Its only the best all round solution if you don't have any significant delays in loading ads, and they are not poisoned flash files or similar that then infect your PC.
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Yahoo! Mail! is! still! a! thing!, tries! blocking! Adblock! users!
Rdio's collapse another nail in the coffin of the 'digital economy'
Re: My 2¢
"competing against your contemporaries you are competing with 60 years of back catalog"
It is worse than that as today people are paying lots of different fees: ISP's, mobile phones, computer games, alcohol, etc. So music has to fight against a whole lot of other things to get a share of the youth's limited money compared to 20+ years ago.
And the problem is it is much easier to get music without paying compared to the more tangible goods, not just file sharing but YouTube and radio, etc. You really need to have something very special to keep enough fans buying. Today it also seems most folk are contended with crappy compressed audio, so the benefits of selling a CD or FLAC track appeal to few.
I don't know what the answer is. Certainly it would help if buying music was easier by micropaying options per track, etc, and such a scheme would potentially help others to make a living without being whored by Google. But will it happen?
Many UK ecommerce sites allow ‘password’ for logins – report
Re: not the right recommendation
"The thing that is important is entropy"
The things that are important are entropy and rate limiting on brute forces trials.
High entropy means more attempts on average to guess it, rate limiting stops them from doing it quickly. However to most likely password cracking scenario is when they have already compromised a web site and can brute-force the database.
Ofcom asks: Do kids believe anything they read on the internet?
Tech firms fight anti-encryption demands after Paris murders
Re: Time to wake
"For the really clueless it will take personal friends or family dying at the hands of terrorists before they wake up and smell the coffee."
So what? In the week or so since the Paris attacks more folk have been killed and injured on the roads of Europe than in the attacks. Should we all give up our own privacy and security to stamp out cars the next bogeyman?
BlackBerry Priv: After two weeks on test, looks like this is a keeper
Apple's design 'drives up support costs, makes gadgets harder to use'
Good points
Tell it like it is!
I often wondered why the GUI muppets at Gnome, Firefox, Google, MS, etc, all seem to go down the same route of removing functionality and discoverability. They need a course in GUI design which consists of taking the odd granny/granddad or two off the street and giving them a simple task to do on the device. If they can't work it out in under 2 minutes the designers get beaten with rubber hoses until the elderly folk succeed.
A couple of lessons and I am sure designs would be so much more usable...
'Shut down the parts of internet used by Islamic State masterminds'
Re: Well that's a good solution
The "snooper's charter" is going far more than that, demanding all of your (and everyone's) internet access to be stored for a year and searchable, and also has various weasel-worded sections about who can access said data. That is blanket survalence.
What was proposed above was targeted - yes, you have some ability to scan all traffic, but it is used to pull out certain web sites that are known to be ISIS or similar, and then just look at that. A massive decrease in data gathering. Then you start to look for patterns, not just the odd link-following by someone who didn't know what the site was, but repeated visits and/or visits to sites related to that ideology.
Again, a big decrease in who you are looking at and then you are down to the levels where you can start to analyses what they are up to and see if they merit some human survalence and intelligence-gathering.
Behold, the fantasy of infinite cloud compute elasticity
Re: Spot pricing
That was my thoughts on the article, it will come down to a bidding "war" where you offer money for services and you don't get a cast iron guarantee of delivery, just a position in the scheduler based on who else is bidding for it and how much they are willing to pay.
What, you really need it to work? Maybe just buy your own server then...
Microsoft chief Satya drops an S bomb in Windows 10, cloud talk
"why not try for devotion?"
Usually devotion needs some sort of special dream, fantasy, or belief that out-weighs common sense. Given that MS is the dancing-dad of technology, and that few end users or sysadmins ever get up in the morning looking forward to engaging with MS' software, its going to be a long and tough sell...
Re: "Nadella spoke about trust as both at the core and central to Microsoft's mission"
Maybe he should have spoken about how all of your data is encrypted by your own password before it hits MS' servers, and they don't have any access to it as a result.
