* Posts by monty75

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Sir John Redwood backs IR35 campaign, notes review would have to start 'immediately' before new off-payroll working rules kick in

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Re: Dear Vulcan

Just imagine what he could have achieved if he'd been doing something worthwhile all that time. He could have fixed global warming or something.

This week, we give thanks to Fortinet for reminding us what awful crypto with hardcoded keys looks like

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Or dates of birth

London cops seeking £600m mega IT contract to knock 'towers' sprawl into 'one throat to choke'

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MPS awarded its contracts to Atos, BT, DXC and Accenture.

Yeah, I think I can see why this didn't work.

I'm still not that Gary, says US email mixup bloke who hasn't even seen Dartford Crossing

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Re: TV

oddly shaped vegetables

Actually we prefer the term "commentards"

Double downtime: Azure DevOps, Google cloud users put the kettle on

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"Scalable" - all the way from zero up to zero.

All bets are Hoff: DXC exec is standing for Brexit Party in UK General Election

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Re: Obligatory

My irony meter has exploded at this one

Heads up from Internet of S*!# land: Best Buy's Insignia 'smart' home gear will become very dumb this Wednesday

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Re: Need a home-brew solution

There's quite a lot of options. OpenHAB is my personal preference but there's also HomeAssistant and Domoticz. If you want voice control there's Mycroft. Node Red is pretty easy to use for visually programming control logic.

The problem is finding the IoT hardware that works without talking to its own cloud services. My smart plugs have been reflashed with the open source Tasmota firmware but the manufacturer has subsequently patched the hole that enabled that so newly purchased devices would be locked in to their cloud.

Pentagon beams down $10bn JEDI contract to Microsoft: Windows giant beats off Bezos

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Re: Article about JEDI shows picture of Spock

This is The Reg we’re talking about. I think they know exactly what they’re doing

Mandatory electronic prescriptions was the easy bit in NHS paperless plans

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Paperlessless

I've been getting electronic prescriptions for a couple of years now. When I go the pharmacy they print it out for me to complete the form on the back. All this has achieved is to move the paper from GP to pharmacy. I mean, it's quicker and less effort for me but it's not paperless.

Android dev complains of 'Orwellian' treatment as account banned after 6 years on Play store

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Amazon have. And it's got next to nothing available due to the chicken and egg phenomenon of it not being worth the dev's time unless more people use it, which they won't because the devs don't bother uploading anything they want.

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

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Re: First problem, right here ...

They obviously ran out of space. It should say "Please check, and if you find out, could you please let us know?"

Watchdog: Hush-hush UK.gov blew £97m on Brexit wonks from six of the usual suspects

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Re: Small Change

Not very likely that Brexit chaos is going to make the pound rise

Do you want fr-AI-s with that appy-meal? McDonald's gobbles machine-learning biz for human-free Drive Thrus

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Sounds awesome.

Brits are sitting on a time bomb of 40m old electronic devices that ought to be recycled

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I'm still using a 2014 iPhone 6 Plus. It's running the latest version of iOS 12. But Androids? Yeah, useless bricks in no time.

30+ countries, 160,000 emails, $4.2m in cyber-heists… maybe it's time for the Silence hacker crew to change its name

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Re: Snitch

I would imagine that they're running through a series of privilege escalation attacks eg compromise a low ranking staffers' PC through spear-phishing/watering-hole attacks, the use that as a foothold to attack the next level of security. By the time they get to the actual money-controlling systems they are so far inside the bank's network that they're indistinguishable from the legitimate whitelisted traffic.

RIP Danny Cohen: The computer scientist who gave world endianness meets his end aged 81

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Joke

So sad, he was only 18.

Criminal mastermind signed name as 'Thief' on receipts after buying stuff with stolen card

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Re: Yup

They just randomly match unresolved crimes with the more heavily pigmented members of society and threaten them with inordinately long sentences if they won't accept a plea deal.

Need to automatically and securely verify a download is legit? You bet rget this new tool

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Re: Yes, but

That's what subresource integrity checks are for https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subresource_Integrity

Patch now before you get your NAS kicked: Iomega storage boxes leave millions of files open to the internet

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Re: Computer says no.....

Poorly configured uPnP would be my guess. A lot of these home NAS thingies make themselves accessible from the internet so you (or anyone else in this case) can access your files when away from home.

Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, where to go? Navigation satellite signals flip from degraded to full TITSUP* over span of four days

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Re: Huzzah!

And none of this continental constellation nonsense, either. Britnav satellites will all line up one behind the other in a proper British queue.

GDS, what is it good for? According to a UK parliamentary committee: 'Increasingly unclear'

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Going Downhill Slowly

ReactOS 'a ripoff of the Windows Research Kernel', claims Microsoft kernel engineer

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Re: Is there any reason to suppose this latest accusation is any more plausible?

Well if you read the article yes.

What is this witchcraft of which you speak?

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

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Facepalm

"You need a more secure server"

It literally couldn't be any more secure. No-one at all can access it

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

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"Former" chancellor

Spreadsheet Phil might be "soon to be former Chancellor" but for moment he's still the current one.

