Posts by Alistair 3023 publicly visible posts • joined 18 May 2007
Umm.
Chat applications. Skype.
CDR's *don't* always have low level connection data for *all* processes on the phone, and you don't need to use your phone as a phone to communicate.
Yes, they were after his contacts, **and** the content of the communications he had with those contacts.
Dunno why but I can sympathise with the coffee name spelling.
I'm apparently a grammar genius and a spelling wizard. And "better than 96% of the population at....." in far far far too many cases. However, so are a couple of folks I know who would have problems floating in a kiddie pool full of pudding.
for the printer:
option Q)
note that support for that hardware is currently in transition, advise the user that they need to open three tickets in three different systems, collate all ticket numbers into a single email and then email 8 DLs with those ticket numbers asking if there is anyone that can acknowledge that they are aware the printer exists, and advise which of the two outsourcing agencies actually support the printer. Advise the user to ensure that security is on the email trail as they will have to grant access for the support person who eventually is assigned to inspect the printer. Send the formal process documentation advising how to open tickets in the three ticketing systems to the user and CC their manager as well. Sign off.
Head outside for lunch, a scotch and a chance to watch the cardinals finish building their nest in my cedar tree.
See the forums.
I'm not "devastated", but I am a wee bit sad that that talent will not be around.
Much can be said for his talent. Even more about his ego. The last tour he did was completely unlike the music industry standard of announcing a year in advance and selling ahead of the curve. It made the shows much more appealing (even if I did miss out). And the turnouts he got made it abundantly clear he was still massively popular. (he did two here in T.O. with only 8 hours notice, both sold out, and *not* a tiny venue)
The intertubz reactions to "stars" dying lately does tend to go over the top, especially in light of the lack of reactions to things like the quakes in Japan, mass shootings in sub-Saharan Africa, bombings in various locations around the Arab world and events in "The Stans" or Turkey of late.
I will agree in some respect with Jason B's comment, if we all (the species) saw one another more closely than "those people over there" we'd be a better creature as a species, however I think that we (as a species) would need to have far better ability to separate our emotional and logical circuits. (This from the kid who was constantly referred to as Spock when it came to relationships in school). Perhaps the celebrity of death will help us all learn to be a little more open minded. (I can hope.....)
In any case, I'll be listening to my 80's station tonight -- all 80's friday night and I'm quite sure they'll get lots of Prince in there.
"Ummm, nothing interesting here...."
See previously :
"I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit."
Prosecutions post Lavabit? Anyone? Bhueler?
Track record? looking rough there for the TLAs.
"What's next... rape won't be a crime as long as it's done within the privacy of your own home?"
You might want to take the scarecrow and put it back in the corn field.
No one here is suggesting that we *remove* properly regulated powers of detention, search and seizure, no one is suggesting that we decriminalize things that are criminal actions.
What has been incontestably demonstrated, by mathematicians, Black Hat Hackers, White Hat Hackers, scientists, atheists, Christians, Muslims, Russians, Americans, Chinese and Africans is that if there is any flaw in any form of cryptography, someone will find it. And when they find it they will use that flaw. To steal, to abuse, to stalk, to harass, to rape, to kidnap.
Just because you have nothing to hide TODAY does not mean that the crap on your phone today will not someday be either illegal or questionable.
Just because the police forces have postulated situations where having immediate access to an encrypted device *might* conceivably, possibly, be of some value, does not stipulate that in fact, or in reality that that these situations or events have already or ever will occur.
Just because you *believe* you live in a free society and that you are comfortable with the laws of *YOUR* land does not mean that there are no others on the planet who are struggling against oppression and violence and *need* the security of being able to encrypt their communications.
Effectively they are throwing a hypothetical argument against scientific proof. Much like the anti-vaxxers out there.
Now, perhaps you might want to sit down and think about why some of us in the IT world, who have to deal on a daily basis with some 40 *plus* legal frameworks regarding various forms of data that must be secured while in our care are so completely and utterly and vehemently against this utter foolishness.
