* Posts by Korev

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Microsoft changes encryption, another D-Link bug, phishing dangers, and more

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"Tested the link - it redirected to a fake Office 365 login page hosted at Windows.net. Holy shit. I tested the URI string from Adobe, and sure enough you can put anything after "&p1=" and adobe will redirect you."

The admin noted the matter was reported to Microsoft and the scammer's account was deleted.

Why on all earth wasn't the Adobe redirect fixed too?

Baby alert! Japan Air lets passengers book seats far away from screaming abdabs

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Re: Could we have an oversized Marker

I'm also a wide passenger... The problem is actually my shoulders* are often wider than an economy class seat.

*I surfed a lot when I was young

Hinkley Point nuclear power station will be late and £2bn over budget

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Re: Maybe China should build them instead

> I'm not familiar with biodiversity in China; but greater crested newts, without fail, are to be found on all proposed infrastructure projects in the UK thus causing more delays. And Bats; which one has to bend over backwards to accommodate also.

I reckon they'll find some fission

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Re: Maybe China should build them instead

I thought they were talking about "Buckets of Sunshine" -->

Pro tip: Plug in your Tesla S when clocking off, lest you run out of juice mid hot pursuit

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Re: Due To Police Incompetence

I can't resist that pun...

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Re: Due To Police Incompetence

With puns like that, Joule get what's coming to you

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Re: Hop to it

Ah yes, the rampant rabbit

macOS? More like mac-woe-ess: Google Chrome slip-up trips up SIP-less Apple Macs

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/var-sectomy

^^^ love it.

More Linux, Unix /etc puns please

Serverless neither magically faster nor cheaper, dev laments

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Re: In my shop the PHB's believe

Mine too...

My Little Bromium: HP Inc inks security deal to slurp micro-VM slinger

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Re: Bromium is actually nice kit

Pun aside, you make an excellent point...

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Re: Bromium is actually nice kit

You could even say they were Agile(nt)

Vimeo's Clippy-for-video-bumpf app 'breaks biometric privacy law by slurping thousands of faces without consent'

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Re: I wonder

<uploads pictures from a donkey sanctuary>

Orford Ness: Military secrets and unique wildlife on the remote Suffolk coast

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Re: Now we know

NORWICH - kNickers Off Ready When I Come Home

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More please

A very interesting article

one for Mr Taylor -->

Don't take Uxbridge, but TfL's given Uber a mini-licence for London

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These puns are going down the Tube...

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Afraid not, we're playing anti-clockwise Bank rules variant II; if only it was variant I then you'd have won...

Hard cheese old pal.

Several months after the fact, CafePress finally acknowledges huge data theft to its customers

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Europe

>The company said it is working with US law enforcement and has notified UK and European regulators.

Britain is in Europe and will remain so even if Brexit happens...

Chef melts under heat, will 86 future deals with family-separating US immigration agencies

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This sounds like a recipe for disaster...

Quick!! The! top! five! things! you! want! to! see! from! Yahoo! – what! are! they!?

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Not forgetting the "Site Under Construction" image

HMRC's HTTPS howler: Childcare payments site cert expired at 1am on Sunday, down for hours

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Re: Feature Request

You forgot the bit about the seven organisations that the PhBs outsourced to all pointing fingers at each other..

Emergency button saves gamers from sudden death... of starvation

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Re: Almost there

For the Loo-ser?

World's largest heap of untreated nuclear waste needs more bots to cart around irradiated crap

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A scary look at the Windscale of the problem

MPs would love to hear all about how UK.gov plans to ratchet R&D spend to 3% of GDP

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Re: So what we're saying is...

Yes!

This image-recognition roulette is all fun and games... until it labels you a rape suspect, divorcee, or a racial slur

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I was thinking the same.

I uploaded one of Iron, it was pretty funny...

You know SAP's doing a great job when a third of German users say they 'have no confidence in it'

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Disappointment

Am I the only one to be disappointed by the lack of puns like "the software SAPs the will to live"

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SAP user group

while 30 per cent of users have no confidence in [SAP]"

The interesting thing is that this is a SAP usergroup who presumably have an interest in SAP products and have their career invested in them. I wonder what a survey filled out by people without that bias would say.

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Re: Over complicated

Why SAP cannot output the image of the bar code but instead sends it encoded in the bar code font seems a bit silly to me, it can't be that hard. The unicode font package is around £500 per machine

I think you've answered your own question there!

