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Spam-squirting hole found in McAfee antivirus kit
WTF is... 802.11ac?
Thursday 19th January 2012 13:31 GMT 
Never mind homes more than 40 years old in the UK, try the continent now. Reinforced concrete is de rigeur for modern housing construction over here. A nice thick bit of concrete with steel mesh in it is all but impenetrable to 5Ghz stuff. Like you I am stuck in heavily congested 2.4Ghz.
Fortunately my router does 2.4 and 5 simultaneously, so things close enough to it can still get the benefit.
Ye Bug List
Thursday 19th January 2012 12:49 GMT
That post has just triggered a gripe. Not a bug per se, more a "wouldn't it be better this way?".
Any chance we could make inline URL references like that lot open in new tab by default[1] with some jiggery pokery[2] behind the scenes?
I doubt it'll do El Reg's page view counts (as crowed about elsewhere) any good if you keep shoving your readers off permanently to A.N.Other site whenever some commentard's reference piques their interest. Already here you can see that the locals are like a fat kid given 50 quid and let loose in a sweetshop when it comes to the use of URL references and when this hits the main site......
[1] Yes, there almost certainly is a config option squirreled away in here somewhere to make clicked URLs open in a new tab, but most of the time I don't want to do this. However, I would like El Reg to stay around while I look at things referenced.
[2] No I don't do this web stuff. Why do you ask?
Teen net addicts pee in bottles to stay glued to WoW
Thursday 19th January 2012 12:27 GMT
Truth is stranger than fiction.
When I was working on the Czech Republic, there was a news story about some supermarket workers who'd complained to the union about new working practices. The gripe was that trips to the loo were being clamped down on and female employees on the rag were required to wear red "deely boppers" on their heads (I kid you not), to indicate that they were entitled to use the bog more often.
The union's reponse was that they should STFU. The Polish union they were affiliated to was dealing with the problem that the workers for the same company operating there didn't get loo breaks and were instead issued nappies by the management.
Record numbers of readers flock to The Register
Blogger bully site yanks MPAA's chain in poison-pen letter
Fanboi Wars
Thursday 19th January 2012 08:13 GMT
Actually, the Siberian Traps are a good place to start.
IIRC they chucked out many times what we do and did so for several thousand years. The end result was a 6 degree rise in average global temperatures, which is about where the doom 'n gloom merchants would have us in a couple of hundred years.
One thing you can say with a fair degree of certainty is that the predictive models being used are purest bollocks.
The big issue is the assumption of positive feedback, i.e. a climactic tendancy to destabilise when nudged with a bit of CO2, giving a runaway greenhouse effect. Now, if you look back through the plant's history, you'll see that a wide variety of climate bothering events have occurred in the past. If there genuinely were a tendancy toward instability rather than the exact opposite, we wouldn't be here.
My views on the subject can be summed up as follows:
1) It probably is warming.
2) Some/most/all of that effect may be our fault.
3) The "doom & gloom" predictions are nothing more than FUD.
4) While a massive cut in our emissions might turn things around, the chances of actually getting a meaningful agreement on that are on a par with those of my looking out of my window tomorrow morning and seeing Satan skiing to work.
5) QED. If you want to make a difference, try working on technologies and systems for living with a warmer climate rather than on polishing chairs and arguing a lot while crusties wave placards at you.
The Register to publish other sites' blacked-out content in SOPA protest
Boots Philosophy cosmetics
Symantec 'fesses up: 'Code theft worse than we thought'
George Lucas: 'No more Star Wars'
Wednesday 18th January 2012 14:31 GMT
"I've read the plot synopsis about The Color Purple...."
Ah, I reckon you've gone an extra mile too far there. I doubt the comparison goes any further than; "It's quite arty and about black people, just like that other arty film about black people.". You're highlighting the sort of picky details that get thrashed out in script conferences.
Apple wants to OWN YOUR VERY SOLE
NEC claims terabit-plus record with 10,000 km hop
HP hawks huge 132in 'tablet'
Welcome to the latest forum features
Wednesday 18th January 2012 10:13 GMT
Navigation.
Ok, navigating directly to http://forums.theregister.co.uk/section/forums/user_forums/ presents a handly list of the non-topic related forums.
Question: Is there a way of getting there from elsewhere in the site? Thumping the "forums" link presents the old commentard view of the whole shebang and now I have commented to this one, I expect it'll show up there - I'll check in a second[1]. Ok there's a search, but some way of getting to that browsing view without firing a new tab / session would be handy.....
Maybe it's there and I've missed it?
[1] Which means an "edit post" feature would also be nice to have so I could report back without double-posting.
Boffins quarrel over ridding world of leap seconds
Wednesday 18th January 2012 07:54 GMT 
"..GPS and space missions."
Why is it that whenever this topic comes up in the press, some hack puts in "Oh noes, is b0rk GPS yes?"?
GPS and other satellites, spacecraft, space stations, probes and such, already live with the fact that their clocks run faster than ours, being further up or out of the gravity well. Synchronisation between spacecraft and ground stations already has to cater for clock drift due to relativistic effects and the odd leap second here and there to account for the Earth's rotation is a trivial adjustment by comparison.
Thus while this one is often presented as the headline argument, it isn't. At all.
Porno cyber-squatter landed in Branson pickle
Fresh Apple lawsuits target 15 Samsung gadgets
NSA constructs hardened Android, unleashes it on world
Tuesday 17th January 2012 14:15 GMT
Whilst I have to admire the kneejerk tinfoil-hattery in that, the fact that this is distributed as source code makes it entirely possible to prove the existance of any nefarious goings on and remove them.
