* Posts by ElReg!comments!Pierre

2711 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jun 2009

Txt-speak is a sign of humanity 4 U

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Re: Oral sex? Really?

> No idea. My GP at the time was a bloke.

Oh I see. So he must have read it as the slightly less common variant:

"You are not worthy of 20 seconds of my very precious time, deal with it, bitch. And suck my dick."

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Oral sex? Really?

As much as I understand why "CU 4 8" indeed does read "You are not worthy of 20 seconds of my very precious time, deal with it, bitch", the oral sex part of it eludes me. Care to elaborate?

Greenpeace targets Apple with 10-foot Pod stunt

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Re: Wrong author

> you really need to have Andrew and Lewis writing these Greenpeace articles...

Andrew I would say, in that case: it also involves Apple...

ISP kills off country-ban dodge after just 48 hours

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Re: Action against GeoIP

TOR lets you choose the exit node and I think Vidalia has an option to just chose the country.

Although you might have to wait for some time before your GeoIP-restricted cats jumping in a laundry basket finish downloading...

Cameron's F-35 U-turn: BAE Systems still calls the shots at No 10

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Re: F18 -seriously? (IanPotter)

> You cannot launch a fully loaded Rafael off their carrier, though. Not enough steam power.

That's hardly a problem with the plane. Besides, you cannot launch an Eurofighter, fully loaded or otherwise, from any carrier in the world.

The Rafale really is quite a good aircraft. See:

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/flight-test-dassault-rafale-rampant-rafale-334383/

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Re: F18 -seriously? (IanPotter)

What is funny about the Rafale is that IIRC it spawned from the splitting of the pan-european project (the other side giving birth to the Eurofighter). Again IIRC 2 of the main problems that led to the split was that the Rosbifs wanted longer range and the Frogs wanted multirole.

Both resulting projects started at the same time, with the Rafales reaching operation before, costing much less, and, quite ironically, being all over Syria while the Eurofighters lacked range to do anything useful... oh, and addition of proper air-to-ground capability to the latter will be added at a huge cost some time in the future, at which point the Eurofighter will be as capable as the Rafale has been for quite some time now. But hugely more expensive. Design by committee really is a funny thing.

Kaspersky: Apple security is like Microsoft's in 2002

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Joke

Re: i - diots. And I don't mean it in a derogatory sense.

Careful there. You will end up making powerful ennemies. That PowerMouse can click fast!

And I don't mean it in any derogatory way.

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Joke

XP?

Pah! As any full nose, the only version of Windows worth having was Windows2000. Anyone running any other version (especially that bloated pile of crap that XP is) desserves everything they get.

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Re: Antivirus companies are the ones that create viruses in the first place...

You should of use'd the "sarcasm" tag. Now youre headed for 259 downvotes. Never assume its too obvious, theirs always someone who will take its eriously.

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Re: Very telling...

> find me one

One dismissing the obvious truth because the article mentions the name of a commercial entity, for example?

> rabidly blythe fanboy

That's the sad part. Even the non-rabidly blythe fanbois are contaminated. Look at the comment section: Kaspersky have no interest in bashing Macs whatsoever. They might have an interest in scaring people a little bit, but any sysadmin could tell you that it's rather a good thing. A scared luser is a careful luser. Why would they lie about the state of MacOS security compared to Windows security? Yet you have a thread full of Apple users snickering about how their OS of choice must necessarily be safer than Windows, and the security experts are just peddling bullcrap. Spoiler alert: there is no anti-Apple conspiracy. You guys need to stop thinking that everyone unapologetic of Apple is an evil MS drone out to get you.

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Re: WHAT!

> 4 years [...] try that with Windows

Dear sir,

My 11 years old Win2K AV-less machine would like a word with you.

I also have a 6 yo laptop which occasionally boots Vista (there's no penguin-friendly approved tax software here, for example) without any kind of anti-malware, still completely healthy.

What were you saying again?

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Very telling...

What is worrying is not someone saying that even MacOS users need to be careful with what they do with their machines.

It's not even that someone feels it is even necessary to say it (it should be pretty obvious to anyone with half a functionning brain cell).

No, what is worrying and very telling is that event though it's extremely obvious, and even though people "in the know" actually take time to explain it slowly and with simple words, a lot of fanbuoys are still in denial, "lalala I can't hear you "-style (as seen in this very comment section for example).

