AC, thanks for pointing this out. (I forgot the guy's name, but could not be asked to dig it up.)
Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
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US rapper slams Earth is Round conspiracy in Twitter marathon
Holy sh*t week forces Twitter top brass to go on ‘retreat’
AI pioneer Marvin Minsky dies at 88
China has a chip to fry with y'all: Wants its own chip smarts and fabs
Re: Interesting times
"Just as the Soviet Union was bankrupted by economic sclerosis and excessive state directed spending (largely on the military), China is at risk of doing the same, except that the state spending is on state-directed "capitalism"."
I was all set to contradict your post initally, but this is a very intriguing thesis. (For the potential irony alone... but yes, you might be on to something.)
Anyone here with a solid enough footing in economics to weigh in competently?
(Please - no trolling, no timewasters.)
Now you can easily see if a site's HTTP headers are insecure, beams dev
Tiny tech takes Turkish tin-rattling title
Retailers urged to create 'CCTV-like' symbol to inform customers of mobile tracking
Re: "... retailer’s smart phone app. " / free WiFi at IKEA
"Lets say you want to ise the free wifi at Ikea. ... You can't actually connect unless you install their app AND create an account. Now they have your phone info, your identity, your contacts list ... and much more. And on top of that they have the kit to track you through the store by the centimeter."
Well, that just means that it is NOT free, doesn't it?
Arista slaps Cisco with countersuit in network hardware row
Scandal-smashed OPM will no longer do govt's background checks – for obvious reasons
Time to create another TLA. I hereby move the FIA* (Federal Intelligence Agency) be founded and furnished with an appropiate budget forthwith.
*okay, I borrowed that from "Attack of the Killer Tomatos". Best C-movie ever. Top agent Mason Dixon drives around in a car that has "FIA - unmarked car pool" stencilled on its doors. The movie also shows what the president does all day.
MIT boffin: Big data won't compute? Try these handy quantum algorithms
Show us the code! You should be able to peek inside the gadgets you buy – FTC commish
Re: Open Source FTW
"The problem is, the average customer is going to understand about as much of the OpenSSL library code as they do the EULA they just click through. They won't be able to work out what it does, let alone whether it has bugs or back doors in it."
And this is where guys like the readership of these esteemed pages come into it. Amongst plenty of others.
The average consumer doesn't understand how his car works either. Yet today he is able to buy a reasonable safe one.
http://boingboing.net/2016/01/25/watch-a-modern-car-utterly-cru.html.
NASA, Dept of Defense, Commerce etc probed over use of backdoored Juniper kit
If you can't buy bootleg gear online in New York, this may be why
Interesting. I've been wondering about that from time to time - every now and then when something makes it past the spam filters in fact. Two questions always pop up: 1) who actually buys this crap* (both figuratively and literally) and 2) how does the money reaches the scammers? No point in setting up such a "business" if you can't get your hands on some cash from it.
No surprise however on the most effective counter attack vector - money (either by giving or denying it) is the best weapon there is.
*Rethorical. Don't bother - we all know. Same as the teleshopping channels. Just keep an eye open at garage sales or on who brings what to the landfill.**
** "I know what's going on in the neighbourhood - I don't live next to the bottle bank for nothing!"
Bootnote: I still think it's an ill-chosen name for a conference. Come on, I can't be the only one who reads it as unisex enema at first every bloody time.
Boffins celebrate 30th anniversary of first deep examination of Uranus
Safe Harbor 2.0: US-Europe talks on privacy go down to the wire
Kentucky to build 3,400-mile state-owned broadband network – and a fight is brewing
The only way is down for NetApp, HPE and IBM storage – study
Troubled Toshiba ponders selling chips to save its flash bacon
Terrible infections, bad practices, unclean kit – welcome to hospital IT
Cunning Greek lizards seek skin-matching rocks
Linux Foundation quietly scraps individual memberships
Twitter boss ‘personally’ grateful as five Twitter execs walk
Facebook brings European cats' snaps closer to home with £151m Irish data centre
How El Reg predicted Google's sweetheart tax deal ... in 2013
Folk shun UK.gov's 'expensive' subsidised satellite broadband
"What is the point of a subsidy which covers the cheap part of the installation and not the expensive part?"
Theoretically an opportunity to generate good PR along the lines of "hey, look, we are really doing something here", but looks like they have managed to screw up that as well. Bit unusual, come to think about it.
60 / 24 = 2.5 millions - why, you could almost by a broom cupboard for that in the more fashionable parts of London with that!
Google and HMRC face Parliamentary grilling over £130m tax deal
Squeeze the banana to log into this office Wi-Fi
How to help a user who can't find the Start button or the keyboard?
Davos 2016: It's now all about technology, but what actually happened?
Boeing just about gives up on the 747
Five technologies you shouldn't bother looking out for in 2016
Re: Most recently a couple in their 60' s who installed Linux Mint without assistance
"Many over-60s went through the hell of fighting with DOS config files and Windows 3/3.1.
Don't underestimate the technical skills of that generation."
^Exactly! Getting an XT-compatible box to accept that you had swapped one of the two 5.25" 360kB floppy drives for an 3.5" 720kB drive and put in a 20MB HDD could take some time.
Reminded me of a line from 'Titus': "Once you've driven your drunk dad to mom's parole hearing - what else is there?"
Sena's multi-action camera monster, or Cardo's PackTalk club rider juggernaut?
Oz stargazers serve up interstellar noodles
Four Boys' Own style World War Two heroes to fire your imagination
Ken Adam and Chuck Yeager
Ken Adam: piloted Hurricanes for the RAF in WWII for the RAF while still being technically German - he was too young to become a British subject when he joined the RAF. After the war he became one of the most (aguably the most) influencial production designer(s) ever. I've read his biography last year - utterly, utterly fascinating. Larger than life.
Chuck Yeager: got shot down during one of his first sorties over France. Avoided capture, made contatct with la résistance, walked across the Pyrenees (carrying a fellow airman half the time), from France to Spain, got back to England, fought USAAF policy*, eventually presenting his case to Eisenhower himself, was allowed to get back into active service - and made ace in one day. After WWII he was a test pilot and for 10 years flew every new american plane and survived more than one close shave. Was smart enough to quit while he was ahead of the game and returned to being a fighter pilot. Retired as a general, still spending every possible minute at the stick instead behind a desk. If you watch "The Right Stuff": he has a cameo as "Fred", one of the regulars at Pancho Barnes bar.
*Escaped pilots were not alowed to fly missions over enemy teritory again, for fear of being shot down again and captured, possibly being forced to compromise those who helped them escape the first time. Yeager got back to Britain some time after D-Day, so he argued that if he would be shot down again it would not be over France, so not compromising anyone there.
dotCloud dotGone: Ex-Docker PaaS passes away amid bankruptcy
Data centers dig in as monster storm strikes America's East Coast
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