Posts by Teiwaz

Bloke jailed for trying to blow up UK crypto-cash biz after it failed to reset his account password

Re: surely trying to kill someone in a business quarrel isn't terrorism?

When the police are alerted to a bomb threat, do you really think that they assume it's not a terrorist ? What reason would they have to do that ?

While I understand where you are coming from, I think you've fallen into an assumption trap that's very the key point of the issue.

That a Bomb in a letter = terrorism

Could as easily be an attempt at a targeted assassination.

While a phone call, even to threaten or claim to have placed a bomb or random member of the public finding one in a bag at a public place could clearly be an attempt to sow terror, rigging one to specifically or attempt to specifically exact retribution by death or maiming is another.

I'm not saying either is at all justified, but blurring the distinction or assumptions due to current popular fears is not helpful.

Re: Counter Terrorism Command?

Or have they just bundled bombs 'n white powder 'n stuff in with the Terror-plods for pay-and-rations convenience?

Basically, yes.

Doesn't matter if it doesn't quite fit the profile or intent - 'terror' might get a stiffer sentence, more a pat on the back (or head) to plod.

It's as if they think no one will thank them for catching a random nutcase whose thought processes have gone off the rails it has to be an 'international conspiracy' even if that is a conspiracy of one nutter who happens to live abroad.

Given the chance, some uniformed bod will try to push the more surveillance donation plate on the back of this on any convenient cue in order to further an Orwellian agenda.

Arm kit vendors snuggle up around the Windows 10 Autumnwatch bonfire awaiting supported OS

unkind?

An unkind person might suggest the Windows team should do the same.

'Some kind people' should lead the windows team away to be looked after somewhere they can't harm themselves with something sharp or bang their heads on a blunt windows.

Skimming cash off UK police budget for tech projects probably not the best idea, say MPs

And siphoned off for what?

Is it just the new emergency system in waiting....?

It wouldn't surprise if the H.O were trying to use AI (and blockchain) to try some sort of minority report precrime - 'cause it must be posible as it was on the telly....

If Shadow Home Sec Diane Abbott can be reeled in by phishers, truly no one is safe

Re: Eh?

had to choose, in a way, between my own interests and my son's interests.

She had to choose between privilege of rank and position and upholding and living by the values of her political party and it's socialist position and she chose privilege.

This is why there's no choice between the parties any more.

People should be aware this is why there is little earnest drive to improve public education, out leader have no stake in the outcome beyond ensuring the buck doesn't pause outside their door and hinder their career prospects.

Premiere Pro bug ate my videos! Bloke sues Adobe after greedy 'clean cache' wipes files

Re: Man...

Ah, you've had Western Digital users too

It's a shame - the old design from 8 years ago was good hefty durable plastic horizontally oriented - I've a couple of 2TB drives from that era still going strong while comparable seagate drives came in cheap plastic tat with poor cable housing and drives that mostly died just at the edge of warranty.

Macs to Linux fans: Stop right there, Penguinista scum, that's not macOS. Go on, git outta here

Re: "secure" boot is *EVIL*

WTF?

A laptop that can run linux? There are plenty.

I think this is just another whinge trigger.

Yes, today. Well, there was a time when buying a laptop or even a desktop PC there really wasn't as much of a convenient choice.

Even today, I hear so called linux afficionados on one hand curse MS and hardware OEMS for not offering them the option while rubbishing known vendors who do supply pre-linuxed machines because economies of scale favour the big players platforms.

If the market can be almost locked down once through monopolist shenanigans, or simply economising stock on a 'standard' platform and secure lockdown it can happen again.

Re: "secure" boot is *EVIL*

The consumer can simply buy something else.

They can, as long as there is something else to actually buy that isn't something else but also exactly the same.

If in a vast majority of PC buys, the user intends to use what's bundled and not tweak, then that may well become the norm, and from the norm, quickly all that's available as why carry alternate stock or offer custom configs that few ask for.

It is mostly how we ended up with Windows bundled with every new PC in the first place for the last few decades.

International politicos line up to get shot down by Facebook

Re: Seems simple to me

Appearing in front of the UK committee, he won't have that luxury if he accepts,

Or it could be that the UK just doesn't have enough clout on the world stage.

I doubt he's have to worry about being put on the spot to provide what might be embarrassing answers to a series of probing and insightful questions.

More like provide a series of answers to embarrassing questions from showboating MPs asking elementary questions or enquiring about their facebook accounts....

Lucky, lucky, Westminster residents: Who better to look after your housing benefits than Capita?

Re: Doing fewer things better...

...with few choices manged by people with big egos and small brains.

I am going to assume you meant...

....with few choice mangy people with big egos and small brains.

The nights are drawing in. Pour a cup of cocoa and join us for Windows 10 Autumnwatch

Re: sudo

Or if you have FreeBSD, just

sudo pkg upgrade

It automatically does the update bit first.

