Posts by John G Imrie

Re: If A -> B, B -> C then A -> C

I've got a Wookie over here.

Confessions of an IoT Repair Lady.

Damit

You beat me to it. I thought it sounded more OCP than H. G. Wells.

Re: A bunch of politicians lied?

I'm starting to like Iceland, they jailed their bankers and now their PM has resigned. Then again, around 4.5% of the countries population turned up to protest outside their parliament.

Re: Who wil notice?

Any of the US companies on the fast track program?

The Facebook Limits.

Episode one.

In which we discover that Facebook has no limits.

Re: It's all very well having the chargers, but how many are there at each location?

it's not uncommon in our part of the UK (SW) to find that people have just parked in the dedicated charging space, thus rendering it useless just because it was a bit closer to the supermarket door than any other space.

That's a simple fix. Move the charging point away from the doors.

Re: Santa Cruz Organisation (SCO) ...

Spiny Norman wants a word with you.

Re: Only Apple can help us...

I hope so, but at the time they could have believed this. You can only perjurer your self if you lie. And to lie you have to know that what you are saying is false.

The Future ...

is Dredd

Re: prove it

our system is secure and, therefore yours must not be, so the fault must be yours.

You can prove that in a court of law can't you?

Re: Moral on the -1 passed as array index?

Use Perl ?

$array[-1]

is the last element of the array

$array[-2]

is the last but one etc.

to be honest I could accept increased levels of physical searches on or near transportation hubs

O goody a long queue of agitated people all ready to be blown up. How far back do you push the security cordon, the airport entrance, the car-park, the roads up to the car-park. This ends with a metal detector on your front door, or possibly your bedroom door.

Bring your Daughter to work day

We know how well that ended, don't we.

Re: "Security Camera" term needs to be dropped.

"Attention ground units. Anticitizen reported in this community. Code: lock, cauterize, stabilize."

Re: i for one....

Until it can make a really good cup of tea I think we are safe.

Re: Cannot unsee ...

The next morning my colleague found all his pr0n files contained a photo of the PHB grinning and holding up a card reading "Don't do this again".

I rather like his boss' attitude over this :-)

Re: cue the Anti Mast campaigns

The single biggest obstacle is the law which prevents mobile companies sharing equipment at sites.

Which law's that? Not a troll I really want to know

Re: Euphemisms

"Safe Harbour" and "Privacy Shield" where the titles of the treaties. To quote Sir Humphrey Appleby -

you always dispose of the difficult bit in the title. It does less harm there than on the statute books

Re: Lily!

And that's a problem because ...

Re: Isaac Asimov

On of my favourite Asimov stories is 'The Evitable Conflict' And one of the scariest answers a computer can produce is "The matter admits of no explanation". I think that ranks along side 'I'm sorry Dave I can't do that'

Re: since when has Guildford been in the Thames Valley?

Global warming?

Re: Same here

Only one TV add persuaded me to by the product and that was the original Boddingtons add with Melanie Sykes.

Re: Screw cuteness

There is a massive 24 level deep operator precedence for Perl. However most Perl programmers remember that multiplication and division come before addition and subtraction and use brackets to sort out the rest.

Re: Kyle Lady says...

<cynicism>

If I run the tests and give the company a clean bill of health and we get hacked it's my job on the line. If I call in a security bod and he gives us a clean bill of health and we get hacked it's not my problem.

</cynicism>

Re: Not that easy

I think they need to hire outside the mainstream of IT, people with the right mindset and talents who need a little extra technical skills to fill the role,

Like Station-X did during WW2

Re: Welcome to Totalitaria

Re comment: The Register

Associating re-education with torture is crimethink

Locate individual and assign to room 101 immediately.

Long live BB

Re: 3 Screens?

It's a black button, on a black background, with a little light, that lights up black, to show you when you have pressed it.

Re: Albert Spangler

Albert Spangler, is dead, I had an excellent view of the hanging.

Re: Optional

I'm not prepared to die for my principles, for that way leads to fanaticism. I will live by my principles every day of my life though.

Re: Brexit

What's going to happen to all those Multinationals with their HQ's in London who suddenly discover they cant transfer personal data out of Europe into the UK. That's the Insurance and Pension businesses scuppered.

what is really in the best interest of the people as a whole?

Us knowing everything --- FBI

try getting children to eat their vegetables

Easy, ban under 18yo from eating veg and watch the trade in under the counter carrots sore.