Posts by Ole Juul

l33t

People have been doing this for a while. They'll just have more characters to play with.

Re: The problems with bitcoin, as seen by governments

They have the same problem with cash. That's why most countries are discouraging its use. They really prefer everyone to make all their transactions through a government regulated institution.

Re: End of the cloud as we know it

Who could have said that their own system would end up shooting themselves in both feet.

Me. And a bunch of others.

Re: No ACs Allowed

Which is a slightly <ahem> different variation of "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear".

Wouldn't that be the other way around?

If you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to hide.

Re: It'll be messy

I was thinking more along the lines that after the bubble bursts there will be an awful lot of unsupported kit out there - much of which might be a liability, perhaps downright useless, without a security or other update. There could be an overload at the landfill.

Re: "spotted by the metallurgy department"

After a leopard was spotted by the metallurgy department last week,

Leopards are always spotted.

Re: Bureaucracy at its best

They don't even automatically include foreign corporations. The nerve!

Value

It's not entirely clear if the data is of any value to anybody. Though the hack itself could result in some Israeli security company getting a nice contract.

Re: More Education Is Needed

I think that the author, by suggesting that scientists don't know what they're talking about, is suggesting that less education is the key to getting at the truth.

Re: 3G

The proof is in the pudding.

Re: Huh?

I got a buffer overrun when I read that.

Re: No they don't

The little town in Denmark that I lived in when I was a kid had a DC grid despite AC being already common in most of the rest of the country. My dad had DC motors in his furniture factory and they were pretty big compared to modern three phase units. Anyway, the town switched over to AC in '57 or so.

Re: First we deny the breach... then we privately panic ... then minimize it in our PR.

Excellent comment Don Jefe.

Re: Banks

why does your bank's website still suck so badly?

I wonder what the author meant by that. I've never really taken a good look at my bank's web site. I just log in, do my business, and log out. As long as I'm able to do that fairly easily, I'm not likely to notice anything else about what's happening there unless it's a security flag. I actually expect them to have bad taste, banks usually do, but the site is always up and always works. Now if they decided to do a "wait for youtube and a thousand trackers" approach, I be getting mad.

Aloha1

I've got a better one.

Re: Tired admin

Not sure why the thumbs down,

Wasn't me, but I notice some strange thumbs-downs around here. I've even seen thumbs-down on a question. WTF? It's as if some commentards view everything as a religious belief or something like that. To me, a comment can sometimes be good even if I don't agree with it.

Re: Actually, this may not be a bad idea...

"Sure, but why typewriter?"

Because it is useful in getting rid of the Secret Service.

"Opposition committee member Martina Renner said on Twitter she'd sooner get rid of the Secret Service than start using typewriters,"

Let's hope it works.

Re: What are the odds...

There's a real advantage to people who are dyslexic. Simply flip the display over and everything becomes readable again. No?

Re: Good. I guess.

I mostly use my real name, but I'm the one who decides when and where. Google can just + right off.

Re: There is no POTS anymore

"The days of big relays and mechanical switching of calls are practically gone in most areas." POTS hasn't used that stuff for some decades. I've got POTS in my area, and it's been digital switching and multiplexing for a very long time. That said, you're right, most things travel over the net these days and there's not really any differentiation of things like TV and telephone.

So, when the article says:

"The FCC was given a mandate to increase broadband adoption, but that's about it.", that sounds fine, but what they really should be doing is encouraging (much) more infrastructure to handle the anticipated traffic.