Posts by Gordon 10

Re: Lucky for him...

Answer none at the time but several that are in retrospect.

Preumably retrospect =

a) failure to classify them properly originally for which someone should be sacked.

OR

b) use of reclassification for political purposes again for which someone should be sacked.

Which begs the question if it can happen to Hillary what hope has some poor schmo got.

Hacker: woohoo I hacked Teresa May's alt.rec.track-em-all notification messages

GCHPLod: those are NOW all classified beyond top secret here's your ticket for an all-inclusive indefinite stay in Cuba.

But surely the simpler requirement is the CSV file? In which case why is this dumb working group waffling on about API's files when the stoopid banks cant even get the damn downloads right.

A simple csv download has far less attack surface than a whole host of API's.

Re: Too little, too late!

MS had a mobile strategy it was called danger, kin, win phone, win ce, Nokia

Re: Back to the Nineties

to be fair SCO <> Santa Cruz Operation (or only by the slight of hand transfer of some dubious IP)

Rather like HP <> HP (real_HP = Agilent)

Re: So how does this work

I agree. Not until the range and hand off improves.

About the only value is at bus stops and the like.

And how does the liability work out? Someone torrents something over my broadband or defaces www.her-maj.gov.uk who gets it in the neck?

Not having allowed these over the threshold - can you throttle the parasite connection?

What about hardware - is there a dedicated second frequency in use or is it all logical/software.

Call me when they can mesh network direct to a fat pipe at the exchange.

Re: Knock-off goods sometimes made during 2nd shift

The payment processors are the dodgy ones. (for values of dodgy) Bear in mind this is mostly high value (poss low worth? :P) Brandopolists we are talking about. So some would argue that this is a victimless crime. Not sure I would go that far but its certainly much further down the scale than illicit transfers to them paedoterrorists on silk road.

Re: Capita

I cant believe even Tim would support Crapita, though he's probably come up with a good economic argument as to why they are naff.

Re: It's competition (how unfair)

Indeed how come the land of rampant capitalism has allowed so much pigopolist behaviour whilst here in Blighty its not perfect but we seem to be able to get Phone TV and Broadband for about 50% of what it costs in the States, and probably 50% faster too.

Damn those commie Europeans looking after the consumer.

Land of the Fee, Home of the Screwed?

Re: Wow

Presumably there is a strong correlation between new talk talk joiners and people who DONT watch/read the news.

Re: Planet?

**cough brown dwarfs cough**

The advantage of the current model is that once you have the physical mods done its mostly a software problem.

Besides the barges are mostly a secondary solution to allow them to get their hands on resuable 1st stages more regularly that just the lauches they have that are in range of an allowed land based site. They only have 1 at the moment - expect them to have more in the end.

An important consideration is not just the quantity of R libraries but the quality of them it's a very good example of Linus' law in action.

Its downsides are its not a general purpose programming language and it's now beginning to suffer library overload where too many of the libraries do 95% of the same thing but you need that missing 5% from each one and then you find the overlapping bits start interfering with each other.

It's likely to eat the lunch of the low to mid end data analytics 'space as its now directly supported by both Oracle and Miscrosft on their flagship DB's plus all the commercial Hadoop vendors like Clouders and Hortonworks and then SparkR is lurking too.

Re: Link

Anyone commenting on a Reg article who believes that they have any privacy expectations when using a work pc in work time needs to quit and get the hell out of IT as they are obviously too dumb to understand reality.

The fault here is the muppet who worked for a firm with such a draconian policy and then violated it.

As others have said I suspect they were looking for an excuse for other reasons.

My understanding is its not quite that simple.

There are aspects of the IPB that are a slight improvement - one is the incorporation of more judicial reviews but this is far outweighed by giving them insufficient oversight and the fact that they are attempting to legitimise the gathering of far more data.

Re: Oh The Irony

Welll maybe - apart from the fact that this is best practise everywhere.

Care to GitHub it?

Re: Test to destruction

Since one (maybe both?) has been covered in fiery death from the last touchdown on it when the rocker toppled over I would say pretty damn tough.

Re: Depressing.

unless of course you assume - given the apparent continuity between this and the Labour snoopers charter - that is those same civil servants in Whitehall or more likely Cheltenham driving this.

Ironic since GCHQ already has most of this anyway - so its probably just an attempt to get the storage costs off their books and onto the ISP's.

Re: BT mobile historic flip flopping

One thing that I've always wondered but never enough to work out is whether BT is net up or down on the costs/profits from its shilly-shallying.