Posts by lglethal

Maybe Microsoft needs to do this more often! If someone is using a 123Reg address to send a tonne of spam, blocking them might force 123Reg to clean up and control their systems to prevent spam being sent in the first place. If Microsoft did this for more Spam senders hosts then maybe we'd end up with a cleaner internet.

Get Microsoft and Google together (woo thats an axis of evil, no doubt), but the power of those 2 making it a habit to block an entire email host when there services are being used to send spam would very quickly force email hosts to clean up their acts.

One can dream...

Re: in the most expensive Trump Hotel reservations

Sorry, but it wont ever happen. The best you can hope for is that Trump gets presented with enough evidence of his previous wrong doing, and be told that he will go quietly into the background like most other former presidents, and will keep his mouth shut on politics from then on in. Oh and that someone takes away his Twitter access...

Something tells me though even then, he wont be able to keep his mouth shut...

Re: How is the USPTO supposed to do that?

Every other nation does it so i fail to see the problem. The EPO definitely does it, as I can attest to from when they came back on one of my ideas with an obscure chinese patent (tangetially related to my patent application but not actually using the same tech), and required me to modify my patent application enough to prove originality or it would be rejected. Getting a patent with the EPO costs a lot and takes a lot of time (about 2 years), but the system works, if you have a patent from them, people know its very likely to be valid.

The USPTO should have the people able to do a quick word search from a patent application review previous patents with those keywords and determine if there is prior art. They dont do that. They rubber stamp the application through. It's at the point where a patent from the USPTO is basically considered unsound from the beginning, and able to be challanged without too much effort.

It costs time and money to get a patent application granted anywhere else in the world. And it should, because what you're asking for is the right to have sole claim over an idea to monetise as you wish for the next 20+ years. That should not be something that should be easy to obtain. Not if we dont want innovation strangled in red tape and unjust lawsuits...

Re: Scotland

"Think Cape Canaveral with cattle grids."

So more Cape Carne-veral then...

I'll get my coat... No need to push...

Re: I'm glad...

Didnt apple lose a similar court case in california just recently? I seem to remember reading about it here on el reg. So probably thats also illegal in the US as well...

Re: Soccer fields?

So 6.2 microWales. Oh that makes much more sense now...

Re: Different countries, different flavours

Grew up in the country and we are talking 25+ years ago. There was one asian restaurant (generic chinese), no turkish, lebanese, malay, thai or any of that sort of goodness. Couple of fish and chips shops and the fast food places. Not a great selection. I'd like to think that things have improved on the food front in Aus, but outside of the cities, I'm not so certain.

Still I havent lived in Oz in 15 years, so what would i know...

Re: Enable Content

And this was a sysadmin...

who works in cryptocurrency.

Purveyors of Snake Oil are just as likely to fall for other Snake Oil salesman's palaver as the general public...

Re: OK i get it, its a demonstrator but...

I'd still argue that a helicopter will do that job quicker, cheaper and easier then a flying car.

Any flying car is going to be very heavy and expensive because it either requires two separate engine systems, or an extremely complex transmission to switch between road and flying modes. The Osprey is a prime example of this, a tilt rotor aircraft that can hover and VTOL. But the complexity involved in those tilt rotors makes them super expensive to maintain, relatively unreliable and prone to unfortunate accidents.

If you need to move people between bases, you'd go in order of the expected danger (and/or cost) - car, convoy, APC, Helicopter. I dont see a spot in that list for a flying car...

Re: Cynical

The difference is that Apple does not allow other stores on iOS, going so far as to brick phones of people who try it.

Steam is the main game store in the PC world, but you dont have to use it, there are others (GOG, EA Origin, Ubisoft's Uplay). And since Epic didnt like the terms at Steam (the seemingly standard 30% cut) they did go and crate a competitor (Epic Games Store) which is probably now the number 2 games store on PC's (basically because Epic threw around all that Fortnite cash and gave a ton of free games away and nabbed PC exclusives).

On Android, Google Play Store is the king, but you can freely sideload apps and even other Appstores without much trouble - Amazon Appstore is a good example of this.

But when it comes to iOS, you have no choice but to go through the Apple Store. If Apple decided to raise their percentage to 50% of sales, there's nothing a producer could do about it. It is the definition of a monopoly market.

I'm not a fan of Epic at all, and this was absolutely a pre-planned move on their behalf, but if it opens up iOS so that customers have a choice of game store, then that can only be a WIN for us consumers.

Now you know the real purpose of Zebra crossings! You didnt think it was to tell people where to cross the road, did you?

The Good is that there are plenty of exit roads. The Bad is everything else?

(Just joking - I mean I have no idea if there are plenty of exit roads...)

Re: Call a plumber

Tell 'em that Callout fee is fine, but they'll have to sort out there own transportation back from the station...

Re: Why bother.

Who is Fix? Why is he in a barrel? And does he really deserve to be shot? And who's supplying the Howitzer? Is the barrel in a location where there could be civilian casualties from a Howitzer shell?

So many questions...

Re: Huh?

Staff? Whats that? Definitely not something I find around my local supermarket carpark. They also seem to be hard to find around the actual Supermarket as well. Bloody self service kiosks...

Hey hey hey!! We have a plan in place to create an action to create a schedule that will allow us to action a plan to schedule the creation of a plan to plan for the scheduled action of performing the schedule action at a time and place as defined by the aforementioned scheduled action plan.

As you can see we take planning very seriously. And scheduling...

Re: "...offers 10GB of long-term storage space for people's personal photos and videos"

A house fire or break in and theft and your home storage is gone. Thats why people back up to the cloud. It's supposed to be a safe option.

So long as you dont keep all your pics in either one or the other location, you are pretty well protected from losing everything.

Re: Perfect shit storm

Sell it like that and Hollywood will eat your hand off!

(I'd watch it!)

Re: Right

Ahhh. So we can expect El Reg to be next on the Ban list then.

Bummer...

Re: Short and sweet.

Do we really need the wheel? I mean I can walk wherever i need to go, and heck if i need to carry something heavy i can just stick it on the Ox over there. Wheels? bah! Do we REALLY need them...

OK, to be less facetious, WE may not need this specific aircraft, but if they crack Supersonic flight without being massively loud, and whilst being comparably energy efficient to a standard flight, then eventually that tech will appear in our regular civilian jets. I mean we didnt jump from the Wright Brothers to the 747. You need these in between steps, and if rich buggers want to spend their money funding that tech development, then I'm all for it... And even if it doesnt work out, at least some of that rich people cash has made its way into various designers pockets, so I'm failing to see a downside here...

I hope you ran your phishing test better than our firm. IT did up an interesting case, it looked like it could be legitimate, but with that slight whiff that made my alarm bells go in to warning mode... So i actually checked and whilst the email came from offsite (our IT providers own site, so not exactly an unknown or faked address), the phishing link was to a website within our firewall. So i clicked on it, as did a lot of others (admittedly most of the others probably didnt do the checks i did) and IT got all high and mighty that we had all fallen for their phishing scam, but the fact was they'd linked to one of our own websites and used their own email address kind of represented a massive fail on their part. If the scammers can set up a phishing pool on our own websites and use one of their email accounts to send out phishing emails, then we've got bigger problems, dont you think?

Re: Suing the wrong party

You're assuming you can track down the owners/operators of the website in question and that the servers are located in the EU.

If this is some dodgy site, hosted in some Russian bit barn good luck getting them to even acknowledge the contact. In that case, getting Google and co to stop linking to it is the best you can achieve.

Re: Rabble

Hard Question Time:

What would you prefer? An evening listening to Marketing? Or a lifetime with an STD?