Posts by Adam 1

Re: Did I read that right?

But the advances in computer power mean that homer17 should be crackable someone next year. I'd go something more secure like homer21.

Re: Over-the-air security of our products

I don't even want a breaking system in my car. That should definitely be covered by warranty.

Re: Should have

Alternatively, something like

https://www.amazon.com/Loftus-Power-Starter-Prank-Pistol/dp/B0006GJXW4

alternatively

If you make it blue, then over 60℅ is fine

It's a bit more complicated than that. It was Brandis in that Brandis introduced the bill that eventually passed. On that note, he demonstrably showed a lack of judgement that will come back to bite us in the future, so definitely no free pass for him.

Indirectly, the ALP is tarred with the same brush here. There are times when you could argue that positions were changed by compromise and negotiation. For example, a party may claim to be against a particular service cut/tax hike but negotiate it through in such a way that the constituency that they are concerned about is compensated for that change. Sometimes it is a pragmatic decision to take a lesser of two evils on offer. That wasn't the case here though. The alternative "do nothing" was indeed a live choice and the preferred position of a significant minority of both major parties.

More directly though, there were definitely rumblings back in 2010 and 2012.

Here is a link to a senate investigation on the matter.

http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BN/2012-2013/DataRetention

So Conroy is knee deep in it, even if he himself didn't pull the trigger.

Re: Really?

>However, PPTP has been known to be flawed for years.

Your post is confusing two issues together; the security vulnerabilities in the protocol (which to my mind justify the decision to sunset it) and the length of time that is reasonable for people to get their backsides into gear and use a proper protocol.

To my knowledge, there has been no amazing breakthrough that has come to light in the past month or so that means that today is the day it's got to go. These vulnerabilities have been publicly known to exist since before Mountain Lion, but they didn't announce their sunset plans any time in the past 3 years to anyone who doesn't visit some obscure forum.

As a better model, look at how other companies are handling the transition away from sha1 certificates. Whilst the attacks against them are still believed to be impractical, we are coming close enough to realising them that we know they shouldn't be used. The big browser makers no longer accept as secure any sha1 certificate signed after a certain date and once that period has elapsed they won't be trusted at all. Sure owners don't like hearing about broken padlock icons so get properly signed ones.

Re: brilliant idea MS

It doesn't install it. It just updates it if you're "brave" enough to still have it installed.

that's amazing

That dude is tiny!

Re: It seem to me

All that matters from an efficiency perspective is how much fuel was used over a specified distance.

Unless your driving pattern involves continuously driving at 35Mph without ever braking until your fuel tanks are dry, your economy will benefit from kinetic energy capture systems. Anything reclaimed is fuel that doesn't need to burn.

I'm not going to make a case for or against a phev. It is largely dependent on a combination of your local energy mix and your driving distance requirements. But your complaints about well to wheel efficiency of them would hold a bit more water if you stop assuming that we drill for gasoline and start to understand the huge amount of energy required to refine it to something useable. It is not beyond possible that your gasoline car consumes more electricity via that one refining step than some EVs.

We have no problem in you opting in to sharing such information with any organisation that you choose if you are happy to do so. Is it really so offensive to you that some people think that a macca's menu isn't enough of a "pro" vs the "con" of slurp watching you 24/7?

The "horror" is that he explicitly said he didn't want to share his location data and it didn't respect that.

Re: Light bulb moment?

Just like how pilots get to cruising altitude, activate autopilot, then flick on harry potter I guess.

Jokes aside, there is a colloquial usage when you start driving the wrong direction for where you are actually intending going so it does risk drivers believing they can stop paying attention.

The problem isn't with the system per se. The problem is with the complete failure of any commentator or cricket show etc to seriously attempt to explain why the numbers fall the way they do. There are a myriad of factors that come together to decide the adjusted target, the scoring rate averages, wickets in hand, overs remaining, the price of cheese and Schrödinger's cat's life expectancy. It tries to balance out the reduced overs so that neither team is advantaged by the target but you are looking at a game where a few runs can matter a lot. For me, the confidence interval for likely scores has got to be too wide for this sort of protection to be reliably made.

When there's only a few overs truncated I am probably exaggerating the problem, but i would as an engineer like to see the relative weightings displayed in the stats rather than just be told that's the number because we're clever.

Re: Genuine BSODs?

In the same way, you really going to blame the OS for a bad/kernel panic when the RAM or PSU starts to give up the ghost? It's still funny as when the resulting dump lands on a giant public display (proceed with this silliness at full steam) though, no matter what the OS.

Re: On the plus side on holiday cat feeding sorted.

> Cats slash bag of biscuits open (I'm sure ths inspiration for Wolverine and his adamantine claws came from a cat owner as byproduct of cats is scratches & looking like you self harm) and happily eat food, and wait for next combo food and play installment

Never happen. Once the bag was opened, it would take one sniff and decide that it doesn't eat that brand anymore even though it's been their favourite for weeks. Seriously, their mates are probably around the corner ROTFLMAO at our feeble attempts to guess what to order next time.

Re: Removal of 'W' keys story was propaganda

Wait, are you expecting me to believe that the Bush administration lied about things? Shirley you jest?

Re: "a long-term plan to mark all HTTP sites as non-secure"

> HTTPS is really, really slow

No. Not even close. When Google switched on HTTPS for Gmail by default 6 years ago, they found it increased CPU load by less than 1℅ and network traffic by 2%

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.html

With multiplexing in HTTP/2, HTTPS more often than not outperforms HTTP.

If there is a difference it is in transparent proxies.

I do however add my +1 to some sort of digital signature standard for delivering non private pages in a way that the client can tell they haven't been tampered and where the transparent proxies can still operate.

Re: @AndyS

> I think you have that the wrong way round.

Yes I do. Ended up with an extra not in that sentence which changes the meaning. Also, autocarrot changed one of my words to bakery which reads pretty random.

But I think you picked my basic point; that if your engine bay contains an engine block, you have to try to jettison it under the safety cell. But it is still going to crush your feet on the way through because you can't quickly change the direction of many hundreds of Kg. The more energy that can be absorbed in front of the safety cell, the slower the rate of deceleration experienced by the passengers.

Re: environment nose

> You've got digital ears? Wow

Yes, 10 of them with self evidently 0 in between.

Re: Perhaps one day....

Nah. You know if they somehow implode and lose all that hundred gazzillion dollars stashed in the bank and have to lay off their engineering and marketing talent then it will be Microsoft that buys them out for $100 billion. Then they will use that new found IP to change the way that you end a call (dragging the contact to the trash).

> In other news, a murderer rang up his victim and told him to take a knife out of the top drawer and then stab himself repeatedly with it.

The bastard! I should've known it was a scam. After I stop this bleeding I'm going to

Re: No need to panic... But PANIC FEELS BETTER

> This country went from landing on the Moon to "This bag is not a toy!" in only 40 years

Maybe so, but this one time after shopping for what seemed like eternity for some new shoes, I got home and needed to have a bite. Thank God for that timely warning on those silica gel packs. Could've made me sick had I not noticed.