Posts by Claverhouse

US Supreme Court Justice flames lower courts for giving 'sweeping immunity' to Facebook, YouTube, etc when it comes to harmful content

Re: Publishers?

@TechDirt

Very useful.

Personally, I can't see why either speech needs suppressing --- and to forestall: how many time do you read direct incitement to kill ? [ or why it matters if you do ? I would ignore that call, and even if, say, some unfortunate American leader is shot by a latter day Fanny Kaplan, or John Wilkes Booth, the killing is morally on the killer, not the inciter ] --- or why those offering a platform to all are responsible for what the deranged masses say.

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Also, 'Hate Speech' is bunk.

'Communications Decency Act'

Just... cringe...

Open Invention Network adds Microsoft's exFAT to Linux System Definition, Satan spotted throwing snowballs

Re: Does anyone here use exFAT?

Oh dear God, yes.

Re: Does anyone here use exFAT?

You can turn off journalling when formatting:

To quote from my cheat-sheet:

Yes, you can - you can disable it at mkfs time with

mkfs.ext4 -O ^has_journal

or after you run mkfs.ext4, you can disable the journal with

# tune2fs -O ^has_journal

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I would advise checking the syntax first...

Re: Does anyone here use exFAT?

Ditto.

Mind you, with the amazing increase in disk capacity, the alleged default reserved space ought to be dropped to 1% anyway.

Can see why it's there, but I never exceed about 75% used on OS disks *, and storage disks don't need this at all. They should have a choice for neophytes to vary formatting according to intended use.

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Actually once, but that was from trying out BTRFS, since when I have never strayed from the EXT4 true path.

'Facebook simply would not exist today if not for Bletchley Park,' says social network – but don't hold that against it

Re: Facebook simply would not exist today if not for Bletchley Park

Pretty sure the American Jet industry sometimes relies on US Government subsidies.

Re: Facebook simply would not exist today if not for Bletchley Park

Not mention other countries going along the same ineluctable path of computing invention, like Germany's redoubtable Konrad Zuse.

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Came across this British computing firm ( and makers ] the other day, from a very early period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Brothers_(computer_company)

Of course they changed their name [ from 1780 ! ] in order to drop out of history, and sold on a few times...

UK govt advert encouraging re-skilling for cyber jobs implodes spectacularly

Re: Soviet Union reference

I have loathed the Soviet system almost since toddlerhood --- and not for the morose simplistic reasons of economics adhered to by American commentators all over the Internet who view 'Socialism' as a device of the Prince of Darkness --- but I shall admit the USSR did, to some meagre extent, attempt High Culture; unlike the USAR of today or then.

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EG: Symphonies versus Sinatra's Do-Be-Do-Be-Do *; or the crass sentimentality of Hollywood versus the tedium of Soviet Cinema.

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OK, you may well say Sinatra was a communist fellow-traveller [ until he had a chat with Hoover's boys ] but still not real art.

Facebook doesn't know its onions: Seeds ad banned after machine-learning algo found vegetable pic 'overtly sexual'

Perhaps it somewhat resembles a breast if you squint really hard

Obviously the only rational thing to do is to form a Committee to remove every picture of breasts on the Internet.

Yahoo! Groups! to! shut! down! completely! on! December! 15!... Tens! mourn!

Re: Time to die peacefully

Marissa Mayer's appointment: what does it mean for Yahoo? --- Giving the former Google executive the job should reinvigorate a company that had been drifting for years

The Guardian - 2012

Verizon is Shit

.... and I'm not even American.

Mark Zuckerberg, 36, decides that having people on his website deny the deaths of six million Jews is a bad thing

Meh

They'll just go somewhere else.

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I find massive amounts of things offensive, including republicanism, libertarianism, fascism, hunting, nationalism, and Cubism. That's no reason to ban my hates; nor why the expression of --- only the implementation of --- any beliefs, should be denied a voice.

Oddly, the more Liberal the moralist, the more he or she wants to shut down opposing voices by law.

India to build home-grown supercomputers, from the motherboards up

Excellent

Competition is not always beneficial in life, but the sooner India and other states can free themselves from the monopolies of the Leviathan the better and more wholesome it is. In particular before an extensive copyright/trademark regime is so universally applied as to block all other innovation. I only hope the EU can do the same.

