Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

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

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

Credit others. Acknowledge the work of others

We took the Jewish story, removed the knob end+knife stuff (I mean eewwww!)

Dropped the no-bacon and prawns (I mean come on, be serious !)

Let the Catholics build out the franchise into unclaimed markets

And then nationalised it

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.

Re: Maturity Gap

Remember today's 50 year old generals were 9 when star wars came out

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 ?

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

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.

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.

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

Re: Sponge?

The online postage is cheaper than real stamps.

Even drug dealers have to watch costs in today's competitive retail market

Re: For fun..

Same could be sad for any fiat currency.

But the more important point is that this shows exactly how much of $CURRENCY$ they received.

Which is unlike most drug cases where the police get to pick a number and the press happily print it. So they go to court with claims that a corner dealer with a few bags had drugs with a street value of $$$MM

America's latest 5G drama: Spectrum row bursts into the open with special adviser fingered as agent provocateur

Re: 5G Use

You pull up all that fibre and copper that is already buried and use the resulting holes

Re: 5G Use

You could put in some sort of plastic pipe (preferably underground) to send the 5G signals down

Re: It stupidity anyway

So 5G would allow a stereo audio signal to be simultaneously broadcast to 20,000 people who could all listen with some sort of personal wireless device?

What will they think of next?

That's just defeatist techno-babble from some self serving engineers

It's trivial to convert your system phone to 5G just by changing one little icon - ask ATT

I really can't follow this soap opera

The dude is being paid by small telcos to block 5G because they can't compete with established big telcos when building out the system

I can't work out from the story if he is in favor or against the question.

As a good republican he must be against the intrusive communist census

But as a good Trumpian he is presumably in favor of having all the foreigners on a list (and preferably wearing some sort of badge on their clothing.)

Or will it all be a dream in the shower ?

Scumbags can program vulnerable MedTronic insulin pumps over the air to murder diabetics – insecure kit recalled

The devices are made to meet FDA standards, if there are no standards on security then are the manufactures responsible for predicting these and securing them ?

How secure do they have to be ?

Proof against script kiddies or against a stuxnet style Mossad attack?

Monthly password changes, a secure-id key and 2factor authentication every time you need to change your dose? Or only doctors allowed to make changes and it being illegal to own or know about the interface electronics?

Yes the devices obviously shouldn't have a web service with a default password, but "the shoot the CEO" demands because somebody can connect to the wireless implanted pump from 6 inches away with a homemade radio interfac kit is just Daily-Mail ism.

Somebody can break into my house and replace my insulin because the home builders chose to use wood for the walls to save money, instead of the mixture of Titanium and Chobham armour that security would demand.

Re: And my doc wonders why I hate them?

Don't worry there will be a simple solution. The FDA will introduce a whole new set of cyber security requirements.

The cost of the devices will go up by a factor of 10x and you will be required to visit a doctor ($$$) each month to change the password.

UK.gov pledges probe into tourists' 'motivations'

The Britain Experience

With all those Europeans working in the hospitality industry gone, the visitors will be treated to the true British Customer Service Experience(tm) instead of that smiling foreign waitress rubbish.

If Corbyn gets in we could even nationalise the Blackpool Landlady as a national treasure

Pitch of the week: Helping to stamp out e-cigarettes while removing hurdles to digital learning

Re: Restrooms

Hence the famous (who ?) line: Why do Americans have bathrooms and washrooms but not toilets?

Because they are lazy and smelly and don't give a shit.

ps Was discussing how there are no non-euphemism words for it, "lavatory" and "toilet" are just French for washroom, littlest-room is just twee etc. etc.

"What about shitter"? asked an Australian colleague

Bonkers British MPs rant: 5G signals cause cancer

Re: You won't like this.....

Or cures cancer - it must be one or the other !

Re: "Is there any evidence that electromagnetic fields can affect the behaviour of animals?"

> sunlight is actively harmful to humans

This is Wales we are talking about.

