Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Snowden was right, rules human rights court as it declares UK spy laws broke ECHR

Re: Always listening to our customers

The point isn't to identify specific risks in advance, it's to have dirt on everyone in case they become leader of the opposition or complain to the local councils about potholes

South Korea plans large scale quantum cryptography adoption, thanks in part to tech partnership with USA

Re: Upgrade or die

On the other hand it's a good way to discover all that old monitoring kit you have forgotten about and don't know you were depending on

Why Python's pip search isn't working: We speak to infrastructure director about ongoing traffic overload

Re: pip3 worked fine for me last week.....

pip is working, they just turned off search.

Big red buttons and very bad language: A primer for life in the IT world

Re: The children

Upon seeing the debug logs the programmer did recite the ancient incantation "O fer fecks sake" and was enlightened.

Re: The children

If today's children don't learn enough bad words in school how are they going to be able to produce the engineering workforce of the future?

In my day we had double effing-and-blinding on wednesday afternoons

Man found dead inside model dinosaur after climbing in to retrieve phone

Re: To die for a phone

>This. Confined spaces are dangerous. Head down in a confined space without immediate help is deadly.

But all this safety paranoia in schools, kids today rarely get a chance to play with dinosaurs and so don't learn the dangers.

Perhaps some scary 1970s public information film - like the one about going swimming with death.

Re: Poor sod..

A friend built a startup on this with Asterix.

You phoned into a central number before going onsite, it logged your phone# and if you didn't call back to clear the site within a certain time it would alert a pre-programmed contact.

It was just after that estate agent got murdered by someone she was showing a house to in the 90s

Arm freezes hiring until Nvidia takeover, cancels everyone's 'wellbeing' allowance

Re: What a shit show

A listed company, owned by banks, pension and hedge funds being sold to a hedge fund owned by banks , pension and sovereign wealth funds isn't necessarily anti-competitive.

If I'm a customer using ARM cores I don't care if it's listed on the FTSE or the NIKKEI - I do care if I can't buy the ARM cores anymore because it's now owned by a direct competitor

Re: Flim Flammery

It wasn't British owned before softbank - it was a public company. Its shares were owned by anybody who wanted to buy them

If we wanted it to remain British owned the time to do that was in 1990 when it was formed with money from 2 American companies.

Or perhaps the BBC Micro and subsequently ARM should have been an internal BBC program, then under the BBC management and with BBC investment it would be a world beating British colossus

We’ve found them! Govt reinstates records previously missing from the Police National Computer

Re: Well, the data was recovered

>Assuming that there was a backup

Or they just re-arrested them

Roam if you want to: China’s Zhurong rover begins trundling on Mars

Re: Zen

Mostly knowing it can be done so it's just engineering. Especially if previous missions gave you published pressure gradients etc

They may have had spies inside the UK missions to know what not to do

Re: Picture taken by the front obstacle avoidance camera

Hong-Kong martial arts movie fake landing ?

Steve Wozniak to take stand: $1m suit claiming Woz stole idea for branded tech boot camp goes to trial

Does it have to be this Woz or will any Woz do ?

I remember an interview where he said they were going to do a "Who do you think you are?" type show - but Wozniak is like the Polish equivalent of Smith

American insurance giant CNA reportedly pays $40m to ransomware crooks

Re: Cost of Doing Business

But you don't see a certain conflict of interest in an insurance company, that will write profitable policies against ransomware attacks, paying a ransomware gang and so enabling and encouraging it to commit further acts?

Rather like a house insurance company donating crowbars to the charming street urchins of the neighbourhood

Re: "Phoenix is not on any prohibited party list and is not a sanctioned entity."

But what if they are a new black hat ransomware gang that aren't affiliated with the official league of supervillains?

Re: What are they insuring exactly?

>In which world do insurance companies pay thieves for the return of stolen property?

Ocean's Eight ?

