Posts by Will Godfrey

Remarkable

An eerie lack of commentards.

Not a great surprise

I've never been unfortunate enough to have been in such a situation, but know people who have. It's actually quite easy to get to a place where it's difficult to get out - through financial commitments etc. It also takes time to realise just how bad a situation is, and that it's not just one individual going through a melt-down. On top of all that, you have to already have something lined up before jumping. You'll never get a reference, and that combined with an unexplained and unusually short time will raise concerns on the job market.

Cunning Stunt

Now anyone who does view the site will be jumped on. This news is getting around quite fast so only Joe sixpack and family will visit it and get caught.

Mission accomplished!

My worry

is when insurance companies cotton on to this as an excuse to deny all claims.

"We see you had at least two IoT devices that were vulnerable to remote hacking and have determined that one of these caused your house to burn down."

Gob Smacked

Just look at the precision of that landing... on a moving target. I can't do that well just parking my car!

Will nobody rid me of this turbulent priest?

See title.

What's the fuss about?

Situation normal (worldwide). Government official has no clue about what he's supposed to be managing.

Choices

On one hand you squash lies and truth, on the other you only squash the truth.

I made my mark against section 40.

Not for me either

I just occasionally listen to FM radio. When that switches off, so do I.

Curious

How is the guy being 'a registered sex offender' relevant?

Why was it mentioned?

Are these people more likely to rob banks, and do the job badly?

Curious

I wonder why people latch on to the very rare failures of SpaceX while remaining silent about those others.

The first thing that occurs to me

Could they find nothing more interesting to theorise about?

Bad news

There was a time you could avoid becoming a victim of that lot simply by staying out of London. I guess that's no longer true.

Well this is a surprise

Amazingly I find myself in total agreement with the Chinese!

Is it just me

... or does that picture resemble some evil alien creature with 4 wicked claws.

I think I know what 'their' answer will be

Force everyone to install very expensive battery backup systems in their cellars - no cellar, you'll have to dig one.

This won't stop your entire home getting controlled, but it will protect the important profits of the grid companies, as well as maintaining GCHQ snooping capability

I'm actually rather surprised

Only 20 comments on this. I expected to see pages by now.

Situation normal

I see they've started 2017 as they mean to carry on.

... exactly like last year.

Lawyers lose small change behind the sofa

What a terrible, terrible crime /s

I'm sure the perps will feel the full weight of the law. No stone will be left unturned to squeeze them till the pips squeak.

P.S. Apologies for the mixed metaphors :)

In other news

The four horsemen were seen riding into the distance, complaining that they'd been made redundant.

Taking the piss

John Deere that is.

I was asked to find replacement lamps for a control display on a combine. They were specially made ones with oh-so-slightly greater base diameter than off-the-shelf bi-pin ones, with pins that were also thinner than normal.

I got the blown ones out easily enough using a piece of rubber tubing and a good hard suck! The housing was clearly designed to make this difficult.

According to Derre, they could not be replaced, and the entire control panel had to be changed at the cost of several thousand pounds.

They lost that sale though. I built replacements using miniature LEDS and series resistors!

Wrong Target

Maybe look at all the Americans buying this stuff.

Sonic Screwdriver

Love that last one. There's nothing more satisfying than silencing a total arsehole.

Pah!

You lot have had it easy.

Back in the day (a long time ago) as a young trainee electronics engineer I was the only male in a room of about 30 women ranging from early 20s to late 30s who were hand-wiring PCBs.

The mildest comment I got was "I'm ready to be inspected and tested now." It was the longest month of my training.

I can't see this improving. The banks still won't accept that the whole credit card setup is insecure when it has been demonstrated multiple times. And to make absolutely sure of it, they add another insecure layer on top of it i.e. contactless.

Can I be the first to say...

Bah! Humbug!

I feel so much safer

Wonderful news that all those thousands of illegal immigrant terrorist kids will be rounded up.

"Nothing to hide - nothing to fear" for the win!

/s

I don't understand

Yahoo seems to have a continuous stream of failures, stretching back for years - failures that seem to get progressively bigger. How is it possible that it still survives?

What is this 'Skype' of which you speak.

Yes, I know. Got it, going.

Wow!

Absolutely fascinating, and scary too.

Interesting

I suspect a few ivory towers are beginning to look a little unstable now.

No Thanks

I use small shops as much as possible for quality goods - decent ones that don't put an unreasonable mark-up on everything. Supermarkets for bulk dross - no store cards, and Amazon basic (not prime) only as a last resort. Any on-line shop that uses paypal goes on the credit card (not the debit one) and I don't have an actual paypal account.

I recognise that 'they' will always find ways to track you but like to keep my profile as low as possible.

Friday, BOFH, Pub O'clock

It's a perfect world!

NO!

We do not 'desperately' need web animation. Many of us don't want it at all.

This is good

When a lead developer is seemingly prevaricating it suggests they are not overly committed in either sense but able to weigh up pros and cons as they appear.