Posts by Frank Bitterlich162 posts • joined Friday 9th November 2007 13:38 GMT
Westworld? No, rather Eureka! A town full of boffins testing the newest gadgets... Where can I apply?
... can you please stop trying to get an "all access" pass to our data?
ACTA, SOPA, PIPA, RIPA, CISPA... can you *please* stop it, now?
Thanks,
Your People
Giersch tried to register a trademark for "GMAIL" in Germany in July 2005; in October 2005 Google filed a protest citing "Identity of marks and G&S Likelihood of confusion Earlier sign & right to prohibit use of later TM under national law Earlier non registered TM & right to prohibit use of later TM under national law". He later withdrew the TM application.
I suspect that was the basis on which he lost the domain, as it would show that he knew about the existence of Google's trademark.
<yourname>@gmail.com (and, hopefully soon, @gmail.de) is a valid Google mail address (resolves to the same account as the corresponding @googlemail.com address).
Proven wrong :)
... Eugene, OR, then?
"Western colonialist media wannabes" - you can't make that stuff up.
"... wrapped up by saying that the children get lots of money for their Holy Communion and should consider giving some of it to the church."
Sure, p0rn site subscriptions are expensive these days...
... and looking like some cheap Chinese knock-off Mac mini clone.
And the website looks like a flashback to the 1980s. Was half expecting the "Best viewed with Netscape Navigator and at least 256 colors" badge.
I hope that post was meant to be sarcastic.
On 2.4G use channel 13 if you can as it takes the WIFI off the Radar for older hardware.
Sure, as the bad guys are known to go wardriving using ten-year old laptops.
Add spaces to the key (I believe this extends time to dictionary brute force but is easy to remember).
If you have a key so simple that a space adds to the entrophy, better leave your network open. OTOH, if you see a van parking in front of your house and hear hysterical laughter coming from it, you know your network has just been pwned.
... maybe slapping your hardware a little less would help...
I like that idea. I'll ask the next candidate I have to interview for their Facebook creds. If they hand it over, the interview is over.
Because next time they're asked by someone else, they'll probably hand over the creds to their account on _my_ server.
I strongly second that. Their Java GUI is a mess, unreliable, and, well, it uses Java. In short: I hate it.
... tell you which drive is "possible" and which is not. As in "the GPS insisted the drive was possible".
That's what the extra warning message says that you have to confirm each and every time you start up that thing. Which was invented due to such idiots.
As a SatNav maker I would sue them for such idiotic statements.
... can you report a mobile phone stolen without identifying yourself to the police properly? I mean, "name, telephone number, and other pesonal information" probably wouldn't cut it here in Germany. If you're not showing your ID card, passport or other solid identification, that wouldn't work.
And it's illegal, too (well, maybe not yet, but probably soon.)
OTOH, what better way is there to teach kids about IP than to rip them off like this? "What, your parents have a copy of this pinned on the fridge? I'm calling the police right away..."
"I'll be saying, over and over again in my car, 'Call the Lark Creek Steak House,' and I can't get it done." Wonder how many times a week he's trying to call that Steak House :)
Those who sent out that email are as clueless as those who wrote the response. Might be the same person(s).
What made me really laugh: "... before deciding what action, if any, needs to be taken ..."
"if any"? Really? How about, umm, teaching your staff on how email works, what data protection means, how they DID disclose confidential and sensitive data, that they HAVE to inform the ICO, and why the data they handle is especially sensitive...? Just for starters?
I had a car (a Ford Taunus, incidentally) in the '80s that needed a kick to open its hatch too. Although I wouldn't call it a "guesture" as a certain amount of force was required for this to work...
... so you want permission to snoop around in my stuff, you're just not actually doing it.
███████ TRUST ███ ██████ US ██████, ALL ███ ███ IS ██████ WELL. ██████ WE'RE ███ ██████ NOT █████████ EVIL. YOUR █████████ FACEBOOK
... to the Passenger Name Records scheme. Put in a few interesting keywords (WikiLeaks, EFF, TOR) and enjoy an extra screening upon your next entry to the U.S. at no extra cost! Plus, you will get another 1 Gig free storage space on the DHS' servers!
So if "[engaging] in conduct whether in pursuit of his profession or otherwise which is ... likely to diminish public confidence in the legal profession" is prohibited, I expect about 99.9 % of the members of that profession to step down and find themselves other jobs.
Thanks for clearing that up.
... as the price would then be £9379.15. Sounds about right for a midrange laptop.
... that the Lego version has more RAM that the original one.
Wake me again when he makes the thing *work* (shouldn't be too difficult with half of the Lego parts available being electronic components these days.)
Can I get a Playmobil reenactment of the building process, please?
... of the Department for the Bleeding Obvious, that "US Department of Environmental Health and Microsoft", right?
... a model for the latest Katy Perry CD. Do they have Blurays, too?
