* Posts by Triggerfish

2451 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Feb 2010

Hold on, France and Russia. Anonymous is here to kick ISIS butt

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Re: Good intentions, bad outcome @Dr Mouse

You didn't, hmmn you wouldn't be on one of the people who writes our policy on why we should be monitored would you?

GCHQ goes all Cool Dad and tags the streets of Shoreditch with job ads

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Re: Don't go near this

Having been volunteered by a friend to talk to some men in gray for his vetting and having being vetted. I agree, they did not care about past minor misdemeanours after all it's hard to be a squaddie then a student and not get up to some shenanigans.

It's struck me it was more about how accessible the subject would be to blackmail, or some other soft technique. They really did not give a crap about the odd joint being smoked as a twenty year old doing a degree, it's was far more stuff along the lines of womanising, gambling habits, things like that. Likewise if you were honest about things like having a smoke, or being a bot of a rave kid then you were generally ok, (less duplicity less blackmail chances I guess).

Google engineer names and shames dodgy USB Type-C cable makers

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Pardon me, it was from memory of looking at it yonks ago and forgot to re-edit that sentence, however what one do you think a generic one is more likely to resemble?

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There is somewhere on the web a rather interesting comparison from and electrical engineer between a apple power adaptor and a generic chinese ebay one, he pulls it apart and goes over the design choices made, component choices etc and what makes it different, there is a lot of difference in quality.

Edit found it.

http://www.righto.com/2014/05/a-look-inside-ipad-chargers-pricey.html

Stick a pin in a sales droid to avoid cable voodoo

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Aaaah many years ago, at home figuring out how to install NT and get it to join a domain. I spent many fun hours not being able to figure out why the server I had just built would not talk, swapped cables, reinstalled, invented new swear words and everything.

Several hours later I learnt the difference between crossover cables and patch cables.

UK govt sneaks citizen database aka 'request filters' into proposed internet super-spy law

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Re: Archibald Buttle

You should hope they are.

Alumina in glass could stop smartphones cracking up

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Re: WOT!!!

I'm sure there's a joke somewhere about getting something polished.

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Yeah I always get a good case, if the phones going to be abused by my care I think its only fair it has a fighting chance.

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I don't really take much care of mine tbh, it has to go in my pocket and cope with my lifestyle. I really hate having delicate bits of shiny that I have to spend my day worrying about. My last phone had dents in the casing, couple of years back with first smartphone and being abroad it really annoyed me that I had to keep thinking about it and whether it was ok.

Hi, um, hello, US tech giants. Mind, um, mind adding backdoors to that crypto? – UK govt

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Re: Is it that hard to understand?

"My problem is understanding how to distinguish between the criminals exploiting leaks and the 3-letter-agencies exploiting leaks."

One lot will admit they are criminals.

CSC, NetCracker IT staff worked on US military telecoms 'without govt security clearance'

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@ GrumpyKiwi

Aaah yes,you haven't got clearance yet so you can't officially do this. Followed by come look over my shoulder and well show you whats happening.

Cops use terror powers to lift BBC man's laptop after ISIS interview

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Re: "Yes, go on kiddies, mod me down"

I think you should examine Matt Bryants posts for a master class in ad hominem attacks, and he's as far from the left as you can get without invading Poland

Frankly this sort of slang I normally avoid, but for this comment I have to say I lolled

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Re: "Yes, go on kiddies, mod me down"

Yes, go on kiddies

umm sorry is that not also ad hominen?

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Re: So what?

To improve efficiency we need all depts of government to work together so all information from the state health service, state broadcaster is immediately available to the police and cabinet office.

Yep we should make it all one body, easier to name as well, we can call the police the nose, the news agency the mouth, security services can be the fingers...

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Re: Works for me

I don't think our politicians are cowards. I think its more like some sort of bread and circuses type gambit, but instead of good times they are promising bad and using that as an excuse to consolidate their power over the populace.

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Re: Works for me @ AC

No they are not in fact if anything seeing these interviews make me think two things, 1. These people are insane in the way that rabid dogs are and need to be stopped. 2. Maybe we should stop fucking around with other regimes because we really aren't learning from it.

At no point though have I felt the need to stop eating bacon and go and behead a kaffir.

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Re: So What? @Dan

The media have not manufactured Daesh, and sometimes its worth hearing about what the other side have to say, even if it's not what you agree with or you give them some publicity. (pretty sure most of their publicity has been of the sort that would mean most people would happily see them wiped from the face of the planet anyway).

If you do not hear it no matter how abhorrent it may be then you end up having to go by information from only one side, delivered by the likes of Blair* or Bush*, or Murdoch, or Cameron, which is packaged in a much more media and sensibility friendly package, but is just as much bullshit.

