* Posts by Korev

4910 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2016

A tip for content filter evaluators: erase the list of sites you tested, don't share them on 100 PCs

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Re: mail filters

Scunthorpe is always a good one...

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Re: child filters

I'm sure that a 13 year old kid would be too big to fit through a filter...

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Re: Other ways to justify access

They actually published stories by Roald Dahl at one point too

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Re: Customers

Whilst at university, I vaguely knew a graphic designer who got a job working on the layout of these "speciality" publications, which he assumed was the ultimate job. It turns out he got bored of that kind of imagery very quickly...

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So how did you sweep that one under the carpet?

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Maybe this was long enough a go that there was only one account on each machine ie Windows 9x

UK tax authority nudges net 'influencers': You may owe us for those OnlyFans feet pics

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Re: Customer?

And if you pay VAT - which these influencers should be... HMRC require you to pay a third-party so you can use their software rather than directly enter your VAT data on HMRC's website...

I wonder how many of these influencers turn over enough to have to pay VAT.

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> Are two pedants a biped-ant? (and if so, what happened to its other 4 legs?)

They get to foot the tax bill...

White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake

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Childcatcher

Re: ..a gut-wrenching decision for White Castle's legal team..

The author was having some pun with funs...

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Top punnery

A pint for the author

Intruder alert: FBI tackles 'isolated' IT security breach

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Defence?

If the FBI's child pornography system have been compromised, could that mean that an enterprising defence lawyer defending a paedophile could claim the systems have been tampered with and that the evidence is invalid?

If you have a fan, and want this company to stay in business, bring it to IT now

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Re: air CON

Just for my own interest, what does one test flour for, and how?

Using equipment connected by a cereal port...

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Re: If companies don't keep their IT staff cool in summer, they shouldn't be surprised when...

Nice one Sir

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Re: Boo! Hiss!

Cheers!

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But everybody else was less than impressed by our actions and people bitched about it for a considerable time afterwards," Trent told On-Call.

So they weren't his fans then...

Unplug that Anker battery pack now: House blaze sparks recall

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Re: I keep my e-bike battery separate

I never have a problem with batteries on any of my bikes, mainly because they're bikes and they don't need them...

Oracle NetSuite datacenter plunges offline for a day, customers warned of data loss

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Re: 99.97% availablility in 12 months

TBH I'd be more concerned about half an hour of data going into the ether. At least when the system's down nothing can go missing...

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Re: Captain Scarlet reference

Did they use Thunderbird for email?

This app could block text-to-image AI models from ripping off artists

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Surely selling the art as an NFT would stop this...

Meet the new Citrix, same as the old Citrix – but hybrid

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Re: Same old Citrix

You can't teach an old dog new Ctririx

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Hsu opened by comparing Citrix's recent round of redundancies to a Formula One car's pit stop – having put on fresh tyres and topped up its tank, the machine is ready to accelerate.

What a horrible analogy...

Intel Sapphire Rapids workstation chips tout up to 56 cores, unlocked SKUs

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Re: 56 Cores

Or running lots of VMs?

Which could easily get IO bound -->

Uber strikes deals with Google and Oracle to cut datacenter dependence

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Re: This time next year

Do you think it'd be a good Fitbit for their business?

Wow, so they actually let AI fly an F-16 fighter jet

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That's a Maverick opinion...

AWS puts datacenter in shipping container for the Pentagon

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Re: Highly original

I know they had a containerised[0] datacentre, I don't know if they were first

[0] Proper metal containers, none of this new-fangled Docker malarkey...

Chipmakers threaten to defect to US, EU if UK doesn't get its semiconductor plans sorted

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Re: No, no, no.

> This International English thing is one thing.

International English is much nearer the Queen's English than the nasty form that they downgraded this website to

US military spends weekend shooting down Useless Floating Objects

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Pirate

First question, why are the Yanks shooting down balloons over Canada? Yes, NORAD, but Canada has several squadrons of F-18's. Where the hell are they and why are they not protecting Canadian air space Mr Trudeau?

