"When the sales start to tank expect something like this."
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Posts by Lotaresco
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Secret HPE letter tells sales team and partners to keep selling Arista 'confidently'
'Celebgate' nudes thief gets just nine months of porridge
Thursday 26th January 2017 17:08 GMT
"Well he's a bloke. If he was a woman he could have had a baby."
That's a defence that's even older than "I have a mental problem" known as Pleading the belly.
Trump lieutenants 'use private email' for govt work... but who'd make a big deal out of that?
Thursday 26th January 2017 11:35 GMT
Re: The return of the high horse
"You know what Tories and Republicans don't do? Smash shit up when they don't get their own way!"
The Tories and Republicans have shown no hesitation in smashing things. Often it is people they smash, physically shooting or battering workers who dare to ask for decent pay and working conditions, for example. There are many examples on both sides of the pond. Smashing people by putting them on the street. Smashing the homes and possessions of those they disagree with. At present the Tories are trying to smash social medicine and social institutions. They are also trying to smash the European Union. There's much evidence of the desire to ruin things.
Trump is now trying to smash healthcare for people who cannot afford it.
Thursday 26th January 2017 11:10 GMT
"merely pointing out that at this time there is no evidence of any 'wrong doing'"
There is already evidence of doing wrong.
Officials are subject to the “Disclosure Requirement For Official Business Conducted Using Electronic Messaging Accounts," 44 U.S.C. 2209. If White House staffers have already used the RNC email system for White House work, they must copy or forward those communications into the government system within 20 days.
Clear so far?
The RNC has stated that it has deleted the emails of Bannon, Kushner and Conway.
So they have no intention of filing those emails in a government system.
That, right there, is a Federal crime, the wilful destruction of evidence that leads to a further Federal crime of failing to comply with 44 USC 2209.
Thursday 26th January 2017 10:40 GMT
"In other words at this point as far as anyone appears to know, this isn't hypocrisy but simply some people - not holders of cabinet posts or even close - using personal email accounts for emails which as far as anyone is prepared to say at the very least *could* be personal in nature or at least not related to government business."
This is very easy to resolve. Fortunately Trump has put the tools in our hands with his first one-on-one television interview since being sworn in as president. We can get the information from his lieutenants in the manner he approves of. There's probable cause in that they are using non-official channels for communication and that shows they have something to hide. So, let's get them on the rack, break out the hot irons and get the information out of them in a manner which they fully support. A process in which there needs to be only an accusation and someone willing to watch the screaming and attempt to make some sense of it.
It's all good folks. All good. This is going to be tremendous. Tremendous.
Thursday 26th January 2017 10:24 GMT
Re: As they say in Russia, to my frieds everything, to my enemies the law.
Great, I'll have the full English. I love fried breakfast especially when it has everything. Can you make sure I get fried bread as well as hash browns, keep the beans away from the eggs and it's Bury black pudding not the awful southern thing. Thanks.
Thursday 26th January 2017 10:21 GMT
"If anyone is looking for some pro-Trump propaganda from 'ordinary' citizens then look no further than the comments of ANY Trump related video featured on LiveLeak.com."
Last night on BBC News they showed three women from California who called themselves the "Trumpettes" and who sing (badly) of their love for Murika and Trump. They did lots of finger pointing during their songs (such as pointing at the floor when they sang "This land is my land". In this they reminded me of the Protestant Orange Order who used to caper bizarrely in parades, wearing white gloves and pointing at things. I suppose it's appropriate that they should look like orange men.
Anyway... they quoted some Bible text as justification for Trump. It was Ezekiel 22:30 which they cited as: "I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall" They thought this was brilliant and we were treated to the sight of three seriously overweight matrons giggling and rolling around like toddlers who have just said "pants".
I note that the King James Version, you know the one that the rightards claim is the "literal word of God" (their capital) makes no mention of wall, it says "hedge", that might be nice, a close clipped Leylandii or yew hedge along the border. Perhaps with a few signs saying "Welcome neighbor, nice to see you!" I dissemble...
