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A couple of engineers called Foulkes and Vegan
Posts by I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects
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VW offices, employees' homes raided by German prosecutors
Hi-torque tank engines: EXTREME car hacking with The Register
WordPress blogger patch foot-drag nag: You're tempting hackers
Reg reader escapes four-month lightning-struck Windows Vista farm nightmare
Good news: Adobe bangs out Flash patch fast. Bad news: Google's defenses were useless
No change in US law, no data transfer deals – German state DPA
Thursday 15th October 2015 19:56 GMT
Not Straight
You are thinking in terms of Democracy. The USA is a democracy of very rich men who only write laws suggested by cadres of even richer gangs of rich men who can afford sponsors and public relations entities whose job it is to find out what the politicians want to be given.
While this has been the European view of democracy since before the First World War, we don't like to make it so obvious. When it was just a post war piss up for the Labour Government before the righteous ruler-ship took over again, nobody minded. But these days things are getting a little out of hand and obviously the chances of our corrupt arses wanting the same as their corrupt assholes, there never will be agreement.
Unless we have suddenly acquired more stately home with owners having pretty daughters we can sell them it isn't going to happen. Besides if we do have one or two handy looking lovelies, hadn't we better keep them ready for another World War?
Dry those eyes, ad blockers are unlikely to kill the internet
Wednesday 14th October 2015 21:03 GMT
Goole i becoming unusable
VIrtually every question I ak it has a shaped answer that should suit me except it has not ben designed to suit me but their adverts. The sites I get sent to take hell of a lot of combing through/past so that I no longer use Google directly but the alternatives have all been exploited by happyknownothings working in the G-cement mixer grinding everything down to zero-G usefulness.
All the result of doing no evil's marketing strategy and anyway how do you suppose they are cute enough to rob the original site with sub-ads?
I wish it was a fantasy. Or rather I wish someone would enter the fantacy wearing women's stocking either over their underpants or over their heads and do the decent thing.
Wednesday 14th October 2015 20:27 GMT
Randolph Hearst
In a publishing war Hearst discovered that increasing circulation brought better advertising revenues and he could afford to print an 8 cent newspaper for 1 cent, thus gaining even more advertising. Newspaper ads are almost unseen by regular readers.
All this was well known half a century before WW2. I don't know what effect Adblockers will have but I wish to find out. As far as I can see it could either mean all journalism will take the form of experts taking the time to explain things properly or retired experts writing their memoirs. We quidpropanes being the beneficiaries.
What could possibly go wrong with that unless HMG and The Americans get hold of the Assange and Snowden types. Could they catch them all?
Wednesday 14th October 2015 20:08 GMT
At the moment we hve digital TV
That is: 7to 10 channels showing 5 minute slots of painful adverts between 15 minute slots of John Wayne and Robert Mitchum films and Time-Team extravaganzas. That is a choice of people who act like wood and stone teaching UStory or people who act at digging up wood and stone, teaching us their story between over-long commercials.
The problem is that in the interval you get tempted to see if it is worth switching to another channel and, having forgotten where they are hidden, you tend to end up waiting for adverts to end. I can't understand how TV companies get money but if there was such a thing as NoScript for TV they might get a few viewers.
If the Register needs morale petting, get the staff to imagine its web pages going out in the afternoons before the quizz shows, fake auctions, food/fashion magazines and Topgears every day of the week.
I dare say the comments section might make it past Jeremy Kyle. Would that be difficult?
Twitter reduces BBC hacks to tears with redundancy notice
Bungling Bonn burglar locks himself into house
Hillary's sysadmin left VNC, RDP exposed to the internet - report
FBI boss: No encryption backdoor law (but give us backdoors anyway)
Sunday 11th October 2015 19:52 GMT
Good grief
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things.
How on earth do they even have airport security let alone the NSA?
They should give Snowden a CMH.
In Britain if it wasn't for Treason Blair, he would have been given a knighthood. (Then quietly sewn into a sports bag and left in a Clapham Junction waiting room along with several sticks of used secrets and some paedophile literature.)
Sunday 11th October 2015 19:42 GMT
Re: cunning plan
> who made the most after 9/11?
It wasn't George the Chimpanzee. I'm pretty sure he just handled stolen money to make it disappear. And it wasn't Rumsfeld. He just lied to sell sugaryish water. that leaves Shotgun Dick Cheney, well he looks the sort. But weren't they all just too stooooopid?
Oh wait, that's a double bluff is it?
For some?
Sunday 11th October 2015 10:40 GMT
Could be both.
I presume that a country with gifted police wanting to join the constabulary, all the genii have to do is answer some questions wrong. This nod to the mediocre seems to be catching. Is the subject of the article just playing along and how can you tell?
Apart from the fact that only a fool would want to join such a police force.
It is well known that any agent seen by JEH to be too smart for his own good got a job riding herd on the Indians. He even sent Elliot Ness to the back woods. At least it explains why the FBI still think Kennedy was murdered with a weapon their own agents couldn't use.
