Posts by Adam 1

And to my mind counter productive.

https://xkcd.com/323/

Re: Dear Reg,

It returns the last time the car was used and the number of km driven.

Imagine someone with a creepy ex who knows the VIN and can now take a pretty good guess at whose house they are now staying at. Or when it says it is charging and they know that pretty much guarantees that the car is at their targets house.

Note that the APIs tested were read only, or at worst activated the climate control, but that doesn't mean there aren't other remote unlock and find my car calls that haven't made their way into the app as yet but may be supported on the server. Setting up a WiFi pineapple next to free fast chargers to get the VIN and then unlock it.

It's bad enough that they should have worked alongside the researchers to minimise the attack surface and buy time to fix it properly.

One does not simply buy a space ship with drop bear drive.

/and anyone who thinks it doesn't sound bad ass simply doesn't understand the true horror of a drop bear encounter. Bloody hell, they make our spiders look tame.

Re: as of 1 April

Yes. Please take care.

Re: Ship visit

OK, first we have a ship going from Taiwan to Guam via Cairns, and now I find out that Wagga is in Cairns too....

My geography is seriously confused.

Re: When I was a kid

She called her cat Koenigsegg?

Re: i call CLICKBAIT

Oh come on. That was a by-line of the week.

/slow golf clap

Re: "Nobody needs to load software from disc any more"

> I am living, travelling and working on my motorhome with my own network on board

It's possible that you may not be the target market of large OEMs line Dell or Lenovo. Dropping the DVD drive let's them bring the per unit costs down by £20. Less to screw in, less SATA cables, less power cables as well. They can then either drop the price or bump the CPU or RAM or a slightly larger monitor over their competition.

Then again, perhaps the strategy of chasing the motorhoming system administrator market may go someway in explainiy HP's profit figures?

Re: 2000 hour inspection cycle

My understanding about much of the fatigue was that it related to the expansion and contraction of the materials as the relative air pressures change (inside vs outside). Planes that do a lot of short hops have more stresses than one doing long distance for the same km.

Re: Everyone's a User

And in other contexts too. I am sure that some of the questions that I have posed to health care professionals over the years could equally turn up on some narky comment on "theregistrar.co.uk".

Re: Nostalgic olde Fart

486 would run the original prince of Persia without blinking. I do remember having the boot disk on the 386DX to play either Doom or Simcity 2000.

Re: Expect the decision to be overturned.

Expect the decision to be not overturned. It is the correct application* under Australian law**. It is not considered a criminal offence*** under Australian law and so damages payments should not be punitive. The pirate will be liable for the purchase price plus reasonable administration costs, so they don't "get away with it" as such. Those administration costs could reasonably be several 10s of dollars which makes it a rather expensive way of acquiring films but isn't going to push people into financial ruin either.

DBC didn't play ball here (in spite of the obvious benefit of recouping lost income) because they really just want to find some chickens to kill to frighten the monkeys.

*IANAL etc

**but agree if you are referring to some way that the TPP will roger our laws.

***at personal use levels. Becomes criminal if you do it for commercial gain.

All of which are attracted to my pancreas*

*with a force proportional to the product of our masses and inversely proportional to the distance between us.

Actually knowing your vendor will be upfront and wear their mea culpa in public rather than behind legalese (cough vtech) means that it is a culture of learning from your mistakes rather than shoving it under the blanket or finding some rogue engineers to blame (cough VW).

Now here is where I should feel smug for internally housing our SVN but I suspect that any outage we may suffer will be quickly blamed on some SAN or switch or someone else.

Re: yet another reason

Firstly the

obligatory.

To show the doubters out there, here are the first 7 hops with and without VPN (pia in this case) over tpg to NASA.gov . The exercise is left to the reader to work out how these are routed, but the participation of trunk links via Kenya and the involvement of Swiss ISPs should give you some hints.

