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Posts by Tom 7
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Wi-Fi sex toy with built-in camera fails penetration test
Lochs, rifle stocks and two EPIC sea gates: Thomas Telford's Highland waterway
Mediaeval Yorkshirefolk mutilated, burned t'dead to prevent reanimation
Y'know CSS was to kill off HTML table layout? Well, second time's a charm: Meet CSS Grid
PC survived lightning strike thanks to a good kicking
BOFH: The Boss, the floppy and the work 'experience'
Friday 31st March 2017 10:49 GMT
Re: Being on a placement myself...
I welcomed many new graduates over my career. I may have even belittled many of them. What used to grind my gears was the fact they thought they were good and yet couldn't do basic programming and engineering things - I found one guy with a first sweating his tits off over a relatively simple problem but he didnt know how to run the remote debugger on it to see that a variable was not what he thought it was. He had a first class honours degree for fucks sake and couldn't run a debugger!
You should be clear on one thing - the three years you do at uni are to prepare you for the 15 year or so apprenticeship you are about to embark on if you want to be a proper programmer. I know its frustrating but you have to understand you will do more damage than you are worth for quite a few years - but only because those mentoring you wont have enough time to do their own job properly let alone assisting manoeuvring your round peg into the square hole HR made for you against our recommendations.
New plastic banknote plans now upsetting environmental campaigners
Hertfordshire primary school girls prepare for World Robotics Champs
Microsoft wants screaming Windows fans, not just users
Robots are killing jobs after all, apparently: One droid equals 5.6 workers
Wednesday 29th March 2017 08:08 GMT
Re: jobs aren't entitlements
Sales aren't entitlements. For a start your market has to have some money to buy your shit. If everyone is out of work then you will have to start paying your robots to buy your shit.
And then you might have to pay some taxes so you have roads to deliver your shit on.
Douglas Coupland: The average IQ is now 103 and the present is melting into the future
Boffins name 12 new types of cloud in first Cloud Atlas since 1986
King Battistelli's swish penthouse office the Euro Patent Office doesn't want you to see
'Sorry, I've forgotten my decryption password' is contempt of court, pal – US appeal judges
Tuesday 21st March 2017 10:39 GMT
Re: To be honest...
I've a couple of bank accounts I cant access online as they ask questions the answer is easy to discover and I cant remember the shit I used instead. I've probably got encrypted files on old disks that are there from playing with encryption algorithms as part of one of my jobs. I'd bet there are files generated by storing data to disk in proprietary and or experimental formats. I've got half a dozen disks from Raspberry Pi's that are corrupted with god knows what because I'd been running them of a large battery that hovered around the failure voltage for a noticeable period of time.
Basically I've probably got several Gig of innocent noise* that cannot be distinguished from an encrypted file which I could be locked up for. Fucking stupid law.
*I've also got white noise files (and pink and others) some of which are useful but some out of bloody mindedness.
Tuesday 21st March 2017 10:26 GMT
With your spare ram memory on the computer you need to keep it randomised
to ensure that you dont leak. I'm keeping all the spare space on my harddrives in a similar state. The trouble is its actually impossible to know whether that is cleverly encrypted data or just white noise.
I keep white noise files as well just to be annoying.
McDonald's India's delivery app was a golden honeypot
Effort to fire Euro Patent Office president beaten back – again
Monday 20th March 2017 11:30 GMT
Re: Sleeping with the Battistelli
Cant they quit? Its not like there are lots of Patents offices in the city. Even if they could get other jobs with the hope of returning there would be serious interruptions and changes to T&C and pensions. I'm guessing Battistelli can walk away with the ball as far as the staff are concerned. The 'management' probably think this is a good time to ask for a pay rise due to 'difficult times'.
The priest, the coder, the Bitcoin drug deals – and today's guilty verdicts
GCHQ dismisses Trump wiretap rumours as tosh
UK.gov gears up for IR35 private sector crackdown – say industry folk
Why is the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+ project so delayed?
Can you ethically suggest a woman pursue a career in tech?
Blast from the past: Mass birth of early supermassive black holes explained at last
Today's WWW is built on pillars of sand: Buggy, exploitable JavaScript libs are everywhere
This is where UK's Navy will park its 65,000-tonne aircraft carriers
Thousands of NHS staff details nicked amid IT contractor server hack
Germany to roll out €100bn gigabit internet network
Force employees to take DNA tests for bosses? We've got a new law to make that happen, beam House Republicans
'Password rules are bullsh*t!' Stackoverflow Jeff's rage overflows
Saturday 11th March 2017 16:55 GMT
Re: 2nd factor strong!
I put in a random number for phone - largely because I dont trust them with my number but more realistically I hardly ever have my phone with me as there is no coverage here - despite EE telling me I can have 4G wifi modem.
Most of my passwords are so strong I can never get them right anyway.
Favored Swift hits the charts: Now in top 10 programming languages
Saturday 11th March 2017 09:51 GMT
Those who do not understand existing computer languages
are condemned to endlessly invent new ones.
I've only been doing this shit for 42 years now and while it might be nice to have a language that has "safety, speed, and approachable syntax" I'm not convinced swift really has any of those when in the hands of humans, especially humans overseen by management and even if it did then that's only 1% of the problem and changing languages is far more of a problem than that.
While many new programmers may come on the scene from educational establishments knowing Swift it will be 20 years before the best of them know enough programming to make any any (real or imaginary) language bases benefits noticeable.
If fast radio bursts really are revving up interstellar sailcraft, here's the maths
BT agrees to legal separation of Openreach
Friday 10th March 2017 11:36 GMT
Re: legally separated. means F**K all as ......
Both entities will be owned and controlled by exactly the same shareholders. Openretch will obviously want to do the best for their shareholders and the remaining BT will want to do the same and I cant see it making one iota of difference - other than the vans paintwork of course.
Friday 10th March 2017 09:01 GMT
Re: What about BT wholesale though?
You didnt expect any improvement here - this is just another smokescreen from BT via offcourse. BT shares are up 4% already so the market can spot the uselessness of the move. Its a clever move by BT - offering nothing but keeping offcourse 'happy'. This may even fend of Murdoch in mid 2020, but I doubt it.
What went up, Musk come down again: SpaceX to blast sat into orbit with used rocket
Royal Navy's newest ship formally named in Glasgow yard
Windows Server ported to Qualcomm's ARM server chip. Repeat, Windows Server ported to ARM server chip
Huawei's just changed the way you'll use Android
Linus Torvalds lashes devs who 'screw all the rules and processes' and send him 'crap'
Tuesday 7th March 2017 10:06 GMT
Re: No excuse Orv
Have you tried sudo apt-get dist-upgrade? There were a few problems with the earlier sw ( or rather I have some wifi problems but they went away with software updates. Just got a Pi-ZeroW and there are no problems at all with that - after two hours that is. But for ~£20, a TV and leads and keyboards from around the place I'd challenge anyone to find a better value for money piece of hardware anywhere.
UK Home Office spy powers unit pretended it was a private citizen in Ofcom consultation
Sir Tim Berners-Lee refuses to be King Canute, approves DRM as Web standard
BT splurges £1.2bn on securing Champions League rights, Sky heads for an early bath
Mars orbiter FLOORS IT to avoid hitting MOON
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