Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: As the saying goes....

I'm married, I can't afford blackjack and hookers anymore

Re: 's not for your electric Porsche?

I don't know if it's a requirement elsewhere in the world - but I really need a "this vehicle is reversing" bin lorry recording

My tiny little electric car is silent reversing and the number of people who walk/push a shopping trolley/wheel a pushchair behind me while going backwards... I think their brain goes, that car is moving, it's reversing lights are on, but there is no noise so it's not really real.

One person literally walked into the back bumper and then said "it is quiet, isn't it? "

Re: As the saying goes....

Not sure i envy being 14 again.

But 14 and a $M I could work with

Although 14 year old me would have blown it all on computers, bicycles and cameras .... totally unlike 40+ years old me

Re: As the saying goes....

> 14 year old millionaires on TikTok

Yeah, those losers.

Now excuse me I have to go and wait in the rain for the train to take me to my job where I file TPS reports in a cubicle for 9 hours for enough money to cover my mortgage OR heating bill.

Re: 8-{ Wot, no migration planning?

Was the victim of a new Oracle based purchasing system at Caltech-JPL in the late 90s. Rumour was that at least one space mission was cancelled because a critical supplier went bust when no one could pay them. I remember having to take $ out of petty cash to pay for liquid nitrogen for our lab, from the university's own plant.

Ironically I moved to Cambridge just as they introduced an Oracle base purchasing system that never worked / was massively late / went over budget.

Still I suppose accounts-receivable and double-entry book keeping is one of those areas of hyper-mathematics that would take the University of Maximegalon to solve

Re: Glad to see researchers finnally pulling their noses up.

"There are good people on both sides"

However if the compromise is to be made between decapitating effigies of politicians and decapitating real politicians - I can find some middle ground.

Re: Why be democratic?

Although at least they did set the precedent of shooting each other in duels to settle economic arguments.

Re: Glad to see researchers finnally pulling their noses up.

Not wishing to be partisan, but it seems largely one side who attempt to overthrow elections by force, calls for the killing of political opponents and refuses to accept the results when their chap loses.

You can have a reasonable debate between opposing political views about tax rates and Laffar curves and or inflation and Phillips curves but it's harder to find common ground on Jewish space Lasers, chem-trails and the Illuminati using Adrenochrome to resurrect JFK.

Re: Prove it!

No it's simpler than that,

If your companies has super top level cyber security, then any attack must have been from a nation state elite cyber attack unit = not covered

If any old teenage hacker could have done this for the lulz, then you are negligent = not covered

Re: Insurance only covers cheap claims

But the act of war clause is meant to be so a Nagasaki home owner can't claim for property damage.

If every attack can be blamed on a nation state, then are my losses on Huawei shares an act of war by the USA so I can just refuse to pay a margin call?

Re: Insurance companies

You could take out insurance liability insurance which covers you against your insurance not paying out.

Re: Cyber security

Their argument is that if this was a nation state attack, then how can a cookie company defend against the awesome power of the USSR Russian cyber-ninjas.

Similarly their insurance says, well then it's war and we don't cover war

Re: Privatize profits - outsource risk to public

How about we make flood/hurricane insurance a thing of the past, then companies will focus on climate change?

Re: Cue the downvotes for me being a luddite

We used to be able to send low frequency radio telescope signals over analogue phone lines, can't do that with VoIP so obviously BT should never have been allowed to build system X

Re: Its a universal standard

The problem is that you get feature creep

It needs to be secure ( enjoy that rabbit hole) but interact seamlessly with every desktop and mobile platform.

It should interface with every existing medical database, from the ambulance laptop to that mainframe in some neglected clinical research agency.

Obviously it should also be able to send medical data, including 5d fMRI scans and support all the legacy kit with their nonconformist DICOM.

And we require a single bidder for the software, hardware, support and training.

Oh that's going to cost a squillion quid and take 10 years? Better just stick to fax then.

Re: Faxing is often better

Is that because the pharmacy is now part if some giant chain that has the political muscle to make sure the NHS adapts to its systems?

Happened over here in the colonies. If you go to a chain that is in-group then it's all simple. You are free to use any local pharmacy, but expect a Lord of the Rings style quest to get if paid for. So best just stick to GlobalMegacorp

Re: Faxing is often better

>In the end we all pay the price for this kind of silliness as poor public service.

Dear pharamcist, your mission if you choose to accept it.

Throw out the fax machine and install a new IT system

It requires Windows server with a primary and backup domain controller, which must support WibblePling 4.3 .45XYZ security

You need a Ploing certificate of at least XC3455.b.v2 subpara 4 which must be kept upto date as specified in ISO3141592654 part B

Please check with NHS IT policy directorate to ensure that none of these requirements have changed today

You are now responsible for securing this against Russian/Chinese/N. Korean/Belgian nation state hackers

The 4 local doctors surgeries, the 2 physiotherapy clinics and the 3 health authorities that you are on the border of all have different systems and you need to make sure your system works with all of them.

Re: Imperial Copper

Fortunately His Majesty's Northern Empire also contains giant nickels

As opposed to the Northern Territories that just contain useless diamonds

Re: 10 years?

>1kg of methane's GHG potential is about 25kgCO2eq.

So burning methane is good for the environment ?

Texas + Napalm = Green

Re: Obligatory BlackAdder reference

Or misses normal shaped body parts coloured like a turnip

But to train that you would need a large data set of images of people's sproingfangles and kerflumpunkitz

Where would you get such things ?

Re: The government you should trust the least is your own.

And secondly your closest allies.

Russia spying on the PM is only a risk in the event of war, and even then it's not clear what advantage the enemy in a world war gets from having your bitchy tweets about a cabinet colleague.

But during a trade negotiation with your closest military ally, having access to their negotiators phone/email might be of more direct use.

Almost all Chromebooks now are Intel, typical N4000 celerons. The first few Samsung models were ARM, but ARM systems are a litle rarer now