Posts by julian.smith

PC repair chap lets tech support scammer log on to his PC. His Linux PC

I WANT to send them to Lenny but can't:

- Lenny seems to be USA only

- I can't get any of the SIP addresses to work

If you have any ideas please post them.

US spymasters trash Kaspersky: AV tools can't be trusted, we've stuck a probe in them

Re: Better them than US (see what i did there)

That is my take also - there is little of interest about me to the Russians or Chinese.

Western spooks (including the 13 Eyes) are somewhat more likely

Thus,

- Kaspersky

- VPN via Hong Kong

- domain host far from Stasiland

can reduce the most likely threats

Your mileage ......

Foxtel emits new sueballs, this time targeting TV streamers

Re: Thanks Foxtel

Using a VPN enables me to shaft both Slimeball Murdoch AND Telstra

Bliss!

You only need 60 bytes to hose Linux's rpcbind

Re: Anyone actually use that ...

Thank you for the useful command to check if it's running

All good on:

Release Linux Mint 18.1 Serena 64-bit

Kernel Linux 4.4.0-53-generic x86_64

MATE 1.16.1

European Court of Justice lays down the law on Kodipocalypse

Re: Do you know what would deter pirates?

Delightfully, they can't adapt so they will die.

A very Canadian approach: How net neutrality rules reflect a country's true nature

Re: there aren't any derogatory terms used by Canadians to describe their continental cousins

In Australia, Americans (Yanks) are known as Septic Tanks

Why Firefox? Because not everybody is a web designer, silly

Re: I recently ditched Firefox.

I keep a nailed down W8.1 machine solely to run WASAPI audio

[using AMD's Audio driver gives me bit-perfect sound]

MusicBee for audio

Kodi for movies, etc

Now I have to use it for YouTube as well because Firefox broke ALSA in Linux Mint - how stupid can you get?

US military makes first drop of Mother-of-All-Bombs on Daesh-bags

American military success

The Americans have been in Afghanistan for more than 18 years.

It's their longest war - even poodles like the Australians left long ago.

They have accomplished nothing

Microsoft raises pistol, pulls the trigger on Windows 7, 8 updates for new Intel, AMD chips

Microsoft is still a thing? Who knew

I jumped to Linux Mint 18 months ago

Never looked back.

TPG to create Australia-wide mobile network

TPG mobile

If their mobile network is anything like their NBN fixed wireless network it will be an under-provisioned pile of crap.

Put down your coffee and admire the sheer amount of data Windows 10 Creators Update will slurp from your PC

Re: Solution

Please advise your earnings to date

- from gameplay

- from wanking

Re: Solution

Enjoy life in your niche - the vast majority of users can happily run Linux Mint

Re: "The problem isn't lack of software alternatives, the problem is lack of will to change"

Your "small personal example" is totally unrepresentative of most computer users software requirements.

Our family's are almost totally met by Linux Mint

I keep a single WIN8.1 computer [nailed down, no updates] for audio visual as Windows supports "bit perfect" audio [WASAPI] a lot more easily than Linux

What should password managers not do? Leak your passwords? What a great idea, LastPass

Keepass

Europe will fine Twitter, Facebook, Google etc unless they rip up T&Cs

It's not that hard

VPN (AirVPN) solves most of the problems

Google News thinks I'm in Switzerland (hint: I'm not)

SmartPage (with Cookie destruction) solves most of the remaining "search bubble" issues

Kaspersky launches a range of perfumes to, er, defend your odour

Re: Smart move on Kaspersky's part

Perhaps you need to actually read the Wikileaks dump or credible reports.

I found references to two exploits:

- one fixed "long ago"

- the other fixed in 2015

Over

That CIA exploit list in full: The good, the bad, and the very ugly

Re: Who...

Citation required .... put up or shut up!

Re: Who...

Exactly what I did when I bought mine

(I read about Samsung's spying behaviour a couple of years ago)

Ad men hope blocking has stalled as sites guilt users into switching off

Re: The ads are bad...

You nailed it

"Despite sites being infested with trackers and billions wasted on analytics, ads never seem to show me anything I want to buy."

I buy lots of stuff on the Internet - but never see ads for anything I want to buy - perhaps my VPN / uBlock has something to answer for.

This means I seek out things I want to buy ("pull") rather than advertisers attempting to "push" stuff I have no interest in.

Tails Linux farewells 32-bit processors with imminent version 3.0

Re: Sad to lose old hardware

It's probably fully depreciated by now!

Deal with it and move on.

CIA boss: Make America (a) great (big database of surveillance on citizens, foreigners) again!

