Re: "And who owns Openreach?"
To save some clicks : "Openreach is a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecommunications plc."
Posts by Anonymous Cowtard
46 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Sep 2017
BT 'welcomes' whopping £2bn investment by French telco Altice
Shopping online for Xmas? AI chatbots know whether you want to be naughty or nice
Remember when the keyboard was the computer? You can now relive those heady days with the Raspberry Pi 400
Open-source devs drown in DigitalOcean's latest tsunami of pull-request spam that is Hacktoberfest
Built to last: Time to dispose of the disposable, unrepairable brick
Social media notifications of the future: Ranger tagged you in a photo with Tessadora, Wrenlow, Faelina and Graylen
Oracle leaves its heart in San Francisco – or it would do if, you know, Oracle had a heart
Like a BAT outta hell, Brave browser hits 1.0 with crypto-coin rewards for your fave websites
Twitter: No, really, we're very sorry we sold your security info for a boatload of cash
NASA Administrator upends the scorn bucket on Elon Musk's Starship spurtings
Bulgarian phishing gang member who lived with his parents jailed for part in £40m fraud ring
Friday 20th September 2019 23:37 GMT
Re: should have been prosecuted in Bulgaria
Mr.Donchev targeted UK victims from his home in Bulgaria.
Why should Bulgarian taxpayers fund legal action on crime which doesn't affect them?
I feel that taxes I pay could be used to take legal action against those in other countries who may target me.
Scotiabank slammed for 'muppet-grade security' after internal source code and credentials spill onto open internet
Not very Suprema: Biometric access biz bares 27 million records and plaintext admin creds
I got 502 problems, and Cloudflare sure is one: Outage interrupts your El Reg-reading pleasure for almost half an hour
After years of listening, we've heard not a single peep out of any aliens, say boffins. You think you can do better? OK, here's 1PB of signals
Apple kills iTunes, preps pricey Mac Pro, gives iPad its own OS – plus: That $999 monitor stand
Tuesday 4th June 2019 11:38 GMT
Re: "because according to this article’s author, you’re an idiot too."
I'm not denying I'm an idiot but that isn't due to my daily use of a 12 year old iMac which was given to me in lieu of services rendered, replacing a 9 year old self-assembled PC. My work laptops are a Puri.sm Librem and a Thinkpad.
Life is too good to be wasting money on the latest tech just because it's shiny and new. A great majority of people buying this kit won't be doing so because they've diligently calculated an ROI. I have in my family 3 Apple devotees, 2 own >£1k iPhones which are likely to be replaced in 2 years. I personally could not justify such an outlay and I think they are both idiots for paying out so much for a web browsing / navigation / social media/ telephony device. But hey, I guess we're all free to be idiots in our own way, and I applaud The Register for insulting anybody they wish.
Tuesday 4th June 2019 10:43 GMT
Re: "Cupertino idiot tax"
I'll come back out of my box, I posted that comment.
I'm not arguing about any ROI considerations or anybody's freedom to choose Apple gear.
What I'm talking about is your choice to read or to not read an article on a site which is absolutely devoted to irreverence towards tech giants. When I read an article on El Reg about Apple's new hardware I would expect flippant references to their very wide profit margins. If the phrase "Cupertino idiot tax" didn't appear I would feel cheated. The same is true of other manufacturers and software giants, you'll find many El Reg short phrases regarding their shortcomings whether perceived or real, historic or recent.
We all have our allegiances/preferences/biases towards certain gear providers, it's pointless reading The Register if you're going to be offended by an article bashing something you hold dear.
Sent from my 2007 iMac, maxxed out running Debian happily.
And in this week's weird news, Feds seize dark-web news site, accuse admins of getting rich off drug cyber-souk
Wednesday 8th May 2019 11:43 GMT
I can´t disagree with you about the Team America comment but I can contribute to a discussion of the general issue.
Deepdotweb was the leading reliable source of Dark Net Market (DNM) URLs. TOR .onion addresses are mostly not human-memorable. In the cut-throat world of DNMs genuine sites may need to change URLs often, almost daily, due to DDOS by rivals or disgruntled parties. A search on a darknet search engine would yield many results with similar URLs pointing to cloned sites with the ability to relieve the unwary of their bitcoin. So Deepdotweb was a crucial part of the DNM infrastructure, clearly there were strong links between it and DNM operators. DNMs are very very popular in the US.
I would guess that US GOV has some kind of influence over Misteret Yisra'el in such matters.
Brit Watchkeeper drone fell in the sea because blocked sensor made algorithms flip out
One click and you're out: UK makes it an offence to view terrorist propaganda even once
Q. What's a good thing to put outside a building of spies? A: A banner saying 'here we are!'
UK spy overseer: Snooper's Charter cockups are still getting innocents arrested
Are you aware of the gravity of the situation on Mars? Why yes, say boffins: We rejigged Curiosity to measure it
The lighter side of HMRC: We want your money, but we also want to make you laugh
Tuesday 22nd January 2019 09:59 GMT
Re: pay-your--mortgage-for-you benefit (do you still get that as well, it used to exist
Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) used to pay the interest on a mortgage, capital repayment was the responsibility of the homeowner.
SMI was changed to a loan last year : https://www.moneywise.co.uk/news/2018-04-26/dwp-admits-42000-claimants-have-had-mortgage-help-stopped
Crystal ball gazers declare that Windows 10 has finally overtaken Windows 7
It's the end of 2018, and this is your year in security
Friday 28th December 2018 09:13 GMT
Re: A Question for Mullers and Mullahs Alike re Future Years in Play
To amanfromMars 1 : why do you use so many capitalisations? It makes your posts appear to be written by a conspiracy theory idiot, clearly you are not an idiot. I feel most of your downvotes come from the needless capitalisations, personally I see the first sentence then skip to the next comment.
Peak tech! Bacon vending machine signals apex of human invention
Why millions of Brits' mobile phones were knackered on Thursday: An expired Ericsson software certificate
Can't read my, can't read my... broker face: Premium Credit back online a week after cyber attack
For all the excitement, Pie may be Android's most minimal makeover yet – thankfully
How hack on 10,000 WordPress sites was used to launch an epic malvertising campaign
Tuesday 31st July 2018 12:01 GMT
" at least 40,000 clicks on malicious adverts"
Who clicks on adverts? Has anybody here ever clicked an ad? Does anybody know somebody who has clicked on an ad?
I've accidentally clicked on ads twice. A casual survey of friends and family shows a similar pattern. Those 40,000 clicks can't all be accidental.
Airbus windscreen fell out at 32,000 feet
British Crackas With Attitude chief gets two years in the cooler for CIA spymaster hack
Software gremlin robs Formula 1 world champ of season's first win
What a mesh: BT Whole Home Wi-Fi users moan over update
Monday 26th March 2018 14:19 GMT
"Mine fails to even notice some devices on the network. They can use the network but don't show up in any admin screens as being on the network."
Connected devices using static IP's don't show up in any admin screens on my HH5, DHCP devices can be seen. I can't figure out why the manufacturers would think this is a good thing.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
