* Posts by handleoclast

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The Register Opera Company presents: The Pirates of Penzance, Sysadmin edition

handleoclast
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Re: OK, that was....

Is it April 1st yet ?

Not yet.

But it will soon be Easter Day. The ideal opportunity to nail yourself to a cross and shout "I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaack!"

Note: it only works if you do it before midday.

Donald Trump jumps on anti-tech bandwagon, gets everything wrong

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Re: "supports Trump's arguments that the media is biased against him"

Not unless he takes VP Pence with him.

It's close, but I think you're right.

Trump's saving grace is that he's largely incompetent. He's done a lot of damage with judicial and cabinet appointments, but on the legislative side most of his fantastically stupid ideas stalled. Yeah, tax cuts went through but those were largely what Congress wanted, not what Trump wanted. And even the judicial appointments were more to do with McConnell than Trump.

Pence, as you rightly stated, is more dangerous. Firstly because he's relatively competent. Competent by Republican standards (i.e., compared to Scott Walker or Bobby Jindal) and fantastically competent when compared to Trump. Not very competent in absolute terms, but enough to achieve a lot of what he wants.

Pence is less easily swayed. Trump has no policy objectives and tends to agree with the last person to talk to him and tell him how much praise he'll get for doing whatever it is that person wants him to do. Pence defers to Trump because Pence is subordinate to Trump; give Pence the helm and he'll have a set course he won't deviate from (straight onto the rocks).

Pence is a talebangelical nutter. His vision for the US is The Handmaid's Tale.

So if Mueller does manage to take down Trump, we have to hope that Pence is tied into the mess so that they both go down at the same time. If Trump goes first, Pence gets to be President long enough to appoint a VP. Sarah Palin, perhaps.

But even if Trump and Pence go together, that then gives us President Ryan. Not the one Tom Clancy wrote about, the Republican who was nevertheless a decent human being, but the Zombie-eyed Granny Starver. The guy who went to university courtesy of social/welfare benefits and who, while at university, dreamed of taking such benefits away from everybody else.

You have to go down many levels in the line of Presidential succession to get to one who is at least partially sane, and there's no way Mueller is going to take out all the insane ones at the same time as Trump and Pence.

So probably the best option we have is that Trump continues in office until the mid-terms, and that his continued arrogance, incompetence and stupidity help the Democrats take control of the House and Senate. Preferably 60+ seats in the Senate so they have full control, including the ability to impeach and indict.

Apple iOS 11.3 adds health records for battery, people too

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Bottom line

So they care about privacy, as long is it doesn't hurt their bottom line.

That's partly it. The rest of it is caring about the privacy of their shareholders (many of whom will be rich and have gained their money by not-entirely-ethical means). If they piss on the privacy of those shareholders, the shares are going to get sold, and their value will plummet.

I'd guess Apple have a lot more US shareholders than Chinese ones. Anyone in China rich enough to have a lot of Apple shares is probably also one of the corrupt gang who wants to spy on Apple users in China anyway.

Which means it's possible, if the Trump maladministration continues long enough, Apple privacy in the US will go the same way. Gotta be alert for them paedoterraists who want to damage US democracy by voting for Democratic candidates instead of good ol' racist Republicans. Gerrymandering voting districts and hacking voting machines can only get you so far, after all, and the right for everyone to vote for Republicans must be protected.

Shaking up the Nad Men: Microsoft splits up into 'cloud' and 'edge'

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AI Ethics Unit?

I'd never previously associated Microsoft with ethics. And still don't.

I expect this AI to find better ways of achieving customer lock-in and then gouging money out of them.

Think of it as an addendum to Conway's Law: if your company has no ethics then neither will your AI.

Please no Basic Instinct flashing, HPE legal eagles warn staffers

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Camel toes

The memo advised that women should think about line-of-sight and wear trousers if they are to appear on an elevated platform. But it didn't warn them to avoid the camel toe effect.

For those who don't know what I'm on about, the camel-toe is explained here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrUsmvVZx20 (I didn't link it because it's not entirely suitable for work).

Most FTSE 100 boards kept in the dark about cyber resilience plans

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If you don't test your company's security

Somebody will be along shortly to do it for you.

Yes, Emergency Service Network will be late and cost more - UK perm sec

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Re: Bodes well for NI border

Then, once they're used to them, start swapping them for Irish + English and see if anyone notices.

