Posts by Bob Hoskins

123-Reg customers outraged at automatic .UK domain registration

123-reg are pure evil

Used them on and off over the years - you're always getting these surprise sort of bills.

Red panic: Best Buy yanks Kaspersky antivirus from shelves

Re: It's a good job this Kasperksy guy seems a good egg.

Kaspersky are a pretty late player which makes it all the more impressive they broke into the AV market so effectively.

As AV goes, Kaspersky is pretty good but I've no idea what their relation with the Kremlin (if any) is.

The War Against Terror (TWAT)

I can't believe I haven't seen this one before.

Strong and stable, my arse. UK wobbles when coping with ransomware

Re: Easy to mitigate

Especially Flash. No need for it and a quick read of CVE details on the tech makes for chilling reading.

Jodie Who-ttaker? The Doctor is in

Re: Ground rules

"Give the new Doctor some decent scripts and storylines."

That's all that really matters. It's been bloody woeful of late. Terrance Dicks is alive and kicking, we should be paying him big bucks to come back and make everything OK.

Re: This is the BBC making a quota

Again. Absolutely. It just doesn't seem necessary. I'm not sure - I'm a bit torn like the first time the Daleks could climb stairs. It really isn't some sexist woman hating thing, sure it's just fantasy - one day I'm hoping that the Dr will transform and he'll be Jackie Chan and he'll be kicking the be-jesus out of those cybermen and they'll be like "Crap! It's Dr. Jackie Who!". I'd pay my licence fee for that.

Re: This is the BBC making a quota

LOL. You make a fair point. I'm not afraid of the idea of a female Dr. Who - I just feel....I don't know, no one would insist on Ron Weasly as Anne of Green Gables (I hope).

I'll be watching, but it's all been a bit pants since Mr. Tennant anyway.

This is the BBC making a quota

I've nothing against Jodie - a fine actress but Dr. Who is a guy. What next? Recasting Jane Austin's characters as transgender? If you want a time lady then being back Romana (who incidentally was briefly black - no issues there, in fact Idris Alba for James Bond) - this though feels forced. *

* I love women, am not scared of them etc etc.

The AA's copped to credit data blurt, but what about car-crash incident response?

Why the pic of

the Paul Walker death car?

His Muskiness wheels out the Tesla Model 3

Boring

Boring cars for boring people.

Roland McGrath steps down as glibc maintainer after 30 years

This is the responsible thing to do, there should always be someone ready to take over at a moment's notice. What would happen if Linus or a similar person got knocked down by a bus?

PARTY!

Re: Somebody Please

That's a terror group. You watch out.

Finally!

Maybe someone can get it working now.

Judge used personal email to send out details of sensitive case

This is clearly the end of the world as we know it

This guy might as well have been peddling illegal pornography! Meanwhile it was unencrypted on his hard and that of the recipient.

Crashed RadioShack flogs off its IPv4 stash

IPv6 Migration

Is not going to happen. It's just too insane a standard and a solution to a problem that doesn't exist anymore. If you can't solve it with NAT and CIDR and a little creativity you should not be in IT.

Behind the scenes of Slovaks' fight to liberate their .sk domain

Haven't the Baltic states got more to worry about than this?

Russia's about to invade and all.

Google Chrome's HTTPS ban-hammer drops on WoSign, StartCom in two months

Does anyone still use Google?

I thought everyone had switched over to Bing?

Largest advertising company in the world still wincing after NotPetya punch

Class action lawsuit against the NSA?

Anyone?

Welsh Linux Mint terror nerd jailed for 8 years

Innocent until proven Welsh

And Muslim.

Rackspace goes TITSUP in global outage outrage

There is no cloud

Just somebody else's computer.

Mozilla dev and Curl inventor Daniel Stenberg denied travel to USA

Re: I think I've found the problem

I've said it before elsewhere but it got rejected. The trick is not to fly BA. Certainly not transatlantic. Rude cabin crew, no space. Horrible.

Re: !

Agreed. It's not worth the hassle visiting the US at all anymore. ESTA is wildly seen as a convenient source of income more than anything else anyway.

Huge ransomware outbreak spreads in Ukraine and beyond

Re: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

That was an extremely stupid response. Thank you.

Linus Torvalds slams 'pure garbage' from 'clowns' at Grsecurity

Re: Linus exhibits all the qualities of pure sociopath

Well yeah, OK. But having worked on FreeBSD (and yes I know we're not comparing like with like) there are open source projects with far greater potential and merit. Linus is not the begin and end of the open source movement. He is often rude, unprofessional and rapidly becoming surplus to requirements.

