Posts by Adam 1

Re: She could always have taken the offending banana and throne it in the freezer....

I, for one, welcome our new eight legged banana munching overlords.

Re: What about plain English?

At least you will know when you have your finished.

Re: My workaround is as follows...

and I never sign into my bank accounts when there is nearby pita bread. That is just asking for trouble.

Re: Remind me again...

Someone else's.

Re: Worrying @Boltar and @AC

>don't know how risky it is being logged into the register often

As long as your credentials are sent over https, it should be fine. Oh wait..

Re: Cheques vs cash

>But weird that Oz seemed to avoid worst of the GFC.

Only in the sense that we didn't have a recession and the economy actually grew during the quarter with the GFC.

The current government is right though. If only Rudd had spent less on stimulus and more on new NBN logos....

Re: James Bond would be proud...

There is plenty of things you could hold up about the commodore as reasons for preferring something else. Understeer isn't one of them.

Re: and the electricity?

The physics say that brown coal is about 3x more emissions intensive than black coal, and 25% of their power comes from a station that was ranked worst in the industrialised world (1.74 short ton/MWHr).

Transmission, charging and operating efficiencies of electric cars leave ICE efficiency for dead though.

Re: Flash Networks and Bharti Airtel?

I think we can agree with one voice that he is guilty. What kind of fool posts this sort of thing? My man, tell him that it had to be you and that you knew that they would send in the clowns. If not here then somewhere I guess. Sadly for him, the interwebs has memory.

/I shall now grab my coat as if we never said goodbye.

Re: Apple/Google supporting ISIS? No.

>does this mean the world's population should line up to have their limbs amputated

Don't give them any ideas please.

Re: What he did.

>Stealing is permanently depriving someone of something.

Maybe they could really throw the book at him and label it copyright infringement?

>And people ask me why I won't use Windows anymore........

Because their beta testers in the bleeding edge stream of the unreleased version of their os had to download a full iso image rather than use windows update?

Re: Well, at least in the US...

The price seems reasonable to me but the shipping cost is out of this world.

The math looks right to me. Clearly this damage is the same as someone pirating 660 songs.

Re: In the 1970's

... And when caught the offending note would be read aloud for the convenience of the author and recipient.

>Do you understand that Facebook are in the pockets of NSA and GCHQ?

Let us take without any protest your assertion, and assume that they immediately give this public key to your favourite 3 letter acronym. Actually, let's make it worse, they put it on their homepage for world and sundry.

That does NOT help one iota in decrypting your message. That is the whole point of asynchronous encryption.

If you want your bank's website public key, double click the padlock. That key does two things.

1. Lets them create a message that you can verify wasn't forged by a man in the middle, and

2. Let's you encrypt a message that only their private key can decrypt.

Re: Good

"Adequate" is inadequate (excuse the pun). It is a weasel word that makes it very easy for the customer to think that they have one policy but learn a hard lesson when they try to claim.

In principle, I agree with the insurer. Failure to take "adequate" precautions makes you a higher risk, and if that is not recognised against your policy cost then everyone else's must increase to socialise the loss caused by your lack of foresight.

But adequate must have provable definitions if you are going to deny claims based on it. If my car insurer stated that my car must be adequately maintained, a current certificate of registration proves that my car passed the required certifications. If they have other additional expectations, like 6 monthly services etc then they need to stipulate that explicitly.

Back to the case in point. If adequate means that patches should be applied within 30 days, what do they mean by that? Windows update? Sure. What about that old version of jre that is still needed to run that legacy system? What about that system that has been powered down for 6 months with its user on some type of extended leave? Is your policy torn up because they switched their computer back on and it was not updated for a few days? Is your router patched?

Most people don't want to accidentally leave their networks open to pwnage. For many, it is a case of being naive rather than reckless. Providing easy to digest guidelines for your customers had the double advantage of protecting them, making your offering more valuable in their eyes and by extension more profitable for you.

