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

So many gems

"your files floating in the ether" Sprinkled with fairy dust?

"hacking is against the law" You don't say

"running a password app" download it from the itunes store!

We could go on..

Microsoft parts Azure cloud, reveals NoSQL doc database

Keen to find out what's it like I head over to the Microsoft Document DB site (named like there are no others, just like MS SQL) to download myself an installer.

Turns out, its a Document DB as a Service offering. Say what? Has this world gone stark raving mad? I can no longer develop locally but have to rely on an external party. When will this stop?

argh.

LulzSec supergrass Sabu led attacks against Turkey – report

Federal

I don't think that word means what you think it means

MH17 -- SA-11 / BUK complexity

rt.com

Russia Today has been waffling on quite a bit how it's likely the Ukraine, not rebels, fired the missile. Some of noteworthy pieces

http://rt.com/news/174868-ukraine-buk-falsification-continues/

http://rt.com/usa/174796-intelligence-malaysia-plane-mh17-us/

http://rt.com/news/174412-malaysia-plane-russia-ukraine/ - Ukrainian Su-25 fighter detected in close approach to MH17 before crash - Moscow

Over there, there are no good guys.

NEW, SINISTER web tracking tech fingerprints your computer by making it draw

Re: Description...

https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/persistent/the_web_never_forgets.pdf

The crucial bit the article is missing is on page two of the pdf - a text string will be rendered differently in each browser.

Carlos: Slim your working week to just three days of toil

Right you are. I also meant paid leave instead of "time leave".

That's what you get trying to post a sneaky comment during work hours...

It's not a new idea, Mark Twain favored it a long time ago for people to become more creative, not consume more: http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html

I myself have arranged for 20% of my time to be saved as time leave, allowing me to travel more. An arrangement even sweeter than the one suggested in the article.

Apple ships security fixes for iOS, OS X, Safari ... basically EVERYTHING

Re: 7.1.2 iOS update...

Started the updater after freeing the required gig or so (update itself is about 25MB, so I'd reason it backs up locally). Updater hung. Resorted to a reset after checking this article's comments. Rebooted just fine, palms a little sweaty rebooting mid-update. Heart rate subsided. Side effects not mentioned in release notes.

Today's get-rich-quick scheme: Build your own bank

As recently adopted by the ECB http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27717594

Yes, you get to pay them to store your money. In return you get access to your money without any funny business - as a bank should work. Unlike Northern Rock where you turn up and they're free to go "we dont have it". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N_mb1AfeOY

Student promises Java key to unlock Simplocker ransomware

Colour me an idiot, but..

I don't think (under)grad status is indicative of ability...

Snowden's Big Brother isn't as Orwellian as you'd think

In short...

We're not living in 1984 yet so we're ok? Nevermind constitutional rights being trampled on and rive abuse http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/05/sod_squad_found_feeding_nsa_surveillance_info_to_drug_enforcement/

Tech that we want (but they never seem to give us)

A mass market Nokia n950 or an E7 with something other than Symbian (Android/Sailfish/QNX)

Hopefullly http://neo900.org/ will deliver but a E7 form factor with the same, solid feel is more desirable.

Concerning Windows Phone and its relevance to the larger business

Blackberry seems to tick all the boxes too but was never mentioned.

With TheRegister getting so chummy with MS lately this article leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Facebook reveals 700TB of tiered RAM and flash power Graph Search

A waste of talent

It's still bloody sad to see the world's most talented people recruited to work on sites ordering posts on what people had for breakfast and parsing sites (Google) just to show relevant ads.

You'd think at least a better business model would have come out of it rather than just another sites relying on ads.

'You can keep it' - Brit's nicked laptop turns up on Iranians' sofa

Is that a botlle of booze in the background?

A sneaky sip of the strong stuff in Iran? Better not let the local gestapo find out

pic: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/4/12/1365777639554/Laptop-in-Iran-009.jpg

Google shreds Reader in new round of 'spring cleaning'

a sad day

That's it, turns out my next device will not be an Android. Voting with my wallet!

Off to check out the Bing Maps API instead...

Coming soon: Open source JavaFX for iOS, Android

A perfectly workable solution...

Facebook wouldn't agree HTML 5 is a viable alternative, in the words of the Zuck:

"We just never were able to get the quality we wanted [from the HTML5 apps we were building]..." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/14/facebook_html_5_vs_native_apps/

The performance difference between their native iOS and html client make it self evident.

Dolly Parton's theme park shells out for more silicon

But... (part II)

Will Jolene get one...?

Let me share that cab with you...

Dell UK dances with Linux

Re: Hm

Novices are the target market. Novices and users comfortable with any linux distro. I'd say my parents could be described as the former and myself as the latter and all of us use Ubuntu comfortably*. It's the computer users with the little knowledge of Windows that are going to be experiencing problems. People who want to continue gaming without knowing about wine or those who want to use their vb scripts.

Anyhow, it's a good way to use your existing Windows cd and not bother buying another xp license or (horror) a Vista license.

*I have now switched four machines to Ubuntu

AK47: the open-source weapon that took the world by storm

5.56 vs 7.62

In Black Hawk Down (the book that is) the 5.56 round would pass straight through the target (thus not incapacitating him) while the 7.62 rounds fired by a special operative armed with an M14 had the desired effect on the Mob of the Mog.

Why? All the 5.56 rounds were armour piercing. Apparently the US military didn't consider facing enemies without body armour and had only acquired the 5.56 AP round.

Despite the AK being less accurate than the M16 this did not matter in the Vietnam theatre. Jungle warfare ranges are rarely larger than 20metres. Enough for the AK to be used effectively. What did matter were the penetration qualities of their rifles in which the AK exceeded its M16 counterpart. It was able to shoot through a tree whereas the M16 was not.

Remembering Anna Nicole Smith and her impact on the American Dream

shame

What trash of an article. Obviously never been anywhere cultured.