* Posts by Korev

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Quantum computing: Confusion can mask a good story, but don't take anyone's word for it

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Google Images knows nothing about cats and kumquats. It couldn't tell you which one to stroke for pleasure or which to eat when you're hungry

Well, I've never heard of a Kumquat trying to scratch your hand off when you stroke it "wrongly"; so I guess it's Cat 'n' Chips for dinner

Uncle Sam wants 'ethical hackers' to crack its planetary defenses, but don't expect a pay-day from this bug bounty

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Re: Why does the Pentagon spend more on seafood than bug bounties?

Do they run clamav too?

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Re: US Inland Revenue Service?

Looking at what happened to the biology lab that's not a bad thing...

Accidentally wiped an app's directory? Hey, just play the 'unscheduled maintenance' card. Now you're a hero

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When I was young and only had a PC with DOS on floppies, I had the clever "idea" of copying all data to a RAM disc and then copying back at the end so everything was nice and fast. If you ran out of memory then you'd need to delete a bit - of course I managed to del *.* in the wrong directory and deleted the DOS disc.

Luckily by this point I'd learnt to not touch the original disc and to only use a copy.

Microsoft reveals what a growth mindset does to the letter ‘A’

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It looks like MS have got their head in the clouds...

‘Staggering’ cost of vintage Sun workstations sees OpenSolaris-fork Illumos drop SPARC support

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And the servers were a nice purple colour :-)

British bank TSB says it will fix days-long transaction troubles tonight

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That's what the board are banking on...

GitLab's 10-day certification freebie offer lasted only two because, surprise surprise, people really like freebies

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They wouldn't have had these problems if they'd have move to the cloud...

IBM says it's built the world's first 2nm semiconductor chips

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Re: Sounds like it is time for a new standard

If this carries on then I'm going to flea the area...

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Yeah, chips have transistor GATES and we all know GATES is Bill's surname? WAKE UP SHEEPIES!

The swift in-person response is part of the service (and nothing to do with the thing I broke while trying to help you)

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Pint

I'm pleased I wasn't the only one to think BOFH when I saw the name Simon...

Perl changes dev's permaban for 'unacceptable' behaviour to a year-long lockout after community response

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I'm confused, can someone explain what "philosemitic antisemitism" means?

NYPD puts down $94k robot canine contract after outcry

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Re: It is not a dog

Didn't they mean "The contract has been curtailed"?

Terror of the adtech industry iOS 14.5 has landed, and Siri can answer your calls ... though she/he can't hang up

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Re: You could sell your kidney...

I seem to remember reading that he has special needs and they took advantage of him...

Traffic lights, who needs 'em? Lucky Kentucky residents up in arms over first roundabout

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Our traffic signals are equipped with in-pavement vehicle detector inductive loops. They work well during low traffic times to switch the lights. Unless you get stuck behind a Honda. Which evidently don't have enough metal in them to trigger the sensor. Then you could wait all night.

When I lived in Cambridge there were some traffic lights like that that weren't triggered by my bike, so I'd have to wait in the middle of the road until a car joined me...

Shadow over Fedora 34 as maintainer of Java packages quits with some choice words for Red Hat and Eclipse

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Re: Is this a case of xkcd 2347?

You could also use RStudio Package Manager which supports snaptshots.

Singapore goes Cray-cray in the best way, picks HPE for new 10 PFLOPS super 'puter

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Re: I'll get me coat ....

Sorry that joke FLOPS

George Clooney of IT: Dribbling disaster and damp disk warnings scare the life out of innocent user

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Re: User or loser

At $EMPLOYER-1 a colleague had some MP3s and videos on a share on her computer thus breaking all the policies. One of the IT guys came over and told her to delete it, but to wait until the next day in case there was anything good on there...

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Re: User or loser

Par for the course I bet...

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Re: User or loser

I'm surprised you didn't club him to death...

If you have a QNAP NAS, stop what you're doing right now and install latest updates. Do it before Qlocker gets you

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What is it about QNAP NASes that makes them so vulnerable to this kind of attack? Synology and their other rivals don't seem to have the same kind of problems.

MI5 wants to shed its cocktail-guzzling posho image – so it's opened an Instagram account

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Re: Instagram -- So quaint

TikTok sounds like the bomb*

*As a 'Merkin might say

China has a satellite with an arm – and America worries it could be used to snatch other spacecraft

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Re: Beat that!

Don't bother stopping him, it's armless...

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Re: A satellite junk collector ...

Its abit like Nukes. Everyone knows they're still working on them but they just don't openly test them (except for fringe lunatics in hermit states).

Did I miss the Americans starting testing again?

We seem to have materialized in a universe in which Barney the Purple Dinosaur is designing iPhones for Apple

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Re: Intrigued by the small memory, SSD options on iMac

I'd like to buy a Mx Mac, but 16GB isn't really enough RAM for doing photos etc. these days. Lightroom on my PC will take over half of the 32GB available.

Bank of England ponders minting 'Britcoin' to sit alongside the Pound

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Re: Totally Off Topic - ESL

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

Lego's Space Shuttle Discovery: No trouble with Hubble, but the stickers will drive a grown man to insanity

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The author was bricking himself about the stickers...

