Posts by Your alien overlord - fear me

Later funding paid off early investors. Isn't that a pyramid/ponzi scheme?

So China is keen to get their kids knowledgeable about STEM but what about democracy, freedom of speech and so on?

Are they so cash strapped they couldn't just SMS everyone?

Why the fuck do ISPs allow shit traffic out of their own network in the first place?

If elReg keeps pestering Huawei, soon you won't be invited to their shindigs either !!!!

Well, it'll sell to the 'Muricans then if one of their own fronts it. Downside is they'll just review trucks and SUVs !!

Well, I just hope it's for the 'beautiful people' and not your average Frenchie. Otherwise I'm not going.

Who is this Afonin bloke? IOS 10 is secure even after he himself found that the backups were easier to break into for finding passwords than in previous IOS releases. To me, that make it insecure.

"make it more dense to fit into the tanks" - this is the same principle, I believe, that the US Army employs on it's Abrahms crews !!!!

Once it's on eBay I believe the rumours.

Only 2 years in the clink? Crime does pay nowadays it seems.

How about a dedicated email provider like Yahoo? Can anyone recommend them? :-)

So when that fake blood testing company and vegi-mayo lie to their investors, everyone is up in arms saying what bounders and cads they are. Zuck does it and it's fine. Hmmm.

"Cosmologists call this the cosmological principle.". Really, all the good names used up?

But didn't one of their finest just do that (on video) the other day. And now they've given him a complimentary (paid) holiday for his enthusiasm. If they keep stopping cars like that, they won't have anyone to stop real criminals.

Install Virtualbox and run Linux inside that. Might not be the best option but it's better than just crying into your cornflakes and throwing a fit.

Bloody foreign wasps. Coming here, killing our locals, blah blah blah.

Best roll up my Daily Mail and deal with them myself !!!!!

Pity they only care about their customers - be nice guys and give/license your technology to other mobile operators.

Well, I've looked at the LoRa website and can't see anywhere that you can push broadcast messages to the IoT devices from the back end servers.

For example, if there's been a major accident with road closures etc., wouldn't it be better to broadcast a road closed to all applicable IoT devices (bikes, pedestrians etc) so they know not to go that route or even that area to avoid conjestions.

From what I'm reading, it requires each IoT to individually make a connection and ask for info which is a waste of bandwidth (considering they are limited to available bandwidth rates).

And as a star of stars network configuration, man-in-the-middle attacks will be rife.

Always wondered

if I could use Sky's Switch Squad to move from say BT to Talktalk or do I have to move to Sky?

The monies long gone. Be funny if they went and brought things online never to receive them....

If people really knew how the internet works

then we wouldn't have self-absorbed publicity whores and trolls, just quality individuals. Like el Reg readers :-)

You seem to be missing the point

Skype couldn't let the three-letter-brigade listen in to conversations with the P2P model. Now it's centrally located in the 'cloud' (possibly hosted in Langley?), your private conversations are now no longer private.

Should these ex-colonies be invited to the British led/owned Commomwealth Games?

And if you check their own website certificate

Chrome says they use the obsolete TLS 1.2 for connections. Surely as a CA they should do better?

It always amazes me that unknown (to me anyway) 'security firms' go around 'checking' on companies security, in all probability without asking for permission first, and yet they're portrayed as the hero when there are laws to prevent 3rd parties just poking around. Why are they exempt from the law when people like me would be banged up?

Wonder if they'll use the Clean Air Act against the gas company currently pumping tons of methane into the atmosphere per day for the lasr few months (and said to continue for a few more monts)?

"Being French, I felt compelled to send these acronyms in your general direction." and not because I am the director.

The miners are rightly upset because everyone out there knows the local politians get all the good stuff, like the horses penis, whilst their stuff is really the less tasty sheeps penis. << Insert joke about having the wool pulled over their eyes here >>

The Japanese were the 2nd to find element 113 but they were the first to reproduce the making of it (3 times I think) so they get first dibs at naming it. The Russian/US teams found it first but couldn't make it again.

So, are we going to get a remake of The Fifth Element but with a 113 year old Bruce Willis?

So, iTwats have gloated for years about how bug-ridden Microsoft was but now they top the chaart, the chart is meaningless.

Not the kind of double standards I've come to expect from el Reg or is your New Years resolution to suck up to Apple?

cost of patent infringement $64 million. Cost of legal fees to date $100 million (probably). Would have been cheaper for The Borg to just buy Commil !!

Er, when there's trouble in the land of Pharohs, the first thing to go is Facebook (and Twitter etc).

I suspect a new Arab Rising.....

So personal emails aren't Pesonally Identifable. Huh? Sounds like that law was written by people interested in havesting innocent fellow countrymens emails even if they already act outside the law.

Under Blair/Brown it was lefties who got the gongs. Nowt new.

So to sum up... we're growing fire crystals to combat cosmic ray superbugs which destroy human bodies. That sound about right?

"To get the best view you'll need to be as far north as possible and have clear skies." - stating the bleedin' obvious asren't you?

About time EU countries stopped allowing this tax evasion. You make a profit in a county, you pay that countries taxes. Same as the rest of us humans (salaries obviously).

Nice headline image - LOHAN eating a Heston speciality with Tim Peake.