*Who is frankly far more responsible for the manufacture of Daesh than any journalist. (But of course according to them not much really).

Experts ponder improbable size of Cleopatra's asp

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Re: If you need to kill people with snake bites

Try a Russells Viper, almost the same LD50 as the inland Taipan (so about as venomous you are going to get) and also known to be pretty narky.

Try this youtube link where they drop some venom in blood see how quick it causes it to coagulate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WvnjCkLbvY

Also they kill a lot of people especially in places like India, because mambas and cobras tend to hunt and so will get out of the way of people often. Vipers tend to rely on their camoflage which is usually exceptionally good, and so will stay still and hope you do not notice them which often means someone then steps on it and cause it to bite. Drop one in the garden and send someone out to clear the leaves.

Although saying that, there was an incident a few years back now in Bangkok where a guy had bought a cobra (there's places in BKK you can buy them, western diamonbacks, taipans etc etc) and released it into his flat to bump off his wife.

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Re: Scientists - Dry bites

Agreed I heard it refers to aspis and was a generic term for snakes, many vipers are lethal. My friends unpacking a box of non venomous snakes found a gaboon viper accidently packed in with them much swearing ensued they have enough wallop to kill a buffalo.

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Re: Scientists - Dry bites

Yes eventually they do. A dive buddy (who worked in underwater videography), found a largish King Cobra wrapped around his toilet. So he tied his camera to a broomstick and decided to annoy it, first it made a threat display, then it starting dry striking the lens, after a few hits then it started using venom (you could see it on the lens), after a few more strikes it seemed to use a lot more venom.

Snakes will dry bite as a threat, because most animals aren't stupid enough to stay around and they want to conserve the venom, but they absolutely will use it if they feel like they are in danger and their opponent isn't backing down.

It also depends on the snake some snakes are mellower than other species, sea snakes are really chilled and yet almost all species are highly venomous I have never felt worried encountering one, I wouldn't fuck around with a black mamba though one African lady described them to me as "an extremely angry snake." *

Also it does not need to be adult a baby snake is born fully venomed and are said to be more dangerous as they have less control over there bites.**

*There was a beeb prog on rattlesnakes and the researches said even individuals among the same species had different temperaments.

**Recently seen an article somewhere saying this may not be true but have not read it yet.

Twitter reduces BBC hacks to tears with redundancy notice

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I always used to wonder how it happened, there used to be loads of business studies students at our Uni, none of them seemed to be arseholes. Is it something that happens on MBA type courses do they take you away and lobotomise any empathy out?

Three mobile data network GOES TITSUP across Blighty

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Fine here, 4G at full power, emley moor mast being on a hill opposite probably helps. :)

AF-FIR-MAT-IVE: Second suspension for robot-voice helldesker

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Re: That's OK, we have all been there

We used to chat up the girls at the stores when EPOS systems went down, got invited to many parties and such. Used to drive the supervisor mad though, especially as we were actually rebuilding the servers while gassing so they couldn't say we were slacking as such.

Lies from VW: 'Our staff acted criminally but board didn't know'

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Re: We only found out about the problems in the last board meeting

It's high time some of these major companies simply fired these clowns, declined to pay out their severance, and let them sue if they wish

I always find it weird that when you get past a certain level, things on your CV that would righlty not get me even an interview are seen as a good thing.

"Oh you fucked a companies share price up, closed half of it down and sacked a lot of the staff! That makes you highly employable at board level"

Hands on with Google's Nexus 5X, 6P Android Marshmallow mobes

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Re: Still don't want Chinese Kit!

"And if we're talking about software, Nexuses are pure Google, so as American as can be."

Y'see its fine it goes to the NSA instead.

Mobile first? Microsoft decides to kneecap its Android users instead

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Re: My 2 cents

I have to agree, the outlook app worked great, whats that saying about if it aint broke?

Bill Bailey: The man, the musician, the comic, the troll, the legend

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Re: re. Comedy Store You Tube link

Dave's syndrome. :)

PETA monkey selfie lawsuit threatens wildlife photography, warns snapper at heart of row

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Re: when will this madness stop?

To be honest getting close enough to some wildlife is enough work, gaining their trust enough, wandering through crap conditions (35-40C 95% humidity and jungle to wander through is pretty knackering).. You never know how wild animals are going to react as well. I have seen a troop of crab eating macaques completely ignore me photographing them and sitting among them, and run straight past me to attack some other people who were watching them,monkey bites are not nice they have pretty decent incisors, they are also thieves who will grab anything that takes their fancy. I would have been pretty wary on first encounters with any monkeys.

