Posts by streaky 1745 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Jul 2010
It may be that you have substantive grounds for hating BT and everything it stands for but it would strengthen your case if you explained exactly what those grounds are.
I absolutely don't I was prefacing being on their side on this particular issue. You could also try reading my previous comments :=)
I feel like I gotta preface this by saying I hate BT and everything they stand for and the damage they do to the UK economy and citizens by simply existing, but:
If they're billing you 8k to put a line in there's a fairly decent chance it's going to cost them 800k to install it because you decided to park up in the middle of literally nowhere. Most people consider these things before they buy a house so you're probably SOL. If I'm right and you really need a line you should probably be happy it's only 8k.
The obvious solution is to just bounce invalid recipients, like everybody else
This right here, is how email works. User gets bounce, user realises their mistake and everybody is happy.
In this completely made up story the admin thought outside the box without reading any RFCs (as admins are prone to do) thought he was being clever and in the end not only snooped on other people's private lives (I mean using corp email for this stuff is begging for trouble but it's still essentially private) and also broke the entire global email system in the process.
This stuff doesn't have to be difficult but people really so enjoy trying to make it so.
Also if your boss has a problem with your email system working correctly go find yourself a new job and do it now because your company is probably going to go down in lawsuit and you're probably going to end up named as at best a witness and it's going to cost you a lot of money in legal fees.
Why would literally anybody want to work for these idiots.
BT couldn't build a telco network if the government paid them (oh, wait) - couldn't internet their way out of a paper bag one might say (no really why doesn't every house in the country have FTTH for the money the taxpayer has thrown at them).
GCHQ - the clowns more interested in looking at your cat pictures than finding terrorists.
Yeah no kidding they are having an issue recruiting. Everybody who knows about this stuff; GCHQ makes their skin crawl. We had this gem like 2 weeks ago which demonstrates exactly what is happening here:
The people who lobbied me hardest for independent authorisation, something that really passes muster internationally, is the intelligence agencies. It’s partly a question of recruitment for them
Problem is they don't do as they say and go do comint properly and that's the real issue here.
They can force you to divulge your private key
No they can't. They can try but that isn't the same as actually forcing you. I've discussed this before but the blanket law re crypto keys in the UK pretty plainly isn't compatible with the charter. Also it's still a choice either way. If we all refuse to hand over keys the law is moot, terrorists won't do it so why should the rest of us; by definition that law is disproportionate. Hell this is exactly why the law isn't used because they don't want to see it tested because they know it will fail in both primary and secondary aim.
Now, where can I get one of these for Parliment?
Depending on your political flavour either Watson or Davis is probably about as close as you get.
It's not *that* sensible; I like the positive nature of the sentiment - but we don't need permission for strong crypto. No government can stop it, I have the source for OpenSSL on in my possession and they can blow me.
The irrelevance of these US corps will answer the US governments question if they dare try so win-win-win.
but Melnikov says it “failed widespread deployment and has had only limited success”
Only because the client-side implementations are poor quality for end users to use and I wouldn't expect a protocol change to affect that. Any new protocol is going to have the same issue because it probably won't deliver the UX improvements that are badly needed- and honestly we need those before we need new protocols.
Also not for nothing but we shouldn't be building new crypto-based authentication systems without crypto-based 2FA built into them from the ground-up. Or at least demanding in the protocol that the user stores support them.
If it wasn't for encryption the internet wouldn't exist and we wouldn't need publicly available strong crypto. The fact that seemingly everybody in government in at least five eyes countries is too stupid and ignorant to know this only underlines the hilarity.
And still nobody has talked about what they'd do about foreign-based crypto projects that are open source.
Yes. This stuff is utterly illogical.
Here's where it gets silly:
Others reckon leaving the common labour market would slow their ability to move rapidly against rivals and to bring on talent in a competitive field.
The reason? The end to freedom of movement that being a member state of the EU has provided.
Why's this silly? Because the EU freedom of movement makes the UK implement harsher controls on immigration from outside the EU. Granted it's a matter of personal opinion if those controls have to be there, but there they are. This means it's more difficult to recruit tech talent from the US, from India, from China, from Japan (the list goes on).
See the problem here? Germany isn't exactly known for being forwards thinking when it comes to the digital economy so what good is being in the EU doing any of this - the answer of course is the UK's tech industry is being actively harmed by it.
