Posts by phuzz 6732 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Feb 2010
"Any corp that deploys a sensitive app onto a mobile device will require the user to authenticate with corporate credentials"
Unless, and bear with me here, unless they're not very good at security.
You might as well say that Wordpress sites are secure because anyone that uses them will keep up to date with security patches. They should, but a large number organisations won't.
Ahem. Might as well use the full sentence, "States rights to keep slaves".
(For example, the declaration of causes for secession of the state of Texas)
the vision and moral fibre of [...] Nixon
What, Richard "Cancel Apollo, cancel MOL" Nixon?
Richard "prevent peace in Vietnam until after the election" Nixon? The guy who is most well known for Watergate.
What vision and moral fibre did 'Tricky Dicky' have exactly? He'd have sold his own granny for a vote.
The shop staff in my local store in Bristol were pretty knowledgeable, but given the massive range of stuff they sold, there's a limit how in depth anyone's knowledge could be.
Of course, the big reason I didn't go in there much was the prices, but they did have one advantage which was speed. If I needed (eg) a SATA cable on a Saturday morning, I could pay a couple of quid to get one from Amazon, but it would take until Monday. Or I could walk five minutes down the road and spend about £8, but be home and plugging in my harddrive five minutes later.
It can help you get a migration budget if your legacy system starts to become less reliable. If it starts falling over every few weeks, (and only coming back up due to your heroic troubleshooting obviously), then you'll get some more leverage with manglement to ask for more money.
Of course, I'm not suggesting you make it crash yourself, oh no! And I'm definitely no suggesting that occasionally 'bumping' the power supply, or 'snagging' the network cable would be the way to do it.
Because a real BOFH doesn't need my suggestions ;)
According to the link smartse posted, AIQ's registere'd address is "320-1070 DOUGLAS ST VICTORIA BC V8W 2C4 ". That's actually number 1070 on Douglas street (320 must be the office number), which is a generic looking office block.
@bombastic bob
I'm sure I'm going to regret telling you this, but you have a silver badge, so you can use html tags (such as em, and strong) in your posts, so you DON'T need TO capitalise random WORDS any more, ok?
At least we can all be thankful elReg doesn't implement the <blink> tag.
As predicted, the move means the Home Office has had to ink a deal with Motorola to extend the Airwave network for three years to 31 December 2022, which the firm said was "on substantially similar terms".The government has also extended an agreement with Motorola Solutions by 30 months to 2024, as part of its delivery of some of the ESN User Services.
So let me get this clear, we (the UK taxpayers) are paying Motorola for Airwave, and also paying Motorola for part of the replacement for Airwave?
So every year that ESN slips means another year of payments to Motorola for Airwave, plus another year of payments to implement ESN?
Well, I'm sure they're working as hard as possible to get it finished soon, right?
Doesn't some of what the SAS does, or has done, come pretty close to that?
As far as I know they're not deployed on UK soil. The famous Iranian Embassy siege would be considered Iranian soil technically.
They were deployed in Northern Ireland during the Troubles though (along with the regular army), but I don't think they were enforcing civilian laws so much.
China doesn't provide aid to Africa. China provides loans at commercial rates with inflated price tags (i.e., corruption), to get Chinese companies to build infrastructure, that they will eventually convert into owning all of the country.
The nerve! Why can't they just march in there and colonise it like any normal country?
But the USA has such weird taboos around sex, it's not surprising that they all seem to have such weird kinks. (For example.)
Of course, for the conspiracy minded, this would mean that 'they' can always guarantee they'll find some sexual weirdness if 'they' ever need to smear someone. Or what would be perfectly normal behaviour in another country (eg, being gay), can be used as a slur in the US.
Radiation doses are a lot more complicated than a single number. Not only are there the various different types of radiation (alpha/beta/gamma etc. and that's ignoring things like high energy neutrons), but where on the body you're irradiated makes a big difference to the outcome. Of course, timespan also plays a part; a single high dose in one day could be less than your monthly/annual limit, but will likely be medically worse for you than someone who gets a constant low dose which sums up to be higher per month.
