Posts by Gordon Pryra

road signs and traffic signals

Who cares about road signs and traffic signals when they are sleeping off their hangover on the way to work down the M1

2 Wrongs make a right here I think

Its offensive to me that I must treat people who claim to believe in a sky fairy with respect and not ridicule.

its offensive to me that people who work in advertising also claim to have any rights to respect

In this case, mixing the two should actually make a right?

Should the GSA not have waited?

Surely they should have waited for Putin to tell Trump what he should be doing here....

Its all pretty obvious

Its Trumps way of doing what his Russian masters ask but hiding the fact from the Americans in the street.

Namely giving the USSR the keys to the USA.

I wonder what the total cost of being made President is and when will Russia collect

Bithumb insisted its internal systems were not compromised.

People still playing the "its not in the office so its not internal" card then......

it's a not a critical security issue

"To exploit the issue, an attacker would have to convince an administrator – someone who already has root access – to install a unit file with an invalid user name"

Would this not make it MORE of an issue?

Surly this allows me to chuck a sysadmin £20 and lets him do something that doesn't have his account details all over it to trace back to him

Actual hacking rather than the "kid in the hoodie in front of a green screen" image the daily mail has

Ignore all the Crimea crap on this thread

Does anyone actually believe any of this finger pointing?

It smells like the "Koreans Pwned the NHS" bullshit that came out the other day as a cover for basic IT mismanagement on a massive scale.

Viruses have no flag, they follow any route of attack available. The only real occasion of targeted viruses that actually targeted the target ( :) ) was Stuxnet.

And I am sure that was the Yanks and the Israelis.

Considering the links between the two countries, its likely Russian business got hit by NotPetya just as hard.

Lego?

What sort of childlike exercise was this?

Get me someone who can do it properly

In play-mobile.......

Today’s generation is closer to technology than ever before.

No, just young enough to be stupid enough to think they wont get caught.

Add stupid enough to take things way to personally in a game/forum and its a disaster waiting to happen.

I wouldn't get out of bed for that sort of cash

Oh, hang on....

China pollutes ocean with American manufacturing

There, fixed it

Good

If any part of IT worked as expected then none of the people reading this forum would have jobs.

I for one LOVE it when CSC or Capita get involved, this means that at some point down the line I will get some employment helping to either fix or try to extend the time between massive loss in service

Luckily Gov.Uk tend not to want to spend the time to actually fix things, just spend to cash to not let it die on their watch.

Thank god for idiots with their princes and for a general lack of decent oversight in the industry

" leaving consumers baffled"

Which is the point, no?

The cuts are impacting morale

Well, no offense, but you have a choice.

As a contractor myself, I constantly get annoyed by listening to other contractors complain about pay/working conditions etc

In this case it seems that the IBM contractors see themselves as IBM staff, just on more cash than the full timers, tough go full time or deal with it.

We are NOT talking about the poor sods on zero hours contracts that are forced to become "self employed" but the upper levels where they don't seem to want to take the negatives along with the cash

Ignoring the legalities

I find it amusing that its the recruitment agencies who didn't get paid overtime rather than the poor contractors they put in to do the actual work for once

No need for any of this

In fact these sorts of models are BAD ideas for the Human race.

All we will gain (once we understand what dark matter is) is the knowledge that WE are just a simulation.

At which point they will shut us down........

The names of the affected clients have been withheld, for now

El Reg thinking of a making a little money here?

Pity this doesent apply to the English

All out information is shipped out from Gov.Uk to the Yanks weekly

Anything missed gets sold to the American data gathers like Google by the various UK organisations (NHS etc)

Lucky bloody Chinese!!!

While we laugh at the arguments he made

It was worth him giving it a go, it is not like he has anything to loose :P

Frozen water?

Or the mess the yanks left when they went up there?

The consequences of refusing the pay cut are unclear.

Really?

And when its time to renew the contact, who gets the roll on? The one who accepted the cut or the one who said "Pfft My Rates are protected by my contract!!"

What happens when the UK leaves?

Because, no offense, the quality of TV in Europe is pretty shit even WITH BBC's offerings in there.

I am not saying the American stuff is good, nor that the English make good TV just that the rest is dire.

Have fun with your increased regional offerings that you don't want to watch (which is probably why your viewing a streaming service in the first place....)

group probably bought its tools on a Trojan-trading site

One thing that script kiddies fail to understand is that its pretty hard to actually stay anonymous the moment money begins to move about.

They should have spent some cash and got one of those special HSBC accounts.......

Is this not the entire point to charities though?

Not that I am being cynical, but I have worked for multiple "charities" some of the big ones that you would recognize, and they just seem to be a business like any other.

Likewise, any profit making company pretending to have ANY charitable aims is just looking for advertising or (in this case) a way out of a court case. Any actual funds in a trust will OBVIOUSLY be used up in "admin" costs.

We know foundations like Big Gates etc are also a load of old toss, fantastic tax dodges but very little actually gets to the people claimed

So whats that? 3 or 4 years?

Till we either become a black hole or everything goes really weird and bubbly?

Cifas is pushing education as a means to help call centre staff

Education?

Why not just pay them enough to give a monkeys in the first place.....