Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Firm fat-fingered G Suite and deleted its data, so it escalated its support ticket to a lawsuit

Re: Remember - Cloud computing

In this case they did keep the data safe, the client ordered them to delete it and they did

Re: So...

> Accept the delete request, lock the account, and put a stay on final execution for a month or two.

And be responsible for the data not being deleted ?

Suppose I pay Iron mountain to destroy some paperwork and I find that they have been hanging on to it for a couple of months "just in case" I might get a little unhappy

Or even external and tested and verified.

Just because it's internal you don't trust the tape drives you didn't make

38 billion reasons to say goodbye: Ex-Mrs Bezos splits from Jeff with 4% of Amazon shares in tow

Re: Fair's fair

>Wouldn't someone in her position force $BOYFRIEND+1 to sign a "prenup"?

If you were the manager of a pension fund would you risk $Bn of your member's future pension on that ?

Re: Panama Papers, anyone?

In this case the billionaires 'wealth' is almost all in the form of AMZ stock.

If he were to sell any to get $$$ the most profitable thign to do with it at the moment would be to buy AMZ stock !

Re: Fair's fair

From the interviews I read the (now-ex) Mrs Bezos seems a genuine nice person, but there is also financial sense in not taking more.

Amazon stock is worth $$$$$$ based on investors belief that Bezos can turn it into a money machine in the future. If 50% of the votes now went to Mrs Bezos, and so possibly to some future boyfriend they would drop them like a very hot thing

Florida man pretending to be police pulls over real police, ends badly, claim cops

Re: Is that a serious offence

>That's so a woman doesn't have to stop for a possible rapist

Depends whether state law makers care more about a women's sexual health or the police union. I suspect that is a strong function of state.

>You'll also never find a police force without unmarked cars for the simple reason that traffic stops are a great moneymaker.

Yep, having a line of cars all doing exactly the speed limit behind a marked car car earns them nothing. Here they even go so far as having 'N' plated and customised (lots of stickers, aftermarket body kit etc etc) unmarked cars. On the other hand nobody has guns here, the local police don't even have a homocide unit.

Re: Is that a serious offence

Many states have a rule that you don't have to stop for an unmarked police car and don't use unmarked cars for traffic stops - precisely because the response of some Americans is to shoot first and ask questions later.

Jodrell Bank goes full UNESCO while Dundee awaits the decomissioners

Re: well of COURSE they would save and protect Jodrell Bank

To be fair (and leaving aside the reg's love for dear old Dundee) this telescope, and the institute behind it, did a bit more unique science than a receiving station downloading copies of data from somebody else's satellite.

FBI and immigration officials trawling US driving licence databases for suspects

Presumably counting the side views aswell.

The system does have a very good record of identifying any criminals who appear on CCTV looking straight at the camera against a white background of horizontal lines and while holding a board with their name on

Re: How is the different from a wanted poster?

> The facial recognition match is not going to be used as evidence in a court case,

No it's just going to light up a flashing red light in the face of every gun-totting cop when anybody (p>0.95 black) walks past.

UK privacy watchdog threatens British Airways with 747-sized fine for massive personal data blurt

Remember the good old days

When BA was the one doing the hacking and then walked away free because the computer running other airline's data was on their premises and so it wasn't hacking

King's College London breached GDPR by sharing list of activist students with cops

Re: Somebody somewhere sanctioned this

Doesn't it say a bit more about the country that a major public university has a secret banning list of students that it gives to the police and the only offence is some computer offence of sharing their email address without filling in the right paperwork?

Better than "Cleaners for Justice" the notorious mop wielding ninjas

What do you expect

The place was founded by a bunch of sycophantic monarchists to counter the revolutionary threat from the "Heathens of Gower St"

(Yes I am a UCL graduate, why do you ask ?)

>The list is from an anti-israel demo two weeks before

So they are anti-Israeli (or possibly just anti-Netanyahu, which also includes a large number of Isaelis)

So people thought that they would be anti a German/Anglican monarch?

Somebody needs to improve their modern history faculty

Reach out for the healing hands... of guru Dabbs

Re: Advanced percussive maintenance

The secret in not only knowing where to hit something someone but also knowing exactly how hard to hit it...

Bloody users .....

Trump: Huawei ban will be lifted!
US Commerce Dept.: Yeah, about that…

Re: What about FTTC?

Remember there is nothing specially risky about Huawei, just that they are Chinese

So you also need to rip out any other kit made/designed/installed by a Chinese owned company

Re: dead fox

..... with a dead fox on its head

Finally in the UK: Apollo 11 lands... in a cinema near you

Re: Amazing...

>Typical conspiracy theorist; counter with another conspiracy theory .....

That's just what they want you to think

And since nobody has posted it, nasa-fakes-moon-landing

Re: Memory Lane...

Work in a trouser-buster ferret scene and we are go

Re: despite every audience member knowing how things will play out,

>One film critic mentioned that she was on the edge of her seat watching the film, wondering how it would turn out.

Well it was a Holywood film. It was entirely possible that Bruce Willis would fly up in a WWII fighter and rescue them from evil Russians Iraqis Iranians libyans Democrats

Re: nasa balls up

>You would think they could have taken some sort of handheld movie camera

It's not the camera, it's the union crew.

By the time you have the lighting cameraman, camera operator, focus puller, loader, key grip, dolly grip, man in down vest, best boy, pointless blonde girl with clipboard, catering etc etc you need a space ark.

Re: Memory Lane...

