Posts by Richard 26

Re: Oh the humanity

'Suspended on full pay? How TF is that a punishment?'

It's not. Whilst it might be satisfying if the BBC told him to clear his desk today, they would be paying him off for unfair dismissal tomorrow.

Re: Whilst I can see the value.....

"We (the consumers) are paying for these meters so the power companies can employ less people to read meters. "

We aren't paying for them, the electricity companies are paying for them.

Re: Seems a little sarcastic

"I guess you could pass that onto a third party with one of those "render and send me the page image" type browsers that use an intermediary server."

Which worst case would be an unauthorized derivative work...

Re: Rape IS a hard crime to prove... BULLSH*T! @Black Betty

Sadly, it's even harder than that to get a conviction when the victim isn't available to testify.

The problem is not with SQL itself, rather that most SQL is generated dynamically from another language, and that the simplest way to do it is by passing a string. This leads to similar vulnerabilities as calling system() e.g. embedding a semicolon as statement separator.

Re: Missed Opportunity

"Chirgwin has it right, though: all of Ylonen's recommendations look to be common sense security practices"

It's draft-ylonen-sshkeybcp-01, so presumably it's on the BCP track, so it's kind of the point that it codifies good practice.

Re: @JDX

@AC 13:51 Loyal Commenter is quite correct, trespassing isn't generally a crime in the UK , it's a civil matter.

Re: More films...

The thing I loved about eXistenZ was that it made a virtue out of its own weaknesses. They were very sparing of CGI because the game world looks almost exactly like the real one. Most of the time, the plot was a bit rubbish, and the acting poor but that was OK because they were in a video game.

Re: Pork holster.

So there was some truth in the 'Processed Meat Linked To Early Death' story after all.

Re: I am not happy

People spent years trying to prove from first principles why alpha was exactly 1/137. The trouble is, it isn't. It's roughly 1/137.03599907 Staring at the number and hoping to understand the cosmic significance of it all is pure kabbalism, not physics.

"Microsoft proposed the tablet computer in 2001 which was a good idea, they just didn't have the right idea about technology and how to bring that vision to the masses."

So, only a decade or so after Apple then; and even Apple couldn't get the Newton to sell. Touchscreen driven ARM device - there's just no market for them.

Re: Not a terrible lot of facts in the reporting

"Of course, I wouldn't want to suggest his light sentence had anything to do with him singing like a canary."

18months is fairly near the top end of what you get from computer crimes, http://www.computerevidence.co.uk/Cases/CMA.htm

"and as for NASA letting him anywhere near the moon, well, what can I say."

It's a wonderful world?

Re: jobs not paid for

It's the same in the UK, with a maximum of £5 000; the problem is when you are owed (say) £10 000, it falls between the maximum you get via small claims and what it is worth suing for in full formal proceedings.

Re: And they said they re-wrote Office from the ground up for RT

Microsoft really need an electrician to check that floating ground of theirs.

Re: RE: and a paediatrician

Whoosh - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/aug/30/childprotection.society

Funny you should say that:

"Some of those who have been nominated, but have yet to make the grade, are David Beckham, Sir Jimmy Savile, Princess Diana and Sir Terry Wogan."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15522387

Re: Pictures?

BT cabinet in leafy suburb coming up:

http://davidmunro.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/bt-cabinet-at-bourne-cross-roads.html

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