Which kind of proves the point the guys at Kaspersky were making: some Apple customers need to change their attitude towards security, and yes, the impulsion should probably come from Apple (as some Apple customers won't believe anything that anyone else says).

Oh well.

CPU and RAM hogs overstaying their welcome? Here's a fix

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Re: Here's another cheaper fix...

Might want to make that:

sudo killall -9 java

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Meh

Pricing?

Timeout is pretty good and free. I cannot see the slightest hint on pricing on the website so I'm assuming it costs the same as buying another server, kinda self-defeating if that's the case.

Especially as most of what this does can be achieved with a small bash script (or the aforementionned timeout).

UK ad watchdog probes Apple iPad '4G' boasts

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FAIL

Re: The ITU said no such thing

"... AND TO OTHER EVOLVED 3G TECHNOLOGIES."

you left out the only important part: "this term, while undefined, may also be applied to"

That means "Providing you don't make false claims about the actual speed your network achieves, we won't slap you for misusing the term 4G in advertising".

While cowardly and regrettable, this is entirely different from saying that these networks are actually 4G. You will note that they even explicitly state that these networks remain 3G. That would be the bit that you highlighted. At best you could ague that they call it 3.1G.

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Mushroom

Re: Australia

I guess you are the same AC flooding all comment threads with that bullshit about HSPA+. Are you paid for that disinformation?

HSPA+ _IS_ _NOT_ _4G_. The ITU _NEVER_ said it was 4G, they just said they wouldn't not do anything against the misleading advertising by the American telcos.

The standard _DID_ _NOT_ _CHANGE_ and HSPA+ falls _WAY_ short of achieving _ANYTHING_ close to the mandatory speed to be considered 4G. It's not even in the same ballpark.

Lookie the nice picture if words are too hard to comprehend:

http://regmedia.co.uk/2011/05/24/lte_4.png

Now who is paying you to spread these lies with such persistence?

In any case please stop. Can we have a moderator have a look at what appears to be commercially motivated spam?

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The ITU said no such thing

They only said they understood why US carriers wanted to advertise 3.1G as 4G. They did not change the standard. HSPA+ still falls way short.

People who sell plated jewelry as solid gold do have problems. Why Apple (and some carriers) should get a free pass? That's basically fraud.

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Australia

As I understand it Aussies do have a 4G network. The iPad is just not compatible with it.

It makes Apple's marketting even more misleading (and the only Australian 4G provider must be pretty pissed)

Ten-year .co.uk domain names now available

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Forget login?

We will just have to find long-life post-it stickers.

Tim Cook rejects Apple's old business model of suing everyone

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The ITU said no such thing

>HSPA+ which the ITU has designated a 4G technology

No they did not. They only said they wouldn't act on the mis-branding.

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FAIL

Fraud.

> the official 4G standard includes HSPA+. Blame the ITU, not Apple.

Nope. The ITU cowardly published a press release saying that they would not act on american telcos' misuse of the name "4G" in advertising. They did not change the standard, though. And HSPA+ is still a long way short of the required speed. Ergo, not 4G by a long shot. 3.1G, all you want. I believe some people call it "transitional 3G". Only snake oil peddlers call it 4G.

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Re: "rebranding Foxconn kit"

> They're building to Apple's spec, not rebranding their own design.

Actually recent reports seem to indicate that Apple's sole contribution these days is the choice of the shape, material and colour of the external enclosure.

Terrorists 'build secure VoIP over GPRS network'

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What do you mean?

So you mean that the backdoor the plods demanded in Skype is not going to be useful to fight terrorism? Colour me shocked. Well at least we know that it is not going to be used to snoop on ordinary citizen in order to crack down on such a "serious crime" as copyright infringement for example. Right? Right?

Boy wrecks £22k worth of MacBooks by weeing on them

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Re: Moisture sensors

> Although to describe them therefore as being "destroyed beyond repair" may just be a ploy to get the insurance (or the child's parents) to pay out.

Well if you were to bring them back to Apple for repair, they would indeed be declared "damaged beyond repair", and out of warranty too, even if they were working perfectly well. Having 22 grands worth of kit that the manufacturer (sorry, rebrander) will absolutely refuse to service no matter what the cause of the (future) defect is probably a risk that the school is not willing to take. Can't blame them.

Suspected freetloaders to face piracy letters in 2014

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Mushroom

Funny as always

My ISP sent me a nice email 2 days ago saying that they received a complaint for illegal use of my Internet connection. Apparently, unauthorised distribution of an animated show on eDonkey networks. A show I didn't know existed (I wish it was still the case: it is Avatar: The Last Airbender, and from what I gathered from imdb.com it's even lamer than the movie was. I feel unclean just for knowing that it exists).

