Posts by Drew 11

"so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded"

Guarded as in protected?

Pardon me, Mr. President, your slip is showing.

Just. Stop. Flying. To. The. USA.

I was hoping Canadians didn't use the word "gotten".

Oh well.

In fact it's become some a huge mess that Verisign, having successfully applied for 12 transliterations of .com and .net, have only launched two of them - .コム for Japan and .닷컴/.닷넷 for Korea - and that was over a year ago. They have abandoned launching the rest. That would make for an interesting article in itself- why would a powerhouse like Verisign not be able to handle launching the lot of them at the same time, given they're for completely different markets?

Ever notice that Donald has very similar interior decorating tastes as various 3rd world dictators?

A bit of a worry.

Or just wait a few years and watch it on Freeview.

I'm a few seasons behind on GoT etc etc. I care not.

I stopped following F1 when it disappeared from TV3 in NZ and went to Sky where you have to pay for an entire sports channel which is 60 bloody percent rugby, just to watch ~16 F1 races each year. No thanks.

I'm not paying for bundles just to watch a few shows. Sod that.

Blame must be shared with the browser writers that sold out to the google search home page, and all the silly webmasters enslaved to google analytics (and thus giving away all their visitors information to google) - along with google tag manage, google fonts etc etc.

Oh and all the facebook/google etc "like this page" icons that are served from the data slurpers servers instead of locally.

Just give me a Linux Desktop with the look and feel of OSX 10.6.8 (peak OSX) and I'll be a happy chappy.

Only idiots still transit via the USA. Plenty of other options.

Dear Google. I have found you a new CEO. Regards...

"So if you shopped online around November last year, and you get a note from one of the 40 affected websites confessing your payment card details were stolen, you know who to blame.

Aptos, its CEO Noel Goggin, and his team."

A software company, whose "Technology Leader" is right down the bottom of the "leader list", below the "Growth Leader" and the "Strategy Leader".

Give you an idea of what his security budget level was. Surprise.

Along with lazy plug-in devs who attach unneeded CSS and JS files, leading to wordpress websites that download sometimes 100 or more .css and .js files full of unused code.

Which is why people have to go out and get a faster computer or more RAM just to get a website to function half-pie decently.

But don't get me started. The entire WordPress system is a dog's breakfast.

"Note the big clickable Google Map and the “spelling correction” suggested by Google, both prominently above the actual Streetmap result"

Bzzzzt. That's not a spelling correction SUGGESTED by Google. Google has APPLIED their spelling correction suggestion and produced results for "aspley guise street map" and the user has to click the link to get the search they asked for.

In this case, that's an important point. It's actually a "Street map" result.

I wonder if they do automatic spelling corrections on fcuk? No I thought not.

What really annoys me is that their system is transaction based. Every transaction costs the same for Paypal to process no matter what the transaction value is.

So how do they get away with charging a percentage rather than a fixed fee per transaction?

Next thing you know, motorway toll systems will be stopping your car and counting the number of people in it so they can charge per-person instead of per-car.

Anyone have one of these and can open it up and tell us the brand/model # of the crystal oscillator?

Selling the family silver - great idea!

No we know why they refuse to bake DANE into Chrome.

Total control over minions.

Allowing Mike "Himmler" Pence to blame gay marriage for tornados 5 times as quickly.

Dear Firefox.

I'll HTTPS when you DANE.

I remain,...

CC: IETF, SSAC

Do these drones have a "goto" command?

Video 50 drones all trying to land in the same spot and you've got viral youtube on your hands.

Can we have the facepalm icon replaced with the one here please? http://pleasecutthecrap.com/obama-calls-out-stupid-trump/

You think ink cartridges are expensive now?

Just wait until you have to buy them from Trump Industries Inc.

Reasons for holding the front of a pad up while you write

1. You're faking it

2. You can't spel proper and don't want the media to unprove your alternative facts.

3. To stop the guy in the row in front copying you're stuff while you're busy trying to get your tiny little hands on the naughty bits of girl beside you.

And even after this latest cockup Mozilla will refuse to put DANE into Firefox.

C'mon Reg, name and shame them.

10-15 years ago schools were churning out idiots who could only use Microsoft products. Now they're churning out idiots that search on google for websites they know the URL to.

I weep for humanity.

DNSSEC

Does iOS support DANE yet?

Those were the days

OSX 10.6.8 was the pinnacle of interface design, before Apple decided to turn 27" iMac's into giant iPhones.

Bring a 10.6.8 desktop out for Linux and you're on to a winner.

"Unfortunately, there is no simple way to protect against these attacks"

Errrrrrr, DNSSEC?

Anyone in the USA who happens on a huge object they find objectionable should spray "winter is coming" on it.

Then HBO will come along and remove said object or give it a nice new paint job to protect their "IP".

Trump Tower would be a starter for 10.

$10 says there's an engineer somewhere in Samgsung that was demoted for warning too often that they were going to have battery problems.

gif or it didn't happen.