Posts by Poe

Amazon Key door-entry flaw: No easy fix to stop rogue couriers burgling your place unseen

Wait, the door doesn't re-lock until it's instructed to?

Is this as simple as:

1) Wait for door to be unlocked

2) Switch mains breaker off/pull fuse

3) Profit

No fancy jamming equipment needed?

576-megapixel 'Zwicky Transient Facility' telescope sees first light

New item for the reg standards soviet?

1 Zwicky = 247 full moons

Applications limited, for now...

nbn™'s problems were known – in 2008, a year before its birth

Re: Ideology over good policy

Labor = ALP

Infrastructure aside, the entire process has been to replace a monopoly with a monoply. Frankly, I'd say it's right on track and none of the ruling parties have done anything to protect the public from the inevitable mess.

Our pacemakers are totally secure, says short-sold St Jude

Re: [fail]

Your shipment of fail has arrived :/

IBM used dud DoS shield for failed online census says Oz PM

It is genuinely hard to believe we're legally required to trust them.

I can only hope there was at least one person in these meetings that put their hand up and said "what we're doing is dumb" and was shouted down... It means they might have someone to ask how to fix this. If no one saw this coming or even objected it shows a staggering void of critical thinkers.

I hope it's not another herd of yes men and a naked emperor... But based on the current tide of emperors, this one will almost certainly be an agile scrum master with an 'extensive' background in cloud and devops.

Australian national census fails in the IBM cloud

Re: Go to bed

As opposed to the amazing life of an elReg AC commentard?