Oh, I am accused of sharing a Chinese version of it, too. Because obviously I have nothing better to do with my storage and bandwidth than hosting and distributing material in a language that I don't comprehend.

I believe these 2014 letters will be sent following the same guidelines:

1) pick a random copyrighted work in hat A

2) pick a random adress in hat B

3) ???

4) profit

I believe some substancial money could be saved by just hiring a couple hobos and tasking them with exactly that. The result will probably be better, too.

By the by, my ISP assures me they won't take action or send my info but I will be liable if the plaintif does take action. I wonder if I should send a strongly-worded letter to the holders of the Avatar: TLA right holder. And then another one to complain about their abusive report.

What kind of LOSER sits in front of a PC...

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Joke

Well,

Well, you _do_ have a Win8 tablet and a Win8 desktop, so...

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Catchily-named...

Wouldn't that be the other company (OYO)?

Nokia's older mobes infringe IPCom patent – court

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Paris Hilton

pre-dated the grant

"The Mannheim court found that Nokia’s older phones would have infringed the patent. We respectfully disagree with this decision, but almost all of these phones pre-dated the grant of the patent in February 2011"

How does that not invalidate the patent in the first place? Heck, how does even _filing_ the suit does not invalidate the patent, making the suit unnecessary?

Lytro light field camera

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3D

Forget the focus change, any photographer worth their salt knows what to do already. And you can always take multiple shots.

The ability to do 3-D _live_, in the other hand...

Metallic Glass iPhone 5 to battle pottery Samsung Galaxy S3

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Joke

Re: iphone liquidmetal

I'm sorry I only watch good movies and what the hell are you talking about?

(D'Oh)

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Joke

@ Mr_Pitiful

> can you drop it from 3 feet an the screen stays intact?

I believe a LiquidMetal screen would allow for that. Unfortunately, it would also be opaque. After the sealed battery, the opaque screen. Makes sense!

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Re: iphone liquidmetal

The iPhone, or the metal?

In any case if you are thinking "metal detectors", forget it: it's still metal, it'll still earn you an intimate moment with sweaty TSA agents.

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Headmaster

Glass-that-acts-like-metal?

Isn't liquidmetal exactly the opposite: metal that behaves somewhat like glass? As in, non-cristalline (amorphous) metal?

FBI seizes Mixmaster servers

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Scare tactics

The FBI's dislike for any and all anonymisation techniques is well known (take TOR for example). I think they might be using distant link with existing investigations to scare people out of running this kind of services. "See what happens when you share a server with a Mixmaster node"-style.

That, or I'm off my meds again.

Compulsory coding in schools: The new Nerd Tourism

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Re: Andrew Orlowski needs to spend a week in an office.

You are almost right but for that:

" the people in charge of primary syllabus design don't really understand what programming *is*, and would most likely fall into the old web-design trap instead of teaching structured thought, but that's a different issue."

You seem to infer that proper web design doesn't require structured thought. That's extremely wrong, as is sadly demonstrated by the flurry of non-proper-websites floating around on the intertubes. Web design _is_ coding, and there is no proper reason to apply less stringent criteria to website design than to, say, Lisp programming. Especially considering that the single biggest attack vector these days _is_ improper website design. Admittedly I am including much more in the "web design" part than most syllabus designers would, but I believe I'm right and they -and you, by extension- are wrong. Which is also why I think that web designers should be treated (and trained) like proper IT professionals, not like the coloured-crayon pushers they are too often viewed and trained as.

I still upvoted your post tho, not that it matters terribly much.

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Nonsensical article

Well, the first page at least; couldn't bring myself to read the second one.

First it is extremely obvious that the more kids are exposed to coding, the more "elite" coders you will end up having. That's just because you will end up hooking more of the extremely bright one, who would otherwise have turned into chess materminds or whatever.

Second, no-one becomes an "elite" coder by themselves. The world is full of (extremely) bad coders -not even mediocre ones- because there are not enough of good ones, not because there are too many coders as a whole. Even "mediocre" coders and webdesigners would be a _huge_ step up from the current situation.

Third, the kids who might turn to coding, and be good at it are likely to become malware writers or spam peddlers, lest you guide them in another direction.

Techie stages 'strip down' protest at TSA 'harassment'

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Re: Well..

