Posts by gnarlymarley

You can still switch it back on via an option or command line flag (such as --enable-ftp) but, to be honest, why would you?

The answer is simple.anonymous FTP where people can download without a username or password is where I would care about plain FTP. Now, I can use HTTP instead to do the same thing. There have been some strides to get SSL working with compression, but until it gets good enough, FTP will suffice. Now if you ask further, any file that someone uploads to me that should not be public, has been using SFTP for a few decades now. The main reason why I prefer the plain over the secure is proxy servers can cache the files. Under secure, I do not believe anything should be cached.

who runs it?

Technically you can say I don't care who runs the .org as long as the price doesn't go up and the service quality doesn't go down.

three button mouse

"I duly turned up at his home," recalled Will, "and booted up the beast, and right enough, the cursor was all over the place and unresponsive."

I had this happen with a three button serial mouse when it was switched to two button mode. Just switch that after boot up and the cursor would be weird and jumpy.

paid twice?

Why not allow these products to be resold or reused?

What and be paid twice? If someone gets the 30%, they are technically being paid for their old device. Then if they want to sell it, they would be getting paid again. Why should people be paid twice? If I take my old car in to get a new one, I am not able to resell the car to someone else after trading it in.

His response? "It was due to me facing up to him, to be in his office to tell him when he arrived and that we had stayed there till it was resolved."

I miss the days when honesty was rewarded. Now a days, folks would rather murder their customers for doing something wrong, even when the business is at fault.

Astrophysicists, faced with poring over 600 million objects, whittled down their search to just 100 by focusing on observations of objects in space that simply just disappear, or ones that have rapidly fluctuating brightness levels that vary over a 70-year time period.

Or maybe this is just the flashing, twinkle, or change in brightness level that happens when a heat source between the observer and the light causes the air to move. Sometimes if you look at a neighboring city's lights, you can see this same thing happen.

NSA loses encryption keys again!

Americans should have strong privacy-protecting encryption ...that the Feds and cops can break, say senators

I can see the title now. The NSA will lose their keys when they get hacked again, and then everyone can see the encryption. Now if the NSA could secure themselves, maybe I would think about letting them have access, but when they keep getting hacked, there is no reason to trust them.

audio mixer

I have an audio mixer that I use with the 3.5mm output jack. If I go wireless, then I STILL need a wireless adapter that has a 3.5mm output jack. Now matter how you may try to convince me, I have no other way to get the signal into the mixer.

A.K.A. if you want me to buy your phone, then you will include the 3.5mm output jack that I use on my audio mixer.

A full Nominet Expert decision, stripping a dot-UK web domain from someone who breaks Nominet's domain registration rules and handing it to someone more deserving, costs £750 plus VAT. Should the initial decision not go your way, an appeal to a panel of three Nominetters costs no less than £3,000 plus VAT.

This is a very good reason why people "should" keep information publicly accessible on whois (or on a whois replacement). Whois can tell me if a company owns multiple domains. When Companies try to "hide" their email address, it makes it difficult to verify domains. What companies "should do" is rather than give out their personal email, they should give out an alias that points to their personal email.

responsibility?

While Morrisons might not have direct responsibility for Skelton's actions, they do hold a responsibility of action in reply to those actions. It seems simple to me that while Morrisons cannot always prevent the crime, they do hold responsibility in taking action as there is a contract between then and Skelton for employment.

If Morrisons sits back and does nothing (or is even supportive of the crime) then they are part of the crime. If Morrisons takes action that their part of the contract requires (such as having Skelton arrested), then they are cleared from legal action that they did their due diligence.

In the USA, we call this as being an accomplice. A search on the internet shows that UK accomplice law is very similar.

why do folks have their browser configured wrong???

"I have just discovered that the Information Commissioner's Office jobs microsite, which talks about the importance of GDPR and Data Privacy, and which is currently advertising the new Director of Regulatory Strategy role, sets approximately 204 advertising and tracking cookies, all without consent.

