Posts by Prosthetic Conscience

DXC Tech asks staff to profile their skills

"exciting" development that "align with with our new organisation’s harmonisation efforts"

Whats the best way of cleaning vomit off my keyboard?

Donald Trump's tweets: Are they presidential statements or not?

So essentially

the DoJ's position is in line with Trump's agenda: "X is true when X needs to be true and Y is talse/fake when it needs to be both open to re-evaluation at a future time, leave them confused, let them ridicule and not criticize and we're all good for the next 3 years."

Ads watchdog tells Plusnet: There's no way unlimited business broadband costs £4.50

Maybe they actually meant "worth" £4.50

The Quantum of Firefox: Why is this one unlike any other Firefox?

The cost of complacency

Before Chrome FF was top dawg and even though it was slowly getting worse it didn't matter because it was still light years ahead of IE (and perhaps cos it had google's backing?). People are saying it looks like chrome but 57 is markedly different and better visually (and has an option for compact layout which is nice, since v3 I always liked that I can increase the viewable webpage space though various tweaks and extensions). And looks more consistent on mac and windows now too (as one is a work PC...).

Think the US is alone? 18 countries had their elections hacked last year

They tried with France; and Germany is already "destabilized" in their eyes with the fugee crisis, which btw is the doing of the same mostly non-European actors.

OK, we admit it. Under the hood, the iPhone X is a feat of engineering

"stacked in a sandwich configuration"

As opposed to the "Wigan stag/hen do" configuration?

'The Queen' is showing Geneva how to be polite on public transport

Re: They've obviously never been on the Tube...

I've never been lucky to have to commute on the Tube (Northern Rail however...), I don't understand why people rush for the in the tube when there's a next one in 2-3 minutes (in the places I've seen this)? I'd lose my shit and dash for a rail service but the next one will be in 30 minutes and if I miss it I /will/ be late (plot twist: I'm late anyway because they'd get delayed or the autumn leaves are the wrong kind of slippery)

Official: Perl the most hated programming language, say devs

No way! Didn't realise el reg runs on Perl. Been on it for years and still use it daily. I hate myself not the language. And no wonder people find it intimidating and quickly send me some example snippet that doesn't even have use strict;.. Yes TIMTOWTDI but if you do the same things the same way across a project that's all right, can solve a system side problem way faster than my PHP colleague (bless him) wether it's to do with a DB or files or network/snmp.

And by the way, looking at ruby loops or ternary operators and such I don't understand why people consider Ruby closer to natural language. I guess haters gonna hate

Why you can't boycott the Mail: Google makes a mint from 'fake news'

Re: And the advertisers wonder...

Not only the auto play but that massive popup "Keep In Touch" style that blocks off the entire screen!

National Audit Office: We'll be in a world of pain with '90s border tech post-Brexit

I can think if one

SalesfarceDotCom

NYC cops say they can't reveal figures on cash seized from people – the database is too shoddy

Re: How seizure laws ever stood --

I like this dissonance in (I assume, as an outsider) republican policy, take power away from government, but have this organ or government pay for itself by giving it more power

Elon Musk says Harry Potter and Bob the Builder will get SpaceX flying to Mars

Oof deep throttling

She knows ->

I love disruptive computer jargon. It's so very William Burroughs

Re: Hmm.

SQL - es cue el; MySQL - Mysequel. That PNG one is dumb it's 3 letters, English is perfectly capable of dealing with that

Equifax: About those 400,000 UK records we lost? It's now 15.2M. Yes, M for MEELLLION

Equifax has brought every analytical tool, technique and data asset it has available to bear in order to ‘fill in the blanks’

[...]

GROUP BY maiden_name, password

Got a software development and deployment story?

Got a software development and deployment story?

Yes, it's slowly destroying my body and my mind

Trump accuses Facebook of bias, collusion with his least favourite newspapers

How is an echo chamber biased?

Paris doesn't know either..

Twitter's 280-char blog mode can be enabled client-side. Just sayin'

Brexit, then Trump now this..

Deloitte is a sitting duck: Key systems with RDP open, VPN and proxy 'login details leaked'

Some questions

Do they have some ISO audits/certifications?

Is the weak security inherited from acquired businesses?

