* Posts by Camilla Smythe

1212 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Apr 2009

UK.gov IT slasher axes himself - after 5 months in new job

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Boffin

Permanent Secretary

Not

Facebook starting to go big in Brazil. Hmm ...

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Hmmmm Brazil is also Orkut

Is The Chocolate Factory losing 'share'?

Mozilla and Google blast IE-only Windows on ARM

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Why Don't ARM

Tell them to all Feck Off and sort themselves out Proper Like?

Hanging's too good for 'em - so what do you suggest?

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Does not Compute..

"The execution of innocent people is death penalty opponents' strongest argument against nooses, electric chairs and gas chambers."

and then

"However, banging murderers up indefinitely just doesn't cut it for some people, so we're inviting suggestions as to how these perps could be made to really suffer."

.... Oh, perhaps you were 'aving a larf.

'Asteroid mining company' makes classic hypegasm debut today

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Moon Zero Two

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064691/

Martha Lane Fox hits caps lock, yells at small biz websites

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Re: Optional

"And the cookie control feature, whilst required by EU law and supported by the ICO, has been taken wholesale from somewhere else. I know this because I found the original last week and discounted it as ugly and overly intrusive."

Supported by the ICO....? Bwah-Hah-Hah

It also does not appear to provide you with an option to say 'fuck off to you and your cookies' but rather chooses to offer a redirect to some page that might describe how to control cookies in your browser. It's like that shit you get on some websites where you get a button to say you like an article but the crap button is missing.

Digital Inclusion... my Arse. Let's just make it really really hard for Joe[sephine] Punter to avoid us smearing GoogleShit all over their 'Browsing Experience'.

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/8540/cookieau.png

Here....

http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/3585/cookieb.png

Fixed it for you. Hope Martha likes the colour scheme.

Oakley: 'smart' sunglasses ready to shine

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Bollicks

The Human Head is a major source of crufty crap that will rapidly shit all over that one, and others.

'Hi, thanks for taking the time. In my presentation I am going to demonstrate how we via; POP, FMCG, RTO, NPV, CLOUD, SaaS, Paas, NCP, RTI, NFC, SQL, PHP, JAVA and other important technologies will maximise return on "your" investment...

Click

Click

Click

...Oh. Sorry My PowerPoint Presentation appears to be having problems. Errrrrm

Click

Click

Click'

'That's OK. Obviously not your fault for running Windows Cruftware on a Nice Shiny Unibody. Perhaps I should mention that we are in a FaradApple Cage.'

'Oh, ERM 'K Justin Bieber Man Glasses Then?'

Student's Linux daemon 0-day triggers InfoSec Institute outcry

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Handbags at Dawn?

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/backtrack/backtrack-0day-privilege-escalation/

Speaking in Tech: Is Instagram really worth $1 BILLION?

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Sarah dispels pregnancy rumours

Still putting shoes on her head then :-)

Ofcom calls for end to 0800 charges on mobiles

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Trollface

When are Ofcom Going to do something about...

Users of iShiny devices getting surcharged an extra 30% by Cupertino for their phone calls?

Home Sec: Web snoop law will snare PAEDOS, TERRORISTS

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OK..

Who put Vanessa Felz in charge of the home office?

IPv6 networking: Bad news for small biz

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Re: It's only two more fricking Bytes

@ TCP Networks

No!

255*255*255*255 is 4,228,250,625 addresses.

This equates to 'about' 1 per person on Planet Earth.

255*255*255*255*255*255 is 274,941,996,890,625 addresses.

This represents a 65,025, probably plus a bit, increase in the population of Planet Earth.

Not very fucking likely...

Everyone gets one and 'nats', or whatever, the rest for their fridge/tv/vibrator plus gives www.gov the opportunity to snout.

As for adding another 12 fricking bytes. Which dumb fuck came up with that idea?

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It's only two more fricking Bytes

Speaking as someone who knows bugger fuck all about this 'shite' then IPV4 gave you,

255*255*255*255 Blah Fucking IP addresses.

Ergo moving from IPV4 to IPV6 gives you two more Bytes and you get

255*255*255*255*255*255 Blah Fucking IP addresses.

Fuck me if I call it 'not' rocket science but next up you will want IPV7 and IPV8 for 'scalability'.

Stick another byte on the front end and you can scale up to IPV255

Yadda Yadda Yadda.

As stated I know bugger fuck all but would someone please NOT try to explain to me how it is so shit fucking hard to add another two bytes to an IP address in a manner that does not....

