Posts by Mr Flibble

Re: DNS only / No just porn!

There will be DNS made available such that it avoids the filters. Though I won't be providing such myself, I guarantee that it'll happen.

Re: Flip side of the coin...

“Phone state and identity” is a very good example of one which needs to be split up. Knowing when a phone call is active is one thing; reading the phone nos. and device IDs is entirely separate and usually completely unnecessary.

Without checking further, I'm quite sure that there are others which should be similarly split.

Re: Glad they are getting shut down

Interesting re. downvoting. You also comment on exactly why you've downvoted…?

There are some where I've just kept the old version around. Reasons vary, but generally centre around “it's useful”, “the alternatives don't do what I want” and “the alternatives may be better, but they want even more access”.

Similarly connection speeds. These are dependent to some extent on the modem (again, buy a different one and you may see some difference) but mostly on the line itself and, when it goes bad, on the Openreach part of BT's schizophrenia – and quite possibly on them being hit over the head with a blunt ISP (assuming that their support people are competent).

Can't upgrade?

I've just had a look at CyanogenMod – they pulled the fix in just yesterday. Here's the commit for the 10.2 branch.

I fully expect that they're not the only ones to have pulled it in.

Re: Still trying to screw us over!

Yes. Same goes for other media.

As usual, symptoms are being attacked.

Re: They're burning brown coal

Believing in something is religion.

Re: Second Bite at the Cherry: Changing the Rules.

It looks to me like it's more about switching away from 2G than getting more money out of the operators.

OpenDNS

Anything under me.uk is categorised as “blog” by default, which is sometimes a pain in the rear when I want to access my home network from somewhere which has blogs blocked. Ignoring the DNS resolvers specified via DHCP on such networks gets around that.

Re: Missing Key Data...

Indeed. “While stocks last” and “subject to availability” are Useful Phrases for them to use.

That said, charging the difference in price between the usual price of the one which was on offer and what's actually (now) available would not be entirely unreasonable (although it might not fit in with trying to offload old stock, if that's what they were doing). I would still expect some (quite reasonably) not to take them up on that, though.

Er…

This one wasn't DNS; or if it was, then it wasn't just DNS…

Re: Job title

Here, have some mind bleach.

Re: she is in fact being paid by Intel.

Again, the confusion over who got shouted at and who's complaining about it.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137375525307177&w=2

Kees Cook wrote the patch in question and submitted it via Thomas Gleixner (who is the maintainer for the part of the kernel affected by the patch).

Thomas Gleixner did something like not properly test it or assume that it would be fine (presumably based on the past record of the submitter). He forwarded it, via a git pull request, to Linus.

Linus saw it, found a problem, and went into full technical flame mode.

Sarah Sharp saw it and evidently decided that it's one too many or a step too far or something like that. Result: complaint. Much coverage, click-bait and discussion follows.

Re: This would sound better...

If I must see advertising then I'd rather see clearly identifiable advertising which isn't distracting LOOK SHINY in-your-face NO DON'T READ THE ARTICLE LOOK AT ME junk.

If it is distracting, IT IS BAD and I will take action to ensure that it is not visible to me.

Re: No surprise, I predict that there will be more to come

Subnetting using /48 isn't to do with MAC addresses. Subnetting using /64, however, is. And I recall reading something saying that the preferred allocation is now /56. (I have a /48, but I've yet to need more than a /60. Well, two /64s, really. I could get away with one but I need a publicly-routeable address on the external network interface and I don't have any sort of IPv6 address translation going on, not that anybody should need that.)

Why not /80? But then you couldn't have local addresses which don't contain something which could be a MAC address…