They didn't finish the quote, doing that usual thing of picking some words from the Bible in the hope that listeners will consider those words to be authority for whatever stupidity someone dreamed up.
From the New International Version:
"I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one."
Thursday 26th January 2017 10:00 GMT
Re: The return of the high horse
"All shall bow before His Highness. "
"When the Jews return to Zion and a comet fills the sky, and the Holy Roman Empire rises; then you and I must die. From the eternal sea he rises, creating armies on either shore, turning man against his brother, 'til man exists no more."
Has anyone checked Trump's head for the number of the beast? There has to be a reason why he has such a ludicrous covering of starched hair.
PS: 666+666+666+6+6+6 = 2016. Just sayin'.
Thursday 26th January 2017 09:54 GMT
Lock him up!
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Isn't this how "debate" is conducted in the People's Republic of Trumpistan?
Thursday 26th January 2017 09:50 GMT
"The people who should be holding back are those waving the pitchforks already and baying for the blood of alleged hypocrites."
Nope. This is a blatant disregard of public sensitivities about the arrogance of government officials who use email inappropriately. Using a party email account when in government is blatant avoidance of putting on record the communications that should be on record. That's before we get to the fact that the GOP is not an organisation I would trust to run an email server let along a *secure* email server.
The mahoosive hypocrisy of shouting "lock her up" and then doing *exactly* the same thing she was accused of is missed by no one other than those fitted with political blinkers.
I've got a brand new combine harvester and I'll give you the API key
Wednesday 25th January 2017 17:26 GMT
"“the technological foundation was simply not there to make it all work… the infrastructure was not there.”"
Two decades ago? That's 1997. I must have been completely dreaming spending my time in that era working with sensors on aircraft, boats, ships, medical remote sensing then. All of them connected to various types of network/bus topologies.
Or Georg Larschied is talking carp.
UK.gov tells freelance techies to slap 20 per cent on fees as IR35 tax hike looms
Wednesday 25th January 2017 16:23 GMT
Re: Both feet, and the ankles
"And who has been lobbying for this? Crapita et al. "
I have been through and lost the arguments about this when I did contract work for a government department. At that time I had access to Mad Frankie Maude and attempted to persuade him that clamping down on small businesses was a really, really bad idea. The source of the lobbying was obvious (the usual suspects) and the reason transparent.
The big integrators want to stay the only game in town. They were hurt when Cabinet Office decided that their gravy train should end. CO promoted the use of individual contractors and maintaining details of "talent" so that departments could find trusted contractors. The big ones screamed "not fair" and put a lot of money into greasing the wheels ensuring that their concerns were listened to.
I know several of them have been busy signing up lots of independents using FUD and IR35 to persuade people to join them as permies. I've seen the offers. It's usually an offer of a pay cut between 25-50% with an attempt to sell the "benefits" of company car, pension and health insurance. Of course the rate to government rises by about 50% to pay off "overheads" and the integrator makes a neat 100% (or as they say 50%) profit on each body that they rent out.
They can do one as far as I'm concerned. My order book is bursting at the seams and I've enough private work to see me through to retirement. I don't need to work for politicians who think that someone who actually does something is beneath contempt.
Make America, wait, what again? US Army may need foreign weapons to keep up
Wednesday 25th January 2017 15:11 GMT
Re: Military-industrial 101
"a lot of the European combat vehicles are made by subsidiaries of a US corporation."
The all-American Eurofighter (BAe, Airbus)? The all-American SAAB Gripen (SAAB)? The all-American Rafale (Dassault)? The all-American Eurocopter (Airbus)? The all-American Leopard MBT (Krauss-Maffei)? The all-American Challenger II MBT (BAe)? The all-American C1 Ariete MBT (Iveco Fiat)? The all-American B1 Centauro tank destroyer (Iveco Fiat)? The all-American Heckler and Koch MP5 (Heckler & Koch)? The all-American Airbus A400M Atlas transport (Airbus)? The all-American Goalkeeper CIWS (Thales Nederland)? The all-American Starstreak MANPADS (Shorts/Thales)? The all-American Rapier SAM (BAe)?