> why is this tech news?!

The guy "does something with the internet".

Works for me.

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Re: "... including children"

"most computer programmers have as much tits as women"

You sir live in a sad place.

Where I live women are not Kate Moss lookalike, so they are usually better endowed than even the worst soda-and-pizza-bred "IT specialist". You do have to deal with the occasional muffin-top, but the B2B* ratio is still definitely tipping towards the programmers.

*Belly to Bosom

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Good man

and cue the usual posts along the line "If you object to that baton being repeatedly rammed up your rectum, then don't fly" in 3, 2, 1...

'Selling your citizens to foreigner is not acceptable!'

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Trollface

So...

... let me summarize that Anonymous thing: as the movement has it's roots in the US, we can assume that it still has a massive US base. Meaning that a lot of American citizens have committed computer crime in the UK... - and will again over the nex few Saturdays.

Any chance to have them extradited to Blighty then? Nah, I didn't think so either. Although it would be funny to try.

Apple finally deploys Mac Flashback Trojan terminator

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Re: So...

>the answer to a vuln in their go-it-alone version of Java is...*drumroll*...kill Java

You're being unfair there. They squashed that particular bug AND as an added precaution disabled java in browsers, which is kind of sensible as the nasty little bugger could always jump vulns to install itself, as has happened previously. Most people won't use java in browsers anyway, and for those who do it will stay enabled.

No, really, you can't fault Apple on this one (well, appart from being 6 weeks late for no reason other than "we can't be arsed", which in itself is already a big problem, but a separate one).

Nokia drops Lumia 900 price to $0 in response to bug outrage

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FAIL

Re: @ Dan55 Enjoy famous Windows 3.1 & outdated, unreliable C++ engineering!

> Windows is written in C and C++. The CLR is written in C++

Unlike MacOs, iOS, Android and pretty much any virtual machines they use which are all written in... oh wait, mostly C and C++. Point status: missed.

Apple trails behind world+Microsoft in 'Flashback' malware debacle

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Re: Get your facts straight (@nsld)

>I wonder if the 650,000 mac owners with a bad case of galloping mac rot share

> your belief in Apple after this debacle

Some of them clearly do. One of my dearest friends (hardware choice notwithstanding) found it strange that her 3-years old MacBook Pro suddently became so slow as to seriously hamper day-to-day work (lightweight word processing, basic internet browsing and email, nothing a 200 MHz x86 couldn't theoretically handle easily, let alone a somewhat-recent 4-cores whatsitface Intel chip). That and she complained about frequent crashes, too.

When I suggested that malware could be involved, she gave me that "special kid" look and explained to me that it was essentially normal wear and it just meant that it was time to replace the machine. Because obviously, one must be retarded to think that a mac can get malware. Ever.

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WTF?

Re: Get your facts straight

What is very sad is that I can genuinely not decide whether your post is over-ironical of if you are really that braindead.

Arizona bill makes it illegal to 'annoy or offend' online

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Stop

Who cares?

Well, presumably this law applies to anything that is accessible from within Arizona, as is the US party line these days... so your comments might place you on the wrong end of an extradition demand. Or does it only work with federal laws?

Cybercops traced Toulouse massacre suspect through IP address

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Re: Re: Re: Suspiciously convenient

> I think (hope) Pierre was being sarcastic.....

More like posting the obligatory conspiracy theory crap, but that's in essence the same, yes

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Suspiciously convenient

So we have several black and arabic soldiers murdered, and then a couple jewish kids and adults. That reeks of far-right extremism, more precisely the Front National and it's well-known hatred of anything dark-skinned or jewish. And then the claimed killer is found to be a Jihad-type nutter? How does that fit with the murder of arabic and black people?

I find his death rather convenient for th police. I mean that wouldn't be the first time that an innocen albeit idiotic extremist claims responsibility for someone's crime in order to look like a hero to his "friends".

Now where is a tinfoil hat icon when you need one?

8,400 email addresses spaffed by Student Loans Company

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Re: Data breach ? Yes

Assuming an homogenous gender distribution that's 4200 email adresses for young ladies who have trouble making ends meet. Now I'm sure I can recoup a significant number of these with a Facebook search to weed out the married or ugly ones and presto! Shuggah daddy comin'. I might even interest some of them in a short length of sidewalk in Shepherds Bush, who knows.

(of course the most likely consequence will be massive amounts of spam for all involved instead, but that's boring; I prefer my scenario)