Wow!!! Super-powers then.

A lot of debian users do sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

On Archlinux, it's just sudo pacman -Syu

Hey, lets have a contest....

Till Microsoft finds it a place on the path unwinding, it's the circle, the circle of Skype

as soon as the board understands the damage he's doing to Windows

Is he though? - nothing I've seen OSSed by MS so far compromises their hold (added features and hamfisted updates to windows maybe).

All the love linux attention has been all about making it easy to run linux on an MS platform where they get to be payed.

Web Foundation launches internet hippie manifesto: 'We've lost control of our data, it is being used against us'

Re: Or how about.....

We make our own internet without blackjack and hookers......

Is, I think more applicable.

We love Kubernetes, but it's playing catch-up with our Service Fabric, says Microsoft Azure exec

Whatsis 'fabric' references

Not content with stealing real engineering terms, they're switched to tailors now?

Suit you, sir.

Imperial bringing in budget holograms to teach students

Re: Next up: Hard light?

The sticking points are activities that require group participation

I don't recall any teaching on that at either school, college or uni - I've had a few group projects thrown at me at all three, but nobody knows how to work as a group.

Closest to teaching communal constructive social interaction may have been PE at school where we were discourage in putting the boot in to any player who was on the ground.

US draft bill moots locking up execs who lie about privacy violations

Sadly you are talking to a bunch.....

@ Yawn, Michael Habel

One anonymous coward posts first with a cynical stance and you can deduce from that the position general pro-europe (or rather anti-mental UK gov) are going to take for the rest of the discussion.

Tell me, do you think you were Nostradamus in a previous life??

UK.gov to roll out voter ID trials in 2019 local elections

N.Ireland

Has been a requirement to have ID to get your ballot paper there for some time.

because of shenanigans, obviously.

Smartphone industry is in 'recession'! Could it be possible we have *gasp* reached 'peak tech'?

Well

Ignoring the already more discerning techies here.

For the masses. The Smartphone is no longer either a novelty or something to get excited about, no matter how new.

The Honeymooon phase is well over, people have gotten used to the ubiquity, the Smart phone has mostly become 'just the way the world works'.

However I don't think the mass market has yet got to the point of finding the damn things a needy attention grabbing for no good reason annoyance yet.

Hopefully they will do before the various slow witted Gov.s shovel all basic services over to one phone platforms apps only.

We (may) now know the real reason for that IBM takeover. A distraction for Red Hat to axe KDE

Never to late to become more minimalist....

Bloat without any real gain. XFCE is what I have long used

Even XFCE is bloat to the dwm people.

Re: Wot Wayland?

If visual, virtual augmentation is any part of the future, then Wayland is currently the only hope. I don't think you've used Wayland

I'm not able to, currently (recent Nvidia hardware).

But I'm not overly impressed with multi-monitor support - it's no better than X, and a little worse in some ways.

Wayland is not 'our only hope' - There is another

Re: Without KDE, RHEL is GNOME to Hell

If Dolphin was half as good managing files as Konqueror was in KDE 3, I would believe it wasn't intentional.

That makes no sense.

I rather liked the dual purpose Konqueror and the Semantic Desktop of KDE 3, and the way it could inline display almost any file type, but that was tied into KDE 3, and not replicated in KDE 4 (mores the pity).

I'd settle for more than one split window in Dolphin, I miss having more than two panes in some file management tasks, two tabs is just such an awkward workaround.

Re: Yep

Choice, eh? We don't want any of that where we're from.

Microsoft?

Re: Yep

The debate on Linux UIs can be so vicious because the stakes are so small.

The passions are deep though.

Re: Without KDE, RHEL is GNOME to Hell

On the other hand, the way Konqueror has been gutted in KDE defies belief.

As I understood it, Konqueror has merely never been maintained - it needs a almost total rewrite to bring it up to Frameworks 5 standard and no one is willing to stand up and volunteer for the task.

It's not so much been gutted (that implied intent to kill it) than no one wants to volunteer to totally rewrite it to use Frameworks and no doubt subsequently maintain it.

KDE at least...

Is still themeable.

Gnome a short while ago were talking dropping support for themes.

Whether that is just not dealing with any issues (which is fair enough, some badly designed themes out there) or actually cutting theme UI elements out, I've never sure.

ON Plasma you can restore the old KDE 4 Oxygen look if you wish.

Wot Wayland?

And does anybody care about Wayland?

Unless they use Gnome, they're still waiting for the other desktops to catch up.

Of course if you have Nvidia hardware (with proprietary drivers) you're barred anyway.

Wayland is a good deal nippier, but I get the impression it's been designed with a rather pedestrian concept of screen use which seem limiting in the near future.

