It's less of a tracking device.
Posts by PleebSmash
532 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Dec 2012
iPod dead? Nope, says Apple: New Touch has iPhone 6 brains
Large Hadron SMASHER: Boffins BLOW OPEN the PENTAQUARK's secrets
Uninstalled Google Photos? Thought your pics safe from slurping? WRONG, bozo
Android Wear 5.1: A more enduring wristjob for your pleasure
Pan Am Games: Link to our website without permission and we'll sue
Twitter's Vine creeps into HD-quality vid – but it's not really for YOU, chump
Brit teen who unleashed 'biggest ever distributed denial-of-service blast' walks free from court
Friday 10th July 2015 23:47 GMT
Re: Unbelieveable
"none of that laundry list fits into any recognised mental illness pattern"
"Looks to me like an old-fashioned psychopath"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_Checklist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathic_Personality_Inventory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
Although no psychiatric or psychological organization has sanctioned a diagnosis titled "psychopathy", assessments of psychopathic characteristics are widely used in criminal justice settings in some nations, and may have important consequences for individuals.
Friday 10th July 2015 21:13 GMT 
it's all true
>He avoided a stretch behind bars after the court heard the teen suffered from a mental illness at the time of the web assaults, had dropped out of school and shunned his family, but had later showed "complete and genuine remorse."'
It's a true defense. At least 2/4 to 3/4 of it anyway.
Getting cuffed at 16 probably helped too. He picked the right time to go black hat, and can expect a lucrative career in the cyber realm soon, making more money than you make.
NASA pops open a big can of red planet whup-ass with Mars Trek
US OPM boss quits after hackers stole chapter and verse on 21.5m Americans' lives
Hacked Hacking Team team – like everyone in security – read The Register
How many top-level domains are there now? 300? 500? No, it's 1,000
Friday 10th July 2015 01:16 GMT 
let $185,000 bloom
"Let a thousand flowers bloom," Postel was keen on reciting, meaning that it was not the job of those running the internet's infrastructure to decide in which direction it should grow, only that it should grow unencumbered and in its own way.
Sadly, Postel died in October 1998 and the company that took over his role, ICANN, did not adhere to the same philosophy. It has taken ICANN 17 years to reach the point that Postel and many internet originators wanted to reach within one year. But we are finally there.
Yes, I'm sure Postel wanted to see ICANN grabbing hundreds of millions of dollars in this sudden organic growth of the Internet's infrastructure (totally not a TLD/domain extortion racket).
Microsoft starts switching on paid Wi-Fi service with latest Windows 10 preview
PLUTO: The FINAL FRONTIER – best image yet of remote, icy dwarf planet REVEALED
'Real' vampires reluctant to 'come out of the coffin' to social workers – barmy prof
Samsung to launch a Snapdragon 808-based clamshell smartphone
THIS MEANS WAR between USA and Japan! GIANT ROBOT WAR
Apple fanbois to be empowered to bonk each other
Kobo Glo HD vs Amazon Kindle Paperwhite: Which one's best?
Saturday 4th July 2015 15:15 GMT 
more storage could be used
More storage would be great for the pure e-readers. 250 KB to 1 MB of text per file is a starting point, but throw in some pictures (generally in PDFs, or perhaps the comic book formats mentioned), and the size per file can climb to 25 to 100 MB. I don't expect many non-comic books to be that big, but some can be (cookbooks for instance).
It's time to double storage to 8 GB at least, and maybe to 16 GB+ to coincide with a switch to color e-ink in a few years.
Boffin: Will I soon be able to CLONE a WOOLLY MAMMOTH? YES. Should I? Hell NO
Friday 3rd July 2015 16:09 GMT
Re: Wrangel Island
"Whether or not we should re-introduce an elephant species in its more-or-less original environment? Well, we're talking about the siberian tundra and taiga."
Mastercard facial recog-ware will unlock your money using SELFIES
UK.gov spied on human rights warriors at Amnesty International
Thursday 2nd July 2015 09:47 GMT
Re: All governments do this
We hear this meme over and over again, as if it should be accepted.
Is Amnesty International a foreign government? No.
Was it even suspected of a crime? No.
Now we are supposed to accept that the NSA/GCHQ can spy on foreign governments and every citizen of every other government on the world. And when they can't legally spy on their own citizens, they just swap info like it's baseball cards.
How about no. At the very least, try to defund these activities.
Thursday 2nd July 2015 07:33 GMT
costing lives, confusing lives
The claim that people will die because of this snooping is believable compared to the tripe the US and UK governments regularly roll out.
However one factor may lower the body count: because of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal's little "accident" 10 days ago, the corrected record may reach less people. Some probably tuned out when they heard it was an Egyptian and a South African organization being spied on.
Rise of the Machines: ROBOT KILLS MAN at Volkswagen plant
Hello Tosh, got a downrated 6TB spinner? Yes, for slower workloads
Crowdfunded beg-a-thon to bail out Greece raises 0.003% of target
Hide the HUD, say boffins, they're bad for driver safety
WikiLeaks docs show NSA's 10-year economic espionage campaign against France
Apple Music available on Sonos by end of this year
Giant male member spontaneously ejaculates over Norway
Facebook! exfiltrates! Yahoo! security! boss!
US SaaS firm bows to Snowden concerns with UK-based datacentre
D-Wave promises chip that could search the whole universe
Thursday 25th June 2015 03:39 GMT 
The qubit count is up (better than double, it's 125% more) and the performance is supposedly better (colder, less noise), so I'd like to see some action with this. Let's see it do something that the classical computing naysayers can't. Let's see Google/Lockheed/NASA use it for more than just tests to see if it works at all.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
