Wasn't Kai the name of the undead assassin in Lexx? Basically, already dead, didn't stop moving.
Posts by TRT
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The phone OS that muggers wouldn't touch is back from the dead
We all hate Word docs and PDFs, but have they ever led you to being hit with 32 indictments?
Re: TRT on digital signatures
I don't mind humans being stupid. Really, I don't. They are. Why deny it? What I do mind, though, is when they claim to be professional or competent or otherwise beyond error. It's a form of hypocrisy and that's the thing that grinds my gears above all else. The IT directorate bleating on about cyber security endlessly then expecting absolute trust and a different set of rules for their staff, or shirking any sort of hard work that would actually mean they comply with the best practises that they are proscribing... it's like the local priest preaching hell and damnation and putting, literally, the fear of God into the little kids from the pulpit, about paedophiles and original sin and how buggery condemns you to burn in eternal fires... then bending their favourite choirboy over a chair in the vestry and blessing their ring with their rod and staff thy comfort still.
Re: My driving licence is paper and I don't have a passport. Guess I'm stuffed, then?
Yep. Been through all of that myself. Had to get a passport in the end. Took months and months due to changes to the passport regulations, all that business about grandparent's place of birth etc. You wouldn't think that would matter for the UK - it's almost as bad as someone of Pakistani descent trying to get a visa to visit India. Interviews, retake your photographs (and the price of the photo booth in the passport office... talk about creaming a captive audience), phone calls to your sponsors etc. And that's for a 40ish year old WITH a UK birth certificate, a NI number, a 20 year plus continuous employment history, UK bank accounts etc etc.It was just a lost passport and a destroyed birth certificate from years ago that was holding it all up.
Re: @ Dr Heinrich Backhausen
Ah, but the problem is, if you're a bit short of dosh in the first place, how do you get a loan to pay for a full copy of Acrobat? ;)
OK, I know, a bit of a tongue in cheek poke at Adobe's relatively new SaaS licensing model, and I know Acrobat Pro does have a more traditional licensing option available - the only part of the suite that does, I think. But still, it's worth a cheap shot about the price of Adobe software now. Suits some customers, but not us for sure.
Myself and my office-mate been trying to get cryptographic digital signatures for PDFs adopted by my workplace for over two years. They think it's too complicated, and prefer to stick with audited email through Microsoft Office. They can't even create a PDF form to use without signature. Permissions and logins is good enough for them. If something needs filling in or signing, you print it, complete and sign it, scan it, return it. Seriously... they're living in the stone age. Whilst simultaneously forcing us to adopt entirely new working practices to replace established and evolved ones and telling us we've got to change because change is good. They are inept. Totally inept. Demand the highest levels of regard for digital security and GDPR etc etc, yet they planned to send round an IT audit team with just an email warning that "people will be asking to install software on your machine" and that if you have an administrative login, to let them. No list of names, no photographs, no nothing. So I said no - we will install the software and do the audit for you. That's not acceptable, they said. We've got home office licensed areas and we're not even letting you in through the door, I said. You have to, or we'll turn off your network, they said. In that case, not until we've vetted the people doing the audit, and you will be accompanied at all times. Bring your workplace IDs and a second form of photo ID with you. Your memory sticks will be scanned before and after use on the floor, by a member of our own IT staff.
Trying to tell us about security, indeed. Bunch of incompetent b*******.
Re: There's a worrying implication
In the UK the banks accept scanned payslips, PDF bank statements etc for electronic submission. They have to.The number of banks pushing 'go paperless' and the rise of internet banking means that people are expecting electronic document submission. We'll see, of course, if the new laws opening up financial records to third parties will mean that in future a mortgage or loan application will mean downloading a company's verification tool.
Oddly the identity checking system seems way, way more advanced than the document checking system. For example, one major internet bank requires that you use a webcam to image your passport or photo driving license (nothing else will do), using image recognition software to ensure that every bit of the captured image is readable at a high level of certainty, then you have to, within a minute, place your own face into the webcam view, and it then checks THAT for image quality before sending the pair of the images off as a combined and encrypted pair. It only runs on some browsers, and it seems to have a preference for inbuilt web cams - a USB plug in one didn't work for me.
It's a pain in the arse having to get the photo ID documentation, but one can get around that by posting a certified copy of the documentation in - it just belies having an internet bank in the first place.
Hubble Space Telescope one of 16 suffering data-scrambling sensor error
Huawei guns for Apple with Mac-alike Matebook X
NRA gives FCC boss Ajit Pai a gun as reward for killing net neutrality. Yeah, an actual gun
The point of saying "keep your guns, ban ammo" is so that idiots argue how impossible that would be and then say what an imbecilic argument that is. Then the proposer can say "OK, so we ban guns then, as that seems to be easier". It's one or the other because otherwise people killing each other remains an impersonal point and click, fatalistic whim.
When clever code kills, who pays and who does the time? A Brit expert explains to El Reg
Flappy Friday for Stack Overflow as outage woes run on
Vatican sets up dedicated exorcism training course
Batteries are so heavy, said user. If I take it out, will this thing work?
Re: Compliment slip stapled to 5.25" floppy
Or like the visitor to the rubber & latex factory who was being shown round the condom production line and expressed his surprise at the worker who was sticking a pin through every 100th condom that went past.
"Isn't that rather unethical?" the visitor asked.
"Maybe, but we do say it's only 99% effective. And it does wonders for sales in the rubber teat department."
Re: Thats right up there with
The new Dell AIOs... delivered one to a professor, who came round about 30 minutes later and asked if it came with a manual, because he was f***ed if he could see where the power button was. I had to concur - I couldn't find it either, but stumbled across it by accident as I gripped the f***ing thing ready to hurl it out of the window.
King's College London staggers from outage, replaces infrastructure services head
Who wanted a future in which AI can copy your voice and say things you never uttered? Who?!
Real talk: Why are you hanging on to that non-performant disk?
Re: Really?
More so, in a hospital, one might have 12 medical imaging scanners acquiring and dumping scans into a system all at the same time. One needs a system with the bandwidth to cope with all of those systems offloading at once, obviously flash, then it can migrate into slower storage at the system's leisure.
Japan's Robo-Bartenders point to a golden future
This job Win-blows! Microsoft made me pull '75-hour weeks' in a shopping mall kiosk
KFC: Enemy of waistlines, AI, arteries and logistics software
We are currently awaiting the loading of ...
... our compliment of small, lemon-soaked paper napkins for your comfort, refreshment, and hygiene during the flight, which will be of two hours duration. Meanwhile we thank you for your patience. The cabin crew will shortly be serving coffee and biscuits… again.
A print button? Mmkay. Let's explore WHY you need me to add that
Farts away! Plane makes unscheduled stop after man won't stop guffing
Re: I am secretly impressed at someone having to be told off by the captain ...
In flight attendant. "Your attention please, passengers. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the captain has now illuminated the no farting sign, so you'll have to hold it in until we have safely landed and the cabin doors have been opened."
Big data fitness plan: What's the deal with DX?
UK.gov calls on the Big Man – GOD – to boost rural broadband
Re: I may be missing something
Churches do tend to be co-located with churchgoers, i.e. population spots. There are often telecommunications run out to churches, not least as a result of their role in WW2. There is also the possibility of line-of-sight microwave relay between the spires, should cabling not be available. There's also power run out to a church which isn't necessarily the case to these long abandoned rural outposts.
Oi! Verizon leaked my fiancée's nude pix to her ex-coworker, says bloke
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