Re: Why would anyone want one of these?
Actually there is a serious purpose.
The rest of us will be able to spot Snapchat lusers much more easily and save us having to find out that they're a twat the hard way.
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Your emotionally absent pic-snapping partner's going to look you in the eye again
Britain's on the brink of a small-scale nuclear reactor revolution
Uber found to be doing something awful? Yep, it's Tuesday
Rich professionals could be replaced by AI, shrieks Gartner
User loses half of a CD-ROM in his boss's PC
Saturday 6th May 2017 14:29 GMT 
...found a thick yellow cable in the way .... so he'd cut it...
Back in the day, a mate worked as an operator for a concern with a warehouse and IT suite out west of London and an office in the West End. They lost all the leased lines connecting the two simultaneously.
Turned out that a BT voice engineer had come across a set of fat cables that were "in the way" and not on his plans when working down a hole in the road somewhere between the two sites.
Bullyboy Apple just blew a $500m hole in our wallet, cries Qualcomm
Sunday 30th April 2017 15:33 GMT 
"We've been trying to reach a licensing agreement with Qualcomm for more than five years but they have refused to negotiate fair terms..."
Translation:
"God alone knows what they're smoking, but Qualcomm expect us to pay them. This isn't the way we do things at Apple, where we expect other companies to just be fucking grateful that their shitty technology is allowed into our wonderful products."
iPhone lawyers literally compare Apples with Pears in trademark war
Hyundai app security blunder allowed crooks to 'steal victims' cars'
Wednesday 26th April 2017 09:11 GMT
Yes....but....
Now imagine a similar vulnerability being discovered in about eight years' time.
Is it fixable on the older kit? Probably not.
Is the manufacturer going to bother trying to fix it on something that old? Definitely not.
Does that make it any less serious? No.
With it not being fixed, does that make it more likely that someone will build on it to find a way of compromising the vehicle's controls? Yes.
And there you have it. The reason why the concept of the "connected car" needs to be banned. Now. It won't be of course. Government surveillance and data harvesting opportunities trump a mind-numbingly obvious lethal risk every time.
Anyone buying a car with these features needs their bumps felt.
Not the droids you're looking for – worst handsets to resell
BOFH: The Boss, the floppy and the work 'experience'
Tuesday 4th April 2017 14:01 GMT
Re: Being on a placement myself...
....you can't possibly be any good because you're at university post 2000's and apparently that's an issue?
Hmm. That would be about when the world changed so that every job spec from bog-cleaner upwards suddenly required a degree. This in turn changed the majority of Universities from educational establishments catering to exceptional students into certificate farms for the proles.
Then, just in case the dumbing down hadn't gone far enough, we got a shitload of political meddling thrown into the process to ensure that every University, regardless of standards, was obliged to join the race to the bottom. Presumably this to ensure that there is a large enough workforce with a degree qualifying them as turd-scrubbers to keep the HR box-tickers happy.
I call fair comment.
Boffins crowdsource hunt for 'Planet 9'
Android O my god! It's finally here (for devs)
World's worst botnet fiends switch from ransomware to stock scam spam
Tip for darknet drug lords: Don't wear latex gloves to the post office
Google borks Nexus 6 with screwy over-the-air Android 7.0 downgrade
Sunday 19th March 2017 15:35 GMT
Re: Move along nothing to see
Google seemingly cannot make an installer that does version compatibility checks.
Then again, as 7.0 is the highest version they've shipped for the device, why would they check for a higher one prior to install?
If you tweak it yourself, you need to take responsibility for what subsequently happens to it.
Shine on, you crazy Eind minds: Boffins fire out 43Gbps infrared 'Wi-Fi'
The priest, the coder, the Bitcoin drug deals – and today's guilty verdicts
Sunday 19th March 2017 10:25 GMT
Re: That's funny, isn't this the same as how the stock market works?
A variation on this is to publish the hype in national newspaper, disguised as a stock tip and fill your boots in the same manner when your flock of readers piles in with their cash.
This version has the advantage that, when you're caught red-handed with the ill-gotten gains, you can claim that you were just following the tip advice in your own paper and have the columnists wot wrote it sent down instead of you.
Be our Guetzli, says Google, to make beastly JPEGs beautifully small
Google borks its Drive Windows app – after pushing out unfinished buggy version to public
House of Lords: Drone vehicles are more than just robo-cars, mmkay
Thursday 16th March 2017 10:17 GMT
Re: Oxymoron alert.
In which case, being out of contact for a while in a "not spot" wouldn't matter at all.
The only question that needs answering is whether that interest is motivated by:
a) Continuous surveillance opportunities.
b) The telcos looking for a huge trough of government cash to stuff their snouts in.
(a) has to be favourite IMHO.
RAF pilot awaits sentence for digicam-induced airliner dive
Sunday 5th March 2017 12:09 GMT
Re: Airbus design flaw
If it moved with the seat, there wouldn't have been a problem. The fact that it doesn't, so moving the seat pushes the camera along the rest and into the stick rather than the whole assembly proceeding forward as one, would seem to be a prerequisite for causing this to happen.
Amazon S3-izure cause: Half the web vanished because an AWS bod fat-fingered a command
Friday 3rd March 2017 14:41 GMT
Hmm. "Playbook".
That'll be the source of the problem. When such is in use, it can only mean one thing.
The person typing the commands, while "authorised" to do so, almost certainly hasn't got a clue what they actually do.
