Posts by davenewman

Cybercrook hands cops £923k in Bitcoin made from selling phished deets on the dark web

Re: The Dark Side Beckons ....... Spider/Fly/Pro/Amateur/Heaven/Hell/Good/Not so Good

AmanfromMars has been on this forum for decades, long before AI was capable of generating such prose. He may even have been on CIX in the 1990s.

This is on the Isle of Sheppey, full of sheep and chavs.

World recoils in horror as smartphone maker accused of helping government snoops read encrypted texts, track device whereabouts

Re: seemingly taken an intense interest in Ugandan affairs

Not all the readers will remember the Private Eye articles about what a Ugandan diplomat did in an airport lavatory.

One person's harmless japery can be another's night of LaserJet Lego

Sending messages to other terminals

On a PDP11 running UNIX, it was easy to send text to someone else's terminal. Just a cat {filename} /dev/{teminal}.

Us students working at night would send ASCII images of rockets to each other.

Talk about unintended consequences: GDPR is an identity thief's dream ticket to Europeans' data

Re: Over caution

When you get probate, they cannot refuse.

It's Friday lunchtime on International Beer Day. Bitter hop to it, boss'll be none the weiser

The map leaves out Ireland

North and South.

New UK Home Sec invokes infosec nerd rage by calling for an end to end-to-end encryption

Estonia tells you who in government has been looking at your data

The records of identity card use go both ways. If someone in government looks up your data, you can find out who did and for what purpose.

Imagine if we automatically got informed of who is snooping on us and why.

Houston, we've had a legend: Boffin behind NASA Mission Control signs off for final time

Book gone

His book is selling secondhand for £50.

UK.gov drives ever further into Nocluesville, crowdsources how to solve digital identity

Re: Not that difficult...

Outsource it to Estonia. They have a system where you can see who in government looked at your identity card data.

Turning it off and on again IN SPAAACE! ISS animal-tracker kit needs oldest trick in the book

Bad noisy fans

According to the astronaut Michael Foale, at a talk in Reading yesterday, the Russians used cheap noisy fans in their bit of the space station. The Americans used quiet expensive fans.

It looks like the animal tracking kit used cheap Russian fans that weren't only noisy but keep sticking.

Oh look. Vodafone has extended its ultrafast 5G network to deliver... Wi-Fi?

Re: Data cap

They dropped the no tethering conditions when forced to by the European Commission. It breaks single market regulations.

Bulb smart meters in England wake up from comas miraculously speaking fluent Welsh

Quantas linguas fala o senhor?

Combien des langues parlez-vous?

Wie viel spache spechen-sie?

Anaenda kiswahili?

U kapav koz kreol?

...

Anyone for unintended ChatRoulette? Zoom installs hidden Mac web server to allow auto-join video conferencing

So how does it work on Linux? I checked - I don't have anything running on port 19421.

Medway Council reforms eforms to stop blurting out residents' details

Re: Other points of interest

But Chatham was quickly overtaken in chavs by the Isle of Sheppey.

Blackburn ain't big enough for the both of us: Mr Creamy and Mr Whippy at the centre of new ice-cream war

The fastest milk cart in the north

Is one of the called Ernie?

Must watch: GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity

Re: They missed the obvious fucking solution

How does that work in a bayonet fitting?

Uber JUMPs at chance to dump load of electric bikes across Islington

Chinese bikes already here

Lime and Uber are not the best known. There are already 2 big Chinese companies competing to get us to hire their bicycles in many cities in the UK.

Oxford has 4 companies hiring bicycles. Pony bike (local), Mobike and Ofo (Chinese) all use mobile apps to hire. Then there are the bicycle shops doing traditional hire for the day such as Bainton Bikes.

But I guess the person who posted the press release here hasn't bothered to look outside London.

AI can now animate the Mona Lisa's face or any other portrait you give it. We're not sure we're happy with this reality

Re: He made one mistake

remove.bg will take out the background for you.

Idiot admits destroying scores of college PCs using USB Killer gizmo, filming himself doing it

No, now you need a Masters in Public Policy from the Blavatnik School of Government.

Aussies, Yanks may think they're big drinkers – but Brits easily booze them under the table

Re: Manipulating the price of alcohol

Actually, when my brother was an alcoholic, the price did matter. He often went without alcohol for days when he ran out of money. So unit pricing can have an effect. But it doesn't matter so much for better off people.

Not biased against you and not going anywhere, judge tells Post Office in Horizon IT system case

Let's hope the appeal judges declare the Post Office as a vexatious litigant.

Shock revelation as massive American presidential election hack confirmed

Re: LBJ would be proud

As satirised on TV in an episode of Give My Head Peace, where Uncle Andy and Cal were taking the names of dead people from gravestones until the dead rose for their graves and chased them out to the sounds of Michael Jackson's Thriller.

Hello, tech support? Yes, I've run out of desk... Yes, DESK... space

Re: He made one mistake

I put the tea straight away into a vacuum flask. Preferably a super insulated one from IKEA.

Quadsys exec who hacked rival firm's database in 2016 convicted of assault

Reported in the Oxford Mail

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/17532972.scales-of-justice-latest-oxfordshire-court-results/

Welcome. You're now in a timeline in which US presidential hopeful Beto was a member of a legendary hacker crew

Re: Nice

Bernie Sanders learned with age, although not as much as his older brother Larry who is now the health and social care spokesperson of the Green Party of England and Wales.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS media released with APT fix as end of support nears

Find another KDE? Kubuntu has always been around, no need to bother about Unity or Gnome.

Civil servants 'Sir Humphrey' their way through grilling on UK.gov's digital transformation

Devolved administrtations better

They should have taken evidence from the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. Because they are smaller, their departments work together.

