* Posts by Voland's right hand

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DNS ad-hocracy in peril as ICANN advisors mull root server shakeup

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Re: Misdirection

The 13 roots are setup the way they are _specifically_

In more than one way - several are also under the admin control of non-USA entities.

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Next reboot?

Commenting before my intravenous coffee drip has decreased the concentration of the blood in my coffee subsystem.

You are indeed correct - you are not likely to have a server reboot in that amount of time. It is however time for which most mid-level and SP servers will probably discard the entry from the cache due to memory pressure and/or "other" validation criteria long before the TTL has expired.

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Will the consolidated root servers have the capacity to function when one or more groups is under attack (looking at the BPQ here)

1. Most of them are at large peering points. LINX hosts one.

2. Most of the information they supply is cached further down.

3. The information is nowdays limited to ns records for TLDs and is 13-way redundant at DNS level and tens if not hundreds of times redundant at each root server level due to use of anycast by most of them.

If you can conjure a DDOS on that scale there is plenty of better ways to use your time.

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the RSOs [root server operators] today operate completely independently under their own goodwill and funding without any direct oversight by the stakeholders of the service,

First of all, the stakeholders are all Internet users. Good luck consulting stakeholders on an any changes.

Second, the only answer roots give in this day and age is referral - who is the nameserver for a particular TLD. There was a point when some roots (the one operated by ISC) were also sharing jobs with serving TLDs, that is long gone. The nameserver information in each TLD zone is what determines the query rate and the operational load onto the roots. It is not the roots themselves. F.E .com zone has 120K+ seconds TTL for their nameserver entries. Once a nameserver lower in the hierarchy learns where to look for .com it will not bother the roots until its next reboot (120k seconds is a very long time). Compared to that .org is about an hour. And so on. Standardization of this is in the ICANNs remit, but it cannot even get that right. In any case, back on the topic of root load. Want to decrease root load? Do what .com has done - jack up the TTL for the TLD nameservers across the board.

Third, roots are hard-wired into nameserver software. I am old enough to remember the first root migration when we moved from a random selection of names in the DARPA project to the current root server file list which ships with every nameserver. There were mis-configured laggards for years after that.

All in all, it works, do not f*ck with it.

Dear Samsung mobe owners: It may leak your private pics to randoms

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Re: Stasi Phone

Stasi was not about sharing.

It shares.

You should share. All of your private stuff. With the entire world.

Sharing is caring you know.

RIP Peter Firmin: Clangers creator dies aged 89

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Re: Similar

It is a painstaking art that really is underrated by today's film goers.

Dunno. My offspring rate Coraline, The Night Before Christmas and Small Soldiers higher than nearly all CGI based animation.

Oracle, for one, says we'll welcome our new robot overlords: '90%' of you will obey an AI bot

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Re: 1,320 "HR leaders and employees."

Whatever, all of them are HR.

I will not comment any further as no comment is necessary.

And that's now all three LTE protocol layers with annoying security flaws

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Re: "5G will hopefully fix it"

Nope, it will not. Most of the protocol stack has been finalized so if it is not fixed by now it ain't getting fixed in the initial release.

Not OK Google: Massive outage turns smart home kit utterly dumb

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Re: Hmmmm

After some thought the man replied "Ye know, I don't think we have anything with the same sense of urgency".

That is blatantly plagiarized from the Greek original.

Q: What is "Avrio"?

A: Manana without the sense of urgency.

I was told this joke by a Greek who shared the desk area with me at the time. The guy across the open space partition grew up in Latin America. He looked at us and said: "You are referring to a Spanish Manana. That is indeed fairly urgent. You guys have not seen Latin American Manana..."

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Re: Hmmmm

an update that added the Spanish language to its devices.

It added the concept of Manana.

Europe's scheme to build exascale capability on homegrown hardware is ludicrous fantasy

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Re: Europeans are dreaming

A recent report showed that German defence procurement is worse

Yes and no.

It has similar or worse overtimes and overbudgets same as all of their procurement. Civil engineering projects, etc. So on that account the report is correct.

The more interesting part is what is being procured. There the comparison is not in Britain's favor. Not sure if that can be extended into the civilian sphere as the Berlin airport and the Hamburg Opera are as much of a white elephant as HS2, but that is procurement anywhere in the world for you. In fact, there at the moment, both Germans and UK trail behind Russia. If we leave all the political elements of what they have done out of the equation and look purely at the procurement and engineering side of the Crimea bridge versus let's say the same airport and HS2 the comparison is clearly not in our favor.

