Posts by katrinab

UK.gov to tech industry: Hands up who can help cut teachers' admin

Re: Quick solution

"Not at all. Instead the success and victory of the feminist cause that has achieved its goals and has been resolved pretty much throughout the west should be taught. That we are already equals and even that the needle has gone the other way."

In the UK, 17% of girls study tech subjects.

In Iran, 70% of girls study tech subjects.

Iran are not generally considered to be world leaders in feminism, and we have a long way to go just to catch up with them. So when describing the situation in the UK, I wouldn't use words like "success", "victory", or "achieved its goals".

By the way, if you look at the number of men doing supposedly women's jobs or studying supposedly women's subjects, that is even worse.

It is exactly the same as the list of government IT projects.

I would like to bid for this

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Re: Quick solution

"Put an outright ban on PC feminism and other stupidity"

So we go back to the supposedly good old days when tech was only for boys, and cooking was only for girls [1].

[1] This attitude still seems to exist despite the fact that the vast majority of Michelin starred chefs are men.

Top Euro court: No, you can't steal images from other websites (too bad a school had to be sued to confirm this little fact)

"Are you supposed to just not use an image in case there is a copyright?"

Yes.

There is a copyright, unless the image is really old and it has expired.

Rights groups challenge UK cops over refusal to hand over info on IMSI catchers

Re: Three?

A phone with a Three sim in it isn't going to connect to a Vodafone tower if it can't find a Three tower.

What happens if your phone is with Three who don't offer a 2G service?

Oi, clickbait cop bot, jam this in your neural net: Hot new AI threatens to DESTROY web journos

Re: Something bad happened! Read more here.

Sorry, being in a relationship with a Daily Mail reader doesn't get you off the hook.

Re: Something bad happened! Read more here.

Or for better examples, look at Outbrain and Taboola.

BlackBerry claims it can do to ransomware what Apple did to its phones

Sounds a bit like Volume Shadow Copies, or zfs snapshots. I presume there is something similar on Linux.

Hmm, there's something fishy about this graph charting AMD's push into Intel's server turf

Re: (misleading stats)

"or are there other x86 vendors in the market whose figures should be added to the mix?"

No, but there are other chips that aren't AMD64 compatible that could be used in some cases. The Itanic is I believe still shipping, and probably someone is using it. ARM is another option

ZX Spectrum reboot latest: Some Vega+s arrive, Sky pulls plug, Clive drops ball

Re: What we need

Obviously emacs is better than vi.

Time to ditch the Facebook login: If customers' data should be protected, why hand it over to Zuckerberg?

I do hope that 07890123456 isn't a real phone number.

Sitting pretty in IPv4 land? Look, you're gonna have to talk to IPv6 at some stage

Re: Never!

"NAT is *not* a security feature!"

Except that it is. For example, I don't need to worry about the possibility that spammers might decide to print ads on my printer, because I haven't forwarded any ports from outside to it.

Nokia scores a $3.5bn deal to inflict 5G on T-Mobile customers

Re: Hmmmm funnily enough...

5 years, but that's OK because I have 8 years experience of working[*] with 5G wifi.

[*] Yes, I know it's not the same thing.

[*] Working with means setting up an Apple Airport and using it.

Re: Stop 5G

Coverage is one of the problems of 3G that 4G solves, so it is better to spend the money rolling out 100% 4G coverage, then switch over the 3G frequencies to 4G use.

Microsoft devises new way of making you feel old: Windows NT is 25

Re: NT4 uptime measured in years

My FreeBSD server hasn't been around quite that long, but I've had it for about 6 years now. Last reboot was 203 days ago to replace the motherboard. My highest uptime was about 4 years.

Early experiment in mass email ends with mad dash across office to unplug mail gateway

WhorePresents.com is a very suitable name for a site to contact your congrescritter, given that they whore themselves out to the highest bidder.

Pronounced Woostershire and Lesstershire

Re: @Aladdin Sane

[raises hand]

ExpertSexChange were really good at spamming Google links back in the day, but they were, and probably still are, utterly useless.

You want to know which is the best smartphone this season? Tbh, it's tricky to tell 'em apart

Re: Calls? Check?

Is that the thing that lets sexist nuisance callers contact me to demand to speak to "the head of the household"? TBH, I would prefer that they didn't support this feature, or at the very least, that they let you uninstall the voice calls app.

My wishlist

3.5mm audio jack

User replaceable battery

All-day battery life

Micro SD card slot

None of the flagships seem to offer these features.

Tech Shutdown Blows: IT chaos cost Brit bank TSB almost £200m

Re: It's gonna cost more than that...

That table is around somewhere. First Direct is top of the list.

I would imagine their anti-moneylaundering checks haven't been as rigorous as they usually are, and people are taking advantage of that, especially as Barclays seems to have cleaned up their act a bit in that department.

You can take off the shades, squinting Outlook.com users. It has gone dark. Very dark

Re: Not a good idea for me.

As far as I'm aware, brown paper is cheapest

Google Chrome: HTTPS or bust. Insecure HTTP D-Day is tomorrow, folks

Re: It's funny to see that now...

"I mean we are long past the time when a passive attacker was a realistic scenario (unless you are at a penny pinching cable ISP)"

or you operate a public wifi service, possibly one with the same SSID as a large provider.

Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter make it easier to download your info and upload to, er, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter etc...

Re: Wha?

