Posts by Wolfclaw

OnePlus 5T is like the little sister you always feared was the favourite

Re: Fingerprint sensor on the rear

Problem solved in the UK, illegal to touch the phone whilst driving, a good law for any country !

For goodness sake, stop the plod using facial recog, London mayor told

Of course the police dont want a national strategy

Police following rules and more importantly laws, whatever next, honest politicians ?

Some 'security people are f*cking morons' says Linus Torvalds

Wonder if Linus can spare a few hours going of Windows code, should be good for a laugh how much he would strip out.

Now Oracle stiffs its own sales reps to pocket their overtime, allegedly

Sorry, my motto is no pay, no work !

My company is engrossed in timesheets they ask us to fill in days in advance for end of months, codes for this that and the other, swore I saw one for choking the chicken for an hour, just so they can get their projection spreadsheets updated for the next management level to work on and so on and so on, until the last bean counter has signed off. I do, but never go back to correct them, that's their problem, if the following months figures are out by a small amount.

Universal basic income is a great idea, which is also why it won't happen

Shiver went down my spine, abolish the Dept. Of Workshy And Persecution, can just see that episode of Yes, Minster popping up.

BT plots to slash pension benefits for 32,000 staff

Re: bollocks

They did in shareholder payouts and managers bonuses !

Always p!sses me off when companies that took pension holidays, to bolster profits figures, shareholder payouts and fat bonuses for senior managers in the 80s/90's boom years, now feel that the employees are the ones that should fill in the deficit. Will regulators or government step in, no of course not, as they are the lazy incompetent bastards, who sleep in the same beds as the companies, that allowed this to happen and screwed the working man/woman out of their deserved pension !

I'm anti-socialist, but to protect my right to a reasonable pension, I would strike, even if it does harm to my employer !

Privacy Pass protocol promises private perusing

Security Agencies around the world will be converging in black helicopters to burn down the building to ensure this tech never gets used, this has just blown up their whole argument for retaining data for age verification and other security purposes.

Shiver me timbers! 67cm Playmobil pirate ship sets sail for Caribbean

I think the Vulture should create a full size version and sail off in to the sunset.

Firefox 57: Good news? It's nippy. Bad news? It'll also trash your add-ons

So long as I can block Google analytics and adverts that I don't allow, I'll be happy.

Seven years on, Spain rattles tin cup at Google over Street View slurp

Google must be peeing their collective pants laughing while writing out the cheque and I thought the UK regulator was a pussy !

Biggest Tor overhaul in a decade adds layers of security improvements

As if a 3 letter U.S insecurity agency isn't already studying the code for vulnerabilities !

Dell forgot to renew PC data recovery domain, so a squatter bought it

Re: How do domain names expire?

or the contact has been retired by Dell HR one way or another and nobody bothered to update ?

WhatsApp? You still don't get EU privacy laws, that's WhatsApp

Time watchdogs started getting serious and apply multi-billion dollar fines for obvious illegal tactics or deliberate ignorance of the law !

IETF mulls adding geoblock info to 'Bradbury's code'

Going to be a lot of pages from NK ...

451 - Resource Blocked

The glorious Democratic People's Republic of Korea has deemed this resource to be western propaganda and has the potential to corrupt the purity of the North Korean people.

Please enjoy this picture of of loved leader eating his Swiss cheese and lobbing missiles at the Japan.

Jeff Bezos fires off a blue dart, singes Elon Musk and SpaceX

Here's a radical idea, these companies need to stop pussy footing around, come together as one, pooling resources, knowledge and skill and get us out in to space quickly, they'll all still make nice fat profits !!

MEPs vote to update 'cookie law' despite ad industry pressure

I'm sure non-EU hosted websites or companies would just ignore the ruling and continue to track.

First annual review of Privacy Shield gives it a resounding... 'adequate'

Jourová said that "so far there have been practically no complaints", so another clear answer, is that a yes or no, that the US 3 letter agencies have behaved and haven't intercepted data illegally or US companies given it away freely or under a gagging order ?

US Congress mulls first 'hack back' revenge law. And yup, you can guess what it'll let people do

Should be good for laugh, US says it's OK for a US company to hacks EU computer, illegal in EU, who gets prosecuted, the dude who did it, the boss that ordered it, CEO and would they ever get extradited?

EU geezer hacks back against a US company, that wrongly hacks him, illegal in EU but justified in the US, oh but wait, US company goes crying to FBI and asks for help ... oh what a can of worms !

Smut-watchers suckered by evil advertising

and you wonder why people use adblockers, advert distribution networks are just too easily owned !

Ex-Harrods IT man cleared of stealing company issued laptop

The illegal part was trying to access the laptop, when obviously his network access was removed.

Theft charge was a dodgy one, as they would have to prove he had no entention of returning the laptop at any time.

He should have returned it to Harrods IT and just nicely ask if somebody could login and then delete his personal information, save it to a USB or email it.

It's a real FAQ to ex-EDS staffers: You'll do what with our pensions, DXC?

Re: Empty Threats

Is doing such a thing legal, surely that would come down to work place victimisations or discrimination ?

Internet-wide security update put on hold over fears 60 million people would be kicked offline

Just do it, the knob heads that haven't implemented the upgrade will soon face the wrath of customers going offline, unless your a VM customer and probably couldn't tell the difference.

The award for worst ISP goes to... it starts with Talk and ends with Talk

Re: "We strive to give customers the best possible experience...

You got to be jesting, VM @ no.6, WTF did they pay off to get that high ?

