Posts by Colin Miller 615 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Apr 2007
If a stalker knows their ex's accespoint's BSSID, then they might be able find out where it is, by sending a location request with (for example) FF:FF:FF:00:11:22 at 10%. If it returns an approximate location, then they can stalk the area (G's result). A's result appears to be the exact location of the access point.
I hope both services will check what other access points should be visible, and if the request doesn't include any of them, then they will reject the request
He might - shock I know - have thought this through, and only have the cars do the computation when they're connected to mains power.
Assuming that when the car is at home it's on-charge, and not when at work, then being available for about 2/3 of the time is in the correct ball-park
What legitimate reason does a webstore need for its customers' SSN number?
Postal and email address, yes. Credit card numbers ideally should be kept on a different server, and passwords should be salted.
But I can see no reason for the SSN, nor what they would do with it
This rather reminds me of Abigail's Oath, which I think was named after a member of the Scary Devil Monastery, who was forced out of her job. It goes
I am hired because I know what I am doing, not because I will do whatever I am told is a good idea. This might cost me bonuses, raises, promotions and may even label me as “undesirable” by places I don’t want to work at anyway, but I don’t care. I will not compromise my own principles and judgement without putting up a fight. Of course, I won’t always win, and I will sometimes be forced to do things I don’t agree with, but if I am my objections will be known, and if I am shown to be right and problems later develop, I will shout “I told you so!” repeatedly, laugh hysterically, and do a small dance or jig as appropriate to my heritage
However, I'm struggling to find the original
Master key?
I've seen the street door to a transformer building (on a a university campus) with, instead of a padlock through the hasp, a bolt. The bolt had a hole at both ends, each with one padlock. I assume one key was for electricity board, and the other was uni facilities. That way the board's engineers can get in with their normal key. and faculties can get into that specific transformer with they key - but no other transformer.
At least he wasn't this poor sap Patient allegedly turned off roommate’s ventilator because sound annoyed her
The EU has voted to end Winter Time/Summer Time; the vote went through in 2018. It was due to come into effect in 2021, but it seems to have got stuck somewhere. Each country could decide if it would prefer to be on local summer time, or local winter time.
The UK has decided, post-brexit, that it will keep changing it's clocks
A mobile phone user can already turn on delivery receipts for all SMSs they send; when the SMS is delivered to the recipient's phone a SMS is sent back to the sender's phone. AFAIK the recipient can't prevent this.
Likewise for MMSs you can request both delivery and read receipts, although the recipient can block sending both of the receipts.
Is there any reason why HMRC didn't use this, instead of SS7?
ok, they are going to force Smartspeaker manufactures to add DAB+ functionality, and then boast that 100,000+ DAB receivers are being sold a year.
However, that doesn't guarantee that anyone will actually use the DAB. It really depends on if people like listening to ads and DJs who talk over the songs.
How do you tell what servers your phone is connecting to over mobile data? Over WiFi it's reasonably easy - install Wireshark on the hotspot or another device that can eavesdrop.
But unless you are running your own basestation (not impossible, but beyond most peoples' abilities), or root it for TcpDump to work, I don't know how to grab the data.
There are a number of headless apps which connect to a IMAP mail server, and can move emails to filters based on your rules.
As IMAP is a push protocol (POP3 was pull), and IMAP stores the mail on the server, the filters can activate on receipt of emails.
Same here. I bought mine two months ago, which came with the old firmware, and upgraded it to the then latest firmware. Apart from the noise cancellation going into 'low' I haven't noticed anything wrong.
I've changed the action button (big button on the back of the left headphone) to change the cancellation level, and it's easy to knock by mistake when donning/doffing them. By default the button triggers Siri/GoogleAssiast, and the cancellation level is set by the app.
I can't be sure if this the firmware changed the level, or I accidentally changed it at the same time
On *nix machines, the mollyguard package installs a set of wrappers around shutdown, reboot, poweroff, etc. If it detects that you are inside a ssh session, it will ask you for the name of the box you intend to shutdown. It refuses to shutdown if you aren't on that box.
It doesn't normally intervene for console and desktops, so be careful with KVMs
I am doubtful of this anecdote. The update screen quite clearly tells you how long it will take and you have to accept the dialog window to continue. They usually say a time > 1hr but often complete a bit quicker. You can also schedule it for any time you like (defaults to 2am or something like that) so there was no need to try and cram it in before a trip either.
It would be useful if the car reminded you of an update when you turn the ignition off. A fair number of folks could well forgot between being told at the start of their drive, and arriving at their destination.
If the Swedish or German government inroduced an ID card, would I trust them to make individual privacy a top priority, and to not subvert the scheme into a means of tracking every detail of their subjects' activities? Possibly. Would I trust Amber Rudd with the same question? Absolutely not.
Germany does have ID cards - they're administrated by the Länder, the 16 federal states, but are now printed centrally. The Länder are on strict instructions, that should the Federal Government become authoritarian, they are to destroy their records. The reasons for this should be obvious to all.
Sweden also has ID cards.
The EU has a list of all identifying documents issued by each member. However, it doesn't indicate what can be used if the police ask you for ID. Britain is one of the few countries that accept your driver's license, which doesn't indicate your citizenship, only which country it was issued by. However, the police will check with the Home Office if they have doubts over a persons citizenship.
Do body-worn cameras have two independent recording systems, as required at a police interview suite? The suspect is entitled to a copy of their interview (in reality, this is given to their lawyer).
Without this, I think a good lawyer will be able to have the interview struck off as being illegally conducted.
FB may well have 41 million US 18-24 year old with accounts. Some folks may have two accounts, either from abandoning one (forgotten password, too much bullying on the first account).
Or some folks may use two accounts. If you are a closeted LGBT person, you may one for your family who you are not out to, and a second one for your real persona.
@hellwing
Uh, for an absolute value, why would you store that in a signed integer? In what scenario is a negative time since epoch useful? An unsigned integer would have given 136-some years of reliability.
Using a signed time_t allows you to use time_t for both datetime, and for a duration. This is useful in procedural languages like C, however most OO languages use a separate DateTime and Duration types.
If I'm reading this correctly, then Zenith-Betriebe* is concerned that Der Tägliche Iris** inaccurately reported on allegations against Zenith-Betriebe. This allowed Der Tägliche Iris's readers to form the wrong conclusion about the type of fraud alleged against Zenith-Betriebe.
So why didn't Zenith-Betriebe contact Der Tägliche Iris, and ask them to correct their article? Instead it appears that Zenith-Betriebe went straight to the right-to-be-forgotten law.
*, ** all names used are fictional, and any relationship to any real entity is accidental and unintentional.
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