Re: Botched Aircon
> TWO heat pumps? You were lucky!
I didn't know that the Four Yorkshiremen worked in IT...
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Allowing a legal market for kiddie smut in any form incentivises perverts to risk creating more of it for profit motives beyond their existing sick compulsions. Setting aside for the moment the idea of the minor(s) in a given pornographic image not "minding" (with great difficulty), the poor kids depicted in subsequent batches of child porn will certainly mind!
But it's not as if the monsters creating this filth are out there asking for consent in the first place, are they? The Squick Factor of your thinking on this is off the charts.
> If a state wants to pass such a law, what would happen if all the sites affected by such a law just blocked all the IP's from inside that state from accessing their resources?
The Texas state law also attempts to prohibit social media companies from not allowing Texas-based users to access their sites.
Good luck with that one!
Indeed. For extra measure, they encrypted the data with the highly complex and ever-so-secure Base64 encoding. Our own El Reg covered the whole kerfuffle in a recent (15 Feb 22) article:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/15/missouri_html_hacking/
Stay tuned for the possibility of aspiring dictators who didn't figure out how to subvert the democracy and got voted out before they could entrench themselves, but yet somehow managed to secure reelection so that they might have another go at it.
Mr. Wiggin: Good morning, gentlemen.
Clients: Good morning.
Mr. Wiggin: This is a 12-story block combining classical neo-Georgian features with the efficiency of modern techniques. The tenants arrive here and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort, past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed. The blood pours down these chutes and the mangled flesh slurps into these...
Client 1: Excuse me.
Mr. Wiggin: Yes?
Client 1: Did you say 'knives'?
Mr. Wiggin: Rotating knives, yes.
Client 2: Do I take it that you are proposing to slaughter our tenants?
Mr. Wiggin: ...Does that not fit in with your plans?
Client 1: Not really. We asked for a simple block of flats.
Mr. Wiggin: Oh. I hadn't fully divined your attitude towards the tenants. You see I mainly design slaughter houses.
Clients: Ah.
Mr. Wiggin: Pity.
Clients: Yes.
Mr. Wiggin: (indicating points of the model) Mind you, this is a real beaut. None of your blood caked on the walls and flesh flying out of the windows incommoding the passers-by with this one. (confidentially) My life has been leading up to this.
Client 2: Yes, and well done, but we wanted an apartment block.
Mr. Wiggin: May I ask you to reconsider.
Clients: Well...
Mr. Wiggin: You wouldn't regret this. Think of the tourist trade.
Client 1: I'm sorry. We want a block of flats, not an abattoir.
I am reminded of the old trope in (usually comedic) film where a news presenter from a communist bloc nation is shown reading news of some event in the film as filtered through propaganda censors while an arm holding a pistol pointed directly at the presenter's head is clearly visible on-camera.
> When a company is in bad shape the typical response is to shed money losing groups that cannot be made profitable.
R.I.P. adequate levels of IT department/Help Desk staffing...
Famous Last Words:
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We don't really need all of those folks, do we? Besides, we almost never have any major network/technology problems, so that department is pretty much dead weight.
I've seen job postings for "Exciting career opportunities for the new Class of 202x B.Sc. in Computer Science graduates", which is clearly a very small fig-leaf attempting to provide some legal cover for an ugly "Dinosaurs and other extinct/endangered species/40+ years old engineers need not apply" hiring policy.
One pounds the Marmite....
After a period of deep personal introspection as well as a thorough review of the previous comment to which I have endeavored to reply, I have come to understand that the action clearly specified therein was that the prospective password was "best *read* with a North American interpretation.. ".
Just as clearly, at absolutely no point whatsoever was there the inclusion of even a hint of the suggestion that *anything* should be subsequently *written* after said reading had been completed.
Apologies, etc.
Yank here, arriving fashionably late to this thread...
I was intrigued by the long building with "600 gasbags" by the River Thames, but wasn't finding anything by searching with any combination of those terms. Since I had the geographical hint that it was just down the road from Thames House where MI5 is housed, I opened Google Earth and virtually circumnavigated myself across the pond for a virtual look-see.
MI5's digs were easily located, and I then began to cast my eye north and south along the riverbanks, searching for a long building. The only nearby structure reasonably fitting that description was Westminster Palace. But where would one expect to find "600 gasbags" amongst the trappings of royalty and national symbolism? The penny dropped as I zoomed in closer and saw that the Parliament of the United Kingdom (and more specifically, the House of Commons) is ensconced upon the Palace grounds. Gasbags indeed!
This is of course fairly common knowledge to a majority of residents of the Commonwealth realms, but is not as well known in the States, and thus why I found the reference unfamiliar. Now if someone would like to explain how to quickly understand the true intended meaning of Cockney Rhyming Slang, I would be forever indebted.