Posts by Fred Flintstone

OK, that's it

The next rocket to go up should be sponsored by B&Q..

That's going to be fun with IPv6

I can already do traffic cloaking (even without a VPN) on IPv4, but IPv6 has so many routes to create a covert channel that I wish them luck keeping up. Just as a small example extensible headers are a beautiful place to carry extra data..

Conclusion: the basic assumption is that terrorists and criminals are dumb. Somewhat flawed assumption IMHO..

Can I just say..

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That's all.

I'll have my medicine now, thank you.

Now you know..

.. why I prefer to buy online. I have Apple kit because it works for me, but the wannabees in the Church (Apple Store) annoy the hell out of me and I thus avoid their stores unless I absolutely have to. All this friendliness and touchy feely stuff they told to enact feels about as genuine as Tony Blair's smile, so it creeps me out.

Besides, I'm a male - when I enter a shop I already have a pretty good idea what I want.

Why is this worth reporting?

I mean, there must a gazillion monkeys writing code that doesn't work, and this thing doesn't seem to be more functional than "Hello world". Slow news day?

So, what you're really suggesting..

.. is that we ought to prevent the digital rodgering.

What you need, thus, are digital chillies:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/23/red_hot_shoplifter/ ..

"No one's tried to hack a vehicle's system yet" - what??

Huh?

Maybe I misunderstood this article, but the guys at the Center for Automotive Embedded Systems Security (http://www.autosec.org) have demonstrated remote car hacking years ago. They presented a paper called "Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile" in 2010, so I would not call this new.

They have done such entertaining things as killing the brakes of a car..

Unfair or not..

.. there seems to be no other way to get them to spend some money on (a) decent fundamentals and (b) INDEPENDENT verification there of than picking them off one by one. If enough of them get a fine that actually has an impact (so not à la Google and FTC, which is merely a rounding error in their profit reporting), it changes the perceived risk for the rest of them and something will get done - at last.

May I just say ..

.. thank you?

This review is an excellent list of what's out there, I'll bookmark it.

No way..

The very moment you place all your data in the cloud you will find that your provider doubles prices because he/she/it has you by the short and curlies.

There is NO way I will make even my personal data and applications dependent on a network connection. For a business, it's irresponsibly risky because you create a massive point of failure. If you really, really feel like doing it, install a Citrix box for 20 people and connect it via a rate restricted pipe into your network. I give it a week, tops.

(and I haven't mentioned the risk of exporting your confidential data to an untrusted 3rd party).

"Universal" makes it worse..

Countless people post "I have this bit of kit that does everything" - wrong. The "everything" only applies to serial use (you charge one device, than the next one etc etc) - the whole problem is that when you get to your hotel/shack/dorm/whatever all that stuff should just have its own lead from one device so you jack it in and forget about the whole lot until you wake up again.

What I want is one block with a universal plug, which has a collection of USB jacks so I just buy a lead for each piece of kit, jack it in and forget about it. USB also means I can re-use that same lead to sync the gadget (although I personally prefer to take the XD card out of a camera, maybe USB 3 will change that). A bit like a USB hub, but one that has its own intelligence instead of needing a PC at the other end - and preferably able to charge quicker as well..

I have a very simple answer to all the BS and assumptions..

.. As always, I will WAIT. Yes, amazingly, I will sit back and NOT join some stupid queue of tech wannabees or fashion victims (take your pick, depends on the brand) that MUST HAVE IT FIRST to have any self value.

Instead, I will calmly live my life and occasionally glance at reports, but ,ostly I will will give it 6 months before I consider looking at it. There are a few simple reasons for it:

- manufacturing faults and bugs will have come to light and hopefully addressed

- many first users will by now have worked out that i's either sh*t or shine

- a direction will be found to the area this device may work best in. Or not, but that's an answer too

- the prices will have stabilised on a more useful level.

Much less stress because I don't have to watch the launch dates, and because I don't have to worry about buying crap.

Easy.

Cheers to a great writer

I have enjoyed all his books immensely, partly because they were written with such humour.

May he rest in peace!

Never liked Bluray

Maybe that's a general thing with optics, but it takes them a looong time to get ready for work. Spinning up, reading index tracks (and with Bluray more happens, although I don't quite know what).

On the other hand, I think it'll be some time before they have truly gone, if for no other reason that I'd have to find something else as coaster..