I also got the distinct impression Wayland compositors in Gnome made great strides while Canonical was pushing Mir at it's heels. Now Mir has mostly gone, pace has slowed again.

I really think Bjorn Stahls Arcan is far, far more interesting.

Now Europe wants a four-million-quid AI-powered lie detector at border checkpoints

Makes nipping over for the day on a booze run sound like a bundle of laughs.

I'd honestly not be surprised to hear that this whole project was a British idea originally, and they were sounding out whether the Europeans would kick up another fuss about them using it on UK daytrippers over that might be depriving the taxman over the matter of a couple of bottles of plonk and a month or twos supply of ciggies.

Nikola Tesla's greatest challenge: He could measure electricity but not stupidity

All that's required are small steps that may still lead us towards a brighter, smarter future.

Small steps?

Depends on the mind, a small step to some is a step to far for others (especially if they fear they may be financially less well off in that case).

What we need is true a true social system, and a working technocracy - we currently have a lazy idiocracy and a system that edges on reversing the social reforms of the Victorian age.

Chuck this on expenses: £2k iPad paints Apple as the premium fondleslab specialist – as planned

Re: Perceived quality?

Seems to me that putting a high ticket price on it will make buyers think that this is the dogs bollocks when in reality it's probably little more than a load of bollocks

FTFY

This one weird trick turns your Google Home Hub into a doorstop

Re: The usual IoT crap

Some of it is useful and secure. I agree most/all of the advertised consumer stuff totally isn't and I would never have any of that,

But it's not correct to say that all IoT stuff is insecure shit.

Perhaps the industrial grade/business focus stuff is better designed (perhaps).

But since most the stuff advertised and pushed like the answer to all of life's problems is badly designed, marketing-led data-gathering landfill rammed into any perceived gap in the market like an overused erotic entertainer.

If 99.99% of something is shit, the remainder can only be occasional bit of sweetcorn.

IBM sits draped over the bar at The Cloud or Bust saloon. In walks Red Hat

Re: Clouded vision

RHEL is not free - as in beer, it never was. It actually costs USD $349 just to download the ISO

I seem to remember the occasional to regular version on magazine disks in the late 90's to early 00's.

What cost was the support.

I had a Red Hat version 6? (might have been 5, but I think it was 6) box version bought (in PC-World!!) in the early 2000's (for the manuals) - I think it was 50-60 (£) and came with a period of support after a sort - which I never used...

Not a good desktop oriented distro at the time (and still not) - I went back to SUSE pretty quick.

Intel hits target: 27% of staffers are female? Apparently that's 'full representation'

well it would be

if 46% were lizard-people.

Woman who hooked up with over 15 spectres has found her forever phantom after whirlwind romance and plane sex

Re: Dear God, I am writing to complain....

As I understand Catholic doctrine, there are no such things as ghosts. Once you're dead you are in Heaven, Hell or Purgatory (if that's still a thing) and not around to go woo-woo on Earth.

Still been known to have done exorcisms though....

Therefore, if you come into contact with something which represents itself as a spirit of the dead, it's actually a demon sent to tempt you, so you make the sign of the cross and it evaporates.

Now I think you're getting confused with the more puritan variations of protestantism (apart from the crossing yourself thing - I think they advise waving a bible at it).

Not that I believe a word of it but at least it's a consistent belief system, so this is not a bug report you can file with the Catholic God.

Consistent? I think you've had too much pumpkin punch...whole thing devised by a committee in Nicea (we all know how things put together by committee end up) then left to stew in political expediency and corruption for a thousand or so years.

Abusive nuns and priests, however, different kettle of theological fish. You can report them.

That's only been effective in the last thirty or so years. Think what it was like centuries ago when the Church was a gateway for the really ambitious and power hungry.

Bird, Lime, and Xiaomi face scooter sueball

Re: Grocery stores

But I have to say to the people that were injured by tripping over these--WTF?

No sympathy for phone zombies.

I suspect not a small few were staring into mobile phone screens whilst walking, and not paying any more than 30% attention to anything not on their tiny screen (and only 20% on anything not in their tiny minds I presume).

IBM's Red Hat gobble: Storage will be a test of Big Blue's commitment to open-source software

Re: open source, default choice?

Those are not using open source as they are far from being receptive to the concept "modern".

And yet there's often a lot of heated bandwagon jumping when a IT new buzzword comes to their attention - probably in the hopes that they can fire everyone under senior management and still remain functional and profitable.

Budget 2018: UK goes it alone on digital sales tax for tech giants

Re: Commenorating Brexit?[sic]

I don't think we had a 50p coin back then, or a 10 shilling coin for that matter.

1d was equivalent in value to about £1 now, and we had 1d, 1/2d and 1/4d coins.

According to Blackadder, in 1066 the egg had yet to supercede the worm as Britains lowest form of currency.

Pirate radio = drug dealing and municipal broadband is anti-competitive censorship

I like Americans, they’re funny...

