* Posts by Will Godfrey

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FCC boss Wheeler: Shove off, big dogs – let the small telcos play

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Won't stop them

But I find it interesting that 'one of their own' seems to have made serious attempts to reign in the bully-boys.

As the US realises it's been PWNED, when will OPM heads roll?

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Start from scratch

Give them an Arduino and tell them they need to make it secure before they'll get any more funding.

Then give them a RasPi...

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Oi!

Can you left-ponders keep your local political squabbles to yourselves!

We've got more than enough of our own.

Tesla says Model 3 is still on schedule, despite being delayed again

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Re: Virtually no one...

The sour grapes are strong in this (AC) one.

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Re: It'll be delayed again

They said that about all cars... until Henry Ford came along.

10 things you need to avoid SNAFUs in your data centre

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Re: Alternative torch and other things

It's not so much the power rating, it's (far more importantly) a temperature spec. Kettle leads have to withstand being regularly cycled to a much higher temperature than the one you plug in your rack.

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Re: not supposed to insert the plugs there.

Argh! Don't remind me - to say nothing of the occasional self tapper.

Then there's the vast range of head profiles that all seem to appear on one sodding rack case.

NE-way, good article.

Feds count Cryptowall cost: $18 million says FBI

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So, where are the Boys?

Here you have criminality, the 'T' word and 'Cyber' all rolled into one. Surely this is a legitimate target for all those three letter organisations rather than the kid ripping his CDs.

Microsoft U-turns on 'free' Windows 10 upgrade promise for ALL previewers

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And in the near future

"What is this 'micro-soft' you speak of".

Two foreigners, a desert and a jeep full of bank statements

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I wonder if you can help me.

I've got this problem with a printer...

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Good Un!

Buh bye fakers? Amazon tweaks customer product reviews system

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Least of their 'issues'

When I see FOSS products advertised for sale, and even non-existent ones that just happen to be the search term I entered...

Stealing secret crypto-keys from PCs using leaked radio emissions

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@ 1980s_coder

Can't imagine why you were downvoted - this is exactly what I was thinking, and, looking at the other posts, so were a lot of others!

Sun like it hot: Philae comet probe wakes up, phones home again

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Alien

Not Necking Celery

"The two probes will spend the rest of their lives accompanying the comet as it journeys through the cosmos."

It depends on whether the Ramans take an interest in it.

US National Vulnerability Database contained ... yup, an XSS vuln

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You couldn't make it up

And if you did, everyone would say your plot line was unrealistic.

git commit -m 'Add $200m to GitHub, tweak valuation to $2bn'

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Disturbing

We only recently started to mirror our project on github because of the sourceforge situation.

Trans-Pacific Partnership stalled says Australian trade minister

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It's not dead

Just hiding., and there is almost certainly a raft of other deals quietly being prepared to take its place. These things are popping up far too quickly one after another.

PRATCHETT chats to Oz from 31,000m above Planet Earth

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Pint

And one from me too.

Excellent stuff. Really enjoying the highly boffinatious report too.

Sunday Times fires off copyright complaint at Snowden story critics

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FAIL

You know you've hit them where it hurts

... when they try to silence you so crudely and obviously.

What a pathetic rag the Sunday Times has become. I wonder if they still have any real reporters these days.

Fire, fire! Just move your data centre onto my lawn ... Oh rats!

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A good 'un

Always pleased to hear how creative people can get when they really need to be :)

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Re: I'm wondering

It was the law of "Oh shit! What the hell is that? I'm scared. It must be bad. Call the police. Do something. Now!"

Sun's out, guns out: Plucky Philae probot WAKES UP ... hits 'snooze'

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I'll drink to that!

Delighted to see this.

Well done the ultra-boffins :)

US mega-hack: White House orders govt IT to do what it should have done in the first place

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Here we go again

Every time I think governments can't get any more stupid...

Dossiers on US spies, military snatched in 'SECOND govt data leak'

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Re: Sauce for the goose...

Beat me to it!

It's 2015 and Microsoft has figured out anything can break Windows

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A possible (expensive) solution to a small part

A core piece of code is in actual fixed, socketed ROM. This is the only thing that can access all areas.

It calls primary firmware that is updateable, but only when a physical switch is set (during which time it can't actually run).

These blocks of firmware allocate memory in two groups Read-Only program space and R/W data space.

NO code can run in data space. No code can directly access program space outside its own tree - so it can spawn other programs but can't touch anyone else's nor even rewrite itself.

'Nothing to see here', says ECJ as Safe Harbour opinion delayed

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Reminds me of...

Some years back a friend had a strange growth on his back, but left it a very long time before telling anyone.

