* Posts by David Moore

28 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Nov 2007

DJI bug bounty NDA is 'not signable', say irate infosec researchers

David Moore

Re: Dont sign, publish...

That's precisely what he did... ;-)

Microsoft planning blockchain-as-a-service for Azure apps

David Moore

Re: Just wondering

re falsification....

To falsify a single record you'd have to regenerate every record before the one you were trying to change, then convince every node that your version of the chain is the valid one. ie you're talking vast computing power, as well as controlling >51% of the network hashrate.

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/18841/is-there-a-real-threat-of-so-called-50-attack is worth a look.

Dell offers sweet, sweet, free honeypot tool to trap hungry hackers

David Moore

Re: If this works as advertised, it will be incredibly useful.

"Cue howling from the 1% that "Never let the Beast of Redmond loose on their iron." News flash: You're an almost insignificant minority. Active Directory is pretty much ubiquitous."

Hahahahahahahahahahaaa. Yep. Sure. ;-)

You MS boys never seem to realise what your tools are based on.... you do know Active Directories history, right?

Go type LDAP into Google (or Bing if that's where you feel most comfortable).... ;-)

BT broadband is down: Former state monopoly goes TITSUP UK-wide

David Moore
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Yep, been down here (Birmingham) for about an hour now. Fire icon for obvious reasons. ;-)

VPN users menaced by port forwarding blunder

David Moore

Re: sshuttle for the win!

"Why install something else?" is explained quite well here - see the 'theory of operation' section. https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle

The general gist is that forwarding TCP packets over a TCP session isn't a good idea. Packet loss is needed in order to help define the speed of the connection... in that sort of setup the forwarded session will never experience packet loss - the external 'wrapper' connection will deal with any making the forwarded connection appear perfect. *this is bad* ;-)

sshuttle does some clever mutliplexing over ssh then disassembles it on the other end, meaning you never do TCP-over-TCP... which is good.

Warning flags were raised over GDS farm payments system – yet it still failed

David Moore

Re: Hmmm

GDS is (mostly) a Ruby dev club. :-)

Barbican Digital Revolution exhibition: Techies, arty types get intimate

David Moore
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Oh dear...

I was at a loose end for a few hours in London yesterday and decided to wander around the Tate Modern (after toying with the idea of going to the Barbican).

Gutted.

Next time Gadget!

Code Spaces goes titsup FOREVER after attacker NUKES its Amazon-hosted data

David Moore
Mushroom

Bloody hell.

Any storm in a port

David Moore
Facepalm

HDMI port...

I'm forever trying to plug USB cables into my laptops HDMI port. Bastard thing.

The hoarder's dilemma, or 'Why can't I throw anything away?'

David Moore
Stop

Me too.

Right there with you.

Pretty much every drawer in my flat has old tech related 'stuff' in it.The attic has boxes full of old cables, there's 200m of cat 5 on drums up there, as well as 5 old PC's that are neatly stacked in a corner (one of which is a P166) plus all the original boxes for said gear.

To make matters worse my mates garage is currently full of the audio gear I collected over 10 years working as a live sound engineer. Anybody need any XLR cables? A 35m multicore perhaps? Maybe a rack full of ancient dbx compressor/limiters?

I keep meaning to ebay stuff but I wouldn't know where to start.

Hipsters hacking on PostgreSQL

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I might be a hipster too?!!

We've been using postgres with RoR (after abandoning MySQL and sqlite for local development) for about 18 months now. It's ace, bulletproof and fast. It does everything we need, on the rare occasions it's not appropriate we tend to use MongoDB.

Well done Mr Stonebaker and cheers for the article el Reg, it's nice to read a bit of history about the tools we're using.

UK websites: No one bothers with cookie law, why should we?

David Moore
WTF?

Argggghhh

I came back to developing about 6 months ago because the tools dont do my nut in anymore - CSS3 is lovely, HTML5 is ace + ruby is both simple and powerful.... then this happened. It's clearly written by people without 0.1% of a clue how the internet works.

How do I track if someone doesn't want to keep the cookies?

