"I bet their power usage has shot through the roof - all those drives being formatted and shredders running 24*7"
Well I hope that the journalists enquire as to whether they use smart meters or not at least.
Posts by wolfetone
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Surprise UK raid of Cambridge Analytica delayed: Nobody expects the British information commissioner!
We sent a vulture to find the relaunched Atari box – and all he got was this lousy baseball cap
F-35B Block 4 software upgrades will cost Britain £345m
Hip hop-eration: Hopless Franken-beer will bring you hoppiness
Cambridge Analytica CEO suspended – and that's not even the worst news for them today
Thursday 22nd March 2018 09:13 GMT 
Re: Help
"I can confirm, (and I didn't want to believe it), that Jacob is an unbelievably nice bloke"
Yeah, Christians who don't believe in abortion and see it as a morally wrong thing to do but don't mind making money from the companies who produce the items used in such tasks tend to be jolly fellows.
Wednesday 21st March 2018 09:05 GMT
Re: Tried explaining to my SO what was going on this week
"This story isn't trending in Facebook News Feeds! "
That would be because the news feed is no longer algorithm based, and they have a team selecting which news articles to display in order to prevent "fake news" from being published.
So, maybe, they see the CA bullshit as fake nooze?
Brit MPs chide UK.gov: You're acting like EU data adequacy prep is easy
Wednesday 21st March 2018 15:01 GMT
"Article 59 states that once triggered, the triggering country will not be a member of the EU after 2 years.
The Dutch media are probably (rightly) pointing out that removing a complex country from a complex group is difficult and will probably take a decade to fix."
Quite right. This is a first for the EU, so the rules are being tested for the first time. Probably after the UK finishes the process the rules will be changed to either be less optimistic with the deadlines or have a better structure in place to deal with it all.
Wednesday 21st March 2018 12:46 GMT
A friend of mine lives in Holland, and when he was over last we were talking about Brexit and he asked me how it was being reported. Told him what had been said etc, and he said that the whole 2 years thing was bizzarre to him, as the Dutch media have regularly reported that the process will take up to 10 years.
So either the Dutch are wrong, or the UK MP's are disgustingly optimistic over time frames.
Telegram still won't hand over crypto keys it says it does not store
Wednesday 21st March 2018 12:41 GMT
@John H Woods
"False dichotomy. There's a whole spectrum between conclusive and hearsay. The evidence suggests that it was probably the Russian state, but it might not have been. But it is odd how those who don't think there is enough evidence that Russia did it are suggesting it might be a false flag. There's even less evidence for that and I would suggest the threshold for such an extraordinary claim should be higher in any case."
Wars have been started over less, so I wouldn't say it's a false dichotomy. It's called taking a balanced approach without letting prejudice cloud judgements.
But who am I to get in the way of you and your wanton lust for a nuclear winter.
Wednesday 21st March 2018 11:53 GMT
@AC via Vorlands Right Hand
The first link is interesting, because (if you are to believe it) the Russians are bumping off anyone they don't like and it's all very strange, cloak and dagger type of arrangement. So would the Salsbury spy case be cloak and dagger? No, if it was an assasination its very messy and leaves so much evidence that it would be traced back to the person who ordered it. So the two instances are light years apart.
The second link is also interesting, as it's exactly the same law the UK have when it comes to defending itself from extremism. We're regularly sending drones to the Middle East to blow up "targets", and those are only the ones we know about. Do you think that the UK is prim and proper enough to be clear about who they're targetting and snuffing out? Are they bollocks.
Also, for the record, doesn't it strike anyone as odd that Salisbury wasn't closed down if it was a suspected chemical attack? There's an army barracks not that far away from there, it would've been closed and locked down fairly quickly. And isn't it odd that the next day Porton Down gets £45 million in the wake of this event, a facility which is only 20 minutes away from where the event took place? And we're suddenly vacinating the army for anthrax when it was - aparently - another agent?
While all the time, might I add, there's actually no clear conclusive proof that the Russians did do it. Only conjecture and hearsay.
