Posts by brucedenney

Get in the C: Raspberry Pi 4 can handle a wider range of USB adapters thanks to revised design's silent arrival

You might prefer to make a pi swarm with docker and run all the applications across multiple pis adding more as more performance is needed.

Bad news: 'Unblockable' web trackers emerge. Good news: Firefox with uBlock Origin can stop it. Chrome, not so much

If we block cookies that are not on the same subdomain rather than under the same parent domain we are good to go.

Thinking about processing a payment, Sage Group? Biz confirms mulling sale of Sage Pay

Re: "making a push to the cloud"

Only of course they re-branded their desktop software sage50 cloud, so it is a hybrid that resides on the desktop and syncs to the cloud for cloud services. Therby giving you the best of both worlds in functionality and total control over loosing your data yourself.

My MacBook Woe: I got up close and personal with city's snatch'n'dash crooks (aka some bastard stole my laptop)

Re: That's horrible.

That is slightly true.

If your laptop looks like garbage no one will try and steal it.

Smash it up. make it look tatty and you are pretty safe.

I wonder if you can get a beaten up laptop cover to go on your shiny new expensive laptop to make it appear to be worthless rubbish?

The secret to security is to make your neighbour a more attractive target, if you have less good stuff on display and better locks, they will go next door, criminals are, almost by definition, lazy people and will always choose the easy pickings.

Secret mic in Nest gear wasn't supposed to be a secret, says Google, we just forgot to tell anyone

Re: i believe it was a mistake..possibly

It is possible, but very unlikely.

In my opinion, they left the mic off the spec sheet because it was not activated and had no function, so any user buying the device would complain that whilst it may have a physical mic it had no functional mic.

This is not an accident, it is a deliberate omission, for a specific and rational reason.

Tens to be disappointed as Windows 10 Mobile death date set: Doomed phone OS won't see 2020

History has proven that

Domination is followed by revolution.

This is the final straw, evil Microsoft. Making private GitHub repos free? You've gone too far

Industrial espionage?

What is to stop someone who owns one of these systems from searching for innovative code, be it private or public and then using it?

How trustworthy are the people behind these sorts of products?

FREE would just make me leave faster.

Your two-minute infosec roundup: Drone arrests, Alexa bot hack, Windows zero-day, and more

Re: Drone arrests

I suspect the extinction rebellion, but the government will not want the to have the publicity so perhaps they will gag the press or put out a fake story, either way, we will probably not know.

23,000 HTTPS certs will be axed in next 24 hours after private keys leak

Tout, flog, peddle.

These emotive words say something about the perspective of the writer.

UK government's war on e-cigs is over

This is just to allow business to profit from people who are addicted to nicotine, smoking in the workplace is banned, allowing people to vape, will just encourage people to vape instead of quit.

Vapers are still drug addicts, they are still profit centres just for a different industry. The is as much evidence for the safety of vaping as there was for the safety of tobacco when it was first introduced.

Concorde without the cacophony: NASA thinks it's cracked quiet supersonic flight

Maybe they don't care if it is noisy out of cities because few people live there, it is about the relative sound of it in a city with lots of background noise that will determine if it is politically tolerable.

UK PM May's response to London terror attack: Time to 'regulate' internet companies

Ban all hateful ideologies

So how is that going to work? you won't be able to publish your manifesto. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot Mrs Mayhem

Will the MOAB (Mother Of all AdBlockers) finally kill advertising?

Adverts are evil

I do not like any adverts, I do not want to hand over my mind to advertisers to brainwash,m however funny or clever their adverts may be, I want to be a free man.