Posts by knarf

Boffins open 'space travel bureau': Come relax on exoplanet Kepler-16b, says NASA

I nearly went to Kepler-1984 but....

The EasyJet flight landed no where near the planet and the bus took eons.

Amazon workers in Germany stage Christmas strike

The Workers are Revolting ?

Throw then some Cake, its on Prime!

Wikipedia won't stop BEGGING for cash - despite sitting on $60m

Monkey Pic

Just send them monkey pics, there are priceless according to Jimmy

Antarctic ice THICKER than first feared – penguin-bot boffins

Thicker ice is a sign of increased temps

Get Ready for some tin pot science

GT sapphire glaziers: You signed WHAT deal with Apple?

Re: Ah Sun Microsystems!

Sun never made the move from a bespoke systems supplier to a generic box shifter, you could argue that Linux and generic boxes killed Sun, but that would be too simplistic.

Inequality increasing? BOLLOCKS! You heard me: 'Screw the 1%'

That leaves us with a problem that economics simply cannot solve .

China solved it by fixing their currency values so the labour and material values stay the same.

NASA rover Curiosity drills HOLE in MARS 'GOLF COURSE'

Re: nice surface

maybe they were to tired to think of anything

nice surface

The rover is seems to have a better surface than most of the roads in blighty.

EU to accuse Ireland of giving Apple an overly peachy tax deal – report

Win Win for Ireland

If they are forced to Tax Apple say...20% then they get $billions, if they don't they still get 2% for doing dam all.

Crouching tiger, FAST ASLEEP dragon: Smugglers can't shift iPhone 6s

"But, smugglers are not only reporting fewer sales"

Make me laugh. read it as "Butt smugglers"

Unchanging Unicorn: Don't be disappointed with Ubuntu 14.10, be happy

Utopic Unicorn.

My gran had that very sore looking

Cut-off North Sea island: Oh crap, ferry's been and gone. Need milk. SUMMON THE DRONE

1.2Kg ..about the size of a kebab

mmmmmm,,,,, kkeeeebbbabbbbbbbbb

PLEASE STOP with the snooping requests, begs Google as gov data demands skyrocket

Well What did they expect

They stop them hacking in for direct access and now they have to service every request.

What they need is a good SPY_API framework

Brit telcos warn Scots that voting Yes could lead to hefty bills

subsidies????????

How can you have subsidies of WE ARE ALL THE SAME COUNTRY

Watch this Aussie infosec bod open car doors from afar

Use a Brick

Never fails to gain quick entry to a car. Not unless the neds/chavs are getting more tech savy these days

Plane grounded so cops can cuff semi-legless passenger

Legless twice on the same flight impressive

I was once on a plane to Turkey a few years ago when a two legged women got drunk and tried to open the door at 35,000ft and pished herself (must have been the pressure). Turned out she was banned from flying for doing the exact same thing the previous year. I thought I'd never she her again as she's be spending sometime in a nice Turkish prison. Turned out she was on the return flight after a great holiday and was again pissed.

The Therapod diet: From humungo dino to tiny bird in 50m years

Humans Next Step Hobbits ?

Well can only dream of a 3 breakfast society

Brit balloon bod Bodnar circumnavigates planet

Hats off to a stunning acheivement

Well done mate!!!

Security chap writes recipe for Raspberry Pi honeypot network

Re: maidenhead

About time it had a quick reboot then !

Indian techies-in-training face down MAN-EATING LEOPARD - and WIN

Re: Did you see the leopard? Are you still alive? Get in touch and let us know. ®

Did the leopard Kill YOU ? Are you still Dead? Get in touch and let us know. ®

Captain Kirk sets phaser to SLAUGHTER after trying new Facebook app

Its Dead Jim!

Pity the app is wearing a red security top and never seen before

German government orders local CIA station chief to pack his bags

Re: Friends ?

Pppssttt...... EVERYONE is spying on EVERYONE else, even the Germans are releasing malware for they own spying purposes.

It's not spying that the issue its getting caught.

Re: Interesting

It's always Berlin what gives Threadstone issues.

IBM's $3bn bet on next-gen computers: Carbon nanotubes, neuro chips

there's a reason why semiconductor engineers like beer so much.

Because it tastes sooooooooooo nice and makes coding easier, well it did when I was a student, a jnr, a dev and a lead.

Man FOUND ON MOON denies lunar alien interface

What ARE you talking about ?

'Ribbed' for your pleasure: Jony Ive unveils NAKED IPHONE

What Steve Jobs didn't invent this

Come on he must have sent secret messages from beyond for this one.

I wonder if the hard grafting apple engineers ever got a bit annoyed with Stevie putting his mark on all the patents.

Computing student jailed after failing to hand over crypto keys

Re: Self-Incrimination?

your guilty until you prove otherwise.

Rockall batters plucky Brit adventurer

Re: Just how inedible are seabirds really?

They are still eating in many parts of the world, including Scotland, where we cover them in batter and deep fry them (ok I made the last bit up, we eat them raw).

