* Posts by Voland's right hand

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Post-Brexit five-year UK work visas planned – report

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Re: Meanwhile...

Well, this is what the people voted for, this is what MUST be delivered. I, personally, am against the madness in the first place. I voted remain.

The current screams by various "interested parties" about "this will fail without the Eastern European slaves" are disingenuous. As my CS professor in high school in the days before political correctness used to say - you cannot have your penis in both hands and your soul in paradise at the same time.

If Leave means Leave, that is what it means. The ones who remain in this country (isn't this a wonderful word play), will have to contend with it.

Gov wants to make the UK the 'safest place in the world to go online'

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Re: Two words spring to mind...

You sure? I am pretty sure you got a few letters wrong.

I thought you meant Nazi State.

All hail our future great chancellor(ess) Adam Sutt... Sorry Theresa May. All that not hail, Lark hill awaits you - so we make the environment safe, you understand...

Tech contractors begin mass UK.gov exodus in wake of HMRC's IR35 income tax clampdown

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Re: this is an old paul daniels trick...

No magic here. It is the same as with crackdown during the Blair government.

Big guns pay bribes the standard British way - over the table and fully legitimate. It is called DONATIONS. Your average freelance IT contractor bod does not.

This is how corruption works in nowdays UK. If you are not familiar with the methodology, I suggest you familiarize yourself.

Finally proof that Apple copies Samsung: iPhone 7 Plus halts, catches fire like a Galaxy Note 7

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Re: Water damage

Please tell me where you can find women's jeans with pockets big enough to take an iPhone.

That depends on the woman size... If you think that only Kardassians carry a battlecruiser sized protrusion in their lower back, think again. If thinking does not help, take a walk (especially in the more run-down parts) around most of the USA.

End of the day, USA food and drink is what brought to us the obesity pandemic in the first place, so having jeans back pockets capable of accommodating a 7 inch tablet will not surprise me.

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Re: Water damage

If it was 6 or earlier, I would have agreed with you. Apple up to 6 was a few years behind let's say Sony or Panasonic in terms of water resistance.

7 is the first Apple phone to proudly go where err... Sony was 3+ years ago. It is IP67 so it should have taken more than half an hour of sitting in that sink for water damage to be the reason.

Google's Project Zero reveals another Microsoft flaw

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Re: Capable of Learning?

The day when it will have real effect on the day-to-day bottom line which the tech press does not.

Bee boffins prove sesame-seed brain is all you need to play football (well, that explains a lot)

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Did the bees learn to fake injuries too

There is a lot left for the bees to learn:

Earn 10 liters of sugar syrup a day just by sitting on the bench, lay on your back clutching a leg pretending another bee hit you, kick other bees in the shins while the scientists are not watching, get paid 100 more liters of syrup for moving from one bench to another...

Otherwise, as far as the brain size is concerned that is spot on.

Nokia’s big comeback: Watches, bathroom scales, a 3310 PR gimmick, Snake, erm...

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Re: Makes you wonder

I would not buy a 3310. Now a redesigned E71 or E72 running a reasonably up-to-date version of Android properly customized for a qwerty keyboard... I will be tempted.

The hardware was bombproof, the usability of the original was phenomenal. I used it for several years including two 5000km summer road trips using Nokia maps. It just worked. Sure, the UI and software was hideous, but it just worked.

So, actually, the last great Symbian phone was not the N95, it was the E71. The 95 was not bad either - it survived a few years of SWMBO usage and then a year of use by junior until he dropped it on the school lawn and the contractor's lawnmower terminated it. It was not nearly as good as the E71 though.

Git fscked by SHA-1 collision? Not so fast, says Linus Torvalds

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I missed this reading the original collision notification

I actually missed the part that the attack produced by Google needs to meddle with both sides - "good" and "bad" of the collision. If this is the case, this drastically decreases the attack surface as it is an attack that cannot be applied to an arbitrary SHA1 out there. Sure, an attack that is applicable only to a limited set of SHA1 scenarios today may be modified to hit arbitrary ones in the future. The key word is "future".

