* Posts by Beech Horn

20 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Mar 2008

A few reasons why cops didn't immediately shoot down London Gatwick airport drone menace

Beech Horn

... or just use a professional anti-drone service instead of those schemes?

Professional services exist which mostly concentrate on tracking devices that small accurately and deploying drones with nets to catch the devices. AFAIK the leader of such devices is British https://www.dronedefence.co.uk/

Ended up spitting out my coffee when the head of Gatwick said that the technology to stop drone attacks wasn't available yet. Such audacity in ignorance.

Micron, Intel consciously uncouple 3D NAND development

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Almost

For laptops you'll be looking at the Optane m.2 which isn't out yet:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12899/intel-previews-m2-optane-ssd-905p-380gb

For desktops we've had it for a long time (would ignore the m.2 16/32GB drives as that's just a hybrid speed up) things like the 900P, 905P, etc without even touching the enterprise line-up.

As for Optane in DIMM slots, its meant to arrive later this year/early next year for servers.

You can Ring my bell: Amazon pays ONE BEEEEELLION+ dollars for smart home upstart

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"As for Apple and its HomeKit. Still only for fanbois, we're afraid."

Apart from Nest, most devices (I am aware of) have HomeKit support or will soon have HomeKit support (without needing Homebridge, etc) - Ring included:

https://twitter.com/ring/status/968592090098671616

Linux kernel community tries to castrate GPL copyright troll

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Re: I'm confused

Am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that the GPL is a copyleft license using Copyright law (as opposed to Trademark or Patent law) against itself. So same difference. It would be a violation of the license agreement that falls under copyright law.

GTFO of there! Security researchers turn against HTTP public key pinning

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Quite like DNS CAA

Lets you restrict the authorities, can be updated and further secured with DNSSEC. CAA records combined with CT gets my vote over HPKP, especially as Lets Encrypt doesn't support it.

Core-blimey! Intel's Core i9 18-core monster – the numbers

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Re: Just me?

14 core doesn't look bad either when you see the speeds across cores for TurboBoost. It requires a bit more in-depth analysis than an article which gets the core count wrong though...

Apple pulls massive HomeKit chip U-turn to keep up with Amazon Echo and Google Home

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Partner's surely knew

There was lots of "coming early 2017" from the likes of Tado, Ring, etc

If you look at the Ring Doorbell Pro for instance, which was advertised as supporting HomeKit, there was no Apple chip in it and asking support there was no requirement for a hub.

CMD.EXE gets first makeover in 20 years in new Windows 10 build

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Re: What's the point?

Agreed, everything works, but it's slower. Makes a difference when thousands of lines of text are flying past. There are programs which are bottlenecked by the speed of stdout. Maybe just put cmd.exe in the Windows Store...

Adobe will kill Flash by 2020: No more updates, support, tears, pain...

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Need to offer decoding software

For protected SWF files of proprietary software which has long been abandoned, Adobe should offer a way to retrieve the contents so it can be rewritten. Using swfdec only gets you so far. Would say the same for Adobe Air files.

Otherwise it'll just be (hopefully) unplugged from the Internet.

Apple has finally found someone to support HomeKit

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There are a fair few devices out there already

Currently Tado, Netatmo and Phillips Hue (big names) are out there with products. Ring keeps promising an update, but one is yet to emerge. Until then HomeBridge gets the job done and have linked the TV and CCTV cameras into HomeKit quite nicely.

Yes appreciate it's not really prime time and the lack of decent automation on the Apple TV makes life awkward.

Data trashed? When RPO 0 isn't enough

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Ceph

Appreciate not everyone can use it but doesn't Ceph solve the RPO 0 problem? Triple replication with writes to 3 different locations by default. Block, file and FS services, etc, etc

'Nothing to see here', says ECJ as Safe Harbour opinion delayed

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Re: I may be a pedant but...

In the US you drop the 'u' in the rest of the world (AFAIK) we keep it. So a .gov site (US) will say harbor, whereas we'll say harbour. For instance: https://www.google.co.uk/search?newwindow=1&espv=2&q=site%3A.gov.uk+%22safe+harbour%22&oq=site%3A.gov.uk+%22safe+harbour

Facebook ditches HTML mobe future in favour of Zuck-style JavaScript

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Hang on Facebook

Also a look through their new offering, it seems like "React" is their JS framework similar to BackBone/Knockout - with a similar feature set to AirBnB's "Holy Grail" (using JS to generate HTML on the server as well as the client).

The Native part looks interesting though and would appear to be similar to FireFox OS's approach (JS talking to Native APIs).

Does raise the question - why complain about HTML 5 and lost years of development then release a framework using the same languages? After a few years of development I'd expect that libraries are created to make programmers more efficient and this just looks to be a library aiding HTML 5 development and exposing Native APIs to it...

Beech Horn

Java != JavaScript

Since when has JavaScript meant Java?

Vodafone poised to ink chumship pact with T-Mobile and get back into US enterprise

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Vodafone UK in the US

When I last went to the states with a Vodafone UK SIM in the iPad they wanted to charge £25 for 100MB PER DAY with no roll over. Verizon wouldn't touch the iPad (apparently it was AT&T only despite being bought in the UK?!?) and ended up getting an AT&T SIM card for $30 with 2GB of data for the stay. £25 for 100MB a day is just not viable, but then again T-Mobile coverage in the states is also not viable so they'll need to go back to the drawing board.

Gullible Apple users targeted by bogus order cancellation scam

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Bad spelling and grammar is often used in scams so that only the truly gullible reply. There has been more than one BBC documentary which explains this. This way they do not waste time with those who already know something is up.

NHS quango fatcats spend £2m tax dosh on iPads and iPhones

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£113,743 on 65 iPads

"£113,743 on 65 iPads" please tell me they were diamond encrusted?

Google bakes W3C malware-buster into Gmail

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WTF?

AdBlock

I wonder if YouTube will be next up too, presumably this strategy is just to stop AdBlock under the guise of security right?

Next time you go to the loo, bring your locked laptop with you

Beech Horn
Linux

PIE SSP

What about PIE SSP?

If every stack is loaded into a different place and compiled as such then surely this kind of attack cannot work.

Admittedly you'd have to use a FUSE based file system (so much for a monolithic kernel being good) but you can maintain security against this and many other attacks.