Posts by anonymous noel coward~

Breaking virus lockdown rules, suing officials, threatening staff, raging on Twitter. Just Elon Musk things

So Musk is saying he'll going to be on the production line 'with everyone else' during a pandemic, with his days-old baby at home? The word I'm thinking of rhymes well with 'PR stunt'.

Jeff Bezos bungs $10bn at climate change after chump change for Oz bush fires

Re: Wow

Read up on how Amazon treats its workers then come back and explain how that $130bn should be 'his'

A Notepad nightmare leaves sysadmin with something totally unprintable

As an 11-year-old with our very first family computer running Windows 95, I thought it would be a good idea to open an .exe file in notepad and try to change the text of error messages to something childishly amusing. And that's how I learned about binary files!

BBC tells Conservative Party to remove edited Facebook ad featuring its reporters

It depends where they're looking. It's not hard to spot the personal biases of people like Kuenssberg or Marr in their content. Meanwhile a lot of the BBC entertainment programmes like HIGNFY or Daily Mash have a strong liberal / anti-brexit vibe.

The BBC as a whole produces so much content that it's possible for both sides to be proven correct.

JD Wetherspoon: A 'hacker' nicks 650,000 pub-goers' data

From another former employee, Wetherspoon certainly loved to squeeze the staff budget as much as possible. As the saying goes - "if you pay peanuts you get monkeys"; and I definitely worked alongside a few of those front of house.

It's not hard to imagine what effect this policy would have on their IT dept.

Google's 'encrypted-by-default' Android is NOT encrypting by default

Missed opportunity

I recently acquired a Galaxy Note 4 and was thrilled to discover the new Private Mode, which hides certain content until a pattern, password or fingerprint is used to decrypt it. I loved the idea of protecting important data without constantly needing to unlock the phone for day-to-day stuff like calls and texts.

Unfortunately it will only really protect the content that doesn't matter to me, and won't work on what does. I don't care about encrypting my photos or music, I do care about someone nicking my phone and browsing through emails, facebook, or using saved data in Chrome.

Unfortunately Private Mode doesn't work for any of this. It would have been far more relevant if you could set specific apps to only run under this mode, rather than just hiding embarrassing holiday snaps or your taste in music.