Posts by DishonestQuill

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be gone in ten years – for chump change

It's only 13€ billion we're getting so I'm pretty sure that money is ear marked for failing to build a children's hospital and maybe sticking down the foundations of a few houses, not that we'll finish construction mind you.

Re: "Curbing their spread feels like a good idea"

Any recommendations for where to get them? I don't do a lot of running but if they do shorts, they'll be of use to me

Musk deflects sluggish Tesla car sales with Optimus optimism

Re: Everyone will want a humanoid robot

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Forget feet and inches, latest UK units of measurement are thinking bigger

Re: Osman is only good for the big stuff

I can't quite remember, was a Truss established as a unit of time?

If it was, then shirley the real question becomes: how many Sunaks does light travel during a Truss?

Dublin debauchery derails Portal to NYC in six days flat

Re: From our 'what did they think would happen' correspondent.

Unfortunately that is not as much of a given as we wish it was in any Dublin shopping center.

Cops drill into chat apps, sink plot to smuggle tonnes of coke into Europe

Re: A missed opportunity

Vox populi, vox decorum; shepherded by a thoughtful prince of course.

Neighbors angry as another North Korean 'satellite' launch attempt fails

Re: "the launch contravened UN resolutions"

I assume because the UN is meant to be a neutral arbiter. Whether or not it actually is neutral seems debatable.

Reddit reveals security incident that looks more SNAFU than TIFU

Re: Yes, firing would be stupid.

Any tips on where to find these reasonable bosses?

I've only ever found ones that seek sacrifices for the board....

Malvertising attacks are distributing .NET malware loaders

Don't forget the detol or gingerbeer for lube!

Meanwhile, in Japan, pet fish run up credit card bill on Nintendo Switch

Re: Gambling

I believe there will be a follow up article next week, no doubt the trout will come out then.

John Deere signs right to repair agreement with US ag lobbyists

Re: "per subscription or sale,"

Well, thank you for that vivid image. You have just brought back the memory of a summer spent clearing up roadkill

Voice assistants failed because they serve their makers more than they help users

Re: The same applies to tv series and games

Of the many complaints you can level at Robert Jordan, I wouldn't have thought of that one.

Best example of a current series stretched out for cash has to be the Dresden Files. Damn but that is dragging on

ChatGPT has mastered the confidence trick, and that's a terrible look for AI

Re: Coding for morality?

BofH does have a moral code: What's mine is mine, and what's mine is my own!

San Francisco investigates Hotel Twitter, Musk might pack up and leave

Re: No, way, they beat us?

Onwards to the Shed of Theseus!

Look like Bane, spend like Batman with Dyson's $949 headphones

Re: Total suckers

Henry are very good but Fast give them a run for their money, you'll go through more fuses but they weigh a lot less. Such are the things you learn when working as a cleaner for 13 years.

UK lawmakers look to enforce blocking tools for legal but harmful content

Re: This "shield" already exists

Shirley, it would be blocked by default, at least the feeds about it from reliable news networks, to better to hide the goings on of TPTB?

Just 22% of techies in UK aged 50 or older, says Chartered Institute for IT

Re: Unsurprising

At least burglar alarms make for a cushy side gig.

Elon Musk to abused Twitter users: Your tormentors are coming back

Re: Very old proverb

Vox populi, vox decorum, shepherded by a thoughtful price of course -Sir PTerry, Raising Steam.

@El reg: Can we get a Discworld icon, please?

World Cup phishing emails spike in Middle Eastern countries

Re: Hypocrites

A lot of people do say that and have been saying it for years, go read some of the old articles on The Intercept from 2014-2018.

People complain about all sorts of things all the time but its ignored by most because it's not "news" until it's occurring at the same time as the world cup or something similar.

Security firms hijack New York trees to monitor private workforce

Re: Moving?

T'was indeed a PTerry reference. From Mort, if I remember correctly.

Buggrit Millenium hand and shrimp

Re: Watching the watcher

Thank you for saving me the effort of typing that out.

Thud! may not have been his finest piece of writing by I was always keen on A.E. as a character.

Investor tells Google: Cut costs now and stop paying staff so much

Re: TCI Fund Management

I must object to you slandering vikings by associating them with activist investors.

Elon Musk jettisons Twitter leadership, says takeover was 'to try to help humanity'

Re: Tihe taste of schadenfreude

And if you are going to do that, I'd recommend listening to the Iron Dice podcast. Very interesting stuff about the early years of Weimar and the end of WW1.

