* Posts by WibbleMe

413 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Feb 2013

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Google tells popup ads to p*** off on mobes

WibbleMe

Basically, Google is pushing their APM (Accelerated Mobile Pages Project) web page format that handles THEIR adverts nicely on mobiles.

So if staff members of The Register are reading this take note!

Excel hell messes up ~20 per cent of genetic science papers

WibbleMe

Here's an idea, hire a Linux IT guy and fork an OpenSource Spreadsheet to a new App and get everything working exactly how it should be for Gean Data recording. Wam a new industrial standard software.

Indian techies told to prepare for tax sprint

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I feel so sorry for them, next they may be told to pay tax on the freelance work they do in the UK

Google killing app format used only by The 1%

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This is a consistent thing with google, it does not market its product features enough to the none IT population, as a result, most don't use what Google as created. So really the only have themselves to blame.

My Microsoft Office 365 woes: Constant crashes, malware macros – and settings from Hell

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Why not simply use Google Docs for work that won't cost a penny

Ford announces plans for mass production of self-driving cars by 2021

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Well recently driving around Bournemouth, the number of OAP's that cant drive round there is astonishing, I say lets go with a AI that needs updates it will still be better driving than what I saw.

VeraCrypt security audit: Four PGP-encoded emails VANISH

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I bet if they look at the server logs it will be something simple like no DKIM or HELO missing from the senders emails that is required by the server email daemon.

For $800 you can buy internet engineers' answer to US government spying

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If it is personal do not put it on the internet! Simple.

Seriously what kind of idiot actually puts their real date of birth on the internet with the full name and address.

Brexit: Leaving the EU could trigger UK science patent law rejig

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Make all patents "Open" saving the only people to benefit from paterns ​are shareholders, consumers pay a lot just towards covering the cost of paterns ​in consumer goods. If companies can use any tec they like in their products then this will allow a huge saving in non-replaceable materials and energy costs.

Lloyds personal banking hit with 'intermittent' outage

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So with little or no competition in the market its ok to have a website that's down occasionally providing that you can outsource what should be high paying jobs in the UK out to countries like India to make savings.

White hat banned for revealing vulns in news sites used by London councillors

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I would invoice them

Rolls-Royce reckons robot cargo ships are the future of the seas

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So I'm investing into robots Pirates yarrr

Australia's ABC suspends presenter over 'Wi-Fi is dangerous' claims

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Hey WiFi is energy passing through our body, how can it not do something

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Well with the old Analog mobile Phones I could sense the magnetic field they produced.

Now here how to cook and egg with a bunch of mobile phones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3ge9M54l7E

I am not a scientist but what happens to your brain proteins

European Union set to release anti-competition hounds on Google

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How exactly will Google do that? Put a message up that says "Please go and use these other search engine's, {list} they may be Sxxx but bureaucrats in Brussels say you have to use them instead of us"

Lloyds Banking Group puts 640 techies and backroom bods on chopping block

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Time for an overseas employee tax

Voter registration site collapse proves genius of GDS, says minister

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The thing about load balancers is that they do not cost anything until you need them. In a previous post there was a quote of 500K users, that's not that manny visitors to put into context this post will probably get 200K views in the first hour

DNS security can be improved with cookies, suggest IETF boffins

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Well if Cookies are invoiced it will only be a matter of time before the EU bureaucrats make everyone display a message stating that there is a cookie in the DNS for this

Belgian brewery lays 3.2km beer pipeline

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Burton-On-Trent have a beer pipe line in the 1900 strait to its local pubs

'Whites are taking over': Race storm hits heart of Africa's internet body

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Would it be more sensible to ban the sale of any more IPv4's and simply distribute IPv6's?

Brexit? Cutting the old-school ties would do more for Brit tech world

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I am sure that at least the French consider UK south an and Spain north

Google-backed solar electricity facility sets itself on fire

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Ceramic tiles anyone?

Want a Brexit? Promise you'll sort out UK universities' £1bn research cash loss

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1B in nothing if you look at what other western countries throw at R&D we should be outraged at such a small ammount

Old, complex code could cause another UK banking TITSUP – study

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I am a coder, its the quality of the code not the length, if its there then it has purpose

E-cigarettes help save lives, says Royal College of Physicians

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A drug addict is a drug addict stop trying to convince your selves that your chemical dependency is not.. Ask yourself; can you stop at any time?

UK's 'superfast' broadband is still complete dog toffee, even in London

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Whats more annoying this that Google promise fast broardband if I put an cable down the loo some years ago... Im still waiting for a connection lol

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Its not just the average speed its the speed at peak times and TTL ping vs latency nothing more annoying than your video or MP3 spinning or your on-line surfing/gaming freezing

'Droid Gmail on Exchange

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I did a AWS WorkMail Exchange Inbox install the other week on a Android Sony Xperia install was with out any hitches.

