Posts by Velv

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Come on El Reg, you just trot out these articles about service outages so you can slip in the Total Inability To Support Usual Performance (TITSUP) line, don't you?

He who laughs last...

I love the schadenfreude comments idiots make about cloud providers.

For every cloud outage that makes the media there are hundreds of minions running round in-house data centres recovering their business right now that never make the media.

Stuff breaks. Once you accept that fact, you plan how you will work around those times. Doesn't matter if it's in-house, outsourced, hybrid or distributed, plan for it to break, and test it

So the simple solution is to touch more keys than you need, actually pressing only those that need pressed, but heating all of them. Increases the combinations any attackerxwould need to test.

If something is on public record then it should be searchable. Just because the Internet makes that search easier doesn't stop the fact from being a fact, no matter how old it is.

Instead of removing results from a search, perhaps search engines should be required to highlight the age of articles, including a warning: "this article is more than 10 years old and the information may be out of date" (or such time as is appropriate, and yes, I know Google puts a date on the results already, but not everyone notices it).

If there really is to be "a right to be forgotten", then that right should permit the person to remove the original information, not filter search results.

It's not just cybersecurity that's being missed. It's security. So many businesses don't give a second thought to the threats the world now presents.

Most businesses you can walk into with nothing but a receptionist to stop you. What about the back door where all the smokers go? The loading bay?

Are employees wearing staff badges? Do you know everyone personally, or are there strangers walking around your office unaccompanied and unchallenged?

I could go on, there are so many more security threats.

Educating the Board about security risks is more than just IT. They need to sign up to reviewing all threats to the business. Cascade that down through the staff and you build a resilient business.

"wants to clear his name"

Asshole(™) wants to clear his name under his own terms. Great idea, lets just wipe out 1,000 years of proven justice process and skip straight to the point were the defendant runs the trial. What could possibly go wrong.

Want to clear your name? GO TO COURT. Let due process prove you're innocent.

And before someone jumps in "he'll be extradited from Sweden", he stands more chance of being extradited from the UK (when they get hold of him). And he better pray Hillary follows Obama, otherwise Jeb Bush is going to issue an extradition warrant to Ecuador. And then where will he go...

While we're at it, we need to ban knives. And I'm not just talking big nasty hunting knives and machetes. Pocket knives, key ring knives, kitchen knives, table knives, scalpels, plastic knives and vaguely shaped items with a thin edge.

Why?

Because a tiny proportion of these items are used in crimes. People get cut and slashed. Kids are in danger. Only by banning ALL sharp objects will we remove the terrible overhead from the police of investigating these crimes and make the public safe.

Being Pears, can you make Perry out of it? (Pear Cider for those who youfs out there).

Best of both worlds :)

If something is so secure it needs to be air gapped then generally it should probably be in a Faraday cage too.

Electromagnetic emissions have been known to be a problem since not long after they were discovered.

"some political groups have expressed concern that the laws could hamper their ability to run campaigns"

Since when have politicians worried about the legality of any action they want to take

Maybe Amazon need to work closer with Uber and we can haver Corbin Dallas in a taxi too...

Don't worry, it'll be fixed in the next OS release which will be available shortly to buy from the App Store...

"Why would anyone want...", "I don't see the point of...", "that's a lot of money for..."

Who would ever want a phone you could take with you, you've got a phone in your house and your work, and there's pay phones if you need to make an urgent call. 25 years on and almost everyone has not only a mobile phone but a mobile computer in their pocket. "Why would anyone want a computer in their home" (Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977)

Cockup over Conspiracy...

...or simply just not being aware of tld's.

Nobody tells you what new tld's are available, you've got to go and look. And you've got to be aware that new tld's are being made available, something the vast majority of non-techies will be entirely unaware of.

OK, so you would hope an international business of this size would have at least one person who was aware. But if IT don't warn Marketing, who actually "markets" the online presence.

This wasn't the first and it certainly won't be the last

(Paris? who's applied for .hilton)

" they do not receive company benefits such as pensions and employment benefits including the right to redundancy payments."

I'm a contractor and it really pisses me off when people trot out this type of statement.

You are an employee of your own company and that company provides your full package, salary, pension, redundancy cover, critical illness, medical, car, etc, etc, etc. That's one of the reason you get paid the day rate you do, because the rate covers more than just an hourly pay rate. If the company director chooses not to provided those benefits then punch them in the mouth.

As the article points out, you'll still be better off than your equivalent typically permie, and even on the lowly £43,000 starting point they quote you're still in the top 20% of earners in the UK.

I don't want to pay more tax. But I recognise how well off I am and I need to contribute to the greater good. Roll on the down votes.

If you're not paying for it, you're not the customer, you're the product being sold.

Sooooo many possibilities ...

andymurray.love

man.love, and point it at the Russian Government? Or at least an spoofed Russian Government?

actually.love - Richard Curtis?

puppy.love - So many things you could put behind that