Posts by Andus McCoatover

For 30 years an expression has bothered me...

...as used by the late, great "Blaster Bates"

Expression: "Stap(p) me vitals!" (as in, I'll be fuc*ked)

Now, I get it! Thanks for the heads-up, Daren.

From Wikipedia*, now I can see where "Gee Whiz" comes from, also.

Fascinating bloke, Mr Stapp.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stapp Well worth a read.

Colour me stupid...

But if this doesn't have shades of Gary McKinnon in it, I'll put on a blue cap, bugger a perp with a broom-handle, and be found innocent.

Not the first, or the last...

http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2010/05/communications_agency_orders_elisa_to_cut_fees_1659208.html

N8? Enate?

OK, Nokia are playing wordgames:

ENA'TE, a. [L. enatus.] ref.http://enate.org/

(1) [growing outward].

(2) [also enatic, related on the mother's side].

They have high hopes (from 1.) that this is the kiddie. Nice, Nokia, nice marketing...Like it.

Bit amazing!

A company that 'fesses up, then offers wedge for the inconvenience?

Well, in spite of the detractors, is this a first?

McCafee's gone up in my esteem. Honourable, which for a company on the other side of the Pond (I'm on the East bit), must be worthy of a mention in the BOFH's latest maulings.

Nice, Folks. Nice. 10/10. Gets a vote from me.

Have another crack at R&R101...

It's the commentard once again who hasn't found the Shift key. At least he's found (I say, 'he' - no woman could be that daft) the little tiny dot on the lower right key of the keyboard that delineates a sentence. Occasionally.

Oh, their/there/they're knowledge gives a bit more credence to your comment.

Sarah, were you kipping to allow this muppet through?

Move along, nothing to read of any worth.

Tip, "DEAD4EVER". Either switch on your spell-checker or live up to your nick. FOAD is a better name here for you. Or, BRAINDEAD4EVER? You choose. Wisely.

It's 'rumord' you're a moron.

Borked? I call "FAKE story."

OK, apart from the eloquent reasoning by "RegisterFail" (in summary, GPS locator, 'just happens to fall into the right hands', etc), borking a phone aint the best way to find it. Depends on the level of borking, natch.

Here, we lose phones all the bloody time. Bars, etc. When found, either the finder hands it over to the bar staff (who plug it into a charger to keep it alive - my local bar's got a charger for most phones still breathing) or the finder will do the same at home. Finns are generally very honest folks.

Said Boozer-loser will, once his head clears use his/her partner's phone, or his mate's to call it. The bar staff/finder answers, phone recovered shortly. Pints all round.

So, if they borked incoming, no chance. If the phone was stolen, and outgoing blocked too, no evidence, as the tea-leaf's gonna call all his mates, granny, etc*. Traceable, but also evidence.

* Unless he's pissing off his mate bigtime. Heard a story awhile ago about an airline pilot who had a row with his girlfriend. When he went on a long-haul trip for a week, she nicked his phone, and called the NY speaking clock, and left it on. Phone calls were'nt cheap then...Nasty. £40,000 bill, IIRC.

Dave? Dave?

What are you doing, Dave?

Trust it can at least sing "Daisy, Daisy...", if fuc*k all else.

My first reaction was

GORDON FUCKING BENNETT!!!!

But having had a nice cup of tea and a lie-down, I find it harder to put the blame on Mr. or Mrs. Plod.

Was (s)he trained in using this system? IT (rather than nightstick) literate?

How the hell could this happen - and it goes further - much further than this one person. Nope, this Plod is being made a scapegoat for the entire lack of security* of their IT system. The PFY of Gwent Police should be seriously 're-educated' by his own over-voltage cattle-prod.

Christ, I've even had to 'advise' someone who was using the pub computer to check his accounts - in view of me - then advise it's best to log out of the bank, showing the account, balance etc. with full access to it for every Tom Dick and Harry while he wandered off to play Billiards. Left it totally open. OK, it'd auto-shutdown after 15 minutes, but I could've done a lot of damage in that time.

System's as good as the 'nanny' who looks after it, not a possibly neophyte user.

*Just wondered - were they using Vista...Nah. Surely not.

Why? Because they're blind.

They let Nortel's LTE* slip through their fingers to Ericcson.

* LTE - Key to the north American market.

God, it seems current management can't see the nose in front of their faces.

Jorma Ollilla - where are you at the hour of our greatest need?