It's not unheard of for other countries to "police" others' airspace. Ireland pretty much relies on the RAF as it has no fighter jets. I guess it's a top secret if the Irish would order a hijacked passenger plane etc to be shot down over Ireland and if Britain would do it.

UK prepares to go it alone on post-Brexit science plan

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Re: Science vs Politicians

I wonder if eventually Brexit might end up eliminating Politicians on all sides ... replacing them with Scientists might be an improvement.

Like this one?

LockBit's Royal Mail ransom deadline flies by. No data released

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Re: I hear that...

Maybe the baddies had wanted a GET not a POST...

Learn the art of malicious compliance: doing exactly what you were asked, even when it's wrong

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Re: Smoking computers

They had smelled and seen the smoke but remembered my very explicit instructions and let it go until the machine showed flames. They probably feared the wrath of the BOFH.

The BOFH should have bollocked them anyway, just to remind them who's boss

BOFH: Generating a report the Director can show the Board – THIS is what AI was made for

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Re: Relocated

Sadly the whole website has become American...

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We'll found out the end of that tail soon

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Re: The BOFH & PFY using ChatGPT

Are those robots still in the basement?

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Re: Guess ....

Putting "sugar" in your coffee?

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"Part of me feels bad about asking the AI to add a paragraph in the style of someone wanting to publicly admit to a sex addiction."

"He's going to a Board meeting," the PFY says. "They'll probably give him a promotion."

Do you think they'll rat him out?

Romance scammers' favorite lies cost victims $1.3B last year

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Pirate

In these cases, however, the fraudsters convince their marks to "invest" in cryptocurrency using phony websites. Once a victim transfers money to the crooks, the latter abscond and disappear. The money is never seen again.

Is it really that different when you invest in "legitimate" cryptocurrency websites?

What's up with IT, Doc? Rabbit hole reveals cause of outage

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Re: Ouch

I bet it was pretty amped afterwards...

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Re: Ouch

This actually happened to me, my housemate's rabbit chewed through the iron's cable the day before I had a job interview. I can't remember if it was live or not at the time (the wire, not the rabbit)

How happy I was -->

Codebreakers decipher Mary, Queen of Scots' secret letters 436 years after her execution

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Joke

She should have just written a book and made a show on Netflix...

Google's AI search bot Bard makes $120b error on day one

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Re: Disinformation overload

> If information overload equals pattern recognition, then what does disinformation overload equal?

It means people should be bard from using it...

Arm still strong despite SoftBank loss as shipments pass a quarter of a trillion

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Especially not when they cost an ARM and a leg

Eurocops shut down Exclu encrypted messaging app, arrest dozens

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Exclu made it possible to exchange messages, photos, notes and other communications with users, of which Dutch police said there were around 3,000 prior to the service's seizure, 750 of whom were Dutch speakers.

If they'd have spoken Double Dutch then there would have been no need for the encryption...

Private company set up to oversee UK's prototype fusion reactor

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> Get the F1 teams to replace their IC engines with an electric motor, powered by a miniature fusion reactor.

Would you use a Jenson Button to switch it on?

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The government wibbles muchly about STEM, and there's probably even an app for it. But physics is kinda hard, especially if career options are still limited

If you're bright enough to be a physicist then there are much more lucrative jobs in finance available. Most of which won't get the planet out of its climate predicament or make better cancer treatments etc. though...

Cat saves 'good bots' from Twitter API purge

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Re: Cat saves 'good bots' from Twitter API purrrge

What a sordid tail...

Eager young tearaway almost ruined Christmas with printer paper

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Re: The joy that is printing

Bond in the context of this Who Me is quite apt

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Hopefully he's now able to take stock of the situation...

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It was nice of "Jock" to share the story with us

Guy accused of wrecking crypto exchange now hauled into court

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Re: As they say

A fool and his Clickmango are soon parted?

Another RAC staffer nabbed for storing, sharing car crash data

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Re: Bingo time

Hard to see how you get 100% protection against people who are required to have access to the data as part of their job.

The very fact that they were able to pin it down to an individual firmly enough for the ICO to get a search warrant suggests pretty tight controls.

It does look like the RAC have done everything right here and should actually be applauded.