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Married man arrives at A&E with wedding ring stuck on todger
Australia teases binning x86 for Power CPUs in new supercomputer
Re: Old fogey mode
Alpha was 64-bit always, but NT ran very nicely indeed on them. Until it was cancelled and we had to explain to a major European space organisation just how trustworthy MS were in terms of portability and cross-platform support. So much for the promises they made when we went down that road.
Oh well, not that MS matters that much to us now. Hey, MS uses, just how are those price-hikes going down? [hence troll icon]
UK NHS 850k Reply-all email fail: State health service blames Accenture
Re: The usual suspects
Sadly I have seen both issues in use.
Case in point #1: one club that has 'reply' set to reply to the list because some folk felt it too hard to choose 'reply all' if they really meant it. As a result, you actively have to copy/paste an individual's email address if you don't want to spam to group.
Case in point #2: Where I work the number of (apparently educated) numpties who 'reply all' to stuff that has no real need of informing the original recipients is depressing. Even worse there were groups set up that allowed a replay-all to everyone, with the expected dumb outcome. At least those distribution lists now only allow a few people to post to them (the actual content is worthless, so its not a great loss).
Google's new VR Daydream View will cripple your phone
Russia shoves antitrust probe into Microsoft after Kaspersky gripes about Windows 10
Retiring IETF veteran warns: Stop adding so many damn protocols
Re: Bloat
You would like to think that standard libraries are known, fixed and tested. Not when it comes to the IoT world where the mbed implementation of gmtime() is broken! And not fixed in over two years!
Says a lot about how well they develop and test IoT stuff, eh?
https://developer.mbed.org/questions/75856/Who-will-fix-the-mbed-system-gmtime-func/
https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/issues/1098
Brexflation: Lenovo, HPE and Walkers crisps all set for double-digit hike
Hitler's wife's lovely lilac knickers fetch £2,900 at auction
China passes new Cybersecurity Law – you have seven months to comply if you wanna do biz in Middle Kingdom
CERN also has a particle decelerator – and it’s trying to break physics
Adblock overlord to Zuckerberg: Lay down your weapons and surrender
Re: "We’ll strike back," he promised.
What can the ad-blockers Facebook do that can't be easily undone by Facebook the ad-blockers?
Is more to the point. Unless FB runs adverts from their own servers just like user posts, its still easily separable. And if they do that they can't rely upon 3rd party advertisement houses for revenue.
That is, of course, quite possible. But then the second step is for ad-blockers to disable any animated image/video by default. So FB still punts ads, but they are now neutered in terms of bandwidth and annoyance so really the user has won by not being force-fed any more shit that their "friends" on FB normally punt at them.
Windows 10 market share stalls after free upgrade offer ends
Re: "printer manufacturers"
Generally you will find that (1) any postscript printer works just fine, and (2) most HP models work fine (if you can forgive them over the recent deliberate stuffing of 3rd party ink cartridges that is).
So the quickest test is will it work on a Mac? If so it probably will for Linux, but a little bit of looking around will often show user's experience of the whole thing, for example: https://www.openprinting.org/printers
Researchers tag new brace of bugs in NTP, but they're fixable
Re: Inexpensive fix
Using a cheap GPS for accurate time is not quite so trivial though, as you need to set it up to use the 1 PPS timing signal as an additional input, since the RS232 messages have a significant delay and lots of jitter (tens of ms or more). Here is one example of doing so, but I have not tried it myself:
http://www.rjsystems.nl/en/2100-ntpd-garmin-gps-18-lvc-gpsd.php
Uber drivers entitled to UK minimum wage, London tribunal rules
Re: Will this do anything...
Will also be interesting how a driver-less taxi can deal with disabled passengers who need assistance to board and/or load luggage.
Will they argue they can only take orders from the able-bodied?
Or that somehow taking payment for travel is not making them a taxi service?
Microsoft goes back to the drawing board – literally, with 28" tablet and hockey puck knob
Re: Windows 10
A few minutes removing the crud from the start menu, a quick search and the unwanted applications are gone with some powershell scripts and then sort out the snooping (as much as you can).
Now if only MS had the technical expertises to do that and not have but a few skilled users like yourself enjoying the non-shitty version...
