Posts by TRT

Re: There is quality

When it comes to aluminum it seems there’s no transparency.

Re: Old school....

Do people want RFID readers that can be fitted nasally?

Re: Alistair Dabbs

Ha ha. When you said Jacket Fillers I was thinking you meant the puppies.

Re: A preening cosmetic shell of security...

As an aside...

How do you get 20 electricity transmission grid engineers on a bus?

Just open the doors and they all pylon.

Re: Alistair Dabbs

Bloody hell... that's a bit rough on old Dabbsy! Who let you in here, eh?!

Re: Making friends in the hallway

Only if I don't hear noises in the corridor.

Re: Hotel Security

It would be really nice if they put lift call buttons in the hallway, or tied 2-3 minutes worth of floor priority to the act of removing the keycard from the room occupation slot and opening and closing the door, so the lift would have arrived where it was needed in advance of someone walking up to the door and pushing the button, eliminating all that tiresome standing about, chatting and making friends that one otherwise does whilst waiting for the lift.

Re: My mum got asked to prove her age at a pub

They could have been trying to flatter her. My mother gets all mushy when they age check her.

Re: Night porters

I'm surprised this didn't make the cut as an example of the old fashioned Night Porter's activities, challenges and demeanour.

One of the finest films known to humanity.

I experimented putting some underneath the hot beans going into the crevice of a jacket spud. The whole thing disappeared in a couple of minutes.

Re: Do you think...

More teeth with cavities into which they can insert tracking devices smaller than a grain of rice, and receivers that can transmit subliminal signals into the jawbone.

Yeah. True.

's why I've smashed all my own teeth out wiv a 'ammer, innit? Dentists are in the employ of the gubermint and the NSA and the CIA and GCHQ and all them.

Re: 3 football fields?

Ooh! Yeah. And it's going to take more than a cup of Bold 3 to sort out that grass stain as well.

Re: 3 football fields?

3 football pitches? So, it's just a big sheet of grass then? Why is everyone so worried?

Re: In all fairness

Good points. Does Nord reference it’s VPN endpoint as a numeric IP address or does it require a DNS lookup?

Re: In all fairness

It's only as private as the next network connection, though. I mean, I could VPN everything back to my home, but then I'm relying on VerminMedia to be secure, at least as far as their gateway, and from that gateway to the next, and so on and so on.

Hence why end-to-end encryption is the "snuggest" fitting jacket in this layered security model.

Re: Train WiFi was actually that bad for a while

Before now I have been sitting on a train whilst some bozo decides to hand out a whole range of personal information via telephone banking. I think they were opening an account or something. Spelling their surname, speaking their whole name, giving their address, setting up a security password, date of birth... I mean, utter lunacy. At least my bank ran me through some basic security checks before that - Are you in your own home? Is there anyone else present in the room? Are your windows open? Can you be overheard? Are you sure that the information you are about to give me over the phone cannot be heard by anyone else, known to you or unknown?

So really... Nord... I mean, VPN is a good idea, and I know that you're not wanting to bog your adverts down with technical stuff... but I'm connecting to YOUR VPN, and that's going to be over public WiFi possibly, and so the technologies that make THAT secure... how can I be any more sure that that's more secure than the technologies that my bank are using to encrypt and secure the connection with me? I'm still connecting, and VPN is really only a tunnel - it's only ONE straw out of a bunch of straws.

Re: 1.2M or 1.44M?

The number of hours I've spent trying to fix Zip disks. The click of death was sometimes only due to a combination of disk and drive, so I had 6 drives of differing vintage and design hooked up on a shelf in the office ready to copy anything the students were desperate to get from their now dying devices onto one of those new fangled USB things.

I'm waiting for when she gets a stiffie stuck in a Zip and ends up with Jazz everywhere.

The dangers of using second hand magnetic media.

Like polishing your balls on your trouser leg?

Re: I like causing headaches.

Rubber trousers, held down with bicycle clips. Wow!

Are you ok? You sound delirious.

The Russell of a shell suit, you mean?

It's bed wear apparently and beds mean sex. Mind you, so do children. Children are relatives and relatives are evidence of sex; and sex has no place in the schoolyard.

Well, strictly speaking there is a place for sex in the schoolyard, and that's behind the bike sheds, but you know what I mean.

Re: For a horrible moment there...

Between Memorial Day and Labour Day apparently is the season for white and pastels. Especially shoes. I believe it has something to do with weather and mud and stuff. And fashion. And snobbery.

Hey! The rules say nothing about holsters. Hip, shoulder or ankle, it's up to you.

Re: I'd ban North Face clothing.

F***ing pink camouflage tracksuit bottoms. *GRRRR!!!!!!*

Re: Working fine for me

As we were talking about letter designated drives under Windows/DOS... I though D: made more sense than :D

Re: Working fine for me

"I suppose a RV can bake D:"

TFTFY.

Re: Other escalator laws

The procedure is: inform a member of station staff. The escalator will be barriered off until it is clear. The escalator will be stopped. The escalator can then be used as a fixed stairway. The staff member will barrier off one end and escort the dog and person up or down. When the escalator is clear, barrier off the other end. They will then radio for a restart on that escalator. Once the machine is in operation again, they will remove the barrier and return to the other end and remove the first barrier.

If there are two members of staff available, they will take an end each (much quicker).

Re: Other escalator laws

Yes, it's not a pleasant sight. It really isn't.

Re: Further explaining:

e.g. on the door of a building site:

"Protective equipment must be worn" => Anyone entering must don hardhat, hi-vis, goggles, ear defenders etc.

i.e. If you do not have PPE, this rule applies and you may not enter.

"Dogs must be carried" => If you have a dog, it must be carried on the escalator.

i.e. If you do not have a dog, this rule does not apply and you may enter.

Same sentence construction, two different meanings. English is a pig like that.

Re: Until I learned it's actually a safety feature.

I thought it was because when the single line to Chesham was switched to signalled instead of token worked, that they were still had some steam-hauled locos on the line, and nobody really trusted that the tripcock on a steam loco would actually stop the engine, so they put a second set of signals in just in case. Knowing that line as I do, I certainly wouldn't want to coming off the rails at any great speed there; be a right old mess.

Re: And a couple of thousand additional rules will probably prove to be good enough.

1. "Serve the public trust"

2. "Protect the innocent"

3. "Uphold the law"

4. "Any attempt to arrest a senior officer of OCP results in shutdown"

...

238."Avoid destructive behavior"

239. "Be accessible"

240. "Participate in group activities"

241. "Avoid interpersonal conflicts"

242. "Avoid premature value judgements"

243. "Pool opinions before expressing yourself"

244. "Discourage feelings of negativity and hostility"

245. "If you haven't got anything nice to say don't talk"

246. "Don't rush traffic lights"

247. "Don't run through puddles and splash pedestrians or other cars"

248. "Don't say that you are always prompt when you are not"

249. "Don't be over-sensitive to the hostility and negativity of others"

250. "Don't walk across a ball room floor swinging your arms"