* Posts by monty75

408 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Mar 2010

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National Museum of Computing to hold live Enigma code-breaking demo with a Bombe

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Cool. I wasn't planning on doing too much work on Friday anyway.

Equifax IT staff had to rerun hackers' database queries to work out what was nicked – audit

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Sounds like a future article for Who?Me?

UK networks have 'no plans' to bring roaming fees back after Brexit

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Re: re: No Plans?

In Germany. Spending his stash of EU pension.

Whisky business: Uni of Edinburgh servers Irn-Scru'd by cyber-attack

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Website seems to be up again now.

Article 13 pits Big Tech and bots against European creatives

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Re: bad law

So, does that make it right? Maybe most laws need looking at and rewriting to remove all the exceptions for special groups.

You'll end up back at the Ten Commandments. There's always exceptions. Thou shalt not kill - unless it's in self defence, for example.

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Re: bad law

Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the argument, a law that has to have specific get-outs to preserve some behaviour is not a good law.

That's pretty much every law though

The eyes don't have it! AI's 'deep-fake' vids surge ahead in realism

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Re: Merging Faeces , oh the posabilities...

Vintage Dr Who remastered without Bonny Langford

Shut up and take my money!

I'll pay double if you can replace her with Jenna Coleman. Triple if you can replace everyone with Jenna Coleman

Home Office seeks Brexit tech boss – but doesn't splash the cash

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Re: Over in Brussels this morning

Spend seven months looking for someone else to scapegoat?

Ad watchdog: Amazon 'misleading' over Prime next-day delivery ads

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"One day delivery" - as in one day it'll be delivered

Criminal justice software code could send you to jail and there’s nothing you can do about it

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A handful of pre-cog psychics in a pool of water would work too

Encryption doesn't stop him or her or you... from working out what Thing 1 is up to

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Re: Privacy=Security

Also, posting your holiday photos on Instagram is a dead giveaway that your house is unoccupied.

ZX Spectrum Vega+ blows a FUSE: It runs open-source emulator

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Has anyone looked inside to see if it is actually a Pi Zero?

First low-frequency fast radio burst to grace our skies detected at last

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I'm not saying it's aliens ... but it's aliens.

Sitting pretty in IPv4 land? Look, you're gonna have to talk to IPv6 at some stage

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Joke

Take the MacBook Pro I'm typing this on, whose Network control panel tells me that my IP address is 192.168.1.150

Aha! Now I can hack The Reg and extort you with my l33t ransomware!

Think tank calls for post-Brexit national ID cards: The kids have phones so what's the difference?

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Not this crap again

And without those pesky EU data protection laws getting in the way too

Nah, it won't install: The return of the ad-blocker-blocker

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Those magazine inserts always make me think of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgyjTnimZfg

BBC websites down tools and head outside into the sun for a while

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In the BBC-context Dev is just restored from a previous backup.

No, hang on, not Dev. Dave.

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Re: Scary

"It's a sign, that little white dot. It means something really heavy. It means there's no more telly, it's time to go to bed."

Brit tech forges alliance to improve cyber security as MPs moan over 'acute scarcity' of experts

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Money?

Who’s going to pay for this? I’ve looked at moving into cyber security but all the jobs expect me to have qualifications that cost five grand a pop (usually multiple qualifications). Plus the usual IT recruiting crap of having ten years experience for an entry level job.

CEST la vie, IR35 workers: HMRC sets out stall for ignoring Mutuality of Obligation

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Re: @Herring: Just a question

If you're an employee you're legally entitled to four weeks paid leave.

Like an everflowing stream: New tech promises remote S3 nearline disk performance

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Re: "they appear to have come up with [..] a faster way of streaming files "

There’s also latency which has the annoying tendency to obey the laws of physics.

'Toxic' Whitehall power culture fingered for GDS's fall from grace

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And removed large chunks of usefulness with it.

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Re: Utter bollocks, GDS was useless because the people running it were idiots!

Have an upvote - just for the word "wanktocracy"

Hurry up and make a deal on post-Brexit data flows, would you? Think of UK business – MPs

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Even if they had a plan 94% of MPs wouldn't read it

'Coding' cockup blamed for NHS cough-up of confidential info against patients' wishes

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Re: GDPR?