Oh wait, that was a pipe dream resulting from me drinking too much port in a storm.
Terrorists seek to commit deadly 'cyber attacks' in UK, says Chancellor Osborne
Yes, GCHQ is hiring 1,900 staffers. It's not a snap decision
No, the EU is not going to make hyperlinks illegal
Microsoft creates its own movie moment with fancy privacy manifesto
Re: Huh?
Its a good point, Google is a master at whoring your from advertiser to advertiser.
MS used to offer a paid for OS that respected your privacy, but from XP's "product activation" through Vista's intrusive and bloated DRM aspects, and then finally to Win10's forced updates, weasel-worded upgrade pushes and and default-on telemetry, you have to ask: "Why pay for this shit?"
Drug-smuggling granny's vagina holds Kinder surprise
The Edward Snowden guide to practical privacy
"the man had deleted all of his Facebook data. A huge pain and shame"
Indeed, the shame being he should have deleted it himself!
Even if keeping on FB then please delete and create a new profile with a new disposable email every year or so. It limits what FB can easily gather on you and evidence of past indiscretions, and a perfect excuse to dump those "friends" who are sufficiently important not to appear to single out for un-friending, but that you really did not want watching your every post.
Edited to add: And don't give FB your email log-in password or mobile number, mkay?
IT contractors raise alarm over HMRC mulling 'one-month' nudge onto payrolls
Got a time machine? Good, you can brute-force 2FA
Really if you depend on time being accurate for security then your organisation should have a couple of NTP servers (for redundancy) that are fully patched and set up to use ntpd on multiple external sources (at least 5 and even their own GPS) so they can detect "false tickers" and reject them. Then all of your internal machines should only talk to those trust-worthy time servers.
The only times I have seen ntpdate depended upon for time is (a) on boot or network change to get time roughyl right, and (b) in VMs that suck so badly for time-keeping using the "internal clock" that ntpd gives up on its clock regulation approach.
Shadow state? Scotland's IT independence creeps forth
Re: bit expensive for the bleedin' cameras
£3,571 *per f@%kin' camera* !!!
Is about right, given that a lot are analogue so you are talking networking, HDD recorders, etc, and labour to visit each camera point and do the work, possibly with a cherry-picker.
To achieve exactly what?
Aye, there is the rub. Just how helpful are these cameras? Have we got evidence that they will save more than £10m in reduced crime?
Microsoft capitulates, announces German data centres
Tor Project: US government paid university $1m bounty to hack our networks
UK citizens will have to pay government to spy on them
Re: 15TB?
The gov is not asking for *ALL* data to be stored, only some woolly-defined meta-data like the URL of each site accessed. I'm guessing his figure is based on the proportion of data seen in such a link.
Of course, if most folk run browser plug-ins to randomly poke sites every few seconds that could go up massively...
Brussels paws Android map apps to see if they displace Euro rivals – report
Lets face it the main advantage of Google maps is it is "free" (in return for bending you over and lubing you for privacy violations).
It works well if you have a good data link, but outside of 3G+ areas, or in cities when your chosen supplier is shit at times (looking at you Tesco mobile), the result is crap. I use it occasionally and sure it is nice to have, but if I had to depend on something for daily use would not be Google's offering.
Most developers have never seen a successful project
Re: Continuious Development
Here, hear!
In my simplistic view, you have two major factors:
1) having a clear, fixed and agreed idea of exactly what is needed.
2) having the resources (i.e. people, tools) to deliver #1
Most failures I have seen come down to at least one of these aspects. I have pulled out of work requests that I could see was a train wreak coming because foolish decisions had been made already due to not understanding #1, and then they were needing me for #2 when it was already an impossible task.
Feeble Phobos flaking as it falls to Mars
Freebooting: How Facebook's 8 billion views could be a mirage
GCHQ director blasts free market, says UK must be 'sovereign cryptographic nation'
Re: I may be wrong
You forget that GCHQ, like most agencies, is not a simple creature with a single goal.
