Posts by TheVogon

Re: bob the bot-herder

"even if the author of the Bombastic Bob bot "

The bot that changes his posts to random CAPS?

"I think bob has enough technical savvy that he could set up another e-mail account to get another El Reg account"

There is more to it than that. There are numerous ways to detect if someone uses multiple accounts, and plenty of forum tools to help with that - and avoiding / working round them requires some knowledge, skill and effort. And besides I don't think anyone needs to see the handle to know WHEN BOB POSTS.

Re: Use local

Great news. Now they will have to pay local market rates. Which will rise if there is really a skill shortage. Which will in turn cause more people to train in that sector so resolving any skills shortage.

Re: Everything old is new again

"This service might be useful to users who cannot themselves initiate an FTP session—for example, because they are constrained by restrictions on their Internet access."

Or presumably because they only have one hand free.

"The weak point which all of these apps have is a single central server, making it a point of attack for the authorities."

No they generally have hundreds of cloud based servers. That are easy to spin up anywhere.

Re: DIdn't that just violate the election laws across the world?

Presumably the Russians will now simply not categorise their adverts as political.

Re: The buck stops with him

"I've been working in a bank when they've applied an across the board 10% pay cut to all contractors to reduce costs."

To which the appropriate response is either find a new role to coincide with your notice period and don't sign up, or if that's tricky, each renewal you look for a new role and when you find one, leave at the end of your contract, effectively giving them no notice.

It is generally the really good people that are in demand that walk from these type of demands, so in my experience it down-skills a contract workforce and often ends up costing money.

"They used two geologically-recent events as their model: one at Laschamp around 41,000 years ago, and the other at Mono Lake, 34,000 years ago.

Those events might have been then, but im not clear why you think to the present day would be a cycle length. The most impacting Milankovitch cycles are 100,000 years in length which consides with ice ages.

Re: Well...F*ck

"Sounds like an Intel ME in Software"

No it's in hardware. Reimage the PC / replace the HDD and it will reinstall itself.

Re: Obligatory facetious comment

"They should develop a miniature reciprocating generator that fits a gentleman's wrist. "

Isn't that already called a Flesh Light?

Re: "Upgrading users should be able to ignore the viewer as before."

Nice pussy.

"Gates' background is in running a software house. "

Microsoft make hardware too and spend many billions on scientific R&D, it's not that far apart.

Re: Pwned? This is great!

"And version 5 of the system software has come out so newer games will force an update to version 5 and you're back to square one."

Once you own the hardware you can just disable any checks and patch each new software version to do whatever you want.

"you haven't worked out how to use it for your own benefit. E.g. to check on the origins of a suspicious email?"

Seeing as the vast majority of dodgy emails originate from hacked boxes and botnets Whois is of close to zero value for that. Not to mention that much of the data is inaccurate, set to private, or simply resolves to large ISPs and hosting providers.

Re: That's really spooky .....

"How to completely disable Windows 10 updates"

And be a repository of malware for the rest of us? There are built in options to delay updates. Use those if you don't trust Microsoft to get it right first time. If you feel you need to disable them then use Linux instead. Please.

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Re: Microsoft isn't Adobe

"This counterfeit software exposes people who purchase recycled PCs to malware and other forms of cybercrime"

I surprised Microsoft would be quite so denigrating of their own software!

Re: Of all places

"Yes violent crime goes through the roof when you remove the Equalizer. Its a fact."

No thats a fictional character. Lots of studies - including in the US - show that when you remove guns from circulation violent crime drops as does the death rate due to violent crime. Of course you still need an efficient armed police option to deal with the now reduced number of criminals with guns, which seems to work just fine in every other industrialised country on the planet.

Re: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

Or alternatively, "Stultus est sicut stultus facit"

Re: CLOUD act meet Eu Directive, Eu Directive meet CLOUD act

"If all popcorn I ordered over the last two weeks will finally be delivered "

Best to order it now before they apply a tariff to it!

Re: Real risk ?

"Is there really a risk to users from the products"

Dont they all run Android?

Re: MInor Correction

Presumably those blocks break half the internet. Is someone in third world network central in Russia trying to make a point?

Re: Slowly...

"The equivalent of managing a Unix machine over an SSH connection."

That would be more Powershell webaccess which has existed for ages.

"Slowly but surely, like every other operating system, Windows is turning into Unix."

It doesnt need to - you can run run Linux code under Winxows. And many things in windows are like *nix inprinciple, but done better. For instance a more powerfuk advanced and secure shell, more granular ACLs and security model including auditing. A proper configuration database instead of text files. Constrained delegation, Discretionary Access Control and Just Enough Administration type features by default, etc.

The advantage Microsoft have of course is with hindsight that they can rip off the principles of *nix features but do it better.

Re: Please Vote

He's also made our country the laughing stock of the world, because:

d) He's a cunt.

and e) we still hadn't stopped laughing about you guys electing Bush:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCQa4iFmkW4

Re: Imagine..

Stupidity is still a much higher risk:

https://interestingengineering.com/indian-man-loses-his-life-after-getting-sucked-into-mri-scanner

"She did a great job of encouraging the waste of oxygen that's the City of London. A culture of parasites that disrupt the economy for their own gain instead of nurturing it for the benefit of the whole country."

The City of London vastly subsidises the rest of the country and is of massive benefit to it.

Re: no happy ending?

"€600"

Presumably it's an hourly rate.

Strangely there doesnt seem to be the same fuss around modelling and porn, where women on average earn circa 75% more than a man with similar experience!

Re: Killler AI

"If the AI bots were properly programed not to hit civilians"

Then soldiers would wear Levis.

Re: Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered Am I

"Starts from the top?'

Customers are number 6.

"In order to positively identify it, you would need to have either a sample or the precise chemical composition"

Vil Mirzayanov gave them all the details years ago.