Posts by Jamie Jones

Re: Don't click the link !

.....and also making sure the link is not one spscific to your received email.

Even http://potato.example.com/ could be dodgy - if I wanted to hide a unique id, i'd probably stick a random word on as a subdomain..

Re: Hostage situations...

"All of this confirms what I think I will do if ever I find myself facing a bunch of US cops with their guns out for me: hands up, drop to my knees, hit the ground and spread-eagle. If they want to talk to me after that, I'll be listening, but I won't move until they tell me I can or come and cuff me."

Even that doesn't work all the time :-(

And even then the cops get away with it ... This guy was innocent of any crime, but this is how his execution went down:

The body camera footage shows Shaver on his knees in the hotel hallway, a few feet away from the barrel of a police officer's gun.

"Hands up in the air," an officer says.

Shaver puts his hands on the floor, then behind his back, then moves them forward again before an officer yells "Hands up in the air!" Shaver moves his hands up above his head.

"You do that again, we're shooting you, do you understand?" the officer said.

"Please, do not shoot me," Shaver said.

"Then listen to my instructions," the officer said.

"I'm trying to just do what you say," Shaver said.

"Do not put your hands down for any reason!" the officer later says to Shaver. "You think you're going to fall, you better fall on your face. Your hands go back in the small of your back or down, we are going to shoot you! Do you understand me?"

"Yes, sir," Shaver says, sobbing.

An officer then orders Shaver to crawl toward him. As Shaver crawls, he appears to reach behind him with his right hand.

That's when Brailsford fired five rounds, killing him.

More: https://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/10/us/arizona-jury-acquits-ex-cop-of-murder/index.html

Hi anon. My reply was not related the the Huawei phone, but to the previous comment "nobody wants a sd-card slot"

"That's not a bad idea, but a monitor of equivalent size is absurdly expensive and they tend not to have good viewing angles because they're designed for one person. I've considered a projector, though."

I have a projector. Best decision I made.

For £400, I have a 100 inch (it can go bigger) 1080p screen which works great for video, and also great for accessing El Reg from my sofa (as I am now!)

I have the ACER H6510BD... Weirdly it was £400 new when I bought it about 2 years ago, but now appears to be at least £600...

Re: Spectrum grows on trees

It is evil. Who are you to decide that your cell call to your girlfriend is more important than someones training by video? (See, it's easy to make sweeping examples to prove your case when generalising so much)

If someone has paid for data, they have as much right to use that data anyway they want, just as you have.

Now, if the terms and conditions say that general connection speeds may be slowed down across the board to prioritise cell voice traffic, then fair enough.. Other network managements techniques can also be used if they are in the terms and conditions.

If not, it's the cell companies fault for not provisioning enough capacity, and/or selling contracts to the public that they can't meet.

And, in keeping with the whole Net Neutraility point of the article, there should be no distinction between data traffic from skype and data traffic from youtube...

Re: Eh?

The fact she's a Labour MP 100% behind state education, but sent her kid to a private school.

What, hypocrite, moi?!

I'm no Dianne Abbott fanboy, or private school advocate, but I can't see why that makes her a hypocrite.

Labour aren't in power. She could easily say "I'm 100% for supporting state schools, but the current government has left them in such a mess that they are not up to scratch. We all want the best for our children, and as I'm in a fortunate position to be able to do so, I've had to send them to private schools"

Now, if she was the minister in charge or education, then she'd be a hypocrite, much like the moron "Betsy de Vos" in charge of the American system (who was well placed, because Republicans are determined to screw up state education)

CNN: DeVos struggles to answer questions about schools in home state (YOUTUBE)

Re: It's not that Windows failed, it's that it failed in public view

They should use this error message: https://54below.com/app/uploads/error-message-1024x576.png

(Yes, yes, I'm still living in the 90's)

What's dat?

Where does it say it's a DAT cartridge?

Re: How are they breaching his human rights?

In the same way that blocking unregulated immigration is a human rights violation despite the fact that any illegal immigrant can leave if they don't like how the receiving country runs the show.

Give me your address.. I'm coming to kip in your spare bedroom.

Re: "AND the header-level clues that DNS resolution is being requested."

Lets start with the SNI header !

To be fair, SNI was designed to solve a different problem - correctly handling certificates for different domains on the same IP.

As the only working alternative was one-host-per-ip there was no security compromise - before SNI you just sniffed the IP address from the packet headers!

(I'm not saying you don't know this - I just thought it worth pointing out to any one stupid enough to read my posts!)

Re: @The Tick

"A little riled"? Sure did!. It sure angers me to see our country being flushed down the toilet, especially when the reasons for it are untrue.

