Posts by Lyndon Hills 1

Aussie bloke wins right to sue Google over 'underworld' images

Re: Autocomplete on a name

indeed. The 'I feel lucky' result from my search went to an article in The Guardian about this court case. Might well be different if I was using google in Australia tho.

Smut site offers VPN so you don't bare all online

Re: Your bank will know

If you decide to use the "premium" paid for offering that is. Which of course also means the government will know via the Inland Revenue (and if you bank with RBS as it's still 71% government owned).

And if you bank with TSB, a lot of their other customers....

UK Home Office's £885m crim records digi effort: A 'masterclass in incompetence'

Tragicomic

The idea that it may not be fixed before the contract expires is almost funny.

Presumably we then sign another contract with a new suppier and start all over again, perhaps with some lessons learned.

Within Arm's reach: Chip brains that'll make your 'smart' TV a bit smarter

Digital or so-called smart TVs that automatically pause when you stand up to pop to the kitchen, and play again when you return and sit down And If I get up to adjust my trouser region and a bit of a man-scratch?

It'll change channel and find something else to help with that...

We've found it! A cloud-and-AI angle on the royal wedding

the uppers classes and brain dead celebrity spotters.

Are the celebrity spotters comparitively brain-dead due to them not taking enough uppers?

Britain to slash F-35 orders? Erm, no, scoffs Lockheed UK boss

Small point of pedantry - that should be Fairey with an 'e'.

When spelled without the 'e' the word has a different meaning, as in "the idea of the F35 ever working as intended is a complete fairy story"

Yeah, but who doesn't like the idea of going to war in a fairy swordfish?

Orchestral manoeuvres in the Docker: A noob's guide to microservices

Re: Just curious

Amazon at least to some extent. This is quite good on the subject

Platforms rant

Your software hates you and your devices think you're stupid

Re: There's an island somewhere...

Phones will have buttons running parallel on both sides, so that pressing the one on the right means you also press the one on the left.

Which just happens to be how you restart the bloody thing.

In a touching Monty Python tribute today, Microsoft's Office 365 makes everything spam

So both emails correctly located in 'junk', then?

Rudd-y hell, dark web! Amber alert! UK Home Sec is on the war path for stealthy cyber-crims

Re: Silk Road

They claim it makes you go blind..

There are 10 types of people in the world, but there is only one Melvyn

Lovely turn of phrase

the joule in the low-calorie podcast meal,

Made my day.

Microsoft ports its Quantum Development Kit to Linux and macOS

Schroedinger's Snake

I was hoping this was a quantum version of the old Nokia game...

Putting the urgency in emergency: UK's delayed emergency services network review... delayed

FTMV (fiber to moving vehicle)

It becomes even worse with cloudy-digital, running FTMV (fiber to moving vehicle) is proving tricky

Think trams....

NAO probing Capita's sickly £700m GP support gig

List of Capita's successes?

Successful for who, Capita or the purchaser of the service?

Walk with me... through a billion files. Slow down – admire the subset

Re: can’t retrofit … metadata generation, storage and access to an existing file system

Yes, I always thought MS missed the boat there

They did have plans a while ago....

winfs at wiki

European Commission intervenes in Microsoft Irish data centre spat

Re: Alternate channels?

It involves existing treaties which exist for this purpose and which require TPTB to get a warrant from an Irish court. In order to do that they have to put together a convincing case as to why they think they should get the data.

You may wonder why they haven't done this.

I'd guess that if they (the DOJ) win, for future investigations they will know that they won't need to go through the international hassles and can just force a cloud provider to provide the data under US law. If they win they have set a precedent for the future.

EU court advised: Schrems is a consumer in Facebook case, but can't file class-action

Re: Just give Facebook the Finger

When they pester users to "just upload your contacts - it'll make things easier" without spelling out in big clear print and simple words that this is a criminal activity in the EU unless you get consent from every person who's details you upload.

Is this true? I've read some stuff about data protection, but it's all been approached from the point of view of a "company" and their handling of inidividual's personal data. I can see that uploading your contacts/phonebook might be a questionable thing to do, but is it actually illegal?

