Posts by Justin Stringfellow

that's that gate firmly slammed

now... where's the horse again?

today is a good day to bury XP

If I was the sort of scumbag who actively discovers & exploits vulns, builds botnets etc, I'd have saved a good one for around about now. What's the betting that something nasty turns up very soon indeed?

+1 for popcorn

subheading

What, too difficult to think of something that wasn't identical to the headline?

Need the el reg headstone icon back please.

presumably...

... any crashes will still be blamed on flaky drivers?

The child will get it back eventually

But how long will he have to wait?

Well, how long does it take a spider monkey to type out the full works of shakespeare?

quote of the... uh...

> "If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long," the quote reads. "Just figure out what's next."

Wow, that's brainless. Real 'Miss World' stuff. Does it go on to say that he loves kids and animals and would like to help people all over the world?

theft in plain sight.

If you read the forum linked in the article, there's a comment with a link to the blockchain address of the wallet containing the stolen BTC. Perhaps someone with greater bitcoin knowledge than me can explain why it's possible to steal coins while they remain in plain sight?

"Richard Broadley is ... 12th most active contributor to the Bitcoin protocol ... He is one of a number of people who contacted The Reg to ask what to do if they had lost their Bitcoins"

..and there's the problem with bitcoin. If one of the guys writing the code doesn't understand it, what chance does anyone else have?

Try fitting THAT in the margins, math wonks

Actually, assuming a A4 sheet with a 1" margin, and a areal density of 500Gbpsi, you can fit 730GB into the margin.

Tried reading the telegraph article but it's the usual Apple fanboy treacle.

Any article about computing history where "IBM PC" is misspelt as "ICM PC" is highly suspect anyway.

80 days... is that all?

You've got to wonder what sort of testing has been done on an enterprise product that reliably crashes after 80 days uptime.

rounded corners

... a member of the legal profession will be along presently...

spot the yum jockey

"it is still a somewhat manual process to unpack and install, but I was able to do so within 12 minutes on a few boxes.."

jeez!

visible-from-space bubble

that is all.

you missed the opportunity

for a headline along the lines of "tenda backdoor probed"

modern life is rubbish

I was using the BBC radio player app alarm feature until recently on my android tablet, which sits in a dock near the bed. Most recently, it woke at 7.00 one morning as usual, started playing radio 4, at which point the availability of the network connection clearly prompted the thing to opportunistically check for updates, which it found - specifically one for the BBC radio player, which was then promptly partially uninstalled before failing to update... all in all leaving me with about 5s of alarm. Which wasn't enough. I woke an hour late with a vague recollection of the events.

> Booby-trapped documents associated with the attack include an announcement for a joint US-Mongolia military exercise called Khaan Quest 2014.

<Kirk>

KHAAAAAAAANNN!!!!

</Kirk>

96kHz? Is that it?

Gigabytes of space going begging on a BD disk and we get a doubling of sample rate from the 30 year old CD standard.

Needs to have ultra high resolution, 2.0 and multichannel versions of the music, plus lyrics, high resolution album art, promotional videos, photos, making of... and anything else they can think of putting on there. Try harder. Or don't have my money.