Posts by John Brown (no body) 25434 publicly visible posts • joined 21 May 2010
You really think running a fire hose over a car bonnet is slower than breaking a couple of car windows then feeding the hose through, hoping it doesn't get snagged? Have you seen firemen unrolling a hose in an emergency? Unless it's just the last few feet, then that's a big and heavy roll of hose to push through a car. It's far, far simpler and quicker to just go over it.
"We'll let the family of four know their house burned down because it would have been "more fun" to break some fool's windows... FTFY
Oh, and exactly why is the person who parked their car there a fool? Was this a marked fire hydrant? A marked emergency access route? The OP didn't say. Maybe the person who parked the car should have been expected to know there was going to be fire and parked in a different town? All the OP said was "blocking access", which covers a multitude of scenarios, 99.9% of of which could be totally innocent and reasonable for the person parking their car.
Imagine if your car insurence was hiked up because of this or something similar. And then you try to sue the manufacturer for the extra costs due to their cost-cutting on what should be a foreseeable outcome by "an expert in the field", which of course, they surely employ for something as important as the security of what for many people is the second most expensive thing they will buy during their lifetime.
Most modern cars, these days, seem to cost in the region of double what I paid for my current house, admittedly that was about 35 years ago :-)
"There never was one of those that you couldn't pop the lock in under a minute. Doesn't matter how big and sturdy a security device is if you can open the lock with a ball point pen."
On the other hand, it was a visible deterrent. The casual car thief would more likely go for one without it because there's a known extra time involved. And anyone prepared to take the time to fit it when leaving the car will less likely leave valubales in the car and have an alarm or other anti-theft features.
It might be as much use, practically, as having a fake alarm box on your house wall, but it will most likely cause a thief to look for an easyer target. It won't stop the thief stealing a car, but it will more likely be someone else's car, not your.
Yep. Did a job a couple of months back. Got sent in with minimal info on the client site. PCs would randomly work/not work on the LAN, but all had internet access. Who got on the working LAN and who didn't was random and changed each time machines were booted. In the back of my mind, I'm thing DHCP. Sure enough, when I got there, there were two LANs on different subnets and two DHCP servers. The "emergency" backup provision had kicked in at some stage and not reverted when the main provision came back up. The emergency provision was bare bones hence the lack of connectivity internally and, naturally, had it's own DHCP. And was plugged into the same master switch box as the primary provision. Half an hour to find the kit, 10 seconds to identify and pull the plug. 20 minutes explaining why their failover method was the cause and how to fix it it for the future, half day billable and a grateful customer who will almost certainly call us back to set it all up properly for them.
IIRC, it's been shown that people will use the most easily remembered/guessed password they can get away with within the confines of the defined password policy when said policy forced frequent changes.
On the other hand, people will choose a more complex, less easily guessed password if it's significantly longer but only requires a change every 6-12 months and is, in turn actually more secure.
Irhmbawhwrny1666 is probably more secure than Pa55wo0d26!
(FWIW, I Really Hate My Boss And Wish He Would Retire Next Year 1666 :-)
The initial letters of a long but memorable and personal phrase is easier to handle than a short complex, random sequence and more secure.
Disclaimer: IANAsecurity professional and may be talking bollox.
"> Stuck in a traffic jam? Buy a Maserati!
Now that is a philosophy I can get behind."
Personally, in that situation I'd go for a Challanger rather than a Maseratti. Fuel consumption is similar but the 0-60 isn't quite as good. On the other hand, in a traffic jam, the 0-60 might be considerably better than a Maseratti, abeit still a bit slow.
Exactly that.
Google said...Apple said....
Yeah, yeah, yeah, if the laws change then you have to change to suit. You do it in "repressive" markets so that you can keep clawing in the cash, so why whinge when your "more compliant" markets start to make some demands too? Suck it up or leave the market! :-)
On the other hand, aiming for that early high salary frequently means they keep on the move, always looking for that better job/package and don't accrue much/any company pension or redundancy benefits. I wonder what happens to the "fast young things" when they start to realise that jumping ship for the next opportunity every year or two is getting harder because they are less young?