Of course they would notice. Back when Welsh and Irish diverged from a common Gallic root, they decided upon their respective orthographies by alternately picking letters from a Scrabble box. One got a preponderance of consonants, the other a preponderance of vowels. So Welsh has words like Eglwyswrw and Irish has words like Taoiseach.

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Re: Bodes well for NI border

Twll tîn, pob Sais

Google translate tells me that means "Tank hole, all slices." Has google got it very wrong or is this a subtle reference to some other translation error?

Privacy activists to UK plod: Wanna slurp folks' phone records? Come back with a warrant

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Performance indicators

Unfortunately human nature - and institutional mores - often appear to bias some officers to a presumption of guilt even when evidence contradicts that position.

I think performance indicators such as arrest count have somewhat more to do with it than human nature or institutional mores. Get rid of arrest count as a performance indicator and you'd see fewer trumped-up charges.

Boffins stalk house-hunting bees, find colony behaves kind of like a human brain

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Re: [SadlyNoddingHead]

Damn, you got there before I could.

Have an upvote anyway.

Hmmm. Perhaps, one day, psychologists will add a variant of this and call is "Speed's Law." Along the lines of "Intelligence is the degree of brain complexity that allows one to deduce the best course of action and then invent reasons to do something else instead. Unintelligent creatures figure out the best course of action and then do it."

First there were notebooks. Then tablets. And now ‘book tablets’

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Re: ‘book tablets‘

Surely that should be ‘Booklets’!

Or maybe babblets. Or taboo.

UK smut overlord declares age checks should protect users' privates

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What have I missed?

In amongst all the articles (and comments) about this that made my eyes glaze over and worked better then Ambien, I've obviously missed something. I know it must be in there, amongst all the verbiage, because the scheme can't work without it (and the government would never implement something with no chance of working, apart from Universal Cred and a whole slew of other things).

Once a verification token has been obtained, what is to prevent the possessor from passing it around to others? People do that sort of thing with copyrighted material, despite the adverts at the beginning of DVDs telling them not to do that. Most people would see any harm in doing that with age verification. They know their mate is over 18 but doesn't have a credit/debit card, so...

And we also know that some parents/elder siblings/random strangers are happy to buy stuff (alcohol, tobacco, glue and worse) for minors. All it takes is for one adult to hand over the details (and there will be many who do so, "you're old enough to wank, go watch this") and it will rapidly spread amongst all children. You know it will. And the children will use it. You know they will.

Which leads us to the situation we have today, only with more expense and bureaucracy. So what have I missed? There's obviously some really cunning idea in all this to prevent the system being widely abused on its first day. What is it?

Prof Stephen Hawking's ashes will be interred alongside Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin

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Re: No problem with the abbey, big problem with the "justification"

Religion brings you Christmas. Don't knock it...

"Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings." –Victor J. Stenger.

I do not think that Christmas is adequate compensation.

handleoclast

Leap of faith

Science and Religion both require belief or a leap of faith.

Science constantly checks its assumptions, religion does not. In science, proving established theory wrong gets you a Nobel Prize. In religion, proving established doctrine wrong gets you burned at the stake.

In science, when new facts contradict your theory, the theory is wrong. In religion (or any other ideology), when new facts contradict your sacred book, the facts are wrong.

Science relies upon facts and evidence to make deductions. Religion uses faith, which is belief with no evidence to support it (at best) or belief in contradiction of the evidence (at worst).

There is no similarity between the two.

UK's data watchdog seizes suspected Scottish nuisance caller's kit

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Re: Oops! Alert the Moderatrix - the coders need whipping.

I suspect you've upvoted two successive posts in rapid succession. Faster than the system can handle it. At least that's the situation whenever I've noticed it.

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Re: Obviously

Worse, as an Aberdonian he likes the skirl of the pipes.

And the pipes are what is truly scary about the Scots. Not that they play them in battle to scare their enemies, that's (relatively) sane. What is really, really, scary is that they also listen to the pipes for pleasure.

Mine is the one with a spanner in the pocket, for prying 50p and £1 coins out of Aberdonians' hands (a joke told to me by an Aberdonian). ---->

handleoclast

Re: Obama?

Do not feed the troll.

Good news: The only thing standing between NASA and $20bn is...

