Posts by adnim

Where do I start with this?

A device one can command by voice, or gesture to for a response, or show ya boat to/wipe ya finger across to unlock records data. It has to in order to do analysis.

Very few read EULA's and the clause where it is stated that, and I paraphrase ... 'we may share your data with third parties in order to enhance our product and improve your experience'. What this really means is we will do what the fuck we like with your data/personal information.

I trust my mother, I trust my sister... I don't trust any corporate to act in my best interest. I expect them to act in the best interest of the shareholders and fuck me over without any care or regret.

It amazes me how many choose what is perceived, touted to be a convenience over privacy and security of ones personal information.

Whilst there maybe advantages using Pengwin

I'll stick to a VM.

At work I have no choice but Win 10 on the desktop.

At home I hope to never run Win 10 on my desktop.

Of course I should work in the most suitable environment for the projects I work on and the infrastructure in which the code is to be deployed. So far a Linux distro in a VM has been fine. If this changes I will re-asses my dev environment. I mainly do web dev and flat file processing.

I am old and this along with years of experience in supporting/fixing/finding work arounds for MS products from Windows 3.1 onwards made me biased. I don't like Microsoft and will avoid them whenever possible.

One does not know the state of anything until it is measured.

And if two entities are mutually exclusive, measuring one and discovering its state simply means the other was the opposite all along.

Or does the one measured tell its mutually exclusive partner what to be? And if the communication is instantaneous, it still takes the speed of light to measure it.

I still can't get my head around Bell's theorem though, it seems mutually exclusive to my level of intellect.

Half joking/half confused could that be defined as some kind of entanglement?

I will consider it fit

for my laptop in a few months... perhaps

another service

outsourced to the incompetent?

Never

ever.

If bean counters see a reduction of TCO... it will happen.

Sigh

WTF

They didn't know. A third party had to tell them?

Did I misread the article?

I guess it has nothing to do

with a cabal taking the piss and realising they pushed it too far

"Our evolving business model...

...ensures that we can continue to best serve our customers, wherever they operate."

Except... most of Eastern Europe and certain countries in the Middle East, Africa, and Western Europe

If Google are forced to sell...

The new owners will keep the microphone but mention it in the ad blurb, then sell the data to Google.

A half joking icon might be useful.

I will miss having a chat

with my meter reader and will wonder what they do now to earn a crust.

hacked account indicator

Normally, although not always, if ones email address becomes publicly available it will be spammed.

Now if one uses a different email address for any accounts one wishes to remain secure for example mypaypal@xxxx.xxx for paypal or myamazon@xxxx.xxx for amazon etc. if any spam hits those email addresses, it is a good indicator of that email address being in the public domain.

Need to upgrade

My 9-10 year old Iomega IX2 Storcenter to something quicker and newer. I worry about a hardware fail. Not disks.

I replaced 1 drive in that time.. I guess I is lucky.

The thing has never really been switched off since I bought it. I have powered it down to move it a few times. It is isolated from the Internet.

The new thing I get would also be isolated from the Internet.

I can understand the average home user leaving default settings in place on a NAS and not configuring their router to block all WAN ingress to anything but a specified IP address or DMZ (I have a web/mail server under my desk) and actually needing an anti-virus solution because of the silly things they do though.

imho

Such API's should not exist. At least those that parse the email content.

How many people using gmail think that their emails are private? Those that do not read the T&C's and privacy policy?

Almost everyone with a gmail account then.

Those users who are not smart enough to tag an email as spam or open, read and click on links in emails from unknown sources, well what can I say?

Do not track

is partly enforced by blocking third party cookies, deleting cookies on browser closure, denying Javascript, especially third party scripts. And having a fskn huge hosts file.

Does gov.uk

employ IT professionals?

I expect so.

Does gov.uk listen to them?

I expect so

Does gov.uk understand what said IT professionals say?

I expect so, at least partially.

All all can conclude is that this law is not about protecting children. It is about appearing to care about children and winning votes from an IT illiterate public, with the added bonus of more data collection.

An alternative approach would be just to assume IoT security is generally terrible

Perhaps.

imho

A safer approach would be just to assume IoT security is generally non existent.

cheap parts

yet expensive.

Perhaps someone was pissed at the invoice