How, in today's internet where there's constant background noise of malicious scanning for vulnerabilities by bots and haxxors, do these things come to light now? Or they choose not to screw with big corporations unless they can get juicy private data?

London Mayor backs talks with Uber after head honcho's apology

All those signatures..

Will this be one of the last peaceful Government vs Corporations battles, ultimately using humans as ammunition?

Been reading too much Richard Morgan perhaps.

The inevitable Uber PR leanings though.. scary and all those mongs signing the petition.. Sure TfL could be more easily seen as the conventional bad guy but that's mainly due to Uber's campaign.

Compsci degrees aren't returning on investment for coders – research

Re: Don't bother

Amen.

Programming sucks, enjoy your burn out in the late 20s.. (*scans through the gray hairs on my colleagues noggins*) Only interesting thing I could imagine being some kind of academic data analysis related job and that wont be easy to find.

And those salaries numbers are useless unless they say the 'where'. Game dev in Hull you might be on <=30k but live like a king.

Hubble catches a glimpse WASP-12b, an almost pitch-black exoplanet

Maybe

It's Larry Ellison's

Five ways Apple can fix the iPhone, but won't

There are Androids with 10000mAh but you'll be sewing your pockets back every week, that stuff is heavy. 6000 with current tech is also as big as a fat phone right now..

On the other hand I can get 3 days easy with my OPO 5, it's thinner than iPhones and also aluminium body. (H/P jack at the bottom too, finally, as it's a lot more natural imo having your phone downwards in your pocket as the direction of your your palm is..). If I don't bother charging it 10 100% I can charge her to 75% in about 15-20 min and last nearly 2 days.

Achievement unlocked: Tesla boosts batteries for Irma refugees

Re: additional battery capacity

Locks the doors and cuts off the air supply presumably. The problem is it can't distinguish between that and losing mobile signal to the controlling servers.

Daily Stormer binned by yet another registrar, due to business risks

Why don't they use some Russian or Ukranian registrar there are plenty of neo-nazi sympathizers over there (not to mention all the alt-right trolling factories are based predominately there too). It will be a fitting metaphor for the subtle online dismantling of western left-ish values by vocal American *-right and Russian/Kremlin professional trolls.

Cognitive dissonance is strong with those types (referring to regional history)..

Well, whad'ya know? 'No evidence' that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower

Oooh I see what you did there, very subtle!

NSA enters stage two of its spying revival plan: Getting Trump onboard

I thought Trump as a "conservative" would be all about personal freedoms and restricting fed govt reach. Would his prepper alt-whatever electorate have anything to say about this? Unless they consider themselves as part of the "I've nothing to hide" camp.

Judge: You can't call someone a c*nt, but a C∀NT is a cunning stunt

Well looking at his board all I can read is "Malcolm you can't say we can't [..]" so if the judge said that's criminal that'd literally be thought crime?

So thoughtful. Uber says it won't track you after you leave their vehicles

Re: Makes me laugh...

So what if there's a bigger elephant in the room, we can sort the smaller ones as well, no?

Salesforce CEO: We're doing great because everyone else in CRM sucks

It's exactly the enterprisy bit that makes it so attractive to C*Os that were landed on your company and think they know it's the magic bullet to fix your propblems. (All problems. Yes that includes boiling the ocean™)

Boffins blast beats to bury secret sonar in your 'smart' home

"These tests show CovertBand can track walking subjects with a mean tracking error of 18cm and subjects moving at a fixed position with an accuracy of 8cm at up to 6m in line-of-sight and 3m through barriers,"

Precise enough so the H-K drone can snipe you through the roof/walls without visual contact. Impressive

US cops point at cell towers and say: Give us every phone number that's touched that mast

Re: If you are a bad-un all you need to do is:

Damn, yes. I must be a very dodgy criminal every time I switch the thing off for the theatre or a concert.

You might be one day! Was the showing pre-approved?! WHO WERE YOU WITH?!

Because everyone is jumping on the "big data" wagon.

Old Firefox add-ons get 'dead man walking' call

Re: Time to disable updates

Yeah for Windows the ripped off Chrome design it's somehow considerably uglier (I use FF on a mac as well but I guess I'm desensitized into liking slate gray monotonous a-functional design on the apples hence not resorting to the theme restorer..)

