Posts by NiceCuppaTea 114 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jan 2018
I still need to buy, i still have on prem hardware, we used to be 100% HPE. Paywalled firmware updates for out of support hardware means they can jump in a lake. Why would I pay for ongoing support for hardware thats only fit for lab experimentation after the 3/5 years of support it came with expires?
I realise firmware / driver updates cost HP money but surely this should be built into the original equipment cost as is the case with most other suppliers? Maybe if they wernt "agile" then firmware would arive with less bugs and security flaws?
"Which is not only stupid because it's obviously nothing most of us (and probably not even you) would want to, ie. if we'd have to pay $5-10 for every single website we use and visit, every month, so we can access them, but also because in order to pay with a credit card or other means you'd have to give up even more personal (and more personally identifying info) than what any adblock detector technology would possibly collect."
Maybe this isnt such a bad thing for society as a whole?? If we spent less time on the internet reading pointless bulshit and lies then the world might be a better place? Half the tripe on the internet wouldnt exist as nobody actually wants it. If what I viewed online had to be paid for then maybe three or four sites would get some money. Stack Overflow, elReg, Code Project maybe one or two others. If I didnt waste so much of my life on other online shit then maybe I would go outside, lose some weight, spend more time with friends and family. The benefit of all of that seems to outwiegh the £30 a month for content I acutally want that will benefit my life. Obviously never going to happen but meh whatever, musings of an old fart that remembers days before the internet.
In the begining the internet was a great idea, the whole free exchange of ideas and knowledge thing, but unfortunately capitalism got hold of it.
In my mind this just means PooTube will just add a consent screen and re-add the script. Maybe get a slap on the wrist with a fine of 2 seconds worth of revenue.
How will this consent be presented in a fashion that a layperson would understand? If they dont understand it does it become void?
This does lead to further thought on consent and dialogues, EULA's etc. Are these things even enforcable? In the UK at least, a child (a person under the age of 18) cannot enter into any legally binding agreement neither can adults who are not of "sound mind".
YouTube allow children as young as 13 to have accounts and channels etc. without proof that its authorised by a parent / guardian beyond clicking a link in an email which isnt verified to be owned by an adult.
No software company I have ever heard of confirms that their "Accept EULA" button was clicked by an adult of "sound mind" does that make every EULA unenforcable? Would an adequate legal defence for breach of an agreement be "I never agreed to it, my kid has admin rights on my pc because im tech illiterate"?
Bad business to leak after the fact.
After all they are in the malware "business" to make money. If you breach someone and they pay the ransom to not leak but you do anyway or come back for more money later then eventually someone like ElReg will report on it and nobody will pay your ransoms any more and you wont make any money.
"*Hopefully* your hosting company will have scripts to apply patches in a timely fashion across their fleet of VMs - but they might be lax, and in any case this is software with a long and illustrious history of zero-days. *Hopefully* they are taking regular immutable backups (and doing test restores), but clearly that wasn't happening in this case."
And lets hope they test those scripts in a development environment first.... Remeber a few years ago the "Dead VM" cleanup script with the wrong variable at 123-reg that deleted all of their customers VPS? I do, I had to rebuild quite a few at other providers!
So as much as its a good thing that they cuaght some bastards, will it make any difference?
Im not saying dont bother trying but at this point in human evolution isnt it just banging your head againast an ever growing brick wall?
Shouldnt we by now be looking at the reason for crime and trying to tackle that instead? Its not like crime is without any sort of effort, yes the rewards to effort ratio are higher, but why do some people turn to illicit means of making a living while most of us slave away at the grindstone for 50 years to end up with a pokey house and some ungrateful grand/kids that never visit?
Dont look to this post for any answers or even suggestions just questions and a statement that the world and they way we all live is broken.
"Do we need to engage some people that manage residential developments and juggle all of the timing that various trades need to start and finish? How much of what materials need to be delivered on site, that sort of thing."
Have you seen the quality of new builds recently? I wouldnt put any of the major house building firms in charge of planning a piss up in a brewery let alone a power station.
Sure it will be on time and budget, but the doors to the reactor wont quite fit unless you put your shoulder into them. The "radition proof" windows looking into the reactor core will have 3 inches of mastic round them and the air bricks will be below the damp course in the cooling towers!
I can almost hear the big wigs at Crapita wringing their hands from here!
If my understanding of how digital currencies work is correct the basic way they all work is through the "owner" of a specific token signing a transfer request of that token to another user using their private key ( or one derived from it )???
What happens to all of these digital currencies when said encryption alogrithm is broken? Please dont tell me oh x y z algo is completely unbreakable because we have all seen "unbreakable" algos come and go in the past.
Im not sure of the specifics but say BTC is based on a ECDSA function to sign the tokens. When (not if) ECDSA gets broken does the whole ecosystem fall apart or is there a built in mechanism to change to a different cryptogrphic standard? Would that not invalidate all existing private keys (users wallets) and effectivly reset everyone to zero? if an encryption algo has been broken then how would you verify the new algo private key has been generated and belongs to the person who had the original now cracked key without a valid / known source signature? Where would the instruction to change algo come from as there is no central command and control?
Its all well and good having these risks present when its individuals and hedge funds cocking around with money but when a central government of an entire country embraces these risks it has a much wider ability to send a country into anarchy.
Or even better, so we dont end up with more particulate matter in our air you know that we breathe and would quite like to not contain stuff that our bodies dont like, you could send them on a course to the sun. Doesnt matter if it take 400 years to get there or whatever, just put it on that course and forget about it.
GDP and various economic outputs are a poor measure of a countries "success" and needs to be dropped asafp.
A better measure would be median income per capita minus median cost of living. Giving a more accurate view of "success" if success is defined as the quality of living for a countries inhabitants.
Yes there is the age old argument of money doesnt bring happiness but not being able to afford a roof and 3 square meals tends to make being happy more difficult.
Dont forget video and audio, UDP is perfect for those. Dropped a frame or 1/4 of a word? resend it so you get a random frame/word out of sequence or "sod it the user wont even notice" Not to mention the added latency and bufferring required for sending ACK's of every packet leading to weird pauses in conversations.
I think they are probably just dropping ACK from TCP with some sort of list of misseed stuff at the end.
TCP is typically Send Packet <-> ACK Packet
UDP is Send Packet -> Send Packet -> Send Packet dont care if you receive them.
had a quick read of the wiki and it seems QUIC processes data in the applicaiotn layer with an applicaiton ID as part of the data packet. With the applicaiton informing the server of anything that didnt make it to the client.
Third point fails miserably unfortunately.
I will agree your analogy is correct but it just doesnt apply.
What actually happened is more akin to someone leaving their door open with a fat ass sign outside saying "OPEN HOUSE, PUBLIC WELCOME".
The owner then subsequently giving everyone a paintbrush and a paint can then wondering why some joker decided to paint the kitchen bright pink with green dots whilst others did no painting at all and the acutal decorators stood to one side.
Nobody is saying that everyone needs to be a computer expert just that before letting people loose with tools that have the potential to cause fuckups they should have adequate knowledge and training associated with the tools they are using. Would you give a circular saw to random person with no carpentry training/experience and tell them to go build a shed?
So the scenario is theres an asteroid thats going to hit the earth and destroy the whole thing only we cant see it because of all the cat GIF distribution satelites......
Who cares? If said asteroid was gonna hit theres nothing we can do to prevent it so why not spend our last few minutes in blissfull ignorance looking at cat gifs?
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