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Re: Omnibus

And for those 60 years (me too) there pops up at least one a Congressional session about "allowing line item vetoes" which hasn't happened yet

It happened once, in 1996, and Clinton used it. In 1998, the Supremes ruled the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 to be unconstitutional. So these days, calls for line-item vetoes are just kabuki. And are likely to remain so unless one party can gain the House, gain two-thirds of the Senate, gain the Presidency, control at least five out of the nine Supremes, and suffer an outbreak of extreme stupidity (note that the Republicans currently meet 4 out of 5 of those conditions).

Sane politicians would realize that however desirable this may seem when their guy is President and facing a hostile congress, when the boot is on the other foot it's extremely undesirable. That hasn't stopped Senate leaders of both parties buggering up the system to gain short-term goals at the expense of shooting themselves in the foot later, so they may keep trying for line-item vetoes.

Fortunately, after the 1998 SCOTUS ruling, whenever a party feels the need for line-item vetoes it is unlikely to be in a position to get them, and whenever it is in a position to get them it doesn't feel the need (especially given how it may affect future elections by annoying people who value democracy). Unfortunately, the bastards currently in power are batshit insane, so all bets are off.

El Reg deep dive: Everything you need to know about UK.gov's pr0n block

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I wonder if...

Could ICANN be persuaded to create the TLD .hedge? So that kiddies have somewhere to look for pr0n when the rest of the intertoobz is blocked by age checks.

We sent a vulture to find the relaunched Atari box – and all he got was this lousy baseball cap

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Let me guess

The baseball cap had "MAGA" on it and Mike told you it stood for "Make Atari Great Again."

Fog off! No more misty eyes for self-driving cars, declare MIT boffins

handleoclast

Re: Another factor is urban planning:

The road in question in this Uber case has a huge paved pedestrian walkway across its central reservation at that spot, with a tiny sign saying 'Do Not Cross'.

Stupid, but unsurprising given the stupidity of the average human.

I think there's scope for using their algorithms and data collection to identify and redesign dangerous road features by running simulations.

Actually, a better idea might be a shared (across all autonomous vehicle manufacturers) of accident blackspots. This is one case where autonomous vehicles could be far superior to humans. You might know of this problem location because you read about it, or observed it first-hand, or had a near-miss there, but your knowledge isn't transferred to many of your fellow meat-sacks. A lot of your fellow meat-sacks may drive through blissfully unaware of the problems that could easily arise. A shared db of problem areas, however, would give autonomous vehicles an edge over meat-sacks in those locations.

Internet Society: Cryptocurrency probably not an identity system

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Impedance Mismatch?

If I'm not misunderstanding something, most cryptocurrencies aim to be "digital cash." I.e., fungible and anonymous. One bitcoin is like any other bitcoin, apart from an identifying number. Much like a banknote. They can be tracked, but only with difficulty. You can say that a particular one passed from A to B but not know any of the intermediate steps. Some are more anonymous and some are less anonymous.

It doesn't seem to me that cryptocurrencies are a natural fit to identity. Or that blockchain technology in general is, either. It hardly seems worth the effort of bodgeing stuff onto a blockchain to allow it to deal with identities. But maybe I'm missing something.

US mulls drafting gray-haired hackers during times of crisis

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Simple solution

Since the military are using increasing numbers of UAVs firing hellfire missiles, the simple solution is to market the control software as a game. People will pay the military to (unwittingly) control drone strikes in $whatever_country_pissed_us_off_this_week.

"Well done, Timmy, you got the highest score this week. Have a pat on the head. That entitles you to a discount on the upgrade to version 2 of the s/w."

"Mr President, one of our operatives wiped out 37 wedding parties this week! That's a new high score."

Actually, although written in jest, that may turn out frighteningly close to what will happen in the not-so-distant future.

Programming languages can be hard to grasp for non-English speakers. Step forward, Bato: A Ruby port for Filipinos

handleoclast

left-right, right-left, field plow style

"Boustrophedon" is the word you were looking for.

Brit MPs chide UK.gov: You're acting like EU data adequacy prep is easy

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Presumably you'd still also get Access to the single market?

The Outlook on that is not good.

Seen from spaaaaace: Boffins check world's oceans for plastic

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Wouldnt it just be easier to charge for removal of non recyclables?

Wouldn't it just be easier and cheaper to fly-tip your non-recyclables? It would indeed. Which makes your proposal a non-starter.

