That security stuff...
... is just too much hassle to bother with, isn't it?
Posts by Graham Marsden
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The Internet of Stuff is a gigantic ultra-perv robbery network – study
Turkey PM bans Twitter, YouTube as 'tools of terrorist propaganda'
France accused of tabling 'Patriot Act' style surveillance law
Tuesday 7th April 2015 17:38 GMT
@Vimes - Re: hmm @codejunky
> This is a situation perpetuated by the agencies themselves
Well, yes. How many times in history has a security agency said "Ok, we've done our job, we're going to close the agency and take early retirement now"?
It is in their interest for there to be plots and if there aren't, they're sure going to find some...
Choc Factory's king codec serves 25 BEELLION Tube hours
Dot-com intimidation forces Indiana to undo hated anti-gay law
Light the torches! NSA's BFF Senator Feinstein calls for e-book burning
Google cracks down on browser ad injectors after shocking study
Boris Johnson backs trade union campaign to ungag civil servants
Nuclear waste spill: How a pro-organic push sparked $240m blunder
Wednesday 1st April 2015 16:30 GMT 
Waste of Time on a Wednesday...
What a pointless article as TW again takes a trivial issue (not the nuclear spill, the organic kitty litter) and builds a mountain out of a molehill so he can have a go at lefties and hippies and organic products and anyone else who doesn't fit in with his idea of how the world should be run.
Halifax's '24/7' online banking service is down YET AGAIN
Wednesday 1st April 2015 12:57 GMT
So what's new?
The Nat West (owned by RBOS) online banking and commercial cards sites claim to be available "Anywhere, anytime".
Well, yes, apart from when you get a message saying "there's been an error, try later". What it actually means is they're doing site updates or maintenance, but they don't tell you that.
Encryption is the REAL threat – Head Europlod
Google plans ROBOTS to SLICE YOU OPEN AND CUT YOU UP
Smart meters are a ‘costly mistake’ that'll add BILLIONS to bills
Short circuit at Large Hadron Collider slows return to matter-mauling
To BALDLY GO where few have gone before: NASA 'naut twin to spend YEAR IN SPAACE
Dot-sucks sucks, say lawyers: ICANN urged to kill 'shakedown' now
Europe could be drowned in 'worthless pop culture' thanks to EU copyright plans
Home Office awards Raytheon £150m over e-borders cancellation
Vodafone: So what exactly is 'ludicrous' about the Frontier report?
Silicon Valley powers: Let mass spying die in May 2015 – it's bad for privacy (and business)
Thursday 26th March 2015 21:37 GMT 
As your sub-heading suggests...
... once the "official" powers are under control, it will be time to bring the "unofficial" ones under proper scrutiny and stop them using get-outs like "if you keep using our service we can do what the hell we like with your data and there's nothing you can do to stop us"...
Get off Facebook if you value your privacy, EU commish tells court
'Virtual nose' makes VR less dizzying, say boffins
NASA: We're gonna rip up an ASTEROID and make it ORBIT the MOON
Facebook's phone KILLER: Messenger will replace TALKING, says Zuck
Wednesday 25th March 2015 23:54 GMT 
" I actually don't know anyone who likes calling businesses...
"... It's just not fast or convenient."
For whom, Zuck?
Personally I think that *most* people would prefer to call a business and speak to a human being who can (possibly) at least apply some intelligence, rather than have to deal with a useless "click on one of these pre-defined links which don't do anything to address your problem or are barely relevant to the situation" piece of nonsense which will end up with you running around in circles like a hamster in a wheel.
Ok, often when you do phone you'll get through to a call centre drone who will be clicking on the same pointless links, but at least you have the chance of escalating matters to someone who has more than a couple of braincells to rub together and may actually be able to do something useful.
Blockhead fugitive Snapchats himself into police custody
Ransomware holds schools hostage: 'Now give us Bitcoin worth $129k, er, $124k, wait ...'
Ford: Our latest car gizmo will CHOKE OFF your FUEL if you're speeding
Wednesday 25th March 2015 09:25 GMT 
Another nail in the coffin...
... of intelligent driving.
"But Constable, I couldn't have been speeding because my car has this clever feature!"
"Were you looking at your speedometer, Sir?"
"Well, no, because my car has this clever feature..."
