Posts by HighHair

Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in Australia

It's the fault of the carrier

I'm with the Telstra network (via a third party reseller)

A year ago, they sent me regular SMS saying that my phone (Samsung A5) does not support VoLTE and will soon cease to work after 3G was shut down.

As I got closer to the deadline - all my outbound calls were prefixed with a voice message stating the same as above.

Why is it that Telstra were able to detect my phone's incompatibility and advise me well in advance of the 3G shutdown and yet Optus could not ?

The other mobile phone carrier is Optus who are are literally staffed wall to wall with MORONS.

TPG is not a mobile phone carrier and relies on partnerships with other telecommunications companies like Optus and Telstra.

So their customers who are on Telstra were probably notified - but obviously not for flOptus.

As for Samsung, they could have issued a patch for my 2017 A5 to support VoLTE but they didn't because they wanted more sales.

EY exposes 4TB+ SQL database to open internet for who knows how long

Re: Ernst & Young

KPMG = Keep Paying More Generously

...attributed to their eye watering bills for their economics uni students to come and perform audits.

India hails 'first' home-grown chip as a milestone despite very modest specs

25 years too late

180nm is so 1999...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/180_nm_process

Mars says hello as NASA's Europa Clipper warms up radar

You can test radar indoors

Er....you can test radar indoors by attaching a dummy load.

The load absorbs the radar emission.

These have been around since the late 70s that I know of.

Some dummy loads even have reflective patterns.

I've used them for testing radar avionics on light planes.

Microsoft coughs up yet more Windows 11 24H2 headaches

Avoid 24H2 for now

Don't implement 24H2 like I did.

My boot times are at least TWICE as slow as below.

There are now three different round swirling wait graphics before I get to the desktop.

Applications now take about 20% longer to start.

Outback shocker left Aussie techie with a secret not worth sharing

System 12 Exchange

Kudos to those awesome System 12 telephone exchanges.

They were very robust and could cope with multiple component failures.

DARPA's air-steered X-65 jet heads into production with goal of flying by 2025

What could go wrong...

For a start...

* Complete or partial loss of engine power means limited or no steering whatsoever.

* Strong cross winds on landing requires instant and precise control.

* Short landing and and take off requires heavy use of flaps.

Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more

Stop day dreaming - get back to work

Yes...well that's all very good...

...but how about you first concentrate on expanding SSPI to resolve LDAP group authentication from PostgreSQL without some shitty plug-in.

Australia gives made-in-China CCTV cams the boot

Nothing to see here...

There is absolutely NO THREAT here unless they are WIRELESS (WiFi)

No professional camera installer would use Wifi.

They would connect the cameras to a wired network behind a firewall with appropriate routing rules.

The Defence Department twats probably just want new cameras and so make out that the cameras are not "safe".

Australia to 'stand up and punch back' against cyber crims

Optus and Medibank are the criminals

Sadly, this is just another massive waste of taxpayers money.

The real problem here is that Optus and Medibank were sorely negligent in basic computer and data security.

THEY are the REAL criminals here !

They are guilty of violating the Privacy Act by :

1. storing some personal details which they have no business keeping

2. not purging the personal details of ex-customers

If the government wants to set up a "taskforce" then they should turn their attention to Australian businesses which don't protect customer data and prosecute them.

Prevention is such a more productive stance.

Put it this way... if you own a shop and you don't lock and bar the doors to all but authorised staff - then don't be too surprised that stuff gets stolen.

Also don't be too surprised if the police will find you negligent and your insurer doesn't pay up. It's YOUR fault.

California wildfires hit CTRL+Z on 18 years of CO2e removal

All in perspective...

Just remember that CO2 constitutes just 0.04% of Earth's atmosphere (air).

99% of the atmosphere is made of oxygen and nitrogen and are not greenhouse gases.

However there can be up to 4% of water vapour in the atmosphere which does affect greenhouse conditions.

Argon makes up 0.94% of the Earth's atmosphere and is also not a green house gas.

This leaves only 0.06% of gases (including CO2) in Earth's atmosphere which ARE greenhouse gases.

Self-imposed climate change may have killed Martian life

Re: almost twice as far as Earth from the Sun

Correct. ...and Mars having a gravity 38% of Earths is also another reason why it doesn't have much of an atmosphere.

Palantir: Never made a profit, we do something with family-separating ICE, we just lost $580m – please join our IPO

Didn't you know....

....the money has been going to the estate of J. R. R. Tolkien to licence the company name.

Networking wonks say lousy planning, not DDOS, caused #Censusfail

I prefer my own timeline...

It's a simple case of SoftLayer not being able to keep up with user load...

(Timeline comes from www.smh.com.au/national/census-website-attacked-by-hackers-abs-claims-20160809-gqouum.html )

<mark>Mmmm... I’ve got some time on my coffee break…</mark>

<b>Tuesday 10.08am:</b> Australian Bureau of Statistics online monitoring systems detected a significant increase in traffic. It lasted 11 minutes causing a system outage of five minutes. The traffic increase was suspected to be a denial of service and investigations were commenced by ABS and IBM.

<mark>Better start it before I go to lunch…</mark>

<b>11.46am:</b> Another increase in traffic was observed consistent with a second denial of service. A mitigation response plan to block all international traffic was activated at 11.50am, which immediately stopped the event. The ABS kept the block on all international traffic until midnight.

<b>11.55am:</b> The incident was reported to the Australian Signals Directorate to seek advice on prevention of further incidents or any intelligence-related threat to the ABS.

<mark>Let’s get it done BEFORE dinner…</mark>

<b>4.58pm:</b> An increase in traffic was defended by network firewalls. Additional measures were taken to prevent further attempts of this type.

<mark>After dinner…</mark>

<b>6.15pm:</b> A small-scale denial of service was attempted on the ABS website and stopped by the standard denial of service protections.

<b>7.30pm:</b> The online census form monitoring systems detected a significant denial of service. This event took a different form from those before, as there was a large increase in traffic with thousands of Australians logging on to complete their census.

<b>7.45pm:</b> The ABS shut down the online form to protect the system from further incidents.

Waleed Aly's NBN intervention is profoundly unhelpful

Hmmm...

RIMMER to WALEED: You know, sometimes, Waleed, you can be quite perceptive and thought-provoking. And other times, like this, you can rant and drivel on like a complete loonie.