Posts by Will Godfrey

Thieves can wirelessly unlock up to 100 million Volkswagens, each at the press of a button

Re: From the Department of Redundancy Department

Incidentally, I too, picked that up as well, incidentally.

Head of UK oversight body to join GCHQ 'tech help desk'*

Or even

"scary stasi snooping doh-nut".

Cyber-crime cost calculation studies are rubbish: ENISA

Re: what does "per company" mean?

Good Grief!

Next you'll be suggesting that people are cherry-picking the data points to inflate the costs so they can unethically charge more for recovery.

I can't believe anyone would do that!

Funny story, this. UK.gov's 'open banking app revolution'. Security experts not a fan of it

Security?

So how do I go about formally demanding that my account accepts No mobile access?

Internet of Car...rikey what the hell just happened to my car?

Re: Maybe old is best

@Ivan4. Never mind your car not being hackable, what about that new artic you're just about to overtake?

Eye of Sauron-themed trojan targets Russia, Sweden

Surely you mean 'Shirley'?

Microsoft: You liked Windows 10 so much, you'll get 2 more in 2017

Re: Out of interest....

Why? What have I done to annoy you?

Jeep hackers: How we swerved past Chrysler's car security patches

.. which will be discovered the moment the driver does any starting manoeuvres - unless you have a way of doing this while the car is in motion.

Mastercard armours its contactless cards against relay attacks

Where's the Nigerian prince in all of this?

Simply not credible: The extraordinary verdict against the body that hopes to run the internet

Re: homonym or homily

Don't worry. That's far more sensible than anything coming form ICANN

Got a genius enterprise tech idea? Tell the world about it

O realy?

I had an employer try that and I challenged - they backed down (and I kept my job).

Bee queens are Notch-blocking their minions, say boffins

Glad I'm not a bee

The females are worked to death, while (at the end of the year) the males are stung to death.

Chinese Android smartphone firm: It packs a dedicated crypto chip

Perfectly Described

A back box. i.e. you've no idea what's inside it.

Crocodile well-done-dee: Downed Down Under chap roasted by exploding iPhone

Obvious Risk

I never put a phone (or a wallet) in a back pocket, A phone is more likely to be in a shirt pocket, and if I'm doing anything at all energetic it's not going to be on my person at all.

Microsoft buries the bad Windows Phone news: Mobile sales collapse

You are Marty McFly

and I claim my five pounds.

Stop us if you've heard this one before: Telcos try to kill net neutrality

Oink!

Oink Oink Oink Oink Oink Oink Oink Oink Oink Oink Oink Oink

That's what you get when you restrict their profits gouging.

Milk IN the teapot: Innovation or abomination?

{shudder}

I'm actually greatly impressed with the amount of restraint the other commentards have shown.

Now I need to go and have a few glasses of wine to recover from the shock.

Windows 10 Pro Anniversary Update tweaked to stop you disabling app promos

Entirely expected

But they might have had the decency to let the body get cold first.

Three owner Hutch lobs sueball at EU over failed O2 buy

First shot across the bows?

And this is without the provisions of the proposed trade {spit} agreement.

Avoiding Liverpool was the aim: All aboard the world's ONLY moving aqueduct

Re: If you want a view of a working boat crossing it...

Thanks for that link.

Ahhhh. The unmistakable Bolinder

Great Article

I travelled up and down the Anderton shortly after it was fully restored - and have been going to reccie this one for years, but never quite got round to it.

Here WeGo! Google Maps rival drops Maps branding

Hmmm

Can't see any footpaths :(

Tesla autopilot driver 'was speeding' moments before death – prelim report

Waste of time

it doesn't matter what you do. You can't fix stupid.

P.S. That includes the truck driver pulling out without ensuring the road was clear.

NASA puts lenses through a different drill to stare at the Sun

Re: Fresnel zpne plate not a fresnel lens

Indeed so.

I can remember when you could get a fresnel lens to make your 9 inch (B&W) TV screen look more like a 14 inch one.

Coat, cos you've got to be an oldie to remember them.

Cisco warns responders: Drop ego, assimilate with the IR playbook

Why now?

I thought this was generally well known.

Except (of course) by those who don't know as much as they think they do.

Zen loses its chill: UK biz ISP falls offline for four hours and counting

Hmmm

No problem here (in North Kent), but then, I was outside in open air most of yesterday and 'off grid' (Yes I know that's somewhat perverted behavior).

