Re: Or, simply...
Or, simply
I always worry when someone uses the word 'simply' like that*.
Defence in depth is a concept worth understanding. No single measure will catch everything forever.
*Unless it's me using it, of course ;-)
Posts by Rich 11
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Why are fervid Googlers making ad-blocker-breaking changes to Chrome? Because they created a monster – and are fighting to secure it
Blighty's online pr0n gatekeepers are begging for a regulatory beating, says digital rights org
Monday 17th June 2019 09:33 GMT
MindGeek's AgeID ... has said it expects 20-25 million UK adults to sign up for its service in the first month.
And how many UK children? If the offline PortesCard method can be used to register five devices at a cost of nine quid, I can see a ready market in secondary schools of 18 year olds buying one and selling access to five kids at a fiver each.
Greatest threat facing IT? Not the latest tech giant cockwomblery – it's just tired engineers
Exodus: Tech top brass bail on £1bn UK courts reform amid concerns project is floundering
Hate your IT job? Sick of computers? Good news: An electronics-frying Sun superflare may hit 'in next 100 years'
Wednesday 12th June 2019 17:28 GMT
Re: Yeah let's frrrryyyyyyy
You need to build a new wood burning stove before baking the cake. How do you do that?
Quite easily. Haven't you already thought to look that up before Apocalypse Day? No? Then if you want cake post-Apocalypse you can come round to my house and buy cake from me. Prices start at a kilo of salt or 50g of unexpired tetracycline.
Oblivious 'influencers' work on 3.6-roentgen tans in Chernobyl after realising TV show based on real nuclear TITSUP
Wednesday 12th June 2019 16:52 GMT
Re: Can someone explain...
I seem to remember someone wrote that the most Daily Mail headline you can imagine is "Last week's superfood that you must eat causes cancer."
Nah. Nowhere near.
"Last week's superfood that you must eat causes cancer, immigration and house prices."
(Edit: Damn, beaten to it!)
Please be aliens, please be aliens, please be aliens... Boffins discover mystery mass beneath Moon's biggest crater
Wednesday 12th June 2019 13:32 GMT
Re: It's the core - hand-waving maths for fun
I tried working it out in volumes of Wales, but Mauna Kea rising from the ocean floor doesn't compare readily with Snowdon or Plynlimon rising above the continental shelf. Really, these scientists should work harder on their analogies instead of spending all day running complex calculations on gigabytes of satellite gravitational data.
It is with a heavy heart that we must report that your software has bugs and needs patching: Microsoft, Adobe, SAP, Intel emit security fixes
Bad news. Asteroid 1999 KW4 flew by, did not hit Earth killing us all. Good news: Another one, Didymos, is on the way
It's official! The Register is fake news… according to .uk overlord Nominet. Just a few problems with that claim, though
Thursday 6th June 2019 19:43 GMT
Re: The problem with "fake news"...
There is always the .GB TLD
Since we seem to be heading for a hard Brexit, which will almost certainly result in another Scottish independence referendum and the break-up of the United Kingdom, Jisc could be sitting on gold. Selling .gb registrations may be the only way to fund the UK HE/FE network, given how intent the government is on cutting education spending yet further, even before they dole out yet another unnecessary punishment beating to the economy in a vain attempt to hold the Tory party together.
Wow, talk about a Maine-wave: US state says ISPs need permission to flog netizens' personal data
Monday 3rd June 2019 14:22 GMT
Re: Why?
RINO Republicans, most of the Democrats, and most of the U.S. presidents have more or less been 'on board' with these people.
Fucking hell, Bob, you always have to rewrite reality to conform with your prejudices, don't you? Trump, Pai and Flake were behind the move. The 2017 Congressional vote split along party lines and was passed because the Republicans were in the majority at the time. Trump hasn't signed the bill into law yet, but his advisors have said that he will even in the face of states taking a pre-emptive move to protect their citizens.
More facial-recognition bans, new creeper tool links girlfriends to past porno, Microsoft's AI school, and more
Oh, the massive sky dong? Contrails from 'standard' F-35 training, US Air Force insists
Sex and drugs and auto-tune: What motivates a millennial perp?