The only way to deal with such a threat to security is to make sure the moron is removed. Assassination is the method perceived most effective in the land of the continually trigger happy but no longer free.
Phone-fondling docs, nurses sling patient info around willy-nilly
Search engine can find the VPN that NUCLEAR PLANT boss DIDN'T KNOW was there - report
Edward Snowden denies making a deal with the Russian secret service
Tuesday 6th October 2015 22:00 GMT
Re: Asylum in Canada? Really?
> > "I still do not understand why Snowden isn't offered asylum in Canada."
> Because his claims to be a whistle-blower are fake, obviously. He could get asylum nearly anywhere if they were true.
There are some gormless people around. Just in case you really are so ignorant:
Canada kidnapped one of its own ambassadors on the say so of the CIA and ended up killing him. You should stop listening to Fox news as that Australian shit has turned your brain to lager and pissed it all down your shirt.
Tuesday 6th October 2015 21:53 GMT
US security
> He never will get a US security clearance again, though.
You mean now that he has demonstrated there is no such thing, he won't get a job that allows terrrrsts to fly aircraft into buildings, pay fortunes to chief executives of banana republics for non payment of tax and order imprisonment without trial indefinitely to people who are presumed to be guilty until not proven guilty?
Sounds like a job worthy of a human being. Where else can I not get one too.
Linux kernel dev who asked Linus Torvalds to stop verbal abuse quits over verbal abuse
Tuesday 6th October 2015 20:09 GMT
Re: The problem is Linus
> The problem is, usually Linus is right. Without knowing what the issue is, there's no way to decide if that treatment was justified or not.
If a good workerette has to resign because of abuse it is a major problem. Imagine working for someone with only one way of looking at things and being an absolute tosser with it. A US General in World War Two say. Plenty of example in that including Winston Sfb Churchill.
There you are, a trainee just out of square bashing, led to believe you are just there to guard Sunny Sunday Beach in New South Wales and then you are given to Gormless Mac^rsehole to do with as he thinks fit. The next thing you are sent up to the approaches to Australia without anything like the training or equipment and have to fight some of the best soldiery ever invented.
How do you courteously agree to disagree. Then there was the difficulty the US Navy had in finding Submarine Commanders who could do their job without complaining all the damned time. How many submarines do you think they got through before someone wearing admiralty trousers had the guts to say "They fail in the water!" to the torpedo manufacturers?
If Linus Trovalds has difficulty in getting inferiors to supply superior code he should have a f*ck ing rethink the stooopid 2@
Tuesday 6th October 2015 19:38 GMT
> If I was in Torvalds shoes, I'd be concerned. With other mobile OS's coming up, and the way we consume computer power, then Linux could lose momentum and be overtaken by something that is born in the mobile sphere and then makes the jump to desktop. Obviously ten years down the line, kind of possibility here. People like Sharp could easily start another ball rolling.
> However, that might not bother Torvalds, I get the impression that his baby has become something of a burden to him.
If I was in Torvalds shoes, I'd be unconcerned. With Emotional Immaturity and over-tiredness, throwing your dummy out of the pram is a way of life. Linus could lose face/and be overtaken by maturity. That is what old age is all about, bitter regrets and self service mixed in unhealthy proportions. Obviously a ten years down the line possibility. People like Sharp could easily start another ball rolling.
Don't worry about Torvalds, I am the same immature shit-head that he is alleged to be. I had to resign from a couple of my favourite forums recently, out of shame over my behaviour. I just had another baby and got on with it. I haven't changed all that much but at least I can edit bad stuff out of this one. It is usually too late for regrets, although apologies are always acceptable if you get the chance but the urge to be one's old self never leaves your default mode.
Slander-as-a-service: Peeple app wants people to rate and review you – whether you like it or not
Cisco borgs UK infosec bods
Thursday 1st October 2015 19:48 GMT
Re: dist Trust issues
I was wondering how come the first series of acquisitions after the depression goes to security firms. Did the US learn something from its slow crawl down that first road to perdition besides the fact that banished chemicals get marketed by dangerous suppliers?
What's next according to ancient ustory?
AF-FIR-MAT-IVE: Second suspension for robot-voice helldesker
Met at 'huge risk' of botching its Sopra Steria outsourcing contract
Thursday 1st October 2015 15:01 GMT
outsourcing
> outsourcing deal is not going to make much difference (unless massive staff cuts / lots of outsourcing to v. cheap places)
You mean India, they mean Syria.
The question of which is the better at garbage disposal is one of government interests vs private sector interests. India is the centre of the Indian Ocean Garbage Patch. (according to an anonymous coward on TED Talk.) Syria OTOH.....
Well... get used to it.