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Re: Europeans are dreaming

The thing is, nobody really needs the gold-plated flying radar-evading pig.

You forgot to add: "Dead on Arrival on a battlefield where radar no longer works".

If you look at what Russians have done to all of their old aircraft (and are now offering to all existing owners of) as a part of the avionics upgrade is retrofitting some ridiculously overpowered modern ECM. AFAIK Rafale carries a similar package by design.

Jamming on that scale changes quite a few tactical variables:

1. Stealthiness stops being an advantage. In fact, the aerodynamic f*ckups needed to achieve it put all stealth aircraft (and especially ones without vectored power like the F35) at a distinct disadvantage against Gen-4 and 4+ aircraft.

2. Dogfighting ability and training to fight within line of sight (instead of relying on long range missiles) becomes a primary deciding factor.

So in fact I stay by my opinion - the money on F35 was misspent. When stealth came out originally quite a few analysts pointed out that it will be a short lived advantage until jamming is upgraded and installed on all aircraft. We are nearly there now so it is a misspent, not spent money.

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Re: Europeans are dreaming

Let me fix it for you: American had misspent hundred of billion of $$$ if not thousands to create their F35

Look at Germany's pathetic defense spending

Sure, I have looked. Most of it looks like delivering 1.5-2 times more bang for the buck that UK or USA spending. One of the frigate projects looks a bit in oddball territory (dedicated purely for shipping protection/operations against stone age opponents), but otherwise its procurement can only be admired. It is trying to be functional instead of dick waving.

As far as dick waving, it is not how big it is, it is how you use it. A good example would be the fact that Norway coastal patrol boat squadron can probably deliver more anti-ship capability than the whole of UK fleet.

Registry to ban Cyrillic .eu addresses even if you've paid for them

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That's what the Pope told St. Cyril in 867 AD too.

Pope or the bishop of Prague? I do not think the two brothers which bestowed onto half of Europe the "slightly vandalized Greek alphabet" got as far as a trial before the pope. They were convicted of herecy by the bishop of Prague, the pope just countersigned the verdict.

In any case, my history is refusing to load from permanent storage this morning :) Need more coffee.

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They did not even get that one right

It should not be ЕЮ. It should be ЕС.

Европейски Съюз - that is how it is written in the only (for now) EU language to use Cyrillic - Bulgaria. It is nearly identical +/- a letter in the language of the other two Cyrillic using candidate countries (Serbia and Monte Negro).

Automated payment machines do NOT work the same all over the world – as I found out

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The only way to use an Italian automated petrol station is to use an Italian

Last two times I had to use them I ended up getting help from the locals. The menus and the whole process is utterly counterintuitive.

Not that other countries are any better. There are as many methods of implementing an automated petrol filling station as there are countries.

UK.gov's long-awaited, lightweight biometrics strategy fails to impress

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Sigh

I am going to repeat it again and again.

Copy the lonely Russian boy Without Friends sitting in the corner of the classroom's homework.

Their biometric identification bill which is actually properly written and literate from a technical perspective comes into power in ... let me see the calendar ... 4 days time. 2nd of July

Just plagiarize it (same as we have plagiarized other stuff in the past) and cut the "biometric strategy" nonsense.

Facebook, Google, Microsoft scolded for tricking people into spilling their private info

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Re: None of them does

You opt-in by using the service. To opt-out, don't use the service

Not GDPR compliant. A requirement to process data and god forbid requirement to use data for marketing purposes invalidate GDPR concent. That is 4% global turnover per customer/visitor/user.

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None of them does

They all require a consent to marketing and selling data to provide a service. There is no opt-in.

Out of all Internet outfits I have seen so far the only compliant is Kaspersky - separate consent for marketing, separate consent for data and everything works even if you decline to grant it.

No more slurping of kids' nationalities, Brit schools told

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It is a well known argument, but it has a few issues:

First the most basic ones:

1. You are making the child responsible for the crimes of the parents. That is illegal and immoral. On all accounts - by law, by custom, by common sense.

