Re: Seems the principal problem is not the legislation
How many were mentioned in the Monty Python skit?
Posts by O RLY
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French internet cops issue terrorist takedown for… Grateful Dead recordings?
So you've 'seen' the black hole. Now for the interesting bit – how all that raw data was stored
Friday 12th April 2019 13:37 GMT
BBC stole that tweet about the two scientists without correct attribution.
Here is the original tweet from MIT CSAIL:
It's now 2019, and your Windows DHCP server can be pwned by a packet, IE and Edge by a webpage, and so on
Pants-purveyor in plea for popularity: It's not just any pork push... it's an M&S 'love sausage'
Worried about Brexit food shortages? North Korean haute couture has just the thing
Microsoft pulls Office 2010 updates because they're big in Japan. As in, big pain in the ASCII
Someone's in hot water: Tea party super PAC group 'spilled 500,000+ voters' info' all over web
Remember when Apple's FaceTime stopped working years ago? Yeah, that was deliberate
Apple in XS new sensation: Latest iPhone carries XS-sive price tag
US voting systems (in Oregon) potentially could be hacked (11 years ago) by anybody (in tech support)
Five actually useful real-world things that came out at Apple's WWDC
Virtue singing – Spotify to pull hateful songs and artists
Friday 11th May 2018 19:34 GMT 
Still better to buy
than to stream. When the censors (spotify, apple, google, amazon, facebook, or government) come for the streams, they can't as readily destroy my CDs or MP3s. The flag represents another way to get prohibited/censored music.
El Reg, thanks for the Nick Cave tip. Great track. I think I'll fire up some (German) BPjM-sanctioned Die Ärzte or maybe some 2 Live Crew after that.
Friday 11th May 2018 19:26 GMT
@frank ly
Regarding Tim Minchin, you should start with the animated "Storm" as a great intro to him.
Mark Duckerberg: Second Congressional grilling sees boss dodge questions like a pro
Dell software limb Pivotal's IPO hopes: $592 million
Here is how Google handles Right To Be Forgotten requests
Swipe fright: Tinder hackers may know how desperate you really are
First shots at South Korea could herald malware campaign of Olympic proportions
European court: Let's not kid ourselves, Uber. You're a transport firm, not a 'digital service'
Amazon Key door-entry flaw: No easy fix to stop rogue couriers burgling your place unseen
Thursday 16th November 2017 22:28 GMT
Insurance
I wonder how insurance companies view claims made by people who deliberately chose to allow strangers into their homes. I haven't read my homeowner's policy in awhile, but I bet my insurer would try to find a way to deny a claim based on some clause in there they feel covers this. Negligence of some sort, I'd wager.
Not there's any fucking way I'd put such a lock on my house in the first place.
GarageBanned: Apple's music app silenced in iOS 11 iCloud blunder
Friday 13th October 2017 19:35 GMT
"Countless 32-bit apps"
I wouldn't call myself an apple apologist, but Apple did shift architecture. Additionally, the App Store was full of a staggering amount of apps which users were warned for years wouldn't work on iOS 11 without update. And it was full of a lot of shit whose ignominious departure is welcome. I have two complaints: iTunes update preventing iOS app and ringtone management and the end of application backup on a computer.
That Apple forgot to update or test their own application with their own OS is funny.
Mobe reception grief turns LTE Apple Watch 3 into – er, a dull watch
Wednesday 20th September 2017 23:27 GMT
The article is wrong about iOS Wifi and Bluetooth.
You CAN turn Wifi and Bluetooth off in iOS 11. What you CAN'T do anymore is turn them off from Control Center. Those buttons that from iOS 7 to iOS 10 turned off the antennas now only disconnect them. I raised it as an issue in every version of the public beta and was informed that it is by design, not a bug. I have not upgraded to iOS 11 on my phone as a result.
Apple: Our stores are your 'town square' and a $1,000 iPhone is your 'future'
Tuesday 12th September 2017 22:19 GMT
Slight price correction: the 256GB iPhone 8 is actually the slightly-less-staggering £849, not £949, unless you meant the Plus.
