* Posts by Baldy50

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

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Road safety APP

Don't know where to put this and not worth a new topic.

Searched through forums to find a suitable thread and found none so here will have to do and I think a good idea.

ver watched the dash cam footage on YT?

http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/08/18/new-israeli-road-safety-app-allows-drivers-to-snitch-on-traffic-law-violaters/

US extradition of Silk Road suspect OK'd by Irish judge

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OJ, Need I say more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Yes the US justice system is not perfect by any means and has made errors, at least in the US if you can prove your innocence you'll walk free.

So what would you say about being extradited to Russia or China, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea and many more far worse than the US? I know any of these would be a more frightening place to be tried.

Not going on a rant cos 'Americans desperatly need to be liberated.' Learn to proof read or spell please AC cos your thick?

Ad-blocking ‘plateaus’, claims hopeful ad industry

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Re: the production of decent content costs money

Me too!

Had to disable Privacy Badger for this site to run properly.

Cops break up German sausage fight between pair of Neubrandenburgers

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Now if it were leberkase or a Styrofoam tray of bratkartoffeln there would have been no damage apart from a greasy smear. Choose your food weapon carefully. Nearly broke a tooth on one of those metal bloody clips once, could have choked!

Good job it wasn't Switzerland, they’re nearly always packing!

Never understood whilst living there, Ze Germans (in the voice of Jason Stathom) trying to get on a crowded zug before anyone had a chance to get off and just slowed the whole process down, made a bit of a mockery of the trains always being on time IMO.

The concept of queuing, no!!! Not even going to go there!

ich liebe dich, Mein Bester Feind.

Glühwein, Awesome! Andechs Monastery also awesome too.

Farewell Patch Tuesday fragmentation: from October, MS will roll just one monthly patch

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The only problems I’ve had so far with W10, install or updates have been on laptops not PC's so you might get a problem on your lappy that you wouldn't necessarily get on your main machine.

W7 not much better on some fresh installs on laptops, hunting around for missing drivers.

Christians Against Poverty pleads for forgiveness over data breach

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I've never used one, but...

Maybe we have to change the way we do business and by that I mean buy stuff.

I've noticed many times people on here use the term 'pre paid card', maybe that's the way forward!

Plan your purchases as you would normally do but over a secure system transfer just enough to buy what you want and no more and use that throw away card with no links to you.

This approach would curtail the debit/credit card scammers. Scumbags!

Google's brand new OS could replace Android

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Fuchsia

Well l hope the coding is as pretty as the flower. Lightweight, secure and usable to the open source platform.

Very easy to take cuttings from!

MoD flings £800m at Dragons' Den miltech startup wheeze as post-Brexit costs bite

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Better spent on?

Essential equipment like boots that fit, body amour and better armoured vehicles.

Baffled Scots cops call in priest to deal with unruly spirits

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Ray Parker Jr.

Who ya gonna call?

'local teenagers hanging around singing the Ghostbusters theme.' Well what did they expect?

'Daddy, what's a Blu-ray disc?'

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Re: quality..

The best, easiest and cheapest way I improved a good system was to hang some Moroccan rugs on the walls, they were aesthetically pleasing BTW.

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Re: quality..

Would still use copper for the current carrying conductors inside as Titanium is a very poor conductor of electricity, so just a pretty costly covering.

Russian sports doping whistleblower fears for safety after hack

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Hacked!

She was cleared by IAAF to compete in the Rio games under a neutral flag.

Seems like (WADA) are a bit on the dopey side with regards to security since only her account seems to have been hacked.

I can understand they might need her details but considering she and her family are in hiding, surely they would treat her info more carefully since effectively a witness to doping and Russian state authorities complicity, so Putin is just going to give her a big hug for exposing cheating.

Bees bring down US stealth fighter

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628dirtrooster

I'm glad they relocated the swarm, you can see how it's done by this American enthusiast bee keeper and on one occasion three swarms in one go out of trees.

By using queens that he takes with him they even after getting knocked from quite a height they just get into the boxes the queen is in.

Says it all.

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Says it all.

Mooching through old browser backups and found this one I'd forgot about. LMAO!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft

DIY bank account raiding trojan kit touted in dark web dive bars

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So if can be purchased and studied, why isn't someone like the producers of Flame, Stuxnet and govs getting on the band wagon and produce their own exploits with credible claims of the ability to compromise systems, steal data, passwords, compromise EPOS and banking systems etc?

Put their own malware nasty with a cryptic name on the same sites these turds use and when one of these crooks purchases it and deploys it the only thing it does is compromise their system and reports back who and where he or she is, make dozens of them use similar names to exploits that are already in use.

Get paid by the bad guys as a bonus!

Post-Silk Road, Feds bust chaps for 'dealing heroin, coke' on world's largest dark web souk

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Are you pronouncing it 'Oh-REH-gah-no' or 'ore-ggano'? just curious!

Adblock Plus blocks Facebook's ad-blocker buster: It's a block party!

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Re: The 'We thought you might like' conundrum

Could be worse!!!!! Just saying.

