* Posts by El Zorro

39 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Apr 2011

Samsung gets KINKY with new Galaxy in 50 SHADES OF GREY

El Zorro

Nothing ground breaking

Probably just a phone variant of this unpractical gimmick

Beam me up, Scotty, And VAPORIZE me in the process

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The Teleport

This is similar to the concept of the Blake's 7 teleport. The organic matter is copied, the information transmitted and reconstructed at the other end.

The original is then destroyed.

I doubt however that many people would willingly submit to being slowly milled out of existence on the off-chance the printer hasn't run out of "ink" at the other end

Want to have your server pwned? Easy: Run PHP

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Suhosin

Presumably this research would also not be able to determine whether Suhosin was enabled on an otherwise vulnerable php installation.

Many ISPs and distros install it by default because it reduces the number of attack vectors by a significant margin.

The Glorious Resolution: Feast your eyes on 5 HiDPI laptops

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I have the Aorus X3 reviewed here for work, and commonly use it to drive 3 1920x1080 displays ( 2x external, 1x lcd ) - I find it really hard to use anything less these days ;-)

The only reason I don't run the LCD at 3200x1800 ( giving a hefty 7040 pixels of horizontal resolution ) in this setup is because text-scaling between multiple resolutions on different workspaces/desktops isn't handled too well by Ubuntu and Windows.

I was pleasantly surprised the intel chip can handle these resolutions without effort, despite the comparison to the nvidia 870m.

Our Vultures peck at new Doctor Who: Exterminate or, er ... carrion?

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The Master

"I would much prefer to see Capaldi face off against a manic John Simm-style Master."

No no please. If you have a Doctor with the potential gravitas of Capaldi then you have to give him a Roger Delgado adversary.

I was very disappointed when they squandered the excellent and sinister Derek Jacobi master and transformed him into the young clownster Robert Simm version.

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Re: It's not the character

Maybe if it keeps getting bent in his pocket

iOS 8 release: WebGL now runs everywhere. Hurrah for 3D graphics!

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The problem with WebGL on a professional level

...is having to not only worry about website or app rendering correctly on a dozen different browser and OSes, but also whether or not x million different graphics card and video driver version configurations are breaking your user's experience. ( much like traditional game development ).

Young blokes blinded by video-game addiction: THE FACTS

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Mushroom

I can't see it catching on, not unless Drones can be engineered for fly-by tea-bagging.

Google goes on the Blink in WebKit fork FURORE

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Re: Opera

Correction: Opera had tabs in 2000 depending on which propaganda machine you reference

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Re: Opera

Indeed.

Netcaptor introduced tabbed browsing in 1997. I was still using my amiga back then and I remember being blown away by the tabbed browsing in iBrowse in 99.

Opera was late to the party in 2001

Lotsa lasers an option for the Next Big Physics

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I'm sure this has been done before

http://i.stack.imgur.com/4nuWw.jpg

The genetic button that could turn a WOMAN into a CHIMPANZEE

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Re: Readability

Well obviously El Reg couldn't afford to employ and infinite number of monkeys....

USS Enterprise sets out on its final mission

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Why have 1 nuclear reactor when you can have 8.

I wouldn't be surprised if one powered the captain's trouser press ( or is that pants press? )

NASA's Cassini spacecraft turns 15 while spying on Saturn

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Re: Ouch

My 18th birthday was similar, although I don't remember what happened much

SpaceX satellite burns up on re-entry after Falcon FAIL

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Facepalm

Oh damn

Who forgot to check the " [ ] Damage caused by Tsunami, Volcanic debris, Asteroid strike and Fire from atmospheric friction" option on the insurance application certificate?

Teachers get earful of racy XXX chat in Capita IT cock-up

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No wonder the government keep contracting them

Rover spots 'possibly artificial' MYSTERY SHINY OBJECT on Mars

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This is what you get for outsourcing robot construction to Whirlpool.

Better onion anonymity possible: researcher

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Sounds like Ehsan Saboori and Shahriar Mohammadi should switch to I2P which has done uni-directional tunnels for years (Garlic Routing) and has a fairly sophisticated network database for exploratory lookups.

