* Posts by xybyrgy

39 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jul 2015

The Windows 10 future: Imagine a boot stamping on an upgrade treadmill forever

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Re: Here's the Windows 10 future I see ... it will be used to download Android desktop

Will they have Rats...

Rats? Rats in Windows?? RATS in WALLS????

Stainless Steel Rats!

Trouble at t'spinning rust mill: Disk drive production is about to head south

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Re: I'm puzzled

Comcast, I believe, is only capping at 250 GB in a very limited number of markets. Elsewhere, it's unlimited.

Oh no, startup Massive Analytic unleashes 'artificial precognition'

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Joke

Re: If the technology is even a fraction as good as advertised...

Depends if the company flops

They already know that in advance...

Shopping for PCs? This is what you'll be offered in 2016

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Re: "Nobody needs to load software from disc any more"

An external DVD-RW drive can be had for dirt cheap, so what's the problem here, exactly?

Japanese boffins fire up 100Gbps wireless broadband connection

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Re: Puzzled

Likely QAM.

Cops hate encryption but the NSA loves it when you use PGP

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You're not whistling Dixie

@ac: Hard disk controllers, SIM cards, routers, etc. It's all out there. DuckDuckGo is your friend...

Death to clunky, creaky rip-off cable boxes – here's how it will happen

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Happy Dance

Yesssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!

Stop the music! Booby-trapped song carjacked vehicles – security prof

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@ac

Some good, mostly bad, of course - until someday somebody important's offspring is kidnapped with the aid of insecure IoT...

Smartphone hard, dudes, like it’s the end of the world!

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Re: I want one too v2.0

And forgot the most important thing - OSM maps in MapFactor are downloadable to SD (if you've got one) in unlimited (ex. by card capacity) quantity and geography. Also android only.

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Re: I want one too v2.0

Try MapFactor w/free OSM maps, you can correct them yourself (and I do) and frequent updates...

At last – Feds crack down on crummy encryption … starting with your dentist

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Joke

Re: Nanny State

Sarcasm, downvoters?

Australian government urges holidaymakers to kill two-factor auth

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Paper auth

Facebook offers paper auths when a phone is not available. Print them out ahead of time, carry along, easy as pie...

Obama calls out encryption in terror strategy speech

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Magical Thinking

Until the powers that be listen to their experts - and they employ them - and believe that a backdoor for LEOs is a backdoor for criminals/hackers/thieves and would destroy modern commerce, they will persist in la-la land.

Lenov-lol, a load of Tosh, and what the Dell? More bad holes found in PC makers' bloatware

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Re: New machine?

Ideal application for new consumer protection laws - make Illogical, immoral EULAs illegal!

Report fingers China for assault on Australian weather supercomputer

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Other Uses?

Perhaps this computer was engaged in some more sensitive government related crunching?

Mozilla annual report shows risky Google dependency now risky Yahoo! dependency

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Re: The problem

Vivaldi?

Network problems? It's not just you. Level3 outages reported in the US

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Re: OOPS

In US: 1-800-MISS-DIG. They will come out and put little flags along every single buried utility in existence.

Samsung S6 calls open to man-in-the-middle base station snooping

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Re: Bad News for T-Mobile Customers

I assume you've already read this page (about Android 6.0), and found it lacking your phone. Just part of the scheme to get you to buy more expensive phones. :(

https://support.t-mobile.com/community/phones-tablets-devices/software-updates

Unfortunately, you can't port an identical LG Stylo from MetroPCS ($150) to TMobile ($289) and get onthe upgrade train...

TPP: 'Scary' US-Pacific trade deal published – you're going to freak out when you read it

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Don't forget TISA

The currently unenforced prevailing wage requirements in work visas (L-1, H-1B) are about to be gutted! https://wikileaks.org/tisa/

UK government looks to harness the potential of open data through APIs

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Re: Yes minister?

My all time favorite motion picture. Thanks for the quote and an upvote!

Stick a pin in a sales droid to avoid cable voodoo

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Those tiny screw threads

My bane was those tiny screw threads on IBM SCSI connector thumb screws - always trying to cross thread themselves. (I swear, it wasn't me!)

Voting machine memory stick drama in Georgia sparks scandal, probe

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Australia's open-source voting system

It's not at all hard to do it properly: http://www.wired.com/2003/11/aussies-do-it-right-e-voting/

Google roasts critical twin Android bugs in new Marshmallow OS

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T-Mobile to update 13 non-Nexus phones to Android M

Some will be updated eventually...

https://support.t-mobile.com/community/phones-tablets-devices/software-updates#tmoSUPDocTitle

Top cops demand access to the UK's entire web browsing history

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Re: Knights in rusty armour

You betcha: http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.aspx

TalkTalk plays 'no legal obligation' card on encryption – fails to think of the children (read: its customers)

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Boy, 15, arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with TalkTalk hack

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34643783

"Shares in the telecoms company fell more than 12% in Monday trading, extending its losses from last week, when news of the attack first emerged."

'Get a VPN to defeat metadata retention' is good advice. Sometimes

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Re: VPN provider trustworthiness?

At least one VPN allows you to buy service with gift cards from retailers paid with cash... [one of the top 5]

Youths represent UK at first European Cyber Security Challenge

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Hangouts?

Must have patched Stagefright all by themselves, then...

EU Digital Commish: Ja, we should have done more about NSA spying

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Re: They still don't get it.

But clause had such a nice *legal* ring to it...

Sierra Nevada snow hasn't been this bad since 1500AD

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Comment Bait

Title says all....

Now India probes Google, threatens $1bn fine over 'biased' search

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Re: And just why the heck should a company advertise the competition !!???

Non-paid results should get the same weight as sponsored or Google product's, unless noted by "sponsored" or "paid", based on a "fair" algorithm. They should be able to demonstrate that easily without giving away the keys to the kingdom...

FBI dumps on IoT security

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You're seeing a DDOS from where??? .... Well, while you're in there could you grab me a beer?

Look! Up in the sky! It's letters on a plane read with a 250MP camera

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Re: Do you think that if I asked them nicely

Certainly the astronomers are already drooling...

Cell-network content crunch needs new cache designs, say boffins

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Re: I study real mobile traffic in great detail in my day job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies, used by content providers, not ISPs...

Seagate births 8TB triplets and a 2TB mobile nipper

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Cushion of gas

IIRC, the heads ride on a cushion of gas; in a vacuum the heads would crash...

Yet another Android app security bug: This time 'everything is affected'

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Re: It's a Cluster F**K !

Absof**kinglutely!

Tape thrives at the margin as shipped capacity breaks record

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1c/Gb x 1000 Gb/Tb = 1000c/Tb = $10/Tb, not $100/Tb

Donald Trump dumps on Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg

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Re: Good for Trump

Have you never heard of it happening??? I worked in IT for 35 years, and in the last 20, it happened with increasing frequency. For example: http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-06-05/senator-calls-probe-after-disney-fires-american-workers-uses-h-1b-visas-fly

Google burnishes Chrome to patch over 43 bugs

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Chrome OS

Beta channel of ChromeOS has Chrome at 45.0.2454.26.

Want longer battery life? Avoid the New York Times and The Grauniad

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NYT Cost

Thank goodness NYT costs $195/annum! I used to read it every day...