Re: Competition is great!
Government sponsorship of private enterprise. 250% tariff.
Posts by TRT
9611 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Sep 2009
Page:
- ← Prev
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 31
- 32
- 33
- 34
- 35
- 36
- 37
- 38
- 39
- 40
- 41
- 42
- 43
- 44
- 45
- 46
- 47
- 48
- 49
- 50
- 51
- 52
- 53
- 54
- 55
- 56
- 57
- 58
- 59
- 60
- 61
- 62
- 63
- 64
- 65
- 66
- 67
- 68
- 69
- 70
- 71
- 72
- 73
- 74
- 75
- 76
- 77
- 78
- 79
- 80
- 81
- 82
- 83
- 84
- 85
- 86
- 87
- 88
- 89
- 90
- 91
- 92
- 93
- 94
- 95
- 96
- 97
- 98
- 99
- 100
- 101
- 102
- 103
- 104
- 105
- 106
- 107
- 108
- 109
- 110
- 111
- 112
- 113
- 114
- 115
- 116
- 117
- 118
- 119
- 120
- 121
- 122
- 123
- 124
- 125
- 126
- 127
- 128
- 129
- 130
- 131
- 132
- 133
- 134
- 135
- 136
- 137
- 138
- 139
- 140
- 141
- 142
- 143
- 144
- 145
- 146
- 147
- 148
- 149
- 150
- 151
- 152
- 153
- 154
- 155
- 156
- 157
- 158
- 159
- 160
- 161
- 162
- 163
- 164
- 165
- 166
- 167
- 168
- 169
- 170
- 171
- 172
- 173
- 174
- 175
- 176
- 177
- 178
- 179
- 180
- 181
- 182
- 183
- 184
- 185
- 186
- 187
- 188
- 189
- 190
- 191
- 192
- 193
- Next →
HMRC boss defends shift to AWS, says they got 50% knocked off
Holy DUHK! Boffins name bug that could crack crypto wide open
Footie ballsup: Petition kicks off to fix 'geometrically impossible' street signs
Wednesday 25th October 2017 08:41 GMT 
Response
The Government considers the current football symbol has a clear meaning and is understood by the public. Changing the design to show accurate geometry is not appropriate in this context.
The Department for Transport sets legislation on traffic signs for use by traffic authorities. The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016 (TSRGD) sets out the design and conditions of use for traffic signs that may be used on roads in England, Scotland and Wales.
Traffic signs use symbols which enable drivers to take in the information quickly and understand the meaning of the sign. Symbols are often internationally recognised which is important for all road users, especially those who may be unfamiliar to the area.
In the case of a directional sign to a leisure facility (such as a football ground), the symbols used are a general representation of the activity being depicted. As such, drivers can then quickly understand the type of destination. The football ground symbol first appeared in TSRGD in 1994 and road users have become accustomed to its use.
The purpose of traffic signs is to “convey warnings, information, requirements, restrictions or prohibitions” (Section 64 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984).
The Department for Transport commissioned research into road user’s understanding of traffic signs in 2011. This concluded that respondents “showed a good basic level of understanding as to what different types of sign meant” and recommended that signs should be kept simple.
The purpose of a traffic sign is not to raise public appreciation and awareness of geometry which is better dealt with in other ways. If the correct geometry were put onto a sign, it would only be visible close up and not from the distance at which drivers will see the sign. The detail of the geometry would also not be taken in by most drivers who were merely looking at the sign for direction. The higher level of attention needed to understand the geometry could distract a driver’s view away from the road for longer than necessary which could therefore increase the risk of an incident.
Additionally the public funding required to change every football sign nationally would place an unreasonable financial burden on local authorities. The Department could not justify the spending needed as an exercise to increase public awareness and appreciation of geometry.
For the reasons given, we will not be changing the football symbol used on a traffic sign.
Department for Transport
Credit insurance tightens for geek shack Maplin Electronics
It's time to rebuild the world for robots
Tuesday 24th October 2017 10:50 GMT
Re: "And forget a robot lifting a piece of paper off a desk any time soon."
I was just coming on here to point that out. After 6 years technical service at a college of printing, I ought to know what a robot can do with paper. Anyone want to buy a MBO K76 4KTL folding machine? Or a Muller Martini 4 hopper A5 inset, perfect bind and trim machine?
Wowee. Look at this server. Definitely keep critical data in there. Yup
Tuesday 24th October 2017 11:40 GMT
Re: I thought that was a Monty Python quote myself.
Lol. Yes, it could be. Maybe we should leave the political correctness at that?
So we are agreed, Europeans can have the RIGHT to data privacy, even if they can't have any actual privacy themselves; which is no-one's fault, not even the Americans.
Tuesday 24th October 2017 10:41 GMT
Re: Or her
You think that the only attackers on the internet are script kiddies? We should be moving away from making gender assumptions, but often our unconscious bias leads us to reinforce a stereotype without any cause. Anyway, OK, so the OP mentioned scripts, but that's like saying the internal combustion engine is the tool of the boy racer - it is, but whilst you are building intelligent roads that detect under-body lighting, a panzer division has just rolled over your front lawn. It's no good saying "Oh, when you said build a defence against motorised vehicles, I thought you meant the Top Gear presenters, LOL!"