What they should be doing is protecting the UK: that means defence, business and private lives, as they are all inter-related.
On one hand that means stopping The Bad Guys(tm) from having access, and that means encouraging properly used encryption to make sure that information goes where it should and not in to the wrong hands. On the other hand it means having to break encryption to spy or assist the police for what should be the same goal, and there is an obvious conflict of interests there.
Most will realise that both goals are justified, but given the evidence of past lying and political machinations bending of the rules, there is a serious mistrust of either goal. This is made so much worse by the clueless fuckwits calibre of politician we seem to get in charge of the situation.
So. Farewell then Betamax. We always liked you better than VHS anyway
Re: Can we finally settle this?
Technically - yes
Financially - no
Basically VHS have multiple suppliers and soon was the only one that rental stores (remember them?) bothered keeping much range in. The rest is obvious history...sadly for Sony, they didn't learn and tried with Minidisk and memory sticks that no other used, both were business failures really.
How Twitter can see the financial future – and change it
Untamed pledge() aims to improve OpenBSD security
Re: Only goes down, not up ;)
That was my thought: like SELinux or AppArmour, but internal to the program.
I can see how this helps mitigate bugs inside the software and hence possible future exploits, but I can't help thinking that having an external rule set (like SELinux, etc) is a good idea in case someone tries to replace/modify-in-place a program/daemon with a Trojan version. The external rules also help you know what a program is allowed to do without delving inside it.
GSMA offers a share and share alike approach to the C-Band
Mobile is the problem
How do you stop mobile phones from not operating anywhere within, say, 15km of a satellite ground terminal?
Sharing sat comms band with fixed point-point links is feasible because you know where they are and they don't go for a wander.
How are you going to control mobiles? Have them drop C-band based on a GPS map of potential hazards? Who pays up if some phones and/or software updates starts to cause problems? How do you force out updates to all such phones if/when the licensing for sat comms changes, or is this just a land-grab to force others to pay to change equipment in order that GSMA members can profit?
Symantec numbers are out. Execs might wish they weren't
Exam board in 'send all' fail: Hands up who knows what the BCC button is for?
OmniRAT malware scurrying into Android, PC, Mac, Linux systems
Top FBI lawyer: You win, we've given up on encryption backdoors
Re: Condescending git
In most countries we live with typically a 10 to 100 times greater risk of being killed on the roads than by a murder. Even in that case its something like 90% are not unknown psycos doing the deed, but "friends", partners, business associates, etc.
Add to the in the USA something like 90k gun deaths per year (OK, only about 30% of those are crimes, as opposed to stupidity in gun handling, or suicide) versus a few k in the twin towers terrorist event and just how big is this risk? Yes, I know people are dumb and can't evaluate risks, etc, but it hardly seems that bad guys having encrypted phones is your biggest risk.
MacBooks are so hot right now. And so is Mac OS X malware
DDoS, botnet, and fiber cut fail to stop Twitchers crowd-installing Linux
Stuxnet-style code signing of malware becomes darknet cottage industry
@AC
It is not just the problem of how Alice and Bob know they are not talking through Eve, but the fact that any one of hundreds of buggers can issue a certificate to Eve matching Alice and/or Bob. It only takes one of those to fail and the trust link is useless.
Just think of a RAID-0 strip with 600 flaky disks...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux lands on Microsoft Azure cloud – no, we're not pulling your leg
Alumina in glass could stop smartphones cracking up
Re: Ultimate test
Most of the broken phones I know of were folk who didn't put them in a cover. Perhaps images is more important than risk looking like and old fart, but this old fart has not broken a phone glass in the last 15 years in spite of several drops due to having them in a gimp mask leather-effect cover.
Oh yes, and the recent rend of having the glass right to the edge is not helping either, as less of the phone body to absorb the impact on a corner impact.
Spanish town trumpets 'Clitoris Festival' thanks to Google snafu
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