So if they had done this it would be utterly pointless and regardless of their other failings, as I doubt they're as thick as pigshit they almost certainly haven't.
What's most useful is that some or many of the security enhancements here could end up being merged back into the core product, providing a better product for all. Well done those spooks!
Woz praises Android, blasts iPhone limitations
Darwin's lost fossils found down the back of a cupboard
Skype is coming to Windows Phone - really
Kenyan startup claims Google 'scalped' its data after staging a STING
Tuesday 17th January 2012 10:27 GMT
No they don't.
If you don't want your images indexed, then a quick amendment to robots.txt should do the job for you. Note that if your images are indexed, then people might see them, find out where to get them and possibly even decide to pay you for them. All Google are doing here is pointing them in the right direction. Every image seen in a google search has a link to its origin, if anyone decides that 'cos they show up in search they belong to Google, well there's no cure for stupidity.
Where you might run into problems is when someone finds your image on Google and just uses it for their own purposes, rather than asking / paying you. Incidently, *that's* where the Pirate Bay analogy fits into this one.....
Child labour, lost wages uncloaked by Apple factories audit
Monday 16th January 2012 16:40 GMT
Unintended consequences.
"If manufacturers don’t live up to our standards, we stop working with them."
Unfortunately for the poor sods at the sharp end of this shit, this tends to come across as; "The only work you could get was this overworked and underpaid job working for complete bastards. We're taking that away from you too.".
Experts: We're stuck with passwords – and maybe they're best
X Prize: Build a Star Trek 'tricorder' and win $10m
Pollution-gobbling molecules in global warming SMACKDOWN
Monday 16th January 2012 10:50 GMT
Nothing compared to the monumental egotism involved in the assumption that we can make it do what we want if we all put our minds to it.
If there is a warming trend (and it looks like there probably is) we need to invest our efforts in working out how to live with it, rather than in arguing about how to change it.
Busted Phobos-Grunt in harmless splashdown
Pirate Bay dropping torrents after magnetic attraction
Flash drive meltdown fingered in Swedish IT blackout
Monday 16th January 2012 09:35 GMT
"EMC won't comment on any details..."
Hardly surprising with the smell of lawsuits wafting on the breeze.
Best you can hope for, once their PR and legal lads agree on the wording, is a few words that actually say nothing in an astonishingly vague way, padded with some background puff lifted verbatim from the product literature.
Oz skeptic offers prize if Rossi’s E-cat works
Monday 16th January 2012 09:00 GMT
Thought experiment.
If you had a "makes energy from nothing" box that you'd invented would you:
a) Keep it close to your chest and work your cobs off touting for a bit money from punters for "futher development" of it.
b) Demonstrate it working under scientifically controlled conditions, show how it works, become overnight the richest and most famous man on the entire bloody planet and never have to work again?
So he's either very stupid or a con artist then. As very stupid people don't tend to come up with astonishingly clever inventions, Occam's razor says con.
Big Blue boffins cram information onto a cool 12 atoms
Tiny frog claimed as smallest vertebrate ever
Titsup EMC VNX kit unleashes 5 days of chaos in Sweden
Friday 13th January 2012 09:20 GMT
That old chestnut.
"...despite having a 99.8 per cent uptime agreement..."
I've been saying this for some time now. You may very well have a beautifully worded SLA, guaranteeing availibility, which gives you a nice, warm feeling of security.
For some reason, there are many in the business who don't seem to realise that it is a legal document and nothing more. It's *only* purpose is to be used as a weapon *when*, not if, that catastrophic failure occurs.
Ron Paul’s web campaign mired in pokey pages
Friday 13th January 2012 07:55 GMT
There is another important factor in here:
"...175 data round trips from 20 different domains..."
That's 175 chances that something is being fetched from somewhere outside the direct control of the site you are looking at, any one of which could be swapped out for something moody without the controlling webmaster being able to prevent it or even knowing about it.
I'm horrified.
Billions of potentially populated planets in the galaxy
Thursday 12th January 2012 15:50 GMT
Habitable planets.
I reckon the governing factor here is the 1 in 6 for gas giants.
You may well have a handy, rocky planet in the "goldilocks zone", but without that massive gas giant further out acting as a cosmic hoover for incoming lumps and debris left over from the system's formation, as Jupiter does for us, it'll end up as a pockmarked hellhole.
Scammers punt bogus pink Facebook makeover
Thursday 12th January 2012 15:33 GMT
Survey scams.
We need a simple campaign. Just ask people to remember while filling in an online survey to fill in rubbish answers to all the demographic questions and then answer the rest truthfully.
Makes no odds to them, they'll still get their prize (or not, as is more usual), but it will render the results useless and this sort of thing'll disappear in short order.
Bonus here is that it'll also piss on the picnic of the marketing weasels who pay for survey results with no questions asked along with the scammers.......
US killer spy drone controls switch to Linux
Toyota teases next-gen Prius styling
Thursday 12th January 2012 12:19 GMT
I guess that beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder.
I'm not overly taken with the second, but I rather like the first one and would happily have one on my drive. Shades of the Alfa 159 at the front, which I consider to be the best looking mass-produced car available right now. Can't see "bloated" in either of 'em. Unfortunately my fleet Prius is up for replacement next year, so I guess I'm going to get stuck with the current god-awful "how many corners can we get on one car" design.....
RIM demos PlayBook OS2
Thursday 12th January 2012 11:28 GMT
Hmm, I was about to contradict you there by quoting the bit from the QNX website about how QNX Neutrino underpins the BB Playbook, like I did last time this came up.
However, it seems to have disappeared. I guess they've decided that the stench of death around the thing is too awful to be associated with.
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