Posts by Mark 85

Re: Who Micro-Trenches These Days?

Pity the British cable layers don't use current technology.

Could be union rules or something similar even greenies. Same here in the States for the most part. The telcos would save on installation costs and then get to charge a few extra dollars a month. But... <shrugs> I probably won't see coax anywhere near me (I'm a good sized city also) in my lifetime.

The Intel info was next to useless.

That seems to be pretty normal for them. Tracking a given processor through their maze is almost impossible. It's a pity they don't have some tool to identify the process and then call for the appropriate patch. It would save everyone a bundle of time.

In a separate issue rant, homeusers never, ever (for the most part) hear of these patches and then have a clue what to do.

Yes, that sounds reasonable but he's corporate property as is much of the current elected federal government.

Re: Given the recent rounds of redundancy,....

Get out of purgatory early.

Re: One more slip and he’s out with 0 notice and shit references.

Reading his previous exploits of exposing logins and passwords makes him malicious.

Re: Maybe this really is the CIA

Nah.. the scammers blew it. It wouldn't be the CIA but the FBI. Or maybe (paranoid hat on) it is the FBI hoping the CIA gets blamed for this?

Re: Zero-g Bonk fee?

Maybe that's under negotiation right now. Recoup costs by posting a video on Pornhub?

Re: "trying to get money out of its dying businesses and into emerging areas"

Looking at how IBM is performing, it would be more fitting if she chose something in the submerging market...

With some lovely screen doors of course.

Re: All these damn small satellites...

We know the companies that send them up won't because profit vs costs. Possibly a new job market of going around up there and picking up the junk for recycling and reuse? There's been a few movies out detailing this. They weren't documentaries though, just very bad films.

I wonder if there's been a ton of lawer coaching done in the USA that's exposing itself rather poorly in the harsh light of a different judicial system.

It's tough to coach and have the person being coached follow the coaching if their ego is beyond large. I'm thinking it's more of a "I know better than you lawyers." kind of thing.

It used to be that way here in the States with landlines. But the telcos got smart (for them) with the cells and now charge you as a receiver. They (most but not all) do the same thing with incoming spam texts as many plans have text limits (again, not all companies do this).

Re: Crime doesn't pay?

No honor among thieves also seems to be the operating mode for many politicians also.

Re: "geometric and mathematically exact letter forms"

That's why they get paid the big money. The more psycho-babble and BS they can shovel out, the more they can charge. Obviously the saw about the easiest person to sell to is a sales/marketing type is correct. If it looks like, smell like, tastes like BS.... don't step in it.

Maybe something they could have checked during due diligence?

I'm waiting (with popcorn in hand) for "due diligence" failures to come out. Autonomy may have conned them, but HP also conned themselves., willingly, I might add. For a con at any level to succeed, both the con artist and the victim are needed and the victim has to be willing.

Re: resource for all humanity and for the protection of nocturnal wildlife

The majority of animals navigate by magnetism, most famously homing pigeons.

Well, the movement of the magnetic poles will really screw up their migrations and travel then.

Re: Come friendly asteroids and fall on Slough...

on reflection, the capital city of a large country who's leader is without merit.

Just about any large country will work then as a target area?

Re: Hello darkness, my old friend

they said that in their opinion my online footprint was very small for someone who worked in IT.

The appropriate answer might be: "It's because I work in IT I don't use social media. I know what a cess pool and time waster it is." Oh wait... is EL Reg comments considered social media?

Re: China and IP

If you want to stop this happening in China, you need a Chinese patent. Having a US one doesn't help).

The problem is that unless you are Chinese a patent cannot be filed by non-Chinese. Generally, most countries do recognize patents from other countries. The Chinese do not.

Re: BTDTGTTS

If only we could re-program it to kick in prior to hitting the key. :-)

Hypothetically it does after being activated by doing the screw up first. Seems we never hear of anyone ever doing this a second time which proves the hypothesis.

Re: Sad

I'll toss a correction.. A DR plan with properly stored backups should exist for anyone with any important data kept on it. Not just businesses. For non-businesses a simple monthly coping the data over to a CD will work.

Re: Over the last weekend...

Not new from what I've seen over the years. Just another variation of spoofed emails, nasty links and hoping the receiver is an idiot and will open them.

No, not the wrong end but only half. He's both. I just really wish someone would take away his damn Twitter account and tell him to stay off the phone, ignore the polls, and do his damn job. The constant whines about how everyone is doing him wrong or getting away with things and the endless proclamations of fake news, shall we, rather tiring.

Re: Security concerns?

Note how it seems to be US politicians making the noise, and we're hearing very little actual intelligence.

Since when has any politician in any country exhibited "intelligence"?

Re: Where's the US Army?

I don't think the Army has anything to generate a contrail... a missile or two maybe would do it.

Re: Last rack?

why would you carry on searching after you'd found it?

To make sure it wasn't a false positive? Weird stuff happens and best to be sure that what you were looking for when found, isn't some other problem.