Stlll, it motivates me to spread the word even more, so cheers for that!

Time and time again, governments (of all flavours) have blamed 'the EU" for all that goes wrong, when it reality it has nothing to do with the EU.

You really think Rees-Mogg, boris and trump have the UK's best interest at heart?

You realise the US will only allow trade on their standards?

Me? I don't plan on eating maggots (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/food-standards-brexit-uk-us-trade-deal-maggots-rat-hair-worms-insects-mould-products-a8575721.html) any time soon

For example, US producers are allowed to include up to 30 insect fragments in a 100g jar of peanut butter; as well as 11 rodent hairs in a 25g container of paprika; or 3mg of mammalian excreta (typically rat or mouse excrement) per each pound of ginger.

In the EU there are no allowable limits for foreign bodies in food products.

By the way, you seem to assume I think the EU is perfect. Nothing could be further from the truth, but we can affect change when we're in, rather than bow out like wimps.

Again, the MEPs are voted for. Any shit they get up to is therefore the responsibility of the voters. If they are undemocratic, then the UK government is too.

Anyway, this isn't some romantic idea of being in some buddies club - the dilusion is on the leavers side, who seem to think that everything will magically come better. I mean, we can even stop the EU making it rain all the time, and making England crap at football!

The issue is economic, and political. There are loads of articles out there showing the problems and costs we will incur (we *WILL* be poorer, period). There are far more good laws for us from the EU than the UK regarding our personal rights (which the UK have been trying to erode for years)

https://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Convention_ENG.pdf

Take special care to read articles 9, 10 & 11 specifically the second paragraphs on each. If you still think we have human rights after reading that then there's no hope for you.

I guess there's no hope for me then. I did read it, and whilst there were some bits that could be taken badly, on the whole they are common sense.

Anyway, not bad, only 3 small subparagraphs in a document so large, but I'm saving the real zingers for last:

1) The declaration of human rights has NOTHING to do with the EU.

2) It was mostly written by the BRITISH.

Plenty of links to help you here: Is the ECHR part of the EU/

So... "oops"

What I was referring to are the things that the EU are actually responsible for - polution-less beaches and seas, workers rights (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-latest-news-10-ways-eu-protects-british-workers-rights-in-danger-european-union-a7531366.html), anti-snooping laws, and so on.. Just google it, and compare against what the UK has done (despite mass dragnet snooping operations)

The Kalashnikov thing was a bit of sarcastic fun - surprised you took it so seriously lol.

My comment implying someone strolling through customs with a Kalashnokov was returned with just as much sarcasm. However, your key underlining point was meant seriously, and was not based in truth. Hence the reply.

Still, at least you bothered to reply, unlike the other spineless chumps who downvoted without saying why.. I guess the truth hurt their feelings.

I'm out of this thread now. It's sad that you voted for something when you are so uninformed on what you actually voted for.

I've posted enough facts and debunked most of your points, that any future posts would just be pissing contests, and I've no time for that.

No-one here is going to change anyone elses mind.. it's become a religious war.

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Re: Still measured in Gigabytes?

Well, wish.com and amazon.co.uk sell flash thumb drives with 2Tb capacity for under £20!

Apparently these companies are above the law now...

Re: TANSTAAFL

I find these two societal trends quite disturbing. We should expect to pay for things that we receive that are of value, and when we are at work, we should expect to be working.

There are lots of free emai services out there. It's not unreasonable therefore to ask around for any suggestions on a "free or low cost mail solution"

It's completely different to the never-ending comments you see on android apps saying things like:

- "this game is a con. i loved the first level, but why should we have to pay to play the other"?

- Game would be brilliant if it was free. 1 star.

- I appreciate the amount of work that must have gone into this app, but it would be much fairer if we got daily tokens rather than having to pay real money for them.

<cheapshot>Incidentally, how much did you pay for Linux ? ;-) </cheapshot>

As for the 'personal mail on work time' - yes, if people are taking the piss. But you can't assume that of dropbear, indeed, i'd assume most people here would not take the piss, and work for people who treat them as such.

I can look at non-work related websites in work, make and receive personal phone calls, and my boss doesn't give a crap. Probably because he also knows that if the shit hits that fan at 4.59pm, i won't be rushing out the door at 5:00.00 - it works both ways, and I wouldn't work in an environment where I have it any other way.

Re: Hugh Jorgen

I used to know someone whose real name is Richard Large...

Re: Bind/Named

[ Not directed to crazy ops guy ]

A PI will comfortably run "unbound". Hell, if your router has ssh access, you could install it there.

https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/about/