Posts by katrinab

Re: Okay...

Also, this is in response to the Manchester Arena bombing, The bomber was as far as I can gather, just outside the secure area, and hit them as they were leaving the arena.

The photo showed XP Professional, not XP Embedded.

Re: Russian planes

I'm sure Trump would be a reliable ally to Russia in such an incident, given his alleged involvement in a different type of water sports.

It is an evening paper. It gets delivered to the collection points at around 4pm or so. The Metro is the free morning paper.

Re: Escape tunnel ...

But it is only £3.10 off peak on the Picadilly Line.

Re: I guess it'll depend how people "fixed" their problem

Does your wifi router care about the date? Have you ever checked it to ensure it is accurate?

Re: Far from unique

Or, you unsubscribed from the June 2017 campaign, this is the July 2017 campaign.

Re: Accounts?

"In December 2016, they filed form AA01 to change the accounting period from 31st March to 30th March. Why?"

That's easy. If you change the accounting date, you get 3 months from the date of filing the AA01, or 9 months from the date on the AA01, whichever is later, to file the accounts, so instead of having to file accounts by 31st December, they get until sometime in March to file them.

Re: I think we need to know...

"It would have been funnier if your username was not female."

I'm sure there are men out there getting ads for pregnancy testing kits.

If you have a Twitter account, you can see what gender it thinks you are. It doesn't ask when you sign up, they make assumptions based on various things. It got mine right, but it's accuracy seems to be little better than random.

I had that with a MacBook. They also tried to sell a Windows version of MS Office, and they do actually have the Mac version in stock.

Re: Nice to see a win in favour of equality of treatment!

No, it most definitely is feminism.

Re: @wolfetone

The document should have given "username" and "password" as the username and password. And those should not work on the live system.

Re: Ive been inside...

No, just a doctor/surgeon.

Re: What about other measures?

Yes. Lexmark already tried that one.

Re: Taking bets now

That's been around for a while now - http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/10/16/356693782/your-car-wont-start-did-you-make-the-loan-payment

And I haven't seen any reports of anything similar to the Black Friday power cut in Central London.

Re: Probably got their own staff to install the back up generators

Isn't the refilling done by the tanker driver who delivers the stuff?

Re: Not just the Nigerian's Anymore

Obviously it isn't legit, but also, it clearly comes from someone who doesn't know how things work in England.

Re: Note the vote 0-8

What if I am a manufacturer in China or in Wales that ships all my products to a third party distributor in the US to access the US market? One example of that might be the Raspberry Pi foundation. They manufacture in Wales and China get RS and Premier Farnell to handle their distribution.

Re: "the antithesis of a strong and stable operating system"

My Windows machines generally stay up for about a month between Patch Tuesdays. My FreeBSD machines have been up since I turned the electricity off to replace a wall socket just before Christmas.

Re: Sweden

Sorry, a signed consent form is no use, because you can revoke consent at any time.

The case here was, they had consensual sex, then she fell asleep, and he had sex with her while she was sleeping, without a condom, which was not consensual.

Re: You can change the name

Sure, it isn't 100% accurate, but the shape of your genitals isn't either.

Re: As if...

Read the comments in earlier articles. A lot of people were taken in.

If I get to choose the tracks that are encoded, I'll be able to pick out the mp3, though maybe not the other ones.

If you drive along a road at 21 mph, or steal something from a supermarket, they know how to deal with it. Anything more complicated, and they are completely out of their depths.

There are about 850,000 employees with email addesses. Some will work different shifts on the same computer. Then there are things like MRI scanners controlled by computers that might not have Outlook installed, depends how they transfer the images to doctors.

Re: Yeah but no but

No, don't move it to another account, leave it in the account it was transferred to, as if the transaction is reversed without notice, you don't want to go overdrawn.

Re: Ferret mk 2

"Actually I'm not over sold on beating Sophos up for the NHS actually having problems"

I am. We get loads of sales reps touting their latest MagicBox™ that completely and totally makes everything secure. Sophos was clearly doing that, and they should absolutely be brought down to earth.

Not really.

"We've installed the MS security patch, we've restored from back-up. Everything's OK now".

Papworth NHS Trust has had something like 16 of these ransomware attacks in the last 12 months, and hasn't done anything. It is going to take a lot more than this to change management attitudes.

Re: Meanwhile, back at the ranch ...

Which is kind of the whole point of Open Source.

I believe it is somewhere in the region of 850,000 machines. If it infected the prescription network, then a lot more, because they are provided by the NHS, but not operated by NHS employees.

GCHQ are on the case, maybe they have people who can break the encryption? Unlikely though unless the malware authors messed up.

The NHS has the world's largest deployment of Microsoft Exchange server. I believe it is somewhere in the region of 850,000 users. NHS England has 1.2 million employees in total, if you include NHS Scotland and NHS Wales, it is 1.4 million. Northern Ireland has its own health service which isn't called the NHS.

They are the world's fourth largest employer, and the three largest - Walmart, People's Liberation Army and Indian Railways, don't have as many people who would use email at work.

So anyway, we are looking at a ransomware demand of at least £200m, which the NHS certainly doesn't have as spare cash.

Re: The beauty of virtual machines

It is how some virtual machines work. I know of one company that supplies such a setup to the educational market. The teacher can set up a template computer with the software / files required for the lesson, and it all gets reset at the end of the lesson.

That would be Brazil. But the cheapest big macs can be found in Egypt both in actual currency terms and in ppp$ terms, so maybe you want to go there.

Re: The tax issue may explain how they were able to do it

On a $5000 payment, about $1.40 per week. That is nowhere near enough to cover the cost of payroll.