Re: Let's think of the kids
Couldn't tell if it was a pun or not.
Shouldn't that be "moniker" rather than "Monica".
Only half a grammar nazi, just in case---------->>>>>>>>
Posts by Khaptain
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US parents proclaim 811 'Messiahs'
London's Tech City welcomes first Chinese tenant
Bonking boffins say bacon biters won't breed
BBC's Clangers returns in £5m 'New Age' remake
Tuesday 15th October 2013 15:09 GMT 
Re: Why can't they write some new programmes?
Agreed, the fact that they were made from odds and ends added to their credibility, their warmth. Unfortunately CGI has the tendancy to remove the cuddly effect and replace it with "clean and perfect".....
Bagpuss et al shared the same idea imperfection and it is was made them so real..
Can you trust 'NSA-proof' TrueCrypt? Cough up some dough and find out
Tuesday 15th October 2013 20:39 GMT
Re: Almost unsolvable problem.
I agree with Charles, the solution lies in the disassembly of the compiled code.
The algorithm for encryption is known, it should be possible to create a "theoretic "byte code projection of the few funcitons that exist, these in turn should be compared to the compiled byte code.
After disassembly of the public compiled code.
Each individual assembly function should be compared to the logic of the orginal assembler or C code. The logic must match, no extra routines or unnecessary comprisons shoud be seen.
The main elements :
How many decrypting functions exist, more than 1, Red Flag.
Which functions make calls to the decrypting function. Any more than 1 or two, start asking question.
Which functions handle the secret keycode - how does the function handle the keycode. Leading Space stripping, UCASING or lcasing, reversal, byte code comparissons, individual comparissons etc.... Red Flag.
What are the parameters types sent to the decryption function.
etc
etc
etc
I would agree though that it would be painstaking work but definately possible especially when you have the original code.
I would also put a small mention out to +ORC's and his Martini-Wodkas...
Apple's Oct 22 WORLD-SHAKING San Fran party: New iPads or what?
Google refunds two dollars for cop jobs ad on biker website
Tuesday 15th October 2013 09:36 GMT
Re: I agree....
Oh yeah right, the Mongols should be collectively punished for rapes, murders, muggings, armed robberies and other viloent acts .
Should we also collectively punish all the Romans for putting Christ on a cross.
Should we collectively punish all the Australians for destroying the great barrier reef, for speaking with funny accents and drinking too much beer.
Should we collectively punish all of the Americans for being fat
Where and how do you define the limits of collective punishment.
The majority of people in groups are just sheep following wolfs. You don't punish the sheep in order to stop the wolf.
Tuesday 15th October 2013 07:30 GMT 
The Australian Police Minister has now "temporarilly" disbanded a group of "Mongols", slightly diminshing the groups drug and gun stockpile and having "successfully" claimed damages from Google.
Total loss for the Mongols, about nothing... It's merely a setback....
Total loss for the police... probably a few hundred thousand dollars, maybe even into the millions, plus the temporary lack of backhanders and all of this for a return sum of .........$1.89...... and that was only because Google placed an inappropriate ad......
The police minister must be proud of that ehhhh.
Everyone knows that the drug market is a lucrative business but no-one ever seem to tackle the root of the problem. You can't stop drugs being sold whilst the market is crying out for them.... It's all smoke and mirrors....
Price rises and power cuts by 2016? Thank the EU's energy policy
Tuesday 15th October 2013 11:31 GMT 
Milking the bunnies
The populations are using more and more energy for televisions, home cinemas, central heating, luxuries, iphone etc. etc...Surprisingly there are no viable energy solutions available for the ever increasing demand. So what do we do, nothing, we continue to consume as ever before..
OK, changing your boiler for a new energy efficient one will help, a little, but it will not remove the requirements for continually using energy. We have found ways to improve energy consumption but what we needs are solutions that STOP energy consumption.. But that would be detrimental to the economy......catch 22.
People want cake, no problem, but first learn they have to learn that cake is not going to be provided for free.... there is always a cost. Life is tough and I am convinced that it's going to get tougher for most but not all... just pray that you are in the latter..
Meanwhile prepared to be milked because it's all downhill from here on in.... until the populations are reduced by one means or another......it has to happen and everyone knows it but no-one wants to take a clear stance and offer "soft" solutions.......
CEO of Brit fashion bods Burberry lands Apple job for retail, online sales
I'll call for UK law shakeup to cuff global web crime lords - new top cyber cop
German researchers claim 100 Gbps wireless transmission record
Oracle says open source has no place in military apps
Tuesday 15th October 2013 07:11 GMT 
Lock In
Larry likes to lock his customers in, it now appears that he also wants to lock in the DOD.
If the DOD choose to go this route they will probably regret it in as little as 5 years time when they have to spend billions re-developing software in order to avoid Larry's clutches.