Infosec still (mostly) a boys club

Re: Call me back when...

That very much depends on where you are and possibly who you are working for.

Delta Air Lines throws $60m at flying taxi startup Joby Aviation

Re: Having reduced delays in getting to the airport …

Well, that's not something you'll ever manage, especially in Dublin

Amazon accused of singling out, harassing union organizers

Re: The Commons

That's the walk of shame, not the happy ending

Braking news: Cops slammed for spamming Waze to slow drivers down

Re: Fishing Expeditions & Dreams of FOSS Alternatives to Privacy-Violator Waze

Years back, when I was briefly studying law, I as given a handy sentence to encompass the last bit of your post:

"The primary purpose of the right to silence is to prevent an innocent man from implicating himself in what may later be ambiguous circumstances."

NASA's Lunar Orbiter spots comfortably warm 'pits' all over the Moon

Re: I'm not saying it was aliens...

Hmmm.... I'm not so sure. That looks like prime Soup Dragon territory to me.

Google resumes shoveling stuff into its 'Privacy Sandbox'

Re: And yet can I find a clock that ticks ?

No, he's in possession of a very young crocodile.

The first step to data privacy is admitting you have a problem, Google

Re: Google is a group of people (so is Facebook)

I've had the pleasure of trying that with a couple of my close friends and many, many acquaintances: they don't engage with that conversation, mostly because they don't care or view it as a good thing.

They must go through a shocking amount of kool-aid during induction.

BOFH: Putting the gross in gross insubordination

Re: Misread that

Having worked as a cleaner for many years, I can safely inform you that the "f" in shift is certainly option when it comes to night security.

Austrian watchdog rules German company's use of Google Analytics breached GDPR by sending data to US

Re: OT

Can confirm they were still available in 2018, one of my neighbours has one from his visit that year.

When it comes to taxing tech giants, America is out, France is in, Canada and Indonesia are going their own way

Re: Conceptually not bad but ...

Especially odd choice of words, especially as the gobsheens that would set about bombing each other could very accurately be described as sheeple.

Nominet refuses to consider complaint about its own behaviour, claims CEO didn’t mean what he said on camera

Re: At what point do you pull the plug?

So long as he hallucinates he's sane does it matter?

Guilty: Russian miscreant who hacked LinkedIn, Dropbox, Formspring, stole 200-million-plus account records

Re: Metally fit

Given the length of sentence possible under the CFAA and the conditions in US prisons, can you really blame them? When was the last time you heard someone fight extradition to Denmark or Germany for hacking related charges?

Things have improved since Attica but I think I'd prefer a long term stay in a mental institution to even 1 year in a US federal prison.

Big Tech on the hook for billions in back taxes after US Supreme Court rejects Altera stock options case hearing

For the record, it is also hated by most Irish people as well, especially Dubliner's because of the affect it has had on rent.

Me salty about my rent? No, not at all.

Huawei going to predict the future? Nope, say company leaders when asked about Joe Biden winning US election

When they give you the opening, why not attack both? The ideas with fact, logic and sources, the delivery with humour.

BOFH: The company survived the disaster recovery test. Just. The Director's car, however...

Re: "Learnings"

Really? I thought they were the lemming derivative that learned how to abseil to avoid that very issue. Guess I was wrong

Scare-bnb: Family finds creeper cams hidden in their weekend rental by scanning Wi-Fi

Republic of Ireland common law

It's been a while since I did anything related to my legal degree but last I checked (since we are a common law jurisdiction):

In Ireland you have 'a reasonable expectation of privacy' only within:

The company of your solicitor (different from your lawyer)

Your bathroom or bedroom

While in cinsultation with your doctor.

That's it.

Everywhere else is fair game according to Irish law.

Post GDPR ymmv.

Terror law expert to UK.gov: Why backdoors when there's so much other data to slurp?

Re: 'What Government officials fear more'

And that's without touching on the subject of the Special Criminal Court, "alleged" bugging of GSOC, and Superintendents having the authority to sign warrants for entry and communications interception.

Ps. Have an upvote

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

Even if the various arms of the US govt felt the need to monitor the protesters' device I doubt they'd have bothered to do so at more than arms length given what Tiger Swan is alleged to have done. (I think this is touched on somewhere in the article.)

Check out Alleen Brown, Alice Speri, Will Parrish's articles on the subject, if you feel so inclined