Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Won't somebody please think of the children!!! UK to mount fresh assault on end-to-end encryption in Facebook

Simple

Require Huawei kit in the network, then everything will be magically read by the Chinese army.

Plot twist! South Korean telco uses 5G to fight coronavirus via hospital-patrolling robot

Re: Yongin Severance Hospital

That's why you need a 5G equipped robot to find it.

>So the robot has actually a small human inside controlling it?

No, bats

On a dusty red planet almost 290 million km away... NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies

Re: we’re very careful about what kind of software is allowed on a vehicle

Don't worry we used Aricebo to beam SAP into space.

Reports are that the Borg cube is now offline awaiting an upgrade

Huawei could have snooped on the Dutch prime minister's phone calls thanks to KPN network core access

Re: The report actually seems worse than this

It's a phone system: everybody from a bloke at the box on the corner with a clip on phone, to anyone in customer server, to anyone with root access to any of the switches, to anybody in the other office who picks up an extension has access.

If you think a prime minister's un-encrypted phone call suddenly becomes secure by having the backhaul supplier being from Finland you are a GCHQ

Re: In the mean time

Although to be fair it's tricky for certain American leaders to understand a language where words can be more than 140 characters

Re: In the mean time

>listening on German Chancelor's phone converstations and it didn't seem to have any impact.

That's because they couldn't understand it, sounded like total gibberish.

Brit authorities could legally do an FBI and scrub malware from compromised boxen without your knowledge

Re: Brit authorities could legally do an FBI

This is the classic difference between 'can I' and 'may I'

The Brit authorities may hack servers to correct faults - but since it would involve contracting it out to Crapita the 'could' they is a bit more of a question

Pentagon confirms footage of three strange craft taken by the Navy are UFOs (no, that doesn't mean they're aliens)

Can't it be both?

Obvious explanation: the Russians are Aliens.

That's why their leader's human suit isn't very convincing

Have you seen their writing - totally alien

And their language? You only need 50 different case endings if you have 17 different sexes and a larval stage

Home office setup with built-in boiling water tap for tea and coffee without getting up is a monument to deskcess

>has not existed for millennia of human home-making is quite definitely not essential.

Sir I refute you and present the Chocolate Hobnob - proof that there is a benevolent God

Fridges... in... Spaaaaaaace: Engineers book ride on the Vomit Comet to test astro-refrigerator

Re: No student's at Perdue ?

Apologies, as a gesture toward our American cousins I misspelled it

No student's at Perdue ?

The obvious way to keep stuff cold is to hang it outside the ISS's window in a plastic bag.

Oh hello. Haven't heard much from you lately: Linux veteran Slackware rides again with a beta of version 15

Re: one of?

Arghh the 25 floppies and clicking N to every weird elvish rune Tex font in the installer

Pigeon fanciers in a flap over Brexit quarantine flock-up, seek exemption from EU laws

Re: Brexit.

Coming over here with their Daily Mails

Re: Round trip?

Rather a long way from the Falklands for a pigeon.

Now albatross racing .....

>Fiber To The Pigeon

Given their current output I don't think we want pigeons with any more fibre

Re: What

Well importing coconuts is now a big problem.

Round trip?

If you made the race there-and-back, without landing would that be allowed?

Would the Armée de l'Air be equipped to intercept 1000s of British pigeons ?

Should we bread a Spitfire Pigeon ?

Telecoms Diversification Task Force urges UK government to give smaller hardware vendors a bigger slice of the 5G pie

Re: Security costs

Are you a small company?

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Security costs

Isn't it going to expensive to investigate dozens of small companies for their links to foreigners and subject their hardware and software to the decade long detailed level of security analysis applied to Huawei ?

Or will there be enough small suppliers with a former cabinet minister on the board to allow them to skip this ?

Report: Aussie biz Azimuth cracked San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, ending Apple-FBI privacy standoff

Re: If we are picking sides

>Apple also wants any vulnerabilities discovered in its software to be given to it, rather than sold to law enforcement and governments, so the super-corp can patch them.

Another way of looking at this could be: Apple wants all vulnerabilities to be given to it and be illegal to tell anyone else about them (copyright), so it can patch them or not bother.

Product security is a lot easier if it's illegal to publish anything about any flaws.

Spy agency GCHQ told me Gmail's more secure than Microsoft 365, insists British MP as facepalming security bods tell him to zip it

Re: Do I need to point out the obvious?

Although you would hope that a decently secure system for something like a government MIGHT have a setting to flag "This message claims to come from @parliament.gov.uk but the original sender was kremlin-spam-farm.ru"

Demonstrably these clowns couldn't run a whelk stall.

They are obviously there to distract from who really runs the country - and his cat

Re: O365 but not as you know it

More importantly you know anything sent out by email is the equivalent of the office notice board memo and can safely be ignored.

Stuff that you need to deal with gets sent by whatsapp/signal/teams

>They get elected because they've found a way to persuade enough people to vote for them.

They persuade a very small number of people on the local party selection committee to vote for them and are in a safe seat.

Blue Origin sends Mannequin Skywalker aloft again, testing out comfier capsule for future space tourists

Amazon moon mission

Unfortunately you have to go to the depot on Mars to pick up the rocket

SAP's operating profits might be down but cloud-fixated ERP biz thinks things are looking up enough to hike full-year guidance

SAP says cloud sales jumped 7 per cent in its Q1

How do they know?

