Re: "...printer ink worth $6,715,531..."
> "...printer ink worth $6,715,531..."
So, three cartridges then.
You can mock, but you can get about a hundred thousand new printers for that.
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What's ordered in Vegas, doesn't stay in Vegas? $6.7m of printer ink 'stolen by office worker'
Plenty of fish in the C, IEEE finds in language popularity contest
nbn™ switches on first Telstra HFC-powered broadband services
Australian maps and GPS will align by 2020
VW's first US settlement nearly settled
Wednesday 27th July 2016 08:45 GMT
> In Australia, for example, the company claims different NOx emission standards mean the engines didn't breach regulations. ®
Perhaps, but
https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/consumer-rights-guarantees/repair-replace-refund#repair-replacement-or-refund
“You can ask for a replacement or refund if the problem with the product is major.
Replaced products must be of an identical type to the product originally supplied. Refunds should be the same amount you have already paid, provided in the same form as your original payment..”
A product or good has a major problem when:
* it has a problem that would have stopped someone from buying it if they’d known about it
* it is unsafe
* it is significantly different from the sample or description
* it doesn’t do what the business said it would, or what you asked for and can’t easily be fixed.”
If I were VW, I would be avoiding the trying a bit more mea culpa in my response rather than try to argue that line, irrespective of whether it is legally the case.
Zero-day hole can pwn millions of LastPass users, all that's needed is a malicious site
Wednesday 27th July 2016 08:12 GMT
Re: And there I was...
I seriously doubt that is a better idea. Unless lastpass are idiots, they aren't going to be able to decrypt your database because they won't know your master password. I'll be interested to see what the flaw is, but my guess is that it relates to a mechanism to trick it into auto populating the form on an imposter form delivered over an ad network, XCS or MitM attack.
Anti-theft kill switches in smartphones just got a little less creepy
Wednesday 27th July 2016 00:28 GMT
> allow owners who so desire to disable some or all of those options if they don't like the idea that their smartphone could be remotely tracked or accessed.Accessed? OK, I grant you that this is at least technically possible. There is that tiny problem of about 2/3s of active phones can be pwned by a malicious MMS, and let's not even get into the vulnerabilities inside the baseband chips. But is at least on paper achievable if security is taken seriously.Remote tracking though? Uh do they know how a mobile phone network operates? The operator knows damn well where your phone is because your phone talks to its towers, negotiates handovers and so on. That is why your phone actually rings when your number is called. The network isn't blindly broadcasting to every tower around the world to make your phone ring on the off chance that you are there. They actively track you (technically you dob yourself in). So you can't opt out of tracking. You can minimise the number of parties who track you but not opt out totally. Oh and if the tracking worries you, it might be an idea to switch off your WiFi. Even if your iPhone randomises your MAC address, you can still be tracked by your ssid hello messages.
IT boss 'set up fake companies to charge his employers $2.4m'
Sunday 24th July 2016 23:09 GMT
Re: Consultancy...
Well I'm just glad that this type of behaviour is restricted to dodgy people in Texan companies and not political parties on the public teat.
nbn™ talks up HFC upgrades to gigabit speed
Data retention grants still not flowing to Australia telcos
EU Net Neutrality debate heats up as Tim Berners-Lee weighs in
Wednesday 20th July 2016 09:33 GMT
> Since when did state regulation ever improve anything for the people? You have quite a strong hidden assumption there,
Your implied assumption that it never improves anything for the people is much stronger than the OPs assumption.
I think my life is improved by the regulations that prevent people dumping nasty chemicals into our rivers. I think my life is improved by regulations about how much NOx your diesel can spit out. Same for labeling of ingredients on food packaging. Same for the qualifications required to give medical advice or treatments. Same for building codes that guarantee the floor won't collapse if more than 3 people enter a room.
For sure the governments can overstep and create unnecessary red tape, but there is no sensible argument to say they don't improve anything at all.
An anniversary to remember: The world's only air-to-air nuke was fired on 19 July, 1957
Your antivirus doesn't like Ammyy. And fraudsters will use that to RAT you out (again)
Tuesday 19th July 2016 23:03 GMT
Re: I dunno if this would work...
> But might it be a good idea to have a "known good" or "gold" copy of the download held in a secure non-web-facing store
Except if your site got pwned then they would just return true inside the isequal method it uses compromising the entire model.