Linus exhibits all the qualities of pure sociopath

It baffles me that anyone in the open source community is still prepared to subject themselves to his attitude.

UK and Ecuador working on Assange escape mechanism

Honestly

I don't think I want to see the guy swan off to Ecuador after all the crap he's pulled. Don't get me wrong, I think the world needs organisations like Wikileaks it just doesn't need Assange. I also think that Ecuador overestimate their own influence and misunderstand how our legal system works. The moment he steps out of the embassy he will be arrested - what happens next is a huge mess of what Sweden decide to do (they can still request extradition), what the yanks want to do (as someone said earlier it will just take one ambitious DA to throw a spanner in the works. Questions as to how long he would survive in Quito I will leave to others to speculate on. One final point is that he has not behaved like an innocent man and that means trial by media and on that I'd say the verdict is pretty much guilty.

UCL ransomware attack traced to malvertising campaign

Not North Korea?

Surprised the NSA haven't jumped on this yet.

Uber wants your top tips to mend its rotten image

Re: The ironic thing

Very true. I've had nothing but good experiences with Uber drivers - seems to be some issues at the top mind.

It's quite simple really

Stop treating your people like crap. They don't like it. Admittedly, most of them won't have worked for IBM in the recent past thereby having a common frame of reference but that advice is equally applicable to IBM.

Hotheaded Brussels civil servants issued with cool warning: Leak

Re: Nuke the site from orbit

The problem with me and film quotes is I always bugger them up.

Nuke the site from orbit

It's the only way to be sure.

Google plans to scrub 'inflammatory' and terror vids from youTube

Re: all large internet companies need to at least be seen to do more

Interesting paradox. If there isn't already a name for it I propose the 'Nimby Perplexity'

Brit hacker admits he siphoned info from US military satellite network

Re: "No one should think that cyber crime is victimless"

That's a good analogy. In fact it makes the point perfectly.

FAIL

Nothing annoys me more than the US military whining that they got owned in some stupid embarrassing way by some kid in his bedroom and then making up huge sums of money and acting like they're in a shooting war with the Russians. I guess it's an easier way to get budget than to you know ASK for some security in the first place.

Break crypto to monitor jihadis in real time? Don't be ridiculous, say experts

You can have my encryption

When you take it from my cold dead hands.

Apple gives world ... umm ... not much new actually

Re: Things fade

Curved edges will herp there.

Things fade

Apple were never going to be the 'cool kids' forever. The bottom has fallen out of the mobile market like it did in 2001 - something new has to come along and change the market. There's a lot of solutions looking for problems - sooner or later someone will hit the right zeitgeist.

Toyota's entertaining the idea of Linux in cars

Linux is crap

They should use Windows 7 - it's a mature technology that works.

Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht denied bid for new trial

The sentence was unreasonable

Yeah - life's not fair and all that but this was a spiteful show of making an example of someone. How successful it's been is questionable. The guy got caught through poor tradecraft rather technical Tor issues and whatnot and people have learned from his mistakes. Life without parole? That the USA

UK surveillance law raises concerns security researchers could be 'deputised' by the state

They already do

It's called the CHECK scheme. Look it up.

Re: Ken Munro ... an expert in IoT security issues

I hope that was sarcasm.

Shadow Brokers lay out pitch – and name price – for monthly zero-day subscription service

Someone should teach these idiots about how to run a business

They haven't had a lot of luck so far. Muppets.

Your roadmap to the Google vs Oracle Java wars

Don't use Java

Problem solved.

British prime minister slams Facebook and pals for votes

RE: British prime minister slams Facebook and pals for votes

"Terrorists are generally locals who have become very disaffected with the way their lives are not panning out as they would like. The cause they espouse is almost irrelevant. They will be open to any political ideology that appears to promise to give them meaning and control."

Who just happen to be Muslim? Plenty of unhappy people in Britain but they don't go around killing kids.

Netgear 'fixes' router by adding phone-home features that record your IP and MAC address

How many smart phones are on a network without wifi?

No nudity please, we're killing ourselves: Advice to Facebook mods leaks

So I can live stream my suicide

But I can't show a woman's nipple. Wow - just wow.

Beeb hands £560m IT deal to Atos. Again

Slightly off topic

What circumstances would the police reasonably accept if I gave a TV Licensing guy on my doorstep a damn good thrashing? Just wondering for no reason at all.

Uber is a taxi company, not internet, European Court of Justice advised

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

That is all

FBI boss James Comey was probing Trump's team for Russia links. You're fired, says Donald

Re: tee hee

The FBI were about to subpoena Trump's tax returns that's why he was fired.

America's mystery X-37B space drone lands after two years in orbit

More surveillance

Yep, that's what we need.