Posts by taxman

El Reg Playmonaut soars to 113,000ft

Mis-led

On seeing your sub title LOHAN test flight ends in dramatic stratodangle my first thought was - when found - the intrepid pilot ended up like Michael Hutchence.

Must get out more.

UK.gov fines itself harshly for hurling NHS records to the winds

2 classic fails

'NHS Surrey chose to leave an approved provider........'

'the health board did not sign a contract with the firm which clearly explained its legal requirements under the Data Protection Act.'

Looks like there was a dislocation of the Head of IT and Finance/Contracts body that went unattended and ended in a terminal condition.

Google Groups blunder exposes thousands of Japanese govt emails

Re: "Why ... use cloud services anyway?"

Because the ears of the Cabinet Office are being tweaked and spoken into by those who have a personal interest in 'Cloud' perhaps? Why listen to Civil Servants who only go on about recognising risks when the world is being promised to you by industry experts?

Emporer's clothes again.

Daddy-o, you're all wet... baffled by your own kids on the web - survey

Re: took the quiz

Oh those endorphin rushes when connecting.....and just hoping there wasn't a POS moment!

It was worth it.....even it we did divorce later.

Microsoft splurges on single sign ons with Active Directory update

Re: Insecure by Design

This reminds me. Where has AmanfromMars1 gone. Long holiday?

UK.gov's digi-by-default plan slammed: Show us the savings - MPs

Emporers Clothes

have been seen being worn in the Cabinet Office courtesy of Lord and Lady wossits along with Maxwell's silver hammer.

Government dials 999. What service do you require? DIGITAL

SPAM

Psssst! Wanna buy an email service? Cheap? No questions asked? Sure we'll use your domain name. It'll look just like it comes from you.

What could possible go wrong?!

Universal Credit? Universal DISCREDIT, more like, say insiders

Ah, someone from GDS reading the articles.

US gov SMASHES UP TVs and MICE to nuke tiny malware outbreak

CIO says

JFDI - so they did.

Clever CIO

Radar gremlins GROUND FLIGHTS across southern Blighty

Non news really?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23241791

Seven snazzy smartphones for seven sorts of shoppers

Or at least until the iPhone 6 comes out.

Fire.....meet petrol (that's gas for the colonies)

LOHAN team girds loins, aims to take SPEARS to heaven again

Brightwalton

Any place that contains the words Spray Lane and Honesty Bottom is good for me! Particularly when LOHAN and SPEARS are involved.

Whitehall's ball-breaking efficiency tsar quits for a quiet life in Oz

Re: If you've been drafted in to drive a gov IT project that's gone south...

you're ****ing in the wind. The only thing contractors do well (apart from drink tea and fanny about with flexitime) is mount resistance to change. There are packs of them in fortresses defended by self created bureaucracies that have been handed down and refined over the aeons by generations of contractors before them. You've got to wade through that lot, then do it again and again and again until you finally forget what the hell you were trying to do in the first place. Then you go barking (I've seen it happen to others) and then you quit. No one from the private sector is going to let you do anything better, faster or cheaper because that means redundancy and that lot are in there for the bonus

HP StoreOnce has undocumented backdoor

HP StoreOnce has undocumented backdoor

Well I think we can all agree that there isn't now - whichever way you look at it.

Bank details - PAH! Phishers want your Facebook password

For every nefarious action

there is a reason

Media phone-hacking? Tip of the iceberg, says leaked police report

The Blagger’s Manual

Publish and be.....praised. It should allow those names institutions to close the gaps.

Unless 'Britain's FBI' do not want them closed.

Spaniards deploy self-propelled ROBOT BALLS

Sargeant Major vs 101

Oh yes my lovely boys. Available on Youtube too!

Ferocious fungus imperils future of British gin and tonic

Re: Ew, Gordon's?

Aldi’s Oliver Cromwell London Dry Gin won a silver medal in this year’s International Spirits Challenge. Worth a try at less than a tenner.

El Reg rocket squad poised to select Ultimate Cuppa teabag

Try Co-op 99

Was brought up on this back in the 60's as it was the nearest thing to NAAFI tea my dad could get. Although it was the loose leaf tea then.