Naturally you need not bother.

As a self subscribed 'knuckle scraper' my brane processing power is mostly used to deal with extracting fluff from my navel should my eye things spot where it is and something to do with fingers and nails.

UPDATE: GAGA team hunts down grass-smoking ROBOT

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Boffin

Fishing Line, Poles, Pulleys, Rotary Encoders

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/1656/mowerpos.png

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Concrete

Put a few tonnes worth on the lawn. Stick the bot on top of it. Job's a good one.

Google bod: Fast net 'absolutely CRITICAL' to UK future

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Britten

"I think government understand how important [it] is when you talk to them".

Fuck me mate. Which Planet did you arrive from?

Talking to Government about 'important stuff' is futile. They are too busy going 'Lah Lah' behind closed doors fondling their fondleslabs sacking each other and setting up a few nice earners from industrial lobbyists for when they get the boot for knowing fuck all and being spoon fed.

Take Google as a case in point....

Oooooops Bugger...

As you were.

LOHAN is heading towards REHAB

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Re: Uhm..

As I say... low temperature/condensate problem. Assuming a 'sealed unit', which it probably will be, just wait a bit longer for the business end to get down to temperature/[worse]condensate at ground level. Once again since the thing supplies its own oxidant it is not going to be bothered about the lack of it at altitude... if you do it in a bucket of dry ice then it is likely that it will not be seeing much atmospheric oxygen anyway... they probably come 'pre-sealed' anyway. Make the test worse, rip the seal out.

Yadda Yadda Yadda Whatever.

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Pint

Uhm..

Is this not just a low temperature/condensation ignition type problem?

Assuming the rocket supplies its own oxidant, which it will, then I would have thought sucking the air out would not matter too much. Condensate, low temperature, will be worst case at ground level so if your rocket ignites at the expected temperature at ground level it should be good to go at altitude.

Have a word with your 'local' mil-spec power supply developer/supplier, or indeed UoS. They should be able to loan you an environmental test box. They come with holes including the top where you can mount your rocket so it vents to atmosphere and controllers to dial an appropriate time/temperature curve. They are also 'portable' so you can stick things in the car park for testing.

Plus, and this might be a biggy, you can place the ignition box inside the chamber to check its performance out as well. At the moment you have it sitting outside of your present contraption.

Failing that just stick the whole thing in a bucket of dry ice for an appropriate amount of time and give it a wang. As I say... if it works at ground level it will/should go at altitude.

Beer because you can buy some with the money saved.

Lithuania rules beer brewing 'vitally essential' to life

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Windows

Here We Go..

<-- ICON

No 10 develops Terminator iPad app 'to fire ministers'

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Makes Obama Look Like a Dumb Fuck.

'Sir! Yes! Sir!... You Control The Big Red Shiny Button Via Your iPAD! Sir!'

'But he gets to sack people....'

'Sir! Yes! Sir!... You Control The Big Red Shiny Button Via Your iPAD! Sir!'

Asteroid could SMASH INTO EARTH in 2040

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God would not do this to us.

"Consider the fleas on the cat. They neither work nor toil for to sup blood. Yeh verily even the cat scoffs Whiskas to provide its blood to the fleas and all at no cost to itself, purr purr. Then ask yourselves 'Why should God interrupt that which he has created by tossing rocks at it ?' Be calm, be pure, tweet via your iPhone.. all is well.

Facebook looks for more credit with the banks

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YAY!!!!!!

Obviously taking lessons from Kent..

http://www.phorm.com/assets/reports/Director_Dealing_27-Dec-2011.pdf

28 December 2011

Phorm, Inc. ("Phorm" or the "Company")

Director Dealing

Phorm (AIM: PHRM and PHRX) announces that on December 28th Kent Ertugrul, CEO and Chairman of the Company, transferred for nil consideration 2,594,412 shares in the Company to Value Trust Holdings Pte Ltd limited for tax planning purposes.

Well done 'that man'. Good to see you taking care of 'business'.

urrrrm whorrrp etc...

Presumably Apple has a patent on such activities. Narf Narf.

LOHAN's fantastical flying truss cleared for lift-off

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Nipples!!!!!

I insist that the balloon[s] are topped off with great big throbbing erect nipples... err, to improve the vertical ascent aerodynamics.

You can also put huge chainsaws on the leading edge of the wings to cut the guy ropes on release.

Also useful for landing if any trees or people get in the way.

Facebook flings clickjack spam lawsuit at ad-slingers

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Eh...

