Medals not money?
I suppose we have to expect this sort of idea from someone who's made a fortune out of things that suck.
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"...attempted to establish a backdoor.........on connected PCs during the synchronisation process."
So the payload's on the device and they've somehow managed to hook into the sync process to install it where it can run. I'll bet an Android device can look like a connected drive to a Win PC for ease of copying back and forth and they've gone with the age-old autorun trick.
Were that to be so (the "appear as a drive" bit) the Conficker infection is easy to explain as that's how it spreads, it's never relied on the thing that presents the drive being able to run the code. I wouldn't mind a side-bet on the Mariposa infection being down to somebody retrofitting this replication mechanism to same.
So the rewards for building a huge botnet are potentially in the millions and the risk is "having to go to all that effort again if it's taken down".
Losing the battle? Not even bloody fighting it might be more accurate. IIRC the only reason they caught the bloke behind Mariposa was 'cos he was too greedy to just walk away when it went obviously pear-shaped on him.
But not by them.
What they're talking about here is whether or not Virgin are allowed to prioritise the sending of said goal clips to their customers over other traffic on their, or anyone elses, network.
If you're the one downloading 200gigs of <COUGH> "Linux distributions", you'd probably say no. If you're a football fan living next door your opinion may differ depending on the backhaul contention rates behind the scenes.
I never cease to be amazed at the comprehensive coverage of unlikely situations therein.
I have to say though, finding that it covers what to do in the case of homicidal zombie revenant* oxen is probably the most surprising thing I've heard so far.
*I'm guessing that the stoning for the first offence is supposed to be fatal, what with the instructions not to eat the resulting flesh** and all.
**Probably a sensible warning if they are prone to coming back from the dead. I'm not sure that Gaviscon is up to coping with the level of gyppo tummy that could cause.
Sounds expensive having two cars though.
Surely it would make more sense to have a bloke with a red flag* walk a defined distance in front of the car? That would keep the speed down and ensure that everyone had plenty of time to zip up their fly or whatever.
Some problems have already been solved in the past.
*That, or possibly ringing a bell and shouting "Unclean"......
I'm guessing that'll be exactly like Google Regular Search, but with the Wikipedia results displayed in a more prominent font and given an even larger kick up the rankings than usual. Sponsored links will still be at the top, but they'll be the nearest text book on Amazon that the engine can find.
Oh and a pr0n filter to stop Biology students suffering stunted growth due to excessive "study time".
Ask the Mayans. They were heavily into water management and storage to protect themselves from El Nino effects.
Oh dear, we can't. An extraordinarily extended cycle did for them in the ninth century. That'll be before industrialisation and any alleged Anthropogenic climate effects.
Without any idea of what such a decentralisation might consist of, how it might look or what if any technology and security systems may be used in such, it's completely impossible to justify that statement. There's only one conclusion to be drawn here.
You are a sad little New Labour troll and ICMFP.
You mean that there was actually an OEM out there who was planning to produce a 7 update ROM for an existing 6.x model rather than just telling their customer base to buy their shiny new 7 device?
That'd be a bloody first!
Experience says that even if the damned thing had been back-compatible with existing HW, perishingly few (if any) devices would have had an update shipped anyway. It's more usually the kind folk in the ROM cooking community who do this sort of thing....
One of the better reasons (ok, the only reason) for going with WinMo is so that you can configure the device, load onto it what you want and use it how you like, even to the extent of availing yourself of one of the cooked community ROMs, rather than being tied into an off-the-peg "solution".
Most of the WinMo phones I've seen in use (including mine) have a SIP client on them rather than Sk(h)ype for exactly the same reason.......
Too right and the phishing boys seem to have already cottoned on to that little truism. All the really low-hanging fruit on one tree, what's not to like?
What's going to be really funny in a minute is when the Whaling types wake up and notice that Tw@ter offers a handy service whereby a simple phishing run can yield Bankers, captains of industry, senior politicos and all the the others they carefully target. If a shotgun campaign gives up gold, a carefully composed targetted attack on specific users should easily cough up the keys to the kingdom.
The countdown starts now, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Ed Milliband needs a bit of help in the todger department and was telling his mates about the fine source of therapeutic agents he'd discovered. Then, when news leaked out, resorted the time-honoured "oh noes, it woz teh norty hax0rs wot dunnit" excuse.
I prefer that version of events. Before you say anything, who's more likely to be telling the truth, me or a Cabinet Minister.....?
By Jove, I do believe you've got it!
1) Build next-gen OS.
2) Change architecture to an ARM-based processor line developed in-house.
3) Cease support for Intel x86 kit three versions of next-gen OS later.
4) Mactards forced to upgrade hardware en masse, resulting in some wingeing and a $40bn cash pile.
5) Repeat ad infinitum.
That's almost worth a "meh".
It's only achievement as far as I can see, is in managing to make: "Next on BBC3, <insert name of BBC3 specific programme>" replace that old stalwart: "There now follows a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Liberal Democrats" as the thing said by a continuity announcer most likely to make the viewer change channels.
As swappable batteries, "session persistance" (which would imply being able to do something else while your application session remains active in the background) and "cheapish" are core requirements, the only mystery here is why they've bothered to consider the iPhone at all.
I guess "must try this 'cos its trendy" overrides the sound technical requirements. Again.
They like Blackberries and need a big screen? I'll have a fiver on the BB Storm2 winning this one....
There's no VAT on new build anyway, only on rebuild / refurbishment. This is why perfectly servicable, well built and attractive old buildings are knocked down and replaced with steel 'n glass pig's ears designed by ego-wanking architects.
The septics are right here, they shouldn't be charged VAT and unless there's a change in the VAT rules between now and 2013, they won't be. Presumably the point they were actually trying to make is that they'd quite like to stay where they are, but refurbishing and extending the existing site *would* attract VAT, so they're moving to a new building to avoid this.
The government *is* backing BT to the hilt. ISTR the EU courts can only take action if either the local judicial processes decline to get involved or may only move in in the wake of a (failed) local action if they can show good reason why the local legislation is inadequate.
Without this prosecution the EU would be free to step in and nail them to the cross. With it, it's being dealt with under local jurisdiction and their hands are tied. Watch carefully for this prosecution "failing to proceed due to matters of the public interest", being dismissed for lack of evidence or resulting in a slap on the wrist.
There's no Yank involvement here, so no danger of this strategy going all British Aerospace on them.
I'd be prepared to take a punt on BT having lobbied to get this to go ahead!
......but mind-numbingly dumb and of their own making.
Presumably the switch from adding a web address into their advertising to adding "search online for xyz" is the root cause of this monumentally unnecessary stupidity. Hence also the recent "Buster's World" calamitous fuckup. "Browse to bustersworld.gov.uk", not a problem, "search online for buster's world", oops, big time.
Have HMG switched to using Numbnuts, Fuckwit and Dumbarse Inc for their advertising strategy?
Years of good, solid recommendations by qualified people to move away from IE6 and fuck-all result.
One "Google pwned by naughty Chinese hax0rs" story in the press however.
I don't know why we fucking bother. Nobody's listening to us, IT policy is actually decided by some fat git with column inches to fill on a slow news day in Fleet Street.