Re: To be fair to Adobe ....
Stockholm syndrome?
Posts by Paul Crawford
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Upgrade refuseniks, beware: Adobe snips away legacy versions of its Creative Cloud apps
Panic as panic alarms meant to keep granny and little Timmy safe prove a privacy fiasco
I'll, er, get the tab? It's Internet Edgeplorer as browser pulls up chair to the Chromium table
Essex named sexiest British accent followed closely by, um, Glaswegian
Sushovan Hussain told me to fiddle revenues, says Autonomy sales chief
Friday 10th May 2019 16:53 GMT 
Re: @STOP_FORTH
Partially. They no longer give you a full service/maintance manual with the device, and the stuff is deliberately hobbles so you have to pay for a "software upgrade" to actually use the full capabilities of the hardware you have just purchased.
Mine is the one with the HP8640B manual in the (bulging) pocket =>
Take my bits awaaaay: DARPA wants to develop AI fighter program to augment human pilots
Late with your financial paperwork? Here's a handy excuse: Malware smacked your bean-counter cloud offline
Wednesday 8th May 2019 09:57 GMT
Re: "Assuming CCH has good backup in place"
Backups - even if they hare made, are they frequent enough and tested for a full bare-metal recovery?
It is a bit like UPS support: few are willing to send Igor to throw the big red switch and see how the whole building copes with a power outage (you know, to see if aircon holds up while servers are shut down in an orderly manner, etc, instead of overheating).
Self-taught Belgian bloke cracks crypto conundrum that was supposed to be uncrackable until 2034
Sunday 5th May 2019 21:07 GMT
Re: It wasn't running Windows then
We ran DOS software under dosemu/MSDOS 6.22 and it never seemed to crash. OK the host machine would be rebooted occasionally and the dosemu instance restarted occasionally, but we never saw an "OS crash" with uptimes of the order of 600 days.
Having said that, if you don't poll for time at least once per day by some program/system action then the DOS date gets stuck as the time-of-day counter simply sets a midnight flag, and is not actually incrementing the date counter...
Taylor drift: Finally, a use for AI emerges? Cyber-smut star films fsck-flick in Tesla with Autopilot, warns: 'I wouldn't recommend it'
A day in the life of London seen through spam and weak Wi-Fi
Friday 3rd May 2019 11:53 GMT
London WiFi
Was in London about 10 years ago and the hotel cost £125 / night, not too surprising for that city and it was not too shabby for the price. However, they wanted £25 for breakfast and another £15 for WiFi per day! So I thought bugger that and went to a café that did waffles just round the corner. you could get a bacon & maple waffle along with a latte (for that breakfast experience) along free and usable WiFi for the princely sum of £8.
'Lightweight' UPS-style flywheels to power naval laser zappers
NSA: That ginormous effort to slurp up Americans' phone records that Snowden exposed? Ehhh, we don't need that no more
It's springtime for Springtown as Seagate rains nearly £50m on Northern Ireland plant
A copy-paste of Europe and a '5G' hotel: El Reg's Adventures in Huawei Land were fairly wacky
IT sales star wins $660k lawsuit against Oracle in Qatar – but can't collect because the Oracle he sued suddenly vanished
Brit spy chief: We need trust or we won't have a 'licence to operate in cyberspace'
Wednesday 24th April 2019 16:34 GMT
Re: "to build security into their products and services at the design stage"
It could be a "euphemism for backdoor" insertion if you start with the assumption that device manufacturers, IoT purveyors, OS-mongers, ISP router selection, etc, are all made with security as a #1 (or even recognisable) priority.
Or, cutting them some slack, you could also look at the current pisspoor state of the above and find it might be quite the opposite.
Tricky one to decide...
So, that's cheerio the nou to Dundee Satellite Receiving Station: Over 40 years of service axed for the sake of £338,000
Microsoft debuts Bosque – a new programming language with no loops, inspired by TypeScript
Thursday 18th April 2019 08:54 GMT
Re: What's Wrong With a Loop?