"What we need is some sort of extra file which is stored on the client from session-session to specify if cookies should be used. And they should be called biscuits not cookies"

... what he said ^^.

The alternative is a style-destroying bar of doom on every website. It's ridiculous. Well done Brussels.

Whisky IN SPAAAAACE: Zero-G Scotch is matured aboard the ISS

David Moore
Mushroom

DRRUUUUUNNKKK INNNNNNNN SPAAAAAAAACCCCE

Grand jury meets to decide fate of WikiLeaks founder

David Moore
WTF?

The Espionage Act?!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917#Enforcement

Oh dear.

What's happened to America? More and more it's looking like Nazi Germany in the 30's.

IBM's cat-brain sim a 'scam,' says Swiss boffin

David Moore
Terminator

Attack of the killer non-sentient-node-brain.

"meow" said the computer, as it launched the nukes.

Sony demos monster 3D TV

David Moore
Boffin

hmmmm....

Where's a tvbgone when you need one? : )

Google Docs set for 'get rid of' Office moment

David Moore
Gates Horns

schools....

@ AC 14/11 17:17

Part of the problem with that is school IT depts. I remember doing my IT GCSE about 10 years ago (which I got an A* in - it was almost laughably easy), and almost the entire course was based around Office - we did the 'spreadsheet database' thing, and I remember wondering at the time why we weren't using Access. Apparently the school couldn't afford it.

As for wordart.... fuck me. That brought back memories too - being told to design things in Word that should've been done in a DTP package.

Now I have a mac...with office on it. : )

Authors ask court to delay Googlebooks hearing

David Moore
WTF?

Surely not?

Microsoft is in a group called the Open Content Alliance? You couldn't make it up.

Morrissey tells netdepressives to boycott his re-releases

David Moore
Terminator

@Eddie Johnson

"If Morrissey really wants to stick it to the man, have him set up a web site with all his catalog available as mp3 downloads for free."

Someone already did mate, I think it's called the pirate bay or something like that?

The Terminator, as I imagine Morrisey would've used his services extensively given the chance. Warner Execs beware.

China seals town after plague deaths

David Moore
Pint

Urm...

Am I the only one that felt they were in the beginning of a '28 days later' style Hollywood montage (explaining the beginning of the end) while they were reading this?

Hmmm.

I'm SURE the Chinese are capable of keeping it within that village, and I'm sure they'd tell us all immediately if they didn't.

Beer, because I need one.

iPhone makes eyes at T-Mobile and Orange

David Moore
Heart

Marketing Wizardry or Hardware Genius?

"Customers don't consider themselves to be using Orange, T-Mobile or O2 any more, they're Apple's customers regardless of who happens to be carrying the signal... which is just how Cupertino would like it."

I hadn't thought about it in those terms before now, but you're bang on right. The carrier is pretty much irrelevant with the iphone, at least in my mind, and obviously in others too. I jailbroke mine straight away, and it's now happily living in Vodafone land. But is there the same feeling for other phone manufacturers? I don't think so, and that's weird, no?

Apple obviously don't just have high flying marketing graduates in their PR dept, they have Wizards (And Witches - who I'm sure get paid slightly less?).

I paid thru the nose for the interface, the app's, and the general day to day lovelyness of using it. VS my Windows Mobile Xperia X1, the iphone shits upon it from such a great height that we'd need to invent new telescopes to see Jobs i(LoveYou)Phone floating several billion light-years from earth.

Can we have a half and half devil/angel icon for Jobs, for those that aren't quite sure if he's good or evil, but like most people, somewhere in between?

Met 'studies Chinese bugging tactics' for 2012 games

David Moore
Alien

What about all those camera's popping up in Taxi's... ?

"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face… was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime…"

The Alien.... cause I'm hoping they come and save us from ourselves. With important things like Britains Got Talent to watch, who's got the time to revolt?

