* Posts by Julz

947 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Oct 2009

LG promises to make home appliance software upgradeable to take on new tasks

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Is

It so they can add in a genuine people personality?

APNIC: Big Tech's use of carrier-grade NAT is holding back internet innovation

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Re: Not cool

Well one of the interesting ways the interconnected world could develop is by applications politely asking for access. We just have to define politely. IP isn't the connected world it's just what we have now. There were other protocols, there can be others in the future. The fact that we have lots of things things wired'ish together is an opportunity for growth.

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Re: Thanks, but no thanks

What makes you think carrier NATing protects you form tracking?

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I

Think the address space argument is not really the main point here. My reading of Geoff Huston's main points are that the architecture of the protocols available currently (v4, v6, UDP, TCP, IP, DNS etc etc.) are limiting the networks to client initiated (mostly), client server interaction when there could be other richer modes. And that the current situation is being kept that way by numerous vested interests. Given it's something I've be arguing (to anyone who would listen) for a while, I tend to agree with him :) However, I do think that there are other ways we could use our wonderfully connected world that would be of benefit to us all. In the same way that the internet isn't just the world wide web, the connected world doesn't have to just be the internet.

I own that $4.5bn of digi-dosh so rewrite your blockchain and give it to me, Craig Wright tells Bitcoin SV devs

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Re: In summary then ...

Yep me to.

The robots are coming! 12 million jobs lost to automation in Europe by 2040 – analyst

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We

Need something to make all the stuff the increasing number of oldies need.

Zuck didn't invent the metaverse, but he's started a fight to control it

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Hum, The meta Fletcher memorial home for incurable tyrants and kings.

FYI: If the latest Windows 11 really wants to use Edge, it will use Edge no matter what

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Re: Why?

Whoosh...

Remember when you thought fax machines were dead-matter teleporters? Ah, just me, then

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Re: A3? That's not big.

Hum, it's long covid not chronic or eternal covid.

UK science suffers as lawmakers continue to dither over Brexit negotiations

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Re: Negotiating...

OK, but they can be suspended and all the EU grants withheld.

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Re: Self flagellation

Ah the old your spelling is not what is the norm therefore what you are saying is wrong argument. Haven't heard that one for a while.

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Re: EUCJ

That's exactly what British courts do. Not necessarily for the institutions that you mentioned but for many other agreements between governments and companies around the world. Justice handled by an independent and trusted third party is a very common part of agreements and contracts and Brittish courts are frequently the first choice for arbitering disagreements.

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Re: Negotiating...

Yes it was, oh the irony. However, as I have mentioned before, and garnered a lot of down votes for my efforts, the EU commission will take every opportunity to to be an awkward and spiteful neighbor as any country leaving the EU is a direct threat to their power and they have to show that it not a thing you would want to consider.

I look on with interest to the events in Poland. I suspect that the Polish government has calculated that they can get away with riding rough shod over the founding principles and laws of the EU at this juncture as the commission will not want to do what they should and kick them out of the club. Mainly for the reasons I mentioned above. The fine is just window dressing.

Looking in my crystal ball, it seems that it might be a very interesting time for the EU over the next few years. Interesting in a not so comfortable way.

Product release cycles are killing the environment, techies tell British Computer Society

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Re: @TWB - Business first

Yay, what happened to all the Nuclear Winter Sooth Sayers. They seem to have gone a bit quiet recently despite nothing much changing of the worlds nuclear weapons posture. Remember the next ice age is coming warnings in the early nineteen seventies but I guess the global warming threat has solved' that one. Also the various biological and chemical world disasters of which covid-19 is just a pale shadow, they used to be a big thing. Just can't have enough life threatening world disasters to worry about. Almost as if there might be some advantage to be gained from scaring the shit out of the great unwashed public.

Perhaps I should just duck and cover.

Jeff Bezos wants to build a business park in space

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Re: Waters?

Don't recall a song about waters by Genesis.

LAN traffic can be wirelessly sniffed from cables with $30 setup, says researcher

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Re: New? Bwahaha!

Having worked in a secret squirrel site, in what feels like a different lifetime ago, our TEMPEST teams were most concerned about the terminating connector as that was were most of the leakage came from. They were only really bothered about individual terminals as that where the most coherent data might be leaking into the world and not the data centres. They considered it nigh on impossible to get any meaningful data over the air from there as there was so much chatter from all of the various pieces of equipment. That and the fact that they were in Faraday shielded bunkers.

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Re: I thought LAN cables were shielded

The evil Maid might as well just plug in a 'special' cable.

Judge in UK rules Amazon Ring doorbell audio recordings breach data protection laws

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Re: Surely they have to go shopping?

Similar laws apply in the UK. Private citizens are only allowed to surveil their own property and shouldn't observe public or other peoples property.

Reason 3,995 to hold off on that Windows 11 upgrade: Iffy performance on AMD silicon

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Re: Good to see

MS used to had an entire department of many tens of people who did nothing but test on differing platforms. But that was back in the nineties, things are better now.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the BBC stage a very British coup to rescue our data from Facebook and friends

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Re: Human persychology fail

Hey, where can I get my loyalty car...

What if Chrome broke features of the web and Google forgot to tell anyone? Oh wait, that's exactly what happened

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If

W3C actually became grew some balls and became a real standards body and issued certificates of conformance, then these sorts of behaviors from browser manufactures would be more apparent.