A good mix was 99 and Typhoo loose tea on a 1:1 basis

Gartner magicians conjure technological TUBE MAP

Pass the aspirin

As it's from Gartner no doubt it will no doubt be picked up as an 'exemplar - must do' reason for getting cash into the wrong types of projects and hands of the wrong types of managers.

Real-Time Decisioning? Do Gartner not employ people who have any form of education in English Language? No doubt from'over the pond' - if so I wish they'd keep such bastardisations over there.

LinkedIn DNS hijacked, site offline

See icon

See title

G-Cloud overlord McDonagh gets CBE nod from Queen

I don't know what reasons will be officially recorded for using the G-cloud, but the real reasons are likely to be:

Mandation

We were told to

CO wouldn't approve the project if we didn't

'Friends' of 'friends' of 'friends' said so

You want us to use pretty fonts and colours - more shades of gray.

Reasons for not using it:

What is available doesn't meet the requirements

If we did buy from G Cloud we'll have to spend more money later

We were hacked because we bought from G Cloud rather than getting our preferred technology

Eurogeddon? Pah. UK banks are more terrified of hackers - big banker

I would like to think that the Banks are spending some of their 'hard earned' cash (of mine) on protecting their 'crown jewels' by having an agreement in place with the likes of Prolexic, Akamai etc to negate DDoS and 'defence in depth' for APTs/hacks.

Speech-to-text drives motorists to distraction

Re: Distracting tasks?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-335291/Pipped-Woman-driver-fined-eating-apple.html

The case for the prosecution

BBC's Digital Moneypit Initiative known to be 'pile of dung' for years

More justification

for not having a television - smart or otherwise - in the house. So glad my money isn't being used to subsidise this or the 'lovies' lifestyles - but am able to use it to install decent plumbing.

Nicked unencrypted PC with 6,000 bank details lands council fat fine

and that we carried out significant remedial action

by purchasing a further 74 laptops to replace those missing'

Smart TVs riddled with DUMB security holes

Smart TV?

I'm still waiting to be convinced of the need to have a TV of any type.

Spamhaus-style DDoS attacks: All the hackers are doing it

To be fair

An attack that is successfully defended will go un-noticed by end users so the only opportunity of the Supplier getting more customers is to publicise their successes. And I'd rather site owners get cover than be denied access.

As for publishing the technique....this has been available through 'tinternet for a number of years. Just that it's a bit harder to achieve than down loading that idiotic Low orbit thing that was all the rage not so long ago.

For one, I'm surprised this method has not been used large scale before.

They WANT to EAT YOUR COMPUTER - welcome your ANT overlords

perhaps

someone will make a film based on this. You know the sort of thing. Man vs ant. Try all sorts of methods to kill off the ants and they in turn retaliate by eating through the electrics, fusing the air conditioning, building crazy structures that reflect the sunlight.....

Cameron's Tech City: Desks? Yes. Cash? Yes. Coders? Nope

Same thing at GDS

Lots of people who know about fonts and how to use crayons........but coding, application use, common sense - complete lacking.

Rolls-Royce climbs aboard Bloodhound SUPERSONIC car

Re:proverbial brown stuff off a shovel

The proverbial brown stuff is usually sloppy and sticky.

Not when you're working an allotment. It's lovely firm and crumbly stuff. Mind, there's a significant difference between bovine, horse and goat. Goat can be very hard if left to dry out and really need a lot of other matter mixed in with it - as can be bovine. Hores is good, tends to remain moist.

But which ever is used, it does slip off real niced and smooth.

Oh, and it's great to have a rocket car named after one of our best anti aircraft missiles (which is odd seeing as the car will be using an aircraft engine as a starter!)

Snoopers' charter rests in shallow grave - likely to rise again

Wrong Office

Your assumption is likely off target in that it would be from the 'ringleaders/advisors' in the Cabinet Office rather than civil service proper and the guys in the 'Doughnut' (yes we Brits spell words correctly).

Just linking a single bit of information to an IP address wouldn't be of any use. But monitoring one or several over a period would allow a half decent analyst to build up a profile of the users and pinpoint who they are with a great degree of accuracy. Without the need for the Home Secretary to allow the 'line' to be tapped.

