Posts by Terry Barnes

The first rule of liquid cooling is 'Don't wet the chip.' Microsoft disagrees

Re: Similar in size to a human hair you say?

Where in the article is water mentioned?

After three weeks of night shifts, very tired techie broke the UK’s phone network

System X has a lot of triplicated systems using 2 out of 3 majority decision making.

Britain dusts off idle spectrum for rail and emergency comms

Re: Good idea, ruined

How do you propose that images, location data, text information, video and voice all be sent in an entirely analogue domain? How would you protect and encrypt that information in an entirely analogue domain? How much will you pay for devices to be developed and built that can do all this in an entirely analogue fashion?

Think better.

UK telco TalkTalk confirms probe into alleged data grab underway

Maths

How can they have leaked data for around five times as many customers as they actually have?

BT Group confirms attackers tried to break into Conferencing division

GDPR isn’t a legal requirement in the USA.

Ericsson pulls plug on 8,500 workers

The telecoms equipment business is, and always has been, cyclical. Manufacturers ramp up staff as something new rolls out and then they ramp back down. It’s always been that way and people who work in the industry understand it. Businesses that are slow to ramp down tend to go bust and then everyone loses their job.

China to stop certifying fax machines, ISDN and frame relay kit

Re: PABXs

A lot of legacy analogue PBXs were upgraded to have digital trunks using partial or full ISDN-30s. Usually a shelf or a rack with a mux and the ISDN termination in.

Twitter dismantles its Trust and Safety Council moments before meeting

Re: The False American Notion of Free Speech

No, you simply misunderstand Popper’s Paradox.

Unless of course your definition of free speech includes me standing outside your mother or daughter’s house with a megaphone in the middle of the night yelling ‘wh*re’ at them without pause.

Microsoft warns Direct Access on Windows 10 and 11 could be anything but

Re: What's wrong with a VPN anyway?

That makes little sense. You’ve just got a different risk. You haven’t removed one.

Amazon Alexa can be hijacked via commands from own speaker

If someone is that close you don’t need Bluetooth, just open the letterbox and yell at her. Alexa doesn’t do voice identity.

UK science stuck in 'holding pattern' on EU funding by Brexit, says minister

Re: One sub postmaster's story

Madness. You don’t think we should improve the safety of vulnerable road users because not many people die inside cars? We’re are nearly the worst in Europe for deaths of vulnerable road users, hence the changes.

You quote a misleading statistic and then attempt to justify it with some bizarre anecdote about someone inside a car and throw in a personal insult as well.

Re: One sub postmaster's story

“ U.K. road fatalities per capita are the second lowest in Europe”

Why would you selectively quote overall deaths and not deaths of vulnerable road users unless you were intending to deceive? Just the facts indeed…

Linux distros haunted by Polkit-geist for 12+ years: Bug grants root access to any user

Re: "Many people can, and do, review code."

“ I am not saying that every piece of FOSS code has been reviewed by many people. ”

For a building to be secure, every door must be locked.

You are as secure as your weakest link, not your strongest.

Re: Eyes

Point 2) is only true if the person who finds it has good intentions. Don’t presume that people looking for mistakes are doing so out of the goodness of their hearts.

Re: Eyes

Once an exploitable vulnerability exists all that is required for it to be exploited is time.

Intel's €80bn European chip plant investment plan not bound for UK because Brexit

Re: @Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells

…and you think people building canals with spoons is equivalent to high-paying value-adding work like semiconductor fab how?

You’ve made yourself look more, not less, stupid.

Re: Excellent

Absolute idiocy. Let’s shut down all British companies, even more winning then, right?

Re: @Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells

Using your logic we would all be better off if every U.K. company shut up shop and moved to the EU. Admit it, you supported a terrible self-harming decision and are too immature to recognise it.

Indian broadband connections top 800 million … sort of

No, services that operate within telephony frequency constraints are defined as narrowband. Broadband defines a service that uses a wider frequency range than 300-3400hz.

512kbps is a noughties speed. The nineties were dial-up all the way, with maybe a bonded 128kbps ISDN connection if you had deep pockets.

Re: Correction already sent.

b not B. Network through is measured in bits per second.

GSMA and Euro-telcos argue for exemptions from big tech tax crackdown laws

Re: Excuse me...

It’s mostly profits that are taxed which means there’s no need for a price increase because that would simply increase the amount of profits to be taxed.

Increased taxation usually results in lower investment or lower returns to investment. Sometimes it drives increased investment because that serves to reduce the profit the tax is based on.

Dog eats UK government's Hydrogen Strategy homework just as summer recess arrives

Re: Where does the hydrogen come from?

According to gridwatch, at the time I post, solar and wind are generating four times what coal is in the U.K.

A floppy filled with software worth thousands of francs: Techie can't take it, customs won't keep it. What to do?

There is no paperwork or customs between EU countries. That’s kind of the point.

Director, deputy director, CTO of Free Software Foundation quit after Stallman installation

@Michael.

Indeed. These people don’t want freedom of speech. They want freedom from consequences. But only for themselves.

Show where people are trying to remove him from the history books. You must have a link and some evidence or you wouldn’t have said it, right? And if you don’t, then what are we to make of the rest of your posts?

People still use the hospitals Jimmy Saville did fund-raising for. What’s your point?

Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies

Re: such audacity

Have no answer to my point so criticise my typing error? You know that means you lost, right?

Re: Who can spot the hypocrisy?

@Taxpayer

The paradox is by philosopher Karl Popper.

It states that blind inclusivity in any context is ultimately bound to fail because it will include people who have a primary objective of excluding others. To therefore be inclusive it is necessary to identify and exclude those people. Or put another way; Be tolerant of everything except intolerance.

