Re: Just back from NZ
>Still more expensive in the UK. £1 per litre is about $2.20 per litre.
You should have stayed - it's typically around $1.70 right now, which works out at 77pence.
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>I really, really do not understand why the majority of people who never leave the browser run >Windows.
Because Linux isn't always trivial to install. For example, I have three screens on my c2010 vintage PC. Why? because I haven't got desk space for 5. I tried installing Linux Mint 17.3. Sadly, if it actually manages to detect all three of my screen, two of the three suffer shocking refresh bugs -moving or scrolling a window results in a "mouse trail" of the previous position. More likely though it only detects two but won't let me move the mouse between the two. I've spent a good few hours buggering about with xorg.conf, installing proprietary drivers etc. Nothing. I'm not a complete noob - I was an RHCE 16 years ago. Sticking with Win7 Pro X64. Might try again next year or wait until support runs out whenever.
I case any one wonders what it looks like:
194.28.174.106 www.example.com - [15/Dec/2015:08:50:49 +1300] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 22504 "http://google.com/" "__test|O:21:\"JDatabaseDriverMysqli\":3:{s:2:\"fc....eval(base64_decode(..."
Snipped to discourage skiddies.
A temporary mitigation is to block any user agent that contains the word base64 or eval:
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],'base64') !== false)
die();
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],'eval') !== false)
die();
Added to the top of index.php
>If you create a product that allows evil monsters to communicate in this way, to behead children, to >strike innocents – whether it's at a game in a stadium, in a small restaurant in Paris, take down an >airline – that is a big problem.
That could equally apply to every single gun, bomb, drone and nuclear warhead the US ever produced.
Maybe if we just banned all weapons, then the bad guys wouldn't be able to use them against us?
Correct me if I'm wrong but the 'merkins have an extremely vocal redneck contingent defending their constitutional right to bear arms in case the old English Queen should decide to invade. Why single out encryption? Guns are the real problem.
Here is NZ and Aus, "Swedish" rounding is the norm. EFTPOS (bank card) transactions are very common and thus rounding doesn't really have much impact. Some smaller shops, convenience stores aka "dairies" have been known to round up even when paying by card. It's not enough to leave your scooter outside the dairy, nekminnit you're being overcharged. (Obscure NZ internet meme)
They really want this info - I am regularly in the habit of blocking hosts I don't like or adding other hosts while the DNS catches up in my windows hosts file. Never had an issue before, but after pointing settings-win.data.microsoft.com and vortex-win.data.microsoft.com to 127.0.0.1 Security essentials pops up a warning about "SettingsModifier:Win32/PossibleHostsFileHijack". Clearly it's a big deal for Microsoft, so it ought to be an even bigger deal for all of us to avoid it.
Why the hell were they storing card details in the first place? There really is no real need to do that if you use a proper card provider who offers token billing. The token is completely useless to anyone except the merchant. This set of morons deserve to have the PCIDSS police crawl up their small dark passages and be made to squeal loudly.
@CKOne - I suggest you look again, preferably with your glasses on, a bright light and possibly a brain of some sort. It's Wordpress, no doubt about it. The page source is full of links to wp-content and there is no trace of any of the hallmarks of Concrete5, no JS variables in the page, no CONCRETE5 session cookie...
Concrete5 is one of the most secure CMS systems there is - got do a search on cve.mitre.org and you'll find barely a handful of issues for C5, versus several hundred for Wordpress, Drupal etc.
>Mozilla, whose Firefox is used by a quarter of net surfers,
Yeah, right, they'd like to think so, but it's more like half that and dropping every month.
I can just imagine the response from the customer base when asked to stump up for an SSL certificate and my time to manage it all. Firefox support will get dropped faster than you can say "chrome".
Jog on, Firefox.
Most probably true, I was merely paraphrasing for those in the northern hemisphere.
My point was their stats are based on server logs, and not on samples collected by websites where the webmaster has added code to feed back to StatCounter. As such it's probably quite a fair reflection of the browsers that people at least in NZ are actually using as opposed to those that they are reported to be using.
There was an outbreak of this sort of nonsense with the yahoo/xtra email service down here in NZ last month.
The advice here was that it was a cookie stealing vulnerability, which affected those who had the "stay signed in" option set when they signed in to their webmail. Clear your browser cookies and don't check that option.
"Dotcom’s famously flamboyant lifestyle bespeaks considerable wealth, inasmuch as he bought a colossal mansion"
..er....no. He's renting it. He wasn't allowed to buy it because at the time he didn't have permanent residence or something and was thus a "foreign investor". Shame for the spooks who spied on him illegally that he didn't remain so. He has now, apparently, been cleared to buy the mansion, but can't because his funds are frozen.
Can't argue about the cars though.
The unbelievable thing about this whole debacle is that nearly everyone *knew*Kim Dotcom was a resident - that's why he sponsored the 2010 New Year's Eve firework display to the tune of $500,000 NZ - a celebration of his residency being granted. A small sum of money, easily missed.
The GCSB is not permitted by law to spy on NZ passport holders or permanent residents. There's another organisation dedicated to that though, so we can all sleep uneasily. The whole commando style raid followed by this shenanigans and the way that NZ is sucking up to Hollywood/Uncle Sham makes me wanna puke. Thought I'd left that kind of shit behind in the UK.
http://www.ico.gov.uk/
Click on the privacy policy -
Firefox tells me:
The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.
FAIL!