Posts by choleric 380 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Oct 2014
The customer deposits figure under represents the significance of CAF bank relative to others because it exclusively serves charities and charities are required to use their funds not sit on them or else they face investigation by the Charities Commission.
This is sadly the latest in a series of disastrous shambles from CAF Bank.
Quic seems very useful and highly versatile, but it also looks like a complicating factor without a satisfactory solution for admins managing e.g. school or enterprise networks with access restriction requirements. It would be useful to have some consideration of that dilemma on these pages, or have I missed it?
I really don't see what the problem with IPv6 is. Most of the complaints seem to be from people who can't find, or can't be bothered to find, the letters on their keyboard. Or from people who don't understand how hex works. Or from people who can't memorize longer strings for addresses. If you can't do these things, there are workarounds to help you.
IMHO it works great, and is a brilliant re-democratising influence for the internet, as, in particular, address scarcity is overcome, and cgnat is obsoleted.
The IPv6 address space is big. Really big. And maybe that means some people freak out. But if that's you, just grab a towel, and a howto, and ... perhaps DON'T PANIC.
Those who have taken an informed, careful approach to IT developments over the years, who have opted to learn how to maintain the core parts of their own infrastructure (eg. on premises, low cost) rather than opt in to all the "free" cloudy stuff will be penalised here again.
Last year I had to shutter some self-hosted alternative social media instances because OSA made them too risky to continue to administer. OSA skewered me by pushing me closer to big social media because they were promising to offer effective compliance with the new law in a way I could not. Email only survives because there is a specific exemption; the overly broad language of the rest of the law requires that named exceptions have to be made.
This breadth means it is now illegal to develop new forms of digital communication in the UK, ie. we are stuck with the slop they are now trying to fix, rather than being able to step out of the mire with something new.
OSA was going to make everything better but it hasn't, and now they want to do more and move even faster.
Not everyone has jumped into the sewer, Sir Keir. In your haste to scramble out - and I inderstand your new-found horror, it has motivated me to take the approach I have these past decades - please take the care you should to avoid pulling others down into it and giving them the problem you have made for yourself.
"It claimed it could stand up to the likes of Signal and WhatsApp in the security stakes."
So you conflate the two in terms of security. It would be helpful to tease out how you do, and how you don't.
One of the problems with discussions over secure comms is the lack of clarity.
Does anyone know if there is official advice on the use of WhatsApp by MPs etc?
I cannot believe that GCHQ have not issued some sort of advice. How does the use of an app that logs so very much metadata and analyses and sells it fit into a reliable and resilient framework for decision making by people who are in public service for decades?
Is it that Meta et al are thoroughly under the thumb already and so can be trusted not to blab the wrong stuff to the wrong people?
Is it that the information is already getting out there in different forms for those who want to gather it, and so why bother to close the barn door?
Is it that there is a serious dereliction of duty that will be biting a number of people on the bottom sometime soon?
Or is it something else?
I think there's an interesting article here with a tech/security/politics/international intrigue angle.
The stink of it is that this sort of calling out descends into a he-who-smelt-it-dealt-it exchange very quickly, from which no one emerges smelling of roses.
Far better for NASA just to observe the environment and let the adults send the relevant culprits off to the little room as required.
Now, where are the adults....
Me too on DuckDuckGo.
Google lists the site, along with a link to the RT app.
I get HSTS errors if I try to access it via mobile network (Vodafone), but manage to connect fine when I use my home network. I presume that's down to the DIY DNS config at home resolving to the actual RT supplied addresses, while Voda DNS is returning results that RT did not supply.
This is absolutely how to defeat the rise of the machines. Put Skynet in the hands of the British military and BT and/or Airbus and/or Serco. Superbly well played. Human intelligence at its finest.
Chronically underfunded, with an aversion to deploying fast anything, at the mercy of several European governments, and with a predeliction for operational missteps, it will never work.
FairEmail is a superb open source email client for Android. It offers this feature (just tap the pen icon above the quoted email in your reply to edit it inline), and loads more beside.