You don't really need the whole file btw. You just need to store its hash and compare that. Where your idea does have merit would be to deploy to a web job to aws/azure that downloads the files and does the comparison once an hour, broadcasting to predetermined mailboxes when there is a mismatch. Just don't use the same credentials or server for that web job and remember to update your build system to push the new hash to the guardian web job.
Next, figure out some way to protect your build server/repository/compiler/meatbags involved in pushing out a release.
What will laws on self-driving cars look like? Think black boxes and 'minimum attention'
Tuesday 19th July 2016 00:42 GMT
Re: Pointless and expensive technology
If it hands over control, it would more likely be in the situation where it detected a fault with one of its sensors, or mutually exclusive measurements between say the radar and camera data.
It's got a long way to go, but the benefits are pretty obvious to me. A mesh network that allows following cars to know the very moment your emergency braking manoeuvre occurs so they can avoid you is a pretty big one. Think a broadcast to the other cars of "this is my planned way of avoiding obstacle"
Hardball hacker thrown in the cooler for 46 months for guessing rival team's password
Boffins unveil 500TB/in2 disk. Yeah, it's made of chlorine. -196˚C, why?
Google's Nexii stand tall among Android's insecure swill
Pokemon Go Directly To Jail if you hunt here, says Oz Justice Dept
Generous Fiat Chrysler offers $1,500 for car security bugs – or two minutes of annual profit
Thursday 14th July 2016 08:43 GMT
when I see a low figure like this
I assume that there must be so many low lying fruits that they will be paying people out at an unaffordable rate. Wouldn't consider one of their cars after this*
*Disclaimer: wouldn't have considered one before this either, because I know where they and their stablemates sit in the reliability and customer satisfaction surveys.
Alleged Aussie plum plucker pleads guilty to motel tissue swipe
Thursday 14th July 2016 08:35 GMT
yeah. not buying it
A man who coincidentally had multiple firearms and drugs selflessly assisted a "volunteer" who couldn't afford to seek treatment in the free (as in beer) public hospital system but instead opted for a motel room (whose reputation for cleanliness is beaten only by a CPU fab I'm sure).
It smells quite strongly like a message was sent. That message was heard, so they are chasing him via that technically that even with consent, that procedure was illegally performed.
VPN provider claims Russia seized its servers
The Reg Coding competition – 10 times as hard as the last one!
Tesla whacks guardrail in Montana, driver blames autopilot
Tuesday 12th July 2016 09:34 GMT
Re: Idiots!
> Did your car manufacturer advertise the car as "drives itself" and "has an autopilot"? Do not think so.
You are confusing marketing bs with rights and responsibilities of operating a motor vehicle on public roads. For all it matters, the manufacturer could claim that they're AI is good enough that the driver could be drunk, asleep or even a minor. Your responsibility is to be in control of your vehicle at all times. Until the law permits self driving cars, that is where it starts and ends.
Wannabe Prime Minister Andrea Leadsom thinks all websites should be rated – just like movies
'Double speak' squawk users as Silent Circle kills warrant canary
Gigabyte BIOS blight fright: Your megabytes’ rewrite plight in the spotlight
FBI won't jail future US president over private email server
Tuesday 5th July 2016 22:44 GMT
this whole thing could have been avoided
.... if Apple had just unlocked that iPhone. It is encrypted phones that cause risk to all, definitely not classified information being stored on unsecured servers. Definitely not opm databases going walkabouts to China. Nope. iPhone encryption is where it's at.
/at least I am guessing that's where Coomey surveys his threat model.
// Fast forward to next iPhone-gate-gate. So POTUS H, remember when we made that email server case disappear? There's another box of stuff we didn't bother reading inside a filling cabinet in a disused lavatory with a leopard warning. Be a real shame to have to clean that out. Sorry, got sidetracked. Where was I. Oh, that's right. Can we talk about banning mathematics, sorry, I mean encryption?
Here's how to SMS spam Liberal voters and get away with it
Monday 4th July 2016 08:20 GMT
I'm genuinely disgusted at the behaviour of whoever did this, but it's arguably a bit rich to be pulling out the victim card when your own players have been implicated.
Telstra's business network in six-hour collapse
Thursday 30th June 2016 23:05 GMT
Not really a TITSUP moment when you think about what "UP" is for Telstra. The expression "on par" is probably more fitting.
Perhaps they need to bring back a former exec to sort their mess out. Depending on which way the election goes, there would have to be a reasonable prospect of a certain former exec who loves mixed technology networks becoming available...
