Posts by Ochib

How long till some drunkard puts a foot through one of BT's 'iconic, digital smart city communication hubs'?

Re: Oh....really?

Was it this article?

https://www.theregister.com/2011/09/22/bt_copper_cable_theft/

Plug your phone into a random USB Socket

what's the worst that can happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juice_jacking

BOFH: Pass the sugar, Asmodeus, and let the meeting of the Fellowship of Bastards … commence

Re: IoUT - Internet of Useless Things

https://iout.rehabagency.ai/

The unit of measure for fatbergs is not hippopotami, even if the operator of an Australian sewer says so

Omnibus is derived from Latin and means "to, for, by, with or from everything". ...

Pural

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the plural of Hippopotamus is Hippopotamuses (see also Octopus and Octopuses)

Fired credit union employee admits: I wiped 21GB of files from company's shared drive in retaliation

$10k Cost

They'll have spent $2k just in staff time in meetings to work out what happened, why it happened, how it happened and how to fix it.

Then there's the server rebuild, detailed analysis of which data can and can't be recovered, the recovery itself, validating the recovery, reacquiring the data that couldn't be recovered, communications and customer management activities around that and, well, $10k feels quite cheap.

Logitech Bolt devices support secure Bluetooth Low Energy – but forget the 'Unifying Receiver'

Standards

Relevant XKCD

https://xkcd.com/927/

Leaked Guntrader firearms data file shared. Worst case scenario? Criminals plot UK gun owners' home addresses in Google Earth

Re: Storage

muzzle-loading pistols are legal

Re: Storage

Nope. The guidance states

"Under the Firearms Rules 1998, a prescribed safekeeping condition is attached to all firearm and shotgun certificates. It is an offence not to comply with these conditions. The maximum penalty for this offence can be up to 6 months in prison, or a fine, or both.

The safekeeping condition attached to firearms or shotgun certificates requires that the guns and section 1 ammunition must be stored securely to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, unauthorised people taking or using them. Any other person who does not hold a firearm or shotgun certificate is included in the term ‘unauthorised’.

When a gun or section 1 ammunition is being used or the holder has the gun with him for some purpose connected with its use, transfer or sale, reasonable precautions must be taken for the safe custody of the gun(s) and section 1 ammunition.

The condition does not apply to the ammunition for a shotgun. However, as a matter of common sense, you should take reasonable precautions for its safe custody."

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/117794/security_leaflet.pdf

Think you can solve the UK's electric vehicle charging point puzzle? The Ordnance Survey wants to hear about it

Re: Park for Night

Ethanol has has zero issues apart from taking farm land out of production

Lost in IKEA? So, it seems, is Windows

For a real Ikea horror story

Read SCP-3008

A Whopper of a bork for seekers of pre-flight nosh

Re: How long is the flight?

Trains are quicker (just) but about 3 times the price

BOFH: 'What's an NFT?' the Boss asks. In this case, 'not financially thoughtful'

Re: Turings?

Like Scottish notes in England

living in England and I'm not likely to see many of them. They're likely to be treated as dodgy cos they're not issued by a English bank

Elevating bork to a new level (if the touchscreen worked)

Re: As the building is in the UK

Yes it should, and don't call me shirley

Wireless powersats promise clean, permanent, abundant energy. Sound familiar?

Icarus

Just call it project Icarus and then get someone to hold the earth hostage from an ice hotel

Tesla battery fire finally flamed out after four-day conflagration

Re: Concrete

Only if the front falls off

Journo who went to prison for 2 years for breaking US cyber-security law is jailed again

Re: Monitoring software?

According to the indictment, they (the US Government) sort 3 year of supervised release. The monitoring software was properly put there by the Government

Iffy voltage: The plague of PC builders and Hubble space telescope controllers alike

Breaking the cardinal rule of IT

No change Fridays

UK's data watchdog probes use of private email to discuss government business at the Department of Health

Re: open goal I should imagine

That email address breaks the Scunthrope rule and can't be used on AOL

Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima's exclusion zone

Wars fought between Humans and Animals 1

Wars won by Animals 1 (Emus V the Oz army)

‘Fasten your seat belts, raise your tray table, and disconnect your Bluetooth headsets from the entertainment unit’

I am and don't call me Shirley

Toyota reveals its work on an honest-to-goodness cloak of invisibility

I see Q branch has leaked information again

They must have let Toyota have a good look at the Martin V12 Vanquish/Vanish

Blue passports, French service provider: Atos bags £21m UK Passport Office deal

Re: "become completely digital"

Welsh signs gone wrong

https://cyclingwales.co.uk/badlytranslated.html

FBI paid renegade developer $180k for backdoored AN0M chat app that brought down drug underworld

Re: Huh?

In March "canyouguess67" posted on WordPress that ANOM was a "scam" and that a device he had tested was "in constant contact with" Google servers and relayed data to non-secure servers in Australia and the United States.

"I was quite concerned to see the amount of IP addresses relating to many corporations within the 5 eyes Governments (Australia, USA, Canada, UK, NZ who share information with one another)," the post said before it was deleted.

UK's BT starts trials of new hollow-core optical fibre networks

I used to work in a village just outside Birmingham. BT said that they would run FTTC if there was more than 100 people would express an interest in that product.

It took us 2 days and the local phone book to get 200 people signed up.

