Posts by TimMaher

Apple's iPhone 12 woes spread as Belgium, Germany, Netherlands weigh in

Re: repair shops.

Naahhh. It’s the latest iFixit battery repair kit.

Lawyer's Microsoft email snafu goes from $1.75M lawsuit to Ctrl+Alt+Settle

Re: A little confused...

…and use the telephone.

Explain things to courts and clients using plain speech.

Capita class action: 2,000 folks affected by data theft sign up

In other news.

My B.H. just got an email from Freecycle saying that they have had account information stolen and to change their password; even though the passwords were hashed.

I however haven’t.

Odd.

Kremlin-backed Sandworm strikes Android devices with data-stealing Infamous Chisel

My paternal grandfather.

He was lucky. He was too young to serve in WW1 and too old to serve in WW2.

Figure that one out.

UK air traffic woes caused by 'invalid flight plan data'

Re: S/360

First, you climb into the loft and dig out your ancient copy of “Principles of Operation”.

To be continued…

AI-powered monitors to defend Washington DC against aerial threats

Scale AI

Bet they are using them. Cheap as chips, or whatever Filipinos snack on.

US Republican party's spam filter lawsuit against Google dimissed

Re: Spam

Actually, it is an artificial, meat based, product invented by Monty Python.

UN cybercrime treaty risks becoming a 'global surveillance pact'

Re: Is there a voice somewhere for the silent, honest minority?

No.

IBM shows off its sense of humor in not-so-funny letter leak

Re: write only memory.

Glad you mentioned that. I designed WOMBATS (Write Only Memory Batch And Transaction System) during an exceptionally boring morning, sometime in the early eighties. It used unary maths, which was permanently in either an on or off state. You could have single key keyboards and one pixel screens but they didn’t actually do anything anyway. It was really fast.

Lesson 1: Keep your mind on the ... why aren't the servers making any noise?

What is the worst sound in a server room?

No sound at all. Bah boom!

(How often have I posted that here?)

Lock-in to legacy code is a thing. Being locked in by legacy code is another thing entirely

Re: Informix front end.

I built one of those using a combo of 4GL and C, to run on Xenix.

Back at the end of the eighties. Happy days.

Most distant observed star is blue – and it isn't alone

Re: Éalá Éarendel Engla Beorhtast

Awake! For morning, in the bowl of night, has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight.

Thanks to Fitzgerald 5th translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam.

Tesla hackers turn to voltage glitching to unlock paywalled features

Re: I need heated seats like…

First time I drove a little old Volvo, in winter, I didn’t know it had heated seats. I thought I’d wet myself.

Infosys launches 'sonic identity' – an aural logo to 'reinforce brand purpose'

Re: Elevator music.

Then a Frogstar scout turned up.

Pope goes fire and brimstone on the dangers of AI

I am God.

Yes, but we are man.

Thanks to Evensong by Lester del Rey.

Fujitsu pulls the plug on European client PC sales

They are looking to the future.

Concentrating on the Horizon.

Old-school hacktivism is back because it never went away

Re: Stupid name.

Actually, now I think about it.... Bangalore is too far away. How’s about “Bengal Tigers”?

Stupid name.

“Mysterious Team Bangladesh”.

They could have got more inventive.... like “Bangalore Torpedo” or something.

Two US Navy sailors charged with giving Chinese spies secret military info

Re: Superior to the average sailor.

“Senior, sir, senior. Not superior.”

How to get a computer get stuck in a lift? Ask an 'illegal engineer'

Re: "fire brigade keys"

Well, they’re not Spanners are they?

Always on the Horizon, UK must wait for megabucks EU science deal

Re: Toulouse etc.

I’d recommend Leuven. Great bars, terrific history, great universities, comfortably small enough to live in.

Re: Hyperinflation

Wasn’t that “Truss, Lettuce & Putin” financial advisors to the filthy rich?

Lawyer sees almost 1,000 complainants sign up to Capita breach class action

Re: Chernobyl

Maybe it’s time for them to flag a ride from Charon?

