Re: Up vote
Generally when something can't be found in DNS, the reply is NXDOMAIN.
Unfortunately many ISP have started hijacking this useful response (along with the useful 404).
Posts by Oninoshiko
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404 Boss not found — Bye bye ICANN CEO Chehade
£280k Kickstarter camera trigger campaign crashes and burns
Thursday 21st May 2015 19:24 GMT
Re: Risk?
KSes do not guarantee the project will accomplish it's goals, only that the backers will get their rewards. This becomes an issue when the reward is a copy of the product (the goal). The original intent was cases like the Reading Rainbow kickstarter, where almost all the rewards where things like tee-shirts and mugs, the funding goals where to get a reading-show produced and in the hands of children.
Robocalling Americans? That'll cost you $1.7m
Feds: Bloke 'HACKED PLANE controls' – from his PASSENGER seat
Lightbulbs of the future will come with wireless extenders and speakers
Don't look now: Fujitsu ships new mobe with EYEBALL-scanning security
Infosec bods demo GPU keylogger. Don't tell the NS... oh, wait
Swedish Supreme Court keeps AssangeTM in Little Ecuador
Massive police 'heavy equipment' robot drags out suspect who hid inside television
Extreme community policing: West Virginia crook pepper-sprays HIMSELF mid-robbery
Smart grid security WORSE than we thought
Oculus Rift VR bucket will be seen on noggins near you in 2016
Zuck'ed up: Facebook opens up free internet in India – but bans HTTPS
Bruce Schneier's Data and Goliath – solution or part of the problem?
Monday 4th May 2015 18:57 GMT
"Both justifications prevent Google and Facebook from exploring new, imaginative and mutually useful (to customer and provider) ways of doing business. Ways that don’t require data collection and hoarding."
I'm not sure this is a solid argument to Google that they shouldn't horde. While I can imagine many businesses that don't require hording, it's only VARY few that the hording actually precludes.
So, as the meme driven kids today say: "Why not both?"
(note: I'm not really suggesting that I want google to track everyone. Just that this argument is not something that they are going to find compelling)
Amazon boss Bezos' Blue Origins declares test flight 'flawless' ... if you overlook one snafu
What is Apple's idiot tax on Watch these days? 'About $265 or 80%'
ICANN's bill for clawing global DNS from Uncle Sam: $7m and counting
Who thinks Microsoft Edge sucks? Erm, Microsoft
Friday 1st May 2015 15:31 GMT
Re: Hatters Will Hate!
Pretty sure the part that sucks is them buying a bunch of "edgesucks.com" type domains (considering that's what the story was talking about). elReg doesn't just report on MS doing that, there have been numerous articles in the past about companies doing that.
But you want someone to identify something that sucks about it, fine: when you go to type in the address bar, you can't tell how it's going to respond. You can single, double, or triple click it never highlights. Sometimes backspace deletes the entire text, sometimes it it backspaces a single character, and it never gives any indicator as to what it's going to do.
Feel better?
This is Sparta? No - it's Microsoft Edge, Son of Internet Explorer
SUPERVOLCANIC MAGMA reservoir BUBBLING under Yellowstone Park
Fed-up Colorado man takes 9mm PISTOL to vexing Dell PC
Neurobabble makes nonsense brain 'science' more believable
Labour policy review tells EU where to stuff its geo-blocking ban
LA schools want multi-million Apple refund after kids hack iPads
'Arkansas cops tried to hack me with malware-ridden hard drive'
What's Meg Whitman fussing over: The fate of HP ... or the font on a DISRUPTIVE new logo?
Nvidia's GTX 900 cards lock out open-source Linux devs yet again
Thursday 16th April 2015 16:11 GMT
"This almost certainly doesn't affect any other Linux developer or user in the slightest, since there is already a better and more optimal nvidia driver out there for free (nvidias own Linux driver). Yes it doesn't come with source code, but that is mostly if not completely a philosophical rather than practical limitation, since who in the real world ever has an actual need or even desire to dive in and modify video driver code?"
That's not true. Because linux is a monolithic kernel, the nVidia driver potentially has access to the entire memory space. Because of this ANY bug you are experiencing with the kernel cannot be ruled out as a nVidia driver problem (potentially other software too, but usually it's trying to track down a kernel problem).
