Posts by nijam

Oracle throws weight behind draft US law to curtail web sexploitation

Re: Aren't there already enough laws?

Standard knee-jerk reaction to an inadequate (or more usually, inadequately-enforced) law is to create another inadequate law to be inadequately-enforced. It never works.

Bored with Orlowski's hatred of the internet and ISPs yet? You should be.

SpaceX sneaks in X-37B space plane launch ahead of Hurricane Irma

> discretely decouple

Grrrr! If the parts are discrete, they don't need to decouple. You mean discreetly.

Secure microkernel in a KVM switch offers spy-grade app virtualization

Re: Proof of correctness proves what, exactly?

> the source matches the formal specification?

If the formal specification *isn't* the source code, it's a waste of ink.

Facebook's music plans mean you'll never leave Facebook

Re: Homework on phones

> I used to do maths homework on the bus

Sounds even worse than doing it on an iPhone.

Unable to give up on life on Mars, bio-boffins now thrilled to find boron

No, no, they found morons in bars.

Malware writer offers free trojan to hackers ... with one small drawback

Elemental?

I suspect you might mean "elementary".

UK council fined £70k for leaving vulnerable people's data open to world+dog

Re: Fining public bodies.

> The taxpayers of Nottinghamshire will be, collectively, £70,000 out of pocket.

Peanuts. They've just been lined up to fork out over half a billion for a tram system that is not noticeably better than the bus services it didn't replace. (But at least it obstructs other road users, which I presume is the point.)

FTC told to cough up informants' memos in Qualcomm antitrust row

Re: What's interesting about this...

... so it's absolutely vital that Qualcomm must never ever find out what, specifically, the documents allege they have done. They must be found guilty!

Or have I misunderstood what commentards are saying here?

Forget trigonometry, 'cos Babylonians did it better 3,700 years ago – by counting in base 60!

Re: Special cases

> ... such as 3:4:5, that have integer ratios in base 10

It's nothing to do with the base (either in your post or the main article).

They're integer ratios in every base. (Excepting the deranged case of non-integer bases, but you don't use those, I hope.)

SUSE pledges endless love for btrfs, says Red Hat's dumping irrelevant

Unfortunately, Red Hat seem to suffer a kind of chronic, low-grade NIH-ness, which militates against btrfs.

And of course the flip side is that they're gung-ho about a stuff they've put into Linux themselves, no matter how unnecessary or even ill-advised.

So what's in the new Windows Insider build? Bug fixes, an AR goof-around, and a font

Re: Windows 10 Updates? What's that?

> Got a third-party AV package installed?

Got a third-party AV package installed? It will identify the update as malware.

FTFY

Seriously, friends. You suck at driving. Get a computer behind the wheel to save your life

Re: People aren't terrible drivers.

> ... while doing lots of repetitive tasks

Actually, with a little experience, those repetitive tasks are mapped into "muscle memory" (i.e. our own internal automation system) - you can complete a long journey without recollecting ever having changed gear, for example. So the "repetitive task" part of your assertion (at least) is largely irrelevant.

Re: People aren't terrible drivers.

> I recall reading ... these periods of driving are your safest

Because in retrospect they are - you would have been memorising "nothing" - specifically, nothing interesting, a normal journey that you've done many times before.

> A vibration through the steering would work much better.

Wrong! My car has that - but on British roads, you can't tell whether you've drifted out of lane, or just over more potholes. There are other problems with it too, but the pothole thing alone makes it useless.

WikiLeaks a 'hostile intelligence service', SS7 spying, Russian money laundering – all now on US Congress todo list

> The damage done by WikiLeaks to the United States is clear

The damage done by the United States to the United States, and revealed by WikiLeaks, is clear.

Just saying.

Did ROPEMAKER just unravel email security? Nah, it's likely a feature

Re: Why Do People Expose Themselves With HTML E-Mail

> Immune to smart-arses with nefarious style sheets?

yes, that's what "old-school" means, in this context.

Re: Err,

> If you need fancy formatting attach a PDF

I'd go further and say "If you need fancy formatting create a PDF, and then keep it to yourself."

Paris nightclub red-faced after booze-for-boobs offer exposed

Re: The outrage might be justified...

> ... something is offered in exchange of a service with a sexual connotation

You mean like marriage used to be?

Re: Bah!

> Hash House Harrier

I thought they ran for pubs, not offices...

> They're a sinister lot and need to be downvoted at every opportunity!

Some of them are merely gauche.

British snoops at GCHQ knew FBI was going to arrest Marcus Hutchins

> all the best white hats learn their craft by having been black hats

... in exactly the same way that all the best people in the FBI used to be terrorists, etc, etc. Don't talk such nonsense.

Q: How many drones are we bombing ISIS with? A: That's secret, mmkay

Re: Wrong comparison

>... ISIS has an Air Force that can down drones...

An Air Force is not required for that task.

Linux-loving lecturer 'lost' email, was actually confused by Outlook

Re: Client support, we've heard about it

> But if your job suddenly requires you to do something, and you don't want to learn how to do it, ...

If your job requires you to do something, and you already know how to do it, and you have been doing it successfully for years, then I change the system so that you can no longer do it, ...

President Trump to his council of industry CEO buddies: You're fired!

> The Stormer is now a .onion hidden service on Tor.

The dark web, how droll.