Arm has 11 months to hire 490 UK techies. Good thing there isn't a pandemic on. Or, say, Brexit

Void Brexit Woes

Wouldn't it be easier to move to Europe as so many British firms have done ?

Global Privacy Control emerges as latest attempt to let netizens choose whether they want to be tracked online

They Will Never Stop

Ho hum...

Just read Reddit's new Privacy Policy which includes this:

Most modern web browsers give you the option to send a Do Not Track signal to the sites you visit, indicating that you do not wish to be tracked. However, there is no accepted standard for how a site should respond to this signal, and we do not take any action in response to this signal. Instead, in addition to publicly available third-party tools, we offer you the choices described in this policy to manage the collection and use of information about you.

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To which the only reasonable response is like that of an American Blockbuster film, but with more explosions and plenty of guns. Smug shits.

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And the 'choices' are as wearisome and convoluted as most such. God, the scum of the internet really, really hate GDPR...

ICANN begs Europe: Please fill in the blanks on this half-assed GDPR-compliant Whois we came up with

The Gordian Knot

The EU should just do it for ICANN. ICANN wants them to do it, and anything the EU can do will be 10 X better than anything ICANN can do.

Amazon tells ISPs: I can be your Eero, baby. I can ease your Wi-Fi pain. I will block bad sites forever...

Almost...

Any Wi-Fi manufacturer has to contend with the fact that most people are happy to use the router sent by their broadband provider.

A number of ISPs around the world insist on one using their provided router/modem.

Germany abolished ISP locking; so far OFCOM doesn't seem to have followed suit, The EU issued a directive, followed by OFCOM to forbid cellphone locking, but inevitably the bold brexiteers will reverse this tyrannical ruling...

After ten years, the Google vs Oracle API copyright mega-battle finally hit the Supreme Court – and we listened in

Rosenkranz & Goldstein

SRSLY ?

Re: Good analysis

American Law does not recognise any limitation to its jurisdiction outside the US.

Re: Nine Laypeople

There seems to be a widespread view, which I find very odd, that judges live in isolation from the rest of the world and know only about the law.

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"Who is Dan Leno ?" asked the Judge.

Was he sent on a spool's errand or something? Library staffer accused of stealing, reselling $1.3m of printer toner

It Would Take A Heart of Stone...

Whited, it is claimed, would on occasion show up to work early and use his unsupervised time to take the toner out of the office to place in his car.

A model employee !

All at sea: SAP was barely out of the port when it sank its 'social responsibility' voyage

Now, The Register may be wrong, but yacht racing is not a sport known to be easily accessible to inner-city welfare kids or impoverished Guatemalan coffee farmers.

Wrong ! In an episode of Dharma & Greg the divine Miss Elfman explained to her not-at-all well depicted California hippy parents that the Country Club ( American thing ) was holding a function raising money to teach inner-city kids how to yacht...

TalkTalk marches OneTel users into a brave new email world

Actually

There are a large number of non-ISP email accounts, you just have to choose the aspects most important to you, although some have it all

Paid

Free

Secure

Trivial

Adverts

No Averts

Servers in America or China

Servers NOT in America/China

POP

IMAP

On own server/Website

etc etc.

Personally I am more than happy with Tutanota ( as a Teutonophile ) paid or free, but if they stopped there are dozens of others. Had I stuck with every ISP over the last 15 years, I would have about 12 email addresses that needed to be checked to see if they are still allowed ( mail.com drops the address if not used within 6 months ); including such prestigious addresses to impress the ladeizz as Tiscali, Sky, Orange, EE, and Vodafone etc..

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Personally I miss my POP.

Begging for Trouble

Can't imagine why anyone ever used an ISP email account.

Cisco ordered to cough up $2bn – yes, two billion dollars – plus royalties after ripping off biz's cybersecurity patents

The four patents are: US 9,203,806, 9,560,176, 9,686,193, and 9,917,856.

America appears to have a lot of patents.

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He noted that Cisco had “continually gathered information from Centripetal as if it intended to buy the technology from Centripetal,” but then “appropriated the information gained in these meetings to learn about Centripetal’s patented functionality and embedded it into its own products.”

Wasn't there another tech company that had a lot of form doing that stuff ? Begins with an M ?