Tuesday 24th January 2017 10:58 GMT
Re: Military-industrial 101
" Who supplies most of the EU in weapons? We do. You're paying for our industry."
Oh, look at all those handguns the US Army uses, the SIG Sauer P320. Made by a partnership between Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft of Switzerland and Sauer & Sohn of Germany.
Is your face red yet? It should be.
Tuesday 24th January 2017 10:53 GMT
Re: Not Just the Fuchs
"BAE M777 Howitzer"
BAe Advanced Gun System for US Zumwalt class destroyers. A 155mm over-the-horizon gun capable of firing at 10 rounds per second.
The BAe Mk45 127mm gun fitted as standard to US warships.
The BAe 57mm Bofors guns fitted to US Littoral combat ships.
The BAe 32-megajoule Electro-Magnetic Laboratory Rail Gun delivered to the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center. The US tried to build rail guns for years, it took the British to create a practical functional rail gun capable of firing projectiles at Mach 8 at 8 rounds per minute.
Tuesday 24th January 2017 10:43 GMT
Re: Not sure what the big deal is
Don't forget the Martin B-57 Canberra a tactical bomber and reconnaissance aircraft famous for having an operating ceiling of 70,000ft the same as the U2 spy plane A magnificent example of American military engineering.
Oh hang on, it was a built-under-licence version of the English Electric Canberra which first established the 70,000ft record. The Canberra was operated through the Vietnam war in a reconnaissance role because of its qualities as a stable platform for surveillance that could fly out of the reach of SAMs.
Tuesday 24th January 2017 10:33 GMT
Re: Military-industrial 101
"The encryption that makes eCommerce possible was pioneered by us during WWII when we cracked the German enigma cipher."
A statement of such monumental stupidity that it fails at every level.
As others have said it was Polish Cryptographers who first cracked the Enigma code. The British who developed their techniques of cryptanalysis and who enhanced their Bombe design and eventually invented the stored programme electronic computer to crack the much more difficult Lorenz code.
However cracking the code means that it wasn't invented by the people who cracked it. Hence whoever cracked the code did not "pioneer" it. The Enigma machine was originally used for encryption of commercial data (i.e. e-Commerce) in the 1920s. That was what it was designed for.
As to the encryption that makes e-Commerce possible, that isn't the Enigma code, it's public key cryptography. Public key cryptography was invented in Britain by GCHQ in the 1970s.
The foundation of public-key cryptography is work done by the British economist William Stanley Jevons in 1874 when he described the Jevons' number (8616460799) which was not factored until thirty years later.
The roots of encryption being used in commerce go back at least as far as the Roman empire a mere two thousand years before the birth of the USA.
Tuesday 24th January 2017 10:13 GMT
Re: Military-industrial 101
"I could call you on that one then lay down the Trump card of the 1959 Mini ... "
Whereas you are right to call him on his stupidity, the 1959 Mini wasn't the first or even an early unibody car.
The first unibody car was the 1922 Lancia Lambda, Citroen were also pioneers in unibody construction with the Traction Avant in 1934.
Tuesday 24th January 2017 09:59 GMT
Re: Military-industrial 101
"Who supplies most of the EU in weapons? We do."
Where do you get that idea, Junior?
The all-American Eurofighter? The all-American SAAB Gripen? The all-American Rafale? The all-American Eurocopter? The all-American Leopard MBT? The all-American Challenger II MBT? The all-American C1 Ariete MBT? The all-American B1 Centauro tank destroyer? The all-American Heckler and Koch MP5? The all-American Airbus A400M Atlas transport? The all-American Goalkeeper CIWS? The all-American Starstreak MANPADS? The all-American Rapier SAM?
Tuesday 24th January 2017 09:43 GMT
"buy American and hire American."
Unless of course you are Donald J. Trump. If you are then as far as Americans are concerned "You're Fired!" ask any of his former workers in Atlantic City or just have a look at the products that he sells with his name on them. Caps, Shirts made in China, Shirts made in Bangladesh and ties and other goods from China. But in Trump's mind it's OK for Trump to do this, because they are cheaper in China.
