Posts by Boris the Cockroach 3426 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Mar 2008
Quote "and has someone not been caught already?"
Only a minister's husband putting the pr0n channel on the parlimentary expenses tab....
Anyway
Coming soon... buy the complete hacked list of ageIDs and whos surfed what...... and how much they'll pay you to stop you publishing it....
deemed 'harmful'?
And where does it end?
Take religion, if criticism of one religion can be contrued as 'inciting religious hatred' then all religions must have the same protection... even if its church of the flying spagetti monster. in which case , hosting clips of 'life of brian' will get the platform fined.
in any case, this just smacks of a knee jerk reaction to events where the social media could be blamed for the event.
Bit like Ozzy osbourne getting sued in the 1980s by parents whose children killed themselves after listening to his music.
But we all know how this will go "protecting the children" will end in someone getting jailed for saying the tory party are a bunch of tossers
Oh and I'd write to my MP , but she couldn't find her way out of a wet paper bag if someone gave her a map and put up signposts.
for the eco loonies......
hey lets reduce everyones emmissions by hacking hive and changing their thermostats to 10C....
Or maybe HM government will be doing that to cope with the coming fuel crisis due to brexit when customs inspectors have to inspect every molocule of gas coming into the UK......
Quote :Damn, now you've let the cat out of the bag! Quick, tell me, I need to know who led you to understand this. Was it the Illuminati or the Zeta Reticulans? I'll soon put a stop to their plot to undermine me.
Ah HA found you , damned Anunnaki with your immortal lust for power...
Hold on.. this is conspiracies-r-us.com?
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In normal engineering practice we go from concept to design to implementation (three stages).
Software is largely developed in two stages: concept, implementation,
Speaking as someone who's closely involved with 'proper' engineering and has qualification in software engineering too, you dont have to explain the correct way of doing engineering in general because both displines need the same validation... or you endup with the cockups I've dealt with (1" dia precision drive shaft running in a 2" diameter hole on the mounting plate.... or idiots who think just because you can draw it on a CAD system means it can be turned into metal....)
Software engineering needs the same 3 stages : design, building and validation just the same as a brand new hydraulic actuator needs the same 3 things . its engineering, if you want it right there are no shortcuts, no easy ways, but as with all engineering you are faced with the same question when making the decision about the product
You can have any 2 choices from the following 3
Quality
Price
Delivery
the solution would be.
When training up new coders, they are given a basic task such as a flight control module that keeps the plane flying straight and level and reacts well to any side wind to keep it straight and level.
Then the coders have to get aboard that aircraft and fly in it over say 1/2 mile at an altitude of 1000 feet.
Then that experience will stick with them and you'll get better code..... also it sorts out the crap coders who really shouldn't be doing the job.
I write code for a living ... someone has to tell those robots what to do.... if I get it right all is good... if I get it wrong the part is fired out of the machine, through the safety window and hits the wall 50 feet away still spinning.
much more fun than coding a cranky widget than may or may not respond if 3 other widgets are pressed while focus is on a 4th
is the block can and will be bypassed by using a VPN... perhaps the tor browser can be used as well to mask a UK ip
Which brings us neatly to "why is'nt the press shouting about it?" and more to the point "shouting about how useless its going to be"
How long is it going to be before the government (of whatever party) extends to block to cover content such as fascist or communist content?
Or how about using the block to cover religious hatred by shutting down discussion and criticism of religions
Or blocking "climate change is bollocks" sites
Remember the government passed the RIPA laws in order to protect us from terrorists and peados... what did it end up being used for.. checking your kids were going to the right school and finding out who let their dog shit on the grass.
As for the ageID thing..... an online record of you using pr0n plus as a bonus which sites you used...... wow cant think of a better target for hacking then blackmail......
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Facebook is the cockroach of the internet
Oi.. speaking one of the many cockroaches who lead a full and fulfilling life, how dare you associate our noble kind with depths of infamy that is facebork
I demand an apology at once.. and leaving of more food debris around your fridge/gap in the skirting board
but what if you local area has a choice between cable BB and something cooked up by BT openretch.