And yes not for nothing but being outside the EU doesn't mean people can't be recruited from in the EU, just they'd have to justify their employment in the UK - that shouldn't be difficult; although I personally know a lot of well qualified experienced people who can't get tech jobs because they have to compete on pay with people who are less qualified and less experienced who aren't from the UK who will take nonsense wages..
Which seems a rather more adult and professional response than for a job-reaping software outfit like SAP to indulge itself telling us that we ought to stay in to make life convenient for the company.
Seems rather more like a cop-out. They either want us to stay in or they don't and if they do they should politely suggest some compelling reasons because no politician has.
.. wouldn't with couldn't:
would not explain in detail why it believed the UK was better in the EU
If you honestly believe it you're going to make a compelling argument. Has nothing to do with interfering - there's no good reason why the UK should be in the EU for the UK or the EU which is why nobody can voice a reasoned argument to stay in.
If a German global megacorp can't come up with a reason nobody else has a hope.
Next they'll be telling us we can't invade countries without good reason, abduct people and hold them without a trial, or torture people because "it might set a bad example".
Next hopefully they'll be telling us to deal with one issue on it's own merits rather than conflating a shopping list of different issues. No really, please stop that; you guys make it really difficult for me to argue your side.
This is a tendency in Snowden that really grates with me.
The problem is it probably requires Apple to abuse their signing keys, so what you have then is court-sanctioned CA abuse on record - there's no situation where it'll end at this one phone or even at Apple; or even in the US.
Next week it's they want to get into somebody's Windows desktop or a cert created by Globalsign that looks remarkably like a gmail cert so they can backdoor somebody's email. Slippery slope doesn't do that justice, indeed it could (or rather should) bring down the entire economic system. That's the FBI and the courts not doing their job.
Guys - the discussion is about UK licenses not German ones or whatever the hell you're all talking about.
The license is for watching TV not owning and having one plugged in. Simple as that. No ifs/buts. Go read the act. Then go UNDERSTAND the WORDING of the act.
Or failing that go read what the TVLA thinks it means. http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one
But to be fair, they do have a page where you can inform them that you do not require a licence.
http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/telling-us-you-dont-need-a-tv-licence
IANYL but I strongly recommend not using this, it only causes them to hound you more. In my experience it's best to ignore them until they show up with a warrant. This is of course if you're not actually watching TV, if you are and you just don't want to pay this advice will cause you more problems.
open source can include "signed code" features that would allow modified versions to be detectable, but still work if 'unsigned'
What's the point in signing any code if the whole system isn't signed. By definition that does nothing.
Also I dunno why people are obsessed with berating Microsoft for things they haven't done. If you don't like Microsoft that's cool, the issue doesn't affect you so what game are we actually playing here?
That was true then, and it's true now
No it wasn't and no it isn't else I wouldn't have bought the division from steam to uplay, I'd have bought it in the windows store. See how this works?
Yep I came to make this exact point, it was in fact claimed by several people at windows 8 launch. What we'd be talking about is in fact the end of Windows as a general purpose computing platform and Microsoft wouldn't dare.
Don't know why people keep making this idiotic claim. Even Apple wouldn't do this for their desktop OS.
Isn't London meant to be one of the few places in the UK that actually has something resembling a competitive telecoms market, what with the old ducts from London Hydraulic Power Co, and suppliers like Colt, etc?
Not for consumers no. We got Hyperoptic but they're only in like apartment complex type deals. Granted that is a lot of London but not really no otherwise - same, and worse, as the rest of the country frankly. If you want to buy it in bulk by the 40gbit then yeah it's cheap though.
I prefer not to even construct any SQL on a client if I can possibly do so. I find it much better to have only stored procedures as the visible interface of a database server, meaning no internal structures of the database are visible to the outside world
I'm usually happier when rdbms don't support stored procedures at all - not for nothing but what you're saying for most software is all sorts of doing it wrong for a list of reasons it'd take way too long to list.
Just to be clear nothing happening here is the fault of PHP. With only minimal competence the average 8 year old should be capable of writing code that's impossible to SQL inject. The end.
