Posts by Paul Crawford 5659 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Mar 2007
Why would anyone reading The Register use the free email account that comes with your broadband?
Fixed it for you.
Most of the public do not know of the problems of email migration until after they have been burned by an ISP swap, and even then are often at a loss as to what you can do. Unless you have some knowledge and are willing to pay, it comes down to who you want to be spied upon.
While it might be nice to thing that some are trying to get you to memorise a password, the reality is the explanation is much more likely to be incompetence. Stupid password rules = post it notes for most.
As many have already mentioned, there is no excuse for not allowing a reasonable upper length such as 128 bytes or whatever. A 20-character limit is something most likely down to an idiot web designer setting an input field length, you see the same in other places (e.g. names which is a bummer if you are Greek or it is a verbose company name, etc)
Yes, the underlying reasons for unhappiness are economic in most cases and for many the Brexit vote was a protest. The xenophobia is the reaction of many, driven on by odious organs such as Nigel Farage and the Daily Mail, that put the blame on the EU and/or foreigners in general.
As for the EU running the country that is bollocks. Many of the less palatable EU directives, such as the telecoms data retention one, originated from the UK commissioners.
Sadly this is so true.
The UK has Brexit, driven largely by xenophobia, about to shit all over us again, and we are seeing the rise of populist parties with bigoted views in many places (Italy, Brazil, etc). Not to mention the long-standing "religious" clusterfsck that is NI politics going backwards again.
These folk seem to be offering it:
http://www.peroxychem.com/chemistries/hydrogen-peroxide/products/high-test-hydrogen-peroxide
Easier to store/handle than LOX, and far less toxic than dinitrogen tetroxide (or red fuming nitric acid). But still something that makes it on to Derek Lowe's "Things I won't work with" blog!
I would really like to see it preserve file timestamps, but equally I can see how that could play havoc with reliable conditional compilation unless there is something smart that would tell the compiler/make utility what had *changed* on a remote machine even if that newer timestamp is prior to the related object code created from the old source, etc, on your own machine.
Tricky...
Not just censorship - if you want to communicate with your spies you need to make them less obvious than being the only one in a city using an encrypted protocol. Hence making the project public so you can hide your wood in a forest.
If you pardon that unpardonable pun considering the story topic...
Funny how the push after (the almost daily*) mass shootings is to restrict crypto and not guns? Odd...
[*] frrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States
"Gun Violence Archive, frequently cited by the press, defines a mass shooting as firearm violence resulting in at least four people being shot at roughly the same time and location, excluding the perpetrator. Using this definition, there have been 2,128 mass shootings since 2013, roughly one per day."
Safe fly-by-wire is possible, but only if it is developed correctly and tested and reviewed in thorough detail. That seems to be Boing's problem - they rushed it out, the FAA rubber-stamped it, and it now is apparent that it was not good enough for an acceptable level of safety (i.e. is seems to have have at least one "single point of failure" in using just one AoA sensor per device, and clearly some buggy software/hardware as well).
Given time and money/effort the 737-MAX could be OK, even quite good, but the real question is if customer confidence will be high enough following the serious laps of corporate integrity in this case?
Really, if such devices are around then it is your duty to wonder aloud where the local dogging places are, if the monstrous "fist of fury" dildo is back in stock, if $MP is really a lizard, etc, etc,...
Not quite. The way their filter works (worked?) for a page-block (instead of domain-block) is to proxy the site so it can be filtered. For something as massive as Wikipedia you can see the first problem on throughput, then the second was the spam-filter for editors then saw all users addresses as the same IP and threw a hissy-fit.
The bigger issue was the image they were filtering (Scorpions' album cover for "Virgin Killer") was on sale in the 70s with very little issue in many countries (but not all), so it goes to show how the post-60s adults/politicians have become so prudish in dancing to the red-tops latest horror stories to win votes.
There were (are?) long wave systems that provided a very different alternative but they suffer from much poor accuracy in comparison (direct consequence of limited bandwidth), generally were not designed to provide altitude, and consume a lot of power to run the numerous ground stations.
Probably a damn sight cheaper though than chucking £5bn at a Brexit alternative though...
Edited to add: Seems the UK decided to close its Loran facilities in 2015 (oh, bad timing!) and the US is considering resurrecting it at around $35M/year cost in 2007 but has also closed its facilities:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loran-C#United_Kingdom_eLORAN_implementation
And on going graphics crashes as well:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1810546
Just one of many similar posts. In my case (and at least one other guy I know) it is still not fixed so buying a Nvidia card instead. Really AMD why can't you provide working drivers/support?
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