User: Big Hairy Ian

Re:What Apple can do

On: Would You Buy the iPhone 8 If It Cost $1,200? (9to5mac.com)

"I'd like to see what Apple can do in a phone with a higher price."

Remove even more ports?

Adding more propriety bullshit?

Re:It's a Kihnspiracy!

On: Space Data Lawsuit Has Alphabet's Project Loon In Jeopardy (wired.com)

Project Loon's bubble has burst

Re:"What could possibly go wrong?"

On: NASA Is Going To Crash a Satellite Into an Asteroid (fortune.com)

This is why they are impacting an asteroid that is already orbiting another larger asteroid

1 They can park an orbiter to monitor the effects

2 The impactor will only make a slight change in it's existing asteroid centric orbit thus preventing any significant change in it's solar orbit.

Re:Ponderosa Puff

On: Linux Is Not As Safe As You Think (betanews.com)

Linux has always been vulnerable. If Linux for desktop ever takes off it will get PAWNED left right and center. At the moment though very few people are targeting it.

Re:Skills?

On: Amazon's Alexa Passes 15,000 skills, Up From 10,000 in February (techcrunch.com)

This guys quite talented https://www.google.co.uk/url?s...

Re:Let's do some research first

On: 'Call For a Ban On Child Sex Robots' (bbc.com)

Can you give a general outline of how to make such study that can demonstrate causality and get past ethics committee?

Take 2 groups of Paedophiles post release from prison give one group access to the robots and measure the re-offending rates in both groups.

Unfortunately

On: Data Glitch Sets Tech Company Stock Prices At $123.47 (theverge.com)

It's easily done if you haven't gone to great pains to isolate your test environment.

Re:Notice that the only Senators are Democrats

On: Forced Arbitration Isn't 'Forced' Because No One Has To Buy Service, Says AT&T (arstechnica.com)

At least the Ferengi have a code of conduct!

First...

On: US Lifts Laptop Restriction For Flights From Abu Dhabi (reuters.com)

BOOM!

Re:Doesn't belong here

On: Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com)

Old news, not for nerds, shit that doesn't matter.

Hey I want to know which book they shot!

Re:I've got a fond memory to share

On: 23 Years Of The Open Source 'FreeDOS' Project (linuxjournal.com)

The summary is going on about W3.1 not having a command line? WTF I remember W3 & W3.1 both having an MS-DOS Prompt option

Re:Good riddance

On: Facebook May Finally Have To Compromise Its User Experience In Order To Keep Growing (recode.net)

Remember to the Marketing People we are all just cattle waiting to be culled.

Re:They broke the back button

On: Opinion: Google Unleashes Terrible New Update For Google News Upon the Net

Also if you drill down into a section (e.g. UK News), click on an article then click back it takes you all the way back to Google News Home

Who Cares?

On: The iPhone Turns 10 (economist.com)

Que all the Applephiles & Apple Bashers

Re:No linux hacks?

On: WikiLeaks Dump Reveals CIA Malware For Tracking Windows Devices Via WiFi Networks (bleepingcomputer.com)

Wait for Wikileaks to publish how the CIA/NSA etc hack web servers there will be as lot of Linux Hacks there. However they are far more interested in tracking individuals which will largely mean Desktop & Mobile hacks

Re:Virtualization?

On: London Metropolitan Police's 18,000 Windows XP PCs Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen (mspoweruser.com)

The problem is that 4GB is right at the limit of what XP can use.

I'm pretty sure XP had a 64bit version which could address more than 4GB

Re:Act of war

On: Microsoft's Telemetry Shows Petya Infections in 65 Countries Around the World (microsoft.com)

Let's not bullshit or pretend that being "techie" makes it somehow better. Malware = terrorism. And yes, that swings both ways.

Actually Malware = Extortion in this instance

Re:Telemetry

On: Microsoft's Telemetry Shows Petya Infections in 65 Countries Around the World (microsoft.com)

I think the interesting thing here is even 15 year old unsupported M$ OSs are bleeding telemetry.

Re:Cyber specialists

On: Britain's Newest Warship Runs Windows XP, Raising Cyber Attack Fears (telegraph.co.uk)

Cyber priest?

I'm sure there are priests who cyber

BBC Report

On: Ukrainian Banks, Electricity Firm Hit by Fresh Cyber Attack; Reports Claim the Ransomware Is Quickly Spreading Across the World (vice.com)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...

Backup/Restore

On: Ukrainian Banks, Electricity Firm Hit by Fresh Cyber Attack; Reports Claim the Ransomware Is Quickly Spreading Across the World (vice.com)

Say no more

Re:Turn the power off

On: New Maglev Elevator Can Travel Horizontally, Vertically, and Diagonally (wired.co.uk)

I'd be more interested to see what happens when the Elevator gets hacked

Re:Missed opportunity

On: BBC Technical Glitch Leaves TV Presenter In Silence (theguardian.com)

I think the only missed opportunity here was for a "News @ 11" gag

Re:What would fix this?

On: Lawsuit Accuses Comcast of Cutting Competitor's Wires To Put It Out of Business (arstechnica.com)

Because when net neutrality is repealed they'll be able to do this without even leaving their desks and with much less of an evidence trail.

Re:Probably fine after net neutrality gets repeale

On: Lawsuit Accuses Comcast of Cutting Competitor's Wires To Put It Out of Business (arstechnica.com)

Yep now if only I had mod points