Posts by Alister

Re: Flight into terror

Is one of the astronauts called Dougal McGuire by any chance?

Douglas, Shirley?

Re: Flash Networks and Bharti Airtel?

I'm sorry, your post has been edited, due to a Cease and Desist order from Flash Networks and Bharti Airtel. It now reads:

So just to clarify, it's .___________________. and .___________________. that are alleged to be involved in this this Ad injection, and .___________________. lawyers, but not .___________________. laywers, have issued a cease and desist order, to prevent .___________________. and .___________________. being named. Additionally the laywers for .___________________., but not for .___________________. issued a take down noticed for Github, where a screen shot for the the alleged Ad injection by .___________________. and .___________________. could be found.

.___________________. and .___________________. have yet to comment to The Reg, who have asked .___________________. and .___________________. for comment about ad-injection that .___________________. and .___________________. may be involved in?

Is that correct?

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Thank you for your compliance.

Re: Poor editing - here is the key to this issue

"Dahan says the MileagePlus system will inform when user identification numbers are incorrect"

This is a problem where web developers try to be too helpful to the customer.

The error message for a failed login should not identify which bit (username / ID or password) is wrong, it should just give a generic "Login details incorrect" for both an incorrect ID or an incorrect password.

That way, at least there is no shortcut for a hacker, they have to find both a valid ID and matching password.

Re: Knife fail

cock stoppered bottle

EEWWWW!

Why are "we" calling asset strippers and market manipulators "activist investors" now?

Um, because it's an equally accurate description as the two you offered, perhaps?

Re: don't listen to McCain

Don't listen to old man John McCain yelling for the kids to get off his lawn. He hardly represents the majority of anything.

Yeah, and look what he did to the Nakatomi Tower...

What?

Not the same bloke? Oh!

Downvoted for using loose instead of lose...

Re: Sounds complicated

Wouldn't it be more practical to have a gyroscope turn really really fast to accelerate the rotation of Earth?

What we need is every able-bodied member of the population to stand facing away from the direction of the Earth's rotation, and start running really, really hard all at the same time...

I'm sure this would be trivial to organise.

Guys?...

Oh come on, guys?

Really?

Re: "Unlike Windows XP Server 2003 won’t cling around, zombie-like, at high numbers for years."

Yep, It's only last year we were sent a backup of a database from a client, they wanted us to import the data into their systems. Turns out they were running Microsoft SQL 5 on Windows NT4, we had to build a legacy machine just to read the data!

Re: It's nice to have regular recalls, but...

I was just going to post the same thing, this is hardly a new revelation.

Any sysadmin who manages web servers has to balance the plaintive cries of SEO consultants (who want robots.txt) with those of Security consultants (who don't)...

Re: Lubuntu...

Minimal set of apps and still has a GUI software center.

I don't get why you need a GUI for software installs? Seriously, I don't get the point of them?

If' there's a piece of software I want, I find it in a repo and then apt-get, or yum install depending which machine I'm on.

If it's not in a repo then download the source.

Re: I blame the parents...

@Alistair Dabbs

It's Gallic for Alexander. Probably originally spelt in runes.

Yes mate, I know. I've carried the burden of it for over fifty years...

Do you find not even family members can spell it properly?

Re: Slightly worrying

Am I excessively heteronormative or does the Register team have a tendency to see bottoms everywhere?

Um... number 2?

Re: wow...definitely doesn't deserve its own vuln "codename"

Yet they still felt the effort to create the "sweet" snake logo, nickname (surely took several researchers multiple 2-hour meetings to agree on it) and marketing release was justified ey?

Agreed, you can imagine the marketing meeting for a new vulnerability:

MarketDroid "You can't call this new vulnerability SPLODGE! What does it even mean?"

Tech "Well it's an acronym of what the vulnerability does".

MarketDroid "Well think of a better one! We can't use SPLODGE, it would adversely affect uptake of our new product... er, I mean... er... no-one will take any notice of this critical vulnerability..."

I assume we'll send the bill to the Swedes?

No, why would we? It's not their fault he decided to skip bail in Britain. The police are there to arrest him for that offence - for which there is no shadow of a doubt of his guilt btw...

Re: Erm...

Ha, I wish you'd posted that five minutes earlier, I wouldn't have felt so stupid...

Re: err, what?

In which case I will offer my services. I have extensive experience in Refrobulation and indeed, was instrumental in designing many Reciprocating Flangulators.

Ah, I'm glad to hear it, I've been having terrible trouble with the elliptical cam gradually sliding up the beam shaft and catching on the flange rebate, with disastrous results as you can no doubt imagine.

Seriously, if he's doing it on his own time, how's it any business of his employers?

I don't know if it is still the case, but historically a police officer had to adhere to certain moral, ethical, and legal standards in their private lives - for instance they would face disciplinary action if they defaulted on a debt, and were prohibited from taking part in certain activities.

The offence committed would be "bringing the force (service) into disrepute".

Lulu is now a verb...

Please give an example sentence, utilising "Lulu" as a verb...

"Oops, I just Lulu'd myself"

"I'm going to Lulu you in a minute"

Re: Compliance?

Will compliance be rewarded?

You are Sunil Bakshi and I claim my $5

:)