High-frequency trading

If there is an advantage to hollow fibers HFT companies will be the first to move

Former IT manager from Essex pleads guilty to defrauding the NHS of £800k

VAT non payment

I would have thought that not paying HMRC the difference between input and output VAT would come under defrauding HMRC and not the NHS

Seeking an escape from the UK? Regulations aimed at rocket and satellite launches from 2022 have arrived

Relevant Tom Scott video

https://youtu.be/jYgiV4Iz7I0

The Home Office will need to overturn a long legacy of failure to achieve ambition of all-digital border by 2025

If it is fully digital

does that means that the immigration officers will be counting on their fingers

Oops, says Manchester City Council after thousands of number plates exposed in parking ticket spreadsheet

Re: Swiss number plates

It is also possible to own two (or more) vehicles that share the vehicle license number plates: the plates are physically unmounted from one vehicle and mounted on another, provided the vehicles in question are owned by the same owner of the vehicle license number plate. These plates are known locally as "Wechselschilder".

NHS-backed org reacted to GitHub leak disclosure with legal threats and police call, complains IT pro

I think the answer to the question "whose money" is our money, via the Dept of Health

RIP Spencer Silver: Inventor of the Post-it Note, aka the office password reminder, dies

Re: RIP Spencer

Did they record the passwords on the monitor bezels with a Dremel? The IT department that I used to work at caused mass confusion by swapping the monitors over one weekend.

So many calls on Monday from users saying that their accounts had been locked, but they were sure that they were using the correct password.

Stale and past its best. Are you talking about Windows or the pizza you're waiting for?

Pizza toppings

anchovies ftw

The Wight stuff: Marconi and the island, when working remotely on wireless comms meant something very different

The First Ever Wireless Hack: Marconi vs Maskelyne

https://youtu.be/sP2qqMegNKA

File this next to Mars bars under 'things that should not be deep-fried': Marks & Spencer's Colin the Caterpillar

The scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could

they didn't stop to think if they should.

WTH are NFTs? Here is the token, there is the Beeple....

Looks like a good way to launder money

Create art in a NFT and get someone to buy for a few million. Nice clean cash

UK government gives Automated Lane Keeping Systems the green light for use on motorways

Re: 37MPH

At present in the UK, there is no legislation for minimum speeds on UK motorways. Although there has been calls for years to set a minimum speed limit, the practicalities of doing so means that at present there is still no specific minimum speed. The Republic of Ireland has a minimum speed of 30 mph on motorways, .

In some cases, there have been individuals who have received fines for driving too slow on the motorway, although these are extremely rare.

SpaceX flings another bunch of humans into orbit in reused capsule atop reused booster

Re: Two crews

You have Hot Desking and Hot Bunking, so it shouldn't be a problem

How not to apply for a new job: Apply for it on a job site

Re: LinkedOut.

Or Skype

UK reseller sues Microsoft for £270m in damages claiming prohibitive contracts choke off surplus Office licence supplies

Re: "Earlier this year it slashed the length of support perpetual licence holders could expect."

Isn't that the same as "Unlimited broadband (Subject to Fair Use Policy)". Either something is unlimited or it isn't

Their 'next job could be in cyber': UK Cyber Security Council launches itself by pointing world+dog to domain it doesn't own

Re: Why?

You are all welcome at the Judean Popular Front

Mullet over: Aussie boys' school tells kids 'business in the front, party in the back' hairstyle is 'not acceptable'

Re: Ahhh.

First they came for the Mullets and I did not speak out because I had no hair

Scottish National Party members found among list of names signed up to rival Alba Party after website whoopsie

I'm setting up a new party - Campaign for a Free Scotland

Ticker tape and a binary message: Bank of England's new Alan Turing £50 must be the nerdiest banknote ever

£50 notes the currency of corrupt elites, of crime of all sorts and of tax evasion

Move aside, Technoking: All hail the Sweat Master and his many inspirational job titles

Looks like the fire at OVH will replace The Floods of 1967 as the new reason why files can't be found

With Nominet’s board-culling vote just days away, we speak to one man who will publicly support the management

Re: All I want is a registry that just works.

In the 1930s, the Italians developed an engine fuel technology that used household spices.

It’s true. Mussolini made the trains run on thyme.

Millimetre-sized masses: Physics boffins measure smallest known gravitational field (so far)

Golden balls and no mention of Jasper Carrot? Shameful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Balls

Space station dumps 2.9-ton battery pack to burn up in Earth's atmosphere after hardware upgrade

Re: Ballistics Officer

This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight! Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class Dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb. That is three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth.

That means: Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space! (...) I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty! Once you fire this hunk of metal, it keeps going 'till it hits something! That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship.

It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you are ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime!"

OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg – all services unavailable

Re: The Cloud

Offprem ≠ Cloud

Would you let users vouch for unknown software's safety with an upvote? Google does

McBoatfacing

To get Boaty McBoatfaced means that you’ve made the critical mistake of letting the internet decide things. In other words, as much as we revere democracy, there are times — and they do typically involve the internet — when one’s fellow citizens deliberately make their choices not in order to foster the greatest societal good, but, instead, to mess with you.

The city of Austin, Texas, got McBoatfaced, for example, when it asked the internet to name its waste management service. The internet obliged by suggesting it be named in honor of Fred Durst, the frontman of the rock band Limp Bizkit.

Taylor Swift and VH1 got McBoatfaced when they asked the internet to choose a location for her forthcoming concert. The internet obliged by choosing the Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. (Ms. Swift, proving once and for all that she is a good sport, donated $10,000 to the school, before settling on another venue.)

But sometimes these episodes can take a darker turn. Mountain Dew got McBoatfaced when it asked the internet to name its new flavor. The internet — largely driven by members of the message boards Reddit and 4chan — obliged by naming the new flavor “Hitler Did Nothing Wrong.”