We saw the future: Apart from the bath apps it looks like the past

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RE: The table

I have talked to some designers and architects who think the design is more important than the practicality, which is slightly worrying when some of the architects said it was more important than building structural regs.

Idiots basically.

Did GCHQ illegally spy on you? Now you can find out – from this page

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Re: Putting a target on your back

If you have nothing to hide,

they'll make a new fear up.

EE: Yes, our broadband service is a total clusterf**k – but we promise to improve

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Re: As an ex-orange customer....

Orange sent a bailiff round (about 2 years after I left them) to collect on the phone number they had given with my account (while waiting for them to move my number across), seems they hadn't stopped it and had been charging me for several years worth of monthly fees on it. Knowing they are part of EE was enough to keep me away.

Sierra Nevada snow hasn't been this bad since 1500AD

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Re: Reg hack confused by science again

Hey even as someone who only did Mech Eng. I can understand data, maths and spot cherry picking by the author thanks. :)

Viper sinks fangs into unwary Indian farmer's todger

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I once walked barefoot

into a toilet and had a gient centipede walk right over my foot, almost didn't need the toilet after that. Peeing while holding a stick to defend yourself with is not funny.

I also have a picture of a bird eating spider that covers a large floor tile that used to live in the bathroom at another place it used to sit right above the cistern and it was a waist height cistern.

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Re: OUCH!!!

Hell follow the link and feel your whole body clench internally.

3D printer blueprints for TSA luggage-unlocking master keys leak online

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True, we have made keys using metal shims (admittedly with a lathe and files) for a yale lock, those would be no trouble.

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Re: Exactly...

Yep, been to enough places were you have to dump the rucksack on the back or top of some bus or somewhere you can't keep an eye on it, everything valuable goes into the daypack that stays with me. Those locks won't even stop a half determined thief.

Are you avoiding tax, big tech firm? Not any more you won't, growl MEPs

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Re: figure out Bing

Again it's a corporation holding a country to ransom, and pain though it is I think you would have to push back as a goverment to show you cannot be so blatantly manipulated. Plus would be interesting to see what happens to googles services in other countries & businesses when they see that this is how google wields its power over them overtly.

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Re: good luck with that

I don't think people are that daft that they could not find an alternative, and anyway under that thinking a corporation can hold a Gov to ransom by threatening to withdraw its services, I hope we haven't reached that so fully yet.

Stench of confiscated dope overwhelms Catalan cop shop

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I'll agree it stinks, the prevelance of skunk is the problem there, other weed or hash tends to be less offensive, unfortunately its harder to get as its easier to grow skunk than smuggle weed across borders.

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Re: @Boltar

I think maybe you could do with a smoke or a drink mate, you seem a little angry, are you OK?

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I guess no youth has ever eaten cheese and gone on to murdering either.

Samsung’s consumer IoT vision – stupid, desperate, creepy

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Re: Why....just why?

IoT fridge, why? Eyeballs + post it note, I spend enough time staring into it randomly anyway while I am tryng to remember what I came in the kitchen for.

US to stage F-35-versus-Warthog bake-off in 2018

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Re: How survivable is the F35?

Have a search for some picture of damaged A10s they have been built with one role, fly quite low around a battlefield and ruin the enemies day, they can survive a lot. That gun has to be a psychological weapon in its own right.

Vote now: Who can solve a problem like Ashley Madison?

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Re: JMcA obviously!

Just finished, Reamde and JMcA is the first guy who came to mind seeing this poll.

Apple will reveal new iPhone on Sept 9 – this is what it may look like

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Let me guess

It will be sort of rectangle shape and have glass on the front?

Fugitive UK hacker turned ISIS recruiter killed in Syria

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Re: Glorifying killing

I don't think its amazing or great, in fact I would rather it was not needed at all, but when it is I rather see it more like putting down a rabid dog, not pleasant but neccssary.

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@ Andy Non

To be fair the bible has a lot of that sort of bollocks as well.

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Actually I have nothing against muslims, or christians or anything like that. Most muslims are pretty ok out of the ones I have met, in fact couple of years ago stayed on a predominately muslim island for about a month and everyone was lovely, I would recommend the place to anyone wanting to go there for a holiday.

However any lot who happily kill and maim for some cause like ISIS and who oppress people and will not compromise from their own twisted world view and who thinks you should die if you do not agree, well quite frankly fuck 'em.

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No joining an army thats currently the enemy of some of the worlds most heavily armed millitaries is the death penalty bit.

Post-pub nosh neckfiller: The Ugandan 'rolex'

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Re: not so keen on your chapatis

Oh I so agree on Penang, what an amazing place for food, not only the Malaysian food, but the grub from China town and the Indian curry houses.