Posts by zb

Douglas Adams? Never heard of him. And take it from be that the pan-galactic gargle blaster is over-rated.

Some people are so stupid that I think maybe I should scam their money before someone else takes it. The thing that baffles me is how they ever managed to q accumulate quite so much money that they become fraud targets.

Nobody has touched on the human and psychological angle. The top players place great store on their ability to spot "tells" and to avoid giving them. That is why they often wear hoodies,and dark glasses, and practise their poker faces. Maybe against a computer one of their important skills is worthless. Of course online poker is different.

Stop sitting on the shelf, is it a goer or not?

I already used it twice today :)

Thanks to Assange

Am I the only one who is grateful to Assange? Finally there is something in the news that is neither Brexit or Trump

In Sicily I loved the automated payments - compared with the alternative. The petrol pumps were automated on one side and "assisted" on the other. Spivvy attendants spot the rental cars and wave them into the assisted side where the perol costs 25% more.

The other gotcha is when filling the tank prior to returning it at the airport. The car has to be returned with a full tank but the automated system demands that you prepay for the amount of petrol you need. You have to sort this out with the aforementioned spiv watching and smirking.

Don't confuse me with the facts

I already have my opinions.

Ridiculous, has anyone here ever heard of someone forgetting a password?

Which reminds me, I recently came across some old text files encrypted in vim. Can anyone tell me how to read them before the feds knock down the door.

Safe space

I am not sure if kernel development will be able to continue when the millennium generation arrive, they will faint at the first message from Linus and demand a safe space

So the solution is to monitor your baby with a webcam, they have good security ... err ... I'll get my coat.

Rounded corners

I hope it does not have rounded corners, Apple already invented them.

He makes me proud to be British

At least it wasn't one of Putin's cyberlackies :)

Wow, Google have a hot line to the White House. Who would ever have thought that?

No big deal

Electric cars will be using all the world's electricity long before 2040 so plan to get rid of your toaster, computer, lights etc and live in the car.

I would think that the people involved would know about EXIF data and be clever enough to edit it if they were trying anything dodgy. So my verdict is they are guilty of sloppiness rather than dishonesty

Hillary's mail server

I bet they hacked that as well.

Google got lighter?

If you look at the source of their home page you will wonder how it got as big as it is. The statistics were:

266 Lines 42018 words 194,501 characters and 194502 Bytes.

All that to show a graphic, a few icons and a dozen or so words. Yes, I know it is a bit more complicated than that but ....

But this all contradicts everything

we have been told about data security.

There are gazillions of web pages telling us how to safely dispose of hard drives. Everything from multiple overwrites to break them into a thousand pieces, heat them to 1000 degrees, grind them to powder and put it all in a safe for the next thousand years.

Now it seems that all one needs to do is run rm -rf as root "you just nuked your entire company.”