Posts by Roland6

>After a year or so tinkering it works really well - I open a drawer in the hall, the light above it goes on so I can see.

Haha ! In my house that table (along with other furniture) will have been moved several times over that "year or so".

>> Endpoint protection managed in the cloud...

Which basically says that consumer AV won't RIP it will simply evolve.

The only question is whether the free embedded versions will be sufficient or whether third-party productions will still be required.

>You would have a sensor for it because whilst it may not be relevant at this time and in this scenario

For some reason the ozone sensor on a NASA earth watch satellite comes to mind; never used until someone actually took the time to look at the data and understood the phenomenon it was recording...

Re: FT article

>Deport him!

His own government set the precedence - Shamima Begum...

Re: Trust

>For a while I got spam from addresses given to (later) compromised websites claiming my computer had been hacked and here's your password to prove it and they needed me to pay them money...

Had one of these a few years back.

Was able to pinpoint it to an instance of Chrome on a specific Windows PC.

Basically, it looked like the browser-based password store had been read. Not sure when, as I had changed the password some years previously, but not updated the Chrome password store.

Obviously, the security of browser-based password stores has improved over the years, so suspect they aren't so easy to exploit. However, I generally try and populate the browser store with a few obvious( to me) duff credentials, so I can monitor such emails.

Re: The motorist, cash cow extraordinary

>We pay enormous charges for....

However, it would seem the cost of environmental pollution, climate change etc. caused by the burning of fossil fuels was not included...

Re: Imperial War Museum at Duxford which many of us will have been to if living in the UK

>Ah, then that's near impossible to get to for anyone living in the north of the UK. You have two choices:

Not been south of Birmingham, Nottingham, Peterborough for a few decades? It's been possible to drive down the A1 to Huntingdon turn on to the A14/M11 since circa 1990, a few years later the connection with the M1 & M6 was completed.

About the only real problem with Duxford (and many other places) is that it is difficult to get to without a car...

Re: Incredible

line printer?

I would have thought plotter more appropriate - in landscape mode that's potentially 50 metres of whatever sized font you wish to use.

Re: Ah, so this is the replacement of the infamous motherboard chip

The issue isn't the 'intercept' per se, but the "record all the communications" and then after some unspecified length of time (recording), "sending the data to China".

Reading between the lines, it is quite plausible for the Oz spooks to have received an "anonymous" tip-off that caused them to look at Optus in some specific way, at just the right time to catch the 'malware' in the act and start hares running before it 'cleverly' deleted itself leaving no trace.

Given Stuxnet, Kaspersky et al. and what we know from Snowden, namely, the NSA had penetrated Huawei's (China-based) network; it would be potentially possible for it to have some 'control' over an 'official' update and China located end-point for some malware to send traffic to and for that traffic not to cause delivery failure messages.

Yes, this is conspiracy theory territory, but given what we know there is nothing that discounts this reading as the wild imagining of a nutter...

>China is the last country on earth one should be concerned about

No!

Remember Chinna plays the long game, something our leaders are incapable of. Given the way china invests in other nations, albeit in ways similar to the US, and its non-recognition of post-WWII national boundaries, I suspect in the long-term we (including the USA) will probably be reporting to Bejing...

Re: Not just that

>You can get a coffee made, then go to the machine, get the cup and load the next pod.

Alternatively, you could move the coffee machine so that it is within your reach when at your desk...

Re: Copper

Yes the reports from the UK regions affected by storm Arwen about the availability of phone communications is quite interesting. Probably worth having a satellite phone that can be recharged via a bicycle or similar.

Re: It's only submitted code

>If the Linux kernel managers don't like it, they can refuse to incorporate it.

Which, apparently, they should.

It should be rejected with extreme prejudice, until such time as Intel puts the full API and 'MIB'(*) for the Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) into the public domain and thus usable under the same licence as Linux, enabling ALL CPU chip manufacturers to build chips using this interface without payment of any royalties to Intel.

