Posts by Adrian Challinor

I suddenly feel old

Old - that is all.

Mines the one with "2's complement arithmetic" in the pocket. I'll stagger off to my cardboard box now.

Well thats the end of ...

Police Camera Action and Cops with Cameras.

What will Alistair Stewart do now?

If only we could turn of the siren when police cars regularly go past our house, siren full on, dead of night, AND NOT A DAMN THING ON THE ROAD!

Personal preference does not equal broken

I suggest that the author gets off his high horse, looks for a bit of assistance, and reverts to the previous version of Ubuntu. And he could always try READING THE RELEASE NOTES!

Just because YOU don't like something does not make it broken, the worst there has ever been, or under developed.

I will grant that it is different. But it doesn't seem to be broken.

Germans take science seriously

From the NEC press release "...Mrs. Prof. Dr. Sabine Kunst, the Minister of Science of the State of Brandenburg...". So, it sounds like the local state has a someone in charge of science who has a clue what science is about.

Compare and contrast. We have David Willets Minister of Science, who has a degree in PPE. Thus, my granny knows more about science than he does.

Ever wonder why Britain is going down the tubes?

I remember this...

We had one as a very early network analysis tool, because it was "portable". I recall carrying down The Strand one day, and realised that a handle does not make something portable! I swear one arm is several inches longer than the other still.

oh for heavens sake

If these people have nothing better to do I suggest that they read the OED

Pronunciation:/bap/

noun

British

1 a large, round, flattish bread roll , typically with a spongy texture and floury top.

2 (baps) informal a woman's breasts.

I the context of a baker, I think the meaning is obvious.

So much for training

I would have hoped that a doctor in A&E would have a fair idea of Resuscitation from Medical 101 and not have to resort to phone app to help.

What chance of a McKinnon conviction now?

So, if even the OIG says that a skiddie could take over a space mission by compromising a server in its report, some years are arch evil hacker Gary McKinnon started looking for UFO's on NASA's servers, how can they convict him?

Will an argument of "our servers were really secure then, but we compromised security recently" really wash?

Or is it a case that previously these servers were so wide open my granny could have penetrated them, and they are only marginally more secure now?

Actually I think this is a case when logic (political, security, technical) has gone to Mars. If most security is "Security Theatre", then NASA is definitely a comedy of errors.

On a serious note

Yes, I know this is el Reg and I am liable to go down in flames, but what the heck.

How about turning it in to floating data storage hub? Pleanty of below-deck area for racks and racks of disk. Its already hardened against attack, has satellite linkup capability. Then sell space for who ever decides that they don't like the FBI / CIA / NSA / MI5 / MIG/ MOSSAD / FSB (add your favorite list of initials / acronyms here). Keep it in international waters and no-one can touch you. Apply a suitable strong encryption algorithm and they won't be able to read what you are doing with said data.

Then when plod comes to call with a RIPA warrent for the encryption keys, hand over your pc and ask him to show you wnat part of the PC you want decrypted. Maybe have a small encrypted partition with a really nice random key, which when you give over to forensic investigator and he can find "All your bases are belong to us" in AES1024 !

Anonymous, because you never know who is reading this.

Mines the one with Cryptonomicon in the pocket

Can I be the first to say

What ever you do, don't cross the beams.

You owe me a keyboard!

I read through the whole article, nodding with agreement. I too am not sure what the unique must have app for the iPad is. Personally, I want a Blackberry Play Book, that way it can go in my suit pocket. So, totally concured with the confession...

... Until we got to the Trekkie dressing up thing. I mean, thats just weird. If Tim had suggested doing this in the same bedroom where the photoi was taken, I think it was a contender for possibly NSFW.

Sounds about right

The only thing Lewis got wrong was initially think that the defence review was about the military. He corrects this later when he concludes that the defence review was really to defend the military contractors. And where do ex-politicians find their lucrative non-exec directorships? Go on, guess.

America? Meet Times Warner

http://www.vision2mobile.com/news/2011/03/time-warner-cable-launches-live-tv-streaming-for.aspx

In the news today ....

