Posts by Jamie Jones

I'm using DLP :-)

Re: Naming Confusion?

... just like the article itself says!

I realise your question is rhetorical, but I'll reply "they can!" anyway!

Of course it's going around in circles a bit - it's simply a way to avoid ICAAN rules, that need to be removed in the first place!

You must be new here!

Re: its like the leads at the back of my desk at work.

Those evil spiders really hate Christmas tree lights too!

Re: Huh?

ditto me with welshgit.org :-)

Re: Chrome 66 will roll out in coming days and weeks.

Today is one of the coming days, yes.

"roll-out" is the key term here - packages for all different operating systems and distributions will not be updated today.

Additionally, android updates don't reach everyone at once.

Re: Sick of the spam calls

"Why yes, I'll certainly answer your questions, as long as it doesn't take long - the traffic is really busy and tricky at the moment, and I shouldn't be on the phone anyway!" (said whilst sitting on the sofa)

...

"Um, yes, I do own a Microsoft computer....... SHIT" *plays screatching brakes and car crash sound effect, then hangs up*

Re: Pants

Not quite. Encrypted proxy DNS without software changes needed on the ISPS server, which is still used, but now effictively as a dumb relay, removing the originators IP address from the internet and the remote dns servers.

Re: Christ almighty...

Have you *seen* youtube comments? !

Re: Puzzled

I use rsync over the internet extensively - using ssh.. It's as secure as the ssh connection it runs over.

I can only assume the article is refering to some people using rsync in a misconfigured daemon mode.

(Remember, rsync in daemon mode can be used to provide an anonymous rsync service [ http://www.panticz.de/anonymous-rsync ] which could open up all sorts of holes if the directories are not set correctly - in the same way that anonymous ftp could. )

Re: The Swiss are in it

Wish it was just England- and Wales as well, since they voted for it- that were going to have to suffer the consequences,

Vindictive much? You seem to be under the impression that everybody in Wales voted for BRexit.

Hint: We didn't. Just like "The UK voted brexit", but some - like you and me - didn't.

Re: Damn

A big *wooosh* to all those who didn't get Natalies first post the way it was intended, and an even bigger woosh to those who didn't get it after the 'demon' followup post

Re: You could perhaps make it a bit progressive

Yes, yes, as soon as you bloody townies start paying more for your water, and those of you not near gas terminals pay more for your gas.. And as for electricity, how far from the power station are you?

Re: You are aware that...

Cell tower information can be triangulated quite accurately. I remember an "app" on my Nokia communicator that could map out the area scaringly accurately just by triangulation of cell tower strength. Of course, you need to be somewhere that has enough towers, but even without that, a moving subject can often be matched to local road mappings.

Re: its CEO took to Twitter to offer his commiserations.

I have no horse in this race, but if they didn't make an immediate comment via Twitter, everyone would be getting mad at them for ignoring it.

It's what they do NOW that matters.

Re: Just out of curiosity...

Obviously El Reg makes most of its money selling our data.

It's invaluable to know who likes pedantic-grammar posts, how many like a beer on friday, and who are the best/worst punsters!

Re: They fixed it!

Yeah.. And they said it was urgent and the office junior was about to go home.

If it was that urgent, the poor little rich boys could have hung around a bit longer and done the mundane paper folding themselves!

Re: What about proxies?

The thing is, you pay for the proxy service.

It sounds like the ICANN proposal to its governance board was to run a similar type of scheme, but who would pay for it? Without adding costs to the domain registration, they wouldn't be paid, so it's no wonder they refused.

I suppose the nearest "official equivalent" to the proxy idea would in effect be a way to force European users to pay for such a service - either via a proxy service like you use, or a domain surcharge to pay for an ICANN run scheme.

As for the issue of law enforcement, the arguments cited in the article are bollocks.

If law enforcement need the domain owners details, they can contact the registrar the domain was bought from. They are the ones who maintain the databases that make up the public whois database after all!

In addition, the registrar will hold personal/billing details. Whilst it's possible that they have been faked, as they are not public, and are likely to have credit card billing information, they are going to be far more accurate than the public database - and any person registering a domain with criminal intent who doesn't register with real billing details will not have real details on the currently public view either!

Re: This post is a collection of alt-right dog whistles.

JCRabbit, your brainwashing is shown by the way you keep using the "word" liberal - in much the same your elders used the word "cmmies".

This "them vs. us" mentality shown here only exists in your sad deluded scared little brains.

The reason some of these people are referred as "trolls" isn't because their opinions are disagreed with - it's because a large number of them are simply exploiting the low IQ, lack of critical thinking, and constant state of fear inherent in you guys to make their money.

Lauren is just a hick actor who couldn't get a job at Fox.

Re: Buh-bye

You miss his point: On a techie site, talking about Kepler, they felt the need to say "artificial", as if the clarification is needed.

He's still a grumpy old git though!

Re: BitCalm Gone Bye Bye?

"made a curious typo in his backup and restore script."

Probably mistyped the device filename, e.g. /dev/rnt instead of /dev/rmt on a unix server which used static device file entries rather than a devfs.

If the device filename doesn't exist, an ordinary file is created on the filesystem instead!

I used to find loads of those around servers I helped manage - people doing manual writes to export data from one location to another (back then, tapes were more viable than their network!) - presumably by the time they discovered the tape was blank, they repeated the task, not realising what had caused the original problem, and therefore not tidying up after themselves.

"Not sure what the downvotes are all about for my last post?"

Like many here I was deeply involved in fixing Y2K issues, and the problem was very real - most of them embarrassingly so.

We expect ill-informed comments like that from the tabloids, not El Reg readers.

What if Y2K when it happened had caused loads of real problems? The tabloids would have moaned that with all their warnings, and "all the money thrown on it [by poor tax payers already propping up immigrants and doleys]", we still couldn't sort it out.

P.S. Incorrect use of question marks bugs me. Are you not sure, or unsure whether you're not sure?

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Re: *wah-wah* They started it!

My point wasn't that he's picking "on my team" - more that they assume I have a team in the first place.

I realise he's talking about America, and in America, the partys are treated as teams, but even then, I think it's insulting to Americans to assume that just because they are picking up one party for ill-doing, that they automatically love the other party, and have no quarms with them doing the same thing.

His argument is making assumptions about other peoples political morals, and then using those assumptions to basically accuse them of being hypocrites.

Hence my reaction would be along the lines of "they did it too? go after them too then!"

A lot of people vote for whichever party/candidate they think is best for them at the time. They may change their minds come next election. The flag-waving-idol-cheering crowds (whether it's Trump, Clinton, or Sanders) doesn't really happen here. Sure, you get the party faithful down at HQ for the TV shots, but for the majority, they realise that who they vote for today will probably screw them tomorrow ! :-)

I think that attempting to win an argument by deflecting it onto someone they assume you support unconditionally is a weak tactic - especially for someone who presumably has a doctorate.

cheers