Re: The Phoenix Syndrome

Cognitive Dissonance = an American singing "Land of the Brave, Home of the Free"

Not Brave, not Free

Re: The Phoenix Syndrome

The failed American political system is an American problem - the same as the bloated loser "military - own your problems you weasel

Uber coughs up $20m after 'lying about how much its drivers make'

Uber lied

They've got form

They make it up as they go along

ProtonMail launches Tor hidden service to dodge totalitarian censorship

Re: CERN

Nobody said they were affiliated with CERN.

Which part of:

"First launched in 2014 by scientists who met at CERN"

don't you understand?

The dishonest one is YOU

Similarly, your anonymity advice is worthless.

JERK

Japan's terrifying techno-toilets will be made foreigner friendly, vow makers

Opening the lid and other features

Higher specification washlets (the correct word) have had auto sensors which open the lid as you approach and close it afterwards for at least 5 years.

BTW commentards who have no personal experience of a washlet should refrain from sharing their ignorance.

Once experienced, the process of washing up with:

- temperature and pressure (adjustable of course) controlled water

- directed at just the right spot (adjustable of course)

- drying up with temperature and pressure controlled (adjustable of course)

air

is somehow superior to smearing the remainder of your shit around your anus and walking out

Relatively advanced home washlets have personal buttons for each user which can store the variables

Japan .... it's another world

Encrypted comms collective Riseup.net rattles tin

Re: Flawed model

I agree that their model is flawed and doesn't handle the freeloader problem but their hearts are in the right place.

You might like to consider protonmail (with a donation)

Publishing military officers' names 'creates Islamic State hitlist'

The Murdoch Times

It's still a thing?

- who knew

Microsoft's maps lost Melbourne because it used bad Wikipedia data

Where's Melbourne?

I'm comfortable with Melbourne near Japan (the sushi will be better but the coffee will be worse)

How do we transport

- Northbridge (WA)

- Ceduna (SA)

- Queensland

- Tasmania

+++

to more suitable locations such as Siberia or the middle of the Sahara

Thinking Big - how can we relocate the USA to the middle of a black hole?

Thailand waters down alien-tracking plan

Re: Registration in most countries already

I recently travelled in 3 countries in Europe.

Neither Belgium nor the Netherlands require any ID to get or recharge a Lycamobile SIM

I went to a "GSM shop" in France and left with an activated Lycamobile SIM - the shop assistant wasn't interested in my ID. Recharge vouchers do not require any ID

Oz regulator eyes broadband marketing

Australia ..... you're lucky you even have Internet!

Crap service .... high prices

Welcome to the third world of Turnbull's botched NBN

Facebook ‘glitch’ that deleted the Philando Castile shooting vid: It was the police – sources

The Good News

It's only Americans killing Americans

Think of all of it as Species Improvement

Better they keep their self made problems to themselves rather than inflicting it on the rest of the world via their failed interventions in other countries

How's that Great Society working out Yankee Imperialists?

Australia's ABC suspends presenter over 'Wi-Fi is dangerous' claims

Career move

The discredited "Dr" Maryanne Demasi is a natural fit for "News" Corp

... it should increase the credibility of both the ABC and "News"

If she's prepared to wear a mini skirt she could even make it to the Big Time on Faux

Labor's broadband policy decides 39% fibre is healthy NBN diet

You of the Never Never

I've got fixed wireless (via Internode) and I love it

Turnbull's absolute failure to deliver Abbott the Deranged's rubbish FTTN NBN shows what mugs many Australians are

You of the Never Never

LMAO

Now Google backs everyone's favorite trade pact: The TPP

Re: TPP is BAD and there's only one solution

There's another solution

Don't vote for the Charlatan (only in America would such an obvious fake be considered for dog catcher)

... and oppose the TPP

FIFY

NBN raid fallout continues, with Conroy formalising privilege claim

I thought being a tool was .... being just like you

What is Malcolm trying to hide?

The Streisand Effect is strong on this one .....

Looks like Tony the Deranged lies and Malcolm the Incompetent's performance on behalf of their sleazy paymaster will be revealed to an electorate ready for someone to build the "real" NBN

Malaysians using South African cards pinch US$12.7m in Japan

Re: Disaster Waiting to happen

Japan Post ATMs are indoors but usually in a separate area

Many branches have out of hours access to these areas - the times are displayed at the entrance. The time varies depending on the size of the branch but can include weekends, rural branches are a bust, the main Post Office in a Prefectural capital will have 24/7/365 access

The Japanese consumer banking system is an overpriced, overstaffed relic - there are a couple of notable exceptions including Shinsei Bank.

