Posts by Neal 5 392 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2009
Am I the first to note the similarities betwenn Google and Tyrell Corp. Of course Tyrells Nexus was in fact a "Replicant" or to coin common slang a "skin job", and it was in fact the Nexus mk 6 that spawned the iconic film Blade Runner, one of Ridley Scotts better efforts, and definately one of Harrison Ford's better films.
May one expect to see Hollywood turning it's copyright vervour upon Mountain View, in the future of course.?
"The school leaders believe that the results of the scheme will be largely negative. There will be reduced parent volunteer support in schools, as well as difficulties in obtaining emergency support staff such as plumbers, heating engineers and midday meals supervisors."
And indedd, yes, we have beenn led by both NuLabour and the media into believing in being afraid, a war of paranoia if you like.
I do not doubt that there is evil out there in the wild world, I do believe the media feeds the paranoia of fear.
The whole point being, actual paedo cases last year were less than .001% of ALL criminal convictions, I do not point this out as a defence, however armed robbery offences outnumbered child sex offences by an order of many magnitudes.
The media has played on our repugnance for for child related offences,(and rightly so,IMHO), but in doing so has led in many cases to the trivialisation of many other heinous crimes, of which yhe going rate I'm led to believe, of rape is , if convicted, only equal to 1 year, armed robbery=3, aggravated burglary=6,murder=10, yet speeding at 34 in a 30 mph zone = the possibility of 6 months.
It is also about time the judicial system got real, in the same vein, as which we, as a populace, elect these power addicted MP's to make and pass laws in our name.
"the biggest problem isnt' getting a job but it's traveling out of the country when the police "accidently" put the wrong flag against your profile (instead of the "innocent" tag they leave a "caution" or "convicted" type flag, meaning your ass ain't going anywhere without some serious explaining.)"
No probs there, mistakes have to be paid for, and I can't imagine any police force wanting to put themselves in the dock for compensation claims, especially in the case of financial loss, and for some business deals that can run into more than any police forces budget, which you ultimately pay for anyway.
Pettyness by it's own nature has it's limits.
Clearly El Reg and the Home Office are not in touch with reality. You answer to Durham Police, not the other way around. I am slightly dumbfounded that El Reg has not yet grasped this simple basic neccesity of public funded service. It is of course an understandle mistake by the Home Office that they have not yet bowed to Durham Police being as it is populated by MP's and civil servants, who have yet to grasp either the meaning of civil or servant, or MP's who don't give a toss for the laws, they just make them.
These machines aren't easy to come by, unless you're a retailer I assume, so to get the RAM scraper onto the machine in the first place must indicate an extremely poor level of security to begin with? I would assume also that this RAM scraper would have to be a specifically coded piece of software as well, so it's not going to be a run-of-the mill attack just yet, but as it's prevalence increases this may alter.
Anyway, I was duped by the credit card industry into believing that chip and pin technology would reduce my likliehood of being defrauded by over 98% over my previous chipless cards. Perhaps cash is going to become popular again, and your "Plastic Friend" can be euthanased with dignity, also resolving possibly, countless other financial problems as well.
Perhaps someone can tell me, how will this handle something like TorrentRelay, whereby any torrent is downloaded by another server, unrelated to your PC/Mac whatever, and then once the server has downloaded the torrent, you download from the server as normal HTTP traffic from one IP address. All the dirty work has been done by the other server, and when you download from the server, you show only yours and the servers IP, seemingly no sharing, same as a large update or SP from Microsoft.
The traffic admittedly won't be difficult to decode or inspect, but the idea of DPI is to detect multiple IP's indicating file sharing by torrent or P2P.
Does this mean that all traffic between ISP and IP is going to be inspected or just identifiable sharing data?
Where do you draw the line, is anything over 1MB, going to be determined as file sharing?, what about if I send some holiday snaps to a friend in an email?, whatabout if I send a home movie to a distant relative by email?
The only barely notable news here, is the timely reminder it's the last patch Tuesday of the decade.
Nothing here any worse than any normal patch Tuesday.
Yep, I expect there will be howls of deluded outrage, but face the facts as the most common OS, and the most maliciously hacked OS, what do you expect.
Perhaps Redmond should just sit back and relax, and just enjoy the market lead and let the brand name just carry it through. Perhaps an effort at maintaining some security in their system is the responsible thing to do.
