Posts by mike white 1

Bomb Testing

Sounds like Darwinism ;)

"he plod waited until he tried to test the device "

Talk2Go App Is No More

Interesting that this story has cropped up now as according to the texts I've had over the last month or so the Talk2Go App was being withdrawn from 1st Nov

https://help2.talktalk.co.uk/talk2go-faqs

Best way of dealing with the salesman

tring to flog you Sky/Virgin/TalkTalk/BT/Whatever is to say "Sorry mate you can't beat the deal I'm on I work/my partner works for <insert name of opposiion> and get all my/our services for free as a staff perk

isn't this really just a rehash of the recycled email address from your ISP problem?

Does this qualify as the longest space mission where the craft in question has returned to Earth in a useable condition?

But TalkTalk uses Vodafone

as a provider for their mobile service based on the rror pages I get trying to access pr0n sites ;)

So if they take customers away from TalkTalk other than a direct higher customer count what do they actually gain?

Confused ???

Statement On one of the affected forums

I'm a member of CBRXX.com which is a VerticalScope Forum and the following was posted there by "Admin" last night

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Hey Team,

Over the 2 weeks we will be implementing some changes to our forum password strength and password expiration policies. To make sure you continue having the best experience possible on the community, we regularly monitor the site and the Internet to keep everyone's account information safe. We've recently become aware of a potential risk to some accounts coming from outside of this community. Just to be safe, we are implementing the following changes to improve security even further:

1) We are asking everyone to change their passwords (and will force a onetime reset). Along with every user on the forum, new passwords will need to be more complex, and can't be simple words (sorry, you can't have "fluffy" as your password anymore!). Please use a password unique to this community. Reusing passwords can expose your account indirectly when other websites (Twitter, Linkedin, Badoo, etc) are compromised; and

2) Your passwords will expire on a 180 day basis. When you login on the 181st day, you will have to change it. You guys and girls all have the highest level of access in our communities and this will help protect your accounts.

All other users on the community will have 365 day expirations. We'll also be sending out an email to users to let them know about the changes, in upcoming weeks.

We are testing and rolling out the changes slowly to ensure that they do not cause unforeseen issues with current plug-ins and products on the site, we will let you all know the day before it goes live.

I also ask that you help us with ensuring all users are being heard and we are answering everyone’s questions. We will be posting an announcement up to the community shortly and want to keep all chatter about this issue and any potential security issues in one place. If you see a user talking about this topic in a section outside of the announcement, please either move the post, or remove it and direct the user to the original thread. We greatly appreciate your help in this. If you have any questions please post them below.

Thanks all,

Helena Barclay

Community Management

http://www.cbrxx.com/site-help-suggestions-comments/29182-attention-security-issue.html

WOnder if UFO will ever get anywhere

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/15/talktalk_bskyb_cityfibre_ink_broadband_network_deal_for_york/

America is not the world

If the FBI does win the court case will any modifications be limited too iPhones sold in the US market or is US Law global?

Dalek Hybrids

Despite what was said in this episodeabout Daleks not being willing to create hybrids they did do just that in Evolution of The Daleks and created Human-Dalek Hybrids (Dalek Sek)

Isn't it about time

to bring K9 back or am I barking up the wrong timeline ??

William Hartnell

Am I the only person to Notice that the Picture over the safe which Bonnie opened thinking the Osgood box was inside was actually a portrait of William Hartnell?

Dual SIM phones are cool. Mine, a HTC 1 M7, has my work and personal SIMs in otherwise I would be forced to use a crackberry!

Infinity?

Surely that's actually an 8 on it's side. Does this mean the new Xbox will be powered by Windows 8?

I refer my learned Friends

To the Sex Pistols court case from the 70's where the word "bollocks" was determined in court not to be offensive.

http://www.acc.umu.se/~samhain/summerofhate/courtcase.html