Opinions, like mileage, may vary; I stand by giving a gentle nudge to someone when his... her... THEIR unconscious bias shows its face. And I welcome anyone to do the same for me.
'Screaming' man fined $149 for singing 'Everybody Dance Now'
We talk to Tron artist Syd Mead: On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy
Hate to break it to you, but billions of people can see Uranus tonight
The case of the disappearing insect. Boffin tells Reg: We don't know why... but we must act
Boss visited the night shift and found a car in the data centre
Watch out for Microsoft Word DDE nasties: Now Freddie Mac menaced
Have you heard the one about IoT network tech that uses SIM cards?
Tuesday 17th October 2017 17:33 GMT
Re: Eh?
Slightly different way of doing things, though. The SMS payload is one way, the control structure is two way. USSD has two way payload space. The difference is SMS BALANCE to 450, wait 5 seconds, receive a SMS text back with the information. Dial *#100# and the balance appears immediately and is displayed on screen, not saved.
There are already, and have been for ages, GPS trackers that send a SMS with their location information. There aren't any, that I know of, that use USSD to do that. I think this is a promising technology. Not sure how long it will last given the roll out of consumer led 3G/4G/5G etc.
The Google Home Mini: Great, right up until you want to smash it in fury
Tuesday 17th October 2017 09:57 GMT
Oh, I don't know...
The little widget for Google traffic that sits one page back on the iPhone screen you only go to when you swipe by accident actually told me something useful the other day.
"Heavy traffic nearby. Watford vs Arsenal today."
Which was great, as it gave me a two hour advance warning that my parking space was likely to be blocked in by the moronic drivers / football fans that seem to leave their vehicle wherever they want, including private parking spaces in any apartment block within 20 minutes walk of the football stadium. This meant that I made the choice of walking to the bus stop to get the bus up to town for the must-have-that-day shop and put off the out-of-town trip which needed the car until the day after.
Release the KRACKen patches: The good, the bad, and the ugly on this WPA2 Wi-Fi drama
WPA2 KRACK attack smacks Wi-Fi security: Fundamental crypto crapto
Monday 16th October 2017 16:05 GMT
Re: I don't get how this works without the PSK...
Ah, well, yes. After reading the actual paper several times through it becomes clear that resetting the Nonce does so for both PTK and GTK, which is bad, very bad. The MIC then becomes trivial to reverse engineer and turns a rogue AP into a trusted AP. So it is as serious as they make out, even if it's tricky to pull off due to the need to hijack the airwaves. It could be mitigated further by including the radio channel characteristics in the KEK, but time division multiplexing would still allow a window for hijacking. Hmm... well, updates all round, I think!
Monday 16th October 2017 14:59 GMT
Re: I don't get how this works without the PSK...
It seems to me that the video involved tricking the client (station) into communicating with the fake AP on a different radio channel then, and this is another thing I'm not clear about, either relaying the packets to the internet via another connection or relaying the packets to the genuine AP. But it's still not clear to me what can be achieved against a non-android 6+ client. You can harvest MAC addresses without MITMing, they broadcast the things, and you can gather timing and packet size data just by listening too. This attack seems to purely trick a client into trusting spurious multicast packets.
Page:
- ← Prev
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 31
- 32
- 33
- 34
- 35
- 36
- 37
- 38
- 39
- 40
- 41
- 42
- 43
- 44
- 45
- 46
- 47
- 48
- 49
- 50
- 51
- 52
- 53
- 54
- 55
- 56
- 57
- 58
- 59
- 60
- 61
- 62
- 63
- 64
- 65
- 66
- 67
- 68
- 69
- 70
- 71
- 72
- 73
- 74
- 75
- 76
- 77
- 78
- 79
- 80
- 81
- 82
- 83
- 84
- 85
- 86
- 87
- 88
- 89
- 90
- 91
- 92
- 93
- 94
- 95
- 96
- 97
- 98
- 99
- 100
- 101
- 102
- 103
- 104
- 105
- 106
- 107
- 108
- 109
- 110
- 111
- 112
- 113
- 114
- 115
- 116
- 117
- 118
- 119
- 120
- 121
- 122
- 123
- 124
- 125
- 126
- 127
- 128
- 129
- 130
- 131
- 132
- 133
- 134
- 135
- 136
- 137
- 138
- 139
- 140
- 141
- 142
- 143
- 144
- 145
- 146
- 147
- 148
- 149
- 150
- 151
- 152
- 153
- 154
- 155
- 156
- 157
- 158
- 159
- 160
- 161
- 162
- 163
- 164
- 165
- 166
- 167
- 168
- 169
- 170
- 171
- 172
- 173
- 174
- 175
- 176
- 177
- 178
- 179
- 180
- 181
- 182
- 183
- 184
- 185
- 186
- 187
- 188
- 189
- 190
- 191
- 192
- 193
- Next →
Biting the hand that feeds IT
