Posts by Pseudonymous Diehard

Fretful Amazon wishes it could get more Android action

Re: Amazon v Google

Err are all the features of AWS just a gimmick then? Amazon is capable of offering almost all of the services Google offers...and if it got its shit together...with a higher level of configurability.

Google Drive et al are fine...but what if you could containerise elements of your file storage to prevent cross contamination of junk.

E.g. young Tarquin gets his own private 2GB of the 50gb family drive, mum gets her 4GB little Esmerelda gets 2GB and daddy gets the rest.

Amazon could easily do that within the scope of AWS.

They could also containerise email for folks. Sonrather than all the mailboxes going into a vast database with the rest of the herd a family / business could have their own segregated mail setup.

From a front end perspective it could resemble standard emailbservice but from a backend perspective its isolated, encrypted and stored separately.

Amazon has the resources to pull off something special but they just want to hawk tat.

Show us the code! You should be able to peek inside the gadgets you buy – FTC commish

Re: Open Source FTW

Eventually someone found the bug though.

In a closed source system someone will probably never find the bugs or indeed own up to them.

BBC risks wrath of android rights activists with Robot Wars reboot

Robot Wars reboot?

How about Jack Dee presenting it.

At least he makes not wanting to be there quite amusing.

Failing that...Noel Fielding and Richard Ayoade?

I like to idea of Robert Llewelyn but only if he comes as Kryten.

You've heard of Rollercoaster Tycoon – but we can't wait for Server Tycoon

Oh wow...

Gaming history just took a weird turn.

Pong to Doom to...Visio?

I for one can't wait for the guys at Championship Manager to wake up and start work on Project Manager 2017.

So is it 4.5G or LTE-Advanced Pro? Either way, it’s pretty damn quick

What can you do

...with 4.5G that you cant on 4G?

Nothing, because there will still be a 1GB limit and hefty charging thereafter.

200 experts line up to tell governments to get stuffed over encryption

If they backdoor encryption

Does that mean cryptocurrency gets backdoored too?

Perhaps thats the goal?

Law enforcement versus Silicon Valley's idle problem children

Security is weak

Because nobody wants to to spend the money on the kit.

I regularly get asked "what are the chances of it happening to us?" or I get told "nobody would bother hacking into our stuff, we're not interesting enough!".

I'm not a liar so I explain that the chances aren't high but in having crappier kit you increase the chances of being found to have vulnerabilities through the use of Shodan etc.

Also, the very fact you are uninteresting is a great reason to want to hack in. Low key targets are surely less likely to act aggressively in the fall out than a high profile target.

I know people are going to down vote me here since im blaming the kit and the youngsters amongst us actually believe its the config not the kit that matters...but ask yourself this...would you rather be sitting behind a proper hardware firewall <insert brand you worship> or something like a netgear DG834 P.O.S. ??

One costs a lot of money one can be picked up at PC World / Maplin for less than £30. You get what you pay for in the security world.

Got no budget? You get no security.

Yes, even those of you that have your Active Directory and your GPOs. You guys are even more vulnerable. That dumbass CEO you secretly gave admin rights to and permission to open anyones mailbox...hes the one link that renders your whole setup worthless.

Don't flip your lid: The Internet of Helmets has arrived

Internet of Helmets?

Thats been around for ages. Just take a look at Chatroulette / Omegle.

UK.gov pooh-poohs Virgin Media's whinge to Brussels over beefy broadband pot

VM?

I want my broadband bare metal. I dont want it virtualised.

Jokes aside, im on VM s'alright.

Its not the 300Mbps I had on a remote island in Thailand though.

*grumble*

Im going back to the angry dome. Im clearly not done yet.

Hate your broadband ISP? Simply tell your city to build one – that'll get the telcos' attention

Broadband

In the UK has been crap since they originally deployed ADSL and transparent proxying (seriously ISPs, turn that shit off, the days of dial up are gone).

That said, the state of things in South Africa is far worse than any country I've ever been to. They still have data capped tariffs for everything and its mindbogglingly expensive.

The best country EVER for broadband that I have visited was Thailand. I managed to get a 300Mbps connection on Koh Jum. Look for it on Google Maps. Seriously....300Mbps.

