Posts by TeeCee

Re: Those were my first thoughts.

For me, I saw "millions of errors" and thought that sounded unlikely,

Then I noticed "Accenture" and thought it was plausible.

Finally I saw "SAP-based" and decided it's an open-and-shut case.

"All sounds a bit hazy on the details to me..."

You were expecting a detailed description of a workable technique for siphoning 9 million out of a bank?

I can't say that I am entirely surprised to find a few of the more important pieces of the puzzle missing from the publicly released version of what happened.

"She is denying having sexual relations with the idiot."

No doubt the denial concerned was written for her to read out on demand on the approved stationery, a well-stuffed brown envelope.

Update:

I retract that footnote.

Elsewhere here: "The iOS 4 drive-by jailbreak released over the weekend uses a PDF exploit to weave its magic....."

Can't be long now. Just waiting for the Jobsian announcement.......

Re: @censored

Thick as shit, but quite tele / photogenic. Only talent is to be able to grin nicely on demand while someone else pulls the strings and keeps the media happy. Tends to polarise opinions, being loved by the sheep but regarded as a waste of skin by anyone with two brain cells to rub together. Not someone you'd trust to run a bath, let alone the country.

No. I had quite enough of Tony Blair the first time round thanks.

Re: pics

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/lohan/badly_photoshopped_pic_to_illustrate_bullshit_lesbo_gang_article.jpg

....or something like that.

Re: I should have patented...

"Shame noone can invent a 'stupid idiot camera'......"

Oh, I dunno, an ordinary digital camera and a bit of OCR to pick out the letters "B", "M" and "W" on the back of the car should do that for you.

Off to the patent office now.....

Re: What guys?

But as it turned out they were not doing that, do try and keep up.

They were using TATP in small quantities as a detonator, but that was to be made beforehand and disguised (in batteries I believe) rather than cooked up on board (which is indeed highly implausible).

The actual explosive was Peroxide and Tang, which *can* be easily and stably mixed on board. This also explains why a mate who works in Aviation security was extremely dismissive of the internet hoohah over the impossibility of it working. He'd been to a demo of what they were looking at, which produced a very impressive explosion without anyone handling anything with any degree of care, bar the detonator.

See here, where Lewis explains the facts as they transpired and goes so far as to state that it was indeed a viable strategy: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/10/liquid_bomb_verdicts/

Re: Not as cheap as can be found

For charging those prices they really should be in the doghouse.

Fookennel.

Re: Good.

Staropramen? You're weird.

I'll stick with the Pilsner Urquell, or the Budvar, or the Krusovice (especially the dark stuff), or, well, just about anything Czech except Staropramen really.

About the only thing it's got going for it is that it's cheap*. It's also quite likely to give you the trots (and I do not mean that drinking it risks the return of a communist government).

*Except groundside at Ruzyne airport, where it's the most expensive beer in CZ by a wide margin.

Re: Strong?

I remember many years ago a friend coming back from holiday in Yugoslavia with a bottle of what looked like Decosol car upholstry* cleaner labelled "Stroh Inlander Rum".

It caused some fairly serious pain and completely removed your powers of speech. The clue was the bit on the bottle in small print where it said "86%** by volume alcohol".

It still reckon it was tape head cleaner cut with Decosol meself. It certainly tasted like it.

*The only other translucent, "luminous orange highlighter pen" coloured liquid that I am familiar with.

**To be strictly accurate, eighty-something-percent. I can't remember exactly.

Re: I for one...

<--- You should probably have put the mat out then.

Not quite.

It's a *temporary* epidemic of good sense.

".... but wanted the ECJ to rule on the issue."

That'll be the same ECJ which has its strings pulled by the EU Commission which, in turn, has a hard-on for software patents.

Re: Tell it like it is.

Nope, still using "NatWest" there.

They should try: "The useless, moronic bunch of bum-sucking arsebandits you can find here". With "here" linked to natwest.com.

That should do it. I'd like to see GnatWorst try "You can't link to our landing page without our permission" in court. Ideally I would like to see 'em try, win, set a legal precedent on linking to NatWest and then see their faces as the term "Pyrrhic victory" is explained to them.

Re: They don't make Yorkshiremen like they used to!

Careful! That could very tricky now the press have put spin on it. Bloody thing could have your middle stump before you knew what was going on.........

Pulling out pipes.

Or even on purpose. I recall an IBM engineer telling me of one of their water-cooled products that lacked an important feature as standard. A drain cock.

Since it was necessary to drain the thing down for most HW maintenance tasks, the only way to acheive this was to pull off a hose and give it a drenching. Every mainframe engineer around that time carried a hairdryer in his tool kit to reduce the maintenance downtime required....

Re: The Star is owned by

He's bought Channel 5?

Great! I look forward to hardcore pr0n on FTA terrestrial telly. (Have a look at what comprises the bulk of Richard "Dirty" Desmond's empire to see what I mean).

Mine's the mac. Yes, it is rather grubby now you mention it.......

Re: iClone Conspiracy!!!!!!!

Aha, MECHA-JOSWIAKU!!!!!

If you can make him 100' tall and stick him in Tokyo, I'll round up Godzilla and a film crew.

Re: Where do I sign up...

"....this is a shared facility...."

I have to say that I find that rather more disturbing than the grubby room with the wonky table and so on.

Re: For that money...

....I'd buy a secondhand scooter.

Proper brakes and lighting, a modicum of splash proofing for the legs in inclement weather and one of those new-fangled internal combustion engines to do the hard work, so I arrive all fresh and relaxed rather than as a clapped out, sweaty wreck.

The real bonus is being able to ride it while dressed sensibly rather than looking like an escapee from a lycra factory run by colour-blind geocities web designers. I swear that if clothing had a <blink> tag, the makers of cycling wear would use it. I'm sure that if you're young and fit it makes sense, but the prospect of moving around while bearing a passing resemblance to a day-glo shrinkwrapped sack of King Edwards leaves me cold.