Posts by Trigonoceps occipitalis

So I'm liable for my Volkswagon exceeding CO2 emissions?

You can be if you mess with the pollution control systems. Will you be liable if you refuse the VW correction patch?

Re: Not new

My car has the lowest level of auto-pilot, a cruise control that simply makes progress at a fixed speed. The problem is not that I do not pay attention, at least not deliberately, but that I have to steel myself to switch it off. In lines of moving traffic I would get too close to the car in front waiting for the gap that I thought would appear on the offside to overtake.

I'm better with a little more experience and don't use it in heavy traffic conditions - hey, it was new. Given that I would add to the problem of inattentive drivers suddenly being asked to takeover the fact that, given that they will have less experience, they will not recognise there is a problem even when the big fucking klaxon goes off.

Re: In before the smartarses going "what's new?", "we all knew this already", etc....

I'm happy with two units a day. I'm up to June 2034 already.

The Indian

has made over 400 treaties with the white man.

They have kept only one promise, they took our land.

Re: "here is no financial incentive for any firm to implement IoT security : "

@Charles 9

"You Can't Fix Stupid"

Parents do "think of the children", all the time. Screwing with their offsprings' security is the one thing that has any hope of pushing an IoT security agenda, and possibly fixing stupid (or rather ignorance).

Re: They seek him here...

"drilot"

I think you meant "idiot".

(My spell checker offers "drolly"; no, I have no idea either.)

Re: Great Idea!

"What's that Skippy, IOT security is shit?"

(In my best Liza Goddard voice.)

Re: Die Hard: Offshore

"On 2 October 1942, Queen Mary accidentally sank one of her escort ships, slicing through the light cruiser HMS Curacoa off the Irish coast with a loss of 239 lives."

OK, Wikipedia and RMS Queen Mary was probably somewhat more agile than a modern container ship.

Re: Is anything ever obsolete?

ATSC version 3 is better than NTSC

Almost Twice the Same Colour

Re: Quasers?

Quasers

Weren't they banned during the war on fat?

Re: Backdoors for all

Size of crypto software: 25kb

Size of 47 mandated back doors: 25Tb

Re: spoilerific

Don't tell me, let me guess.

Jar Jar Binks is back?

Re: Banning it so it must be popular

"why they need guns"

Why they want guns surely?

Re: I'm OK with this

There is a cost for background mining, power, life of CPU etc. OK, perhaps minuscule and something I would agree to if asked for informed consent. The crucial point is that I am not asked so have not agreed and it is theft.

The other concern is security. Who knows what may be smuggled onto my PC along with the mining script.

Re: Obvious man is obvious

What, Pretty Woman wasn't a biography?

Or if the DBS check comes back "fail"

An unnatural person.

Re: Premature release?

" ... it happens to the best sometimes."

All these comments and nothing ejaculation related yet. Sometimes I despair of the comentards.

Re: Counterproductive..

Why not try Trevor Baylis wind up radios and a high powered BBC World Service tx?

Re: A certain bias, there

Always pour the beer the night before, that way it is flat and you can get it down your neck quicker in the morning.

Re: Heard at the NRA headquarters

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

My take on these well known words emphasises "free". They were penned not too long after the American revolution when the shackles of the occupying power were broken. Political and legal systems were not mature. "Militia" implies a measure of local command and control. In order to remain free of an overbearing government or imperial power local communities could turn out a well armed and effective military force.

Given US history, Manifest Destiny etc, tradition and politics the right to bear arms is seen as the final guarantee of freedom.

I am not an American, am I right or wrong?

Of course a local ad-hoc force could not effectively defeat a modern military. A measure of local control is retained in the National Guard. I do wonder if military hardware should be in the hands of amateurs.

Re: They've got to sit down and think about it again

"Pork Sword" because they're gonna screw you whatever.

Re: Random, malicious, professional?

"Professional" implies a certain level of training, skill, experience and, yes, remuneration. It may also imply membership of an institution established by charter.

Doing it for money implies that you have a job.

All together now,

"An engineer told me before he died,

He knew a girl ... "

Re: Really?

Leaking acid burnt the operators' backs. Hence signallers were known as "scaly-backs."

Ernest Rutherford

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Re: What do we care ?

Remember to include the phrase "we take security very seriously."

Wot about "learning lessons?"

Re: Considering everything else about Daesh

Thanks.

What have the Victorians done for us?

letters

Evidence Based Policy Making

"No, not heard of that."

HMG

"So that’s Masturbate1. Too easy..."

Only once?

"Don't ask me what happens at the merger ... "

Easy, Cadbury's Cream Eggs are rubbish.

Re: The Future of Blockchain currency

If I have no over-riding reason to use a crypto currency (I'm not a drug lord for instance) then I have a choice. I know that the odds are stacked against me in a casino or other gambling, I do not know enough about the stock market, so why not replace my bingo with buying a few bitcoin?

Re: 2 percent

The argument is that £350M will be returned to "UK control". I think that is true but the estimate (guess, lie etc) of actual addition to money spent in the UK seems to be between about £250M and zero.

Bring back Michael Miles and take your pick. I doubt we will really have a rigorous answer until 2030 or so.

Re: Aaaand that's why I hate MAD.

"Two plus two does equal four."

Only for sufficiently average values of "two" and sufficiently average values of "four".

Re: admin/admin

"So ignorance was followed by cover-up.

From what I have seen so far, that's generally SOP ... "

No, ignorance is followed by denial in the standard model.

Re: I'm waiting for the day

"Everybody knows that higher ups in the chain are immune from child porn charges."

Tell that to Lady Brittan and Lord Bramall.

Re: these exploits are worthless

And that Zulu I met in South Africa, an African American African.

Re: Napolionic

"What has a conviction got to do with it?"

Get convicted and you are a proven criminal. Thus your photo is retained on the criminal database.

You may or may not think this is reasonable or that some form of time limit should be applied.

Re: Bindun

"They pulled a blinder ... "

They actually pulled a dazzler and thus remained within the Laws of War.

Re: Biometrics

Identical twins come in two varieties, some are mirror images of each other, the rest are not. (Depends when in gestation the zygote splits.)

Some evil twins are going to need a shiny object.

Re: What about "leverage" as a verb?

Cry "Havoc" and let slip the pedants of El Reg!

Re: Once while serving in a shop

"He knew Motorola had been the best phones for his lads ... "

At least one radio was preferred by "the lads" because it was inside a substantial metal case. Draw your truncheon and there were several forms to complete and a record that could (possibly) be used against you. Hit a scrote with your radio and no one noticed and nothing was recorded.

Re: You don't allow drone delivery?

Yes, its all those fans.

Remember the AMD processors that were sold with 4 cores but, if you were lucky, actually had 6 cores. Activating the extra cores was a risk because the Chip had failed some test to a greater (bad) or lesser (good) degree.

Still don't know it this was just an internet story or actual fact. My 4 core very much stayed at 4.

Re: I can do this

" ... so I know all about space."

What, like its big, really big?