Posts by John Tserkezis 2242 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2007
"The Act that fucks you while your're sleeping"
I am absolutely stunned that anyone - and I mean anyone would think the DMCA is doing good for the people it's inflicted on. And yet I still hear them bleating the virutes of "protected copyright".
This is more worse and widespread than the "speed cameras save lives" dribble, it's as if the DMCA has no bounds.
"I'm sure plenty of people would love to have their malware whitelisted because it's identified as a core Windows component."
You don't have to. As the article says, with heuristic flags being generated hand over fist, I'm seeing a greater number of false positives than ever before.
Not to mention the worsening flags on crack and key gen software. By default, things look so bad that you'll need to check yourself for odd rashes.
"Doesn't look so bad really, this is not some government nanny squad, they actually do appear to be on the look out for the bad guys"
Be careful, if you keep telling yourself that, you'll eventually start to believe it.
They told us that with the Australian Internet Filter. Then, even before being "officially" released, they blocked a Queensland dentist. I'm guessing one of the goverment retards that vetted websites saw a photo of a 12 year old girl in a dentist chair getting her teeth done and yelled CHILD PORN! And that's all it takes, the sites apparently weren't double checked, just that a site was flagged was enough to put it on the banned list.
Not only that, the leaked list(s) were a near-treasure trove of porn sites. Which was very welcome for those who partake in the passtime.
"security experts consulted by the senator noted that all the cars, save for motors built by one manufacturer, can be hacked using previously published techniques"
Name names or it doesn't count.
No wait, it's vastly more important we protect the guilty and the lazy. That's all right then, as you were...
"You may disable Voice Recognition data collection at any time by visiting the 'settings' menu. However, this may prevent you from using all of the Voice Recognition features."
I may also disable voice recognition by unplugging the ethernet connection, so I can do away with my so-called smart TV and make do with a regular PC that's entirely under my control.
And if Samsung doesn't like that, they can bite me.
"Er no. CO2 – a gas described as a greenhouse gas that is alleged traps heat and makes the planet possibly insignificantly warmer"
I bet you're one of those weirdos that doesn't immunise their kids either? Yeah, let's not listen to real scientists and medical practitioners, they don't know anything.
Don't call me if you get an infection that's going to kill you, I can't help.
"Where do you plan to put it all?"
Australian polititians were touting a great idea they were given. Dump all the CO2 underground in unused mining tunnels. After all, there's a few of those in Australia that are filling with water causing sink holes and otherwise making a nuisance of themselves.
Now you know why we make fun of them. (the polititians, not the holes)
Sorta funny they brought them in to address the Sugar Cane Beetle problem, well, they licked that allright, and continued to eat everything else and multiply.
This is not the only thing the sugar industry has done to demonstrate their disregard for anything, they've lobbied polititians to have extensive amounts of water to them, to the determent of others, all for a product we don't need to survive.
Let's hope the toads are eradicated, the cane beetles come back, and their "vital" crops fall over. (*)
(*) I'm diabetic, so don't care if sugar is wiped out. Fruits make their own sugar, and no, Fruit Loops don't count as fruit so good riddance.
</endrant> Is there a maximum rant quota?
Aside from that, I manged to track it down some time after release and we sat down to watch it.
Remember when I said "rabid"? If Adam Sandler is on, he'll shout anyone down for making noise during the movie. However, after the "film", he didn't say so, but you could see it in his eyes. His brain died a little bit.
It's that bad. Do not be tempted to watch this citing "anything this bad has to be funny", it isn't, you're not watching a 50's SciFi that was once thrown out, watching this will cause brain damage.
So what? Give me $18.5bn, and I can fix Sydney's bus network.
A 2Km trip takes about 25 minutes limping along with a cane. Public transport is three buses and an hour and a half. To my old job, 35 minutes with a motorbike. 2 fucking hours by public transport.
Europa is piss easy, stop wasting your time and try our bus network for a real challenge.
Homer Simpson was right: Public transportation is for jerks and lesbians.
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"However, just because the inventor of the format doesn't know how to speak properly, that doesn't mean that we should follow him in his error. Either of his errors. Use png."
Ok, and how do you pronounce "png"? It sounds like a foreign language translation of a herb that causes death, that is also suitable for sprinkling on your pasta, or your pea soup.
I used to have a 20 year old piece of shit that showed its age, and had an extensive spare parts market, both official manufacturer and third party, so it wasn't worth stealing for parts. The only thing in that car worth stealing, was my wristwatch while I was driving. As it turns out, the wristwatch was also the most advanced electronics in the car too.
I could leave it in any seedy part of town, and watch every other car being pinched except for mine. No car thief would touch it, in fear other thieves would find out and beat them to death out of shame.
When I got rid of it, the only part worth recycling was the stainless exhuast, and even then I almost had to pay for someone to take it off my hands.
Sure the BMs are nicer, but you'll only enjoy them for a short time before they're pinched. I might not get home in style, but I _will_ get home.
"stole my classic gpz900 last year goes to prison"
You do know we're not talking about the same thing don't you? Unless you were suckered into it by the "anti-piracy" (you wouldn't steal a car...etc) message on DVDs, of which ironically, very ironically, the background music was also "stolen" - er excuse me, "borrowed".
"Rhetorical question to self while shaking head: Are people still really that stupid?"
Always were, always will be.
I gave this argument many years ago (in the win3 days), and during discussion with associates on to how one needs to obscure malware to get it out in the wild.
