Posts by cantankerous swineherd

Gimme some skin: Boffins perfect 3D bioprinter that emits slabs of human flesh

anyone managed to do this trick yet?

UK.gov tells freelance techies to slap 20 per cent on fees as IR35 tax hike looms

Re: > Just the first stage

it's a tax dodge.

Make America, wait, what again? US Army may need foreign weapons to keep up

Re: Military-industrial 101

er, who cracked the enigma code? ivory tower academics and employees of govt owned utilities come to mind.

minor snits apart, reading what the first supreme commander of allied expeditionary forces in Europe had to say regarding the military industrial complex is interesting and educative.

Toshiba scrambles to start chip biz minority stake sale – reports

sound idea, get rid of the profit making bits and hang on to the nuclear turkey that'll never fly.

Operator of DDoS protection service named as Mirai author

in prison with luck.

Jeremy Hunt pockets £14m through sale of course search website

he's not going to be on a trolley in a&e then, nor will his operation get cancelled.

Re: Cunning Hunt?

"give us more money" the old chestnut. how about funding the NHS at the level the USA spends on health care.

Re: Jeremy Richard Streynsham *unt

worth a read.

EU policy makers consider FRAND licensing of machine-generated data

more witless drivel about anonymisation.

Man jailed for 3 days after Texas cops confuse cat litter for meth

if they'd just shot him straight away none of this would have happened.

Ransomware sleazeballs target UK schools

these guys are to be commended. destroying data held by schools will improve civil liberties and the quality of education.

Splunk: Why we dumped Perforce for Atlassian's Bitbucket of Gits

Re: I really hate GIT

gitless have a good critique of git and may one day be a viable alternative.

Routes taken by UK prosecutors over supply of modified TV set-top boxes

Re: City of London Police = Rent-a-cop

we aren't talking about the colonials here.

Speeding jet of Siberian liquid hot Magma getting speedier, satellites find

red peril!

Toshiba faces nuclear power goodwill cost meltdown

given that nuclear power is never going to be commercially viable and the increasing reluctance of the mug taxpayer to make up the difference, surely tosh would better off walking away from the nukes and keeping the electronics?

It's round and wobbles, but madam, it's a mouse pad, not a floppy disk

the oops I've switched the machine off when I meant to eject the floppy :-(

doesn't happen now thanks to the annoying 4 second delay.

Poor software design led to second £1m Army spy drone crash

test driven development?

Blue sky basic income thinking is b****cks

as icon

Latest loon for Trump's cabinet: Young-blood-loving, kidney-market advocate Jim O'Neill

The US is a laughing stock. if they carry on like this for long enough they'll be the new Somalia.

Who killed Pebble? Easy: The vulture capitalists

saddled it with debt

SOP

The UK's Investigatory Powers Act allows the State to tell lies in court

expect to hear a load of bollocks from the met about "super recognizers"

Brit upstart releases free air traffic app for drone operators

drones at 000s of feet

pictures or it didn't happen.

UK cops spot webcam 'sextortion' plots: How vics can hit stop

report it to police, who'll then do their dammnedist to pin something, anything, on you.

systemd free Linux distro Devuan releases second beta

have been using Ubuntu and kubuntu, both subject to freezes where the only option is power off. I'm thinking this is a systems problem? tried devuan but it wouldn't install a desktop and left me looking at a $ prompt. haven't got time to muck about with all that...

The Internet Society is unhappy about security – pretty much all of it

special mention for experian, who've made a business of libelling people who haven't borrowed money from banks too lazy to check up on who they are actually handing cash over to.

Commish urges UK.gov to mean it when it talks about transparency

this scc guy wants more cameras. I don't.

UK NHS 850k Reply-all email fail: State health service blames Accenture

your medical records are perfectly safe with this shower.

Six weeks after first ever profit warning Capita does what Capita does

unbelievably john lewis outsourced customer service (over the phone) to these twats.

Trump's torture support could mean the end of GCHQ-NSA relationship

Assumption that GCHQ is opposed to torture is incorrect; they either don't care or are in favour, definitely not opposed.

What went wrong at Tesco Bank?

"hugely sophisticated, coordinated and advanced attack"

the usual bull, meaning a couple of moderately talented skiddies got in through an open window.

Finns chilling as DDoS knocks out building control system

Re: Pursuing a short-term efficiency leads to the long-term risk

bizarre really, " our system requires a 5000 mile long wire to a remote computer, without which it won't work"

Capita STILL hasn't delivered usable Army recruitment IT system

Re: crapita

still, I don't think they're killing people, unlike G4S.

Amazon guarantees bitterly contested Ohio wind farm project

won't someone think of the birds?

Post-Mirai, HackForums kills off white hat DDoS rental service

parasite concerned it might be killing the host.

Appointments on hold as (computer) virus wreaks havoc with NHS trust systems

about time all the digital bollocks was stopped.

'Hacker' accused of idiotic plan to defraud bank out of $1.5 million

so the bank thought their systems were foolproof?

Birmingham sperm bank pulls plug after just a handful of recruits

shame this story didn't have a happy ending.

First World Problems: John Lewis clients forced to re-register after website 'upgrade'

Re: BBC just did the same to me

coop energy did that, complete with bananas password + pin + 'security' questions.

they can't be bothered to migrate accounts properly? time to leave.

Re: Nothing to see here...

I get a lot of those sorts of emails as well. usually with a handy link as well.

Divide the internet into compartments to save us from the IoT fail whale

proceed as if the internet is fucked, whilst thinking up another one.

Existing security standards are fine for IoT gizmos in electrical grids

if matey can access the panel via the cloud, so can anyone else. especially if they're pointing a gun at the operatives head.

Thanks, IoT vendors: your slack attitude will get regulators moving

end of the internet not the end of the world. time to invent a new mass communication medium, the internet is borked.

Today is the 211th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar

ooooh, nasty!

BYE, EVERYBODY! Virtual personal health assistants are coming, says Gartner

these people are brain dead.

Blighty's Home Office database blunders will deprive hundreds of GB driving licences

police state here we come

soon to be rolled out to the aboriginal population.

Source code unleashed for junk-blasting Internet of Things botnet

not sure the threat model needs to include dastardly chinese hackers walking around?

Market pulls chain on Crapita share price after first ever profit warning

brexit not all bad then.

Londoners react with horror to Tube Chat initiative

the poor dears wouldn't last 5 minutes in Barnsley. One is expected to make polite conversation no matter how huge or drunk one's interlocutor may be.

152k cameras in 990Gbps record-breaking dual DDoS

I can see some advantages to the death of the internet. decent local customer service from a human with agency, for instance.