Your subtle humour would have worked
if you hadn't included the misspelt "there" (should be "their")
Posts by JimmyPage
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Crack CERT warriors arrive to save UK from grid-crippling hack attacks
UK cops: Keep yer golden doubloons, ad folk. Yon websites belong to pirates
Amazon is decompiling our apps in security gaffe hunt, says dev
China's rare earth supply crimp plan ruled to be illegal
ISPs CAN be ordered to police pirates by blocking sites, says ECJ
Thursday 27th March 2014 16:55 GMT 
@Mad Mike
Yes, but what is "illegal" exactly. And more importantly, where ? Whilst laws on CP have become fairly aligned in the past decades, there are lots of other areas where laws vary wildly. The UK is a particularly dangerous place in that respect, since a lot of laws rely on "context"[1]. I hope you haven't got a road atlas of the UK, because it could be of use to a terrorist in certain cases.
It's axiomatic that "illegal" will become more widely defined as "stuff the state doesn't want you to know".
[1]For an excellent demonstration of how context affects things, in a humorous setting, may I respectfully suggest you watch "Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle" shown on 22/3/2014
(iPlayer link here, but obviously it won't last forever)
Thursday 27th March 2014 16:49 GMT
Re: Next up.....
This.
Why do you think - despite the whining of the anti-porn brigade over "net filters", the default for access to adult service lines is ON ? Surely if they want consistency and really are "thinking of the children" then they would insist that all landlines have access to premium rate numbers disabled by default.
Mysteriously this hasn't happened.
Icon, because we had to pay £20 when our (then) 8 year old son quite innocently called an 0898 number on a game for "tips". Then we had to pay £1/month for the "privilege" of having premium rate calls barred.
Thursday 27th March 2014 14:29 GMT
Re: In other news...
I can see a new game along the lines of "Cheese Shop" developing.
("Cheese Shop" is a game for two players, celebrating the famous Monty Python "Cheese Shop" sketch. One player is the customer, the other the owner. The customer has to list as many different cheeses as he can, whilst the owner has to have a different excuse as to why they haven't got it. The game is lost when a player repeats a cheese, or excuse. Best played after a few bevvies).
Judge throws out lawsuit lobbed at Facebook for using kids' pics in targeted ads
Thursday 27th March 2014 15:31 GMT
@ItsNotMe
Downvoted for not getting it.
Yes AN ADULT can be expected to be responsible for their own actions, and should suffer the consequences. But we're not talking about ADULTS here.
Despite what you may think about 13 year olds (and younger) finding FB "cool" and wanting to go on it because their friends do, they are not capable of understanding the T&Cs.
Passport PIN tech could have SAVED MH370 ID fraudsters
Wednesday 26th March 2014 17:13 GMT 
Lost or stolen (or dead)
If, like me, you don't go abroad too often, then how can even know when a passport is lost/stolen ? Mine (and MrsJPs) are kept in a drawer in the "office". I can't remember last time I actually saw they were there (it's now 30 seconds ago ;) ).
So it's quite feasible to acquire a passport not reported stolen, or lost.
Also, what about a dead person ? Does a death certificate automatically notify the passport office ?
Forget sledgehammers – crooks can CRACK ATMs with a TEXT
Stop fondling that slab and shag, says Durex
It's 2014 and you can pwn a PC by opening a .RTF in Word, Outlook
Middle England's allotments become metric battlefield
TV sales PLUMMET. But no one's prepared to say what we all know
They want me to install CCTV to see what YOU did in the TOILET
Monday 24th March 2014 12:11 GMT
RE: Only temporarily.
1) It only has to be temporary. One scrote blinds the camera, whilst another takes it out with a tin of spray paint. As said, you can blind it from such a distance where it can't make out features. Which in my experience of CCTV footage (3 break ins, and it's been useless) is about 20cm.
Microsoft exec: I don't know HOW our market share sunk
Friday 21st March 2014 13:50 GMT 
Cycles ...
Microsoft are where they are today, because they thought they could manage the markets. They may as well have tried to manage the weather.