FaceArse fails to protect their sheep and some politico who has signed up, been bought, for a share of the fleece has a ming about things.

It must be one of those Days of the Week that includes the letters 'd' 'a' and 'y' in its name.

Bloody sheep farmers. Next thing you know they will be sticking up fences all over the place.

American search team fails to find women's G-spot

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Evolution

See.. knobs don't come with clitoral stimulators and they do not bend the right way for the G spot. Ergo there is no G spot... or clitoris.

Use iBooks Author, only Apple can ever publish the result

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Eh ?

"The restriction is displayed when users run iBook Author, but only at the end of the e-book design process. At which point one might be prompted to go back and read the EULA - which wasn't displayed during the installation of the program:"

Not being one to RTFA but that seems like a nice summary.

FREE FRUITY PRETTY SHINY THINGS, FREE FREE FREE, EVER SO FREE GOSH LOOK ITS FREE AND SHINY.

Oh, by the way....

Motorola strengthens Defy+ with JCB logo

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Eh?

Not very 'JCB' is it?

Couldn't they have done a deal with Doc Martens?

Oi! Oi! Oi!

Erm... maybe not then.

Tiny frog claimed as smallest vertebrate ever

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Hmmmm

Just the right size to fit in a Smartie.

Nuclear Mars tank thrusts hard into perfect position

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What's the exchange rate?

Fine

1) Reckless Flying.

2) Fly Tipping.

3) Shit Parking.

4) Driving the wrong way around a one way crater.

5) Inappropriate use of full beam laser disturbing oncoming traffic.

6) ETC

"The chances of anything coming from Earth are a Million to One They Said. The Chances Of Anything Coming From Earth Are A Million To One but......"

'Oh Do Shut The Fuck Up. Are we going to Ticket it when it gets here?'

'Sir! Yes! Sir!'

US killer spy drone controls switch to Linux

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StuxNet

I'll be wrong here but StuxNet was based on process control systems as implemented under Visual Basic as epitomised by.... Just a mo... the memory cells are failing... errrr... uhm..

Nope... Hang on. I'll get there eventually..

National Instruments.. LabView

http://www.ni.com/

T-Mobile 'fesses up to secure email ban gaffe

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Appreciated

The title is the message.

Year of the Penguin - el Reg's 2011 Linux-land roundup

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Thanks for the reminder.

I am seriously low quality but tomorrow I will be spending extra time in bed not buggering about with the XP install downstairs. I know it is shafted but fuck it and the person who fucked it and still uses it.

I'd upgrade them to Vista if I was feeling pissed. Is that any better?

Download.com sorry for bundling Nmap with crapware

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'Knock Knock'

'Oh, hello. How can I help?'

'Come for your grannies kidneys.'

'Pardon?'

'You know.'

'I really have no idea...'

'Now now Sir. Downloaded Really Useful Tool Version 1.06?'

'Yes..'

'Fair enough. I'll just start up my chainsaw.'

'Also upgraded to Really Useful Tool Version 1.07 Boss.'

'Wife's liver as well then. Better get the other chainsaw.'

'Boss! Yes! Boss!'

'What on Earth?'

'Just show us where the donors are Sir and we'll be on our way....'

Facebook tries to grow up by undergoing corporate rejig

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Wuh??!!??

"Facebook's IPO is on the horizon, so it's hardly surprising to see CEO Mark Zuckerberg sharpen his employees' focus on what are considered to be cornerstones that investors and shareholders expect from public companies: privacy and communication."

See Title

US Martian nuke-truck launches without a hitch, but...

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Yay!!!!!

Extreme engineering....

Would have been nice to have two on the way. Time to share knowledge and people as well as bits and pieces.

£24.7 million insurance for the Russian one.. That's $38.2 million dollars.

Let's see. Kent and his bunch of wankers at Phorm have burned $189.2 million dollars to date achieving fuck all. No... seriously. At least Russia got it off the launch pad and into orbit. Kent can't even get it up.... repeatedly.

$189.2M/$38.2M

That's 5 Mars missions!!!11*@*!!!!

Makes you wonder what else Institutional Investors are burning your PensionCash™ on when they could be funding Mars missions.

£1m 'Nobel prize of engineering' named after the Queen

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No Shit Politicians

David Cameron..

"For too long Britain's economy has been over-reliant on consumer debt and financial services. We want to rebalance the economy so that Britain makes things again - high-skilled, high-value manufacturing and engineering should be a central part of our long-term future."

Well... that statement just fucked the economy. Fucking Tory Twat. Has Thatchers tit finally dried up?

