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Comment: Re:You're kidding me (Score 1) 124

by Inda (#43792653) Attached to: Congressional Report: US Power Grid Highly Vulnerable To Cyberattack

Try £10,000 on a box in the power station control room that's got "industrially secured" on the box. It's a firewall, fire blanket and fire extinguisher all rolled into one! It ticked all the checkboxes on the spec sheet. It cost £10,000. It's all we needed.

Except anyone can walk into the control room and push any buttons they like. There's even a USB interface on each PC.

Sure, this is not the grid (UK), it's the power generators. The grid is actually stuck 50 years in the past.

Comment: Re:HTTPS means something specific (Score 1) 252

by Inda (#43772225) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Do Firms Leak Personal Details In Plain Text?
Point two is so dangerous.

We had a server compromised due to 'it's only the last four digits'. One domain host required the last four digits for authenication, another host freely gave out the last four digits to anyone who asked nicely.

It's only the last four digits *facepalm*

Comment: Re:Never??? (Score 1) 161

by Inda (#43749543) Attached to: How To Talk Like a CIO
I do the same only with football bullshit jargon. None of this "getting all the ducks in a row" - whatever that means?

- We need to score from an offside position.
- The business needs to be match-fit.
- Our processes should follow the laws of the game.
- We can't just hack down the opposition and expect a penalty.

Some laugh; some snigger; some look at me with detest and that's the match winner.

Comment: Re:Same unenviable fate as windows (Score 2) 56

by Inda (#43709983) Attached to: Kaspersky Inks a Deal With Qualcomm To Improve Android Security
Not always so.

Samsung's Vlingo on the S2 was a pig. Always popping up when you wanted to return to the home page. No option to remove. Arrghhhh, and all that.

"You need to root" was the mantra from the crowd. "Root, root, root!".

Using a 3rd party app were actually easier.

For those who want to know how:

1. Install Go Launcher
2. Use Go Launcher to unistall the Vlingo app.
3. Uninstall Go Laucher.

Comment: Re:Sustainable? (Score 1) 328

by Inda (#43579789) Attached to: Genetically Modified Plants To Produce Natural Lighting
It's triggered by the lack of light. Some plants are not triggered by light at all; it's all about time from germination.

I tried to find a list of plants but cannabis tops the search results, and tops the second page, and the thir... even "-cannabis" doens't help.

I beileve potatoes have had this trigger bred out of them.

Comment: Re:Dante's Inferno (Score 1) 88

by Inda (#43544475) Attached to: Teachable Robot Helps Assemble IKEA Furniture
Nothing.

I've gone one stage further. Furniture board is cheap, furniture blocks are cheap, screws are cheap, edging tape is cheap, ..., and my local builder's merchant gives me 20 free cuts from his super-sharp rip/cross-cut saw. I just supply him with a cutting list. I've actually had some fun designing things on Google's Sketch-up, and dimensioning is a breeze.

I do buy draw enclosures readymade, as they're a pain to make solid and the fronts are beyond the tools I have at home.

The edging tape is simply ironed on and trimmed with a chisel or blade. It would have taken all of 5 minutes to "fix" your backwards shelf.

Decorator's caulk is ultra-cheap, and it fills all the gaps. I'd even use on Ikea shit if I bought any. Its rubbery nature means it doesn't crack.

So, back on topic, take your job-stealin' robots and do one. I roll my own.

This fortune is dedicated to your mother, without whose invaluable assistance last night would never have been possible.

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