The pressure will also be on a lot of place names around the world. For starters, I'm looking at you, Kilkenny.
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Spanish village called 'Kill the Jews' mulls rebranding exercise
'Arrogant' Snowden putting lives at risk, says NSA's deputy spyboss
Justice Ministry to spaff £70k finding out how prisoners like to use ILLEGAL mobes
Re: OMG!!!
Hello AC,
Some of us have extensive hands-on experience of the actual problems in prisons.
And we have watched for years as the government ignores the obvious, and ignores the expert testimony in order to pay for another study that will be ignored.
Cheers for sticking up with the man, but it's not much help long term.
We already know there are two main uses...
1. Staying in touch with families. It is cheaper in prison to hire an illegal phone than use the usuriously charged payphones on the wing landings. And more private too. A better phone deal with BT would cut this usage at a stroke.
2. Sending money out for illegal deals (such as drug purchases). In a prison, most drugs come in via the uniformed staff, but the money transfers have to happen via a different method. In the old days, you'd get friends or family on the out to give money to people in pubs for you. Today, it is much more online. Reduce the drugs going in, and you reduce the need for cross-wall cash flow.
Snapchat vows to shut its hole in wake of 4.6 million user data breach
Fanbois, prepare to lose your sh*t as BRUSSELS KILLS IPHONE dock
Zuckerberg IN COURT: Judge rules Facebook investors CAN sue for IPO non-disclosures
Fiendish CryptoLocker ransomware survives hacktivists' takedown
On the matter of shooting down Amazon delivery drones with shotguns
The crazies, who will sit in their garden all day cursing the government that granted Amazon the freedom of the skies, still have options if they want to contest the airspace above their sovereign back yards.
Electronic countermeasures to mislead the drone. The drone might land in their garden or fly off in an wrong direction. The ECM could be mounted on permanently-aloft balloons.
Killer kites.
Suicide drone conducting a kamikaze attack.
Selfie twerks its way into the dictionary
Snowden journalist's partner gave Brit spooks passwords to seized files
Bug-finder chucked for posting to Zuck
Bugs, features and no-nos
Odd. He had been specifically advised by facebook that the behaviour was not a bug.
So he used the behaviour exactly as facebook knew it could be used.
They then went all TOSsy with his ass, told him that Terms of Service trumps Security Team.
Tells us all we really need to know about facebook's technical priorities.
Peter Capaldi named as 12th Doctor Who
Re: the Doctor can take on any form imaginable...
Yes, they've cast their Baker's dozenth plus 1 or 2 (depending on who you count) white man to the part.
But there is hope yet. We have not seen his costume or make up. He may play the Doctor dressed as a Masai warrior with a ginger wig and in tasteful blackface.
That may not please the feminists I know, but it'd be a nod toward multi- culturalism. They have, after all, previously cast a Scot playing the part with a Lundunish accent.
Hooker in Dudley man's car 'just helping to buy tomatoes'
Apple wins documents fight with Google in Samsung case
Why are scribes crying just 'cos Google copied their books? asks judge
Google's Euro antitrust offer: Fine! We'll link to our search rivals
Plus ca change
This is reminiscent of the court orders of half a century ago on airline availability search systems,
Those early, specialised, search engines had a start-up habit of favouring flights operated by the AVS engine's operator. Legal rulings forced them to be "objective" - to the benefit of all:
Passengers (via their travel agents who ran most of the searches) need only search one system to find all flights, rather than multiple ones.
The better AVS systems could outcompete those from smaller operators, and eventually consilidate a grip on the market; today, there are only a couple that matter.
Fairness of display as a route towards further monopoly? It worked for the airline search engines; looks like Google is learning a valuable historical lesson.
Reddit: So very sorry for naming innocent man as Boston bomber
A prediction.....
That the Reddit hive mind has not learned any lessons.
During the next great witch hunt, they'll be claiming it's different this time because they are using iCrowd technology (or some such heat of the moment techno drivel) to confirm their biases.
Confusing the wisdom of crowds with the madness of mobs is a common online mistake.
Google Apps goes TITSUP for millions - users REJOICE on Twitter
Building the actual real internet simply doesn't pay
Provider of FIFA goal line tech chosen, tracks ball in space and time
Breaking the sound barrier
It'd help too if the front of the goal was a thin sheet of some sort of plywood. A goal would be scored by the ball hitting and/or breaking the plywood.
Computer acoustic analysis from an array of microphones and vibration detectors would distinguish the characteristic sound signature of a ball thwacking into the plywood from other sounds such as a player head diving into it or giving it the elbow.
This may slow down a high-scoring game if damaged sheets have to be replaced several times. But, like the nuke-from-orbit tactic proposed in Aliens, it is the only way to be sure.