Attention swingbellies: Pizza sauce is a healthy vegetable

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As any fule kno that the tomato is a fruit.

Plus it am packed wiv Lycopene wot is natures most powerful anti-oxyblobble which becomes more concerntrated by processing plus the body absorbs it better when digested wiv grease.

Crunchie Cat Food is also crunchie. Yum.. wiv lots of additional stuff.

My cat eats the crap bits from Crunchie Cat Food and leaves the good bits for me.

Hugz & Purz

Angry Bird rockets into spa-a-a-a-ce!

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A hump back bridge is one where the span is higher than the entry/exit ramps and generally has a short span. Drive your car over one too fast and.. Even at reasonable speeds then at the apex it feels like your stomach is rising out of your body. A similar effect would have been felt by the astronauts when the engines finished their burn and acceleration ceased. In the same way that the 'angry bird' rose then their stomachs would have done the same.

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Warning...

Hump Back Bridge.

Voyager 2 finally agrees to a long hard thrust

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40 years...?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/15/the_first_forty_years_of_intel_microprocessors/

?

Wonder if the time to do something might have do something with the ground station using directed huge amounts of power saying.

<font size="HUGE">FUCKING DO THIS</font>

Before the Voyager repeatedly meeps

<font size="tiny>ok</font>

and the return message via HUGE aerial arrays on Earth cross-correlate the repetitive weeny signal enough times to believe Voyager has done as asked.

Perhaps Intelligent life might have replied.

"PLEASE SHUT THE FUCK UP with your irritating transmissions.... We have done it for you. OK!"

Step forward the chief information security officer

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Here you go...

http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/marc-burgess/4/973/624

Oh sorry. He is a CIO, Chief Information Officer, or perhaps a CLIO, Chief Lack of Information Officer.

In respect of Security/Privacy catch Marc, I am guessing it is him, on,

http://tobymeres.net

During Dr Richard Clayton's presentations where amongst other interjections he manages to come up with the classic...

'So What?'

TalkTalk bleeds punters, revenue in Q2

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FAIL

Apparently

They paid 'tens of millions' to install it as well. Call that £20 million and install cost per user would be £100. No idea what the loss in bandwidth/data costs to website owners has been by having Dorfman wave his big network stick at their sites doing replay attacks.

Ten... best Blu-ray movies of 2011

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So...

Not available in 405 line grey and lighter grey with visible vertical scan lines and mono-phonics...

NASA: 2012 solar flares could DEVASTATE CITIES!

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What's that mate?

Phone not working?

Front end receiver buggered by Solar Flares?

Awwwwh Shame.

Should have bought an iPhone like mine with a 'for shit' aerial from The Prophets.

I shall dial for two Pizzas using my patented Pizza ordering finger swipe. One for me and one for me. You may starve and have a Darwin award along with all the other non-iPhone users.

Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha.

BOFH: Licence to grill ... stupid users

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I will be wrong.

The reference to 3.1..... Windows Write?

A text editor that....

I'll get my ZimmerFrame.

Hackers link MP's aide to neo-Nazi site in member list leak

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No one should have to resign just for having an opinion.

Unless it harms the hive and the whips request it.

Threesome ends in arrest as wife struck by pair of TVs

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Coat

Oh... Televisions

I'll get me coat.

Ryanair ponders in-air mucky movie service

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"Hotels around the world have it, so why wouldn't we?"

Because Hotels, and art museums, around the world have Cleaning Ladies with VIM!!!! Plus I do not need to sit next to someone partaking of a hand shandy.

Actually I think all of RyanAirs aircraft need to be quarantined immediately and given a good clean up as well given it is quite obvious that the customers are pissing and defecating all over the seats and now they are being invited to pump sexual juices all over them as well.

What next?

Mile high Dogging Club?

The Register Guide on how to stay anonymous (part 2)

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Yes a rant. Nope..

If they can abuse it they will.

<RANT>

DONT KNOW WHAT FUCKING PLANET YOU ARE ON BUT IF YOU WANT TO GO 'meep meep peoples do not keep their javas up to date' THEN YOU ARE THE ENEMY!!!1!!!

</RANT>

If they can abuse it they will.

Gallery mulls 'damage' after cleaner scrubs modern art

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Cleaning Ladies Ay....?

'Ooooooo, Cackle Cackle. There's a nice record deck. I'll just whip me Vim Scouring Powder out and polish the lid with me bog flannel, Scrub Scub. There, all nice and clean.'