I presume that Larry is simply replying to an RFP but what scary is that these kinds of contracts ever go anywhere near the public sector. How will the DOD verify the "intentions" of the Chinese dev team, or the Iranian encryption genuis or the Israeli microchip expert that is working in one of the less obvious Oracle departments ?
If the staff aren't yours, you have no control over anything. Even when they are it is not an easy task.. ( Snowden ring any bells).
Larry wants the bomb --------->
McDonalds tells fatties to SUPERSIZE THEIR BRAINS
Monday 14th October 2013 17:02 GMT
No it's not to reach your calorie limit, it's to reach the daily requirements that your body requires in order to have the correct balance of proteins, carbs, lipides etc. It's very easy to reach the calorie intake, it takes a little more effort inorder to reach the recommended requirements without exceeding calories intake.
In other words, you are forced to overeat in order to reach the level that the body requires.
Calories are in general the energy/fuel as a whole, they do not represent the quality of the fuel.
Monday 14th October 2013 15:41 GMT
This is exactly the kind of bad eating habits that most doctors would like to see people avoid.
2 Big Macs and a Cheese = (2 * 510) + 255 = 1265 Kcal and thats before you add any soft drinks or a desert.....
The nutrional value adds up top about a 3rd of what you need for the day. ( There's little or no fibre though).
That means you would need to eat 3 of these, therefore 3795 kcal worth of MacDo to meet your daily needs.. A normal adult male requries about 2200-2500 Kcal, everything else turns to fat...... Unless of course you are very athletic person - in such a case you probably wouldn't be eating MacDos.
An occasional macDo is not a bad thing, a regular macDo is a killer
Monday 14th October 2013 11:41 GMT
Re: As an educated Yank ...
"It's not fascist to not be rude to people. They "don't need to be fat", you "don't need to be a twat"."
You can replace the word "fat" with whatever you want, there will always be the same understanding behind the word and "the overweight" people will still be offended. It's a lose, lose situation.
Just out of interest what adjective would you use to describe people that eat to the point that their weight becomes an embarrasement ?
Being fat is not a disease it is a choice. ( There are exceptions but they are few and far between).
As the saying goes, you are what you eat..... If you eat a lot of fat , you become fat.... that's not being rude, it's being honest.
Sorry fanbois, no supersize Apple fondleslabs for you
Island-hopping Beardy Branson: I'm dodging rain, not taxes
Laptops Snowden took to Hong Kong and Russia 'just a decoy'
Monday 14th October 2013 13:10 GMT
Re: I hope Snowden didn't eat anything they might have given him
It's probably more dangerous to kill him than it is to keep him alive.
Imagine that this is a webserver somewhere that he,or an acomlice, must log into every day otherwise it will spew out to all and sundry the important stuff that hasen't yet been leaked...
If the NSA still have an interest in Snowden it is because they believe that he stills holds something important. Otherwise they would simply have let him rot in Russia.
( Same is probably true for the Russians)... Hell, even Ian Fleming couldn't have written a better story...
MS Word deserves DEATH says Brit SciFi author Charles Stross
Monday 14th October 2013 09:02 GMT
Re: Concur with Stross. With a couple caveats.
One of you is speaking about *.doc or *.docx files ( ie MS Word Format) which can hold formatting etc, the other is speaking about *.txt files ( Ascii text files which does hold formatting etc).
Please do not compare appels to oranges, they are both fruits but they are nto the same fruit.
Wanna be Zuckerberg's neighbor? Tough luck, he bought the block for $30m
Google: Now your mom will try to sell you toilet paper
Web daddy Tim Berners-Lee: DRMed HTML least of all evils
Thursday 10th October 2013 14:12 GMT
Why does HTML have to contain DRM
Any and all of the major players could write real "applications" instead of web interfaces and solve the problem immediately.
This is only about the corporates wanting some cake, eating it and then shitting the remains all over the users....
HTML is not the only protocole that exists, use something else.
Twitter-mad twits trade 14 million shares in BANKRUPT zombie biz
Thursday 10th October 2013 06:02 GMT
Re: Quote: This is a trader fail
Question : Was there actually any, living and breathing, skin and flesh trader involved or was this an example of an algorithm getting a little excited again ?
It goes to show just how fragile the whole stock market really is. Decisions are not being made on fact or anything tangible, they are simply being made on movements.....
The stock market is basically the biggest computer game in the world... and it's being run by computers.
Scary, it's very, very, scary......
That 'DIAMOND SUPER EARTH' may actually be WORTHLESS ball of gas
Blighty's National Crime Agency nabs first crook ...for £750k cyberscam
Boffins spot LONE PLANET roaming interstellar void
Amazon lures in Kindle Fire devs: Promises fame across devices
Thursday 10th October 2013 08:54 GMT 
Endless promises and hopes
Why is that todays business models seem to revolve around large companies providing platforms for which content will be made for "free" by external developers ?
