Posts by RedCardinal

Bye bye MP3: You sucked the life out of music. But vinyl is just as warped

>>However, now that the MP3 looks to be heading to a retirement home

Yeah so it is lololololol.

Meanwhile, in the real world (where practically everyone listens to music in mp3 format)....

Dungeons & Dragons finally going digital

they've missed the boat rather given that you can get all this stuff on Roll20...

Official: America auto-scanned visitors' social media profiles. Also: It didn't work properly

>>The US Department of Homeland Security used software to scan social media accounts of people visiting America

What happens(ed) is your social media accounts aren't in your real name?

Google, what the hell? Search giant wrongly said shop closed down, refused to list the truth

Google asking to be sued yet again?

Post-Brexit five-year UK work visas planned – report

Re: Meanwhile...

>>Well, this is what the people voted for

They didn't vote for it in Scotland where 68% voted to remain. However, hardly anyone voted there for our current tory government either (remind me again how many Conservative MPs there are in the whole of Scotland? Answer - One). So hey ho.

And they wonder why some people might be in favour of Independence...

Police drones, robo surgeons and chatbot civil servants. What could go wrong?

*sigh* right-wing think tanks eh!

Ask people what they want when they need something and the answer will invariably be - they want to speak with a real person. It's already difficult enough to do so...

Playpen child sex abuse archive admin gets 20 years in the Big House

>>Given that the site had over 150,000 members..

Well given that the supposed 200 people actually identified haven't been prosecuted (and why not?) it looks like this operation has netted a huge 3 convictions. Yes I'd clearly rate that as a huge success....

As for refusing to reveal how they took down the site in Tor I cynically suspect that's because it wasn't done via TOR but due to one or more members revealing info that allowed them to be identified and tracked down outside the dark web.

BT installs phone 'spam filter', says it'll strain out mass cold-callers

>>Digital minister Matt Hancock described nuisance callers as "a terrible blight on society"

Well why don't you and the government you work for actually do something to prevent them...

Google nukes ad-blocker AdNauseam, sweeps remains out of Chrome Web Store

Another good reason not to use Chrome (as if we needed another...)

Rollout of smart meters continues at a snail's pace

Re: I know it's El Reg

Except that "spastic" clearly is regarded as the offensive term for cerebal palsy. Trying to claim that it applies to anyone who is affected by any kind of spasm is pretty feeble...

A year or two ago a guy came around from my gas provider to check that I would be able to have a gas smart meter installed and having made several checks, the guy said "nope you won't get a decent wifi signal here". And thats been that.

HMS Queen Lizzie to carry American jets and sail in support of US foreign policy

>>Reuters reported Sir Kim as saying the deployment would take place in 2020, a year ahead of Queen Elizabeth's scheduled debut operational deployment with her F-35B fighter jets

Good luck with those jets actually being in service by 2020. Remind me again how we apparently can't afford the NHS/State penions/etc etc but can afford an aircraft carrier with no aircraft on it...

Google proudly regards dented shovel as Flash lies supine on the floor

Use what? Oh, Google Chrome. *Loses interest*

Citizens Advice slams 'unfair' broadband compensation scheme

Re: wow

>>It almost looks like CAB is working for someone who pays taxes

CAB works for anyone who needs help. Now please take your moronic comments elsewhere ignoramus.

No super-kinky web smut please, we're British

Ah blocking porn websites, Yes that'll work just was well as it has for Piratebay rofl

More movie and TV binge-streaming sites join UK banned list

>>geektv.is, hdmovie14.net, spacemov.com, hdmovieswatch.net, watchmovie.ms, streamallthis.is, 123movies.to, gowatchseries.biz, themovie4u.com, series-cravings.me, movietubenow.biz, genvideos.org and moviesub.net

Good of the register to print the site names. Now people know what to search for with the word "proxy" attached :)

Re: success so far for reducing traffic to the blocked sites

Using Tor for p2p file-sharing is not to be encouraged. For starters, it clogs up the bandwidth available.

All these blocks do is prevent people accessing torrent websites. They don't actually block p2p software at all.

To bypass the block all one needs to do is do web search for "<name of torrent site> proxy", go to anyone of the many sites that will come up in the search and simple click on a link and hey presto, you're at the torrent site web page.

No need for VPN in the slightest!

HP Inc's rinky-dink ink stink: Unofficial cartridges, official refills spurned by printer DRM

I have to ask the perhaps obvious question - If you're printer is working fine, WHY would you want or need a firmware update?

Google plots cop detection for auto autos

Re: Patent Algorithims

>>It wouldn't be hard for the traffic lights themselves to signal to drivers to pull over when an emergency vehicle is due to come up behind them. This signal could take the form of a flashing blue arrow, perhaps. There are several ways the traffic lights could be alerted to an approaching ambulance.

You mean apart from completely redesigning (and possibly physically replacing) every traffic light...

BBC detector vans are back to spy on your home Wi-Fi – if you can believe it

Re: What a pile of c**p!

>>There is absolutely no need for the BBC to reply any sort of 'detector' anything... they already have every detail the need, simply because you logged into iPlayer.

Err, the only problem with this is simply that you don't need to be logged in (or even registered) to use the iPlayer online... :)

Re: Fixed it

That's what I do (although I have a tv licence anyway so...). Haven't got any of that overpriced laptop shite. Desktop instead = no need for wireless :)

Web meltdown: BT feels heat from angry punters

Re: Use BT; deserve what you get

>>If you choose BT you don't deserve good service. And I think you know that

Yeah yeah, whatever.

Meanwhile, the rest of us will use a large ISP (like BT) and which we generally have no problems with. I use BT at home and they're fine . I see no need to change to a small ISP no one's ever heard of and which only has 3 customers.