Re: Should be illegal

Their an insurance company so presumably the gang demanded $80 M but they only paid half because the replacement value of the unique data was actually only what it would cost to buy a crappy Walmart version of the data

The Home Office will need to overturn a long legacy of failure to achieve ambition of all-digital border by 2025

Re: No doubt

Interesting question, can an economy survive solely on the fees paid to government lawyers to sue government contractors ?

Re: Will it really?

>The Irish require documentation from CTA people flying into Dublin

Countries generally require documentation from people flying internally

The interesting question will be do immigration in Dublin have the right to exclude Brits with no reason other than "immigration officer doesn't like your face"?

How does this work if Ireland joined Schengen?

Re: Border hawk

I'm still holding out hope of Canada one day joining the Eu - and getting back European status that way

Re: Border hawk

In the new British-English dictionary "sovereignty" just means anything wholesome and good that the Daily Mail approves of. Not demanding ID from (melanin appropriate) Britons is good therefore is sovereignty.

N Korea is bad and therefore is not Sovereignty

Re: Border hawk

Because although everyone can see the necessity of tracking dangerous Australians, a free country generally doesn't track its own citizens leaving in peacetime. I believe it's something to do with sovereignty

Re: Will it really?

Under the NIP Irish people are now officially white so border controls don't apply.

Scots are also allowed in freely, so long as they are posh Scots with surnames as first names

Re: Border hawk

Are you even tracking who leaves?

Those of us who took one look at the Brexit shambles and abandoned ship don't get added to the debit column.

There weren't even any turnstiles. How are you going to keep people in? You can't even build a wall now that you don't let E Germans in.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz? Detroit waits for my order, you'd better make amends

Re: Sometimes though....

>This buffet car gets its power from the overheads!"

The 25kV Kettle, 2nd only to the Boiling Vessel (electric) as symbols of British power

Re: You have checked the number?

Followed by the: you have to dial 7 for an outside line, then if it's international drop the first 0, unless it's a month with an R in it, then you have to add ....

Re: Sometimes though....

amateurs

Re: Dear Lord...

You can buy last weeks tickets for 50% off

Half the price and only 1 in 100,000,000 less chance of winning

Help wanted, work from anywhere ... except if you're located in Colorado

Re: *woosh* right over their heads

Not advertising a salary is very much a women/minority thing.

If it's a "negotiation" where the employer holds all the cards then Chuck Winchester IIIrd, having more options, is likely to be more able to push for a salary.

A women or minority candidate is less likely to get a job offer and so is less able to push for a higher, or refuse a lower salary offer.

And this is even assuming no bias on the part of the hiring manager

Re: Be aware of those who don't share!

Had an interview with a now defunct Cambridge consultancy who deleted my PhD from my CV before the interview because they didn't think they had the budget for a salary offer

Like they thought a Cambridge physics PhD wouldn't come up in an interview for a technical consultancy in Cambridge, or that I would happily accept a lower graduate salary without noticing !

And runs an astroturfing campaign where 1000s of Colorado voters suddenly pop up on Facebook saying how they can't get a job anymore because of this crazy new law.

Re: First thing I have to always ask

>I never did understand the reluctance of applicants to bring this up

Because conventionally whoever says a number first loses.

The applicant asks for X, the manager sighs inwardly because they have a budget of X+20%.

The manager says, we only have x-20% in the budget and hopes the candidate is desperate. Worst case the manager promises to ask bi.g boss if they can stretch to X-5%

Double the margins if the applicant is a women or a minority

Re: I want to know the salary range

>The people screening CVs are low paid drones, the people doing the interviews are happy to handle a bit of extra bullshit for the money they'll save.

I would humbly beg your fscking pardon.

You have 4-5 engineers spend 30mins going over their CV and github/projects

Then at least 2 x hour long interviews/presentations to 4-5 engineers, longer with an on-site tour

Repeat for 3-4 pre-screened candidates.

Then a month later you find they turned down the job because somebody in a corporate HQ was trying to save $2K in salary or wouldn't agree to a certain start date or was limiting relocation expenses to $500

Re: They want you to ask for a salary

>That way if you ask for less than they were prepared to pay, they save money.