Amazon to make multiple Lord of the Rings prequel TV series

Tom Bombadil

see Bored of the rings for what the Harvard Lampoon made of Tim Benzedrino. IIRC it involved mushrooms not smokeables.

Also filmed .

Parity's $280m Ethereum wallet freeze was no accident: It was a hack, claims angry upstart

Frozen funds

reminds me of paypal.....

Yes, British F-35 engines must be sent to Turkey for overhaul

The Starfighter to Germany, a role for which it was totally unsuited

and to quote smudge's post

memorably described as "a collection of parts flying in loose formation".

very loose in the case of the Starfighter.

Must listen to Captain Lockheed again

Stack Overflow + Salary Calculator = your worth

Re: $ to pound £

It's in Manchester.

I think the industry sector is also relevant. You see a lot of very well paid jobs in London, the best paid are in banking/finance, and many of them require finance experience as well as tech skills (also degrees but that's a different article).

I'd say it's inevitable that if you say you live in London, and you don't work in finance, the salary calculator will suggest you're massively underpaid. At least it did for me......

Patchy PCI compliance putting consumer credit card data at risk

Re: No impact on security...

If only there was some correlation on being PCI-DSS compliant and actually being secure....at least it forces you to patch.

It also forces you to think, for instance about your network architecture. Apparently there are rules covering taking payments by phone, and using an ip-based phone system, along with networked computers, which wouldn't have occured to me. Mind you this isn't my job area.

Big question of the day: Is it time to lock down .localhost?

Re: I'd like something similar, but for local network requests

.lan

Hi Mr Coward, is your name Ian?

Confessions of an ebook eater

Re: Foyles

You visit your mother-in-law and she charges you for meals? Sounds a bit harsh.

America throws down gauntlet: Accept extra security checks or don't carry laptops on flights

Re: Exploding dogs

I think it was Tom Sharpe whio had exploding flamingos. Riotous Assembly or Indecent Exposure?

Backdoor backlash: European Parliament wants better privacy

Re: " “decryption, reverse engineering or monitoring of such communications shall be prohibited”,"

but to ask to join either the EU or the USA (51st state)

I think Puerto Rica is reckoning to be 51st. We might have to settle for 5n.

Five Eyes nations stare menacingly at tech biz and its encryption

Re: This is bad for business.

How many companies do you suppose are under contract to keep their data encrypted to protect their customers?

While not quite 'under contract', the new data protection regulations in Europe are certainly pushing companies towards encrypting all customer data. While this alone won't protect you from data theft, in the event this happens it will be important to show that you considered data security, and encrypting it would be an obvious thing to do. Pretty soon I'd expect encrypted data to be the default, and it's not a particular leap to suggest that this might include communications, as well as databases and the like.

Leaked: The UK's secret blueprint with telcos for mass spying on internet, phones – and backdoors

Re: hmmm

This is where we need a telecommunications operator to stand up and say ok fine we will develop a service that is encrypted in such a manner that we do not have the technical cabability even under duress to decrypt.

The whole point of this paper is make doing that illegal. You (as the telco) will be required to able to decrypt anything that you encrypt, if you can't do that you would be in breach of this proposed law.

Banks etc

the last page of the document on ORG specifically excludes those operators who are providing telecomms for financial services, including banking.

As far as the e-commerce stuff is concerned, this only covers encryption services provided by the telco or isp. It might, for example, be a nice selling point for a telecom/isp to offer me a fully encrypted service. This paper would make that ineffective as that provider is required to be able to decrypt my communications on demand, if they are the ones providing the encryption. If I take the standard service offered today, and choose to encrypt the data I send over it (using https for example), that has nothing to do with this paper.

Is this a solution to Trump signing away your digital privacy? We give Invizbox Go a go

Re: Opting Out?

I think they're trying to prevent fraudsters from misusing credit cards.

One of the checks done to spot fraudulent use involves comparing the country of the card issued with the country identified from the current ip address of the person using it. If they don't match the transaction is flagged as potentially fraudulent. Depending o the processor's rules, it can be denied. Using a VPN would make this less effective, not to mention you don't get an ip address for the possible fraudster.

