Posts by jamieathom

Ransomware?

Why are you describing one of the world's single biggest cyberwar attack's with almost certainly the biggest collateral impact as Ransomware?

Paying the ransom didn't help. It is called "NotPetya" because it was not Petya, but looked like it.

It wasn't ransomware, it was a state sponsored weapon of mass disruption.

We understand

> You'll understand then why we didn't have time to post a heads-up.

Because you were so piss drunk you couldn't see, let alone type?

Countdown

Let's cut to the chase, development is clearly accelerating and you must by now have some kind of launch date in mind. Isn't it about time we had a Gloriously Tacky Javascript Countdown Thingy beside all the other trash at the right hand side of Reg pages?

Vulture 1: Countdown

DD:HH:MM:SS.mmm

Till PARIS goes -down- ... er... *up*.

On actual launch day of course we're going to need one of those Olympic Sized Clocks and someone with a Loud Commanding Voice so you can do the launch commentary properly:

"5...4...3...love balloons primed, ignition and Lift Off! Lift Off of Vulture 1! And PARIS has slid off of the launch pole and is thrusting skywards. The cork has popped and she's coming up fast... some scattered applause from mission control here - there hasn't been this much excitement since Moses parted the pink sea."

Now is the time to contact Brian Blessed and one of the Big Names in clock manufacture... or perhaps you could do two birds with one stone and ask Channel Four to lend you Jeff Stelling and that big clock he sits in front of*?

NASA apparently start their countdown a mere 43 hours** or so before launch. Amateurs. We should start now!

* http://www.channel4.com/programmes/countdown/pictures/series-2009/episode-1/countdown-s2009e1-20090306125320-0

** http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/launch/countdown101.html

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