"When it comes to iPad TV streaming, it appears that Time Warner Cable has won the race, despite Comcast Corp.’s first-to-bat announcement that its Xfinity app will soon do the same thing. TWC released TWCable TV this week, which allows live television streaming of about 30 channels to Apple’s insanely popular iPad. There are, however, some significant restrictions: The content can only be watched over Wi-Fi, and only within the home. Additionally, users have to also be subscribers to TWC’s broadband ISP service."

From cable company to international terrorist.

So, lets see how this works...

A korean company (LG) sues a Japanese company (Sony) against a US patent, which is heard in the EU, so imports get stopped in to the UK.

Your right, the world is screwed up.

odd message seems to be targeted at potential buyers of the malware

What, people BUY malware?

Jacqui Smith 'shocked' to discover

...that we are drowning in a sea of free porn on the Internet.

"...If only my B**st*rd husband had known this, he would not have paid for some pay-per-view, I wouldn't have claimed for it, and I would still have my job!!!!! Damn all this free stuff,. WHY DID NO-ONE TELL ME!!! ...."

Paris, because if you have to ask, you should not be reading this.

Hello?

Can you hear me, I'm just going through a tunnel....

oh.

Clue is in the location.

"Darwin" - says it all really.

Favorite memory time now,

2am, in a computer room, with a Cray Engineer wondering why our Vax would not connect to the brand spanking new Cray XMP. Out with the pulse oscilloscope and digital signal monitor, crocodile clips on the massbus, and HEY - we found two pins bent on the mass bus plug so that touched.

Job done and a very happy bunch of seismic engineers next morning.

I loved that job.

Oh really?

So they rushed young traumatised Oliver out, but left the word on the screen until the Red Top snapper could get there and record the offending word for posterity?

Can any one smell photoshop coming in to play here?

And perhaps a nice little payyout to the money grubbing parents?

Obviously Paris, she has so much experience of working with the game makers, or maybe their namesakes.

SHOCK - HORROR

I am shocked. Absolutely aghast and speechless.

There is a website, SearchEngineLand, dedicated to search engines?

Well, it's OK,. the site has suffered the El Reg effect and is not returning pages at present, so that's OK. I will have to go to the Google cache and ..... oh, that's a circular argument, isn't it!

Mines the one with the MSDN book on Search Engines for Profit

Interesting use of statistics

It doesn't actually report crimes, so much as reported crimes. If I recall, you have to be convicted for a crime to have occurred. The "ASB" statistic clearly states that the number includes all reported antisocial behaviour. So all it takes is one busy body to call up plod a few times with complaints about some noise / party / loud music / dog barking / alarm going off and you have a real crime black spot in your area.

Of course its libel

"...the pair will battle it out in court in a case likely to hinge on the First Amendment, and "whether an average Twitter user would interpret Love's vicious tweets as facts rather than merely her opinion".....

We already have UK court action to prove that tweeting makes you a terrorist.

I am spartacus.

self managing feedback

CO2 goes up

Therefore temperature goes up

So more trees grow

And trees take CO2 from the atmosphere

FEEDBACK! The panet is selfsustaing.

Provided, of course, we all stop using wood for paper and stop decimating the rain forest. Did I mean decimate or anhilate? oh, this is the wrong story for that debate, sorry I'll my coat. Its the paper one with Feedback for Fun and Profit in the pocket.

When did Freedom of speech and expression get repealed

Did I miss that law?

So, she can say that a politician is wrong to comment and criticise stoning of women and human rrights abuses in Iran, thus implying (or even stating) that such acts have her approval. That almost sounds like incitement to me. But if a politician makes a humerous comment about how it might impact her, he is arrested.

Right - Justice is having a real good week.

Epic judicial fail

Judge Davies needs lesson in the English languiage and the way sarcasm is used. This man has been convircted of stupid joke. Well done, that Judge and the CPS.

I wonder if in Dave's Big Society we the people will be able to vote out Judges who are just out of step, or indeed seek to repeal laws that get missused like this.

Expect the phone call

Hello, Tensing? It Edmund here. Yes, Edmund Hillary. I know, long time no see. Say, are you buys next next week because there's this mountain <click> .... Hello, Tensing, are you there"

Mines the one with "Ropes are for wimps" in the pocket

Yippppeeeeeee

Well done all concerned. This is a major step forward for playmonauts through out the world.

And now the words we have all been waiting for: PARIS - higher than a kite!

Congrats all round.