Posts by phuzz

Re: Semantics

I don't know about Denmark, but in the UK, if you're clearly not of right mind when committing a crime they're more likely to have you detained under the mental health act, rather than prosecuting the case.

This of course means you're now serving at Her Majesty's pleasure and could potentially spend much more time locked up than if you'd been prosecuted. But hopefully getting the care you need.

This is the solution ^^^

These companies are ringing you because they're trying to sell something. Whether it's some kind of personal injury lawyer, or a double glazing company, somewhere there's a real company that's trying to get sales leads.

Come down hard on the company that is being advertised and soon the spammer's business will dry up.

Re: Obviously the solution is....

"Poor weather is a barrier to cycle adoption, true, but it can be engineered around. For starters:"

- an enclosed fairing.

Ok, we'll put a box round the whole thing, that should keep the rain out.

- urban design.

Have roads go where people want to go

-safety concerns.

Bikes tend to fall over when stopped, and perform badly in crashes, let's add some more wheels

- hygiene. People don't want to be sweaty at work.

Well, the motor should take care of the sweat, and the 'fairing' will take care of the rain/snow/sleet we get on a typical June day.

- theft of bicycle.

Well, the enclosed fairing could have some kind of lock to keep thieves away from the interior.

Hey, we just re-invented the car!

Re: They should be as secure as ...

To be fair, it's only the author who claims it'll be secure. The only claim NG make is that their SNMPv3 implementation has "enhanced encryption and authentication", which either means they've turned on authPriv, or maybe upgraded to AES and SHA (wooooo!) (from the default DES and MD5).

"they want features like shared calendar"

Yep, this.

Pretty much only Outlook+Exchange do this reliably (for given values of reliably), so that's why they're used across companies worldwide.

Lightning does quite a good job (mine's been running fine once I got it working a few years back), but it's not at the level of "user opens Outlook for the first time, Outlook uses domain username/password to log onto Exchange and sets everything up correctly."

Re: Number! It's the flipping number!!!

If we actually get displays with 120 pixels per degree, I think referring to an 'amount' of pixels might be justified, it'll be close to the equivalent of a glass of sand.

(A VR headset would need of the order of 10^7 pixels per eye, a very small sand pit might have 10^8 grains of sand, so a standard 250ml glass would have roughly the same *amount*)

Re: Capita?

If you look at the bottom of the article you'll see a "Tips and corrections" link. Click that and let them know they've spelt it without the 'r'.

Re: everyone replaces their PCs

Wait, are you still using a fax machine?

nano forever :)

Re: WOT? CCTV not sufficient???

There's not much point in a CCTV camera pointed at a door, if there's no one there to arrest him when he actually comes out is there?

YouTube are American (obv), but this bloke is British, so we can't really point fingers here.

Re: Badlands delivery ?

If by 'no-go areas' you mean public areas where the average member of the public is not allowed to go, there might be a few of those, but usually they're a land owner illegally preventing people from using a footpath on their land.

If you're just talking about public areas where someone might feel unwelcome, I suspect that there's more of those if you're a non-white Brit than otherwise.

Re: The justice system really has money to waste?

Just because something makes you angry, doesn't mean you've suddenly got a pass on your subsequent behaviour.

It's not exactly difficult to type something, look at it and think "maybe that's going a bit far", then delete or edit it. Angry raging when you don't get your own way is embarrassing in a toddler, in a grown adult it's just sad.

Re: Will not update will not patch will not worry

I suggest you try searching for 'meltdown poc' or 'spectre poc'. From a quick glance none of these bits of code need any particularly unusual setups to work, so I'm sure some of them will be getting integrated into malware as we speak.

Re: Bollocks

From various reporting over the last year, it seems like the UK government at least does love group chat, because it allows all sorts of members of the government to chat to each other in a way which is very unlikely to to be readable by either the press, or FoI requests.

Re: Only M$

Surely if MS do it then it's a supported call into kernel memory?

Re: @AC

That Forbes article does have some good selective quoting going on, from the actual law which they link to:

" (iii) Class II

This class covers bananas which do not qualify for inclusion in the higher classes but satisfy the minimum requirements specified above.

The following defects of the fingers are allowed, provided the bananas retain their essential characteristics as regards quality, keeping quality and presentation:

- defects of shape"

(emphasis mine)

I think all you have to do is be publicly female on the internet and the dick pics will come to you.

It's an open standard, so good luck hiding those backdoors.

Joking aside, I'd guess software compatibility is one of the main reasons.

Re: Switzerland....

"Maybe that's because Switzerland requires all adult men to have a gun at home..."

Swiss men between 20-34 performing their military service, have a gun at home, but without ammunition.

FTFY