Posts by anonCoward24

Schoolboy bags $10,000 reward from Google with easy HTTP Host bypass

that "email from Google" looks like a Nigerian scam

send it to every South of the Border kid with a Github. Ask $25 so they can access their payout, "for exchange rates fees".

I should charge a percentage...

At last, a kosher cryptocurrency: BitCoen

Mandatory XKCD reference

https://xkcd.com/512/

No vulns. No hardwired passwords. Patchable. Congress dreams of IoT: Impossible Online Tech

7 mill. I want 7 mill

says someone [reference needed] that f**k-you money nowadays is 7 M rather than just 1

Sun of a b... Rising solar temp wrecks chances of finding ET in our system

Re: Earth is unique, Occam's

Oh gosh, it's like, uh, like the simplest explanation is if some..., something, oh my, someONE, ...

no, no way, it MUST be justa coincidence, or else we would have to obey some rules of behaviour...

No, can't have THAT! Must be free of rules.

It's all just the way it is folks, VERY, very very complicated coincidences, but really nothing special, life is just the product of very ordinary accidental events, no higher power nuthin nothing to see here, anyone tells you otherwise he's some sort of extremist. Free, we must be free!

Set your alarms for 2.40am UTC – so you can watch Unix time hit 1,500,000,000

hex?

66 66 66 66 is in 7 years...

that was raucous good fun, but...

Aren't we the geek supposed to be unto binary, and look from above our glasses those lower life forms that favor decimal ephemeridae?

Thank you, Gene Cash

that's it. so.much.fun

Breaking news, literally: Newspaper's quakebot rumbled for fake story

Re: Y2K

I concur, exactly my thought as I came in to comment

Texas says 'howdy' to completely driverless robo-cars on its roads

Re: Already better than most Houston drivers.

ANYTHING is quite mucho better than hipster drivers as seen during SXSW and even "normal" in Austin, not even talking about those who from time to time make national news...

That place was built for 200 K people max, now sports over 1 M, seemingly all of them feeling like they have the right to do whatever. Would feel like complaining of some Texas hubris, if it weren't that, hmmm, numbers, math..., 80% obviously are not from there

Oh, wow, Canada: No more carrier-locked phones for Canucks

Marcelo Claure, second edition?

Billionnaire Bolivian Marcelo Claure did his first fortune buying Motorola handsets cheaper in Canada (some preferential pricing scheme) and then reselling them in the US

I see room for an enterpreneur bringing back some unlocked mobes otherwise unavailable in the Land Of The Free (tm)

The Big Blue Chopper video that IBM might want to keep quiet

Re: Dilussions of grandure....

We have cricket pitches on American soil for the benefit of our H1b visa employees...

German robo-pastor preaches the GNU Testament

this is not innovative

There were Shinto animatronic "robots" at least since the 1970's, I do recall from Popular Mechanics.

lesseee....

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22robot%22+%22wedding%22+%22japan%22&source=lnms&tbm=isch

Sad fact of the day: Most people still don't know how to protect themselves online

RFIDs in privacy-aware conference?

SXSW in Austin probably would rate pretty high in terms of having a concentrate population that proclaims high and low their hacktivism, privacy, no-to-snooping...

Yet the organisers, and as far as I can tell, the attendees, see nothing wrong with an RFID embedded in the nametag. There is even a RFID policy https://www.sxsw.com/rfid/ that at least does not make the RFID mandatory.

It used to be that you could "opt out" of having your badge scanned for RFID, and have the barcode be read instead. In theory then you could nuke the RFID, and all would be cool. It seems the current gatecheck people are not able to read barcodes anymore, so. Oh well. Since talking about these things can have you tagged as trouble...

To the hypocrites proclaiming privacy, and wearing their RFID tags as if nothing were the matter, I say, (nothing)

I *am* Anon coward, and proud of it!

Geo-boffins say 'quake lifted bits of New Zealand by 8 metres, moved at 3km/second

Re: Sandwich filler?

OK, that's more like sense.

Doesn't fix that tyrannosaur, though, that one was just plain wrong

Re: Sandwich filler?

hear, hear!