Not only is Trump an habitual liar and fraud, he's also a massive hypocrite who attacks other UK businesses for doing exactly what he does.
Unite: CSC UK set for 'jobs massacre' as 1,101 heads put on chopping block
Wednesday 25th January 2017 14:51 GMT
Ouch
I did some contract work for CSC a few years ago. Even then it was obvious that the talent was leaving and they were taking on contractors to fill the voids.
Some of the management layers were less useful than a vegetable patch. At least with a vegetable patch you get to eat a decent meal every so often and they can be quite attractive. Also a vegetable patch doesn't wander in and constantly mess about with work in progress. The management I experienced was notable for its talent in messing things up in pursuit of non-business objectives.
I have some good friends still toiling under the lash. I would be sorry to hear that they had been affected by this. I could suggest several people who should go. I have a little list, they'll none of them be missed.
I'LL BE BATT: Arnie Schwarzenegger snubs gas guzzlers for electric
Wednesday 25th January 2017 11:22 GMT
Re: Farday FF
"has recorded a road legal 0-60mph time of 2.3secs, 0-100mph of 4.9secs with 0-150mph taking a mere 8.9 seconds! It has the capability to accelerate onwards to over 240mph. "
And with the average driver of a Citroen Saxo with baked bean can exhaust, 'Lexus' lights, lowered suspension and italic script number plates at the wheel the Ultima can complete the last quarter mile backwards and on fire.
Irish townsfolk besieged by confused smut channel callers
Tuesday 24th January 2017 17:56 GMT
My office telephone number is similar to that of the local pub (the last two digits are swapped around). This means a high volume of calls from people who misdial and want to book a table. Most people who call react reasonably when told of the mistake, apologise, ring off and I never hear from then again. Some however are so mindlessly arrogant that they are sure that they are incapable of making a mistake. The worst of these being the ones who slam the phone down and then either press redial or dial the number incorrectly again and then proceed to harangue me.
When I get someone even slightly awkward now I confess that yes I really am the receptionist at the "Drunken Jovial Peasant[1]" and that I was in error to claim that they could possibly have misdialled. Now, may I take their booking?[2] Then I take a booking and usually tell them that as an apology I will make sure that there's a free bottle of champagne with the meal.
Oh, the best one was when the pub owner drunkenly misdialled his own number one night then spent an hour arguing with me, demanding to know what I was doing in his pub and telling me he was calling the police.
[1] Name change to protect the guilty.
[2] No I don't know why they don't question that I have told them two mutually exclusive things and have now changed my mind and decided I really am a gastropub. See comment about their arrogance, I suppose.
UK.gov still drowning in legacy tech because no one's boarding Blighty's £700m data centre Ark
Monday 23rd January 2017 15:40 GMT
Whut?
"Therefore it would it make a lot of sense to put these together in the same data centres. Moving CNI systems to Ark should be a lot more secure as well as their DCs are in the middle of bloody great Army bases."
I've been trying to make sense of this. Is it claiming that the Ark DCs are located in Army bases? If so this is somewhat untrue, as can be seen from Google Maps. The Farnborough site is on the former National Gas Turbine Establishment (Pyestock) site which wasn't "an Army base". The Corsham site is IIRC next door to an Army base but is the Spring Park development which is built on what was a farm next door to an Army base. In neither case is the current development "In the middle of bloody great Army bases."
Stallman's Free Software Foundation says we need a free phone OS
Monday 23rd January 2017 14:10 GMT
Re: The problem with anything free and open...
"Why was Windows so successful?"
Because it was sold to people who didn't care about the end user experience. The same people who thought that "no one got fired for buying IBM". It also didn't hurt that Microsoft took the approach that they wouldn't kick up a fuss about piracy. Later they drove the nails home by convincing OEMs to ship PCs with Windows installed as the default.
No one in their right mind would have bought Windows for personal use. It was awful. GEM and AmigaOS knocked the stuffing out of Windows on the Jackintosh and the Amiga respectively.
