I'm pretty sure a French politician would get in more trouble for not having a mistress.
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'Don't tell anyone but I have a secret.' There, that's my security sorted
Life in plastic, with a classic: Polymer £20 notes released into wild sporting Turner art
London's Metropolitan Police flip the switch: Smile, fellow citizens... you're undergoing Live Facial Recognition
Assange lawyer: Trump offered WikiLeaker a pardon in exchange for denying Russia hacked Democrats' email
Re: Human Rights, where Assange is concerned
You link doesn't say anything about 'medical isolation' (isn't that just quarantine?).
The only evidence for the inmates being the reason he was released from solitary comes from the rarely-reliable wikileaks twitter feed, and does beg the question; why would the prison authorities listen to the prisoners?
If the prison governor is going to listen to the inmates, then that suggests a level of compassion that is unlikely, and also that they would have moved Assange out of solitary anyway. It's almost as if they took two events (Assange being sent to the medical wing, and the prisoners complaining), and said that one caused the other with no evidence other than wishful thinking.
"extradition to the USA should be illegal under the current Human right laws."
Ah yes, human rights. I'm sure our current, caring, sharing, Tory government will have human rights at the forefront of their minds...as they hand over anyone the US asks for. Of course, they also believe that the only humans who should have rights are the ones who went to the right schools, and run the right companies.
The only question is, will they repeal human rights legislation, or just ignore it, because they certainly won't obey it.
Researchers trick Tesla into massively breaking the speed limit by sticking a 2-inch piece of electrical tape on a sign
Forcing us to get consent before selling browser histories violates our free speech, US ISPs claim
Brit telcos can keep £218m licence fee repayment from Ofcom after penny-pinching regulator loses Court of Appeal case
Re: "The repayment of these fees will enable us to invest in the country's digital...
They are investing. Of course they do seem to all be investing in 5G in city centres, rather than filling in blackspots in the countryside, but coverage is actually something that mobile networks in the UK compete on. (This may confuse US readers, who aren't used to competition in telecoms).
Larry Tesler cut and pasted from this mortal coil: That thing you just did? He probably invented it
Going Dutch: The Bakker Elkhuizen UltraBoard 950 Wireless... because looks aren't everything
Re: "as your mum once told me"
"Unfortunately my old work won't let me take the keyboard and mouse I've used for 3 years even though I know it will get chucked in storage and never used again."
Make friends with the IT flunky in charge of chucking your keyboard, and I'm sure they'll ensure it gets chucked into a waiting bag...
Vodafone: Yes, we slurp data on customers' network setups, but we do it for their own good
It's not possible in all circumstances, but companies like Vodafone and Talktalk don't manufacture their own modems, they just buy them from other companies and slap their own branding on.
So, sometimes, the (eg) Vodafone router you received, is just a re-badged Huawei unit, and you can just flash the default firmware to get a non-vodafone device.
Or you might end up with a bricked modem that Voda refuse to support, you takes your chances...
Among those pardoned by Trump this week: Software maker ex-CEO who admitted hacking into rivals' systems
OK, which Dombås stuffed Windows 10 to bursting at Swedish flatpack flinger?
Shipping is so insecure we could have driven off in an oil rig, says Pen Test Partners
Steve Jobs, executives shot down top Apple engineers' plea to design their own server CPU – latest twist in legal battle over chip upstart Nuvia
C'mon SPARCky, it's just an admin utility update. What could possibly go wrong?
I usually start to type rm -r /blah/blah
, then realise what I'm doing and put a 'z' at the start, so it reads zrm -r ...
, so even if I accidental hit enter, no harm will befall me. Hopefully.
Of course, the other day I ran an rsync with the --dryrun flag. Those paying attention will notice that it really should have been --dry-run. Fortunately it gave me a syntax error instead of running.
Oracle staff say Larry Ellison's fundraiser for Trump is against 'company ethics' – Oracle, ethics... what dimension have we fallen into?
Re: You have (the right) to remain silent
It sounds like he's using his own money, and doing it in his own time, so it's really nothing to do with his employer.
Of course, if he did something like, (eg), using the company private jet to fly out there, that would be a different matter.
If your boss wants to be a scumbag on his own time, there's nothing you can do. Except quit and go work for someone you do respect of course.
Windows Terminal and Azure Data Studio both get a tickle from the Microsoft update fairy
Re: "being a Windows component that is tied to Windows versions more of a possibility"
Video drivers are one of the few hardware drivers still pretty deep into the kernel, so it's not totally surprising they need a reboot (my AMD drivers do most of the time at least). Similarly, if you want proper support for recent Intel integrated-graphics in Linux you're going to need an up to date kernel, so it's not like any other platform has definitively solved that issue.
The virus curing the mobile industry's chronic addiction... and sparking an impressive algorithmic price experiment
Re: COVID-19
AT&T insists it's not blocking Tutanota after secure email biz cries foul, cites loss of net neutrality as cause
Not a Genius move after all: Apple must cough up $$$ in back pay for store staff forced to wait for bag searches
I worked at a shitty PC builder (fuck you Evesham Micros!) and IIRC we weren't paid for the 30s it took to be searched on the way out.
Mind you, most of that thirty seconds was spent chatting to the guard, who would take one look in our bags and let us past, ignoring the bulging pockets of many of the staff.
I think management there thought that a 15% 'wastage' level was normal, for some reason. A box of MP3 players would be delivered, and be almost empty by the evening, despite no orders coming in...
Re: It took seven fucking years?
If you're doing a minimum wage job, you almost certainly don't have a lot of choice about getting a new job.
So you can either quit and get no pay at all, or you put up with whatever crap your employer gives you. There's no other options.
"That's kidnapping, no matter how you try to gloss it over."
