Posts by 0laf 1973 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Nov 2009
Yeah also wondered what the outcome was after it was snared in the net. I thought the net was supposed to be tethered to a deorbiting engine or a solar sail etc.
Also I guess the small stuff doesn't matter as much since our space machines will be built to withstand micrometeorites anyway and paint and screws are basically the same.
But we need to do so meting before we end up in the Kessler Syndrome
So I spend £30 on an Amazon Controller to use on an Amazon TV box whilst always having Amazon subscription and they decide that after a year or so, naa we're going to brick your kit coz we can't be arsed.
There is a reason Car manufacturers have to provide support and parts for a minimum period of time. I think we need to look at this for tech manufacturers as well especially if the current crop of politicals are allegedly so interested in plastic waste.
I've an Iphone SE. I wouldn't change it except I find the screen keyboard too small for my fingers.
At these prices I'll bite the bullet and go to Google. Fuck paying nearly £1k for a phone.
I hope to see the Huawei P20 Pro on discount in October. If I'm saving £500 over a bigger iPhone I'll just have to live with the data snarf. I don't bank or shop on a phone anyway. If they want to read my FB posts (which are 90% daily mash shares) they're welcome.
Were the US military not looking at taking on people with tech skills who would not be suitable for front line duties ever? I.e. these might be people who are highly skilled digitally but have severe physical disabilities.
Digitally they may not even need to be in same continent as the fighting force so why require them to be able to pass the BFT?
Money is an issue, I know of an old neighbour who was highly skilled in his field who despite being quite senior in the TA (was a Major now higher) took a considerably pay cut to go on tour. He was willing to do this but I doubt many people would be.
It's always a sophisticated attack isn't it. To start with they like to make out it was the equivalent of an 5yr long NSA funded Mossad developed program of industrial espionage.
In 3 months we'll find out they were hacked by a bright 11yr old that stumbled on one of their remote access logins with a null password.
Either that or a manager clicked on a phishing link really thinking he was getting "Genuine grad A top qwaliti Viagrae".
Oh and I've flown BA a few times with increasing levels of uselessness and farce followed by their best attempts at ignoring me in the complaint process. I've flown with many carriers including Ryanair and EasyJet and in my own personal experience BA have been the worst to use.
I suspect they are thinking that you will be conned into buying a new range of smart devices every 18 months so they don;t need to support them for any length of time.
In fact I confidently predict that you'll start to see more and more IOT / AI devices being offered on a subscription basis. You pick your pieces of IOT tat from one manufacturer pay your monthly payment and every year or two you'll get a new suite of fresh crap to ensure you're keeping up with the digital Joneses.
Imagine how much food waste there will be if your fridge has an absolute adherence to the dates printed on the label. Plenty of food is edible after the use by date not just the best before date (and some goes off before those dates too). I doubt the AI fridge comes with an AI nose and eye to check the condition of foods.
It's probably the consumer group that they interviewed for this (i.e. themselves) is obsessed with 'digital' and so opened a browser, a food recipe app, a nutrition app, some music, and 2-3 forms of social media recording so that they can make broadcasts and streaming videos of themselves making said dish to be shown to other members of the same fatuous social group of vacuous fuckwits.
Everyone else opened a book and checked the time on a watch. But everyone else won't buy a fucking 'smart' cooker or give these fucktards contracts to develop products for other fucktards.
I suppose yes. West Ham will have to contact everyone and apologies and tell them to delete the email.
If they don't and then deliberately misuse the data then they could well be in trouble, quite possibly much more trouble than West Ham. Handing out email addresses for footy supporters isn't likely to cause much additional harm. Email addresses are thrown around anyway. You'd be lucky not to be on a spammer's list somewhere already.
It was a P1 200MHz MMX (an upgrade over the 166) with 16Mb ram (up from 8) and with a 15" crt (upgraded over the standard 14"). Bought from Simply Computers as did a few of my mates. I think it was about £1200 inc an epson inject.
I remember the company being great to deal with and when I fecked it up within a few days I phoned up and spoke to a bloke who knew exactly what to do. No helldesk no tickets no email. I probably spoke to the bloke the screwed it together.
Happy days.
