Posts by corestore

"The fix was first applied as a client-side patch to PCs by sysadmins..."

PCs? With sysadmins? On ARPANET? In the early 1980s?

Mike

Goddess help them...

...if they ever come for me.

They'll need at least two 40-foot containers, and a forklift... I've just moved the Corestore collection from New York to New Zealand, and the total weight was something in the region of 35 tons... most of it IBM mainframes!

And they won't get diddly squat without a rubber hose; nothing much less will get them anywhere with Truecrypt, let alone RACF!

Bugger in the air...

...when are they going to do something about those jobsworth little Hitler security cretins who think they can give you a hard time during the hours it takes you to pass through immigration and pick up your bags once you're back on the ground? What possible danger is there in an immigration queue or baggage hall?! "No phone calls! No text messages! Who do you think you are, you can't use the internet HERE?! One more email and I'll have you arrested!" Errr yes, you and what army, and on what charge my dear?

Last time I checked you needed some pretty serious grounds for holding someone incommunicado, and there's no signing warning you lose your first amendment rights when you get off a bloody plane!

XOS?

z/OS - or more likely, z/TPF...

Mike

*snort*

"You can't sell that book once you've read it! You can't even give it to a charity shop! You thought you owned it? You don't own anything pal, read the small print, you just bought a restricted right to read it where we say you can read it"

How on earth do they expect to get away with this kind of attitude just because a computer is now involved? I've seldom heard a better argument in favour of piracy.

This is...

Possibly the most egregiously stupid, disproportionate conviction and sentence I have ever heard of.

This wasn't criminal justice, it was legalised hostage-taking.

...is why we in the USA have the 2nd amendment.

Can you imagine a lawyer daring to try to pull this crap in a society where most of their victims have firearms?

Mohawk my arse!

That's a belter cut!

Mike

it will be interesting...

...to see how the stats will look next year, after the Ched Evans / Lauren Crawford rape case tweet prosecutions; if the 17 or so test cases they are currently bringing are successful, literally tens of thousands of tweeters could be faced with their information being handed over and prosecutions following - given that 'Lauren Crawford' was trending on Twitter at one point, the number must be of that order. The UK could shoot to the front of the standings by an enormous margin!

Remember the Thunderbolt launch demo..?

When Intel announced Thunderbolt, they demonstrated its capabilities by using it to drive a 'prototype Apple 4K display...'

Mike

You're missing a top contender...

Who else remembers 'Overdrawn At The Memory Bank'?

So bad it recurved, like space and time itself, and was actually rather fun? MST2K did a job on it IIRC...

Mike

Yes, great, but...

So much for the reactor and the containment... what about the bloody fuel pool? That's where most of the nasties are. The one Really Bad Thing that *didn't* happen at Fukushima was a fire in the unit 4 fuel pool. Nearly, it got hot, it wasn't good, but no fire.

A burning fuel pool would release much more than a meltdown and breached containment.

Bugger 'breach of privacy'...

In the cases where police information has been involved, it's much more serious - it''s an OSA matter. Plod stands to go to jail for breach of OSA, journalists stand to go to jail for conspiracy to breach OSA.

I'm surprised this hasn't been discussed more; every plod signs the OSA when they join. A lot of people could be going to jail for a long time over this.

No problems here

Just pulled it down - nearly 4GB in a bit under an hour. Not bad at all.

Mike

May the best bot win

Apparently, it did.

Mike

There's an error in these lists...

...or eles someone REALLY doesn't like Julian May. I'm damn sure I remember 3 or 4 nominations at least for her Exiles/Milieu cycle (one of them mine), but she hasn't even made the list that *didn't* make the poll.

This needs fixing. I'm afraid you're going to have to start over with the poll.

Mike

You don't say...

"It seems just as easy to draw the conclusion that mere use of an IP address shouldn't be grounds for armed police to raid a person's home"

Plus 100... I'm old enough to consider the provision of an unsecured network a public service; a matter of good neighbourliness. Of course I have a second, secured, network for our own private use.

Definitely a case for severe education of law enforcement; the cops in this raid clearly acted as though he had already been convicted - note, it was him they arrested, not his wife, they *assumed* it had to be him. Lawyers who pursue file sharers are already learning this the hard way. Lawyers who pursue cops are probably already salivating.

Mike

I don't use tethering...

...instead, I use the WiFi hotspot that comes as standard with my Android handset. Nothing hacked or jailbroken. If Telco think they can charge me again for what I already own, they can go whistle.

Oooops...

"At Chernobyl, this actually happened inside the containment vessel and the resulting explosion ruptured the vessel.."

Prophetic words?

I've said it before....

...and I'll say it again; the Japanese nuclear industry is now terminally *fscked*.

Even if nothing worse happens, what has happened already - and appears to be happening as I write, now reports of cooling failures at FOUR different power stations - mean that the program is finished. Give it a month maybe, for the dust to settle and people to gather their wits, and every single reactor in Japan will be shut down permanently; the people won't stand for anything less. Relevant or not, they remember Hiroshima.

I'm not cheering this; we *need* nuclear. Gen IV. Sooner rather than later. But by their appalling emergency preparedness, the Japanese have shot their nuclear industry in the head - and the rest of us in the kneecaps.

Mike

Interesting to see..

The Japanese being (we hope) relatively open about the situation; they have a track record for covering up and denying problems in nuclear plants in the past:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monju_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Someone's been reading...

"The Dragon in the Sea"...

Mike

Whoa...

"..such a mission might be used to meddle with (or even snatch and retrieve to Earth, in the case of the Shuttle) someone else's space hardware.."

In one orbit? Do ye think I came up the Clyde in a banana boat?

"the objectives of the OTV-2 mission which will follow tomorrow's launch will probably not become known for a long time..."

Or until the next Wikileaker strikes...

Game-changer?

Not really. Good, but not a game-changer.

You want to run a story on real game-changers? Start at http://www.red.com ...