Posts by ph0b0s

Apple antenna guru 'warned Steve Jobs' over Judas Phone

Will we see Job's at today's press conference?

Doubt it....

IT recruiters warn over migration caps

Yeah tell me about it.....

I am job hunting at the moment. I'm looking in the networks field. And I cannot believe some of the postings. Do you have experience working with firewalls from these 5 different vendors with certifications from each vendor? Well if I can work on two of them does that not prove I know about firewalls and can pick the rest up.

Have you worked with each of these individual models of Cisco switch? Well some of them, but I don't get put forward for the job because I am missing one. But there is no difference between the ones you are asking for (same OS, commands etc), just different port densities. I could understand if they were asking about some of the switches and routers that an ISP uses because they are different.

Now I have been working on networks for large multinationals since leaving Uni at 21. Ten years later and I have never been on any training courses, or needed a training budget. All of my knowledge and certifications have come from teaching myself, on the job and mentioning. I look for new roles because they have something I have not done before as I get bored if I am not picking up a new technology.

Do I need lots of expensive training, no, just put me in there and I will pick it up as I have done for the rest of my career. I have a track record of doing so. Employers are aware of this and are not expecting you to find someone that fits 100%, they just gave you a spec for an imaginary perfect person.

All this has not been helped by employers outsourcing their recruitment to these IT recruiters who seem to have no idea about the right people to pass along to the employers. So employers don't get good candidates and IT recruiters, of course, cannot find people who meet the spec 100% so there is a 'skills shortage' and you need people from aboard.....

6music wins possible reprieve from BBC Trust

Too late....

Too late, Bruce Dickenson's rock show has already been canned, so they can now close 6music for all I care.

Beware of cold call scammers pushing rogue antivirus

Should be on TV

This should really be reported by the news or watchdog as even though great for theregister for reporting it, I think the readership already would not entertain these calls. The really vunerable are those who do not visit here....

And yes I had a call from these guys and kept them on the phone for ages. Was interested to see what they were doing. I just did what I was told and answered honestly. We went through my event log, but since I had just cleaned it, it had nothing wrong.

Then I was told to check task manager to find out how much my proccesor was being used. 1% I replied and that all 8 of my bar graphs showed hardy any activity.

So your computer is running slow I was asked?! No I responed, there is hardy any activity so it is fine. I was then asked how long it took to boot my PC. I responed about 30 seconds.

I was told that I was just stringing them along as PC's don't boot that fast and don't have that many cores and they hung up. I was tell the truth, I have an I7 CPU and a fast SDD to boot from. You just can't help some people.....

Latvia's 'Robin Hood' hacker unmasked as AI researcher

Whistle blower protection

I have said this before in these forums. But I think cases like this are a perfect example of why whistleblower protection laws should be extended to some types of hacking. Obviously not all hacking just where no damage is done and the info retrieved is in the 'public interest'. Jorno's get protection when they brake the law to reveal stuff in the public interest, paying for MP expenses details for example.

German Wi-Fi networks liable for 3rd party piracy

So by the courts logic...

...if our computers get infected by a virus or trojan that turns it into part of a botnet that then goes on to commit other crimes (hacking or DoSS'ing the Pentagon say) we are then also liable.... Brilliant. Of course that won't happen, because it is silly, but becuase it this case piracy is involved, all logic goes out the window....

So much or German practicality....

Woman loses Bebo privacy case against lad mag

Aren't we all now pedos?

According to the law aren't we all pedos now for get hot about these photos? It's a mine field, I don't want to be a pedo, she's only 15, but look at that pair... AAARRGGGHH!

Hackers crack Ubisoft always-online DRM controls

PC gaming dieing

Been gaming on the PC since 1989. But I think games creators more and more don't want to develop for the PC. I understand why, with the extra difficulty of make the games work on all the different hardware configurations, for less sales than on a consoles.

It is just not an attractive platform. There will still be smaller or start-up companies that will develop for the PC to show off their new game engines, without having to pay Microsoft or Sony console royalties. But once they have a successful engine or franchise the PC will then get dumped for more lucrative console opportunities.

The increased amount of 360 games ported have helped, but the trend is obvious.

What annoys my is the companies that blame piracy for them stopping PC development (eg epic for Gears of War II and III). That is not the real reason but what I mentioned above and games publishers should be honest about not wanting to put in the extra effort to make a good PC game. The conspiracy theorist in me also thinks that it is part of the games makers plans to put huge amounts of DRM on PC games saying if you don't like play the game on a console. I do think some games makers would be happy to not have to develop for the PC anymore.