Crashed and alone in a remote location: When paid help is no help

Re: Hmmm

Who on earth wants to 'lighten the load' on lawyers!

Free Windows 10 upgrade: Time is running out – should you do it?

Re: Ahem. Actual real user here....

So get a copy of just about any Linux distro and you can have all of that but without the regular crashes, and the spooky snooping.

Forget your RTO*: Real world Disaster Recovery needs garbage bags and bubble wrap

Well Done

... and there was me feeling hard done by when I had to step through 2 inches of water in a factory some years ago.

Official: AMD now stands for Avoiding Miserable Death

Not celebrating yet but...

... it's good to see their status improving.

UK councils refuse to push data into the cloud

Pah!

Just because central government want to keep giving our money to their friends for crap 'services' doesn't mean local councils should commit suicide by handing important data to untraceable repositories and bankrupting themselves for no visible benefit.

Hacker shows Reg how one leaked home address can lead to ruin

Re: ID-10-ts

@hardboiledphil

How do you untag yourself from a 'service' to which you are not subscribed, on websites you have never visited and in pictures you may never have seen?

ID-10-ts

Even if you keep clear of the crud yourself, you get the FBers who post a reunion picture with a 'helpful' list of everyone in the picture.

Brit chip biz ARM legs it to Softbank for $32bn

Goodbye ARM

It was nice knowing you.

So what will Britain have left? Anything at all?

If we can't find a working SCSI cable, the company will close tomorrow

Re: Pournelle's law, well one of them anyway...

I see what you did there!

With your nickname that just adds another dimension of symmetry.

Re: Pournelle's law, well one of them anyway...

Hmmm.

A capacitor stores energy

Your move :P

Debian: s/Chairman/Chair/g

Well...

I suppose we should be referred to as being in the hu- race. Yes the whole of -kind.

Containers rated more secure than conventional apps

Wot?

Can someone explain to me how adding progressively more layers, each with it's own nest of defects improves security?

Or have we found the holy grail of bug-free code?

Boris Johnson 'NIGHTMARE'

Awww.

Boris is just a big kid, and the evil witch (TM) has just given him a razor sharp knife to play with.

Oh, Red Hat. Contain yourself and your 'new innovations' talk

You can go off folks

... and I've rather gone off Redhat

Lightning strikes: Britain's first F-35B supersonic fighter lands

Obsolete already?

With the advance of drones and introduction of 'throwaway' autonomous craft, what's the point of this?

Florida man sues Apple for $10bn, claims iPod, iPhone was his idea

Re: HHG2

Interesting. I was going by the publication date on my hardback copy. As you say, a real visionary. A story that gets remarkably close to the world today and it's dependence on 'machines'.

Re: HHG2

... and in the 1940s on the first page of 'The Machine Stops' E.M.Forster describes a portable communication device, that could have been the fore-runner for all later ideas.

Nuclear goes boom

Don't Panic

I'm sure normal service will soon be restored.

'I urge everyone to fight back' – woman wins $10k from Microsoft over Windows 10 misery

Smart Lady

Didn't so much as put a toe out of line and gave them nothing to fight back with. As for Microsoft's appeal - I think someone (at last) told them they were in deep doodoo.

Looking good, Gnome: Digesting the Delhi in our belly

Dead Parrot

Each time Gnome 'Updated' one of their apps I had to go an find an alternative. As far as I'm concerned, Gnome's dumbing down obsession makes them unusable. In fact I don't think there is anything left on any of my systems now.

Time to re-file your patents and trademarks, Britain

And so it starts.

Apparently France want to have us maintaining our own channel tunnel border now - what a surprise.

Patriotic Brits rush into streets to celebrate… National Cream Tea Day

Re: Cheese Scones

As far as I'm concerned there is no such thing. It might be something with cheese but it's certainly not a scone.

Re: “Never use whipped cream. It’s utterly improper.”

Cruising for bruising right there!

PM resigns as Britain votes to leave EU

Re: If I hear a single pensioner...

As a pensioner myself, I note the broad sweeping claim. Well I've got news for you. I, and all my friends voted to stay in. Most of us are not old enough to remember WW2 but we do remember the aftermath (especially the kids with no fathers). We all feel sorry for the kids today. Their world has just got a lot more unstable.