Posts by Dave314159ggggdffsdds

SAP 'investigating' after viral video allegedly shows anti-mask employee coughing on shoppers

Re: It's sad

You're seeing a particular side of it. There are also the vegan-green-nutloaf alliance types involved in antivax.

Of course, there is a lot of crossover between those and the far right, but they claim to be leftists.

Re: It's sad

What on earth makes you think it's only republicans? Plenty of lefty types pushing the nonsense too. He'll, the sodding Guardian managed to publish some of it a few months ago.

Re: Of course she's an idiot, but...

If you do something that means people don't want to be associated with you, 'people' is likely to include your employer and co-workers.

Certainly, consumers can and do legitimately question why a business would continue to employ someone they know to be vile, so just as a business matter it's a sackable offence to be vile in a way that attracts publicity.

Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos fraud trial begins: Defense claims all she did was fail – and that's not a crime

Re: "as owner of half the company's shares"

I was chatting to someone who's in the business of tracking down the money fraudsters stole, amongst other things. He was talking about how many people get away with it, despite regulators etc.

I asked how they manage to get away with it. He said 'they stop'.

For every Kallakis there are a dozen others who quit while they're ahead.

Re: A common entrepreneurial position?

Utter nonsense. It's fraud and you go to jail.

But conspiracy theorists will conspiracy theory...

Re: "... failure is not a crime"

"Otherwise even the late Madoff was just someone who failed to obtain the promised returns on investments..."

Well... There were no investments. And, no blood-testing machines either.

Re: LOL no

The law does usually care whether you deliberately deceived people or were just wrong. The problem here is that no-one believes it wasn't deliberate.

Samsung offered tax rebates for 30 years to build $17bn chip plant in Texas

Re: Equal and equalest

Well, that's what Mein Kampf says, so it must be true...

Anyone else who wants to open a large factory there will be offered the same (very minor) tax break.

Guntrader breach perp: I don't think it's a crime to dump 111k people's details online in Google Earth format

Re: My ten cents (or pence)

The perp here is far right, not lefty in any way. You're just babbling based on your own prejudices.

Re: All he did was reformat existing data

"After all, just about anyone could do so, with a bit of googling. It is hardly a black art."

Being easy to do doesn't stop things being criminal offences! Quite the opposite, where those things are undesirable.

Re: Facts?

"According to elReg’s article, The blogger simply rearranged columns in an existing csv file and republished it."

Yes, that's obviously criminal, when you describe it like that. Republishing, publishing in the first place, same offence.

"Nobody seems concerned that the original file (still out there) has the same information in it"

There is a great deal of concern about that. But the egg can't be unbroken.

"Nor is there any reaction to the association who keeps and distributes their own database of protesters- presumably with an intent to more easily harass or intimidate them."

No, because 'Ernie' is a loony and that part is a fantasy of theirs.

Report details how Airbus pilots saved the day when all three flight computers failed on landing

Re: "Anyone who can't slide a 4 wheel vehicle through a gap ..., shouldn't be on the road."

"I can't help thinking of the survey that found, when they were asked to rank their driving skill, 93% of the Americans said they were better than average."

There is no such survey. It's an old joke.

Re: "Seems the pilots did a good job,"

They didn't need to retrain. They haven't had to retrain. The MAX is back in service without any retraining.

There was a minor problem with one system, which caused two crashes due to inexperienced cockpit crews. There have been no major changes to the plane made as a result.

Re: "Seems the pilots did a good job,"

"when the second 737 MAX, with pilots fully informed about the entirety of the MCAS system and detailed memorization list of "Do Exactly These Things In This Exact Order" crashed"

That never happened. MCAS incidents greatly outnumbered the crashes. The crashes only occurred when junior pilots without sufficient experience and training failed to override MCAS.

There was no lengthy checklist to be memorized, nothing complicated to do, just a pair of cockpit crews who weren't up to the standard Europeans and Americans would expect from airline pilots.

Branson (in a) pickle: FAA grounds Virgin Galactic flights after billionaire's space trip veered off course

Re: Leaving the virtual tube

We have the evidence. We know the track of the flight. Virgin refuted the claims by explaining that they're inconsistent with the evidence.

Re: Leaving the virtual tube

That was the New Yorker's claim, but it has been refuted by Virgin - of course - and, more importantly, contradicted by the FAA's statement.

What actually happened was a flaw in the planning for ATC interactions for the flight. That's easily fixable.

How to stop a content filter becoming a career-shortening network component

Re: SquidGuard Logs

What about the right?

Fix five days of server failure with this one weird trick

Re: always in the last place we look

"why would you keep looking after you found something...?"

