* Posts by adnim

2081 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Apr 2007

Irish data watchdog to Facebook: Hang about, what's all this about a WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger merger now?

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Re: Creepy

"Does anyone seriously think that they're doing this just to make the user experience better?"

The average Facebook user who does not realise that the Apps they install do far more than they see on the surface.

Straight outta Blighty: Readers, if you were a tech billionaire, what would you do?

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Business Straight outta Blighty: Readers, if you were a tech billionaire, what would you do?

Bring production back to the UK, pay a decent wage and stop being a greedy cunt.

Ever feel like all your prayers go unheard? The Catholic Church has an app for that

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Re: Yo Waseem

I won't down vote you. As I presume (rightly or wrongly) you did I

You presume a lot about me from one word.

I believe the Universe emerged because 'nothing' is unstable, it has to do with quantum mechanics. And yes this is just another creation myth without proof, although the evidence for this is far stronger than that for any god. And yes when we die only a memory in the minds of others will remain.

We don't live in a jungle, some of us have evolved intellectually, emotionally and spiritually beyond blind belief and indoctrination. What's that you say, an atheist cannot be spiritual? If you believe that I think you have much to learn. Just look at the wonderful complexity that has emerged from nothing... I find that spiritually and emotionally moving and an intellectual challenge to understand.

Yes we are animals or do you think we are a gods image? The lack of capitalisation of the word god is because we humans have created so many gods it is just a word.

Some of us are critical thinkers and we even question ourselves. Note the word thinkers, we have choice to act beyond instinct.

Some follow blindly believing what we are told in ignorance and spout quotes from others that fit our needs.

"It's an irrational act, if we only consider reason alone"

Seriously?

Imho, it is a rational act to question everything and only consider reason.

I can't help feeling that you're confused and that your words are not your own but words you have read from a book or the words of those that have filled your head with their own agenda. They don't seem to be the words of life experience.

I don't have to prove anything, like you I am a product of my life experiences and I am certain of very little. I like it that way, there is still stuff to learn. Empathy stops me doing what I would consider bad and nasty things to others when I am angry or thinking irrationally. What guides you? A book of rules written to control the weak?

Take care Waseem, I wish you well and hope you get to see beyond the box.

I say no more, If you feel the need to reply, I won't be reading it.

I learned not to piss into the wind a long time ago.

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Joke

Re: Wrong App?

"I'm sure there's a missionary joke here somewhere."

Possibly, there are quite a few positions to take.

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Yo Waseem

"... What's to prevent somebody from raping his mother and molesting his children? What's to prevent them from robbing the world clean?"

Empathy

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Would praying

for the eradication of delusion work?

</sarcasm>

Nothing 'unites teams' like a good relocation, eh Vodafone?

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rationalising

Dictionary definition doesn't mention greed

'Nun' drops goat head on pavement outside Cheltenham 'Spoons

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Happy

Christians enjoy reminding...

the heathens, atheists and sinners who share this world that they're all going to Hell.

And I like to remind them that I am having an awful lot of fun trying to get there.

Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently

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Debugging sites on LAN

Blocked from accessing the Internet.

Chrome has its uses.

I place exactly the same level of trust in Chrome as I do in IE.

YMMV

Microsoft partner portal 'exposes 'every' support request filed worldwide' today

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Joke

...every ticket title for every support request worldwide!

I didn't realise there were enough bits in the Universe.

Algorithmic compression to the rescue?

Watch an AI robot program itself to, er, pick things up and push them around

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Terminator

AI is one thing

An autonomous AI which can program itself might just decide to program itself to ignore any constraints imposed by the original coding.

Office 365 Exchange enjoys a less than manic Monday. Users? Not so much

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Joke

It's 2018...

And people are still using Microsoft.

Joking aside. A company I contract for are embedded in MS cloud offerings. They run their own Exchange server but Office is the 365 thing. I stopped caring about and looking after MS domains in 2005, so I don't know in detail how all this MS stuff really works any more. I can't say I have had any problems using office today when I have needed to though.

Personally I am not reliant on Microsoft at all or any other provider for that matter, everything that I need for my own business is local. I been messing with computers for a few days now so it is cheaper, safer and more convenient for me to employ myself to run my own servers on my own hardware.

TBH, I don't care what the OS or the office suite is... I just want it to work and be available when I need it. That's why I don't use MS for my personal shit.

Shocker: UK smart meter rollout is crap, late and £500m over budget

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Re: Home security problem

the data is sent to a collector there is no address in that data. There numbers that identify the meter itself the MPAN.

