I couldn't work out where dishcloths come into this story...
Posts by Alister
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Full disclosh: Facebook to pay shareholders $35m over IPO non-disclosure claims
Ohhhh-klahoma! Where Verizon's sweeping legacy down the drain
Intellisense was off and developer learned you can't code in Canadian
That microchipped e-passport you've got? US border cops still can't verify the data in it
He's cheesed it! French flick pirate on the lam to swerve €80m fine, two-year stretch in the clink
Bad news: 43% of login attempts 'malicious' Good news: Er, umm...
As others have said I'm surprised that the quoted figure is only 43%, but then their data collection only accounts for an unrepresentative sample of the problem.
Anyone who administers internet facing servers of any kind, be they web, email or whatever, knows that a high proportion of each day's logs will be taken up with automated login attempts of one sort or another.
If at first you don't succeed, you're likely Intel: Second Spectre microcode fix emitted
NASA is sniffing jet fuel over Germany
Euro Space Agency probe begins search for guff gas on Mars
According to the articles I had a quick skim through, on Earth, Methane that forms hydrate can be both biogenic, created by biological activity in sediments, and thermogenic, created by geological processes deeper within the earth. In thermogenic formation, the gas is formed in the same manner as natural gas…through catagenesis of kerogen. I was unable to determine, from what I found, what the relevant percentages were of biogenic to thermogenic Methane.
UK local gov: 37 cyber attacks a minute but little mandatory training
Reporting Cyber Crime
I wonder how many commentards who work in the UK actually know where you are supposed to report a "cyber" crime?
How many of you have heard of Action Fraud?
Just interested.
Australia joins the 'decrypt it or we'll legislate' club
Re: Good luck...
Seriously, what are they going to do? Make mere possession of software such as Signal a criminal offence in Australia?
Yes, that's probably what they will want to do, just the same as the UK and the US and various other governments.
UK and US have already made mutterings about banning use of Tor and Telegram, so what's one more to add to the list?
Japan's Robo-Bartenders point to a golden future
Iiyama reanimates LCD cartel lawsuit corpse, swings it at Samsung
I don't know why you got a downvote, I was going to post something similar, the article is quite confusing and ambiguous in its choice of words.
Iiyama are a maker of monitors and TVs, (not screens) and they purchased LCD panels from Samsung and others. They definitely didn't buy complete monitors.
Crunch time: Maplin in talks to sell the business
Re: But seeing in store
@MJI
Yep, I agree with you that for TVs it makes sense to go and see one working, as the price difference doesn't necessarily portray the real world performance. But why do we feel the need to to that for washing machines, dishwashers etc? It's not likely that you can see them working.
Just musing to myself, I used to love going to Maplins to just browse the vast array of switches, resistors, capacitors and ICs which they stocked, as well as their enclosures, fans and so on.
In the days before the internet, it was somehow more satisfying to be able to do that, rather than dig through the massive mail-order catalogues that both they and RS used to produce.
Nowadays, it's very easy to buy anything you want online and have it delivered to your door, and for components, that's what I would invariably do.
Strangely though, for things which by their nature you would normally have delivered - I'm talking about domestic white goods, televisions, stuff like that, I wouldn't order them off the internet, I'd much rather go to a store and see the things in the flesh, and be able to prod and poke the real thing before ordering.
Which makes no sense, when you think about it. I mean, if you are buying a new washing machine, you can't take a basket of mixed coloureds to the store and run them through the machine, the best you can do is stare at serried ranks of different makes in the store, all new and shiny and unplugged and not working. So what's the point?
But for me, I just feel happier to go and see the thing, and order it from a store, instead of sitting at home and buying it off the web.
I'm obviously not the only one who feels like that, as the likes of Curries seem to be packed with people of all ages staring at washing machines and cookers and dishwashers and televisions. Maybe some of them go home and order it off the web afterwards, but they still feel the need to go and look at them in the flesh first.
Aren't humans weird?
Back in my teens, Maplins were on a par with RS and Farnell for their stocks of electrical and electronic components, with the added bonus that if you lived near one of their shops you could just nip in and get what you wanted - not something you could do with the other two.
Unfortunately, in an effort to remain relevant, they've almost entirely stopped stocking the electronic components in their stores, and it's mostly overpriced consumer tat, instead.
I agree with AMBxx above, they should have moved to a purely online presence, as the others have done, and maybe they would have maintained their relevance.
A print button? Mmkay. Let's explore WHY you need me to add that
Why have a print button?
Because, as noted in the article, "people" don't always use software in ways the designer expected.