If Syria pioneered grain processing by watermill in 350BC, the UK in 2019 can do better... right?

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Re: "automation in retail and banking had led to fewer jobs..."

Or to transfer money without posting a cheque

Your ugly mug may be scanned yet again – but at least you'll be able to board faster at Gatwick

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Re: Why would this be faster?

The biggest benefit I find is having a fair chance to get your hand luggage (a laptop bag in my case) in the overhead locker at least somewhere close to where your seat is.

Or actually in the cabin at all...

I normally buy Speedy Boarding because it means you can take a second smaller bag in the cabin. In my case my camera, lenses and other toys are in the locker and the my much smaller bag is for clothes.

HP printer small print says kit phones home data on whatever you print – and then some

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Re: All I want...

I just found out about the HP Tango X which has... Voice Control!

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Re: All I want...

See also “smart” TVs

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I hope you send piles of them

Seriously, this sh!t again? 24m medical records, 700m+ scan pics casually left online

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You poor thing, I guess you have toe ask the right sole to get you data.

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Re: Ratios

A bit poor isn’t it...

Vulns out of the box: 12 in 13 small biz network devices terribly insecure by default – research

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Re: I had to Google

> Seems like a bit of a long shot to be honest especially if you have your own DNS server and Web protection in place.

These devices are usually sold to places that are too small to run DNS servers etc

Captain's coffee calamity causes transatlantic flight diversion

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Re: Elf-in-Safety

>In any case, you can't overload a mains socket in the UK, since its got a fuse in its plug to prevent exactly that

Just swap it for a nail, problem solved.

Who's got my Etherkiller?

Right-click opens up terrifying vistas of reality and Windows 95 user's frightful position therein

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Re: Walk like an...

Mummy? Is that you?

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Re: A stupid idea

Yeah, I get irritated that I have to empty it. When using Windows I always use shift-del.

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Re: Taking the Trash

Parklife!

Mike drop, DXC-ya later! Lawrie immediately ejects as CEO from IT outsourcing giant

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He's being fired and flames are hot...

Oracle's Mark Hurd hits pause as co-CEO, says he needs time to deal with health issues

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He left Hewlett-Packard following an inquiry into whether he violated the company's code of conduct in the course of interactions with a greeter at HP events and reality TV personality who filed a sexual harassment claim that was later settled privately.

I wonder if Oracle has various diversity schemes, to me, employing him after that sends quite a clear message about how much the company values diversity.

Do you want fr-AI-s with that appy-meal? McDonald's gobbles machine-learning biz for human-free Drive Thrus

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You had to milk that one didn't you...

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> I think they might also have burger flipping machines in some places so they've started on the cooking robots.

I can imagine that most of the operations would be quite easy to sort (think burgers on conveyors etc), but the "salad" would be much less homogeneous. I guess if they could make the chips the same size then that'd help the automation too.

Mystery database left open turns out to be at heart of a huge Groupon ticket fraud ring

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Re: Fake accounts? You sure?

I get "threats" including the (old) password to the address I use for Last.fm which to the uninitiated could look very threatening.

Not so G.fast: Hybrid fibre 'under review' as Openreach remembers it's all about FTTP now

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I can't think of anything a typical residential customer would want 1Gb/s for. Certainly not at the kind of price point that speed would command.

That's probably true for most households, but people trying to download big games etc or a photographer trying to back their photos up . might disagree. However, the same infrastructure would also be used by small-mid size businesses where the connection will be shared by more people and also might have large bandwidth requirements (eg graphic designers).

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I've found that Dropbox downloads seem to be limited at 200Mb/s (over ethernet to a cable 500/50 connection).

It'd be great to have them at near full LAN speeds as you say though.

The gig (economy) is up: New California law upgrades Lyft, Uber, other app serfs to staff

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Re: Its about time....

If you set your rate to $20000/hr for a Chief Coffee machine tester role how many companies do you think would snap you up?

Opal Fruits, Princess Diana and... PowerToys? Microsoft is dragging Windows 10 back to '95

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Re: I miss TweakUI...

He'd have known you were taking the piss..

Be still, our drinking hearts: Help Reg name whisky beast conjured by Swedish distillers and AI blendbot

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Single page fault whiskey?

Royal Navy seeks missile-moving robots for dockyard drudgery

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>NavyX is the RN's "Autonomy and Lethality Accelerator",

You mean putting technology in the Faslane?