Lintards hid behind the 'we are better than anyone'. Well, guess what when you have amateurs hacking at code, this is what you get.Reality finally strikes for Linux arrogance that it is free of the risks faced by more popular sw. The BS wagon must finally have overflowed on the FOSS we get to inspect the code therefor it is better nonsense.
Can't tell if srs but assuming you (AC suggests you might be) are you're not nearly as smart as you think you are for an extremely long list of reasons - not least you'll note it's Google who dug this one out. Just throwing that out there.
We live in a representative democracy so.. 2020? Slight issue - basically all he parties agree on essentially this issue because they're all equally clueless - not sure what the fix to that is.
Good news: this committee seems to essentially agree with the sensible arguments against on definitions/funding etc.
Does anyone here know what an 'Internet Connection Record' might be?
Give me unfettered access to any of the committee's connections and I'll happily produce what one might look like? :)
I have clue enough to know they're both deeply invasive and utterly useless to law enforcement/intelligence at the same time?
Gambling, end the regulation of it, is very much a sovereign matter for EU member states.
But we're not talking about regulation as banning or taxation, we're talking about regulation as a state monopoly - which is very much an EU matter.
If a French company wants in it could easily become an issue.
Gambling is pretty black and white: either a gambling outfit is recognised under that state monopoly, or it isn't and is therefore illegal to Swedish citizens. So it's well within the rights of the swedish government to try and limit the accessibility to such sites for their own citizens.
Assuming Sweden isn't an EU member state after all?
Most likely candidate seems to be GCHQ at the behest of the NSA but given the NSA own Cisco it is fair to assume it's the NSA.
The thing about back-dooring things and not telling anybody is people buy the gear, if the US govt has been pwned because of it they've only added to the hilarity.
What problem does a blockchain solve in government?
It solves the problem of IT budget justification when you're a shareholder in or on the board of some IT megacorp with nothing much to do.
That's the least cynical way I can put it.
Bunch of clowns who don't know what they're talking about paying a lot of taxpayer funds to build things they don't understand. What could possibly go wrong?
Nothing in the document makes any sense which is a fairly good clue they don't understand what they're talking about. They really did out-Dilbert Dilbert.
These sectors tend to be driven wherever analysts say they'll go. It only takes one thing. It's happened with tablets - they said this and they did this and they said that and they did that.
There's stuff coming to drive consumer PC sales - the problem is corporate sales have sort of lost the need for more power because PCs do whatever most office workers need. Always room for server sales though - if anything server sales will replace corporate PC sales to a certain extent.
hiring penetration testers
How is it possible Cisco don't have a permanent red team anyway? If I ran a tech business the size of Cisco with their budget it'd be day one job: put together a red team that operates completely independently of the rest of the org that reports outside the normal chain of command, sees the source but can't modify it.
the tax office claimed that he'd spent at least five years in Wales claiming benefits based on his NI records
Takes a fair bit of ID to claim benefits, I'd imagine there's more to this story - not that they'd tell the person due to the "privacy" of the person who was actually claiming.
The DWP rules on claimants are fairly clear about this sort of thing though.
The NiNo can be used in ID fraud here too and should be protected
Government isn't going to accept you are you based on supplying them with your NINo. If somebody wants to pay my income tax/NI for me they're quite welcome to.
All this stuff is circular and precisely why it shouldn't be otherwise used.
.. is a case study in what not to do with such identifiers. People over there seem to protect it with their lives, because it's used to identify them and used in identity fraud against them. That situation is unhealthy and it should be resisted - there's no genuine reason for non-governmental providers of services to use or reference the NINo.
Suspect there'll be pretty big backlash against wider use of it in the UK.
Though with contactless you can have your cards cancelled and the crooks can still buy stuff because some POS terminals don't actually check in with the bank before authorising transactions. Cards don't keep your money safer, they just make it easier to track.
But the liability shifts back so who cares. It's a cheaper system to operate even with those losses.
They typically run on razor-thin margins which is why they're notorious for cheaping out and delaying things out of necessity, yet without them the only retailers left would be the juggernauts. So what'll it be? Slow-to-act but personal attention or the cold, emotionless juggernauts?
I'm not sure that there's a good answer to this question, but I know that taking the hammer to people's security with known broken protocols isn't the solution.
But to be honest it appears that PCI SSC's problem is consumer browser related and that being the case there's no excuse here.
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