* Posts by The Original Ash

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Oxford American Dictionary dubs 'unfriend' Word of the Year

The Original Ash
Big Brother

So, it's the Newspeak Dictionary then?

Here comes the First Edition, lads. Expect word count to start dropping REAL soon.

NZ interloper to commercialise UK internet blocking

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Why block?

Out of sight, out of mind eh? No point trying to catch anybody when nobody knows what's going on.

As long as it's not on *our* doorstep.

Pathetic.

Revealed: The amazing premise behind Ridley Scott's Monopoly

The Original Ash

Ah, so a bit like Jumanji?

Only shit.

Play.com leaves Modern Warfare 2 buyers empty handed

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FAIL

What was that?

“Play take no responsibility for late delivery due to card failures, incorrect address details or failure on the part of the delivery partner.”

Then Play shouldn't make the promise.

Michael Jackson planned 'robot duplicate' of himself

The Original Ash
Terminator

MJ lives!

His droid is in the casket!

AAAAAAAAAAH!

Microsoft defends Hotmail's cookie requirement

The Original Ash
Badgers

"Users... must shut down their browsers to log out."

When was that not the case? I've always closed my browser sessions before switching to other websites, especially if I was just doing web banking.

Hell, I sandbox FF before doing banking and destroy the sandbox before going to other WWW sites.

It's just good practice.

German boffins produce sim of 'invisibility carpet' in action

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Why a lump in the floor?

Why not a box? You know, a shed-like structure.

Why simulate something which WON'T work?

Ugh...

Block McKinnon extradition, MPs tell UK Home Secretary

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FAIL

@frymaster

Garry McKinnon caused no damage to any system hosted in the US. He installed a remote access package via access to high-level accounts with weak or default passwords, then snooped around for UFO information he believed was being withheld from release. He didn't delete anything, and he didn't cause any damage.

Read more.

Designers detail the cars of 2030

The Original Ash

Re-inventing the wheel?

These all seem to be based upon ground transport with very little actual innovation.

I picture Segway as the future of transport, only without the wheels; A sphere, very much like the wheels on the Audi "car" in I,Robot" (Will Smith version) With passengers either standing upright or suspended in a harness.

Ringback tones outselling ring tones

The Original Ash
Pint

Can I choose music?

If I can have Bricklin - Walk Away as my RBT, they have a subscriber.

HELLO SAN DIMAS HIGH! \m/

Samsung's first Bada smartphone pictured

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Coat

A deal hooked up with Microsoft search?

Would this produce the Godfather phone?

I'll let the cogs whir on that one for a while...

Robot negotiator ends tense Colorado siege

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Heart

Not so much ED209

As Johnny Five. No laser here, just an umbrella and a bunch of daisies.

Google backs enormous load of balls for Olympics

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Awesome!

DON'T SPEND MONEY ON BRING THE ECONOMY BACK INTO LINE OR ANYTHING, BLOW IT ALL ON A GIANT FUCKING BUBBLE BLOWER.

Docs press for probe into 'designer vaginas'

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Stop

Horrific

Anyone insecure enough to opt for cosmetic surgery should look at the ugliness inside them first. It's the only point I agree on with the John Doe character from Seven.

Europe welcomes Dell's Mac Mini Zino HD

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FAIL

750 quid for a blueray player?

Save £300 and buy a PS3.

DCSF claims good reception for ContactPoint

The Original Ash
FAIL

Hurry up and leak the data

So we can abandon it and use the money to increase Social Worker pay, so we have enough Social Workers to actually LOOK AFTER CHILDREN IN NEED.

Police to keep innocents' DNA despite human rights ruling

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FAIL

Nothing changes

The people don't give a hoot. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear.

You know, it's almost worth committing crime just to get yourself out of the running for being on some list somewhere; At least you're guaranteed 3 hot meals a day and free access to gym equipment. They can't even guarantee that to honest citizens.

Three more quit over Nutt sacking

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Excellent

Now we have former government advisers, highly respected experts in their field, who agree with what the sane world has known for over two millennia.

Let's see if the Beeb will carry this story. Mainstream publication of events against prohibition improve the understand of the political system, and how to best get your point of view heard.

MS forensics tool leaks onto the web

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Black Helicopters

I would speculate...

