Re: Poor coverage is sometimes a blessing
Go outside?
I tried that the other day. The construct was shaky, character development weak, but the graphics were awesome. I may have to this more often...
Posts by Cipher
463 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Dec 2012
This Christmas, demand the right to a silent night
US Ass. Commerce Sec hits back at claims global DNS is DOOMED
Yes, Obama has got some things wrong on the internet. But so has the GOP
Monday 8th December 2014 17:38 GMT
F**k all this political posturing, what we the people really want is:
High speed internet delivered as advertised. Within 5% of speed quoted.
An end to shaping or throttling. Sell 30 Mbps, deliver it. Period.
Broadband competition.
An end to any restrictions ISPs place of what brand of equipment is used on our end of the pipe.
Wheels fall off bid to sue Apple over iTunes anti-piracy shenanigans
BOFH: Santa, bloody Santa
Guy Kawasaki's guide to social media, Hanif Kureishi's cash crash catharsis and more
Microsoft remote code exec killjoys to dump seven fixes next week
Snowden files show NSA's AURORAGOLD pwned 70% of world's mobe networks
Friday 5th December 2014 11:10 GMT 
And yet...
...with all the capabilties of the various spooks in the West, the world is not a safer place.
With advance warning the Boston Bombers slip right past, ISIS beheads with impunity, and many corporate and government networks are compromised almost daily. And Benghazi happens, again with some fore warnings...
The 800 pound gorilla in the room is that big league evil, like big league crime before it, assumes that all tech is compromised and use old school manual methods.
On top of that, resources are wasted in the US by bugging AP reporters, and using the IRS to go after political enemies. Many of the *sucesses* touted are sting operations that would never have happened without prodding, by the FBI in many cases...
We need human beings in the field to combat these serious threats, not massive data slurping that has so far been of a questionable nature with minimal success.
FCC puts AT&T and Comcast gobbles back on the table
Thursday 4th December 2014 10:16 GMT
Do not compete?
That is exactly the problem, the US needs broadband competition desperately.
I have TWC, the countries second worst rated ISP. A merger with the nation's #1 worst ISP? Yeah, things will get better...
Rather than a merger, these two should fight for customers, let's see how that works out...
Double hammer blow to ICANN and pals' internet power grab bid
Ten Linux freeware apps to feed your penguin
Wednesday 3rd December 2014 15:50 GMT
Re: Calibre, V41, HandBrake, VLC
Calibre is a decent ebook management program, it is less than wonderful for any conversions beyond mobi > epub. Converting PDF is problematic with all the converters I've tried, I just add bookmarks, paginate and clean 'em up. Sigil is very nice for fixing horribly formatted epubs, even the "retail" ones...
Wikipedia won't stop BEGGING for cash - despite sitting on $60m
Tuesday 2nd December 2014 17:46 GMT
Re: Bad press & hostility
"Who stands to gain if Wikipedia slips off into the night?"
People looking for solid, reliable information not amateur written and agenda edited only to get to the real citations at the end of an article?
One could garner "facts" from a WP article just before the editors cleaned up some nonsense and put that BS into a paper. The citations can be dangerous as well.
With all the sources of information available on the web, I wonder why anyone uses WP.
Tuesday 2nd December 2014 12:24 GMT
Wikipedia is unreliable, most academics and professional organizations ban it use in papers. Then there is this:
Docker, Part 2: Whoa! Spontaneous industry standard! How did they do THAT?
Social media data is riddled with 'human behaviour errors'
Monday 1st December 2014 10:14 GMT
Re: No shit, Sherlock...
@veti:
You covered most of the talking points - "junk journalists" "democratization" "republishing" "no 'trusted authority'"...
This sounds amazingly similar to the spin that those of a certain political persuasion use when they ask for more internet control over opinion pieces. They suggest that only credentialed journalists be afforded protection of law, a call for any op ed piece to be published only if a "proper" journalist writes the piece.
Reminds me of the type of control CBS used to quiet a reporter recently when her stories ran afoul of the agenda of CBS management. Of Hilary Clinton's remarks years ago about the the need to "rethink this internet thing" and provide a proper "gateway" for information on the net. (she was very upset at the way her huband was being treated by one aggregator, the rest of the press was killing the blue dress story at the time)
Citizen journalists, whistle blowers and even morons have the right to opinions, and the right to publish. Democracy and liberty are messy things sometimes, but they beat the shit out of totalitarian control...
'America radicalised me!' cries Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom
Under the Iron Sea: YES, tech and science could SAVE the planet
Will security concerns scupper your BYOD policy?
Saturday 29th November 2014 09:47 GMT
Fail of epic proportions...
BYOD is a disaster waiting to happen, a question of when not if. Every security practice you have is negated at a fell swoop. Windows machines with UAC set to admin facing the internet all over your network, managed by end users with no clue.
What's to stop a ramsomware package from detecting network shares and then sitting dormant until the share is accessed?
Lord Lucan, Murakami's Strange Library ... and a hitchhiker's guide to the Computing Universe
Saturday 29th November 2014 10:06 GMT
If the grand revelations are...
... the moth and Monty Python, then this book is for the masses, not the IT wizard. Any Usenet denizen knows that originally spam was a definition of repetitive Usenet postings, unrelated to email, and had its own formula for determination.
I am surprised that a writer for el reg never heard of the skit and what it means...
How to get ahead in IT: Swap the geek speak for the spreadsheet
High Court: You've made our SH*T list – corked pirate torrent sites double in a day
Why did it take antivirus giants YEARS to drill into super-scary Regin? Symantec responds...
Candy Crush King king resigns for 'personal reasons'
As-a-service upstarts will KILL OFF THE CORPORATES?
NSA SOURCE CODE LEAK: Information slurp tools to appear online
Shaking that AAS: It's time for vendors to stop selling storage
The next big thing in medical science: POO TRANSPLANTS
'Snoopers' Charter IS DEAD', Lib Dems claim as party waves through IP address-matching
Sunday 23rd November 2014 12:13 GMT
Sady this woman has no clue as to how easy it is for a bad person with merely average skills to overcome her "solution."
A case could be made that with the inevitable tuts on neutering her grand plan expanding all over the interwebz that she is actually assisting bad actors.
Terrorists and organized crime already know how to evade detection, soon cyberbullies will as well...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