Fans decry tennis gal's breast-slash plan

David Moore
Paris Hilton

Best

bouncy bouncy

ooh such a good time

Bouncy Bouncy

White socks slipping down

Bouncy Bouncy

Stilettos are a no no

Bouncy Bouncy

Ooh

Bouncy Bouncy ooh

Everytime I bounce I feel I touch the skyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

BTW. Love the holier than thou, 'thou shalt not mutilate' commentators. It's a pretty drastic thing to do to yourself, but it's her body, she can do what she wants to it. Who cares, really?

PARIS, cause she could make use of the offcuts. (too far? :)

AKG headphones sound out US market

David Moore
Boffin

@Blain Oliver

People who know what they're on about want a response up to 28kHz. In fact, my 650's go up to 39.5kHz. I would explain why, but I can't be arsed.

Apple is Fisher-Price of sound quality, says Neil Young

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@Ian Ferguson and other 'why does it matter?' ppl

It matters because of progress - microprocessors are getting faster, hard drives are getting massive, cheaper and have much higher data densities, but increasingly consumers (and worryingly, DJ's), have taken 320k mp3's as a 'standard,' and it's totally unnecessary, and it is bloody iTunes fault.

Even with fairly crap headphones, most people would pick up on the substantially lower quality vs a CD, and why have lower quality if you don't have to? It's like going to the supermarket and buying the reduced, minging looking strawberry's over the pristine lovely ones, for the sake of a couple of quid. Admittedly, it doesn't really matter when you're on the bus or walking down the road - but it is a mobile format, and because iTunes, Napster et al all offer crap mp3's, people think it's fine - thing is, it could be so much better. FLACS will end up being the standard, people just need educating really? Or is that me being an arrogant f*ck?

I'm a sound engineer, and more and more "DJ's" (and you'd know a lot of them, I'm not talking about your Disco Dave's) turn up to gigs with laptops crammed full of crap 320k mp3's. When you play said crap mp3's thru a £25k+ PA, unsurprisingly, it sounds shit, particularly when A/B'd with the same song on CD. The fact that the 'quality doesn't matter' and 'you can't tell the difference' argument is seeping into pro audio is scary stuff I reckon.

@ el Reg - dynamic range compression has nothing to do with mp3's, come on. That's down to crap producers, and the endless loudness wars that they enter into.

Mines the one with the RTA in the pocket, and 'crew' on the back. Fire, to burn the mp3 player of anyone that tries to play them thru my PA.

Solar Cycle 24 is go: Official

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Is there any chance....

... that some people on here have gone a bit mental? I've not met or heard anyone deny that the climate is changing... I have heard a lot of people question the mechanism that's causing it to change tho, which is a very healthy and scientific thing to do.

"Climate change denier" has an obvious and horrific connotations, and I'd be very very wary of any 'anonymous coward' that uses the phrase alongside the words 'fear, uncertainty and doubt.'

There's lots of evidence that current climate models vastly exaggerate the effect of CO2 on earths climate, just go and have a look. Google is your friend. There's also lots of evidence that the sun plays a large part in the warming/cooling cycles on the planet - not least that every other planet in the solar system is warming at similar rates to ours. I don't see anyone pumping CO2 into the atmosphere of mars, do you? Surely it's worth having a look and looking for evidence, rather than believing the mythical consensus.

We didn't even realise that plants released methane till November (http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/esthag/2008/42/i01/abs/es071224l.html)... be very wary of anyone that claims we know what's going on with the climate.

Thom Yorke dismisses net-only album paradigm

David Moore
Happy

Quality anyone?

The physical album isn't dead, don't be daft. Vinyl sales are climbing year on year, and so long as there are people that care about audio quality there will always be CD's, or some equivalent. Even 'high quality' 320k mp3's on half decent speakers are easily identifiable vs a CD.

mp3's are fine for portable players, but I know I much prefer a tangible physical product over a digital download, and I know I'm not alone. Even the most ardent audiophiles I know recognise that it's not just about the music... who doesn't like a shiny cd case, liner notes etc?

El Reg fires up online standards converter

David Moore
Go

F*ckloads anyone?

It's the standard unit of measurement in the live sound industry, often used to measure flight case weights.

1 Metric F*ckload = 50kg