VPN off

1. 192.168.0.1; www.routerlogin.com; 2.069, 4.426, 4.576

2. 10.20.xxx.xxx; 21.066, 23.260, 24.255

3. 202.7.xxx.xxx; 202-7-xxx-xxx.tpgi.com.au; 25.745, 28.481, 28.636

4. 203.219.35.67; syd-sot-ken-int1-be-20.tpgi.com.au; 30.506, 33.322, 34.271

5. 62.115.49.137; las-b3-link.telia.net; 208.953, 212.432, 212.689

6. 213.155.137.58; las-b21-link.telia.net; 211.422

6. 62.115.116.179; las-b21-link.telia.net; 211.839

6. 62.115.116.187; las-b21-link.telia.net; 210.804

7. 213.155.131.76; dls-b21-link.telia.net; 237.292

7. 62.115.139.6; dls-b21-link.telia.net; 222.407

7. 80.91.254.168; dls-b21-link.telia.net; 223.347

VPN on

1. 10.113.xxx.xxx; 21.241, 23.388, 24.962

2. *

3. 46.166.188.254; 326.402

3. 46.166.190.254; 313.348

3. 109.201.154.254; 314.520

4. 85.159.239.65; 326.518

4. 85.159.239.41; 317.522

4. 85.159.239.77; 317.991

5. 195.22.213.169; ae7.amster32.ams.seabone.net; 324.957, 337.009, 329.025

6. 195.22.216.227; xe-1-0-0.ashburn2.ash.seabone.net; 416.610

6. 195.22.206.2; xe-0-2-0.ashburn2.ash.seabone.net; 402.819

6. 195.22.206.1; xe-1-2-0.ashburn2.ash.seabone.net; 404.017

7. 195.22.206.51; amazon.ashburn2.ash.seabone.net; 474.928

7. 195.22.206.59; amazon.ashburn2.ash.seabone.net; 450.211

7. 195.22.206.51; amazon.ashburn2.ash.seabone.net; 454.509

So is this difference academic or are there real world implications? The answer of course is that it depends. For browsing it is pretty minor. Throughput is limited by my ADSL2 which is in about the worst possible place relative to the exchange. It is measurable but for the most part feels normal. I did a speedtest from a few places. The most noticeable difference was via Seoul where the VPN was nearly 100ms FASTER in the ping test than no VPN.

This is hardly surprising given the detour that the packets are taking. Unless the packets between your home an the VPN endpoint are traversing via Guam, or the backbone of your VPN provider is carried via tpgs private cable, then a break in that said cable isn't going to affect you. Tpg have two choices here. They can route around the fault by using their other cables (as they did in the traceroute above) or they can buy additional capacity from their competing northbound fibre links. No doubt they will be doing both at different times but a lot of that capacity (on competing links) would have been bulk purchased so it isn't always available and unlikely to be cheap.

Re: Get on with your job.

They decided that French "phrases of surrender" would be a bit too easy.

Re: Has Mr Dabbs got much better recently?

> hyperconverged agile cloud flash devoops

I just won buzzword bingo!

Does a PDF with embedded fonts count?

Re: Any chance of a solution?

Nothing sets the SUCCESS variable back to 0 so the while loop is infinite.

Hopefully getstatus method isn't too resource intensive...

Re: Be like Nan

Was bingo played with the mystery KB numbers that reactivated that darned win10 upgrade?

Re: Way back when

@Frumious Bandersnatch

That is easy to fix. You are not susceptible to timing attacks if you use a random position within pi to specify the position within pi to read from ;p

Hint: pretty sure @maffski wasn't being serious.

Re: Thunderbird 2?

> how did X get a patent for something they patently did not invent, merely copied from fiction?

You must be new to the way that the USPTO operates.

Step 1 - fiction

2001 A Space Odyssey

Step 2 - Copy and patent the idea

portable display device USD670286

Step 3 - profit

Re: Building their own coffin

> Google can't do anything about pushing updates to anything except its Nexus devices

I hate having to wait for Dell, Lenovo and HP to push out Windows updates after patch Tuesday.

If the system is modular enough, the OEMs can wreck their users'experience without compromising the OS's ability to be patched.

PS, smart move on the Nexus.

Re: Fission expedition

Oh snap(per)!

Re: FaceWatch...

eyeWatch?