The result was that the growth had worked so far into his spine that it was impossible to remove without the risk of waist down paralysis.

If the rest of the world were my friend, guess what that makes the USA?

In memoriam: Christopher Lee, Hammer's Count Dracula

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Incredible Character

One of the few actors who was so compelling you forgot who he was while you were watching. He became his characters.

A good innings Sir, and a well earned rest.

You need one cloud computing provider - and this is why

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Eggs -> Basket

Title says it all.

Cops turn Download Festival into an ORWELLIAN SPY PARADISE

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Re: Pretend hippies?

No Need to be sorry,

It may seem strange, but just because I haven't been able to get tickets doesn't mean I'd lose interest. I also know people who have been there as recently as two years ago, and I can assure you they came back just as excited (and tired) as I was. Unfortunately the BBC etc. give a positively minuscule, tightly blinkered coverage of the event, so the only way you'll be able to verify what I say is to either go there, or, you know, talk to those who have.

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Seems I need a new reminder list

Things to not do and places to not visit.

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Re: Pretend hippies?

Been to Glasto twice - last time in 2000. Would love to go again and thoroughly recommend it to anyone who gets the chance. Go there, then consider: The attitudes there are what most of Britain was like in the 1960s.

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Minus interest.

LOHAN'S PRATCHETT mission set to soar Saturday

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make it good

I'm preparing my very best "Woooo!"

Apple store staffers probed like 'criminals', lawsuit claims

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Re: Was it Dell, or HP

My employers used to do repairs for Mars, we always got a goody bag when we left. Very much doubt anyone does that these days :(

Top Eurocop: People are OK with us snooping on their phone calls

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News at 11

Cop tells lies to get his own way.

Israeli firm gets legal on Indian techie over ISP ad injection spat

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Multi-track that and you've got a number 1

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Bharti Airtel and Flash Networks

Is it true?

Did lawyers representing Flash Networks, (but not Bharti Airtel) really issue a take down notice for Github?

Clearly I won't want any dealings with either Bharti Airtel or Flash Networks.

Undetectable NSA-linked hybrid malware hits Intel Security radar

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Sooo.

What we need is BBC Model Bs as gateways to all I/O

The weapons pact threatening IT security research

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Typical

This will have absolutely no effect at all on the bad guys, who have a habit of rolling their own (for some undefined value of 'bad guy').

The only people it will impede are ordinary honest folk.

BOFH: Step into my office. Now take a deep breath

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Huh. Kids today

My mum ruined her eyesight working every night by candle light sewing pockets into inch wide hessian belts so dad could slot the little magnets in for the '0's and '1's.

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Interesting

I rather suspect the BOFH will actually enjoy having a boss that's actually a bit of a challenge - although he'd never admit it. Like the time when...

Intellectual Ventures: Toshiba is violating our patent! Toshiba: What patent?

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One down

2560746921 squillion to go.

Mad John McAfee: 'Can you live in a society that is more paranoid than I'm supposed to be?'

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Ungraded

A sign of the times I guess, but you just can't get a decent standard of troll these days.

One USB plug to rule them all? That's sensible, but no...

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Re: Bah!

Indeed, that strange 5 pin one that was fully reversable.... only nobody wired it as such!

Large Hadron Collider gives young ALICE a black-hole ray gun

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Famous Last Words

Hey, I found this tiny screw on the floor. Still, probably not important.

SourceForge sorry for adware, promises only opt-in in future

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It gets worse

Over the last 6 months or so, their general stability has been pretty dire too - with a really weird outage last weekend.

The project I work on was first put on SF in 2009, but now I've mirrored it to github. It's a 'wait & see' situation, but I'm not going to risk losing control of the code.

KFC takes legal axe to eight-legged mutant chicken claims

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Meh!

Not used any of the fast food outlets for years. Much prefer a nice pub meal if I'm eating out.

IT-savvy US congressmen to Feds: End your crypto-backdoor crusade

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Wrong Discussion

They are fully aware that the proposed back door is intrinsically unsafe. They don't care.

In some ways they are like the spoilt brat that would rather destroy his own toys than let anyone else play with them.

What scares you most about ‘the cloud’?

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@nilfs2

If that really is your job, and you really do act as your wrote, then you are a major part of the problem.

I have no respect at all for sales people who deliberately sideline those that know what they are doing, and take advantage of managers who simply can't be expected to have a full grasp of the ramifications - all to make a quick killing.

Creationist: The Flintstones was an accurate portrayal of Dino-human coexistence

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Or George Carlin (R.I.P.)

LOHAN team preps PRATCHETT mission

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Re: Pratchett

Mad priests we have aplenty... The Rim might be a bit of a challenge!