Re: Impractical option
I love it when a plan comes together.
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Defense against the Darknet, or how to accessorize to defeat video surveillance
Wannacry-slayer Marcus Hutchins pleads guilty to two counts of banking malware creation
So how'd this go again... A sea goddess told you in a dream to run for president of Taiwan? OK, Mr Foxconn boss
Thursday 18th April 2019 12:32 GMT 
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government!
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!
You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!
If I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
Canadian woman fined for not holding escalator handrail finally reaches the top after 10 years
Friday 19th April 2019 08:19 GMT
Re: Other escalator laws
There are many curious bylaws that were consolidated into actual proper law in the Transport Act 2000. For example, and the one applicable here, one must comply with any reasonable direction given by an appointed representative of the railway company. So if you are, say, asked to leave a station by a staff member, but refuse, you've actually broken a criminal law rather than a civil one. Similarly if they instructed you to hop on one leg whilst rubbing your tummy and patting your head, that's not reasonable, but telling you to hold the handrail is reasonable.
The more curious ones:
If there's a sign directing you to queue for a ticket, you must queue for a ticket. Even if you don't need one or already have one? The law doesn't mention that! You can't play music to the annoyance of others. Tsch tsch tsch tsch tsch earpods. If carrying a scythe, the blade must at all times be firmly wrapped in stout hessian. You hear that, Death? You must be able to manage your own luggage. Yes, that's the law!
Unfortunately there's no law banning bloody bags on wheels, and it's dubious if the rules on considerate use of escalators extend to making sharp 90 degree turns at the top and walking across the path of people trying to step off (read - being thrown off by the forward momentum) the other side.
Friday 19th April 2019 08:06 GMT
Re: Seems discriminatory
They reverse most escalators at weekends in order to even out the wear. The underground even used to have flippable track rails for the same reason of wear because it's a pain to get the big metals down to the low level sections. Two wearing faces per section, but they don't do that now. Good idea though it was, it meant specially drawn metal which cost more than standard, and it also was bumpier as the track clips slightly wore the spare surface, leaving a lot of rail grinding to do.
Microsoft debuts Bosque – a new programming language with no loops, inspired by TypeScript
Surprising absolutely no one at all, Samsung's folding-screen phones knackered within days
Thursday 18th April 2019 09:21 GMT
Re: Why would a layer you aren't supposed to remove
Magnets! Two very thin phones that join together by magnetic force and can talk to each other by radio or even some clever arrangement of contacts. And if the battery goes in one half, you still have the other half that works. What was that little cube thing with the stick figures that lived inside it that would visit each other?
UK watchdog slaps 'misleading' Voda ad: Gigafast... maybe so – but not for £23
Thursday 18th April 2019 09:06 GMT
Re: Megabit in a Gigabit world
Well, they're not likely to call it 'killerfast' broadband, are they? Megafast, I can get. That would do.
And VM only refer to Superfast. I'm waiting for Hyperfast.
Ah, don't you just love the smoke and mirror tricks of marketeers? Where they take a word and obfuscate the specific technical meaning in order to make it sound better than it is, possibly respelling it in the process. Forever onwards, following their pollution of the language, there will be a shadow around the actual meaning of the term. There's now a fibre-shadow, and I suppose this particular shadow would be the giga-shadow.
Brit Watchkeeper drone fell in the sea because blocked sensor made algorithms flip out
As long as there's fibre somewhere along the line, High Court judge reckons it's fine to flog it as 'fibre' broadband
Tuesday 16th April 2019 09:05 GMT
Re: So legally speaking
pro-vitamin shampoo anyone?
And as for marketing, they'll stick a label on it and sell you any old crap if there's a buck behind it.
Radium & Thorium was all the rage once. Radioactive water? Cures arthritis; guaranteed non-harmful. Radioactive chocolate, toothpaste, eyeliner...
What's long, hard, and full of seamen? The US Navy's latest cybersecurity war gaming classes
Kent bloke incurs the anchor of local council after fly-tipping boat
IT meltdown outfit TSB to refund all customers that fall victim to fraud in 'UK banking first'
A quick cup of coffee leaves production manager in fits and a cleaner in tears
Monday 15th April 2019 10:29 GMT
Re: So...
I do recall some Smith and Jones, I'm pretty sure it was, sketch where after an explanation of how the life support machine was keeping the patient alive, a medical student asks about power failure and breakdown and I think it was the consultant Mel Smith says that in that unlikely event the patent would be dead within 30 seconds, but not to worry as there would be a loud beeping sound to alert staff. At which point there's a loud beeping sound. Griff Rhys Jones (the patient) suddenly gets a very panicked look, then starts flailing around in a panic, grabbing at his chest, before expiring rather dramatically. Mel Smith, meanwhile is busy playing with his watch, eventually silencing the alarm and apologising for still not having got the hang of these digital things.
My HPE-funded lawyer wrote my witness statement, reseller boss tells High Court
Friday 12th April 2019 11:12 GMT
This all seems rather confusing...
So Autonomy did something shady which increased the money the owners got from HP during a buy-out of the company?
HP have now realised this, having now got access to the company records, and are rightly pissed-off about it?
This leads to a court case in which... what the hell is going on?
I'm going to have to go back and read this all again, because it starts off clear enough and then gets incredible messy. Like someone didn't get caught with their pants down, but they'd pulled them up before they had finished.
So you've 'seen' the black hole. Now for the interesting bit – how all that raw data was stored
London's Metropolitan Police arrest Julian Assange
King's College London internal memo cops to account 'compromise' as uni resets passwords
Thursday 11th April 2019 13:03 GMT
Re: Just block it
It can also come from a compromised botnet not located in China, although the code may have been put on that botnet by someone in China. Or Romania. Or from any one or more of a hundred well known nation states with a reputation for dodgy goings on. Heck, I get a dozen injection probes an hour coming from places like Germany, Hungary, France, UK...
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