Posts by Your alien overlord - fear me

Remember MOFCOM is just like the UK/Euro regulators when they started up - incompentent and (probably) corrupt. The Middle Kingdom is just playing catchup.

I won a Nobel prize, did Youyou Tu?

And if LibreSSL was bug free would they check the physical processor's code? Where does this madness stop?

Hope the big Purple has plenty of cash - SMSes aren't free. If everyone clicks the button say 10 times before checking their email it should show Melissa that it's a STUPID idea.

Well, on Red Dwarf, the toaster was intelligent (compared to todays toasters, not Lister et al.). So we know in 3 million years what things will be like. Can't we just wait til then so it's someone elses problem?

And if the robots are clever enough to build complex stuff, when do they get sentient consciousness and then start wanting better conditions, time off work, more pay.

Slippery slope, that's all.

Sounds like it can only talk to other shoeboxes but can listen to anything. Not much use to the ZuckerBorg then for pumping ads to the 3rd world.

Sounds ideal for BoFH, maybe PFY can do the other site.

You shouldn't be worried about falling 20,000 feet vertically. That's perfectly fine. You should be worried about the sudden stop at 0 feet. That's the painful bit.

If the deadline passes, I take it that flying to the USA (and other non EU countries) will be halted since BA etc. can't tell the American authorities anything about me.

Since I'm not a US or NATO official, do I need the update?

The Russkies did hack Dow, they brought insider information, same as all the others. Bit like fantasy football games really.

Well, glad I never brought a 3D telly, glad I haven't brought a 4K telly either. No widespread content for either yet.

And no, a GoPro is a cr@p 4K, just because it can squash than many pixels onto it's sensor doesn't mean it should. Technically good, sales pitch good, quality - meh.

“From the Americas to MENA, Europe to APAC" - so they're American then? EMEA, not MENA, Middle Earth not APAC.

Off topic about funny names but really. The phrase "ramène ta fraise" or "move your arse".

I suppose cos strawberry (Fraise) is a fruit they think it's arse. As opposed to eating snails,frogs legs and horsemeat.

Surely consumer laws need a taximeter to justify the trips cost. They need to be verified that they are accurate etc. If the smartphone isn't doing this, then the server (probably in America) is and should therefore be checked by British standards officers.

Just as well we have a Safe Harbour agreement though, transmitting private users data across the pond, securely.

Lies, damn lies and (politicians) statistics

This sense of "conversation" has pretty well been lost, and now we're left with palaver meaning a complete carry-on.

Never had a conversation with a Portugese person then? Palaver sums it up pretty well. (And yes, there's a lot of them where I live)

I for one, welcome my robotic ant equals !!!!

Well HP and Lenovo are sh!t at upgrading even slightly old tablets. To make matters worse, they refuse to hand out the drivers to allow people to build AOSP versions and refuse to even acknowledge AOSP exists. Good luck Motorola when Lenovo customer support ethos comes to your devices.

Why would anyone run Win 8.1 as an important/critical work server (anti-virus or not) ?

So, you flick the indicator to switch lanes (on what planet does that really happen?) and your Tesla will automatically switch lane for you. Er, if your hand can reach the stalk, your hands are probably already on the steernig wheel. So why not use your hands to turn the wheel?

And what if no one wants to let you push in to their lane? Does the Tesla have a defense against road rage (probably involving guns if it's the USA)?

I brought one of these years ago, fitted it to my laptop and removed it in under a day. The requirement to look at the screen 'at just the right angle' was a right PITA.

How many times have people be called over to crowd around a desk monitor to look at the latest funny cat video. That'll have to stop now and productivity may increase - shock horror.

“One Ministry of Foreign Affairs got its DNS settings for incoming mail compromised,” - I call BS unless they ran their email from someone like Google or Hotmail - in which case they were already compromised by ad slurpers (and the NSA). MoFA would have/should have their email server on an intranet, even if was in another country.

If it's true Trend, name them and say how it found out about the compromise.

Bundling messaging apps - blah blah, unfair, blah blah, competition regulator required, sob sob.

Wow, obviuosly didn't consult Google earth for that map, France above the UK, Australia on the same latitude as America. No wonder the internet is in chaos today.

Could be because all the old geezers are banged up, release them and I'm sure 'traditional' bank jobs will rise again.

Bet el Reg journo's are now being more careful :-)

Should the Irish be involved if we want to measure 2 short Planck's?

I think you'll all have to pay royalties to Apple because they invented the 'patent troll'. And using the phrase 'patent troll' will cost you, each and every time you read the phrase 'patent troll'.

And just be careful claiming anyone, apart from Apple, are 'patent trolls', cos that'll cost extra.

Did you leave your question on your ansaphone? How else will they get the question?

Since it's anonymous, why doesn't AVG just make up the data - it'll be just as useful to advertisers as if was real data.

Are they teaching swimming when the boats go missing or using oars when the engines are switched off?

Well, obviously fearing the downvoters, I used to do VB, moved to C# then when trying Android found I might as well just do Java. True cross platform. And free !!!!

Windows 7 for Android. Just what I want.

Well, he's just getting used to having things put up there.

Well, it will expose all the parlimentary paedos hopefully but realistically they'd just use this info for blackmail, er I mean leverage, against IPT members.

Er, it's a mail server. I'll let you guess which port is open to the internet for, I dunno, recieving emails.

Well, if the NSA helped, no backdoors then.

“The streaming Periscope video highlights the dangers of ..." narcissism.

Half the advertising is wasted? Try 99% as a conservative estimate.

Black hat prime mover with only a 13,000 botnet? More sub-prime.

Don't you just need a UK sysadmin with Asperger's syndrome to beat NATO security. What, too soon?

Well, Chrome on Android helpfully cuts off the http(s):// from the front of websites so they'd better bring that back if they aren't going to give little icons showing how insecure pages are.

How do they actually know only 3500 accounts were stolen? Is that *all* their subscribers?

Well, my dad updated his and mum's computers to Win 10 (from Win8 and Win 7 respectively). Mum now can't use her PC because nothing is where it was, what's these tiles for? etc.

Microsoft seriously needs a Windows 7 desktop including start menu and menus for computer illerate people (like my mum). Telling them to re-learn does not encourage them to use technology.

Me? Win 7 and Ubuntu for PC's , Android for tablets. Does what I need.