Posts by Velv

Re: Some Dutch shops..

"The automated tills do this too, but you. have. to. feed. it. one. coin. at. the. time. which. is. so. slow."

Edinburgh Trams ticket machines are even worse. After the first coin goes in it blocks the slot until it's ready for the next coin. But you've already half inserted the next coin, which gets kicked out and falls to the ground, rolling down the nearby drain. Never mind. Only got to wait another 10 minutes for the next tram given you've spent so long trying to buy the ticket.

Re: The old way

The public want a one stop box that gets the home online. The last thing they want is to have to choose and buy ANOTHER box to make it work.

I'm not suggesting this is the right thing. My VirginMedia cable modem is in modem mode and I run my own router. But like most readers here I'm a geek and can figure out what's required. Non geeks don't care - just make it work.

Re: Don't treat users like children

Good security should NOT be as strong as the weakest link. Good security relies on multiple layers of protection so that if one layer fails there's backup layers that should prevent a major problem.

People fuck up. You may be trusted to handle the most sensitive data in the world, but there are numerous examples where someone has accidentally emailed daat to the wrong person, or any number of other leak vectors "put the wrong rule on the firewall, published to the public website instead of the internal website".

Then there's Snowdon. He was trusted having passed what is arguably the best security screening in the world (clearly it isn't). He got lots of data out.

So saying "I'm trusted so you don't need to do anything else" is clearly just stupid.

Re: Interesting Whichever Way the Verdict Goes

99.9%* of the linked content on TPB is copyright infringing.

<1%* of YouTube content is copyright infringing.

Quite easy to determine which is a legal service and which is flying very close to the wrong side of the law as it's currently written.

*86.8% of statistics are made up on the spot, but you get the idea.

"Ever been to Quebec? OMG."

Surely not OMG. OMD perhaps if it's Quebec

Re: It would actually explain the dragons

Unicorns once roamed the Glens of Scotland hence its the national animal.

They must have roamed the Glens, the proof is on the coat of arms, something that's been handed through the Scottish Royal line since the 12th century.

Re: Off topic: Need London again.

London? Didn't you see the Edinburgh Trams references?

Re: Amusingly...

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Amazingly how common so many businesses are open like this.

Lock it down and all the users do is complain how much it "stops them doing their job". Infection causes a service outage and all you hear from the users is how much it "stops them doing their job and why weren't we protected against this".

Re: My theory on supporters...

"In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king"

Much as I can understand your cynicism, it's much simpler. The elected representatives will have very limited time to conduct their own research across every topic under discussion, and contact with a limited set of "advisors" on each subject. It's very easy for those advisors to spin the agenda in their favour, increasing the perception of threats and hence the perceived need for surveillance.

It's a bit like religion. When people can't read they rely on the preacher to tell them what the book says. Once they can read, it's much easier to question the content and challenge the preachers interpretation. Power is everything, so keeping the proletariat uneducated is one way to retain power.

Missed the entire point of the article - it's more cost effective to replace than to try and secure

If you're not prepared to read an article properly don't embarrass yourself by posting stupid comments on it.

Re: Well, what a surprise!

This has been buried by ALL members of the previous parliament, so you can't blame any one party over another.

Re: What is lacking here are legal tests for what is meant by

What's even crazier is that there are existing laws which could be used to tackle these if the terms were defined more clearly (and if someone in the CPS/PF was brave enough to try a prosecution).

Re: The other way

Mythbusters proved this to be true (well, right turns, as it was San Francisco, and it was Kari et al, not Adam and Jamie). Mmmmmmmm, Kari

Re: there is no means-tested element whatsoever

Is that like the anti-austerity protesters who can't can't afford food but can afford to film the protest at Downing Street on their iPhone6?

Re: How things have moved on

Joking aside, things have moved on and it's not just about perversions, but pure and simple self preservation.

You've got to assume all but the smallest companies are logging all traffic, and that everything you do is tracked. So over the course of the day that hour you spend reading the BBC, The Register, etc is now available to your bosses in second by second detail (I employed Lakeside SysTrack as part of an XP replacement programme - what an eye opener!)

So I don't use any company resources for anything personal these days. I still read the websites during the day, but it's on my own tablet. And given the ancient browsers, lockdowns and slow connections on most company setups, it's more efficient for a lot of my Internet based work research as well.

Re: I like Costa

Like you, I don't get this "contact us by social media".

If I had a company serving the public, would I really want my dirty laundry aired in the full view of social media?

Re: Tech or transport co... what's there to decide?

Totally disagree, and you've made the arguements in your own words:

"connecting passengers to drivers"

Technology is only a means to an end. Uber does this as a software platform. It could equally be provided by placing a staff member on every street corner with semaphore flags to coordinate across a city for the engagement between passenger and driver. Clearly this isn't practical, but it could deliver the same service. And it is this service that Uber provides, a transport service, not a technology service. It just leverages technology to deliver the service. Uber takes a cut from the journey, not from licensing or selling the technology.

Uber is a transport company.