Posts by Spacedinvader

Train station's giant screens showed web smut at peak hour

A bus stops at a bus stop...

30,000 London gun owners hit by Met Police 'data breach'

Quite a few places actually

all you had to do was search...

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=london+shotgun+range&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei=3of3WPnLDsXW8ge54K2gAg#q=london+shotgun+range&rflfq=1&rlha=0&rllag=51561451,-158061,12890&tbm=lcl&tbs=lrf:!2m1!1e2!2m1!1e3!3sEAE,lf:1,lf_ui:1

Spammy Google Home spouts audio ads without warning – now throw yours in the trash

it's a Blackadder reference. Wibble!

Microsoft nicks one more Apple idea: An ad-supported OS

Wait...

So you get the ads even if you already have the service they are selling?

FBI boss: 'Memories are not absolutely private in America'

What I'd thought I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes

"Any of us can be compelled – in appropriate circumstances – to say what we remember, what we saw."

Advocating torture are we Mr Comey? Icon ->

That's how he rolls

As Microsoft touts Windows Insider for biz, let's take a look at W10's broken 2FA logins

Re: Given that I paid for Windows 7 Professional 64bit...

Come on, you think slurp would leave Win7 users out of telemetry?

KB2952664

KB3075249

KB2976978

The difference is being able to control what the fuck happens to your box!

Dropbox: Oops, yeah, we didn't actually delete all your files – this bug kept them in the cloud

Re: Why 60 days?

RFC 1149 thanks for that, bloody brilliant :)

Lords slam 'untrammelled' data sharing powers in Digital Economy Bill

Yeah

Mibby I'm missing something (my marbles) but should they not have raised their concerns before passing the fucking bill into law?

Boffins link ALIEN STRUCTURE ON VENUS to Solar System's biggest ever grav wave

Re: Will nobody think of the tax payers?

gravitational waves transport energy as gravitational radiation, a form of radiant energy similar to electromagnetic radiation.

gravity wave - a wave propagated on a liquid surface or in a fluid through the effects of gravity.

Beeb flings millions more £s at Capita for telly tax collection

Re: Knocking on our doors?

I have a "screen". I do not have a "screen" licence. I've had "the heavies" visit twice in the last 5 (i think, probably more) years who popped in and had a look at the back of my "tv".

"Oh, just the Playstation and PC plugged in I see?"

"Yeah, I don't watch tv it's crap"

"Oh, okay. we might be back in a year / 18 months"

If you can't be arsed with that "hassle" then keep paying £150 for fuck all!

Information on smart meters? Yep. They're great. That works, right? – UK.gov

Re: estimated net "benefit" of £5.7bn by 2020

A beeeeeelion apparently;

http://www.cityam.com/254997/energy-suppliers-owe-homeowners-1bn-overpaid-gas-and

The UK's Investigatory Powers Act allows the State to tell lies in court

No because you can't argue your side and say they're talking bollocks

Investigatory Powers Act signed into UK law by Queen

Could someone recommend a VPN?

or two? Ideally not based in the US...or any of the 5 eyes TBH!

Canadian cops cuff 11-year-old lad after Grand Theft Auto gets real

Re: Sorry to sound like an old grumpy.. ..

"watched dead pool, fast forward past the sex"

And for our next trick, says Google while literally wheeling out a humongous tablet ...

"with its white bezel and red trim"

It's a strange looking white that bezel...

Japan's SoftBank teams up with... Saudi Arabia to launch $100bn London tech fund

Subtitle

Brilliant!

A robot kitchen? Whatever. Are you stupid enough to fall for this?

Re: £100 a week for a year with Tesco's delivery service comes in at about £26,000 cheaper

I'll assume you missed out "/sarcasm" but I'll leave this here anyway...

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/543489/eggs-statsnotice-04aug2016.pdf

Blighty's telly, radio watchdog Ofcom does a swear

Well, what was the word? Curious minds and all that :)

EU turns screws on Android – report

"Android phone home-screens must display a Google folder and search bar"

Mine doesn't...