Dice got a lot of praise for their support of the PC gaming recently with Battlefield Bad Company. But I have all the previous versions of Battlfield and like to try a demo before deciding if I want to buy. And guess what, this time, no demo for the PC, but there is for the 360.

As for me, when gaming on the PC dies so will my playing computer games, as I have never had much fun on consoles and I refuse to use a joypad to play an FPS. PC snob? Yes.....

Now can I can buy Assasins Creed II

This new always have to be on-line DRM, really turned me off, so I did not buy Assasins Creed II for the PC. Now this 'patch' is out I will quite happily buy the game... Thanks pirates for help out us legitimate gamers.

Kent police bring obscenity charge over online chat

Naive

Yes, if the person has pornographic images of real children on their computer, they will get what is coming to them. There is no disagreement on this.

But if this extra crazy charge stands then don't come crying to us when the police knock in your door for chatting dirty to your girlfriend over the internet. This is how they get this cr@p in, by using it first against pedo's and terrorists and then once they have the precedent, then using it against the rest of society.

Please don't be so naive. Just because people say any of these new puritan law's are wrong they do not support pedo's or terrorists. They just, like me, know that if they don't make a stand about this stuff now, next on the chopping block will be other 'imaginary crimes' contained in computer games, movies and books.

Wikifounder reports Wikiparent to FBI over 'child porn'

Paedogeddon!!!!

Thanks Josh 15. I love that word. From now on all Register stories on this subject need that in the title...

Any links to the info from the NSPCC. I made the original comment from a gut feeling, I had no idea the actual numbers were that bad. Now that definately could make someone vomit in their mouth a bit....

China routing snafu briefly mangles interweb

Don't panic!

Let's not get too hysterical about this. All we need is for the US to go all 'War on Cyber Terror' about this and to use it as an excuse start locking down the internet for your own safety, of course. If fact we should be putting in stuff that allows the internet to stay working even when states, good or evil try to do this kind off thing. Yeah, BGP has been around for a while....

Maybe they need to develop a certificate system for source address / AS advertisement, so that even if two places are advertising the same source, routers can tell which route is authentic even if a better metric is offered along a bogus routes.

BTW have my CCDP exam Monday wish me luck....

Cartoon Law goes live

Has a certificate

Not that I know the title you are refering to, cough... but it has bbfc certificatation so it is safe....

Blue Shlong

The sexual scenes did not even register to me but having to look at that blue guys schlong so much has scarred me for life....

Juries decide

Facetious comment I know, but imaginary crime happening to an imaginary child in an imaginary world. Wish it was only imaginary police investigating. Surely the real police should be working harder to solve real case with real children rather than this...

Anyway the point I wanted to make was about the idea of obscenity being decided by a jury. Under the idea that members of the public are able to give an assessment of what the wider society would view as obscene. The idea I don't like about this it that what people say is obscene and what they actually believe is obscene (and are looking at on their computers) are likely to be two different things.

A way to solve the problem (but would never be practical), would be to have an anonymous database of everyone's pr0n collections and to use the average from this to inform as to what people really this is obscene or not.

If 50% of the population had possession of illegal material it would be hard to argue it was obscene.

Not sure if I am making myself clear...

There's an exception

There is a marriage / relationship exception. So only penalises people who cannot get girlfriends. Don't know if you would have to destroy the photos / drawings if you broke up or got divorced. Ah if only laws were simple.

Not real, no victim Ahhhhh! Ok for security reasons though.... Thin end of the wedge

Children must undergo airport body scans

http://www.directbaggage.com/news.as...=268&type=news

Drawings of kids bad. Strangers looking at kids bits for security reasons Ok.

Of course dumb and would not work, but would love to see someone use the defence of need the drawings for security reasons.

One last point on the new cartoon law. To me it is censorship even if it has been done with the best intentions. Why? Because even though things like 'watchmen' and 'lost girls' are safe. The new law means there won't be another 'watchmen' or 'lost girls' as who knows in advance whether your drawings will be considered worth while or not. Maybe you think that is a good thing.

Does any know if any other type of drawings has ever been made illegal in the 'free world'? Are the ones of children the first?