I can go for the various vermin media packages upto (and it delivers) 200 meg BB.... or something running via the stone age(or at least copper/aluminium age)
I'll give VM 5 stars for reliabity/speed, 3 stars for price, and minus 4 billion stars if you ever have to call what they laughingly call 'customer services' (basically... a bunch of poor indian peeps having to read a script(and risk getting fired if they stray from that script) that says "have you turned it on and off again?" until you get escalated to 2nd line support who actually have some idea of the problem)
Quote :When driving equipment through the bay doors always make sure the bay doors are open first.
The guys in the next unit to us didn't bother with the bay doors.. they drove the forklift through the wall.
Gave everyone bit of a surprise to be covered in brickdust, breeze blocks and large amounts of assorted debris...
this type of project and am completely clueless about a major IT project such as this.
But I already know the people making the decision, plus my children goto the same private school as their kids which makes me an ideal candidate
Also I am prepared to kiss ass, deliver mealy mouthed apologies when things go tits up, and take the money and run leaving some other poor idiot to take the fall for my cockups
There, that looks about right
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Facebook needs to grow up and realize what its platform is being used for. And it's not just livestream murders. It's anti-vaxx, flat earth, conspiracy theory nonsense that is suddenly given an immense platform.
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And this is where education comes into it, teaching people that just because something is on the internet and endorsed by a C-list celebrity, it does not make it true.
How many ads do we see for 'de-tox your liver' which sells some expensive supplement to your diet, which after you look through the ingredients, does nothing at all apart from drain your wallet. oh and your liver keeps on de-toxing because thats its job in your body.
As for the anti-vaxx people, they should be confined to one town or region where there can fail to immunise their kids to their hearts content (and expand the children's section of the local graveyard)
It is education that is key to this, that its not a good idea to let little 4 yr old sally look for peppa pig videos on youtube by herself, or that conspiracy theories are usually ranted by people with tendencies towards paranoia
But none of this cuts it with the people in charge, its much easier to blame facebook et al for the spread of such views/videos because its a quick and convienent target that satisifies the general media/concerned population's for a quick and easy answer to a very difficult problem.
And if you wish to go down the censorship route, who decides what is allowed and what isn't?
is what i'll call "the peppa pig problem"
In that i can be streaming something tottally innocent, like say an on-line gaming stream or peppa pig video, then cut the stream straight to an ISIS video of some poor bastard having his head cut off.
An hrs delay defeats the purpose of a 'live' stream, and yet how does the platform provider censor the stream if some ass hat does that.
And then theres always the 'echo chamber' effect of the internet where some disturbed person only ever seeks out opinions that match their own, are we to censor those opinions too... and how long before the censorship spreads?
Or maybe we could blame the camera manufacturers, or the makers of the kit that can link a camera to your livestream.
Or how about , blaming the neo-nazi fuckhead who will rightfully spend every day of the rest of his life in jail.
mentioned this before....
During the 'protect and survive" years, I worked for the government, fairly close to a primary target (like about 1/2 mile).
What we planned to do rather than cower inside the 'safe refuge' was go out onto the concrete slab that was the carpark, and arrange ourselves so that when the bomb went off, it burned our shadows into the concrete in an amusing pattern, so that in 1000 years time, people could come and look, then try to explain to the 4 yr olds that we must have been doing a fertility dance when the bomb exploded in answer to the question "But mommy... why does the man look like he has his arm up the other mans arse?"
riding my bike (at any speed)....
You have to contend with everything the construction industry throws at you..... from roads that have been planed and left with manholes sticking up 2 inches... to cable layers who think a "caution temporary road surface" sign is enough notice for a steel sheet covering the hole to unsigned roadworks where the warning sign is in the bottom of that locked filing cabinet in that disused toilet with the infamous sign.
Maybe it took the guy 4 yrs to find out who actually dug the thing as companies in the UK have a habit of filing the hole in double quick when theres an accident and going "not us gov".....
I'd never heard of him either..... until someone sent me the link to firestarter in 2012 2 days after heart surgery with a message "Play this loud, it'll get you moving again"
4am on the high dependency heart ward .... not my fault.... I was stoned out of my head on drugs..
Enjoyed some of their other stuff too........ when the nurses gave me my phone back
RIP
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Your idiot-proofing sticker will conjure from thin air a better class of idiot who will think "Why? Let's find out...".
