Posts by Fred Flintstone

Just that Powerpoint doesn't actually improve anything.

Re: Just because I noticed it ...

I would have thrown in a "HELL no" option, just to see how deep the sentiment runs :).

Re: Disable "all"

I used it more to quickly riff a batchfile - I hate doing repetitive things if I have the means to automate them :).

Re: with apologies to AlpineKat

For those who didn't quite get that, enjoy the explanation.

Re: What?

Oh, don't worry, that's not an actual statement, that's lawyerese boilerplate.

Stating "It's a fair cop, guv" would amount to public admittance of guilt, so they always start with the Shaggy defence. It's a boring default that amounts to absolutely nothing. Think of it as a legal Lore Ipsum.

Re: Executives are allowed to ignore anything they want because they deserve it.

They are just pushing a bubble around the wallpaper.

Oooh, I like that one. Mind if I borrow it?

The "dialogue" should have been had with the users - beforehand..

Re: Security concerns?

It's easier than that. Just check the email headers of email sent by users of Office 365, even if they mapped it into their own domain name.

You will see that such email has ALWAYS been sent from a US host, so whatever you do, your data had to travel to the US first.

IMHO, Microsoft has been getting away with this for so long they don't even bother to hide it now.

Re: Childish Dick Move.

And the student gardener stunt isn't too mature either.

Perfectly matched the intended audience of one IMHO.

You have to hand it to him, though, he's probably one of the few men in the history of news who has managed to get his d*ck in family papers to popular approval and without an entry in the sex offenders register..

:)

Re: A Joy to Behold

Oh yes.

Breaking the law? Meh. Violating people's privacy on a global scale? Yawn.

Costing investors money? BRING OUT THE PITCHFORKS!!! LIGHT THE TORCHES!!!

It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.

To make matter worse, where I work has been funded as a collaboration of many countries around the world, so nearly each building comes with a different type of sockets, depending on the standard of the funding country (US, Japan, many EU countries, Australia, etc.)

We got two selection models for that. Equipment is sourced locally, but mobile gear is always required to also support the two pin Euro socket for which our offices always have sockets (or convertors, depending on code allowing us to fit the sockets or not), irrespective of country.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.

They're actually not mutually exclusive..

"spraying it with wd40 electrical contact clearner"

Is that something different to WD40? ie do they sell other stuff under the WD40 brand?

Yes it is and yes they do. Don't try to oil hinges with this one :)

Re: Alternative Revenue Source for Uber

Lots of nickels and dimes also make a fortune..

How much are you paid by Boeing to pretend you lack comprehensive reading abilities?

Is your day job telling people that the Mueller report is a total exoneration?

Re: Good for him

El Reg forum which, in a sense, is a type of social network site itself.

Gosh (flutters eyes), that's the first time someone has called me social..

Thanks for brightening up a boring Tuesday :)

Re: they need "reasonable suspicion"

Fair enough, but the difficulty there is that that is nigh impossible to prove - and they know that.

I.O.W.: I don't like SNMP very much.

Thanks for the clarification, I totally missed that.

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Re: Buy American because it's better, right?

All those Tesla Model 3's (with AFAIK at least 8 cameras recording everything around the car and sending data home) that will soon hit the roads are always connected to the Mothership in the USA.

I'd keep an eye on your WiFi access logs then - there may be a Google partnership in the works for Streetview v2 with a new round of "accidental" WiFi intercept which was "accidentally" left behind by an engineer which then dumped data into a service backend that just "accidentally" happened to be fully set up and available and "accidentally" fully compatibel with the data collection in the cars.

Did I mention that it was all an accident?

Re: When people like this exist...

Look at it positively - at least you have made a grandma using a laser printer, even to a degree that it requires refilling :)

That's why I like hardwired networks. It'll have to be at least as large as an RJ45 socket.

:)

Windows?

:)

Re: There are only two relevant issues here..

You're right. He IS very binary..

Re: A total failure

At last, finally a use for those marketing calls..

:)

Re: Do not unplug!

From a pragmatic perspective it strikes me as a bad idea to zap exactly those people you'd need to clean up the mess afterwards :).

Re: Easy fix

Try "π in the bottom righthand corner" - most of these hackers are too young to recognise the reference to a 1995 movie that was *well* ahead of its time..

Re: How many other renters complained and were ignored before it finally went public?

They now do, to the point of simply listing towels and robes as chargeable items (with the usual hotel upmark, of course - as with drinks, you can buy two for their price from regular trade).

It's done on the same principle as the hotel fridge: you take something, they'll charge you for it. That's also why they want your card details (other than for losing it later with millions of others to hackers, of course).

I like the younger brother idea. I must make one up, stat.

:)

Re: Expensive?

Yes, they will probably have to hire two full floors of the Trump Hotel for the next year.

Not really, that actually had short enough response time to allow decent control.

That was more or less inevitable given that it was entirely fictional :).

Didn't work so well for Avenatti when he tried this with Nike, though.

:)