Google Plus exists. In the event that you wanted to export your Tweets there, it would be possible to do so.

Cybercrooks slurp nearly $1m from Russian bank after pwning router at regional branch

Re: 'how its possible to take a $1 million out of a ATM in a day?'

The mules buy the cards at a discount to their account value.

Re: ATM's

If the withdrawal limit is eg $500 per day, then put the money in 1000 accounts, create 1000 cards for them, easy if they are magnetic, not so easy if the machines require chip cards, then withdraw $500 on each of them just before midnight and another $500 just after midnight.

♫ The Core i9 clock cycles go up. Who cares where they come down?

Re: i9 works great in a suitable chassis

If that's what it takes, then you may as well buy a desktop.

Taps running dry for Capita? Southern Water pens 5-year managed service

Re: How do they do it?

You need a very large supply of these

https://www.viking-direct.co.uk/a/bb/Envelopes/Brown-Business-Envelopes/Viking/N=2+1288990&cbxRefine=300901/

Brit watchdog fines child sex abuse inquiry £200k over mass email blunder

Re: The Independent non-Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

“Adults are designed to find the young appealing/children are designed to be appealing,”

Not in a sexual way though, and for most pædophiles, it is not actually about finding them attractive, it is about feeling important and powerful.

Re: Bureaucracy fines bureaucracy, nothing changes

"Microsoft could, dare I say it, voluntarily provide such a facility as a corporate social responsibility thing."

They already do. The default limit is set at 5,000 recipients per message, but you can change this.

Sub-Prime: Amazon's big day marred by server crashes, staff strikes

Re: I did write to the Gates Foundation...

The worst thing I've ever heard about Microsoft as an employer is that they can be very bureaucratic.

Two-factor auth totally locks down Office 365? You may want to check all your services...

Re: I always love these tales of companies losing money because of a mail

It tells me that the CEO doesn't follow their own rules

There's an easier way

Someone registered a mis-spelled version of our domain name, and used it to send an email apparently from the CEO requesting a money transfer.

Our CEO just does not do this, so he got a very confused member of staff asking what she was supposed to do with the request.

Mastercard goes TITSUP in US, UK: There are some things money can't buy – like uptime

That sounds like a Curve Mastercard. However, I suspect, if you link it to a Visa, it will fail if either the Visa or Mastercard networks go down.

Just get another credit card from a different bank.

Re: Cash is King

£100 notes still exist in Scotland. I've never seen one though.

It's 2018 so, of course, climate.news is sold to climate change deniers

Homœopathy != herbal medicine, and is not "the traditional system of medicine in many parts of Asia for thousands of years". Homœopathic remedies are no different to, and no more effective than placebos.

Adtech-for-sex biz tells blockchain consent app firm, 'hold my beer'

Re: Gas

Targeted ads should surely be "why men love curves" or something along those lines?

If I got access to that mailing list ...

It might go something like:

8 Reasons why you should dump him now

One of them would be a link to

"Do lesbians have better sex than straight women?" in the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jul/09/do-lesbians-have-better-sex-than-straight-women

The answer is yes by the way

Tech support chap given no training or briefing before jobs, which is why he was arrested

Re: I don't know if anything has changed

That's what apprenticeships are for.

You start off by going out with an experienced techie, carrying stuff, working at the other end of a cable and so on, and you learn on the job.

UK taxman outlines its CHIEF concerns for customs IT systems

Re: A new golden era of prosperity

Marmite is made from the waste effluent of the beer-making process, and similar spreads can be found from the waste effluent byproducts of breweries elsewhere in the world.

You can file your MOSS return using an ODS spreadsheet, recent versions of Excel support this format, but you still need systems to extract the data from the spreadsheet, and deal with people who change the template or type stuff where they shouldn't.

For €10k, Fujitsu will tell you if your blockchain project is a load of bull

Re: Does your Project have any value other than Investment, or Ponzi

Even if the answer is yes, it might still be rubbish.

Let's take Monster Cables as an example

The problem:

People are no longer buying their overpriced cables

The solution:

Create a new MonsterCoin that people can use to purchase their cables

Analysis:

Why don't I buy their cables? Is it because I have to get out my MasterCard to pay for them?

No. I do buy cables, and I pay for them using my MasterCard, just not from Monster.

Would it be easier to buy my cables if I had to first buy a special payment instrument that can only be used to purchase cables from Monster?

No

Conclusion:

The business plan is complete b*******

I also offer a consultancy service

It will cost you €150,000, but I do offer a much more rigorous analysis which takes 2-3 weeks, and rather than just telling you it is a load of bull, I can recommend additional services, at extra cost, to rectify any problems with your business plan. This could include recommendations of alternative technologies where blockchain isn't the most optimal solution.

Skimping on the costs for preparing the business plan is never a good idea, so you should always be prepared to pay good money for a good service.

Leatherbound analogue password manager: For the hipster who doesn't mind losing everything

I’m right handed, but would put stuff in the left hand drawer, as I use the left hand to open the draw and the more dexterous right hand to move things in and out.

Re: Captain Scarlet: Name > website / Phone No. > password

The built-in keychain works well, and syncs with your iDevices.

Google offers to leave robocallers hanging on the telephone

Re: Several approaches

Ask them the date of the alleged accident. That trips them up.

I've never seen an "international" cli. I often see actual foreign numbers. I few months ago, I was getting a load of spam calls from numbers in Guinea.