* Posts by NoneSuch

2643 publicly visible posts • joined 25 May 2010

BA passengers caught in crossfire of Heathrow baggage meltdown

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Facepalm

"passengers were told to pack their essentials in their hand luggage and get on their planes as planned."

Anyone who travels without essentials in their hand luggage is asking for it. Bags go astray all the time. So often, I assume I'll not have my checked bags for 48 hours and plan accordingly.

Europe-wide BitTorrent indexer blockade looms after Pirate Bay blow

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Joke

Libraries are next. The Dewey Decimal System tells people where to go to find copyrighted books which is exactly how The Pirate Bay works.

After that comes cops giving directions.

Ex-SpaceX avionics tech loses safety certificate-forging wrongful dismissal lawsuit

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Coat

No problem:

Every senior manager who signed off on the validation tests should be scheduled to be put on the first manned flights.

Literally put their asses on the line.

Gordon Ramsay's father-in-law gets six months for hacking sweary super-chef's computer

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Big Brother

But, but, but, GCHQ does this too... I'm confused.

NASA brainboxes work on algorithms for 'safe' self-flying aircraft

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Terminator

It will work perfectly.

Until it doesn't.

BA CEO blames messaging and networks for grounding

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You can't test everything all the time.

Stuff happens and often the unimagined causes grief.

Redundancies are only guaranteed when they come from HR.

Italian F-35 facility rolls out its first STOVL stealth fighter

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Facepalm

Let's hope they don't change sides half way through a fight.

Welsh Linux Mint terror nerd jailed for 8 years

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Coffee/keyboard

Who will bet the list of banned organizations will get shorter every year?

O (n^2) Canada! Code bugs knacker buses, TV, broadband, phone lines

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Coffee/keyboard

They laid off their best and most experienced techs, who, of course, cost the most.

Bureaucracy at it's most short-sighted.

Apple fanbois are officially sheeple. Yes, you heard. Deal with it

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Coat

I'll bet some of them baaaaather to complain.

We're spying on you for your own protection, says NSA, FBI

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Regardless

If you are not American, or living outside the USA, you ARE subject to continual and constant monitoring in every medium you care to use.

Yee-hacked! Fired Texan sysadmin goes rogue, trashes boot business

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Coffee/keyboard

No job is worth jail time.

When I was laid off in a particular snotty fashion, I got a phone call a week later asking if I wouldn't mind coming in to brief the new IT guy. I declined.

Softcat purrs as customers buy early to dodge Microsoft hikes

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Meanwhile, my Linux machines cost me nothing.

Info Commish marks own homework, says it didn't break law over Prince Charles request

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Joke

I approve this message.

No, I don't.

Yes, I do.

Canada's privacy watchdog probes US border phone seizures

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Big Brother

Reset your phone

Reset your devices before handing them over and after getting them back.

Will clear out the clutter as well, as an added bonus.

Scott McNealy: Your data is safer with marketers than governments

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FAIL

My data...

...works best when it's under my control. No marketers, no government and not held in some data center.

If I choose to give info over to a private business, that's between me and them, with no third party snoopers in the mix. That info should be restricted to travel anywhere else and be deleted after a fixed period of time.

UK Home Office warns tech staff not to tweet negative Donald Trump posts

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Big Brother

Re: Yes, good idea

"However, some have commented that the reminder reflects an increasingly draconian and closed social media policy - following the more open attitude encouraged by the likes of the Government Digital Service."

And it won't be long until this 'policy' spreads to regular citizens. Any government that seeks to control speech is not a democracy.

Facebook, Instagram: No, you can't auto-slurp our profiles (cough, cough, border officials)

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Coffee/keyboard

It won't stop them.

It will slow them down, but not stop them.

They don't follow the law, they make the law. With baby hands in the White House, it will be easy to get laws into power to change this.

Spy satellite scientist sent down for a year for stowing secrets at home

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WTF?

A year plus a day sentence

Isn't making an example. That's a remarkably light sentence considering the usual reaction.

We don't know the entire story obviously.

AMD does an Italian job on Intel, unveils 32-core, 64-thread 'Naples' CPU

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Alert

Re: About effing time

This is good for servers, but I still want my 16-core / 32-thread RyZen for my home machine. Or at the very least, a dual RyZen CPU mobo.

Spies do spying, part 97: Shock horror as CIA turn phones, TVs, computers into surveillance bugs

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FAIL

Re: I Wonder...

Next will come pass keys so the cops can walk through your house whenever they want "just to make sure everything is OK."

Sir Tim Berners-Lee refuses to be King Canute, approves DRM as Web standard

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FAIL

Any Restriction Placed on the Internet

Is censorship that WILL be abused.

Slack quick to whack account hijack crack

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An extra months pay would motivate some and save the company many times that.

Confirmed: Facebook shifts away from AI… and like a miracle, the bots start working

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FAIL

The way I see it...

If you can't be bothered to have a human being talk to me, then I'll look elsewhere.

If I wanted to talk to a robot, I'd look up my ex-wife.

In a loving tribute to its fiery washing machines and Note 7... Samsung management explodes

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Facepalm

As always, the barn door is swinging closed behind the escaping horse.

'Hey, Homeland Security. Don't you dare demand Twitter, Facebook passwords at the border'

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Big Brother

Trips

I had three trips planned to the US this year. A trade show event in Chicago, a Las Vegas weekend stag and Boston convention. All cancelled.

