Some time ago I disabled my wp-recaptcha plugin because it had the unfortunate side effect of marking all comments as spam. I don’t have a particularly high comment rate, but the ones I do get, and which get past akismet, are usually OK. Apparently a flaw in version 2.9.6 surfaced when wp-recaptcha was used in …
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the latest from El Reg
- Dish Networks locks horns with broadcasters over ad skipping 2012/05/19
- SpaceX Dragon chokes at the last second 2012/05/19
- Ten... Qwerty mobiles 2012/05/19
- Microsoft to devs: Don't ruin Win 8 launch with crap code 2012/05/18
- Apache OpenOffice security fixes emerge 2012/05/18
- Facebook jumps then slumps in first few minutes day's trade 2012/05/18
- What's on the cards at EMC's casino royale next week? 2012/05/18
- Call of Duty hacker jailed after meatspace burglary 2012/05/18
- Next UK gov CloudStore lumbers online 2012/05/18
- Does Britain really need a space port? 2012/05/18
- HP pumps cash into EVA range capacity boost 2012/05/18
- RIM-Moto sketch THIRD nanoSIM design as peace offering 2012/05/18
- Ethernet sales slump punches Brocade in the wallet 2012/05/18
- ICO on new Cookie Law: 'Don't expect torrent of enforcement action' 2012/05/18
- UK.gov: ICT in schools ain't dead, it's just resting 2012/05/18
- UK prosecutions for hacking appear to be be dropping 2012/05/18
Tag Archive: google
Jul 04 2010
scroogle is having a problem
I posted a note about scroogle back in January. Scroogle offered an SSL interface to the google engine, and, moreover, didn’t lumber its users with google cookies and sundry other irritations. Since then, however, google themselves have started to offer an SSL interface and, coincidentally, scroogle seem to have started to have some problems. If …
Jan 10 2010
are you /really/ sure you want that mobile phone
The launch of the google nexus one “iPhone killer” reminds me just how prescient Dr Fun’s cartoon of 16 January 2006 (see third cartoon down from the top on the right) really was. I just love the way the google employee in the video says at the end that Verizon and Vodafone have “agreed to …
Jan 02 2010
using scroogle
For completeness, my post below should have pointed to the scroogle search engine which purportedly allows you to search google without google being able to profile you. Neat idea if you must use google (why?) but it still fails the Hal Roberts test of what to do if the intermediate search engine is prepared to …
Dec 12 2009
colossally boneheaded
David Adams over at OS News has posted an interesting commentary on Eric Schmidt’s recent outburst. Referring to Schmidt’s statement which I commented on below, Adams says “I think the portion of that statement that’s sparked the most outrage is the “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t …
Dec 07 2009
privacy is just for criminals
I’ve mentioned before that I value my privacy. I use tor, coupled with a range of other necessary but tedious approaches (such as refusing cookies, blocking ad servers, scrubbing my browser) to provide me with the degree of anonymity I consider my right in an increasingly public world. It is nobody’s business but mine if …
Nov 01 2009
a free (google) service is worth exactly what you pay for it
I note from a recent register posting that that some gmail users are objecting to the fact that google’s mail service has failed yet again. El Reg even quotes one disgruntled user as saying: “More than 30 hours without email…totally unacceptable. I’ll definitely have to reconsider my selection of gmail for my primary email account. …
Apr 06 2008
google oddness
A google search for “loadlin” produces a sponsored link for “Inflatable lilos”. Strangely no references to insects or food however.
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are you sure you want that mobile phone?
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