Don’t mention a Tor node
Don’t mention a Tor node round that way.
They’ll have druids connection it to a ley line. Or something.
Posts by Steve K
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Ofcom measured UK's 5G radiation and found that, no, it won't give you cancer
Not a Genius move after all: Apple must cough up $$$ in back pay for store staff forced to wait for bag searches
Don't break your swanky new Motorola Razr, you probably won't be able to get it fixed
Uncle Sam tells F-35B allies they'll have to fly the things a lot more if they want to help out around South China Sea
Starliner snafu could've been worse: Software errors plague Boeing's Calamity Capsule
Facebook mulls tagging pics with 'radioactive' markers to trace the origin of photos used to build image-recog AI
Accounting expert told judge Autonomy was wrong not to disclose hardware sales
Wednesday 29th January 2020 19:18 GMT
Re: Auditors....
Correct - “a true and fair view” which is itself an opinion, within the constraints of the relevant GAAP/IFRS/etc.
UK GAAP leaves room for judgement, rather than defining a set of account codes in micro detail against which transactions are posted. The flip side to this is that the judgement can be subjective (but based on available evidence obtained which could be fabricated), rather than “this widget invoice should have gone to line 12345 as per regulation 24.4b” (star fleet officers may not urinate in the lift at weekends, I think).
The purpose of an audit is NOT to detect fraud. This was drummed in from the equivalent of Audit 101 when I began my audit training in 1990 at C&L).
The auditors can not control whether company officers are presenting false information, but fraud could be detected (as a by-product) if evidence does not stack up, or the opinion could be “qualified” if sufficient information cannot be obtained to back up material items (I.e. those that would alter the opinion).
HPE are alleging that Lynch etc. acted fraudulently, and Lynch etc. are saying that it was nothing of the sort.
Deloitte (via their audit opinion) appear to back up Lynch so HPE seem to be clutching at straws...
Monday 27th January 2020 18:44 GMT
Working Papers
“Working Papers” are the detail from the audit team’s investigation, which will then be summarised (by the audit manager) into a note for the Audit Partner to sign off/reject with a request for further info to be gathered. This will be filed at the end of the audit to provide the audit trail for the audit opinion, should it be needed (and for internal audit QA).
In my day (pre-1993) it was all paper, but will now be largely electronic/document managed.
I would be inclined to go with MacGregor as he has seen the working papers and can hence follow the logic on the opinion on the Accounting treatment, rather than Holgate who has been briefed by HPE (but not seen them).
With the audit trail at least you can see WHY the Deloitte opinion was arrived at, whether or not you agree with it.
Judge snubs IT outsourcers' plea to Alt-F4 tougher H-1B visa rules: Bosses told to fill out the extra paperwork
Ancient Ore Crusher or KillBot 2000? NASA gets ready to pick a name for its Mars 2020 Rover
Intel server chip shortages continue to bite: HPE warns of Xeon processor supply drought for the whole of 2020
The delights of on-site working – sun, sea and... WordPad wrangling?
Monday 20th January 2020 19:18 GMT 
How about...
In the early 2000's I heard of an expensive project (OFA/Oracle Express MDDB (OLAP) back-end on HP-UX) that was being put on hold and archived with the servers being repurposed.
The person responsible (not me!!) zipped up the application project code and associated databases, only for it to get FTP'd to the archive location as in ASCII mode (no idea why auto mode didn't assist here - maybe it wasn't available on the version used or was accidentally chosen).
This was eventually discovered and a desperate email was sent out asking whether any project team members happened to have personal archives of any of the development.....
No amount of WordPad/edlin/vi etc. would fix that one
Help! I'm trapped on Schrodinger's runaway train! Or am I..?
Ex-Autonomy CFO Sushovan Hussain's part in the accounting badness was 'wildly overblown'
Boeing aircraft sales slump to historic lows after 737 Max annus horribilis
AI of the needle: Here's how neural networks could detect nighttime low blood-sugar levels using your heart beat
Privacy activists beg Google to ban un-removable bloatware from Android
Autonomy did count some hardware sales as marketing costs, ex-finance bod tells High Court
Tuesday 7th January 2020 17:34 GMT
Re: What's the problem?
Not fraudulent as no one (and least of all their accountants) looking to buy a company would go purely on Gross Margin.
If you did this on every transaction then someone would be questioning your Accounting Policies, but they would already be looking at Net Income, Gross to Net margin and Marketing Expense ratios.
For loss leaders then you would expect something like this, but not across all hardware transactions. HP as noted above will have done similar deal sweeteners for key or strategic accounts.
We live so fast I can't even finish this sent...
Lynch lied about Autonomy's accounts, rages HPE to the High Court
Log us out: Private equity snaffles Lastpass owner LogMeIn
Wednesday 18th December 2019 17:42 GMT
Re: Call me old fashioned
My first contract was at HMRC and one of the users' password was "Compaq" as that's what was on the monitor bezel right in front of him.....
I hope that his monitor didn't get swapped out for an Iiyama as he'd never have worked out whether it was a lower-case L or an "I".
(If you're reading this Les, hang your head in shame....;-))
Valuable personal info leaks from Facebook – not Zuck selling it, unencrypted hard drives of staff data stolen
Attention! Very important science: Tapping a can of fizzy beer does... absolutely nothing
Friday 13th December 2019 18:39 GMT 
The researchers "reserved a few of the opened cans from the exercise for our own consumption at the end of data collection"
What they meant to say was :" We considered it vital to determine whether the quality of the contents were adversely affected by the experiment. We ensured a large enough sample size for this exercise following data collection . Bøøørp!"
Non-unicorn $700 e-scooter shop Unicorn folds with no refunds – after blowing all its cash on online ads
Den Automation raised millions to 'reinvent' the light switch. Now it's lights out for startup
Mozilla locks nosy Avast, AVG extensions out of Firefox store amid row over web privacy
Bad news: A company wants to sell artificial shooting stars. Good news: Launch delayed
Boffins believe it was volcanoes, not just life, that made Earth what it is today – oxygen rich
That code that could never run? Well, guess what. Now Windows thinks it's Batman
Absolutely smashing: Musk shows off Tesla's 'bulletproof' low-poly pickup, hilarity ensues
Saturday 23rd November 2019 02:16 GMT
Fugly
This looks like an attempt by a Ugandan in his shed to build a working helicopter from a few tin cans and a garden shed (as seen on https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D21oQQ-zXAM ), except this time he has tried to copy the De Lorean....
At least the required crash testing will do $20k of improvements....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