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/aug/25/scotland-hebrides-gannet-hunt

El Reg is looking for a new London sub-editor

Re: Sir

Almost any salary in London is really not nearly enough to live on.

Amazon sues former employee who took Google cloud job

Hold On

"He also agreed not to try to poach AWS staff for that six-month period, too."

Is there not a class action for agreements of not poaching staff between tech firms. I think this is bit heavy handed on Amazon part. This also would not fly in UK/EU.

British and European data cops probe Facebook user-manipulation scandal

Future Elections

Q: So how do we win the next election?

A: Well we give FB $100m and with use 50% increase in cat videos to our targeted demographic, showing bad news to the maybes.

Q: Will that really work?

A: Worked last time.

Attackers fling Stuxnet-style RATs at critical control software in EUROPE

...and then try to run SCADA system on Windows machines - just how many points of vulnerability do you need?

Any OS is full of holes.

REVEALED: The sites blocked by Great Firewall of Iraq

Re: Not Too Bad

Nope it was me, speed reading it seem is not my forte

Not Too Bad

Well at least they can still get porn,

Israel develops wireless-malware-injection-by-smartmobe tool

DisAgree --

Has you PC Speakers never chattered with Mobile phone interference ? This is the phone inferring with a subsystem within the PC (TV or radio) most likely the sound card. Now if you could develop this so it developed a buffer overrun on the sound system you might be able to inject data or code into the computer its self.

You also have to remember that Mobile phones are computers with a very broad RF broadcast range; so if you can find a common or range of common subsystems that can be targeted that chances are that they use the same chipsets such as USB, BlueTooth, Wifi, Ethernet. Just because they is no configuration of a sub system (eg network, wifi, IR) does not mean it is not powered, working and more importantly service by the OS.

Also think of other attack vectors such as a picture on a web site can inject code in to the client OS (very common).

Greenpeace rejoices after getting huge renewable powerplant cancelled

Re: Why...

First AC then DC so you get ACDC

Get ready for Europe's robo-butlers: Billions of €€€s pledged to electro-slave dream

Re: I want a robot......

I want a robot to key an eye on my first robot.

Mixed Views on this

Not good for lowly paid home helps (no job)

Good as I don't have to move to get a beer

I may never have to hover again

But maybe we should be getting more active not less.

Remember the first law of Robotics.....make money

DARPA crazytech crew want to create HUMAN-FREE cyber defence systems

So Self Patching Systems

How easy will a self patching system turn into its own denial of service attack.

The enemy of my enemy is my, well, temporary ally: Apple and Microsoft in pact against Google

How about adverts for.....

"Apple Powered By Microsoft (for now until we can ivent something better)"

iFanboys will be cheering until the next update. When they will be told to cheer something else.

Google's driverless car: It'll just block our roads. It's the worst

Re: Stuff it can't hope to deal with

@Stuart 22

Cycle nearly ever day through a busy city as well as doing long country runs and mountain biking, and I'm also a motorcyclist. With drivers you can eye ball them and make eye contacts.

Stuff it can't hope to deal with

Drunks on road at 11pm

Buses / Taxis the raptors of the road

Filtering Cyclists

Filtering Motor Cyclists

Car Jackers; it will politely stop and open the doors, its the safest option

Trucks using the right hand lane to turn left

How will it know to stop for police or just pull over

Ambulances wanting past and you have to bump up on kerb

Will it think flash bike lights are the police ??

Are you senior enough to sit around a table with The Register?

old tech Reg

can't you get "invent" an app and suck up all the data from the mob, meeting in person is soo old hat!

Indian climate boffins: Himalayan glaciers are OK, thanks

Gravy train

Someday the gravy train of climate warning will come to an end.

I am skeptic of warming NO!

I am believer of the bad science and doom mongering to generate research funds... YES!!!

Stop bullying SUPER FAT GODZILLA, urge movie stars

What do you expect....

If you eat humans, there are a lot fatter than they were 60years ago.

We're from the same dust cloud, bro: Boffins find Sun's long-lost sibling

Re: "...4.5 billion years ago...” Ramirez said. “A lot of things can happen in that amount of time.”

"brown dwarfs, which will burn for 10s of billions of years, but are hard to see because of their comparative dimness."

Even the sun has some dim cousins .....

Apple pulls iPhone 4 from sale in India after just four months

Manufacturing Space

Why make older cheaper 4's when you can make some very expensive 6's in the pre-launch ramp

Re: reason Apple scoops so much of the industry's profit

"Apple stuff is supported for longer and tends to get used or passed on an used for years."

Eh....No this is complete rubbish. Apple do selective upgrades so your older iPads / Macs can't install any of the software / apps in their store. The older versions of which will work on this kits is not available on their app store.

Zucker punched: Google gobbles Facebook-wooed Titan Aerospace

What is the World says "No"

Governments around the world make a very healthy income selling RF space to mobile companies;. And what if the said governments don't want an effective spy network over their lands.

The current Tory government in blighty (no its not a coalition, if you think it is; your just kidding yourself on) will no doubt say "YES" as Google has better access to no 10 than the current Tech gov department.