Posts by YetAnotherLocksmith

Re: Ecological vandalism

This is exactly what I said!

Sell the lot to those licensed to have it, or stick it on ebay USA or whatever and export it.

Stupid publicity stunt.

Re: Britney Spears is a good local girl

At least, after literally decades, she actually has a lawyer now! One that she has picked and that is working for her, not for <drum roll> the Trust!

The main issue is, there was no-one looking out for her, as even her lawyer was controlled by her trust, controlled by her dad. So the person meant to push back against everything her dad wanted, was working for her dad. How that was allowed, I can only assume it was large sums of money, really...

You might change your mind when you realise that it is just polite ransomware, and that you have no access to videos, bookmarks, music, work or even money unless you go as they demand. :-/

I have three Google accounts due to weird YouTube vs Google vs company thing. It's a pain, but I rarely use any of them, at least I rarely use any of them *on purpose* - they are always there, watching...

Re: 'Delegation'

Tender about it, you say?

Re: Dark Monitor

That's pretty standard. It makes sure pesky hackers can't remote in and watch you "working". I don't trust it as much as the sliding cover I added though.

Re: "It's the database the police use" ...

The database *was* up to date when the driver left. And since it is illegal to use your computer while driving, and stopping on a motorway would cause bigger issues, the law, as ever, is an ass.

Re: A couple of decades ago

Returning "1" is safer!

Re: Background

That's a very good solution.

Re: Background

Even if they haven't! My parents have two very visually different versions of windows, depending if they're logged in as "pleb" or "admin". They need the admin password because Windows does stuff often enough that demands it, but the staff have access to the computer too, so passwords are needed.

Re: Square disks

The clue is definitely in the name! "Disc"

And now the deformed disc at the other end is definitely not going to work!

Re: Rubber band

It completely stops any transfer of vibration from the motor to the drive, in case you're still wondering why they did that.

Re: ... a user will somehow always misunderstand

See, that's scary. How fast things move on...

Re: Labels

My first line manager, many years ago, did IT for a certain very large company that outsourced all their IT. Because he knew what he was doing, and I knew what a computer did, we got on well. Bill, his name was. Hopefully he's still retired and on his dream canal boat...

Anyway, point is, he stored the department floppy disc for transferring stuff between networks (as only he had permissions) on his computer case side, pinned in place with quite a powerful magnet. And the disc always seemed to work just fine!

Re: The worst journey in the World

That would be because once super-cold, the ice doesn't melt under the pressure from the runners, and so your sledge doesn't slide any more.

Re: The endless story

Making the other party have to do even a tiny level of work to get what they want often gives you months of time to play with!

Re: The endless story

Cook it until it burns, then take it off 3 minutes before that.

Re: if it works...

That is home automation, not IoT. The internet at large doesn't really need to know you just got home, or that you just went out for the day.

Re: if it works...

I can see a great use case for it, but only if you're using it as a CNC DIY waterjet cutter. Which is obviously really common, and that's why they've added it.

Sarcasm existing in this response is left as an exercise for the reader.

Re: OneWeb

They sure can pay themselves though!

Re: Dish...

It would only move occasionally, otherwise it would simply wear out. Plus, things moving under their own automatic control probably wouldn't be allowed without safety precautions, even on the ladder high side of a house (it could push you off the ladder)

We used to have a big dish, 30 years ago. It would move to switch satellites. Except we very rarely did. Imagine the surprise when it crushed a load of bushes and half the rotary drier one day!

Re: Too Late ?

They also promised that last Christmas, and the year before that, etc. Almost like they are serial liars, and the public forgets every time...

I think that's because they don't understand the concept, to be honest. Discussions I've had have been fruitless, despite line of sight to their main tower, "it is too far" at 7km.

With a VPN (to stop data harvesting by Starlink, obviously) who would ever know?

I think you're missing that there are TWELVE THOUSAND satellites, not 12. It more than triples the number. There are currently only 6000 in total, and that's including the 1200 Musk has already launched.

You can't "filter it out" when it's half a dozen superbright streaks across the image. Do you even astronomy, bro?

Re: Filth

FWIW, I agree.

Either there was something wrong with the encryption and a plain text copy was secretly transmitted somewhere and captured by the police (Unlikely in the extreme), or the plaintext was taken from the phone. If it was on the phone, it was at rest. (Unless, of course, it was on a mobile... I'll get my coat.)

If it wasn't being transmitted (as in, actually left the phone flying through the air), it was at rest/in storage. RAM is storage. It might be stored encrypted too, for a short while, but it was certainly stored while being written prior to sending, and it was certainly captured before encryption.

Re: Air-gap

A thousand+ employees isn't "major"? Really? That's more than the entire UK owned car industry's combined head count.

I had very much the same issue. Never had Facebook, jumped through the hoops to get a single specific feed from one organisation in a member of, and when I went looking a few weeks later, I got a message I was banned, possibly for being a robot - the page I got linked to seemed to simply list every possible reason for a ban! - and there was no appeal, of course.

I did take the time to download their data store archive of all the stuff they had collected, and it was shocking! Hundreds of advertisers, from perhaps a half hour of actual use, with various data.