Introducing 'freedom gas' – a bit like the 2003 deep-fried potato variety, only even worse for you
Thursday 30th May 2019 15:22 GMT
Re: Also...
[I think it was mostly Demo[n,c][r,R]ats resopnsible for that one]
Perhaps you could provide evidence which demonstrates that it wasn't the Republican Chair of the Committee on House Administration who ordered the Congressional cafeterias to make that change to their menus. Maybe there was more being said and done within the US at that time but this was the story which went international, to considerable ridicule.
Two weeks after Microsoft warned of Windows RDP worms, a million internet-facing boxes still vulnerable
That's a hell of Huawei to run a business, Chinese giant scolds FedEx after internal files routed via America
Wednesday 29th May 2019 08:58 GMT
Re: Youtube link - NOT "Edinburgh, Scotland", thank you.
I used to infuriate my colleagues (not coworkers!) when working in the USA by deliberately adding the State to all places that were being mentioned that were out of the state we were currently in.
You could infuriate them further with your Frank Sinatra impression by breaking into song whenever referring to New York, New York.
Ikea hopes to spare shoppers the one-way Helvete of its stores with ÅR app overhaul
Tesla's autonomous lane changing software is worse at driving than humans, and more
No Huawei out: Prez Trump's game of chicken with China has serious consequences
Friday 24th May 2019 16:56 GMT
Re: Airbus & China
Thanks for explaining something to me that I learned at school back in 1979.
My point about Trump not getting the most votes was to counter the claim "and kinda proves the other option was even worse in many eyes". I suppose I should have quoted the entire sentence rather than leaving it to chance. Or even explain why as poor logic it doesn't prove a single thing, since not liking one candidate doesn't mean you have to vote for one of the others whom you don't like,
Thursday 23rd May 2019 22:23 GMT
Re: Airbus & China
Everyone wants to kick the winner while forgetting that he won
He won the presidency but he didn't win more votes. He won the opportunity to put a handful of signature policies into practice, with little success so far. No wall. No better healthcare. No repair of infrastructure. The only thing he's managed to do is enact a temporary tax cut for the middle class and a permanent one for the wealthy and for corporations, while at the time promising his tax cuts wouldn't benefit him personally (hint: they did). And the promises he's made since being elected haven't been impressive: remember 'trade wars are quick and easy to win'? China disagrees.
All in all, he's well worth kicking. He's not going to go down in history for the reasons he'd like.
Never let something so flimsy as a locked door to the computer room stand in the way of an auditor on the warpath
Friday 24th May 2019 07:35 GMT
Recalcitrant doors
I once worked with a bloke from Northern Ireland who told a story about when he'd worked on an Army base as a consultant for their ICL systems. They had a couple of minicomputers in a secure server room in the centre of the building, visible from the adjacent workrooms through narrow wired-glass windows. It was kept locked tight when no-one was meant to be in the room, with only the duty officer having the keys. One night he got a call to say water could be seen pouring in from the AC gear on the roof and the DO couldn't be found, so he rushed over there to find two squaddies had ameliorated the issue in a non-technical but very pragmatic fashion: smash down the security door using a metal filing cabinet as a battering ram, then haul aside the kit they could move and put tarps and buckets over the top of the rest. After my mate had powered everything down and the late-to-the-scene DO had finished having a heart attack, everyone calmed down a bit and the squaddies started arguing about whether if they'd had their sidearms they could have shot the lock off instead. It's probably just as well they didn't get the chance to try that.
British Army cyber 'n' psyops unit 77 Brigade can't even brainwash civvies into helping it meet recruitment targets
Friday 24th May 2019 15:13 GMT
Re: Bigged up Army psyops?
is bigged up a real English term?
It most certainly is. It can be traced back to the 13th century, when boar-shafting parties were all the rage.
"...on that nighte we didst lws the Beaste unto its mark, & Sir Guillaume didst take it with grate joyeux, & was truly bigged up."
-- Roger de Montmorency, Keeper of the King's Ringcushion
Biting the hand that feeds IT
