Posts by Christoph

One more strike and he gets superpowers.

And a hook

Get an old metal-wire coat hanger, untwist it and roughly straighten all but the hook on the end. You now have a couple of feet of stiff wire terminating in a hook, which can be used to reach into gaps under or beside things to hoik out whatever fell there.

By the way that's an interesting photo at the top, but what were Commercial Square Bonfire Society doing in your server room?

They are all wrong

The domain should obviously go to the Ruskin Museum in the Lake District, who have Amazon among their exhibits.

3,500 LEDs

It's a real computer - it has Blinkenlights!

But he really ought to be winding his own Core memory.

So German children won't be able to buy porn on the net - and will have to resort to merely reading and watching the vast amount of porn that is available for free on the net.

Lesson learned

Obvious lesson from this: Do not invest any money in South Africa.

"We will continue to update users regularly, and are sorry for the inconvenience this has caused"

Could we please have just a trifle more than the standard utterly meaningless managementspeak when it is peoples' health and lives that are affected?

If you don't like the information, sue to have the information removed. It will then automatically vanish from all search engines.

Leaving the information up but suing the search engines for linking to it is a ridiculous kludge.

If you cannot sue to have the information removed, then yes you have a problem. But it is your problem. Why should it be Google's?

"aggressive, persistent malicious actors that continue to target our nation’s cyber infrastructure"

Unlike the shining white knights that the US uses to target everybody else's cyber infrastructure.

This is absolutely appalling

If this is correct, it means that China has nearly as much information on NSA staff as the NSA has on every other person on the planet!

How Terrible!

They don't like it up 'em!

"If you don't name your poison

I'll have to get the boys in"

"With the peninsular on the North side people going to Moorfields Eye Hospital will still be able to walk there without crossing the road."

Damn right. Whatever else they do to that junction, they must keep the route to Moorfields clear, so people can just follow the line on the pavement straight to their A&E.

This is the woman who came over to Europe to deny that the USA were torturing people, and gave a speech that was so ludicrously weasel-worded that it amounted to an open admission that the USA were torturing people.

At what point will he stop?

The police are always demanding more access and more access and more access, without limit. No matter what they already have, they always demand yet more and tell us that we cannot be safe unless they have that access.

Will he please stand up in public and state for the record At What Point Will He Finally Be Satisfied? How much data, how much intrusive spying, how much monitoring of everything anyone does anywhere will be enough? At what point will he admit that any more snooping would be unjustified interference with peoples' private lives?

Where will he draw the line? Will he demand Orwell's Telescreens in everyone's bedrooms before he admits he might have gone too far?

The answer is that they will NEVER be satisfied. Whatever the police are given, they are back the next day saying that they don't have enough. There is no point at which they will stop.

"as those maintaining them retire or get outsourced, nobody will be left to run them."

We can save money by outsourcing the staff that run functions critical to our business!

We can't find any staff to run the functions that are critical to our business - how did that happen?

"In many cases, our "customers" fear that if they pay us once, we will be back and ask for more. That’s not how we work. We never attack the same target twice."

ROFL!

They are trying to reclaim their original title

Way back when DVLA first started up they made so many cock-ups that they were generally known as the Swansea Joke Factory.

Isn't it lucky they can do this

With the NSA sniffing everything anyone does anywhere, we can sleep easy in our beds knowing they are keeping us all safe from those terrible hackers!

Errr .... or not.

"No Party may prevent a service supplier of another Party from transferring, [accessing, processing or storing] information, including personal information, within or outside the Party’s territory, where such activity is carried out in connection with the conduct of the service supplier’s business."

That seems to be saying not just that they can transfer information anywhere, but that they can use any information they want as long as it's somehow connected to their business.

So if they could grab for instance your health records they could do whatever they wanted with them. They can use any data they have on you however they want, without limit. Including of course selling it to other businesses.

Nonsense. What they're really working on is de-evolving them to dinosaurs, so they can grow really big and be much more economical.

When will Service Pack 1 be released?

As always, let other people debug the release version and wait for the first Service Pack before upgrading.

Pity it couldn't have launched today, on the Glorious 25th. But would you have been able to add a hard-boiled egg to the payload?

Could the German police please explain exactly how a lamb is harmed by being in a brothel? Is this somehow different for it than being in any other building, and in what way?

"Emails, text messages, payment details, Apple IDs, passwords, photos and location data "

And just why were mSpy storing these? Once the parents have downloaded the data and got their jollies by reading their son's/daughter's intimate messages to their girl/boy friend, exactly what use do mSpy have for that data and what is their justification for storing it beyond that point?

They did try to notify their customers

They sent a text message to their phones