Posts by weevil

Hardly any mention of Security here. Virtualised platforms are extremely culpable to abuse. I can phish a VM admin, dump the memory on the hypervisor and get all the data. Obviously virtualisation is a great technology, but there are many many platforms I'd much rather have physical for.

Someone is going to get a very belated, but very substantial commission from this....

The tag is "call your stoke broker" but the vast majority of security firms' stocks have plummeted in the last 6 months. They only seem to go "up" when there are high profile breaches.

Honda did this EIGHT years ago. I am shocked at the lack of progress. This is a rubbish looking concept car. Honda's FCX Clarity looked like a normal car, drove like a normal car. Granted it was only available in California, but that's because California is the only place in the world that only has hydrogen infrastructure. The infra needs to appear before the cars. This has been hydrogen's only hurdle for global consumption of it, because lets face it, Hybrid and electric is not the way to go, hydrogen is.

Ironically C2C is one of the best rail operators from a service point of view. But then again if you had the newest fleet and the youngest tracks anything is easy.

All these people neigh-saying to paid cosmetic addons that have no game affecting change. Are you all smoking crack?

This is how these companies make money.

I would much rather have skins that cost money, than having to pay for weapons that are better. That would destroy all these games. I am ALL for cosmetic skins for games, its a stroke of business genius. It allows for much better service due to better and consistent income. Just look how much it costs to buy CS:GO or TF2 vs the number of staff actively developing the game (more so cs:go than TF2 these days, but the point is still valid)

People who say that cosmetic skins are bad are narrow minded.

Just be thankful, they could have gone the way of CoD and had P2P. What monkey thought that was a good idea?

Isn't it strange that everyone calls it Mount Gox. When infact its "Magic the Gathering Online Exchange" El Reg should revert to the original way.

Oculus gone from gaming to "social" with 1 dreadful purchase. Game devs are already pulling out of it and switching to Sony's offering.

Oculus have sold their souls to the devils murdering cousin.

Mixed blessing. Putting a deposit on a house in Spain at the peak of the housing boom right before the crash. He should be thanking HFC, they saved him from a negative equity nightmare :)

You really think all the ATMs in the land do an update on Patch Tuesday? Dream on. They are most likely patched once a year, maybe once every 2 years. They have simple whitelisting software installed. Nothing can be added or taken away. Fuck patches.

They need to have some sort of cloud system that shows how many people picked Jew.

This is what adblocker is for.

This is real pot kettle black. I used to resell BT fibre, and they were regularly 1-2 months late in paying commission owed to sales.

You'll like this one though:

I moved to a house in East London in January. One of the deciding factors was that Infinity was to be livened up in March. So, with the lack of any other high speed internet I decide to place the order for normal BT broadband because it can be upgraded quickly and cheaply to Infinity without having to buy out the contract of any other ISP.

Come March, I go to order Infinity:

"Sorry, Infinity has been delayed to March....2014"

So due to their woefully inaccurate information I am now stuck in a BT contract with a sub-standard product and an even subber-standard customer care (i don't care if thats not a word, it is now) and there's nothing I can do about it.

I have a million and one horror stories about BT, working in white-labelled telecoms, they're all about Openreach, but its still BT. Try and find a way to complain about an Openreach product or service as an end user, it is literally impossible. Try and complain about an Openreach product or service as a reseller? Also impossible.

Working for a master partner reseller (only a handful in the UK) we have a lot of exposure to the insides of Symantec. There's been a lot of change, and I'd say 80% of it for the better. There is SO much middle management; you get one person who's in charge of two people who's in charge of 3 people who's in charge of 1 person. Most of the chaff has been removed, but some wheat has gone with it unfortunately.

Anybody consider a large chunk of these will be from IT folks navigating their internal firewalls or somesuch?

No wonder American comedians died with Bill Hicks. None of these yanks can take a fucking joke, jesus.

The silly thing is the cost of the fine is less than the cost it would take to implement encryption to their laptops, maybe they should actually say "you have 28 days to implement council wide encryption to all laptops and removable media" and sideline this fine to help pay for it, otherwise the fine goes up by a HUGE amount, then the action of fining might actually mean something

They're gonna stink out the entire space station with feet cheese?!

So Mr Cerf hasn't heard of virtualisation?

Christ I had to read that twice to make sense of it, what a clusterfuck, so many Registers!

IT is a nasty business, we all know it.

Get some niche training on niche products that have high value. Things like the top end VM ones are highly sought after, same goes for specialist security software like the enterprise security such as CSP

so......many........bad........puns.

Anyone remember when the comments of an article were supposed to be about the article? This article just reminds me of that Friends episode when Phoebe was left on hold all night

The issue they've got...

Is M$ is completely integrated in all facets of public sector in the UK, there is hardly any open source penetration in public sector, with the exception of the Eee PC's for schools and the like, any transition from M$ to OpenSource would cost far more money than the 1% increase in price that they are now offering, after some good bartering/blackmail from the government. I'll take my hat off to them (UK.gov) for once in my life this time, they did some good ol' british haggling.

Pure unadulterated spin... anyone with half a brain can realise this is the most pointless waste of money, reduce the cooling by 0.00000001 of a degree will save more carbon. Absolute morons who decided that was a good idea to implement.....

This country....honestly