Posts by Richard 26

Re: Not quite

Bits in the page table entries, mostly. Whilst x64 has enough modes, you can't have all the traditional VMS memory protection masks like Kernel-Write, Exec-Read. It's not a deal breaker but it needs some work.

Re: £100 a week for a year with Tesco's delivery service comes in at about £26,000 cheaper

Tesco and Unilever are big enough to look after themselves, and I'm sure they will find some settlement that leaves a reasonable margin for both parties. It's the small suppliers that are going to feel the squeeze.

"Why wait for disappointment"

It's the Way of Zen.

Re: Something seems odd about this as a security hole.

@Rob Moir - It doesn't need to be on your domain though; you can just AddComputer <evildomain>

Re: How?

"The USA doesn't have to show any solid evidence for wanting an extradition - whereas the UK has to quote chapter and verse (and the US generally refuses to extradite one of their citizens to the UK anyway)."

The first part is debatable: some people believe the treaty is lopsided but an official review said otherwise. The second part is complete nonsense: the US has never refused an extradition to the UK under the Act.

Re: Since when has it been illegal to use private browsing in the UK?

Sigh, it's all there in the article with links and everything; he had the restrictions imposed after an earlier conviction. SOPOs can be a bit heavy handed at times - it's hard to say in this case without knowing the unpleasant details of the original offence. Some restrictions on your liberty as a convicted sex offender aren't unreasonable in general though.

Optional

That's ISIS/ISIL/Daesh. SEA is pro-Assad who is just a regular evil bastard.

Re: One born every minute?

Indeed, people that sell overpriced tat to those with more money than sense rates fairly low on my personal asshole scale. It's those that take economic advantage of the poor that are the real assholes IMHO.

Re: Keeping Schtum is a Hot Potato No No ..... I'll Say No More, Squire.

It's a typical Russian snow job. See look, other people are bending the rules a bit. If we engage in wholesale doping and cheating we're no different to anyone else. No. Really, no.

Re: Proportionality

"It's only ten years."

10 years per count, 4 counts - in the unlikely event that he was convicted and got the maximum for all 4 counts to be served consecutively.

Re: SNAFU, Big Pharma

The Paralympics don't count as part of the Olmpics, no, because they aren't.

Optional

Could someone explain what 220.1 requests is supposed to be ?

2 ^ 20.1

Re: Thank you Mr.Farage

"As Moedas said: "As long as the UK is a member of the European Union, EU law continues to apply and the UK retains all rights and obligations of a member state." My guess would be that Moedas regards funding as a privilege and not a right."

That is somewhat unfair, I think. Institutions deciding they don't want to make a joint application with a British partner is not something you can legislate for. You can only treat the bids you receive equally.

Re: How fast can you rewrite?

Some people seem to have no sense of proportion; any large codebase that 's been around for a while will have bugs that are a) minor and b) disproportionately hard to fix. And some of the ciomments are classic (paraphrasing slightly).

"What if the user doesn't want people messing with the UI".

"We are web designers, we don't care what the user wants."

When the revolution comes, these people will be first against the wall. Shooting them would be too good - I'll just paint it lime green with purple spots.

Re: Isn't, like everything on Earth, including Earth..

I guess you've never been to Greggs.

Re: Huh?

Not as absurd the idea that nobody working in a large organization ever stored a file locally on a laptop's hard drive. It happens all the time.

It goes without saying that there shouldn't be anything that needs long term storage solely on a hard drive. However, there might be some interesting bits of work-in-progress stored locally, that might be of use to a lawyer fishing for something.

Re: Corbyn's broader and more useful aims?

'I strongly suspect that the "grossly expensive" applied to land with planning permission is a function of the CIL element, which is little more than a mandatory bribe to the local authority.'

1. It's only been around since 2008, and land prices haven't changed much since then. It's not a huge amount compared to the value of the land.

2. In any case, it would be a cost the prospective developers have to pay, so it would tend to reduce the land value.

And indeed an AA spokesman said: "We are checking our internal procedures, everything that led up to the departure. We are going to figure out what we can do better. We have gone back and made some changes to software systems."

Re: "his intention all along was to go to prison?"

He held a knife to someone's neck, but he may as well have left it hidden in his pocket for all the difference it made to the sentence - "two attempted robberies and possession of a blade".

This appears to be an something of an exaggerration. His lawyer said: “Tellers are behind reinforced bullet-proof glass. Unless they take leave of their senses in offering the money, it is not going to work." Similar remarks at the Kent police site: http://www.kent.police.uk/news/latest_news/150909_neaverson_sen.html

Re: Interesting last paragraph

"I am surprised that the judge allowed that level of jury-rigging"

<Shrug>

I always take things that one of the parties or their lawyer's claims with a healthy dose of skepticism, particularly when they are on the losing side. It's rather like listening to a post match interview without having seen the game.

