Posts by DontFeedTheTrolls

What a meth: Elderly Melbourne couple sign for 20kg shipment of drugs, say cops

Urban dictionary, not an EL Reg standard unit, by I always thought it was sold in eight balls

"Australian Federal Police said. They've asked that the media keep the couple's identity secret."

Which is all well and good, however I suspect the sender, who may well have fucked up the address, probably knows the address they chose.

'I do not wish to surrender' Julian Assange tells court over US extradition bid

Given the vagueness of the allegations in the indictment it doesn't sound like the United States of America Grand Jury has sufficient evidence to back up the indictment.

Perhaps that evidence will come out at the next hearing, but will it stand up to scrutiny as genuine (i.e. is it video or audio of the meetings, of the hacking, of evidence Assange was directly controlling the actions)?

Sounds like the extradition should be denied, Asswipe should serve his 22 weeks (assuming he can behave and earn parole), and on "release", Asswipe should be taken directly to an airport and put on a plane to Australia. In those 22 weeks the Swedes might re-open their request as one charge doesn't expire until 2020. Sweden or Australia, I don't care, just get him out of the UK.

Aircraft Maintenance Log Entries

Pilot Entry: "evidence of oil seepage on #1 propeller"

Maintenance entry: "evidence removed"

We regret to inform you the massive asteroid NASA's all excited about probably won't hit Earth

"Apophis is travelling at breakneck speeds, and will cross the second largest ocean in a single hour."

Pah!, not very fast at all really. Britain built a plane that regularly crossed that ocean in three hours while serving champagne to overpaid celebrities, politicians and business executives.

VMware now officially supported on Azure. We repeat: VMware now supported on Azure

Re: Philosophical question of the day

Define CPU, is it cores or chips (packages)?

And what about the Internet of Things which are part of the C l o u d ? Are they counted in the total even though like many installations they're not useable but still licensable?

Sky customers moan: Our broadband hubs are bricking it

Re: It's been years since . . . .

"I know not everyone is confident enough to do that and it doesn't help anyone caught up in this mess"

Probably those not confident to use their own router are those not confident of changing their DNS settings, so probably aren't impacted by this new firmware.

Self-taught Belgian bloke cracks crypto conundrum that was supposed to be uncrackable until 2034

Improbable

Maybe all it really needed was a really hot cup of tea

Parents slapped with dress code after turning school grounds into a fashion crime scene

I love how Texas A&M banned Nerf guns from the Halls of Residence. Too risky, they said, people might get injured. Oh, but you can still bring your .44 Magnum

Isn't it Sowfend?

FYI: Yeah, the cops can force your finger onto a suspect's iPhone to see if it unlocks, says judge

Re: Am I the only one that ...

From the article: "issued April 18, is due to be executed by May 2, though it's not clear if it has been carried out yet"

The search warrant was issued April 18, and is open for 14 days for them to then search the property, find phones and press fingers. They may press fingers within minutes of finding the phones and the Track ID will still be active.

Re: Not an item for debate

"already required a reasonable amount of evidence to obtain"

Define reasonable. Friendly Judges and Sheriffs have been known to play this lose and fast.

Re: You can pry my password from my cold, dead lips.

"An even more delightful trick is to set a specific passphrase that causes the auto wipe if entered. Cops want access? Give them the "wrong" password & laugh when they realize they're now holding an expensive paperweight."

Don't be surprised if something that wasn't on the device before it was wiped is magically found once they conduct the search. Have you not noticed how almost all criminals seem to posses child images these days as part of their prosecution. Might be they're all guilty of being paedophiles, being bad n'all...

It's an Easter Jesus miracle: MS Paint back from the dead (ish) and in Windows 10 'for now'

Nostaglia

Bring back Solitaire and Minesweeper...

Yes, there's infinitely more refined versions in the Microsoft Store. But they're bloated and over fancy. Sol and Winmine do the trick at the simplest level (still expandable off that XP CD you've got hidden in a drawer somewhere

Baffling tale of Apple shops' 'non-facial' 'facial recognition', a stolen ID, and a $1bn lawsuit after a wrongful arrest

Play the right video games and its quite easy to be visited by a SWAT team ...

Yes, I may have advised 'some' investors to flog their Autonomy shares, analyst tells High Court

So the analysts covering the company were taking a dim view of it. Surely that should have been ringing alarm bells to the those appointed to perform due diligence, or at the very least to the purchaser looking to minimise the price it paid?

