Posts by phuzz

I read the phrase "once Ring was made aware of the alleged conduct" (emph mine) to imply that it was an outside complaint, that Ring was 'made aware' of.

There's also the thought experiment "what would the scummy company likely do?".

Would they fire someone if it was an internal audit and they could otherwise cover the whole matter up?

If it was an external complaint, would they fire someone so that they could show they were "taking complaints seriously"?

Re: AMD must be more broad in software support

Short answer; because there's a lot more desktops and laptops out there, running Windows in people's homes, than there is large animation studios.

Sure, AMD probably make more margin (which is a polite way of saying "overcharge") on their server chips, but the low end market outpaces that in volume, by spades.

Financial success comes from the end user market, not government and enterprise.

Re: "palatable $520"?

I earn a pretty good wage, and probably could afford to spend £500 on a phone every year, but I've yet to find a tangible difference between a £100 phone and one five times that price (except that the cheaper ones are more likely to have things like a headphone port, and an SD card slot).

So I'll be sticking to my £100 phone with LTE. If I need more speed I'll just jump on the nearest wifi network, because in a big city (ie the only places getting 5G for the foreseeable future), there's a free wifi network within range most of the time.

Re: No no no

Yes. They should have been landing from the cockpit of an Airbus instead.

I've heard the name " The Oragon Trail generation", which would fit, except that as a Brit I never played that game. Perhaps the "Grannies Garden Generation" for us Brits of a certain age?.

It just exposes the limitations of trying to separate people by arbitrary generations. I have far more in common with someone born a few years earlier than me, who is technically 'Generation X', than I would with someone born almost twenty years later in the late 90's.

Perhaps it's slightly better than just dividing everyone into "young whippersnappers" and "old farts".

To quote Douglas Adams:

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

Re: Pro BoFH Tip: Make the most of a crisis

Step 1a) Make sure you use as many buzzwords like, "cyber", "AI, and "cloud", as possible in the powerpoint.

Re: We're still catching up to the NASA of the 1960s in many ways

It can be viewed here by the way, and quite the sight.

Re: OK, but how much?

The current generation ones are a little on the pricey side for the hardware you get (you're paying for the smallness of the unit and the perceived level of quality of buying Intel), so estimate how much an i9 powered machine would be, and add 10-20%.

Or to look at it another way, find a laptop with equivalent specs, and assume the NUC will be about a half of the price of that (plus you'll have to provide RAM and an SSD, and a screen and keyboard etc).

Re: Now I feel like a Luddite...

I still use a desktop, and probably a lot of people reading this do too, but we're not normal (sorry if I'm breaking this news to you for the first time), and most people don't have a desktop at home, or even a laptop.

Those same people probably wouldn't think of their smartphone as being an actual computer either.

Re: idiot

"If _I_ were running this scheme, I'd write the invoices up using LibreOffice in a encrypted VM."

The VM could use Office, but it should be a copy bought by your shell company, and registered to the name of someone who "works" there.

Basically he should have made his alibi more in depth. Invent a persona for the 'person' that will be sending out the fake invoices, make sure it's nothing like yours, bonus points for using software that everyone "knows" you hate (ie if you're a linux person, use Windows) etc.

Re: and basically impossible to test for.

OP just needs something that implements RFC 6238, (on whatever hardware they can bring themselves to carry around without complaining the whole time.)

Re: No Service

I know spots in the Cotswolds, not half an hour from Cheltenham (and GCHQ), with no signal. No need to leave the UK

Or you could just turn your phone off. Many people these days don't seem to realise that that is an option.

It turns out that actual squaddies on battlefields like to be able to talk to their friends and families back home, so they find ways of getting mobile coverage if at all possible.

Re: 30-hour battery

At least being a Latitude, it'll be easy to replace any parts that do break.

It used to be about five screws to replace a track-pad on the old models (looks like it's more effort on the newer ones, but there's no glue, just screws).

So are you a pen-tester then?