As to the chicken impersonation, that was surreal. I can't imagine the target market for animated puppies and chickens overlaps much with the set of people who are going to drop four figures (£ or $) for a phone. I'm probably wrong.
Massive iPhone X leak trashes Apple's 10th anniversary circus
A LANnister always pays his subnets: Cisco hires Game of Thrones' Tyrion
Friday 25th August 2017 21:31 GMT
I am a fan of Mr Dinklage's work, but the much of the copy sounds like it belongs as examples in the Ig-Nobel-prize winning paper "On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit".
Found here
http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.html
or
http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf
A glimpse of life under President Zuckerberg? Facebook CEO's boffins censor awkward Q&A
IBM CIO leaves for AWS – and Big Blue flings sueball to stop him
Uber drivers game Uber's system like Uber games the entire planet
US is Number One! In sales register hacking attacks, at least
Public Cloud makes it to Africa for the first time
Kill Google AMP before it kills the web
Friday 19th May 2017 14:17 GMT
Re: Turning it off
I've stopped using Google on my phones/tablets now. I use DDG and, when the results are not sufficient, the !g flag to search google. Since using DDG to do Google searches, I don't get AMP results. This data point does not a proof make, but perhaps others have similar results.
FCC's Pai: I am going to kill net neutrality in US
Good job, everyone. We're making AI just as tediously racist and sexist as ourselves
UK Home Office warns tech staff not to tweet negative Donald Trump posts
Is that a phone in your hand – or a gun? This neural network reckons it has it all figured out
Sir Tim Berners-Lee refuses to be King Canute, approves DRM as Web standard
Cancel your cloud panic: At $122bn it's just 5% of all IT spend
Wednesday 22nd February 2017 20:27 GMT
Re: Biannual
"Oops! Apologies for the errant "an". Who's semi-literate?"
PTW, you've fallen into the classic Muphry's Law situation. It gets us all.
Did Oracle just sign tape's death warrant? Depends what 'no comment' means
No crypto backdoors, more immigration ... says Republican head of House Committee on Homeland Security
Trump's cyber-guru Giuliani runs ancient 'easily hackable website'
Saturday 14th January 2017 03:55 GMT
Re: Big Brother Security to the rescue
"What a perfect example of government's heavy influence over the attitudes of the masses. Probably all that government-run early school training. Trust Big Daddy government, kiddies, it's for your own good!"
Hardly. I'm a believer in limited government, but I think the US government should do the things it's tasked to do by the people through the Constitution. I don't want the government to have sole responsibility for my personal cyber-security any more than I intend for the government to provide all of my physical security. Just as while I don't want or need to see tanks protecting my cities directly, I know that if $ENEMY attacks my city or family, there are people and tools equipped to respond with appropriate fury. What I DO want is the knowledge that the people tasked with those duties have the skills and experience to do them. I have no doubt that General Mattis is well-suited to be an outstanding SecDef; his record as a warrior monk speaks for itself. I have significant doubt that Rudy is suited to the task of advising the President on protecting government networks and whatever else fits under "White House Cyber Security Advisor". His company's website is part of his advertisement of capabilities. If it's less secure than my blog, he shouldn't do the job that the President-elect has asked him to do.
As to the question you asked initially, yes, I think the government has a duty to provide some modicum of cyber security. They definitely should protect their own networks. In fact, there's an agency whose putative purpose is just that already. (Or maybe there's No Such Agency.) They've been too busy spying on everyone to prevent someone from stealing all of the personnel records from the OPM, for example. Giuliani's CV is that of a good federal prosecutor, a mediocre mayor who was cast into the national spotlight because of 9/11, and then a few consulting gigs. None of that indicates he has the skills necessary to the task asked.
Friday 13th January 2017 05:07 GMT
Re: Big Brother Security to the rescue
Quoting Big John: "But please, someone tell me when it became the government's job to enhance the nation's civilian cyber security?"
I guess it depends on how broadly one interprets "provide for the common defence", which is one of the explicit goals in creating the framework for the US federal government. If that phrase from the Preamble to the Constitution includes nation's cyber security, then 1789.
AWS, you crack us up. Rebrands Westminster 'Webminster'
Thursday 12th January 2017 14:27 GMT
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