If I have understood correctly, very few devs actually make anything at all , other than a few pennies, OK there are exceptions like Rovio but they are so rare that they exist only on the extreme far ends of the bell curve.
obviously it's the Amazons ( they are hoping) , Apples, Google, MS ( not quite) that make the real money.
Or is it just the idea of obtaining the famous "15 minutes" ?
London plod plonks, er, pull request on EasyDNS
Wednesday 9th October 2013 05:58 GMT
Where are Anonymice when you need them
This would be one of the very singular occasions in which I would like to see the table being turned on the perps( the police). This must be completely illegal..
We appear to be seeing more and more examples of how the "police state" has become a reality. Funny though, it doesn't seem to matter which party is elected , the police issues always remain inthe background. Politicians seem to be very wary of touching this holy ground.
I can easilly imagine that the Police High Commisioner, or whatever he is called, is a 33 degree macon... could there be a connection.....
Be prepared... to give heathens a badge: UK Scouts open doors to unbelievers
Wednesday 9th October 2013 05:47 GMT
It's a good start.
There are far many more things than just the Boy Scouts that need to get rid of the Sky Fairy idealogy but this is a good start.
Anyone that swears to a "deity" begins his career with a lie, why would we ever expect them to be honest from that point in.
All we need know is for the Americans to learn that creatonism is myth not fact. In parallel can we please offer the Pope a new job outside of the theater playing role that he currently has. ( The man himself, the Pope that is, is probably a fine human-being but please stop all of this funny hat and dress wearing nonsense - The 1600s are over).
Techies with Asperger's? Yes, we are a little different...
Microsoft watches iPads flood into world's offices: Right, remote desktop clients. It's time
Cook invokes GHOST of STEVE JOBS in Apple-wide memo
Tuesday 8th October 2013 07:00 GMT
From what can be gleaned from the interwebs and various other accounts, it would appear that not liking Steve was not a good career move if you were one of his subordinates.
Did you personally meet him ? Are all those accounts in the web wrong ? Was Steve Jobs really a philanthropist in disguise ?
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Tuesday 8th October 2013 05:41 GMT 
Better the Devil you know
"He left behind a company that only he could have built and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple. We will continue to honour his memory by dedicating ourselves to the work he loved so much. There is no higher tribute to his memory. I know that he would be proud of all of you."
It sounds very much like Mr Cook is trying to keep his staff motivated and he is using "compassion" as the fuel. Pretty poor plot ......
"dedicating ourselves to the work he loved so much"
People go to work to earn money, not to idiolise or dedicate their lives others. ( Although that might actually be a requriement in NK) . Cook sounds like one of those crazy evangelists with very little, if anything, to offer, he must be in a permanent struggle to try and appear to be usefull.
Young? Been online five years? Congrats, you are the ELITE MINORITY
Tuesday 8th October 2013 05:49 GMT 
El Reg Elite Minority
I have been signed up to El Reg for just a little more than 5 years... Does that make me an Elite Vulture ?
I have also been using the web for almost 20 years...... Does that make me an Elite Web Vulture ?
Some of these studies/reports make me weep. What's next, you have been driving for 5 years, you are the equivalant of Formula One pilot and you deserve medals....
DEATH WATCH counts down seconds to wearer's demise
Tuesday 8th October 2013 05:46 GMT
Complete Anarchy
I would hate to imagine the pyschological effect that such a watch might have. It is just as likely to start instilling nihilistic thoughts in peoples heads. When they have eventually reasoned deeply enough that life really does not have any purpose and all that remains left is too die they might just start behaving a little "crazilly"....
Eary thought....
Three BILLION people now potential nodes for the transfer of cat videos
Hollywood: How do we secure high-def 4K content? Easy. Just BRAND the pirates
Monday 7th October 2013 08:32 GMT
Re: Digital signature conundrum
If they are truly random pixels, they will be randomly scattered, but in known positions ( held within a secret database, woooooh), removing a few frames would then change the exact location of each pixel, the signatures pixels would then no longer exist at the known position.
Monday 7th October 2013 07:42 GMT
Digital signature conundrum
Rather than removing the offending pixels, would it not be more advantageous to just add some extra pixels, thereby modifiying the signature. It would then become an unknown signature and not verifiable against one that already exists.
In a court I would imagine that something is either an exact match or it is not...
Police constable 1337 stunned by Lego lookalike
Monday 7th October 2013 09:50 GMT
Re: Amazing. Not.
"Still, it took up space in the the newspaper that would, otherwise, have been filled with bile against immigrants, benefits scroungers, gays, politicians, unions, corporations or 'celebrity gossip'."
Since when did the public at large require anything more ? The "Illiterati " are not allowed to rise above a level which would allow them to remain autonomous...
"There was a time when people used to talk about newspapers like this as only fit to wipe your bum. But I wouldn't want to risk it."
Rupert Murdoch made his fortune from selling toilet paper....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
