Posts by Gordon Pryra

Sad but true

If either side had managed to make their offerings capable of being used as an actual phone, then they would have had a stranglehold on the market and could actuallly spend their time doing something more worthwhile than trying to argue that black is white and that they designed the paper bag.

Instead we have two pretty crappy pocket computers with the ability to make bad quality voice calls.

But then again, neither of them pay tax, so I guess they can afford to piss about destroying competition and techical advancement by being patent trolls, neither of them have any wish to actually develop anything new

The worlds worst exploit kit?

Surly thats the one that we know about, the BEST one is still out there working nicely....

"This was a lesson learned in how important it is to be prepared."

No this was a lesson in how kin STUIPID having nukes is.

On top of destroying the planet because you dont have sheilded cable connections to your early warning devices you also run a fleet of planes equiped with nukes that will make sure there really are no human survivers if it goes tit up

And the USA call North Korea a rouge state, they are probably more trustworthy than the Yanks, at least when they Nuke someone it will come with a load of Political Vitriol

When the Yanks kill our kids and grand kids, there will be a 3 line apology about sun spots....

The cops will be tasking their specialist drone unit to investigate.

The cops will be tasking their specialist drone unit to investigate.

Which, if as well funded as their Cybercrimes division, will be Dave from IT who likes mucking about with remote control boats on a Sunday afternoon and they are pretty similar to drones

Easy money

I was paid by a bank to spend the evening there for a months wages

My job?

To ensure that fax machines we still working the day afterwards.......

No one notice the light beam in his picture?

Did no one notice the light beam in his picture? Its not straight.

The beam of light is obviously heavier at the end so curves down.

Test this at home with a really long bit of bamboo.

Lotgs of hot air in this thread

Who here actually believes that any of these incognito type settings from ANY of the browsers actually hides anything from anyone apart from the wife?

Goolge even give themselves a get out clause when you start Chrome up

"Going incognito doesn’t hide your browsing from your employer"

They promise nothing

Its free

Its free

They arent going to shoot the good press they get from this in the foot for 13k single user licenses

Been saying this for years. I learnt about IT through trying to get Elite working on a 386. In order to do this i was able to get to the bare bones of the physical and then play with the OS (Dos 5 something). And in doing so, was able to teach myself

My 8 year old has now "built" her first computer from my spares box. She at least knows what makes the machine go, from which she can work out how the rest works. Good luck doing that with a tablet.

Kids today are the digital equivilent of the children of the citys from the 70's who had no idea what a sheep looked like.

"Brit cops accused of abusing anti-terror laws"

Stopped reading there, nothing new to see

Nothing to do with the quality of their customer service?

Or the rest of Virgin groups misselling of financial packages?

Did I mention the total lack of any service (customer or telephone)

Virgin now equates to Cowboy

Utter crap

Your pension pot is worthless now anyway, all the author in this article is advocating doing is backing the one set of people to personally make money from the banking crisis, the thiething scum in the banks.

If there was ever an industry that should NOT be in private hands its the finance industry. All these banks/institutions just carry a modern version of a letter of marque.

Why NOT reduce the amount of automated systems that allow them to turn small errors into massive errors?

What do we actually get from these guys that is worth us getting screwed time after time? We even have to smile and pretend to like it.

WTF!!

Why is a five you old playing on any system unsupervised?

Shit parents tbh

If you cant give up the time needed to look after them then keep your pants on

sites will be "identified by the creative industries"

Sounds like the BPI dictating UK laws again.

Just who on the BPI has friends in high places or how much of their cash is going directly into bribes?

Defend it with the much loved "think of the children!" defense all you want, but these guys should not be in the position of power they seem to be with our legal system and legislators.

Rubbish Figures

All these figures show is the untargeted machines’ caught up in the Crossfire between the various Countries games of electronic warfare.

Unless mails go between Washington/Beijing and Moscow every month, with the numbers of "targeted" machines/systems compromised and the departments’ current score.

British Culture?

Is this not an easy test to pass?

No matter where the game is set, we either gave them straight roads at some point or we stopped the Hun from taking them over.

And whats the use for the consumer?

After all, if the phone sellers can still say "the litmus paper shows you have water damage, your not covered" even when the phone is advertised on the wall being underwater (Sony Experia - carphone warehouse, nice job)

Sadly

If the Government actually came to most sysadmins, then they wouldnt need to do any of this bull shit.