It's been said on these pages before that some recruiters, whether employer/HR or agency, see a short CV with few jobs on it as a strong negative, as if they don't want the sort of people who might be loyal and spend time gaining experience in a job.
"Why have a greybeard fix a customer's problems in half an hour when a junior can stretch it out to days, even weeks at full billing rate? This is the modern way to do business. And if all businesses are equally bad competitive then the customer has nowhere to go."
So, what you're saying is there is a gap in the market for a company employing greybeards to solve other peoples problems at 1/10th the cost, 1/10th the time and steal everyone else's customers and make a killing?
"Without a constant influx of new ideas and fresh thoughts that come out of educational institutions we also run the risk of stagnating."
Any fans of Battlebots here? Have you also noticed that the "elders" of the game are still running the same robots, just with incremental changes, bigger motors, stronger armour etc while the "new blood" come in with new designs and concepts? Not all the "new bloods" do well of course, and many talk about what they learned from the "elders". The "elders" even congratulate the "new bloods" when they do well. But the "elders" rarely seem to take on any of the new designs and concepts themselves.
With the "non-standard" Model II, add the Model 12, 16 and 16B, as opposed to the "standard" Model I, III and IV. Hmm, fewer models in the "standard" range, although by far the biggest sellers. The Model IV was probably the best for it's time for most people, being fully Model III compatible but also being able to boot CP/M in 80x25 screen mode and address up to 128K RAM in two banks. The 16B was 68000 based too! And then there was the 6000 with a built-in HDD :-)
As a struggling teenager with only a part time job while still at school, sadly my preferred choice of a TRS-80 was out of reach. What I did get and could afford was the cheaper but much larger clone, the Eaca Video Genie. There were a few subtle differences but nothing serious enough to cause me issues I couldn't solve. It was bigger because it used more standard TTL chips across two circuit boards and the PSU + tape deck was built in. It's what got me started in the IT industry and even though it wasn't a TRS-80 and no money passed from my hands to Tandy, I still feel I own Tandy for developing it in the first place. (I also had access to a Commodore PET at school too, but that was way, way outside my budget!)
Did Win98 not have the unix tools? ie the ability to connect via NFS? I'd assume NFS2 if so, so some work to be done to talk to an older NAS box. Failing that, there's always FTP. Not as convenient as mounting a network share, but still useful. Also some work to be done on firewall rules to make sure it's not exposed in or out! But anyone running Win98 on a network should already be paranoid :-)
IIRC, it was a getting a bit mouldy up there and not much they seemed to be able to do about it. I very much doubt they could have moved it up and eventually re-occupied it. While sad to see it end it's orbital life, I suspect from the various "incidents" in its later life, it was becoming a death trap.
"so why not continue it in a safe and regulated manner."
Yes, in an ideal world where people are all honest and up front about their actions and proper controls and anonymisation are in place and properly monitored.
"Which it will be."
Sorry can't comment on this, Laughing too hard!!!
Well, ex-Prime Ministers have to have something to help pay the bills when they leave office. Something better than living in a "shepherds hut" writing fiction and being a lorry driver delivering supplies to refugees. (probably for the publicity more than any other reason. Cynical? Moi?)
On top of that a "trust" is in itself a nebulous thing, especially geographically. I did some work with a specialised trust that has a number of hospitals and a local presence many, many towns across 4 entire counties. covering a very, very large area. Far more than the old Health Authorities ever did, but only in it's own specialist care area, not all care areas the Health Authorities did. Then there's the overlap. Other trusts in the same area also carry some of that area of care too. I'm sure it's same over the whole of England. A mish-mash of competing trusts overlapping the same care in at least adjoining geographic areas.
Revenue. Maybe the other figures are declared profits, which may be significantly different from actual profits depending on Apples accountancy practices.
On the other hand I wonder what the €50M is in terms of NL revenues (or profits) rather than worldwide revenues/profits? Apple have also been stung with fines in other countries too. It's beginning to add up. Death by a 1000 cuts? (Might need more than a 1000 cuts to have a real effect though)
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