Samsung's million-IOPS, 6.4TB, 51Gb/s SSD is ... well, quite something

what he said!

Yahoo! She said yes. Verizon confirms $4.8bn acquisition

There! Appears! To! Be! Something! Wrong! With! The! Headline!

Alleged skipper of pirate site KickAss Torrents keel-hauled in Poland

Easiest way around ISP blocks is to use google cache...wonder if it works for KAT now it's offline...

UK govt admits it pulled 10-year file-sharing jail sentence out of its arse

Re: "You couldn't make it up."

It would appear we don't need to...

Toshiba notebook disk drive slims down. You like that, gamers?

So....it's thinner so you need some rubber caddy or what to fit it in normal hd space?

Google tried to be funny, cocked it up, everyone thought it was a bug

Re: I am angry

Exactly what I was thinking! Have an upvote :)

China wants a 'Go' at Google's DeepMind

Re: Ultimate thinking

'ose....

Bash on Windows. Repeat, Microsoft demos Bash on Windows

Re: Uh, oh!

On the left?

Oracle v Google: Big Red wants $9.3bn in Java copyright damages

Re: Microsoft Android ©

what?

Brits shun nightclubs and CD-ROMs for lemons, coffee and woman’s leggings

So, Steam sales will keep inflation down then?

We're doing SETI the wrong and long way around, say boffins

Or the Trump effect apparently...

GDS gets it in the neck from MPs over Rural Payments Agency farce

Re: Criminal government incompetence wastes taxpayer's money.

Water isn't wet..

Hillary Clinton: Stop helping terrorists, Silicon Valley – weaken your encryption

Re: To Mrs. Clinton:

Thought that was a Honest Abe quote...

How Microsoft will cram Windows 10 even harder down your PC's throat early next year

Pirated versions still get the upgrade

Vodafone exceeds own upper broadband speed limit to hit 80Mbps

Re: Ah but wait a moment...

43GB in ~2 hours says different. I regularly hit 19+MB/s in Steam while streaming a 1080p ya tube video (gotta do something while the game d/ls). Can hit same with torrents if there are enough seeders or it's a *nix distro. Oh, and they're upgrading me to 200mb/s next month :D

The Ashley Madison files – are people really this stupid?

Re: Lets look at this

You've obviously not seen what his wife looks like!

Sony PC owners to get Windows 10 upgrade as early Christmas present

Re: Looks like Sony hasn't learnt a thing

My Xperia is still on 4.4.4

Mozilla-Microsoft spat latest: Firefox yanks Cortana away from Bing

40 instacrashes, back to 39

'Plague Scanner' controls multiple AV engines, for $0.00

is the only difference being this one is in the cloud? http://www.herdprotect.com/

Script-blocker NoScript lets in ANYTHING from googleapis.com

Google a piss?

Not enabled here by default...make your own whitelist and default block everything unless something on a page doesn't work. Then you have the fun of working out which script out of the shit load of them you actually need.

One USB plug to rule them all? That's sensible, but no...

The Thinkpads that changed the charger connector when we went from T4 series to T6 series and now again with T440's? Those ones?

Pirate Bay towed to oldpiratebay.org

Cache?

What's wrong with Google cache copy?

Boffins' quantum USB stick trumps fibre optic reliability

"Think of it as a USB key for entanglement – albeit one that needs a 2 Kelvin environment to function."

that in a trouser pocket is going to result in quite the cold nut sack tbh...

Arrrr GOSH! Argos website goes titsup to make it EVEN BETTER

Kettles!

I was actually just browsing for kettles and got the error!

London cops cuff 20-year-old man for unblocking blocked websites

Re: Complete bullshit.

Spacedinvader

Facepalm

Google next then?

Their cache servers allow me to do the same thing

Hate quoting myself but when I first heard about ISPs being told to block I did the obvious, not go for a VPN or hide my ass, Google. Google farm damn near every torrent site and their cache servers contain the magnet links, want a pirate? Do no evil.

Google next then?

Their cache servers allow me to do the same thing