Posts by Joey M0usepad

Happy birthday, Amiga: The 'other' home computer turns 30

Re: Fond memories.

Seeing as you missed out as a teen - heres a beer :)

gotta love those "real time graphics demos" , like 9 fingers

LinkedIn ices over bountiful executive phishing spot

Re: about

nice going! now if you could take down facebook the world would be a more productive place :)

Lottery IT security boss guilty of hacking lotto computer to win $14.3m

Re: @Mage Lotteries

"The problem with calling it a "tax" is that no one is obligated to play."

"ok so some metphors dont bear close examinatio" - Neil Pye

Re: Are you saying...

I think part of the security setup would be not allowing stage magicians to tamper with it :)

Bill Hicks: 25 years on from the cult comedian's big break

who's Lenny Bruce?

I cannae dae it, cap'n! Why I had to quit the madness of frontline IT

that is not the coalface

Rise of the Machines: ROBOT KILLS MAN at Volkswagen plant

if these robots arnt murderous why are they kept in cages?

Pirate MEP pranks Telegraph with holiday snap scaremongering

they still running this on the Dail Mail site. I guess they wont let truth get in the way of a good "Crazy EU beurocrats" story

As the US realises it's been PWNED, when will OPM heads roll?

Did I miss a meeting? what actually happened and who too? this article is just a load of finger pointing.

Hackers exploit fresh PC hijack bug in Adobe Flash Player, the internet's screen door

Re: Meh

but how do you watch iplayer on your lunch break?

This whopping 16-bit computer processor is being built by hand, transistor by transistor

"To all the downvoters of my comment above, do you really need to be told that a transistor is a digital switch?"

As the refined chap said , that is far from the case - thats why there are big ones with big heat sinks attached in your amplifier.

Vintage Ask toolbar is malware – and we'll kill Jeeves, says Microsoft

Re: Unwanted and unloved yet....

Ive just invented a new term : "Idiotware"

Cops turn Download Festival into an ORWELLIAN SPY PARADISE

Re: Pretend hippies?

"I *don't* need to purchase "official sponsor" beer. I *don't* have to leave the fun zone and retire to a camp site at midnight because mommy says I have to"

Amen

Shine a light on the rogue IT that hides in the company shadows

I dont think you follow AC.

yes you make things easier and make savings - in the same way that a van or a set stepladders does for a window cleaner, as hollyhop said

Fanbois designing Windows 10 – where's it going to end?

you know what grinds my gears about recent window implementations?

just off the top off my head:

- Giant icons where you cant read the filename (a problem since day 1)

- that stupid printer queue combining thing in w7

- hiding the bottom-right icons so you cant see how much shit is running (w7)

We stand on the brink of global cyber war, warns encryption guru

sounds like he's touting for business

Science teacher jammed his school kids' phones, gets week suspension

stop the world i want to get off!

All this debate just shows the moderrn world has not caught up with technology. We'll look back in 25 years and think " What were we doing?" or "it was like the wild west back then" or similar.

You cant begin to see the effects on society of this mass / constant communication until decades later.

I'm not saying its a bad thing - it'll be fun to observe....

Hacker launches ransomware rescue kit

Re: Procedures

I'm not sure how a sample recovery would tell you anything. If the file is getting encrypted but remaining useable for months - how will restoring a backup change anything?

Admittedly I dont know how the malware could encrypt quietly - ie have the file still open normally , yet still be encypted when it wants it to be - unless theres an active transparent decrypter running - but this would only work if the files are only accessed by the one infected machine - which is not that likely in a commercial environment

Mobiles at school could be MAKING YOUR KID MORE DUMBER

It never occurred to me that schoolkids were allowed to play on their phones during lessons!

Next-gen Freeview telly won't be another disruptive 4Ker

uhd? i dont want hd!

I have a freeview hd vbox , and tv. I got all the hardware , and its all set up.

I dont watch HD though because swithing to hdmi1 takes about 2 seconds longer than switching to scart1 . also if i watch a hd channel its up in the 300's and far away from the non hd channels.

