Posts by John G Imrie

Texas ISP slams music biz for trying to turn it into a 'copyright cop'

Infringing files

I'm actually considering setting up a group of torrents named after this weeks top 40, is there still such a thing?, selling records containing a sound track of me reading a poem I wrote and wait for the illegal requests to block me come into my ISP.

They might as well assume that all Internet users are infringing copyright.

You mean they don't?

Prenda lawyer pleads guilty to moneyshot honeypot scheme

LLP

I wonder how much of that money washed it's way around the London financial markets via shell Limited Liability Partnerships.

Home Office seeks Brexit tech boss – but doesn't splash the cash

Pay

So when they said £100k they meant for that one month. This is starting to look reasonable.

Is there actually one thing that is up and running for the departure?

The escape pods for the MP's?

So let me see if I've got this right

With just over 7 months to go until B-Day the Home office has started looking for a new manager, a process that is likely to take two months minimum, leaving a couple of months to get up to speed with what the rest of the department is doing, another month to recruit sufficient support staff and two, yes two months to write the report saying we are up shit creak and not only don't we have a paddle, someone has nicked the boat as well.

Criminal justice software code could send you to jail and there’s nothing you can do about it

Computer says ...

if (suspect.race eq 'white') {

guilt -= 1;

}

else {

guilt += 1;

}

Space, the final Trump-tier: America to beam up $8bn for Space Force

Republican Space Rangers

Why do I keep thinking of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZuZShxJq8M

Top Euro court: No, you can't steal images from other websites (too bad a school had to be sued to confirm this little fact)

What to do with the fine

Considering the possible backlash, and the cost of the litigation if I was the artist involved I'd be donating the fine back to the school as a thanks for being involved in establishing my rights.

Greybeard greebos do runner from care home to attend world's largest heavy metal fest Wacken

Long track

Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Politicians fume after Amazon's face-recog AI fingers dozens of them as suspected crooks

What happens to the crook when.

a computer spots you and wrongly thinks you're an arrested crook breaking their conditions of bail

The crook was keeping to their bail conditions and becoming a productive member of society and now because you walked past the store they robbed last year they are back in jail.

Oh boy: MPs prepare to probe UK.gov's digital prowess and tech savvy

Re: House of Commons Science and Technology Committee

I'd go with compulsory voting as long as there was a non of the above box on the ballot paper and if that option won in a constituency there had to be a by-election with non of the candidates who stood in the general election allowed to stand. If that has non of the above winning then repeat, blocking the candidates who stood in the by-election as well. Repeat until someone beets the non of the above vote.

Sysadmin sank IBM mainframe by going one VM too deep

Re: hashland

Nothing wrong with hashland, it's where I get some of my best ... er ideas from

Ah, British summer. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the internet is on the fritz

Re: Big red ball?

If you are looking at it through the smoke around Manchester it might look red

Fork it! Google fined €4.34bn over Android, has 90 days to behave

You can't fork Android

You can fork a small part of it but most of Android is the Google Play Services which is a large closed source binary blob

Capita strikes again: Bug in UK-wide school info management system risks huge data breach

It's worse than that

Some of these parents get divorced or even re married and change their names. And names aren't even unique, just how many children and wives does John Smith have?

Official probe into HPE’s Oz 3Par crashes would create 'further negative publicity' if revealed

Re: Rotten Apples in the Pork Barrel

amanfromMars has been getting more and more coherent recently, I think we are almost at the singularity.

Former wig-wearing Twitterphobe replaces Hancock as UK.gov's Secretary of Fun

Re: Brexiteers jump ship

I reckon that Mrs. May has another 8 months, 18 days, 8 hours, 50 minutes and 24 seconds, at time of posting, left.

United States, you have 2 months to sort Privacy Shield ... or data deal is for the bin – Eurocrats

Privacy Shield

Shielding the US from dealing with European's privacy.

Euro privacy watchdog raises eyebrows at mulled EU copyright law

Coppyright Law aka protect Mickey Mouse Law

I would be happier if major copyright holders stopped lobbying for further extensions. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/18/us_congress_copyright_extension/

Copyright was originally designed to allow the author a period of time to reap the rewards of their endeavours, not to fund a multimillion / billion(?) £ corporations.

BB Icon because someone will be watching you.

UK taxman warned it's running out of time to deliver working customs IT system by Brexit

Re: I think Boris Johnson said it best

Someone please tell me that there is a Mr. Prosser working for the Heathrow Runway planning department.

Could someone please fetch my coat, it's the one with the towel in the pocket.

Re: Don't be cretinous

The latter, or possibly both as I don't know you, but defiantly not the former on it's own.

Mine is the one with the dual Irish/UK nationality registration in it. I wish :-(

Reality Winner, liberty loser: NSA leaker faces 63 months in the cooler

WTF

Billie noted that the espionage charge preventing her daughter from discussing details of the matter with a trial jury, a requirement that could make her defense more difficult.

