Re: The BOFH Strikes Again
The 'delay release' button is right next to the exit door, why stand there pressing the button when you can just leave? (unless you open the door and the corridor is on fire I suppose)
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Wells Fargo? Well fscked at the moment: Data center up in smoke, bank website, app down
Friday 8th February 2019 11:23 GMT 
Re: The BOFH Strikes Again
I had to go in for 'health and safety training' at one of our data centres, and while talking us through what to do if the fire alarm goes off (turns out you should leave the building, good thing they told me that eh?), they told us that while you'd survive being in the room when the fire suppression went off (it uses some fancy new, non-deadly, chemical), you'd probably have both your ear drums ruptured by the air pressure suddenly increasing.
Brit Mars bot named while NASA 'nauts must wait a bit longer for a US rocket trip to the ISS
Friday 8th February 2019 12:09 GMT
Why would they mention Airbus?
The first part is about Boeing and SpaceX's respective spacecraft, no Airbus involvement there.
The second part is about LRO taking pictures of Chang'e 4, again, neither built by Airbus.
The third part is about the ExoMars rover, that's being built by Thales.
The forth part is about Skyora, still no reason for Airbus to be name checked
And finally there's a few paragraphs about Virgin Galactic.
So which of these stories has an Airbus angle that elReg are cruelly censoring? The only space related Airbus news I can find is that they're building a satellite for a Japanese telecoms company, not really very interesting.
Housing biz made to pay £1.5k for sticking fingers in its ears when served a subject access request
Reliable system was so reliable, no one noticed its licence had expired... until it was too late
Friday 8th February 2019 11:47 GMT
Re: Soon never seems soon enough
I'm surprised no-one has made a "SCSI emulator" out of an Arduino or RPi or something.
*EDIT* Of course someone has done it already
National Enquirer's big Pecker tried to shaft me – and I wouldn't give him an inch, says Jeff Bezos after dick pic leak threat
Friday 8th February 2019 11:35 GMT 
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Let's all take a moment to feel slightly sorry for the IT admin at the National Enquirer, who's just found out that his boss has decided to piss of the guy who runs their hosting. I'm guessing they're thinking about a migration plan right now. Although if it was me, I'd quit and go work for someone who's not an arsehole, and leave them in the shit.
Treaty of Roam: No-deal Brexit mobile bill shock
Friday 8th February 2019 11:14 GMT
Re: So predictable !
"The UK government and people of Ireland don't want a hard border, the EU do."
No, that's just wrong. The EU have been very clear that they don't want a hard border, because the Republic of Ireland is part of the EU, and it's their interests that the EU are negotiating on behalf of.
As for the UK government, their stated position might be that they don't want a hard border, but indevidual members of the government clearly wish that the Irish would sod off and stop getting in the way of their 'glorious brexit'.
Pants-purveyor in plea for popularity: It's not just any pork push... it's an M&S 'love sausage'
London's Met police confess: We made just one successful collar in latest facial recog trial
Pixaaaarrrrrrghh! Mars-snapping CubeSats Wall-E and Eve declared dead (for now) by NASA bods
Wednesday 6th February 2019 11:13 GMT
"wonder if/when they next encounter a planetary body"
Given their orbit, the only planet they're likely to encounter in the next few thousand years is likely to be Mars, and when they do they'll burn up leaving nothing more than a tiny bit of soot.
Still, you seem to be worried, so lets do some maths:
Obviously we can't measure the size of all of space, but then we're only really interested in the bit around us, so lets imagine the disk of the solar system, out to Mars orbit, and because most stuff orbits in the same plane, we can imagine it as a disc only as thick as the Earth (12x10^6m).
So, radius of Mars orbit (ish, it's really an ellipse) is 228 million km, or 228x10^9m
The area of our disc would then be 1.63x10^23 m^2, and the total volume would be 3.7x10^31 cubic metres (that's 37000000000000000000000000000000 cubic metres, more or less).
If we assume that each one of these cube sats is one cubic metre (they're smaller than that, but it's close enough), I hope you can see that 1 into 3.7x10^31 is a tiny, tiny fraction. And this isn't even the whole solar system, it's just a thin slice of the area out as far as Mars.
Space really is quite large.
Hey, UK.gov: If you truly spunked £45k on 1,300 Brexit deal print-outs, you're absolute mugs
Hi, Jack'd: A little PSA for anyone using this dating-hook-up app... Anyone can slurp your private, public snaps
Tuesday 5th February 2019 18:33 GMT
Re: But
The prof unaccountably failed to say what a security researcher should do when the company they report the problem to does absolutely nothing.
I'd say that reporting (and demonstrating) it to the press, whilst not making any of the technical details public is a pretty responsible way of handling it. Perhaps Jack'd can be publicly shamed into fixing the problem even if they're not willing to fix it privately?
On the other hand, imagine how many more dates they'll be for people who fancy computer security experts, now that they'll all be making accounts to try and discover the flaw for themselves.
RIP, RDP... nearly: Security house Check Point punches holes in remote desktop tools
Original WWII German message decrypts to go on display at National Museum of Computing
Cheap call? Hardly. GSM gateway judicial review to settle whether UK Home Sec can legally push comms watchdog around
Tuesday 5th February 2019 16:26 GMT
Re: So, Home Office loses ? Big deal.
