Posts by Christoph

And all three of those absolutely require strong crypto with no backdoors.

Have they checked sales of white cats?

So which of those excuses will they be using to cover industrial espionage on European companies which is then passed to their US rivals?

Companies House list of officers

High Barratry

Though they started as Caldera selling Linux long ago

Soon a huge volcanic crater will be all that's left of SCO

I thought the point of standing desks was to improve health, not to improve productivity.

I hope there are still a few bosses who consider their staff as people rather than as productivity units.

EE's latest tech?

An example of how up-to-date the tech at EE is:

I just had an advertising text from EE, with a link to stop further texts. I sent the STOP text. I got a text back saying 'we will remove you from our lists. This may take up to 30 days'.

What are they using to talk to their marketing bods? I could do it in far less than 30 days using carrier pigeons! In the 21st Century it should take milliseconds.

The malware is sent every time someone looks up evildomain, and lingers in the ISP caches.

Is it not possible for ISPs to write something to scan their caches, and for security firms to scan through domains checking for malware?

If anything is found, tell everyone to block that domain.

Excellent idea - someone looking homeless can strip them of their Rolex, iWhatsits, Credit cards etc. and they won't even see who did it.

How is the hydrogen stored in the car?

Hydrogen is horrible stuff to store - how are they doing it?

High pressure tanks? Don't store much as it's ultra-low density, horribly dangerous in a crash.

Liquefied? Boils off overnight, very dangerous in a crash.

Absorbed on something? I haven't heard of them getting that working well yet.

"13.8 billion years"

Why such a precise number? Or did they mean "as long a time as the Universe has already existed"?

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;

But we've proved it again and again,

That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld

You never get rid of the Dane.

So who first told Adobe about this bug, and have Adobe had them thrown in jail yet?

"subject to strict safeguards and world-leading oversight arrangements."

So don't worry, you can be absolutely certain that when they have taken control of your phone and switched on its microphone, there is no way that they will listen in when it is in your bedroom overnight, make copies of all the juicy bits, and pass them round all their mates to listen to. Trust me!

"The update process has reportedly been automated"

I trust that the update process has much better security? Or can attackers force an update with their own code?

That video of the engine test - why is there so much smoke from an engine that's burning hydrogen and oxygen? It can't be steam, it would be too hot to condense that quick and it doesn't behave right.

They don't have any evidence that terrorists are using this. But they are going to regulate and control it anyway. Because terrorism.

Absolutely nothing to do with being able to tax and control and spy on their citizens, with this being a useful excuse. Honest. Trust me.

Never going to be as good as Mr Tock at Transylvania Polygnostic University

"the access of public authorities for national security purposes will be subject to clear limitations, safeguards and oversight mechanisms"

"the US has assured that it does not conduct mass or indiscriminate surveillance of Europeans"

And then they all lived happily ever after in their lovely little cottage in the woods.

The people who already fly hawks near airports to keep birds away could add this to their repertoire. Including Dave Hodges, a.k.a. Hodgesaargh

CthulhuNet

(see title)

Hey, we'll be able to sue!

In American courts. Paying American lawyers, plus all the expense of long distance litigation.

Worst bit of code I've seen was in the Setup program for Visual Basic 3.

This was the MS-written code that would let you install your VB3 program on a client machine.

There was a subroutine which checked the version number of a file, so you could detect whether to replace with a later version.

It didn't help that the API call to return a version number worked backwards to the way all the other Windows APIs worked. But it implemented that call wrongly, then made all sorts of other errors (in a very small routine).

If absolutely nothing went wrong there was a single path through the code which would actually work and return the version number of the file.

The text version of the version number, not the numerical version. So version 10 would sort as lower than version 2.

the real deal might feature "articulated legs or any suitable means of propulsion"

Articulated legs? If they use the Luggage it will certainly be safe from anyone trying to steal the parcel.

So you can buy Western chips with NSA backdoors, or Chinese chips with Chinese backdoors.

Banana!

No good if there are any minions about.