Posts by TheVogon

Re: Offence

"now where can I vent my spleen?"

I'm sure Greggs can find some pastry and shelf space...

"Skype cannot decrypt those"

For Skype user to Skype user they might be able to get away with that. But when they pass a call to the PSTN they would have to intercept it... Skype's model currently terminates encryption at the servers though, which is fine for most of us, but terrorists, etc would be after end-to-end encryption which would require a different design.

Currently that's not an issue for most corporates because Skype for business terminates the secure connections from outside clients within their network and under their control. However, if they move to the Office 365 hosted Skype model then it becomes something to consider as it might be possible for say the NSA given sufficient resourcing to tap such calls / messages...

" and nor (even with GCHQ's supercomputers applied to the problem) could the authorities."

Bearing in mind the holes (some deliberate) we have now found in previously considered secure encryption and hashing algorithms I would not want to bet on that...

Re: TITSUP

Transferred Internal Technical Support to Untrained Peasants?

Re: Vogon Guards will hate this

"It's like Shouting(TM), but upgraded!"

No it's still shouting - just with the added advantage that you can now read poetry at them from a distance.,..

Re: legally entitled to block accounts

"An impediment has been put in place against specific individuals from reading statements made by @realDonaldTrump feed"

Nope - nothing to stop anyone reading them. All this means is that you don't get automatically notified of them and that's not the same thing at all.

Re: Fibre

"London's Victorian sewer network is to be made accessible to fibre cables under a deal between SSE Enterprise Telecoms and Thames Water."

Just like It already does for Geo networks you mean?

>RCL MD David Levy told us: “We are not interested in commenting to The Register due to its repeatedly biased reporting.”

Uhm, but doesn't the opportunity to comment give you a chance to tell another side of the story if there has been any error / inaccuracy ? I can only assume that there isn't one and everything is 100% accurate and true....

Re: Geneva Convention

"Worked so well for torture and waterboarding..."

Well it could do but the US chooses to ignore the ICC which could prosecute such offences...

Re: Satellite in-flight Wi-Fi ..

"How does Satellite in-flight Wi-Fi actually work?"

It uses a very long Ethernet cable.

"As demonstrated by the man from across the street, who grabbed his ASSAULT RIFLE and put it to good use, no doubt saving lives in the process."

No, the massacre was over by then - the guy was trying to escape - and killed himself anyway so it saved no one. It just created a cross fire that could easily have hit a bystander. The primary thing that would likely have prevented this would have been less easy access to firearms.

nb - at least 2 US based studies have also shown that having a firearm in your household INCREASES the risk of death by firearms to everyone in it!

Re: The Cloud...

Can sometimes evaporate...

"So I presume that either the replacement aircraft brought along a very big step ladder, or the passengers had to run along the top of the wing, and jump onto the parallel parked 777 and 737."

Or perhaps they just parked nose to nose to the transfer?

"There's a willy joke here somewhere."

That's quite a blow job at 30MPH....

Re: Outer Limits?

"We have taken control of your sceen....."

All your base64 belong to us!

Re: KFC....any oportunity

"to throw your bone in a greasy box"

After you have finished with the breasts and the thighs....

Re: likely the writer of the fake version is going to be banned

"likely the writer of the fake version is going to be banned"

Or at least the throw away email account he used will be banned...

Re: eating our local birds ?

"Ooh! I wouldn't mind noshing down on a cockatoo"

I'm sure we can find you a large pecker...

Re: Modems?

"What puzzles me is who uses modems nowadays?"

Anyone with a cable or adsl Internet connection? Or a mobile phone?

Re: Only?

I'm sure they are already withdrawing any cash and filing for strike off. And have started a new company called something like Verso2 Ltd...

"Experience suggests that UPS and standby are often a problem when you really need them"

Experience for me suggests that normal practice is n+1 resilience and regular testing!

Re: Do you know what works better than Face ID and Touch ID?

"The border patrol agents can take your phone, hold it up to your face, and it unlocks."

It won't if you close one eye... Or open your mouth wide, etc etc...

Re: Certificate trust is broken

I know of one product that detects this type of thing - Payload Security's VX Stream Sandbox scanner... Any others anyone wants to suggest?

"How about we block all the connections that aren't VPN?"

So how would you tell the difference between SSL Web page access and a VPN?

"Outlook mailboxes have a maximum capacity? "

It's configurable. The technical limit is 4PB!

See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/832925/how-to-configure-the-size-limit-for-both--pst-and--ost-files-in-outloo

Re: Who's to say whether the plaintext matches the cryptoed text?

"Since fluency in French is a requirement for most such Federal Jobs "

I expect that will be dropped eventually:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hawRbECNX8o

Re: Same old same old

"that is what they would like but ultimately someone has to repair and innovate."

But that becomes largely a highly skilled job for AI and robotics, not a working class role..

"If you buy in tools and neglect your own people"

There will just be fewer people required that will in general be highly skilled and relatively well paid. Companies mostly wont give a crap about the proles.

The real question is - what will happen to those that are not that smart and / or don't have a trade / education? Whilst there will always be some working class jobs, I think jobs for that sector will gradually become in short supply. For instance we could already pretty much replace train drivers. (And that cant come soon enough imo - £60K for pushing a button and they still strike all the time?!)

"and I'm revising that 5x estimate to 10x."

Only 3X when you use Avios though :-)

Re: But Google total sales ($27bn) just went past Microsoft's ($24bn) in the quarter...

"And arguably, all of Google's revenues are Cloud"

Good luck with that argument. The vast majority of Googles revenue is from advertising. They are so far behind Amazon and Azure in cloud computing they need binoculars to see them.....

Because it's a type of big switch?

Re: Fun Fact

"You must be fun at parties."

Someone as rude as you wont even get an invite. Resorting to insults generally means you know you already lost the argument.

"You’ve still not proven that what I said is wrong."

It was clearly misleading posting a fact pertaining only to Kinect V1 on an article that was about Kinect V2 and required a clarification. If you cant accept that then the problem lies only with you.

Re: And AlphaGo Zero

"Their problem is that they lack customers, "

Is anyone actually making any money off large scale AI yet? IBM are as big as anyone else I would have thought.

Re: I Have to side with Viasat on this one

"It sounds, from what they are saying, the whole set up was rigged against them."

No the playing field was even. There was nothing to stop VIASAT doing the same. Inmarsat took a calculated risk that a more practical and flexible solution would eventually be permitted.

"you just want to know how much work you get done for a given cost."

Which depends rather a lot on the underlying hardware you choose and how well it is optimised for your requirements.