Posts by Paul Herber

Russia is struggling to keep its cybercrime groups on a tight leash

and I thought the first Russian cyber attack was nicknamed DOS-vedanya.

IBM: ALL travel must be approved now, and shut up about the copter

Re: Effective use of time?

'add and subtract numbers?' That's an accountant's job. Hire more accountants!!!!

Cough.

IBM marketeers rub out chopper after visit from CEO Ginni

Woolworths, TWA, PanAm, Enron, IBM ...

Well this is awkward. As Microsoft was bragging about Office at Build, Office 365 went down

Re: I'm in Texas

... and Mexico is even larger.

Trump's cartoon comedy approach to running a country: 'One in, two out' rule for regulations

I took me a while to realise who Potus is. Now, can someone tell me who Doofus is? Are they a double-act?

Linus Torvalds releases 'biggest ever' Linux 4.9, then saves Christmas

With apologies to Greg Lake (RIP) and Pete Sinfield

They sold me a dream of computing

They sold me a silent build

And they told me a shell prompt

'Till I believed in the Kernelite

And I believed in Linus Torvalds

And I looked to the screen with excited eyes

'Till I woke with a yawn on Christmas morn

And I saw him running Linux on his Raspberry Pi's

HBO slaps takedown demand on 13-year-old girl's painting because it used 'Winter is coming'

Game of Thrones? I know what I do on the throne every morning, I often take the newspaper in there with me. I'd give it 5 minutes if I were you.

Siemens Healthcare struck by rebranding madness

So Dilbertacious!

Pebble punts out new firmware to watch you as you sleep

> Your reporter was pleased to discover he had logged 10,000 steps in a day without leaving the house.

So pleased to know that watches are worn on the left wrist.

'Shut down the parts of internet used by Islamic State masterminds'

Re: C'mon guys, let's all just be friends

Let me fix that for you ...

Now let's all sit down and sing Kumbaya together...it worked for Arnold Rimmer.

Irish roll out obligatory drone register

2nd entry - all bagpipes (for they, too, contain drones)

;-)

TalkTalk offers customer £30.20 'final settlement' after crims nick £3,500

Re: That Dido photo

I want to be able to use the phrase "That was a close shave!", but I can't ....

Ireland moves to scrap 1 and 2 cent coins

Maybe it's about time UK petrol and diesel prices were rounded to the nearest 1p instead of this stupid 108.9p/litre!

Microsoft Office 2016 for Windows: The spirit of Clippy lives on

search ribbon

If a ribbon search function is needed in a context-sensitive ribbon then the ribbon design has failed.

Get that OFF dot-com, hysterical France screeches at Google

Could somebody explain to me why:

if this information is so out-of-date and irrelevant then why can the information not just be removed/hidden on the offending website(s)?

Get whimsical and win a Western Digital Black 6TB hard drive

NSA who?

I'm being tracked by who? NSA? National Simian Association? Notional Security for Apes? Naughty and Slutty Anthropoids? Ok, go for it.

Yet another Android app security bug: This time 'everything is affected'

An Alphabet of flaws

An Alphabet of flaws

A is for Android

B is for booboo

C is for crapware

.....

How much info did hackers steal on US spies? Try all of it

Snowden

I don't know why they don't just blame that Edward Snowden chap.

TERROR in ORBIT: Dodgy rocket burp biffs International Space Station off track

1,922 seconds?

1,922 seconds to raise the rocket + space station such a small distance? Not a very powerful rocket or some mistake with the units ... Is it the specific impulse they've quoted?

Sysadmins, patch now: HTTP 'pings of death' are spewing across web to kill Windows servers

Years ago I bought two books, "Writing Solid Code" and "Writing Secure Code", both by Microsoft Press. In the latter, page 453. Required reading for all Microsoft employees.

17 Carnations, The Art of Creative Thinking and Last Night on Earth

NIgel?

Crikey, I thought for a second that was a photoshopped image with a Nigel Farage picture superimposed.

Hello? Police? Yes, I'm a car and my idiot driver's crashed me

will it work underground?

Just be careful if you are being chased through the tunnels in Paris

;-)

Microsoft scrambles to kill Live.fi man-in-the-middle diddle

Suomi of you might think so.

UK call centre linked to ‘millions’ of nuisance robo-calls raided by ICO

Re: "four to six million recorded telephone calls a day"???

> 1) Did nobody from their phone operating compay *notice* this?

VOIP

Stuxnet Redux: Microsoft patches Windows vuln left open for FIVE YEARS

Technology is always changing, is that so?

"Microsoft released a comprehensive security fix in 2010 to address the vulnerability the Stuxnet virus exploited. As technology is always changing, so are the tactics and techniques of cybercriminals."

Microsoft released a comprehensive security fix in 2010 to address the vulnerability the Stuxnet virus exploited. As technology is always changing, so are the tactics and techniques of NSA and other cybercriminals.

Bad news: Robo-cars will make you work billions more hours. Good news: In 2040

If the vehicle is self-driving then will there still be a need for the human to take lessons and pass a driving test? Even children should be able to operate these vehicles in the way they can operate powerful computers today that would have been unimaginable 40 years ago. Parents ask their kids.for help now.

$250K: That's what Lenovo earned to rat you out with Superfish

$250,000

$250,000 will barely pay the annual bonus of the marketing 'droid who thought up this scam

Sick of Chrome vs Firefox? Check out these 3 NEW browsers

Re: Disabling javascript

Thanks (and a deserved upvote) but it just proves the point. But how long until the FF devs break this addon again (on purpose?).

Disabling javascript

It really annoys and worries me that it has now become so difficult to disable javascript in Firefox.

EasyGroup continues bizarre, time-travelling domain crusade

I've just registered the domain name

easydomainhijacking.co.uk

MYSTERIOUS Siberia CRATER: ALIENS or METEOR not involved, officials insist

This hole is an artifact of the birth of a new Russian leader, out of the earth of Mother Russia to take control of the Kremlin. The current leaders won't rest until thay have found something to Putin the hole.

Google mouthpieces: 'Right to be Forgotten' should not apply on google.com

Re: The google.com thing

Bottom right-hand corner of the google.co.uk page is a link "Use Google.com".

Microsoft brings SUNSHINE – but it's a CLOUDY DAY

Is this the tipping point where sales start falling XPonentially?

Is is a Bird? Is it a Plane? NO! LOOK OUT it's an ASTEROID!

ding-dong

If it goes DING and then DONG the asteroid will have to be renamed Leslie Philips.Then we'll discover that it's not an asteroid at all but a defunct computer (Hactar).

Microsoft says to expect AWESOME things of Windows 10 in January

Requirements:

Requirements:

1. Secure: yes

2. Stable: yes

3. Bug free: yes

4. Awesome: no

I'd pay for 1, 2 and 3. Not for 4 though.

Crack open more champagne, Satya, XP's snowballing to HELL

Linux Mint runs quite nicely on my old Win XP machines.

Google Chrome on Windows 'completely unusable', gripe users

I see the problem, the browser version numbers have exceeded their 5-bit address space and the 8-bit swap file has been invoked.