And in 6months when you discover you are being paid less than your workmates you leave.

They have just finished the costs of on-boarding (*sorry) and training you but before they have got much value and now they have to start the recruitment process all over again - but they did save 5% on your salary

Re: Ah, the good old days...

>If its higher than the cost to live where I live, then why should I be paid the same as you

Do you charge your customers different rates based on their state's cost of living?

UK Computer Misuse Act convictions declined last year despite pandemic explosion in online criminal activity

Re: So in summary

>they are all well out of range in unfriendly countries.

I thought Global Britain (tm) ruled the waves again ?

So in summary

The CMA is being used to go after white collar crime because it's sufficiently vague you can get a case past crown prosecution.

Emailing secret military plans to the enemy isn't a computer misuse offence.

Shouldn't the police be using the computer missue act to go after Russian, Iranian, N. Korean ransomware hackers?

Cloudflare stops offering to block LGBTQ webpages

Re: Filters are good actually

> this is about self-determining your internet landscape.

Until your ISP or school includes blocking all LGBTQ content in their default "family setting".

I want my "financial fraud" filter setting to block any sites with von Mises or Hayek content

re: Statistically, it's one of the most popular keywords for porn and adult content.

I thought that was "stepsister" "stuck" and "washing machine" ?

When humanity perishes in nuclear fire, the University of Essex's radiation-resistant robots will inherit the Earth

Re: Hasn't this already been researched ?

Very different problems.

In space (at least LEO) you have a relatively low flux (arrival rate) of high energy charged particles. You get memory bit flips, and occasionally localised hardware damage.

In a reactor you get a high flux of lower energy heavy particles that cause structure damage. ECC doesn't help if the ECC checking circuit is smashed to atoms.

This work is specifically for image sensors which are most sensitive for a bunch of reasons.

They are large area, so chances of a hit are high, the silicon is tuned to be sensitive to low signal levels (to detect faint light) and you can't map around a dead image region in software.

Here's how we got persistent shell access on a Boeing 747 – Pen Test Partners

Re: Bioterrorism Shock Headline

Somebody doesn't fly Spirit / Ryanair

Bioterrorism Shock Headline

We were able to introduce a toxic biological agent into the aircraft vital coffee supply by being given access to the coffee pot and the toilet

China all but bans cryptocurrencies

Re: A very good idea

But if they want to become a modern global capitalist developed country, don't they need $Tn in unregulated shadow banking whose collapse can bring down the global economy ?

ASUS baffles customer by telling them thermal pad thickness is proprietary

Re: This sounds like ...

Wait until somebody else claims to have used a thermal pad of the same size before ASUS.

Since the size of a thermal pad is such a vital bit of IP the penalties against ASUS for stealing this must be huge.

Parliament demands to know the score with Fujitsu as Post Office Horizon scandal gets inquiry with legal teeth

Re: STOP. GIVING. FUJITSU. GOVERNMENT. CONTRACTS.

Greater patriotism hath no man than he will lay down his passport for an M&A deal

Re: STOP. GIVING. FUJITSU. GOVERNMENT. CONTRACTS.

>Er, Fujitsu is Japanese.

But these contracts were given to <8 pt font>Fujitsu-<72 pt font> ICL

<1 pt font> Fujitsu-ICL is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsū kabushiki gaisha

Re: STOP. GIVING. FUJITSU. GOVERNMENT. CONTRACTS.

Fujistu bought ICL so they have to get all the government contractors because they are the last BRITISH computer company

Space Force's data must flow: Microsoft Azure and Ball Aerospace demo satellite to battlefield linkup

Learning from history

Can we think of any campaigns where the side with super advanced, super complex technology got their bottoms kicked by an opponent who barely had shoes?

GitLab tries to address crypto-mining abuse by requiring card details for free stuff

There are reasons why you might want to test cloud services without putting in your credit card.

Remember the story from a month ago where some startup used service X with a limit of $50 but it made some calls against service Y which cost $$$$$ and bankrupted them.

I always do tests with a reloadable visa gift card and throwaway name/email address