<seriously grumpy today - -management issue yesterday and an all nighter solving RPC locking issues.>
<edit fixed a typo or two>
"Drones, Model planes, Model helicopters can all carry some sort of explosive so they should all be banned. While we are at it, why not ban cars too"
Kiddies Helium balloons!!!! OMG!!! they can LIFT things like terrist 'splosive boom boom bombs!!!
BAN BALLOOOONs!
<just in case, some might *not* get it>
EDIT
< should have read the rest of the thread - 2+2=5 beat me to it>
He's had great exposure to excellent source material -
And I honestly think that he *believes* that Canada, and politicians in Canada, have a responsibility to be the calm, rational, quiet voices for reason. It is a role that the country has been known for in the past, and sadly Harper et al shredded that reputation. Even J Chretien, despite is rougher edges and his image, managed to tell GWB to f### off rather politely over WMD. Possibly since the spook types up here were the loudest saying that the yellowcake invoice was fake as hell.
Lots of TeaParty doctrine has been spewed in the media up here over the last 15 years, and has right shifted the less mentally agile of the PC party, in line with Harper's doctrine. "Toe The Line, don't speak out of turn, we'll tell you what you need to know" politics just rubbed 64% of the Canadian voting public the wrong way prior to the last election.
It is interesting now that the raging right are using fallout from the conservative process and governmental commitments to crucify the the Liberals at every turn. If they had any idea of the level of irony they generate, it would be sufficient to power a small city.
All that said I'm no screaming fan of some components of the Liberal party either, but at least in the federal case, they've chosen a *very* charming, well trained, well mannered, and quite intelligent leader. Hopefully the direction we've been going will see some corrections.
The conservatives (at least federally) have only one hope. Neither of them (yes, it is a couple and if you're Canadian you know who.) are about to run for the leadership in the current atmosphere of the teaparty republican wannabes pulling trump like attitude in the PC party. The NDP (again federally) sadly will have to wait a good 10 years to find another leader that stands a chance to pull them out of the dust. The last NDPer that stood that chance was taken from us rather abruptly.
As for future provinces see:
http://globalnews.ca/news/2621875/reality-check-should-canada-adopt-turks-and-caicos-as-its-11th-province/
Sorry, with the state being run by a bush? I wouldn't touch Florida with a Georgia Pine.
Happy Saturday, its a gorgeous day outside and my youngest has a school project I'm supposed to be working with him on. later.
Although we have quite a bit of cygwin installed, it *does* have its limitations in a properly secured server class AD environment - further it can present security issues in several cases. At the *desktop* user level these aren't much of an issue, but running in some windows server versions cygwin can be rather more than a bit of a problem (several of our cygwin instances are wrapped in security exemptions due to these -- possibly more due to our security standards than anything else).
I'm certainly old enough to comprehend the embrace, extend.... history of MS, but if and when the SSHD component makes it into Server I'll be *all* over that - and if they can give me grep/awk/sed/find on the command line, I'm quite happy, these are things that MS just *does not* do by default. It will finally make windows more flexible in a manner that *I* find intriguing.
Is MS planning on pulling the linux server market back to windows? Of course they are - but it will take them *years* of work to do that, and the open source software world for *server* class software tends to move remarkably fast compared to the desktop software world. I suspect they'll be playing catchup for a *long* time on that front.
<grumpy SA just discovered an understudy has been giving Devs root password.>
@Alfred:
Its lots of fun to pull up the concept, build and final review movies of Brasillia, and then drive there.
Hysterical in fact.
And to think they chewed up all that viable land to do it with too.
-> the one with A Map of the Sky in the pocket please, great read
The profit of course being accounted for in the country of least tax accounting regulation..........
As much as one has to say "They're only taking advantage of what the law permits", I'd still like to see a corporate that walks away from the WallStreet mantra of 'you didn't make more profit this quarter, OMG YOU TANK!', and actually decide that paying local taxes without the dodges was worth the reputation coin to do so.
Is someone playing with layouts again???
"News Bytes" ????
Also -- fonts. I thought I'd borked a font recently - -but noticed that the footers are sometimes using really odd fonts.... < not the text blob at the bottom, the text wrappers around the footer articles >
No FttP over here - although we do have "Fibe" internet. (cough) Yup... good ol' DSL over copper twisted pair.