It's a friggin' tiny island in the middle of sweet nowhere, I had to get there on a crappy fishing boat...and they still managed that broadband speed.

In fact, everywhere I went in Thailand had great wifi and mobile signal. I had at least 3G everywhere I went...and I went to some remote places.

Oddly the worst place for wifi in Thailand was Pantip Plaza (if you're a true geek and haven't been, go, now. Amazing place if you spend a decent amount of time there and wade through the piles of fakes and knock offs). Even the knocks off are brilliant...and the knock offs of the knock offs. The typos man.

"Meats by Dre" was my personal favourite.

Anyways, I've gone on a tangent.

I live 10 miles out of London, and I can't even dream of speeds like they had in Koh Jum. I wouldn't dare, BT might charge me for it.

300Mbps. ON AN ISLAND!!!

Excuse me while I take a quick trip to the angry dome. I need to cool off.

What the world needs now is Pi, sweet $5 Raspberry Pi Zero

Re: Overpriced

Tony Stark built the first Iron Man suit...in a cave...with a box of scraps!!!

He didnt have a Pi Zero. All he had was a cache of expensive high tech missile equipment.

If he had $5 for a Pi Zero though perhaps the suit would have been way better.

Microsoft Windows: The Next 30 Years

Re: @ Chairo (was:Thailand is the only Asian country never to be colonised)

The US colonised Japan?

IMPOSSIBRUUUUUUUU!

Android on Windows is disruptive because neither Microsoft nor Google can stop it

Right...

Im not entirely savvy when it comes down to Android compatibility...

But you've been able to run Android in VirtualBox for ages...

http://www.howtogeek.com/164570/how-to-install-android-in-virtualbox/

Complete with Play Store etc...

Am I missing something here?

Why Microsoft's .NET Core is the future of its development platform

Yes yes

But what about Visual Studio? Linux version anytime soon?

Dell PCs to be never knowingly undersold by John Lewis this Chrimbo

I think there is

Very much still a consumer market. Samsung, Sony et al have probably withdrawn because they can no longer sell mid range tat for premium prices...

Dell will hopefully learn lessons here. As someone mentiomed if they sort the pricing out they might do well...

They also need to resolve some quirks with specs. Especially in the 15 inch area.

Dell knows thats the size most dumb consumers tend to want to buy and thats reflected in the generally trashy specs.

Who wants a 1366x768 15" display with 2GB RAM and an i3 for £400? Raise your hands!

A solid 12" Core-M, a reasonable i5 15" and a balls on 17" i7 and consumers are set.

All with minimum 1080p screens.

DS5: Vive la différence ... oh, and throw away the Citroën badge

I drive a Berlingo.

Its ace.

Had it for 8 years...I even hit a spare wheel that fell off a coach on the M3 and the only damage it caused was a busted bulb. Not even the cover smashed.

People comaining about Citroen build quality bought the wrong cars.

A low end "aimed at teenagers" hatchback is never going to be solid. Buy a grown up car and you'll get what you pay for.

ISIS operates a crypto help desk – report

See?

Everyone needs tech support. Run a story on that so I can go to my clients and put my prices up.

Im determined for the myth "theres lots of money in IT" to become true one day.

AMD sued: Number of Bulldozer cores in its chips is a lie, allegedly

Wheres Apple in all this?

Ok guys. Ive eaten 18 miles of strudel and in making said strudel I must have peeled and cored about 20000 apples. Not a single one had more than one core. Yet the Apple Store says their various products are multicore.

What the actual fuck.

Alumina in glass could stop smartphones cracking up

Brilliant

But how will this affect my DynaTAC?

I use this bastard for hammering in nails so the wife can hang shit 1980s art.

I havent cracked it yet.

Here are the graphics processors cloud giants will use to crunch your voices, videos and data

Yes yes...

Very good...but can it run Crysis?

Big Bang left us with a perfect random number generator

Re: but but

Nah.

Lots of it, random, unreadable.

Its a galactic DDoS. Thats why we havent made contact yet.

Quick alert SETI.

Add a rule to Nagios.