I'm sure they'll update the extensions to this new format... eventually? I 'member when they switched to the new versioning we could just change some string in the extension code to make it 'compatible' again.. I doubt this will be that simple though

StarCraft. Intel's 100 robo-rides. Nvidia's license to print money. Your Friday AI roundup

Nuclear launch detected

I remember a time when bots playing in place of person players was cheating, will AI replace having fun with my friends on SC?

</cynical friday mood>

I guess google/fb need to free my time up even more so that I can block their ads stare at their ads all day.

Mediocre Britain: UK broadband ranked 31st in world for speed

What I think is not mentioned is

that in Bulgaria and Romania even though they might be the 'poorest' EU countries such internet incl FTTP is dirt cheap even compared with the Big Mac index.

Why do you cry when chopping onions? No, it's not crippling anxiety, it's this weird chemical

Re: pah!

Perhaps you're empty inside?

New iPhone details leak: Yes, Apple is still chasing Samsung

1400$

Meanwhile the faces at apple HQ --->

US spies hacked our phones over the air, claim pipeline protesters

Re: Glad to see that...

I thought the Constitution was just to show off to other countries?

Virgin Media's profanity warning triggered by chief exec's name

"faceless change drivers with no concern for the <insert bought company name> values"

So whats new?

O2 admits to throttling network bandwidth for EU data roamers

It's 3

Whatever partnership they do with local providers it's always throttled but more skillfully than O2, for example they figure out when you stream something and throttle that more aggressively than loading pages, sometimes you can barely stream 128kbps internet radio. I've seen that in NL, DE, BG, ES, AT

New Column Width

Yes please or have some option to expand it back or something..

UK spookhaus GCHQ can crack end-to-end encryption, claims Australian A-G

Ah Britain,

Exporting democratic and humanitarian values since..

Wait a minute!

Sysadmin bloodied by icicle that overheated airport data centre

10mm copper tube

When I first moved to the UK I found it strange how you have all those bare copper tubes going in and out of the houses... And of course one day that cold winter a couple years ago our water froze and I had to crawl following said pipes with a hair dryer or the kettle, pointless exercise, just had to weather to let up..

I still haven't found what I'm malloc()ing for: U2 tops poll of music today's devs code to

Yes me please. Silence, some natural light as well but not so much as to force me to have the screen on max brightness burning my eyes for 8/9hours, humane temperature, is it so much to ask for?

These artists?! Your problem is they all have vocals, can't work with vocals. Can't work near the kitchen breakout area in the open plan office either. Some people left for another office now there's more open space fewer desks: Great! Nope, PMs and C*O come stroll around loudly talking on their mobiles in the empty area now. Someone back in accounts clearly can't see their desk phone flashing in their face so the ringtone volume is turned to 11.. The IT tech support guys, bless them, get bored and start playing music on some Sonos, which I personally find as the most anti-social thing you can do in an open plan office (and yes generic crap music from in the survey). Not to mention some of the girls and guys I can hear shouting to each other across the entire office asking questions. Why are people so afraid of silence? I like to play music (usually to block all the above (and yes usually disgusting (to some people) military grade jungle or hardcore or acid tekno with a K) but I use earphones!!! I don't blast it to everyone). Nothing beats silence.

Do I sound upset?

Pop-up Android adware uses social engineering to resist deletion

Re: No other options but to press "OK"

that is horrifically bad English, so it's pretty obvious the author is not a native speaker

One does not imply the other, but the latter definitely should ring alarm bells. I've seen some horrific English from my British colleagues, from customers as well, makes me cringe every time.

Obama's intel chief says Russia totally tried to swing it for Trump

Confusion

About the guy's credibility, and the other reg article https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/07/nsa_leaker_bust_gets_weirder_senator_claims_hacking_is_wider_than_leak_revealed/ this is all to overload you with information so you don't know what is true and what isn't. I suppose back in th'day they can just conceal such stuff because there wasn't an Internet, now they've just adapted to leverage it to achieve the same secrecy through mass confusion so that "people" stop caring or get entrenched in their own echo chambers.

MySQL devs take cache behind shed, shot heard

<currently trending *js solution> performs much better than MySQL on every level, I'd use that.