"We want to help [...] aesthetically improve everything we see hear, touch, taste and feel."
So he's ending his carreer in music, then?
"One benefit of refresh is, according to Lee, that you don't have to back up your machine first."
Yeah right. How stupid do you have to be to try such a stunt without a proper, up-to-date backup...?
... "get “express consent” before altering users’ privacy preferences; must prevent access to deleted account material after 30 days; will agree to establish and maintain a privacy program; and will submit to a bi-annual privacy review for the next 20 years."
In other words, they must now do what the law requires anyway.
I'm glad that the FTC is watching over consumers' interests.
"Anti-virus software protected the systems but..."
No. It didn't. Otherwise there would be no "but".
Replace with: "We tried to protect our systems, but we have no clue about all this security stuff."
"we will refund all of them over the next few business days. You do not need to file any disputes or chargebacks with PayPal or your bank".
No need to chargeback. Trust us. We will pay back all your money, in a few days. Four weeks max. Wait a second, I've got a call on the other line - it's my travel agent...
... where banks are smart, helpful, and on the side of the fraud victim.
"At which point the bank looks at the transactions with the customer, identifies the fraudulent merchant and claws back what money they can, as well as reporting the fraudster to the police. Punters who've been ripped off are easily identified and most will have their £15 refunded before they even notice it's gone."
Sure. I'll believe that right away.
"[...] to help them secure their products." Is that the new "full diclosure" procedure - you upload an app, sell it for weeks, make a large number of devices vulnerable to the very flaw you're trying to "help" the vendor with...?
This guy might be taking the "black hat" motive a step too far.
I hope he gets sued by actual users of his trojan, too.
So *that* is what they built the CERN accelerator for... it all makes sense now.
Facebookian: "Facebook does not track users across the web. Instead, we use cookies ... to personalise content , ... Measure click-through rate, ...Keeping underage kids from trying to signup with a different age".
English: "We don't track you. We just record, measure, analyze and store what you do."
... "proliferate information weapons" mean? Telling people the truth? Yeah, we can't let *that* happen, I agree with China.
"[These states] are seeking to go beyond legitimate interference or disagree with us about what constitutes ‘legitimate’ behaviour,"
Well, surprise. _Most_ people (in the UK and elsewhere) disagree with your view on which (and how much) interference is legitimate. Just not in the way you might think.
Question is: Will that affect only the government, or will the MPs go to jail as well? How about various law enforcement agencies which are "blagging" most private data all the time, on varying and often dubios legal grounds... The jails might get very crowded very quickly.
That was my first thought too. Why you got a downvote for that is beyond me...
Now I can run a kitchen blender in my car!
That's been long overdue...
>> The one with the pack of AAA cells in the pocket, please...
Plex scores a solid 10 on my "coolest software" scale.
I run my TV at home on EyeTV (for DVB-T and -S) and Plex (for all other media) - feeding it from an old iMac.
This is the mother of all home media systems. And for free (the Plex part at least).
... until the "Generally, unlike other major internet companies, we have no interest in tracking people" bit.
Thanks for the laugh...
SASSA = "Self-awareness ..."
"Thermostellar Bomb #20 to Sgt. Pinback: You are false data. Therefore I shall ignore you."
... according to the State of NC: "Thou shalt not kill (except when it would be convenient for you)."
After all, *this* guy isn't going to sue the state for miscarriage of justice any more. Case closed.
Fail -> Massive Fail -> Diginotar.
Yesterday, the site of Diginotar had a new cert from guess who....: Comodo. I almost fell from my chair laughing.
Today, they are redirecting from https to http.
These guys seriously don't get it.
Putting your documents into the cloud was advertised as the solution to your local machine crapping out, so that you can continue to work with your docs.
So, to prevent problems when your machine gives up the ghost (80% of the time due to problems with the OS), you upload your documents to a service made by the same people whose software messed up your machine. And the you lose access to them, again, because they messed up their own service, too.
What a surprise.
Any evidence yet? Can't somebody with w WinPhone7 device verify this (I think it should be easy if it does this "everytime you start the camera app")....?
Or is this another case of "HELP - MY PHONE IS SPYING ON ME" because it inserts coords into the Exif data of your pics?
Come on, El Reg, a bit more details, please...?
" I mean, if you swipe the screen and get a splinter, you have to know something's up."
That's the best one so far IMO.
... for all CA companies who refuse to disclose the full details of any breach.
Everyone and their dog are removing the DigiNotar certs now, causing SSL sites of all their customers to trigger a "potentially insecure" warning. And I hope they get sued for that by their customers.
I have punted the DigiNotar cert, just as I did with Comodo, and I don't hesitate to do this to all root-level certs of all companies who are less than completely open about all breaches. And when I get a SSL warning because of that, I stop using the site/service that uses it, and make sure that let the owner know.
Vote with your feet, people.
