Posts by Anonymous Сoward

How NSA spooks spaffed my DAD'S DATA ALL OVER THE WEB

Re: Finally . .

"Unfortunately, that would be like unleashing a pack of dachshunds on a T Rex."

Replace trolling firms with the MPAA and Hollywood, the T-Rex would soon fall.

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Having the ability to remove withdrawn posts from one's history would be nice

Discuss.

Obama weighs in on NSA surveillance imbroglio

"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear"

Try saying that to big bubba in prison for me, oh yeah Prison, the safest place to be, and you still get raped. go jump off the nearest dock please, you won't be missed with that mentally retarded phrase.

"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear"

That also reminds me, you won't have a problem with handing over your birth certificate, driving license, and social security details, bank details, medical details, DVLA details, Tax details, Computer hard drives and USB drives.

What's that? you actually value your privacy? you must be a FUCKING Terrorist! Get outta here!

They WANT to EAT YOUR COMPUTER - welcome your ANT overlords

If they like the taste of circuit boards, why don't we make them out of something that doesn't attract these things?

Maybe we can expect pesticide sprayed PCBs at the factory whilst they think of an alternative.

Windows 8 'sales' barely half as good as Microsoft claims

Re: Didn't we all know this.

and consumers are desperate to downgrade.

Which customers are these? last time I checked, only nerds could reinstall an older operating system anyway, unless they're taking their PCs in to be downgraded.

The vast majority probably wouldn't even notice if Windows 3.1 was installed.

UK.gov blows a fuse at smart meter stall, sets new 2020 deadline

Re: Yay for government

Er, those are UKIP's core voters....

Depends. The UKIP support rolling back the surveillance society back to 1980 levels, contrary to what the Daily Mail actually want with their scare stories for tougher knife control for example.

Re: Solution looking for a problem?

you can have your supply turned off to stop the voltage or frequency for other people dipping too much). If it's done at the meter, I hope to !($^*(@% the security is good.

What in god's name do I want my supply turning off for? Return to the dark ages? forget it with extreme prejudice!

Nick Clegg: Snooper's Charter 'isn't going to happen'

Re: Remember the use of "Terrorism" Act against Labour Party protester?

Councils were given powers to snoop to help security and stop serious crimes. Instead they abused it to spy on people to check they were picking up their dog's mess.

FTFY.

Microsoft Xbox gaffe reveals cloudy arrogance

As for shooting themselves in the foot? this is more like shooting themselves in the BALLS with a sawn off shotgun![/quote]

There I fixed that for your. fbsduser Monday 8th April 2013 07:51 GMT

You get over ball ache, but you'll never get your legs back.

Re: Interest dwindling

I have no interest in the new Xbox any longer.

I have been disappointed with some updates on the 360 to the system, removal of options, Microsoft's sense of control.

Care to explain what these 'lost features' are?

When your power is down, good luck playing your console whether it needs a net connection or not...

Power supplies are taken for granted in most parts of the world, Internet however, is still a luxury to even first world citizens. Some parts are still stuck on dial up, good luck explaining to them that you are screwed and have to go buy a PS4 instead.

As for shooting themselves in the foot? this is more like shooting themselves in the leg with a sawn off shotgun!

Leaked memo: Apple's iMessage crypto has DEA outfoxed

Indeed, it would seem that "national security" is the horse and coaches that the government use to go thru the constitution, and no one bats an eyelid so meh. Go back and enjoy your programming for retards, oh sorry I mean America's got talent (sic).

Twenty classic arcade games

What?

No love for Mortal Kombat or even Killer Instinct? pah not a proper countdown unless it has those somewhere...

Euro watchdog bares teeth at Microsoft over browser gaffe

Re: Take the money

@15:35 AC

I'm assuming your post was sarcasm? Firefox would be a better OSS browser to support as it doesn't have that evil G connection.

The five thumbs down tards must be MSIE users, figures.