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That

Sounds very like you are suggesting that the first two steps of, embrace, extend and extinguish, are a good thing but are forgetting about the last stage.

Which? survey finds people would actually pay the online giants not to take their data

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Re: Why should I need to pay ?

I was about to say something similar. What this survey is showing is that people are willing to pay a thief to not rob them.

NASA halts Mars comms for two weeks as Sun gets in way of Red Planet

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Re: Comms relays?

Hum, I think that as soon as you get your satellite/comms relay going faster that about 11Kmsec-1 you no longer are in earth orbit but in some orbit around our sun (as long as you stay below about 615Kmsec-1). Lots of craft have done this. Kinda a prerequisite to visit places other than earth (moon excepted). As for getting a bit of delta V to go into an orbit not on the ecliptic, as as been pointed out, a funky planetary fly by can achieve this. Not too hard but maybe not required yet.

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Re: Comms relays?

Or a sun centric orbit not on the plain of the ecliptic.

tz database community up in arms over proposals to merge certain time zones

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Re: Dates

Apart from the British ones...

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Hum

ICANN strikes again.

From Wiki:

"ICANN took responsibility for the maintenance of the database on 14 October 2011. The full database and a description of current and future plans for its maintenance are available online from IANA".

UK government isn't keeping track of the risk posed by legacy systems, says Central Digital and Data Office

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So

a person who stands to gain a load of money to conduct an audit recommends an audit. Colour me surprised.

Don't touch that dial – the new guy just closed the application that no one is meant to close

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Re: Critcal system

I like your optimism about how well everything is done now.

Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou admits lying about Iran deal, gets to go home

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Re: They won't get any traction

Would that be the criminal behavior of a Chinese based company based out of Hong Kong using a subsidiary to trade with Iran in contravention of US law? I find it a bit of a stretch to argue that it's criminal. Irritating for the US regime admittedly in that the normal bullying tactics didn't have the desired effect, but hardly criminal in anything other that a Team America sort of way.

Clegg on its face: Facebook turns to former UK deputy PM to fend off damaging headlines

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@Ian Mason - Just that. Have many up votes.

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The irony is that the design we use for our fused three pin 13amp plugs tops and sockets was originally a German design.

Microfluidic processor brings us one step closer to a future of squishy DNA computing

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Re: Better programing technicques...

One can only hope.

Beijing wants its internet to become 'civilized' by always reflecting Marxist values

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Yey

But what did the Great Chairman say on the matter.

Fortnite banana can appear in court naked says judge in Epic vs Apple legal footnote

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So

A naked banana has its skin on yet a dressed crab has all its insides on the outside. Language is great...

Why tell the doctor where it hurts, when you could use emoji instead?

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Have A Look At The

Book From The Ground...

http://www.xubing.com/en/work/details/188?classID=12&type=class

UK.gov is launching an anti-Facebook encryption push. Don't think of the children: Think of the nuances and edge cases instead

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That

Would be Nyarlathotep.

3 years, 17 alphas, 2 betas, and over 7,500 commits later, OpenSSL version 3 is here

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Re: 1.1.1 to 3.0?

See above, didn't get GCHQ approval ;)

Italian stuntman flies aeroplane through two motorway tunnels

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Hum,

Swiss air force...

Why we abandoned open source: LiveCode CEO on retreat despite successful kickstarter

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Isn't

The point that you are learning how to program in several different programming paradigms which teaches you how to think about problems in different ways. After that, you can pick up other syntaxs relatively easily and you have a better understanding in general of differing languages strengths and weaknesses.

If there is a job that requires language X or Y for it's products, then the employer has some responsibility to provide relevant training.

That is, if your like me and expect our education system to actually educate rather than turn out programing drones.

Virginia school board learns a hard lesson... and other stories

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Why

Not just ask Boeing...

https://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2002/september/i_pw.html

Trial of Theranos boss Elizabeth Holmes begins: She plans to say her boyfriend and COO Balwani abused her

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Re: Mad as a cut snake

I would suggest, Nutty as a fruitcake as the mild end of the scale.

IBM sued again by its own sales staff: IT giant accused of going back on commission payments promise

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Re: Just

A pretty successful computer firm, DEC, did just that...

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Just

Pay salaries...

Rumors of satellite-comms-capable iPhone abound. The truth could be rather boring

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Would that be the Unobtanium fueled UAV?

UK promises big data law shake-up... while also keeping the EU happy, of course. What could go wrong?

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Re: Seems to be a recurring theme here ...

Who makes the laws?

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Re: Seems to be a recurring theme here ...

Well since we were a founding member of and signatory to Luango (which include some non-EU states) up until we left the EU and nothings substantively changed so why shouldn't we apply to rejoin after Brexit? Oh, I remember, the EU commission has got to use every bureaucratic leave available to it, to be a right pain in the ass.

Oh the humanity: McDonald's out of milkshakes across Great Britain

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Re: A number of sound decisions?

I suspect you are correct. I'm in the East Midlands and no sign of shortages.

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Re: A number of sound decisions?

Where is here in context?

Samsung testing memory with built-in processing for AI-centric servers

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Re: What

There is always a balance involving such things as size of cache, how many cache lines, cache coherency overhead, physical or virtual addressing, sharing caches, moving between caches, cache flush overhead, cost of cache miss etc. Bigger is not always better ;)