Thunderbird is GO: Mozilla prepares to jettison mail client

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This would be a terrible blow. I know many real world business that use thunderbird as an alternative to outlook.

Google Loon balloon crash lands in Chile

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Like $20B profits a big balloon that crashes hu

Dutch students serve up world's first 'drone café'

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So how did a whole family become covered in spaghetti?... I'm going to need a bigger insurance form to explain this!

When is making $20bn in three months not enough? When your name is Google

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Once upon a time there was this car manufacture that had its own show rooms and did really well then one day a penny pinching accountant thought it would be a great idea slowly remove staff from its show rooms to save money one by one a just leave customers to browse cars and buy there products all by them selves.

It went bust.

Google web developers are your sales reps. You look after them any they look after you, if you alienate them they will stop recommending you to your customers.

Stop cutting our tools like Keywords

Start paying taxes in the correct country

Use local staff in local call centres so people can actually understand what they are saying, (its the same with banks no one want to bank with them if they have to call an Indian call centre).

And people may start to like you.

Microsoft lures IT pros with breadcrumb trail of candy to its cloud

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I though Microsoft was migrating to Linux

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if you are just starting up in the IT industry great but if your already familiar with something else such as a Linux platform there's not much to persuade you to migrate such as free training I mean really; training is paying for "how great our product is" marketing

Google found 760,935 compromised web sites in a year

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I agree I am but I am also an employee and have a boss like the one from the IT crowd.

Each accounts has its own FTP and a 30 day lock out so 400 accounts with a limit of 1 FTP connection, thanks to reseller restraints means its 30 mins a download, I have to make money my making new websites. 98% are WordPress we do allow automated updates but there are sites where we cant even do basic htaccess protection because the clients using 3'd part software to do marketing etc.

We do have more premium servers for ecommerce etc that run on Cpanel/WHM and they do get a daily virus scan.

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I blame cheap Reseller hosting, we have an account with one of the largest ones in the UK and they want £5 per account for a weekly virus scan, we have 400 accounts and pay for the Reseller Hosting £40 a month +VAT we change customers £5 a month for Hosting and Email. How may infected sites do we have probably 10-30 but we have no way of checking. Other than FTPing the whole site down and scanning it.

So you’d sod off to China to escape the EU, Google? Really?

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At least they do not blackhole emails from small companies not using there server unlike some Mic... email hosting suppliers

Dodgy software will bork America's F-35 fighters until at least 2019

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So my £250 budget PC Desktop with Ubuntu Desktop OS is stable as hell but a yank cant do it for $1B

HTTPS is not enough: Boffins fingerprint user environments without cracking crypto

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Also has anyone though of using something like a DKIM as a fingerprint in the DNS to backup SSL?

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Im pro security but if this turns out to be another paid for service there is a limit to how much you can extract from a website owner, remember 98% are small business owners or bloggers.

In the mean time I will go back to posting a pen and paper out to my website visitors so they can fill in their details securely.

Microsoft has made SQL Server for Linux. Repeat, Microsoft has made SQL Server 2016 for Linux

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Linux is like "cancer" well its a bit like the Deadpool story become cancer to be stronger

UK biz fails to report two thirds of cyber attacks, says survey

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What exactly accounts as a Cyber attack you website being hijacked or some one in Rusher trying to login to your account?

Nearly a million retail jobs will be destroyed by the march of tech, warns trade body

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If you sell a niche and or manufacture some thing then people will buy it if you store sell the same stuff as the one next to you and the one after than then expect to go out of business people will buy this kind of stuff direct look at farm shops for example they are doing better than ever because they have something people want

What would happen if Earth fell into a black hole?

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You would think outer planets might go missing might be a clue

Worse than being sucked into a black hole is colliding with the sun in the process

Submarine cable cut lops Terabits off Australia's data bridge

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Satalight service?

Also anyone though of setting up a web cam to catch the pesky line cutters?

If you're one of millions using Magento – stop whatever you're doing and patch now

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I have a real heartblead for those people

BT dismisses MPs' calls to snap off Openreach as 'wrong-headed'

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http://point-topic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Point-Topic-Ofcom-total-broadband-take-up-including-superfast-by-UK-county.png

Interesting that the home counties get preference yet even Birmingham the second largest city only gets averaged speed.

Yet shafted if your first language is a Celtic variant rather than English

Google UK coughs up £130m back taxes. Is it enough?

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How about we take tax VAT and Corp from the buys bank account as part of the BACS transfer and not leave it to the companies to pay it.

GCHQ summer schools to pay teenage hackers £250 a week

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So how much would they pay a seasoned web developer?

Late night server rebuild led to 'nightmares about mutilated corpses'

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A week personality. Anyone with balls between their legs would have said to their boss unless they stay their not either.

Its also ok to loose a client if your not paid different if they go.

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