Posts by TeeCee

Nice looking car.

Shame about the wallpaper.......

"Breaches....will cost Twitter up to $16,000 a pop."

That's hardly even a slap on the wrist for a big company with a multinational presence and loads of mon...........oh..........hang on a tick.......

Re: I approve of corporate marketing on Twitter

So do I.

Not having a Twitter account nor any desire to get one, it's the ultimate opt-out. Everyone wins. They get to bombard the sheep with 140-character trivialities about their products and I get to ignore it all without even so much as lifting a finger.

Historical figures.

"....compared their task........to finding their way through a labyrinth in the pitch dark..."

So Theseus was the world's first hacker then?

Moving to 5Ghz.

Been there, seen it, done it, thrown the kit away.

Nice empty 5Ghz band around here and there's a reason for that. Something stomps across the entire band with big spiky boots on a regular basis, knocking out all the connections. For added fun, while various manufacturer's Wireless-N kit seems to play nice in 2.4Ghz, interoperation is lucky lotto time once you get into the wonderful world of 5Ghz. I found that out the hard way.

At least in the congested (and it is here, as 1-4 are unusable for a similar and unknown reason) 2.4Ghz band, I can get a solid signal with a consistant and measurable 140Mb/s throughput. This also works between floors of the house, something else that the 5Ghz kit couldn't do to save its life.

Virgin pricing.

Crikey, I read that twice and still haven't got a clue, do you need runes and entrails here or is there a secret to working it out?

That little lot makes mobile telco contracts and double-glazing HP agreements look positively transparent.

Incidently, re Sky: "Planning permission is not needed for mini-dishes". I think that applies to any dish up to a given size. Something around a metre across IIRC. This can be important if either you live in one of the more far-flung areas of the British Isles or you like to watch telly when it's absolutely peeing down outside.

Eh? Come again?

".... reduce the glamour of flashing a packet of Rothmans."

There's no glamour in flashing a pack of Rothmans. When I was at Uni, we always reckoned that smoking Rothmans marked you down as a skinflint. The reason is that they're so vile that you could flash an entire pack in the SU bar without losing any (unless one of those present had been deprived for so long due to impecunity that he'd resorted to smoking his own dried socks in desperation).

You were everyone's friend (and instantly fagless) doing this with B&H, Marlboro, Embassy, JPS......etc ad infinitum.....

We'll need an Astronomer as an Expert Witness here sunshine.....

....as we've found some suspicious rocks near Uranus.

Or, as they say in Redmond:

"Help us Ovi-wan, you're our only hope."

"People are interested in used supercritical CO2 generators....."

Presumably because they are cheaper than new ones?

"...Kutcher himself may have simulated the hack..."

That'll be easy to prove. He'll have fallen over and choked on his bubblegum while he was doing that.

No ".nazi"?

That's a shame, I can think of a few uses for that.

Solving this problem with "welshlanguage.nazi" for one........

Automated emergency calls.

".....or an emergency fuel pump shut-off...."

Let's just hope that things have improved since the Sierra then. Every owner needed to know where the fuel cutoff reset button was as the sodding things used to trip pretty much when they felt like it. Accident, high wind, bumpy road, harsh language within 10 feet, just about anything really.

The emergency services could be in for a busy time......

"Pic: Dibyendu Nandi et al"

Who, given what he does, really ought to be able to at least *spell* "Spotless"......

"...pull an ad from DoubleClick and place it on a mobile device."

No point to that. The massive Flash animation won't run on the iPhone and the embedded trojan probably won't work on iOS either......

Stop Press: Plastic toys make kids obese.

Next week in the Fail: How smoking a little weed is guaranteed to make you a paranoid, granny robbing crack fiend (hang on, haven't we done this one? ed). Also, new evidence proves that playing Call of Duty makes you blow up Russian airports. Special glossy pullout of lurid dead junkie and exploded terrorist pictures free with the Sunday edition.

Personally I reckon if your parents are fuckwitted enough to blow 60 quid on that tat, being a bit on the porky side is likely to be the least of your problems........

"...he was resigning because he had become the story....."

Guttenberg is having trouble with the press?

Same shit, different year......

How the world works - part 7,234.

1) Researchers publish paper showing that data on flash drives may be available forever.

2) Organised crime collectively shits itself and calls its lawyers. Well-stuffed envelopes change hands.

3) Legal loophole loving lawyers commission research to prove that, while data is retrievable, it isn't usable in court due to a complex legal process known as "Technological Bullshit Using Long Words".

Next week: New research sponsored by the world's law enforcement agencies proves retrieved flash data *is* evidence.

Some time later: A group of lawyers replace the entire Forbes rich list as a marathon case arguing the toss goes into its 25th year.......

Sewers?

Well obviously they weren't getting enough fibre or they'd have been laying cable more quickly........

Arise Sir Bill?

"....meaning he can hang out with Paul McCartney and assorted British MPs."

No he can't. They're the real deal, Bill's only a KBE. Colonials and other shifty foreign types only get honorary titles.

He still gets to look down his nose[1] at Sarko though, as I don't think *he's* got one.

[1] But then, so do most people unless they are sitting down or standing in a hole.

That's handy.

Hack one appliance, pwn the world. He sees a single cheap and simple answer to all our privacy / security issues, I see the most effective tempting of Fate in history.

There's an old saying about eggs and baskets that applies here. At least I have the choice of *not* entrusting my data to Facewank....

We need a Venn diagram of Oz.

"Pirates", "Convicts" and "Bad losers", showing demographic %ages and the overlap.....

My test is better than your test.

I've just come up with a new benchmark, the "How effective is it as an aircraft hanger doorstop once it's obsolete?" benchmark.

It's been downhill in computing since the '50s folks.....

Detection results.

I see that Panda, Trend and Kaspersky are all in the "spotted it" category.

I guess if you throw enough false positives, sometimes you get lucky.......

Print publishers.

"only themselves to blame"? Why?

What possible reason could there be for saying that because they didn't go for a common payment system it's their fault that Jobs is burgling their wallets?

I'm sure the only difference *that* would have made is that Mr 30%'s cash would have been skimmed from Alesia...........and that would have been on top of the Dirty Digger's rakeoff (sorry, "service charge").

Still, last service out of Apple's app store? Please turn off the lights when you leave.....