Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon 5770 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2007
I went to a BT office once and noted that they were using a Cisco 4000 as a door-stop (which isn't a small doorstop) - the person I was speaking to simply replied that they were the most handy thing around as there are loads of them just sat about under people's desks. So I looked, and yes, there were Cisco 4000's everywhere.
Since this was around 20 years ago they weren't cheap either.
"You really don't know how things work and clearly don't understand anonymised data "
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You should really tag sarcastic jokes if you post anonymously, you almost had me going there for a second :)
Oh wait, you were serious? Wow. Perhaps you wouldn't mind citing a few examples of 'anonymised data' so we can all take a good look at this rarely sighted phenomenon.
If the Police were clever about this, they would set up multiple open wi-fi access points or bluetooth readers around the area along with camera's.
If the perp has his phone set to look for open wi-fi/left bluetooth on, then they might get him in passing, or if not then he might just use one of their hotspots and catch him in the act.
Whilst Amazon and other online retailers have certainly had their impact, in the UK at least I would definitely blame 50% of this on local councils ripping people off to park in town, and hiking the business rates up so high that shops are no longer profitable.
I've never quite understood how an empty premises brings in more rent money than an occupied one - but what do I know? If only I had the brains of some of the people in these council offices I might be able to ignore all this shit and pretend it doesn't matter!
Is a proper engineering solution to get you to your goal as quickly as possible.
Often the threat of a scream test is enough to get people thinking about the issue at hand which they would otherwise ignore.
Glad to hear someone still employs them when required (I don't think of them as the first tool in the box to use, but you should certainly have it in there somewhere to pull out when all else fails - mainly because it works when other methods are hamstrung by politics).
Oh, and he didn't swear? Are you sure this was Linus?
Apparently they had one of their sign-posts removed from the .net equivalent of a hamlet in Dorset.
Idiots who went to said hamlet to try and find PirateBay realised that because they couldn't see it, it must have been banned.
This whole age-verification system thing has all the hallmarks of a similar genius behind the scenes doing the thinking.
The reason I downvoted your post was because regardless of the sentiment behind this idea, it simply isn't a realistic solution to the problem.
In fact, it will simply switch more people (and not just kids) on to full vpn encryption etc., see :Law of Unintended Consequences
"IT is many things, but it's rarely boring."
Since you've been around the block a bit I'm finding this statement to be a bit difficult to swallow, mainly because the number of fuckwits *in charge* of IT teams are boringly predictable in their never ending quest to do the wrong thing and ignore all advice to the contrary because they apparently can't read an email explanation that contains more than one concept.
Bah, humbug!
"getting tired of this rag inserting itself and taking shots at MY President"
Have you ever read the bit just under the banner on this site? Don't think YOUR President is anything special, El Reg and the Commentards will take the piss out of *anyone*.
Here --> Have a proper beer and chill out. Oh, and learn to spell 'ARSE' correctly whilst you're at it.
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