No, Sierra Leone did not just run the world's first 'blockchain election'

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Re: So what was blockchain used for?

Now imagine a world where you can vote online via an app on your phone from anywhere in the world? And the result is 100% guaranteed correct.

And the result is 100% guaranteed to be whatever the guy who hacked into your phone wanted it to be. Unless the guy who hacked into the election machine wanted a different result.

FTFY.

Cambridge Analytica CEO suspended – and that's not even the worst news for them today

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Re: Help

I wonder if you might have a picture of a really shifty looking chap that I might be allowed to crib?

Try Donald Trump, or any members of his maladministration or immediate family. My choice would be Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, his wife and the banknotes but any of the maladministration would serve equally well for your purposes. Donald Junior and Eric look like Hale & Pace in their The Management sketches, so perhaps you'd prefer them.

Horn star Sudan, last male northern white rhino, dies aged 45

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Re: Genetic Diversity

But then, how did WE get started?

I really hope that was meant to be witty. Trouble is, I've seen too much bollocks spouted by the likes of Ray Comfort and Ken Ham, so I know that there are a lot of people who would take that as a valid question ridiculing evolution.

Yes, Ray Comfort (aka "banana man") really did try to ridicule evolution by claiming that the first dog to evolve wouldn't have had a mate, therefore evolution couldn't happen. He's known as "banana man" after he claimed the banana was designed by Gawd to perfectly fir the human mouth/hand etc. Then had the piss taken by people who informed him that the edible banana was a human-produced hybrid of two inedible pear-shaped fruit with big, hard, inedible seeds in them.

Anyway, there never was a first dog. There was a population of wolves that, as centuries passed, all became less wolf-like and more dog-like until there was a population of dogs.

We didn't start from a population consisting of two humans that incestuously inbred until we reached the population today, despite what the Holy Babble claims. Yes, we did go through a couple of population bottlenecks along the way, but none of them were that small.

Sorry, you triggered the anti-creationist in me.

Samsung’s DeX dock clicks the second time around

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Re: nothing quite beats a full on mouse.

I quite like trackballs. Which is strange, because I'm male.

Even so, I prefer something that can be operated with small movements of the thumb rather than sweeping arm movements.

Having got the joke out of the way, I have to say that I really do prefer trackballs.

Apple moves on HSTS abuse in Safari

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dblck

So now you register dblck00.com though to dblckFF.com and use those for tracking?

Wouldn't same-origin policy stop that from working? If implemented correctly in the browser, of course.

Cisco's 'Hybrid Information-Centric Networking' gets a workout at Verizon

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Re: Damn ...

You could always have a beer.

Oh, you already are a beer. :)

BOOM! Cambridge Analytica explodes following extraordinary TV expose

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Re: Should be interesting to hear their excuses

Because 'one rogue engineer' isn't going to work.

Two rogue engineers?

BT: We're shuttering final salary pension scheme

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Re: Staunch

@Chris G

Stanch is a N.American use and not used in the UK.

From the Oxford Popular English Dictionary, 1998 edition (one I happen to have to hand):

stanch /sta:ntſ/ v.t. to stop the flow of (blood etc.); to stop the flow from (a wound). [f. OF estanchier]

That is the entire entry. Nothing about it being Merkin usage, which is what it would say if, indeed, it was mainly Merkin usage. Nothing about it being archaic, either.

Online dictionaries (less trustworthy, IMO) say the same. Although many of them mention that "stanch" is a Merkin variant spelling of "staunch."

Would you care to provide sources backing up your claim?

handleoclast
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Staunch

I realize that English dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive, and so eventually condone gross misuse (such that "cleave" became its own antonym) but...

It's "stanch" not "staunch."

Just a staunch pedant trying to stanch the flow, here...

Uber breaks self-driving car record: First robo-ride to kill a pedestrian

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I'm shocked

Shocked I tell you.

I would never have believed Uber capable of making dodgy products. This is a complete surprise. A bolt out of the blue.

Another day, another self-flying car pipe dream surfaces

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Re: Sigh

How long is it going to be before these 'manufacturers' realise that 100% self driving/flying vehicles are simply NOT going to happen any time soon?

They already know, and have known for many years.

How long will it be before you realize the publicity value of announcements like these? :) Think "brand awareness." Think "people talking about the stupid idea in the pub."