W95 probably still does 90% of what most users need and on a footprint hundreds of times smaller than a smartphone OS.I don't remember it taking too long to load up on my P1 200MHz with a it's 20Gb HD (or was that 2Gb I can't remember). It might still be up in my parents attic complete with voodoo 1 add on card although it'll be running 98SE.
Themehospital FTW.
^ is the often missed point in the conversation. HTTPS protects the inegrity of your website to prevent hotels, cafes and any other seller of captive portal wifi from adding their adverts to your site. It also stops ne'er-do-wells from doing the same to attack customers of your site.
In fairness this is an point I missed myself for a good while.
MS would have like to have slurped your data just as much Google does but they made an arse of it. And I say that a former very happy user of a 920. I still rate WinPh8.1 as the best phone OS I've used. It could have been great as well has MS not decided that it had to be another Apple/Google or nothing.
Patching is like throwing rocks off a cliff. You probably want to look at what's below before you roll a big one.
We have over 20k end points and probably 2k different and significant applications. Many old, fragile and badly written, many involved in life and death services.
We have to be very careful when rolling out our patches to ensure we don't wreck anything significant in the process. MS current practices make this very difficult.
I use LibraOffice at home and MS at work. They are 'broadly speaking' compatible but in reality they cock up each others stuff and sorting out those small problems is a ballache.
PDF format deals with some of it but it is by no means a guaranteed way to avoid compatibility issues. I use Nuance at work, others use Adobe. We can still run into issues with PDFs produce on one causing issues but not the other. And PDF is supposed to be a standard format.
A proactive program to get more men into teaching especially early years teaching. That might be a good idea to add a bit of balance. Rather than the situation at the moment where any man that expresses an interest in teaching primary aged kids is automatically assumed to be a paedo.
My commiserations. That person talks exactly how your management expect 'dynamic go getters' to talk. All your talk of resilience and planning will just introduce a cloud of negativity into projects and you'll be sidelined. Mr/Mrs 'Dynamic' will shortly be shifted into a nice senior role with Cyber, Digital, Evangelist, Solutions, Architect or some other vacuous pish in the job title.
They will then move on to the next gullible gobshite loving exec team and you can enjoy picking up the pieces and taking the blame for the failure of governances in controlling Mr/Mrs Dynamic.
Something for you to look forward to.
I suspect form personal experience (and stories from many other security bods) that the group with the project of updating the info boards probably specifically hid the project from anyone who might have pointed out the lack of resiliency and therefore made them do things properly.
I know security are not popular with projects but id we get spoken to early on we can indicate the howlers that might happen. It's when we find out about things late on that the big 'stop' notices come out.
Of course we can investigate your work emails and internet activity. .We need to be able to do that to investigate accusations of misconduct. But as an employee you've been told that can happen, and are reminded every time you log in and you've been told to avoid using your work email for personal use for that very reason.
As someone who regularly carries out these investigation I'd also add that the evidence I've gather through instigating has proved innocence far more often than it has proved guilt.
The ability to investigate is not live monitoring since that would fall foul of RIPA/RIPSA.
I think there is a bit of confusion over active monitoring and having logs to enable investigation.
But please, pretty please don't use your work email for personal shit. I don't want to know about any more married men hiding in the closet arranging liaisons with boyfriends, or who is humping whom in the office, or the the plans for your next coke fuelled party.
Managing the tech night even be possible. Managing the tech whilst dealing with the ever changing slimy morass of interfering politicians desperate to appear to be involved with any modicum of success and distanced from any hint of failure is close to the dictionary definition of the job from hell.
Anyone who's do this for the money on offer is nuts. I'm sure there will be a queue out the door of 'technical' SPADs i.e. politics graduates that think they know their way round a Macbook with Dropbox installed.
That's great that they are flocking to IT if it's a comp sci course with some proper hard science behind it. If it's just an 'IT' degree, good luck finding decent work. We've cut IT to the bone and beyond and every time someone leaves the business tried to regrade the post as low as possible to save money. Soon we'll have nothing but living wage graduates on a hell desk.
I'm yet to know anyone who uses these apps seriously (apart from my son using Alexa's fart skill on my father's Alexa).
Every time I've ever tried to do something it's been frustrating and almost in very case I'd have been quicker to have done the task via the screen.
I get that people with problems using keyboards and mice will find these services a help. But for the able bodied majority I just don't get it. I lump them in with 3D TVs now.
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