Posts by Your alien overlord - fear me

I thought it had been universally agreed that people who watch pirated movies (downloaded or streamed) wouldn't have bothered buying/renting the trash movies anyway. Therefore copyright owners still wouldn't get any money.

Qu'ell supris - World Federation of Advertisers. Wiki'd it and it says "75 of the world's top 500 advertisers". Wow, that many and it represents the 'world'. And the rest seem equally important !!!

I think Juncker had better act quickly or society as we know it will collapse (into an ad-free world, shudder).

HP still in with a chance?

The reality is the ex walks into police station claiming the naked body on the internet is hers, the coppers then say, just pop your clothes off so we can check. For evidence reasons obviously. Ex walks out of police station.

P45 by Twitter anyone? Beats getting it by SMS.

Funny how the images will be saucy Instagram images, not Facebook images which is well known for not allowing young gents to get interested in the internet and stuff !!!

If Netgear wrote the operating system, it's already pwned.

Why celebrate today, it's neither her birthday or deathday?

It's also good to see her mum pushing her into science instead of the madness that is writing/poetry etc. If only more mums today were like that.

Yes, but only if I'm the CEO of a company being sold for multi-billions.

Bonn voyage to your freedom !!!

Albrecht has no hope to get the US to enact a data protection system. Terrorists you know. Big businesses making money from personal data slurping you know.

12 million quid for 3 years. Nearly 11 grand a day. How much do coppers earn nowadays?

Can someone please think of the medium sized companies who'll suffer? No, me neither. Biggies like FarceBorg, yes, but medium sized companies that have EU branches *and* have a need to store personal data in 'Murica? Ad pushers maybe but anyone else?

Well, you can use my back garden if you want somewhere to launch. It's not that big but completely free of FAA and CAA regulations. However, once you're airborne, you are on your own re the authorities. And obviously I'll deny everything. :-)

Is ISIS, al queda,syrian peoples army(?) and the Taliban also going to sign up?

No doubt the airport McD,BK and KFC's rapidly ordered in more food (not for profitteering but to assist these poor refugees)

Surely shifting your profit to the shareholders to the extent you lose 28 million shouldn't earn you tax credits sinced the shareholders will no doubt also be offshore.

Only in 'Murica

What about using cyberspace for promoting human rights and freedom of speech?

If BoJo gets his ULEZ that'll put the black cabs out of business since they're diesel. Hmmm, I wonder if there is an alternative to using black cabs in London? Anyone?

It's Apple f*cktards. What do you expect? Apple runs your life and not only do you meekly roll over and accept it but you sing their praises to all non-believers. This is what they do and you have no say except to buy their next new iDevice and love it.

Well, I've done my fair share of remote support but 'Dan' takes the biscuit taking 90 minutes before realising the PC isn't switched on at the wall. That is something done in the first few minutes if you can't remote access to the device.

How about firing Jack and his (probable) multi-million a year salary and keep the minions? Or doesn't it work that way?

If everyone becomes a senior VP, it waters down the value of the job title.

I don't do twitter but I do like the el Reg tweet.

Probably just rounded up a bunch of death row prisoners and told them to play the part or else their families would join them. That's how they operate.

Didn't they know Huawei was spying because NSA/CIA/FBI/whoever had spyware in Huawei's kit already and could see what they were doing? Or was this an urban myth doing the rounds to discredit Huawei?

Call me ignorant but if your data is 'in the cloud' how do you know the cloud data won't move to the USA (or anywhere else really) without your knowledge? After all, it's in the cloud and as we all know, clouds drift where they like, ignoring country borders.

It's not just data they should be debating. If I goto Amsterdam have have some cookies from certain coffee houses, that's perfectly legal. If I jump onto a train back to Britain, the cookies contents are still in my system and I could potentially be arrested because the cookies contents are illegal in Britain.

So am I a criminal because I did something legal in one EU country ?

And yes, I know I shhould just shtay in Amshterdam jusht a big longer :-)

The problem with puttng kit in consumers broadband routers are this - at night, I switch mine off. If mine is the local neighbourhoods 'mast', no one gets a signal at night. I go off to Benedorm for a fortnights holiday.Whoops.

If I get nosey and m0dify the routers firmware, I can get the metadata for everyones calls.

If I move home and the new owners don't subscribe to Talktalk, goodbye service.

Wow, concerns about blocking the privacy data slurping FB and Google. Something else is going on here I reckon.

But what about Silvia Protopapa - is she the first version father ?

Firing the cheap worker drones but only reshuffling expensive management. Going to save alot of money that.

If you didn't met your ambitous goals, it is always the managements fault for over ambitous targets. Happened before, will happen in the future.

Wow, all this new fancy technology and the less IT literate users will still use Password123. I would hope they are using smartcards or at least 2 stage authentication, especially for field agents.

Any reason the "certain countries" include countries which seem to rely on car manufacturing as their chief exports?

Webcams and bedrooms are a recipe for disaster. Parents should explain that to their kids.

By the time they agree on UHD, 8k tellies will be the 'standard' box people buy.

Sky got burnt on 3D so is unlikely to want to flog another dead horse.

They still charge a premium for HD-ready channels so imagine the cost to the public if they offer 4k/6k/8k? And if they don't get enough channels offering that format, no one is likely to subscribe (having being burnt on 3D) so other channels won't invest etc. etc.

Easier getting the yanks to call it 'safe harbour' (with a 'u') than geting a federal data act.

Morris added that people in Europe "can get quite litigious about this" - confusing "us" with "US of A" I think.

"Users opt in to share information with Android Auto that improves their experience," - so it sees I drive fast so it pops up quality ads saying I should buy a Porsche. Coolant running hot? I should consider a holiday to Sweden to keep my engine oil cool, maybe ordering through a Google advert ?

As an aside, you can get bluetooth ODBC-II dongles and there are plenty of Playstore apps to read everything. I can't see why Porsche are complaining since I can stick my phone on the window, plug in a bluetooth ODBC dongle and read speed, revs, temperature without their sayso or indeed knowledge.

My IDEA (Impact, Deflection Extreme Assesment) is to FIRE (Fly, Impact, Reassess Expertly) a ROCKET (Reach Orbit Cleanly Kinda Extra Terrestially) at the ASTEROID (A Sitting Target Easily Reached Over Indeterminal Distances) for FUN (F*cked Up Naturally) and SCIENCE (Study Complex Interesting Explosion eNding Comets Existance).

So NASA/ESA can I get a job in your 'making up names for stuff' department?

Google wants a portrait image of the spaceship? What if it's in landscape mode? Does this mean Google won't hand over the $30 mill?

Do all these upstarts, er start-ups, have silly names because all the good .com names are gone?

Desperation. That's all.

If there is a privacy conflict, AOL will overrule Verizon. Er, who brought who?

Wow, FireEye are upto date - Nexus 7 running 4.3 and *they* say *you* should always run the most upto date version of Android. Humour or irony ?