Every so often a particularly annoying advert appears in the media. People complain, the company apologizes and says it never intended the advert to be annoying. Except for once, when one company admitted the advert was intended to be annoying. Because a large proportion of the market consists of stupid people. Stupid enough that, although the advert annoys them, the next day in the supermarket they remember the brand name but not the reason why they remember it, so purchase the product when they see it.

Audi just got a load of brand awareness for very little cost. So did Airbus, although it will probably gain them little unless a few Saudi princes have a chat about the advert.

handleoclast

Re: Jack the ripper was the lock ness monster. Fact.

I get to reference one of my favourite films and I get a downvote

Perhaps because people expected the clip to be funny or otherwise entertaining. Or even relevant, in some way, to the article.

Nice little Nesta egg: Former lottery quango took cash from Google

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Re: Always the bribes made, never the bribed

@Ishtiaq

site:theregister.co.uk lily cole

That might answer your question. Or not. I can't be arsed following the links to find out.

Linux Foundation backs new ‘ACRN’ hypervisor for embedded and IoT

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Re: Balony

I wish I could upvote you more than once for that.

I also wonder how much of this automotive stuff has what aviation calls a "reversionary mode." Whereby if a system like the hydraulics fails critical controls are still operable by mechanical linkages. Well, that's old-school because these days it's fly-by-wire, but there is still either multiple redundancy or some form of reversion in avionics.

Hell, even automotive design had reversion in days of yore. Hydraulic power steering used to be designed in such a way that if the hydraulics failed you still had brute-force steering. It was a very elegant design embedding a spool valve in a mechanical steering system. The spool valve was part of a negative feedback loop and the set point was controlled by the steering wheel. If the hydraulics failed the steering wheel pushed the entire body of the (now useless) spool valve operating the linkage mechanically (very hard to describe in words and I've just done a bad job of it). That was real engineering design. Modern design seems to be "cross your fingers and hope the s/w doesn't crash, because if the s/w crashes so does the car."

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Re: GPU, video and audio on car or embedded hypervisor?

CPUs are pretty cheap;

Indeed. I've lost count of the number of cheap, tacky, pointless, gimmicky Chinesium products Big Clive has reviewed that have a Microcontroller just to achieve a repertoire of flashing LED patterns or some other equally pointless task. You could achieve the same effects with discrete logic, but that would require a lot more chips and be a lot more expensive (and a lot larger). You could achieve the same effects with an FPGA, but that would cost about (I'm talking order-of-magnitude "about") the same. You might as well throw a micocontroller at it, especially as you probably manufacture a wide range of similarly pointless products and can use the same chip in all of them.

The real cost is the programming, but with a large enough run of product that amortizes down to almost nothing.

Ob Big Clive video detailing a particularly banal use of modern technology.

Nest reveals the first truly connected home

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Re: Alternative integration services IFTTT and Stringify

This is a far cry from home improvements that you install once and then expect to last the lifetime of the home.

My landlord, who also built my home, has a fix for that problem. He doesn't modify your smart gadgets to last longer, he just builds the home to fall apart sooner. Then you'll find that your smart gadget outlasts your home.

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Re: The question is...

The way that euphemisms themselves turn into rude words is something else.

English euphemisms can be weird even if they don't subsequently become as rude or objectionable as the original word.

As a child I was puzzled when told that babies were found under gooseberry bushes. Since we had a gooseberry bush in the garden and I'd never found a baby under it, nor did I ever expect to do so, I couldn't imagine why anybody would say such a stupid thing.

It was several decades later before I learned that "gooseberry bush" was 19th-century slang for pubic hair. Then again, the sole "authority" I can find for that is a columnist in The Telegraph, so it might be wrong. Either way, "babies are found under gooseberry bushes" is a weird thing to say to a child, but if The Torygraph has it right then at least there's a logical explanation behind it.

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Jumpstart

Wow. Exposing electrical contacts to the outside world is a very clever idea.

I wonder what would happen if somebody applied high voltage to those contacts. Sufficiently high to blast the electronics to buggery. Which way would it fail? One would hope it would fail locked, otherwise burglars have an easy way in. OTOH, that would allow a DoS attack on your lock (but no worse than superglue in a conventional lock).

Except I doubt you can guarantee which way it's going to fail, unless Nest put a lot of effort into ensuring it fails locked in those circumstances. And even the best design might behave unpredictably if you used one of these bad boys on it.

