* Posts by Tigra 07

2373 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jul 2010

DDoS malware comes with self-destruct payload

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RE: Mike007

Agree completely.

The problem now is people buy computers in tesco and get offered Mcaffee and Norton, both of which are useless and spend more on advertising than actual research and updates.

These people may not care about their computers, but when they're used as botnets to attack others and national infastructure, they should be arrested as terrorists if it's obvious they haven't done anything to secure their computer.

Everyone should be required to do a basic ECDL course at school by law.

Republicans believe in 'climate change' but not 'global warming'

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As quite a lot of people...

I accept climate change is happening, i deny humans cause it until they can prove it and should stop taxing me until that time.

Gmail auto sorts bulk mail, notifications, forum messages

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I switched a few weeks back

hotmail inbox - 37 spam messages and a few in the inbox not marked as spam.

Import everything to Gmail and i have 1 spam message and none in my inbox.

Brilliant =]

Microsoft to Apple: 'Oh, yeah? Well, your font is too small'

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No title required...in the style of the elephant man

Brilliant comeback Microsoft.

Reading that small text and then the larger text really screws your eyes up for a few seconds if u wear glasses.

Making sport of browser security, hackers topple IE, Safari

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Not sure if this is even a good idea but...

Shouldn't they realistically get to hack all the browsers on any available operating system?

Like FF on iOS or Windows, Safari on both, Chrome on both and so forth?

Cute download Firefox, 'treat a cub' vid downed by IE glitch

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RE: Miek

Works for me on FF 3.6.15

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Cute...but...

Wait until big brother finds out and attempts something similar...

How many disabled, famous and gay fox cubs can you get in a wooden shed being filmed 24-7 for months on E4 anyway?

Launcher Pro

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RE: Myself

Downloaded it!

Takes a while to get the hang of it, but i'ts very useful and will have fun playing with it later.

Thanks Reg! =]

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Good review, looks promising

Brilliant review, might download this later.

Take a look iphone owners, you will never have functionality like this without jailbreaking your phones.

Google vanishes 'DroidDream' malware from citizen phones

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RE: Steven Knox

No i'm assuming it's used as a phone, hence contact names and dates of birth, maybe a couple passwords.

Easily enough to cause havoc or possibly steal an identity.

Then moving onto the smartphone, we get more information, possible Facebook info, easily enough to steal an identity and find out where they work, where they live etc

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RE: Pascal

Would you feel the way if your bank account was raided by one of these rogue apps and you couldn't get rid of it or figure out which app it was until Google used the killswitch?

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Looks like bash a network day...

Lucky they have a killswitch.

Imagine if Microsoft had a similar feature to remote update peoples PCs, most botnets would disappear overnight.

A kill switch is only a bad thing if it's used for bad and Google isn't doing a bad job here, especially since it could have been avoided by operators updating the phones of their customers.

Google shouldn't have to do this but it's a good job they did as they're doing phone operators job for them.

Ex-UK spy boss says WikiLeaks sparked Egyptian revolution

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RE: David Wilson

Well since there's no evidence tying Bradley Manning to Julian Assainge or i believe Wikileaks, then that would be singlehanded as he's the only person being prosecuted for any involvement.

And the dictator i meant was Gadaffi as he is now on the verge of being ousted from power thanks to a revolution, bought on by Wikileaks, from what has been in the media.

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This is farcical...

Assainge overthrew a dictator singlehandedly without an illegal war, something America has never managed.

Would they have preferred another $1 Trillion war to overthrow Gadaffi? Clearly yes as they're hunting Assainge still.

NEC goes out on a limb with arm-tap gadget control

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Which genius thought that one up...

"and mobile phones that may be operated remotely while stored in a bag,"

And what purpose does that have?

Hello!? Can you hear me?! Sorry, let me just get the phone out my bag so i can hear you...

MS smartphone share falls despite WinPho 7

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RE: AC

Wrong way around, fixed it for you.