Let the derision commence.
Eagerly waiting with barely surpressed anticipation.
The ballot box should only contaim those browsers suggested by El Reg readers, and only the icons for the browsers can be used to display the choice.
In full screen mode, IE's e takes up 60% of the screen, Mozilla's foxy compass takes up39.999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the screen, and Opera's O gets a pixel.
Hows that, perfectly democratic, wouldn't you agree?
Thanks for ripping the comment apart line for line, what a boring life you must have. I really feel that I must apologise to you for my innoccuos opinion raising so much hatred in you. Still I'm sure that you'll be allowed out of the house on your own one day, many of the inhabitants of your hamlet must be quaking in fear, dreading the day your ASBO expires.
It's not designed to control your life, or to make you switch off unnecessary electrical equipment, IF your usuage stays in normal parameters, ( I hope you understand the word NORMAL), it's for excessive usuage, ie eg if your normal usuage is say £100 month and your variance from that is minimal to slight, why worry. If otherwise say variance by a factor of 10 to 20, then yes,it will.
In your particular case, I would reccommend any Life Support, as being non esential appliances.
Good Luck with your rehabilitation into society.
Really, if you don't pay your bill then you can expect to get cut off anyway.
What's more interesting is, will it be able to handle spikes in demand, for instant, half time on FA cup final day, or half time during the World Cup final, or the end of a blockbuster like Kylie and Jason's wedding in Neighbours a few years back, etc, etc, etc.
Yes for reasonable steady consumption, it will be a benefit, I believe so anyway. As for the fears of direct marketing from the data, surely people have heard of the Mailing Preference Service by now, or at least know how to mark unwanted email as spam.
Totally agree with you, although I have actually patented that very idea you think you had first with the jam jar and Cat5 cable. I have already marketed it under the name "Exospheric Networking Device".
The Exospheric being the top notch, and price is related to that, the second model which is two yoghurt pots joined by a piece of string of length according to need, and named the Stratospheric is priced accordingly.
Only FTSE 100 companies can really afford these models, so I'm a bit loathe to provide full technical details here.
You can't believe a single word of news on the w.w.w any more, first it was the BBC, going down to a PrevX blog.
At least PrevX had the decency to correct their misleading information. Others would just have left it at that and waited for the furore to die down before spreading their next malicious rumour.
I'm starting to wonder, just how much consideration for others is there left in the world? Not much it would appear.A glimmer here and there, and that's about all.
What about second hand phones, or even further down the line, 3rd, 4th and 5th handed. Ok, you may think that unlikely, however from experience, I can say that in all probability, many phones in use in India will be such. How will the IMEI help identify the owners of such phones, especially on PAYG tariffs.
When these statistics are transposed onto my setup, these statistics are complete BS. For a start I don't even entertain Mac or OS x any more, and the one linux version I have running is on a VM workstation using XP as a host, along with which I have 3 more XP machines, a Vista machine and now two Win 7's running,and in reserve and unused on the web, I have 4 Win 95's and 2 Win 98's boxes. And in some fashion, I don't believe this to much different to many people running multiple boxes.
Does someone just make up all these figures for OS X and Linux, just to pretend that there is some competition out there? I bet this is really just a MS marketing ploy.
How can the tears of laughter turn so sour so quickly.
Now stop crying you Linux admins or whatever you call yourselves. Now you're complaining it wasn't reported in the right fashion, and that you need local access for the vuln to work. That being the same for almost all Windows and Apple vulnerabilies.
The truth is, any improperly secured box, running any flavour OS, will be vulnerable at some point.
To be fair, who cares how the bug is reported, you certainly don't complain about the way MS bugs are reported, what matters is fixing it, turn your focus in the correct direction, please.
Bruting would take a long time regardless, before you even begin to get as far as attacking a password you've got to build your dictionary, easy enough for simple 1,2 and 3 letter combinations, get beyond that and into special symbols, numbers and mixed upper/lower case then you could quite well never finish your dictionary. An alternative would be rainbow tables, but again you're talking eons to build them.
