Posts by Dan Wilkie 284 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Sep 2011
But... I don't...
You've just made the EXACT point I was trying to make. I despise the buffoon and want him gone from our shores as quickly as the Learjet can carry him, I don't care where. I think he's EVERYTHING that's wrong with WikiLeaks, and constantly undermines its purpose for it's own ends. He's Egotistical and self obsessed.
You've laid into me for seemingly the express purpose of restating everything I said, and it's left me scared and confused. I need a hug :(
That's the issue for me. Bradley Manning had a legitimate reason (self inflicted or no) to fear for the consequences of his actions, bought something of arguable value to Wikileaks at considerable personal cost, and then was pretty much hung out to dry.
Assange founded a website that publishes things governments don't want published, then KNOWING he'd be under the spotlight allegedly put his willy where it wasn't wanted, fled the country to another country, screwed over a bunch of his mates for bail money that he knew he was going to jump, and then hid out in an embassy for years crooning over how hard things are.
I've got no sympathy.
Personally I just wish he'd chosen somewhere else to flee than the UK, then we could be laughing at someone else having to put up with his nonsense.
It's a good job they didn't give Bradley/Chelsea Manning all the money they'd raised for his legal defense though or else they'd never be able to have afforded all this representation and lobbying.
I don't... I mean... What?
Is this some kind of recruitment thing to show that Cisco is just as cool as Google/Facebook/et al? Or at least Larry "I'm on a boat" Ellisons Oracle... This whole article seems like it has been ripped straight from my little girls "Lego Friends" magazine.
But good for them I guess, no chance I'd be allowed purple hair here.
I have a Galaxy S5 for my own use, I didn't like the iPhone when I had that. But for work use I have a Lumia 640. It's not a shiny phone by any stretch, but as a work mobile for Lync, Outlook, opening office documents and making calls it works perfectly, and even our least savvy users were able to set it up fine.
I'd say that's the market they're aiming for.
I remember back when I was at school, we were on RMNet - CC3 possibly. It was Windows 98 frontends and NT4 backend anyway.
Lets see.
All the shutdown screens on all the machines were changed to advertise our Unreal Tournament clan
On occasion various people would change put c:\con\con in the startup folder
Email attachments came out of your 5MB or whatever we had of file space. But when your space was full, it wouldn't let you log on until you'd freed up space. Which you couldn't do till you logged on.
Hence the deluge of emails with massive attachments called things like "Say goodbye to your login"
There were plenty of other shenanigans too, but I only have so many hours in the day...
TL;DR - I'm not surprised that the mail system was insecure.
Short non dramatic answer - yes oil tankers have different systems - usually a laser based one.
Sorry, I mean "OMG, all the tankers are going to explode!"
The issue more is that the reliance on a space borne radio signal seems woven in to many aspects of daily life and critical infrastructure as a convenience more than anything else. I remember being told in a previous life that the reason I needed to learn to use a map and compass was because, comparatively, GPS is like looking up into space for the light from a torch strapped to a satellite whilst its directly in front of the Sun. An oversimplification, but accurate enough.
Radios break, radios fail, radio can be jammed. The issue seems to be more an over-reliance on super accurate synchronized timing sources. The more accurate you need something to be, the more likely you'll get an undesirable result after all.
Dammit. At home I dual boot Linux and Windows 7. I don't want it forcing Win10 on me (I've literally just rolled it back, as one day the machine blue screened and rebooted and then no USB devices would work at all in Windows. It was the final straw). However, my home PC is about 90% used for games and half of them (even on Steam) won't work on Linux.
Curses. I'm weighing up the pros and cons now :\
In fairness, the Dictaphones we had at the NHS were encrypted as well - it was a requirement from governance as it holds personal information. The storage is digital as well rather than tapes. It was a pain when they forgot their code before the information was uploaded as it was gone forever - the only way we could override the code resulted in a full multipass overwrite of the storage.
Having taken an ill advised brief sojurn from IT into door-to-door gas sales - that's the kind of balls that is always spun around and gullible young fools (me) lap it up. You're the cornerstone of your industry, think like a winner, visualize your dream and all that bollocks.
Just as long as you don't realize that the £120 a sale you're making is almost nothing by the time you get your cut of it as you're just making money for the people above you, who are making money for the people above them etc.
It seems to be that the key is to keep people excited and motivated so you don't think how crap your job really is.
I understood it as when they're investigating someone and they're using PGP, it's much easier to piece together who is in their "network" for want of a better word. IE - they're not likely to be sending encrypted emails to their gran (unless she's in on the plan). So you look at everybody the person is sending encrypted mails to and add them to your scope. Then you look at who they're sending encrypted mails to and so on. It gives you more of a pointer where to focus your resources.
But maybe that's because my tinfoil hat got knocked off when I fell off the back of the hype train.
I don't think there's really any robo ethical questions here...
Unless things change a lot, it'll still just be tarted up RC cars with hammers wanged on the front, and all the high tech ones will get annihilated by some kids with a flipper, quicker reactions, and a desire to murderbone everything.
I still enjoy it though...
Alfa did... But they weren't in the same boat as presumably they would have to stop VW/Porsche/Audi/Skoda/Seat and whoever else is in the group or the find would just come from them.
I agree with the majority of people here, if domestic manufacturers can comply without cheating, then VW deserve whats coming to them.
If GM/Ford etc were also cheating, then they should get equal punishment.
I think that's all anyone is after. But they also have a point that if VW ceases US operations, then they would have to be pursued in European courts, and considering how important they are to the German economy it could have a very different impact.
One of the places I work has just deployed thousands of them - the cheap low end ones because they do everything the company phone needs to do.
The last update introduced some weird WiFi issues but on the whole they've been very well received (they replaced Blackberries which to the best of my knowledge were missed by 3 people).
Target Drones have been around a long time before autonomous aircraft - and whilst a lot of them are now computer controlled they always used to be RC from a drone controller aircraft.
Dictionary Definition of a drone is a Remote Controlled Aircraft or Missile.
Autonomous Aerial Vehicles are what you are thinking of ;)
I think they're basically saying Q did it, in a shameful attempt to blame the British Government...
More seriously, as I understand it (it's not my area of expertise) - the value of Q specified in the standard allowed a much greater variety of keys than the value to which it was changed, thus meaning that the output becomes predictable/realistically brute forceable whereas the original value meant there were too many possibilities for this to be realistic.
If I'm wrong, please someone who understands the subject matter better correct me!
Not strictly true... Modern warships are thin hulled as it's better for defending against anti-ship missiles. If you have big armour belts then the missile hits it, detonates, and you have all the shock damage and spalling to deal with. The intention is that a high velocity missile will pass through the thin sides of the ship before detonating, thus punching a big hole and not doing much else.
I think the jury is out as to whether it works in practice, I guess there's not really been any empirical side by side comparison tests...
It's the age old military problem of fighting the last war though. If we were to start armouring all our ships again, you could guarantee that next time we'd be facing enemies making widespread use of anti ship missiles again.
Dividends are also paid from Profits though. And the tax structure from dividends is changing iirc next year as well so the gap will close quite a bit more.
I know the contract I'm currently on pays my ltd co the same as they would pay in salary to a permie, my take home does work out slightly higher, I think my take home works out about the same as a permie on ~£5k a year than they're paying for me.
That said, I found out my 12 month contract is terminating in December after 2 and a half moonths, and last time I was 6 weeks between contracts so there's that :\
*** Edit *** I should also clarify that I know plenty of contractors who take home a lot more than their permanent alternatives, so it's possible that I'm just not very good at this whole contracting thing as I've only been at it a year.
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