If so, there is now a precedent and it will be easier to ban other types of drawing for other reasons (race, religion, violence). With the argument, that since has been done to protect children why not protect other groups and against other crimes. Don't know if it is accurate, but according to wikipedia, Canada have already banned writing about child abuse as well. So the written work will be next.

Would have prefered it if this law was only applied to convicted pedos. And for depitions of under 16 year olds, as this to me is easier to work out when looking at a drawing.

Child abuse frame-up backfires on stalker

And I would have gotten away with if not for.....

The scary thing is that if he had been smarter about not leaving such a huge obvious trail he would have gotten away with it. I feel so sorry for the victim who was treated like a pedo (stopped from seeing his children etc), probably for quite awhile before the police got properly on the case.

This case is supposed to show the people in the forums here who always say that you aught to send or in some way plant illegal pr0n to MPs computers and get them arrested that it would not work. It reads like the opposite to me. Just need to wait for someoneto put together a tojan / virus that instead for nicking your bank details, puts illegal pr0n on unsuspecting peoples computers....

Then again if the everone in the country was being arrested for sex offenses maybe it would give the politians pause. Then again probably not....

Skewing statistics: Booze, money and sex

Spoilt ballots instead of hang them all

"It's something of a pity that the upcoming ballot papers will not have a “hang them all” box to tick. ®"

You could spoil your ballot. There is a facebook campain for it. Unfortunately without a 'none of the above' option in our current system it is your only option to register your displeasure. No the vote may not be counted in the traditional sense but it is used in the turnout figures, so spoilt ballots put down the percentage of the vote the winners get.

Quick and dirty maths. If 50% of people vote and the winner gets 30% of the vote, then if the other 50% did voted with spoilt ballots then the winner only gets 15% of the vote. I know this is not likley to happen, but the maths is easy.

Some will say 'just stay at home'. But if you don't vote the parties just assume that all the people who did not vote would have voted in the same ratio as everyone who did vote, i.e they assume you would have voted for one of them.....

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&ref=share&gid=342409911427

Heathrow security man cops perv scanner eyeful

Sniffer dogs?

People say the only options are the scanners, or a pat down. How about sniffer dogs. What about them as an option. If you have been around any type of dog you get used to them trying to sniff your nuts. Also I belive they are better at detecting the materials used in the Xmas bomb than the other two options. And are quicker as they walk down a line of people quite quickly, so everyone gets scanned.

But I bet they cost more money than the scanners...

Man could face prison over six second 'extreme porn' clip

A few points, sorry not very witty.

First it's a no brainier to me, no 6 second clip, unless evidence of your involvement in a more serious crime (eg murder, GBH, rape or child abuse) should ever be punishable with a prison sentence. End of.

Second for those who blame Labour for this. Who believes any of the opposition parties would be any better? Can you see any of them reversing this after May? I cannot bring myself not to vote (people died to give me the right, etc), so I will be spoiling my ballot come May.

Third, the only other victimless crime I can think of is speeding, which at least arguably has a more causal link to hurting someone if not punished. But speeding offenses are more controversial and the punishment is a fine and some points on your license. In comparison to a max 3 years and membership of sex offenders register (and all that entails)

Lastly, how come we are so worried about animal rights when it comes to having intercourse with them, but not when it comes to killing billions of them a year for food? Yes I'm a veggy...

Computer glitch prompts 50 raids on elderly couple's home

Took 51 raids in error to get a workaround!?

I took them 51 raid to think to do this. I would have thought that after 3 times it would have been obvious and something would have been done. But 51 times.... Does the average New York home get raided in error that many times that only 51 times looks bad? I hope the victims of this get a nice payout from the city.

Climategate witchhunt fingers scientist

Same protction for these type of hackers as for whistle blowers

Aren't there protections for whistle blowers under the law? see http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/ResolvingWorkplaceDisputes/DG_10026552 And when the expeses scandel was broken by journalists that was ok, why do hackers revealing stuff constituet a whitch-hunt.

Should hackers who expose things in the public interest be not also excepted from reprisals, like dumb police investigations.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that all hacking should get a pass. When it is malicious or designed to disrupt systems, then these cases should be prosocuted to the full extent of the law. I just think where in cases, like this, the hacking exposes info that is in the public interest the police should leave it alone and use the resources being wasted here to solve serious crimes.

Oh and hacking famous peoples voicemail accounts is not classed as in the public interest. Unless you catch one admitting they murdered somebody....