I presume the banking system in Botswana is more advanced, with lower costs.

Snowden: NBN leaker raids a 'misuse' of Australian Federal Police

@ JackShit fromGundagai

You aren't so flash, Jack

More like a creature from the same pit of filth as Murdoch, Dutton, Dolt .....

No chance of you risking anything to blow the whistle on your masters

"in my books" ... you haven't written any books ... and would be pushing it to even read a book

Edward Snowden is in Russia because the American regime cancelled his passport whilst he was in transit in Moscow Airport ... and you know it chicken hawk.

Guilty! Trump delivers orange justice to Amazon

America deserves Trump

The civilised world enjoys laughing at America's stupidity

Stew in your own juice you ignorant jerks

Australian Greens don't believe Silicon Valley can save the world

"But do believe in homeopathy, crystal therapy, organic farming based around moon phases and various other loads of pseudo science."

Citation required or you are a lying dickhead

The Greens are on record as supporting evidence based public policy

The 'new' Microsoft? I still wouldn't touch them with a barge pole

Re: Unfortunately getting away from M$ is like quitting heroin....

It's not that hard

I quit Windows a year ago for Linux Mint ... a few teething problems but long since over.

The wife has been on Linux Mint for 6 months ... barely noticed the change.

So Windows is still a thing? Who knew!

It sure isn't my problem.

If you're appy and you know it, say five Hail Marys – cyber-Pope

Another scammer desperately seeking relevance

Same pig, different lipstick

"The Internet is a gift from God"

[I have to pay my ISP]

BTW does his God have a website?

LMAO

Tech support becomes Australia's number one scam

Re: Known scams but still suckers get sucked in.

I've got caller ID software - if it's an anonymous call they've got about 5 seconds to convince me that it's legit

The pause whilst the call management software puts the scammer online is a dead giveaway as is an Indian accent

Callers, who know my surname - probably from reverse lookup software, usually claim to be from

- Microsoft (how did MS get my telephone number?)

- Telstra

As a Linux user who has no business with the blood sucking Telstra monster their scam falls at the first hurdle with derisive laughter ringing in their ears.

Canny Canadian PM schools snarky hack on quantum computing

Free Dumb

No wonder America is the laughing stock of the world

How's that "Land of the Free" meme working out for you 99 percenters?

Still struggling with:

- choosing between Trump (le cochon) / Cruz (only in America / Clinton (Wall Street's candidate)

- abortion / women's reproductive rights

- racism

- 30,000 gun deaths yearly

- police with a licence to kill

- 1984 level surveillance

++++

LMAO

Australia's broadband policy is a flimsy, cynical House of Cards

The Strangler?

Malcolm the Ineffectual replaced Tony the Deranged

I use the Internet and I vote!

Trump carded again: Hotel security aced

Re: Alternate headline

Countdown to:

Trump = Loser

(If you disagree you can get rich by betting on The Donald - best current odds 13/2, last week around 3/1 .... fading fast)

Oz uni in right royal 'indigenous' lingo rumpus

Re: To the victors, the spoils.

The "Stolen Generation" were mostly used as slaves.

Imprisoned, no wages ++++

You might find some research on the Qld Native Police helpful in broadening you mind on the attempted genocide.

South Australia has a shameful history of murdering Indigenous males .... smells like genocide to me.

Mud sticks: Microsoft, Windows 10 and reputational damage

Re: @ AC: "It works scarily well..." @ paply

"As far as the privacy argument goes, I don't think Microsoft has a cat in hells chance of getting anything tangible out of the data it pulls back other than usage statistics."

So that's why they moved from charging about $100 per copy for W8.1 to giving W10 spyware away ... the "products" (formerly known as customers) are worth more than the previous revenue from selling the Operating System - although in your case they probably got a bad deal!

LMAO

Re: Don't blame users for the UI

Same here.

Moved to Linux Mint last year ... love it.

Now 3 of our computers run Linux Mint .... the wife barely noticed the change

Still keep one W8.1 for Kodi / MusicBee as they support WASAPI for HD sound

W8.1 has all updates neutered and all spyware updates excised

W10 spyware? NEVER

Met police commissioner: Fraud victims should not be refunded by banks

Re: Do you really think online criminals are looking at your card?

Hi,

Never had a fraud via Amazon (mostly US but occasionally UK) and I've been a customer for more than 10 years.

I always use VPNs, from a large variety of exit locations

Amazon seems to have excellent fraud prevention

Comms 'redlining' in Brussels as explosions kill up to 30 people

Re: @AC

Trump was prophetic ....

BS, Trump is pathetic .... Americans deserve him

LMAO