2. Education in the UK is compulsory.

Second the "second order" ones:

The biggest "civilization" driver has always been education. As Aristotle said once upon a time: “Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” That misses the correct context: "OUR" man.

One of the biggest issues of "invasion by foreign body snatchers" is exactly that - they do not become "OUR" man. They do not integrate and are not assimilated. Making it even more segregated than now is counterproductive in the large game of things.

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Re: Fair enough, but as a matter of balance

I am told by my niece, presumably reliably,

I wonder where the hell is she and is it in this country or even on this planet, because there is zero foreign language assistant support in any of the schools my kids have attended so far.

That is so far a total of 3 different primary schools and 2 secondary ones with 50%+ non-English native population in every single one of them.

So if a LEA in Britain is capable of allocating funds for such assistance, can you please enlighten us where that LEA is. All the ones I know including my local one would grab the torches and the pitchforks for a buccaneer raid on their premises straight away.

Koh YEAH! Apple, Samsung finally settle iPhone patent crusade

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Re: Steve Jobs vowed to launch the legal equivalent of "thermonuclear war" against Samsung

Neither side won?

The war? Definitely not. Winning the war would have been making a significant change in the way Samsung phones are designed and/or Android. Apple successfully collected some pocket change, without in any way impeding the Android steamroller.

Crime epidemic or never had it so good? Drilling into statistics is murder

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Re: "Just look at Switzerland."

Switzerland is a very different type of country.

You missed one more and key differentiator between Switherland, Eastern Europe (most of which is saturated with guns and ammunition), other Western European countries and USA. A lot of them have a comparable amount of guns (and more dangerous ones too like true automatics, etc). They do not have the culture of taking a gun in their own hands and "delivering justice" on all who have wronged them.

The reason for that is simple - their culture and schools do not drill into every single person the idea that they are somehow exceptional from the earliest age. It is the American exceptionalism which is at the bottom of the USA mass shootings. The more exceptionalism is drilled into the younger generation, the more shootings you get later on. To anyone opening their mouth about citation needed - Russia. As a part of the pivot from the arising cult of personality to Vlad the Bare Chested Overlord 10 years ago they borrowed and deployed the USAisian exceptionalism doctrine. They are now literally doing the same thing USA does. So guess what - they now have school shootings too. Something they never had before when "doubting yourself and questioning how you can improve" were on the top of the agenda.

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Re: We need gunlaws like in the US to fight crime

Throughout Europe, the bad guys have full and easy access to fire arms an ammunition,

You are talking out of your arse.

I have first hand knowledge exactly how many guns are in circulation in Eastern Europe from the days when I used to live there. Out of 8 floors in the apartment block the 4 above us were all armed including AK47s, the 3 floors under us were all armed including a Dragunov sniper rifle. We were the only ones which were not armed with firearms. That is if we do not count the two APK Arsenal 9mm heavy hydraulic drive harpoons (the ones which were designed for Russian special forces). The government tried to do an amnesty many times and gave up - no weapons were handed in. So now you can just walk into a DIY shop, take the mandatory, but rather trivial course, go to your local police constabulary and get a weapons permit. Including concealed carry.

So guess what - it DOES NOT REDUCE petty crime. In the slightest. The fact that up to 90% of the households are armed is of NO RELEVANCE to petty crime rates.

The only thing which is proven time and again to have a direct relationship with petty crime rates are poverty and unemployment rates. They go down, petty crime goes down. They go up, petty crime goes up. That will not change even if every house has 4 gatling guns in a proximity defence configuration and a couple of Caucasian shepherd dogs running in the backyard.

By the way, you would be surprised just how many legal weapons are with the population in some Western European countries. Finland, Germany and Switzerland come mind straight away.

EU court: No, expat Frenchman can't trademark France.com

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Nope, it is not

The practical effect of today’s judgment appears to be the destruction of Frydman’s intellectual property

That part is not. You cannot trade mark the name of a country, its flag or other state symbols or a trivial modification of them. This is part of pretty much all copyright legislation since the dawn of copyright law.

That cuts both ways - the state has absolutely no inherent right to the domain either.

Uber's London licence appeal off to flying start: No, you cannot do driver eye tests via video link

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Re: Just make them

So you're banning people working self employed in the UK?

You know there are more tax advantages running a company?

I do, I do. Does this answer your question?

Bogus self-employment the way it is practiced by Uber, Hermes, Amazon Logistics, etc should be banned.