Because that way things won't always be in the last place you look...

So the data centre's 'getting a little hot' – at 57°C, that's quite the understatement

Re: I once had to do something similar in a Skoda...

I've had to do the same - unfortunately in a tropical climate, which didn't improve the passenger experience.

Magna Carta mayhem: Protesters lay siege to Edinburgh Castle, citing obscure Latin text that has never applied in Scotland

Re: Castling

That's a very old legend, but there doesn't seem to be any evidence for it so unfortunately it's just another apocryphal tale.

Russia: Forget about the Nauka incident. Who punched the hole in the Soyuz, hmm?

"I don't see why they would have imperial size drills aboard."

I also work entirely in metric these days. I have no idea where the (loose, individual) imperial drill bits in my toolbag came from, but they're there.

Because you're obviously a Putinbot, and the things you say are flat-out lies.

In any case, 0.07" is a rounding to Imperial, converted to metric. You can achieve the opposite by quoting the metric figure and an overly precise Imperial conversion.

BOFH: 'What's an NFT?' the Boss asks. In this case, 'not financially thoughtful'

Re: I wonder...

"it's generally only illegal to counterfeit if there's an intent to use it in commerce"

As far as I know that's the opposite of how it works - counterfeiting is an offence, as is passing counterfeit notes.

Apparently people who make props for films have a problem with this, because money that looks real on-screen is generally comparable to counterfeit notes.

Would anyone like to buy an NFT of the number of the last bitcoin?

Please, no Moore: 'Law' that defined how chips have been made for decades has run itself into a cul-de-sac

Re: What do we do with all this processing power?

It can do, to be fair. When it does, it isn't a number in decline, by any means. When it doesn't, it's a hook for hacks to hang fake news on.

Re: What do we do with all this processing power?

'PC sales' doesn't include laptops. It's more amazing the sector hasn't all-but vanished.

Re: Transistor physics

And yet, it has been done.

UK chancellor: Getting back to the altar of corporate dreams (the office) will boost young folks' careers

It's more alt-right than pseudo left. Just look at all the conspiracy theories trotted out here. 2nd generation immigrant does well, must be because he's part of the 'joo' conspiracy, because brown people can't do that well on merit. Vile.

Right to repair shouldn't exist – not because it's wrong but because it's so obviously right

Wow. Just wow. Talk about alt-right to repair...

Reality is that this is all a big conspiracy theory. You already have the right and the means to repair almost anything, but people can't be bothered.

These days I make a very nice living fixing things people are convinced by this kind of nonsense article are unrepairable.

I've got a broken combine harvester – but the manufacturer won't give me the software key

Re: I do wonder how much it would cost

Look up the number of MCAS incidents. Compare to number of crashes. It was primarily inexperienced pilots that was the problem.

Scam-baiting YouTube channel Tech Support Scams taken offline by tech support scam

Re: YouTube tech support?!

RBS are notoriously shite, but it's worth noting that when HSBC did this to me about 10 years ago I not only complained about it, but took it to the ombudsman and HSBC was fined a significant amount. I'd have thought with the precedent, it's worth taking RBS down the same route.

Compsci student walks off with $50,000 after bug bounty report blows gaping hole in Shopify software repos

Re: Generosity

"then why is Zanellato cunningly slipping bits of their CV into interviews?"

Eggs, baskets, etc.

Re: Generosity

50k is still a lot of money. I bet it came with 'and give us a call when you finish studying, please', too.

I've stopped a major bank from making a much bigger mistake, and all the compensation I got for it was via the financial ombudsman for the screw-up as far as it affected me.

50k for 'you left your keys in the door' seems OK to me.

Somebody is destined for somewhere hot, and definitely not Coventry

Not all that long ago, one of the mail filtering services had an option where mail with rude words was not only blocked, but deleted from the logs. When the client wasn't getting emails from Mr Cockson, we had to ask for the rejected email headers to have any evidence the mail hit the filter at all.

Exsparko-destructus! What happens when wand waving meets extremely poor wiring

What was the guard's name?

A 'he'? Shame, I was hoping she was a Molly guard.

You're spot on about double insulation. I've seen someone do as you describe, but get the drill stuck, so went to tighten the chuck. Fortunately the fuse had blown on the circuit they shorted, otherwise they'd have got a proper shock - they had wrapped their hand round the chuck to grip it :/

These days wires inside hollow walls aren't supposed to be fixed in place, so drilling will push them aside. If they are fixed such that a drill could penetrate, they must be protected by trunking. If you manage to drill into a wire, you can at least blame the dangerous state of the building's electrical installation.

"Best practice means nothing without the budget to match."