The problem with "goto" is not its effectiveness - hell that is exactly how flow control happens in the generated assembler/object code - but in another human reading it and upon seeing a jump destination being able to work out how many ways one gets there.
For some very small functions with a local jump (please, PLEASE, don't bring up setjump/longjump here!) it might be fine as a simple way, for example, to break out of nested loops. But on a larger scale the program's intentions become unintelligible.
Mind you, there are other constructs that are also a bit dodgy, for C you can return out of a function at any point, not always clear logic there. But $DEITY forbid you find yourself working on old FORTRAN where you can have multiple entry points to a subroutine!
Open-source enterprise software slinger Red Hat bravely reveals that IT bosses love open-source enterprise software
Wednesday 17th April 2019 09:13 GMT
Re: do I trust those libraries maintained by a retired guy and his cat?
It might not be "in permanent need of fixing" but simply subject to lots of application-breaking changes by folk who are using it for something not quite the same as yourself and/or care not for compatibility (or who don't might fixing their own applications every couple of weeks).
Either way it is also a bit of a warning that maybe you should think twice about using it.
Kaspersky updates its cybercrook look book: Smashing Office is hot, browser vulns are not
Tuesday 16th April 2019 14:05 GMT
Worryingly, the 2018 CVE mentioned by Kaspersky was patched in January that year, suggesting user and/or sysadmin slackness has a part to play in the popularity of these particular problems.
Of course the MS "patch" for the equation editor simply breaks it - they DID NOT FIX IT. Apparently they don't have to code or license to do so! https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/16/microsoft_equation_editor_patched/
So if you have many documents using the old-style equation editor and don't want masses of pointless work trying to re-draw them (probably introducing errors) in the somewhat more shitty new-style MS equation editor, you simply can't plug that hole.
Google Fiber experiment ends with Choc Factory paying Louisville $3.8m to clean up its mess
Amazon boss snubs 'expensive', 'sub-optimal' relational databases. Here's looking at you, Larry
Saturday 13th April 2019 10:08 GMT
Last time I was at the local barbers the hairdresser was chatting away and mentioned she had one of these in the bedroom. I just quipped about what it must have heard when her boyfriend was over and she went bright red and the other hairdresser laughed out loud. It had NEVER occurred to her this device could be listening to all sorts of intimate activities.
No, I have no idea if she did, but what if =>
Silk Road 2 + Dread Pirate Roberts 2 + 1 Liverpudlian = over 5 years in prison
Saturday 13th April 2019 10:26 GMT
Re: setting up a hidden service? pretty easy...
I think most people don't commit crimes because they don't believe it is OK. Sure the correlation between "crime" and "morally wrong" can be tenuous, for example copyright laws, so there is a degree of flexibility there.
However, what the real moral of his story is that it is practically impossible to be truly anonymous on-line. The probability of being caught, of course, depends on what resources the authorities are willing to apply to finding you. If it is something high-profile like what the Silk Road was doing then you see what can be done.
Shame they don't try a bit harder against the huge number of the "minor" scams that cheat old folk and naive PC users out of savings, etc.
Not biased against you and not going anywhere, judge tells Post Office in Horizon IT system case
Wednesday 10th April 2019 19:09 GMT
Evidence?
So has the software in use at the time, as verified by some decent code versioning system, been subject to a proper audit and found to be trustworthy or not?
I am reminded of this analysis of Toyota's engine management software: http://www.safetyresearch.net/Library/BarrSlides_FINAL_SCRUBBED.pdf
RIP: Microsoft finally pulls plug on last XP survivor... POSReady 2009
MoD plonks down £2m on table in exchange for anti-drone tech ideas
Tuesday 9th April 2019 14:13 GMT
Radar should be able to discriminate between a drone and a bird simply by looking at the Doppler profile of the return and the spread due to the high speed of the rotors. It is short-ish range (km or so I guess?) so you could choose a band well above the typical civilian radar and comms bands for it and not worry too much about rain attenuation (heavy enough to kill radar probably means it takes the drone out as well)..