The number of attempts is only limited by max_user_connections, set at whatever value deemed appropiate by the database manager. So 2-3 a second would seem low to me, that's like only allowing 2-3 people at a time to read The Register, and no else can until any of the 2-3 already reading, leave. (Not quite right, but I'm sure you get the idea)
Possibly you know PHP for intergrating into HTML, so I understand your questioning, but yes, C, Java and Perl are all inherent in PHP. In fact PHP was coded in C by Ramond Lerdorf in 1994, and contains elements still of C, Java and Perl to make it scriptable for HTML. I hope that clears that up for you. Perhaps you may like to compare much of the syntax in C, Java, Perl and PHP to see for yourself if you still don't believe. This is why although PHP may be in use on an estimated 13% of servers, it is easily the most hackable language, requiring no actual indepth specific understanding of any of them, beyond coding script.
C,Java and Perl, not the most secure coding systems around, all of which are inherent in PHP. Anyone with any knowledge of server side scripting will have no problem defacing this again in the future, only thing to be sure, it wasn't a 13 yr old script kiddie this time, probably just a wee bit beyond your average American Inbred offspring.
The first part of the story is probably a good idea, but sounds a bit like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted, perhaps as the uptake increases then finding the horse again will become easier. Which leads me nicely into the second part of the story.
"....... 2,445 people in Greater Manchester have "expressed an interest in continuing to be updated about the National Identity Service via the Early Interest Website". 749 Mancunians have made an appointment to enrol for an identity card out of 1.7 million who are eligible....."
At the rate of 749 per 1.7 million of the populace, if my maths is anywhere near, then the poulace being estimated at 60 million, means approx 26500 people will be in possion of valid ID cards in the entire country, methinks the prospects are not good for the scheme.
"It's definitely not perfect (read: highly experimental, untested, unstable, yada yada...," Anson says, "but it does appear to function."
I should imagine this will have Microsoft , Apple and the Linux foundation in quakes of terror. It appears to be light years ahead of any of them already.
I can't see the problem here.Everyones talking like they've had a major life experience/or not here.
For those of you actually affected, thank you lucky stars you don't depend on TalkTalk.
For those of you not affected, Sainsbury's are still selling salted peanuts at a very reasonable price, and if you don't like salt you can always wash it off.Wet peanuts solve both dehydration and nutrition issues, enabling those ana+++ retentive amongst you to have a fucking good dump in the AM.
Political expediency here, a general election year coming, NuLabour and maybe Alan Johnson in particular, can't afford for this to hanging around in May or June next year, hence the 7 days. Hell, yes take it to Europe, but ffs, get it off AJ's hands before any more bad press hits their already poor prospects for next year.
I can only imagine what Oracle pays for lobbyist's, but something does seem to have sunk home in Larry's head. The EU doesn't give 2 flying F++++ what the American DoJ says, and why should it.
For this I can only commend Oracle, who may just have realised that globalization, doesn't mean Americanization.
If the word "COULD" actually meant anything at all in this story, then the whole thing is just a series of what if's. Now if the word could was to be replaced by "WILL" then maybe I could get out of my pram in the same fashion as the previous commentards. Sadly/Happily that is not the case.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Having re-read the article several times now, I can't believe how it got past El Reg's editorial efforts. The first result noted in the Google search referenced is for 2006, aging backwards to the next result, 2005.
So at best, nothing for 3 years, and nothing for a year prior to that.
Lets face it this IS a non story.
Seeing that as recently as last year Apple Macs were found to be emitting Benzene when powered up. (Incidently included on the OHSA list).
Maybe Apple would like to offer everyone that has one of those Macs, free healthcare instead. I'm sure it's cheaper to just repair the thing and STFU.
Pots and Kettles.
Yep, exactly the thought process I see that has fucked everything up.
So the flaw isn't the problem, the malicious coding is, in exactly the same way as you later describe me as a hacker.
The full truth is staring you in the face every morning when you shave, if you yet do, there is the real problem, you and people like you.
IE isn't the problem now is it.
Wow, I love this story,
2 sources close to El Reg, read 2 barmen in Mr Goodins local boozer.
An MS flaw reported on by a GOOGLE spokesman.
All in the space of a weeks worth of multiple new GOOGLE releases.
A flaw that needs to be manipulated to work, and apparently on very few sites. So the bug isn't a natural disaster, but malign coders can exploit it. Come to that, I can edit the registry to make my IE icon appear or disappear on my desktop, does that make me a hacker, or is it a fatal bug in Windows?