Microsoft realises constant meetings stress people out, adds Office 365 settings to cut them short or start them late

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My "big boned" manager probably wouldn't survive a treadmill run, I'd end up going through managers like the BOFH...

If your internet wobbled last weekend, you have Vodafone India to thank for it

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Re: Sporting errors...

Yeah, it took a pounding...

Ex IBM sales manager, fired after battling discrimination against subordinates, wins $11m lawsuit

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"We are proud of our client, Scott Kingston, for standing up for what’s right,” said Matthew E. Lee, an attorney with Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, the law firm representing Kingston, in a statement. “He deserved justice and, after three long years, this verdict has given him that and a nice new Mercedes for us”

Fixed that for you...

Docking £500k commission from top SAS salesman was perfectly legal, rules judge

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Re: Typo aside

> So if you're a bigger customer for SAS, now is the time to renew :D

Or take some R courses?

Google proposes Logica data language for building more manageable SQL code

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Re: Will post about this on Hangouts and Orkut

I can't picture Google doing that, maybe I'll look in Picassa

Salesforce's get-back-to-work strategy starts with 'Volunteer Vaccinated Cohorts' on designated floors

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Re: Why

> We've shown that teamwork works incredibly well whilst WFH too.

For existing teams who've known one another for years. New teams are a different matter, I'm in some teams which are struggling to get going.

Key Perl Core developer quits, says he was bullied for daring to suggest programming language contained 'cruft'

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Re: The rewrite...

It's all going down the cPan

Average convicted British computer criminal is young, male, not highly skilled, researcher finds

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Re: What about........

>Tedious dullard.

Has Sir been trained by the Moderatrix?

More of this please.

Quality control, Soviet style: Here's another fine message you've gotten me into

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Re: take care when abroad

>4. lock your laptop in the hotel safe when not using it. (Though once when I did lock something in the hotel room's safe, the lock was broken and the under-manager came along with his set of screwdrivers to unlock it)

I was once staying in a hotel and on checkout day the batteries in the safe (containing my passport and home keys) had run out; the guy from reception managed to open it in a worryingly short amount of time...

Facebook job ads algorithm still discriminates on gender, LinkedIn not so much

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Re: I've never had a female deliver my pizza

You quite often see female food delivery [bike] riders here in Switzerland

Prince Philip, inadvertent father of the Computer Misuse Act, dies aged 99

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Re: One civil war in 400 years is quite enough.

> Brexit is almost a fifth one.

It’s looking increasingly bad in Northern Ireland where (as easily predicted) the Unionists are very pissed off about having a semi-border in the Irish Sea.

Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children

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Re: Pay by weight

>Have had the misfortune on a couple of occasions of other's fat spreading over the arm rest into my seat area

I once had someone spill under the armrest from her seat. Luckily it was only a short flight and I could move towards the aisle a bit. I felt very sorry for the guy was trapped in between her and the window though.

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Re: Miss or Ms

For similar reasons in clinical data you now see the field "Gender at birth"

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Re: Not necessarily.

> And yes, aviation uses an 'interesting' mixture of units, even today.

Yeah, they get tied up in Knots about it

‘Can COVID-19 vaccines connect me to the internet?’

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Re: Other applications

>Time to buy shares in tattoo removal clinics.

Seeing how bad many of the tattoos[0] are around here, removal will be quite lucrative in a few years time

[0] Where bad = some crap artwork but more poor choices of what to get tattooed on them

Imagine your data center backup generator kicks in during power outage ... and catches fire. Well, it happened

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Re: The weird part isn't the generator fire - shit happens.

Nah, Firewire has been around for years...

Atheists appeal to higher power for intercession over alleged sins against privacy

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Re: Well

Maybe His Noodly Appendage can guide them in the correct direction...

SAP: It takes exploit devs about 72 hours to turn one of our security patches into a weapon against customers

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Re: Rock, meet Hard Place

I know testing feels like a good idea, but honestly, how much worthwhile testing can your organization do over and above that done already by the manufacturer? And, if you don't trust them, why the hell are you using their products?

Pretty much every organisation will do some SAP customisation which will require testing.

Also, some companies run in a regulated environment where every patch, code change, OS update needs to be validated. At my work a lot of the factories manufacturing medicines etc. have SAP on the backend; you really, really don't want system changes to screw that up!

Facebook says dump of 533m accounts is old news. But my date of birth, name, etc haven't changed in years, Zuck

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Re: Interesting

I was hoping to abandon WhastApp after the T&C change debacle. The end result is that I now have lots of different messaging Apps for a minority of people and the other 80%+ still using WA...

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Re: Time for the usual security advice

> I also use someone else's SSN (in the US).

Not many countries have nuclear submarines, won't they guess it's you?

Yep, you're totally unique: That one very special user and their very special problem

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Re: A little harsh

I used NT4 and OS8&9 and NT was a huge improvement - you'd measure the time between crashes in weeks not hours... The early OSX versions were also crash fests before OSX/MacOS peaked at around Snow Leopard.

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Re: (Can't...stop...the... voices....)

They stopped putting them on a few years ago. You can buy ones that clip to the vents on the side though.

You put Marmite where? Google unveils its latest AI wizardry: A cake made of Maltesers and the pungent black tar

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Re: Maltesers translated

Or sodding Pumpkin everything in the Autumn...