Posts by Velv

BREAKING NEWS:

Register journalist arrested for aiding copyright theft for publishing the domains for the pirate site.

So nuclear contamination, radiation and chemical poisoning have no effect on the greater population in general. We should all be thankful

Unless you're one of the unlucky individuals affected in which case your fucked. But don't be sad, everyone else is alright.

Good to see we live in a caring society that values the individual.

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Until we chip every human issuing cards is pointless. They'll get lost or stolen, and used fraudulently and only the criminal will profit.

Chip everyone and be done with it. What could possibly go wrong...

Nice of Mohammed to publish it straight to the wild instead of giving the authors a chance to remedy any vulnerability prior to release (90 days notice?). (the article doesn't mention any notice being given)

Aiding and abetting criminal behaviour by showing open doors to criminals. Don't get me wrong, vulnerabilities need exposed, but it should be done in a controlled manner that minimise the risk of widespread exploitation to further compromise the Internet

Mighty Ships, Tyco Resolute.

Manufacturers claims about economy and performance...

HELLO!!!

Have you been watching the news this week?

Ever since schools were invented, letting kids mark their own homework was known to be "a bad thing".

Yet somehow when we grow up we suddenly think its OK? Or perhaps we're either too ignorant or too lazy to care and we get everything we deserve.

Trust no one.

NO ONE!

OK, call me cynical, but you uncover an exploit and criminals are going to pay you a million dollars for it. And your confidence in receiving the money is how high?

Just another step down the road to the scenes in Minority Report where people are bombarded by adverts based on their retina scan. So long distance reading of the eye is a long way off, but tracking by RFID is here.

We classify data as "Personally Identifiable Information" when you can take two or three non-unique items and link them to identify a unique person. Surnames are generally common. But add a date of birth and a postcode and chances are you can have single individual. And while RFID tags can be globally unique tracking them individually isn't when it gets powerful. But regularly wear that blazer that goes with those jeans and shirt when you go out and about with mates wearing similar combinations and you start to get some serious data linking of known associates and patterns

And MI5 wants more rights to track people???

If they actually manage to win anything, their lawyers in this case will take a chunk then their partners lawyers will take the rest in the divorce settlement

D'you know what? If you can get to Curiosity to compromise it, your fucking welcome to take it away

Since the MPAA and its members clearly have the rights to all action thrillers and high drama, when are they going to sue Oscar Pistorius?

Too soon?

"Don't change your password" = "it's a pain in the arse every time we need to crack it, so the less you change your password the happier we'll be"

Given the current Microsoft case over data in Ireland, can't wait for the DoJ to turn up in Cupertino demanding data from Apple's Russian data centres.

Looks like we're going to need a bigger box of popcorn <popcorn icon>

Edward Snowdon should run for President. If the public believe in him then that should trump the authorities (who allegedly work for the public)

"The battle dates back to 2013, but only came to light in May 2014 when a gag order on the case was lifted."

The fact the authorities felt the need to hide the case from the public automatically screams that it was subversive and against the public interest.

What's the day rate if I take it on as a Contractor?

Guess who didn't get an invite to the party?

Now all they need to do is mix a 6ml vial with millions of litres of unmatured rubbish and they can sell it to the gullible as Homoeopathic Space Whisky

Free Market Economy

Collusion between entities stifles competition and the free market economy. It's falsely held down the wages of the little guy.

And why shouldn't some of the little guys get to stick their snout in the trough too. Just because you work in a growing industry and live in the heartland of employers shouldn't mean you shouldn't profit more than the next man. The gulf between the poorest and the richest is growing which is wrong for everyone but I still want more.

Back in the real world, I in no way condone the collusion. But if you want to see what a "free market economy" does for wages in a localised community just look at the evil bankers. Be careful what you wish for...

I'm pretty sure the U.S. tax authorities have tips well and truly covered. But I can't wait to see where this one goes for UK drivers.

"We're contractors"

"No, we're employees and they're stealing our tips"

HMRC - "IR35!"

"We're not employees"

Conspiracy Theory...

Avid Media was originally formulated as a concept by a secret group of religious crusaders who had an idea to gather the details of cheaters so they could later release the damming material on the world and thus promote the fidelity of their religion while otherwise demonising the hedonistic heathens and exposing them to suicide, murder and social breakdown.

Ironic that so many votes were for "Windows" when the vast majority of recent vulnerabilities relate to open source software and operating systems (it even mentions in the article that the Android crop was the inspiration)

OK, I know it pays for everything and I'm the customer being sold, but can we just turn off advertising.

Realistically advertisers PLEASE stop auto-playing adverts. If I'm browsing the web and everyone in the office turns to look at me because of your blaring advert then you've just lost a potential customer irrespective of what you're punting.