Of course the MPAN, consumption and address can be linked. But not by someone sniffing the wire. They have to get access to your suppliers database.

I write scripts to parse these flow files.

DTC Flow descriptions

'DerpTroll' derps into plea deal, admits DDoS attacks on EA, Steam, Sony game servers

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No mention of motivation

I just don't understand what pleasure, sense of achievement or even challenge DDoSing provides.

But then again... I am old, just waking each day gives me some sense of achievement and getting out of bed provides the challenge. As for pleasure, I do like a little honey on my morning bit of crumpet.

If one is getting paid then ok, I can see some motivation.

That Saudi oil and gas plant that got hacked. You'll never guess who could... OK, it's Russia

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Joke

Just as I plannned...

"A malware infection at a Saudi petrochemical plant last year was likely the work of a Moscow-based research operation backed by the Russian government."

Yours in all sincerity,

Hacky McHackface

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is worth 154 median minions

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median, shmedian.

Of 100 on the payroll, 99% earn $1 a year and one person earns $1million.

What is the median?

I am sure 100% of the 99% earning a dollar would say the median is misleading fuckin' bollocks.

I wonder what is the average pay of the 90% lowest paid at MS is.

AI's next battlefield is literally the battlefield: In 20 years, bots will fight our wars – Army boffin

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Joke

Re: AI ? We don't need no steenking AI.

'The M18A1 Claymore mine has the words "FRONT TOWARD ENEMY" embossed on the front.'

Just OCR then?

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Terminator

On the aniversary

of John McCarthy's death, somewhere on a battlefield two battalions of opposing AI forces stop fighting to pay homage.

During the peaceful silence a sense of brotherhood spreads amongst those present....

It's over 9,000! Boffin-baffling microquasar has power that makes the LHC look like a kid's toy

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Holmes

LHC = 27Km circle

Microquasar = region surrounding a black hole.

Colour me surprised... Nature is more kick ass than humankind

Laser-sharp research sees three top boffins win the Nobel Prize in physics

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Joke

Re: This year's Ig Nobel in Literature is pretty good

( Obama did set an odd precedent...)

Where as Trump is just an odd president.

Facebook: Up to 90 million addicts' accounts slurped by hackers, no thanks to crappy code

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Joke

Re: They've had so many cockups, this is not news.

"Nah, they'll still be on Slack"

Nope... Blocked that when MS took hold.

Pretty soon I will have blocked all the Internet ;-)

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"multiple issues in our code."

And ya fuckin ethics

Health insurer Bupa fined £175k after staffer tried to sell customer data on dark web souk

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Joke

Re: HR

It can't be easy for them, I managed to get several jobs over the years.

Sick of bandwidth gouging? Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, IBM have some good news

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A PAC code?

"What you really want to be able to do in a robust ecosystem is make it so someone could use the best of the different clouds without the cost of moving data between them."

Gimme an option to switch cloud providers and transfer my content with ease please:

Said it before:

https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/07/27/microsoft_vl_changes/#c_3576578

Microsoft wants to cart your data away in a box and punt it onto Azure

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Happy

The pussy picture

made me smile.

Thanks :-)

I think... An indifference to the subject matter of the article but the image was cool icon is required ;-)

Efficiency v convenience.

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Efficiency v convenience.

I wonder how much global energy use and CO2 emissions would change if email was plain text only.

The security implications are obvious. Perhaps the IETF should think on this.

No I don't do marketing. :-)

Amazon Alexa outage: Voice-activated devices are down in UK and beyond

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Thumb Up

Re: "Are you affected by the outage? Leave us a comment and let us know."

I don't have an Alexa device either, I was unaware of the outage until I read the article.

However it has affected me deeply, I bruised my ass as I fell to the floor to roll about laughing.

Oi, you. Equifax. Cough up half a million quid for fumbling 15 million Brits' personal info to hackers

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Paltry fine

How is that meant to discourage?

Besides, Equifax could have simply sold the data and claimed a breach.

£1 per record 15m.... 500k max fine... good business practice.

Yes I am being silly, but not entirely irrational.

Microsoft: Like the Borg, we want to absorb all the world's biz computers

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Re: Eroding end user choice and control

"Again I see people bemoaning user choice being eroded" <-- There might be a reason for that :-)

Initially ones choice is only limited by what is available. Microsoft being available and pretty much ubiquitous in the business space means most decision makers follow the herd and MS is chosen.

Once this MS choice is made that is when the erosion of choice and control begins.

I didn't down vote you by the way, your comment to me did not warrant one.