Fr'instance, I have heard an anecdote where a secretary used to intercept and print out all her boss's emails, and deliver them as a stack of paper on his desk, as that was how he had always worked.
Despite all the many initiatives designed to promote a "paperless" office, it's just not going to happen, untill perhaps tablets or phablets are completely ubiquitous and software is available to allow you to annotate any file as you go.
But for now, if I'm going into a meeting, I usually print out network diagrams, gantt charts, policy documents etc so I can scribble on them as they are discussed, and so do most of my colleagues.
So, why have a print button? Because most people will use it.
*Wakes up in Chrome's post-adblockalyptic landscape* Wow, hardly anything's changed!
The thing that advertising agencies, Amazon and Google etc, need to understand is that apart from the sheer annoyance of flashing, beeping animated shite that gets in the way of content I might want to look at, their current algorithms are designed to look at an individual's purchasing history, browsing history, etc, and then offer ads FOR THINGS YOU JUST BOUGHT!
If I've just bought a left-handed dribblepocket, then the chances are I DON'T WANT ANOTHER ONE!
Mueller bombshell: 13 Russian 'troll factory' staffers charged with allegedly meddling in US presidential election
Helicopter crashes after manoeuvres to 'avoid... DJI Phantom drone'
Robot cars will kill London jobs – but only from 2030, say politicans
I notice that the Oxbotica "self-driving" delivery vehicle has two human occupants for safety.
I also notice that (from the marked compartments on the sides) it can apparently only carry items for a maximum of 8 different destinations.
In the rush to adopt autonomous delivery vehicles, scant regard has been paid to the necessary changes in social behaviour required to make it work.
There will be no more "home delivery", as there is no way for the vehicle to place packages on or in the recipient's property - and no more post through the letterbox.
Instead, householders will have to fetch the delivery from the vehicle themselves - not practicable if you are out at work - or arrange to pick up the delivery from an agreed holding point, in which case there's no need for the delivery vehicle anyway.
PCI Council and X9 Committee to combine PIN security standards
Roses are red, Kaspersky is blue: 'That ban's unconstitutional!' Boo hoo hoo
South China waters are red, Brit warships are blue, HMS Sutherland's sailing there
Mars is red, Earth is blue. Here's a space laser story for you
Roses are red, are you single, we wonder? 'Cos this moth-brain AI can read your phone number
Rogue IT admin goes off the rails, shuts down Canadian train switches
just not making the grade as a sysadmin
A measure of his competence is that he used a laptop to carry out his attacks, and then handed it back to his former employer.
Even though he did make an attempt to wipe it, he should at least have changed the hard-drive, or just used a different machine altogether.
Yes, Assange, we'll still nick you for skipping bail, rules court
UK Home Sec Amber Rudd unveils extremism blocking tool
National Museum of Computing rattles the bucket: Help shift war-winning proto-puter
Icahn't get right Xerox Fuji merger spoils, cries activist investor Carl
Not cool, dude: Brit web host Hotchilli Internet freezes itself for good
Equifax hack worse than previously thought: Biz kissed goodbye to card expiry dates, tax IDs etc
Re: Clearly allowing companies to hold this kind of information should not be allowed
@AC
I am not, nor ever have been, nor ever will be a customer of Equifax. Why should they have any information about me?
Roll on GDPR when I can get it all deleted....
I would like to bet that Equifax do have information about you. If you have opened a bank account, have a credit card, or have applied for a loan or other credit, then the chances are your data was given to Equifax, as well as the other credit reference agencies.
And the GDPR doesn't give you the right to demand deletion of your data unconditionally, if Equifax can show a business need (which they can, as they are a credit reference agency) then they can refuse to delete your data.
You dopes! US state's pot dealer database pwned after security goes up in smoke
Corpse! of! Yahoo! drags! emails! of! the! dead! case! to! US! Supreme! Court!
A subject close to my heart
My ex wife died suddenly at the end of December. We had been divorced for some years but were still friends, and I am the legal guardian of our children, who have come to live with me.
Sorting out her effects has been a chore, as nobody knew her social media and email account credentials, and she didn't write them down.
She had a recent Windows 10 notebook, one of those with no discrete hard drive, just flash chips soldered to the motherboard, for which nobody knows the login, so I've been unable to access that at all - due to the EFI BIOS I can't even boot from a USB Drive or Flash stick so that's essentially useless now.
If she stored her various account details on there, we'll never know.
Thankfully all the banks etc have accepted other means of identification to allow us to close accounts, recover money, sort out her work pension and so on, but we have been unable to access her email, or close her social media accounts.
It's made me realise that I need to keep a written record of things in a place where everybody who needs to can get at them.