XKCD
XKCD explains it all here: http://xkcd.com/1179/
Posts by Planetary Paul
15 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jul 2012
The Eldritch Horror of Date Formatting is visited upon Tesco
Nork hackers exploit Flash bug to pwn South Koreans. And Adobe will deal with it next week
Dinosaurs gathered at NASA Goddard site for fatal feeding frenzy
Wait, what? The Linux Kernel Mailing List archives lived on ONE PC? One BROKEN PC?
Infamous Silicon Valley 'sex party' exactly as exciting as it sounds
Hacking Team: We're the good guys, but SO misunderstood. Like Batman
Samsung ousts Apple as top US smartmobe biz
Redmond Uber-alles: 100 Bing staffers driven to dial-a-car developer
Yep, it's true: Android is the poor man's phone worldwide
Scientists love MacBooks (true) – but what about you?
The weapons pact threatening IT security research
Kaspersky says air-gap industrial systems: why not baby monitors, too?
Friday 5th June 2015 08:43 GMT 
Connection nagging
> Try turning off data access on your smartphone, for example: it will probably complain incessantly that it can't connect to Google or Apple.
I have never seen that on my iPhones. Only during initialisation procedures and specific things like updating or upgrading. Otherwise no nagging.
IT-savvy US congressmen to Feds: End your crypto-backdoor crusade
Tuesday 2nd June 2015 06:26 GMT
Re: There's a simple way to explain it to them...
In the early 1980's my school decided to move into a new building, think about a small campus for some 10,000 students and staff. In order to cut costs, management decided to not implement a modular key system, just plain random locks with only one master key. This meant that department custodians would have to carry around huge key chains with copies of all the keys of their department on them. So the physics and AV depts custodians got together and from a batch of random keys they reduced the master key profile. From this they machined a master key and to make a long story short, half the school staff ended up with copies of it in no time. These were all copied again when management ordered all staff to hand over their master keys, or else. Only when all locks were replaced with swipe card locks recently, was the problem solved.
Werner Herzog's latest film warns drivers not to text while driving
Saturday 10th August 2013 11:25 GMT
Insurance?
A strange thing I noticed: The girl driver got off relatively light with no further strings attached. In NL you will pay for the rest of your life if you are not adequately insured. We are obliged by law to have a general liability insurance for starters. But when you drive without a valid license or the obligatory MV insurance package for instance, any insurance is void and you will still have to pay yourself all the extra costs the victim has to make to live, without a time limit.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