European Commission proposes more powers for EU's infosec agency

Jolly Boys Outing

Just an excuse for EU dictatorship to have a free holiday, oh so we put ENISA in Cyprus and oh look, we need to have conference on cyber security ... get the sun tan lotion and beach towels out and the access to the free bar????

Microsoft slings bulked-up Windows Defender preview at world+dog

and who watches Defender, has the code been checked to what is phoning home ?

SpaceX sneaks in X-37B space plane launch ahead of Hurricane Irma

SpaceX to Mars lander ......... touchdown ?

Wonder why Congress doesn't clamp down on its gung-ho spies? Well, wonder no more

The US should just scrap the senate and let the <insert 3 letter acronyms> run the country, if they aren't already, through dodgy deals and knowing what is each senators skeleton closet !

FCC taps the brakes on fudging US broadband speed amid senator fury

Why don't we just come out and say it, the FCC has been sold by Trump and bought by the Megacorps, who practically now write the FCC guidelines !

Indian call centre scammers are targeting BT customers

What do you expect when you outsource to India to save a money, no real action is ever taken against the scammers by local authorities and your customers are the ones that suffer.

UK govt steams ahead with £5m facial recog system amid furore over innocents' mugshots

So retention is illegal, but we'll just keep breaking the law and hope it all goes away. Who says that the Government and Police are above the law !

Raspberry Pi sours thanks to mining malware

12.5m machines all using a fraction of CPU power is a decent miner !

UK industry mouthpiece wants 'near-universal' broadband speeds of 30Mbps by 2020

Shame how 10mbps is a struggle for the country and for those that can get higher, unstable connections, price increases, latency issues, over subscription, lack of investment ... this can go on and nothing will improve unless OFCOM force BT, VM and the smaller players to act !

Firmware update blunder bricks hundreds of home 'smart' locks

One of the main problems of IOT remote management, they make a change that screws up and your left in the lurch. Surely a device like this should have an update USB port for emergency resets using the appropriate physical key and passcode as authentication ?

London Mayor slams YouTube over failure to remove 'shocking' violent gang vids

London Mayor slams YouTube over failure to remove 'shocking' violent gang vids ... yeh, have you seen what Khan, his PC lefty, socialist, luvvies look like when they are on a pub crawl, after a meetings and 5 rounds of Labours favourite battle hymn ?

HMS Queen Liz will arrive in Portsmouth soon, says MoD

So in other words, some muppet hasn't dredged the approach to her berth and so she is a floating target for anybody that wants to sink her, just look outside for the ship parked up waiting for high tide !

Capita's smart meter monopoly is owed £42m by industry

Was offered a smart meter and politely told them where to go !

Canadian ISPs do not Canuck around: Bloke accused of piracy grilled in his home for hours

Question has to be asked, who is the real criminal, Lackman, or big business who basically have broken so many rules and laws, but will no doubt get away with it, due to Government and legal system being in their back pockets. Hope he wins his case and sues them for millions !

Trump-backed RAISE Act decoded: Points-based immigration, green cards slashed

Seems to be a reasonable reform, now, lets see if UKGov can do the same or as I expect, totally cock it up, like they have down for the last 30 years and then use PR to try and lie their way out !

How can you kill that which will not die? Windows XP is back (sorta... OK, not really)

NHS just switched on another bunch of infected XP machines ?

Fox News fabricated faux news with Donald Trump, lawsuit claims

Anything coming out of Fox, I would check, check again, triple check and then put in the spam bin, just to be on the safe side. Murdoch, his family and gang of corporate henchmen, are not fit to run a news empire and no way should be allowed any control of Sky !

Browser trust test: Would you let Chrome block ads? Or Firefox share and encrypt files?

Remember the days when a web browser showed content, at respectable speeds, with killing your CPU or eating up memory and didn't try to do everything. Oh how I long for Netscape Navigator :(

Brace yourselves, Virgin Media prices are going up AGAIN, people

VM prices going up, so is the throttling, latency, on the plus side, over-subscription may drop !

U.S business practices, hike the prices but provide piss poor product and services and don't ask for OFCOM to do anything, toothless regulator that spends too much time sleeping in the same bed as telco's.

Revised 'Broadband 2.0' report: 6.7m Brits suffer 'sub-10Mbps' speeds

Speed is important, but a mute point if your constantly bandwidth capped, video is buffered, latency is so bad gaming is impossible and your area is so oversubscribed that you consider 4G an acceptable upgrade, yes VM I'm talking about you !!

Apple removes VPN apps in China as Russia's Putin puts in the boot with VPN banlaw

Did anybody see the little troll from UK Gov sitting in the corner making notes, soon be rolled out in good old blighty under the disguise of anti-terror laws. Funny how multiple countries clamping down on internet freedoms, just makes you think this NWO stuff may have legs ??

Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook blow massive amounts lobbying Trump administration

The word "lobbying" is a smoke screen, call it what it is bribery and undemocratic, that benefits those with power and money, on both sides !

Media mogul Murdoch's 'Sky dataset' swallow poses 'grave threat'

Oh come on, do you really believe slime ball Murdoch would obey an ICO ruling if he though he could get away with it. I would rather believe a promise from Hitler before anything from that vermin family and company !

UK.gov snaps on rubber gloves, prepares for mandatory porn checks

So we can expect a leak of which Government employees are active monkey spankers !

Guess who doesn't have to pay $1.3bn in back taxes? Of course it's fscking Google

Business corruption at its best, if your the little guy on minimum wage your hounded and persecuted for owing pennies !