Hence, dosage limits are an estimation of risk, based on an aggregate of all the different radiation studies that have been done. They're deliberately simplified to a single number to make the regulations feasible. The end result is that the medical issues of (for example) an aircrew who'd reached their monthly dose and a worker in a nuclear plant who'd received the exact 'same' dose would be quite different Because they'd both likely have received different types of radiation, in different ways, over different timespans.
tl/dr radiation dose numbers are approximate and can't necessarily be directly compared between different jobs/situations.
are there potentially other sites out there that were also running the dodgy Neweggstats script?
If you read TFA, you'll see that the neweggstats domain was specifically created to exfiltrate data in this hack. When they hit BA they had a similarly misleading domain name (baways.com). So this looks like a consistent MO for these crooks, and I'm sure that if they're not using it on another site right now, they're preparing to.
So, all you have to do is check every single site that you might input your credit card into and make sure that none of them are connecting to an unauthorised third party site, bearing in mind that many websites uses scripts on different domains to function, and that you probably won't be able to guess which are legit and which are bogus without at least checking the whois records for every single one.
So, support.hpe.com is offline right now. Is this a recent thing or have HP just completely given up at this point?
While we're at it, can I just add that adding a big red light to a disk caddy, which means do *not* remove the drive, is not very helpful unless you've already been told about it. To the untrained eye, looking for the dead disk to replace, the big red light screams "error", so that's the one I removed. Erm, I mean that some hypothetical person would remove...
(Yes, I pulled the good disk out of a RAID1, and replaced it with a blank one, learn from my fail. Fortunately putting the good disk back in with the replacement and rebooting started a rebuild).
Since when did being a bully become "a strong bargaining position"
Well, to be fair, it's worked for the USA for the last 30+ years so we shouldn't be surprised that the idiot is trying it too. It's just that previous administrations used a certain amount of subtlety and tact (ie made their threats behind closed doors).
They've got two B-52's (plus another one in what looks to be the non-public section)! I'm pretty sure I can spot three Harriers too, and there's a Super Guppy and a whole row of choppers which are a bit too small for me to make out. See here.
I'm pretty sure I could spend two weeks going round the US just looking at aerospace museums, and I'd still have to miss some off the list.
You'll still need on-site sysadmins even if every single machine is being managed by Microsoft, because users typically need to be coached just to turn a monitor on or off. When they say there'll be 'one-click application installs', what will actually happen is that the user will click on ever possible piece of software, which will all be downloaded at once, knocking their computer and half the office offline in the process, before finally filling up the disk and crashing their computer, all while somehow not installing the one program they wanted.
Yeah, we'll still have jobs in the future too.
based in what was then said to be the longest corridor in Europe
I suspect there are a lot of those.
In much the same way that I know of at least two universities (Exeter and York), where a library was constructed without taking into account the weight of the books, and so the entire building is gently sliding downhill. I'm not sure if this is more than just a rumour at either though.
I, too, find Fox News too close to the centre and afraid of taking a clear stand on the hard issues. Thank God we have Breitbart for the honest man's opinion.
I want to believe this is sarcasm, but it's really hard to tell sometimes.
Well, some EU countries (*coff* Britain *coff*) are big arms manufacturers, so this will at least cut down on the number of AI-based weapons systems being sold to despotic regimes.
(Last year the UK sold around £1.5B worth of arms to countries on it's own list of human rights violators)
I'd always imagined that the 3rd party code had been downloaded, checked and installed.
Even if it was being run off their servers, can you imagine the conversation?
developer, running into the room: We need to update foo.js to version 3.4.7.1.8.
sysadmin: Have you checked that it's got no security issues?
developer: Marketing want us to have the flibble text flashing and the new version of foo reinstates the blink tag. They want it live half an hour ago because they've already got the adverts running.
sysadmin: I really think we should test this...
developer: No time, just put it live!
45 days of 'WAKE UP'
I read that as NASA just playing Rage Against The Machine on a loop for a month and a half.
It would get me out of bed :)
Microsoft need a legal lesson that our computers are not theirs to control and run as they see fit.
No one is stopping you from installing another OS on your computer, you are in control of that.
And if you have installed Windows, why are you complaining? You should have known what you're getting in to.
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