Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Windows NT: Remember Microsoft's almost perfect 20-year-old?

Re: "they got rid of that login method later on"

The fake login prompt was the first thing we did on Unix machines when we learned to put the terminal into no-echo mode

Mighty multi-scope snaps stunning STARBIRTH image

Greenland - isn't

It's rather white - on account of all the snow falling, from clouds

US highway agency awards Tesla Model S record safety score

Oh wonderfull

A silent car owned by rich people who think they are invulnerable

Time to fit that RPG to my bike

Guardian lets UK spooks trash 'Snowden files' PCs to make them feel better

re: if I were the Queen

I would certainly be worried about my security - what with Brazillian terrorists being released into the country and such.

At my next weekly meeting with the PM I would make sure I had a couple of beefy members of the Scots and Irish guards standing behind him with their sabres drawn.

Re: Are we sure they were UK spooks?

Half the journalists had been at Eton and Cambridge with them?

Re: Just when I thought....

Remember for 40 years while we faced imminent thermonuclear annihilation from the USSR - MI5 was mostly being run by KGB agents.

So we can only assume that GCHQ is now being run by 4chan, Kevin Mitnick and lolcats

Operational Inteligence

Duncan Campbell described something similar 25years ago when the police came and seized the computer he was using when investigating something.

They proudly carried the monitor of the PCW out of the house but left all the boxes of floppy disks.

Amazon DISAPPEARS from internet

Re: Homonym hell

Let's not be homophonic - and don't call me shirley

Not worried

We got rid of 90% of our sysadmins for security reasons and put everythign in the cloud

Snowden journalist's partner gave Brit spooks passwords to seized files

Re: New Synonym?

So long as they ban the terrorist TV network "Dave" we will all be happy

Re: Journalism is dead, long live the Queen

Really? I was almost convinced that the whole thing was arranged by an evil genius mastermind at the gruniad (can't you picture Alan Rusbridger with a white cat?)

I stopped reading the paper when Neue Labour came to power but I have started again on the back of this investigation.

Legal bible Groklaw pulls plug in wake of Lavabit shutdown, NSA firestorm

Re: Politics is only broken if you believe it is

No it's a 1.5 party state.

You vote for a 3rd party to avoid either of the liars and they do a deal with one of the liars

Bug-finder chucked for posting to Zuck

Re: Pay the guy!

Isn't this actually stupid enough to feature on the "Evil Overlord List"?

101: If a minion points out an obvious flaw in my plan which would allow an enemy into my inner sanctum i will listen to him and not have him shot for his impertinence.

Amazon's cloud dwarfs all others, Gartner finds

Rackspace Switzerland AG

Could pick up a lot of customers right now

Snowden's email provider may face court rap after closing service

Re: Secret justice

He wasn't even being coerced into giving information.

He was being coerced into re-writing his service to store the email un-encrypted or grab the encryption details of all his customers - that goes a long way beyond cooperating with the court

British spooks seize tech from Snowden journo's boyfriend at airport

Re: No need for a third runway at Heathrow

I fly through schipol just to avoid Heathrow anyway

Re: Interesting ...

Since the US no-fly list still contains the names of journalists who were investigating Nixon - I think it's more a matter of anyone who doesn't support us is an enemy for life

Re: Gibraltar border

It seems that Spanish efficiency allows immigration officers to stop anyone crossing from Gibraltar for 9 hours

Re: who I should vote for? Plaid Cymru?

The only party with consistent strong opposition to the security forces is probably Sinn Fein

World cup and Olympics

I wouldn't plan on visiting if I was a copper

Re: But

He is a documentary film maker who was travelling from Germany where he had been discussing making a film about Snowdon. So hopefully everything was encrypted or a few more people are going to be getting a 4 am call from the Geheime Staatspolizei

Dr Dre's Beats plans to drop HTC, hook up with rich mate – report

Re: Why...

Because Dre is a lot easier to spell than sennheiser?

I blame the schools

Screw you, Brits, says Google: We are ABOVE UK privacy law

Re: back to Bing then

All the cool kids use duckduckgo

Wikileaks Party scrambles to explain election decisions

Re: You can give the man a seat

IIRC in Australian politics it's normal to put the leader in prison after voting for him - so having Assange already locked up would save a lot of effort

Facebook's flush Sheryl Sandberg savaged over unpaid intern advert

Opportunities in the cotton picking industry

Make no money fast, opportunities for all, immigrants from Africa welcome

Google goes dark for 2 minutes, kills 40% of world's net traffic

Re: See, you keep telling them but they don't listen

The NSA might use hamsters but GCHQ uses gerbils

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1415469.stm

Card-cloning crooks use 3D printers to make ever-better skimmers

Everywhere still uses magstripe aswell - that's the 'genius' of the banks security.

You get everyone to type their top-secret pin into the terminal at Honest Ahmed's Kebab House and Management consultancy, then have ATM's that still read the magstripe instead of the chip and use the same pin.

It's like broadcasting the identical weather report every day in your top secret enigma code to U-boats and in Captain America decoder ring code.

He is a tory - just tell him that 3d CAD systems are used in industry to actually manufacture products and they will be banned.

Need an innovative solution

What if we could develop some sort of cheap microchip that could actually be embedded into the card and contain some sort of crypto program so that the identity of the card wasn't merley printed on a bit of cassette tape glued on the back for anyone to read?

Perhaps the banks could also invest in some sort of high street presence with a real building with real physical security and staff who could periodically inspect the machines ?

