Posts by Caffeinated Sponge

Re: Aion FX are they really tracing ?

... And that's before you see the huge 'π' silkscreened onto the casing ....

Re: I bet . . .

The last I heard, British Conservatives were still all over the idea that 'only people with something to hide should want encryption'.

Of course, as with the Sir Pterry quote above, whilst this is actually true it is built around the easy to sell misconception that the only people with anything to hide are *bad* people.

Re: Justice to come?

Thing is though, there's no real reason why not apart from cronyism.

Consider penalties under ITAR, for example... (And remember that this is legislation for keeping private enterprise in line from that bastion of communism, the USA)

https://www.friedfrank.com/uploads/siteFiles/Publications/ITAREnforcementDigest_June2022.pdf

It certainly should, but unless I'm misreading there's a huge stack of credit in false name here. Unless that's being claimed separately, I have a feeling it's going to get first dibs on the money.

Absolutely though, person rendered unemployable, imprisoned and medicated as a mental patient due to fraudster really should be getting a good chunk out of this.

Apart from the prior courts and LEOs, there are also huge questions over US metal patient Inpatients I'd say - treating a person as insane and medicating for psychosis because a judge who didn't spot identity theft in progress says much. Essentially the real Woods was discriminated against because the fraudster seemed like a nice, professional person. That's something we should all reflect on.

Re: HAZMAT suit please, nurse, gloves please!

Dishwashers used to be the standard fix for Apple keyboards before it all went chiclets.

Re: BS

Slightly mangled interpretation.

Yes, CO2 emissions *are* a problem.

However, they are not the only undesirable emission an internal combustion engine produces whether operating as designed or otherwise. The problem you’re alluding to is that most/all governments and their associated bodies spent twenty odd years selling the public that CO2 was the only pollutant. Hence a generation of car buyers who feel cheated when they discover their vehicles may have been making low statistics for CO2 but were actually busily poisoning everyone around them and destroying the planet in many other ways.

Re: Inconsistent with Boeing values

‘Inconsistent with Boeing values and appropriate action is being taken’

While we still give money to companies saying things like this when they actually needed to accept and apologise, we are as guilty as they.

Boeing clearly intend to witch-hunt the staff involved and take measures to ensure that their next cynical attempt to sell a polished turd has no smoking guns waiting to be found.

Meh, I regret the passing of sodium lighting purely on aesthetic grounds but LED lighting is technically superior in most ways - about the only problems being that sighting is far more important due to the more focused nature and they do have an annoying tendency to turn into strobe lights when things go wrong.

My understanding is that it’s only a 20% pay cut if you viewed paying taxes as optional and something to be avoided.

I’m having a lot of trouble getting worked up about this one tbph although I agree there are far more grievous avoided tax bills that could do with collecting.

Re: Hearts & minds propaganda, courtesy of MoD

STEM subjects *are* important, but so are fluffy arts unless we wish to lose who we are. Technological superiority is of no value if there isn’t actually a civilisation to be powered by it.

More tech-minded people would do well to grasp this, as the ‘STEM STEM STEM...’ idea is really catching on with western governments to the point that the Arts are being systematically defunded at elementary level. There is such a thing as being the King of Nothing.

Re: I'm so glad we kept one!

Same way they believe the salesperson who sells them the wonderful new software without mentioning the HW resources and infrastructure required.

Re: Wrong

Was going to post something similar, but points are covered mostly.

The UK broadband market may be healthier than in the US but we still have real infrastructure problems, and unless the old cable companies that merged into Virgin built into a given area, your choices are basically limited to BT, companies leasing BT’s wires, something satellite based or something using the mobile phone networks with massive civils costs blocking anyone re-cabling. 5G has the chance to make a real difference in some places.

Re: Hmm

That sounds like the sort of thing I was using in XWindows on SPARCs at college...

Re: Risk assessment

The forward packing arrangements are an interesting angle no one else seems to have touched yet... imagine that thing going up in the delivery van in an urban space!

Re: IIRC

Are (B) and (C) not actually the same response?

Re: Great plan Timmy. @AC

Um, I may be guilty of reductionism here, but surely you are essentially arguing for the abolition of security certificates altogether?

The whole system is based on Trust, it really shouldn’t be a wake up if a certificate issued to Microsoft for Windows which is now deprecated in favour of a newer certificate was being used to sign for something that wasn’t Windows and had nothing to do with Microsoft, then there might be a problem in the post?

The obvious solutions are to steal the new certificate or obtain legitimate certificates that actually apply to the product...

Re: Dead man switch?

Agree that there seem to be operator involvement questions, but my reading of the sequence was that the vehicle crashed, killed its passenger and lost its front portion then the remainder rebounded back to the road and the other vehicles were involved. Hitting a hard surface usually involves deflection. If a large portion of the car was sheared off, then probably an erratic, spinning deflection that would be very difficult to avoid at highway speed and close quarters.

Re: EU Standard plug

“second most painful after Lego surely?”

I kind of don’t understand this part of the argument. I’ve never stood on an upturned 3pin mains plug. I’d argue that if this is an occurrence frequent enough to be a problem then probably standards of basic tidiness are probably more in order. Or you could just look where you are putting your feet. Of course, if this is a workplace then both are already covered by H&S.

To be completely honest, the cable durability part is looking pretty shakey too given third party options that will outlast several phones and I’m not even going near the bit about enforcing a plug shape standard and then arbitrarily deciding not to wire half the pins with no external way to tell. Optionally disable data at the device is a far better idea.

Re: not in the cross-fire yet?

Pretty much. Ever since the ‘Patriot Act’, the rest of the world has been cautious of doing any business with the US that could expose data it wanted to be secure. Demonstrations such as this that US companies don’t give a fig about non-US law when doing business overseas really doesn’t help the case. Almost all that is needed to close the deal is for someone in the Whitehouse Lobby to point the Dotard In Chief at the problem, and let him declare all non-US laws illegal or similar...

Re: No story here

Hm. Maybe I’m in the provinces, but tape cartridges still seem plenty in the land of the living for off-line backups where I’m from.

Re: Back in my day. all you needed was screwdrivers, insulating tape and penknife

Actually, screwdriver as stethoscope isn’t so uncommon in mechanical use and if you weren’t sure where vibration was coming from and had limited tools it would still be a valid technique...

Re: They say history repeats itself.

I was just here for the popcorn but WTAF is ‘c-pound’?

I’m guessing you mean ‘sharp’.

Do you replace all examples of ‘sharp’ and ‘hash’ with ‘pound’?