This gives me an idea for removing said idiots from the gene pool, all I need is a regular steel container, some petrol and some matches , and a sign saying "Please dont set fire to the petrol while standing inside this container"
An infra red sensor then swings the door shut, waits while the fire consumes the idiot and then reopens ready for the next vict er idiot
Because cheaters make regular honest folks abandon the game, then tell their mates not to buy it because of the cheaters....
Theres nothing worse than spawn ... die spawn die... spawn die.... without even a chance to do anything because some ass thinks its funny to run an aimbot and kill everyone in seconds
I agree.
I've done HDD recovery for work and after relatives passed away.... plug the suspect drive into my spare linux box, copy the entire disk to a new clean one, play with the contents of the disk copy until you can retrieve data.
But then it could be that the plod (with truecrypt/GCHQ help) have decrypted the entire disk , but to advertise the fact means no one will ever use truecrypt again.....
Can we have a new version please
while impressed with your skills at building the thing in the first place, can I suggest you build a portable one that can be discreetly worn so that if we get invited around to a friend's house and they have one of those annoying alexa listening bugs, we can throughly stuff it up....
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The Commission simply implement the law and regulation passed by the Parliament and are appointed and removed by elected chambers and national governments.
Not quite true.
The commisison has the power to originate laws and policies affecting the people of the EU.
Whether the laws manage to get past the council of ministers or the parliment is another matter
And anyone who has that power should be elected by the people of europe.
Which means as far as i'm concerned, the only legit law making body in the EU is the parliment and as representatives of EU citizens, it should have the power to rule over the EU ,and the unelected and appointed people dumped into the dustbin of history.
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likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism" so that it now covers viewing or streaming content online.
Then I want google maps/earth banned and blocked, mainly because I can peruse the UK's critical infrastructure looking for weak and easily attackable points from the comfort of my sofa.
No more driving around muddy country lanes, no more 'git orf ma land' farmers, and they've even added a handy over head view which is just right for seeing where an interconnector comes ashore on a quiet beach with easy JCB access.
But then if the plod find out what I know about explosives and underhand derring do, I'll get banged up for 15 yrs.
"But m'lud the government GAVE me the knowledge in the first place...."
done in virtual box, so long as you have the original install disc and code.
Dont expect it to be able to figure out howto connect to the network(I got lost and killed several snapshots).... but it does run a heck of a lot faster.
As for doom etc..... I never even tried... it was just an achievement to see a win 95 desktop again long after the original PC it lived on went to the scrapheap eternal.(due to a dodgey PSU frying the m/b a few years ago)
until the government extend the AgeId scheme to cover other things deamed 'harmful' by the likes of sun editors and daily w(m)ail readers.
"Hmmmm animal farm could be used to undermine confidence in HM government..... lets ban it"
"four legs good two legs bad"
"four legs good two legs bad"
"four legs good two legs bad"
"four legs good two legs better"
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Any government worth its salt wouldn't have triggered Art. 50
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Actually as a leave voter (stop throwing stuff at me), I'm looking at this whole process with the belief that the tory party fucked it up completely , and even as a firm believer in democracy and one man one vote, I think I'd support the Queen if she marched in parliment at the head of a guards division , arrested all the MPs and threw them in the tower.
Then called the EU up and said "Right , the adults are in charge now... lets do this leave deal properly"
In reality, what should have happened in Camermoron should had the balls to say "Ok I lost... lets get everyone together, see what we want in terms of a future relationship with the EU. then informally sent those ideas to the EU, come up jointly with a deal that benefits both sides, signed/passed it and then activated A50.
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How many health insurance policies in UK contain cover for cancer treatment for example?
Dunno, but I do know they charge a hefty surcharge for pre-existing conditions such as heart disease....
I'd save my money and take my chances on the NHS... it might be crap but 1 week from diagnoses to having a madman hack my chest open was'nt bad.. and it wasn't even what they term an emergency case...
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What benefits are there and what does it achieve?
Speed, and case notes freely available to all involved.
In reality, a couple of ex-ministers involved in it on the board of ATOS, and a fat wad of cash to m$ so that current ministers get a seat on the board..... alledgedly.
End users... who cares...
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