Posts by Christoph

"That information could include name, social security number, address, phone number and date of birth."

And the entire contents of your smartphone, that they copied off when you went through immigration.

The new SWATing

Create "This is really a gun" sticker.

Stick it on someone's back.

Wait for police to zoom in and shoot them.

Of course there's Aliens!

It's obvious. Just look at the evidence. The closer you examine it all, the less actual evidence there is. The more detail you look at, the less there's any sign of them.

So that Proves they exist!!!! Haven't you heard of Homeopathy????

Aren't those fighters going to get a bit dated?

"new aircraft carriers, which are set to become Britain’s flagships for the next half-century or more"

"flight trials with the new F-35B fighters that will fly from her during her British service life. "

Does anyone know of any first-class military aircraft which have remained operational and first-class for over half a century?

The response to this is well known

If they were to bring in this rule then people will simply use alternate swear words. The usual response is to use the names of the councillors as the required obscenities.

Now they know what will happen with backdoors

The US and UK government repeatedly demand that all encryption be backdoored. This is one of the reasons it has so far always failed - no other country is going to use software that the US/UK can break but they can't. And if you tell other governments the backdoor they will be able to read US/UK messages.

"some 90 per cent of these one-way blabfests lasted between one and five minutes"

"DO NOT COLD CALL ME!" [SLAM]

More like 5 seconds, after they've identified themselves.

Is this actually practical? Can they power electric aircraft over a reasonable range without either too much weight of batteries or a really long extension cord?

So what's new?

The driver can already use a Bluetooth earphone so the passenger doen't hear the other side of the conversation.

Safety?

A whole lot of stuff about how the this increases safety.

And then he announces an updated Roadster that has a top speed of 250mph.

There is absolutely no possible way that can be done safely on a public road. Even by a highly trained driver, let alone the kind of idiot who would buy something like that.

"copies of its data out of the US, because it's good to have an offsite backup."

I would say that it is absolutely vital to have copies of the data outside the USA. And not just with the current regime. The Snowden revelations show clearly that for instance the NSA would have no qualms whatever in hacking in and changing the data, or simply ordering them to change it and forbidding them to say anything about it.

What could possibly go wrong?

I've injured my foot and need to phone a friend / a taxi to get me home. Oops ...

Oh, it's OK, I can override with the unlock code.

Oh, it's so long since I've used it that I can't remember it.

"informing US and allied government entities of the vulnerability at a classified level"

Presumably those governments will patch against the vulnerability, and also warn their chums critically important companies to patch against it.

So when a new bit of malware trashes all the small companies but doesn't touch the big ones or the government then it will be pretty obvious why.

"an erosion of deference"

People not being properly grovellingly respectful of the catholic church in Ireland? Whyever could that be I wonder?

Most mass data breaches are of a single server - how did they manage to infiltrate all those different and presumably diverse servers, and all without being noticed until now? Or were they all running the same software with the same unpatched holes?

"Census data is used to determine congressional districts for voting by assessing how many people live in a certain area."

And the Republicans are already using every possible means for voter suppression - I wonder how many ways they'll find to fiddle the results of this?

Plus of course the more plebs they can keep off the books the fewer services they need to provide for them.

The most obvious trick of course is making sure people are terrified that the Immigration enforcers will come after them, so anyone with even slightly dodgy status or with relatives who have dodgy status will stay well clear.

Facebook said it will fight the claim, telling The Register: "This lawsuit is without merit and we will defend ourselves vigorously."

Facebook's lawyers issued Standard Response #1, and only then went and had a look at the actual facts of the case.

That's a weird orbit

I'd expect something coming from interstellar space to swing wide around the sun. The story doesn't say how close it came, but judging by the handbrake turn it did that was practically a direct hit!

Very odd that the first interstellar object we saw made such a close pass. Or is it that the close pass makes it easier to detect?