Posts by Haku
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YouTube bloggers told to slap 'advert' stickers on their vid posts
'I don't recognise Amazon as a bullying workplace' says Bezos
BBC Panaroma - Amazon: The Truth Behind the Click
Full programme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXWJ4GfQ22E
Apple tries to patent facial recognition
Watch out, Tokyo! Samsung readies a 15 terabyte SSD
Surprise! Evil-eyed cats MORE LIKELY to be SNEAKY PREDATORS – boffins
It's happened, folks: An actual exhibition about cats and the internet
And the first ever cat animation created on a computer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O4mm3hXNgA
From Russia in 1968, printed ASCII images photographed in stop motion to create an animation.
Sadly the original Catscan site is gone, but: http://thecatscan.tumblr.com/
Moronic Time cover sets back virtual reality another 12 months
For those too young to have seen this BBC broadcast
Check this ancient show on virtual reality from 1991 and see where it all started:
Horizon - Colonising Cyberspace (YouTube)
And on that bombshell: Top Gear's Clarkson to reappear on Amazon
BT broadband in broad-based brownout and TITSUP incidents
We put Windows 10 on a small fondleslab: STILL not ready, 3 days to go
Re: All around the world and I, I, I, cant find my . . .
Windows search was 'adequate' on XP, I hate the Win7 version and haven't tried 8, but very very glad I discovered the free Windows search tool Everything which indexes NTFS attached drives very quickly and displays realtime search results as you type, with regular expression capability for even more refined results.
Driverless cars banished to fake Michigan 'town' until they learn to read
More Apple Car mutterings: Cupertino slurps more autobiz brains
Neil Armstrong's MOON spacesuit: One small donation from you - one giant leap for Mankind
The US taxman thinks Microsoft owes billions. Prove it, says Microsoft
Billions? Were they using Windows 3.1 calculator for the sums?
Bill Hicks: 25 years on from the cult comedian's big break
He was also on BBC1's Paramount City in 1991
I captured this in from my one of my old Betamax tapes:
Ant-Man: Big ideas, small payoff
You Musk be joking: Tesla's zero to 60MPH in 2.8 SECONDS is literally 'ludicrous'
"Sir hadn't you better buckle up?" "Ah, buckle this! LUDICROUS SPEED! *GO!*"
My 9 year old godson is a Star Wars fan courtesy of his dad, he'd never seen Spaceballs before so we all sat down to watch it one night, until he piped up about 1/3 the way through that he coouldn't handle it anymore because he found it just too weird!
TalkTalk deactivates hundreds of email accounts after legacy spam scare
Commodore PET lurches out of its 1970s grave – as a phablet
Microsoft starts switching on paid Wi-Fi service with latest Windows 10 preview
Ditch crappy landlines and start reading Twitter, 999 call centres told
Obligatory IT Crowd reference: (with appropriate post icon)
We tried using Windows 10 for real work and ... oh, the horror
THIS MEANS WAR between USA and Japan! GIANT ROBOT WAR
Rise of the Machines: ROBOT KILLS MAN at Volkswagen plant
Humongous headsets and virtual insanity
Humongous? No, THIS is HUMONGOUS:
Toshiba 360 Gaming Helmet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo1BRhoBHAs
It makes almost anyone look like Marvin the paranoid android from the 2005 HHGTTG film.
British banks consider emoji as password replacement
Cortana threatens to blow away ESC key
Cops turn Download Festival into an ORWELLIAN SPY PARADISE
Brit plods' post-TETRA radio omnishambles comes home to roost
FBI: Apple and Google are helping ISIS by offering strong crypto
Re: Not only them!
Will a lifesize cardboard tank do?
KFC takes legal axe to eight-legged mutant chicken claims
Secure web? That'll cost you, thanks to Mozilla's HTTPS plan
I'm terribly sorry but I think I missed the bit where they explain that I shouldn't be visiting sites like http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/ and http://thecatscan.tumblr.com/ because they're not https enabled.
Welp, PEAK GIF is upon us! Facebook now supports animated images
For those lucky not to know the reference, it was a website that just played this on a continual loop: hamsterdance (YouTube)
And if you didn't know and you watched the video, welcome to the hell of early internet meme's! It only got worse...
Why voice and apps sometimes don't beat an old-fashioned knob
Futuristic Home Owner's Diary from about 20 years ago, doesn't seem too far from today's futuristic home predictions just without wifi, and replace the Usenet reference with Facebook & Bittorrent.
Also, beware of plugging your computer into all your appliances for fear of it becomming sentient. Cases in point: Electric Dreams (1984) & Demon Seed (1977)
Your CAR is the 'ultimate mobile device', reckons Apple COO
Boffins create tiny holographic battery that fits INSIDE a chip
Android ransomware poses as FBI smut warning
Re: The future isn't looking bright
Ransomware may not be the first thing you worry about with your new smart home...
This is a tongue-in-cheek prediction from about 20 years ago: Futuristic Home Owner's Diary
UK surveillance commish asks CCTV operators to please be good
'iPhone 6S' to push fanbois around with 'Force Touch display'
An article about a rumour of an Apple product feature. Hmm, slow news day?
As for "push back",isn't that just a fancy vibrate motion like when you type on a smartphone and the internal vibrator motor makes the device shake a little?
I do wish more tablet makers put the little vibrator motor in theirs, it almost makes typing on a touchscreen keyboard bearable. I also wish said tablet makers put a big fat white LED next to the camera too.
Wi-Fi was MEANT to be this way: Antennas and standards, 802.11 style
Thanks for the Talking Heads earworm, Danny!
Hacker uses Starbucks INFINITE MONEY for free CHICKEN SANDWICH
Re: Unlicensed Disclosures
I'm sure there have been plenty of people who've discovered flaws/bugs in systems over the decades but never used them to their advantage or disclosed them to anyone for fear of serious negative consequences, starting with the company asking "So why were you poking around in ---- when you know you're not allowed?".
"The exploitation of discovered bugs is widely-considered bad practise and will usually result in the forfeiture of paid bounties, and occasionally in legal action."
But Shirley they can't be serious about that because in some instances you have to exploit the bug you think you've discovered to test and see if it actually works
Isn't all the "we'll sue the goddamn hell out of anyone that discovers bugs in our system!" attitude from major companies stifling creative thinking or simply making sure that when bugs are discovered they're not disclosed to anyone with the power to fix them and so used to exploit the system?