You know whose kit for 5G is Huawei better? Go on, have a guess, says UK mobile player Three

Pity you didn't patent "military-industrial complex"

Re: Monopoly supplier

If Intel are the only supplier of server CPUs then they have a monopoly

.. will there be a national masterswitch to disconnect all untrusted x86 hardware in the event that an exploit is discovered?

Re: Not sure that GPO Dollis Hill is quite upto supplying 5G chips

>You just can't get the valves* these days, except from Russia. So no...

And what is wrong with gear trains ?

Trouble is then who do you get to supply your gear ?

They obviously have to be British, with British hardware, designed n Britain and made in British fabs (so the sneaky whoevers can't slip in hidden spyware)

Not sure that GPO Dollis Hill is quite upto supplying 5G chips

Dundee Satellite Receiving Station: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

Re: The UK in a nutshell...

It is offering grants to allow painting of King Billy murals to all residents of the Belfast whatever their politics

Brexit: Digital border possible for Irish backstop woes, UK MPs told

Re: Borders are more than customs checks

This is exactly why the border will work

All the airlines and ferries from N Ireland to the UK already ask for government id.

(They ask for government id for flying in England)

As long as their is a special "British Only" lane at checkin the DUP will be fine with it.

The UK can ignore the border, most of the smuggling is going to be going the other way, from an independant free-trade UK with lots of (bend over backward) free trade deals with the USA and China. What smuggling there is from Eire can be stopped at the ports on the way to the mainland.

Ireland is the one which will be forced to police a border to stop chlorine chicken reaching the tables of France. Exactly how much an Irish politician fancies having Irish soldiers pointing guns at Sinn Fein politicians while searching their cars at an Eu checkpoint.

Re: Didn't you read the article?

>Witch smellers will roam the country, decide who is guilty and torture them until they admit their guilt and pay a fine

You're from the liberal wing of the DUP ?

Re: This is the same 'think tank'

>the border is an aberration caused by excessive catholicism

Like Gaza is caused by excessive Islam ?

Re: This is the same 'think tank'

Joining with Gaul and forming a greater Celtic empire ?

Re: No problemo

But when it all blew up they got imprisoned instead of rewarded with a few Trillion in handouts

Re: This is the sort of thing that we should have been talking about

It is like deciding to cross the channel by Eurostar or ship - then turning up without a booking, demanding to be allowed on board, insisting that you don't have to pay, and then trying to get your 3 toddlers to agree on the destination.

Re: This is the same 'think tank'

Naturally Ireland will leave the Eu.

Boris will explain it to them and they will see the sense in rejoining the empire.

An alternative border is obvious

Back when there was a physical border, with checkpoints and army patrols in the countryside there was a massive amount of smuggling of everything from pigs and petrol to plastic explosive and machine guns.

Since we don't want pigs and petrol (or explosives and machine guns) to be smuggled we simply need the opposite to a guarded physical border.

Blockchain is the exact opposite of an army road block and so will have exactly the opposite result.

It could be Rotterdam or anywhere, Wiltshire or in Bath: Euro cops cuff 6 for cybersquatting, allegedly nicking €24m in Bitcoin

Eurocops splutter !!

I'm pretty sure that the Daily Mail told us that the reason for leaving the Eu was that filthy foreign jackbooted police would be allowed to arrest you in the home counties if you happened to shoot your au-pair

FedEx fed up playing box cop, sues Uncle Sam to make it stop: 'We do transportation, not law enforcement'

That's a relief - I assumed it was an evil plot to start a trade war to destroy American business. initially farmers and gas exporters but then any US technology monopolies, once China is forced create their own versions - and sell them to the world for cheap.

If we are lucky tarrifs are really just a stealth VAT on stuff poor people buy from Walmart to fund tax cuts for billionaires

Re: Fifth Amendment ? Seriously ?

I'm still waiting for the first company merger to be declared a marriage - so it can bypass the FTC

Re: Seriously?