There should be no such thing as self-employment. There should be employment by a company, which may or may not be owned by the employee and the company should run proper accounts, payroll and taxes. How tax efficient - it is the company's business. The moment that happens the whole gig-economy benefit fraud (it is exactly that) dies there and then.

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Re: Just make them

operate only Electric Vehicles

This will just feed the lease companies which offer a full "become a Uber driver" service. It used to be one of those prominent announcements you would see on the local notice board in the local Romanian, Bulgarian, Polish, etc shop. All you needed to know is how to read the language.

Ban it completely altogether with the business model. Want to run a taxi service - employ your staff and pay NI, Pension and Income Tax. Want to pretend to be self-employed - run full accounts, payroll and pay your tax as a company.

Israel cyber chief's 'pants' analogy for password security deemed, well, 'pants'

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Re: Pants, eh?

Come on, not all of us buy pants from Ann Summers.

The suits helped biz PC makers feed their kids in bumper Q2

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Re: GDPR?

Not particularly difficult either: "We need this new compliance tool, but the PCs we have are too old to run it".

Taiwanese tech upstarts stole our RAM secrets and staff, claims Micron

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Re: The Floating World

and the employee issued a free plastic bag to gather up all his crap into

If the employee wants to lift some confidential info this achieves nothing as he has already lifted it prior to filling the resignation letter.

GDPR forgive us, it's been one month since you were enforced…

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Re: All of which just proves....

By the way: when I say personal data means PERSONAL. The violator(s) are recruitment data aggregators so this includes but is not limited to: your job history, address, marital status, skills, education history, certifications - the lot. Personal, identifiable and with your name on it.

That is for sale and offered without GDPR consent (or prior processing consent wiithin the last 10 years) and the seller has no issues with it (or any issues with using it for their own marcom).

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Re: All of which just proves....

.....that GDPR is working.

No it is not. At least in the UK where it is deliberately not enforced by ICO

I have sent them details on UK companies which are in multiple violations of both the old law and GDPR itself and which continue to blatantly market and sell your (out of date) personal data without your personal permission. With company numbers, addresses, the lot.

They are happily scratching their nether regions instead of enforcing it while waiting for that happy day when UK drops off the cliff without a data equivalence deal so they can stop pretending that they have the intention of enforcing it.

Similarly, multiple companies have now realized that there is no enforcement in the UK and have gone back to their pre-25th-of-May antics.

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Re: I think I got sth better

Not that it matters, after all, it's THEIR business, not mine..

It is their business, but with YOUR data. The only thought you need on the subject is what were they doing with your data prior to that in the first place so they cannot make themselves GDPR compliant. After contemplating on that for long enough, turn around slowly, then proceed at an accelerating pace away from there.

Facebook sends lowly minions to placate Euro law makers over data-slurp scandal

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Devil

It is indeed a question of competence, but of a different kind. Not the competence in the area of privacy, but competence as in "being able to set policy and issue orders".

In any case, I do not see what their problem is. All they need to do is to find a "Prodotti di Berlusconi" ranking MEP in their ranks to do a quick deal with Facebook so that whoever shows up shows up only for 30 minutes, runs a script and disappears after that. If they have one, even the ZuckerBorg himself will show up as it will be totally prearranged, pre-set and completely safe. By the way "Prodotti Di Berlusconi" are not corrupt. Oh, no, there is nothing like corruption involved. Really. Really, really, really...

Test Systems Better, IBM tells UK IT meltdown bank TSB

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Re: Kettle

More like singularity, meet blackhole, blackhole meet singularity...

Atari accuses El Reg of professional trolling and making stuff up. Welp, here's the interview tape for you to decide...

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Pint

Re: Hahashahahahahahaahah!

And this is exactly what I would call professional trolling.

Professionally executed and the subject has tried to start a flame war which ended up with them being flamed into a crisp.

El reg crew deserves a round of pints :)

EU negotiator: Crucial data adequacy deal will wait until UK hands in homework

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Anyone would think that the PtB aren't concerned

PtB in Europe work under the assumption that this contagion is not going to spread onto NATO.

That assumption is not entirely warranted according to the current NATO secretary general writing in the Guardian.