In actual quality , on a 32" tv its barely distinguishable

Californians get first chance to be run over by a Google robot

Booring

what they STILL arnet on the roads?? how many millions of articles have we had about these things being "coming soon" ? what wa that one a couple of days ago - millions of miles / 4 crashes ? I thouht that meant they were on the road - that whole 4 craches figure is even more pointless now i know it was on a test track . I could have done that with my scalextric set!

When these cars are on the road , and by road i mean the one near me that has a boozer on it , i'm not interested

Hacker 3D prints device that can crack a combo lock in 30 seconds

Re: Stop with the 3D printing headlines

indeed it illustrates the gimmick that 3d printing is , seeing as most of the machine isnt 3d printed

BONKERS apocalyptic WAR WAGONS circle Vulture South

from what ive heard this film is one long car chase with no story

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

is kickstarter just a begging site now? or would a donator get some return on that investment?

SHOCK! Robot cars do CRASH. Because other cars have human drivers

Re: Not enough storage in the world for that lot.

I thought the same when i heard all skype calls were recorded the other day ( probly optional) but its done at the users end so its all distributed , so the GBs can be done.

Massive police 'heavy equipment' robot drags out suspect who hid inside television

Re: Hmm...

I think after the text messages failed they should have moved on to a major, i mean major, leaflet campaign. And then a quiche drive....

Barclaycard axes bonking payments bracelet

whats so good about bonking?

Can someone explain to me the benefit of Contactless Payment?

It seems to me the only thing physically different is that your card is read by RFID ( or similar ) rather than putting your card into a reader to read the details.

To me - the time saved by waving your card AT a machine over putting your card IN a machine is absolutely neglible. The delay comes when you have to stare at the card reader saying things like "please wait" or "checking pin".

So it seems to me that the only time savings that have been made is that with the new lardy dah contactless system all security has been thrown out of the window in the interests of speed: no checking that account even exists ,and no checking the pin, hence the £20 limit. no wonder its faster.

couldnt they just do that for the swipe system too? stop bothering to check on prices under £30?

At least then you wouldnt be at risk of NFC pirates running around waving phantom paypoints at peoples pockets.

Ransomware scum find the sweet spot to coin it without copping it

It does however mean that you probably lose the last 6 months or more of work , illustrating that ransomeware that bides its time is more of a pain in the arse. Imagine an I.T dept admitting they hadnt done a backup for six months after everything goes down. thats the situation - even if you have a working 12 month setup and month 7 is ok.

E-voting and the UK election: Pick a lizard, any lizard

estonia - embracing the future!

hardcore tech being used for real stuff.

You luddites have to get with the program and stop screaming "civil liberties!" evertime som progress is made. Hi tech isnt just for playing candy crush and amiga emulators you know!

Console makers game the EU Commission to avoid energy-use law

My tumble dryer appears to have voluntarily started saving energy too, by putting barely any heat in

SMACK! EU set to hit Google with 'abuse of dominance' rap

Re: Hope this gets sorted

whats the worst that could happen? google pulls its servers out of EU and you have to go to america (or africa) so your search takes 1 second longer

Dev gives HBO free math tips to nail Game of Thrones pirate leakers

individual copies? easy then

well if you're going to modify each individual copy then yes its easy , there would be many many ways available to "tag " each copy with intended recipient

I dont think the media companies bother doing that though.

You'd have thought it would be pretty easy in these days of automation. Eg just add a code to a few random frames.

Cyber-crypto-criminal-cock-up. Little money and (probably) embarrassed

Re: real OS

1) You are of course correct.

2) Hardware spec. Garage PCs job is playing mp3s, streaming music from Planet Rock & other general browsing and running obd2 programs over bluetooth .I have a few elderly laptops lying around #1 struggling to run win 7 so i shut a few unneeded services and killed it. #2 I put ubuntu on it and was much more sprightly. Streaming Planet Rock no problem . Tried an mp3 and halfway through the track the machine had some sort of emblysm and i found myself wondering that the linux is for ctrl-alt-delete. "musicbox has suffered a blah blah blah ..."

3) I'll have a look for that python obd2 program. I doubt this machine has the power to run windows in a box if it cant run it natively. also i'd have to make sure the usb and bluetooth hardware was piped into the emulation , which would no doubt go wrong. Quite worried about getting usb & bluetooth working in the linux actually but Its probly not the first time its come up .

