Posts by phuzz

Re: And it all goes to show...

"sites should be allowed to protect themselves with any cert, even a self signed one"

Websites are allowed to use whatever cert they like (or none at all).

Equally though, users are also allowed to look at a site with a self signed cert and say "that looks fucking dodgy".

And a self signed cert doesn't stop MitM snooping, because there's no way for the end user to know that the cert was signed by the site itself, or by some bit of pass-through spying equipment in between.

Re: Copyright trolls....

Hey now, where else are we supposed to get our drugs from?

On a slightly more serious tack, what's the difference between a drug dealer and a bartender, besides the legality?

Re: misogynistic monstrosity

You know what they say about men with big feet.

It's expensive to get shoes, of course.

Re: Arbitration clauses should be illegal

Under UK law, generally arbitration clauses are secondary to existing law. So in this case Tmob could insist on their own arbitration, but that wouldn't stop someone from taking them to court for the exact same issues (in this particular case I assume it would be covered under the GDPR).

Even in situations where the person leaving has been as helpful as possible, there's still always an old system that everyone has forgotten about...until it fall over.

Then you're left going through all the old passwords you can remember, and frantically searching for your predecessor's contact details.

The BBC tried it with 50 cats in a village (link), and they found that it varied. Some cats barely leave their own garden, others roam for miles.

Of course, you might find that your cat is sneaking off to someone else's house for a second dinner, greedy sod.

Re: Intel spokesperson quote

"it's a reminder that AMD has been trying to beat Intel for nearly 40 years."

Around 2004 they were beating Intel. AMD had just released the Athlon64, which not only was the first mainstream* CPU that used a 64 bit architecture (whilst being full backwards compatible with existing 32 bit stuff), but it was also much quicker than Intel's CPUs at the time, and the price was right too.

Of course that inspired Intel to ditch Netburst and come back with their 'Core' architecture, which were a bloody good series of chips themselves, so at least the competition worked in the customer's favour again.

* No of course Itanium doesn't count, it was server only, and only high end servers at that. Also it was rubbish and not backwards compatible.

Re: RASMAN ? fuggedabowtit, use OVPN/Passepartoute and PiVPN

At my last job we used Windows based VPNs, mainly so that the users would only have one username/password combination to forget.

Unsurprisingly they still forgot them anyway (although it's funny how often certain people's passwords would mysteriously 'change', but they hadn't forgotten them, oh no, of course not).

Re: Testing testing testing

The faulty PSU reported as good in every possible way, even after it had failed. I think it was capable of producing a small amount of power (1-200W), but as soon as it had any big load it just died, in such a way as to kill the whole enclosure.

I tried it in another enclosure afterwards and it still showed as good, and working. IIRC we did get a free replacement from HP though.

Re: Is that a serious offence

"where a citizen drops a cop"

Aren't cops citizens too?

Re: Now is perhaps the time

There is of course the downside that you'll end up getting picked up for all sorts of 'crimes', until the police realise that your name comes back almost every time they try and check an ID.

Re: NIMBY

"They could block trafic from Britain to any foreign subnet known to host "illegal" DoH servers."

....for about thirty seconds until they realise they've just blocked all of AWS.

Region based blocking isn't very useful these days because so much valid traffic comes from places that can also host the 'baddies' servers.

Re: Under a cloud

"I have always suspected google has no viable backup and recovery process"

The surprising thing is that they don't have one and charge extra for it. You'd have thought they'd have had loads of business for a built-in backup system. (Amazon are quite happy to sell their customers a backup service.)

No, the real fuckup here is assuming your data is being backed up, without actually checking the contract.

Re: Why are they all Misters

I heard in Leeds that they'd play one tune when they were selling ice cream, and a different one when they were selling drugs.

Re: Intersectional Feminists

If you eat all the Jaffa cakes and don't leave any for anyone else, you deserve to be oppressed as far as I'm concerned. And feminists are lovely people as long as you're not an arsehole.

Re: Help with "Innovative Solutions"

Assuming you count all the corner shops with a twenty year old, black and white, camera tucked away behind the crisps, recording onto a 30min VHS tape that snapped two years ago but no-one has noticed yet.

The UK government wishes they had as many working, networked, CCTV cameras as they said they did.

Re: Amazing...

"For a lie to become the truth, you have to keep repeating it over and over"

You're certainly giving it a go aren't you mate?

Re: Just what I don't want

I'm probably not on the ASD, I'm just a grumpy bastard, but I do my best to avoid video chats. Mind you, voice is almost as bad, what's wrong with good old fashioned email eh?

Re: Cui bono @Chris

I've asked this before, and apparently some people don't use an ad blocker when browsing Youtube. Weirdos.

I can only assume that there's people at Youtube who are ok with ad blockers, because I'm sure it can't be that hard for Youtube to bypass the ad blocking (eg, make the advert part of the same video stream as the content, or simply refuse to stream the content until X seconds have passed, so you can either watch X seconds of advert, or a blank screen).

Re: Overlaps

We definitely had 286's at school which only had a floppy drive.

They were practically useless of course.

Re: A new OS from Google

"most of you are united in smart phone ownership"

You must have missed the hordes of self-righteous arseholes who loudly proclaim how they are far too clever to fall for buying a smartphone, pretty much any time there's an article about it.

My favourite from the other day was someone saying that they insist that everyone should contact them through their homebuilt mumble server.

Re: I would object to any mail service that messes with my message contents without my consent.

Presumably when you fork over the $30/mo you also have to click through a 'customer agreement' that allows them to do this, as well as giving them dibs on your first-born etc.

Re: Out of interest...

In the 1970's they used divers to install a tap, but who knows how it's done these days. Check out 'Operation Ivy Bells' for more information about how it used to be done in the cold war.

Re: But like the movie bad guy, SQL 2008 isn’t quite dead yet...

Apart from the obvious money related reasons, I can sort of see the logic behind this. It's a lot easier to support it if it's running on Microsoft's own hardware, on an OS they control and administer. They basically only have to fix problems for one architecture, and don't have to test every possible combination of hardware and software that a customer might be using.

Re: Sad state of affairs

You remind me of a story from a friend of my brother's who'd been learning demolitions techniques at Camborn School of Mines. He was heading back home to Northern Ireland straight after, and only on the way did he realise that he was (figuratively) covered in semtex residue.

It turns out, as long as you ring them up ahead of time, and don't have any actual plastic explosives on you, then security will let you through.

Re: There should be a law against.....

"There should be a law against [...] using trade restrictions to further political aims."

What other possible aim is there for a trade restriction? Any modifiers to trade (either restrictions or inducements) are inherently political by their very nature.

(And if you're about to say "well then, there should be no restrictions to trade", that's very much a political position.)

Re: #SocialMediaStrike=Fail

"without all the sturm, drang, and Drama Queenery that represents all to much of S.M."

And yet you still post here?

I went to one a few years ago, and I seem to remember it ending about 9-10pm. Due to the available alcohol, a few people were getting a little rowdy, but I figured at worst they'd auto-darwinate by trying to climb into the lion enclosure.