They can make whatever rules they want. I can choose to not go there.

PS. We need a stiff middle finger icon.

NZ High Court rules US can extradite Kim Dotcom after all

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Big Brother

I wonder when NZ officially becomes the next US state?

Totally not-crazy billionaire Elon Musk: All of us – yes, even you – must become cyborgs

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WTF?

Let's Hope...

That Tesla Cyborg brains don't catch fire as often as his cars.

Your Facebook account is now more secure than your bank's (probably)

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Big Brother

And yet...

El Zuck keeps a piece of tape over his webcam.

Says it all really.

I'm deadly serious about megatunnels, vows Elon Musk

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Coat

If he's trying to get to Mars that way, he'll be disappointed.

Chinese bloke cycles 500km to get home... in the wrong direction

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As long as there are people out there willing to buy a guy, who is down on his luck, a train ticket the human race has hope.

Make America, wait, what again? US Army may need foreign weapons to keep up

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Re: O'Rrly?

Nope. Not with El Trumpo in office.

Go dark with the flow: Lavabit lives again

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WTF?

Re: ~Slow handclap~

He shuttered the business rather than risking a breach in your privacy. An ethical man challenging authoritarian decree. This is the sort of action that should drive business to his door.

Only the most selfish would fail to see that.

CIA boss: Make America (a) great (big database of surveillance on citizens, foreigners) again!

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Big Brother

And so it begins.

The thin end of the wedge is inserted.

General Electric plays down industrial control plant vulnerabilities

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Big Brother

*cough* stuxnet

Trump's 'cyber tsar' Giuliani among creds leaked in mass hacks

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Re: Enquiring minds...

Americans practice security through legislation. They can't secure systems properly, so they prefer to give heavy jail terms for people caught like Laurie Love. Or threaten their critics with multiple felonies like Aaron Swartz.

They're bullies. Pure and simple.

College fires IT admin, loses access to Google email, successfully sues IT admin for $250,000

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I've been in that situation.

Was laid off from my position with several others for cost-cutting reasons (execs had made some bad business decisions and it bit them in the butt costing a half dozen jobs) Before being walked to the door, I asked the guy replacing me to change all admin passwords and terminate my VPN. He was part-time and found a better gig within a month of me leaving. After he left (went overseas) and before they found a replacement, several servers went down (log files filled up the HD on the DC, they needed constant attention) and I had cops knocking on my door questioning me. I was being accused by execs at my former company (same ones who laid us off) for trashing the servers.

Luckily, I had the email chain showing I no longer had access and proof all passwords had been changed after I had left. They went away and two days later got a desperate call from my former boss asking me if I wanted to come back and help them recover. Already had a new job offer several hours away and said no. I heard it took them two weeks to get server access after engaging a consultant. It was another week until they had everything back up. The new passwords had never been documented, my replacement never responded to email and I heard from friends at the company that I was still being blamed for the incident by the execs.

Google floats prototype Key Transparency to tackle secure swap woes

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Big Brother

One more method of identifying individuals and gathering their info under one index.

Netflix US Twitter account hacked

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Everythings Fine

They just added "123" to the end of "password" so all is good now.

Amateur radio fans drop the ham-mer on HRD's license key 'blacklist'

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Holmes

Retaliation (?)

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck,...

Testing times: Can your crypto-code survive the Google gauntlet?

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Big Brother

How many of those flaws were deliberately introduced by the US Gov to hamper standards, we'll never know. As a guess. A lot of them.

MH370 hunters call for new search of extra 25,000km2

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Gimp

Re: Obvious

This is well worth a watch. NOVA does a great job of giving the facts of what happened and outlining what they still don't know.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/why-planes-vanish.html

Screw EU! Apple to fight back over €13bn tax bill

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Re: Apple

If they are forced to pay that fine, date any check for the day after Brexit takes effect.

Jimbo Welshes on pledge to stop fundraising

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"Wales invariably attributes the Khmer Rouge quote to this reporter. Each time, no one seems able to explain politely to the co-founder that he’s misattributed it, as you can see here."

Wouldn't be a proper Wikipedia page without at least one misattributed quote.

Flaws fixed in SAP's police and military software

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Big Brother

Re: SAP: The software to end all wars?

Because the government hates being spied upon.

(No irony there, at all.)

Body cams too fragile for Canadian Mounties – so they won't be used

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Re: Hmmm ...

The RCMP also conduct themselves with appropriate restraint and courtesy in the vast majority of cases. They seldom need body cams. Something other police forces around the world could learn from.

Everything at Apple Watch is awesome, insists Tim Cook

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Big Brother

Re: Just because sales have tanked

Actually, that's exactly what it means. Crap sales mean it's a crap product.

esse quam videri

Bloke sold cash register code to restaurants that deliberately hid sales from taxmen

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FAIL

Re: You can't do that ...

"we will continue to prosecute those who threaten the integrity and equity of our nation's tax system."

As they are 20 Trillion dollars in debt as a nation, I question that 'equity'.

New British flying robot killer death machines renamed 'Protector'

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Much better name:

Fluffy Bunny Sir Hugs-a-Lot.

Apple blames air for iPhone 6S's narcolepsy

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"We also want our customers to know that an iPhone is actually designed to shut down automatically under certain conditions, such as extremely cold temperature," said the Silicon Valley titan that once blamed its hardware failures on grip placement.

Nuts to that. I've been using my phone in dry ice for years.