Re: Double trouble
You're saying that he couldn't find a better toupee than that?
Seriously?
Posts by unitron
520 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Oct 2007
Twitter's 280-char blog mode can be enabled client-side. Just sayin'
Apocalypse now: Ad biz cries foul over Apple's great AI cookie purge
NASA agent faces heat for 'degrading' moon rock sting during which grandmother wet herself
RIP Eugene Cernan: Last man on the Moon dies aged 82
Leap second scheduled for New Year's Eve 2016
PoisonTap fools your PC into thinking the whole internet lives in an rPi
Thursday 17th November 2016 13:28 GMT
If they can physically access the computer...
...in the first place...
But anyway, if the computer is already running and logged onto the LAN (via a fixed IP address), why would the sudden presence of this device on the USB bus cause it to get all promiscuous and have to have a DHCP address assigned from it?
There doesn't seem to be an icon suitable for my level of lack of knowledge and confusion on this topic.
Spinal Tap’s bass player sues former French sewer
Forget Khan and Klingons, Star Trek's greatest trick was simply surviving
Sprint learns that a 'rebate' includes paying people money
Friday 26th August 2016 06:42 GMT 
Not to say anything nice about them...
...but I assume they paid the rebates to those customers who did complete whatever the rebate claiming process was, and it could be they were unaware of that particular state law, or didn't think it applied.
After all, unclaimed property usually belongs to whoever failed to claim it, but in this case they might not have seen it as the customers' property, legally speaking, until and unless the customer did fulfill the requirements of claiming it.
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Star Trek Beyond: An unwatchable steaming pile of tribble dung
FCC starts running from cable box rip-off kill-off
Friday 1st July 2016 18:13 GMT
So the cable industry solution is....
If you're tired of having to pay extra to "de-crypt" the channels for which you are paying so that you can watch them on your television, the cable industry's solution is you can also pay for fast enough internet service to let you watch them on a smaller screen on some other device.
Raspberry Pi distributor Premier Farnell in £792m Swiss buyout deal
You won't believe this, but… nothing useful found on Farook iPhone
Are Indians too stupid to be trusted with free Internet?
BOFH: In-depth IT training needs a single-malt distillery
Saturday 30th January 2016 08:01 GMT 
Chip Quik FTW
Chip Quik has a bismuth alloy solder with a low melting point that you use, in conjunction with the supplied flux, to melt the solder holding down SMD chips so you can wick it up without scorching the board or lifting traces.
Comes in handy when an older (up through the first of the Series 3 models) TiVo needs a replacement motherboard but needs to keep the original TiVo Service Number which is contained on the Atmel crypto chip.
Sanders presidential campaign accuses Democrats of dirty data tricks
Linksys routers vulnerable through CGI scripts
600,000 cable modems have an easy to pop backdoor in a backdoor
Friday 27th November 2015 11:06 GMT
Arris is the name getting slapped on Motorola cable modems (and probably some other stuff, like set top boxes and such as well) these days.
Which doesn't really help unless someone specifies *which* models are at risk.
Sherlock, because I guess we have to do our own detective work to find out if we're in any danger or not.
So, was it really the Commies that caused the early 20th Century inequality collapse?
Want Edward Snowden pardoned? You're in the minority, say pollsters
BOFH: My diary is MINE and mine alone, you petty HR gimps
Help! Our Virgin Media TiVo boxes are stuck in a loop! Help! Our Virgin..
China's STILL holding up the full WD-HGST integration. Why?
Saturday 11th July 2015 03:29 GMT
It isn't about reducing (or not) competition, it's about reducing overhead for the merged entity that used to be separate companies WD and HGST.
If the cost of being in business is lower, they can better compete with Seagate on price.
(whether *anyone*--WD, Seagate, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Samsung, HGST--anyone, in all of this will actually be producing better drives is a separate issue)
Power your temperature sensor with this BONKERS router hack
Mass break-in: researchers catch 22 more routers for the SOHOpeless list
One USB plug to rule them all? That's sensible, but no...
Long, sticky summer ahead: Win 10 will be with OEMs by 31 August
Zuck can EFF off: Internet.org is SO NOT the INTERNET
Uncle Sam spanks PayPal for credit scheme cockup
Tuesday 19th May 2015 23:33 GMT
When I tried the "Bill Me Later" 'feature'...
