Posts by John Tserkezis

"they lack the necessary self-control not to say something stupid."

Yes, they have assistants and advisors to tweet something stupid for them.

"we were successfully able to trick the Google Mail Server into accepting a wrong FROM parameter."

Am I missing something, or are they trusting what's in the From: field to filter spam?

I learned long ago not to trust it. If I can grunge it, so can everyone else.

I first met BOB a little recently, and curious, I shoehorned him into an older windows version I had lying around.

Like some of the other posters I want to debate the "easier to use" line.

Windows wasn't hard to use unless you have a head injury, or are aged over 75 (I'm not interested in those darn gosh new fangled things!).

Bob on the other hand was an abortion. You had to hunt around to find anything, you didn't know if something in the room was either eye candy, or if it actually meant something. And you had to change rooms to get to other "stuff". Even though they likened rooms to folders - er, no, not even close.

The saddest part was I had to dig around for a while to get the Bob install code, and then dig further to get it running on something later than '95. What was I thinking? (probably the same thing microsoft was when they created it).

"but it’s the kind of car you’d be perfectly happy with as a company car"

So, you're saying it's a wonderful car - as long as you don't have to pay for it.

I'm wondering if the electronics is secure, or is it the same as every other car on the planet - free for all.

After the previous elreg articles on the matter, would be nice to know.

My prediction:

Paris Hilton will reveal another "lost" sex recording, but this time in UltraHD.

The absolute best that could possibly come out of this, is Adobe cares so little about the maintenance of their products they don't want to pay their employees anything to fix the issues.

The worst is all the way at the other end of the spectrum.

Guess which way it'll go...

"nicknamed Sophie after the daughter of the hedge fund manager who bought the ancient bones."

I'm sure she must be very proud to have her namesake be a fat dinosaur. "Thanks dad."

Just goes to prove that carriers still only care about their Roaming profits.

Don't be fooled by the recent pricing changes that "seem" attractive - they're structured to "look" good, and still provide ludicrous profits.

They'll shit their pants once users learn it'll be substancially cheaper to obtain a prepaid SIM at their destination rather than just roam with their own card. No wait...

On a side note:

I'll be interested to see how far up Netflix prices will go after they've been "Australianised", or to those unfamiliar with the term, "taxed to the f**king hilt".

I've dealt with the TIO before.

This was related to a Telstra connection that didn't happen. They told me point blank, they can only action something if a telco "won't" do something. If said telco "can't" do anything (for whatever internal reason) they just throw their arms into the air and say 'we can't do anything either'.

It's a nice little loophole that absolves them of having to actually do anything.

Please remain stationary while we do an update.

Your front left wheel has now been identifed as malicious, and has been disabled and quarantined for your safety.

Sorry, creating an exception to this rule is not available for that wheel.

Customer support cannot be called because your cellular modem has been identified as a threat.

The human in the driver's seat has been identified as suspect with the heuristics scan.

Deploying the ejector seat - for your safety of course.

The ejector seat has a virus and has been quarantined.

Locking the doors and deploying the poison gas.

Thank you for using Kaspersky Labs.

"So perhaps as you sit in your driverless car, you can recreate the experience of what people used to call “driving” … in 3D."

I get the same thing looking through the regular windshield now. Without the framerate limitations, though, depending on who's driving, nausea may or may not be an issue.

"Researchers from Ohio State University found that when confronted with examples of bullying, many users shy away from direct confrontation."

Tells it all really. These idiots haven't seen how it works out in real life.

Their answers is to talk to the bully and explain how they're hurting your feelings. All this does is reaffirm my thought that university students, sorry, "researchers", have no clue whatsoever.

The problem is bullies understand one language only - beaten into submission. But we can't have that now can we, we might hurt their feellings and that would be a terrible thing.

Your last resort is your first resort - ignore and move (from the forum). Fortunately, few have enough enthusiasm to stalk you, though, some do. Perhaps a nice beating will do?