Dish boss on ad-skipping service: 'I don’t want to kill ads'

Re: Advertising

If you advertise reasonably, I really wouldn't care. The problem is sheer greed at expense of the thing I purchased. Long adverts, multiple adverts, adverts smack in the middle of important broadcasts and events, adverts showing over my programs, adverts talking over my program (i.e. any jokes in the end credits are lost), adverts sponsoring the weather (and mentioning it all the time), adverts sponsoring programs (and having splashscreens and even - URGH - product placement in them), having the adverts louder than the program, having the adverts unskippable (on DVD, etc.), having the adverts be annoying / attention grabbing (GoCompare / Cilit Bang, though the Cilit Bang man has learned to tone his voice down a bit now)

Now come on! You cannot mention Go Compare WITHOUT mentioning that sorry excuse for an ad called Confused Com screeching at me with a butchered version of the YMCA song, Stephen Hawking PLEASE BRING A BLACKHOLE AND SUCK THEM UP PLEASE!!

Now that would be a bigger Ha ha ha!

Only a fifth skip ads when being played back from the Sky Planner, really? check the math, something doesn't add up...

Google exec defends search snooping, location tracking

Re: What's going on?

> First Apple trash their reputation by unleashing packs of lawyers

You don't harm a reputation of a huge company like that, are you an apple iSheep by any chance?

Google's reputation is far from 'trashed' right now, even tho I wouldn't call them angels either with their drive-by wi-fi snooping for example.

UK web snoop charter: Just how much extra info do spooks need?

Re: I'm an upper class Conservative and proud of it!

>there are people who work nights

Those jobs will be abolished.

What? You're going to starve to death? Not my problem. *smokes a cigar*

With no one to defend your property at night, enjoy extra thefts and what's that? electricity gone out? more's the pity!

Eyes in the sky: UK.gov's CCTV code to IGNORE MILLIONS of cameras

Watchdogs with teeth please

Can we please give our watchdogs some actual fangs to sink into these people who don't follow the rules, it seems that they've been wearing kid gloves that long they don't know how to get them off!

Ofcom: Fancy running a temporary HD Freeview TV channel?

Re: FOAD mobile telephony

Agreed. I'd rather have some more choice on the TV than have someone able to send their pictures to Fakebook faster than dial-up.

Zuck on it, Google: 'Public' Facebook events are dead to you

Re: ban the AC option

@AC Tuesday 29th January 2013 23:08 GMT

No, and there is absolutely no need for the AC option, you're probably still thinking about that risk thing, but it's all in your head, only El Reg know who you are anyway, and they also know who you are when posting as AC, don't kid yourself, you have NO PRIVACY if that's your belief.

Also El Reg know nothing of WHO you are, unless you actually use your Real Name for your Reg handle? And no I don't use ShitBook or sorry, I mean DataBook as that's all it's there for to hand info to Suckersberg and co.

Re: this is so not fair

El Reg really needs to ban the AC option. nothing of value is lost from such a move anyway, not that AC posted anything useful in the history of this site.

Thumbs down away! lets go for a record.

Apple 'dismayed' to find over 100 kids building its iDevices

Re: Well

You four (or is it five now?) thumbs down tards really need to ditch your iCrap and get a REAL phone.

Ofcom mulls dishing out a world of hertz for RFID tags, radio cars

RFID ??

Anyone else read that as "allowing RFID tags to communicate with marketers and other unscrupulous merchants"? I sincerely hope not! I don't want to be tracked in public, having the government do it via CCTV + ANPR is bad enough, but the private sector? get out.

Cameron's speech puts UK adoption of EU data directive in doubt

Re: If they win?

They didn't actually win the last election and they're not making many new friends. What makes them think they'll win the next one?

I blame Clegg, that is sure one of the biggest lapdogs of ALL TIME.

Ever had to register to buy online - and been PELTED with SPAM?

Re: @Graham Marsden

Go Compare always gets hated why? I find that the animated girl on those confused com ads are far more annoying.

Thumbs up if you agree.

Christmas ruined for 2,100 sex offenders booted off online games

Re: 2,100 sex offenders now have more time on their hands

Do you think I should just ignore ill informed opinion or do you think I should share what little knowledge I have gained through a few minutes of research?

By all means share, but at least use your real El Reg handle, using AC isn't a very good thing reputation wise.

Just saying.

Re: 2,100 sex offenders now have more time on their hands

It depends upon the offence. Piss in a public place, in the middle of the day, in front of children, then you might end up on it However it will be a level 1 offence. Nobody will be able to find your name via a search. You will not be banned from playing games online. You will not be banned from living near schools.

