* Posts by NRT

73 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jul 2007

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DARPA seeks sticky-goldenballs Casimir forcefields

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"control and manipulate... repulsive forces.."

Couldn't they just call them terrorists, like everybody else?

Nick.

Joss-sticks increase cancer risk: Official

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Happy

@Harry Stottle

The 'Risk of Mortality' is about 100%

I never worry about a small increase.

Nick.

Wind turbines put bats under (low) pressure

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All we have to do.......

Is persuade a certain member of El Reg's staff to train the bats to breathe correctly when passing a wind turbine.

See how easy it is when you think green?

Nick.

How government will save you from P2P deviance

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Why change ISPs

When I checked last night there were 4 other wireless networks with a signal strong enough to use in my area. All of them were using WEP.

If I were to start downloading copyright material, Guess who would be receiving the letters.

AVG disguises fake traffic as IE6

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It will probably get worse.

With Phorm in the UK & Nebuadd in the US planning to track people at the ISP's servers, I suspect it will become relatively common to install software that sits in the background & fires off random requests to any website it finds.

Whilst this will, as intended, swamp the data collected by these companys with noise, it will also eat up the available bandwidth & muck up any visitor analysis on websites.

Nick.

Ohio table-shag man gets six months

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"pleaded no contest to "disseminating harmful material.......""

Have you Americans got no sense of irony?

Microsoft: 'We will save America from foreign domination'

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@paulc

The problem for radio microphones is that they are very low powered (200 - 300mW) & they run on batteries.

The proposed whitespace devices transmit at a far higher power & so will not 'hear' the radio mic if it is beyond it's reception range. The microphone's receiver will however hear the whitespace transmitter.

Because the microphones run from batteries they are switched on as late as possible to ensure they last through the performance. I.E. there is no signal to detect until the performance is about to start, far to late to reassign all the microphone channels.

Tories show they're ready for government...

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The rule.

I think the "Exact Wording" of the rule is "Oh dear! Thats embarasing. Vote for me".

Nick.

'Major' Flash Player beta released

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The JIT engine.

Is that the one invented by Sir Frink Whattle?

Sorry.

The Guardian ditches Phorm

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Test your Dephormation plugin

From this link given by AC.

http://understrictembargo.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/isps-beware-the-phorm-storm/

a comment by R Strafford gives this link

http://www.liesdamnedlies.com/2008/03/phorm-over-func.html

This (second) site will trigger an alert from the Dephormation plugin: that the site uses Phorm for it's advertising.

The plugin, for those that have not got it yet, can be downloaded from

dephormation.org.uk

Nick.

US government cools on Real ID threats

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@Herby

From experiments on expired bank cards, 3 seconds in a 650W oven will give visible blistering around the chip area. At 2 seconds the plastic cover will raise slightly but is not obvious.

I suspect that a contactless (RFID) card will absorb more energy & require less exposure to kill it but I haven't had a chance to play with one, yet.

Nick.

Phorm launches data pimping fight back

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It all comes down to trust.

They provide me with targeted adverts. So what, I block them.

They provide me with an anti phishing service. I already have one.

So for no benefit to me they ask me to trust that they don't store any of the data that passes through their servers. From what others have discovered about their activities in their previous incarnation I can see no good reason to do so.

Nick.

Physicists go nuclear with online protest at funding cuts

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But the government has already solved this.

If you can't get a place at a University due to the funding cuts, all you need to do is go to the nearest burger shop.

Order "A large 'fries' and an A level please"

Now, where is the problem?

Nick.

ID cards delayed until 2012

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But.....

How am I going to know who I am if I don't have an ID card?

Pressure group: perverts will use tech to track your kids

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Tracking

You don't need to track children with high tech gadgets.

All you need to do is nail their feet to the floor!

Sorry.

Reckless loss of laptop data? ICO calls for stiff fines

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Encryption is simple!

Just scan in a doctors handwritten notes. If they are anything like their prescription forms, it will be impossible to read the data.

US airforce checked out for synthi-fuel by 2011

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Coal?

Won't the lumps damage the compressor blades?

HP inks deal for micro-needle skin patch

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Inkjet????

I suspect this has more in common with a dot matrix printer.

Universal tests DRM-free future

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Selling DRM free music

Er... Last time I checked that was called a CD. Ok it will save me the effort of ripping it myself but if I use a CD I already have a backup.

Nick.

Teachers vote to ban internet

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Wi-Fi

"which could be down to radio waves cooking the brains of pupils and teachers alike"

Well someone's brain appears to have been fried!

Oklahoma woman takes sue happy RIAA to the bank

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What about her wasted time?

While it is nice to see the RIAA having to cough up for the attorney's time, Deborah Foster has had to waste 3 years fighting this vindictive organisation.

It would be nice to see her compensated as well.

Microsoft Windows patent will spy for advertisers

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How 'nice'

I think I can hear my HOSTS file requesting an update.

Google: Our data retention is not data protection watchdogs' business

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Randomise your queries

If you use Firefox you can download TrackMeNot.

This will fire off a random search to Google once a minute, that should make it interesting to work out what I am interested in!

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