Posts by Drone Pilot

Imagine what Apple will charge for that in the next iPhone...

I'll either take the 32GB option or remortgage my house for the 1.5TB option

But are the ramifications?

An American court has no jurisdiction over a Ukrainian citizen. So if Zuck wins, what then?

The Ukrainian creates a profile called "HonestJoe99" and sells it anyway.

I've been securing against this for years!

I practice a security technique called STOCC or Security Through Outstanding Cable Chaos in my server room.

My boss called my messy server room cabling untidy but I knew all along it was one of my many security layers

To the man who allowed a teenager to...

10 print hello

20 goto 10

I thank you.

Your turn to goto 10

But how?

Was this a new zero-day bug or something they could have / should have patched. If the latter then they need to be slapped around a bit. No excuse for not patching.

I'm doomed

Well, I am :(

Seriously though, this is a good idea. It'll stop the nefarious drone users in their tracks. Or, it won't.

OPEX - 'nough said.

That's 0.0025906735751295p/call. Nothing. They bake that into the cost of calling.

I thought GDPR would allow them to get slapped down?

But why?

Anytime you base your business model on a) someone else's b) some cloud service c) not-your-computer you're at the whim of others. It's a dangerous place to be.

Please don't cry when they pull the plug because their experiment is not going as they thought it would.

When will we learn.

Die Hard 2020 movie

Coming soon to a big screen near you.

Spoiler alert: Plot foiled by the steps which John McClane couldn't get his mobility scooter down.

My mom, and millions like her, don't care.

Sadly, they don't.

While they, the non-Reg'-reading-humans don't care about this, the companies won't do anything about it.

Security costs money. They're selling them as low as they can go.

When there is a fine for Stupid, it might change :(

Question: Who buys a router these days anyway. My mom and friends use the one provided by MySafe ISP, el-reg readers, I suspect, use something more.

Do you need that much sucking?

Surely* you don't need all that sucking power? You just need enough to get the job done.

You just need enough to suck the dust (not bricks) into the bin.

Just-Enough=quieter?

Advertising ID?

Next stop: Printed advert injection.

IR35

What was the magic bullet? We need to use the same for IR35.

When people like this exist...

It makes me realise my 20 year contribution to IT is akin to changing the toner in grandma's printer. :(

Well done!

My mom is proud I know HMTL. I'll not crush her by saying people who understand this type of data exist :)

_The vehicle has a 38m wingspan but weighs little more than a typical sysadmin: 149kg (328lb)._

Not very nice. I'm 148KGs :(

Route 53 - AWS

Just move to Amazon's route 53. Less user friendly but perfectly fine.

Stopped complaining here about your account. 123 and 1&1 will never change. I left both for the shame reasons.

You're doing it wrong?

Mass emails still being sent like this? With outlook? #LivingLikeIts2001

How big was blunder? 3 or 4 fans?

" It has also foregone some £29.9m due to waived fees and charges."

Not sure you can call that part of your loss. You created the turd, forgoing fees from the said turd is not considered a loss?

While it's a good idea, I can't see it getting traction for a long time.

*lots of rebranded Chinese tat won't use it

*Philips et al might look into it as a "social responsibility" play but will drop it because

**it's hard

**Nerd is needed to implement it

***X and Y don't use it, why should we.

I have a lot (100+) IoT devices in my home. Where I can't run custom firmware on them I run them in isolated networks.

For one which "had to phone phone" I did a MITM "attack" and feed it back 303 and black-hole it. It's happy :)

Options? When thin margins are pushed, there are very few options...

With something like this the battery is as functional as a UPS....

Fatigue?

Another breach and only 69 comments 12 hours later. Even @Reg folk are getting fatigued and bored by these.

Maths co-processor?

Does it have one like my DX or do I need to fill the empty socket like my friend's SX?

Kids today don't appreciate the difficult choices we had to make.

Pointless for the masses?

Sorry, but stuff like this is cool for the techies but for my wife and mom? Naa, won't gain traction.

For those of us who want to stop the likes of FB tracking us, we a) don't use FB b) use Ghostery c) b + ABP d) all of the above.

We techies are few. The masses will still be tracked by EvilCorp.

Marco

" The MDA had better luck in May 2017, trumpeting a successful testagainst an ICBM-class target – but the target made it easier by sending back tracking data."

The seeker kept shouting "Marco" and the target could not resist. #DoesNotCount

It'll be be blocked...

Sorry, don't understand the problem "it's better than adverts". What about your device battery life?

I run a fairly busy website and would like to try this but suspect I'll get complaints about it.

Doors?

This should open a few more to my servers :(

Clip the phone/cable line? Same result

The old days are back. If you want to stop them recording you can simply clip the phone line or cable line and smile for the now-failing camera.

If this is a wifi security device can you just flood deauth packets and boot it off?

When can I get it?

So many battery "inventions" the last 6-12 months - so few showing up on the shelves :(

Their DHCP Forwader runs Windows 10

As per title....

3 shells

...is becoming a reality now

I guess 200Mb upgrade was the last I will see :(

All my American friends gasp when I tell them I have a 200Mb connection at home for less than the price of a meal. They're still struggling with up-to-bla-but-really-bleh from their US providers.

With the same ethos coming into Virgin I guess it'll be a case of "they're got enough as it is!"

How many non-users of ABP?

Most people I know use a phone or laptop.

Most people I know don't have anything to do with IT (they're normal folk)

And all of them don't use ABP.

What's the percentage of users v. non-users?

I imagine most el Reg users are IT related and as such, have some form of ad-block in use. But what about the masses? Surely this is not a big deal?

Snake...

just got harder.

Water damage?

I wonder if all new versions of Tesla have that pesky little orange dot like my iPhone which shows water damage?

and still it's a good idea for the ISPs to store all our browsing data.

cue Indian accent

Hallow, this is Ragesh from Amazon. You were looking at our product yesterday...All I need is your card and pin and mother's maiden name

Allow the community to help?

When will they see that it would be a really good idea to let others help with these things? Other's being the opensource community. Build the hardware, engage opensource (read: pay for the initial project), ship the hardware, revel in the popularity.

This goes for single-disk URB drives to "home NAS'"

"You're asking if the backups ran last night..."

Scale?

Could someone place the earth / our sun in that for scale. Or a box of matches?