< interesting footnote, originally was marketed as 'fiber internet' -- court case ensued, and the CRTC got involved. - and I ended up with a sales droid showing up at my door *insisting* that it was real fiber coming into the house and "plugging into your router" .... even *after* I pointed out I'd been in IT for 30 years - okay technically it can be done that way but "its already in your house" was the giveaway>
Sadly - there were a couple of "trials" of FttP and I was only two miles outside of one of them. - the trial was turned off after about a year.....
Phone lines or Cable ......
At least with water meters, oddly, they *do* wear out. Usually last about 15 to 20 years, but (at least our old one) those wee mechanical bits in there do get loose. In our case it was a good thing since once they'd seen the old meter and our readings for the previous 4 years, they sent us back about 2 bills worth of $$. Our new one doesn't make a peep. Old one used to squeak a bit when more than two taps were open in the house.
Now, "smart" electrical meters I'm just not gonna get into. Especially over here in "Lets sell off the provincially owned infrastructure to pay for governmental stupidity" world.
@ IAS:
"first Nexus phone? The one where Google sold the hardware direct, but hadn't put in place a service or returns department! "
"so people were getting a nice form delivered saying come to the post office to pick this up, along with your £50 import duty "
GoOgLized corporate response:
"We are not here to solve your problems, we're not a phone company, we're just connecting you to a point of sale. Service and Maintenance? No, we don't do that, you'll have to arrange that on your own. Oh, and taxes, we don't do taxes, that's your job,"
See, Uber "We're not a cab company" and AirBnB "We're not a hotel chain."
Welcome to the "Disruptive economy".
> I'm just surprised that the 2008 financial collapse wasn't wrapped up in that sort of commentary - it certainly would have been more true than the mythology they painted "We're not a bank, we're ........Ummm..... a gambling corporation."
<fixed the cutandpaste failure>
One *has* to do postmortem on anything that pulls down a system for a serious SLA violation. In my experience 85% of the majors I've seen can be attributed to human error (i.e. keyboard stupidity), roughly 8% can be attributed to the likes of a teenage house party (Holy s&&t we didn't expect that many of those), which is in itself human error. The remainder can be attributed to the comings and goings of Murphy - hardware failure cascades that were just so far off the map that there was no reasonable expectation that the series of events could ever occur.
Planning things ahead of time, I try to find time to walk through systems with someone non technical enough to ask what would to a techie be really stupid questions. Because we (as techies) tend not to ask those questions. And sometimes, if you stop and think about the question it might *just* be a good thing to cover.
Yoyna, the answer manglement will come up with will be "You can't touch that". Which makes the primary job of us SA types utterly impossible. No SSL updates, no fixes, no code improvements. etc etc etc. This is why I try not to get management into the equation until I have no other choice.
It only takes one little pebble to shatter that view.
(whee... i pulled in IOT!)
< and, yes that is a serious point of view - you end up with all your systems glued to a single pane of glass, and one minor change in one of those systems can possibly toss your single point of view for a complete loop. Most systems folks have several different tools to look into problems so they aren't the ones likely to be affected but good lord management will toss a fit>
"Actually, I come here to comment because (as with Bongboing) I generally end up feeling that there are still intelligent people around. Commentards may be wrong or misguided, as I often am, but at least most of them can write proper sentences and you know what they mean."
There do have to be a few intelligent folks left about. Few and far between these days. Most of the folks here its fairly clear what they mean. Scarily I can *generally* even manage to figure out what AMFM's intent is in (his/its/their) posts
Fairly sure I spent my 9th or 10 year reading from 43 or 44 to ... what 52?
And I'm willing to bet they're still in a box at my mom's. I come by the pack rat tendency honestly.
She has almost every SF&F published (and quite a few others of that sort) - I think we lost about a dozen to a burst pipe in the basement and they were the bottom of the box. Its why my reading preferences lead to the SF end of the spectrum (when I get the time... *sigh* I just wish I didn't have to adult so much these days)
I get *lots* of little twitches now and again - things I see that pop a relay to the story(ies) I've read in the past. skimming this, the voice and the character feels vaguely familiar.
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