"So here are your solutions:"

Are you kidding? It might cover most of here, but we're just scraping the barrel compared to the average Joes out there who don't know IP from cheese.

I've made my views on the "cloud" quite clear here.

Only thing left is to say is I TOLD YOU SO.

Just when I was thinking "What could possibly go more wrong with Lenovo?", we get this.

Can't say I'm entirely surprised though, I mean, they've already proved they don't give a fly rat's arse about our security, so why should they care about their own?

And yet again...

"And in 2013, the FDA banned DNA testing startup 23andMe from selling its home testing kits as diagnostic aids,"

23andMe didn't sell it as a diagnostic aid, it was the idiot users (you can tell by the idiot gene in the results) who looked at some disease, ignored the odds, and went to their doctors demanding they be cured.

Had this been the case of them advertising it as a diagnostic, they would have just changed the web layout - now, you will never see those type of results again. Ever. Thanks to the idiots.

I was fortunate that I had mine done before the FDA made them knobble the results. Turns out, I had none of the diseases that I was at "high" risk of, but had some that were marked as average (population average).

As such, I did not go to my doctor demanding I be cured of things I don't have. Purely co-incedently, I did not indicate for the idiot gene.

I don't know if I agree with the other posters.

I was under the impression that the terms of use of DMCA said something like "feel free to abuse this service in any way you like".

I mean, that's what the users of the service do, don't they?

This is not my story, I read it in an electronics rag many years ago - but worth repeating.

Service guy was working on a radio transmitter, and part of the diagnostics was to check the HT line. All 10KV of it.

The transmitter had safety interlocks all over the place, so it was faster and easier to just place the meter within the cabinet and look at the reading through the closed glass door.

Barely a fraction of a second after he flipped the power switch, he realised the meter was set to low ohms (from the previous tests).

A big bang, a bright flash, and a very impressive black charred mess on the inside of the door glass was the result.

If we self-ban any vendors who do this shit...

We'll run out of vendors to buy from.

And when you decide to go "old school" again, the paper you write on will have a watermarked ad on it, and the pens will reveal a bikini shop website, rather than an actual bikini-clad girl.

When you're tired of that, the knife you use to slash your wrists will be engraved with the phone number of a very privately run hosptial. And since insurance won't cover you, bring you credit card, you know, the one with more ads on it. Hold onto it, you're going to need some reading material while you're waiting in the emergency room alongside everyone who had the same idea.

Since this isn't a suitable outcome, we should loudly and publically make fun of them at every opportunity. Yes, that's you, Lenovo, Sony, LG, Samsung and all the other f**kers who are going try it in future.

Thanks for the heads up.

Not only is she easy, she's been freshly cleaned. Yah!

(Later)

Oww. I feel itchy in all the wrong places....

Are they saying it's ok to transfer $10K with a fingerprint that's been broken down to perhaps 5 key points?

Look, there's nothing inherently wrong with the uniquness of your actual fingerprint - as far as anyone knows, it's entirely properly unique. However, readers break it down to only a few key indicators to presumably save bit space, now it's not so unique.

And there's the minor point that you leave traces of all your fingerprints all day, every day, over your entire life, all over the place. Traces that have been verified to be duplicatable and usable on readers.

Here, as an example, guess which finger I'm holding up.

"We are looking into exactly how that happened so that it does not happen again."

Not keeping it stored as an Excel spreadsheet on a web-accessable folder, and also not on your employee's USB thumb drives would be start.

There's a "fix".

Found this on <http://www.businessinsider.com.au/samsung-smarttvs-are-inserting-ads-into-movies-2015-2>

It says "Users can disable the ads by pressing “Menu” on their Samsung Remote, scrolling to Smart Hub, then to Terms & Policy, and then to Yahoo Privacy Policy. From there, users need to scroll down and toggle an option that says “I disagree with the Yahoo Privacy Notice” to opt out."

That's generous of them, not only that, it's in a logical intuative place that anyone can get to easily. </scarcasm alert>