I love my Eufy doorbell. Do I care if Chinese military intelligence can see who rings my doorbell or walks past my front door? No, not in the slightest.
Posts by Happy_Jack
35 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Mar 2014
Eufy security cams 'ignore cloud opt-out, store unique IDs' of anyone who walks by
Ericsson pulls plug on 8,500 workers
A moment of silence for all the drives that died in the making of this Backblaze report
Larry Ellison mea culpa as traffic cop stops Big Red boss on own island
Google datacenters use 'a quarter of all water' in one US city
UK arrests five for selling 'dodgy' point of sale software
Boeing swipes at Starlink as it finishes two internet slinging satellites
Tetchy trainee turned the lights down low to teach turgid lecturer a lesson
Hey Reg readers, Happy Spreadsheet day! Because there ain't no party like an Excel party
How does Monzo keep 1,600 microservices spinning? Go, clean code, and a strong team
Microsoft Teams: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Yes, TfL asked people to write down their Oyster passwords – but don't worry, they didn't inhale
Re: Phone-based tickets
Dashlane can enter your card details into most browsers and other apps for you, then you just need to enter your fingerprint. I don't know if other password managers can do the same? Obviously you need to trust your password manager app, but it's probably safer than waving your card round in public.
Why telcos 'handed over' people's GPS coords to a bounty hunter: He just had to ask nicely
Brit couch potatoes increasingly switching off telly boxes in favour of YouTube and Netflix
Privacy? Watchdogs? Fines? Whatever, nerds, more people than ever are using Facebook and filling its deep coffers
IT sales star wins $660k lawsuit against Oracle in Qatar – but can't collect because the Oracle he sued suddenly vanished
Google pholds! Just kidding. But Android Q Beta 2 drop supports those cool bendy mobes
China still doesn't want iPhones despite Apple slashing prices, say market watchers
Hipster whines at tech mag for using his pic to imply hipsters look the same, discovers pic was of an entirely different hipster
Nobody in China wants Apple's eye-wateringly priced iPhones, sighs CEO Tim Cook
Bloodhound SSC reaches the end of the road for want of £25m
UK taxman told to chill out 'cos loan charge is whacking tax dodgers and whoopsies alike
Avoidance?
Where both parties conspire to disguise payments as loans, with a secret agreement that they aren't really loans and will never be repaid, then surely that's just tax evasion?
Avoidance is not doing the thing that would create the tax liability in the first place. People earning less than the basic income tax threshold are avoiding income tax. People who earn far more but pretend they don't are evading tax.
Washington Post offers invalid cookie consent under EU rules – ICO
Leeds hospital launches campaign to 'axe the fax'
Miss America 'scholarship program' adds Microsoft Azure developer to lineup
MPs reiterate risks of mega £10bn Aspire contract overhaul
UK not as keen on mobile wallets as mainland Europe and US
Busted Windows 8, 10 update blamed for breaking Brits' DHCP
One solution...
My Windows 10 laptop was unable to get a DHCP address yesterday after powering on, either from my Virgin Media Hub 3 or from the hotspot on my Galaxy S5, so I knew the problem was with Windows. A quick google search (after setting a static IP) turned up the following page: http://www.sysprobs.com/fixed-windows-10-limited-connectivity-not-getting-ip-from-dhcp. The following commands and a reboot got my DHCP working again:
netsh int tcp set heuristics disabled
netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
netsh int tcp set global rss=enabled
UK IT consultant subject to insane sex ban order mounts legal challenge
Re: "He was found not guilty, therefore he is innocent"
"A judge looked at details of the case, and based on what he saw, elected to grant the order against this guy, and he did that for a reason."
The story suggests that it was a magistrate that imposed this order and not a judge. There is a big difference. Also it is not stated that the person imposing the order was actually a "he".
Rooting your Android phone? Google’s rumbled you again
LogMeIn adds emergency break-in feature to LastPass
Re: why trust a third party?
What's wrong with using a Libre Office spreadsheet protected (AES encrypted) using a sentence (upper case lower case and symbols) that one memorises?
1) It's potentially vulnerable to key logging.
2) It's inconvenient.
I do use locally encrypted files for more sensitive stuff, but it doesn't come close to the convenience of LastPass for logging onto less sensitive websites (like this one). For example you can search your LastPass vault by keyword to find a website if you can't remember the URL and it will go straight to it and log you in; your spreadsheet can't do that. Really important passwords, like online banking, I won't write down anywhere.
'Boutique' ISPs: Snub the Big 4 AND get great service
Contract length?
I was curious to see that length of contract hasn't been mentioned. There are three reasons that I have been a Zen broadband customer for several years, in order of importance (to me):
1) It's a rolling one-month contract - I can walk away any time I want. Does any other ISP offer this?
2) I get a block of static IP addresses at no extra cost.
3) They are very quick to prod BT into action when there's a line fault.
The downsides are it's expensive, not particularly fast and there is a usage cap.