In NI the close working led to Des Vincent writing the first UK e-Government policy for the whole of the UK.

Here come the riled MPs (it's private, huh), Facebook's a digital 'gangster' ('disingen-u-ous'). Zuckerberg he is a failure (on sharing data)

na nananana

The video isn't the original song. It is a later take off (sorry, tribute).

What did turbonerds do before the internet? 41 years ago, a load of BBS

And then there was CIX

Hey, UK.gov: If you truly spunked £45k on 1,300 Brexit deal print-outs, you're absolute mugs

pence/page

On our local Green Party Riso printer, that would cost 2 p/sheet (= 1 p/page double sided), not the 5.7 p/page calculated above.

That doesn't include labour, which would put the cost up to 2 p/page from a company like Hillingdon Greenprint.

Hubble 'scope camera breaks down amid US govt shutdown, forcing boffins to fix it for free

Re: Shutdown

Or Americans could start travelling by train again.

Excuse me, sir. You can't store your things there. Those 7 gigabytes are reserved for Windows 10

It is useful for business. Just install Linux. Forget about Windows.

I'm just not sure the computer works here – the energy is all wrong

The only time I bought anything to regulate the power supply was in Kenya in the 1980s. There weren't many long power cuts, but there were twice weekly drop outs of a few seconds. A voltage stabiliser covered those seconds. As the supply voltage went down, the slider on the transformer moved to keep up.

It's 2019, the year Blade Runner takes place: I can has flying cars?

Wrong. Oxbotica already manages small twisty roads in Oxfordshire.

Staff sacked after security sees 'suspect surfer' script of shame

Re: He made one mistake

You can forbid companies monitoring employees if you are in a country with strict privacy laws, like Germany.

2018 ain't done yet... Amazon sent Alexa recordings of man and girlfriend to stranger

Always identify the spokesperson

To stop companies giving stupid PR answers to your questions, always report the name of the spokesperson who gave you the answer. After a while they will get so embarrassed that they start giving proper answers to your questions.

Similarly, when someone says they cannot comment on individual cases, ask them Why?

Dutch boyband hopes to reverse Brexit through the power of music

Better than the Christmas number 1 in the UK

Sausage rolls?

A year after Logitech screwed over Harmony users, it, um, screws over Harmony users: Device API killed off

Have the broken the XMPP standard?

By removing APIs that access XMPP?

Er, we have 670 staff to feed now: UK's ICO fines 100 firms that failed to pay data protection fee

Waiting for their renewal invoice

An organisation I am involved with was due to renew registration in September. We didn't receive any renewal notice or information on how to pay. The ICO has simply dropped us off the list of registered organisations. I send an email enquiring. Still waiting for a reply.

Brexit: UK will be disconnected from EU databases after 2020

Re: Guys, guys, Project Fear Mark 75 can be wound up now!

The European Parliament works far better than the Westminster one. The MEPs spend their time in committees, drawing up legislation across national and party lines, finding better solutions to the problems we face. I had a fascinating hour listening to the Swedish Green MEP explaining how her committee got the common fisheries policy changed to something sensible. They came up with a workable compromise they then sold to the rest of the MEPs, co-ordinating their reports with mass demonstrations outside led by Hugh Fearnley-Wittingstall.

In Westminster we have people shouting at each other in Parliament, with no power to change what the Government Ministers decide, all doing exactly what the whips tell them.

The times when the EU doesn't work is when the European Parliament is overruled by the Council of Ministers - i.e. the Ministers from each national government.

What we need is a civil war like the US had, to set up a proper working federal government.

Between you, me and that dodgy-looking USB: A little bit of paranoia never hurt anyone

Business cards

There was a time when people would hand over mini-CDs as business cards.

Russia: The hole in the ISS Soyuz lifeboat – was it the crew wot dunnit?

I see they have magnetised walls, so they can just stick tools there to stop them floating about.

First it was hashtags – now Amber Rudd gives us Brits knowledge on national ID cards

In Estonia you can find out who has looked at your data

Every Estonian citizen can check their ID card data and find out who in the government looked up their data on a particular occasion for a declared purpose. It is 2-way transparent.

5G can help us spy on West Midlands with AI CCTV, giggles UK.gov

False positives

There were reports on the false positive and false negative rates of automated facial recognition used by the Met in London. Amazingly high false positive rates, with lots of innocent people being matched to wanted lists.

If you weren't rich enough to buy a Surface before, you may as well let that dream die

EVE

is the answer, if you need that spec and Windows.

Salesforce boss Marc Benioff objects to US immigration policy so much, he makes millions from, er, US immigration

Salesforce could modify its HR software for the border patrol to automatically record abusive behaviour by staff, and highlight it in annual reviews. I realise they are not a bad as TSA goons, but I have only come across one country where the passport control people are more officious and uncaring - South Africa in the apartheid era.

HiveIO claims latest HCI software 'eliminates' complexity... Isn't that the whole point of HCI?

HCI is?

What has this got to do with Human Computer Interaction?

Ex-UK comms minister's constituents plagued by wonky broadband over ... wireless radio link?

In Warnambool, Vic.. Australia, whenever there is a high wind, someone needs to go up the mountain to realign the microwave dish that connects the whole town to the Internet

Miss America 'scholarship program' adds Microsoft Azure developer to lineup

Thanks for the link to John Oliver's piece. Hillarious.

Apple shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, to find gambling in its Chinese App Store

Sensor its service?

In order to keep its multi-billion dollar China business open, the company has had to take extra measures to monitor and sensor its service.

How did IoT get mixed up with this?