Posts by Valeyard

Re: FTFY

like when we know there's no such thing as mad cow disease when a politician makes his poor kids eat burgers for the camera

the already-answered questions are very useful but asking your own is just not worth the effort these days

Re: FTTP

I should probably spend less time on politics Twitter.

words to live by, you'll feel a lot better

Re: Glasses anyone?

not sure if you're long-sighted, but if you're short sighted you're fine since the objects only look far away but aren't actually. it's like being in a magical world where i can see

Re: Me: "Oh no you haven't"

Them: "Hi, Home Office PR here"

Is that a new euphemistic name for ass-covering and state-censorship?

Re: Um....

OH NO THEY'RE NOT!

Re: Wordpress

even admin on a wordpress install shouldn't do TOO much, but the webshell as plugin through the plugin install feature is as old as the hills, that thing must be ancient

Re: Not even Putler?

The worst thing is these guys will probably get hired after Club Fed because they are an "IT genius" in some PHB's deluded braincell.

the american security clearance review/appeal documents for real individuals are publicly available, and from those I can safely assume that these guys will never in their lives get a job in IT security for any US gov agency. They don't care how good you are; if you're not completely 100% trustworthy you're out the door, especially in these post-snowden days

The scripting tasks I set for my interviewees go further than that, I set something I know they cant curently do but I assess how good their google-fu is. Since let's face it that's a large part of the job, and it means that training and bedding in won't involve me having to hover over them

Re: Grrrr

I'm the same, still on a oneplus one because it's still functional and not outdated in any way i use it. I usually skip a few generations with each new buy and usually then because the device has died of old age

Security-wise though it sucks that i'd be better off replacing my phone 6 months after buying it

Re: Best way to handle this

Loudly and defensively reassure the bastards in management that this is "normal" and

that's assuming management even notice, or indeed have ever been inside that particular building

Re: There is no way back

they did a good job of harnessing the microsoft behemoth though after their european troubles took them down a notch or two, (then after microsoft's later products brought them down the rest of the way)

Re: complete hypocrisy on this comments page

the government is trying to have their cake and eat it by treating you as an individual instead of a company?

a chrome tab left unclosed

Re: remote CSS?

Yeah webmails etc allow CSS, but I'm fairly sure they don't allow it remotely, only what's embedded in the email

And if one doesn't block that at least by default then I simply won't use it

Re: Sarf Wales

I thought Newport was awesome the few times I've been there*

*Which were entirely limited to the speedway track and its car park

Re: Still using my oneplus one

that sounds good, i'm still on cyanogenmod til i can decide on a new OS, i'll have a look at lineage

Re: A use for AI at last

That was the idea behind Stross's Rule 34, and it didn't end well when the spam AI and anti-spam AI fight evolved...

Re: What is this?

it's a slippery slope only giving voting rights to those who by some arbitrary measure have "earned it"

can't find work? working minimum wage? work in marketing? attend art college?

i dunno where the line is drawn as to "doesn't contribute"

Re: We've been here before

came here to basically write down your comment title

haven't we already been down this road before? and haven't we learned shortly thereafter why it was a bad idea and a false economy?

Re: Better not fly past my window

it's called the "Research and Development" department, not the "doing things" department

;)

Re: Put this in perspective....

hacking talktalk in the 1990s

"Database download: 1.4GB remaining. estimated time left: 34.9 years"

"Ads are comparable to, and indeed worse than, rape"

-DropBear

Re: The Fail is strong in this one.

the law doesn't judge the morality of the affair nor take it into account (whether or not he actually was shouldn't matter), it judges the written ACTUAL law as applicable to data protection

Re: Don't hold your breath Europe

On the flipside, if there's one country that's well-practiced in not taking any crap from the big boys it's Ireland

Hello! The TLS version of the site isn't quite ready for prime time, please bear with us...

I'm glad they're finally almost catching up with those they criticise, but i wonder why i wasn't already seeing this with https everywhere enabled

Re: No, it's mostly just SF and assorted lefties

get political capital from asserting that we could fix poverty and social injustice if we only took the money.

ever the ways of the opposition!

"that's bad you shouldn't do that, hi everyone look how crap they are"

"what would you do instead?"

"THAT'S NOT THE ISSUE STOP DERAILING US!"