Posts by streaky

Re: What's the Brexit angle?

Whatever your view, this is neither in spite of nor because of Brexit.

I tend to agree generally but they'll have to stop billing UK sales to Luxembourg when we leave which defeats the purpose of not setting up in the UK in the first place. Why be in Luxembourg when you can not be? It's a little of both. I'd expect to hear more stories like this over the coming years, especially from multinationals wishing they weren't in Ireland. Google and Facebook have already jumped, there's a few others that must be considering.

Also FWIW all those at the back that weren't listening the 40 times it's been discussed: right now is a good time to invest in the UK using foreign currency reserves - and it's caused by the GBP having been under attack by speculators since the vote. Maybe next quarter lads keep trying!

Sure - people do occasionally rip streams for themselves and friends, but this is not where pirate torrents or bootleg DVDs or any of the other horsemen of the media apocalypse come from.

Sorry but most do honestly, iTunes, Amazon et al. There's enough HD network-exclusives out there to easily contend this is exactly what happens. Like I said it's not an argument *for* DRM, it's an argument against it, but it is the reality.

Re: Being a criminal has little to do with the list as given.

The most competent whitehats were blackhats first. The end.

My thing is what exactly is it parents are going to do to stop this? You've identified your kid is a "hacker". Great. Now what? When I was a kid back in the heady days of dialup my parents thought they could stop me using computers and the internet; and they were extremely wrong - I write software for a living now what's the problem?

The key here isn't teaching kids not to be hackers it's about ensuring they can tell the difference between right and wrong, and I still contend we do need blackhats even for those who can't be taught that - there's no uni courses that teach the competences blackhats acquire from being down in (and causing) the shit, and there never will be.

Re: Huh?

"I'm sorry sir/madam but you are not allowed into the US. By the way, you'll have to pay for your own flight home."

And then you have to explain to the kids why they don't get to go to Disneyland.

That's a nice tourist industry you have there, it would be a shame if anything were to happen to it.

All because they didn't get to see me calling out Mark Clattenburg for being a shit ref or Facebook for not enabling U2f unless you tie a phone to your account. No doubt I'm some sort of threat to the republic.

They're welcome to go search but I won't be telling them.

That kit is an integral part of whatever your employer does. It would cost hundreds of thousands or upwards of whatever currency units you work in to replace and there's no money in CAPEX for several years. It's controlled by a PC using proprietary S/W and protocols connecting PC and machine together. That proprietary S/W only runs on XP, or is only certified to run on XP and regulatory considerations mean you have to follow the certification.

I know how I'd answer that question.

I would say you didn't do your due diligence when you bought and probably should be doing this technology thing. Next!

You've not heard of LTS builds for Linux?

Microsoft supports compatible stable platforms far longer than any Linux distro ever has which is circular to see above and also you're still screwed when that LTS support ends, hell Ubuntu is already killing off 14.04. Orignal point still stands you're either on the code changes train or you're running old broken things (gl with the whole new ciphers thing in OpenSSL). Next!

This way people do tech business isn't compatible with code realities, is I guess my main issue.

Re: IPv6 usage soaring?

6 thumbs down - everything I said was 100% true. I didn't know the Trump white house team were such avid readers of the register.

By "going out of their way" I assume you are referring to the common practice of rolling their own build of Linux rather than simply ensuring that suitable drivers are pushed upstream each time they use a new piece of hardware

No I mean that the routers fully support it.

Re: Fair comment.

I use Firefox as my default browser, and I like it.

+1 but damn it's hard work sometimes..

Re: Interesting

It's 2017, the idea of having one server for one website and hoping for the best that it doesn't go down is long long gone.

I've been advocating this for years and I tend to agree but the problem is it's not always that simple, especially if you're doing financial transactions and the like.

Re: Gut feeling

Gut away.

It makes it easier for people like me who develop from the windows desktop for linux servers to use linux tooling. That's what it's mostly for and it doesn't hurt anybody any more than running a linux vm from windows does. Quibbling over it does nothing, it's happening and there's nothing anybody can do about it.

Long term hope (but AFAIK not stated goal) is it improves both standards and interop at microsoft (people give them shit but they've been trying very hard for many years).

FWIW the believe it or not stuff is because people think there's some war going on that actually ended like 20 years ago when Bill Gates bailed out Apple. I know enough senior people with Apple and Linux gear at Microsoft to know that the Haskell nerds perception of reality has no basis in it.

Nice to see the downvotes coming... I understood you are enraged if you realised your map options are all crap compared to what people in a puny East European country enjoy. It is hardly my fault but... Whatever. Be enraged if it helps. You cannot take our superior map service from me.

Get over yourself it's just openstreemap's data rebranded.

Well I have heard that France and Germany want to poach our staff.

And those of us who work in tech laughed and laughed and laughed - it never stopped. Tech companies in the UK are here for a reason and none of those reasons are "the UK is in the EU". Not one. Most people in tech - especially internet related tech - work on the principle that the regulatory and standards framework is global, in English - and can happen anywhere, if you're moving it aint to Paris or Frankfurt; it's to the Caymans or California (oops Trump) or New York. France is off the beaten track for the internet and Germany is worse.

Unrelated but I wish the banks every luck with the FTT and the shorting bans that the EU is going to slap them with when they move and the UK is no longer involved with the regulatory framework. No not really.

Re: Glass house?

