Posts by 0laf

Is everyone remembering this is 2021

With this year's current record Apophis will probably ( despite the improbably huge nature of space) hit some piece of old space junk which will send it into an inescapable death dive towards Earth which it will hit on December 25th, striking the site a large nuclear waste/weapons dump with uncanny accuracy and just outside the blast radius causing an armoured van filled with an unlawfully developed weaponised new Covid/Flu/Ebola/ variant to crash and burst open next to a crowded area filled with people waiting to go to the airport on holiday all around the world.

I'm just saying, don't buy a lottery ticket yet.

5...4....3...2...1...

And

GO Excuses!

GO Platitudes!

GO Buck passing

1) It was a sophisticated attack

2) The security of our customers' data is our top priority

3) It was the fault of the graduate IT apprentice on 50% of minimum wage / his overworked engineer manager

I can see it now, heroic astronauts on the dark side of the moon trying to reach the environmental control console to turn on the O2 (moved for the 563th by MS, now nested 14 layers down in the "Breathing console" of the new "Comfort" section) only to get....."unable to contact licensing server".

I know the real meanings of 'Hacker' and 'Hack' and know the history back to Ol' Captain Crunch days.

But you've lost that word, it's gone and you're not getting it back.

Maybe you need to think of a new one or bring back and even older one - tinkerer, modder etc

Problem = people

I've yet to find the bottom of how far people will go to prove just how stupid they are.

Just the last few days have made me question Darwin's theory of evolution since people as stupid as I've met recently should have choked to death on a hammer or other large inedible object long before they reached breeding age.

Asking these people to decide on what consitutes malware seems somewhat of an irrational decision. These being the same people that will curse science as dark magic when asked to get vaccinated on their high technology mobile phone device. Which they seem to think was grown on an organic phone farm.

This is a poisoned chalis for anyone that actually wants to do the job. Good if you want to get it on your CV and have the skills to jump ship before everything tanks

Bottom feeders

Wasn't the entire business case for these something along the lines of - "You've bought .com, .org, and .net; now you should really buy up the 50 other shitty versions of your domain coz if you don't someone else will and they'll put nasty things on it!".

Complexity?

From a compliance and security pov M365 takes complexity and obsfucation to a new level.

It makes coming up with the Grand Unified Theory of physics seem "a bit tricky" in comparison.

Question from a layman

If this sort of David Vs Goliath stock battle becomes legitimised, and hedging becomes a largely unsustainable business model what would be the effect on the markets and commerce in general.

Would we be in a better world?

(I understand in the real world the little guys will get crushed by the politicians that live in their pockets but humour me with a thought experiment)

Survey says...

They could have saved some time and money and just visited El Reg a few years ago when every commentard had already called the switch of phones from shiny to utility.

Now Vs soon

I think we need to conder the needs of now and the needs of the near future (post lockdown world).

VC has worked to keep things going. If you commute a long way it's probably been a godsend.

But a VC meeting loses the social context of a meeting, the bit before and the bit after. The walk to the door is sometimes where a key piece of information can come together or slip out.

My real life meetings were usually punctuated by multiple "while you're here" ad hoc meetings and discussions. Those were very important and right now they are gone.

My partner was pregnant when the whole COVID mess kicked off so I've been 100% out of the office for nearly 11 months.

Home schooling is more of a disruption than anything else, well that and a baby that lacks stimulation because every mother and toddler group or event is closed.

We'll never go back to 100% office work. That's gone. We need to make massive savings to cope and building closures are going to be one way of doing it.

Another graduate from the Dido Harding School of Business.

They teach nothing about business but they are very good on how to integrate yourself with the ruling classes and bagging yourself a minister to keep you warm between contracts

Clarification please?

I think you are referring to the 'free' OneDrive limit although this doesn't seem to be clear in the article. If you're a paying customer you get 1Tb per user.

I for one....

I for one welcome our crumbled Bourbon biscuit (cookie) overlords.

And long cool pint of Sapporo for the scientists and engineers involved.

I look forward to the results of your endeavours.