Posts by Forget It

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?

SACRILEGE! Hitchhiker's Guide game's back ... and it TWEETS at you

BTW you can also listen to the first episode here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jlzj#context

at least for the few days, when another one comes along to take it's place.

Neil Young touts MP3 player that's no Piece of Crap

Like!

1 Like for that p.o.c ditty.

Like:- also as in Like a Hurricane.

Mt Gox fielded MASSIVE DDOS attack before collapse

Burning Chrome

Burning Chrome foresaw such.

Putin to battle Snowden for Nobel Peace Prize

RegSez: Putin to battle Snowden for Nobel Peace Prize

Close contest then.

Two in five Brits cough up for CryptoLocker ransomware's demands

Doesn't say if did the ones that paid go their data back or not.

Another climate change myth debunked by proper climate scientists

microclimate

So it's all a storm in a teacup then.

Dropbox erects sueball shield with new T&C and privacy legalese

Re: Dripbox

Or dropped into the box marked rubbish.

WhatsApp founder: Believe us, internet! 'Twas a DODGY network router WOT DONE IT

Re: Tinfoil Hattery...

probably true - the same thing happened to Skype after being acquired by MS - remember the supenodes going dwn?

Google, Apple pop a cap in that Flappy Birds crapp app flapp

Twikky wikky wikky wee - courtesy of Edward Lear

On a little piece of wood,

Mr. Spikky Sparrow stood;

Mrs. Sparrow sate close by,

A-making of an insect pie,

For her little children five,

In the nest and all alive,

Singing with a cheerful smile

To amuse them all the while,

Twikky wikky wikky wee,

Wikky bikky twikky tee,

Spikky bikky bee!

'Maybe we haven't been clear enough about med records opt-out', admits NHS data boss

Where is the option for so I can keep the right half of my body private?

The the left hand won't know that the right hand is doing!

Sounds like the organization running this scheme.

IT executive at JP Morgan dies in fall from bank's London HQ

I am your opus,

I am your valuable,

The pure gold baby

That melts to a shriek.

I turn and burn.

Do not think I underestimate your great concern.

This tool demands access to YOUR ENTIRE DIGITAL LIFE. Is it from GCHQ? No - it's by IKEA

Kitchen sink approach to asking permission

Prince sues 22 music file-sharers for ONE MEEELLION dollars each

Prince & The Pauper (not)

Purple reign of terroor

Stephen Fry rewrites computer history again: This time it's serious

Do you want Frys with that - or just chips?

Fancy a little kinky sex? GCHQ+NSA will know - thanks to Angry Birds

Re: Why don't the NSA just put out their own App?

That's like Winston Smith buying a HDTV - so Big-Brother could spy on him better.

Microsoft loses grip on Christmas shoppers... despite XBox boost

Microsoft isn't just fro Xmas...