4) Maybe you should consider your own version theres possibly money to be made. People are still mostly under the delusion that if their engine light comes on its going to be a case of "Hooking it up to the big magic supercomputer at the main dealer and getting charged £100 upwards just to look at it" and that "cars are all computers these days not like they used to be" which is the equavalent of luddite office workers in the '70s and '80s saying "you'll never get me off the typewriter , at least i know where the tippex is with this"

The actual hardware interface for talking to your car is £7 on ebay

Dumbing down

I once saw a phishing email purporting to be a bank. The author of which appeared unaware that he could lift the logo from the site to use in his scam - instead he settled for in incredibly poor photo of a leaflet on a desk to use as the logo.

In spite of this he did seem to have a botnet at his disposal

How do I get my data onto the read only media?

real OS

I'd run a "decent OS" if there was a decent free OBD2 reader program for it - like there is for windows, and not the half finished command line utility i found last time i looked. Know of one 80's coder?

Paul Allen hunts down sunken Japanese WWII super-battleship

Sad we never got fired at

" Sadly perhaps, these mighty guns never got the chance to fire at any enemy battleships "

for Enemy Battleships read "us" , or pehaps more accurately "US"

I for one am quite happy not to have "the biggest guns ever put to sea" fired at me!

LOOK OUT, Brits – is that a Facebook LASER-GUN drone above us?

How are these things propelled? can you use a propeller at 90k ft?

Dont we have satellites for that?

Discreet fighting man: Battlefield Hardline

So are EA just calling all their games "Battlefield" now in order to cash in on the success of their Battlefield game?

Pirate Party leads Icelandic voting intentions poll

Re: should of

Should have!

Hackers prove security still a myth on Windows PCs, bag $320,000

0.512 seconds thats some speed!

0.512 seconds thats some speed!

Honey, I shrunk the Windows footprint

I hope theyve ditched that winsxs folder. as far as i could tell that was just a 5gb copy of the install media

Samsung puts eight-core processor IN A WATCH

overclock!!!!

When i get mine I'm gonna overclock it! and watercool it . using my blood .

Google adds evil-code scanning to Play Store

billions?

"customers who spend billions of dollars each year in the Play Store"

wow who are those people?

Vince Cable opens hipster-friendly London tech creche

huh?

so its a whatnow?

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

Re: They *are* just trying to keep us safe

Hey thanks for the replies Pascal, AC, Hadvar & Localzuk

so we have :

"Theyll start inventing new laws" - cant they do that with and without the DNA etc?

"innocent until proven guilty will be reversed" - will it? + cant they do that with and without the DNA etc?

"kinky sex will become illegal" - cant they do that with and without the DNA etc?

"assumption that if you're on the database you've done something wrong" - well no, see dvla etc

"new laws invented re protesting and crowds etc" - cant they do that with and without the DNA etc?

Sorry but none of those reasons , to me , are more useful than the chance of getting my toaster back when some waste of oxygen smackhead breaks into my kitchen.

Obviously I can see that a regime like that would be paradise for a malicious dictator / totalitarian regime - but safeguards could be put in place.

Re: Future, what future - They *are* just trying to keep us safe

I'm going to make another one of my regular appeals for some to tell me what the fucking problem is and express it in a way other than screaming "civil liberties"

Tell me how the cons will out way the pros.

If everyone had fingerprints , DNA and regular mugshots taken surely crime would be cut in half?

If some asshole thug in a pub decides to stick a glass in my face and then waltz out the door into anonymity and have a good laff about it. what a buzzin night. quality . kicked some fkers 'ead in too.

I'd like to think that if I was lucky enough to get some CCTV , or some DNA that that would be game over for the offender. As it is currently unless the investigating copper recognises perp thats it game over for the victim.

Maybe if really really serius it'll go on crime watch and the police will say "anybody recognise this guy?" which is akin to "If we'd have took prints dna & mugshots we'd know already - please help us we're pissing in the wind here"

Microsoft: You'll get the next Windows 10 build when we're GOOD AND READY

Re: They have to get it right.

"So what are you actually referring to?

maybe something that can display the pictures and play the music in a useable way - then i wont have to install winamp and acdc all the time