As far as any source code control system is concerned it has multiple layers of verification:

1. SCCM integrity (git fsck in this case).

2. Build

3. Code style check

4. Integration test check

If a SCCM uses hashes for addressing, creating a hash collision may get you past 1. You still need to get past 2 - your code should build, past 3 - anything you have inserted must pass style checks and past the test suite. That as a whole is actually a fairly high order. This is also very different from "black boxes" like document formats where you can ship megabytes of non-visible content which nobody will notice. It is also different from digital certificates where you either trust the signature or your do not.

Don't worry about Privacy Shield, it's fine. Really. I promise, says US trade watchdog head

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Fake news. SAD!

Of course, there will be massive pressure not to tear up a new agreement

There is similarly massive pressure to do so. There is money to be made either way.

Realistically, the lifetime of the new agreement is until there is a court case (especially without the UK to throw spanners in the works to anyone trying to repeal it). Its lifetime after facing the judges will be measured in minutes (not even hours or days).

Brit cops can keep millions of mugshots of innocent folks on file

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The giggle you hear in the Red Square is coming from the wall

If you are wondering why there is a manic giggle audible across the Red Square, it is coming from the cemetery next to the wall. Brezhnev, Suslov and Chernenko are laughing their asses off so loud that you can hear them on the other side of the (rather large) pavement.

I am not going to quote what Suslov said about the Helsinki declaration of human rights. It is on file - look it up (it is proving to be 100% true).

I was authorized to trash my employer's network, sysadmin tells court

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Re: @Ellier ... This will impact others as well

rm -rf *

If you have been a sysadmin as long as I have you would have done it at least once. Failing that you would have done the even more unpleasant chown -R X:X / or chmod -R 0xxx /. Either that or doing chown or chmod recursively on . being in the wrong directory.

Of course I know it will cause harm. You still sometimes do it even after 20 years of experience (I re-read my command lines at least 3 times if I use the -r (or -R) flags).

Start there and you'll find his actions to be criminal Even if we do so, it is criminal damage which funnily enough in USA (and many other jurisdictions) attracts an order of magnitude smaller penalty than unauthorized computer access.

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This should be covered by a different clause in the contract

While he was authorized to carry any one of the actions separately, most contracts also include one or more clauses of general character which prohibit the employee from doing anything intentionally to the detriment of the company.

In his specific case it may be possible that he has no such clauses. Employee No 2 in most companies ends up not having 2 miles of boilerplate legalese. It is quite possible that he had his duties spelled out, but the usual intent clauses where not there.

If that is the case:

1. His ex-employee is out of luck. There is no grounds for the usual unauthorized access charge.

2. This does not change a thing. The contract for 99.999% of people out there covers this case within the first 2-3 clauses so even if the court decides in his favor it will not result in any significant contractual changes for the rest of us.

Alert! The dastardly Dutch are sailing a 90-ship fleet at Blighty

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Re: The RN can send an attack submarine to shadow the Dutch...

In the meantime Dutch frigates (which really should be destroyers if you look at their spec) are all combat ready and operational: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS_De_Zeven_Provinci%C3%ABn_%28F802%29

It also has anti-ship armament (something Royal Navy no longer has).

Ad men hope blocking has stalled as sites guilt users into switching off

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Re: percentages

This might mean that 22% of UK users know about them and know how to use them and that group is now saturated.

Yep. That is pretty much the gist of it.

I would rather not browse a site and find its content elsewhere (way too many #retwatters nowdays).

Fitbit hit on Pebble kit cost just 20 million quid? Oh s**t!

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What murder?

Pebble committed suicide the moment it got onto the "new product" + VC money bandwagon.

