Sir
Not sure why that's a joke, because BT's in-house security team is referred to as 'Hadrian' :)
Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon
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BT network goes titsup up north
Shut up, Spock! How Battlestar Galactica beat Trek babble
Airport screeners go for the groin
Child porn victims seek multimillion-dollar payouts
Tuesday 2nd November 2010 10:30 GMT
Sir
That is a pretty confusing set of rules. I kind of ended up with the impression that possession of the images constitutes some form of sick pay per view if you get caught.
Still, if it highlights the problems it bring a resolution one step closer, but taming the internet isn't going to happen any time soon.
Murder victim-mocking troll jailed
Monday 1st November 2010 12:58 GMT
Sir
Let's hope that his stint in Chokey will suffice as far as attention seeking goes.
If someone were to take the piss out of my loved one after a recent loss and still suffering from grief, I really don't think I'd be responsible for my actions.
Grief can take you that way sometimes and this guy is lucky he didn't get personal visits from some of his victims.
Artificial replacement human livers made in lab
Top Ten Retro PC Games
Frenchman cuffed for naughty lip-slip email to MEP
UK.gov plans net censor service
Friday 29th October 2010 14:36 GMT
Sir
An easier way to deal with illegal content being access from the UK is not to censor it, but stick up a websense like page saying your access has been logged as this site is considered illegal in the country you are viewing it from.
That way, if it isn't actually illegal you can still get to see it and verify for yourself, or if it is then your IP is logged and your in the shithouse :)
Boffins mount campaign against France's official kilogramme
Over 100,000 stops-and-searches: zero terrorists
Google boss: 'Creeped out by Street View? Just move'
Facebook comes down hard on Faceporn
Wikileaks outs 400,000 classified Iraq War docs
Sunday 24th October 2010 05:15 GMT
Sir
I honestly believe that the politicians are well aware that we are constantly providing new material that 'terrorists' can use as recruiting material, because without an enemy the military money machine grinds to a halt.
Isn't it fortunate for them that the country of 'terror' can never be quelled? A never ending supply of baddies to blame and to generate lots of military funding.
War is big business apparently, whoda thunk it?
As long as the most driven people in society are the ones prepared to screw everyone else over for a profit this situation will NEVER change, and the honest people of the earth will be forever under their boot. It's all just so depressing </Marvin>
<joke>I think we should create schools that identify this particular personality trait and then neuter them before they have a chance to propogate, at least that way we could eventually breed this trait out of the gene pool.</joke>
Linux bug bestows attackers with 'superuser' powers
Top cyber crime cop lied under oath, says judge
Tuesday 19th October 2010 13:53 GMT 
Sir
This sets a grand example of corruption for lower eschelon officers to follow.
Bravo corruption. Let's make an internet film about this and make sure it says 'based on real events' at the beginning and show it off at Cannes to the rest of Europe how good it is to be a senior copper in the UK.
Fucking bent coppers make my teeth itch, my skin crawl and my stomach knot in rage all at once.
Q: Why pay for DNS?
Tuesday 19th October 2010 11:06 GMT
Sir
Regarding that Chinese routing cockup, can anyone justify why their BGP peers were just accepting any old path from the Chinese routers rather than applying as AS-path filter as should be done? This isn't a problem with the technology, it's a problem with the implementation.
Like that guy at LINX who advertised a DG via null0 and everyone just dumped their traffic into it because they hadn't applied filters. I can't believe it happened again!
Notorious Anonymous hacktivists launch fresh attacks
Monday 18th October 2010 14:57 GMT
Sir
"Aiplex Software said it was prepared to launch DDoS attacks at Torrent tracker sites that ignored its legal nastygrams"
To assume that all subscribers to torrent sites are members of anonymous and ddos them is tantamount to digital suicide if you ask me.
Talk about boosting their profile and getting more members, not that they need it.
Could someone also tell me how to legally perform a DDOS attack? I would have thought that taking over other people's PC's is definitely in the black-hat, rather than grey-hat, arena (unless they have massive serverfarms dedicated to the task).
It's one thing to suggest taking over the C&C servers of a botnet and fscking them up, but mounting a DDOS and actually announcing (from a legal entity) that you are going to do it is plain nuts.