UK watchdog slaps 'misleading' Voda ad: Gigafast... maybe so – but not for £23

Not allowed to call it Giga, but they're still allowed too claim its "unlimited" even when there are fair use limitslimits

Why Qualcomm won – and why Tim Cook had to eat humble Apple pie

Re: Details

"...but just for Apple in a sealed settlement?"

In what universe of fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory would any underhand agreement not lead both companies into a massive world of litigation when it emerged. And it would emerge, because at some point the two are going to fight again, and its who leaks first...

Let 15 July forever be known as P-Day: When UK's smut fans started being asked for their age

Wait, what? The pass only last 24 hours? So my friend who doesn't want to register their details online needs to make a journey to the newsagent every day?

Is there a charge for these passes? That's going to get expensive. And who makes the profit? There must be some profit for the shop otherwise they're not going to sell them. And we all know how good shops are at age checking yoofs buying alcohol...

Supreme Court of UK gives Morrisons the go-ahead for mega data leak liability appeal

Re: If Morrisons is liable for what an employee did ...

"The buck stops here"

Even if the company took reasonable precautions to protect the data, they did lose the data.

Policies and procedures are put in place to minimise the risk of rogue employees, however the entity is responsible for ensuring the data is protected, so the entity and its officers must be held to account, whether that's as an individual (Chief) level if they have failed, or the company (DoD) as a whole.

Easter is approaching – and British pr0n watchers still don't know how long before age-gates come into force

Re: how about a simpler system

But with a PAYG SIM I can fire up a VPN/use a proxy and say goodbye to provider's restrictions

FIFY

Re: how about a simpler system

"Anyone who is in possession of a £10 note can exchange it for a PAYG SIM with internet access"

Any PAYG SIM I've had blocked access to "Adult" content until unlocked through an age verification process. Gambling is one of those blocked categories, never could understand why anyone would want porn on such a small screen.

iOS 13 leaks suggest Apple is finally about to unleash the iPad as a computer for grownups

Re: file system access

Why would you want any of that.

Apple already gives you iCloud to sync all you data between your iPhone, your iPad, your Mac and the NSA. Giving you Unix tools would just (potentially) make some people have to work to see your data.

My HPE-funded lawyer wrote my witness statement, reseller boss tells High Court

Maybe El Reg is reporting this case in a particular light, or perhaps the Judge is getting close to throwing it out, because so far it appear the incompetence and illegality is all on HPE's side.

"Like turning up to a job interview to find you don't recognise the CV the client has been given"

Had that happen more than once. Agency sending their own version of CVs, 10 minutes in and its clear I'm not the right person for the job, so the interviewer and I review what they'd been given against my copy of my CV I had on me. All candidates from that agency were immediately dropped, and I won't let them put me forward anymore.

Kent bloke incurs the anchor of local council after fly-tipping boat

I'm guessing he had a "ferry" and an agreement to provide post-Brexit ferry services but that has now been rescinded so he needed to hide the "ferry" before someone in government finds out it was just a rowing boat ?

Client-attorney privilege? Not when you're accused of leaking Vault 7 CIA code

Re: Pedantic

I was going to down vote the original pedantry however your quote from the dictionary explains my Scottish use of "pled". Not like us to leave out letters, that normally only occurs once the Merkins adopt the word.

French internet cops issue terrorist takedown for… Grateful Dead recordings?

Re: I know why the Grateful Dead are on the list

I expect that Wikipedia page has disappeared in the hour since your message

Uncle Sam charges Julian Assange with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion

"2. He has found a source that can provide him with some newsworthy data."

If that were the case, then I would support the need for protection.

Somebody (might have been Assange) persuaded Manning dump masses of data from multiple sources, then Wikileaks dumped that data into the wild. 700,000 documents IIRC.

That they got lucky and it contained the atrocities was sheer luck, not a targeted whistleblowing. If they had released only the critical items, I could support that it was whistleblowing. Dumping everything is only done to piss off the Merkins.

IBM, Oracle JEDI bids weighed, measured and found wanting: Amazon, Microsoft last standing in Pentagon cloud race

So let me get this straight.

Two of the four bidders lodged legal challenges to the contract.

Two of the four bidders have been discounted from eligibility to run the contract.

And its the same two bidders...

As you wrap up this month's patch installs, don't forget these Intel fixes

Re: On most operating systems these will be installed automatically

Which operating systems install firmware updates?