Russia tells Google to cough up some loose change in Android monopoly probe

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Dicktator!

'Russia's Open Mobile Platform got government support in its efforts to build a locally developed smartphone operating system', full of back doors and spyware I'll wager!

Cash cow mentality and jumping on the band wagon of other similar law suits

Going the same way as China.

Should tell Putin to 'kooshite govno ee oomeeite', if all there search results from EU/US search engines gave a 404 they'd soon change their tune.

So you folks don't have to look it up 'Eat shit and die'.

There, saved you about 20 seconds up vote?

Imperva under pressure to find buyer after disappointing results

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No company is impervaous to market forces.

Nobody expects... a surprise haemorrhoid operation

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The backpacker spoke neither German nor English!

Nobody in Germany speaks Chinese or any of those services involved even tried an interpretor to ascertain this poor blokes status?

Go to nearest Chinese embassy!

NASA dumps $65m into building deep space hutches for humans

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Re: 'All The Mod Cons'

Come on we trying to be more green for pities sake, think of the extra fuel costs and the delivery charges and you might look good with an extra head.

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Nice idea

We aren’t technologically advanced enough yet, I wish we were but although a lot can be learned from space exploration I think the machines have the upper hand for now.

The ISS is great and cost a big bucket of dough, maybe the extra funding should be spent on the ISS IMO.

BTW Will this one be pod shaped as well cos round just don't work with any of my furniture?

Brexit Britain: HP Sauce vs BBC.co.uk – choices that defined voters

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Well for me....

Driving past some of the places where the HGV's park up late at night or early morning and sometimes slowing down looking at the reg plates and everyone is foreign.

Fit extra fuel tanks so no need to pay for fuel in the UK and support our economy to redress in part the transport jobs you’ve taken.

Bring a stash of your fav food from your own country so no need for a bacon butty and spending some cash here.

Drive like f ing morons a lot of the time and don't pay any road tax too, that's a big one for me.

The amount of money that's gone into EU countries road infrastructure etc from the EU parliament is about 20 billion in ten years and the owners of vehicles over there pay a sort of road tax to their respective govs like we do!

I'd like this addressed and improve the lot for our haulage companies.

Hitler ‘ransomware’ offers to sell you back access to your files – but just deletes them

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That's what I was thinking but if the person infected with this nasty doesn't know how to even DL an ISO and burn it so as to boot from it to make a repair, they'll just re start the machine and lose all.

Maybe it's time basic malware detection and removal was taught in schools and colleges along with other IT skills as a essential, necessary prerequisite to growing up in an seedy online world from as soon as they're able.

With the clean up software easily available from say Bleeping computer and Windows BBS, lessons reading and understanding the virus and malware removal logs and trying the necessary software out that deals with these infections could create a far more robust user base.

While we wait for the software companies and legal authorities to get their act together, so maybe by 2099 we'd be sorted.

I know what your going to say and yes a lot of students would not have the mindset to do this sort of thing but possibly would spot an infection before too much harm was done and might know someone that could help them, perhaps a nerdy friend who was in the same class.

Yes I still use trig so as I thought at the time along with a load of other stuff not useful to me, this would be used all the time I'm sure, spotting the signs is big chunk of the problem and where to go for the tools you'll need and how to sort it, might get a few more youngsters involved in IT.

Thailand plans to track non-citizens with their mobile phones

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The DPRK now allows foreigners to use mobiles in their country with restrictions.

http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2016/06/dhs-readies-biometric-id-contract-track-foreigners-who-stay-too-long/129313/

But who's to say this couldn't be used to track all of the time as well? Well done US gov, sneaky and more data sharing too!

Shit they'd be able to see which brothels you prefer.

Italian MP threatens parents forcing veggie diets on kids with jail

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Certainly a lot of fast or highly processed food could be considered to be as equally unhealthy especially for the young but for different reasons.

Do I think people should be punished for this, a resounding NO!

Not likely to catch Bovine spongiform encephalopathy either are the vegies.

When you've seen a young overweight mum go out get a Mc dogshite meal for an already chubby two year old for the first meal of the day, I honestly felt like a slap was in order but she was a lot bigger than me.

Anyone ever watched FOD Foreign object damage, A series of gory documentaries?

The 'Religious' way of killing the animal is shown on livestock and the way chickens and rabbits are processed for the food industry.

The game the men slaughtering the rabbits played was just totally wrong, seeing how many skins you could throw at the wall and get them to stick.

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Only during the Tennis season!

UK local govt body blasts misleading broadband speed ads

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2 Mb!

I'm on a DSL line and would give my back teeth and first born for 2 Mb compared to the shitty speed here and not in the backwoods in any way shape or form, BT's name should be changed to Bloody Terrible.

Seagate flashes 60TB (yes, sixty) SSD monster

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Re: Hard Card?

Me too!

The speed difference with one was amazing compared to floppies.

Big Red alert: Oracle's MICROS payment terminal biz hacked

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Oracle

Think they need a few working/advising them.

