Posts by TheVogon 3511 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jan 2013
"beggers belief how incompetent ICANN can be, two years notice and they still scew it up !"
To be fair on Icann, lots of powerful US interest groups were largely responsible for that. They were likely politically unable to effectively scrap Whois contractual obligations until it was clear that they had to.
"At least Nominet complies with GDPR and ensures that REAL contact information is logged against a domain!"
All that Nominet do is ensure that the name and address likely exist. They don't even have to be linked. There is no validation that they have any relationship to the domain owner or to each other. It's just a close to valueless gesture.
"He added: "ICANN is continuing to pursue the ongoing discussions with the European Commission, and WP29, to gain further clarification of the GDPR as it relates to the integrity of WHOIS services." "
Seems very clear to me - It must be an opt in service for anyone covered by GDPR. For those that decline i dont see why providing the details of the registry holding the domain registration data isnt an acceptable substitute. Not that you can't already get that from DNS.
This provides a route for police, security services and copyright cartels to go after data needed for legitimate purposes. If anything thats a better solution as registration data is often inaccurate or incomplete or private anyway. Especially when the domain is used for legally questionable purposes.
The reason that Icann are fighting this path as a tool of US interests - is that court orders would commonly be required in non US jurisdictions. And the US likes to pretend that US law has global reach.
"of what this new will do (if it survives), I do not approve of laws being sneaked in under the radar by being hidden in something else - that is not how democracy is supposed to work."
Isn't that exactly how the "patriot act" and other bills that effectively undermine the American imagination that you are in some way a democracy rather than the the reality that you are at the whim of whoever has the most money were enacted?
"IIRC you have to do the first one in each domain. You can then join other new version hosts and promote them, move roles, and eventually demote and remove the in place upgraded DC."
No you don't. Build the new one, join to domain, promote to DC, rinse, repeat, retire old ones, raise AD functional level.
"Since the Leave result the £ is work 8.7% less against the Euro than it was."
So great for exports then. And why the FTSE has been at record highs.
"Recruiting of NHS nurses in foreign countries dropped 92%"
You mean that they might actually have to pay our nurses enough to be able to recruit more of them?
"Fundamentally, ICANN is arguing that there are exceptions in GDPR that say data collection is allowed when it is a "necessity for the performance of a contract" – and the Whois clause in its contract qualifies for such a protection."
Data collection might be. Publishing it without explicit opt in permission isn't.
"Google’s positioned itself as the most cost-effective cloud, but “its deepest negotiated discounts are usually limited to a single-year contract.”"
So a race to the bottom. From the many calls and attempts to add me on Linked in from their increasingly desperate sales staff, I keep imagining a deserted datacentre with rolling tumbleweeds...
"If they do not plan to share it with anybody else and you are able to request that your data is removed after the order is complete, they are GDPR compliant"
There is a lot more to GDPR than if they are entitled to the data itself. To be compliant there are many other requirements they must meet.
" if a US company has no presence in the EU (i.e. an office) then it can feel free to ignore the GDPR and stick it's middle finger up at the ICO."
Sure, but it also wont be able to sell to the EU or complete any financial transactions with EU or the funds will be liable to be seized, and if necessary imports banned, websites adverts and search results blocked and EU credit cards could be forced to blacklist it, etc. etc.
"You only have to try and use IE browser in protected mode on a server and to access the KB links (linked to in Microsoft logs on a Microsoft OS) that don't work on the Microsoft KB website because"
So it's protecting by default against poor admins. Servers should not have general internet access, and that you should not be using a browser on one to view stuff that could be done from a desktop with a standard account.
If you really have to access such links from a server, simply add Microsoft.com to trusted sites. Which can easily be done on multiple boxes via Group Policy.
Although I would suggest that servers should not have general internet access, and that you should not be using a browser on one to view stuff that could be done from a desktop with a standard account.
"IP address is defined as personally identifiable"
"If you collect NOTHING else?"
Yes.
You can, however, collect and store personal data in your server logs for the limited and legitimate purpose of detecting and preventing fraud and unauthorized system access, and ensuring the security of your systems.
"and more often than not I'm delayed by an update, which then causes a core to burn for 20 minutes while it does something when it finally boots."
That can be avoided by choosing shutdown instead of shutdown and update, and setting active hours.