3 Km/second just won't do for this kind of mass.

Feels like the last scene of Jurassic Park, can't shake that size head IRL without it blowing apart. That was the only suspension-of-disbelief for me, and I felt bad afterwards. so bad I still remeber it all this many years later. oh, a headache.

Icelandic Pirate Party maroons itself from coalition talks

"Make a change" - but not be responsible...

Oh, the advantages of being in the opposition (or being young)!

You can complain and complain, because of course nothing is your fault, you are not in government (not a parent)!

It really surprises me how the Pirates were SO high in the pre-election polls, then went down, to something not bad - 10 seats is no joke, but they "almost" had to grow up real fast. Might happen some day, will be worth to see. BTW, anyone knows if they intend to stop the shameful killing of whales that Iceland still condones?

Google has unleashed Factivism to smite the untruthy

Great. Now I cannot have a job at the State Department

There was Hillary Clinton rule, that during interview for working at the State Department you were to be asked if you had ever been to the w leeks website, and denied a job if you had (such people obviously were not loyal). I never had. Until now that I clicked on a link on this article.

gahhh

Crash test dummy? Love the excitement of breaking an OS? Fedora 25 Alpha has landed

Re: Federa?

Good try! :-)

no, actually a Chilean meme, from "El Show de Juanelo" a comics blog, where the first to comment adds an icon with a messed up version of "first", in Spanish, "primero", thus "pimedo".

And for the record, the "Federa" was a typo elReg had in the original title (I see they fixed that now)

http://es.juanelo.net

the "pimedo!" image:

http://es.juanelo.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Polera_pimedo2-612x658.png

Federa?

Pimedo!

Google slammed over its 'free' school service

same in Etsy

"Content that you post using our Services is your content (so let’s refer to it as “Your Content”). We don’t make any claim to it."

"By posting Your Content, you grant Etsy a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, sub-licensable, perpetual license to use, display, edit, modify, reproduce, distribute, store, and prepare derivative works of Your Content to provide the Services and to promote Etsy, your Etsy shop, or the Services in general, in any formats and through any channels, including across any Etsy Services or third-party website or advertising medium."

The nuance is in the "non-exclusive". You still own yourself, you can sell yourself to others, as much as you want. Except that Etsy owns whatever you posted there, /also/.

POLAR DINOSAURS prowled ARCTIC NIGHT, cast doubt on COLD BLOOD theory

those dinos were DEAD!

am I the only one that notices that what they say they found was bones? Those dinos obviously did NOT survive the cold...

As it should be, cadet...

Wikipedia: YES! we’ve SAVED the INTERNET again!

Re: (sheepish)

same here. I kept reading the article way past its lameness point just to be able to understand what the *issue* was.

BTW, among the nonsense of those rules is that in places [where? citation needed] works that are copyright-free because of old age can be photographed and freely published if they are flat: paintings, photographs, maps..., but not if they are three-dimensional: sculptures, carvings, models...

All in all, I do applaud at least going through the motion of disagreeing with even *more* nonsense, and glad about your a.k.a. Teenage MP. The EU legislative system is a silly thing to us in the former Colonies, but then y'all laugh at our counties where you cannot buy beer on Sunday, but buying a gun is OK...

BTW, I did get in HR trouble at work here (to the point of being called in to meet a boss behind closed doors), after I addressed this co-worker as "young man", so, beware of age-based dissing...

Did climate change scare off vegan dinos for millions of years? 'Yes'

600 C fires?

pardon me, what makes 600 C fires be extraordinary? If anything, that would be colder than current extremes. Wikipedia "Wildfire" talks of 800 C.

Even if you could calculate a fire temperature from coal samples, a wildfire among sparse vegetation would be far from uniform, and, all in all, its measurement a rather silly exercise. But maybe there *is* something interesting in that... Anyone knows?

Wikipedia’s biggest scandal: Industrial-scale blackmail

Re: Reading two Wikis in parallel

Rules are different among diff language wpedias. EN insists on published sources and those can be cited even if pure nonsense and fluff detail, IMHO the Continent languages are more open to good writing and detail.

Interestingly, the "no original research" is the opposite regarding images. Those generally MUST be original work due to copyright restrictions.