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Posts by Vincent Ballard
482 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Aug 2008
Queen Elizabeth has a soggy bottom: No, the £3.1bn aircraft carrier, what the hell did you think we meant?
I don't have to save my work, it's in The Cloud. But Microsoft really must fix this files issue
Shall we strip price caps from .org, mulls ICANN. Hm, people seem really upset... OK, let's do it
Re: Time for another European Antitrust Review?
My understanding of GDPR is that the WHOIS registry falls under its remit whenever and wherever it stores personal data of EU citizens. It has extraterritorial application, albeit with caveats about the ability to enforce.
That said, it might be possible in principle for European courts to seize money being transferred from European registrars to extra-European register operators as an enforcement measure against the operators.
The Eldritch Horror of Date Formatting is visited upon Tesco
When customers see red, sometimes the obvious solution will only fan the flames
Idle Computer Science skills are the Devil's playthings
Re: Friend did something similar
When you say that a competent virus scanner should be able to detect a malformed zip file, I think you may be missing the point. I understood the zip file to be well formed. It's certainly possible to make a zip quine, and although I've never personally seen it done it should in principle be "straightforward" to extend the technique to a valid zip file which contains multiple copies of itself with different names.
Mozilla returns crypto-signed website packaging spec to sender – yes, it's Google
My HPE-funded lawyer wrote my witness statement, reseller boss tells High Court
Need a Ferranti Pegasus board in your life? Brit computing history could be yours for four figures
Re: What science museum
I went a few weeks ago with my brother and 3-year-old nephew. I was disappointed not to see some of the hands-on experiments I remember from when I was a child, but there was still some interesting stuff. My nephew's favourite exhibit was a couple of preserved transgenic mice. Mine was the working replica of Babbage's difference engine.
Brit Parliament online orifice overwhelmed by Brexit bashers
I was not in the UK, but I was eligible to vote and had, in fact, sent in my postal ballot a week earlier. British citizens who move abroad can still vote for 15 years afterwards in general elections. The limitation to 15 years was a big bone of contention at the time: few people are as directly affected by Brexit as people who have taken advantage of freedom of movement to or from the UK, but a considerable number of British citizens in that situation were disenfranchised.
Freelance devs: Oh, you wanted the app to be secure? The job spec didn't mention that
Eggheads want YOU to name Jupiter's five newly found moons ‒ and yeah, not so fast with Moony McMoonface
Re: In fact Jupiter DID have a lover named Moony McMoonface
It's more complicated than that. The general rule is that the discoverer gets to propose the name, but the scientific community imposes rules (and the chemists, at least, aren't above a bit of horse-trading). So the rules about having a connection with Zeus and ending in the right letter are due to the International Astronomical Union, not the Carnegie Institution.
Users fail to squeak through basic computer skills test. Well, it was the '90s
Top GP: Medical app Your.MD's data security wasn't my remit
Happy Thursday! 770 MEEELLLION email addresses and passwords found in yuge data breach
Come mobile users, gather round and learn how to add up
Senator Wyden goes ballistic after US telcos caught selling people's location data yet again
Re: The bigger issue
The two privacy gotchas I saw in the newspapers at the time were (1) the "shrouded in secrecy" visit was leaked several hours in advance when a plane-spotter in Yorkshire recognised Air Force 1's livery overhead; (2) the President posted a selfie naming the special forces unit he was with and without concealing the soldiers' faces, in violation of convention.
Um, I'm not that Gary, American man tells Ryanair after being sent other Gary's flight itinerary
Re: It'll never happen...
@"Ian Lavender", their data quality is awful (or GDPR has meant that the Open Register has only a very small proportion of actual names on it). They tell me that I share my name with around X people in the UK, where I know that back in the late 80s I shared my name with at least X people registered in the Kent library system.
Heard the one where the boss calls in an Oracle consultant who couldn't fix the database?
London's Gatwick airport suspends all flights after 'multiple' reports of drones
What the #!/%* is that rogue Raspberry Pi doing plugged into my company's server room, sysadmin despairs
Assange catgate hearing halted as Ecuador hunts around for someone who speaks Australian
Spent your week box-ticking? It can't be as bad as the folk at this firm
OMG! Battle looms over WTF! trademarks
Phased out: IT architect plugs hole in clean-freak admin's wiring design
Re: get out quick
An organisation I volunteer for moved into a building which I suspect (from labels found) was previously a print shop or something similar. The power sockets in the main room were in little clusters sticking up from the floor, with cables running through ducts along the floor, up the walls, and into the ceiling space. I was asked to remove these obstructions and put sockets on the walls instead.