It's time to mark six decades of computer networking

Re: VM systems

I get my CICS from VM.

Great song.

Quirky QWERTY killed a password in Paris

Re: The Morte Subite.

Fabulous. One of my top Brussels haunts.

Have a kriek on me .———>

Re: AltGr

A customer once asked me what it meant.

I told them that it was Alternate Green. Because it was on the right.

Re: I want to watch.

See you Jimmie!

Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office

Re: HSBC's recent announce to relocate it's global HQ

They could have returned to 99 Bishopsgate. Oh, wait. Perhaps not.

Re: Flats

Yup. I’m totally in favour of ‘brown fielding’ offices.

They are already in an urban environment so the infrastructure is there and we would not have to use up more of our rapidly dwindling countryside.

Now Apple takes a bite out of encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law

The Undercover Policing enquiry.

I quote a witness:-

“These anti-democratic spying operations, and the abuses that resulted, were not the work of a few rogue officers – I hold some blame for the individual spies, but the real problem was the managers who tasked these officers, heads of the police, security services like MI5 who were recipients of the files and directed some of the targeting.”

This has been going on in our society for decades.

This bill facilitate the next generation of state corruption.

Re: Nobody is home

Well, the door was open but were the lights on?

Re: Quietly scraped

From the bottom of our collective shoe.

Mine has a doggies pooh bag in the pocket.

Comms watchdog to probe errors that left Brits unable to make emergency calls

66 years.

That is how far back I remember our first telephone, $TownName $Number.

I have never heard of this happening before.

The management at BT should face very serious consequences.

But, they won’t.

Sigh.

Missing Titan sub likely destroyed in implosion, no survivors

Re: BS

I take it we are referring to a Batchelor of Science? Not the other BS used by the PR people and C-suiters?

Re: Two pennies

Don’t forget the tuppenny bit.

Re: results are currently flooded

I see what you said there.

Re: C level executives

R101 anybody?

Lawyers who cited fake cases hallucinated by ChatGPT must pay

Re: Pathological guesser

Just ask Boris Johnson

Mega-data platform worth half a billion will suck in info from family doctors

Re: LSE

You sure he went there? Bit lefty.

Not Elton and Oxford for classics or a PPE?

Inclusive Naming Initiative limps towards release of dangerous digital dictionary

Re: Fireman

Fahrenheit 451 anybody?

Re: And by "solving" a non-problem ...

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“Wankers”

Financial services have already grabbed that with their collective name “a wunch of bankers”.

Virgin Media email customers enter third day of inbox infuriation

Re: underwear

“The soldiers are out of the barracks”.

Thanks Alan.

EU boss Breton: There's no Huawei that Chinese comms kit is safe to use in Europe

Re: Nokia 3310

And I have a Moto. Razr in reserve as well as some other ancient stuff.

Bad times are just starting for India's IT outsourcers, says JP Morgan

Nobody mention AI

The grunts in large outsourcers are going to be replaced anyway.

Either the customers will run their own or the bosses will implement so called “AI” as a service.

In other news... Infosys. Will Rishi become poorer?

Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out of his Echo gear over false claim

Re: Scunthorpe problem.

Typhoo put the “Tea” in Britain but who put the....?

Re: dong

Or possibly “bang”?

Re: Heavily regulated.

Regrettably, I only recently saw an article that said your power supplier can switch your smart meter to pay in advance, remotely, and without even informing you.

British Gas have only just been banned by OffGem (or whoever) from breaking into properties and installing pre-pay meters when they feel like it.

Microsoft: Russia sent its B team to wipe Ukrainian hard drives

Re: TV show potential of the B-Team

They could be financed by a vindictive, incompetent and self promoting boss.

An ex-PM perhaps. Whose name begins with “B”. Hence the B-Team?

False negative stretched routine software installation into four days of frustration

Re: Portable PC

We use to call them “luggable”... just.

Also, the programmer should have known better. CRLF or just LF should always be planned for.