I wonder if....
They'll be able to pay the tax in bitcoin?
Posts by grumpyoldeyore
104 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Aug 2010
Biden proposes 30% tax on cryptominers' power bills
Three seconds of audio could end up costing Fox $500,000
Japan to change laws that require use of floppy disks
Wednesday 31st August 2022 12:22 GMT
Faxing Floppies
Many many years ago I was working on a legacy project which used a real time operating system, and we needed some support. The RTOS vendor did not believe that we were still using the version that we were, and asked for an image of the labels on the installation disks. This resulted in yours truly having to put the 8" (yes EIGHT) floppies onto the photo copier to get a paper image to go through the fax machine. Of course half the company passed by the copier while I was trying to get the contrast right. Cue many humerous comments.....
(Where's the Paris angle ? )
Airbus flies new passenger airplane aimed at 'long, thin' routes
Friday 17th June 2022 14:20 GMT
re: surprising that no-one has tried this yet.
They have: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/08/thinking-inside-the-box-the-welsh-teen-who-tried-to-post-himself-home-from-australia .
There was also the Nigerian politician who didn't book the freight trip https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20211380
Microsoft closes installer hole abused by Emotet malware, Google splats Chrome bug exploited in the wild
Playing jigsaw on my roof: They can ID you from your hygiene habits
What a bunch of bricks: Crooks knock hole in toyshop wall, flee with €35k Lego haul
Oh my, Grandma, what a big meteorite you have right there on your pillow under that hole in the roof
We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS
Happy 60th, Sinclair Radionics: We'll remember you for your revolutionary calculators and crap watches
Our Friends Electric: A pair of alternative options for getting around town
Tuesday 20th July 2021 15:21 GMT
Avoiding the cycle tracks
The Warrington Cycle Campaign has a "Facility of the Month" page. Here from April 2018 is a facility in Cambrigeshire with a bypass for the cycle track...
http://wcc.crankfoot.xyz/facility-of-the-month/April2018.htm
(Apologies - not HTTPS)
Is that the sound of the air ambulance I hear? ---->
Preliminary report on Texas Tesla crash finds Autosteer was 'not available' along road where both passengers died
Train operator phlunks phishing test by teasing employees with non-existent COVID bonus
Wednesday 12th May 2021 08:38 GMT
Re: IT Security always gets a bad rap.
The last company I worked for - an SME with R&D and manufacturing in the UK and big sales in the US:
1) Signed all employees up to PerkBox ( a ligitimate enterprise) but the invite emails came from Perkbox before the briefing from the company ......
2) Signed all UK employees up to an online training portal but the invite emails came out before the company briefing....
3) Changed the financial institution supplying the UK pension scheme but again failed to brief employees, not only before the invite emails came out but also before the switch had actually been made
4) On at least 3 occasions the CFO (US based) sent out warnings to the whole company of fake invoice emails ... by forwarding the fake invoice emails with the live link .....
5) We had to go through a mass password reset after the CEO (US based) fell for a phising email (possibly off the LinkedIn leak) and gave away her domain login credentials ....
Can't get that printer to work? It's not you. It's that sodding cablin.... oh beautiful job with that cabling, boss
Microsoft demotes Calibri from default typeface gig, starts fling with five other fonts
Microsoft realises constant meetings stress people out, adds Office 365 settings to cut them short or start them late
Wednesday 21st April 2021 08:20 GMT
Re: The problem is...
I decided that the stress of working out if I could to afford to retire was less than the constant head-banging against a manager who would put the whole company ( approx 80 people) in "required" and the people that were needed in "optional". And don't get me started on the colleagues who would lob up 15 minutes late, interrupt progress to apologise for being late then demand to know what they'd missed.
Oh, and I needn't have stressed the financials.
Off to walk the dogs.
Satellites, space debris may have already brightened night skies 10% globally – and it's going to get worse
That's it. It's over. It's really over. From today, Adobe Flash Player no longer works. We're free. We can just leave
Woman dies after hospital is unable to treat her during crippling ransomware infection, cops launch probe
Friday 18th September 2020 16:20 GMT
Shades of the Spanair disaster?
When Spanair flight number JK 5022 crashed in 2008 one of the "holes in the cheese" that lined up was that the maintenance database (or the computer systems attached thereto) had been infected with malware, which meant that it wasn't flagged that the plane in question had suffered multiple problems over several days and so should have been taken out of service on the first failed take off.
