Posts by Rob V.

Red Hat’s new CEO on surviving inside Big Blue: 'We don’t participate in IBM's culture. It’s that simple'

Re: "Bit of an advertorial"

> And my response is: "You should be keeping your client out of The Reg."

Thank you for a big laugh I needed after a long day. Indeed... "biting the hand...."

Lars Ulrich threatens to make another Metallica album during web chat with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff

Re: Worst Concert Ever

I had an "Alcohollica" patch I bought in the late 80's, wore it with pride. Put it up on Ebay a few years ago for $3 figuring it'd sell quick to an eager fan. Sadly, it took months and they argued about the $0.50 postage to ship it. Damn kids today.... ;)

As Amazon's stock price soars and Bezos adds to his billions, affiliates face massive cuts in their commissions

Amazon tax rate == commision % / Amazon taxes paid -> DIVIDE BY ZERO ERROR

Privacy Pass protocol promises private perusing

Re: Idealism, meet business model

"Our system will allow authors to register their "ownership" of a document anonymously, with a view to third parties to whom the document is distributed being able to prove its integrity. It also allows them to revoke that registration later as having been superceded by a later version of their document. Obviously, we don't want anyone but the legitimate author to be able to issue such updates/revocations."

Can you give any examples of where this is useful? I was thinking "whistleblowers" but anonymity means lack of credibility. "Anonymous sources" cited by reporters, for example, are known to them and that's why they're taken seriously.

Systems to sign documents exist; making it anonymous seems to defeat the ideas behind ownership, credibility, etc. Can you provide some use cases? Thanks!

US government seizes Texas gun mass murder to demand backdoors

Re: Gun Control you say?

“The number of homicide incidents involving a firearm decreased by 57 percent between 1989-90 and 2013-14,” the government crime trends report says. “Firearms were used in 13 percent of homicide incidents (n=32) in 2013-14. In 1989-90 it was 24 percent (n=75) of incidents.”

http://www.factcheck.org/2017/10/gun-control-australia-updated/