That it is an automation of netstat, ipconfig, various net commands, a dump of system memory (including potential passwords / password hashes in RAM) and not a lot else. Just designed to prevent power-off losing evidence (for instance, when booted from a LiveCD, resulting in no swap file, hibernation file, no temporary files of any kind, no logs etc.)

Shame it's MS only. Those Linux LiveCD's are simply too good to pass up anymore.

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Thumb Up

New solution

Leave one USB drive free, unsolder the +5v and ground connection and wire it up to the +12v and earth from the PSU.

Not enough to harm a person, enough to ruin a memory stick.

Malicious? Me? No...

Legless woman falls onto Boston train tracks

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FAIL

Yup

Tracks are electrified; No combustibles in an enclosed space (underground system) and no overhead cabling, so they must be.

Red rectangles seem to be movement-based, picking up colour changes in the scene. Probably to prevent excessive scenes of motionless video capture. Could be to identify why a particular frame was captured.

Oddly, she looks like an ex colleague of mine... I should give them a call and see if they visited the US recently :D

Santa in Phones4U booze'n'fags logo 'shock'

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WTF?

Look at the "Pay as you go Hotshots"

You can clearly see an after-binge brawl getting out of hand:

Frame 1: Bitch slap

Frame 2: Scuffle on the floor

Frame 3: DECAPITATION!

This is some serious stuff.

(As for the reindeer, you can clearly see that they pose no problem anymore; Their heads are mounted on the wall next to the stockings. See top right of homepage).

More delays for UK.gov's net snooping programme

The Original Ash
Happy

Wrong name

They should have called it the Community Linked Interception Trust for Objectionable Risk against Infants in Society Act.

Spain cuts off 3m pre-pay mobiles

The Original Ash

In 6 months time...

... Everyone will be in the same boat; Not registering.

Cutting off 3m customers is pretty hard core. Let's see if they have the nerve to actually do it for real.

How malware frames the innocent for child abuse

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Stop

What a terrible, terrible law.

Speculation and accusation are enough to totally ostracise a person from society, emotionally cripple them, and to financially bankrupt them with legal defence costs.

Possession laws need to be repealed. They're too broad, and a waste of time and money. Bear in mind that this was 11 months of court fees, investigation by police and forensic experts, and all at the expense of the tax payer. These resources could be put towards finding the distributors and creators of these abhorrent materials, instead of ruining the lives of not just one person, but his family, his friends, and his colleagues; After all, they were all associated with a pervert, weren't they?

Attack the source.

'Something may come through' dimensional 'doors' at LHC

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Mini black hole

Considering that black holes are known to have a magnetic force, maybe we can contain such a mini black hole within the confines of the LHC's super conducting magnet lined chamber?

Something tells me that doing anything than keeping it suspended in a vacuum will be quite dangerous, so no dumping to core.

Now, where's my crowbar...

Booze shops get ID card lessons

The Original Ash
Megaphone

Attention Greater Manchester businesses:

THE NEXT GOVERNMENT WILL ABOLISH THE IDENTITY CARD SCHEME. THIS HAS BEEN A MAJOR PART IN THE CAMPAIGN BY BOTH THE CONSERVATIVE AND LIBERAL DEMOCRAT PARTIES.

Forget ID cards.

Nutt sacking row deepens

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Joke

Mandy replies...

"I find your lack of faith disturbing..."

Large Hadron Collider scuttled by birdy baguette-bomber

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Joke

Granite

Isn't that radioactive already? Releases xenon gas, if I remember correctly.

Something about Cornwall, bosses, and webbed feet... Although the latter may not be related to the former.

EU block to Mandelson's filesharing laws removed

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Stop

Fine.

VPN out of the country it is.

I don't even use file sharing networks any more, I just disagree with being watched just in case.

Pirates get extra seat in Euro Parliament

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FAIL

"a complete removal of the patent system"

Reform, yes. Abolishment, no.

Ditch this bird; She's no good to our cause.

Judge spanks lawyer for leaking personal details in brief

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Can we have this over here, please?

HMRC leaks 25m records of Child Benefit claimants; $5000 for 179 infractions means $28 per person, so HMRC owes us $698324022.35

Oh wait, they're paid for by taxes.

Second-gen TTxGP e-bike unveiled

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Coat

What happens when the OS...

... encounters a race condition?

BetOnSports founder Kaplan jailed for four years

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FAIL

Half his net worth?

It's good that once he comes out of prison he won't have $43m waiting for him to live out his retirement in complete luxury.

