Posts by phuzz

Re: I'm confused.

I believe they call it 'lobbying' in the States, and it's perfectly legal for some reason.

Re: If this were a thing...

The internet and BBS's were developed roughly in parallel.

Re: Aged?

The trouble is, I still own a bunch of other devices which still use micro-USB (eBook, a torch, battery pack etc. etc.) so when I got a phone with USB-C I had to buy several new cables and chargers with multiple outputs (so I can charge other devices at the same time as my phone), and I get no advantage that I can see (the storage in my phone is not fast enough to benefit from USB3).

Re: Urban Legend? It's not always the cleaner

Joseph Cyril Bamford (ie the bloke who started the company that now bears his initials) was the first person to combine a rear excavator (or 'backhoe' as the yanks call it) with a front digger, to create what British people just call a 'JCB', regardless of manufacturer.

Shockingly, the Mk. 1 Excavator was actually red and blue, not the iconic yellow.

Re: Already Started Alas

My brother has too, although it's formal redundancy so at least he'll get some final pay.

Re: A couple of degrees...

Indeed, the watercooling on my home computer will work fine up to at least 70° off vertical (more in some axes).

This is handy because I have to tilt it back and forth to bleed all the bubbles out every time I fill it.

Re: Would you like to be fried with that?

Isn't Peterson the one who thinks that people are like lobsters?

Re: Simple

I think it looked more like "Do you want free shipping _{(with a trial of Amazon Prime)}". Or at least that's as close as I can get with elReg's comment code.

When I say 'static html', I was thinking something more like this, with emergency contact numbers etc. Possibly an image or two, but no need for anything more than that. I'm thinking the sort of page you'd write by hand in a text editor.

So, a single 2kb file, times 200,000 users works out to about 400Mb total, so I think we'd probably end up being network-bound, before getting close to the limits of an average desktop. A GB connection would thereby limit you to about 2000 users per second.

I guess the question now becomes, do you really need a whole desktop, or would a Raspberry Pi handle it?

Website are only as complicated as you make them.

Scripts? CSS? A whole CMS? You don't work in marketing do you?

"making small chat about the weather for a minute followed by wishing the person you'll probably never see again a nice day/life. would just fuck off and leave you alone"

FTFY

Re: Forking NVD

"I need to patch the server because of this new vulnerability, when's a good time?"

"Will this result in downtime?"

"Well yes, about five seconds while I restart apache, but overnight we only get one or t-"

"NO! Unacceptable! No downtime at all! You can have scheduled downtime in six months"

And it never gets patched.

Re: Resonant electric universe

"5) Which means that electric force as you know it, generated by electrons, is actually an *oscillating* field at some resonant pattern."

I'm not sure what this 'electric force' you're talking about is, but I assume it's the force imparted to a charge by the electric field that it's in. This may or may not be oscillating.

The charge in this case doesn't have to be an electron (or multiple electrons), it could be protons, or positrons (or more exotic things like muons). A stationary electron (or other charged particle etc.) produces a static electric field, and the force generated by that field is equally static.

You seem to be concluding that because the electric field that was applied in this experiment was oscillating, that all electric fields are "actually an *oscillating* field at some resonant pattern". This is incorrect, electric fields can be stable.

Your "some sort of electric oscillation" from 1) is caused by the experimenters pumping microwaves into their experiment in a (failed, as they later found out) attempt to create an oscillating magnetic field. It is not some underlying property of the atomic nucleus that they were experimenting on.

Re: SMB

SMB1 is not enabled by default, and until this bug, SMB3 was looking pretty secure.

Firewalling off port 445 will break any AD integration, which makes it basically useless in a business environment.

Re: No FB for me, ever

I use Edge to load a handful of tabs that I can't be bothered to keep as pinned tabs in another browser, but I occasionally need to check.

I load Edge, check what I need to check, then close Edge again, without it interfering with my normal browsing.

Re: Hell of a

Ok, that might pose a slight problem.

Maybe paint it white, and give it one of those little handheld fans?

You know when you're trying to change an IP address remotely, so you change the config, disable the adaptor, and then go to re-enable it, only to realise that your connection just dropped...?

That.

In this NAO report, they state:

"The Home Office estimates that the total cost of providing Airwave is £1.7 million per day whereas a completed ESN would cost £0.7 million per day (paragraphs 1.14, 1.19, Figure 5 and Figure 8)."

But I'm not entirely sure what document they're referring to.

Re: Ugh

That's why I used the word 'enough', rather than 'most'.

Is "enough people in the right locations" more precise for you?

"Another insecure S3 bucket?"

No, an unsecured Elasticsearch database (which might have been storing it's data in a secure S3 bucket).

So basically the same, but with a nicer front end for world+dog to access the information.

Re: Is this as ususal software related?

Or better yet, don't connect it to a network at all, or if you have to, use a dedicated network card and a crossover cable to a fully patched machine.

Re: Amazing!

The devs where I work use MacBooks, and they do seem like nice bits of hardware that can perform the important task of opening up an SSH connection to the linux server where they're doing their actual programming.

Re: Impact?

I used Javascript as a single example of untrustworthy code, that's what the "eg" means.

Re: Pickpockets paradise

" the cameras are not monitoring them pinching stuff from other peoples trolleys"

Do we know that for sure? Given that there aren't any trolleys (you just take things off the shelf and put them in your bag/pocket), I wouldn't be surprised if the cameras just watched for any movement of items.

Plus, when you enter you have to tie your identity to your amazon account via a phone app, so chances are, if you pick-pocketed things out of someone's bag, you'd get charged for it on your way out of the store. Unless you did it in a way which fooled the many cameras, and possible RFID readers (and more?).

Of course, if you can get into the store without giving your payment details, then you can just steal whatever you want from the shelves, (abit whilst leaving CCTV footage from every angle), no need to mug someone.

I'm getting most of my info from this article, and it sounds like currently it can barely cope with people shopping in the 'correct way', so actual theft is about as plausible as getting charged for 5000 bananas by mistake.

Re: Annoying

I suppose you could just hope that this goes on for years and costs them $$$$, but then the lawyers win which isn't much of an improvement.