Posts by JimmyPage

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 ?

*A* microprocessor ????

Surely there are 3 - all made by different manufacturers and all running different code with a vote as to what to do so as to eliminate any single faults.

Or was that too costly ?

Fuck knows what this means for self driving cars .....

Fifth Amendment ? Seriously ?

Doesn't the Constitution apply to citizens, not companies ?

JUST SELL THE FUCKING SCREEN !!!!!

I hope there are big bucks waiting for the fist manufacturer to twig that a lot of people are happy to buy a dumb screen and plug their smartness into it. Making the smartness independently upgradable from the display.

Funny, but "Smart monitors" never caught on.

My 5 year old LGs "smart" features are never used now. Chromecast does me fine.

For posterity ...

"The commercial market will experience considerable growth through 2019 as the upcoming end of Windows 7 support will spur major renewal cycles across both public and private sectors," said IDC.

No it won't, says Register commentard JimmyPage.

"steer themselves away"

How ?

Just change the filenames ?

Also, who the hell is sending unencrypted data to the cloud. Backup or not.

Remind me to swerve any business using "crashplan" ...

Isn't this "news" really an advert for the "security researcher" ?

Sorry, but my BS detector hasn't stopped jumping at the amazing coincidence that a top-level perv just happened to let to a top level security expert ...

All of which said, it's a good story to remind all folk to TAKE CARE OUT THERE.

Slightly OT, but inspired by some stories here ...

How many people have learned to make minor tweaks to ****ing expensive equipment and reaped the benefit of years of service ?

My favourite "fix" is to immediately use a USB hub on all USB-ported equipment ... saving hundreds if not thousands of insert/eject cycles on the one soldered to the board.

Sigh. Rinse and repeat.

Before fripperies like this, manufacturers really need to nail:

1) accessibility and useabilty issues, as their core demographic get older, slower, with poorer eyesight

and

2) battery life, since smartphones are so ingrained in modern life.

all else can wait.

Now, where's my consultancy for telling manufacturers the real deal, not what they want to hear.

Shame they didnt' put so much effort into writing decent software ...

Seems to be the SOP for the 2000s - it's always someone elses fault, they're all out to get you, and £100,000 is much better spent on marketing and aggressive contracts than paying for competent staff and a decent product.

"Spazzed" ?

Sorry, is this 1979 or 2019 ?

Thank goodness we're seeing proprietary innovation.

All that "standards" nonsense was harming our profits.

Again, no compensation for victims ?

Then what's the point of the system. Apart from reinforcing the message that the public really, really, really don't count for anything ?

Real life aping fiction ...

If the plot of American Gods (2) is to be followed ...

Don't panic yet, more clarification needed ...

Maybe I'm an oddball here, but I don't believe a word in adverts or marketing. They can call their service Gerald for all I care.

What I do care about, is a requirement to be honest when answering a direct question upon which I will base my decision to buy (or not).

So the important question for me, is should I ask an ISP if their service is exclusively fibre from my house to the cabinet, and they reply "yes" and I then discover it isn't, that I have grounds to either sue. or leave the contract without penalty.

All else is frippery.

How fucking big of them ?

Wow, how gracious of them to pay out of their own pocket (we all know it's the shareholders really) to correct their fuck up.

Is this a new thing now ? Company fucks up - costs customers serious money, but gets to walk away saying "oh well, you win some, you lose some" ???????

How are the big media players not all over this like a rash ?

Ah, yes, They'll fuck up too one day.

Be curious to know what the biggest individual loss due to their fuck up ? At a guess a house sale falling through with a chain ?

And the compensation for victims ?

... so not that serious then.

The Greatful Dead

used to set aside special areas at concerts to specifically allow people to tape the show.

RIP Jerry ...

Linux ???

Did I miss any mention of it working on a Linux machine ?

Interesting timing ....

A few weeks ago the Attorney Generals plane spent a few days at Luton ... just before the Mueller report.

Given Assange has been linked to Trumps Russia connections and Farage in the UK, he might have a very interesting tale to tell while he's a guest.

Patients compensation ?

For all the fines dished out, it's hard to avoid the impression that the reality it no one gives a shit about the victims here. Or indeed any data breach.

I look forward to a slew of stories proving me wrong.

Why, it's *almost* ...

as if they don't take it seriously.

Er, "prior art" goes waaaaaaaaaaaay back ...

In 1979s "The Mighty Micro" (a book I would still recommend to anyone for a single-book overview of computing and society) the much missed Dr. Christopher Evans (died far too young) not only mentions "interactive" textbooks from the 60s where you chose a page depending on your answer, but also predicts that computing developments would make future media truly interactive.

If Netflix Lawyers want to pay my mortgage, then I'm giving El Reg permission to forward my details :)

Sigh, once again (it's about weekly) I ask ...

Why are there no RFCs or IETF specifications for password handling. Starting with they are never stored in plaintext because they're only ever hashed ????

Plus a defined secure recovery process.

Why does every single website feel the need to reinvent the relatively simple job of user authentication ??????

Meanwhile ...

"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant..." -John Stuart Mill

Preventing you from having access to <whatever> to protect <other> is how governments keep you in your place.