Perhaps Mr Goodin would care to comment on how many hacked sites are hacked by Firefox, or their GOOGLE backers.
What is the going rate for backhanders from GOOGLE'S marketing department these days, does it match up to Mozilla's, or is it just another nice little sideline.
Yeah, right, "She used to work at Hooters"
Fuck, I thought this sleazy rag had at least a semblance of decency, I don't need pictures, A) You ain't got none, B) If you did, they'd be fakes or PlayMobile, C) She'd be earning a fuck sight more in tips than you'd be paying in wages.
All this fucking shit about "cherries" wtf is that about, if was anything else you wouldn't be letting her loose giving "head" about all and sundry would you.
Perhaps the editor can explain, if he values his marriage, that is.
With one well directed mirror, the beam could be deflected to wreak untold havoc on the civilian population.
Yet another totally unworkable idea, created by scientists, too wrapped up in their own hype, to actually remember the very basics of how a laser actually works.
So now some old hag in Iran or North Korea, is going to redirect the beam with a makeup mirror from out of their handbag.$300 Trillion of wasted effort, undone by a 50 cent throwaway.
Maybe DARPA needs to rethink this a little bit?
Oh, only the negative response on show today.
This is a stonking idea, think of all the benefits here.
To keep it short.
A)Nobody likes working anyway.
B)After a while, nobody will be able to work.
That will leave endless free time, to sit at home watching TV, my particular favourite channel at the moment is QVC, soon I'll be able to watch that all day.
Only difficulty being, as I see it, who is going to sponsor me. Perhaps I'll have to get an Apple logo tattooed onto my fore head.
Can't understand plain english, even when written.
My interpretation of "renew" as shown in the article, is in reference to a previously declined offer, unless there is any further clarification, it would be impossible to determine if that was prior to the Brussels inquiry.
I suppose, if your English is sub standard, it would be possible, by twisting the very fabric of English, to infer a blackmail attempt.
Somebody will correct me, I'm sure.
let them do it.
We've already got Google spending billions to create new data centres to provide whatever prefix of bytes we're now into.
W Gates said 64k would be enough for everyone, now we're into the high gigaBytes, some even into terabytes, all in the space of 10 or so years.
Come the next election after this one, once realising the scale and cost of this hare-brained scheme, it will all fall back to judicial oversight, basically as we are (supposed) to be now. A warrant to interogate or search a suspect, else it just won't be feasible. We're not just talking about 1 bit of data per person, but a whole lifetimes worth, and to be fair to you/them, keeping track of at the moment 70 million populace of the UK, plus of course that will grow, plus immigration, plus cross referencing, of every single contact you make in your daily life, I'm not sure anything will happen.
Someone will have to process the data, so maybe we will get full employment after all, eventually. We'll have Mr Patel at the new Indian call centre, managing, inspecting and upkeeping all of the daily lives of Smith, A, and his third cousins brother-in-law, will be doing the upkeep of all the Smiths, B, naturally, this will employ basically the entire third world, monitoring the UK's populace, so who's going to be doing the Americans, perhaps the Mexicans?or even the Cubans?
Again we'll end up with s+++ end of the stick, and all indigineous British, will end up monitoring the French.
Firstly Sean you are so correct, but also like everyone else, so wrong.
et al.
The blinkered approach that Oracle and Sun are the only database providers is wrong, even for the American market alone, but they are two of the biggest players, the match between them would be fine. In many other mergers/acquisitions, to comply with anti-competition laws, trade offs have to be made. If as so many of you see it as Suns only advantage to Oracle is mySQL, then allow the sale on condition of the shedding of mySQL to someone else, I'm sure a $300mn business like mySQL will find it's own buyer, without any detriment to either Sun or Oracle.
Even to satisfy the EU commissioners, who actually are correct in this case, a european buyer for mySQL could be an option.
Sun/Oracle is the way forward for both, mySQL is and will be only a minor stumbling block, neither the American markets, or the European markets will benefit from the failure of this deal.
Seems like the populace have voted with their feet. Perhaps a few mistimed their credit allownce and had like 0.5 of a euro left on their phones.
The big loser will be the Spanish Govt, who in 6 months time, will have to bail out three mobile phone operators on the brink of bankruptcy.
When will politicians ever learn who works for who.
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