That is why these are not being discussed and UK's attempts to bring some of them into the discussion under the guise of security collaboration get only shrugs from Brussels. I am not sure that going down the line of dragging NATO into this contagion will be of any benefit to the UK. Just the opposite.

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That'll be a novelty.

Why? David and Co are realists. They have a realistic assumption of how what they do in Brussels will look on the first page of the Sun and that is ALL they care about. It is 100% for the UK PR and 0% for the interests of the country. That's all that actually matters to them.

Compared to them Barnier does not have to deal with that. Nobody in European media follows what is happening in detail any more. It is a rear day when the news make page 5 or 7 of the daily edition of national broadsheets or the last odd-n-sods 2 minutes of filler before Sport and Weather on TV. It does not make it to the tabloids at all any more. That is the reality - it is 100% in the hands of bookkeepers and lawyers working for the commission now and the result will be what they say can be allowed and not what is "politically expedient" and appealing to a particular public audience.

The results when these two approaches meet are all too well predictable. On a very good day, UK will just cave in to every Eu demand at the last minute (as in December). On a bad day - we are looking at a massive clusterf*ck in March.

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Requoting from another thread

I am re-quoting what I said on the other thread where one of the commentards was accusing Mr Barnier of malice. He is simply doing his job - to deliver a VALID deal.

Any deal which allows UK member-like privileges without any of the checks which are applied by the ECHR and ECJ to members will be successfully challenged in court and declared invalid.

So, unless the UK comes up with some mechanics for checks and balances which are palatable to the EU, there will be absolutely no privileged treatment of UK in any area as there cannot be. Even if it is granted by the commission a Schrem will come along and blow a petard under it.

I have said it before, I will say it again. Davis, May and Boris are trying to put the proverbial donkey behind the proverbial cart. The discussion should START with the definition of the final instance for conflict resolution and compliance checking. Once that is figured out the deal and its scope are plain sailing. If it is not figured out there will be no deal to start off with.

So nothing surprising here and nothing will be fixed because the three blind mice and the one under the control of the potted plants are refusing to deal with the most basic reality of how to fix the whole mess.

OpenBSD disables Intel’s hyper-threading over CPU data leak fears

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Re: Bulldozer?

Not necessarily. Different design.

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I can hear a spectre howling...

I can hear a spectre arising from the grave of Intel's performance advantage over AMD and giggling madly at the benchmarks.

Shared, not stirred: GCHQ chief says Europe needs British spies

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Re: It does not matter what GCHQ think

Err... Mr Barnier is under orders to deliver a VALID deal.

Any deal which allows UK member-like privileges without any of the checks which are applied by the ECHR and ECJ to members will be successfully challenged in court and declared invalid.

So, unless the UK comes up with some mechanics for checks and balances which are palatable to the EU, there will be absolutely no privileged treatment of UK in any area as there cannot be. Even if it is granted by the commission a Schrem will come along and blow a petard under it.

I have said it before, I will say it again. Davis, May and Boris are trying to put the proverbial donkey behind the proverbial cart. The discussion should START with the definition of the final instance for conflict resolution and compliance checking. Once that is figured out the deal and its scope are plain sailing. If it is not figured out there will be no deal to start off with.

National ID cards might not mean much when up against incompetence of the UK Home Office

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No ID would have prevented this

The issue with Windrush was not the ID system as such. Some of the victims held British passports and were flagged as invalid on renewal.

The issue was the decision by the Home office to systematically destruct evidence that a particular part of the population is entitled to British citizenship. It is not just Windrush, the Home office destroyed similar evidence regarding "early arrivals" from Eastern Europe at the same time. I know this first hand from the Home Office - it came up when I was re-applying for junior's passport.

Let's face it - Windrush was a dress rehearsal. A miserably failed dress rehearsal, but a rehearsal for what Mrs May wants to deliver to the ones she considers her electorate.

In any case - no Id system would have stood a chance to prevent it.

Audi chief exec arrested over Dieselgate car emissions scandal

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so far it's not about the original sin, e.g. developing the defeat device and lying to regulators.

That is not even criminal offense in most jurisdiction. At most it can go under some obscure paragraph of fraud, but even that is not likely as regulatiory circumvention is punished with relatively low punishments.

This is about the handling of the aftermath:

Now this is juicy. Fraud of various shapes and sizes, perverting the course of justice, etc. You are looking at 7 years plus for most of these in most jurisdictions. So it is not surprising that the prosecution will concentrate on these.