PayPal patches bone-headed two factor authentication bypass
Re: 2fa choices
A lot of UK banks use your debit/credit card and a "card reader" gadget that allow them to send you a code (on web page) and you then answer with a hashed version that provides a means of checking its you and the amount you wish to transfer, etc. I'm guessing the code they send and the maths involving the amount makes it hard to MITM modify enough to easily abuse your account even if your PC is hopelessly compromised.
Also you used to get the RSA key fobs for email (and sometimes banking) where you get a random 6 digit number every minute and that sequence can be checked at the server end to see if its likely to be you attempting a login, etc. But then RSA got compromised (pretty bad for a security company) and as they kept the master keys to keep businesses paying, all of their customers were also compromised. Had each end customer managed their own keys, etc, the damage would have been much lower.
Microsoft's Surface Studio desk-slab, Dial knob, Surface Book: We get our claws on new kit
IBM Australia didn't stress-test #censusfail router and blocked password resets
The cloud is not new. What we are doing with it is
Commoditisation
One issue with commoditisation or the more general "utility supply" model for IT is it is rather different from most other things we have. Take electricity or gas as a good example, unless you are in the middle of nowhere or have some absolutely critical system you don't have your own generator, and only proper IT places even consider a UPS to allow for glitches in supply and orderly shut down. The reason of course is that the supply of such things is to a simple standard and with very little difference its the same from any utility world wide. Same for food, we are pretty much omnivores so can easily change to what food is on offer from any supplier.
But with IT we have the continued issue of lock-in, either from APIs that only one vendor supports (properly and fully, maybe not even that) or from a growing archive of unique data that becomes a major issue to migrate. And no one is really up for paying for two redundant cloud suppliers "just in case" the brown stuff meets that rotating air mover. In sort, we can't simply move from one supplier to another with ease, except for a few very basic cases like backup storage.
Sure with on-site stuff we still have a form of lock-in as its rarely simple to replace stuff without changes, but we are not normally in a position of an external supplier being in control of what we can do with it. With the cloud they can (and often do) make changes that you have no control over, and can shut you down or price you out of competition more easily because they have your data.
'Biggest ever' Linux release
It's nearly 2017 and JPEGs, PDFs, font files can hijack your Apple Mac, iPhone, iPad
Re: Cupertino is ...
What we need is heavy-duty sandboxing so that *when* the application is compromised, the miscreants don't have much in the way of resources to play with.
We already have this - its called apparmor
However, its not usually configured because it "gets in the way" and you also have the problem that many developers don't give a flying fsck about looking after a sane access profile. See also:
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/end-user-devices-security-guidance-ubuntu-1404-lts
Is this the worst Blockchain idea you've ever heard?
Blockchain technology for music payment seems a dead end, but there is a valid point that the world could well do with some form of micropayment system that dose not involve the septic tank of on-line advertisement networks.
Something where you could pay of the order of 0.1p per music/video play directly (more or less) to the folk who did the work. Cheap and painless so folk don't mind paying for a clean experience (and probably well above what they get from YouTube...)
Open-source storage that doesn't suck? Our man tries to break TrueNAS
Re: Fail over?
You don't need a cluster for fail-over, only if you want no outage at all.
With two heads you can operate active-active or active-passive depending on the number of shares (1 share = active-passive only). If once goes down the other takes over that pool of data after a moderate time.
Fail over?
What are the reasons that will trigger a fail-over, and do the heads have some watchdog to force a reboot/fail-over in case one head gets sick?
I ask this as someone who has suffered from the Sun Oracle ZFS appliance that would only fail over on a kernel panic of the other head. But the other head would invariably get stuffed in such a manner as to stop serving storage but not so screwed that it stopped the heartbeat links that arbitrated between them. We ended up using our nagios monitoring machine to check for usable NFS mounts and if that went bad for a while it would SSH in to the active head's ILOM to kick it in the NMI button.
Report: UK counter-terrorism plan Prevent is 'unjust', 'counterproductive'
Ubuntu 16.10: Yakkety Yak... Unity 8's not wack
The Gnome devs have ripped out the most useful ... conform to the current Gnome group-think on UI design (which says that the way to make things easy to use is to simply not have any useful features).