Subsequently the crew made a configuration error and theconfiguration warning did not sound, so the second take off attempt was made with fatal consequences.
https://www.theregister.com/2010/08/20/spanair_malware/
http://avherald.com/h?article=40b73189/0024&opt=0
Everything's falling apart. The Moon is slowly rusting up – and it's probably Earth's fault
Multiple customers knocked offline as firefighters tackle flames at Telstra's London Hosting Centre bit barn
NASA trusted 'traditional' Boeing to program its Starliner without close supervision... It failed to dock due to bugs
Netflix starts 30-day video data diet at EU's request to ensure network availability during coronavirus crisis
Ex-Arm execs' upstart Agile Analog palmed $5m to sink into AI-driven chip design
UK taxman falls foul of GDPR, agrees to wipe 5 million voice recordings used to make biometric IDs
Roscosmos: An assembly error doomed our Soyuz, but we promise it won't happen again
Well, can't get hacked if your PC doesn't work... McAfee yanks BSoDing Endpoint Security patch
Think tank calls for post-Brexit national ID cards: The kids have phones so what's the difference?
Tuesday 31st July 2018 11:43 GMT 
Well...
... most existing EU countries have ID schemes already, a large number compulsory. (I think it it is only the UK, Ireland and Denmark that don't), and the non compulsory ones make having some form of Identity compulsory.
The UK's been bringing it it by the back door anyway - notice how you have to use your NI number now, for example to validate your driving record when hiring a car.
IT peeps, be warned: You'll soon be a museum exhibit
Viacom exposes crown jewels to world+dog in AWS S3 bucket blunder
Dead serious: How to haunt people after you've gone... using your smartphone
Men charged with theft of free newspapers
IBM marketeers rub out chopper after visit from CEO Ginni
WannaCrypt: Roots, reasons and why scramble patching won't save you now
Saturday 20th May 2017 23:34 GMT
Re: Remember the Millenium Bug?
I do indeed. In 1995 we set our new recruit the boring task of setting the clock calendar chip on our kit to just before midnight 1999, No problems. He then used his initiative and repeated the test for 2000, 2001, 2002 , 2003 at which point we were back in 1897! Was a bug in in a calendar library. Updated the library, issue fixed. Many of these bought for our persient apprentice.
Boeing and Airbus fly new planes for first time
LastPass scrambles to fix another major flaw – once again spotted by Google's bugfinders
Tesla, Atlassian told to go through front door in effort to save Australian industrial civilisation
Most of 2016's holes had fixes the day we knew about 'em. Did we patch? Did we @£$%
81's 99 in 17: Still a lotta love for the TI‑99/4A – TI's forgotten classic
Sunday 5th March 2017 14:39 GMT
Re: Interesting machine, but hamstrung by TI marketing
@Steve Todd - I never knew it went back to the 9900 - all the early technical press referred to it using the 9995. The 9995 was designed to be cheaper by having a lower pin count - hence the multiplexed bus. I'm pretty sure that the 4 phase clock went as well. We used the 9900 where I worked, and looked at the 9995 as a possible cost saving but decided that the re-design was not worth it, I've also a vague recollection that the hardware integer divide was removed from the instruction set which was the USP for the 9900 in the first place. (memory may be clouded by the passage of 35+ years).
Sunday 5th March 2017 14:29 GMT
Re: TI was backwards
From memory, that actually depended on which version of which data sheet you read. A new circuit was being built at the first company I worked for, using aTI9900. At board bring up, the data bus was fount to be "the wrong way round". The PCB design team had a V1 data sheet with D0 as the MSB and created the library shape thus. The HW designer had a V2 data sheet with D0 as the LSB. I also recall that the programming manual had A16 as the MSB and a long philosophical discussion about A0 which didn't actually come out of the chip, but was replaced by a "byte selector".
You're taking the p... Linux encryption app Cryptkeeper has universal password: 'p'
Police pull up van man engaged in dual carriageway sex act
MH370 hunters call for new search of extra 25,000km2
Nokia's great lost smartwatch? #SavedYouALandfill
Automatic laundry folder
Linus Torvalds admits 'buggy crap' made it into Linux 4.8
Latest F-35 bang seat* mods will stop them breaking pilots' necks, beams US
IBM lifts lid, unleashes Linux-based x86 killer on unsuspecting world
My headset is reading my mind and talking behind my back
Saturday 20th August 2016 00:03 GMT
3D - printing your Orifices is so last week...
The real advance aill be a squad of nano-bots, which will correctly position the headphones, mould them in real time, and operate the balance deck to maintain the optimum sound. The mind reading will be an illusion, as nano-bot scouts will be recording you actions and reporting back, thereby giving the illusion of mind reading.
Mines the very small one with the Pitman shorthand pad in the pocket....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
