Posts by Khaptain

Re: New tropes...

"do away with the subject matter "experts" and let the developers learn the subject, from the user"

Isn't that how things actually get none regardless of the methodology ?

Re: Damn, damn, damn, damn. Sorry!

The easy way to remember, as long as you are driving a car which has been kitted out for the country your are in, is to simply remember that the driver side is always the middle of the road and never the edge... At least that's how I do it on the rare occasion that I visit GB.

Re: Ouch

"TL;DR it doesn't have to be "data at rest" that was snaffled."

Effectively a Man In The Middle approach could have been used.... A slight modification to their Web code could have indeed slurped the CC Numbers on their way to be the Bank/Clearing House. If this was the case I would have presumed that they would have slurped also the Name and the CIV..

If it had been IOS then would it have been the BlackApple ? Not very appealing either..

Re: Pop, pop, pop, pop

The Samsungistas might have some sympathy.... I am willing to share my popcorn with everyone else..

Re: @ WolfFan

Doesn't the "Red Cross" count, they are neither political not religious ?

Re: A back button

"Top left of you iPhone will show you "<Mail" next to the Signal indicator. Tap that to return whence you came. Happens pretty much anywhere you are kicked from one app to another."

We obviously have different ideas about what constitutes a back button. That tiny little link is not available in all applications and is not constant among anything...

Re: That's lovely, but

After your dead, identity theft is no longer your problem ;-)

Re: Extra software licences for reporting

That same cynic would probably also suggest that IT Budgets, Time frames, lack of staff/resources are common elements that MOST of us have to endure on a daily basis..

The perfect IT department is a myth otherwise we wouldn't need all these "miraculously expensive " products...

Re: Praise or accusations of work not done?

If you find the name for this syndrome let us know... It represents the majority of problems that I have with users..

I can't of any other scenario that frustrates the users more than that exact scenario.

I am 100% in agreement that it is nothing more than the fact they they slow down and think about what they are doing.....

I often cite it as a "problem between the keyboard and the chair"... which they don't really appreciate...

Re: Know your market

Soft-Ice - Definitely the best debugger/hacking tool in it's time... :-)

Re: Today has been the 53rd day since my last Camel

Good on you 404... I use the same Alien with the Baby Beast. One difference though is that I mix the PG/VH ( 30/70) myself. It is much much cheaper and I only add a little bit of menthol.. I dropped down to 3mg and soon I will drop down to 0 and probably stop the vaping....

Anything that helps stops smoking is great in my mind....and lungs etc...

He's lucky it didn't go off in his pocket then.... then he really would have been pissed off.... Would have taken all the Pride out of Asian Pride...

Re: It's a no-brainer

I always presumed that the problem with Drug "Merchants" is that there are probably quite a few who are actually public figures or establishments who constantly line the pockets of the law makers...

Considered the sheer quantity of drugs, measuring in thousands of tons per month, that are distributed in the world, it is very difficult to believe that only the Underworld are involved.

Then there is the problem of money laundering the sheer amounts of cash that must be involved. How can this possibly only be "under the cover".... We are literally talking Billions of Euros/Dollars that are capable of becoming untraced.....

It's like illegal arms, there are almost always governments or government figures lurking on the sidelines.

Re: Guns

From the kind of guns used and their size, almost all appear to be concealable small firearms. Glocks 26s and small revolvers are not the kind of gun you would use in a mass shootout, far too few munitions. None of the magazines look to be of high capacity so I presume that they were just for self-defence.

What does surprise me though is why they have a round chambered when entering an aircraft. As mentioned above, the chances of a gun going off are approximately zero until you put it into the hands of an idiot, at which point the odds go drastically up.... and I can't really imagine just how small the odds of stepping into a shooting match at 10000 feet are, but they must be pretty damned small.

And even if there was a "situation" I am not sure that I would want to pull the trigger inside a pressurised aircraft... I have no idea but I imagine that a 9mm wouldn't actually go through an aircraft window but I wouldn't like to be the one that tries and then finds out that it can... Darwin's law would probably play a strong role here...

As much as I am Pro-Self Defense, I don't really agree with the idea of guns in the cabin.. I was absolutely amazed though at a number of firearms found per period...

"Not all that much actually - it's a pretty clean fix. The released males all die off, the next generation is much reduced in size, and that's about it."

That's what the laboratory tests have shown.

Next weeks news ( Fake or not) When the mosquitos we released into the wild the interaction with "X" provided a completely unexpected result...and as such the human population of Fresno was suddenly rendered sterile....

Nature is complex and has a tendency to find it's own balance, when we start playing at mother nature there are always unexpected results. sometimes good, sometime not....

I am glad not to be on that side of the pond....

As a side note, Google have the capacity to keep it under the covers..... there is definitely a big advantage to being the worlds number one media outlet....

Conspiracy theorist, who me :-)

Re: Rules

Andouilletes I can handle , tete de veau however is another story...

I can't even look at...

Re: Pedantic ...

And yet the inductive phones don't weigh any extra.

This is still a project in its early stages ... I for one hope it can mes to light

Obama was a politician with the subtleness of a good politician. ( Zuckerberg is in the same boat)

"Never tell the truth, certainly not the whole truth or anything too similar to the whole truth."

Whereas Trump is a media troll.

"Only tell my version of the truth, how I determine the truth to be, and all other truth is just fake news."

In both cases, personal agendas are far more important than fact.

Re: Extinct in ten years?

Depending upon the service provider, number of transactions etc it's usually between 3% - 6%, plus the cost of any setups and the actual machines....

Not a huge number but it definitely has an impact on profit..

On top of that all transactions are recorded, "cough, cough", which the tax man loves but the vendor might not ...

Re: Experience firsthand

Thanks, what were you running Nutanix on, a Dell XC platform or something else ?

We are already a VMWare house, HP Servers + Storage, did/do you get the feeling that moving to VXRails would become a complete lock-in and do you have to deal with Dell support. In the past we have had Gold Support and they were always pretty damned good ( unlike like their standard support which is a nightmare).

HP don't have anything to offer that we can afford and for the moment we do not have any in-house hyperconvergeance expertise.... We will get some but it's not easy determining the correct platform for our needs up front.