Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Careful now, UK court ruling says email signature blocks can sign binding contracts

Re: Signature versus signature block

Then it's a forgery. Just the same as if the cleaning lady had taken a signed draft letter out of the paper recycling bin and mailed it.

Re: The lawyer was acting on instructions.

>Otherwise known as Greed.

Otherwise known as a lawyer

defn: a person you hire to find a technicality to get round something you don't like in a contract written by another lawyer who you hired to write it so that there were no technicalities

Re: We have signed emails

> Going back to the 90's we had a salesman who returned to the office after wining and dining a client with an IT services contract on a napkin...

Although a contract signed on a stripper is a little harder to file

Re: Signature versus signature block

>, a binding legal signature is written in ink on paper and witnessed.

Are you familiar with credit cards, the internet, tap to pay, ATMs and the late 20th century in general ?

NASA Administrator upends the scorn bucket on Elon Musk's Starship spurtings

Re: Sour Grapes

So suddenly NASA care about having a crew escape ? What is this - the 1960s ?

How to lose a UK contractor in 10 days: Make them commit after upcoming IR35 tax upheaval, apparently

Re: It's not that hard

Burn the unbeliever, persecute the heretic.....

We're all doooooomed: Gloomy Brit workforce really isn't coping well with impending Brexit

Re: Repent, repent, the end is nigh

Sir Humphrey: Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last five hundred years: to create a disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians. Divide and rule, you see. Why should we change now, when it's worked so well?

Hacker: That's all ancient history, surely?

Sir Humphrey: Yes, and current policy. We had to break the whole thing [the EEC] up, so we had to get inside. We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work. Now that we're inside we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing — set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... The Foreign Office is terribly pleased; it's just like old times.

Re: Look you stupid B*******,

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Recession is prosperity

Brexit is freedom

Re: Whole of Europe is in recession

Didn't Thomas Cook start out running temperance trips in the heart of Gammon-land?

Should be great after Brexit

Re: "Well the OAPs who voted for it to keep Johnny Foreigner out are doing fine with Brexit. "

Obviously thy should have waited until all the old people died before holding a referendum

Re: Do what's right for you

Everyone can individually decide to choose to stay in the Eu or leave and have the rules apply to them - that's true democracy !

Re: When to move abroad

>GBP 125,000 per annum in taxes to the Jersey authorities.", so that's around $800k salary.

Really ? In Britain GBP 125,000 in tax would be the income of Amazon, Google and Facebook added together.

Everything is a way for banks to earn money without any risk. After all if they didn't you would have to bail them out again

Margin mugs: A bank paid how much for a 2m Ethernet cable? WTF!

Ironically the supplier is probably losing money on the £10 battery as well.

It's a medical device so I have to have traceability with the manufacturer and supplier. They have to inform me of any change in the supply chain, I have to document that I have received those updates. I have to be able to prove that when I received, stocked, sold and delivered that particular battery I was upto date on all those change docs and document that, and store those documents.....

No Huawei: Micron hit by oversupply, US-China trade issues as DRAM sales sliced in half

Re: Everything will be all right

and think of all the profit Micron will make selling tarrif-free memory to all the USA based cellphone makers

Sussex Police gives up on £790k Gatwick drone shutdown probe

Re: Not so certain

>With no suspects, we simply cannot know

With no pictures we can be pretty sure

Anyone know how I can get a million quid to investigate reports of Big Foot in Las Vegas at this time of year ?

Re: OK, so no drone activity...

Obviously testing that new cloaking technology that makes planes invisible.

The same one they used for the navy's new aircraft carriers

Nice job

A million quid in overtime for Christmas, lovely

US immigration uses Google Translate to scan people's social media for bad posts – Er, don't do that, says everyone else

I used to say "democratically elected competent leader" but meanings seemed to have converged on that

4 anyone who speaks any giddam foreign took language is probably. A goddam foreign gook who can't be trusted. Or if they are an american who learned foreign they are obviously a traitor.

This was actually the reason for the founding of a lot of AI research in the 59s. They needed to translate a lot of Russian, but anyone who knew Russian must be a communist.

Gagarin's Start now Soyuz-FG's End as shutters pulled on historic launchpad

Buran was worse, it was built by somebody copying the committee's homework on the bus.

It had no engines because the shuttle's engine are an amazing piece of engineering and the USSR couldn't build them. But it still was shaped to have engines and sat on the side of the booster where it would need to be if it had engines.

It took off in the wrong direction and had to do a stressfull aerodynamic roll to point toward orbit, because the shuttle did that. But the shuttle only did it because they were reusing an Apollo era launch platform that was built the other way around

It's main advantage was that it could be flown to orbit and back remotely, in which case why did you need pilots and so why did you have to design the craft to have pilots seats and windows at the front ?

US senators green-light recruitment of crack infosec teams, both public and private

Re: Except, of course. . .

Followed by 18-24 months of sitting in an off- site meeting room waiting for security clearance, which you fail because you once smoked pot or got a ticket for skateboarding

Haliburton up X% on the news

So are a bunch of tattooed counter-culture anti-establishment anarcho-cyber-ninjas suddenly going to apply for salaried government jobs, breeze through security vetting and be welcomed into the cutting edge technology culture of airport mall cops ?

Or is this just going to result in big checks being written to a bunch of defense contractors to produce power points featuring a lot of black hoody stock photos and green scrolling CRT font text ?

Match.com? More like Match dot-con, claims watchdog: Cyber-lonely-hearts 'lured into forking out to view bot spam'

Re: What took them so long.

