Posts by Snorlax 710 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Dec 2014
"He also says plenty of businesses see centralised security as roadblocks. “I met one chief security officer who said his team is known as the 'business prevention department',”
I'll take "Things that never happened" for $800, Alex.
I guess all the press about increased jobs and spending on security is bollocks.
Fail to secure your networks properly and you'll know all about "business prevention" when the next WannaCry or Netya hits...
@Anonymous Coward:"The Pound Sterling has dropped very significantly against the Euro and the US Dollar since the referendum. It has lost about 15% of its value compared to those currencies - which will affect the price of imported goods and materials."
Phil O'Sophical doesn't appear to like Europe or its inhabitants. You can't present facts to him and expect a rational response.
Who will these people blame for their woes after 2019?
@John Brown (no body):"I would expect a good lawyer should be able to argue... "
The argument's been done to death by now, in the US and elsewhere. A fingerprint is the same as a safe key, and you can be compelled to provide a fingerprint to unlock a phone. The moral of the story? Don't use your fingerprint to unlock your phone.
Although it appears that the Met Police will steal the phone out of your hand while you're on a call if they really want it, so you could be fucked in any case:
"They [the police] considered whether they could legally force a suspect's finger or thumb on to the device's fingerprint reader to unlock it, but found they had no such power.
However, they concluded they could stage their own lawful "street robbery" - using a similar snatch technique to a thief - and in June a team set out to do precisely that."
The FBI did something similar with Ross Ulbricht's laptop.
@Dave Bell:"With so many places based in the USA, operations such as Google and Facebook and Twitter, lawyers in the UK and the EU as a whole have to pay attention to the US system. "
Uh, no.
US companies doing business in Europe need to comply with European law; they don't get to play by US rules.
"I'd allow the evidence of the crime to be used in court against the criminal."
No way. Why? The balance of power is already tipped vastly in favour of the the police and the State.
It's not asking too much that they get their shit together and follow the correct procedures when applying for (and executing) a search warrant.
@Carlie J. Coats, Jr."Get rid of that pernicious "sovreign immunity" doctrine,and go ahead and convict the guy, but let him sue all those involved for the illegal warrant. That way, the real offenders on both sides of "the law" get punished."
I agree with your proposal wholeheartedly, but it would never happen for a whole range of reasons.
Anybody who follows the Innocence Project will be familiar with stories of people receiving zero compensation for spending decades in prison.
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161022/business/161029726/
"Investigators in Lancaster, Calif., were granted a search warrant last May with a scope that allowed them to force anyone inside the premises at the time of search to open up their phones via fingerprint recognition, Forbes reported Sunday.
The government argued that this did not violate the citizens' Fifth Amendment protection against self incrimination because no actual passcode was handed over to authorities. Forbes was able to confirm with the residents of the building that the warrant was served, but the residents did not give any more details about whether their phones were successfully accessed by the investigators...
...The court filing for the case says that the federal agents obtained "authorization to depress the fingerprints and thumbprints of every person who is located at the SUBJECT PREMISES during the execution of the search and who is reasonably believed by law enforcement to be the user of a fingerprint sensor-enabled device that is located at the SUBJECT PREMISES and falls within the scope of the warrant.""
You could be seen as having accepted the terms of the contract through your continued use of the service (see Brogden v Metropolitan Railway), regardless of the name used to sign up.
Celebrities operate social media accounts under their stage names, don't they?
@Smooth Newt:"I am sure they did, but they probably also had clients who weren't multi-millionaires too."
Why would you need to be a multi-millionaire?
A defendant in a criminal case is entitled to legal aid (or a public defender if you prefer to call it that) if he can't afford to pay for representation.
All I can tell from the original story is that a lawyer threw in the towel on his client?
"You may never read those lengthy terms and conditions attached to every digital download or app but, in America at least, they are legally binding. Sorry."
Luckily for the rest of us, EU directive 93/13 and legislation like the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 or the Consumer Rights Act 2015 in the UK offer consumers some protection.
@Anonymous Coward:"Unlike IT, where most emails are at best read once and thrown away, most professional academic correspondance is very very important, this is not mentioned and I suggest understood by the author."
One simple rule:
If your shit is important to you. BACK IT UP YOURSELF!
Don't make it somebody else's responsibility. Because it's not.
@Anonymous Coward:"Sadly I had no vote, becase Cameron reneged on his election promise to remove the 15-year limit on expat voting. I'm sorry you feel that I wasn't a suitable person to be "let loose" with a vote, democracy is hard to live with at times, isn't it. Perhaps you regret that the vote wasn't an EU-run one, where we could have been made to vote again and again until we got the right result?"
