Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26130 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
The worst are Dell. We buy the " Precision(tm) professional grade laptops for Precision professionals (tm)" models and they manage to be simultaneously; heavy, expensive, plasticky and flimsy feeling.
It does mean I got to "reuse" a bunch of out-of-service-warranty XPS-13s + Mint
The internal LAN that has the ATMs on it also hosts the mail server and presumably random wall ports around the branch and hands out DHCP to any random unauthorized box on the network ?
On the positive side:
1, My home LAN looks mil-spec secure by comparison
2, I'm going to wander down to the bank to see if they also leave the keys to the vault under the welcome mat
>the BIOS was in a couple of EPROMs and couldn't be updated by mere software
It made it so much harder for persistent virus authors:
1, Download naked_tennis_star.exe from dodgy link
2. Follow instructions to remove BIOS chip and peel off sticker covering window
3, Leave on window ledge in sun for 2-3 days to UV erase
4, Buy an EPROM programmer
5, Burn updated BIOS and repalce chip in motherboard
So nobody at Facebook is suggesting that verified advert-consumer ID and an effective ban on independent and community sites would be lead to a politician's future remunerative role as vice‑president of global affairs?
It's just a pure coincidence that Newer Labour's control freakery and Meta's corporate plans align so perfectly
>Canada are back on his naughty list because they support recognising a Palestinian state
But were previously on the naughty list cos Melania drooled over JT and then cos Canada was the source of 0.00001% of US fentanyl
And of course the Canadians are very bad people, very bad.
Could that be because the USA has been supplying military equipment to their main enemy for 70 years
Obviously as a muslim country with close links to Afghani freedom-fighters, the USA feels honor bound to be Pakistan's closest friend and ally. But that is likely to rather sour relationships with the former Raj when it comes to buying kit to fight Pakistan.
Of course the USA could sell the same fighters to both India and Pakistan, but that might be too français for the Donald
Browser agent strings are also pretty much unnecessary since everyone(*) is using Chrome and the web standard is whatever chrome says.
We need Microsoft to reintroduce their own subtly incompatible browser and make things interesting
* Yes I know, everyone on el'reg, and Richard Stallman, uses Firefox
That's why their is no problem with violent content.
Daddy why is that man machine gunning that school? Because they are no-good commie, faggot-loving democrats son, now go to your room and polish your AR-15
Daddy why did that women's dress slip down to show a Christmas ornament covering one of her chesticles? Oh my G*d my child is permanently scarred for life, won't the government help me ?
>You know, I wonder if perhaps the education, awareness and support angle might actually be a better way of tackling the problem
That's what we are doing.
An entire generation of kids are going to learn the details of dnsmasq and wireguard, we are going to raise the most technically literate generation since we all had to learn dissassemblers and hex editors to bypass the locks on "Leisure Suit Larry"
> focus on things that actually are a risk to the nation
It's a risk to the government.
Remember that 20 Million voters all read the Daily Mail everyday and if the government doesn't immediately deal with the current concern of Daily Mail reader they will be overthrown in a violent revolution by concerned citizens
They did pass the vital Nuclear Explosions (Prohibition) Act 1998
- just to make it clear that they are prohibiting causing a nuclear explosion in the UK