The great orange truth teller has explained that companies that are under thumb of (ie obey) Chinese law are a threat to national security

Re: Seriously?

So Fedex are forced to obey the Chinese govt laws in china?

Does that mean that they are spying on us and must be banned and their CEO arrested ?

Pull up your SoCs, it's rubber-glove time: European Commission to probe Broadcom over microchip supply deals

Like any other OEM they will happily sell to you if you want to buy enough of them.

They just aren't in the business of selling you a few dozen parts and holding your hand while you design, for chips with a few cents/unit of profit.

Re: Singapore or Delaware

And Delaware said it would be friendly to a business needing to buy its only competitor to form a monopoly.

Buckminsterfullerene sounds like the next UK Prime Minister but trust us, it's in fact the largest molecule yet found in interstellar space

Re: C30 C60 C90 Go!

So a theory of a long thin stringy tape rolled up tightly so that it looks 3 dimensional from a distance ?

Having bank problems? I feel bad for you son: I've got 25 million problems, but a bulk upload ain't one

Re: 10 minutes, not a second more...

> Different circuits, though? That's diabolical.

It's apparently to increase the current.

You can plug your slow 110v kettle into the low one and George Formby grill into the upper one

Re: 10 minutes, not a second more...

>.. every electric circuit shall be proved dead at the point of work, just before starting work

That was the annoying bit - I had checked the bad socket was dead

I didn't check the other socket in the same outlet was also dead ....

Re: 10 minutes, not a second more...

One of the kitchen sockets blew in my new apartment

Turned of the breaker and, because Mrs Coward didn't have any stupid children, plugged a lamp in to the socket to check it was off.

Took the cover off and got zapped.

Turns out in Merkin houses the top and bottom sockets on a double outlet are on different circuits, turning off the top one leaves the bottom one live....

Fortunately their electricity is like their beer so only a little tingle instead of the, "fsck me" 240V arm tingler.

Re: 10 minutes, not a second more...

>These days, you can get locks to put on the breaker and/or isolator.

Spent all night hunting a vacuum leak and left the pumps running to pump down.

Carefully locked out the telescope with the official lock out hasp and padlock, took the key, wrote it up in the engineering log and went to bed.

The day shift had to override the lockouts to move the telescope because "they couldn't find me"

Arrived to a vacuum pump dangling 20m above the ground attached to an instrument that was 3 years of work for a whole team.

Idiot proof is easy, bloody stupid proof is harder.

BGP super-blunder: How Verizon today sparked a 'cascading catastrophic failure' that knackered Cloudflare, Amazon, etc

I own the internet

and so does my wife ....

Iran is doing to our networks what it did to our spy drone, claims Uncle Sam: Now they're bombing our hard drives

In other news

I can also reveal that Iran is the reason I missed the bus this morning and spilled coffee on a clean t-shirt

(for reasons of security we cannot reveal how we know this, but there is definitely a dossier somewhere on the internet proving it)

Go fourth and multi-Pi: Raspberry Pi 4 lands today with quad 1.5GHz Arm Cortex-A72 CPU cores, up to 4GB RAM...

Re: Sata

>I would much prefer eMMC on-board. To me that is the main draw of certain imitation Pi's

That is the entire point of the Pi.

Kids today don't learn computers because if they break something on the classroom Windows PC the teacher doesn't have the time/skills to fix it and so the school machines are under a support contract.

So if a kid explores and breaks something it costs real money, so there are rules against it, so you get a generation of kids who are afraid to click anything in case they are expelled for "terrorist cyber hacking destroying school property"

The point of a Pi was: encourage kids to break them, a fix is just an SD card swap away.

Queue baa, Libra: People will buy what Facebook's selling. They shouldn't, but they will

Re: Hard power

If you can trust that they will pay you because of that.

If they suddenly decided not to honor debts bought by the Chinese, or europeans, then it is difficult to use an aircraft carrier to persuade people to accept your currency