They should have realized that there is a reason why they never got money from the VCs initially and were able to take off only based on crowdsourcing. The moment they tried to run it like a regular company which has to show "growth per year", "new products at this consumer show" and have the scumbags which are associated with this process on the board was the moment they stuck the wakizashi in their abdomen. FitBit's assistance with the katana was the "assistant saving grace", completing the process of sepuku, not the actual act of ritual suicide.

Intel scales Atom to 16 cores, updates Xeon SoCs

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Intel scales Atom to 16 cores

Curious minds want to know - with or without a working oscillator :)

Pack your bags! NASA spots SEVEN nearby Earth-sized alien worlds

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Re: Tides and stuff

Not necessarily - in a system that crowded you may have one or more with large enough satellites to prevent it from being tidal locked to the star.

US judge halts mass fingerprint harvesting by cops to unlock iPhones

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At reader level yes

This is the difference between a fingerprint digitization used by a lame fingerprint scanner and fingerprint as such.

The collision rate of fingerprints, if memory serves me right, 1:10^9. So it is for all practical purposes unique. The collision rate after it has been digitized by a scanner in the class used by Apple and on PCs is probably many orders of magnitude higher. How much - no idea.

Neuromorphic progress: And we for one welcome our new single artificial synapse overlords

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Re: 500 states

Does the amount it represent and/or the way it react change over time.

Most AI and brain simulation designers are missing a major "plot" which occurs in a living nerve tissue. It attenuates.

If you continue to fire a synapse at a rate which is above a certain threshold the nerve cell starts "taking measures" to ensure you do not "burn the circuit". The amount of receptors on the synapse interface decreases and the threshold to trigger the synapse increases. Similarly, there are various changes which happen to pathways which are not used for a prolonged amount of time.

We, presently model none of that (neither in computing, nor in hardware). We build a neural net, we feed it some data to train it, we run the algo to train it and that is it. That at best creates an idiot-savant. It can never create a true AI - for that you need to start modeling long term attenuation of pathways.

Amid new push to make Pluto a planet again... Get over it, ice-world's assassin tells El Reg

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Not just that

Even Jupiter has not cleared its debris - there is plenty of it (some of it km in size) sitting at both Lagrange points ahead and behind Jupiter revolving around the sun using the same orbit.

Apple to Europe: It's our job to design Ireland's tax system, not yours

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Re: "will skedaddle to the next corporate hideaway"

No, because they have actually no other place to go inside EU with lower tax rates than Bulgaria or Hungary

Hungary has 27% percent VAT, strange taxation which varies every year as Orban looks to fix the balance and it has a long standing issue with being at war with the Eurozone banks after the government mandated haircut on the Euro-valuated mortgages. While companies will invest there, nobody will move shop there, because the various other financial factors add up to an overall worse deal than the Irish 12.5%.

Bulgaria is actually not as unfeasible as it seems. Economy and taxation are relatively stable. I do not think the rates quoted on Wikipedia are correct though. If memory serves me right, the income tax is 25%, not 10%.

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Re: @ wolfetone

They could kill the golden goose in one swift move

No they will not. The golden goose is wearing a 1 foot thick flack vest in the form of the lowest BASE tax rate in the Eu. So as long as the commission even-handedly enforces the collection of the BASE rate Apple has nowhere to go. It has to declare all Eu revenue somewhere and Ireland WILL remain that place.

In fact, it has already started to declare that revenue at BASE rate for the last year (resulting in Irish GDP suffering from a noticeable jump which was not in the forecast).

Irish politicos are suffering from a first degree idiocy here. They do not need to resist, they need to take that ruling accept it with glee and then start a discovery tour around Europe looking for other sweet deals to make sure they are still the lowest corp tax rate by far.

Uber hires Obama's attorney-general to review its workplaces

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Re: Why?

There is a Russian saying: Деньги не пахнут. Money has no smell.

End of the day, it is just a job (yes, I know, the guards at Dachau and Auschwitz said the same).

