Posts by Prst. V.Jeltz

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Re: Width

Yay!

Re: Width

just testing this threading goes deeper than 1 , er , step

Oz cops investigating screams of 'why don't you die?' find bloke in battle with spider

Re: Re the list of lethal spiders

think i'll reread that one next .....

Re: Oh just Die...

I have similar exchanges with my car in the morning, before I get to work to shout at the software.

Heard the one where the boss calls in an Oracle consultant who couldn't fix the database?

Re: AI may be OK, the Human Inteligence, no so much ...

that is very upsetting ... must have lie down now ....

Re: When things could be worse

(the power supply was, needless to say, on his desk and fully functional).

Saw that coming. I've dealt with many calls , usually from meeting rooms , where people have plugged laptop into a switched off socket , and then , surprise , "it just went dead"

London's Gatwick airport suspends all flights after 'multiple' reports of drones

Re: Christmas conspiracy

"or there has been some system failure in Gatwick and they are using "drones" to cover it up."

That'll be next weeks "who, me?" story then :)

Re: Possible detection

"including the HPEM source from Diehl"

Killing it with EMP pulses? on an airfield?

Re: drone takes drone

as i keep saying , all of these gung ho solutions involve knowing where the drone is. They dont. what they are combatting is the *threat* of further drone activity - NOT an actual drone buzzing around the airfield.

Re: Possible detection

could you save me trawling through your dodgy looking unknown links and just briefly summarise in theory how any system could detect / stop a un-geofenced pre programmed drone?

Re: Call a farmer!

"Only trick is getting close enough to the target in the first place."

That , and getting it to even appear - the drone(s) have so far only appeared briefly every hour to ensure grounding continues

Re: Genies and bottles

quite - there is no obvious solution to this at this time.

God knows what the huge amounts of police drafted in could possibly be doing.

It kinda reminds me of the Gaza situation with missiles being lobbed over the border.

I guess in the future a drone defence system similar to Isreals Missile defence system may be developed.

IE homing explosive packed intercept drones.

I too am intrigued . If the drone was constantly flying around *maybe* they could triangulate ,(then shoot it) but it only pops up every hour or so to guarantee continued closure.

Thats assuming its not on a radio free pre programmed flight.

As it is , with the drone not even flying most of the time , i have a picture in my head of policemen wondering around the airfield , or surrounding streets , hoping to ... well .... god knows

Re: The internet

"has to have eyes on the drone"

not to mention "has to avoid shutting down an airport"

Re: Christmas conspiracy

"some system failure in Gatwick and they are using "drones" to cover it up."

ooh , good one

American bloke hauls US govt into court after border cops 'cuffed him, demanded he unlock his phone at airport'

Re: Just say "Yes Sir"

"Clean laptop and phone"

Why? Because I don't trust anyone, particularly hotel staff. Getting my laptop stolen would be a nightmare for work reasons. Getting my phone stolen might lead to all sorts of identity theft problems I don't want to deal with.

What does that entail exactly? you wipe the phone book? so you cant ring anyone? you remove all work from your work laptop? surely your work laptop is encrypted so if its stolen - no data issue

Phones can also be encypted and not even reusable with a wipe/format to a thief - why not do that?

Pork pulled: Plug jerked out of beacon of bacon delight

Re: I don't know what ham put this article together

@andy non

You sir , are the gatling gun of puns!

I've still not seen anything in the 2 articles that explains what the hell eat-ready & shelf-ready bacon is, I suspect its a far cry from the nice bacon sarnies you see on the brown sauce adds

Re: Mixed feelings

"WTF has my focus gone??!"

Yeah get used to that , everythings gonna be web based soon.

Undoo your decades of training.

Join the tab vs spaces debate.

Me being whitespaceydextrous uses spaces on web pages and tab in notepad+

Quite , I'm sure theres a vending machine around here that will give me a pack of "Frazzles" , with the product and the machine having a lifespan over 1 week

Dev's telnet tinkering lands him on out-of-hour conference call with CEO, CTO, MD

Re: net send

" Is there anything that will do the job nowadays?"

yeah write a script along the lines of msgbox("hi there") , copy it to destination pc and run it from there using psexec.

Unless you mean do the job of messaging every user on the network and getting yourself fired , in which case you need a bigger script.

Oh Deer! Poacher sentenced to 12 months of regular Bambi screenings in the cooler

Re: Only one viewing a month?

I agree some sort of empathy-for-your-fellow-man (or in this case beast) classes should be taught.

Or is that a bit too Clockwork Orange?

Is it ok to try to teach the thug who beats pensioners to a pulp in order to steal a little jewelry that that is not ok?

Or is that Mind control ? or against human rights?

Didnt work out well in the film "Serenity"

Re: 'Murica never ceases...

"Or, by any chance, when you say "everyone" are you including toddlers?"

I think they are , i've never heard of any age limits on owning a gun in the US, i could be wrong though.

just googled it , i am wrong age = 12 in 30 states - the rest: anything goes

21 to have a drink

14 to drive a car

help yourself to a rifle

15 can get married in some states

did they pick these numbers out of a hat?

Roll a diplomacy check to win the election: Vote tie resolved by a D20

Re: It came in a box?

So brush up on your CHR, DEX and INT*. . Sadly, we didn't have to look this up.

I would have had to.

My guess was assembly code

Scumbag hackers lift $1m from children's charity

Re: Charity...

