Posts by auburnman

Re: Where are the Drone Jammers then?

Best bit about the fishing rod is if you down a drone you can prove it was flying within X feet of you, possibly supporting any related complaints of trespass or harassment if the operator comes looking for their gear back.

Re: Interesting...

But the existing audio recording laws relate to transmitted conversations between one or more parties. I doubt there's legal precedent for an always on audio recording device - known to be present, i.e. not a bug - that stores audio at a remote location.

Re: I agree, traffic separation is the answer

It's an incentive for citizens to not own their own car. Ideally the best way of achieving this would be cheap & reliable taxis, but with the various interest groups keeping cab fares up this is probably the next best option. Ideally someone can do 95+ percent of their travel on foot/bus/tube, and very occasionally shell out for a taxi if they have an urgent journey, heavy shit to carry etc, and they still don't have to queue with the hoi polloi.

I thought to work for Uber in London they needed a professional driving licence/certificate which would put them at least on par with minicab operators in terms of vetting? Any capital dwellers know more details?

Re: Easily turned around...

I would say most people already know that holding a door for someone could be a bad thing, but it is so astronomically unlikely in most workplaces that they will do it anyway because a) it's polite, and b) being the only one to shut the door on strangers or colleagues is a one way ticket to being labelled as a tinfoil hatted nutter and openly mocked.

If the company really cares about this, they will have secure entry gates like other posters have mentioned. If they haven't, they don't care and are just paying lip service to this threat vector so they can scapegoat an employee if someone does get in this way ("We train all our employees on security matters, unfortunately proper procedure was not observed")

Re: Owners matter too

Presumably you have also written to the board complaining that anyone working for IBM is paid more than the legal minimum wage?

To quote the Oatmeal (again): "If I want to use 'boobs' as my password that's my own shitty decision and you should just let me roll with it.".

Re: Bugger

The cheaper way of doing it in the near future could well be licence Toshiba's technology for peanuts

Re: Ugh

The stores selling for anything under a tenner are highly likely to be scammers trying to cash in over Christmas. I ordered a few as gifts* day 1 and they were £11.89.

*Plus one for me of course.

Re: 600 IT professionals in the UK and US

There's shades of grey in missing a funeral as well, you may have planned to go to the funeral of the missus' third cousin, but I doubt there'd be uproar if you couldn't make it.

I was just about to post something like that - shadowy organisation with little to no accountability and certainly a highly limited view of if they're doing work at all wants to get in a stack of PS4's. Hmmmm....

Re: The, ahem, marvellous variety of the human race

you have to wonder if insurance will cover "ripping up all the floorboards because they've been marinading in shit for a year."

Re: I doubt the BBFC really care

Best case scenario from the viewpoint of annoying the BBFC is the intern is going to have a shit couple of days; 3 if they get enough to reshoot a 14 hour extended edition.

I think if KickStarter is at fault it's because they provide a sheen of respectability to shysters and incompetents; precisely because as another commenter noted they present to the public the impression that they have tight controls in place to keep out fraudsters and people who haven't actually got a working product yet. Whereas in actual fact these controls appear to be just smoke and mirrors.

If you take a look at eBay, I would bet you still find a fair few dodgers on there still. In fact a pal of mine knows all too well it's still easy for a seller to mail out a broken piece of shit and swear blind it was mint condition when sent. Perhaps the 'dodger magnet' phase is something internet platforms just have to go through as they mature.

Only for a couple of years. Interesting though that he jumped ship from banking around about the time it was a tough climate, and now banking appears to have weathered the storm and Openreach appear headed for choppy waters he's slunk back to banking...

Re: How far off? @Gomez Adams

The drunk can't take a shortcut in this metaphor, because he is bound to his sober friend. The sober friend is the true position of the walker, and the drunk is true position +/- some error. So in a working GPS drunk is always close to sober within the error margins (the high walls on the path.)

In the 10 metre box example, cutting the corner won't decrease the overall length measured as the next measurement is just as likely to be outside the box which increases the distance the error covers. For any path - square, circle or winding lane - the error has a 50/50 chance of being on one side or the other, which is what causes the zigzagging that increases perceived distance.

Re: "No internet connection needed"

No, I understand the method, and how worrying it is that there are no servers to trace. I was moaning about the article title, which has since been mysteriously edited...

Re: help..

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/broadband/2015/10/talktalk-website-hacked-what-you-need-to-do-now

Re: It's staggering

From the bookies point of view the money is already not going to the right person when they are paying out, it would make sense they're not that fussed if it goes to the wrong not right person.

Re: "Enterprise I'd rather forget."

My friends and I had a running gag that once Enterprise had finally been cancelled Scott Bakula would Leap Out.

Cheers for the list.

3 MNO's should be viewed as unhealthy and the absolute bare minimum for a functioning competitive market and the regulators should be doing everything in their power to stop it falling to that level.

Not all cards are sixteen digits. The vast majority yes, but not all. So removing 6 digits <> only storing 6 + 4.

Re: other drivers for a plan

Jail time? Pure Industrial espionage would largely be a civil matter or at worst "white collar" tricky-to-prove crime like fraud. Engineering a disaster that triggers a recovery plan however would involve some fairly serious criminal damage at the very least.

And anyone who was mental enough to try something like that would soon find they don't have the time or the privacy to go rifling through data as some fairly important eyes would be on them asking when the systems would be back.

Re: Counter Drone

Your fishing line comment makes me wonder if a skilled angler could cast at a drone with enough accuracy to tangle a rotor? Small weight in place of a fishhook, less likely to cause trouble than a gun, and incontrovertible evidence that the drone was flying within X feet of you if you did catch it.

Re: Anti-competitive

I don't think this interference and consumer protection are comparable here, specifically because immunity from prosecution is mentioned in the spying scenario. That's a super dangerous precedent to set that could practically legalise straight-up lying to customers in contracts (way beyond current weasel wording.)

Re: Would it have been too much to ask

There are certainly compelling arguments for prioritising certain types of services like video. The argument is over the worry ISP's will use these exceptions as a smokescreen to sneak in faster connections for whoever gives them cashola and make it nigh impossible for smaller companies to compete on a level playing field.