Posts by phuzz

Re: Nice headline

For some reason I thought "Move Any Mountain" was by the KLF, thanks for putting me straight.

Re: And remeber Boeing is the *safe* pair of hands on Commercial Crew.

Such a safe pair of hands that they (allegedly) threatened to pull out unless NASA gave them more money.

Somehow those newbies at SpaceX seem to be able to provide the exact same service for much less money. Clearly they're not spending enough on bribing lobbying.

Re: Why a 3D printed gun?

"the only people carrying weapons in any manner are doing so illegally."

You can walk down the road with your perfectly legal shotgun in a carry-bag on your back (I wouldn't be surprised if you had to have a trigger lock or something fitted though). It's not technically visible, but it's really obvious that it's a firearm.

If the store had left the knife lying around and the doors unlocked, would they be negligent then?

Or in this case, should Morrisons have had more internal controls and auditing to stop a rogue employee from being able to as easily steal their data?

It's a tricky question, I don't know what the answers to those questions are, but I believe that's what the court is trying to find out.

Re: Batson is innocent unless found guilty.

I think elReg wanted to remind us of that, so they don't have to block as many comments.

As this is an ongoing trial, and elReg is a British based publication, they have to make sure us commentards don't say anything libellous, and I think their mods take a "block first" line.

Re: Eggs on a train?

Presumably jokes based on French puns will be banned after breggsixt.

Re: Quality system

As per the article, once they looked at the static pictures they realised the pin hadn't been inserted correctly, so video isn't even needed, just care and attention.

Re: Elon may be right

The 250 mile range is on the "extremely optimistic" end of things. With typical motorway/highway driving you'd bee looking for somewhere to recharge when you were getting near 200 miles.

In Woz's case it sounds like their income goes into their joint account, so they both earn the same amount.

Mind you, if Apple's algorithms had a special exception for Woz I wouldn't be surprised or bothered.

I assume they're referring to the payload fairing, which Space X aren't catching this time.

On the other hand, as long as it doesn't contain any volatile chemicals, it's certainly too big for anything to eat, so it'll probably end up turning into a small patch of habitat.

"Are BT trying to pawn of that FTTC is actually FTTP in some places?"

Not quite, but they say things like "get the advantages of fibre internet in your home", which is sort of correct, FTTC is generally better than a bit of wet string/ADSL, but it does imply that the fibre is coming all the way into your home, rather than stopping just up the road.

Alas, BT and their lawyers know exactly how far they can bend the truth in advertising, without crossing over into an actual falsehood.

Re: That roar is terrific

It was thottleable down to 10%, which isn't quite 'fully', but it's still better than practically every other engine so it('s designers) still deserves praise.

Re: Can someone explain.....

Even if you are doing regular backups, in a lot of cases the backup medium will either be a USB disk that is left plugged in, or some kind of network storage.

In both cases any malware that gets root access will have access to this storage, and may well try to encrypt the backups, and any other storage it can get access to.

So to avoid this you either have to physically unplug your backup disk (and hopefully store it in a fire safe or offsite), or perhaps have your network storage move completed backups to a separate area that the infected machine doesn't have access to.

Re: George 2+

"The knock-on effects of doing this near the end of the two day payroll run, were spectacular to say the least."

Did everyone get paid twice? Did you consider letting the result stand?

Re: So in short...

These friendly vendors, would they be ones in which the managers making decisions, happen to end up with non-executive directorships in, by any chance would they?

Re: Value added!

Raspberry Pi? Well, for given values of "made in Britain".

Also the McLaren P1 is hybrid right? Does that count?

Re: [Rant alert]

"Free movement of people is a population issue to me, not a 'foreigners' one. It's disappointing how few people can differentiate these things."

Well that's the point isn't it? Most people who don't want freedom of movement want it stopped for entirely racist reasons. That's not the case for you, congratulations, but you're in a very small, and quiet, minority.

This story is a perfect example; UKIP are entirely happy to have someone standing as an MP for them, even though he's only lived in this country for two years. Apparently purely because he's rich (I'm basing that on how much they go on about the companies he's worked at).

On the other hand, how many of their MPs are people who've spent their entire life living and working in the UK, but happen to be called (eg) Sajid? I'm going to guess none.

Their selection criteria is clearly not based on a disagreement with freedom of movement on population grounds, it's just based on race.

Re: "no requirement of 'registration' for deactivated firearms"

It makes sense if you're dealing with firearms which are merely "deactivated", ie barely anything done to prevent them firing, and easily reversed by criminals.

There's much less need for it in the UK because our deactivation standards are much more stringent. Arguably pushing those stronger standards to the rest of Europe would have made more sense, but I doubt the EU is interested in any bright ideas coming from the UK at the moment.

I had a Win98 computer when I was a kid, and a little later I had a WinME one, and honestly the ME machine was very slightly more stable.

If I had to guess, the ME machine probably just got lucky and had slightly better behaved hardware and drivers.

As an OS they were basically interchangeable apart from the icons.

Re: Hope the hack is up to date with his TB jab

I just checked, still got my BCG scar, although it's pretty faded now.

Re: "Intel [..] would not intentionally mislead,"

"Intel [..] would not intentionally mislead,"

But their third-party marketing agency on the other hand...

Re: Can't or wont?

Or to put it more cynically, currently Feinstein can make political hay out of beating on the NSA about privacy issues (quite rightly imo). If they actually have a hidden, but real, justification, it puts her in a difficult political position of dropping her crusade against the NSA, but being unable to say why.

And, to be fair, if the NSA did have some real successes, there's really nothing to stop them at least mentioning them in general terms in public, and then giving a more full briefing in closed session, so to my mind at least, they probably don't have any obvious examples to give, probably just useful, but non-essential confirmation for information from other sources.

Re: priorities

Plus there's so many sockets, they're close to being uncountable, so "amount" is a perfectly cromulent word to use.

The Dutch tried using eagles to control drones, but it turned out that the eagles were almost impossible to train.

"because the assembly had been done in a hurry"

Heh, it wasn't filled with stickers then? Or looked like someone had decided to use an entire box of cable ties ensuring zero movement on any cable? Or like they'd tried to use as few cable ties as possible, so all the cables were in a single bundle? Or with the inside of the case wall-papered with 'Intel Inside' stickers?

It was a boring-ass job and we had to find a way to have fun without going insane. There's probably a worrying number of them out there with my blood stains in as well. It turned out building computers left me with as many cuts as working in a professional kitchen, although less burns.

Re: I cannot understand why HMRC pursues contractors so much.

If one contractor had a potential quarter of a million quid tax bill, can you imagine how much they'd rake in if (eg) Amazon paid their share?