And probably a few who didn’t, too.

Sysadmin shut down server, it went ‘Clunk!’ but the app kept running

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Re: Halted machine on other side of the planet

Not when the "server" is a Raspberry Pi hanging off the end of a consumer broadband connection.

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Re: Label, Label Label

@I Am Spartacus

If it involved canals then it was the same place :)

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Re: Label, Label Label

My first job in IT was with a major fibre network provider. They'd grown too fast and hadn't kept proper records of where their fibres actually went and how they were connected up. I was employed to map the network from a pile of surveyor's notes. There were parts of the network where fibre would go down a duct only to have disappeared by the time it got to the next inspection chamber. This was live fibre carrying live traffic so it must have gone somewhere but buggered if we knew where.

Unfortunately, I didn't stay there long enough to find out if they ever tracked it down.

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Re: Halted machine on other side of the planet

I've done the same with my home server. Accidentally did a shutdown -h instead of shutdown -r whilst remoting in from India. Not a lot you can do about that when you're five thousand miles away.

DNS ad-hocracy in peril as ICANN advisors mull root server shakeup

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Re: If it ain't broke

But equally, don't wait until it breaks.

Amazon’s Snowball snowballs as Google's clone gets real and IBM's comes to Europe

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Re: Does it go both ways?

Yes. https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/faqs/#Using_Snowball_to_Export_Data

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Re: Plus shipping = outrage

In a previous job we moved servers across London in the back of a taxi.

Relive your misspent, 8-bit youth on the BBC's reopened Micro archive

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I had similar fun with this (PDF)

Google kills AdWords!

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Re: The important question is:

Amusingly, my adblocker blocked the image of the new logo in El Reg's story.

MSDN unleashes a fresh round of unintentional innuendo bingo

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Re: Does knob really have two meanings any more?

How about...nob?

At least buy me a drink first

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Micro soft knobs are very disappointing

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Re: Does knob really have two meanings any more?

I have seen plenty of door knockers

Ah, so that's why police break down doors with a cry of "This is a bust"

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Re: Does knob really have two meanings any more?

I've never seen a door penis.

You've never lived, then.

Visa fingers 'very rare' data centre switch glitch for payment meltdown

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Re: VISA Crimes

Try Revolut - mid market exchange rates and no fees for most casual users.

Universal Credit has never delivered bang for buck, but now there's no turning back – watchdog

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Re: The government position:

WTF has happened to government in the UK?

We had a referendum and decided to let the Daily Mail run the country instead.

User spent 20 minutes trying to move mouse cursor, without success

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Re: Keyboard ecosystems

Alcohol any one?

For cleaning the keyboard or for making you not care?

Audit of DeepMind deal with NHS trust: It checks out, nothing to see here

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Re: you often get the happy ending you want when you pay for it

You must go to different massage parlours to me.

Trump kept ZTE alive as ‘personal favour’ to Chinese president Xi

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Re: "The US president claims he’s a negotiator"...

delusions of competance

The man is a living embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger effect

Apple hit with another faulty hardware lawsuit – this time it's the Watch

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Re: Should be easy to tell the difference

Yeah, but then the lawyers wouldn't be able to cash in.

British egg producers saddened by Google salad emoji update

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Re: inclusion and diversity

I know, it's more like eggs-clusion.

Visa Europe fscks up Friday night with other GDPR: 'God Dammit, Payment Refused'

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El Reg is suffering Total Inability To Supply Unique Pun

Britain mulls 'complete shutdown' of 4G net for emergency services

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Re: Still waiting

you have one person for every 5-10 people in the outsourcing company

That usually means you had a 1:1 ratio to start with and then the outsourcing company's "land and expand" strategy kicked in.

Slurp up patient data for algos that will detect cancer early, says UK PM

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Hmm, algorithms and cancer screening. I've heard something about that recently

RAF Air Command to take on UK military space ops

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Re: Why would airstrip one need a different GPS

Because we're "taking back control". All logical thought has therefore been suspended.

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