This isn't just theoretical. nVidia has shipped buggy drivers, and it's much harder to get dev attention if you're running a tainted kernel for this reason.
WHAT did GOOGLE do SO WRONG to get a slapping from the EU?
Wednesday 15th April 2015 18:58 GMT
"I think you're missing the point. The billions of desktops don't know how or <u>don't desire to switch engines</u> tomorrow, that's the problem!"
No, that's not a problem. That's google doing search well enough that it's not worth the time test every piddly competitor. Here's the reality, 94% of my searches put what i'm looking for on the first page, another 4% I have to dig deeper, and the last 1% gives me nothing useful. I only marginally care about that 4%, and only REALLY care about the 1%. The problem is, the competitors don't do them noticeably better.
So, tell me, WHY should I go out of my way to use something that isn't better?
"Have you actually tried to write a competitor site and then tried to actually get it promoted? When Google is the one controlling the views of billions of desktop, how do you think your company, who is a direct competitor, is actually going to fare regarding promotion when Google controls the view and, unchecked, will also stop you from being noticed at all?"
Even when you AREN'T a competitor to Google this is a problem. The already established site is who Google's going to rank higher simply because it's more likely that's what people are looking for. What do you purpose, have Google list in reverse order of relevancy?
Chrome version 42 will pour your Java coffee down the drain: Plugin blocked by default
Adobe, Level 3 drive a stake through heart of vid-stream creature before it attacks again
NSA: 'Back doors are a bad idea, give us a FRONT door key'
Videogame publishers to fans: Oi, stop resurrecting our dead titles online
China weaponizes its Great Firewall into the GREAT FIRE CANNON, menaces entire globe
+5 ROOTKIT OF VENGEANCE defeats forces of gaming good
Apple Watch: We ROUNDUP the ROUNDUPS. Yes, Roundup-squared
Marvell: We don't want to pay this $1.5bn patent bill because, cripes, it's way too much
Thursday 9th April 2015 22:03 GMT
Re: Patents: Sought by the Wright brothers while Europe built planes
The problem is neither a strict "first to file" nor a strict "first to invent" is ideal.
First to file means if I put a product on the market with a feature I think isn't worth patenting, you can then get a patent and turn around and sue me all apple-style.
First to invent is a legal nightmare to enforce.
What's needed is a hybrid of the features of the two. The first person to file get it, but in the case that an existing product has the feature (but didn't have it long enough to meet the legal definition of prior art) they can continue to use it in all their products, present and future without royalties.
(none of this appears to be relevant in this case though)
Operation Redstone: Microsoft preps double Windows update in 2016
Wednesday 8th April 2015 17:33 GMT
Re: WinFSm fine-ah-bloody-ly ? Maybe just a decent file search ?
ReFS is already more advanced than pretty much any other file system on the market - and it's not yet feature complete: "In 2014, a review of ReFS and assessment of its readiness for production use, concluded that ReFS had key advantages over two of its main file system competitors - ZFS and Btrfs"
The key advantage was memory usage, and the only reason it was an advantage was because they had dedup enabled on ZFS, a feature ReFS does not even support . Disabling that feature (which is not enabled by default, and generally accepted as a awful idea unless you are completely sure you know what you are doing) eliminated that one advantage.
ReFS lacks: dedup, COW snapshots, compression, quotas, hard-links, extended attributes, oh and a little thing called "the ability to boot off it". It's also a completely dog if you have integrity checking enabled (something ZFS has, and performs fine with)
The Internet of Stuff is a gigantic ultra-perv robbery network – study
Can't patch this: Mozilla pulls Firefox encryption feature after just a week
Don't be stiffed by spies, stand up to Uncle Sam with your proud d**k pics – says Snowden
Microsoft drops Do Not Track default from Internet Explorer
Tuesday 7th April 2015 15:43 GMT
@tom Dial
So, privacy should be opt-in? I think you all (and the ad industry, and the W3C) have it completely ass-backward. It should be a "Stalk me" flag. Honestly, the big problem is the damn flags don't DO anything; you're still trusting a morally bankrupt industry to do the right thing.
Didn't Bill Hicks have something to say about ad men?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