Why do you keep posting this as AC? do you work or promote these registers or something?

Re: not many?

I see what you did there.

Coming soon to a theme park near you: Shocking ANTI-PIRACY NAG ADS

Re: Oh the huge-manate!

@Fibbles

No, it's sheer madness and an utter shambles, we should abolish this copyright welfare system entirely, like reducing it to 5 or 10 year terms and boot all their asses back into the production studios to make MORE work.

No other sector of work has it so good right now.

P.S Yeah Cliff was one of those asshats who wanted 150 year copyright welfare extensions. Just say NO.

Nuke icon cos that is what should happen to the copyright laws at present.

Re: Oh great

Like I care.

Oh great

More taxpayers money wasted on futile propaganda campaigns, especially ones to prop up the dying record business, where will the ludicrousy end for this tainted coalition?

Icons for Anonymous Cowards

So you don't want AC being able to use icons like this one instead of being associated with skids like Anonymous? they use the V for Vendetta masks too you know!

Oh great since I didn't post as AC the black helicopters will have a much easier time finding me, eek!

Icons for Anonymous Cowards

I suggest we give AC more icons to choose, but only ones related to AC, let's say the Trollface could be considered and the black helicopter and the Orwell icon. All others can be restricted as they have no significance to ACs

Discuss.

ITU to treaty haters: Enjoy your pricey roaming, boatloads of spam... suckers

Re: confused

@Beau

I'm well aware of this, it was a rushed post, I am well aware of Muhammad being a prophet rather than a god, but the rest of my post still stands, who in the EU or the USA wants to be told by the ITU that their site offends someone in Iran or Sierra? I am no fan of the ITU if they give Iran or any other backward country a stick to mess with the rest of the western world, I am no fan of the status quo either, with SOPA ACTA etc, but until we have a BETTER system, then I say leave well alone.

Re: confused

If the ITU got control off ICANN, we would probably see some conflicts of interest, especially among the Islamic countries which want to globally censor anything bad about their imaginary friend 'Mohammad'.

This fact alone makes me vomit and glad the USA, Canada, and the EU gave them the middle finger.

US sides with UK, walks away from sticky WCIT treaty

Re: The company you keep

That's okay, its nice to see why people downvote posts, if only they were an option for downvote with reason option, and kudos for the black helicopter reference as that's how I feel the UK is fast turning into and glad I'm not the only one!

Re: The company you keep

This is exactly why we need to kick the ITU into touch, taking a landgrab at the internet is NOT the answer people are looking for, in fact it's a solution in search of a problem, in this case, if the ITU were to run the internet, expect a major major shitstorm over the amount of non-islamic websites get seized by Islamic countries because they depict the prophet muhammad in a bad scenario or in a bad way. the amount of seizures would make USA ICE seizures look like a dot in comparison.

Common sense regtards, not that I would expect you had some, of course, otherwise why would you be reaching for the thumbs down button everytime you see anything bad about the fucking ITU!

Anyone that actually downvotes this post is a fascist and also most likely a pedoterrorist!

Re: Good!

It was always going to be this way...

I have just won a bet that the "powers that be" would try to railroad a treaty that can be used to take over the Internet on a post-factum basis due to its vagueness. Anyone who has ever had to deal with the ITU knows that it is one of the most morally bankrupt organizations known to man (the UN pales by comparison). At the very least the UK and US reps showed some vertebra which I find surprising.

In any case, the book does not close on this chapter. There will be a repeat - again, again and again. As long as the union of X Telecoms (X ~ incumbent monopoly or ex-monopoly in most world countries), Russia, China and Iran is out there there will be another chapter, and another, and another...

And this is exactly why the USA and the EU will veto this shit no matter how many times they try.

Big Business trumps Iran's and China's wishes, don't think for one second it does not as that shows just how naive you really are.

Go at it thumbs down tards you hate the TRUTH and you know clicking a button makes your life feel better :P

Re: Good riddance to bad ideas

I'm not sure wherever you support this ITU motion or not, but it's clear that if it comes to pass, it would hurt us all. Do we want China and Islamic countries having a say on Internet affairs? seriously?

Re: Good!

I'm glad myself that they did this, now let's give them a hand, I'll bring the shovel.