Posts by omnicent

In America, tech support conmen get a mild slap. In Blighty, scammers get the book thrown at them

Re: RE: Hanging has a very low rate of reoffending.

errr did you see the Troll icon?

Bloke flogs $40 B&W printer on Craigslist, gets $12,000 legal bill

hmm

You mean the ones paid back in 2006? Good luck with that...

Channel Islands firm touts all-in-one secure comms app

hmmm

So contradicting claims on website...

Exhibit 1 - "No servers in the middle, no record of communication" - (apart from the meta data of setting up the calls, who spoke to who etc. )

Exhibit 2 - "Anti-Blocking" - "Its principle is tunneling all SIP and RTP traffic through a single secure https connection up to a detunnelizer server. Our solution comprises:

A tunnel client library is integrated into the Pryvate™ client for iPhone or Android.

A tunnel server is deployed inside our network infrastructure. The tunnel server re-creates the SIP and RTP traffic from the data of each secure connection to the clients."

So no server in the middle except when there is...

Although thumbs-up for inventing "detunnelizer" as a new word....

TalkTalk incident management: A timeline

missed OR 1=' at the end...

Just fixing.

TalkTalk attack: Lad, 15, cuffed by UK cyber-cops

Re: Are we to believe this is the work of a 15yr old ?

To all the naysayers: do you not remember how bright you were at 15* - we all didn't suddenly become intelligent at [18/21/30/40]. Add to that how much spare time you had before uni/jobs/drinking/family/rest of the grown-up stuff

* Life experience aside

Windows 10 out, users happy, PCs upgraded, my work here is done – says Microsoft OS chief

Re: Is it just me?

Shouldn't that be "all your data are belong to us"...?

'RipSec' goes to Hollywood: how the iCloud celeb hack happened

Re: we can smirk

Well said sir. An excellent post which re-humanitises (sorry about making up a word) non-technical users of tech

Windows 10: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE to Microsoft's long apology for Windows 8

It is clear, if you upgrade within the 1st year you get a license for free, for the life of your device. If you want to upgrade after 12 months ... who knows its not been detailed - I assume MS will wait and see whether they want to start charging for new upgrades or not.

You may need to readjust your glasses

"1) Author says this will not be a subscription service. Is this just for the first year or forever?" - You have 1 year to take advantage of the free upgrade....

Your security is just dandy, Apple Pay, but here comes Android

Re: Convenience?

Apple Pay:

2 a - Place fingerprint on reader

3 b - Try again because it failed

:-)

RAF radar station crew begs public for cash to buy gaming LAN kit

I did manage to donate something but got an email today saying its been refunded, no unreal tournament for them then...

(Guess when I stopped playing LAN games :-) )

High-level, state-sponsored Naikon hackers exposed

Re: over and over and over

Did you not read the article..?

Dedicated human operator per region - Humans can learn stuff about stuff (also the article linked mentions using open-source or stolen internal docs to build templates)

Targeting cultures where personal emails are used for work - i.e. lax places...

Spooks BUSTED: 27,000 profiles reveal new intel ops, home addresses

STOP PRESS ## BREAKING NEWS ###

Oh wait, its not 2013....

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/job-networking-site-linkedin-filled-with-secret-nsa-pro-514057863

Re: Sounds like some may be Walts

Great film

Give me POWER: How to keep working when the lights go out

Re: Hangon a moment

How about using some technology....?

Give thin clients to people in the office (cheaper than both laptop/desktops) or use existing/old kit as thin clients, and move all the clever stuff to a real DC, then people can use whatever kit they have at home to remote onto their corporate dekstop via a technology of your choice (Citirx/vmware etc.)

Welcome, stranger: Inside Microsoft's command line shell

Re: Obscure knowledge got me a job ....

Damn, I wanted to add the "copy con" command, that was my fav....

Google versus the EU: Sigh. You can't exploit a contestable monopoly

Re: So....

Yes because CLI is so easy for non-techies.....

MPs 'alarmed' by millions of mugshots on Brit cops' databases

Re: Future, what future

Cheer up!