One drawback being, it doesn't focus on exit-nodes like Tor, but everything remains in-network ( but that's probably a good thing from an anonymity perspective )

HP to take one more stab at consumer tablets

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If HP want some success, rather than offering lacklustre clones of whatever everyone else is pedalling, they should do a modern version of their wonderful tc1xxx hybrid tablets from their compaq partner ship in the early 2000s.

Those were one of the few tablet form-factor machines which were genuinely useful and productive ( having a detachable keyboard ), and some reasonably good engineering.

London Fire Brigade: This time we'll send the NEAREST fire truck

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Big Brother

Sometimes I wonder whether it's worth starting a political party with a manifesto solely dedicated to eradicating all capita contracts from civil and government agencies...

...might have a tough time going up against the people's front against bankers through

Drones, sub-hunting planes to attack cyber-Chinese army

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Terminator

WOPR

How about a nice game of chess?

Samsung Galaxy Tab 'a harmful drug', says Apple in ban bid fail

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Holmes

Samsung just needs to buy a few patents from HP/Compaq for their TC1000 tablet pc from early 2000 and they're safe:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tc1000&tbm=isch

Universe has more hydrogen than we thought

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Re: @sarev

or if you can get the damned wrappers off

Pirate island attracts more than 100 startup tenants

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Ark

Will they be building another boat for all the telephone sanitisers

Daniel Craig like Connery, Skyfall helmsman suggests

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It all went downhill after goldeneye

A true Bond film is only as good as it's title sequence

Microsoft claims Google bypassed its browser privacy too

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Not defending google, but

Microsoft is neatly ignoring the fact that it's P3P implementation is flawed at best, and causes web developers issues between different IE browser versions ( no surprises there ).

Specifically, IE will refuse third party cookies within iframes, and will show a warning message regardless of your privacy settings.

This makes it a pain for social application or widget developers - the workaround being to invalidate the P3P string entirely forcing IE to accept all cookies from your domain.

Facebook do the same thing as google, setting their P3P header to:

P3P: CP="Facebook does not have a P3P policy. Learn why here: http://fb.me/p3p"

No doubt google and facebook are mainly concerned about protecting their metrics and ad tracking business.

Ancient cave girl genome could crack Man's genetic puzzle

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Cloning? Easy

Just splice in some frog DNA.... we know that works

Surprise: Neil Young still hates digital music

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Of course of course, but the sad truth is, even the best music sounds like a mind-splitting cacophony through a small 1 inch mobile phone tweeter

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Rather than target digital music...

...I suggest he pursues a change in the law, and give SO13 a new remit to shoot anyone with a mobile speaker phone playing R&B on a train.

Chocolate Factory moves into the fridge

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Targetted Ads

Surely this is yet another move to hone their ad filters - showing you adverts based on the age of the appliances in your home.

"It looks like you need a new trouser press, why not try one of these!"

Japanese boffins crack arse-based ID recognizer

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Black Helicopters

and in Hollywood

Somehow I don't think the '96 film version of mission impossible would have done so well if Tom Cruise had to carabiner in and whip out a prosthetic arse to circumnavigate Langley security and steal the NOC list.

Valve says credit card data taken

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I'd also question the wisdom of storing billing information on the same server(s) as a public forum

Facebook gets awesome with Skype

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Backfoot

Sounds like a hurried reaction to "huddle" in google+ ( which already support multiple video feeds )

Facebook game outfit Zynga files for $1bn IPO

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google+

isn't even an issue yet, because they haven't launched their gaming platform....

History's first papal tweet launches Vatican website

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Another means to transmit the word of god

"just going to the shops to buy more toilet papper. LOL"

EXPLODING MELONS terrify Chinese

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Alert

Seeds

The Japanese government has just released a statement that all seeds are perfectly safe and any trace glow is probably a result of atmospherics. Officials advise that best growing conditions are at least 80km from any residential buildings

Supposed Anonymous hack 'unmasks members'

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Oh look

Someone found a list of TOR exit node IPs

Apple sues Samsung over Galaxy look-and-feel

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Sounds like a good lawsuit opportunity for HP

I loved my TC1100 - 8 years old, and not a sharp/pointy corner in sight

http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/2010/01/ipad-vs-hp-tc1100.html

Forget China and India, Sweden is tech's superpower

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@ Frank Gerlach Handle 2

Ah wow, I didn't know France was such a military superpower compared to Nordic countries.

Let me just google it before I make further comment: "French Military Victories"

....ah