Apple = Spotty nerd

Android = Cool

Microsoft = Sensible

Hacker kills his own Pwn2Own bug for Android phones

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No Tit Required...

Better to get $1300 than nothing.

Apple: If you're under 17, you can't use Opera

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RE: Intractable Potsherd

Agree completely.

More money than brains springs to mind.

Amazon outlines Android bill of rights

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Not really open, is it...

So Amazon plans to become the apple of Android?

Tying customers to themseles and barring them from installing from other providers in the near future?

March Patch Tuesday leaves IE unpatched for Pwn2Own hackers

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but...

Was it a stupid decision or a brave one?

O2 tries to explain its new prudish nature

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RE: JasonW

I had a contract 4 months before this came into effect and it blocked a lot of sites i use just for news and humor.

They then tried to charge me £1 to prove my age, which they already know since i'm on contract and already had my card info.

£1 they take is not equal to £2.50 in credit as they can create more credit by pushing a button.

This is a scam.

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This happened to me months ago...

I had my SIM card for years and had no trouble using sites like sickipedia, fitlads etc, i then got a contract phone with the same SIM and O2 blocked all adult and gay sites 3 months later and made me prove my age.

I obviously went into a store instead of using a card to point out they know my age and had my card info as i have a contract with them, which finished with me calling their manager a retard and getting told not to come back to that branch again.

At least now i have control over "my" phone and O2 don't keep sending spam-like texts =]

Sony wins subpoenas revealing visitors to PS3 jailbreaker site

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Fail

And no doubt ACS Law will be firing out letters to all of these people they have the IP address for and threatening them as usual?

Android malware attacks show perils of Google openness

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Agree with Ebeneser

Or people could actually read the permissions screen and look at the size of the app.

This article read more like an apple fanboi's ramblings.

Ford punts prang-prompted auto cops-calling kit

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I'm all for this Bakunin, and here's why...

Brings new meaning to all the old error messages:

Blue Screen Of Death, with a real death.

No driver found, because he went through the windshield.

Buffer overflow, airbag deployed.

Illegal operation, bad driving/ no tax disc.

Windows has stopped responding, out of petrol.

Windows must update, please restart, please pull over to the hard shoulder for your engine to die.

Windows error reporting console, reporting error.

Please do not use the vehicle while Windows spends 10 minutes sending this error report.

Kinect connect rate outstrips Sony PS3 Move

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Piracy...

Does it matter how much they spend on research anyway since PS3s have been banned from sale currently?

That's not gonna inspire a lot of people to swap from an Xbox to a PS3 is it?

Londoners warned of card skimming risk

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PCU?

"Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit"

Are the Plastic Crime Unit lego or playmobil?

China Unicom readies mobile OS

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I agree Reg...

I just helped a friend set her email account up so she could use the Android Marketplace last weekend, and she's had the phone for about 6 months.

I don't think a lot of these people realise they actually have access to an app store if they spend 2 minutes creating an email account

Surrey nudists tossed out into the cold after lease expires

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70 Year old club...

Are the members 70 years old or the club?

Apple to launch queue-jumping service for little people

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RE: Sarah

I seriously doubt apple would use the word bus.

And if they did they would sue everyone else using the word bus as they did with "pod"

ECJ gender ruling 'could throw insurance into turmoil'

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Good!

Give everyone the same rate and only increase it when they have an accident, it's really discriminatory to charge men more just for being men and it's not fair on the good male drivers and bad women drivers.

Android phone to replace shop till

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I disagree..

"though convincing the world that an Android handset can be made secure will be tough."

Better than having a closed apple system where vulnerabilities are covered up and their existence is denied.

Man found guilty of battery after ejaculating in co-worker's drink

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Re: CmdrX3

Sorry, but owing to the nature of our line of work the boss is currently out on lunch at KFC.

He will be back later this afternoon.

Thanks, Jill the secretary

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RE: Ant

It's more of a slighlty salty taste, often a bit sour.

Like slightly bad mayonnaise.