Presumably only if their accounting system doesn't run SAP - otherwise it would alternate between not letting you login with no apparent error message and being 'down for maintenance'

Beijing steps on Alibaba's Ant Group by forcing it to submit to same regulation as banks

Re: Time to apply the duck test

>would be nice if Apple pay & Google pay were forced to do that.

But forcing open free and fare competition in the market place is capitalist.

No way is that going to happen, Apple and Google pay too much to the parties to have to face the market.

Re: Time to apply the duck test

Paypal and Alipay are definitely banks.

Income gets paid into them, they hold it and will let you withdraw it.

They will also decide to lock your account with no notice, cancel your account because an algorithm makes a mistake and confiscate all your money fro breaking some vague 'terms and conditions'.

They also have no insurance, no regulatory oversight and often no way of contacting them.

OVH services still not fully restored as boss rates ongoing recovery efforts a 'real nightmare'

Re: Assessment of risk

>I can be accused of not including a global pandemic in the risk log of my last previous project

But probably will be going forward.

Not because another pandemic is any more likely, but because you know what the reaction to it will be.

It's like terrorism, the risk of death is probably lower than the 1970s, but the risk that you won't be able to access your building in the middle of $MAJOR_CITY because of a terrorist 'alert' is real.

Re: customers got burned

Because it's a business decision by the customer.

They bought the cheapest service because it wasn't worth it to them to pay more.

Arguing that multi-site DR should be included in all plans is like saying only mechanics that offer free courtesy cars should be allowed. Or in this case, only spambots that make enough revenue that they can afford 5-9s uptime should be allowed.

Microsoft's Surface Laptop 4 now includes AMD options for biz customers, boasts up to 19 hours of battery life

Re: £999?

>Who the hell spends that much on a 13" model

People whose shareholders are paying

Who'd have thought the US senator who fist pumped Jan 6 insurrectionists would propose totally unworkable anti-Big Tech law?

No just an anti-war hero.

He wants Lockheed-Martin-BAE-Sikorsky-Aerojet and Boeing-Mcdonnel-Douglas-Vertol-Sikorsky-Hughes to be split up so they can no longer build any modern weapons.

Muskets were good enough in 1776 and should be good enough now.

'Chinese wall'? Who uses 'Chinese wall'? Well, IBM did, and it actually means 'firewall'

Re: Aaargh! Ambiguity

If everywhere in your field the word 'black' is used to mean a negative outcome and 'white' is used for a positive outcome = it's a problem.

Replace them with white = Catholic and black = protestant or white = christian / black = Jewish everywhere and see if seems 'ok'

Re: Is "Chinese Wall" actually offensive?

I think it's the 'nod and wink' nature of Chinese walls, at least in finance

So a 'Chinese wall' has come to mean a lie.

>No, then it would be in a 'second' language. I would still have a native language, it would just be a different one.

Yes, that was the point. If 'native' was being used as the default language it might not be 'native' to everyone. But don't see how anyone could object to 'native' resolution = the resolution the screen was born with

Would it still be your "native" language if you were an immigrant who learned another language at birth?

Re: Ethical wall

Firewall isn't even the right name for a firewall.

A firewall is between you and the engine in case of a fire.

It stops all fire - it doesn't let approved fire in and all fire out

Re: Red Team?

>master / slave in the context of electronics (including device drivers) has a very specific meaning

Commissar / prole - then nobody is offended

Also means the dear users who manage to wedge a USB plug into a ethernet socket are just being pro LGBTQI2*

Re: What?

>Everybody has a couple of grandfathers.

Maybe an overestimate in certain US southern states

Jensen Huang's kitchen gets another viewing as Nvidia teases Arm-powered supercomputing chip Grace

Re: "that you won't actually be able to buy at MSRP"

Supply is only less than demand due to them not making enough.

Isn't that true of everything?

China whacks Alibaba with US$2.8bn fine for breaking antitrust rules

Corporations bail out government = communism

Government bail out corporations = capitalism

Couldn't he just contribute to Xi's re-election fund and then the next party meeting would have a bunch of Aliexpress products on the president's desk ?

Re: Yet in the West.

Much better to say "if you criticise the government we'll use armed mobs of whackos to go after you"

Bless you: Yep, it's IBM's new name for tech services spinoff and totally not a hayfever medicine

Re: Lifecycle of Bollocks

When your 100years of corporate history is so toxic that you need to rebrand.

Oracle vs Google: No, the Supreme Court did not say APIs aren't copyright – and that's a good thing

Re: Book Titles

I agree with the Disney copyright extension, but only if it is symmetric.

Every extra year they get also applies to the the years before the mouse.

So once all those princess, dwarfs and wooden boys hit the Grim, Anderson etal they lose everything

That's a pity

I was hoping that Oracle would win and then IBM come round and ask about all these copyright Sql statements Oracle might be using

UK's National Rail backs down from greyscale website tribute to Prince Phil after visually impaired users complain

Re: Speaking of ads

I quite like them.

I never see any ads at home (thanks PiHole and Brave) at work I get the Redhat ads with some guy with a bog-brush beard. Now I have an extra reason to avoid Redhat.