But the free shipping takes weeks

Yes what was naughty about this one is that they sent you the fake posts and asked you to pay to read them. When you paid they admitted they were fake.

It's like a virus scanner saying there is a virus, upgrade to the paid version to fix it. And when you pay it just says "false alarm"

Re: Why bother with a dating site?

> find a bar, get shit face drunk, puke on the first woman you can get to

Romance is not dead

DoH! Mozilla assures UK minister that DNS-over-HTTPS won't be default in Firefox for Britons

Re: Good For Catching Idiots Only

But there will be a checkbox saying "I'm not a terrorist, paadophile or remain voter" before you are allowed to turn it on.

Re: Parent up-voted

I always assumed the Scottish Food Standards Agency was a euphemism for some shadowy agency.

I mean they can't really be responsible for the standards of Scottish Food

UK Supreme Court unprorogues Parliament

Re: Regardless of which side of the fence you are on.

> the king you're thinking of wasn't forced to abdicate because of Wallis Simpson being divorced. That was just the excuse

That's rather the point. the constitution is entirely public opinion = a function of the prime minister and the editor of the Daily Mail

Re: Regardless of which side of the fence you are on.

>How is that a concern?

Because a future supreme court may extend their powers over parliament.

Governments have used lots of procedural tricks to avoid embarrassing debates - are all these going to involve a call to the judges?

Are judges going to rule on whether a speech in parliament is "economical with the truth"

Re: Regardless of which side of the fence you are on.

>Are they Brits unaware of the constitional law of their country?

The constitutional law of the country is what parliament / the PM / the palace / the editor of the Daily Mail think they can get away with.

One king can get fired for marrying a divorcee, another royal divorcee can get canonised by the press.

One PM can send in troops to break strikes, win a war then get fired because of it.

Another PM can lie to start a war and be proclaimed as the greatest leader ever.

Re: Regardless of which side of the fence you are on.

> In your, and presumably his, terms that's an outstandingly bad case to make to the people

But when "making cases to the people" that doesn't really matter.

Unellected establishment judges overuling the democratic will of the people / there are weapons of mass destruction / china will pay the tarrifs = all make good politcal slogans

> results of the referendum, namely knife edge opinion, opinion which transcends party allegiances

Which is why MPs needed to have voted freely following their constituencies, not being whipped to make party-political points.

Re: Just when you think UK politics can't get any weirder or messier.

What is this till and change of which you speak grandad ?

Re: Regardless of which side of the fence you are on.

And since "unelected judges" overruling parliament was one of the main complaints against the Eu he could make a very good case to the people come election time.

Can you code a way to foil online terrorist vids? The Home Office might just have £600K for you

Re: Sounds like a great project...

How is your AI going distinguish between evil terrorists and partners in a peace sharing agreement (especially when they are the same people)?

You are going to need to keep retraining it.

Poor thing is going to have a nervous breakdown

Pizza prankster's prisoner plea plot perturbs police, Norks invading and Uber woes

Re: Please explain

Or since this is America, undeniable implausibility

Re: This error message inconsistency allows attackers to infer

My new secure OS just boots with a single message, "We refuse to confirm or deny we are running"

Re: Please explain

>So it can be hacked - obviously!

So it can run anti-virus.

You can't expect run an antivirus app on something like an 8051 or Arm M3

Trump-China trade war latest: Brave patriot Apple decides to do exact same thing, will still make Mac Pro in US

>The 2.5x more could be accounted for by using a more expensive Intel CPU

Or by counting the "value" of the IP in the Apple design as 80% of the cost

Gearheads get their spudgers into an iPhone 11 Pro Max: Bi-lateral charging, anyone?

>I once had a spare nokia that had been deep fried (literally in a chip fryer)

Are you Scottish by any chance ?

HMRC's HTTPS howler: Childcare payments site cert expired at 1am on Sunday, down for hours

Re: Its not hard

>Even the free version of PRTG could monitor 100 sites

But does it meet government tender guidelines part 17b subpara 23 appendix A ?

Have they applied to be an approved vendor.

Have they given board seats to enough ex-ministers ?

Class-action lawsuit claims DXC 'selectively timed' job cuts to inflate short-term profit target

But then outsourced it to DXC

German ministry hellbent on taking back control of 'digital sovereignty', cutting dependency on Microsoft

Re: Do you want to be held hostage by Microsoft?

>One of my pet peeves is the use of GDP per capita as a rough proxy of how wealthy / advanced a country is

There are a million people in Chicago.

The Chicago derivatives exchange does > $1 Tn in trades

- therefore everyone living in Chicago is a millionaire.

Re: Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in

>Didn't we watch this play out at some German city/state recently?

Munich, but to be fair they did it particularly badly (it was after all a government IT project)

Ebuygumm doesn't break t' Nominet rules, eBay and Gumtree told

Re: As a Yorkshire lad

No Yorkshireman is going to take E.

Pay for summat as meks thee reet friendly t'other folks?

What happens if you give a Yorkshireman 'E' ?

Presumably just miserable instead of bloody miserable

UK Home Office primes Brexit spam cannon for a million texts reminding folk to check passports

> Why haven't supermarkets and hospital trusts got the message even just this month?

So the supermarkets were supposed to build millions of sq ft of new warehouse space - the buildings to house half a years supply of imports are standing around empty - somehow fill them with 6 months supplies of fresh fruit and veg from europe, all ready for the 1st april 2019.

All to be paid for out of the 350M/wk presumably ?

Re: Middle aged Golfers

>and a lot of working class areas voted to leave. eg Scunthorpe.

Voting to leave Scunthorpe makes sense