Posts by macjules

Re: The problem is

Microsoft has said it is working on a further firmware update to address the issue,

©2019 Boeing, Inc.

Re: Heavy...

Been there, done that - out of FCO up Whitehall and in to Cabinet Office .. the long way round:

“What have you got there”

“Your minister’s new laptop”

“Why are you wheeling it on a trolley?”

No he doesn’t squeeze anyone’s blood. You are completely making that up. He has child labour to do that for him.

Re: Never mind the beer ...

But with the Magic Search engine, you know that you can type anything in to Google at 2am when you are slaughtered and it will still come up with exactly what you wanted.

Re: Mind bleach

May with Johnson and Gove?

My grey matter just shut down in protest.

Re: We encourage all customers not to use the same password for multiple sites

"..transport authority has blamed users who recycled their login creds with other websites."

Talk about "chutzpah".

Re: They don't rely on drug tests for past use

DV clearance in the UK tends to be far more encompassing than just ‘Top Secret’. If you are likely to come into contact with any form of sensitive data or be working within a ‘knife-throw’ of any MP then you can often expect to be subject to microscopic checks. Unfortunately it can take many months to complete, which used to mean for me that a contractor had been vetted and completed the contract months before security rejected him/her as ‘failed’.

So was I. I think it is just illegal to buy aircraft that is militarised, or equipped with weapons, military mission systems eg fire control radars, or any other type of equipment or systems which have national security classifications.

Then again, I suppose throw enough money at the problem ...

Re: Whose Fault

I am inclined to agree with what you say with a major caveat: I do not think that anyone can possibly factor in the criminal intent of a member of staff to undermine or thwart your security above or beyond what secure measures you take to harden your Security Group firewall rules or IAMs role permissions.

Is Unreal free? I thought it was on a licensing system so free to develop upon, but chargeable at something like a percentage royalty on gross revenue over a threshold.

Wonder how long it will be before Mr Bezos works that one out.

Last year we had a client who had unfortunately not only failed to ensure that their MySQL instances on Azure had any proper automated backup or recovery in place but had created a backup instance in the same region as the database, thinking that was enough. After the North Europe region recovered from its 11 hour failure they realised that they had lost just about everything - the only backup was a development build over a year old.

Important lesson learned: do not only rely on one region but have a contingency plan for another cloud service just in case. iPaaS (Integration platform as a service) helps in this respect.

Re: Not the trickiest problem in pubs these days...

The Rake (aptly named) sells Cloudwater’s North West Double IPA at over 3 times normal price: £13.40 a pint, claiming that the beer cost up to four times more to make than a normal brew.

Re: Thinking of the poor children ..

"In general, most people seem to have completely the wrong idea of what auditors do, and criticise them for not doing it."

You mean like Arthur Andersen? IIRC they were extremely incompetent fraudsters in regards to Enron.

Re: A storm is brewing over Holland

Hard to find them in England as well. As for Budweiser we don't really classify that as "beer", in the same way that we don't classify "urine" as "Sauvignon Blanc"

Re: Economics, mate.

No, there is no experience of legally produced narcotics in the quantities that illegal drugs are being produced at.

Re: It’s good to be white. And rich.

Would that be Priti "Shoot 'em all and let God sort 'em out" Patel's distant cousin?

Re: Works for me

Perhaps the youth of Paris should be retained by Lyft, to throw bikes into the Seine that are starting to smoke?

Avé! Duci Novo, Similis Duci Seneci!

Re: Teams

So you have a choice: your favourite Agile app (JIRA?) coupled with Slack/Skype, WebEx/Zoom and various associated, Zeplin etc. Or use Teams with component integrations.

Of course WebEx is such a joy to use, seconded only by the experience of daily stand ups using Zoom ...

Re: Su AMD and Tim Apple are in different markets

Ah, I think I can hear Breitbart calling - they want their commentard back

Re: Real Genius (1985)

All you need are lasers mounted on Low Orbit Great White SpaceSharks. Kindly substitute Space Seabass (Angry) for the poverty-stricken British.

Well you do have the Minister for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability. Perhaps a more apt title should be "Minister for Crime, Apple, Google and Facebook"

Re: Just an observation

Sayng "Wibble" a lot is optional I presume?

Re: Reform?

Agree. As someone who regularly uses both companies (together with the huge invoices from them to prove it) I do sometimes find it vexing that their "security" scans can can be limited to "well we tried this method of injecting xss into your nodes and it worked" coupled with "your response headers give away too much information", which does seem to always be their fallback.

I have in the past had recourse to them over sites that they have vouched as "impervious to attack" which soon after have been found to be not exactly impervious.

Re: It does mean we're getting a _little_ better at spotting them.

In other words, "Begging your pardon sir, but its a big ass sky"

A lot of the bad stuff that was said in Register forums about the USA justice

You mean the obvious comments about incredibly long sentences handed out for what would be perceived in the UK as a misdemeanour or the seemingly one way extradition process between the UK and the USA? This is but one case that we have seen where "justice", insofar as it applies in the USA, has been seen to be done.