But as you point out, what to DO once you see the target is a whole new kettle of fish.
Hmm, fire fish at them to (a) clog the rotors, and (b) any that escape get the attention of local gulls?
You were warned and you didn't do enough: UK preps Big Internet content laws
Tuesday 9th April 2019 08:04 GMT
Re: OK, Zuck...
The UK does not have to enforce its laws in the USA - just to fine the company like facebook for GDPR-like amounts. Very quickly FB would have to either (1) fix the click-bating feed of shit, or (2) get out of all UK advertising business (so I guess dropping 1/8 or so in revenue).
A win-win from where I'm standing...
US government tells internet body to hurry the funk up on privacy
As the UK updates its .eu Brexit advice yet again, an alternative hovers into view
Hams try to re-carve the amateur radio spectrum in fight over open or encoded transmissions
Friday 5th April 2019 11:29 GMT
Re: @imanidiot
That is exactly my point - this is not about forbidding advanced coding/modulation techniques for performance or reliability, but about stopping obscure/closed systems that you can only interact with if paying the company behind it. Just like DRM, and the opposite of the amateur radio ethos.
Friday 5th April 2019 11:26 GMT
Re: "nothing but lose privacy"
There are two separate points here:
1) The use of encryption for emergencies in support of disaster mitigation - fair enough (and allowed in the UK).
2) The use of obscure/propitiatory systems as a DRM-like system that looks out any user who is not willing to pay the company behind it. It is this point that I object to.
The issue of error correction coding for performance is not a problem, that is well known and perfectly fine if it is an open system (like those covered by the CCSDS standards) and some well known amateurs have freely contributed to this (just search for Phil Karn as an example).
Friday 5th April 2019 08:12 GMT
Re: "nothing but lose privacy"
Amateur radio has NEVER offered privacy. Indeed that is a key aspect of it in that you can get a license to transmit after passing the technical & regulatory exams, or simply act as a receiver listening in to those with a similar interest talking to each other anywhere in the world.
If you want secrecy there are MANY internet based services that do it properly.
Friday 5th April 2019 08:10 GMT
Forcing the opening up of all systems used for amateur radio use is perfectly right and proper, after all the whole ethos is about understanding and furthering radio use for the benefit of all.
Encryption (or "propitiatory" obfuscation) should never be an option - even for spacecraft command it should be authentication-only to prevent others monkeying with anything important. If that is incompatible with your business then move to a commercially licensed spectrum and compete with the big boys/girls.
Ethiopia sits on 737 Max report but says pilots followed Boeing drills
iFixit surgeons tut at iPad mini 5 X-ray: Looks like a mild case of pain-in-the-arse-to-repair
Ignore the noise about a scary hidden backdoor in Intel processors: It's a fascinating debug port
Huawei savaged by Brit code review board over pisspoor dev practices
Thursday 28th March 2019 12:56 GMT
Real point here
"We have no real (at least not this in depth) assurance that products from rival vendors are more secure"
If, and it seems a good idea, that critical infrastructure needs to be secure against both back doors and crap code, then it should be a requirement that the alternative suppliers are similarly audited to show they actually do better. After all, it is not that Cisco have no history of both back doors and serious bugs needing fixed either...
Oracle asks Supremes to snub Google's Java API copyright protest – and have a nice cuppa tea, instead
Thursday 28th March 2019 07:33 GMT
Those "11,000 lines" could well be just the header file's function / class definitions, you know the stuff that has to be exactly the same for an implementation to be compatible?
A crude 'wc -l /usr/include/*.h' on my box reveals 52,771 lines of text for the standard C header files, easily 11k lines of "code" by a certain definition.
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