Intel CEO Krzanich quits Trump's Manufacturing Council over response to Charlottesville rallies

Re: all it needs now

> ... fast becoming a huge liability to the USA

Becoming? Always has been, I think you'll find.

Raising minimum wage will raise something else: An army of robots taking away folks' jobs

> appear to buttress arguments that automation will lead to more unemployment

or, more realistically, that raising the minimum wage will lead to more unemployment

Can GCHQ order techies to work as govt snoops? Experts fear: 'Yes'

> Seems purposefully vague or overly broad in its reach

Bear in mind that most laws are designed (upto a point) to have sections which are vague and/or obscure, simply to provide long-term future employment to others in the legal profession.

Re: Who cares?

> Just because something is technically legal doesn't mean it'll ever be used.

How delightfully naive.

It's August 2017 and your Android gear can be pwned by, oh look, just patch the things

Re: which will post their own updates in time, hopefully.

> Just had yet another security update for my Galaxy S7 Edge

Same with my Nokia 3.

Your top five dreadful people the Google manifesto has pulled out of the woodwork

Re: asshe but

> And the vast majority of them ...

The vast majority of the tiny minority who bothered to respond?

Re: asshe but

> perhaps you should fire someone if they are a liability to your company

perhaps you should fire someone if they point out that your HR policies are a liability to your company

FTFY

Windows Subsystem for Linux is coming to Windows Server

Re: What?

> it directly intercepts syscalls and translates them into Windows kernel terms

The next improvement would be to bypass (then strip out as unnecessary) the Windows kernel stuff.

FBI's spyware-laden video claims another scalp: Alleged sextortionist charged

Re: Fingers crossed he rots somewhere horrible for it...

> Obviously the 100% certain way, though, is not to be an exploitative scumbag in the first place.

Recent events elsewhere suggest that might be an overly optimistic point of view.

Marcus Hutchins free for now as infosec world rallies around suspected banking malware dev

> "Cybercrime remains a top priority for the FBI," said special agent in charge Justin Tolomeo.

If Justin were literate, he might have said something like "Investigating cybercrime remains a top priority for the FBI". Instead, he effectively said "The FBI devotes most of its efforts to committing cybercrime."

But now I come to think of it...

Re: Legal Blasphemy.

> Even somewhere like Stalin's Russia wasn't as extreme (at least he wasn't trying to turn a profit from his GULags)

This is the Stalin whose security services killed more Russians than Hitler's armies did?

Britons ambivalent about driverless car tech, survey finds

Re: Sunday (autonomous) driving

> Have you tried using kickdown?

That's what he's describing. Auto gearboxes just aren't that good at it.

Bixby, why is Samsung's heir apparent facing 12 years in the slammer?

Re: No, you didn't tell us

> Is this part of Reg's love of 'Sammy'?

I think El Reg has published quite a few articles criticising Samsung, or poking fun at their exploding washing machines (or both).

Re-identifying folks from anonymised data will be a crime in the UK

Re: intentionally re-identify individuals

> ...It already has been.

No, just renamed, in fact. Several times... but still only renamed.

DJI drones: 'Cyber vulnerabilities' prompt blanket US Army ban

Re: What, still??

Not just China.

You could substitute pretty much any other country with a government, and your post would be equally valid.

To truly stay anonymous online, make sure your writing is as dull as the dullest conference call you can imagine

Re: Writing style seems unlikely to personally identify you

> [pedant alert] "given that there IS a limited pool of people who comment here" [/pedant alert]

QED

Re: I see a market here

Something that makes what you say so bland that it can't be identified as containing any information.

Linux kernel hardeners Grsecurity sue open source's Bruce Perens

> Footnore

Footgnaw? Just asking.

Re: Perens has two shots at winning.

> And replace it with what? The generic Linux kernel?

Not all informed opinion agrees that the generic kernel would be less secure, AFAICT.

If you love your email standards, SMTP your feet: 35 years later

Re: Email does have to get upgraded

> someone *trustworthy* would have to do it

Who would you propose? Microsoft? The Chinese government? A Nigerian prince (apparently several of them are out of work)?

And if SMTP is bad, webmail is worse. But it looks nicer and has a bigger attack surface, so yeah, let's do that.

> I think my texting-only kids, both in their 20s, would disagree

...because they don't realise that SMS is a botched, inadequate version of email?

UAV maker swipes at sponsor of opaque Qinetiq drone study

Re: those who sell a thing

> ...will do anything to keep selling that thing

I take it you're talking about BALPA?

Skype for Business is not Skype – realising that is half the battle

> Why the hell can't MS leave a good working product alone?

Microsoft's policy is not to offer good products.

Look out Silicon Valley, here comes Brit bruiser Amber Rudd to lay down the (cyber) law

Re: Not Very Bright...

> ... that number might drop rather precipitously.

So the police or security services tell us. They wouldn't be exaggerating, I'm sure.

Steve Bannon wants Facebook, Google 'regulated like utilities'

> ... shouldn't things like this make this supporters wonder about his motives?

His supporter is Trump. And Trump is all in favour of regulation (of those who criticise him) and completely opposed to state intervention (of his cronies).

Linus Torvalds pens vintage 'f*cking' rant at kernel dev's 'utter BS'

Re: Cunts

> it seems that if you're brilliant at something some people think it's ok to act all cunty

It seems that if you're brilliant, some people like to assume you're all cunty.

FTFY