WTF is... DLNA?
Microsoft's fear of an OpenOffice
BOFH: Pepper-packing bot plot
Spanish fascist decries Franco Eurovision slur
Margaret Thatcher celebrates 85 years
Thursday 14th October 2010 10:09 GMT
Sir
@David 15
"You CAN NOT build an economy based on shuffling wealth from one place to another."
I'm sorry, but that only holds true if the money starts and finishes in your own country and never leaves it's borders.
As it is. money comes in to London from all over the world, and it goes out again. Every time it does someone makes a profit, even if it's only interest on loans for trades.
Almost a quarter of Europeans can't be bothered with the net
Currys punts cut-price 3D TV pack for Xmas
National Schools Film Week punts unsafe URL
Spycam school to pay damages for kiddie snaps
Wednesday 13th October 2010 12:31 GMT
Sir
No criminal intent.
So, let me get this principle straight in my mind.
Massive invasion of privacy.
Got found out.
Reason given: protecting the public (of course).
No criminal intent there, so no prosecution, even though the law was clearly broken.
Hmm, I can't see how that principle could undermine anything, so go right ahead. If it looks like a dead rat that chocked on a rotten piece of fish, and smells like one too, then it probably is.
They can't give people the real reasons for these things, otherwise they'd have something concrete to rally against. Better to slowly boil that frog.
Guardian super-blogger flames Reg boffinry desk
Tuesday 12th October 2010 15:39 GMT
Sir
I arrested a chap just the other weeking for taking a shit on the bonnet of my Merc, not BMW, and he swore his name was Al Gore (at least he swore). Typical journalistic standards there Mr AC.
Anyway, have you ever looked at the top of El Reg's web page? You know, the RED bit, at the TOP, I rest my case.
And may I state, for myself at least, that the word boffin has entirely positive connotations regarding the intellectual capacity of the recipient, though possibly not so positive in the personal relationship and tie choice front.
Hefty physicist: Global warming is 'pseudoscientific fraud'
Tuesday 12th October 2010 09:19 GMT
Sir
Do you have anything to say about the possibility of obscene amounts of funding being made available to scientists who are predisposed to sit on one particular side of this fence corrupting the scientific process at all?
That couldn't possibly happen could, LET'S ALL GET SHOUTY and burn the fucking heretic already.
You quote wikipedia in all seriousness, it's obvious to anyone that we *contribute* to climate change (how much is what the debate is about). Hundreds of scientists whose funding relies on them supporting the money wagon, and then you go and cite the Pentagon, who, as we all know, has everyone else's interests at heart really.
You get the FAIL buddy, not because I think you are right or wrong, but because it's attitudes like yours that stifle the debate and have turned the whole bloody thing into a religion.
Tesla Motors: Our cars don't burst into flame, but our emails do
BOFH: Lock shock
Much of recent global warming actually caused by Sun
Thursday 7th October 2010 16:05 GMT
Sir
As I think has already been mentioned somewhere above..
"over long periods of time solar warming probably has little effect on the Earth's temperature one way or the other, as solar activity cycles up and down regularly."
is a very unscientific statement. What if we removed the warming effect of the Sun completely - can we therefore expect 'little effect' in the temperature of the Earth?
Not a dig at you, just getting fed up of all the blithering 'statement'. I'd like to see a nice graph - pictures or it didn't happen :)
Trucker pulled with DVD and laptop on dashboard
ACS:Law's mocking of 4chan could cost it £500k
Miliband retains Labour line on DNA and CCTV
Kindle users finally get to pay for games
Monday 27th September 2010 15:42 GMT
Sir
If you are up for an e-reader, the Kindle is superb (for me).
There are app's on the net for converting your pdf manuals to Kindle friendly sized pages etc. and plenty of raw text books (ie free) out there.
I got mine two weeks ago and I've hardly put the thing down, I've gone through 8 books so far.
It was cheap enough to take a chance on at £109, but there are some downsides. The text to voice interpreter is great, as long as you're reading Hawkins guide to the universe - anything other than that it just seems a little odd :)
The browser actually works (over wi-fi) for emergency purposes, but too clunky for any other use, having to zoom in and out to move about on the screen is slow, but it works.
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