Windows 10 Anniversary Update crashing under Avast antivirus update

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Re: Avast AV-

Norton bloody AV regarded a Vista (Spits on floor again) update on a machine of mine to be malicious and deleted it rendering the machine unable to boot and an MBR/system file repair required.

So no surprise really!

US.gov to open-source made-to-order software, allow contributions

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Good!

Someone has pointed out that this gives a far greater deal of transparency to any bespoke programs they commission and use?

Hey I'm all for it, can be checked for exploits and buggy coding, unlike the software used for the recent Australian election.

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2016/06/14/buggy_votecounting_software_borks_election/#c_2892954

15 million tech-fried Brits have tried giving themselves a 'digital detox'

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Re: I ... actually think there should be a mandatory unplug period for everyone.

Well he was plugged!

http://wsvn.com/news/us-world/young-man-killed-while-playing-pokemon-at-tourist-attraction/

Breaking 350 million: What's next for Windows 10?

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Re: Windows 10 a hopeless muddle

But if you sell the machine a few years later with a working supported Windows installation after removing Grub and whichever Linux distro you've opted for it will sell quicker, easier and be worth more than a machine purchased from some company who sells bare machines with no OS.

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Re: Windows 10 did especially well

I thought they skipped the number nine because the Japanese don't like the way Nine sounds cos it's similar to their word for torture or suffering.

Your 'intimate personal massager' – cough – is spying on you

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Please tell me the device in question belongs to Tarah Wheeler.

Of all the revelations coming out of Def con, ATM, vehicle exploits etc, thank you El Reg for finding this one.

Backed hacker's packed slack crack hacked, penetration testing to follow?

It's U shaped? Oh I get it, I had to think on that for a minute.

US Politicians tell DEF CON it'll take Congress ages to sort out how to regulate crypto

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Trust!

We don't trust them and that's the problem and why on earth should we given their behaviour to date?

Fight them at every turn.

Just look all at the times they've gagged people/organisations from telling the horrible truth about their indiscretions, crimes, suppressed and pressured the press to save their asses from public ridicule and worse.

From a Brit point of view, Cyril Smith and Jimmy Saville springs to mind.

Render crashing PCs back to their component silicon: They deserve it

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Man after my own heart

Priceless! That's all.

BBC detector vans are back to spy on your home Wi-Fi – if you can believe it

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So!

The cost is tiny (less than £3 per week) for the whole family, and that includes radio, the Internet and the iPlayer etc.

But you choose whether to buy a Sky or Virgin package or whatever but have no choice with the TV license and has been debated many times if it should be like all the other media companies out there, made to stand on it's own two feet without forcing through law that people pay even if they never use any of it's services.

Apart from the excellent sport and news coverage I wouldn't watch most of the shite it has to offer for the price.

So about 27,000000 households in the UK and if all of them are paying the license fee that would be £145 x 27000000 = £3915000000 they aren't obviously and the BBc's budget is about 2.4 Billion ish.

I agree some important documentaries and programs may never have been produced without the BBC but the cost is huge to the consumer and with very little choice and if your paying you should have choice.

They show plenty of old shit but not 'In sickness and health'! Do they? Well later on dads army's repeated again, it's funny but I'd like a bit of Alf for a change. Watch out the PC brigade's about!

In keeping with the IT mood remember this cock up?

http://metro.co.uk/2016/05/09/its-10-years-since-a-man-was-interviewed-on-bbc-by-mistake-5871153/

Just how much better could they do with regards to investment in new programs if they weren't paying such ridiculous salaries to the 'stars' Graham Norton FFS?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/20/bbc-presenters-angry-as-top-actors-avoid-salary-disclosure/

Research it for yourselves the pay some of the BBC exec's get paid!

Throw them to the wolves and see if they survive is what I'm thinking.

Windows 10: Happy with Anniversary Update?

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Re: Use a firewall to block Cortana

They'll probably be a lot more of this type of software available in the future.

http://www.winprivacy.de/english-home/

How many zero-day vulns is Uncle Sam sitting on? Not as many as you think, apparently

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Snapping up cheap spy tools, nations 'monitoring everyone'

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f799cfd080b04b93a34df61fc007b096/snapping-cheap-spy-tools-nations-monitoring-everyone

Microsoft: You liked Windows 10 so much, you'll get 2 more in 2017

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Re: Steaming pile of

Would this word do?

Floccinaucinihilipilification.

YouTube now 97% secure

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Re: Website on https/SSL <> "secure"

New database of surveillance tech industry.

https://sii.transparencytoolkit.org/

Norks hacks 90 Southern officials, journalists

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After the attack in 2014 the DPRK found itself off the WWW a couple of times for many hours and blamed the US for this outage.

Since you need to have government permission for Internet access most people don't, only a very small percentage of their population do.

So if the general public can't find out what's going on in the world I say shut them down if it's no use to the masses what use is it but to allow gov, sanctioned attacks and misinformation to be spread, you'll still have to deal with sympathetic offshore groups hacking of course.

Pull the plug along with the rest of the sanctions!

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