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Re: So lets see....

Translation issues.

I read the report earlier today in a few other places and languages. The reason is potential for witness tampering, not destruction of evidence.

What can you do when the pup of programming becomes the black dog of burnout? Dude, leave

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Re: Working in IT is a magical, mysterious, and wonderful task

You are missing the point.

There are not one, but two oldest professions which exists from before humans had money, trade, etc. They are "sexual services" and the priesthood.

There is money to be made in making chants about things being magical, mysterious and wonderful. People have been doing so since the dawn of time and continue to do it. It motivates the rank and file and gets the village shaman some trinkets from the powers that be which benefit from the results.

So instead of bitching, join the joyful DevOps psalms and chants. If you do not the shaman may report you to the ones paying his salary.

What's all the C Plus Fuss? Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++

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Re: I am scared of the pressure to add [...] features to address immediate needs and fashions

Correct. Additionally, the prejudices reign supreme.

Example - when you mention Perl you get retches all around. At the moment I am doing a piece of code which needs to deal with some low level packet mangling, database access and a northbound RPC interface in both Python and Perl.

1. Every single library in Perl worked out of the box and all of them were on the system, so no CPAN abuse. PCAP, Epoll, JSON, DBI and most importantly packet manipulation. Straight sailing all the way until it worked.

2. Python. My, oh, my. It takes some guru level hoop jumps to integrate pcap into anything useful with an event loop, half of the packet mangling does not work, DBI is non-existent and there is only a very loosely policed database interface. Most importantly the off-the shelf packet manipulation does not work so you are either facing the choice of reusing scapy which is a dinosaur or you have to write your own.

So the fact that the emperor has no clothes does not prevent the emperor's followers to continue shouting loudly. Fashion and fanboiing all around.

By the way, the system this will be integrating with is written in C++, but there is no way I am writing in this. Not that I cannot, life is too short for it considering that it has an API interface and python bindings.

Google cloud VMs given same IP addresses ... and down they went

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Re: Sharing economy

Close. Should be Sharing Economy v4.

Ex-Rolls-Royce engineer nicked on suspicion of giving F-35 info to China

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Re: Stupid... Just stupid...

something Michelin had cracked, but the Soviets had not.

That is multiply apocryphal:

1. Concorde had 10-15% higher take off and landing speed compared to Tu144 because of the canards on the latter. 350 vs 400km/h take off and 270km/h vs 295km/h. I know, this violates the sacred legend that Tu-144 was copied from the Concord, but tough, the specs say different and so does a trivial comparison of pictures of the "face" on take off and landing. Proper analysis of aerodynamics shows more differences, like more advanced positioning of the engines on the Tu-144 to use shock wave reflections - similar to B1, Tu-160, etc. As an overall result, regardless of what the stupid "patriotic legend" says, Tu-144 was significantly better behaved at lower speeds - approach and take off. Not surprising - it is aerodynamically more advanced.

2. The take off and landing speeds of Tu-144 and Concorde are not out of the ordinary for an older generation fixed wing large supersonic aircraft. Sure, nearly all of them were smaller in size, but the speeds were in the same range.

The non-apocryphal bit which USSR had an issue with for the Tu-144 were not the tires. It was the brakes. The biggest tech difference between the Tu-144 and the Concorde was the Tu-144 ridiculous breaking distances. It even had a fully blown military style drogue shute emergency braking system - something the Concorde had no need of.

Unbreakable smart lock devastated to discover screwdrivers exist

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Re: Yeah - but if I am a "common criminal" I'll definitely find another non-indiegogo to pawn

WTF is an "attack dog"?

Real one? Caucasian Shepherd or to a lesser extent a Bulgarian Karakachan. They are originally bred dual purpose - primary as a sheep dog, secondary to defend households including against armed raiders. Anyone who is not identified as a member of the "family" is automatically identified as a target and it literally goes for the kill. There is no messing about, warnings, etc. A pair (male and female) of these is as effective as two 24x7x365 guards armed with submachine guns.

They are considered to be the "most effective perimeter defense" in places where the law is err... a b it .. flexible. I would not use them in a developed country as nobody will give me an insurance for their use as a guard team.

So if the GP is claiming he has an attack dog and it is not one of these, he has an attack toy. Not an attack dog.