Musk loves his Starlink sat constellation – but astroboffins are less than dazzled by them

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Re: Far Side of the Moon

4 - Pink Floyd getting in the way

RIP Hyper-Threading? ChromeOS axes key Intel CPU feature over data-leak flaws – Microsoft, Apple suggest snub

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Word of warning

Don't install the MacOs update if you like using Virtualbox. It seems to kill the kernel driver rendering VMs unable to boot https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18645

It's 2019 and a WhatsApp call can hack a phone: Zero-day exploit infects mobes with spyware

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Re: OS level security?

Possible that the WhatsApp vulnerability is being used to deliver one or more other zero days the spyware company is sitting on or, more likely, there's some muddled up reporting going on.

IT bod who does a bit of everything: You might want to specialise if that pay rise proves elusive

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Re: Full stack developer +41% offers, +4.3% salary

An IT bod that pads their CV with a buzzword bingo card

User secures floppies to a filing cabinet with a magnet, but at least they backed up daily... right?

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Re: Well if the US ships want the Chinese to keep out of the way

Obviously, as Isabelle is the feminine form of Isabloke.

MoD plonks down £2m on table in exchange for anti-drone tech ideas

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Re: Throw money at the problem?

I propose a swarm of drones with flashing blue lights on chasing the intruder round the airport while making nee-nah noises. They'd even be cost neutral if you stick cameras on them and sell the footage to Channel 5 for one of their "documentaries".

Centrica: Server fault on Wednesday caused Hive to crash on the Tuesday. Yes, yes, that's what we said

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Re: Caused the previous days problem

Maybe the server overheated

SPOILER alert, literally: Intel CPUs afflicted with simple data-spewing spec-exec vulnerability

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Re: I'm disappointed

Screw Performance, Only Implement Linear Execution Routes

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Re: It's interesting...

"I can only speculate"

That's what got us into this mess in the first place

Cops told live facial recog needs oversight, rigorous trial design, protections against bias

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Re: Curated images

"Do I take it, Savage, that your facial recognition system only picks out coloured gentlemen?"

"I can't say I've ever noticed, sir."

OK, it's early 2019. Has Leeds Hospital finally managed to 'axe the fax'? Um, yes and no

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Re: paper records

All my prescriptions have been going electronically from GP to pharmacy for several years now. No signature on them although for some reason the pharmacy then prints them out for me to fill in the back of it.

Microsoft vows to destroy Office, er, offices: Campus to be demolished and rebuilt

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And when you open the fire exits there's just a blue wall on the other side.

Marriott's Starwood hotels mega-hack: Half a BILLION guests' deets exposed over 4 years

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FAIL

Intruder in their network since 2014. Monitoring system noticed it in September 2018. Had someone forgotten to switch it on for four years?

Analogue radio is the tech that just won't die

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Just because I own a DAB radio doesn't mean I use it. Haven't switched the thing on in years. If I do listen to radio (as opposed to streaming) it's the trusty old FM in the car.

Health secretary Matt Hancock assembles brains trust: OK, guys. Let's cure NHS IT

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Re: Oh, great

We've got open standards coming out of our ears already (HL7, FHIR, openEHR to name but a few) - a few less standards would be a good start.

Obligatory XKCD

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So, nobody with any actual IT experience then?

IBM struggles to sign up shipping carriers to blockchain supply chain platform – reports

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Joke

Shocked

You mean you can't just slap "blockchain" on something and watch the money roll in? I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!

Sounds like a massive, risky UK.gov scheme, but let's not keep too many tabs on it, OK?

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In some cases this was because it was simply to early to tell, but in others it wasn't clear what the intended benefits were – seven projects didn't have a business case, for instance.

How do you even start a project without a business case? This is, like, day one session one of any project management course.

You like HTTPS. We like HTTPS. Except when a quirk of TLS can smash someone's web privacy

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Re: OMG

IIRC, that was how they managed to get it past the BBC censors. They said that anyone who knew what it meant would also be the kind of person who'd laugh at it and anyone who was likely to be offended wouldn't understand it in the first place.

Fed up with cloud giants ripping off its database, MongoDB forks new 'open-source license'

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Re: "viral GPL"

FYI, this is what I was referring to https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/

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Re: The new license makes it much easier for them to litigate and win

I could have been clearer in my question. The full quote from Mongo's blog is : "The SSPL clarifies the conditions for making MongoDB publicly available as a service, to ensure we can continue to invest in building MongoDB for our users rather than in costly litigation over enforcing the AGPL."

Surely it'll be just as costly whether they're enforcing the AGPL or their own slightly modified AGPL? I don't read their new section as being any clearer only more expansive.

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Also: the blog posting at MongoDB suggests that they've chosen this path rather than try to enforce the AGPL through litigation. That being the case, how do they propose to enforce this new license?

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This sounds almost exactly like the "viral GPL" FUD that MS used to spout in the early 2000s: use open source software in your stack and your application becomes open source too.

Yale Weds: Just some system maintenance, nothing to worry about. Yale Thurs: Nobody's smart alarm app works

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Re: Not Surprised

Having a dog is a good start :)

There are few problems in life which can't be solved, or at least ameliorated, by having a dog.

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This is IoT we're talking about. It probably lets in everyone *except* the owner.

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