Or, of course, there's this story about Drivers caught by fake 40mph Speed Limit Signs
PS El Reg, you don't have to be a "petrolhead" to understand that it is *inappropriate* speed for the conditions that is the real danger, so this system will still let you do the National Limit on a road that is wet, dark, socked in by fog, full of traffic etc, which is entirely legal, but incredibly stupid.
We need to *educate* drivers better, not take the decision making process away from them.
Treat us like the utilities we believe ourselves to be, say UK operators
Tuesday 24th March 2015 20:28 GMT
@symon - Re: Pay your taxes...
> According to this very rag we're reading
Erm, no, that's according to Tim Worstall who is quite happy for big corporations to game the system and say it's ok because "that's what the law says" and they're "just maximising profits for shareholders".
I agree that the politicos shouldn't have made laws like that, but, ask yourself this: Who encouraged them to do this? Cui bono...?
IS 'hackers' urge US-based jihadis: 'Wipe yourselves out trying to kill 0.00005 of US forces'
Monday 23rd March 2015 18:29 GMT
" there aren't all that many IS/jihadi adherents in the USA...
"...whose commitment to the cause is strong enough" etc etc
Nor in the UK or most anywhere else, I don't doubt. But that's still not going to stop our fearless leaders deciding that the Security Services need even more powers to monitor us and control us and check up on what we're reading and who we're talking to and what we're looking at and...
PS I recently travelled by air and I was not at all, in any way, shape or form, counting the number of simple ways of bypassing the Security Theatre BS that is supposed to "protect" us (or, at least, make us think that our leaders are "doing something" about the problems which their actions have caused...) that I could see without even bothering to put my mind to it...
*cough* seven *cough*
ROBOT INVASION has already STARTED in HIPSTERLAND
First figures in and it doesn't look good for new internet dot-words
So, you know those exciting movie-style 3D visual cyber attack ops centres?
HUGE Aussie asteroid impact sent TREMORS towards the EARTH'S CORE
Storm gathers around CDN Cloudflare after doxxing allegations, Pirate Bay deal
Guardian: 'Oil reserves will soon be worth NOTHING!' (A bit like their stock tips, really)
Monday 23rd March 2015 10:27 GMT
Re: Oh look...
> This isn't an argument about whether we should be doing something about climate change (see my support for a carbon tax). It's an argument about whether these campaigners have understood the economics of the thing they're trying to campaign upon.
Congratulations, Tim, you have pointed out that they have incorrectly re-arranged the deckchairs on the Titanic! I'm sure that makes you feel *so* much better and will keep you warm(!) as the ship sinks...
Sunday 22nd March 2015 16:32 GMT
Re: Oh look...
> Toned down by the subs (probably wisely) on the grounds that it was truly insulting and most rude.
Right, thanks for making it clear that you can't put together a good argument *without* calling people names.
> you really have missed what I've said about climate change around the place, haven't you? [...] That it's not actually a problem that the market unadorned can solve
Well, you're right that "markets place very little value on things beyond the near future", but when someone suggests actually *using* market forces to influence that behaviour, somehow you don't like that because they use an "inappropriate discount rate", not whether it's a good idea or not.
Sunday 22nd March 2015 11:30 GMT 
Oh look...
... another piece of TW "journalism" that relies on cherry-picking bits of a story for one more round of Lefty-Bashing.
We start off with a classic "if you don't know what I (claim to) know, then you're not allowed to have an opinion" and assertions of "ignorance" there and then throw in a bit of name-calling and ad hominem attacks ("dunderheads"? "Crayon eating", Tim? Really, is that the best you can come up with?) and we get a classic piece of Worstall trolling.
Naturally TW ignores where the piece says "The intention is not to bankrupt the companies, nor to promote overnight withdrawal from fossil fuels – that would not be possible or desirable" and "Divestment serves to delegitimise the business models of companies that are using investors’ money to search for yet more coal, oil and gas that can’t safely be burned. It is a small but crucial step in the economic transition away from a global economy run on fossil fuels" because they don't fit in with his agenda of telling us how wonderful the Market is for solving all the world's problems (as if it hadn't got us into them in the first place...)
Millions of voters are missing: It’s another #GovtDigiShambles
More than 260 suspects charged in UK child abuse crackdown
Swedish city demands £40,000 to repair teenage hacking spree
Boffins twist light to carry 2.05 bits in one photon
Ancient SUPERNOVA EXPLOSION contains enough dust for 7,000 EARTHS, say boffins
Silk Road coder turned dealer turned informant gets five years
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