Intel reveals Optane will need a 7th-gen core and a PC-centric launch

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Would have been nice if it was an AMD

Most Intel CPUs have various artificial limits on how much memory you can put on them. For example 3-5 years ago all Core chips were saddled with 8G limit which was further decreased on actual retail products down to hard 4G limits. At the same time AMD allowed 64G+ on anything provided you had the slots to physically put the memory in.

I do not quite see this one working out, unless they are simultaneously removing their rather idiotic memory mapping limitations, which they use to artificially force you onto a Xeon if you need more RAM than they have decided to allow you.

Is your child a hacker? Liverpudlian parents get warning signs checklist

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What a load of bull

Sigh... another idiot checklist. It does not describe a hacker. Some of it describes a k1dd10t, some of it is completely off the mark.

In any case, if I went by the checklists, my kids would have been locked up 10 times by know preventively as definitive future criminals.

As a parent I am PROUD of the fact that I caught my daughter trying to pick a lock on a cupboard with a paperclip at the age of 3 (she was having none of it that the scissors are locked and she cannot have them).

I am HAPPY that she has been circumventing parental controls when she sees fit from the age of 5.

In fact, I deliberately make any controls not as bomb proof as they could be, so that the kids can try their luck (after that I improve them if they succeed). The fact that they actually try their luck is good. This means they are thinking, it is a matter of channeling that energy, not worrying about it.

I would be more worried if they spent all of their time watching youtube or the idiot tube (the broadcast one).

Ditching your call centre for an app? Be careful not to get SAP-slapped

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Re: This behaviour

more than anything else will push people towards Open Source for corporate projects.

Nope. It will not.

The mantra "this is not our core business, we need to buy it" is extremely entrenched. I have been at companies where there were specific audits to find anything that is homebrew on top of opensource and replace it with commercial regardless of the costs just because "we are not a development department, we are an IT service department".

This is doubly hilarious when the company in question is R&D, but if the current idiocy mantra in the PHB is to "buy or outsource only", then well... it will be bought or outsourced, because the money will always be in favor of buying our outsourcing.

This may sound counterintuitive, until you realize that the "risk cost" for a homebrew is defined in studies provided by surprise... surprise... sellers of commercial software or outsourcers... So rather unsurprisingly, the financials never look right for a homebrew until you throw those studies (and the salesman presenting them) out of the window and do them yourself.

Connected car in the second-hand lot? Don't buy it if you're not hack-savvy

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to quote him, “identity management for devices is best served when it's centralised.”

to quote him, “identity management for devices is best served when it's centralised.”

Bollocks. What an idiot. Just the opposite. Run a CA on the car and have a "regenerate car certificate procedure" or "revoke all old keys" procedure.

1. Any device can be a smart lock/unlock - key, phone, you name it. Provided it can do STRONG crypto. The mere fact that you have managed to establish a connection means that you are legit. No pins, no passwords, no keys. Client cert, server cert. Most basic public key cryptography. Nearly all devices of interest (phones, etc) on the market have TPMs so the key cannot be stolen/recovered without access to NSA level resources to do direct surgery on the chip.

2. The "centralized identity management" does not belong. Sorry, any backdoor is a hackable backdoor. I do not see the rationale for using a weak, crippled and backdoored solution when you can run a strong one. It does not matter which brain rotting disease is at play "realtime embedditis - roll your own crypto" or "web 2.0 oAuthitis - use a token everywhere". There is no technical need for either.

3. The compute resource available in a normal car can run a proper CA. Running a cut-down one just to manage keys for for devices and their associated permissions is a trivial job.

The only potential role for a centralized point is to be a locator, the auth should still be completely in the OWNER's hands, not be rented out to a central identity management racketeering outfit.

Samsung's Chromebook Pro: Overpriced vanilla PC with a stylus. 'Wow'

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Installing Linux on any Chromebook needs you to put it into an "insecure" mode

After that it is usually reasonably plain sailing on an Intel one like this. In fact, if memory serves me right the Intel ones are supported by the standard Ubuntu installer.

