Posts by Cassini

Suspicious senate stock sale spurt spurs scrutiny scheme: This website tracks which shares US senators are unloading mid-pandemic

Re: Mark Twain

You don't need a lie detector of any sort for politicians.

PC owners borg into the most powerful computer the world has ever known – all in the search for coronavirus cure

Re: My PC is *THIS* big!

I've joined Vulture Central - let's see what happens. Anyone else going to join?

Re: My PC is *THIS* big!

And mine is even bigger!

I have a Linux 32 cpu AMD core system with 256 GB RAM and over 26 TB of disk space on ZFS. Beat that! :)

Seriously though, I have joined Rosetta, but can't find an El_Reg team to join. Is it called something else, or should I set one up?

The safest place to save your files is somewhere nobody will ever look

Re: Welcome to America - the land of free speech

I had a similar experience, but with so-called experienced UNIX systems administrators. They had put all their admin scripts in /var/tmp and were furious when I cleaned said directory up for space.

I soon found out that their incompetence went even beyond that!

Here's how police arrested Lauri Love – and what happened next

Re: Flocke Kroes AC Although the burden of proof lies with Love

And besides - "If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear."

Tosser!

Rooting your Android phone? Google’s rumbled you again

Re: No problem here - but there is...

I'm looking to root my 'phone, not because of the other stuff, but because it is VERY insecure.

I have a Samsung S3 and, as many of you know, Samsung suck big time at providing updates. So I am forced to switch to CM, and that involves rooting the 'phone. (No, I'm not buying another 'phone because buying hardware to upgrade the software is a shitty way to go.)

I accept that there is an increased attack profile for my banking app, but is it more than I am already exposed to? Shouldn't it be my call to decide which path is the less vulnerable? I would be happy if my bank app said something like "your 'phone is rooted - do you accept responsibility for the security of this device?"*, but just cutting me off from what is a very useful app is simply unacceptable.

* It's not as if they pointed out the vulnerabilities in the first place.

It's replicant Roy Batty's birthday – but hey, where's my killer robot?

Re: You cannot have all SciFi universes succeed

Yes, but a LOT of them.

Re: Never mind the replicants

Very witty. And a tautology to boot. Have an upvote.

Horrifying MOCK BACON ABOMINATION grown in BUBBLING VATS as ALGAE

Snake

You can get exotic meats (like snake) from http://www.exoticmeats.co.uk/.

I've got some, but haven't tried it yet. Please don't tell me it tastes like chicken.

Is that a FAT PIPE or are you just pleased to stream me? TERABIT fibre tested

Headliens

The "TERABIT fibre tested" part of the headline sort of gave it away for me.

Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge in Vulture's claws: we find looks AND brains

They have just tilted the balance the other way.

I put up with Samsung's bloatware and we'll-update-the-os-once-then-you're-on-your-own rubbish because I could change the battery and, most important, use an SD card.

Not any more.

I used to buy Samsung phones.

Not any more.

Gullible Apple users targeted by bogus order cancellation scam

Re: Grandma

I saw what you did there.

Facebook kills pic of Mohammed weeks after Zuck's Je suis Charlie!

Re: When in Rome

I concur. Have another upvote from me.