Posts by Mark 85

Re: What a fucking idiot

Well, he fills the requirement for an MBA. When he gets out of jail, he'll find his magic well-paying job.

Re: Let the victim-blaming begin

Your prophesy has come true. Amazing talent there. Can you tell me the numbers for next week lottery numbers? It would be a big help.

What good will contacting the 3rd parties do? I'm curious as once the cat is out of the bag, pretty soon it's spread to places beyond what the originator thought.

Re: Err, don't most company T&Cs prevent you ...

Note also this applies to companies that "require" you to give them your Facebook/Twitter/MySpace login details.

"Sorry, I don't have those accounts." isn't taken seriously by many companies any more. I find that to get them to take it seriously, bring up "security best practices and the HR droid goes quiet. I find the look on their face is the same one you get from a marketing droid if they ask about your "social" use of the web.

Re: "Please, pardon us as it looks we don't know we're doing what we actually do"

What is still needed to slap a ginormous fee on the "social engineering network"?

That probably won't change a thing. Now take Zuck and associates out behind the barn and whack them repeatedly with a large chunk of wood might work.

Re: 5G - beyond the hype

Outside of marketing gee-whiz, does anyone actually *want* a 5G phone?

Simple answer...they wouldn't. The marketing troids have done their job and convinced everyone they absolutely need 5G.

Re: I think it was Intel wot did it

What am I going to do with all that Popcorn eh?

Hang on to it. There will be another lawsuit (maybe not Apple, maybe not Qualcomm) very soon that will require popcorn.

Re: The FTC lawsuit will continue

The only "loser" here is Intel. Intel announcing today that it is stopping development of 5G chips (AFTER Apple acquired licensing of Qualcomm's technology patents),

So will Intel be thinking of tossing a sueball over this? Sueballs seem to be the thing lately.

Re: Executive Decision

It looks we need judges able to board a plane in flight, to settle suits there, or at least assert jurisdiction.

I'd suggest Judge Dredd... instant justice

Re: Pretty sure this will sink quietly into the sunset

I typed 4 different responses to this and everyone of them had just enough innuendo to invoke banishment. So I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to come up with their own responses.

Re: Oh no...

I've always suspected the Reg readers are mostly a bunch of wankers. The comments on these types of stories confirms that.

And your point is?????

Re: how about a simpler system

it'll make things much simpler, and remind parents that they are responsible for their kids viewing habits, not the government.

A novel idea... make parents take responsibility for the actions of their children. However, we're way beyond that as most parents haven't a clue where their kids are at any given time, much less what they are doing.

The world has changed since I was young lad and not for the better.

Re: Cleaners...

Sooner or later anything that isn't actively guarded gets nicked. If it's bolted down it'll just last a little longer.

Worked in a place where one of the engineers had CA'd two quarters (US) to his desk. There were there for years. He came in one morning and found them gone and the desk had lots of chisel marks around where the quarters used to be. The engineer and manglement (once they got wind of the damage) were not happy.

Re: Then there is the "send me a copy"

And the old "Can you send me a screenshot of your desktop?" where the user puts their screen upside down on a scanner and sends you a JPEG.

Or worse, they take a picture of their desk with the computer sitting on it using one of the old Polaroid cameras and send you the photo. Ah, those were the days.

Re: "the smartphone will need to install and run a specific scanning app and media player"

No problem here. I have a time and stress saving cell that's not smart. Thus, I can safely ignore stupidity such as described in the article.

And to think that I always thought the singing birthday cards were horrible...

A bit of common sense

Now there's a novel idea. Seems that common sense has been killed off by governments world-wide from national all the way down to the locals. I've always thought that those who run for government office and those in positions above worker bees are somewhere just above amoeba because they have ambitions.

Re: Seems the principal problem is not the legislation

That is mode of operation of almost every government it seems. It sometimes appears that there's a competition on which country can gobble things up the worst.

Re: All discussions of "did-he-didn't-he" and "the CIA are going to get him" aside...

He's been in semi-hermitage for nearly a decade, bound to have affected the mind.

Semi-heritage but not isolated from the reports of all the visitors he's had who spent the night. I'm not saying I believe all these reports though given the nature of the press of late.

Re: I can see

And why aren't you sharing?

In this case, Trump probably will pardon the lad just because of the "Crooked Hillary" papers.