How the hell can you get a fair trial when the jury cant hear your evidence.

Dob in naughty data slurps to top EU court, privacy groups urge

Delay

All we have to do is delay this for 9 months and our marvellous security forces will be able to continue monitoring all those subversive Remainers, drug pushing Doctors and Pediatricians. Now, who stole my copy of the Daily Mail.

Amazon staffers protest giant's 'support of the surveillance state'

Re: Not really knowing...

Bloody upperty staff, they will be wanting a pay rise next

Shatner's solar-powered Bitcoin gambit wouldn't power a deflector shield

I forsee tribble at t'mill.

Well I didn't expect some kind of Romulan Inquisition.

User spent 20 minutes trying to move mouse cursor, without success

eeeww - gross

Just don't tell them to turn the keyboard over and shake it.

UK digital secretary throws cold water over bid for laws on kids' use of social media

Why did you get them a smart phone?

I bought a dumb phone last year, no internet, no camera and a > one week battery life.

Deck the halls with HALs: AI steals the show at Infosec Europe

I'm sorry Dave

Of all the three letter combinations to use when talking about AI, HAL should be at the bottom of the list.

ICO smites Bible Society, well fines it £100k...

Alpha Centuri

No that was a good game, and taught me a lot about philosophy.

British egg producers saddened by Google salad emoji update

Re: I don't get it

When is this madness of pandering to every one going to stop?

When we shoot the last Pander?

Re: Utopia?

Is the world where salad does not include eggs, and officers of law are armed with water pistols a utopia?

Well if we can arm every one with just water pistols it might.

'Facebook takes data from my phone – but I don't have an account!'

There are two groups of people that can't use Facebook ...

according to Facebook's T&C's the under 13's and those on a sex offenders register. Is Facebook slurping their data as well?

Sysadmin hailed as hero for deleting data from the wrong disk drive

Re: Shirley...

You will find out that that one file you didn't include in the backup is the important one

Tech support made the news after bomb squad and police showed up to 'defuse' leaky UPS

Re: You were lucky...

Hay Kiley is that you?

I got 257 problems, and they're all open source: Report shines light on Wild West of software

GPL violation

You can't loose your rights under the GPL just because your up stream provider has lost theirs through non compliance.

Virtue singing – Spotify to pull hateful songs and artists

He's American

so it will be 'period'.

Make masses carry their mobes, suggests wig in not-at-all-creepy speech

Re: Can't lawmakers be sacked for being too dim to be useful?

* as in, "I believe I can make a comfortable living from this with no manual labour and only feel slightly less icky than a person-of-negotiable-affection".

Non of the people of negotiable affection I know are icky, I checked

Facebook misses Brit MPs' deadline, promises answers on Monday

Re: I wonder ...

Could we outsource this to the Russians, in this case they might even do it for free.

Your software hates you and your devices think you're stupid

Re: Please don't kill me with downvotes...

I was about to down vote you, but then you mentioned the marketing department's impact on UX design. You have my sympathies.

Consent, datasets and avoiding a visit from the information commissioner

but you can't then presume to use it for mailshots trying to sell other stuff

Does this break Amazon's recommendation system, unless they explicitly ask for your consent?

Second thoughts, IIRC you can refuse to have your data used to promote recommendations with out it affecting your ability to buy a book.

UK age-checking smut overlord won't be able to handle the pressure – critics

How do you block ...

All the adult oriented live streams on periscope and smiler sites while allowing all the non adult ones?

TSB's middleware nightmare: Execs grilled on Total Sh*tshow at Bank

the idea of a national bank can't be a bad one.

We used to have one of those, National Savings, you could use your post office to access it. Now with Post offices shutting faster than bank branches ...

BOFH: Guys? Guys? We need blockchain... can you install blockchain?

Re: Published at 08:36

The first mouse gets the tra ... OWWWW!!!

UK.gov demands urgent answers as TSB IT meltdown continues

Re: Use of Live Test Data

What - none of them bank with TSB?

Well some of them did, but they closed their accounts last week, allegedly.

There is no perceived IT generation gap: Young people really are thick

Thank you

Now I have the Philosophers Song going through my head.

Data watchdog fines Brit council £120k for identifying 943 owners of vacant property

Re: Alternative solution

4.5 remove url of porn site from photo

SpaceX's Falcon 9 poised to fling 350kg planet-sniffing satellite into Earth orbit

You missed one

Volcanic lair.

UK.gov expected to quit controversial harvesting of schoolchildren's nationality data

they are stuffed with Muslims and similar foreigners.

All the Muslims I know where born in the UK and have jobs, but keep reading the Daily Mail if it makes you feel better.

people who produce nothing but are a continual drain on resources

The old.

Anyone with a chronic medical condition.

The young.

The unemployed.

University students

Doctors

Nurses

Police

Teachers

Tax collectors

Bin men/women

Ambience drivers

Firemen/Firewomen

Bus drivers

Train drivers