Posts by Aladdin Sane

Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results

Re: In an ideal world ...

I was agreeing with you until you mentioned H&S. Those rules are literally written in blood.

Give Palantir up to $244M through 2028, says internal Defense Department memo

To paraphrase Ike

Beware the military-silicon complex.

Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn

Bet you've been shafted a few times though.

There's nothing more permanent

Than a temporary fix.

NEC tests parking tech that only starts charging once you exit your car

NEC

Here was me thinking that the National Exhibition Centre had undergone a remarkable upgrade.

Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees

Re: Stupidity plus arrogance

I resemble that remark.

Re: Stupidity plus arrogance

If they bit hard enough it would subtract.

Re: Stupidity plus arrogance

I'm not sure what a rugby scrum would add to this.

Re: Stupidity plus arrogance

Ignorance is not knowing. Stupidity is not understanding.

IT department put sticky notes on the laptops to help employees log in

Re: Oh Noes

Except it was a client company, not the Don Draper wannabes.

OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack

Re: An example to us all

That would require humanity to have intelligence to start with.

London cops handed victim's new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says

not completed data protection training for over four years

No indication that they've completed the training now.

Water system cyberattacks spread to Georgia, Michigan amid US-Iran conflict

Your pH is so high, you're literally PH.

It's got a pH of 7, that's higher than any acid.

Re: "That incompetent Mayor Mandami is to blame"

I genuinely just thought it was badly applied mascara.

It's used as an industrial solvent.

Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft

Re: "we used to hang people like that and Sam Altman"

You're saying we should boil him as well?

Re: "we used to hang people like that and Sam Altman"

That'll likely take your arms out of their sockets if done properly. Unless you're looking to cause death by asphyxiation, in which case nailing them to a tree means you wouldn't have to wait around.

IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day

Amateur

sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

Headteacher had the most guessable username-password combo you could imagine

Satire is dead.

Nelson 'Big Head' Bighetti: My username is "password" and my password is "password."

Richard Hendricks: Your username is "password"?

Nelson 'Big Head' Bighetti: It was just easier.

Burnham's spanner in the works leaves UK government tech scattered across Whitehall

Re: Relax. Nothing will change.

There's plenty of waffle in the Palace of Westminster already

risks incoherency

Would anybody notice the difference?

Hyperscale, hypersensitive: US teacher cuffed for applauding datacenter critics

Re: Land of the dollar

Murtaugh could only afford a small fishing boat.

Re: In Soviet America....

I've seen that movie.

Re: Agent Orange

I try to invoke that whenever work says I should be more collaborative but apparently summary executions don't meet our corporate standards.

At least the politicos get a stuffed brown envelope whilst their brown envelope gets stuffed.

Re: Who is the law

I posed that question in an FB group a while back and the response was "We're entitled to a say in how the law is enforced in our town". They weren't happy when I pointed out that it leads to things like sundown towns.

Re: Land of the Free!

Why is the local police chief taking orders from the head of a planning committee?

Supporters argued it would bring jobs and investment to Emporia.

Supporters would be wrong then.

Uncle Sam needs you to fight for 6G leadership and security, lest Beijing get there first

Re: working now with trusted partners

If you'll excuse me, I'm off to catch the pigeon.

Re: working now with trusted partners

Can a piece of string be stretched all the way from DC to the Kremlin?

Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks

Re: Even my smoke Alarm

I do like a nice bit of crumpet.

Re: Even my smoke Alarm

How 'bout a muffin?

Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info

Re: I give up, What's a digit?

How about those that actually follow their alleged religious beliefs?

Re: braking numerous GDPR regulations

Obviously trying to slow things down.

Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter

They DID listen to the residents. They just decided to ignore them.

Re: Broxbourne.

Assumes 1,000 yard stare:

Before the dark times. Before The Empire.

Europe slaps AliExpress with €550 million fine for selling dodgy goods

Re: AliExpress … selling dodgy goods

I bought a Steeldive SD1953 watch (a Submariner homage) for £60 and not had any issues. Seiko NH35 movement and a claimed 300m water resistance. Wouldn't take it diving though.

Judgment day looms for UK's £8.35B Skynet military satellite comms upgrade

Skynet

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

Credit:Alex Blechman

Major glitch in Matrix as UK government projects watchdog rates shared services cluster red

Re: A glitch in the Matrix :o

So what you're saying is we need a Department of Administrative Affairs?

Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings

Auditors tell UK government to do the math

Bet they didn't.

Salesforce's Agentforce isn't winning over clients, KeyBanc analysts claim

Fastest growing product

100% increase on bugger all is still bugger all.

Ministers arm under-16s social media ban with least surprising study of the year

I thought it was obvious that I can't read

Re: Kevin the Teenager

It's SO unfair!

Have teenagers ever acted like humans?

If teenagers spend too much time here there's a strong chance they'll end up technically competent and/or extremely cynical.

BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand

Re: No. AI could encourage you in everything you do – just small comments to lift your self-esteem

1978, 8 years before computer viruses were invented/discovered

Thief posed as Wi-Fi fixing hero, then stole priceless trophy

Re: It's still not hard to do.

As long as you have at least 15 pieces of flair.

Re: It's still not hard to do.

For security reasons, my company issues plain blue lanyards. Over the years I've acquired a Rolls Royce Plc lanyard which is the same shade and much better quality. I've also been tempted to do a lanyard swap with other firms in the building just to really mess with people.

Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year

Famous European club that serves pies and has a fierce local rivalry. Really narrows it down.