Posts by Teiwaz

Re: The biggest threats to security

Fear, surprise, ruthless inefficiency and an almost fanatical devotion to profit.

Re: Takeover imminent

Scalextric announces takeover of Formula 1! Teams rush to hire top driving talent from kindergarten.

From what I remember of Scalextric, it took a little maturity in order to learn the optimum strategy was not just pull the trigger on the controller fully and keep it there.

...unless you enjoyed watching the toy fly off the track at the first bend and hit the wall (and what small child doesn't find that amusing for an exponential number of times more than an adult).

What am I say...? It'll be a roaring success. Like that movie, Death Race.

Re: Laptop Measles

... or go Penguin powered.

Penguin supporters should buy hardware from companies that don't pre-install windows or machines that don't have windows installed as that counts as a sale for Microsoft.

Never going to get more attention from manufacturers if Linux users keep buying machines with windows installed.

I think Lorraine Kelly(tm) is quite attractive, and this article is unnecessarily spiteful.

Yes, God forbid we unduly harass the beautiful, successful and rich, they have enough problems.

Re: another service

outsourced to the incompetent?

Not necessarily, they probably just bought the PMs line how the British public was behind her, and didn't reckon the site would garner much attention.

Re: You want to use targeted ads...

@Shadow Systems

I really should stop fantasizing of using Total Extinction Events to solve my problems. =-J

Teiwaz 3 Step program to fantasy pacifism.

1. Cut down to merely carpet bombing or single (multiple if you are really exasperated) missile strike fantasies

2. Reduce to Maimings or molotov fantasies after comfortable with 1

3. Finally Baseball or cricket bat, or organising harassment by Jehovas Witness or Mormon.

I still reserve the right to 'Tommy gun' any cheerful smarmy bands that set up impromptu unwelcome repetitive gigs in my head.

Re: The trouble is...

Android apps have routinely taken permissions to run round inside our phones, looking at anything they want and sending it home.

Still, better permissions controls could at least allow in-phone access to text messages and such - with a block on transmit - which would still impact users for desktop phone interfaces, but it's be an improvement.

But perhaps Google might be wary of anything that might be turned to switch off their slurp.

Re: What I don't understand

True democracy at work, ask as many times as it takes to get the correct result.

Well, that's what Ireland does mostly.

And before you cast aspersions, Ireland has more experience of referendums than the UK, which seems by recent to be a ham-fisted rank amateur.

Re: re: I wonder why they would pretend to think....

The trouble with anything from that side of the pond is that it it could be full of dodgy chemicals or hormones! My bum does not need any of theirs!

I'm less concerned about bog roll than I am the dodgy food practices that might follow...

Who wants chicken washed in a swimming pool anyway???

Re: Not your father's Microsoft

Not your father's Microsoft

Eh?!!!

Speak up, youngster.

It was only ten-fifteen years ago they were still throwing cancer epithets around, that's no generational gap.

Re: Remove beer tax, back to the pubs.

As I recall, alcohol also removes inhibitions, meaning plenty of times "Don't be a twat Johnny," would be met with a right hook, a "Fuck off!" and soon a pub riot.

And that's a major problem too?

Pub riots are relatively low-key affairs, might be the occasional death or two and a maiming, but unlikely to be the likes 50 deaths, as it is less likely someone would off home to collect their automatic rifle and set up a social media stream for the event.

Re: DIY & Fingerprints

I often find myself presenting my middle finger to electronic devices.

A lot of users seem to think their eleventh finger will do for face recognition as well as 'fingerprint reader'*'

* Ok, not actually a 'finger', but I doubt *elmet readers willy catch on.

Re: Not just USB

made a note to never be them.

I thought they had a nice house?

I wonder if it will be friends with me?

Hmm, to continue within wisdom of the church of DNA, I think it's way past time you bought an inside out seaside retirement villa and changed your name to Wonko....

Re: Ha

Thwart brexit? The current government???

I don't even think it's about Brexit anymore.

The entire exercise is all about Mays legacy as a PM in or putting Thatcher in shadow 'the ladies not for turning' sort of mindset.

May wasn't really a remainer, the result was after all a surprise to most, and she expected to be on the winning side by staying with remain as being on the losing side is never conducive to being invited to a cabinet post.

The whole position that the government is thwarting is just a comfy sand lined hole to bury your head in over the embarasing government ineptitude and general lack of vision or ability by all major parties.

It is easy to stop. You're obviously a techno idiot so wtf are you doing on this site?

Current advice seems to be resorting to taskmgr to kill the browser.

I'm sorry, that's hardly a solution that gives the user much control at all..

What happens when your dog pees on the carpet, you shoot it in the head???

Re: We don't need more regulation

Equifax has shown such an appalling lack of basic security that they should be closed down, and have their licence to act as a credit-reference agency revoked.

I expect some real people work there.

Responsibility should fall where on those responsible. Senior Management of companies like this should not be able to slither away to take up roles elsewhere.

It's the only way (or at least should be) to ensure money gets spent on security.

Re: Sure.

"if they were any good they'd be working for Facebook"

But then, Nick Clegg does now, so maybe they're over that.

Re: We have surely reached peak beard.

Err...yes she does. It's just it's not on public display,,,,modesty, you know..

pubic display then.?....

that's not a beard, Dougal

Re: Seems the right call

You have to realize that the UK Government and US Government are large enough that they can build multiple DCs to support cloud like infrastructure without going to Google, AWS, Microsoft, etc..

Should be, but there have been 'incidents' that certainly don't reassure on that assumption of compentance.

Just 'google' (or search engine of choice) 'government unsecured aws buckets' for ample lack of assurance.

Re: Window of Opportunity?

Meanwhile Wine is coming along in leaps and bounds.

There might not be much Wine won't run in two, three years.

MS will not be releasing anything that might be an advantage to anyone other than as a by-product of some important MS objective. All the 'loves open source' is endearments from an undercover cop.

They've acknowledged open source is better at fostering developer attention, and that affects what tech and platforms invariably get used in business, and adjusted accordingly to prevent becoming an old bear like IBM, but that's it.

Re: Cheer up, what's the worst that could happen?

Probably not a fair direct comparison, but up until the 1990's the glaring cross-border infrastructure differences screamed that the ROI could not match the same level of investment.

A lot of the investment (roads especially) was EU funded - but then, there were a number of NI projects that benefited from EU money.

Re: Has anyone else noticed that these reccomendation algos are basically cancer?

On numerous occasions the pointers to the necessary controlled force to get into a specific model of laptop case has been invaluable.

Agreed, I generally dislike instructional videos, too many are mumbled or rambling, but when you even located the official technical repair guide and reads like committee by laws...

Still, Gumby laptop repair is more entertaining.

Re: In Harm's Way ..

Japan is in the process of retiring its last F4s this year, moving to the F35.

Fools!

Yeah, You'd think they'd be prototyping VF-1 Valkyries by now.....