Posts by Andy 97 532 posts • joined 12 Jun 2009
Someone at GCHQ needs to answer questions, under oath.
Someone at MI5/6 needs to answer similar questions, possibly with their final salary pension taking a 'haircut' if found to be wanting.
Why wasn't his personal hardware frequently audited?
This is a failure of him, his own staff and the security services.
There's a reason why nobody has created a global standard that everyone follows religiously.
Standards for streaming have been proposed and accepted before, each time publishers (following complaints from users) have chosen to actually scrutinize data from their clients' players, then adjust the standard to optimise their user experience based on reliable data.
If a user doesn't obtain a reliable streaming experience from a publisher, they will 'churn' and the cost to acquire a new user is high, whereas the cost to adjust a standard (encoding profile for instance) is minimal.
If, however, these 'giants' are proposing a closed garden standard, they'd also need to run the access networks and CDN infrastructure, globally.
Publishers will welcome this standard, in the same way someone (on a long-haul flight) would regret a dodgy curry, consumed the night before.
I bet they haven't addressed legacy users either, which would be illegal in some territories.
The other reason can't be anything to do with people 'stashing' undeclared wealth away. Unlike bank notes, you ban large denomination notes, expect people to dig all of the currency out of their floors or garden, head to the bank and change it into smaller bills; thereby allowing the internal tax people to discover who's hiding money.
Oh no!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-37933233
https://money.cnn.com/2017/01/04/news/india/india-cash-crisis-rupee/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/10/rupee-note-cancellation-panic-in-india-banks-500-1000
Your comparison of religious subs and television is interesting, but there's some technical issues too.
The main problem with your suggestion is providing content to the many millions of people that don't have access to a television with a CAM slot, cable or dSat. Significant numbers of people still connect their television to a UHF socket on the wall and not the internet. Not all televisions are compatible with a rolling encryption key system either.
Many would need to buy another box - do you remember what happened the last time they tried to force people to move to a centrally-controlled subscription model en-masse?
I note that you didn't mention advertising funded, but you'd already know how ITV, Sky, CH4, Viacom and smaller commercial publishers feel about that.
Data analysis companies that have their SDK added to streaming applications and television factory build operating systems for years.
During regular use, telemetry from the player is sent to a data warehouse, it's analysed, sold to other vendors and merchants, where it can be used to justify advert placement, commissioning etc.
They'll tell you it's to ascertain the quality of playback, but this is only the sideshow of what it's really all about.
How much data is gathered? Depends on the player, but even skipping playback or adjusting the volume can be captured.
Fun exercise: See what happens if you block address ranges you notice your device is sending to.
Residents of CCP despotic rule have been warned that their beloved leaders are 'cracking down' on crypto.
Suddenly an exchange in that very same locale is raided, huge sums disappear, some returned, so many questions.
Maybe some of the exchange transactions were instigated by high ranking members of The CCP? A quick call to President 11 and 'would you Adam and Eve it?', they're returned.
While I understand people making a mistake (we all do) this is only the tip of the iceberg.
Public sector management operate with impunity, safe in the knowledge that there's no day of judgement if they really mess things-up.
An index-linked, final salary pension awaits, nobody will rock the boat and nobody will question upper management. Can you imagine if the people concerned worked for one of the cloudy (or OTT) companies? They'd be on their way home before mid-morning coffee.
The worst part is that it's all of us that will ultimately pay for the mistake (and their relaxed retirement), while scratching around to fund our own.
Often these gaff-prone boneheads will obtain a peerage (of similar honour) for their years steering their ship into the rocks.
The rental company will have all the personal data of the rider. Certainly their bank details if nothing else.
If they're an unpleasant type, riding around, knocking people over, it wouldn't take much effort to find them. Then there's the criminals who would see a £500-£1500 device as a new income stream. If they steal the scooter (as is likely to happen with private scooters), there will be no black market available to sell it-on.
Quite a sensible way to roll this out.
Agreed; small scale should be workable... Except, the next problem is getting the listener to retune their device. Unlike an FM station, a retune on a DAB receiver for most people is not a trivial matter.
If your small, local station is part of a large mux, you can be discovered by accident. But finding someone radiating 25W (horizontal) in a car would be miracle.
I've setup and run a couple of small radio stations, please forgive my dislike of DAB, but it is not fit for purpose.
1) DAB is not popular: If you're a small station, you'll need listeners to attract advertisers (or demonstrate success to your sponsors and donors).
2) DAB is expensive! To receive and transmit. You won't believe how expensive it is to get on a DAB mux.
3) DAB sounds crap! There's no argument, DAB sounds like a puppy drowning in mud (at times).
FM may be hissy, but if you employ some reasonable compression to the dynamic range, it sounds great in a car (or at home).
DAB just sounds crap, even the DAB+ nonsense, which many radio owners can't receive, thanks to their radio not being upgradable.
If you want to broadcast in the digital area, encode your output to for streaming, and compress the dynamic range to compensate and make sure you test the output with differing types of audio content. Listeners do not want to hear music that sounds like a 12yr old's YouTube 'rip'.
Sorry for the rant.
The types of 'pond life' which accessed this personal data, certainly won't stop attempting to gain goods and services after just 12 months.
If I were a 118 customer, I'd be attempting to find a Rottweiler-like lawyer to mount a class action and annihilate them.
How can such f*ckwittery still be happening?
*Not in a hostile tone* Do you have any proof?
I know they employ deep packet inspection to find Kodi-serving freetards and those who are stupid enough to seed torrent files on their home computers. I also remember they ran a service which harvested DNS enquiries (which they sold to a 3rd party), but this is new.
Nearly all radio is automated already.
The presenter can record an entire show of voice links in under twenty minutes, often they don't even need to come into the studio.
They have no choice of music or anything else, and will only exist until someone can make an AI voice which doesn't sound like a 1980's Atari game or one of those crappy Youtube videos.
Agreed, "premium" content commonly has ads-a-plenty.
Sport for instance, try watching a football match without seeing a betting company/Just Eat/more betting roll between the action. I pay top dollar for Comcast (formerly Sky) to slew shite at my eyeballs along with the content I actually want to see.
Oh, and no, I don't want to stream off some dodgy m3u8 file that was uploaded to a Usenet group.
By producing liquefied air and then releasing this as a gas, which drives a turbine.
The system can even work using existing petrochemical infrastructure and releases no "harmful" emissions. Highview has this working already.
https://phys.org/news/2013-05-energy-companies-liquid-air-backup.html
If you can't be bothered to read:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj2jTm0PtWw
I mean, it's not like hackers will spend hours on the tables, take in a floor show or quaff alcoholic beverages 'till they puke.
We can all think of any number of other countries which are fun, easy to get to, you're not likely to get arrested by The FBI for something you said on a forum ten years ago and, probably cheaper too.
As someone who's faced a community hall filled with enraged locals while attempting to explain how cellular systems work, I'm not surprised.
I am more surprised that it was Wales, which desperately needs better connectivity. You'd think someone was attempting to hold back progress...
I'd liken it to medieval times where they'd put elderly woman on the ducking stool if there was a crop failure.
I'm surprised about the Netflix problems on Plusnet, [they] have peering with BT (Plusnets' parent company).
It's worth spending a few more pounds for a better provider, the bargain basement of ISP's are cheap for a reason and it certainly isn't because the directors have an altruistic streak.
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