15 years ago the UK went to war in Iraq on the back of a dossier which came out at a time of hubris and conjecture which we have now found to be total bullshit. Yet here we are, 15 years later, doing the exact same thing.
Cop yourselves on, all of you.
No, Sierra Leone did not just run the world's first 'blockchain election'
You must be yolking: English pub to launch eggstravagent Yorkshire pudding
Tuesday 20th March 2018 15:56 GMT
"Nottingham is in the EAST MIDLANDS........ you know near EAST MIDLANDS AIRPORT, which is sort of validation of that fact....."
Pfft. That's like saying Chelmsley Wood is in Solihull when in fact it's North Solihull because Solihull don't want them in Solihull.
And East Midlands "Airport"? You call that an aiport? That ain't an airport, THAT'S A LIE!
We need to talk, Brit Parliamentary committee tells Mark Zuckerberg
UK's London Gatwick Airport boasts of driverless vehicle trial
BOOM! Cambridge Analytica explodes following extraordinary TV expose
Fermi famously asked: 'Where is everybody?' Probably dead, says renewed Drake equation
Thursday 15th March 2018 09:42 GMT
"If we ever detect signals from extraterrestrial civilisations, they are likely already dead, a somewhat downbeat update to the venerable Drake equation suggests."
I have every faith in civilisations existing outside of our our solar system are very much a live and kicking, and that the only thing dead here is that bloody equation.
Patch LOSE-day: Microsoft secures servers of the world. By disconnecting them
More power to UK, say 'leccy vehicle makers. Seriously, they need it
Wednesday 14th March 2018 14:46 GMT
I can take a fairly good guess about who that manufacturer is, and I can tell you that the reason they've stated isn't totally true. They have another factory in Slovakia, big enough to hold two (or three) of their UK plants there. One particular plant in the UK will be closed shortly, and another plant is safe until at least 2021. All because of money, cost of manufacture of the workforce and - I'm sorry - Brexit. As well as capacity of their UK factories as they're hemmed in where they all are.
Agency workers will be the first to go, but the workers of this company who were already shafted with the demise of Rover in the mid 2000's will be shafted again.
It's Pi day: Care to stuff a brand new Raspberry one in your wallet?
Stephen Hawking dies, aged 76
Wednesday 14th March 2018 09:18 GMT
I didn't see it in the article, so could the rest of El Reg confirm or deny these ideas I've heard about the man.
1) When he was diagnosed with his disease, didn't he train his body to use less oxygen to prolong his life?
2) When he was diagnosed with his disease, didn't he help develop the computer that he would use to communicate with? Along with the wheelchair?
Amazing man who stuck it to America when some idiot proclaimed that if he had been under the care of the NHS he'd have been dead long ago.
RIP.
London Mayor calls for social networks and sharing economy to stop harming society
Millionaire-backed science fiction church to launch Scientology TV network
Elon Musk invents bus stop, waits for applause, internet LOLs
Age checks for UK pr0n site visitors on ice as regulator cobbles together some guidance
Tim Berners-Lee says regulation of the web may be needed
Are you Falcon sure, Elon? Musk vows Big Rocket will go up 2019
Europe is living in the past (by nearly six minutes) thanks to Serbia and Kosovo
Department of Work and Pensions internal docs reveal troubled history of Universal Credit
Screw everything! French swingers campsite up for sale, owners 'tired'
DVLA denies driving licence processing site is a security 'car crash'
Your mouse can't reach that Excel cell? Buy a 'desk extender' said help desk bluffer
Administrator PwC chops Maplin staff
UK takes first step towards criminalising driverless car hackers
Thursday 8th March 2018 15:09 GMT
Re: Can they do something more useful instead?
"You are wrong, unless the tires you put on are WILDLY out of spec for the car"
I am not wrong. Policy wording clearly states that a modification that results in the car being out of the spec it rolled off the factory line with.
If you buy a car with Bridgestone summer tyres, and then buy Goodyear summer tyres, they're in spec. As it's a summer tyre being replaced with a summer tyre.
IF you replace the summer tyre with a winter tyre, it's out of spec because the car never came with winter tyres in the first place and is a modification.