London's Metropolitan Police arrest Julian Assange

However what they do not have is the right to avoid going to court where their innocence can be tested

Schrödinger's box has been opened, now we find out if the Americans really want him or not

Make America Infringe Again: Trump campaign video pulled over Batman copyright

Re: Predictable

You can't have HATRED without a RED HAT

Hello, tech support? Yes, I've run out of desk... Yes, DESK... space

Re: Teaching

Minesweeper which requires right click to flag mined squares specifically designed to troll Apple fanbois who only have one mouse button.

p.s. the games run on Windows 10 if you extract them from the Original 95 CD (I think they lasted up to Windows 7), and yes, while you can get them from the Microsoft Store, they're not the same.

Teaching

Many organisations spent a lot of time and money deleting Solitaire from Windows 95 not realising what a fantastic tool it was to help newbies learn mouse skills.

Google Pay tells Euro users it has ditched UK for Ireland ahead of Brexit

Lost Tax

Just as we're starting to get Google to pay tax in the UK, we've lost it again due to Brexit.

"Brexit will be good for business", they said. Expect there's no business left.

Teen TalkTalk hacker denies flogging stolen personal data for Bitcoin

"earned his Bitcoin wealth by selling stolen Instagram data on an unnamed internet forum, including posts where Gunton allegedly claimed to have "fresh to market" details of "high tier" Instagram users"

Hopefully they are going to name the unnamed Internet forum and Instagram users, or is the above as deep as the burden of proof goes for convictions these days...

Google UK forks out £65m tax in 2018, a boost of 40% on previous year

Re: One fair tax rate

You're comparing oranges with lamb chops. People paying personal tax is entirely different from companies paying corporation tax.

Unionised BT workers reject plans to revamp pay, grading structures

"a claim BT has since denied"

Never believe a rumour until it's officially denied.

It's time to reset the 'Days without a Facebook data loss' sign after 500 million records left exposed on AWS

Given this is US and Mexico based companies and users, GDPR doesn't directly apply.

Here's to you: UK.gov praises Reg-reading techies for keeping on top of cybersecurity

Re: Tell the boss you're not slacking off – it's vital threat intelligence research

Perhaps all subject areas need nuanced renaming...

This article is clearly in "Security", but how do you explain "Bootnotes"?

IT meltdown bank TSB: It's as good a week as any to announce we're taking back control

I wonder if they're putting a backstop in place...

Someone's spreading an MBR-trashing copy of the Christchurch killer's 'manifesto' – and we're OK with this, maybe?

V for Vendetta

Censorship is normally counter-productive. Where it is publicly announced you generate more curiosity than you prevent. Where the censorship is secret, well, who knows what you're not being allowed to see.

If you haven't seen the film V for Vendetta go watch it now, especially if you're in the UK and suffering the Brexit shenanigans. A reminder of what might happen to a country when self-righteousness leaders end up in charge of governments when "we must do something" occurs.

Brit Parliament online orifice overwhelmed by Brexit bashers

Re: @DontFeedTheTrolls

"We spent 20 years trapped in the EU without a say because we were not asked what we want"

Good grief. We elect Members of the European Parliament in same way as every other European citizen. Everyone has an equal say. Perhaps we didn't get what we wanted because we elected arseholes like Nigel Farage who didn't stand up for what "we" wanted and did all he could to disrupt the democracy of Europe.

NASA's first all-woman spacewalk outside ISS cancelled – due to lack of spacesuits that fit

I'm surprised I got this far through the comments and not found something along the lines of "two women refusing to go out in the same outfit"

Brekkie TV host Lorraine Kelly wins IR35 ruling against HMRC, adds fuel to freelance techies' ire over tax reforms

Re: Seems to be par for the course

You don't have to sign an employment contract to be an employee, an employment contract can be made verbally, however signing one makes it much easier to prove what was agreed between the two parties if ever a dispute arises.

Re: law that it cannot even implement itself

"It's surprising they're going after people like Lorraine Kelly who have the money to fight it."

Because Johnnie Smith the contractor nobody has heard of having to cough up £10,000 to HMRC does not make a headline in the Daily Mail.

Extracting MILLIONS of tax avoidance from well known rich people goes down well with the general scum (except they didn't, and hit the headlines anyway)

Super-crook admits he nicked $122m from Facebook, Google by sending staff fake invoices for tech kit

Re: Old but still effective

Was the Ladies toilet in the basement? Was there a locked filing cabinet with a sign saying "Beware of the Leopard"

Let's spin Facebook's Wheel of Misfortune! Clack-clack-clack... clack... You've won '100s of millions of passwords stored in plaintext'

"We have found no evidence to date that anyone internally abused or improperly accessed them"

In what universe would anyone be properly accessing passwords, never mind improperly.