biz bods knocked offline

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ts odd how we keep being told how the Chinese have limited access to the internet

Much like the US they have their own "intelligence corps" and what better way for either side to test adversary's systems for weak spots than to continually probe and cause havoc.This said the Great wall can shut off internet access to the country in a heart beat unlike the Western powers.

Two websites you should show your boss if you want to be paid in Bitcoin

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Hmmm........

I could see this getting taxed in the UK as some sort of benefits in kind type of thing

Army spaffed millions up the wall on flawed Capita online recruiting system - report

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Recruitment

Whatever happened to the human touch during recruitment and gut feeling which is distinctly missing from any computer system

Whilst it may be said with hindsight this money could have been better spent on bolstering the security of our systems that widely use internet connections.Which in the event of conflict will clearly be open to attack from other countrys as a preemptive attack on infrastructure and the military's ability to even launch a counter strike.

I found an asteroid! yells revived probe NEOWISE. Boffins nod politely

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What am I missing

"was mothballed at the end of its original mission, when the solid hydrogen that cooled its telescope to 7.6 Kelvin was exhausted"

I thought space was extremely cold when not in direct sunlight?

Use strong passwords and install antivirus, mmkay? UK.gov pushes awareness campaign

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– CyberStreetwise.com –

Waits for news that someone hacked in and replaced the java based header with a virus dropper..........

Thought the toilet camera was weird? Try actual thumb flash drives from tech's supershow

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Facepalm

Have a removable cover

In the shape of your manager and use it as a stress relief toy.........oh we already had one of those

Space Station bags extra 10yrs of life as SOLAR STORM scrubs resupply

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The issue at the moment

Is that the US Air force/Army has no space vehicle of its own at the moment and is so reliant on others to ferry them into orbit since the loss of the Shuttle.There are many designs based on the older style cabin and storage atop a candle on the boards but no openly Government funding likely to happen any time soon and no public taste to see such large investments when times are tough.

As to the ISS it serves as has been said,as a long term flight and technology test bench which clearly cannot be done in Earths atmosphere.As for other planets the next goal should be to make a permanently manned living space on the Moon which is in easier stones throw both for communication and if things should go awry than a rocket on a one way trip to the Mars area.

The only other options open for exploration are the limited robotic agents sent into the vastness of space with some hopeful landfall at the end of the journey.

Pervy TOILET CAMERA disguised as 'flash drive' sparks BOMB SCARE on Boeing 767

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Images

Im sure if it belonged to a teenager they would find a few selfies on it

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bring the whole country to a standstil

Not if they were USB3 devices

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And just to add

If a terrorist group wanted to be more effective and cause mass panic then a biological or radioactive device would be the tool of trade for such a small object.The package being mostly non metallic and looking unobtrusively much like thousands of other such devices.

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So is this an excuse

For certain authorities to install recording camera systems on all flights much like those on UK buses

Naked Aussie gets wedged in washing machine

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Coat

They should turn it into a soap...

I guess we can call him Tubby now,

I wonder if hes a drummer........

Jokesters develop new cryptocurrency using Kanye West's face

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So Bro....

Is this something for the hood?

Boffins build sticky-limbed lizard-bots to tend spacecraft

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Anchor points

Could the Bot not fire additional anchor points and use these to transverse from one point to another as well as using the limbs for slow movement i.e its fires an temporary anchor point to another section of the station and once tested as firm the Bot could set an anchor point then use the two[or more] wires to traverse the gap.So more akin to a spider traversing its webbing.

Italian woman stunned by exploding artichoke

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No one said

Shes holding it wrong!........

British Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing receives Royal pardon

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Can the Dead be Harmed

by Masayuki Yoshida

Product Description

Masayuki Yoshida examines the harm thesis in the light of some specific questions: When a corpse is damaged or the reputation of a deceased person is sullied, what or who is actually being harmed? If the dead cannot be harmed, then is it possible for nobody to be harmed? If a living person is otherwise harmed, is the person a former living person of the damaged corpse? However, any answer to this question is prima facie at least bizarre, in particular because dead persons cannot perceive of damage or harm against them. Moreover, if it should be possible for the formerly living person of a corpse to be harmed, then it would follow that time goes backward. The author, despite the apparent bizarre nature of any answer, nevertheless argues that the dead can be harmed both in the case of damaging a corpse and in the circumstance of defamation of a dead person.

Samsung: Men, our Gear smartwatch will make you a hit with the sexy ladies

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UK Advertising

I dont think thats likely to get past the UK Advertising Standards Authority filters

Curiosity gets an OS upgrade, plans new round of selfies

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Ballerina syndrome

I guess its all down to designed structure strength v weight distribution,a tad like designing it to balance on a razor blade without getting cut but limiting the weight to a minimum.