Win 10 has Update date
Thursday 30th June 2016 22:57 GMT
Re: Don't foget this trick
I think the longer life for XP worked against them. There were plenty of netbook era and earlier machines that couldn't run vista/7 so the argument they were basically mounting was to throw that old box in the bin. A lot of people who do upgrade then pass that box into their kids/parents/uncle's neighbour's grandson's half sister, which doesn't remove it from the XP column in those Gartner reports.
As much as I personally prefer 7, and my media centre PC won't ever be upgraded until it dies beyond repair, come 2020 I will need to air gap it, throw it on its own subnet and only whitelist version traffic. Or find a new media centre that I'm happy with.
Thursday 30th June 2016 08:17 GMT
Re: Don't foget this trick
No, but at some point after replacing the handle on occasions and the blade on other occasions it stops being your grandfather's axe.People update for various reasons. Sometimes they need a laptop for their kids so they but a new shiny for themselves. In other occasions they want warranty coverage. In other occasions, people and businesses do unnecessary spending at tax time. Some people don't want USB devices to get the latest WiFi standard.
Your argument seems to be that because performance improvements are incremental, people won't but new shiny things. What that doesn't take into account is how much hardware has dropped in price* for the equivalent model. When you are forking out a few hundred instead of a few thousand, the incremental improvements can be much smaller than 15 years ago to be worth it.
If you are predicting a slowing in the market, well that is already happening for a few years as people consume their twit face on phones and tablets and stretch out their previous PC spend, buying maybe every 5 - 7 years instead of 3 - 5. That will continue to be the case without some killer use case that needs new hardware, but you would have to be brave to predict it going to 0. People sell perfectly good cars after 3 years for equally limited improvements.
* Unless your paying in £ I guess
The problem with Canada? The price of broadband is too damn high
Zero-interaction remote wormable hijack hole blasts Symantec kit
Google's Widevine DRM doesn't quite manage
Revive revived: Oculus DRM push shattered as DIY devs strike back
Dr Craig Wright lodges 51 blockchain patents with Blighty IP office
Pressure mounts against Rule 41 – the FBI's power to hack Tor, VPN users on sight
Netflix picks fight with internet exchange industry
Tuesday 21st June 2016 12:55 GMT
You are confusing VPN with region shifting. Netflix know who I am. They require me to authenticate. They have my credit card number and would be able to determine its country of issue. They have my mobile phone number and could validate with 2FA. I am not asking them to let me watch the US library.
Tuesday 21st June 2016 08:05 GMT
So do you think that Temkin is being altruistic here? Or is he complaining about how some not for profit is costing him another 5c per subscriber that he would prefer on his bottom line...
Can these organisations be more efficiently run? Probably, I'm yet to see any organisation without some form of waste, but your wallet doesn't care whether the money in it came from an extra sale or a reduced overhead. Their VPN block is both an overhead to maintain and a real customer pain point as paying customers hey caught up in the collateral. If you want a bigger bottom line, stop making your customers choose between privacy and your product.
Monday 20th June 2016 23:18 GMT
Pot meet kettle
How much are Netflix wasting in VPN blocking? I'm not even referring to region shifting here. They can at least blame rights holders on that one. Why can't I, an Aussie, with a service paid for on an Australian credit card stream the Australian Netflix library whilst connected to an Australian VPN gateway.
I get the choice of my browsing being slurped by every man and his local library debt recovery department secured by a bunch of muppets who couldn't organise a pissup in a brewery, or watching Netflix, or saying stuff this, it is to hard to buy content safely and otherwise acquire it.
How's your driving, Elon? Musk tweets that Tesla Model S 'floats'
Tor torpedoed! Tesco Bank app won't run with privacy tool installed
Sunday 19th June 2016 22:55 GMT
Re: Missing the point...?
> aimed at trying to stop criminals from anonymously accessing their services
If that is the yardstick that we should measure this by then it is a terrible idea on 2 accounts.
1. It is ineffective. It doesn't stop access from desktop environments, and let's be honest, cyber crooks are hardly going to bother fiddling around on phone swipes unless it makes their job easier. It also cannot detect whether the traffic has been transparently routed through tor between the phone and the net, so fails it's goal even if that was a good approach in the first place. Even VPNs would easily defeat the ability to track the true location of the client.
2. There does exist a simple to implement and much more effective approach in the server detecting and refusing to deal with communications arriving from tor exit nodes. This could then display a simple message in the app to say. Sorry, you can't use this service via tor. Please disable it and try again. Oh, and that works on desktops and transparent tor routing too. It also works with public VPNs (hey, we are concerned with being able to identify the actual client ip right?)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