Oh, wait...

Tories will scrap 'pre-crime' vetting

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Black Helicopters

Is it just me...

... or does this seem a *lot* like Gordo is setting up the Conservatives for the next seat in No. 10? Backing all of this Draconian legislation which the 'Tories promise to scrap...

Makes me wonder what the Tories are planning.

And whether enough people in the country have heard of the Lib Dems.

Employers to take fingerprints for CRB checks

The Original Ash
Grenade

I'd resign over this

If I thought it would make a blind bit of fucking difference.

Irish brogue voted world's sexiest accent

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Heart

Important question!

Is "Brummie" (actually Black Country) still the least popular?

Yam yam yam yam yam yam yam yam yam yam yam yam yam yam.

T-Mobile: Google to open Android Market to Win Mo apps

The Original Ash
FAIL

Sense UI

It's easy to see how this came about; A story appeared on The Reg yesterday regarding the Sense UI (based upon the UI of the same name from the Android handsets) would be appearing on the HTC Touch HD2. It's T-Mobile not understanding that UI != OS.

Oh, and do me a favour; Hold your hands out in front of you, palms forward, fingers together, and thumb at 90 degrees (or as close as you can get it) to your hand. The one which forms a shape like an L with the index and thumb is your *left* hand. Incidentally, that's where you'll find the Start menu on WinMobile.

Scientists flee Home Office after adviser sacking

The Original Ash
Paris Hilton

Irritatingly, though

A lot of the folk who vote believe the gooberment more than the scientists.

Just like PHBs believe sales droids more than their own tech staff during procurement.

PH because she's about as qualified to make decisions regarding drugs, and purchasing, as any politico.

Pizza-making ATM hacker avoids jail

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FAIL

ATM Design Fail

Why the hell is the software accessible from the external controls of the ATM anyway?

No keypresses on the front panel should be allowed to alter any setting on the machine, and the internal controls should be locked seperately to the cash reservoir. That's how they are in most UK ATMs anyway; One key opens the cash, one key opens the console, Bank has the former, Engineer has the latter, and never the two shall meet.

Anti-filesharing laws revive crypto fears for spooks

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Big Brother

What did they expect?

Nothing to hide, but the only thing I use my "naked" internet connection for nowerdays is watching TV on demand services and playing online games. For everything else, a little extra latency from using I2P, Tor, or an anonymising proxy is nothing. IMP will just make me fork out for a personal VPN to a foreign nation.

Nothing to hide, but everything to fear, actually.

Musos demand Guantanamo Bay playlist

The Original Ash
FAIL

What the hell?

Britney Spears? Sesame Street?

They need a new Head of Unpleasentness, I think; I'll take the Pepsi challenge with those songs against a few of my own any day.

Toxic Vs Massacre by The Berzerker. I wonder which will have them crying sooner.

El Reg launches 'Comment of the Week'

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Coat

What?

They're not salty?

Historian slams 'absolutely crazy' UK time zone

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Dead Vulture

Bugger off!

That's my extra hour in bed you're messing with!

WTF is this country called America?

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Pirate

@Jim59

You go call a Canadian an American and see if you make your next train home.

Half a million customer records: Zurich Insurance admits big data loss

The Original Ash
Pint

Of course...

... with an ID card, we'd never need worry about losing any personal data ever again.

Steve Ballmer's Windows 7 dance party

The Original Ash
FAIL

Wait, what? A touchscreen TELEVISION?!

Why the hell would you want that? The remote control ("Bipper") was INVENTED so you didn't have to leave your seat, and the marketing guy is showing off how you can enjoy LEAVING YOUR SEAT and poking the screen?

Marketing FAIL, my man.

Free download turns BlackBerry into remote bugging device

The Original Ash

Similar for WinMobile

There's an app called PhoneCreeper released for WinMobile which allows this, text forwarding, remote message display, remote wipe of memory, activation of location services, and many other features.

I've put it on my own phone to ensure I can locate it if stolen or lost.

UK.gov prostitution proposals caught with pants down

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FAIL

Shock! Horror!

Next you'll tell me that the prohibition of recreational narcotics is based on flimsy pseudo-science and conjecture, and that even government sponsored clinical trials and studies have clearly demonstrated *scientific fact* which contradicts many of the claims used to back legislation against their use!

Oh, wait...

Honda designs mainstream e-bikes

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FAIL

Design team

as icon.

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