In keeping with the green eco-image of banks I suggest a tree motiff and we call these physical peripheral access facilities "branches"

NSA coughs to 1000s of unlawful acts of snooping on US soil since 2008

Re: You what?

However; "I'm a human missile operator and sometimes hit the wrong town" - does get you off a murder charge.

How on Earth did they over step their remit?

When their remit seems to be - do whatever the hell you want !

Jail time?

And how many people are looking at 90years for this

Apple erects measures to stop app-happy kids splurging parents' dosh

Re: Why just guidelines?

Because then nobody would make money on kids games and so nobody would sell them and so Apple wouldn't get 40%

It's like asking why they don't ban characters in kids films and TV shows from appearing on breakfast cereal and fast food.

Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid: Eco, economy and diesel power

Re: If I don't need ...

If you don't need 0-60 then buy a 1.4litre diesel Peugot 107 get 65mpg and do less harm to the environment than topping this up from coal fired power stations.

And it costs about the same as the govt backhander to buy this

Re: How Much?

But as a Yorkshireman you will appreciate a tory government giving £5,000 subsidy to people buying an electric car that they can top up using electricity from foreign coal because to subsisie the British coal industry would be wrong

Microsoft DMCA takedown requests targeting OpenOffice

Re: Law Talk?

But the perjury only covers that you swear you are the rights holder or acting on their behalf - it doesn't swear that the link actually infringes

Auntie touts e-babysitting ... and no £15,000 in-app purchase shocks

Like amazing

The Beeb is getting dynamically investign upwardly in the new multi-cloud centred media-opolis

ciao

Crispin Community Catalyst

Silicon Roundabout busshelter

Digusted

That the BBC is wasting tax payers money on this new fangled computer frippery instead of making proper programs where nice little old ladies solve crimes very slowly - preferably with flower shows

Yours dribbling slightly

Major Daily Telegraph (retd)

OWN GOAL! 100s of websites blocked after UK Premier League drops ball

Re: Blocking isn't easy

You know that, I know that - unfortunately when the judge studied Roman law at Cambridge in 1938 they forgot to cover it

Brits: We can stop trolling if we know where they live - poll

Re: Anyone see a Trojan Horse here ?

and in other news well known libel lawyers Carter-Ruck announced their intention to buy Surrey

Foxconn mulls solar panels, sticking Apple where sun doesn't shine

Re: why would you NOT have an active roof

>Why would one not want to have a PV roof, if its cost effective,

It isn't - well it is if you have a little old lady down the road paying 2x as much to subsidise your feed-in

>Cost is the measure we use as an economy in the supply demand economy we live in,

In which case nobody would have solar and we would just buy cheap gas from Russia

No need to worry about what happens if Russia turns off the supply or the price goes up - that's next quarter's problem.

>and the world connected up, then sun in one place could be exported to power some where else.

Look at the cost of the new grid Germany is having to build to move French nuclear power to Bavaria now that they are closing their reactors. Now imagine running a cable 100x bigger from the Sahara to Scandanavia.

>may be PV is not the best option in the dessert, may be the solar towers like in Spain are the way

In the desert probably tents and a turbine tower.

>A few pump storage schemes in the mountains of the world, a few convert water to Hydrogen in other

The cost of the loan to pay for Dynorwig makes its electricity more expensive than the grid - even if the input power is free. There are also limited places you can put a pumped storage scheme and they aren't where the demand for the power is. Most cities aren't in the mountains.

>its not that hard.

It's very hard

>lets leave the gas, oil, coal as a chemical resource we can use, not 'just' oxidise them to carbon dioxide.

Renewables require highly reactive peaking plants - small stations you can turn on and off quickly, which basically equals gas turbines. Ever wind farm means also buying a lot of jet engines.

Solar makes sense in developed countries with too much Air Conditioning.

Produce a DC AC for Texas, New Mexico, California, wire directly to solar panel.

When it's hot you get most power and use most AC. No need for feed in tarrifs, extra grid capacity, balancing loads, peaking generators.

Re: If...

Same way you setup any industry so it's done safely.

From my office I can see a chlorine plant - we actually have evacuation alarms in case a minor leak turns this whole business park into a WWI gas attack. On the horizon are a couple of LNG tanks that contain more energy than a Hiroshima bomb and are much more likely to go bang than a AGR.

Bhopal killed a lot more people than Chernobyl, but they were poor and brown and a long way away so we don't really care.

Philips' smart lights left in the dark by dumb security

Re: "even your fridge will have its own IP address..."

Sometimes think a webcam inside the fridge would be useful

I can check if I have any milk from work and even if it did get hacked I don't really care if millions of people on the interwebietubes are watching my gradually decaying celery

And it would answer the great philosophical question - does the light really go off when you close the door?

Re: Post Analysis

On the other hand a light bulb that requires biometric login , 2 factor authentication and a 8digit RSA-ID that changes every 30seconds is also rather useless

Is MD53

48 times as safe as MD5?

Larry Ellison: Google is ABSOLUTELY EVIL, but NSA is ESSENTIAL

Re: He actually said that ?

It hasn't been misused by the government.

It has been used by the government in exactly the way that they wanted.

Re: Pop quiz: What did Obama promise before the election and what did he do after he was voted in?

Hey if you don't like a red-neck Texan republican you could always elect a black Hawaiian democrat.

Vote for change!

Re: "I don't see how he thinks you can just copy someone else's stuff."

Hey Larry, IBM called - something about you copying "SQL" from them