If you lived in some other country for 15 years you don't deserve a say in what happens.
Do you vote in local elections in whatever country you're in?
@Phil O'Sophical:"That's an article on how a British family business selling salad invested in new facilties but didn't get the increase in business that it needed to pay for it, which it blamed on the pound's fall after the referendum. It has nothing at all to do with EU citizens leaving the UK!"
Ok, how about 17,200 EU staff leaving the NHS last year?:
"The figures, compiled by NHS Digital, prompted medical leaders to call for more reassurances to European workers about their future in the UK. A total of 17,197 EU staff, including nurses and doctors, left their posts in 2016, compared with 13,321 in 2015 and 11,222 for 11 months in 2014."
Now it might be easy to replace the Polish kids in your local McDonalds with homegrown talent, but can you say the same for doctors and nurses?
@foxlv:"I think UK, and western Europe in general, has too generous benefits for people who are not working"
The cost of living in Western Europe is way higher than in Latvia?
Former communist states have different ideas about welfare... For example Poland only introduced child benefit in 2016. It might be your opinion that benefits are generous, but anybody surviving on them may not agree.
@Ian Michael Gumby:"I think that says a lot about you and your vision of reality."
You poor snowflake. I said yesterday you were triggered and that is true without doubt.
Why else would you go to the trouble of typing so many lengthy replies to various people's criticism?
It's ironic that people like you who bring out the corny old cliche "I disagree with what you are saying, but I'll defend your right to say it." are the same people who talk down to (and try to ridicule) those who don't agree with them.
My vision of reality is just fine. The people who organised the rally in Charlottesville are fascist pieces of shit, just like the people who make excuses for them. The world seems to agree.
I've read Animal Farm BTW. You remind me of Squealer, loyal to his leader, justifying Napoleons actions and trying to confuse the uneducated...
One other thing - this is a UK website as you can see from the .co.uk in your address bar. You may be surprised to learn that "muh freedomz" such as the first and second amendments don't apply extra-territorially
@Ian Michael Gumby:"The issue is the support for the law that allows them to say what they want. You probably never heard the expression "I disagree with what you are saying, but I'll defend your right to say it.". Its a paraphrase of a quote that was written over 100 years ago."
It's not a law that allows them to say what they want, it's a constitutional amendment. You don't appear to know the difference.
Judging by the amount of downvotes you're getting I'm pretty sure everybody on here is tired of your shit. But carry on by all means; it's your constitutional right to talk crap.
Son.
@Ian Michael Dumby:"You truly are clueless..."
Aw diddums. Poor Gumby is #triggered.
Take a break from your hysterical shitposting, and have a Xanax and a lie down. Or maybe go play with some guns.
We get it - you're an apologist for fascist scum. You don't need to differentiate between the types of fascist scum you're making excuses for...
@Ian Michael Gumby:"When both sides bring shields and weapons to a rally, what do you think is going to happen? And do you only blame one side?"
Don't be so disingenuous. You can't incite or engineer a confrontation and then complain that the people who find you to be reprehensible are to blame.
The time for thinking about possible repercussions was before the nazi scum organised the rally.
I'm surprised and disappointed at the number of nazi apologists on this site.
@Sir Runcible Spoon:"So, the Police should have shut the rally down in the first place once they saw the NN's tooled up, Shirley?"
Anywhere else on earth, yes, that would have been the sensible thing to do.
The problem with Americans is that they think every constitutional right is absolute, and that their rights trump everybody else's.
This is how you arrive at a situation where a bunch of nazis and gun nuts can bring a small town to its knees. The right to spew hate speech and intimidate people with assault rifles is apparently afforded more protection than the locals' right to go about their lives in peace and safety.
@Sir Runcible Spoon:"we should be focusing on why the Police let this happen - it seems they were standing well back and there should be in inquiry as to why that was"
The nazis were supported by the second amendment crazies with assault rifles. Presumably the police didn't want a repeat of the Bundy family's Bunkerville standoff in the middle of a small college town.
@wayward4now:"He needs to realize that the majority in this country are knuckle-dragging idiots who lack a half assed education. "
He knows his supporters only too well.
His supporters are more likely to live in states with opioid addiction problems, with people relying on Medicaid, with blue collar jobs going down the toilet. He's a puppetmaster, he just doesn't realise that someones pulling his strings too.
...IBM got Hitler's trains to run on time. However I don't think they've ever issued an apology for their nazi-sympathising past.
IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black is a great, if depressing, book on the subject.