But feel free to feel superior to the rest of us...

FBI: Er, no, we won't reveal how we unmask and torpedo Tor pedos

In every case so far, they've been caught either through flash exploits or by revealing details about themselves which have allowed them to be indentified outside of the Dark web. As far as I'm aware the Feds don't have any handy way of "unmasking" people other than replying on people's stupidity...

Re: I am all for...

>>I can think of no crimes worse than ruining the future of a child, or indeed of harming a child in any way shape or form out of some malice or perversion.

Not even say, murder? Or blowing up a bomb in Belgium that kills dozens of peoples. You're really saying that child absue (horrible although it is) is worse? I think you need to get a perspective here...

Chinese loan sharks seek salacious selfies as collateral

Re: Shurely

It's not just their face that people will be seeing :P

Winston Churchill glowers from Blighty's plastic fiver

Re: Second plastic notes in general circulation in Blighty

Ah but you're forgetting England = Britain....

Bank in the UK? Plans afoot to make YOU liable for bank fraud

In the way of these things I have a sneaking suspicion that the customer will be liable by default and then have to try and prove that they weren't....

Chrome edges out IE for desktop browser crown

Re: These figures are distorted

>>Many users have no choice but to continue to run IE.

We're forced to sue IE9 at my place of punishment and it is utterly shite...

Re: Not great options

Indeed.

A Google product. I think I'll pass thanks...

Facebook bungs 10-year-old kid $10k to not 'eliminate' Justin Bieber

Re: Just how bad does it have to be

>>Sharp minds have little people, and harder to fool

Is this a Yoda saying? :P

Finance bods SWIFT to update after Bangladesh hack

I lol'd at the ludicrous photo accompanying this article. Someone's been watching too much of the Matrix methinks.... :P

F-35's dodgy software in the spotlight again

Re: And how does ALIS apply to countries other than the US

Th UK is beholden to buy them, for our new aircaft carrier that doesnt actually have any aircraft on it....

Adblock wins in court again – this time against German newspaper

>>It nowadays bogs down the system more than all possible ads put together can do

Really? Strange how it has no visible negative affect at all on my 4 year old mid-range pc....

Re: ironically acceptable ads will probably kill adblock

I'm with you on this. I've never had any ads either :)

Ransomware now using disk-level encryption

The dead give away surely is the WARNING with lots of exclamation marks :)

I beg you, please don't back up that secret directory full of photos!

Re: Unprofessional

>>Doctors kinda tend to be _actually_ bound by the Hippocratic oath they take

*cough* a myth, medics haven't been required to take a Hippocratic oath since at least the 30s. Some (most?) medical schools do offer some sort of similiar oath but they're not compulsary.

How exactly do you rein in a wildly powerful AI before it enslaves us all?

A.I? What A.I.

I wouldn't worry. We're never going to have A.I. We're basically no nearer to it than we were say, 20 years ago...

Donald Trump promises 'such trouble' for Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Re: Inherited Wealth

>>We have a thing called "free speech"- you might have heard of it.

Do we still have that under our curent caring benevolent regime? Does Theresa may know? :P

Court: Swedish ISPs can't be forced to block Sweden's Pirate Bay

Re: At the moment ....

I've never had any problems with BT as an ISP (my current provider). But then I know what I'm doing so I guess I'm not "enlightened" because I don't have any need at all to use another ISP.

Re: At the moment ....

Or they'll just search Google* for "piratebay web proxy"

*other search engines are available ;)

UK to stop children looking at online porn. How?

>>Commercial porn websites face big fines

How exactly are they going to fine (and enforce the fines) on all those companies situated outside the UK (ie 99% of them)?

*silence*

Blighty cops nab Brit teen for 'hacking' CIA Brennan's AOL email

Re: "Crackas with Attitude"

I think that was originally spelt "crackers with attitude" ;)

Shopping for PCs? This is what you'll be offered in 2016

Re: Any news on laptop resolutions?

or buy a desktop with better specs at half the price. Oh but wait....:P

Don't touch that PDF or webpage until your Windows PC is patched

Re: A fresh install of Mint 17.3 down to 12 mins with an SSD, fully updated.

>>Windows Update just doesn't work anymore on 7

Well that's strange as my Windows 7 update worked fine yesterday.....

Danish Sith Lord fined in Galactic Republic rumpus

And in what way was this any different from two drunk people arguing/fighting over...anything (let's say football)? Oh but wait, Star Wars. Hilarity ensues...

Using "saddometer" is also a little bit ironic coming from The Register, who's main audience is probably considered by the general pubic to be disctinctly nerdish. Pot calling kettle black there I think :P

FBI: We unmasked and collared child porn creep on Tor with spy tool

Re: Could someone let Director James R. Clapper know...

I'm confused.

How did they do this when (as far as I know), Tor Browser doesn't come with Adobe Flash Player (shockwave) installed? Did this guy actually install it as an add-on himself?

Also, well done cops for revealing to everyone how you caught this guy! Any dodgy criminals (pedos or otherwise) reading will now change their shockwave settings so that your cunning plan won't work twice...

You ain't nothing but a porn dog, prying all the time: Cyber-hound sniffs out hard drives for cops

Re: Sounds Expensive

>>nd how much data they want to create, share and store and they use external hard disk drives rather than micro sd to hide stuff.

.

Except that you can easily put, oh say, 60+gb on an SD card. That sounds a lot of storage space to me...

Windows for Warships? Not on our new aircraft carriers, says MoD

Surely it doesn't matter anyway given the lack of available aircraft for these white elephants *cough* sorry, aircraft carriers.