Now Arm... that is not for the fainthearted. I have an Arm Samsung Chromebook hacked to Run Debian. The experience of installing it was like fighting a pig in the mud. The end result works quite well (though it needs a small protrusion on the back in the form of a micro USB-thumbdrive to be even remotely useful), but is definitely not worth the amount of effort you need to put into it.

Alleged HPE fraud man Peter Sage once ran dodgy pharma biz

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I can't believe it

They do not have an Internet SEO or Marketing business? That cannot be true. Something is amiss here (or el reg has not found all of their assets).

All of Blighty's attack submarines are out of action – report

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Re: It is not UK defences it is other places UK should worry about

I think the Argentine air force is now so dillapidated

Even a dilapidated air force should be able to take out 4 figther jets and a small patrol boat.

There is not a single proper surface ship in the South Atlantic either.

This SMELLS of May wanting to follow in the steps of her "guiding light". The difference is, however, that this time the old carriers have been scrapped and there are no aircraft so the gamble is not likely to pay off.

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It is not UK defences it is other places UK should worry about

The BIG "STOP" sign for Argentina somewhere on the way to Port Stanley is not the rather impotent Typhoon wing stationed there (grand total of FOUR, yes FOUR fighters if memory serves me right).

It is the fact that they know that there is supposed to be at least one attack submarine on station there all the time and it can put a couple of Tomahawks into chosen windows of their Naval Command and President's palace any time the UK prime minister says "do so". They can also sink any ship in a landing task force - Argentinian ASW is nowhere near the level needed to deal with modern subs.

If the maintenance level on the subs is so low that there is not a single one patrolling there... That changes the equation quite a bit. Thanks god Kirshner is not around any more, their new government is not so saber rattling (at least we hope so).

Citrix, Bitdefender in Xen-only virtual security double-team

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Hypervisor introspection

It talks like a security boundary violation, it walks like a security boundary violation it is a security boundary violation.

I am not sure I would like to have AV software running in the hypervisor ring 0 and have unfettered access to all VM virtual memory space in production.

It is an extremely valuable tool to have "on your surgery bench". Production, not so much.

Grumpy Trump trumped, now he's got the hump: Muslim ban beaten back by appeals court

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Once the new man is on the Supreme Court

Even if he is successfully cleared by then, he will be the sole dissenting opinion. If at all.

Supremes do not take contempt of the judicial system lightly. Based on his attitude expressed so far if Trump is stupid enough to persist (which he is) he is setting himself up for a massive whack. My guess will be an 8:1 judgement (if Gorshuch is past the vote by then).

Now if the Eu can make my day and hand back the papers to the new US ambassador and ask him to leave the building...

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Re: Although ...

Thank you for setting out navigational markers straight.

USA are supposed to take democracy lessons from: Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Algeria, Bangladesh, Brunei, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates

Assad and the Ayatollahs are definitely our shining beacon in the night. We are definitely going in that direction. I will not even mention the other other petrol driven cleptocracies or failed states on your list.

Euro bloc blocks streaming vid geoblocks

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Re: Wonderful news!

Europe also != Eu.

It will be interesting if Geoblocking will be disabled on the Canaries, channel islands and a few other interesting places. I somehow doubt it.

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Re: 2018?

And why do you think Murdoch's rags so vehemently supported BrExit?

It really had nothing to do with him bidding to grab the rest of Sky. Really.

To do DevOps right, beam down a UFO says Dynatrace

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Re: Often wanted a warning beacon/klaxon

It does not belong in the office.

There may be some benefit to have it in recreational areas - serve the same function as an "all hands on deck" siren.

USMC: We want more F-35s per year than you Limeys will get in half a decade

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Re: Irrational

They are solid and battle hardend, but they are very old now.

And? They are perfectly fitting the standard job of an aircraft carrier nowdays - sit offshore and pound some locals which are at Iron Age level into the Stone Age. They are perfectly fit for purpose for that. NOTHING else though.