"“We have worked with every U.S. president since Woodrow Wilson,” Rometty added. "
Kinda worked with every U.S. president since Woodrow Wilson, she meant to say. They did business with the nazis through a front company based in Switzerland as the U.S. government had forbidden U.S. companies from dealing with them.
Grammar nazi, because there's no nazi nazi icon
@jabuzz:"Companies have a habit of putting all sorts of stuff in employment contracts that are not legal. "
If you agree to let your employer search you, they can. You can also say no and see how that works out.
"I am not a lawyer but my siblings are; one is an employment tribunal judge so actually gets to decide what is and is not the law"
U wot m8? An employment tribunal judge is a glorified referee. He's bound by the Employment Tribunals Rules of Procedure, and has no power to "decide what is and is not the law".
@jonnycando:"I am suprised Apple can even search employee baggage at all. In my line of work, such activity has been ruled an illegal search."
They probably agreed to being searched when they signed their employment contract. If you then refused to submit to a search you would then be breaking the terms of your contract, and could be fired.
Lots of companies do this. Read your contracts people.
@Old Englishman:"I believe Nazi Germany operated on the same principle: say anything you like, and be shot if someone with power didn't like you."
Wow, you're more stupid than I first thought. Of course the treatment of Andrew Anglin and The Daily Stormer is exactly the same as the treatment of the Jews and others by the [original] nazis....
" You happy to get treated like that?"
I'm happy to live in a civilised country where The EU Convention on Human Rights applies, and where there are limits on hate speech and incitement to violence.
I see from your past comments you don't agree with such frivolities as human rights:
"We need out of the ECHR in particular. And as many of these euro-trash organisations as it takes. In case anybody hadn't noticed, out means out."
In the USA, the First Amendment to the Constitution gives you the right to say what you want.
It doesn't, however, give you the right to be shielded from the consequences.
These nazi shitheads don't deserve the oxygen of publicity. I applaud GoDaddy, Google, DigitalOcean and everybody else who took a principled stand against them.
"These twits are no threat to anyone"
You must have missed the bit where an innocent protester, Heather Heyer, was murdered by one of these "twits".
Shame on you for supporting these arseholes. Now fuck off.
@EveryTime:"And internally WinRT was sabotaged by applications groups that refused to port critical applications such as Office to the platform."
Lol what have you been smoking? The Surface RT tablet came bundled with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Onenote and Outlook (otherwise known as Office Home and Student 2013 RT).
It was only 4 years ago, you should remember...
@Ropewash:You just reminded me of one of my long-time favourite bits of reading.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an-epic-bill-gates-e-mail-rant/
If that had been good ole autistic Linus, the email would have consisted of lots of swear words and ad hominem attacks...
https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg14063.html
@AC:"On a side note didn't Ifixit report on these as completely irreparable as trying to open them destroys them ?"
The screen was cooked in my Surface Pro 3 from the heat. Sent it in for repair and got a refurbished unit back (with the same heat problem). I doubt Microsoft were wasting any time opening them up and repairing them.
My story did have a happy ending - I offloaded the Surface Pro to Cash Converters in the end.
@AMBxx:"Could it just be that Intel's documentation was wrong?"
I don't think any other manufacturer was having the same problem, so probably not.
If Thurrott is correct in that Microsoft wrongly pointed the finger of blame at Intel, their lawyers might have a defamation case to contend with if Intel can show a loss as a result of the statement.
...to hear about "thermal issues" on the Surface Pro 4
The right hand side of my i5 Surface Pro 3 used to get too hot to hold when doing anything other than web browsing (when the processor was clocked down to 700MHz or something like that).
I very much doubt this was an Intel fail
@Old Englishman: "Political censorship is unacceptable, no matter who does it, and no matter who the victim is.
Only idiots cheer actions like this.
Piss off. This isn't political censorship. Crying "censorship!!" is a limp-dick excuse.
In this case a publisher is doing the responsible thing and removing these scumbags from their servers. GoDaddy is under no obligation to facilitate their first amendment rights. These nazis can start their own web server somewhere...
Americans have some very strange ideas about freedom of speech - it's usually something along the lines of "I have a right to say whatever I want, and you might too if I agree with you". Seems to be working out just great for them at the minute - polo-shirt wearing nazis squaring up against the antifa while President Cheeto does his best to start a nuclear war via Twitter.
Most civilised countries, however, realise that there are limits to what can be regarded as free speech.
For instance, your right to express yourself doesn't come before another person's right not to be targeted by whatever bullshit ideology you may subscribe to. Have a read of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights sometime...
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