Posts by Drew 11

How far away from it do you need to be for your cellphone to work?

What made it a "sexual" assault exactly? Maybe he likes the taste of salt?

The entire world is in the middle of a major WTF! moment right now.

But, just as Obama's "Hope" pledge never came to pass, I imagine in the next short while, Trump will be led into a room where he will meet a bunch of people he's never seen in his life, and be told who actually runs the joint, and given a list of what he'll be allowed to do and what he won't.

I hope.

So basically, Google gets to decide what happens on the Interwebs from here on in.

Fingers crossed this convinces the browser operators to finally bake DANE into their offerings.

Are you in Hyderabad, Kieran? Anyone from Mozilla there? How about cornering the Google rep and asking for a comment regarding their lack of DANE support? :^)

Quick on TLS, dead slow on DANE.

C'mon Mozilla! We want freedom from the CA TITSUP bug.

We're on the road to DNSSEC

"It's no surprise, though: another key measure to secure the DNS, DNSSec, was first written in 1997 and after nearly 20 years has gone nearly nowhere."

The #1 Registrar in New Zealand, 1stDomains, doesn't offer DNSSEC capability. That is despite their claim to offer "the most advanced domain name management tools available"

When asked (last month) when they would get with the program, the answer was "Unfortunately, we do not have any plans to provide support for DNSSEC at present. Again, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause for you."

So that's the kind of stupidity we're up against.

Perhaps if TLD Registries offered a small registration rebate on each domain that had DNSSEC enabled, things might change?

Where's the canoe icon when you need it?

C'mon Apple, stop dithering and build full DANE support into iOS and macOS.

Jon Flaxman seems very worried about HP IP ending up in the wrong hands. Perhaps we can help him in his crusade by not dropping HP Printers off at the electronics recyclers, but instead dropping them at his carparking spot prior to him arriving at work each morning?

Not yet

Maybe once the browser manufacturers finally support DNSSEC and DANE and we can ditch the CA system?

Oh, and once it doesn't require a degree in computer science to get the darn certs running properly in BIND/Apache/Postfix/Dovecot etc...

Surely, there's only one man for the job?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viIBmU

Zoom lens

For the real close up shots they borrow N747NA and fly inverted.

He's certainly rocking that sine wave hairstyle. He should consider making it permanent.

A damn shame this publication can't be used to kill off a few patents.

They've already destroyed OSX by dumbing it down to the iOS level. Last decent version of OSX was 10.6.8

Ever since then they've been busy turning great computers into giant iPhones. Safari used to have control of cookies down to the singular level, then they changed it so you could only delete all cookies for a particular website and you couldn't go in and see what each cookie had stored inside.

Fuckers.

I guess it's one way to force your users over to Linux.

"proprietary electronics"

Why?

Facepalm. Where is the Facepalm?

The idea probably came from VW's Mexico factory, taking a leaf out of the local petrol company's book.

If you request the amount of petrol equal to the quantity the local standards authority uses to test petrol pumps for calibration, you get the correct amount of fuel delivered.

If you request any other value, the petrol pump diddles you by displaying a higher quantity than it actually delivers through the pump. The diddle factor is station-owner-defineable.

Never run a mail client with preview switched as default.

$10 says this frees up a pile of bandwidth globally, especially among farcebork users.

ICANN will always be a big joke until the largest "stakeholder" - domain registrants - actually get representation.

RIght now, all they do is pay to run ICANN.

Ah Francis. The man that once suggested the Internet would have been better off if it was patented.

He's always batting on about how "cybersquatting" is rife and destroying intellectual property, yet in 2011 only 9000 domains UDRP'd out of 220 MILLION total domains. See: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120516_2011_udrp_filings_up_at_wipo_down_at_naf_and_still_infinitesimal/

The guy is a joke. Seeing him taken down a peg or two would be quite enjoyable.

"These updated statements don't reflect a shift in our practices, they more clearly lay out the data we collect today"

Read: "We're already tracking you 24/7 and have downloaded your contact. It's just that some spoilsport in the legal dept told us we had to stick that in the T&C's before someone found out we were doing it surreptitiously and sued our arses off."

Someone's had their privacy invaded.

Must be time for some numptie to pipe up with "if you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to worry about".

No satellite for you! ¡Adios muchachos!

When they find it, will the gold still be there?

I think it would be quite a laugh if the Starship Enterprise were to investigate an unexplored sector of the galaxy and happen upon one of the Star Wars planets.

There's a reason I'm still on 10.6.8 and it's a lot to do with not wanting my 27" monitor, full sized keyboard and mouse to make me mimic an iPhone user.

Willy waving is bad?

"Of course, this is subject to changes in difficulty and the value of Bitcoins."

And the cost of power is a highly variable factor, of course.

HP remains committed to ensuring that printer ink costs way more than petrol.