Hell freezes over: We wrote an El Reg chatbot using Microsoft's AI

Re: If you're truly brave...

Previously known as amanfrommars ?

The future of Not Reality is a strap-on that talks to my smarting ring

Re: "pointless gadgets that purport to solve problems from which nobody suffers"

Today's technology, solutions without problems. Paradoxically it has produced large numbers of billionaires.

Also quite a few new problems...

Love lambda, love Microsoft's Graph Engine. But you fly alone

SQL-inspired language for describing patterns in graphs visually using an ASCII-art syntax

Sadly the most recent ascii-art I can recall is at goat.se (NSFW). I wonder what these databases make of this?

'Celebgate' nudes thief gets just nine months of porridge

It's a very, very trying time that we live in

Great comment, coming form a judge.

El Reg drills into chatbot hype: The AIs that want to be your web butlers

Re: Unreal

The inclusion of amanfrommars contributions should help advance the science.

Re: Unreal

Yeah, using Twitter worked out really well. Huff Po

Routine jobs vanishing and it's all technology's fault? Hold it there, sport

Re: All lies

I think I've just spotted a bug. You executed that loop twice. Perhaps you didn't factor in oil depravation.

At first I thought that was a typo for deprivation, but on reflection, maybe not.

London's Winter Wonderland URGENTLY seeks Windows 10 desk support

Not just Win 10

Re-read the article. The job spec isn't just Win 10/Office. More to the point they want Exchange, phones, voicemail and networking.

Microsoft quietly emits patch to undo its earlier patch that broke Windows 10 networking

Re: New legends?

When I clicked the Start button, "Restart" and "Shutdown" had been replaced by "Update and Restart" and "Update and Shutdown". Is that new, or have I just missed it in the past?

It just means that there are updates to be installed. When they have been installed, the legends will return to what they were before. Until next time...

Customer data security is our highest priori- ha ha ha whatever, suckers

Re: Company law

The problem in the UK has always been short term thinking except in a few companies with strategies and vision like RR.

Seems to me this started (or maybe just got a lot worse) in the 80's with the rise of performance-related pay. If the conditions for getting a bonus are sufficiently badly thought out, it can mean that the management strategy for maximising bonus can be contrary to the best interests of the company. This would be particularly true if you don't expect to be with the company for long.

Stiff upper lips and sun glasses: the Chancellor bets on Brexit feeling

Reflecting on Britain's legacy of Alan Turing

A true genius and what did we do with him? Prosecuted and chemically castrated him, driving him to suicide.

Perhaps better not to reflect on him after all.

Will Microsoft's nerd goggles soar like an Eagle, or flop like a turkey?

Did apple lose?

Perhaps not long term, but at one point they survived largely because Microsoft bailed them out. At the time Microsoft were trying to claim they didn't have a monopoly on PC operating systems. Having Apple around was kind of necessary, being as the 'year of Linux on the desktop' still hadn't arrived.

User couldn't open documents or turn on PC, still asked for reference as IT expert

mount fsck umount...

Londoners react with horror to Tube Chat initiative

London has an air of FOAD that I loathe

This coming from someone who calls themselves Mort....

Encryption backdoors? It's an ongoing dialogue, say anti-terror bods

"The American people will have to weigh in ... The problem is big and broad..."

just like many Americans, as it happens.

Google 'Solitaire' ... Just do it

Re: Not fair

Couldn't ever really get into that. For me it has to be solitaire / free cell. But word games could be the new one. Anyone have any tips? Needs to be be multiplayer and preferably multi-language.

Hangman?

Californian gets 50 months in prison for Chinese 'technology spy' work

Hellfire capability

I think I'd like to add this to my phone, what was the company name again?.

Idiot flies drone alongside Flybe jet landing at Newquay Airport

Re: Risk?

If it looks like a duck, and it, oh wait....

Eye of Sauron-themed trojan targets Russia, Sweden

Necromancer? pah

Now if they were Neuromancer fans, I'd be worried.

Latest Androids have 'god mode' hack hole, thanks to Qualcomm

Square mobile security hacker Dino Dai Zovi

Seems a bit unkind, or he really that shape?