China takes TikTok-WeChat ding-dong to World Trade Organization, accuses US, India of breaking global rules

A Storm in a China Tea-Cup

Fact is, the American Peeple loathe non-Americans and the only way to win their hearts and minds is to beat up on those un-American scoundrels.

Trump's stealing of TikTok is very minor in any view --- and a lot nicer than Bushobama's mass-murder sprees --- but it may be necessitous to clinch his undoubted Election victory. And China is not a paragon either.

Apple seeks damages from recycling firm that didn't damage its devices: 100,000 iThings 'resold' rather than broken up as expected

The Waste Makers

Rightly Britain and other countries cannot dictate to a foreign company from an alien country; fair enough.

What they should do therefore is ban that company's imports from entering if they don't conform to safety and sustainability goals. After all, we can ban ill-made products from China. And how come Apple's products are so badly made they end up in dumps by the 100,000 ?

All Apple's whining cannot disguise their anti-environmental greed in favour of profit.

And you thought Fuzzilli was a pasta... Google offers up $50k in cloud credits to fuzz the hell out of JavaScript engines

Re: Javascript security flaws ...

I have google-analytics.com in my Steve Black Hosts file just in case.

Russia and China's 'digital authoritarianism' means we need to better arm our cyber troops, warns top UK general

Re: Myself, I blame

Solzhenitsyn by no means admired the West's polity and ethos --- especially cultureless capitalist America --- and warned against it. I wouldn't account his witness as a purposed weapon on either side.

Pasternak was just ambivalent about everything.

US govt wins right to snaffle Edward Snowden's $5m+ book royalties, speech fees – and all future related earnings

To The Bitter End

It is a given that ordinary individual Americans can be astoundingly generous and welcoming; but U.S. government entities --- more so than other governments --- particularly those departments with Cold War mentalities built in, seem to be the most bitter vindictive creatures on earth.

Even to some of their own ordinary [ non-offending ] citizens. The grasping of tax from non-residents seems sufficiently petty; but they also keep the courts busy with petty crap --- a few months back I decided never to critique their extraordinary penal system in the future except for laughs [ and for those those ludicrous multi-decade sentences ] on the grounds that is evidently what the vast majority of Americans want, pure democracy.

Mr. Biden doubled the number of capital offences, because reasons; helped craft the Crime Bill, which ensures the numbers in the Gulag are satisfyingly heavy [ if one owns a prison ] and he is still the Democrats choice despite an exceptionally large number of better candidates, so the People are down with that.

Ring glitch results in global ding dong ditch: Doorbell bling flings out random pings but they're not the real thing

Re: Look on the bright side.

Bur does it give an angry squawk ?

The prolonged buzzing of a stuck chainsaw rather than melodious chimes, Westminster Quarters, or The Ride of the Valkyries ?

In all my life I never understood why at landline phone shops it was never an option to test/select by ringtone. I have heard some vile phones in my life.

Anyway... nice options.

Plane-tracking site Flight Radar 24 DDoSed... just as drones spotted buzzing over Azerbaijan and Armenia

Re: a regional conflict may have been the cause

(did anyone have any debate about banning drones in conflicts?)

No-one wanted to spoil Obama's Terror Tuesdays.

What price your home delivery? Amazon accused of hiding real injury rate in its overworked warehouses

*Sobs Openly*

“...Nothing is more important than the health and well-being of our employees.”

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“Nothing !"

I love my electricity company's app – but the FBI says the nuclear industry bribed politicians $60m to kill it

Re: Old tech

None of this bribery scandal should reflect on the nuclear power industry as a whole.

Well, since they were the ones doing the bribing, some blame must fall...

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FirstEnergy --- I just love meaningless new names, particularly in CamelCase --- gave elected legislators money taken from consumers, specifically to promote Nuclear Power and ditch environmental protections. It's not like they were bribing them to give free power to the homeless or battered wives.

Ohio Register reader Steve Ringley loves his electricity company’s smartphone app: it shows his usage in real time in 15-minute increments along with its cost in a simple and easy-to-understand graphic.

My Smart Meter --- and I can't say I have noted any of the dire consequences forboded for Smart Meters by deep thinkers, but maybe I'm just oblivious --- from Ecotricity [ Power company ] shows usage and cost and all the other things in real time, albeit with a 30 second lag.

