Posts by Velv

"I can't email my wife. Or reply to my wife"

Am I missing something here? What's the problem?

There but for the grace of God go I...

The critical thing we in IT need to take from this is to review our own security and procedures.

There's been several high profile companies caught out in recent months. We're screaming and shouting because we expected better of them.

But are we sure our own house is in order?

No, I mean really sure - like go and check Mr CIO, it's your job on the line.

Ha, you fell for it. Today is April 1st on the Chinese calendar.

Crime and Punishment

There was somewhere in the UK (think it was Leeds) that had a special Q-tank trunk that used to roam the streets at night. If the Police caught someone relieving themselves in an inappropriate place they called up the Q-tank and you had to clean up your own pee.

Why Q-tank? Because q follows p.

It's not an update, they're giving away free software!!!!!!

All we're missing to cover off all the Oldies is a mobile with a dial (and I realise there are readers here who haven't got a clue what I'm talking about).

If you enter into a Class Action then you join the CLASS and you accept the result of the class action.

If you disagree with the settlement negotiated by the class action, then the only thing you can do is seek to take the class action to court, and if enough of you disagree then you start a class action against the first class action. But you'll probably find such action is prohibited by the terms of joining the first class action.

Presumably the plaintiffs lawyers get a percentage of the settlement, so given its in their best pockets to negotiate the best deal they've probably already reached that point and suspect the court would award a lower amount.

6,400 staff times how many years average service each = an awful lot of SITE knowledge being lost. The one think bean counters never factor into "knowledge" - off the shelf IT stuff is easy, anyone can read google. It's the internal customisations that sting.

brrr, brrr. brrr, brrr.

"Hello, is that Barclay's Stockbrokers? I'd like you to sell my entire holding in Barlays please"

les caniches griffonnages

The Poodles Doodles - much more refined :)

Loving the negative comments.

Think bigger picture.

This is a perfect example of the Internet of everything, and is a stepping stone to everything being connected.

SkyNet is not far away from self-awareness.

I loved the front page news article from Cater Allen Bank (part of Santander):

"A number of news agencies and websites are currently reporting about the discovery of the 'Heartbleed Bug', a virus within software which is used by hackers as a way of compromising online security."

A virus. VIRUS. FFS.

Authorised

And is there a definition of "authorised" scanning.

Just who in a business needs to engage with a third party and authorise them to run the scan. Is it the Head of IT Security. Is it the Head of IT? Is it the CEO who needs to authorise the scan? Is it actually agreed in writing in the job description of each person, or is there a gap which could leave the third party vulnerable to prosecution if it turns out it was the wrong person who request the scan?

When has a law ever stopped a French person doing whatever they want?

"Three remains the best deal for fondleslabs"

I haven't read the T&Cs of this Three deal, but from previous experience of Three this might not be all it seems.

Three previously offered a SIM Zero - you only pay for what your use, no up front fee. Calls and texts were at a reasonable rate (if you made any, which you don't from a tablet), and you could buy a bundle of data (1GB was £5, good at the time).

Catch - you weren't actually allowed to use the SIM in a data device. It was for phones (not smartphones) only (Three's words). So while in theory it was great for fondleslabs (no calls), you weren't permitted by the T&Cs. I fail to see the difference - data is data, the device is irrelevant. But Three want your money for not providing a service.

"Who'd pay to got to an Apple Developer Conference?"

People pay $$$$$$$ every day to go to conferences. Not just IT, Sometimes they pay individually, sometimes their company pays, sometimes a vendor pays.

Just because you don't like the subject doesn't mean somebody else shouldn't have a party. Or more likely just because you're not on the gravy train doesn't mean someone else shouldn't enjoy the steak!

(And while Apple might not be highest on my preference list of conferences, if anyone wants to invite me for free I'll happily attend)

"Mining BitCoins these days requires a specialist rig featuring graphic cards so using low-powered embedded systems is not terribly practical."

Mining BitCoins requires CPU cycles. End of story. Where you obtain those CPU cycles from is your problem, and yes if you want to do it in one "CPU" then a GPU is one place.

It's like the old urban legend of the guy who collected up all the fractional payments the company rounded down on its payroll. A lot of tiny amounts soon adds up.

"The database will be available to brands and companies that buy ads"

I own a UK Registered Limited Company.

Google sent me a voucher for £75 worth of AdWords, I might think about using it.

How do I get access to the list?

(tee hee)

Interesting stance by some people here expecting to be able to move their purchased ebook from one format to another.

If you bought a good old fashioned dead tree book written in English, would you expect to be able to translate it into a dead tree version in French for free? I strongly suspect that would be in breach of copyright law.

Don't get me wrong - it would make sense that if I buy the right to read the text of an author (which is really what copyright is about) then I should be able to transfer my right to that text between different media as long as I only have one copy. But that's not the way any law is currently written.

This is a PERFECT example of why rushed laws are regularly seriously flawed.

Westminster are bad at it, but the Holyrood Scottish Parliament (under both leaderships) has been worse, banning "this" and mandating "that".

Whichever way Scotland votes this year, both Westminster and Holyrood are going to need to learn to write laws without pandering to the Daily Mail et al. Laws should only be there as a last resort for those people who cannot be part of a functioning communal society, not to shape the general "good".

Won't somebody please think of the children.....

What is all that wireless traffic doing to their brains and bodies. Studies have generally fallen on the side of "it's safe" to use a wireless device. But what if you multiply the dose by 30 people in a room. Then you up the power of the base station (and add more base stations) to handle the additional load.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist and I use wireless devices regularly. But I can see where this is going...

If you will insist on dealing outside the regulated currency markets then you're going to get stung when they collapse/walk off with your money.

The banks won't deal in fiddling small change, and nobody's ever owned enough Ningi's to have one Pu.

Given Android's open nature, surely someone has written an App/Browser/Driver that makes it pretend to the outside world to be an iOS device?

(and just in case there isn't, I hereby declare this to be MY intellectual property as of now, timestamped to me here on El Reg, despite Apple trying to patent it in four years time).

"Never believe a rumour until it's officially denied" - Sir Humphrey Appleby