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The fuck you are!
Posts by Haku
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Police raid India call centre, detain 500 in fraud probe
I want to launch thousands of drones, says Facebook's flying Wi-Fi router chief
Monday 3rd October 2016 17:39 GMT
Re: Aerial carve up continues
To put the distance restriction proposal into more tangeable numbers:
500 meters distance, 121.92 meters high = 95,794,285 cubic meters
100 meters distance, 50 meters high = 1,571,428 cubic meters
So you'll only be allowed to fly in 1.64% of the cubic area you used to be able to.
Monday 3rd October 2016 16:57 GMT
Re: Aerial carve up continues
The new proposals by the EASA should be looked at by everyone who flies multirotors and model aircraft, both hobbyist and commercial sector, because it appears they're trying to screw over everyone:
http://droneinsider.org/new-easa-drone-regulations-threaten-kill-uk-european-drone-industry/
Homebuilt drones only allowed to be up to 250g in weight?! And the height restricted to 50m (down from 121m) along with distance to 100m (down from 500m) here in the uk? Utter madness.
Can you make a swarm of 20+ flying military robots? UK.gov wants you
Monday 3rd October 2016 16:18 GMT 
The EASA might have something to say about drone usage.
It appears they're set to kill the hobby and commercial side of drone usage by introducing new regulations that are absolutely absurd:
http://droneinsider.org/new-easa-drone-regulations-threaten-kill-uk-european-drone-industry/
Homebuilt drones only allowed to be up to 250g in weight?! And the height restricted to 50m (down from 121m) along with distance to 100m (down from 500m) here in the uk? Utter madness.
This doesn't just affect multirotors but the model aircraft flyers who have been happily flying for decades without attracting the sort of scaremongering the introduction of affordable multirotors to the world has caused.
Forgive me, father, for I have used an ad-blocker on news websites...
Friday 23rd September 2016 15:06 GMT
Sometimes you HAVE to use an ad blocker because otherwise the site doesn't work properly.
Take for example http://www.speedtest.net/ for testing your internet speed. If I don't use an ad blocker then my speed test results cannot be trusted because of the bandwidth & cpu the adverts take up when loading the page & doing the test.
WTF ... makes mobile phone batteries explode?
Thursday 22nd September 2016 12:06 GMT
Re: In the phablet, the silent phablet, the LiOn sleeps tonight
*runs away quickly*
Apple wants to buy Formula 1 car firm McLaren – report
Man accused of $180k ass-based gold smuggling scam awaits verdict
Meet DDoSaaS: Distributed Denial of Service-as-a-Service
Monday 12th September 2016 20:19 GMT
I got this email 8 days ago:
Subject: "EXS" WARNING!!! Attack!!! "EXS".
We are a HACKER TEAM - Armada Collective
1 - We have checked your information security systems, setup is poor; the systems are very vulnerable and obsolete.
2 - We'll begin attack on Tuesday 06-09-2016 8:00 p.m.!!!!!
3 - We'll execute some targeted attacks and check your DDoS servers by the 10-300 Gbps attack power
4 - We'll run a security breach test of your servers through the determined vulnerability, and we'll gain the access to your databases.
5 - All the computers on your network will be attacked for Cerber - Crypto-Ransomware
6 - You can stop the attack beginning, if payment 1 bitcoin to bitcoin ADDRESS: [snip]
7 - If you do not pay before the attack 1 bitcoin, the price will increase to 20 bitcoins
8 - You have time to decide! Transfer 1 bitcoin to ADDRESS: [snip]
The rest of it was telling me how to use bitcoin to send them money.
I don't know whose servers they hit last Tuesday because I don't own any :)
The next Bond – Basildon or Bass-Ass? YOU decide
Google hover-drones to drop burritos on campus
World eats its 10 millionth Raspberry Pi
Thursday 8th September 2016 20:37 GMT
Overpriced starter kit.
thepihut.com has a £50 Pi bundle 8 or 16gb card with a preinstalled OS, PSU, case, HDMI cable, ethernet cable.
For £99 the official starter kit has an 8gb card with preinstalled OS, PSU, case, HDMI cable, mouse, keyboard, Adventures in Pi book.
So how does a £6 keyboard + generic USB scroll mouse + £15 book add up to £50?
It's time for humanity to embrace SEX ROBOTS. For, uh, science, of course
A plumber with a blowtorch is the enemy of the data centre
Height of stupidity: Heathrow airliner buzzed by drone at 7,000ft
Tuesday 30th August 2016 21:50 GMT
Re: Easily solved ...
Make drone manufacturers & sales agents responsible for end users mishaps?
What?!
Even if such an astoundingly absurd law were to be put into place, it would be absolutely and totally uninforceable due to the fact that you can (and many many people do) build a drone (fixed wing & multirotor) from individually bought parts, often driven by an open source flight controller, the likes of which has no sort of manufacturer enforced geofencing like DJI products to try and stop people flying near airports, or even limit the height to 400ft.
Tuesday 30th August 2016 19:58 GMT
Re: Operational distance...
Some out-of-the-box commercially bought quadcopters can reach a mile high, people have posted such videos on YouTube.
