Posts by Armitage

Amazon's AWS opens data center in Germany – just as we said

Suuure

"Opening the data centre, Amazon stressed data privacy, saying customers’ content can now fall entirely under the umbrella of European Union data protection laws and outside the reach of United States regulations like the Patriot Act."

See how well this holds up since Amazon is an American company required by law to cooperate with the patriot act -_-

We've already got the case going on where the gov.us have demanded Microsoft to give access to data stored in Ireland since under the United State's eyes, the American arm of the company has access to the data regardless of where the data is and the laws protecting it

The future of storage: disk-based or just discombobulated?

3.5" drives

i know this would present a problem with replacement drives but why dont they increase the phyisical size of the hard drives from say 3.5" to the 5.25" so that more platters can be installed and let us reach higher TB capacity per drive.

Asking cause im curious

'We don't use UPS. If we did we'd have huge UPSs and tiny computers'

All they need is an HV Drups on the incoming supply XD would easily handle both the hpc load and the cooling load if the power failed XD these beasts kick in to diesel backed geni in no time XD and they keep the incoming supply clean and its a no load break

Just done a job recently for both hpc and its associated storage

Enraged by lengthy Sky broadband outage? Blame BT Openreach cable thieves

Don't suppose no one thought to put a label on the cable saying "does not contain copper" XD

Well assuming they bother to read it anyway

I'll grab my coat, its the one with cable in he pockets

Sony sucker-punches Xbox on price, specs, DRM-free gaming

Re: Its pretty amusing..

**That Nvidia / AMD have managed to release a new GFX card which does pretty much nothing the old one did but shift around pixels faster on games not worthy of any note and yet they are being viewed as the best hardware.**

Troll harder on /b/ next time XD

i'll grab my coat, its the 1 with the copy of ravenshield in the pocket XD

Sick software nasty uses child abuse pics to extort infected victims

Nuke it from orbit, its the only way to be sure

Iranian gov mouthpiece Press TV finally gets taken off the air in the UK

I really liked that channel, used to enjoy the cooking show and J-melo, hated it when they got rid of the sd channel last year, hopefully its still the same stuff otherwise im gonna be :( when i get an HD box

Sky follows BT in blocking Newzbin2

you get a better deal with a vpn then with movie companies

for exemple for £15 for 3months access to a vpn i can download whatever i want and as much as my isp/HDD can take. for £15 to the media companys i can either buy a single dvd/blueray (depending on price) and sit through the anti pricy ads or stream a few hours from lovefilm online.

but im guess you don't care any of the above since your pro copyright & anon

Behold: The Gecko-robot wall-climbing tank!

MGS4?

Give it a few more years and we will all bowing down to our new masters, unless someone gets a handheld railgun developed

http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Gekko

>.<

I've played MGS4 and i've seen the future

Microsoft sneaks Firefox add-on into Patch Tuesday update

why a title?

"I'd love to ditch Windows, but I need to keep it because..."

1) i've used it since 3.1 and am happy with windows

2) i like playing on-line games

3) it works

4) ubuntu belongs in servers

and yea im running a couple of servers of ubuntu and windows

so put that in ur pipe and smoke it

UK.gov denies innocent will be hit by filesharing regime

First post yay, not

so within 12months the amount of piracy detected will drop below 70% and the gov will call this a victory anyway since the majority of fileshares will just switch to vpn tunnels and other means of avoiding detection.

When will they learn, producing crap doesn't equal a quick buck

/me off to find a decent deal on a vpn tunnel

Sun's Facebook-slapping hits wrong target

@Idea for new legislation

shouldn't that be:

NO OVER 18'S ALLOWED ON THE NEWLY RENAMED "KIDNET"

VPN security - if you want it, come and get it

1024.pem

was following ur instructions and when i tried it it said i was missing the dh1024.pem file, looking back i can see it in your screenshots but how did you make it?

UK electricity crisis over - for now

@Low Volts ---> High Amps?

yea when the voltage is dropped the current (amps) in the circuit increases, most modern equipment is happy to run on reduced voltages for a short time in my experiance, the problem tho is if your pulling bigger amps through a circuit you risk tripping the circuit's protective device (fuse or mcb) which in a home would only knock off a few things.

However it runs a risk of taking out a portion of the final grid since all the transformers are protected by fuses on the supply side

although im speculating on the grid since i dont know for sure>_<

my coats the one with the tester hanging out the pocket

Extreme porn bill gets final reading

Soz posted in worng topic

since it appears they passed it, just who on earth are they gonna enforce it

start raiding everyones houses on new years day and remove all their hard drives and media?

As far as im awear (please correct if im wrong) they need reasonable suspetion (hence phorm supplied evidence) to obtain a warrant and enter someone's house to seize the computer equipment. They cant just go knocking on everyone's door asking to see your porn stash

unenforceable imho on its own but something they can add to the terror charge and refusal to submit an encryption key

time to burn/encrypt ur stash

Lords linger over extreme porn definition

well

since it appears they passed it, just who on earth are they gonna enforce it

start raiding everyones houses on new years day and remove all their hard drives and media?

As far as im awear (please correct if im wrong) they need reasonable suspetion (hence phorm supplied evidence) to obtain a warrant and enter someone's house to seize the computer equipment. They cant just go knocking on everyone's door asking to see your porn stash

unenforceable imho on its own but something they can add to the terror charge and refusal to submit an encryption key

time to burn/encrypt ur stash

Texas man tries to cash $360bn cheque

heh

heh, only reason he only had a small amount of weed on him must be because he smoked the rest of it before going into the bank to cash a cheque for $360Bn ><

Japan turning itself into Cyberman machine civilisation

I Think

Somebody has been watching too much of Ghost in the Shell with all this talk about cyberization, although i wish the day would come when what happens in the series becomes real life

i for one welcome our new technological masters even if i do have to have a chip embedded into my brain, (hopefully vista wont be the O/s for the system)

BT pimped customer web data to advertisers last summer

Tor?

im a little rusty on the subject but does Tor encrypt from the browser (firefox) all the way to the exit node so in theroy all the isp would see is encrypted data?

UK rattles 'three strikes' filesharing sabre (again)

Isp's

although their are some very savvy ways to get around this, using proxys and encryption (to some extent it would help) even if the record company/isp did manage to track the ip to a user and disconnect him on the 3rd warning wouldnt he just be able to go to another service supplier, sign up to them and start downloading again untill he becomes traced agian by another Riaa agent

Would also point out at least they give you a warning letter first, its about the only good thing since u can appeal the desision if the record companys thought their profits were a little low that month and just submitted a list of random ip's and times to the isp for cival proceadings

the flag cause were all pirates at heart

MPs call for stronger data protection laws

@Mc Fines

"Since when has McDonalds agent had the right to request PRIVATE information handed to the government to enforce their McFines?"

Unfortuntley for your argument everyone has the right to request data from the dvla although a fee is normally paid for the service. Its best used when your checking the details on a future purchase and wanna check the information held by them on their database or if you've been hit by a driver who hasnt stopped and you've manged to take his plate down (always handy if he's a tw4t and you wanna teach him a lesson

back on topic, nothings gonna change regardles of what new laws are brought in since the senior managment will just find a way to wiggle of the hook and force somebody else to take the blame