All things go in cycles. You have development, expansion, consolidation, and decay. Where the decay starts, you get development expansion, consolidation, and decay. Incidentally these aren't necessarily linear - you can have development continuing, while expansion starts...
1970s - development of microprocessors. Computing scaled down
1980s - expansion. Microprocessors become more available. Concept of PC becomes reality
1990s - consolidation. More people use PCs at work - home market grows
2000s - decay. Concept of PC outdated as phones, tablets become extant.
Now of course phones started in the 80s, expanded in the 90s ....
NSA 'hunted sysadmins' to find CAT PHOTOS, high-level passwords
Every little helps: Dirty MOLE BANDITS clean out Tesco ATM from BELOW
QUIDOCALYPSE: Blighty braces for £100 MILLION cost of new £1 coin
Thursday 20th March 2014 12:58 GMT
Maybe this will incentivise operators
to stop taking ****ing coins. Maybe I am an odd minority, but because I rarely use cash, I don't have a pocketful of assorted coins available at the drop of a hat. I'm less bothered by vending machines, but parking machines are the worst.
Big up for RingGo here, who run the parking at my local station (Warwick Parkway) and let you pay by card, via a phone call. And QPark who run the parking at the new QE in Brum. They take cards too. Very helpful when you have to rush your son into A&E at no notice, and have no cash.
And don't get me started about machines that don't give change - if I ever have any time left on a ticket I always try to give it to a new arrival.
Monkey steals iPod touch, loses interest in minutes
FORCE gov.uk suppliers to stick to 'open data principles' – MPs
Thursday 20th March 2014 10:26 GMT
Government and competence
Imagine awarding a contract to build a hospital to a firm who instead of using IEEE approved wiring decided to implement it's own system, with custom made cabling (different colours) and plugs and sockets, maybe with triangular pins, you can only get from one supplier.
Because not using open standards in software is just the same.
Osbo's booze, bingo, biz and big data Budget
Wednesday 19th March 2014 15:35 GMT
Potholes
Here in Brum, the roads are worse than ones I drove on in Kenya. In 1993. They don't need to have a shovelful of asphalt rolled into the hole, which lasts an afternoon. They need to re-lay the roads from a depth of 2m.
If the "potholes" in my street get any deeper, I shall apply for mineral rights.
MPs urge UK.gov to use 1950s obscenity law to stifle online stiffies
Beastie Boys settle with toy maker over Girls copyright dispute
Wackadoo DIYers scissor-kick beatboxer
Actually, there is an Arapaho word for 'pliers'
Not sure if you're STILL running Windows XP? AmIRunningXP.com to the rescue!
Friday 14th March 2014 14:55 GMT
Windows plus !!!!
Was that the add-on that had an option to resize the desktop somehow ? I recall installing it, and breaking one of our companies products. It was only me that had the bug. Eventually the developers had to remove my machine, and install debug on it, to discover it was the Plus feature. I would have got a bollocking, only two customers reported the same thing a few days later, and I got a pat on the head for being so thorough in testing ....
Brawling neighbours challenge 'quiet' cul-de-sac myth
BuzzGasm: 9 Incredible Things You Never Knew About PLIERS!
Thursday 13th March 2014 12:42 GMT
Calendar
Well, if "Roundabouts of Redditch" can fly off the shelves ...
Maybe El Reg/SPB is missing a trick here. I'm sure 12 glossy pics of LOHAN in various *ahem* "poses" with some cursory details of holidays in parts of the world you've never heard of, let alone care about, might prove lucrative.
UK.gov to train up 11-year-old cyberwarriors
Thursday 13th March 2014 15:23 GMT
Sounds to me like they want to train the good stuff *out*
Best way to test *any* system - particularly for security - is to let people who haven't a ****ing clue loose on it.
Worst way to test *any* system - particularly for security - is to let people who think they know what they're talking about loose on it.
So we'll end up with a generation who've been taught the "official" way, and won't think any other way.
Or we would if this hare-brained scheme lasts more than five minutes.
Serious question. Can anyone name any UK.gov "initiatives" in the past 20 years which are still going ?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