I said, don't bother, don't try, don't put any effort into it at all. Just call it "BigTits.exe" and watch it fly. You won't get everyone, but it really doesn't matter. Getting everyone is excessive hard work because the smarter they are, the harder it is to scam them - it's just not worth the effort.
The Nigerian 419er's use this system. They're actually masters of social engineering, but even they know it's much easier, faster, cheaper and less effort to scam an idiot, rather than someone with streetsmarts for the same money.
So, the scammers have only one single concern: How many idiots are left? Let's just say, whoever you ask, it appears the sun will blow up before the idiots are finally eradicated.
"...said Steve Kipp, Comcast’s vice president of communications for the Washington region"
"We have zero tolerance for this type of disrespectful behavior"
It appears their "retention specialist", "Comcast execs" and her "nearest store", all didn't get the memo.
For a communications company, they don't appear to be very good at communicating memos. It's as if this Steve Kipp character writes memos, shoves them in his desk drawer, and promptly forgets about them. I knew a few managers like that. Weren't fun to deal with either.
"My understanding was RAID6 spreads the parity across the storage drives as dedicated parity drives end up dying sooner due to the high usage of the parity drive compared to the storage."
Not quite. The 45 data drives, and the 10 parity drives are actually part of the entire working set (55 drives). They're numbered like that so you can more easily determine how much space you have to work with (45 drives). Your regular data, AND the parity data is spread evenly across the 55 drive set. Losing any one (or two for RAID6) drives results in only slightly slower data transfer operations, but otherwise, your users may not even notice. Hopefully, the adminstrators do though...
The spares, depending on confguration may be power up, or not, but either way, do nothing till a drive in the working set (whichever drive that is) fails, and a spare is called apon to take it's place. A lack of any spare drives in the array is the same (regardless if they're all in use due to failures, or you didn't have any spare at all), but you need manual intervention to swap the faulty drives for new ones instead.
of course someone will still be offended by "melon farmer"
This is why I sometimes have a tablet or laptop nearby, while watching movies at home.
Urban Dictionary. Seriously, I would have been completely lost watching "Deuce Bigalow" otherwise.
They should include subtitles for these.
"following a string of complaints that it might lead to mass dog farming."
"Might lead to"? "MIGHT"?! Who's naive now?
Mass dog farming is regular thing. It isn't new, and it isn't going away, the want for profit is stronger than the "risk" of getting shut down.
Therefore, whining about one friggin' puppy is going to save the world. Makes perfect sense.
I found an unplated Passport available on sale in Australia for AU$999. I'm presuming the glold plated and nicely boxed version would be easily double that.
That's the reason we by stuff from overseas. Even with conversion rates and tax included, you're still substancially better off.
Sorry for the rant, we're still getting idiots whining about the import tax thing "ruining" businesses here.
"Don't get me wrong I don't think what the hotels were doing is right but I think there might be some other issues to consider."
You're right in your other comment, that some WiFi networks can be so delicately set up, that while not quite a house of cards, an influx of new unexpected access points can throw a spanner in your works - that's probably why the de-authentication packets were created.
However, that was NOT the case here. It was purely a legal "loophole" that let you shut down unrecognised access points that did not involve jamming in it's own definition. Note, they can't and won't shut down 2G/3G/4G cellular connections, because, the only cost effective way to do that is jamming, and that's defined as illegal. However, if they *could*, I assure you, they very much *would*.
After reading more about this, it appears insuring yourself against rouge deauth packets is either impossible, or nearly impossible.
This is a huge hole in WiFi capability. It's nice the FCC pulled their finger out and addressed it, but that's only in the US, it's going to take many years if at all, if this does the rounds in other parts of the world.
"Nobody can break into my brain for a password."
You've nailed it.
I think Apple have done Motorola a favour here, fingerprints are no more secure than "loose" passwords, and like you said, instead of being secure in your head, you leave your fingerprint security key on almost everything you touch over your entire life. Worse still, as you said, once your ever so important fingerprint has been once compromised (and easily at that), you can't change it. Ever.
Changing fingers doesn't count, you only get 10 chances verses millions on a big-boy password. Or, like another poster suggetsed, use the middle finger instead. It means more.
Facial recognition? Don't make me laugh, you may as well save everyone the time and just hand over your device to the crooks right now.
"my monopod with a proper camera attached which I've been using for years"
The difference between a photographer and twat are pretty easy to tell apart.
If you rest one end of your monopod on the ground for stability, you're a photographer.
If you hold your monopod by the end (the foot), and face the camera towards yourself, you're a twat.
"If we all stopped allowing it on our machines, what would we really miss out on?"
I would love to, but right now, it's just not possible.
Among other things, I get two different subscription online magazines that are delivered via, well, flash.
Ironically, and perhaps much more sadly, they're both electronics and computing engineering rags.
A forehead slap just isn't enough here.
"We also have MPs that are happy to be in parliament while demanding that their bit of the country should be another country. Our supreme leader also talks to God, will do anything the oil companies tell him and loves following the US into wars in the middle east"
We have MPs like that too!
They must be breeding - Hey! Who let them breed?!
"I often use LibreOffice and its great, but rarely follows the document layout in .docx in my experience, better with .doc"
I've seen the opposite. I regularly get .doc files from others that don't look quite right. Especially if you get the "wrong" version of office. In any case, LibreOffice gets it mostly right enough to get the job done. Cross-version support for RTF is even worse.
I even have one associate who distributs everything in .doc format, because (his words) "PDF doesn't display properly". He doesn't see the irony when I call and ask what version of word he used just so I can bloody see it properly.
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