I don't do email on a tablet (phone and pc only), but I imagine it will work fine there for you too.
Well worth a look.
How does this compare to other products on the market, eg. Hangouts, Meet, Fabecook, Skype, etc? Has El Reg done an exposé?
To paraphrase the Mutt quote that has adorned their website for the last 20-25 years, "all video conferencing sucks, this one just sucks less." Which video conferencing platform sucks less (private data) than all the rest?
The manufacturer of your doorbell, unless it's Ring.
Your WiFi router password, unless it's a Virgin Media suppli... doh.
Some of your online account handles, until those accounts are hacked.
Your mother's maiden name, how quaint.
Your MI5 UID, mind you that's the same thing as a Facebook login these days so that's gone too.
From the image demonstrating the Sans Forgetica font:
> "Why, one wonders, is it not called Sans Memorabilia?"
It's a play on words, more precisely, and more grimly, a Latin word. "Sans" means "without" in Latin. You don't want to call a font that helps people remember stuff "sans memorabilia" because that would imply that you can read it without remembering it, so you call it "sans forgetica" because you want people to read without forgetting it. Get it? Now you just have to remember it. Because of Latin. Argh. Why can't I forget it?!
I would have thought that RocketLab have demonstrated a commendable commitment to reliability by postponing their launch until they can be even more sure of mission success. Their reliability may come at the cost of schedule, but a slip to the right on timetable is far preferable to an unexpected disassembly of flight hardware.
The Ariane 5 launch mentioned later in the story was postponed several times before it's eventual, successful, launch, but, correctly, no comment was made about its reliability.
To clarify the clarification of the clarification: marking the fourth use of this booster for launch and landing (ie. third reuse after the first use). This is the first time any booster has launched four times.
I know I'm asking for trouble with a comment like this (not my first time), so I'll get my coat now, ta.
I think that's a mild term for anyone who comes up with idea of dual coaxial network terminators for a Palm Pilot (second from left on the top row). The things only had a primitive network stack two decades ago, can you imagine what type of deranged nutter you'd have to be to try to install and bring up two interfaces on a Palm Pilot from a millennium ago? It would be enough to drive me to the strong stuff, I'm sure.
Mind you, it brings a new understanding to the term "token ring".
So these guys who oversee and administer a shared namespace because everybody agrees to let them do so decide that they may start to extract hugely increased volumes of cash from the majority of the world's online non-profit organisations, and they think the wider community is going to be on board with that? Surely they realise that this way lies increased anarchy and a directly related reduction in their influence? The DNS is a community resource which only functions because the vast majority of the internet community agrees to use it. If it becomes too difficult or expensive to use then people will go elsewhere.
Also, I thought the whole point of the new TLDs was that the existing namespace was running out and was a bit naff, so new super-cool TLDs were thought up and new pricing structures were created for them. I'm the proud owner of several of these new domains, I think they're great. To turn around now and say that they are going to squeeze the old TLDs in addition to the new ones is a big change in direction. So big that I think it is unacceptable.
Don't you also have to say "Apple" in one syllable?
I hear tcmonkey's comment about abandoning El Reg, but feel that leaving without fighting for something you love, or at least posting a comment, would be foolish! And in all honesty I can cope with a bit of brain-manglement for the sake of the rest of my fave IT red-top news website content.
See title.
PLEASE can these headlines actually scan? It takes me a while to work out how they are meant to work, and then to realise that they don't. I feel like the self-checkout machine with an unexpected item in the bagging area. </angst>
Perhaps this is the whole point and we are meant to throw a General Protection Fault whenever Super Cali does something worthy of public humiliation?
> Hydroxyl molecules, however, need one more hydrogen molecule to turn into water. The next step is to figure out how to get all that hydrogen.
IANAC but two options spring to mind.
1) It would appear that the solar wind is a good source of protons, can that not be exploited?
2) Or, simply take what hydroxyl you do have and evolve molecular oxygen and water from it.
4OH -> 2H2O + O2
Hey presto: water and oxygen! Just add food and we are good to go.