Linux is Open Source, the core distribution doesn't need extensions for proprietary features embedded in it.

(*) I use the term MIB to mean the data strings, currently Intel proprietary, that will turn on/off chip features. Yes I know the features contributed are just data string transfer agents, but might as well start with a fully open specification and feature set.

Expect the insurance companies to define commute to be travel/journey in public space ie. you need to at least step outside of your front gate on to the public pavement. Plus add clauses so that you can't claim for falls on your ice-covered path on route to your garage with the intent of getting into your vehicle to go to work.

Re: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer's industrial tribunal

I assume for the same reasons he is also rated for night flying, provided he has an annual renewal flight...

Re: 4G, 5G I'll take fibre

Suggest you suggest to the next OpenReach engineer, your installation would be a good trial for their new cabling moles...

Re: Hardware as a service

>Your computer is now emulating a BBC Micro until you pay up, scum.

That is going to be interesting, what with online payments and exchange of certificates etc, I suspect that (paying up) is going to take a few days and that's if the web page and payments processing work in BBC Micro mode (complete with dial-up Internet?)...

I'm glad you added your last paragraph, without it I would have down voted.

Re: Remember Win95?

Win3 was even better, you could - via a third-party utility rearrange all those items of windows furniture.

Being left-handed my preference was to put the traditional top right buttons on the top left and likewise move the vertical scroll bar from the right to the left, additionally, you could change the window furniture from MS to MOTIF, SunView, MacOS etc.

Re: If you want stagnation and deflation

>Unified standards do not deliver progress

Agreed, however, they enable progress particularly in the usage of stuff-based on those standards.

Examples include: MSDOS, Windows, the TCP/IP protocol suite, GSM, 3GPP, ...

All of these created markets for products built for or on these platforms.

>Update: PC Mag says it's probably based in Russia.

Which from the evidence of the various Climate hacks in 2009 and the Stuxnet trail, is just a cover address for some operation based in the US...

Which given the seeming maturity etc of the ransomware infrastructure, does suggest it might share a parentage with Stuxnet...

Re: Level playing field

I think you are confusing the app with the ride operator.

Re: XMPP?

The trouble is "built around XMPP" is not good enough for interop.

This was a lesson the TCP/IP community learnt in the 1980's; probably aided by looking over the fence at what the OSI community were getting up to :)

Re: "open source communities with international influence."

>Now they want to push back the other way, but what's in it for them?

Putting the tech leadership boot on the other foot...

China has the ability to become the leading contributor to open source and thus takeover open source projects. The west will, in its usual way, simply grab 'free' open source because its cheaper than build-it-yourself, failing to see that in so doing they are killing the capacity in the west to meaningfully contribute to the either the progression or maintenance of open source...

Those kernel modes you need to support Intel's CPU clusters might get sidelined in favour of Huawei's...

>Be interesting to see if the CMA has teeth here

I suspect much will depend on what their European counterpart says - then the ankle nipper can declare success whilst ignoring the Doberman...

Re: Build quality getting worse feels normal

>Our smaller HP fleet seems rock solid in comparison, bar a small handful of power supply failures.

Perhaps HP, Dell et al need to start naming the manufacturer behind each model in their ranges, then customers could simply select models from manufacturers with proven track records...

Re: Internet dependency

They had backup, just not in their pocket/bag. The issue is real-time (same place - same time) recovery to failure.

Interestingly, I don't know anyone who normally takes two cars just in case one fails. Clearly, it does look like the backup to a Tesla/electric car is an ICE vehicle without all the fancy electroonics...

Re: Offensive Researchers

>No, it couldn't, because you already have all the legal rights you need to sue the U.S. over Stuxnet.

Expect once Apple has finished with NSO, there will be a costly set judgement and precedent set...

>The problem is that they will deny that they did it, and it's hard to provide sufficient proof otherwise.

It is going to be interesting to see how Apple provides sufficient proof of NSO's claimed misdemeanours...