Re: Who is Steven Fry?
Didn't he play the brother of Sherlock Holmes opposite Robert Downey Jnr.?
Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon
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Did you know ... Stephen Fry has founded a tech startup?
Assange will 'accept arrest' on Friday if found guilty
Thursday 4th February 2016 12:52 GMT
Re: Maybe not Friday.
The one thing he is definitely guilty of is contempt of court by jumping bail.
That's a crime in this country, which is why he is marked for arrest. He is in self-imposed exile - the UK government didn't make him seek sanctuary in an embassy - they gave him full access to the judicial process.
When he didn't get the answer he wanted he ran for a rabbit hole and has been there ever since.
This finding by the UN panel is unfathomable.
It killed Safe Harbor. Will Europe's highest court now kill off hyperlinks?
BT blames 'faulty router' for mega outage. Did they try turning it off and on again?
Home Office lost its workers' completed security vetting forms
HSBC online banking outage: Moneymen are 'still under attack'
Monday 1st February 2016 11:06 GMT
Re: How can you defend against a DDOS ?
End users aren't really in a position to defend against a proper DDoS. That can only really be done at the ISP level and isn't particularly easy to do without drastic measures (like blocking all source addresses from outside the UK heading to the UK HSBC website for example).
UK taxpayers should foot £2bn or more to adopt Snoopers' Charter, says Inquiry
Monday 1st February 2016 10:44 GMT
What about an employee of the ISP who (whilst not revealing any details to the public) refuses to help El-Governmenti hack some poor buggers laptop?
Do they get sacked? Could they even claim unfair dismissal if they can't cite the reason without going to jail?
At what point do morals outweigh (bad) law?
At the risk of invoking Godwin, the Nazi's made it ok for their army to do lots of nasty things - many of the soldiers on the ground didn't want to do it, but they risked a bullet in the back of the head themselves if they didn't. However, this hasn't stopped a lot of people from being hounded to death by the international community.
Whilst obviously not in the same league, what if (in the future) these kinds of immoral laws are made illegal on an international scale - do the people who were made to implement them get prosecuted?
Seriously, we have a bunch of clueless twats (seemingly) in charge - they probably aren't even clever enough to realise they are being led around by the nose by the vested powers. It's shameful.
BOFH: In-depth IT training needs a single-malt distillery
Lenovo's file-sharing app uses hardwired password '12345678' ... or no password at all
Brit censors endure 10-hour Paint Drying movie epic
US rapper slams Earth is Round conspiracy in Twitter marathon
GCHQ spies quashed this phone encryption because it was too good against snoopers
BOFH: I want no memory of this pointless conversation. Alcohol please
How to help a user who can't find the Start button or the keyboard?
Why does herbal cough syrup work so well? It may be full of morphine
Bridgeworks reveals VMware-like tech for TCP/IP cable virty'ing
Thursday 21st January 2016 12:31 GMT
If all the file transfers across a noisy link were implemented with this technology, what are the projected bandwidth savings and would they reduce the overall packet loss on the network through reduction of re-transmission of large packets?
I can see some people getting the benefit of this technology without having to pay for it :)
It's 2016 and idiots still use '123456' as their password
DARPA commits to brain-computer interface development project
Forget infrasound, now it's ultrasound that's making you ill (allegedly)
IRS 'inadvertently' wiped hard drive Microsoft demanded in audit row
Thursday 21st January 2016 10:15 GMT
If you have an internal company document that states that standard policy is to wipe all data (or better yet, discard encryption keys) for data no longer required to do your daily business, then I don't see how this would be any different to what the IRS has done.
But then privilege is a very literal translation.
Bigger than Safe Harbor: Microsoft prez vows to take down US gov in data protection lawsuit
JetBlue blames Verizon after data center outage cripples flights
Friday 15th January 2016 14:45 GMT
DC disaster scenarios 101
"Taking out a well designed dc requires a fluff up of epic proportions."
I am aware of one particular 'DC outage' that involved a dump truck taking out the corner of the building. The subsequent daisy chain of events took the DC offline for days.