Re: Laggards

"I disabled RC4 in our shipping product two months ago (along with export ciphers and SSL2/3 and the original TLS 1.0). 2016 is still way too slow"

So it took you around two years after people first proposed dropping support for RC4 to disable it yourself but another few months is way too slow?

Re: Poor choice of words?

“We can no longer pretend it is not a real psychiatric condition.”

My French is pretty rusty but I'm with Google translate which gives: " We can no longer say that it is a psychiatric illness." for "On ne pourra plus dire que c'est une maladie psychiatrique"

Re: Tell all book incoming

He's already done that but had a falling out with his publishers, so is almost unique in having an unauthorized autobiography.

Re: 2.5/5 Gb ethernet?

It runs over cat 5, so gives you a little more bandwith for something like an 802.11ac AP, without redoing your flood wiring. All pre-standard at this time though.

Re: No jail?

I guess the CPS looked at it, and found that there wasn't enough evidence to prosecute. As Tony Hancock said: ""Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain? "

Re: Don't the British government have a spare range?

I'm not sure it is 'spare', as such. More likely, they have designed their network around having a /8. I guess they could renumber everything to a private range and sell it off. However, I don't see many of the firms that have /8s jumping to cash in, so it's probably not as easy or as profitable as it might first appear.

Knowing DWP, they'll probably make less on the sale as they spend on consultants.

https://governmenttechnology.blog.gov.uk/2015/02/19/freeing-up-unused-ip-addresses/

Re: Why did the FTC spend your money on this?

It seems to me that it's their job to protect consumers against scam artists. Value for money is rarely a major consideration in law enforcement; it's more about deterrence.

"The other question is - how much of their other gear has similar or the same vulnerabilities?"

...and how hardened are the fish in this other barrel?

Re: ... Sadly twinned with both Reading and Basildon

They are just medium size towns of no particular distinction - imagine 'The Office' being set there and you'll get the general idea. Probably quite similar to the French town in the story (which is why they are twinned) but the grass is always greener, no?

Re: Paul 87

@DavCrav Regretting that he's going to be spending the next 20 years or more in prison isn't the same thing as remorse. Even in his plea bargain letter he is trying to argue that he was just providing a market, and it wasn't really his fault how people chose to use it. So, lack of responsibility and remorse. Whether true or not, *really* not the right thing to say.

Having said that, I'm not convinced that life without the possibility of parole is an appropriate sentence in any case, certainly not ths one. However, the US has a harsh criminal justice system, and his sentence isn't out of line with it.

@Indolent Wretch - Your argument is mainly just wishful thinking. You don't want APIs to be copyrightable, on which point most people would agree. That doesn't necessarily make it so, though.

I don't find the idea that API design isn't a creative process entirely convincing. I don't know about you but I reckon I can tell a badly designed API from a good one.

Re: Terrible disclosure practice

"they just published with no forewarning to affected vendors There's still no CVE."

Say what? There is a disclosure section in the paper and Microsoft already has an initial patch out: MS15-055 for which the CVE number is CVE-2015-1716.

Re: Android app--how ironic

Do they sneak out at night an whack them over the head?

No, the bees spend all day checking out BuzzFeed instead of gathering nectar.

50% * 71.1% turnout ~= 35%, although arguing from abstentions is somewhat dubious.

"Wonder how long was left on his sentence and why he turned himself in?"

He hasn't been sentenced yet, he was awaiting trial. They've posted the story now, because he's just now been convicted (he pleaded guilty) and there is no possibility of prejudicing a trial. That is the conventional time to do a full press report in the UK.

And it was the 10th March 2014 that he originally escaped.

Re: Still fair compared to other countries...

"And where exactly does a 17 year old find £40,000 to pay the fine?"

He wasn't fined; the city is asking for damages. That's not the same thing at all. And asking isn't the same thing as getting.

The tender is linked in the earler Reg article. £700M is the traditional journalese maximum number, the tender is for 50-700M. And presumably the bid is specified in £/GB etc, and how much it's actually going to cost depends on the takeup. Since we have no idea what the figures in the bid are, there isn't really any basis to make a comparison.

Re: Banbury has rolled out a BYOD policy to standardise on handsets.

"How does bring Buy your own device standardise anything?"

When they tell you what to buy. And if you don't want people doing it at all then you really need a policy.

Re: I also watched this popular TV programme in the 1970's

"I've commented on this 'smartphone' several times at several forums. This is because I still find difficult to believe the extreme precision with which they forecasted a technology that was ~35 years in their future."

I'm always impressed by Bradbury, who in 1953 managed to predict that the main use of mobile phones would be to annoy people on public transport.

Re: Nirvana

"Nirvana would be a round connector that works at all angles, 360 degrees and just not 2."

It would however have 0 pins.

Re: Did the BBC just troll people?

'As long as you don't call the pointy eared one Doctor Spock, we'll be Ok'

I never understood that idea. His name is Spock, and one assumes he has a doctorate. It would be plain rude to call him Mister Spock unless you happen to be his superior officer.