Posts by Adam 1

Re: Perhaps?

@lee

Not necessarily. The passwords may have been encrypted but their private key may have also been stolen. That's one of the many reasons that you want salted hashes, not encryption for password storage

Re: But....

> Oh and to Java devs everywhere, writing everything including the kitchen sink to Log4J output files in not the answer to reliable systems

Log4xyz is a good thing™. Certainly beats the hell out of something went wrong somewhere and we have no logs or some half arsed attempt to write to a text file using code lifted from stack overflow which isn't threadsafe, isn't buffered and works by loading the whole file into memory, appending a line then rewriting the file. Oh and by a file, I mean hundreds of files in various folders with no cleanup mechanism.

Other than sensible defaults, it's usually not a developer's role to configure log4xyz (internal or custom software where you have full understanding of the deployment environment may be the obvious exception). That is why you can change the verbosity of the messages in a config file. It is why you can choose your own appender. If you use a rolling file appender then you can specify things like maximum size, number of files to keep and so on. Then it is just a discussion with business about how much storage they want to pay for vs the point where files get deleted. That's their decision, not yours, not devs. Your job is to make sure you explain the consequences of whatever set of numbers get thrown at you.

The other side of the coin is ensuring that the I/O can handle the volume you throw at it. If you have your loglevel set to debug on a multi threaded stack, it may not be adequate to dump log files to some slow HDD.

Wait, you made me defend Java you sneaky bastard. Is that the new Rick roll?

Re: How silly

So they got the ability to run arbitrary SQL but decided to only run Select statements. Yeah, the other one plays jingle bells.

Re: The horses mouth?

Do you mean this Alastair MacGibbon?

Don't worry though. We can Shirley keep your census data safe.

Done. Thanks

So why is Amazon on the list? Have they ever made a profit?

Re: "consumers won't have to buy new hardware"

Yes. As long as you can mount your laptop on the moggie, this should work fine. Unfortunately, you still need a Roomba on which you can mount the moggie, so it is really turtles all the way down.

Re: Microsoft as a hardware company

Mice...

And probably best not to be talking about webcams at the minute.

Re: Wow

Looking at a Nexus 5 as I type this. 1080p isn't that terrible.

Re: Australia Post's search for relevance ...

> (and what's wrong with the SMTP/POP/IMAP Internet mail service, I'd like to know)

Plenty, but nothing that I believe auspost has the answers to.

On a side note, lots of e-commerce relies on physical package handling to some degree. Why they can't leverage their natural monopoly to turn a pretty penny there shows a real lack of imagination.

Re: well that's annoying

Don't mind draw.io. it does have an XML format so it can be versioned but it's more definitions of points etc. This one had a simple syntax that worked nicely with diff tools and was much quicker to create a simple diagram in it than draw.io.

Re: Victorian Numberplates

The other ones have the humourous tag line "the place to be". Clearly a sentiment that wasn't shared by the drivers of the said vehicles who were elsewhere.

Re: saggfwuepp53hlq%4k12h

Well your auth cookie is sent in clear text every time you login here because apparently TLS is too much effort or something.

Re: One time pad

> it's illegal (in the UK) to send encrypted communications over the airwaves

Is it legal to broadcast the results of a long running game of heads or tails? Enquiring minds and all that.

Re: "eight pounds, or in modern numbers, 3.6 kilos."

> what's that in proper units

About 20 KiloBees

Re: Warning: Aussie census goon squad coming soon!

"International visitors

If you are visiting Australia on Census night, you are required to participate. Your accommodation provider will give you a form or details of how to complete the Census online."

- http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/censushome.nsf/home/getonlinefaqcensus?opendocument&navpos=110

Re: International...

True but not his IP address. Heck, you could identify me by my postcode combined with my employer's name.

Re: Geoblock non aussie IP addresses?

They did. No doubt a good first step but it isn't that hard to circumvent. You're really just playing whack a mole.

"Earlier attempts to frustrate the website led the ABS to block all international traffic at about midday on Tuesday until midnight. But that geo-blocking mechanism ultimately failed, government cyber security adviser Alastair MacGibbon said."

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/malcolm-turnbull-defends-handling-of-census-as-privacy-commissioner-investigates-20160810-gqp45u.html

Re: IBM, i shoulda known.

If El Reg couldn't see this coming then I would be changing news outlets. Blind Freddy could see that provisioning for a million people per hour isn't enough when most families will get home from work, eat dinner, kids in bed then log in. The saddest part is that because they make names compulsory, the results will be less than honest, negatively impacting public policy decisions for the next 5 years.

Rickroll homepage; black hat respect and kudos. This; you are a tool*

*My sincerest apologies to the tool community for bundling these guys with you.

Re: You forgot printers

> What is printer ink?

Unicorn tears.

Re: "Lightening"

>> "Lightning is weird, but calling it lightening is more weird."

> It is also not very bright.

Actually I would say that lightening is quite a bright way to spell it.

Re: That last para-sentence

The linked article mentions a hearing date in the past week or so. Would be interesting to have an update to that case.

Re: Bravo!

If the rest of the world knew the sorts of 8 legged things living in our roof cavities or under the house then they would understand why we don't want to run cables.

Re: hash no good

Half an hour? Does that include unboxing the computer and plugging it in?

Relatively modest PCs can hash at "many billions per second" rates. Specifically designed hardware for bitcoin mining is measured in "many tens of billions per second".