Posts by MJB7 419 posts • joined 27 Nov 2013
If the British Government had offered full British Citizenship to all Hong Kong citizens it would have been possible. China would either have extended the lease, or got back a few square miles of territory with tumbleweed. In the latter case Britain would have had an influx of hard working grateful immigrants. That they didn't is mostly down to Norman Tebbit's racism.
This.
It's easy enough (after the event) to see how to write a test to catch this particular mistake. (Search for the plain text of the input in the output - it shouldn't be there.) But that won't catch the mistake where the input is XORed with a fixed value, rather than a keystream derived from the password ...
It's REALLY hard to test that crypto code is secure.
"We did it by intuition, knowing what had to be done to achieve a 100% working solution,"
I call bullshit. I've been writing software for a living for more than 40 years now, and there has never been a time when there was any software without bugs.
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I can tell you why I use VSCode: All my code is on my Linux workstation in the office, but I am at home running a Windows laptop supplied by corporate IT, I connect by ssh through a VPN. I don't want to run a GUI on the Linux box because I live out in the sticks. VSCode has a group of extensions that "just work". Click a few buttons, copy an ssh key in the right place, and I'm good to go.
I'm sure vim and emacs could cope, but I _never_ got on with modal vi, and emacs is just too alien from all the other editors out there (editors like the comment box I am typing this in). I just can't justify the several months I think it would take to get back into emacs after 30 years away.
"Some trousers that are that old"? 2010? Today I was wearing the moleskin trousers I inherited from my father; he died in 1994 - and they were nothing like brand-new when he died.
I use them for DIY/gardening in cold weather, but they are starting to get a bit worn at the knees.
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No, they are guessing that only one person in a household will be clued up enough to want a password manager, but they can get that person to pay an extra 30% by allowing them to give it to significant other, children, parents, etc.
The price of something is what somebody will pay for it; not what it costs to produce.
"I find it rather odd that, having the [auditors] been fined a nifty £15m for not properly doing what was expected of them ... that this Lynch chap is still on the hook"
The fine actually puts Lynch _on_ the hook. Lynch was required to behave lawfully, auditors or no auditors. His argument was "the auditors said it was OK, so it must have been OK". His problem is that the fine can be construed as the regulators saying "the auditors were wrong to say it was OK".
OTOH, if the civil case finds for Lynch, then it is going to be _very_ hard to argue that a fair criminal trial could find against him (because the standard of proof is so much higher in a criminal case). I presume that if the civil case finds against HP they will try to appeal, and they will try to use Deloitte's fine as part of that appeal.
That's not true. You *either* need it signed off by a member of the appropriate trade body (which is not the same as "qualified") *or* you need Building Control approval. It is usually easier to hire an electrician to do the work and sign it off, but I have a friend who rebuilt his entire house (for which he needed building control approval anyway), and did all the wiring himself.
There's a car charger in the open air near my flat in Switzerland which claims to offer 100kW charging. A little googling suggests it is operating (today) at about 1000V and hence must be shifting 100A. I find both those figures terrifying. (Particularly putting 100A through a connector which can be operated by an untrained little old lady, and one end of which gets bounced around in a motor vehicle!)
I think a *lot* more than 1kW gets dumped in the cable - some chargers come with liquid cooled cables. (Of course, this does nothing for the overall efficiency figures - but you only need this rate of charging for emergency charging, not the overnight charge at home which will probably cover most uses.)
For a small, fixed, set of keys (like post codes), it is quite easy to algorithmically produce a perfect hash function. With a perfect hash function you just need an array of corresponding tiers which you index into.
The interesting question, is how hard is it to algorithmically produce a hash function which maps the keys directly to Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3?
The PDP-11 debugger was called the "Terminal Interactive Testing System", with the obvious abbreviation. I still remember when a programmer came bursting into our room to report that Chris had been talking to our (rather well endowed) female boss and innocently said "I learnt all I know about TITS from you".
That was my first job (40 years ago), and about a third of the programmers were women. I think they hadn't had the opportunity to learn that "computers were for boys" at school.
"training staff to not click on phishing emails" - I don't doubt the insurance company will try and avoid paying out because of the lack of training, but we know that (to a first approximation) such training doesn't work. Training staff not to use email from privileged accounts is much more likely to be useful.
Transparent liftable shields over emergency stop buttons almost certainly *do* conform to regulations. They even have a name - "molly-guards" (originally named for one "Molly" who kept turning off a mainframe).
The scary thing is that Molly is probably only in her 30's now.
"before indicted, let alone convicted" is *definitely* not a problem - Ford pardoned Nixon before he had been indicted, and nobody suggested that made the pardon invalid.
Pardoning yourself would probably *not* pass muster though. Not to mention that the President only has the authority to pardon Federal crimes, not State crimes, and the New York Attorney General is very interested in some of Trump's actions.
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