I dunno , we have it pretty sweet really compared to what used to be referred to as "The 3rd world"

Spending watchdog points finger at Capita for 1,300 shortfall in British Army rookies

Re: How?

sad but true. most of our tax money must be just getting pissed away

that explains a few things.

Time for a cracker joke: What's got one ball and buttons in the wrong place?

Re: Back in the day

Bob,

I'm gonna go ahead and guess that the words "office" and "hadn't" are missing from that story.

Re: Another mouse tale

I.T support really is akin to childcare at times....

Re: I can beat that upside down mouse story.

I remember their ads for 8 bit addon stuff.

Didnt they do "action replay" catridge?

Re: Not user error

"I worked with a guy who used it like that"

moron.

Did he have L & R written on his hands to facilitate driving.

" was never shown the 'right' way" FFS 20 seconds of using the thing you show you the right way.

If it dosent you are not a thinker and have zero independant thought processes , you are a programmable meatbag , you know , like in the beancounters office?

I've seen films where the zombies have more intuition than that.

Its lucky his mommy showed him the right way to dress himself , or he'd be walking arounf looking into the hood of his jacket.

Re: Embarrasing

The I.T services company I was at prior to current one actually hired a manager (of techies) specifically for his complete lack of I.T. knowledge.

The mind boggles

Hey its friday wheres the funny stuff? oh , here it is hidden under "data centres" and not in "most read"

now ill go read it ....

Here's 2018 in a nutshell for you... Russian super robot turns out to be man in robot suit

The only way they would have got away with that would be to put Peter Crouch in the suit

BOFH: State of a job, eh? Roll the Endless Requests for Further Information protocol

Re: Stuck in a Loop

yeah, but the BOFH was present in this one , and every other .

Do not adjust your set: Hats off to Apple, you struggle to shift iPhones 'cos you're oddly ethical

well the best phone i've ever had is my current one - an iPhone 5. I've had it for at least 2 years , battery lasts 48hrs. Given to me for free , i declare myself the winner of the $$$ / functionality ratio contest

Tumblr resorts to AI in attempt to scrub itself clean from filth

Re: But...

"I understand Tumblrs noble ambitions"

I dont , even after just now having read their wikipedia page.

"short form blogging" apparently

whats that? Whats it for? who uses it?

I guess im too old

Wanna save yourself against NotPetya? Try this one little Windows tweak

Re: Like a US drug commercial...

sounds like common sense when you put it like that

Mystery sign-poster pities the fool who would litter the UK's West Midlands

It's not much of an idea when thought through.

true its over thought technical solution. What proportion of litter are mcdonalds responsible for? youd have to tag all packing and everything in the packaging!

Better to make it more socially outrageous than it is now - like the sign in the article.

Space policy boffin: Blighty can't just ctrl-C, ctrl-V plans for Galileo into its Brexit satellite

Re: ctrl-C, ctrl-V

Farmers use it here to fertilize their crops which is why we only end up with one set of tramlines through fields rather than half the crop chewed up by Jethro driving erratically whilst pissed up on cider.

farmers use ecrypted military gps? no wait , they use the free one - same as all the other examples given above. We dont need this new thing

Re: Who needs GPS?

no , seriously , why *do* we need this?

For the military? what do they need 1cm accuracy for over 30 ft accuracy?

Why do the military always get better stuff than the rest of us?

I could use 1cm accuracy for my drone delivery business.

Dont the US already give us military spec GPS? even though I'm sure we can effectively bomb far away people on garmin gps accuracy

Sysadmin’s plan to manage system config changes backfires spectacularly

Re: Automation does have its place

We had one sysadmin (who is no longer with us) who tended not to like automating stuff too much

obviously in the wrong career then, if not a dangerous liability.

Support whizz 'fixes' screeching laptop with a single click... by closing 'malware-y' browser tab

Re: I was that luser

i too thought of wifi switches reading M E H 's story , and having to explain to a user over the phone where it is, after googling the model myself to see if it even has one

Re: Foodie Friday

Turns out the volume dial when pushed in is a mute

Thats the stupidest fucking idea i've ever heard!

What a meth: Woman held for 3 months after cops mistake candy floss for hard drugs

Re: I recently had to deal with the cops (and live in the US)

and performed sobriety checks, which I passed easily.

Why do american cops still persist with this stoneage method? especially when they have a breathalyzer??

Its no wander they messed up the meth test , they still havent mastered checking for alcohol!

Re: Pretextual traffic stops

not if you want your vehicle back...

Boeing 737 pilots battled confused safety system that plunged aircraft to their deaths – black box

Re: Hey software, get the fuck out of the way! Can it?

What does "Switch to Manual!!" actually mean?

Is it possible for software to "Get the fuck out the way?"

It isnt on my car - a 28 year old sports car - it still has a little computer running software deciding how much fuel to put in and which / when spark plug to fire , and when it fucks up , as it has a few times locomotion ceases.

My cay at least has a throttle cable - most dont these days , and neither do these planes.

Azure MFA falls over, Windows 10 struggles with Intel drivers, and Microsoft gives us... more Sticky Notes?

screw your sticky notes , fix my calc.exe!

It opens up then immediately closes it for some reason :(

Consultant misreads advice, ends up on a 200km journey to the Exchange expert

Re: Spoilers in Tech Docs!

do you click the doorbell or do you press it?

I usually ring it :p

Oh, I wish it could be Black Friday every day-aayyy, when the wallets start jingling but it's still a week till we're paiii-iid

Re: the Netherlands ... an early adopter of "Survival of the First in Line".

Sounds like you encountered a version of the "Barber Shop" queuing system