"I also keep getting a spotify ad from cortana, even though I disabled cortana... and each update presents me with a new "recommendation" in my start menu"
To kill all of these annoyances:
To get rid of lock screen ads, head to Settings > Personalization > Lock Screen and set the background to “Picture” or “Slideshow” instead of Windows Spotlight. and disable the “Get fun facts, tips, and more from Windows and Cortana on your lock screen” option here too.
Then head to Settings > Personalization > Start and set the “Occasionally show suggestions in Start” setting to “Off”. To disable the popup "tips", head to Settings > System > Notifications & Actions and disable the “Get tips, tricks, and suggestions as you use Windows” option.
To disable “suggestions” that appear as notifications, head to Settings > System > Notifications and set “Show me the Windows welcome experience after updates and occasionally when I sign in to highlight what’s new and suggested” to “Off”.
If you don’t want Cortana nagging you, click the Cortana search bar, click the Settings icon, scroll down, and disable the “Taskbar Tidbits” option under “Let Cortana pipe up from time to time with thoughts, greetings, and notifications in the Search box”.
To kill Explorer Onedrive ads, open File Explorer’s options window by clicking the “View” tab at the top of a FIle Explorer window and clicking the “Options” button on the ribbon. Click the “View” tab at the top of the Folder Options window that appears, scroll down in the list of advanced settings, and uncheck the “Show sync provider notifications” option.
To stop the Get Office notifications, head to Settings > System > Notifications & Actions, scroll down, and set notifications for the “Get Office” app to “Off”.
To disable live tiles that advertise to you, right-click a tile and select More > Turn live tile off. You can also just right-click a tile and select “Unpin from Start” to get rid of the tile entirely.
To disable Windows Ink Workspace ads Head to Settings > Devices > Pen & Windows Ink and set the “Show recommended app suggestions” option to “Off” option to get rid of the suggested apps ads.
To hide Share pane in File Explorer suggested apps, right-click in the Share dialog and uncheck “Show app suggestions”.
Wow....
"(Since the current Surface Pro consistently returns us about four and a half hours battery, that doesn't auger well.)"
Are you running Linux or something? I get more like 10 hours watching movies under Windows 10. As per https://www.anandtech.com/show/11538/the-microsoft-surface-pro-2017-review-evolution/7
"If we can't get the fappening photos off the net, what right to countries have to expect actual news stories will be removed?"
The EU right to be forgotten already requires exactly that. And enforcement day for GDPR which applies to the personal data of EU citizens globally (And the data of other nationals if stored in the EU or under the control of an EU entity) is Friday this week.
"which is of course facially wrong and fractally nonsensical; how could he purport to suggest that a British court could override the first amendment in the USA, just for starters?!"
EU law already can override US law. See for instance https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/nov/13/google-french-arm-fines-right-to-be-forgotten
"It hasnt worked here, not even a bit."
Yes it has.
"And the levels of violent gun crime are at similar levels as they have always been."
Which is at one of the lowest levels in the world.
"Hasn't stopped London from having more murders than New York."
For one period of 60 days ever. New York has way more than London over any statistically significant time period.
"What about police?"
Specialist well trained and evaluated police, sure.
What about private security guards?
Nope. Not required. Except very specific exceptions like the special forces guards of visiting dignatories.
What about private citizens for personal security?
Nope several studies in the US have shown that owning a gun decreases your personal safety.
"Please don't say, "Ban all guns," "
How about licensing guns with a requirement for basic firearms safety training, and a gun safe with a yearly police inspection required to get a gun license - like the UK does. And ban assault rifles - they simply have no legitimate civilian use.
"If on site then two single core servers cover up to 1000 users with HA VS four multi core Exchange to only give DR"
No, 4 Exchange servers would give you both DR and HA and local resilience across 2 sites, and a lagged database copy if desired:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2015/10/12/the-exchange-2016-preferred-architecture/
"Of course the Democrats want to make the Net 'neutral'
Any sane consumer would want to make the Net Neutral. The only real interest of not having net neutrality is for restricting content or changing someone for certain traffic types. Neither of which benefit consumers.
"like they've made gender 'neutral' and it will work out the same way"
Well no, this is more like charging you extra to go the bathroom if you are a vegetarian...
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