Posts by Gill Bates

So..

..they've put passwords on their admin accounts after all?

Misleading article

There hasn't been a restriction on taking bottles bought in duty free on board a plane as hand luggage. if you think about it, your bags are checked in before you go through security, so those litres of gin have to come on board with you. the restriction was on liquids you had in your posession before you went through security. the bottles of whatever you buy in duty free have already been checked. if this wasn't the case, where did all those reasonably priced bottles of Plymouth, Tanqueray No 10 and Laphroaig in my cupboard come from?

bloody foreign spiders..

..coming over here, taking white British spiders' webs, getting Bugworld benefits as soon as they arrive, bringing dozens of their family over no doubt. what we're seeing here is the steady arachnification of Britain. in 20 years time we'll all be under spidia law

this would never have happened under the BNP. arachnimmigration. open your ocelli.

Re: SSID/MAC + Lat/Lng is OK in my book

It goes a bit further than street numbers and road signs mate.

SSID+MAC+Lat/Long is equivalent to Telephone number + Lat/Long. Telephone companies offer you the possibility of opting out of a directory when you sign up, yet everyone with WiFi has been automatically opted in by google.

it would have been nice of them to ask first.

FFS, FFS

"Here is one scenario" - that's disconcertingly vague

"As to deliberately letting the code in - I guess most of you lot have never worked on a project involving more than a couple of webpages - big projects have colossal amounts of code, and lots of that is hangover code from previous projects which is there but not used"

I see certain anonymous contributors have colossal amounts of either arrogance or ignorance, I'm not quite sure.

never heard of source control or versioning?

not actually sure what's in your own software?

your code is full of redundant WTFs?

I guess you've never worked on a project involving code full stop.

sign up for an account, be a man and show yourself. I bet I can guess where you work.

the muppet show

Is this the best the US can do? The poster boy for cybercriminality worldwide is a ginger Brit with Asperger's, who by his own admission, was drunk and stoned at the time, and only got in because some genius set up admin accounts without passwords?

next thing they'll be charging the water cycle with stealing from the oceans.

Don't copy & paste straight out of the mail

this article is low. a nadir I didn't expect the Reg to reach. IT professionals are supposed to look at situations and analyse them methodically, yet all that's written here is a verbatim copy of some hormonal rant from the Daily Mail.

it's only the reactionaries who bleat on about the Lib Dems wanting to get rid of Trident altogether. what Nick Clegg actually said is that he wants a thorough review before blindly committing the UK to a £100bn bill payable over 30 years for a weapons system we *might not actually need* or *might lose precedence to something more suitable*. he never said he was going to get rid of it outright. as Trident expires in 2027, wouldn't it be a shame if we spent £100bn on new murder toys right now, for the Taliban to come out with a nuke-proof flying saucer alien death ray a month later?

again on the energy issue, you haven't listened to a word from the Lib Dems. their *priority*, instead of simply committing to build more nuclear power plants, is to ensure homes in the UK are correctly insulated. all the nuclear plants in the world won't keep us warm if all the heat we glean from them disappears through the roof and out the window. once we've done insulating, we might not have to build as many new power plants because we've cut down on waste, thus saving money too, but you'd thought of that, right?

The main problem all the seething mob have with the Lib Dems is that they appear as if they want to think before starting a course of action.