Court OK's Assange Sweden extradition, given 7 days to appeal

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RE: Scorchio

"he had sex with a woman who stipulated that he could only do so if he wore a condom. He did not wear a condom."

Funny how you can say that as though it's a fact without him even being to court yet isn't it?

People are not proven guilty without first being to court scorchio so for that i will fail you

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RE: Anonymous Troll

The fact of the matter is Julian Assange didn't do anything morally wrong.

So for a country built on freedom of speech to want him in prison or exocuted so badly it's hypocracy.

Do you actually beieve this is an open and shut case with him being guilty of his supposed crime?

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Still trying to connect Assainge to petrol prices...

Now might be the time to release a lot of embarassing cables on the US government again and try to blackmail them.

Apparently we'll deport bombers and innocents aswell now.

Phone seller pre-peddles white iPhone 4 for UNDER A GRAND!

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RE: Simon

That or the white one has a working antenna for taking phone calls.

Firefox 4 squeezes onto phones

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Badly written...

Your reporting on this is bad to say the least.

1) Firefox has been available on Android for months and at least a month from the App store.

2) It crashes a LOT, skyfire and the default browser don't.

3) It appears to have just 4 add-ons

4) Skyfire is superior as it can play most videos, you can zoom more or less than you want, doesn't take ages to load, and again very rarely crashes.

I'm using FF on my computer and Skyfire on my phone until Mozilla release a half decent skyfire competitor.

Android and iOS get a little Minecraft love

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Bad Reg!

That video slowed down my work computer so much that 3 programs, including Firefox stopped responding for nearly 10 minutes.

Don't play them again Reg, it's bad enough that the BBC does it!

Apple plots iPad 2 production reduction

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Bad reportating today...

Or they're under supplying to create a rush for their crap like they did with the iphones and last ipad.

You reported on this before Reg and miss it out as an option now?

Cellphone exposure linked to changes in brain activity

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Good luck to 'em

Still doesn't prove their assumptions though.

Three-day gaming session kills Chinese man

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Why always China?

Why does it seem so bad in China compared to the rest of the world?

Could it be that the Chinese have no sense of moderation or that they have nothing else to do?

Memo to iPad mimics: No one wants a $799 knockoff

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Bad Reg...

I don't agree that Android outsells simply because it's cheaper.

It is modifyable hardware-wise, has a comparable amount of apps, more functions, more features, more brands, more networks available.

There's a lot of reasons why they outsell apple

Government defends need for census

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RE: John Smith

What exactly was that link to show other than an explanation of gay symbols and pride jewellery?

(which i add i've just bought some of lol)

Ta =]

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I'm actually for the Census.

The only reason i'm for the census is to shut up those stupid Daily Mail readers who actually believe less than 1% of people are gay and argue for our rights to be taken away.

Of course since they're Daily Mail readers they won't understand most of the questions anyway...

Acer in alleged Chrome OS monitor plot

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I always hate this bit...

It will be priced at $400 or for people in the UK between £350-450.

You know i'll be right about that.

Ten... over-ear headphones

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Right on Dave!

Agreed completely.

Bought some £55 Sony Ericsson bluetooth headphones and haven't looked back.

Brilliant sound quality and they're wireless.

5 Stars!

Oracle gives 21 (new) reasons to uninstall Java

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Almost...

You had me on side Reg...

Until this part anyway "Most OpenOffice functions work just fine on machines that don't have Java installed."

Most isn't good enough for me so i'll have to suffer with an updated and barely used Java.

Microsoft bans open source license trio from WinPhone

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RE: Julian, it could be worse, at least we had the choice

Still, android is encouraging and giving a face to open source.

It's in the best interests of everyone that it succeed as the other options are walled gardens that stifle innovation and actively fight open source.

Without open source we would be forced to pay high prices for office documents and freeware would be non-existant.

Android on the other hand can grow and expand in unexpected ways, but always in the way you choose rather than Apple or Microsoft.

I chose android because at the time there was no WP7 and apple had already been shown to use slave labour for pennies.

If i had chosen WP7 now i'd be seriously regretting it.