Posts by ElReg!comments!Pierre

Re: VPN

The "perfect VPN" connundrum is almost impossible to tackle in my opinion (and not just for your project). It's good that you did not set up your own, as it removes the "single point of pressure" that could undermine the whole thing, unless you can have access to enough funds to set up and operate proxies in several countries operating under separate laws, operated by proxy companies set up under these same laws, and that's going to cost dearly. Using distributed Tor-like models would severely impair the performances (and let's be honest, that maket is already crowded). Using third-party VPN services will let you open to criticisms (and / or unpredictable costs, possibly) but is certainly the safest route for now, as long as you keep monitoring said VPN services for possible changes in, erm, "allegiance", which in itself has a cost.

In any case, that's a step in the right direction, keep it up!

Re: A question

All my vims are set to replace tabs with 4 spaces, but I almost always tap the spaces by hand anyway; never assume, all that.

Re: Secure Chats

You guys are so obvious. The trick is to give away an easily disproved offence in order to hide more serious intentions, because having nothing to hide is obviously a deception.

my spanish nephew loves the golden rain

Re: Man bites dog

From what I gather, a tepid defender of net neut was nominated to take the place of a more radical one. A remaining seat is still to be attributed; this will be done shortly, and it will probably go to a rabid anti-net-neut advocate, thus considerably shifting the balance towards anti-net-neuts, while giving a superficial impression of non-partisanship. The delay between nominations is designed to prevent direct comparisons. Classic political manoeuvre.

Re: BVLOS?

Well, the expression "line of sight" is also commonly (mis)used for any number of wireless comms, unredundanting* the "visual".

The French authority involved, on the other hand, is DGAC, not DGCA

*my entry for the Ugliest Neologism contest

"With both Uber and Google out to get him"

You got that part wrong. Google is out to get Uber, and Uber threw Levandowski at them to try and distract them. The guy may have to face the music at some point, but the present case is how Uber had him steal documents from Waymo, set up a proxy company for him (Otto) and bought it when they thought noone was looking. Levandowski is not even a codefendant in this case, contrarily to what Uber wants the world to believe.

Re: Scuzzy.

Seems I missed a minute word in your post then. Scusi.

Re: Dropped

Merriam-Webster also think this is correct, so American English is covered too I would think.

Either that, or the author really meant "dropped the ox", which would be blunter but not significantly less painful, one would suppose.

Re: Hell yeah!

I've been running Devuan (on all my personnal and some work machines) for quite a while now, and I couldn't agree more. Debian without systemd works, too (with popularity-contest installed of course), but it often causes trouble in upgrades, while the Devuan project nicely filters sneaky systemd-as-a-dependancy problems.

Re: gallow's humor but

> Capitalism, the thing that made us all much richer while making a few very rich indeed, the swine.

I think you'll find that reality is a bit more subtle than that, unless you waive the 43.1 million people in the US who live under the poverty threshold (that's 1 in 8 households, according to the Census bureau, and the figure is likely much higher due to under-the-radar illegal residents). It's 10 million more than the entire population of Venezuela.

I'm sure you'll have noticed how the pro- and anti- Maduro demonstrations don't gather the same socio-economical categories. And how Us media coverage on Brazil and Venezuela increased dramatically after these countries decided to regain control of their oil reserves...

Re: I keep thinking

Well, no-flight policies ARE designed by ejits. The 100 mL rule stems from some murkin ejit failing to understand basic physics, and it's still in place after all that time. But that wasn't my point: evidently the airhead-in-chief didn't come up with this rule (pro'lly too busy grabbing small felines); he did, however, publish the 2-part tweet mentionned in the article. If there's anything more pityful than policy-by-tweet, it's policy-by-multipart-tweet.

Re: "used only in extreme terrorism cases"

> CAGE has plenty of form as apologists for active extremists.

It doesn't matter. This law is overreaching, and we can hope that cases such as this one may put it to test so that we ordinary citizens can know what we risk if we fail to provide the plods with a working password (whatever the reason may be, including genuinely having forgotten it).

Re: "the rocket that takes the United States to Mars"

The GREATEST.

(note: also embark a load of broads for grabbing purposes, as the journey may be very long.)

Re: ISP reports...

> equally fruitless.

Yup.

I was only talking about reporting IPs here, but I also sometimes report "cloud" accounts, with the same results usually. One exception being an answer from Yahoo! to a spam report (a lot of volume from a single yahoo account, a yahoo IP but various other reply-tos). The content of that answer? The reply-to is not on our systems, contact them instead. Yeah right, thanks a lot.

Re: Cloud just means...

it goes down faster than a Geodie chick's knickers on a Saturday night. Some manglement here decided to go full-365, and the poor sods tasks with doing the demos report that it is down for 1/3 of their _planned, with MS_ demos. That's an "enterprise" contract, too.

Re: Bollocks

There seems to be a bug in El Reg's unit conversion page : It clocks the brontosausus at 138 m instead of the more reasonnable 22 m.

Re: "Everything else is insecure"

Well, "everything else is insecure" seems a pretty good assumption to make. As long as you don't add "but our kit is secure"...

I think you'll find it's quite the opposite. Molotov was the politician "responsible" for the invasion of Finland (or more precisely for the allegation that the bombings were actually humanitarian food drops), and the "Molotov cocktail" was the Finns' response.