Posts by Will Godfrey

Slightly conflicted

But only slightly.

I have a sliver of sympathy for the resellers, but at the same time they were quite happy to sell overpriced tat to their victims customers.

Usual Story

No matter what they say, such a move would have no effect at all on any real baddies, but would put everyone one else at serious risk.

As a comparison, in the UK guns are very tightly controlled and licensed, yet still the crims seem to get them, and in central London (the most watched city in the UK - and possibly the world) there has been an increase in gun crime, including multiple murders.

P.S. I'm not advocating letting everyone have guns, just pointing out that prohibitions don't work.

It's locking the door after the horse has bolted

but hacking life support devices (with intent) should be a distinct criminal offence with a mandatory life sentence - assuming you can catch the slimeballs

Be afraid

Be very afraid.

Been a long day

Bug hunting (but got the bugger), and BOFH makes a delightful moment of relaxation to go with this ->

Said to get a reaction

That's how it looks to me, and it certainly succeeded in that!

Whether it was the reaction he wanted is another matter of course.

Worse than useless

What is the point of examining ancient firmware of just one company?

Now if they did some real research they would examine the work of a range of similar products from different manufacturers, comparing their initial quality, current quality and most importantly, code development trends.

However, if they did that they probably would annoy their paymaster.

Shirley Knot

I thought these people were supposed to be highly trained professionals - the only ones employed by 'gifted ones' (tm) who know everything and are much superior to the rest of us.

How will I ever cope with the disappointment?

/s {if needed}

That's Rich!

what about Stuxnet then?

I'm shocked

I would never have thought that such honourable organisations would behave in this way.

/s

What a train wreck

And that's both companies! I've been in some poor situations, but nothing remotely like this. It must be absolute hell for those workers at the bottom of the heap.

Did someone say 'Crapita'?

Oh! Sorry it was Crap Data.... same thing really.

Maybe I'm mistaken

... but it seems that these days Google screws up almost everything it touches.

Really?

You couldn't make it up, could you?

With a major investigation concerning software still very much under way, they come out with such an insane idea. The really, really scary bit is there's a good chance they'll get away with it!

About time too

One down, but how many more to go?

Also it's a great shame that groklaw is no more. They would have been all over this like a rash.

Groundhog day?

Are we in some kind of loop?

The idea of running some form of Linux in Windows seems to keep coming up, and a {cough} few {cough} of us make it clear we are not interested... to put it nicely.

See!

I said last time I didn't think 1,000 years was exceptional. I'm just waiting to hear they've found evidence of use 10,000 years ago - and wouldn't be the least bit surprised even then.

Latency

Is that a solved problem now? For the vast majority of people I rather doubt it - and I'm not talking about the theoretical figure but the real-world value on congested networks.

3, 2, 1

Microsoft announces an all expenses paid 'fact finding' holiday for CERNs senior bean counters.

Bar Stewards

It's cold comfort, but he's better off out of there, and hopefully the publicity will act as a warning to other employees to quietly keep their eyes open, and gather as much printed information as they can about any contract changes.

Worrying

In view of the performance of other updates, the words 'chock full' give considerable cause for concern.

P.S. That '6.5' might turn out to be prophetic.