No, that's part of the employment contract which was almost certainly explained before the employees signed to say they understood. Sure, a good lawyer would probably rip it to shreds, but you can't afford any lawyer on $15/hr.
Have you ever worked a shit minimum wage job? You have zero power. The company can replace you with some spotty teenager any time they like, while your chances of getting a new job before the rent comes due are slim (and any job that will take you on short notice is going to be worse). The companies know this, and many will relentlessly exploite their workers as far as they can, then sack them and replace with the next bit of meat for the grinder.
Git your coat – you've pulled: Standalone command-line interface for GitHub hits beta
Microsoft brings the pane: You'll be looking at Xamarin and React Native to design apps for dual-screen gizmos
Re: Having had...
Microsoft was too late to the mobile party
Oh now look what you've done, you've made Windows CE cry. It's been around since 1996 and you had to say something nasty like that.
Judge Vulcan-nerve pinches JEDI deal after Amazon forks out $42m to pause Microsoft's military machinations
You'll never select all and mark as read again after this tale of peril... Oh, who are we kidding? Of course you will
Internet's safe-keepers forced to postpone crucial DNSSEC root key signing ceremony – no, not a hacker attack, but because they can't open a safe
You, FCC, tell us again why cities are only allowed to charge rich telcos $270 to attach 5G tech to utility poles?
Re: So what?
No no, it's more important than 'national security'. The security of the telco's profits is at risk!
As everyone knows (and if you don't, you soon will citizen!), profits must come before people. It's written in the constitution, in that special section that you don't get to read because you're not rich enough.
B-but it doesn't get viruses! Not so, Apple fanbois: Mac malware is growing faster than nasties going for Windows
Microsoft ups the ante with fix-fixing patch that leaves some Windows Server 2008 machines unable to boot
Dual screens, fast updates, no registry cruft and security in mind: Microsoft gives devs the lowdown on Windows 10X
" the Win32 container is new, though apparently it borrows technology from the Windows Subsystem for Linux"
Firstly, to whoever said "the new version of Windows will basically be Linux with a Windows skin", you're not far off.
Secondly, this clearly leaves the door open for WSL to run on Win10X, quite possibly as a container. This way you'll be able to run packaged Linux apps 'natively' on Windows (sort of like backwards Wine), and you all know what that means right?
It's the year of Linux on the desktop!
(not sorry)
Crypto AG backdooring rumours were true, say German and Swiss news orgs after explosive docs leaked
Re: Perhaps I misunderstood but ...
"Enigma machines were mechanical and, presumably, later variations on the theme were electromechanical."
Enigma machines were electro-mechanical. Each of the code wheels was full of wires, and each time it turned it changed what was (electricially) connected where, thus scrambling the input.
Re: The two nations agreed to let Swiss spies in on their secret
The Swiss were unlikely to become direct enemies of Germany and the US, so why not chat to some of their top spies, let them in on the idea, and probably sweeten the deal by promising to let them in on anything that might concern them, all they have to do is look the other way...
What's the chances that the finances for the whole operation went through some Swiss banks as well, that way everyone gets their cut.
Jeff Bezos: I will depose King Trump
Re: To be honest ...
"you KNOW Bezos would NEVER do this against a president of "the other party""
Mate, they'd sue anyone if they thought it would make them half a wooden nickel. If they could find profit in stealing candy from babies, then Amazon would be straight down the local kindergarten.
Voyager 2 gets back to sciencing while 'unstoppable' Iran promises world more 'Great Iranian Satellites'
Game over, LAN, game over! Windows software nasty Emotet spotted spreading via brute-forced Wi-Fi networks
Re: How long would it take
As you climb it would get easier, because the higher up the corporate org-chart you go, the less time they'd have for such 'pointless fripperies' like robust passwords.
By the time you reach C-level they'll be running unencrypted wireless because 'their time is too important to waste typing in passwords'. From what I've heard of stock traders they wouldn't want encrypted wireless getting between them and their next bonus payment.
Who needs the A-Team or MacGyver when there's a techie with an SCSI cable?
Super-leaker Snowden punts free PDF* of tell-all NSA book with censored parts about China restored, underlined
These truly are the end times for TLS 1.0, 1.1: Firefox hopes to 'eradicate' weak HTTPS standard by blocking it
Re: "We decided on a global fallback"
As an example, older APC power distribution units like the AP7921 have a web interface that can only do up to SSL3.0. So my only choice is to either leave them http only, or keep an old copy of IE around to access them. Because yes, I have almost locked myself out of them before by enabling HTTPS. Ours are on a separate management network though, so we can leave them on http only without worrying too much.
(Here's the list of ciphers it supports, read it and weep: DES [56 bit], RC4_MD5 [128 bit], RC4_SHA [128 bit], 3DES [168 bit])
Forget the Oscars, the Solar Orbiter is off to take a close look at our nearest (and super-hot) star
Starliner snafu could've been worse: Software errors plague Boeing's Calamity Capsule
Re: How things have changed...
As we all know, catching 100% of bugs is a tall order, even if you throw hours and people at it, but it was this bit that worried me:
Fortunately, the team noticed that second error while reviewing the code following the first, and uploaded the fix prior to landing.
They spotted the error whilst in flight, which presumably means they weren't specifically looking for it, and they certainly didn't have a lot of time to find it, which implies it was a pretty obvious bug.
It wasn't some really subtle bug that 'only happened on flight hardware when the moon is in the third quarter and a subroutine had run within the last hour but not cleared etc. etc.' This was a bug that someone managed to spot while the craft was in space, presumably not while specifically searching for it. This was a bug that should have been picked up by someone before that rocket ever launched, indeed, before that code was ever uploaded to the spacecraft.
That's a management problem, not a software one.
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