Generally people like to help the police and, if legal, would bend over backwarks to give up all they can to help.

Found in old wallets?

More likely someone was told "when I turn the lights back on, there better be a slice of the cake on the table"

Hula Hoopping

I work at a local council, I shudder to think of the Hula Hooping antics being carried out here.

Then again, when I worked at some of the big city bank head offices, its a different game of bouncy bouncy.

Anyway, whats wrong with nubile pooly paid young ladies entertaining the hardworking males?

"so-called democratic countries"

What exactly has the type of Government got to do with a misuse of powers?

The way the people in charge are selected has nothing to do with what the people in the background do on a day to day basis.

And misuse of power is what this is what this is after all. GCHQ etc use these powers because they can and probably not for any real nefarious “Police State” type reasons.

The average people who can use these systems and can understand/implement them are hardly qualified to ask the question “Should I do this?”

The people doing the "spying" are just kids playing with cool gear or otherwise the normal Asperger’s 40 year old IT virgin, neither stereotype thinks there’s any problem doing what they are doing because they really haven’t thought about it for more than 10 seconds.

Poor Guy

If I had invetnted the algorithms used in a currency used by the Worlds worst people. I REALLY would not want this information public.

How many people who would not give a second thourght to torturing someone for 50 quid would think he knows backdoors in the system?

Biased Westen Reporting,

At least they understand the internet and how it works, which is more than can be said for the selfserving elite governing our land.

If its not NSA Proof

Then whats the point?

And the phone is not the component thats going to be leaking information to the NSA, ergo its impossible to make a really private phone (in the States anyhow)

Utterly fantastic

How the hell can the Government of the UK talk about the financial situation improoving when they make the "difficult decisions" by moving jobs to other countrys where labour is cheap?

How about they just send their bean counters into the various deparments and look into the procurment and service delivery contracts, work out which ones are more expensive than they should be and fucking jail the thiething scum who signed off on them?

I bet their costs come down by far more than the savings from a few low paid helpdesk jobs being sent to India (or whichever country with little to no human rights is the current favourite)

Glasshole fits.

Untill Google sort out the look of this thing, the name fits anyone stupid enough to wear one.

Aesthetics IS important, and 15 hundred quid for something a 1st yeah design studant could slap together is crap, leaving the wearer looking like an utter glasshole.

This article has decended into racism a bit faster than I expected.

While the article is about visas being rejected, the forum is about the quality of Indian labour being crap.

This is not so, but the people being hired for 2 beans and a shoe lace are what you can expect for that money.

Some of the best people I work with are based out of India, (IBM have a strong presence there) then again, I’ve hung up on a fair number from there as they are not worth wasting my time talking to.

The Xenophobia from the Spetics I find hard to take in, you country was made of foreign devils it’s makes you “you”. From the English, well we are allowed to be Xenophobic despite being possibly the most mongrel people in any country (we have French blood in in FFS)

You can identify the bad guys immediately within seconds

Presumably he would be the one with the gun?

The good guys would be the ones who would give you the chance to wait for the egg timer in your eye to disapear before shooting at you?

J-etcetera

What a fantastic name for a star!

Radio 4 this morning

I listened to some idiot women describing a data base to me. She kept talking about how the data was "Anonymised" but, of course, it can’t all be anonymised, there is a "unique identifier (tm)" for each person which has the various “coded data linked too”!!

But it’s ok because “it’s all coded.....”

10 years ago, technobabble worked, people didn’t understand what people were talking about when they were talking about computers.

Now technobabble just shows the speakers incompetence, when I don’t understand what someone is saying about computers it is no longer because I don’t understand about computers but because the speaker is an idiot or lying.

I have worked for the NHS, and no fucking way would I give them access to my data if I could help it.

I suggest you opt out before this stuff is used against you

Outsource outsource outsource

The results are always great

Having worked for "KC"

and been in the sad postion where they brought a company I worked for, all I can say is, about time and my gaging order has not been broken either !!!

Not anononymouse as I know more about the law now than I did when they shafted me.

Actually I lied, its not all I can say, I can also say, "what goes around..." and then laugh

In Your Face Kingston Comunications!!!