Monday 23rd January 2017 14:04 GMT
Re: Before we get a proper free phone OS.
"Actually the free smart TV OS is easier: "
But not necessary.
As to running things on your phone, a decent notebook PC will do that better, cheaper with the OS of your choice.
I am actually in favour of people rooting their phone and running any software on it they like. Provided they sign a contract that says that if they are responsible for a malware outbreak they will fund the entire cost of cleanup and a brand new phone for anyone else affected. The contract will also state that if they can't afford the costs they agree to donate all of their organs to those in need. With immediate effect.
Monday 23rd January 2017 11:56 GMT
Re: Before we get a proper free phone OS.
"We need phone hardware without locked bootloaders... Thats the main crux of the problem."
No, seriously it isn't. The main crux of the problem is where's the demand for this? A phone is just an appliance, where's the need for a "free" ToasterOS or FridgeOS or even SmartTV OS? The consumer just wants something that works and when it breaks either a nice repairman comes to make it work or the shop that sold it to you provides a warranty replacement.
Monday 23rd January 2017 10:59 GMT
A free phone OS
Well even acknowledging that he means "free" as in speech not "free" as in beer, it's difficult to see how this will work. Free as in speech means that some organisation has to shoulder the administrative and support burdens associated with the OS or every phone manufacturer will have to provide in-house that support or someone somewhere runs an operation that charges the phone manufacturers a licence fee or support fee. Ultimately that's not going to look too different to Android.
Then there is the issue of the freetards to whom "free" means "free" as in beer. They will be there at the watering holes paying nothing, expecting everything.
So the only way this would work is if some organisation got behind it and provided a reference model for hardware, operating system and interface with an administration of effort to develop the code and support the distribution. Maybe we could call that organisation something like "The Free Software Foundation"? Nothing like leading by example, Richard.
Yet another committee gives UK.gov a lashing for digital strategy delay
Monday 23rd January 2017 12:11 GMT
Re: I would love to be part of a committee
"... Just having to criticize, a glass of wine in the hand, sitting at the table of a good restaurant, and paid for that... sounds a cool job!"
Yesss... well as a member of several committees I admire your optimistic view of what being on a committee is like but the reality doesn't look like that. It looks like bloody hard work in rooms miles away from alcohol and good food with occasional deliveries of vile curled-up sandwiches if the organisation thinks it's worth it. Otherwise you may have go hungry. As to getting paid, long, hollow laughter. Committee work is often pro bono. The members are paying to be there.
Friday 20th January 2017 14:15 GMT
GDS
""Among other things it is expected to include a plan for the Government Digital Service, which was awarded £450m in November 2015 but still has no road map for how that cash should be spent."
Under normal rules GDS would have to give that money back in March. However GDS seems to be "blessed" by the government. No matter how many monumental cockups it is involved in, no matter how lame its strategy is, no matter how clueless the few guidance documents they publish make them look[1] they are the love-child that no one is permitted to criticise. The love child of Francis Maude and Martha Lane Fox (retch).
[1] Look up their security standards document if you can. It's hilarious and appears to have been written by a child in crayon before being typed up by a drunken monkey.
SporeStack: Disposable, anonymous servers, via Bitcoin and Python
Friday 20th January 2017 13:34 GMT
Re: OVPN? RLY?
"I can buy a quad core Atom fanless thing "
You can buy a quad core 2GHz J1900 Celeron thing with quad gigabit LAN and 4GB RAM/64GB mSATA for around £180. I've bought several of these and they are, as you say, great for building security appliances.
Lord of the Dance set to deliver high kicks at Trump’s big ball
Friday 20th January 2017 12:31 GMT
Re: Flatley and crew a good choice
"The whole country is Irish on St Patrick's day. That's the law."
My boss (Irishman, born in Cork, Dublin educated, top-drawer bloke) was in Boston on Paddy's Day. Some drunken idiots picked on him for "not wearing the green", he cursed them out in Irish and they were bewildered about what strange language this was.
Irish? Yeah right, you're American.