I can't imagine why Ohio's should be so slow.

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All that's lacking is discrete use by each appliance, but I find it very helpful.

Who watches the watchers? Samsung does so it can fling ads at owners of its smart TVs

Who watches the watchers ?

Excellent title.

Juvenal would have hated advertisingthings. I guarantee it..

Philippines president threatens Facebook ban after The Social Network™ deleted supportive content

Give Me Hillary And Give Me Death

I would have expected the vengeful Trump to come down on Duterte like an avalanche, since Duterte very vocally supported Hillary in 2016 and said Trump would be bad; but as with so many reversals Trump has been captured by the very things he was against, and has to conform to the usages of the State regime.

And the Americans rarely worry about poverty or corruption outside the U.S.: they barely worry about poverty or corruption inside the U.S..

DuckDuckGo cries fowl after being expunged from Google's Android search preferences menu for most of Europe

Re: This is tiring.....

They should do what the US do and Summon the CEOs and Spokespeople before Congress which they then treat with all the respect Congress deserves.

Flying camera drones, cuddly Echo gadgets... it's all a smoke screen for Amazon to lead you gently down the Sidewalk – and you'll probably like it

Re: It helps to have the world's wussiest burglar break into your house...

The cops will be there in a matter of hours !

'Robbery, economic plunder, victim of larcenous cronyism and a heist'

Re: Beyond shame

I used to feel ashamed about how we mistreated the Chinese in the late 19th century during the Boxer Wars.

I have some sympathy with the Boxers' xenophobic racism, and there were legitimate grievances, like foreign building being erected [ less so with the fact that foreign structures and paths went over ancestral graves, because the whole of China then was ancestral graves ]; but neither the Boxers nor their sponsors in the Chinese government were in the right.

Spain's highway agency is monitoring speeding hotspots using bulk phone location data

For the paranoid..

Of course, people with just a wretched old landline can't be so tracked.

Not that I would recommend that.

Braking point: Tesla has had quite enough of Trump's 'unlawful' tariffs on Chinese-made parts, sues Uncle Sam

The Falling Out of Faithful Friends...

And yet Musk was actually a volunteer scientific advisor to the Trump administration...

Money beats loyalty in capitalism.

Microsoft will release a web browser for Linux next month. Repeat, Microsoft will release a browser for Linux – and it uses Google's technology

Re: I’m still waiting for Ubuntu hibernate

I hibernate Mint every other night.

Derivative of Ubuntu, after all.

Pale Moon dropped things like fine-grained cookie control as well.

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Perhaps, for all I know.

I just use its add-on Cookie Exterminator, the Angel of Death, which by default destroys all cookies on site exit, allows whitelisting trusted sites --- also has a Greylist and a Redlist which I haven't bothered to explore.

And very best of all, whilst looking at a site enables Remove individual cookies, which means whilst looking at those rummy American magazine sites etc., with 'You are reading the first of 3 articles' --- one just hits that and destroys the cookies before leaving; and instanter one can continue reading more and more articles.

it's spell checking against South African English rather than the UK English it is actually set to in preferences

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Can't speak for modern neoChrome Firefox, but on Pale Moon one can install, or reinstall * language packs

https://addons.palemoon.org/language-packs/

Firefox Modern no doubt has the same thing.

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Reinstall, because I had to add this excellent add-on to get it stuck

https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/locale-switcher/

Re: Choosing between the devil and his brother

Same here. Mint [ for now --- until I replace with a KDE distro ] + Pale Moon [ carefully adapted to look like 2012 ].

Pale Moon's little brother Basilisk isn't half bad either.

Ancient telly borked broadband for entire Welsh village

Re: More to the point

How ghastly some people are...

Congrats on putting up with her.

We're not getting back with Galileo, UK govt tells The Reg, as question marks sprout above its BS*

A Satellite System Just For 70 Million People Would Be Overkill...

Actually, just thought, it may have been covered earlier in the government's extensive planning; but the Europeans will use Galileo, The American Client-States the current American device...

Which foreign states have presently signed up in advance to use our BS system ? No doubt at a handsome cost which will cover our Brexit losses.

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The spokesperson also told us that: "The government has set a clear ambition for a sovereign space programme which will bring long-term strategic and commercial benefits for the UK.

*sighs*

Re: Launching

France.