Yes. If you're worrying about UPS run time, you need bigger batteries.

Power strips are usually a sign of bad planning. I particularly hate seeing them installed with more sockets than needed. Someone will eventually plug a high power something into the empty socket and let the magic smoke out.

Single socket extension leads exist, as do longer power cables. A no-power-strips rule would have highlighted the issue with plugging both power leads into one UPS, if it only had one output.

As far as redundancy goes, people sometimes overdo it. Servers for external services obviously need to stay up, but there's no point doing more than gracefully shutting down servers that run offices in which no-one can work during a power outage.

Journo who went to prison for 2 years for breaking US cyber-security law is jailed again

Re: What an idiot, if true.

It's a deliberate attempt to damage the organisation in question. Seems like the kind of thing that ought to be a crime. I have never read CFAA, so I have no opinion on whether they're written a good law to make it a crime, or cocked it up.

I no longer have a burning hatred for Jewish people, says Googler now suddenly no longer at Google

"Corbyn is one of the least racist MPs in the current parliament. "

No, he's the one who most frequently lies about being 'anti-racist'. His actions and record speak for themselves. We now know for a fact that he has deliberately said antisemitic things, and that he knew that was exactly what he was doing when he did it.

"he is rare in being an honest MP"

ROFL. He's been caught lying and taking money from dodgy people so often that it's obvious you're just flat-out lying yourself when you claim not to be one of his cult-followers.

"(hence a lot of people demonizing him as a lot of people like their politicians to be of the bought & paid for variety"

And now you're starting with the far-right conspiracy theories yourself.

Re: Shakespeare

"When someone has escaped from that through their own sense of logic and practical experience(*), what value is there in them seeking punishment?"

You're mischaracterising the incident. Chap thought he was saying 'I was a virulent antisemite, but I'm not antisemitic anymore', but in fact what he actually said was 'I was a virulent antisemite, and I'm not _as_ antisemitic anymore'.

Good for him for starting to learn, but he has a very, very long way still to go before he can claim to be no longer antisemitic - as the size of his blindspot about the antisemitic comments he made _in the posts in question_ shows quite clearly.

He wasn't sacked for saying what he used to be, but for the stuff he said that shows what he still is.

Re: Too strong a response by Google

"it is disappointing that Google would dismiss someone for testifying how they got over the hate they were raised with"

That didn't happen, though. El Reg has long had a problem with alt-right tending writers, and their characterisation of this incident is full-on alt-right.

What actually happened is that the Google guy claimed to not be an antisemite any longer, but the claim was obviously untrue because his rant was in fact antisemitic in places. He was fired because he said deeply antisemitic things, not because he claimed not to be antisemitic anymore.

Taking his intentions at face value, he still has a lot of learning to do on a journey he's only just started.

Re: Something is missing

It's really very simple, if you look at what he actually said, rather than what he claimed, and realise that despite claiming he's stopped being antisemitic, he said things that are antisemitic.

He wasn't sacked for the bit about what he used to be, but the bits that revealed what he still is. Less virulently antisemitic, still really quite antisemitic.

Just for example, if you're writing 'lists of Jews' to prove that you aren't an antisemite, you still have work to do.

"they fired him because he is no longer prejudice and doesn't hate Jews?"

No, because despite his belief that he is no longer antisemitic, his rant made it clear he still is.

The message is OK at headline level, but unfortunately on closer inspection is an exercise in self-delusion by someone who is still deeply antisemitic.

Just saying you're anti-racist isn't the same as actually being so, as we saw quite recently with the Corbyn-jugend.

Re: This is confusing

"This was apparently an attempt at explaining that he had changed his ways and did not think that way anymore"

An attempt, yes. Unfortunately he proved he still has a very long way to go not to be an antisemite, and that he's completely blind to it.

England's controversial extraction of personal medical histories from GP systems is delayed for a second time

You shouldn't have the option to opt out. Clearly there are any number of paranoid, selfish people like you who don't care about collecting vital life-saving information.

This is like vaccination. It isn't your choice, because your selfishness affects the whole of society.

How to keep your enterprise up to date by deploying the very latest malware

Re: this apha code is not fit for production!

I was once in the receiving end of a phone call with an extremely irate ranter who went on for a good five minutes without letting me get a word in edgeways, so eventually I hung up on him mid rant.

He called back, got my manager, who was very apologetic about the hang up and the 'issues' being reported. Manager called me in, asked me how on earth I could treat one of our clients like that. I finally got to point out that the idiot wasn't a client, or even a prospective client. Turned out to be someone from a major multinational with its own IT department who'd googled 'IT support', rung the first number they found, and started ranting.