But in this case, if the Home Office lose, then Ofcom is free to ignore them about GSM gateways, and potentially other things.
And who knows how much of a precedence this will be? Possibly other parts of the government will feel free to ignore the Home Office's demands until they go all the way and get the law changed (which should result in our MPs making a democratic decision, but I doubt many people have much faith in MP's decision-making capabilities right now)
Clever girl: SpaceX's Mars-bound Raptor engine looks like it works just fine
British cops told to scrap 'discriminatory' algorithms in policing
Tuesday 5th February 2019 16:16 GMT
Re: Bias in, bias out
Or looking at it another way, a certain area has an elevated amount of reported crime. This could be because the residents trust the police more than in another area where there might be just as much crime, but the residents don't expect the police to do anything about it, so they don't bother reporting it.
The result of basing a strategy on previous crime stats in this situation would lead to the police patrolling the first area, but not the second, so the residents in the second area never come to trust the police, and are still the victims of (un/under-reported) crime.
Techies tinker with toilet-topper to turn it into ticker-tracker
El Reg talks to PornHub sister biz AgeID – and an indie pornographer – about age verification
OK, it's early 2019. Has Leeds Hospital finally managed to 'axe the fax'? Um, yes and no
Sysadmin's three-line 'annoyance-buster' busts painstakingly crafted, crucial policy
Intel to finally scatter remaining ashes of Itanium to the wind in 2021: Final call for doomed server CPU line
Brit security services firm SecureData sold to France's Orange for an undisclosed sum
Ca-caw-caw: Pigeon poops on tot's face as tempers fray at siege of Lincoln flats
Are you aware of the gravity of the situation on Mars? Why yes, say boffins: We rejigged Curiosity to measure it
Techie finds himself telling caller there is no safe depth of water for operating computers
Forget snowmageddon, it's dropageddon in Azure SQL world: Microsoft accidentally deletes customer DBs
Friday 1st February 2019 11:32 GMT
Replication to what? Another server? Well la di dah look at mr fancy over here with his multiple servers!
We didn't have the budget for one database server, let alone two. It was all running on the same box as the application, and user files, and was probably a DC as well (in a cardboard box in the middle of the road, uphill through the snow both ways etc. etc.)
Another Apple engineer cuffed over alleged self-driving car data theft: FBI swoop on bod as he boards plane to China
How big is the UK space industry? It hauled in £14.8bn for 2016/2017 – report
Thursday 31st January 2019 13:54 GMT
Re: Brex-shit
"the redundancies will not be along leave/remain lines"
I does seem that a lot of the areas that voted more strongly to leave the EU are likely to come of somewhat worse in the event of actually leaving the EU.
For example there's Cornwall, which voted 56% to leave, and currently receives around £60M per year from the EU.
Thursday 31st January 2019 12:40 GMT
Re: Not optimistic
The point of the backstop isn't about trade, it to avoid the situation of having an actual wall between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, which is a key part of the Good Friday peace agreement.
Romford Station, smile! You're in London cops' final facial recog 'trial'
Seagate punts external PS4 drive at the millions who uninstalled their game libraries to fit Red Dead Redemption 2
The D in SystemD stands for Danger, Will Robinson! Defanged exploit code for security holes now out in the wild
Raspberry Pi Foundation says its final farewells to 40nm with release of Compute Module 3+
Tuesday 29th January 2019 11:02 GMT
Re: What do you destroy
Some days I miss the time I was working for a crappy PC manufacturer (coff Evesham coff), because I had access to all sorts of hardware, and no-one really cared about failure rates. Consequently I could test things, like "what happens when I plug this Pi into this memory slot?", to see what would happen.
Just FYI, if you pop the memory out of a computer while it's running, you get some pretty interesting patterns on the display, but no long term damage.
I helped catch Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht: Undercover agent tells all
Sad relics of UK launch capability returned to Blighty while NASA fiddles with Boeing crew
Tuesday 29th January 2019 11:22 GMT
Re: Galileo
The only problem is, as the UK is on the west end of a continent, we'd have trouble launching to the east, in case any of our precious British rocket technology fall on and is stolen by those perfidious Europeans.
Instead all British satellites will be launched into a westward, retrograde, orbit!
Britain will proudly face in the opposite direction to all other countries!
Disk drives suck less than they did a couple of years ago. Which is nice
Tuesday 29th January 2019 10:43 GMT
I use whatever consumer drive I can buy cheaply, so that includes a couple of older Seagate drives, one of which has been making some nasty clicking noises for a few years now.
However, I'm not worried about data loss because I'm using RAID, and don't forget that the 'I' stands for 'inexpensive'.
If you want uptime, use some form of RAID, if you want your data, have backups, but you only need enterprise drives in a server that's run hard 24/7.
Data flows in a no-deal Brexit are a 'significant' concern – MPs
Should the super-rich pay 70% tax rate above $10m? Here's Michael Dell's hot take for Davos
Monday 28th January 2019 12:18 GMT
Re: Super rich don't pay salaries either
"but swinging tax hikes definitely don't work."
Except that tax rates in the US used to be even higher than 70% and they worked just fine then.
If you're going make an argument, try to pick something that's not explicitly disproved in the very article you're commenting on.
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