>What would the astronauts have made of his accent?

Pitching the series to the BBC now: astronauts drift off course and re-enter "oop norf" and think they are on an alien planet.

Can be filmed in BBC's new Salford HQ cos Manchester, Yorkshire and Geordie is all the same anyway

Metropolitan Police's facial recognition tech not only crap, but also of dubious legality – report

Re: "Dubious Legality"???

> you guys still have rule of law?

Yes it just doesn't apply to the police or government

Re: Help with "Innovative Solutions"

>The UK government wishes they had as many working, networked, CCTV cameras as they said they did.

Well they do all breakdown everythime there is a protest march in London,

Occasionally retroactively if there is any accusations against the police

Re: Help with "Innovative Solutions"

You can't just go around interning people in some rebellious province based purely on their religion.

That's the trouble with China, just going around copying other country's innovations

UK's North Midlands hospitals IT outage, day 2: All surgery and appointments cancelled

Re: First rule of IT systems...

The trouble is that this method normally confirms either the manual system is fine, or the manual system is hopeless AND there is no way to computerise it.

Either way not a great result if you are trying to sell a few billion quid worth of IT system

Re: Have they tried ..

The advantage of Cisco is that you can call the NSA and they can log in and fix it.

How do you call the NSA? Just pickup the phone and talk

Re: "Where is your contingency planning for such events?"

Like printing out the contact numbers for the next day/week customers patients

Re: Cisco?

>two monkeys can be seen hammering a Cisco switch

So they escalated it to engineering support

$30/month email upstart Superhuman brought low with a blast of privacy Kryptonite

Re: $30 ? A *month* ????? Fuck that.

Their average customer spends 3-4hour/day on email

Multiply that by the hourly cost of a CEO / Hedge fund manager / startup founder

We pay a lot more for optical simulation software when we could just use excel and the back of an envelope - it's just that engineer's time isnt free

Serious Fraud Office fines Serco £22.9m over electronic tagging scandal

Will any of them be going to prison? Or be electronically tagged ?

Try fiddling £70 of benefits and see how well saying "lessons have been learned" goes down with the DHSS

Poetic justice: Mum funnels £100 into claw machine to win single Dumbo teddy for her kid

Re: I beleve in Unicorns

>The fun comes when Christians try to convince me she does not exist.

She? You belong to the heretical female invisible pink unicorn sect ?

Kill the unbeliever, persecute the heretic.

Re: There's a phrase invented for this woman

That is deeply offensive. I have known some very fine cows

I got 502 problems, and Cloudflare sure is one: Outage interrupts your El Reg-reading pleasure for almost half an hour

Re: "bad software deploy"

Couldn't they have tested on a spare internet?

Suspected dark-web meth dealers caught by, er, 'using real address' when buying stamps

Re: Not worried about drugs

>I don't know what the size limit is for a bag not being suspicious!

3.4 oz (100ml)

The fact the safe limit isn't a whole number in Freedom Units is because the terrorists are all foreign.

Re: ???

>but I would ban Methamphetamine completely.

And destroy mathematical research ?

Edge-lords crack down on trackers as Microsoft effortlessly kills off PBX phone system, and what's this? Windows Calculator on iOS?

Re: Our company has never had phones

>I'm sure I'm not the only one who read that as 'latte' and thought "There's nothing new there..."

Don't be daft. Naturally the same company that thinks an incoming phone line is a waste of money has a 20grand commercial espresso machine and buys tons of the fanciest free range coffee beans.

Our company has never had phones

You use your own mobile, you can use skype for international calls but most people end up just buying an unlimited plan.

It's a great saving for the company. They are thinking of "bring your own lathe" as the next 'innovation'

Of course the cost of having 2 dozen engineers sitting around for 15 minutes trying to get a Skype for business conference call between meeting rooms in 3 continents with 2 people in their cars and a few fscking Mac users. Somehow isn't accounted for.

What would Jesus tweet? Church of England hands down commandments for Anglicans on social media

So anime is ok then ?

I welcome our be-tentacled school girl overlords

Re: Welby showed his sense of humour

Our chief weapon is surprise

and garden fetes....

God's real name of course was written on a post-it note in the top drawer of the secretaries desk outside the Holy of Holies in the temple.

Re: 13th Comandment

Nor share thine brother's Netflix login

Wouldn't that get her stoned - if she said Jehovah..... arghhh ......

Re: Treat others as you would like to be treated

"do unto others as you would have them do unto you"

Unless you are into the thing with whips and chains and spikes, then you really should ask first

Oracle goes on for 50 pages about why it thinks the Pentagon's $10bn JEDI cloud contract stinks

To be fair, Oracle have striven (stroved?) for decades to become the ultimate force of evil in the galaxy (or at least US enterprise software) and now the Pentagon throws them over for Microsoft ?

It's like Darth Vader being replaced by the Chuckle brothers.

IBM wafts stat minimum redundo terms under noses of Global Tech Services staff

Re: Gobbledigook

Also not clear who they are trying to fool. Wall st analysts, potential customers or their own remaining staff ?

Not sure any of them are actually that stupid.

Is ex-gratia Latin for no-thanks ?

Former UK PM Tony Blair urges governments to sort out online ID

>Anybody who thinks that not having an identity card stops the government tracking you is being very naive

No but it does put off the day when a neighbour watch can stop you and scan your Id card to check your web porn viewing settings because you walked past a school.

Or the DHSS can routinely check your Amazon browsing when you claim benefits.