1. Suspected criminals; if they had been found guilty by a competent court then these logs would hardly be necessary.

2. Yes. Privacy of citizens should be the default position.

3. Microsoft Ireland is subject to EU laws. If Belgium fills out the right forms through established EU processes, they will get the data.

4. Even if held by an entity outside Europe, Interpol processes are available to them.

Re: It should also be pointed out

Why (should it be pointed out)?

Re: Detection better than cure?

How does one detect that a file is encrypted? It is just a sequence of 1's and 0's until an application decides how to process it. Detection online just moves the problem further down the stack. Take an xlsx file as an example. It is just a zip file holding a set of XML documents and other artifacts. What makes it valid? A valid to an online scanner? Is a valid zip file header enough? If so you can expect the encrypted xml document to be added to a valid zip file. It is a seriously hard problem to solve. Regular test restores to clean VMs are the best we have at the minute.

Re: the problem is ...

No you're not.

Re: Netflix ?

>What is Netflix ?

An ISP comparison website, kinda like speedtest.net

Re: caused by human error and inattention

Driving is more than yaw computations. Sorry, was that a packet of crisps that can be safely run over or a rock that must be avoided by an aggressive manoeuvre. No time to get a response from Watson in this crappy 4G zone.

It stands to reason that a mesh of autonomous cars can process more information and not do the stupid things is humanoids do from time to time. But! What would happen if you were overtaking this car at the moment it decided that the abovementioned crisp packet was to be aggressively avoided? This could easily create accident scenarios that are not so today.

Re: HD video?

No problems recording an HD stream for its security purposes, but as a doorbell I would much prefer a 1 second notification in poor WiFi range if it just meant a lower quality broadcast to my phone.

Bloody autocarrot

Re: Piping and conditional logic

Many ps applications basically generate the appropriate cmdlet that achieves what you clicked. This lets you do it through the ui, then grab the script and do it in bulk.

Re: Am I the only person in the world

>Am I the only person in the world

who has both WiFi and Mobile Data turned *off* unless and until I want to use it?

Yep. It's how we know it's you wandering around.

Re: I can't quite get my head around that measurement.

I believe the correct unit of measure would be Olympic swimming pools.

Re: Identity badges don't guarantee good behaviour

Minimal access levels is a good idea because the attack surface is reduced and the bad things the malware can achieve is more limited. But I will point out that encrypting all the xlsx files under "My Documents" doesn't require any privileges beyond what such a user would have.

Re: ten centimeters

>I haven't heard ten centimeters referred to as "excessive" before, but I digress

From my understanding the force required follows an inverse cubed relationship. So it is 8 times less energy to pick 5cm or 64 times more energy than an inch.

I am sure that there is a good reason to elevate it so high, just curious.

I suspect nothing is wrong with such a tool per se. They would've got a warrant first, right guys?

Fixed within 90 days. What's the problem?

Re: That design is a travesty

Identification and voting should not go through the same system. Also, you ideally need to share between identification systems whether a given voter has already cast a vote to prevent someone voting multiple times.

Also, ss numbers alone are probably insufficient for authentication because they are guessable.

Re: Go one better

Some back of the envelope calculations...

148 x 100W fluorescent lights would draw 14800.

Switching to LED would realistically drop them to 85W but let's pretend that the laboratory achieved lumens per watt could get us to 70W.

This would save 4440W.

If we assume an average draw of 850W per server, that is about the same power reduction as switching off 5.5 servers. In the scheme of things, that won't be a measurable blip on the building power usage.

The only way I can see the savings becoming significant is that LEDs are dimmer friendly, so you could far more easily control the lighting to follow you as you walk around the building and be at very minimal levels elsewhere.

Re: Flash Player - or a Prayer?

Also, you may want to rethink your choice of PDF viewer now they bundle open candy malware.

This kids is why we need the interwebs. How else would I learn important tidbits like that?