Re: Judge David Nuffer ...
I was about to say nuffer that.
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Mario, where are you!
"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels…upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"
~ Mario Savio on the steps of Sproul Hall, 1964
Apparently the verdict is already in the hands of the UK and Swedish authorities but will be publicly revealed on Friday morning. However, if he gets a positive outcome from the UN complaint his lawyer says he won't just walk out until he is guaranteed safe passage. Yet another stumbling block. If all goes well for Assange in these endeavours then I think there is still a great likelihood of the US pulling some nasty trick at the last moment. It's not like that's never happened before.
I was about to write the same thing, but then I got to thinking. The first 6% is probably way cheaper than the last 6%. In fact the curve might even be exponential. I'd say it would be closer to $1 trillion to get into the 90% range. Anyway, in the end it's just a lolfest on salary. Like others have suggested, putting the money toward a workable solution might be more prudent.
"No, that's not how it works. Your ISP-supplied WiFi router has a factory-baked option, where it opens a secondary WiFi channel for Customers of said ISP, or any third party companies who paid for that."
Point well taken. Most people won't suffer from this. I seem to recall some British company was doing it and people complaining were shown to be quite silly about their bandwidth complaints. The only thing which came out of their budget was a portion of the electricity to run the router.
However, I'm probably not the only one who, in this day and age, refuses to have any kind of black box installed in my house. Trust simply isn't part of the equation any more.
"Since this firmware is baked in and you have no choice on how they control it, your only option is to short out the WiFi antennas, and use the ethernet cables to hook up to your own network, and use your own regular WiFi router, this one being entirely within your control."
Sounds like a good idea under the circumstances.
My small ISP has it in their TOS to not share because it would break their business model. In fact it would probably break their business. And then there's people like me who will not (repeat: will not) run software which I haven't personally chosen and over which I have no control. Add to that the opportunity for MITM attacks that this opens up and yes, it's a non-starter alright.
"There are lots of reasons for link rot: websites are restructured or shifted to a new content management system and break all the previous URLs . . . "
In other words the reason is incompetent website management. This is standard practice for government sites in these parts and it just goes to show that they value fashion over content. They just don't care. Idiots.
The regulator therefore labels Facebook's actions “a crudely majoritarian and orchestrated opinion poll” rather than a genuine consultation following India's standard procedures for such matters.
What gets me is that Zuckerberg probably isn't even embarrassed. You're not in Kansas anymore.
"three to four years ago he and others in the industry were doing penetration testing at the end of a build. Now, the best work with builders from the start."
This is a good idea and has been standard in other fields for a long time. For example bridge building and high-rise construction.
SSL Labs on the other hand will hand out top marks to anyone using Cloudflare, he says. (El Reg is a Cloudflare customer.)
Since El Reg went to Cloudflare the site occasionally doesn't load and is often very slow. I've been here since 2007 and it's sad to see them taking up fashionable technology at the expense of their readers.
Another downside is that now I can't recommend articles to my friends in the security world because Cloudflare doesn't pass encrypted traffic without throwing insolvable (literally) captchas in the way. I connect over clearnet so don't have such a problem, but that both SSL Labs and El Reg come out on the wrong side of anonymous browsing is a disappointment.
It's time to start looking for another solution. Here's one choice.
the cheapest virtual servers, at home or abroad, can be hand for a few pounds a months
Being into this, I just thought I'd point out that the cost can be much lower if you just buy a small Virtual Private Server. I'm currently using one with overkill specs which costs me $15 per year ( £10). The Low End Box VPS thing has taken off and you can actually get an adequate server for 1/3 that price ... per year. Check out Low End Stock. Get one and install the VPN software of your choice.
PS: I have no vested interest there, other than to advocate for people setting up their own VPN servers. Most people on this forum probably have the skills.
Yes, but the Maple Leaf was cleverly pushed through on an off day in Parliament by a very presumptuous Liberal government. We'll never know what a democratic process would have brought us. In any case the solution with the veterans et al actually was quite interesting. They adopted the Union Flag a month earlier as also being an official flag. Even though the Maple Leaf is the only national flag, Canada now does have two official flags.
Since this is a low end consumer router, I really don't see the problem. What user of this device really needs remoter access anyway? Just turn it off ffs.
To my way of thinking the real, and major, problem here is that the market is accepting second rate router firmware as standard and acceptable. It may be the former, but it certainly isn't the latter. Consumers deserve better.
It's all about domain name servers and there is nothing stopping us from running our own. For those not familiar with OpenNIC, it's a democratic, non-national, alternative to the traditional Top-Level Domain registries. OK, this might not take off any time soon but still, ICANN could end up encouraging a parallel internet.
If people can learn to use 8.8.8.8 in order to overcome censorship, then they can just as well learn to use some other number.
It's actually pretty simple. Less for singular, fewer for plural.
AC, I'm in complete agreement with you, but do notice that contemporary English appears to use plural for most things. For example, it is common to say "Microsoft are these days - even in the press. I foresee that people will be saying "I are" in a few years.