If they did then a) they wouldn't need some else to have written it down for them and more importantly, b) they'd have spotted the typo before hitting Enter.
Uber loses court fight over London drivers' English language tests
Li-ion king Goodenough creates battery he says really is... good enough
Friday 3rd March 2017 09:59 GMT
The pea sized lump of fizzing sodium...
I recall a chemistry master trying to do exactly that. Unfortunately, while attempting to pare said pea-sized lump from a big stick of sodium, the stick slipped from his tongs and fell into said large glass trough.
We knew the loud bang was coming, the fact that his face went white and he hit the deck behind the bench while shouting "GET DOWN!" was a bit of a clue.
The trough was destroyed and the reinforced glass screen in a sturdy iron frame between us and it was pretty much buggered too.
Google Chrome 56's crypto tweak 'borked thousands of computers' using Blue Coat security
BlackBerry's comeback: El Reg gets its claws on the QWERTY KEYone
Monday 27th February 2017 12:24 GMT
Re: New internet law needed...
Simpler than that even.
Betamax was owned by Sony and anyone wanting to make a compatible player or tape had to pay a license fee per unit to Sony.
VHS was owned by JVC and offered on a free use basis.
By the time Sony woke up, smelled the coffee and cancelled their rakeoff, it was too late. World + Dog was already churning out VHS stuff en masse.
Note also that while Beta was better in picture terms, VHS murdered it in sound. Technically it's a one-all draw.
Nokia’s big comeback: Watches, bathroom scales, a 3310 PR gimmick, Snake, erm...
Git fscked by SHA-1 collision? Not so fast, says Linus Torvalds
Elon Musk promises Tesla investors Trump won't send him to Mars
Linux kernel gets patch for 11-year-old local-root-hole security bug
Radioactive leak riddle: Now Team America sniffs Europe's skies for iodine isotope source
Google devs try to create new global namespace
Wednesday 22nd February 2017 09:52 GMT
Re: Spam Me Senseless
Except of course that "create a fake email address" is not the answer, just a very, very shit workaround to an inherent problem in the product that must be fixed before implementation.
.....and one that 99.99% of people won't either know how to or bother doing. It's a spamfest waiting to happen.
Wednesday 22nd February 2017 09:48 GMT
Well this is already dead.
Shouldn’t it be possible to have the image flow directly from Facebook to Twitter?
Yes, 'cos those services aren't competing to pwn teh internets at all and just love their users to be able to hop seamlessly from the one to the other.
Presumably the expected implementation date is sometime after Hell freezes over?
Love lambda, love Microsoft's Graph Engine. But you fly alone
Zuckerberg thinks he's cyber-Jesus – and publishes a 6,000-word world-saving manifesto
'I'm innocent!' says IT contractor on trial after Office 365 bill row spiraled out of control
Prepare your popcorn: Wikipedia deems the Daily Mail unreliable
Super-cool sysadmin fixes PCs with gravity, or his fists
Sunday 5th February 2017 11:08 GMT
Got the T-shirt.
As a known "guy who can sort your PC without having to go through the support process", a colleague called me over to have a look at her machine.
Boot failure with no disk found. I powered it off, lifted the front edge about three inches, powered it on and dropped it at the appropriate point in the boot cycle. Cue sound of disk spinning up and the machine boots normally.
"Wow. I'd have thought that would be more likely to break it than fix it."
"Well, it was hardly going to make things any worse. I suggest you copy your stuff off while you can...".
'Webroot made my PCs s*** the bed' – AV update borks biz machines hard
David Hockney creates new Sun masthead. Now for The Reg...
BOFH: Password HELL. For you, mate, not for me
Saturday 4th February 2017 12:36 GMT
I think I've mentioned this before, but I'll run it again as it's relevant.
Some years ago I was in a meeting on the new corp password policy (minimum 8, at least one capital and number). I opined that as our users were a lazy bunch and thus likely to want one password and many of our legacy systems maxed out at 8 chars for a password, I could deduce the following: A 7 letter dictionary word, first letter capitalised and a number on the end, probably zero or one. I also suggested that with that sort of hint, any competent cracking tool shouldn't need to break step on the way in.
Looking at the expressions that produced on the faces around the meeting room table, I think I hit the jackpot.
Google mistakes the entire NHS for massive cyber-attacking botnet
WTF is your problem, Netgear? Another hijack hole found in its routers
Doomsday Clock moves to 150 seconds before midnight. Thanks, Trump
Friday 27th January 2017 09:47 GMT
Cobblers.
The problem here is that it's all fatuous bollocks of the highest order anyway.
When the thing's 15 minutes or so away from DOOM, they move it in minutes if someone vaguely important says something rude. If you look back at when it's been moved and why, you can immediately see that it should have been well past midnight many times, or never got closer than about ten to, if there were any consistency to it.
Clickbait, 1950s style.
Friday 27th January 2017 09:43 GMT
Re: This is the year...
Why would you be carrying a desktop in the Aldi car park?
Is this a deliberate ploy to puzzle future people seeing your shadow? If so, can I suggest jumping in the air and striking a "walk like an Egyptian" pose as the nuclear flash goes off to really give them cause for thought?
'Celebgate' nudes thief gets just nine months of porridge
Forget Tony Stark's Iron Man – exosuits of the future will be spandex
AWS offers $20 bribe to derps who buy old IoT condom-o-matic dunce dobbers
Japan's terrifying techno-toilets will be made foreigner friendly, vow makers
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