Soon, every goal will count, everytime.
If Google got a haircut, a tie and a suit, would it be Microsoft?
Wealthy London NIMBYs grit teeth, welcome 'ugly' fibre cabinets
Onroad parking would be better
Putting them on the already overcrowded pavement is a mistake.
Instead, why not treat them as if they were a permanently parked motorcycle? Put them just roadside of the kerb and paint a yellow line around them.
Far less obstructive than a single parked car or a gentrificator's skip.
Europe tickles Microsoft with €561m fine for browser choice gaffe
Re: Fine, but......
No one knows where the EU moeny goes. The EU accounts have only been given a clean bill of health by the EU's auditors once in the last 15 years.
If the EU was a business, it would be struck off.
http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/article/eu-budget-irregularities-found-eca/533658
McAfee dumps signatures and proclaims an (almost) end to botnets
Re: Has anyone considered what it *really* takes to go completely malware free?
Having done all that, of course, I'd run my target OS inside a VM which itself is inside a VM which itself etc to maybe a depth of 12.
Each VM (different implementations of course) is running separate virus detection / fire walls / etc, so only incoming data that passes all of one VM's sniff tests makes it to the next level.
For an infecting virus that is trying to reach my app in the target OS, the effect would be like running the gauntlet in a very-hard-to-win first-person shooter with no ability to save at crucial points.
With a 12-core processor, my nicely snuggled app would not even notice the latency in handling incoming data.
Dead Steve Jobs 'made Tim Cook sue Samsung' from beyond the grave
BYOD is a PITA: Employee devices cost firms £61 a month
Connection costs are a fixed overhead?
So I purchase my own device, and my management pony up £61pcm for the network connection.
One desk over (back in the day when we had desks) my colleague has a company-sourced device, and our management pony up £61pcm for the network connection.
If there is a news story here it is that employee connectivity costs £61pcm for the network connection, not including the costs of the end-user device.
Boffins find 17,425,170-digit prime number
Re: Why are we paying for this research?
Understanding the behaviour of prime numbers is absolutely crucial to the current, safe, implementation of any securely networked IT system - including ecommerce and military communications.
Why would a prudent society not be spending in every way on prime number research?
Little spider makes big-spider-puppet CLONE of itself out of dirt
Curiosity's new OS upgrade ready to go live
TERROR in SEATTLE: Gang of violent LEPRECHAUNS on the loose
Apple logging passwords in plain text
Back in the day ....
..... Steve Jobs would have turned this into a marketing triumph.
After trumpeting this must-have feature across all known media, he'd've sat back and watched lesser companies announce unconvincing plans to make it easier for passwords to be retrieved by non-specialists.
The fan bois would rejoice at the removal of yet another barrier to internet participation by the common hipster.
And, soon, private passwords would be a thing of the past. The new iPassword would potentially allow us all to financially benefit by selling our iPasses on iTunes and sharing in the profits made from our identify theft by the purchasers.
Other companies would learn from Apple's strategy and fire their IT QA departments and hire marketeers instead. All bugs would now be declared as unmissable features, and the more gullible of us would pay more for the bonus ones.
BYOD sync 'n share
trust no one
Dropbox is convenient and easy to use. Much more so that
n services like Wuala and Spideroak that offer similar services.
But the fly in Dropbox's achilles heel ointment is the lack of encryption on the servers operated by Dropbox.
I would need to trust a lot of foggy processes (fog is all you can see when you are in a cloud) before I could entrust data to all those third parties.
The risk is not just that something I want kept private might be disclosed. I do not want to risk lower-level security stuff being subverted or corrupted.
Apple drops 'thermonuclear' patent bombshell
Merely a smoke screen
This jokesuit is merely a toe in the water by Apple whose real atomic patent is the one that controls the use of the letter i ("whether lowercase, capitalized, iconificated, or otherwise embellished" to quote the patent) to start the name of a product or company or "other assemblage of humans".
Intel, ICI; Ice cream, Instant whip; Ireland, Iran: just a few of the well-known brands at risk from this patent.
Worse, it makes a general claim to the whole art of beginning a word with a letter at all. Some say this will drive all latinate alphabet users to adopt Chinese, at least in commercial writing and advertising.
New steganography technique relies on letter shapes
Short messages only
This may work for short, provided both the sender and recipient have secretly agreed the code.
We might agree that any text message that begins with a vowel contains secret text. The NSA can analyse the preceding 100 messages and decide there is nothing hidden (or have erroneously uncovered a decoy steganographic scheme).
Then I send:
Are you well? Hope the cold is better. Cheers!
And BOOM -- the terrorist attack is GO.