...they had advertised it as pay 14 days after receipt of purchase. Instead they went ahead and hit the account linked to my PayPal account the same day the merchandise arrived.
But they didn't add on any fees or interest.
I decided not to spend several days trying to get through to an actual human being at PayPal by phone to discuss the matter.
Citizens denied chance to vote in local-government IT cockup
Friday 8th May 2015 04:39 GMT
Re: No representation without taxation
If you consider the roads themselves as publicly provided goods, then 10 people in 10 cars or 20 people in 20 cars is actually greater usage than 10 or 20 people on one bus, at least as far as road crowding is concerned and possibly road wear and tear as well.
LG monitor software quietly kills UAC, dev says
Streaming tears of laughter as Jay-Z (Tidal) waves goodbye to $56m
Tuesday 7th April 2015 15:37 GMT
Re: Here Here!
The cathode follower is a particular vacuum tube amplifier (or more accurately, amplification stage) configuration, but by no means the only possible vacuum tube configuration capable of amplification.
Blumlein, genius though he was, was born too late to have "invented electronics", something with which no one person can be solely credited anyway.
But as long as we're talking about genius electronics pioneers who aren't as well known about as they should be, allow me to mention the guy who got patent trolled by RCA and AT&T
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Howard_Armstrong
and to recommend a biography of him
Man of High Fidelity: Edwin Howard Armstrong
by Lawrence Lessing
The high fidelity part refers both to his stubborn adherence to his principles and to his having been responsible for wide band FM radio.
Attack of the Digital People: The BBC goes fully Bong
Windows XP's market share grows AGAIN!
Don't pay for the BBC? Then no Doctor Who for you, I'm afraid
Thursday 26th February 2015 15:59 GMT
Being in the US, I'm no expert on the BBC...
...but apparently it was decided sometime back that its broadcast services were a public good that benefit society as a whole, so why not just cover the cost of all that out of general revenues and scrap the idea, and the immense hassle and expense, of trying to keep track of which household has what kind of radio and video gear?
A truly SHOCKING tale of electrified PCs
The millionaire former playboy, Hugh Hefner, and a crucial fight over playboy.london
FCC Republicans slam brakes on net neutrality, but this wagon ain't slowing
Monday 23rd February 2015 19:32 GMT
Can't read all of story
Google had an ad that covered right hand side of 2nd and 3rd paragraphs--scrolling didn't help.
Clicked the X to close it, it offered the choice of reporting that the ad covered the page, and when I did that I got this
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covering the exact same area.
Aren't they smart enough to find white space?
Cannonbridge sells us a dummy – great premise, crap ending
Charlotte, NC thinks it has won the Google Fiber lottery
NSA gunning for Google, wants cop-spotting dropped from Waze app
Monday 26th January 2015 22:06 GMT
Re: strange...(Bias indeed, misinformed bias)
But if you're poor, your choice of where to live is much more limited, and not being a criminal and not associating with them won't protect you from having them live nearby, putting you at risk when they're shooting at each other, when they and the cops are shooting at each other, and when the cops do a no-knock raid in the wee small hours of the morning, only they got the address wrong by a number or two, and your child just had a smoke grenade explode in their face.
Windows XP beats 8.1 in December market share stats
BOFH: A miracle on PFY Street
Friday 26th December 2014 20:43 GMT 
Did the BOFH ever have an apprentice...?
...who was nicknamed Littlefinger?
There's something about the substitution of presents for no apparent reason other than to create unrest and chaos that seems so familiar.
Mine's the one with the pocket set aside and dedicated to carrying the paperback edition of Winds of Winter with me everywhere in the unlikely event I live that long.
Will tech titans SWALLOW upstart where Apple guru Steve Wozniak works?
Randall Munroe: The root nerd talks to The Register
Monday 1st December 2014 18:47 GMT
Re: Amazing body of work, remarkable bloke...
"He says every East facing shore will face a huge storm surge, but the preceding sentence mentions the waves traveling East to West."
Imagine a wave leaving England and headed for North America. It will be travelling from East to West, and when it gets here, it will hit the Atlantic coast, which "faces" East, if you define coasts as facing the water they abut.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
