Posts by Jeremy 2

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Garmin Vista HCx, factory refurb/as-new sells on fleaBay proper for about $200-$250. Instant Sale offer price for as-new? $35. So assuming they then turn it around and sell it on, that's what, a 600% markup? I think not!

Write out 1,000,000,000 times, please:

I will ALWAYS sanitise my input and I will NEVER trust the client.

Really, I don't know what to say. If I'd spent $300K on something containing gaping chasms like that, I'd be demanding my money back by now.

So...

...looking down the upper half of this thread, I take it that a Daily Fail reader/staffer ran down it -1'ing everyone who bitched about the poor excuse for a middle-class outrage rag, then?

What a dumb idea.

Blocking sites at the DNS server is stupid. It's like trying to evict somebody by painting the door the same colour as the rest of the house in the hope they won't be able to find it any more.

Casual Bittorrent users will just learn to type http://194.71.107.15/ instead and the habitual users will have it (and the rest) in their HOSTS file within minutes of the 'ban' coming into effect. Oh, and there will be a massive upswing in the popularity of alternative (non-US based) DNS services. Watch OpenDNS move their corporate office to Belize or something....

God help us all if they ever get people with some actual technical knowledge in government! Then they might actually know what they're doing.

Crazy.

He won't win. The companies involved won't win. The court system will be bogged down with it for months, if not years. The lawyers involved however, must be pissing themselves laughing at the thought of the pay cheques they'll be getting.

His personal worth is in the region of $13.5bn according to Forbes. What a tit. Like he's not rich enough already?

Have you thought about...

...turning up dressed as three Cardinals? They'll never expect it and the element of surprise might strike fear in their hearts help you sneak inside in a ruthlessly efficient manner.

So, anyway, erm... Apple have announced an announcement. I can't wait.

Pulled!

The rag seems to be a tad embarrassed about all the lovely attention they're getting - the article appears to have been pulled. The links from El Reg and the Guardian both return the message "Sorry we are experiencing difficulty processing your request at the moment." and all trace of it has vanished from the site's internal search results.

So they obviously stand by the quality of their journalism...

A few...

Spent half an hour flat on my back on the roof... Climbing ladders in the dark, middle of the night and after a few ciders probably wasn't all that bright of me but it seemed like the best place :)

Clear skies, warm (nay, hot) temperatures in suburban Atlanta made it a little more comfortable than previous damp Perseid sighting endeavours in Britain :)

Quite a bit of light pollution so I guess I only saw the brightest, certainly didn't see many but it's always a good sight when you do...

Sounds like a case of...

...it's not a bug, it's an undocumented 'feature'.

If you read the disclosure thread, it gets worse - it auto-corrects email addresses too so you only have to get the email address 'nearly' right and it'll turn over the real one. Works too, just tested it by adding an extra letter to my wife's login email address and specifying a completely incorrect the wrong password. Result? Corrected version of her email, full name and a really cute photo of our cat.

What next? "It looks like you made a slight misspelling in your password... but that's OK, we trust you!" ?!?!

Ingenious!

I bet it's the only car auction on eBay right now with over 4000 page views in less than 24hrs....

Unintentional my arse!

Deliberate wide-open back door?

Surely this can't be any kind of bug, more an intentional back door? It's pretty hard to 'accidentally' code:

if (q == 'database') {

echo $keys_to_the_castle;

}

So what's the likelihood that it was a back door added during development that was never removed when it went public? Perhaps some smart arse thought "No need to code review the FAQ bit, that's not important"...

Easy to use solution

Once you've entered your 25-character Battery Product Key online, had it rejected, made a call to India, written down an even longer activation code, entered that online and finally been deemed a suitable person to use the product you handed over good money for, then yes, it's really easy to use!

But then, of course after about 2 days, you'll take it out and put it in a second device only to be alerted that your painstakingly typed activation code is no longer valid and that your battery may not be genuine. The available voltage will drop by half a volt as a courtesy until you provide a blood sample for DNA matching to prove you're the original purchaser.

What crap...

Might as well have called it icanhasdemocracy.gov.uk. At least then, we'd know we're /meant/ to laugh at it. I presume one of the nightly maintenance procedures goes something like this:

DELETE FROM idea WHERE idiocy_level > 0;

Still, if it stops the muppets directing their mindless drivel at MPs for a few minutes so they can get on with their real work (like working out how to get the expenses system back like it was without the nation noticing and getting better booze in the Commons bars) then that's good, I suppose.

<~~ Badger paws and all that.

A fiver...

...on Apple deeming the support script to be a "trade secret" and firing a takedown notice at the blogger who posted it.

Lovely

Second time I've used that title on an El Reg comment in the space of a week, I think...

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"The beauty of FarmVille, and the reason it has more than 70 million players, is the way in which it rewards players who rope their friends into playing,"

Sounds like a pyramid to me!

Lovely

Articles like this on El Reg always make me want to break out the old computers from back in the days when the instruction manual was 500 pages long and was to be read under the covers at night with a torch.

The photo of the old magazine ad made me feel old - it doesn't seem so long ago that we called them 'discettes'. Nowadays, my spell-check insists giving it a red squiggly underline.

Where's the "nostalgia alert" icon?

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Curated platform?! That's a good 'un!

Keyboard icon, etc....

Testing?

Given (1) how many Homer-esque "do'h!" bugs in Facebook's privacy systems have been made public in the last few months and (2) how quickly they've gone from "we're gonna be revising the privacy controls" to "here you go, new privacy controls!", just how well have they actually tested these new settings? It all seems **very** rushed to me.

I don't have a Facebook account and never will so I don't particularly care. Their millions of users might, though!

Why trust Google's plugin?

Why trust Google's plugin? Just use Adblock Plus instead.

Add a filter for

http://*.google-analytics.com/*

and have done with it. It's always kept GA blocked for me, including, according to ABP, on this very comment form page ;)

No stable address?!

I should bloody well hope not!

This is gonna be a good comment thread, methinks...

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"Meanwhile, two Americans have filed a class action suit against the company for intercepting their personal Wi-Fi data."

Typically stupid American attempt at a money-grabbing lawsuit. I presume these two people have concrete evidence that Google actually holds their data? Didn't think so. Google did wrong, no doubt but *individuals* (or groups of individuals) filing suit when nobody knows for sure exactly whose data has been slurped up is just ambulance chasing. I suppose they'll be claiming they endured 'pain and suffering' too?

'Boffins aim to warm watersports enthusiasts'

I, for one, welcome our double entendre-filled headline-writing overlords...

Good job - and it's not even Friday yet

Lawsuit!

Surely this violates the first-sale doctorine? A product as bought can be sold by the purchaser free of restriction from the copyright holder. The code numer is presumably considered a physical part of the product that was bought (it's on a card inside the box) and so presumably EA must allow it to be transferred without interference?

EA can't get out of the law simply by asking Gamestop nicely.

His Steveness

"His Steveness feels it's worth a 1,700 word detour."

Better than "nope", I suppose.

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"Many routers offer 802.11b/g, and many now offer 802.11n too with the option to run the latter at 5GHz instead of the increasing crowded 2.4GHz band. While that might just seem like backwards compatibility it actually means the router is running two independent networks which happen to share the same name, and that's what gets the iPad confused."

Erm. OK... My cheapo $40 wifi card can manage that just fine so how come Apple's $500 status symbol can't? Maybe that's what they mean by 'magical'?

A Flash ad that isn't Flash....

That'd be an animated GIF then?