Posts by Doctor Syntax 33045 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
"probably kind of expensive and not all that reliable"
But not too bad compared with the current situation. Apart from anything else, where do you magic up all those road tankers when you need them? And if you succeed, where do you magic up the tankers to replace whatever it was they were doing before?
The one email address I have that receives frequent spam - which gets reported - is an old Hotmail address. Apart from SEO and the like service offerings* the phishing spam it receives is almost entirely pretending to be from one of the numerous Microsoft email brands. A check in the server spam folder shows that almost all other phishing spam such as advance payment scams is trapped and virtually none of the fake Microsoft mail is trapped. I'd have thought that there should be sufficient reports for NCSC to start having a quiet word with Microsoft to tighten up.
NCSC need to have words with their own marketing department. Earlier this year the responses to reports started including links to their own puffery making them look just like phishing emails. The link in TFA to the report is non-functional with JavaScript blocked. Given the point made in the report about JavaScript framework poisoning they really should know better than to (a) depend on JavaScript so heavily on their own site and (b) send out emails pointing to it.
* These generally get a response pretending to be a supplier questionnaire designed to suck them in before gently leading them to the conclusion that they've paid good money for a crap spam list.
"there's a good change the government is going to come and have a word with you."
As HMRC is one of the frequent sites spoofed I look forward to Namecheap, its management and board being subject to frequent and searching audits by them.
"A 'piece of crap' has nearly 90% of the market, Linux has 8%."
Which is not surprising after decades of strong-arming manufacturers to pre-load it onto just about every PC on the planet except for Macs. Even a laptop bought without Windows comes with an un-activated copy of Windows on it.
By your argument a diet of burgers and Coke must be one of the best humanity could subsist on.
Don't confuse heavy marketing with excellence of product.
The much maligned Imperial system of weights and measures had little islands of binary sanity. Apart from ha'pennies and farthings in currency there were pounds and ounces (binary ratios are particularly suitable for weighing) and stones, quarters and hundredweights. It was just the bridge between pounds and stones which was irrational.
"The legacy copper network has proven particularly expensive to maintain as the cables and telephone poles used are exposed to the elements, and thus susceptible to weather damage."
My telephone connection is entirely underground except for the green footway boxes connecting bits of underground cables together. My neighbours' connections are all strung from posts for the last few 10s of metres. If/when fibre connections replace them are made my guess is that all of them, including mine, will be overhead.
The question to ask is why do these bastards want a password? If it's to protect my interests then I'll use a random string of characters and let KeePass do the heavy lifting. If it's for some arcane purposes of their own (hello iPlayer BBC Sounds) it gets Passw0rd1 or something appropriate.
"Here's a suggestion to ISPs: supply non-configurable routers."
I'm not happy with that idea. My ISP in effect did that. They "upgraded" remotely and took away my ability to run admin level. They've frozen me out of being able to make changes to the DHCP settings I had in place. I suppose the best thing would be to replace it but then it's a matter of finding smething that's neither a load of cack nor over-priced. In my case overpriced would include paying for an included wireless access point as the location of the master socket isn't the best place to get a good signal out.
"for the time required to extract said artwork "
Right click>Edit in external tool>Save from Gwenviews
Takes seconds, always assuming that what's embedded isn't some stupid resolution or a humungous image of which only a tiny portion is on view. (I had a word document which included two tiny portraits. It turned out that both were on the same original image of a page and the entire page image was embedded twice. Why do WP programs say "Crop" when they don't mean it?)
I remember an HP SE arriving to remove the shipping strut from a new tape drive to find I'd already done it. At that time TORX screws were new and fairly uncommon but I happened to have a set of bits in my screwdriver set. That was the set with the Intel Inside sticker. It fell off the back of some tower box I was working on and stuck rather more firmly to the screwdriver lid so I left it there.
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