Funny, how?

Like in a Tommy Devito (Joe Pesci,in Goodfellas) way?

The D in Systemd stands for 'Dammmmit!' A nasty DHCPv6 packet can pwn a vulnerable Linux box

Re: Now hang on, please!

if one particular service doesn't come up properly then it just logs the error. I *thought* that was one of the claimed advantages of systemd,

Well, I'm on Archlinux, and that's what mine is doing (currently several services are misconfigured due to a location move and I've not gotten around to fixing them).

If pulseaudio fails on my system, it falls back to ALSA.

Re: Now hang on, please!

Ser iss no neet to worry, systemd will becum stable soon after PulseAudio does.

Pulseaudio due to be replaced by Pipewire.

This two-year-old X.org give-me-root hole is so trivial to exploit, you can fit it in a single tweet

Re: And this is news how?

nor made it more difficult to "turn that @#$% off" in post-systemD-world

systemctl stop [displaymanager].service

Where displaymanager is gdm, sddm, etc. Not really that difficult really.

And no mucking about with runlevels.

Belgium: Oi, Brits, explain why Belgacom hack IPs pointed at you and your GCHQ

1) People with Belgian passports can walk into the UK without any visa;

2) Belgium seems to have a lot of terrorists.

1) Hardly walk into (HMP) UK - last time I came through UK Customs it felt a little like Prison Visits.

2) More than the UK already has? Plus Brexit in danger of kicking off the whole Ireland issue again.

Re: Belgian terrorists

Before we go all Snowdon about mass surveillance, it is worth remembering that the terrorists that attacked Paris originated in Brussels, where the security services are useless

[Hands to cheeks in shock] Of course how could I forget, the ever efficient British were able to step in on the toes of the useless Belgians and stop that....

Oh, wait, they didn't.

and British Intelligence is the only such service in Europe not tarnished by association with the Gestapo or KGB.

Ah, yes. The 'it could never happen here' mentality. The perfect blinkered viewpoint that is almost guarenteed to ensure it will at some point this century if thinking doesn't change.

The USA compromised the UN communications, it would be terminally naive to expect that the GHCQ wouldn't have targeted the EU parliament and EU commission's communications.

This is why the UK isn't that popular. We send snooty MEPs over who have a 'don't like foreigners attitude' and hack them instead of asking nicely, then boast about our good relations and partnerships.

No wonder we're not trusted with Space related contracts now we're leaving if that was our track record while a member.

Assange catgate hearing halted as Ecuador hunts around for someone who speaks Australian

Re: How are they breaching his human rights?

who can't keep his appendix in his pants. Have you considered the Human Rights of the girls,

I should think we should consider everyones rights in the face of someone who waves their internal organs about, erm, willy-nilly.

Usually, a surgeon is required to remove appendix from pants.

I think you meant appendage A/C.

Sorry friends, I'm afraid I just can't quite afford the Bitcoin to stop that vid from leaking everywhere

Re: Obvious fake news

a randy cat would improve the sound.

Yuck, never liked that mushy romance music.

Re: Racist?

BTW I thought "Chinaman" was an outmoded term with Empire-drenched connotations, so I avoid using it. Maybe I am mistaken about this too.

I've not heard not heard that term since Bernard Manning era stand-up comedians.

So that'd be a yes.

Re: I've seen a definite uptick in these

The username+something@domain is called plus-addressing and has been available in sendmail (among others) since before gmail was a thing.

Don't try claiming that it's a unique gmail feature.

I don't think poster was, specifically, although the wording could be interpreted as though it's a Google mail only feature.

It's a good tip, that I'm sure there are more than a few that pass by here don't know about.

I recall reading about it (sendmail docs) years ago, I didn't know Gmail included it.

Re: Racist?

Bit 'racey' in places though.

Maybe.

Re: The Coffin' Henry approach

Sir Pterry already figured that one out. "For sum money, I won't follow you home. Coff coff."

Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayalls Dangerous Brothers :

Sir Adrian Dangerous claims he could 'pay a hitman' to take out his partner by the granting of sexual favours* - Promising 'never ever, ever, to get into bed and do squidgy things with him'

* Not flavours

Amazon tried to entice Latin American officials with $5m in Kindles, AWS credits for .amazon

Don't think Amazon.com really want it....

Set up and promote Amazonian culture and heritage to the tune of $1m over four years.

Block registration of a long list of names under the .amazon extension given to it by the Brazilian and Peruvian governments.

Offer $5m in "credits" for Amazon goods and services – basically free Kindle e-readers and free AWS hosting services

That's not an offer that's an insult.

Here, have a few pennies as $1m is nothing to the international corp after all, and spread out of four years is even more measly. Ooh, threw in a few of their cheap tat and trinkets? May as well have offered them store credit that expires within a month or two.