They are as unsuited for warfare against a major power as an F35 because their carrier with all of its protection will last ~ 3 minutes against a full-on saturation missile attack by any of the top 10 major world powers.

For example China has ~ 1000+ anti-ship missiles on station in the Chinia Sea fleet. 1000+ more on mainland coastal installations, installations on the new "artificial islands" and god knows how many carried by their air force and single carrier wing. It does not matter are they good or bad. A USA or NATO carrier group will run out of defensive ammo half-way through the attack. After that they are dead meat.

If we go down the list - India is arming itself to the teeth to the same standard, other top 20 economies are all exploring the same route.

This equation will not change until we switch to energy weapons for defense - something that requires a power source to run and needs no ammo. That is clearly not on the menu for decades to come.

Cattle that fail, not pets that purr – the future of servers

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If it is a pet that changes the nature of the game

A shared open plan office in Western Europe is a sterile featureless desert where all pets have been banned upon a Consluttant advice and Health and Safety Order. The hired goons have come and eutanized Greebo (the office cat), emptied the office fish tank into the toilet and even replaced all plants with agile motivational posters. There is occasionally a single exemption in the form of a half-dead contracted out "low allergen" specimen in reception.

After that they also dare tell us that we have an issue with team bonding and social skills. The office pet like it or hate it is a phenomenal stress relief and/or team bonding center.

So if we continue the pet analogy, removing ALL IT pets out of the office is counterproductive. It is no different from that consluttants "modern managerial practice raid" which emptied the fish tank into the toilet. You have to leave one or two so there is a stress relief and team bonding point. Sure, you cannot have a horde of cats roaming an office. There is, however, a clear psychological benefit in having one to keep the place from going into a sterile desert mode.

Big blues: IBM's remote-worker crackdown is company-wide, including its engineers

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Re: It's Baffling Me

"a way to improve the working environment and office culture"

and just forget about technology R&D altogether!

Who told you they have any of that left?

Want to come to the US? Be prepared to hand over your passwords if you're on Trump's hit list

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Re: It could be worse.

I do not have passwords to bank accounts to start off with.

They are all accessible via one-time tokens - not something you can integrate into a data slurp system.

Revealed: 'Suicide bomber Barbie' and other TSA quack science that cost $1.5 billion

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Re: TSA

Absobloodylutely.

The positive sample is too small (and thanks god for that) to draw any statistical conclusions. What do we have today. 2 or 3 attempts. The shoe bomber, the pants bomber and who else?

Even if we have preflight observations of them, it is mathematically impossible to get any results out of a sample this size so trying to get them is a rank raving lunacy.

Russia (A) bans web porn as a 'bad influence' (B) decriminalizes domestic violence – or (C) all of the above?

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Re: Some sense in this move

they preferred to ensure women and children can be easily terrorized by men.

1. It is not women and children, it is anyone. Their law makes no difference whatsoever.

2. You have not seen what a Russian woman does to a husband or teenage son which has dragged his sorry arse drunk off his tits to the door and has passed out while ringing the door bell. You also have no idea just how common this is.

Usually the poor guy is too shitfaced to remember and cannot make up his mind the next morning were the bruises on his face inflicted by the spouse or by the staircase when he fell on it trying to get home.

Disclaimer: I have spent a few years in Moscow so I have seen this first hand. Usually more than once a day.

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Re: Decriminalisation: Does this do the opposite of what you think?

You didn"t get it: in Russia, you aren't sent _anymore_ to jail for beating spouse or children, at best you may be fined.

I suggest you read the Russian criminal code. Paragraps 110-115. Based on your nickname you should be able to do it.

It does not make any difference between beating someone on the street or your spouse. If they go and get a medical and the certificate says "medium" or "grievous bodily harm" you are looking at 2-5 years in a Russian jail depending on the circumstances and a criminal record.