Before starting work I checked that the mains breaker was off, then used a multimeter on one of the sockets to be sure. Disassembled that socket, and moved onto the next one, which gave me a nice 230V electric shock. It turns out that the building had two rings, and the sockets alternated between them.
Ecuador's Prez talking to UK about Assange's six-year London Embassy stay – reports
Re: Makes no sense
It would be an insult to Sweden to ask it for such assurances, because if Assange is extradited under a European Arrest Warrant then the receiving country cannot extradite him without approval by the sending country. Or if you prefer a different perspective, Sweden already gave such assurances way back in 2004 when it implemented the framework directive which established the EAW. See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CONSLEG:2002F0584:20090328:EN:PDF Article 28, paragraph 4.
Python creator Guido van Rossum sys.exit()s as language overlord
UK Foreign Office offers Assange a doctor if he leaves Ecuador embassy
Many things but not a traitor to the US
Assange may be many things, and I can think of a few pejorative terms I would apply to him, but any Americans who think that he is a traitor to the US are objectively morons. You can't commit treason against a country of which you have never been a citizen.
Don’t talk to the ATM, young man, it’s just a machine and there’s nobody inside
US Congress mulls expanding copyright yet again – to 144 years
Flamin' Nora! Brit firefighters tackle blazing fly-tipped boat
Supreme Court to dig into Google's very cosy $8.5m deal with lawyers over web search leak
Who will fix our Internal Banking Mess? TSB hires IBM amid online banking woes
Re: What are IBM going to do? Wave a fucking magic wand?
My inside information from a former colleague is that Sabadell tried to port their existing code for their Spanish bank, which was cowboy quality. Hard-coded values including IP addresses for servers and telephone area code prefixes. Copyright-violating ripoff of a Netflix library from GitHub where the copyright header was changed but not the references to Netflix in error messages. Compounded by the insistence of the suits that 500 simultaneous users was a sufficient load test.
Re: I pity the poor schmoes working on this.
Anonymous Coward is spot on. A former colleague of mine is caught up in the middle of this, having joined Sabadell recently in a QA role, and reports that people are pulling seriously illegal amounts of overtime and staying awake with the aid of pills and Bolivian marching powder.
UK Court of Appeal settles reseller's question: Is software a good?
US govt's final bid to extradite Lauri Love kicked into touch
Google to 'forget me' man: Have you forgotten what you said earlier?
Morrisons launches bizarre Yorkshire Pudding pizza thing
Are you taking the peacock? United Airlines deny flight to 'emotional support' bird
Re: What about my emotional support chainsaw?
Back in 2005 I spent a few months in South America, and after thinking hard about gifts to take back for my brothers I opted for a machete each. I got back to Blighty on the day of the Tube bombing. A couple of weeks later, while the country was still on high alert, we had a family gathering, and I arranged to meet one of my brothers on an afternoon train from Victoria and travel down together. We were chatting on the train, and he told me that that very morning he had been randomly searched by the police while going into a Tube station, and had received a telling off for carrying a small penknife. But apparently they only operated searches until midday, so I had carried two 18-inch machetes in my rucksack across London without passing through any (visible) checkpoint.
Julian Assange to UK court: Put an end to my unwarranted Ecuadorean couch-surf
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CONSLEG:2002F0584:20090328:EN:PDF
Article 28, paragraph 4: Notwithstanding paragraph 1, a person who has been surrendered pursuant to a European arrest warrant shall not be extradited to a third State without the consent of the competent authority of the Member State which surrendered the person. Such consent shall be given in accordance with the Conventions by which that Member State is bound, as well as with its domestic law.
WikiLeave? Assange tipped for Ecuadorian eviction
Engineer named Jason told to re-write the calendar
ISIS and Jack Daniel's: One of these things is not like the other
Re: As a resident of Switzerland myself...
I clicked through to the original article, and saw that he's flying the JD flag above the Italian one. I'm pretty sure that Italy will take that as an insult. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Italian law forbids flying any flag higher than the Italian one except possibly the EU one.