Increased gov spy powers are NOT the way to stay safe against terrorism

+Upvote for using the word "Asshats" in a sentence. I can use that in scrabble now :-)

Preserve the concinnity of English, caterwauls American university

Re: There... completed the assignment and used them all.

I was made to feel silly at work recently by daring to use the word obfuscate, I thought that was a pretty well-known word!

Police radios will be KILLED soon – yet no one dares say 'Huawei'

And some TETRA handsets can themselves be switched to repeater mode, its a fab, (although old) technology

Yes, we need two million licences - DEFRA

Re: They get you coming and going

"Would you virtualise the Oracle DB server?" is an interview question here..... no goes in one pile, yes goes out the door...

So this Saudi Prince calls and asks why he can't watch movies ...

Re: An IT Manager asked me to raise a formal Change Request...

Err, Manager was right and you shouldn't really have make a change without an RFC...

Human DNA 'will be found on moon' – Brian Cox

Re: Wheres the ambition?

Did you miss that they want to do this for 600k? Try doing that in the 70's. The future of Space is about doing it in an affordable way, without Cold-War military budgets...

Spies would need superpowers to tap undersea cables

Data rate of ULF to slurp data.... ~300baud, not really that useful...

Microsoft: You NEED bad passwords and should re-use them a lot

Re: I Disagree

What is "an offline piece of software"?

Printed out source-code?

Google TOO WHITE and MALE, says HR boss, looking in mirror

Re: Not very useful stats?

Nice to see a scientific argument amongst a sea of feminist/anti-feminist comments :-)

Facebook gobbles WhatsApp for SIXTEEN BILLION DOLLARS

Re: Maybe 15.55bln too much

Is text messaging so expensive in the rest of the world? A quick look on T-Mobile (first to load on my browser), £12 per month gets you unlimited texts. So what is the point of WhatsApp?

Well WhatsApp is 99p per year so compared to £144 a year, its cheap..... sorry I don't get your point here??? Add to that picture messaging for free as well???

How I BLEW my co-workers' HEADS OFF ... without going to jail

Re: Nerf guns. Lots of them.

Ah yes, I fondly remember the days of Nerf guns, before it escalated to ping-pong balls....

OK, so we paid a bill late, but did BT have to do this?

Re: Why?

Love it that this gets 4 thumbs down, do you disagree that I am happy with my service provider? Or is it that I am not joining in the BT-bashing?

Re: Why?

I actually had very good service when moving to BT Infinity a couple of months ago - sorry to balance out the story a little but I had terrible service from Virgin who continued to bill be for the next 6 months! (No I'm not a BT mole)

Geneticists resolve human dilemma of Adam's boy-toy status

"Mind you - some British schools also teach fairy stories as well."

Yes, its called the 'English Literature' subject...

REVEALED: The gizmo leaker Snowden used to smuggle out NSA files

"And cloud and virtual infrastructure make the insider problem worse since administrators can access any virtual machine to potentially copy and steal sensitive data or potentially destroy the virtual data centre in the push of a button.”

hmmm, someone needs a bit more education on how modern cloud and VM based infrastructures work.. who did he say he worked for???

Barnes & Noble bungs Raspberry Pi-priced Nook on shelves

Re: £29 e-reader dodgy marketing?

Just ordered one online, no problem....

Microsoft: Here's some cash, channel. PLEASE sell Office 365

Re: The economics of the Cloud are too irresistible to corporate bean counters.

Its not just the beancounters, think of non-tech businesses, small accountancy firms, cafe's etc. with no interest of competency in IT. They will lap up the opportunity to pay 10p per user per month to make all of that headache go away. I am not defending Office365, but talking cloud in general, hence my comment about the offerings needing more evolution.

I'm afraid it is evolve or die, change your business model to suit the changes in technology. Even if it isn't a MS cloud, SME's, branch offices etc will be cloud hosted, it just makes sense - maybe the technology needs to evolve a bit first but it *will* as there is customer demand for it. Think blockbusters etc. who refused to change their business model because they wanted customers to come to their shop to browse and buy extras such as branded cola products... customers voted to do it online and blockbusters went into administration.

Sorry

(cue luddite response...)