US Army engineer wins Air Assault wings after repairing hi-tech leg twice

Mentor for Edward?

Just goes to show, if the spirit is willing.

But have to mention the photo. Those not wearing camoflage certainly stand out from the crowd.

Google's Page, LG boss's SECRET confab sparks Nexus 5 rumour

The smartphone rumour mill is in overdrive again

....that there is going to another 'phone released. And after that someone else is going to release another 'phone.

But the strongest rumour is that yet a third company is going to release a 'phone, with one or two others following suit.

3D printer spits out CYBORG EAR... but where will you PUT it?

Being totally serious for once

This actually could be used for those who have Treacher Collinge Syndrome.

For those of you who'd like to know more - part of the Syndrome means that they are born without part or all of the pinna. One of the symptoms of the syndrome may be that they have no ear canal, so they have to have a bone anchored hearing aid (BAHA).

So using this they would not have to have a stud through the bone (skull).

Peeping Tom suspects cuffed after 'falling through women's toilet ceiling'

Down the pan

Well that's another fine mess you've got me into...

Quid-a-day nosh challenge hack forms foraging party

Re: Milk in "risotto"?

Is there not some rosemary growing thereabouts or even some thyme?

Next Xbox to be called ‘Xbox Infinity’... er... ‘Xbox’

It's really called

"another Xbox from Microsoft you can play games with and other 'cool' stuff".

Fried-egg sarnies kick off Reg man's quid-a-day nosh challenge

If Hugh fearlessly eats it all

I'm sure you could. If you're not adverse to a little blood and stuff you should be able to put in fresh road kill to the 'stew' as that is free! And there should be wild growing herbs around you in Spain to add flavours to a basic 'stew'.

Cat ladies turned brand-squatters poke fun at religious right

Going Down under

Lucky for them it's not a .uk domain otherwise Nominet would highly likely agree a dispute claim on the grounds of the name being Abusive (the domain name has been used to confuse Internet users) and also that ALC have Rights in respect of the names which are identical or similar to their Domain Name.

Hope those pussies get supported.

Japan forgot data wipe on ship sold to Pyongyang

Re: Numpties.

Knowing where it's been, how long it takes and identifying movement patterns is of great use if you want to avoid meeting a patrol vessel.

Cost now, if security is an issue to Japan, is to alter the patrol routes so that the same areas get covered but at different times, approach direction and fit in with the patrols of their other 'Coastguard' ships.

Amazon's cloud on track for $2bn in revenue in 2013

Wandering lonely

I wonder how much UK GOV have added to Amazon's income?

Review: Asus PadFone 2 phone-tablet combo

No Bonking

An advancement of the HP TouchPad and Pre3 idea?

SWARMS of ZOMBIES unleashed on innocent bloggers

Surprised?

31.184.238.38 country: RU

178.151.216.53 country: UA

91.224.160.143 country: NL

195.128.126.6 country: RU

US Navy blasts drones with ship-mounted LASER CANNON

Re: Missing the point: SOLID STATE!

Underground? On a ship?

Re: Missing the point: SOLID STATE!

This is a solid state laser..........Yup and perhaps this would lead to the development of specific HEMP weapons to combat them. Nuclear of course.

Oh yes I forget, the anti missile missile would combat the HEMP weapon.

That would probably start a development of an early seperation MIRV weapon where the warheads, dummy and real, seperate on acceleration not on re-entry.

Which would probably start the development.......

Android FOUND ON TABLETS inscribed with WORD OF GOD

Mugs in the pew?!

As title

Star Trek phaser sells for a STUNNING $231,000

Re: Cost != Value

Some things get given a value because some people have more money than sense.

How I nearly sold rocket windows to the crazy North Koreans

On the other foot ....

'But once the actual fighting was over it wouldn't take long for normality to return.'

Might glow in the dark, but hey just think of the benefits that might bring.

Publishing ANYTHING on .uk? From now, Big Library gets copies

Legal deposit arrangements remain vitally important

Does that apply to Assange also?

Just asking.