Note that the above device is intended purely for high school science experiments and not for constructing a contact electroshock weapon (like a TASER, but without the dart-firing capability). It would be illegal to use one of these to construct an electroshock weapon. So it's a good thing people can't buy them dirt-cheap on eBay. Ob Big Clive video (contains one of those devices, alcohol, technical stupidity, profanity and electric shock).

Techies building UK web smut age check tools: You'll get a spec next week

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Re: A lot of you are *very* keen on protecting your access to smut

Are you a troll?

Yes, he's a troll. Not a very good one, usually. This time he seems to have caught far more people than he should have. He even made a second post where it was blatantly obvious he was trolling, and people responded as though he were serious.

Chemical burns, explosive fires, they all come free with Amazon power packs

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Re: Be careful out there...... It's the secondary damage that can get you.....

Makes one wonder how to enforce the controversial electronics ban.

Insist on the right for Customs to hoover all the information off the device. Travellers will then stick data on an SD card and buy or hire a cheap device upon arrival rather than take their device with them.

There's method to their madness...

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Re: Zap!

Mains connected directly to USB, see video at 7:49

Just from those words, I guessed who made that video, and I was right. Big Clive has made videos about other, deadly, variants on this theme here and here.

Clive has made many videos about dodgy Chinese stuff bought from eBay. Like this potentially deadly USB charger (and accompanying funny song).

John Ward occasionally examines products from China. Such as this multiway mains extension which fails to meet safety standards in many, many different ways (proved by some entertaining destructive tests).

I get the impression from those videos, and others, that the big problem is that there are a lot of manufacturers who enter the field of electrical/electronic items without any domain knowledge. Being startups, they hire new graduates (or even hobbyists) on the cheap to do the design, who make the kinds of errors that those with a few years' experience at an established, decent manufacturer would not make. The sort of stupid things I'd have done back before I went to university. The sort of slightly less-stupid things I'd have done after I graduated but before I had some experience under my belt. Essentially Dunning-Kruger manufacturing. And that's before they decide to cut corners on what was already a shitty design in order to make a bigger profit.

Openreach hiring thousands more engineers

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@Commswonk

I don't have "all you can eat." I have a plan from Three which gives me 30G/month tetherable, and throws in 200 minutes and unlimited texts, for £15/month. Tetherable meaning I can turn my phone into a wi-fi hotspot or hook up my home network over USB and have as many computers/users on the connection as I want.

That plan is no longer offered, although I suspect you could still get it if you pushed hard. The closest equivalent is (I think, memory may be letting me down) 30G/month tetherable + unlimited voice and texts for £17.50/month (something like that). I dislike talking to people on the phone (or in real life, for that matter), so I'd be paying an extra £2.50/month for something I don't want if I switched to that, but some people probably think it's wonderful.

Three do have unlimited plans. But you can only tether 30G/month of that. Since most of my use is tethered, the unlimited plans are of no interest to me either. If most/all of your use is untethered then they may be better for you.

Even if BT would let you have ADSL without voice (and therefore without landline charges), which they don't, Three still works out cheaper (as long as you use less than 30G a month). Add in the cost of the landline (which doesn't interest me for reasons given above) and BT works out a lot more.

Three reception here isn't great, switching between a fair 3G signal and a shitty 4G signal at whim. But Three is mostly good enough and I rarely use 30G in a month (although I try very hard to do so, and usually come close). Nearest cabinet with fibre is about 50 yards from me, so if I needed faster/more reliable I could do so but at greater expense. It's horses for courses.

Crypto crackdown: Google bans ads for unregulated currencies

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Re: Can they ban tulips and devops ads too

That's a very, very, very bad suggestion.

Tulips are pretty. I like tulips. I bought some once. Didn't have to buy any more, because they reproduce underground by offsets, so they're slowly taking over the garden. Mind you, the raspberry runners are giving them a damned good fight.

So don't ban tulip ads. You initially have to buy some bulbs. Tulip ads are fine.

Mozilla sends more snooping Web APIs to smartphone Siberia

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Re: The trend is more worrying than the security risks themselves

The same sharp knife that is essential for cutting in the kitchen also (and intrinsically) makes it a useful tool for murder. So you're left in a dilemma, particularly when you're surrounded by idiots.

A dilemma? I don't see a dilemma. If I'm surrounded by idiots and I have a sharp knife in my hand, there's only one obvious thing to do...