To use a practical example, if a city's Pride organising committee extended its warm, friendly and welcoming arms to members of the Westboro Baptist Chuch, the aims of that Pride committee would be subverted. To remain inclusive, the committee must exclude members of that Church.

Re: such audacity

It is not zealotry to want workplaces where women can feel safe from the unwanted advances of predatory males. They you think it is tells us plenty about you.

Re: Who can spot the hypocrisy?

No. They are demonstrating their inclusiveness by excluding people whose actions and words serve to diminish inclusiveness. Inclusiveness does not mean extending welcoming arms to misogynists, racists and homophobes. Popper’s paradox.

Re: Oh how the woke wimper

No. Stallman used his freedom of speech and thought and is now experiencing consequences from what he said and did.

You don’t want freedom of speech, you want freedom from consequence.

The Audacity of it all: Version 3.0 of open-source audio fave boasts new file format, 160+ bug fixes

Re: Still no VST Instruments?

It’s not a wannabe DAW, it’s an audio editor.

What use is a VST instrument in a package without midi support or sequencing?

UK carriers open their wallets as regulator Ofcom doles out more slabs of 5G spectrum

Re: Quote

What relevance is the manufacture of end user devices? Nokia and Ericsson are two of the leading manufacturers of cellular networks in the world and have been since the dawn of mobile networks.

Motorola was the third big name, but they are now part of Nokia, along with Siemens.

Seagate UK customer stung by VAT on replacement drive shipped via the Netherlands

Re: I don't understand something

An item of value has crossed the border, thus VAT is payable.

Want your broadband fixed? Best write to your MP, UK's Zen Internet tells customer

Re: Sounds familiar

Pretty offensive to call people simians. They’re not as clever as you so must be sub-human?

Re: Lead and Paper.

There’s no oil in the cables, just dry air fed from a dessicator / compressor.

UK watchdog fines two firms £270k for cold-calling 531,000 people who had opted out

Re: Reporting calls

“ Take away the income, telcos will curb the activity at lightning speed”

By the same logic, docking a postman’s pay will prevent junk mail. It’s nonsense and ignores the telcos’ responsibility to act as common carriers.

Microsoft's underwhelming, underpowered dual-screen Surface Duo phone arrives in the UK this month for £1,349

Nokia’s haven’t been made by MS for some time - the last were Lumia windows phones are high are well out of support. The current Nokia range is made by a Chinese company.

No ports, no borders, no hope: Xiaomi's cool but impractical all-screen concept phone

Re: Yes

Indeed. Like arguing that your finances are in such bad shape you may as well buy a new car and head to the casino.

Judge denies Parler an injunction to force AWS to host the antisocial network for internet outcasts

Re: Not all countries are founded on socialist beliefs

"First they came for the Communists..."

No, first they came for the people who wanted a bakery to make them a gay wedding cake.

I don't recall the right wing crying bitter salty tears about censorship when the supreme court ruled that the bakery was under no obligation to bake the cake.

If a bakery doesn't have to bake a cake it finds objectional, AWS doesn't have to host the inane hateful rants of furious gammony incels.

Re: Censorship by Private Companies

If you open your mouth and one person tells you to shut it, bad lack, you met an asshole.

If you open your mouth and everyone tells you to shut up, you're an asshole.

Re: Censorship by Private Companies

Perhaps it would be easier to use an analogy. Imagine that AWS is a bakery and Parler want them to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.

There was a supreme court case on that very issue, as you may recall. I seem to recall the right wing supporters of the bakery being over the moon that the supreme court ruled 7-2 that the bakery was under no obligation to bake the cake.

Now, what was it you said again?

"Is OK as long as we do not like the content being censored."

Oh yes.

Up yours, Europe! Our 100% prime British broadband is cheaper than yours... but also slower and a bit of a rip-off

Re: Disingenuous advertising

512Mb is pretty fast. Are you sure you typed that right?

The Huawei Mate 40 Pro is so mired in strangely hardy glue that the display shattered during iFixit's teardown

Re: I did it Huawei

The number of phone repair shops in the High Street where I live suggests strongly your ‘99.99%’ is some way off the truth. Five shops for 31,000 people would mean each shop has a single customer every other month.

UK state of the Internet report: Virgin Media 'fast', BT's PlusNet last

This survey is reasonably useless if it doesn’t record what package people have bought. Most people buy the cheapest thing available where they live. Having a low score for throughout is more a function of the customers an ISP attracts than it is a measure of network performance.

My parents are on talktalk ADSL but live in a street covered by both Virgin’s HFC network and Openreach’s FTTP. They’ve chosen to buy a service that runs at about 12Mbps, but they have available to them services running twenty times faster.

If the Samsung Galaxy S20 Fan Edition doesn't make you a fan, we don't know what will

“Colour fidelity is good, and it's bright enough for outside usage on particularly sunny days – although, given we're entering the cold autumnal months, this isn't much of a problem.”

Ideal for all those people who change their phones seasonally. ‘Why yes, it’s an excellent autumn phone.’

Amiga Fast File System makes minor comeback in new Linux kernel

I thought Windows and Macintosh always had memory management? That was Amiga’s problem - lots of games and demos required unfettered first party DMA to work, introducing any form of memory management would have broken compatibility. Insecure by design.

I was a big Amiga fan, but the reason it failed wasn’t because the big boys were mean to it. The OS was seriously flawed - the lack of memory protection meant it was not a safe thing to put any meaningful data in. As the world became networked it would have been a disaster. The tight integration between hardware and software was also a fundamental problem. It gave Amiga a head start but it also defined the end of the road pretty well too.

Moore’s law and ubiquity beat custom hardware every time. You just have to wait.

Re: My life is now complete...

You had an Oric Telestrat? Cripes!