Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon

Sir

There really is no need for this to happen.

All the ISP's need to do assign your home router a bogon or rdc1918 address, then prepend this to an IPv6 TLA at their end before sending it on to the rest of the world.

The ISP's need to start building their IPv6 networks out to the consumers and not just as a bolt-on for net savvy companies.

Sir

@Penguin Herder

"Unless someone managed to set down on top of Everest"

I think one could reasonably assume that this process would rupture the fuselage in at least one place to equalise the pressure :)

Sir

Master Chief has to wear armour...nuff said.

Smoke 'em if ya got 'em.

Sir

Sorry if I'm missing your point, but Carbon is especially 'lower down' in the periodic table is it?

Number 6 in the table if my memory servers me aright - H, He, Li, Be, Bo, C

Sir

"What's the problem with <snip> KCUFME"

You're gnittihS ME?

Sir

We find the defendant guilty as charged.

Sentence is 10 years maximum security prison, and a dose of cancer.....really?

Sir

I would expect the black steel to radiate quite a bit of IR of it's own accord, which would be occluded by the white lettering, enough for software to enhance and read your plate.

On the other hand, a plain, transparent sheet which had tiny inverted hemispheres, placed over the top of your plate should do the trick quite nicely.

Sir

It would only take a single recount to expose this though.

Sir

If they have turned it off and since the case has been so widely publicised, does this mean if someone gets caught doing it in future it *will* be illegal?

I know the law is an ass*, but this seems a little like cherry picking.

"Oh, I suppose I'll let you off, as I found no evidence of you jerking off to these pictures - but WOE BETIDE anyone doing this in the future - for I will KNOW you are being naughty!"

Yep, the law is an ass* :)

*Translated to 'merican as it is obviously a 'merican posting - it should of course, be ARSE. :)

Sir

@Highlander

Whilst you're probably right about the most prevalent use of this tech would be, you seem to have completely failed to recognise that there has been a long tradition of hacking devices to make them do something cleverer than what the original maker envisaged.

Perhaps you could step down off your (very high) puritanical horse and at least acknowledge that some people do not have base motivations. If you don't you reveal yourself to be a complete Mary (Whitehouse).

Sir

@MadDave

You neglected to caveat that in your first post, after all, it isn't like the press lie do they?

Sir

Wouldn't a neutron bomb serve the same purpose yet not pollute the earth for all the nice fluffy animals out there, like pirahana?

Sir

Especially if you also use an anti-keylogger (a decent one that works!) and enter the occasional letter/number with your keyboard in conjunction with the back arrow key to change the order you enter the digits.

Sir

Why's that then? I was under the impression that Superman was a nice guy, not a bully.

Sir

Well, that seems to make you both big AND clever.

Treat yourself to a doughnut, doughnut.

smf urd, O lmpe upi ertr yp;;omh

Sir

What I can't fathom is why so many people seem to find the cutlery so offensive?

Leave them f**ks alone!

Sir

I saw this on a machine in my last contract about 8 months ago!

I reported it to HSBC at the time and they just told me to install anti-virus software.

It's frustrating because I work in the banking industry to help secure some of these systems. Some banks are shocking in their approach. Most of the time they are more worried about PCI compliance because of the size of the fines - so they paste over the cracks to get compliant - they don't give a hoot about what being PCI compliant actually means. Cheapskates the lot of them.

Sir

You can't be referring to Cell Block H - they were pretty much all munters.

Sir

"include operational fighter jets, like the one that sank the HMS Sheffield"

My history may be a bit off here, but didnt we win air superiority in that war with Harrier Jump Jets?

Hardly F-18's were they?

Sir

Hold your horses there Willy, I think you may be doing the Afghan's a bit of a dis-service there.

They are caught between a highly technological army and a guerilla army that lives in the cow-shed. they just want to make a living and raise children like most people and have to do what is necessary to survive. Don't forget they had 20 years of the Russians before the Yanks and the UK waded in on their white chargers.

If a bunch of gun-toting lunatics took control of your neighbourhood and threated your family if you didn't supply them with food/shelter when they demanded it, could you really refuse?

<joke> I expect the Taliban are just as bad </joke>

As much as human beings are capable of both good and bad things to their fellow man, I would have thought that survival was common to everyone.

Sir

"Anyway isn't paper dead?"

It certainly is. At least it doesn't grow when I plant it.