I believe there's a saying about throwing stones when one lives in a glass house...

Our privacy protections in the US of A are actually quite robust (excepting, apparently, NSA surveillance). Of course, US contract law is more robust, and so makes it quite easy to sweep away privacy rights.

My response to that..

Re: AGPL...

Yeah the problem is the AGPL doesn't say that, it especially doesn't say it in RethinkDB terms. The only problem with the AGPL is there's huge amounts of misinformation about it which I do and have recognised.

Re: "will only let apps be installed via their App store and devs are expected to pay lots of £££"

some people even defend it strongly here

Rule 1

Many things that have worked for other companies that people have thought Microsoft should have copied have turned out to be bad for Microsoft. Hell - that's how windows 8 happened. Doesn't fit microsoft's business model or what made them a very large company in the first place.

Re: Sounds like me to be a good reason....

But.. nicotine is safe (on the scale of things) to vape. You're in more danger eating a salad than vaping. Not that I'd suggest people just take up vaping who aren't already smokers because why bother but lets find a grip.

Re: Accountants eveywhere need to watch out

In all fairness when you offer yourself up to acquisition to a US company you have to expect you might come under jurisdiction of US law. Problem is as I've said before the US legal establishment's penchant for abusing wire fraud law - they'll use it when there's no wire and no fraud involved. UK criminal justice system only really does that with terrorism legislation.

Accidentally dropped some litter on the floor whilst making a call to a relative? Wire fraud! Go directly to jail for 145 years, do not pass go.. What boggles my mind is how okay US citizens are with this stuff.

Worst part is it's all HP's fault anyway which is why the class action..

Re: Sterling devaluation triggered a move to cloud backup?

Yeah it's absolutely nothing to do with Brexit, that's the starting point.

Re: Re-inventing the wheel

It's 2016 and you really have to ask that?

Better question is wtf are GCHQ doing given it's supposed to be half their job. Oh yeah that's right I 'member...

Technically speaking it's to make it so cases are less likely to go to court. Skipping arbitration (by either side) would be assumed by the courts to be somebody trying to abuse process. Very few people who don't work in news media should or would have a problem with any of it. In fact I suspect if you polled the general public one would find that most people would think it doesn't go nearly far enough.

Much as I enjoy reading the 'reg; claiming you're not Murdoch press so it shouldn't apply is a pretty sorry excuse - the potential for damage is so extreme in these cases something needs to be sorted out and there shouldn't be any exceptions. Think before you publish is what the media forgot in times of twitter that would protect them from all of this.

The right to publish freely has been abused by people calling themselves journalists - I don't think any of what the government is doing is going to solve any of the problems in the world but it does improve access to redress when it goes wrong. If journalists have a problem with this stuff they should talk to their peers; this stuff is legitimately the absolute minimum that could be done.

Re: anyone using mysql for simple key value store

I'd dispute that in various cases honestly, there's all sorts of good performance, infrastructure and data integrity reasons for doing it. 'reg readers very anti-MySQL though so send in the downvotes.

Re: From memory...

Unlikely, if anything I assume it'll get worse. Does anybody actually care though?

Why so much is going on when all I'm doing is typing in a text box (or even not using Firefox) is a total mystery to me.

Leaks plus GC one assumes. Gotta love JS.

So what is the argument for making the banks liable anyway?

They'll be insured against losses plus the banking system can do things internally to clawback losses that consumers can't - for starters.

Re: Shouldn't be hard for Nikon to do

The problem with your argument is that bandwidth is a limiting factor. Most places where photojournalists report on stories that are liable to endanger them, don't have enough of a communications network to instantly transmit a 64Gb + card full of pictures safely out of the way.

Right but it was an *or* - I think it's viable to do it securely at the technical level I just don't see the value in it. Carry a tablet, carry a laptop.

Re: Brexit means brexit.

could I respectfully suggest that includes those who think their legal understanding exceeds that of the members of the UK Supreme Court?

No for two reasons: firstly that we don't know what the supreme court thinks yet and secondly that I'm not entirely sure the government has put it so succinctly that it's easy to understand to them. They're going to have their for/against biases either way - they're fairly well documented but hopefully they can view the case on legalities rather than those.

I'm in a low wage job or unemployed. They can't come after me for the money, I haven't got any. Someone else will have to pay for this. Someone else will pay for this. No skin off my nose

That's interesting, I'm high wage employed working for an international company - difference is I understand the economics. There's no left or right wing case for continued membership which is why the centre ground is owned by brexiteers.

Apparently the young are so much smarter than people who have been round and round with the EU; or those of us who have worked for companies that have been munched up and asset stripped and all the jobs moved to Germany. There's many fundamental problems with the UK economy and the EU isn't the only one but it is the biggest elephant in the room and it's charging around breaking the tea service - then we're supposed to want to stay in because roaming charges and we don't have to get a visa (pretending for a second there won't be a visa-free travel agreement anyway).

The UK will be far happier and richer out.

Re: Live by the sword.

He chose not to go after Trump like he did Clinton, that's for sure. The third party nonsense was Snowden being far more naive than he thinks he is.

Greenwald similar approach. Too busy attacking Clinton to see what's coming in the back door. I don't care beyond the comedy value of it. Greenwald is still doing it in fact. Live by the sword; there are worse things than Clinton if you're this kind of actor. Unless Trump really is the Russian agent he tries his best to look like - in which case you're good, carry on.