Posts by Forget It

Are open Wi-Fi network bods liable for users' copyright badness?

Re: Please don't fuck this up

> At the moment, the only safe public WiFi that I can use is in McDonalds (here in France).

Obligatory culture reference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLtwFugudZE&t=0m58s

Italian appeal court clears seismologists of manslaughter

Don't you just love the Occam's Eraser that is the Italian justice system.

Not.

Even the judges are ignorant of what Karl Popper told them.

Not only that, they take years to delay decisions so their lawyer mates

can rake it in. Banana justice banana ...

We must SMASH the Democratic Deadlock with MINDFUL EVIDENCE

Re: Spoiler alert

oops auto FAIL!

Wrong it was Philip Larkin not Sir John Betjeman

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178055

This be the Verse

Virgin 'spaceship' pilot 'unlocked tailbooms' going through sound barrier

Feathers

Flight

Icarus

WH Auden

In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away

Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may

Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,

But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone

As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green

Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen

Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,

had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

Happy 2nd birthday, Windows 8 and Surface: Anatomy of a disaster

Re: What is "the Windows client"?

Duh

It's the guy looking thru it to see something better

Microsoft WINDOWS 10: Seven ATE Nine. Or Eight did really

10 in roman numbers is XP with the P extracted

Apple's Watch is basically electric perfume

Let's not compare Apples and Orange

The latter's Watch is already a Clockword Orange

Boom boom.

Heavy VPN users are probably pirates, says BBC

iPlayer from overseas - harder

Since Jan/Feb BBC iPlayer has black listed known TOR exit nodes in the UK - so you can't watch Dr Who from overseas using TOR (not TOR friendly anyways).

But it shows how they've smartened/tighten up.

Some paid Proxy service/VPNs are blocked too - I've heard.

Bear Tunnel worked for me though last week.

CNN 'tech analyst' on NAKED CELEBS: WHO IS this mystery '4chan' PERSON?

Re: The other trick that stumps all hackers

if your not a member of the magic circle - pls do say how...

Edit: oh I see:

http://www.upsidedowntext.com/

Brit Sci-Fi author Alastair Reynolds says MS Word 'drives me to distraction'

Anyone know are the change tracking features in ODF and DOCX compatible?

Galileo, Galileo! Galileo, Galileo! Galileo fit to go. Magnifico

Re: Galileo satellites go into wrong, lower orbit - Esa

Conspiracy theorists

ready steady go....

What's in your toolbox? Why the browser wars are so last decade

Elephant in the room: browsers on smart phones.

Windows Registry-infecting malware has no files, survives reboots

Re: This is silly.

Agreed

I think MalwareBytes has been looking into hidden register values for years.

Senate introduces USA FREEDOM Act to curb NSA spying excesses

Executive Order 12333

that;s my new password

thanks Ron

SHOCK and AWS: The fall of Amazon's deflationary cloud

Ruthless cutting

Bezos still has one more efficiency move to play though:

Chop off one mammary gland.

Like the mythical Amazon women.

Auntie remains MYSTIFIED by that weekend BBC iPlayer and website outage

Normally these weird poorly explained outages

are due to installation of NSA friendly backdoors.

But why would they be interested in what we are

watching listening to?

Mozilla fixes CRITICAL security holes in Firefox, urges v31 upgrade

Reg wrote: "an update to Firefox 31"

the update is, in fact Firefox 31

I believe

UK government officially adopts Open Document Format

Edit the sentence:

Quote:

[PDF/A or HTML are now the standard “for viewing government” while ODF is now expected “for sharing or collaborating on government documents.”]

How about the word editing in place of the touchy feel "sharing or collaborating " ?

UK Parliament rubber-stamps EMERGENCY data grab 'n' keep bill

If that's democracy then I'm a banana.

(where's the banana icon?)

May: UK data slurp law is fine, but I still need EMERGENCY powers

Edwrad Snowden

-> decrypt ->

Edward Snowden

(typo)

British and European data cops probe Facebook user-manipulation scandal

Time to close that FB place down.

Cambridge Assessment exams CHAOS: Computing students' work may be BINNED

OCR - aren't they just photocopy of some other organisation?

Tech talk bloke compares girlfriend to irritating Java tool – did he deserve flames?

Perhaps the Garbage Collector could be run on this topic - could save a lot of angst, and free up some memory - probably

Marc Andreessen: Edward Snowden is a 'textbook traitor'

jwz

Marc Andreessen chips in now.

but jwz (another Netscape founder) was on topic a year ago!

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/06/edward-snowden/

FSF slams Mozilla for 'shocking' Firefox DRM ankle-grab

D irty

R at

M ozilla

?