With the right parts you can build a ~5kg 680 sized hexcopter with 45 minuttes flight time, easily enough to get to 7000 feet & return without crashing.
London cops hunt for drone pilots who tried dropping drugs into jail
DVLA misses out on £400m in tax after scrapping paper discs
Windows 10 Anniversary Update completely borks USB webcams. Yay.
New science: Pathetic humans can't bring themselves to fire lovable klutz-bots
NASA dangles ONE MILLION DOLLARS for virtual Mars robots
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Saturday 13th August 2016 04:03 GMT
Duck season
Wabbit season
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Duck season
Wabbit season
Duck season
'I found the intern curled up on the data centre floor moaning'
Friday 12th August 2016 13:49 GMT
Re: A possible 'Laura' scenario
The missile comment made me immediately think of this; This Is Not Happening - Jim Breuer - Bombing in Sears - Uncensored (YouTube)
Background: There's a tv show in America called "This is not Happening" where comedians tell true stories of things that happened to them in their lives, often nearly unbelievable, almost always hilarious. The tv show trims the stories short to fit in the timeslot, the YouTube uploads are full-length.
P.S. Long live PAINT!
Watch hot 'stars' shower ... again. It's Perseid meteor showtime
Windows 10 Anniversary Update crashing under Avast antivirus update
Brit network O2 hands out free Windows virus with USB pens
Monday 8th August 2016 13:26 GMT
Re: We need a double facepalm icon.
"When will people learn."
In a lot of cases, never.
But then there are instances that even take the most cautious by surprise, like you'd never expect a commercially pressed audio CD to root your computer.
If you use ‘smart’ Bluetooth locks, you're asking to be burgled
Monday 8th August 2016 09:58 GMT 
If you have one of those vulnerable bluetooth locks
how about an upgrade, available in 5 colours, including blue!
BBC detector vans are back to spy on your home Wi-Fi – if you can believe it
The developer died 14 years ago, here's a print out of his source code
Friday 5th August 2016 10:24 GMT
Re: Portrayal of computer tech guys in films/tv.
"....or the way almost any database search displays all the data they're not interested in before finally leaving just the data they want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
But when you're searching for something, it's always in the last place you look.
Think about it. Logic is wonderful.
Friday 5th August 2016 08:19 GMT
Portrayal of computer tech guys in films/tv.
I do wonder how much damage the image of the tech help guy has had through films & tv shows, because all too often some 'super hacker' is shown to be doing stuff with a keyboard (why do they never ever use the mouse/trackpad?) that gets impossible things done in super quick time.
Also, those little file transfer bars zip by so quickly when the USB stick gets plugged into the computer, yet in the real world even USB 3.0 sticks can't transfer tens of gigabytes of data in a few seconds, and the film would be over long before they tried to transfer terrabytes.
Londoner jailed after refusing to unlock his mobile phones
Windows 10 Pro Anniversary Update tweaked to stop you disabling app promos
Apple Watch exec Bob Mansfield 'gets into secret Apple car'
Free Windows 10 upgrade: Time is running out – should you do it?
IoT baby monitor style hacks still a threat
Tuesday 19th July 2016 18:42 GMT
I was recently introduced to The World's Most Dangerous Search Engine
Most search engines crawl the web, this one crawls for open ports:
Some background reading: https://www.mikecarthy.com/offensive-security/shodan-worlds-dangerous-search-engine & http://www.zdnet.com/article/shodan-the-iot-search-engine-which-shows-us-sleeping-kids-and-how-we-throw-away-our-privacy/
UK gov says new Home Sec will have powers to ban end-to-end encryption
Thursday 14th July 2016 13:53 GMT
Re: Wow
Reminds me of some tv programme about James Bond where someone in the props department got a call from the 'lets kill the bad guys' department of the government, very interested in the underwater breathing apparatus shown in Thunderball, wanting to know how long it would enable someone to breathe underwater for - the answer they received was 'for as long as the person can hold their breath...'
Half makes you wonder if someone in the government thinks that a flesh covered metal man could come back in time to prevent a future global war from being stopped.
Well I suppose it is possible, I mean there are already reports of security robots attacking people.
Scientists want you to know how to have sex with a hyper-long dong
Thursday 7th July 2016 11:40 GMT
Re: #1 proof that penis enlargement pills do not work:
Have you seen the film Secondhand Lions? Definitely worth a watch.
There are some great scenes in it where the two old rich guys (Michael Caine & Robert Duvall) are sitting out on their porch enjoying the day while they get frequent visits from salesmen trying to get them to part with their money.
Shotguns are involved.
Huawei: Our fake phone camera pic shame
Wednesday 6th July 2016 16:51 GMT
The gaming industry has been doing this sort of thing for years.
Companies regularly advertise their newest game by using cinema quality CGI 'game footage' but at least they put these words at the bottom:
Not actual gameplay
The food industry too, bright colourful pictures of perfectly presented food on the box but when you actually open up the box... IMHO the person who takes the photograph of the food should be forced to eat it afterwards, that way they won't use all sort of tricks like hairspray to make the food look good.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
