Posts by Tom Paine 2256 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Aug 2008
"Labour literally don't understand that issuing bonds IS printing money."
Bonds aren't money. They're basically loan agreements with repayment schedules, which can be traded in a secondary market. When you hear about companies that have been "loaded up with debt" by venture capitalists, what they're doing is selling bonds.
What you might be thinking of is the late 50s loss of traffic that made many lines uneconomic to operate.
Fun little sidebar -- it seems to have passed largely unnoticed, but Johnson has casually promised to reinstate all the lines closed by the Beeching cuts.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/11/15/conservatives-reopen-railway-lines-closed-1960s-beeching-cuts/
Somewhat confusingly, he thinks this will cost £500m ...
Fleetwood Mac 'Tusk' joke here.
I lived in the Forest of Dean when boar first turned up there. Coming across a mum with a litter of youngish piglets and very very cautiously stalking them through the woods for ten mins is a memory I'll take to my grave (their existence was only a rumour at that point, Jan 04.) Eventually the mum stopped, turned to the slope to where I was hanging onto a tree, and sent a really pretty direct species-to-species telepathic message. The gist was "Alright Attenborough, I know you're there. If you know what's good for you, you'll CTFO right. This. Second. Understood? Cushti. Nobody needs to get hurt...."
Ahhh, Clangers don't use towels. Here's the canonical episode, which it says here is almost FIFTY YEARS OLD (!) showing how they deal with trundlebots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HArUmqqiL0s
Extremely prescient model-making there, there was nothing so advanced in real life in December 1969. Ingesting samples for internal labs didn't happen until Viking in 1976, IIRC.
"When an advertiser uploaded their marketing list, we may have matched people on Twitter to their list based on the email or phone number the Twitter account holder provided for safety and security purposes. This was an error and we apologize."
Twitter assures users that no "personal" information was shared, though we're not sure what Twitter would consider "personal information" if your phone number and email address do not meet the bar.
So you're accusing Twitter of telling barefaced lies? You're alleging they DID share the data with advertisers, even though they deny it?
An attacker with access to the network path between client and server can intercept HTTP requests for images on your site and swap or replace these images; the attacker can swap the save and delete button images, causing your users to delete content without intending to; replace your product diagrams with lewd or pornographic content, defacing your site; or replace your product pictures with ads for a different site or product.
Fixed that for Google.
Has anyone seen any evidence of these sort of attacks in the wild, apart from pranks at Defcon?
It's a fine idea, except that (1) support in Ireland for leaving the EU is effectively zero, and (2) there are a number of persons with rather strong opinions on the question of (as they see it) foreigners building a border down themiddle of their country, and history suggests their protests may be a little more viorous, disruptive and direct than the Extinction Rebellion people currently glued to various buildings in Whitehall. And a bit less with the non-violence.
Hi, I'm working for a pretty substantial financial services firm. Just one anecdotal data point but FWIW: we have lots of web servers including app servers used by clients and a whole heap of middleware / db / MQ and whatnot, as well as the usual departmental file & print, AD etc. The production estate's roughly 3:1 Windows to Linux. (Desk-side, including servers, is 100% Windows.)
Companies get to do things like pander to comically insecure heads of state and their acolytes, who become a laughing stock the world over.
But that's their chjoice, d'you see? A choice that has what we call a moral dimension. And Apple (and many, many other corps) have made the wrong choice.
Cassini spacecraft found “low-mass organic compounds in the Enceladean ice grains: nitrogen-bearing, oxygen-bearing, and aromatic.” The ice grains were spewed from the hydrothermal vents on the Moon’s ocean floor.
No doubt some hipsters in a lockup in Hackney are preparing to launch an artisanal gin based on this recipe.
It's rather difficult to say that a sector is doing badly, parts are and parts aren't.
Yes, and if you arrange the numbers for each of those parts in a column, draw a line at a bottom and add up all the component parts, you get a number that enables you to say something about the sector as a whole. Rather straightforward, I'd say...
As the piece says, "data breach" is a moveable feast, or to put it more precisely, "marketing guff". An ankle-biter malware infection is a system compromise is a breach?
That said, $employer is one of the 5%. Clearly, we must have state of the art technology and a fine staff of highly skilled an experienced developers and engineers looking after all the shizzle.
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As a young student I'd a mate who was obsessed with that early incarnation of del Amitri - Hammering Heart, Sticks & Stones etc. Had a few of their songs on compilation tapes, as you do, then forgot about them for years, then much more recently during a spell of slightly intoxicated nostalgia went and bought it online[1]. Musically it stands up very well, but the lyrics... let's just say they've not dated too well.
[1] there's your IT angle
PCI-DSS is a global "standard". It'll be a really interesting case study some day. On one hand it HAS uplifted the lowest common denominator security standards to a common, not too awful level. On the other, there's a massive industry dedicated to extracting money from retailers and others who take CC payments and getting them the right bit of paper whilst making no real difference to a shonky security posture.
Or so I hear.
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