Friday 20th January 2017 12:26 GMT
Re: "If you fear change you are a bad person!"
"Obama stepped out in front of a huge audience in Chicago and delivered a long, gassy speech"
[TRANSLATION] Obama delivered a speech that was above the reading age of the TL;DR Republicans who much preferred GW's Dr Seuss style of delivery...
See, see president man, president man has got a plan.
See me see me president man, I have a plan, I'm president man.
Do not give me pretzels Dan, oh pretzels no that's not my plan.
Choking, coughing pretzels Dan, oh Dan that's not my plan.
Never say it was the booze, that way's a horrid chance to lose.
Oh never, ever mention booze, because this prez don't want to lose.
Thursday 19th January 2017 16:47 GMT
"But he's a rich celebrity who can say that he's built a business for himself."
In which bizarre parallel universe is this? Donald J. Trump inherited his wealth from his father who made his money by working interesting angles on government housing programmes in ways that seem at the very least "questionable" in the sense of "Someone should have been asking questions at the time these deals were agreed."
It is often stated that Donald J. Trump has made a fortune in property by starting out with a much bigger fortune that he inherited from his father. If he had invested that money in a managed fund he would have much more money than he does today.
Tell us about your first time ... on the internet
Thursday 19th January 2017 13:43 GMT
Re: About 40 years total. 31+ years of "live" TCP/IP access to what we now call "The Internet".
You are the fantasist known as "Paul Cummins" and I claim my five pounds. He's the only notable Usenet Lack of Personality that I can recall who made such overblown and unbelievable claims about his experience. It all rather fell apart in a bad way for him.
Thursday 19th January 2017 13:41 GMT
Re: Tell us about your first time ... on the internet
"First connection was in 1987 and was dial up 300bps modem, via a Govt department that kindly allowed access. No web, only FTP, telnet and primitive by today's standard email. Gopher and other tools like Archie were fun and you could roam the world exploring, "
You may be misremembering or confounding different time periods. Gopher wasn't a thing until the 1990s. The same goes for Archie.
Ever gone back to an old job after a really long time?
Thursday 19th January 2017 13:36 GMT
I get called back to places I used to work from time to time. What shocks me the most is that I often encounter the same people, doing the same job, making exactly the same complaints that they did 10 or 20 years ago. As you say nothing much changes on the technology side since many organisations seem to think "buy some technology, run it until it stops working". So I see legacy IT kit that should be in the Science Museum, if only as examples of really bad ideas kept working long beyond their sell by date.
Chelsea Manning sentence slashed by Prez Obama: She'll be sprung in the spring
Thursday 19th January 2017 12:21 GMT
Re: Assange v Chris Grayling
"Assume Assange has opened a car door on a Cyclist like Chris Grayling (Uk's transport secretary) did, Grayling* got off Scot-free. Assange gets locked up for it. That's the equivalent case here."
Why is it that when cycling gets a mention, for whatever reason, the discussion will be trapped in the fallacy of "tu quoque"? It seems to be some natural, universal law.
- "Cyclist seen jumping red light which is dangerous and silly." "Ah yes, but motorists do that too!"
- "Cyclist hits pedestrian on pavement." "Ah yes, but motorists do that too!"
- "Assange porks woman without her permission." "Ah yes but if he were to be Chris Grayling and she were a cyclist then he'd be allowed to knock her off (her bike)!"
Anyway, it's not "the equivalent case." The case of negligently causing someone injury is a tort, rape is a criminal offence. Even in the UK shagging someone who is asleep without their consent is rape.
UK Ministry of Defence splurges £280,000 on online 'good ideas' form
CBI: Brexit Britain needs a 'sensible and flexible' immigration programme
Thursday 19th January 2017 11:19 GMT
Re: Saddening
"That it has repeatedly failed to balance its books in a way that would see any company under investigation for fraud does not help."
That's a lie told and re-told by UKIP. If you want to judge how much you can trust UKIP on this, check their record on corruption. They are, in terms of proportion of MEPs caught with their fingers in the petty cash box, the most corrupt party in the European Parliament.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