Thursday 1st October 2015 14:53 GMT
F-35 which is going to cost more
Don't all aircraft do that. They ended up with the tornado and we got the lightning- or rather its predecessor. (Yes I know we could have had a swing wing TSR 2 but that was an idea by a down on his luck ex-RAF type who was clearly off his trolley after giving Rover his new car engine.)
By the way the need for a replacement for the Tornado was no-need by the end of the war of the clods.
Canadians taking to spying on their spies
NSA? Illegal spying? EU top lawyer is talking out of his Bot – US gov
Thursday 1st October 2015 10:16 GMT
The last Iron Age
Since the demise or Britain and Russia the last claims to the legs of that statue in Nebuchadnezzar's dream becomes the feet of iron mixed with calcined clay (If I am reading the runes correctly.)
If so, can anyone shed light on what might be the impetus of a return to the stone age when the bloody plonker get hit in the feet?
Please send all replies inside the back of a closed envelope, sealed with tamper proof glue.
Tegile thrashes rivals in race to supply vomit-free krill pills seller
Thursday 1st October 2015 09:56 GMT
With the majority of Krill feeding on algae that grows on glaciers fertilised by air pollution there should be no shortage of krill hatcheries. (Until the ice runs out obviously.)
Also obviously this has never happened before since the whales are still with us. So now rather than rely on the effective decision making of a company whose management considers that windmills, solar panelling and waterfalling will accommodate the needs of future Earth residunces, you should have good opportunities in the next few years to see the last of the Earth's Ocean Giants.
Do so and you can have the privilege of telling your great grandchildren all about it -provided you don't freeze to death in a power outaged but Globally Warmed home.
Patreon patrons: It's password-reset time
PETA monkey selfie lawsuit threatens wildlife photography, warns snapper at heart of row
Thursday 24th September 2015 12:06 GMT
Californians are monkeys
Even NASA provided proof of that recently:
https://weatherlawyer.wordpress.com/2015/09/23/it-never-rains/
However (and we need a Kent Hovind on this) New International Version
The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.
How much fear and dread of the photographer was upon the Californian/Macacque?
Can the State of California overrule the first known edict based on cruelty to animals?
Thursday 24th September 2015 11:08 GMT
Californians are monkeys and I have proof:
https://weatherlawyer.wordpress.com/2015/09/23/it-never-rains/
All we have to do now is demand that the state of California rules the edict in Genesis is against the law:
New International Version
The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.
Was the monkey grinning in fear or pleasure and which one is applicable where?
Revealed: Why Amazon, Netflix, Tinder, Airbnb and co plunged offline
India's daft draft anti-encryption law torn up after world+dog points out its stupidity
Top QLD sex shop cops Cryptowall lock; cops flop as state biz popped
Wednesday 23rd September 2015 05:43 GMT
This sounds like the major break that computer manufacturers have been dying until. The old you need to use a spare computer trick. I wonder if it will ever catch on before the industry dies or will people start using old mobile phones and bury it?
Oohhh. What if they create separate accounts and use them with different user sign in identities?
That's it, I am selling all my IBM shares. Any body want to buy some?
SCREW YOU, FEDS! Dozen or more US libraries line up to run Tor exit nodes
Samsung Electronics coughs up £55m for cancer-stricken workers
Thursday 6th August 2015 18:37 GMT
Environ International Corp
> commissioned a report from Environ International Corp, a Washington DC-based consulting firm which claimed that levels in its factories were safe.
Because traditionally all the environmentalists have been cleaned out of sammie's song?
Or because as American they are free to lie with impunity?
Someone tell me how they could give an AOK even a USAOK without knowing what the chemicals are, that the filters have just been installed and that the boiler suits and sweat hoods are not for people safety.
Junior defence staffer on trial for 'posting secret dossier to 4chan'
Thursday 6th August 2015 18:01 GMT
improperly disclosed.
There is nothing wrong with being 12 that a dose of patience wouldn't cure. Adults sometimes do the most stupid things. I got banned from Reddit for forecasting an earthquake on a geology? forum.
I laughed at the stupidity this man got into. Once you steal something you are marked in your heart and you can't take it back.
An hour later the public post was deleted after other 4chan inhabitants, unsurprisingly, declared it "fake and gay," Hopefully you have never been there that too scars without healing but it isn't as bad as pornography you can't unsee that.
It is reported. Scerba is accused of uploading the 15-page document in October 2012. The leak was apparently spotted by a former Australian intelligence agency staffer, who alerted the authorities. So even removed material is seen by keen by-passers who should behave a lot better than they do.
According to court records, the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory heard last Thursday that “sensitive information contained in a classified report by the Defence Intelligence Organisation" was allegedly "improperly disclosed.
A double whammy as posting it on line was as stupid as a very silly thing but posting it to a bunch of 4-year olds was worse than posting anything to Reddit.
There are so many good things to learn and do and see online. Wait until to are too old to care before you go looking at indecent things.
The galling thing was having ignorant fools disrespect you but it turns out I got the magnitude wrong but no one knew that when I was banned.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