You see, as it collided with the building, it also took out some form of water main, which was now jetting up towards the underside of the truck (which is now forming an inclined plane pointing into the hole in the wall since the front of the truck was on top of the rubble.
All the water was basically hosed into the DC.
Try factoring that into a risk analysis report and see what the beancounters say :)
Boffins baffled by record-smashing supernova that shouldn't exist
Israeli security firms Check Point, CyberArk in talks – report
UK Home Sec stumbles while trying to justify blanket cyber-snooping
Thursday 14th January 2016 12:24 GMT
Re: Well she could but "We wants it because...
"Kind of like the list of sock puppets Home Secretaries who turn into instant fanbois for this once they enter office."
Odd that. It's almost like a big neon sign saying 'I've had my history investigated and they found stuff that would ruin my career'.
Future Snowden hunt starts with audit of NSA spooks' privileges
iOS 9 kludged our iPhones, now give us money, claims new lawsuit
Monday 4th January 2016 12:16 GMT
Re: It isn't just Apple
@Lakerjuck66
You obviously have a comprehension problem. I only stated that I cannot use my system using the device I bought to be dedicated to the purpose. Of course I have computers that I could use to set the system up again, but the point is that Sonos doesn't know that before removing all that functionality.
Just for a bit of background, I recently moved house and changed my network setup so my NAS is now on a different subnet. The app lost touch with it and even putting it back on the old subnet didn't work.
So, instead of calling me a liar or an idiot, perhaps you could address the actual point which was that Sonos have deliberately removed functionality from a set of devices they sold me that were working perfectly well. They gave me no choice in the matter and have not offered up any alternatives.
As for the poster saying I deserve everything I get for buying Sonos, there weren't that many options back in 2010 that I was aware of and it's worked pretty well over the years, so fuck you too.
Sunday 3rd January 2016 14:44 GMT
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wtf is an 'a-dot-plus-hole'?
If you want to call someone an arsehole (or even, heaven forbid, an asshole) then just fucking do it.
Don't complain that someone hasn't been polite, then because you felt insulted you felt justified in being impolite back to them - and then not doing it ffs!
-This has been a public grumpiness outburst from the post-holiday grumpy bastard.
Sunday 3rd January 2016 12:55 GMT
It isn't just Apple
I have an older gen iPod touch which I bought with my Sonos sound system a few years back. As it's old it can't upgrade beyond v6 of the ios, which is fine. I have had to live with more and more apps not being downloadable since they usually requite v7+. Not a problem as it's main purpose is to run the Sonos App - nothing more.
Usually a bit of old software the I'm running gets upgraded and the upgrade requires v7+, at which point the updates for that app are no longer downloaded or applied - it's stuck wherever it was in the dev cycle forever more - again not a problem.
However, now Sonos has upgraded their App and forced the update on users (otherwise the software won't run at all). The upgrade is still based on ios 6, so it installs.
Here's the problem - all the features have been removed if you are using ios6 !! I can no longer add new speakers to my system, I can no longer access my music store via NAS. The only thing I can still do is set alarms and access internet radio.
They forced the update on me, borked my setup and removed my ability to play my music with no option to downgrade the software.
I've emailed them - no response. I put 1 star ratings and descriptions of the problem in their reviews - no response. Although I did have some twat put something in their review about not upgrading if my device couldn't support it!! The world is going backwards in so many areas I am starting to wonder if I have gone insane (or was always like this I just never noticed before?).
Sonos - bastards.
Trustworthy x86 laptops? There is a way, says system-level security ace
Sunday 3rd January 2016 15:53 GMT
Re: Trusted storage
I wonder if anyone has ever run a comparative analysis of the network traffic as reported by something popular - like wireshark for example = against a traffic analyzer in the middle of the flow to see if there are any differences?
Mind you, the chipsets may be coded to hide anything to address 'X' - so the 'trusted' analyzer would obviously have to be based on a different chipset.
It would be really interesting to discover if there was anything picked up that wireshark didn't report.
NSA spying on US and Israeli politicians stirs Congress from Christmas slumbers
Forget anonymity, we can remember you wholesale with machine intel, hackers warned
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