If the certificate says "light bodily harm" you are looking at 3 salaries worth of fine and no criminal record. This is regardless of whom did you beat up (provided it is not police, taxman, etc - that is a different paragraph).

Either case it is regardless of are you beating your wife or your neighbor. The law definitely does not allow you to beat your wife. It does not allow to beat your kids either. It, however, does not offer them special protection. To be clear, I am not sure if it is good or bad, I think some of the family court, prohibition of examining witnesses, etc madness in UK is clearly going overboard in the other direction as it effectively removes presumption of innocence.

In any case - stop reading the Beeb and read the original source of information.

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Re: Decriminalisation: Does this do the opposite of what you think?

113: Grievous bodily harm with mitigating circumstances (affect, etc): http://www.zakonrf.info>/uk/112/

Typo: should be 113 - http://www.zakonrf.info>/uk/113/

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Re: Decriminalisation: Does this do the opposite of what you think?

@ diodesign

Read the f*** law. Paragraph 110-115 of the Russian criminal code.

110: Emotional harm leading to suicide : http://www.zakonrf.info/uk/110

111: Grievous bodily harm: http://www.zakonrf.info/uk/111/

112: Grievous bodily harm with intent: http://www.zakonrf.info/uk/112/

113: Grievous bodily harm with mitigating circumstances (affect, etc): http://www.zakonrf.info/uk/112/

114: Grievous bodily harm when exceeding acceptable selfdefence limits: http://www.zakonrf.info/uk/114/

115: Light bodily harm: http://www.zakonrf.info/uk/115/

1. In Russia affray is not a criminal offense. This is not Britain where for a minor "heated discussion" you end up with a custodial sentence. Is it right or not - it is not for us to decide. If you just slap someone in a bar fight without inflicting damage and it is not in a context of other crime you do not get a criminal record.

2. 115 (Light bodily harm) and 111-114 (Grievous bodily harm) still apply. I do not think we have an equivalent of 110.

While personally I do not agree with removing the special statute, slapping your wife or kids is definitely not decriminalized. You cannot do it with impunity (as some idiots who have not read the code try to claim). Also, unfortunately, at least down in the "Deepest, Darkest Eastern Europe" 116 was used to avoid the significantly harsher penalties of 111-114. That will no longer be the case - standard procedures will apply.

Last Concorde completes last journey, at maybe Mach 0.02

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Re: Don't know why...

Errr... Because it was a dinosaur?

It was a byproduct of military tech. 1960-es military tech to be exact. Somewhere in the 1970-es NATO countries significantly decreased the investment into the development of hypersonic aircraft with standard operational envelope above Mach 1.6. While for example the Eurofighter can punch it to 2M for a short run it is not its normal cruising speed.

The death knell of the Concorde was rung not in 2003, it was rung in 1977 when Jimmy Carter cancelled B1A. As a result there was very little new tech development to be fed into its modernization. Russians continued for longer (to develop aircraft capable of dealing with the SR-71), but they also decreased high speed efforts in the 1980es. Their White Swan is probably the Swan Song of large supersonic aircraft for the time being and its cost is so ridiculous that it can never be transformed into a passenger aircraft design. So the F35B option of "buy failed Russian tech" is not on the menu either.

This may change in the near future as the advances in AA missiles and AEGIS are creating a hypersonics race. There may be some byproducts from there to be used to build a new Mach 2+ aircraft. It is not likely to happen anytime soon though and it will not be the anything even remotely resembling a Concorde.

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@ Adam 52

They're also quite hot at stopping attempts to steal said hard drives from the tip by locking them away.

Oh, definitely - because they are recycled at a premium. They are resold. This is in violation of electrical recycling regs which actually prohibit the resale of electricals from a domestic refuse site. The food chain which which feeds on the resale usually contains one or more persons which check them for interesting data. This has been tested (not by me, too lazy to dig out the actual FULLD mail from a couple of years ago) by using data containing spamtrap addresses and putting them on the drives.