Comment Re: What an idiot. (Score 1) 233
He's modded funny because it's a (slight mis)quote from the Blues Brothers.
He's modded funny because it's a (slight mis)quote from the Blues Brothers.
We do, the Eurofighter was a mind bogglingly expensive project and a fleet of Boeing aircraft would have been a much cheaper option but we went for the locally grown one.
This is just bullshit! If they stopped this attack by "closed this vulnerability by working with computer manufacturers", this would only fix the vulnerability on new computers built after the fix was created, but not on machines already produced and sold.
This sounds more like a PR campaign to garner positive support after all the negative impact of the releases of the documents Edward Snowden leaked.
how racist Limey society is
And people say Americans don't get irony.
It is mostly a by product of production of natural gas, but it can also be generated by radioactive ore.
So it's like a plasma screen tv?
Not any decent quality plasma made in the last 5 years or so.
It really doesn't matter hugely if you can put the connector in first time without looking. It saves the user only a few seconds at most.
You can do that with every USB cable too, the USB logo is required to be embossed on the cable and always on the side facing the user. Ports are required to be aligned to accommodate that. Even a blind person can put a USB cable in the right way round every time, sadly most people don't know this.
public key cryptography (invented in the 1970s, mostly down to the RSA authors) was not among this work.
--Freddie Widgeon
It was actually invented over a hundred years earlier than that, and GCHQ developed an RSA equivalent with Diffie-Hellman key exchange several years before RSA was created or before Diffie and Hellman published their work. Occasionally the UK does manage to keep something secret
HOLY MACRO!