Thanks for nothing, Apple, say forensic security chaps

but surely much of your data will still be up there on the Apple cloud - to be rifled there - no?

JavaScript guru slots into Mozilla CTO seat left empty by anti-gay marriage ex-boss

meanwhile elsewhere on the web

I encourage all Mozillians to keep going. Firefox OS is even more daunting, and more important. Thanks indeed to all who have supported me, and to all my colleagues over the years, at Mozilla, in standards bodies, and at conferences around the world. I will be less visible online, but still around.

/be

Got Windows 8.1 Update yet? Get ready for YET ANOTHER ONE – rumor

IMHO MS should extend the tile interface into a full jigsaw metaphor - only when you solve the jigsaw do you get to go to work - fun for all the family

Next Windows obsolescence panic is 450 days from … NOW!

It is a panic if (for no reason of your own) your update repeatedly fails - as it did for us:

MS admits the problem here:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-windows_install/kb2919355-windows-81-update-fails-800f0092-and/4d4d23a3-695a-4bd4-b340-d2ce9c75919d?rtAction=1397851607789#ThreadAnswers

For me the fix in that thead eventually worked

Record labels sue Pandora over vintage song royalties

Vintage, antique - going for a song, not.

NSA denies it knew about and USED Heartbleed encryption flaw for TWO YEARS

sort these three words in order:

FAN SH*T HITS

Anatomy of OpenSSL's Heartbleed: Just four bytes trigger horror bug

Brenda McViking tapped out:

Well at least I won't have to change my reg password - as it doesnt even bother with https to protect the login >_<

That probably coz most of the time we commentards at the Reg write such nonsense - no hacker could make sense of it.

Chrome makes new password grab in version 34

It's a shame Chrome can delete it CEO like Firefox can.

Don't be Evil → Don't be greedy

Siri set to rival Windows beauty Cortana after Apple eats Novauris

Meanwhile in other news:

Larry Page admits speech-recognition is not very good right now

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2014/03/googles-larry-page-admits-speech-recognition-is-not-very-good-right-now/#null

I QUIT: Mozilla's anti-gay-marriage Brendan Eich leaps out of door

To the man who signs off as \be

J A V A S C R I P T

needs you

Microsoft in 1-year Windows XP survival deal with UK govt

Are you gonna try an' make this work <-- your sub-heading

You don't have to take this cr*p

You don't have to sit back and relax

[...]

Lights go out - walls come tumbling down!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5HfOipwvts&t=0m20s

...

Don't look at Maria's SQL, look at MY SQL, pleads Oracle

mySQL ?

TheirSQL more like it

MPs attack BT's 'monopolistic' grip on gov-subsidised £1.2bn rural broadband rollout

> Local authorities are still contractually prevented from sharing information

BT = mafia UK

'I will not work with Facebook... they seem creepy to me'

Political correction anybody?

FINALLY Microsoft releases Office for iPad – but wait there's a CATCH

Touch Orifice

Something unappealing about putting your middle finger on to Microsoft Orifice

The Reg's desert XP-ocalypse aversion plan revealed

IrfanView

processExplorer

AdvanceIPScanner

Recuva

Speedfan

SpywareBlaster

Bruce Schneier sneers at IBM's NSA denials

I think it is plausible that Bruce S could deny that he sneered at IBM.

I think he was forceful but diplomat.

JavaScript mastermind Brendan Eich leaps into the Mozilla CEO seat

Scotland?

Brendan Eich, "Taking Both the High and Low Roads" not just figuratively

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZqhRICne_M

It's 2014 and you can pwn a PC by opening a .RTF in Word, Outlook

ElReg writes:

Microsoft Word 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, and Office for Mac 2011 are vulnerable, according to Redmond. Microsoft Office Web Apps, Automation Services on SharePoint Server 2010 and 20103, and Outlook 2007, 2010 and 2013 when using Word as the email viewer, are also affected.

Legacy code or what!

Their latest Web Apps replicate a bug of Word 2003???

Code review any one?

ROBO-SNOWDEN: Iraq, the internet – two places the US govt invaded that weren't a threat

Re: Google

or Startpage

Question: how was this screen robotic?

Did it have actuators an'all?

GitHub probes worker's claims of hostile, sexist office culture

Git Hub

the clue is in the name ?

Tony Benn, daddy of Brit IT biz ICL and pro-tech politician, dies at 88

Re: Must be a techie...

Mark wrote:

> Apparently Benn has been recording and writing all his life and needed to keep the old tech working so he could access his old stuff.

They can, and do, misquote him now - poor thing.

Snowden: You can't trust SPOOKS with your DATA

A bit of a cryptic message don't y'think?