Posts by JimmyPage

"digital-by-default"

Good luck with that. I've had to use the phone more in the past 3 years than then preceding 7. We are going backwards.

And that's before you add in the governments desire to keep some aspects deliberately offline (you can't electronically apply for PIP, for example. Nor contact the DWP via email).

And as for the outfits that allow employees to tell me they "lost" my email ....

First problem, right here ...

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office believes that British citizens will continue to be able to visit EU countries without a visa for stays of up to 90 days.

"Believes" ? I'd much rather they fucking knew

Belief is for Father Christmas. Knowledge is what you need when you're across from a person with a machine gun.

Oh, of course they can't know - because nobody else knows either (looks at calendar).

But at last generations of schoolkids

got the headline: "TOILET STOLEN, POLICE HAVE NOTHING TO GO ON"

The more I think about this, the more it's broken

as with a lot of commentards above me, this is messing up the distinction between application and OS. OK, so now a browser is using DoH. But howabout my email client ? My Usenet client ? Or any other applications I have which need to access the internet ?

Much prefer my current setup, where a piHole is looking after my DNS (using DoH) and all my devices, clients and apps go through that which I control.

In 2019, the idea of things being hardbaked into applications should be history. Instead, because applications can update in real time, it seems to be the default.

Which predictable results.

Does anyone believe this shite ?

It sounds like exactly the sort of thing an El Regger would say to their boss who they knew was completely "whatevers" to technical details.

(whispers) perhaps it doesn't have a fixed size ?

Who knows, it's only a cloud of energy at the end of the day. Who's to say it doesn't vary with respect to another cloud of energy. Or indeed time itself ?

And just to muddy the waters further, are we sure all protons are the same ? I appreciate there's no reason to think otherwise, but are we assuming or is there some sort of proof in the equations of the boffins or has someone actually tried to experimentally demonstrate it.

The great thing about science, is that for every question you can think of to try and answer, there's 10 more waiting to be asked.

Where in "keep and bear arms" does it say anything about them not being attached to an aircraft?

The word "bear". The moment you're not touching the arm, you are not bearing it.

(It might take a little bit of further thinking to see why that has to be be case. Start by imagining it wasn't, and work backwards)

Surely El Reg (or it's readers) could back this further ?

How about a pi-in-a-can minisat ?

The biggest weakness in the whole TLS arena

Is the chain of trust required to support it.

We are all forced to use HTTPS etc. But I have to say my trust in it is pretty low.

So this is the future - not wages, but "prizes" ?

Have YouGov taken over Microsoft ?

Am I alone in finding the "bug bounty" culture that appears to have developed a tad ... problematic ? How long before we see it applied to our own jobs ? And then in the wider world. Imagine if Sainsburys were able to avoid paying wages, but offer a "bounty" to the first person to get a shelf stacked ? Meaning (here's the genius bit) they actually get all shelves stacked (or 99% stacked) but only have to pay for one person.

Is this the same Play Store

that quite happily flung "apps" that were just links to webpages ?

Or a different one ?

A casual observer ...

might think that judging by results, Trump was batting for China, not America .....

You could even end up on a Child Pron site totally by accident

Sorry, I call bollocks.

And bollocks again.

Like a paedo in every bush (which does sound like a depraved election promise, I grant you) this fairy tale notion that the web is awash with child porn that anyone might stumble on is one of those tropes shit newspapers rely on to whip the masses into more and more privacy busting laws.

Also, any investigation into a person suspected of viewing any form of illegal pornography starts with rebutting any danger the suspect can say "I accidentally clicked on a link". A successful prosecution needs to show the defendant knowingly and deliberately sought out the offending material.

TL;DR but this seems a variant of message loop hacking ?

Us greybeards know how multitasking OSes actually work - by cycling through a message loop deep, deep, deep inside the actual silicon. At that level, the OS trusts - *has* to trust - that the queue of commands has been legitimately created.

It is possible to secure a message loop against hacking - by signing every message with the key of the process that inserted it. But we prefer performance to security.

Based on my (Citroen) in car touch screen

They are all SHIT.

A little trick mine plays (for example when selecting a preset speed for the limiter) is to "blip" to show it's registered your touch, and then do fuck all - the wife has actually filmed this happening.

The result is you either end up speeding, or looking for longer than is safe at this utterly shit piece of kit that you have to somehow tell yourself made it through the most exacting of tests to be allowed out in the wild.

I know it's a car, not a 737Max, but the former explains the latter.

Do me a fucking favour ...

Sorry, but speaking two languages (as I do) there is no way of "listening in" to "correct a few word". Language doesn't work like that - there are nuances, subtleties and a vast layer of uninflected meaning in spoken communication.

The real headline here (apart from how easy it is for the tech giants to snoop despite promising not to) is how pisspoor "AI" must be if it needs an army of humans to actually provide it.

Not really very "A" is it ?

A much better solution would be to promote learning a second language - *any* second language - in schools.

Yeah, yeah, yeah ... and ????

To be honest, unless there is a mighty action at the end of all this - either seeing some FB execs behind bars, or the UK moving to ban FB in the UK, all of this is really just for the popcorn sales.

Something feeding the current state of politics is the observation that no matter how big the wrong, no matter how many people are affected, fuck all happens.

Data breach, you say ? MILLIONS of peoples details spaffed ? Too bad really. A slap here, a tickle there, and the plebs will suck it up.

Rinse and repeat for every singly egregious act anywhere in the establishment until you get to the Priti Patels and Boris Johnsons of the world and realise they are now in charge.

Is it any wonder more and more people aren't respecting the law ? It clearly is for mugs only.

Just flying a kite here

I'll start by disclaiming any expertise in anything, so this is a blue-sky (literally) idea.

Surely a powerful enough laser could heat a satellite in orbit enough to shift it out of position ? Not sure how robust these things are, but it's a damn sight cheaper to throw photons at something than real mass ?

Er, what do I do with my old 78s ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSINO6MKtco

Is it just me, or does that video clip

manage to convey nothing that seemed out of the ordinary ?

If they wanted to impress me, then seeing it without the special effects - maybe in a lab - would have been a million times better.

It's not illegal when the government does it.

Who else is waiting to hear that gem ?

Whatever happened to reverse CAPTCHAs ?

Where only bots could solve them ...

I guess a lot of regulars are on holiday ?

This far in, and no one thought of "hairline crack" ?

Interesting legally, rather than technically ...

I wonder how many MegaCorps have bought kit and had a T&C somewhere in the deal that required a declaration by the supplier/manufacturer that the kit was secure from such bright ideas as BMC ?

Or, more to the point, I wonder how many will from this point on ?

Now that's a popcorn-fest waiting to happen ....

But the judges were right ?

When was the last time anyone actually got any money as a result of a data protection breach ?

Loads of fines, yes. But not a penny to a victim.

Apologies are easy ...

Call me cynical, but given there's fuck all redress for a data protection breach, ever, I reckon the whole thing was premeditated and losing the subsequent court case factored in as an offset to the aim of keeping the great unwashed away from her madge.

It's like when police "accidentally" kettle protestors, and are slapped on the wrist after the event.

Is this related to the HP that bought Autonomy ?

If so, I'd look outside if they said it was raining ....

damage could be done to public trust in policing ...

What, the Guildford 4, Birmingham 6, Jean Charles de Menezes, Barry George, Colin Stagg, Harry Stanley cases didn't quite do the job ?