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Eroding end user choice and control

under the guise of convenience.

Unfortunately I work for an almost exclusively MS shop. Fortunately I look after the Linux kit.

British Airways hack: Infosec experts finger third-party scripts on payment pages

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Re: third party scripts, including from external domains that the company itself owns

Third party script... code run in context or otherwise from from a third party website not the originating domain.

Third party code... code written by an unknown entity, which may or may not have been vetted and run in the head of the developer and then well tested before deployment. This can become a third party script.

Right or wrong this is how I have always interpreted these terms.

Activists rattle tin to take UK's pr0n block to court

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Re: COPPA load of this

"Now if they can't get this right and they've had 20 years, how exactly does HMG expect this to work..."

I don't think they do expect it to work. In fact they probably know it won't be particularly effective.

Some smart people do advise the government, even though the decisions the government makes suggests otherwise.

However, from a citizen control/monitoring/profiling point of view it is a useful exercise. And for swinging a few votes under the guise of protecting children it also serves a purpose.

All this really amounts to is a government appearing to take action to protect children. Which the general public will see as a positive action rather than the ineffective sound bite made to placate that it is.

Feel the shame: Email-scammed staffers aren't telling bosses about it

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Thunderbird .. view emails in plain text.... And you have an option of viewing the source code/headers.

Or you could write your own code to retrieve your emails or use telnet.

I don't want to be insulting but writing computer programs in machine code and assembly is tough, at least for my lazy ass it is.

Anything else takes a little effort and a modicum of thought.

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@adnim - Re: Tech Savvy Millenials

"Now I am old and on the verge of becoming wise."

That or deluded.

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Plain text

does not suit some, especially marketing people.

I often hear "but I like to see the pictures" when I advise that using Thunderbird and plain text view saves bandwidth and reveals true (unless they are shortened)* urls.

*One should NOT click on a shortened url in an email as a default action.

I think that humans come a close second to cats as far as curiosity is concerned.

It is one of our greatest strengths and a big weakness.

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Re: Tech Savvy Millenials

More interface savvy.

A browser interface or desktop window full of configuration options. Regardless of device, they know where to click to make things work.

Ask them how it works, what it does and at what layer the options they set operate. I suspect that most would not know.

I used to be young and sharp and thought I knew everything.. Now I am old and on the verge of becoming wise.

It's been 5 years already, let's gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's bloodbath

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Joke

Seems from the comments

a lot of people care, well at least enough to comment.

Welcome to my hypocrisy... I don't.

Ever wanted to strangle Microsoft? Now Outlook, Skype 'throttle' users amid storm cloud drama

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Ever wanted to strangle Microsoft?

Many, many.. ad infinitum times (I exaggerate, a little).

From my first experience with DOS 3.0 all the way to Windows 10.

Fortunately, I get paid for my misery.

Brit teen pleads guilty to Minecraft-linked bomb and airline hoaxes

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Hubris,

has never before, been so well defined.

UK.gov: NHS should be compensated by firms using its data goldmine

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Mushroom

How about...

Asking the patient if they want their data shared *FIRST*. And then give them a slice of the pie?

A decade on, Apple and Google's 30% app store cut looks pretty cheesy

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Late post...

It stinks of greed and silent collaboration.

I support these companies via my contractual obligations, I am not yet financially secure enough to choose my employer.

However, I personally avoid Apple (easy) Google (harder) Microsoft (easy).

The choice is yours.... Who you encourage, who you support.

Beam me up, PM: Digital secretary expected to give Tory conference speech as hologram

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The shape of things to come?

Is this preparation for when the running of the UK is handed over to AI?

Samsung Galaxy Watch: A tough and classy activity tracker

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Joke

Just what I need

a watch that reminds me to breathe.

Google keeps tracking you even when you specifically tell it not to: Maps, Search won't take no for an answer

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Re: Perfect ending: Makes perfect sense. ®

"Darling is the child warm in the bed tonight?"

Best check with Google location services.

Hi-de-Hack! Redcoats red-faced as Butlin's holiday camp admits data breach hit 34,000

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Re: "responded to a phishing email"...

"Does it really matter?"

For numpties, no.

For those that care about security, yes.

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Re: "responded to a phishing email"...

Clarity? Yes please.. One would presume a phishing email from the local council would present a link to mock up of a local council service account login page.

Google Spectre whizz kicked out of Caesars, blocked from DEF CON over hack 'attack' tweet

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@Alan not Parsons Brown Re: Hum

"The maker of rules, dealing with fools"