Posts by Gordon Pryra

Dick

All it takes for serious principles and scientific processes to look crap is for one dick in academia to start refererencing Tolkin

Or worse, have any of it in Elvish or klingon.

bye bye Puppy

Add speak "The puppy is here to stay."

Reality "The Puppy is gone"

Bollocks

Why the hell would terrorists talk about terrorist stuff in Public chat?

Would they not

user a private channel?

quild or group chat?

Im guessing there has been some sexying up of the facts here. More likely some NSA spooks asked Blizzard to give them access to the chat servers then exported any conversations when they looked interesting.

I doubt these servers keep backups for long, so I am making an assumption here that sone of the Snowdenesq realtime data capture tools would be needed,

Im going to be rich!

My teams of USB hauling donkey trains braving the passes of Snowden and scafell pike to bring data connectivilty to the brave souls living in the badlands should tick all the boxes.

Its not like the Govt will know what they have been sold anyway, I could always let the NSA provide a sherpa to tag along to keep the data access in place for the Yanks, which should keep the Govt happy

And when ive got the cash, I can flog the donkeys as beef to the first supermarket chain to turn up.

Banks legacy systems

Its already been mentioned in a few posts in different ways, but the overall bank view is that the risk of replacing old working systems far outweighs the cost benefits.

The cost if the system goes down is never really counted because the figure is scary high.

Its a house of cards and the original developers have retired so the people in charge do NOT want to blow on it.

"little indication that those efforts to educate users are gaining much traction"

When the passwords are just lifted wholesale in clear text from the site you enter it at, whats the point?

On top of that, its a proven fact that the more complex the password the more likely it is to appear on a post it note stuck to the screen...

Why do customs get more funding to protect rich company's who rip their customers off than the police get to look for the people pushing pictures of children being raped over the net??

We need a complete change in management at UK Gov Ltd

Until our leaders do not benefit personally from legislation aimed at business (stocks/shares/directorships etc ) we will continue to get the charade where our police go after someone flogging a knock off handbag over spending any money on tracking down the online peados.

"Doubtless cynical readers will claim this discovery is purely coincidental"

Actually I doubt it was the blue ringed octopus. They are from the pachific and Indian Oceans

You can bet

Its down to some kind of DRM snafu. They will never admit it, but their code to prevent free movement of media is at fault.

Then again, if you pay peanuts for something you can expect to have some kind of lock on it, oh hang on!!

What about the reverse?

Where China starts paying people to give the US and UK access to sites our government has blocked?

Why bring Google into this arena?

Get the fuck out of politics, the people who get hurt are the poor sods who go onto banned websites through this and get arrested for it.

I doubt anyone at Google would spend time in jail, not so the people on the ground.

And who the fuck are Google to be the Internets freedom fighters? Their only motive to information freedom is their ability to make money out of it, I don't see them opening up their databases to everyone, just them asking everyone else to open up to them!!

Nothing new here, move along

I remember when VHS recorders got small enough for home use, we saw a rash of people doing just this.

Remember the "selfy" of the Japanese businessman doing 200 in his Ferrari down the M1?

How gay!!

Anyone not believe that the guy was using faggot in the context he was banned for?

Then shouted loudly "I was talking bout meatballs Me Lud! Honest"

He played a nerd in 2 and a half men

So nuff said, hes used to making himself look stupid in public for money.

Fcuking Hypocrite

"The ISP's broadband director Joe Lathan told El Reg that Virgin Media was glad that the ASA had clarified what it defines as moderate traffic management."

Why won't he define what Virgin Media define what the actual figure for a fair use policy is?

Why Are users getting paid less then?

Seems the cops who chase the torrents have more budget than the cops who chase the online paedos

As an Englishman

(well a South African who chose to be English)

I say give us a bloody referendum so we can vote on either kicking them out or the less onerous "Expulsion-max"

Doesn't surprise me

I can't speak Chinese either

Sadly...

"Musk is not planning to use his new-found ability to make an actual metal exoskeletal frame to pursue baddies with"

With great power comes great responsibility!!

Someone needs to tell Musk all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing!!

How many unique apps are there?

Because its so cheap and easy to produce an app now, we are flooded with millions of crap apps. Where there once there was type of publishing firewall made up of cost to a producer which filtered most of the crap out, now anyone can push something to an app store near them.

For example I see 30 or 40 different "wifi-booster" apps for Android, look into them and you see they are almost all carbon copy's of each other. I'm guessing these all go into the pot of "home grown American Talent" the only thing holding there rest of the world back is their poor English which turns someone off when they have a full English version doing the same thing.

That and there is a very good chance that the people who wrote this report have not got the full information on Chinese apps, which probably dwarf the yanks to the point where they don't appear on a line graph

"why are you being so petty?

I think you will find Glass is an enormous threat to Apple. What do they have coming out? A watch.

Wooooo, I once had a swatch watch with a pager built into it. Nothing much has changed since then, A small screen which does what? Integrate with my phone and a few unneeded apps (maybe)

Hell I have not worn a watch in 4-5 years, and anyone I do know that still wears them does so because they say Rolex or Tag Heuer on them not because they can do anything apart from tell the time. Good luck taking them on Apple.

The Google Glass however is NEW, its SHINY and Apple cannot even attempt to take Google on here without being laughed at for copying them, ESPECIALLY after all the mud slinging about the Glass Apple have been taking part in.

Apple should have been the ones to make the Glass and they know it. This is one of the times that their version of innovation came back to bite them in the arse.

Innovation?

I see no innovation here, just an list of pre-approved ways for people to display search results from Baidu on a handset.

Rather than any innovation they are trying to reduce the amount of crap calls to themselves from idiot "programmers"

Not sure why there's the big fan fair, unless things have become so dumbed down since my day that this actually counts as some form of innovation in the world of cut-n-past html jockeys.

Maybe my day rate is rising the older I get, not because I am getting better, but because (as I suspect) with OS's designed to be run by idiots no one actually gets deep down and dirty anymore and the kids coming into the industry stand no chance of learning what used to be required.

Some basic logic and how a bit of code actually works on a computer would be a great start......

@Facebook and @Google

Tough,

Thats the downside of being an American company.

America may as well be a carbon copy of China in the way that they deal with the outside world

For any septics reading, on the world map, the part with the words "Here be Dragons" it is actually what we call, "the rest of the world"(tm)

With the PRISIM fun, people can no longer pretend to trust the Americans (lots of countries put up with it because of cheap cash and hand outs), the UK have also shot themselves in the foot over this with their very public (and stupid, probably illegal) slapping around of people who are close to journalists.

Its getting to the point where money no longer talks, if companies like Facebook and Google are having problems, then they will either need to follow the local laws (for once) or make way for local companies.

”Their camera function has high pixels”

Ignoring the funny English

(my translation into NK would be worse, but then again I can use Google translate and a few other websites to verify the output which would sort that out)

They are giving their people cameras?

Usual crap

When the numbers look bad, do one of the following

1) dont report them,

2) change them to look good

3) or change the way they are counted

What author worth his salt needs to read Hamlet? Can they (they being PROPER authors) not recite it word perfect?

N00b is all that springs to mind, and its a word of which the bard would have made much use.

"The ministry hopes such decisions will be made fairly and reasonably"

Don't hold your breath