Do they ever actually use their own software for real? You get the impression they are bored teenagers who will do anything but bug-fix their own code.
SHA3-256 is quantum-proof, should last billions of years
US government wants Microsoft 'Irish email' case reopened
Re: users don't control where data resides?
Of course, Google, MS, et al could simply offer a user tick-box choice of data centre jurisdiction and side-step that argument.
But more realistically the best option is not to store any important data on US companies' servers unless you hole the encryption keys. So no web email, etc, where it has to be plain text at the cloud end to access.
Dutch govt ordered to use open standards for comms from 2017
Re: German city coucil
That get trotted out time and time again, mostly because a new mayor complained in 2014. However I see no news of any actual change back, For example the time line here cover that (with some references to check up on):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux#Timeline
Also you have a chicken and egg problem, if everyone is using something like docx which is not-quite-standard you have compatibility issues (a bit like MS has with differing versions of Word but to a smaller degree). By mandating odt standard you get an impetus to improve behaviour both in LibreOffice and MS Office (which can do odt, it just bitches about it to discourage its use).
Email security: We CAN fix the tech, but what about the humans?
Indeed, the use of things like apparmor to limit just what areas the email client can read/write to is one thing, but obviously gets in to problems in usability given most users want to be able to save and attach from their normal document areas. Still, it avoids your SSH keys being emailed out by mistake...
The other thing that can help a bit is to deny execution to user-writeable areas, either my Linux mount options or windows ACLs. Can be inconvenient for software developers and won't block all scripting or similar attacks, but its a start.
Most of all stop word processors, etc, from executing bloody scripts :(
One-quarter of UK police websites lack a secure connection
SSDs in the enterprise: It's about more than just speed
in the long run, will be about economics and the dollar-per-bit cost
Generally it always is, as performance vs cost for RAID / short-stroking, etc, has been covered.
But for now if you have lots of data (e.g. tens of TB) and limited / sequential access patterns HDD is still way cheaper. When that changes we will buy SSD in a flash.
Confirmed: UK police forces own IMSI grabbers, but keeping schtum on use
Nuke plant has been hacked, says Atomic Energy Agency director
Russia tests sat jamming
Not so necessary as a lot of satellites only dump to polar sites (and receive telecommand updates as well). Given how much harder it is to support the Antarctic compared to, say Fairbanks in Alaska, you could cause serious pain-in-the-ass for all operators by interfering with even just S-band TTC there.
There are other options like TDRS to avoid dependency on dumping to a polar site (and the delays in getting data that way) but a lot of folk depend on that region.
Command line coffee machine: Hacker shuns app so he can stay at the keyboard for longer
Simpsons creator Matt Groening once drew Mac heaven for Apple
Re: " Alpha was sold to Intel, which snuffed it."
I think Compaq was owned by HP at that time, so you can see it as yet another great post-Bill Hewlett/Dave Packard blunder by HP. I feel the need to troll HP by asking how those Itanium sales are doing, but I will avoid that iceberg for now.
Prior to its death, the Alpha chip was regularly top of the floating-point speed results for the "SETI at home" screen-saver and signal processor.
Apple to automatically cram macOS Sierra into Macs – 'cos that worked well for Windows 10
A year living with the Nexus 5X – the good, the bad, and the Nougat
Battery life?
Possibly the most impressive thing about the new phone is battery life. A day's use is easily handled
No, it is not impressive at all. It might be a little less shit than some competitors, but lasting one day or so is really not anything to write home about. One week would be newsworthy!
Blighty's telly, radio watchdog Ofcom does a swear
Upstart bags $2.5m to help put the brakes on self-driving car hackers
Autonomous?
"To enable full autonomy, a car should have more externally connected electronic control units vs connected cars," Barzilai explained.
WTF is this? So a supposedly autonomous vehicle will not work properly in the event of no mobile connection, or if the other vehicles it encounters are meatbag driven?
Some one needs to take a clue-hammer to this guy and demand that any autonomous car can work and are tested under adverse communication situations, otherwise a $20 Chinese mobile jammer will be able to bring cities to the knees by blocking the roads with malfunctioning cars.
BOFH: There are no wrong answers, just wrong questions. Mmm, really wrong ones
Google finds its G Suite spot: Renames apps, talks up AI and BigQuery
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