Does GDPR require people to set their browsers to "ask to accept a cookie"? Why do people insist that they have their browser "automatically accept cookies" when they are trying to force sites to ask? Clearly, sites are not always able to "ask for consent", so why are the browsers set to automatically accept? I have been seeing this setting in all my browsers for over two decades, so people saying they don't know about it is hogwash.

notspot?

Maybe they should do away with trying to get the emergency services on 4G and make the prisons become notspots. Then it wouldn't matter if prisoners had cellphones, they wouldn't be able to use them.

I am kind of surprised that parliament doesn't care about this kind of stuff and would prefer to force everyone onto 4G.

For example, ISPs are very unhappy with how DoH wraps DNS in encryption, preventing them from snooping on or manipulating it. And ARIN is worried that by hosting a service used to validate routing decisions, it could end up being held responsible when people are suddenly knocked offline.

Ummm, I am not an ISP as one would say, but I do offer internet to my immediate family. My issue with DoH is that it is meant to bypass the bind DNS server I have setup. This means I once people start using it I will need to purchase a faster internet connection to work with all the stupid "prevent caching" ideas. Oh wait, my local squid proxy cache will probably "permanently" defeat any DoH setup attempts. So, maybe what I am saying is moot. I guess I will fall off the internet before I will ever use DoH.

timing issue?

“While we aren’t ruling out the presence of ice, we know is that ice wasn’t needed to form the long run-outs we analysed on Mars,” said Tom Mitchell, co-author of the paper and an associate professor of earthquake geology and rock physics at University College London.

I wonder if the reason they cannot find ice is that they are looking at the wrong time. Maybe in the storms or the extreme cold is when they need to be looking? With the temperature fluctuation they way it is, maybe it goes to a gas during the day and ice at night.

I would suggest the same reason why the FBI and CGHQ cannot find anything before it happens is they are looking at too much data, the wrong time, and in the wrong places.

That last part is the kicker: if you were unlucky enough to have one of the devices that automatically downloaded and installed Google's flawed software update, your Home or Mini may be no more.

Or with the current level of spying with these devices, does that mean you might be lucky enough to have the device stop working?

sunlight/angle

UV light hits the atmosphere and create the ozone. This means that the hole can only change if the tilt of the earth is changing. I think I would be more concerned about the wobble changing than I would the ozone hole.

And the 90-day negotiations will cover a “plan and provisions to sunset the obligations related to the WHOIS protocol as we transition Registration Data Services to RDAP.” Which, in non-policy wonk language, means Whois is finally going to die. And not a decade too soon.

Technically, you can say I don't care how I get my abuse address, but I still want to get my abuse address. What is the point in killing WHOIS, if the same information will be still available via another protocol? If you say it is to stop bots, then you are lying as bots will change to match the new protocol.

I am currently working on a design where my firewall blocks IP connections unless I can look up and acquire an abuse contact. (This means that if you want to connect to me then you will provide your information in a public viewable form. Which said idea, I respond and say why get rid of the WHOIS protocol if the new RDAP does EXACTLY the same thing!)

is this a parenting issue?

Now why do I foresee some kid using a portable USB webcam pointed at a picture to the side to fool the facial recognition? I don't see a way the idiot lawmakers can actually force this. Maybe a better option is to get better parents and have them learn how to do actual parenting. If you don't want your kids to see porno, then teach them.

What is paypal going to do, contact the account owner over email? Wait, that goes back to the person who is trying to return the account. Maybe use the phone number if it has one?

Amazing how (if designed right) something can work successfully for years. I started with Perl4 and the reality is people only need to upgrade for new features or to fix bugs. If something is not broke, it does not need to be changed.

spying

If this is a spying issue with huawei, then clearly there is something the cell phone companies are getting in return. They seem to have a desire (more than just a tie to their technology) to go with huawei. They may just be getting a cutback from huawei for the data.

damage?

Cellio has posted her own account of what transpired, and she claims her de-modding was pre-emptive. "I was fired because they thought I wouldn't follow the future code of conduct," she wrote, and has challenged claims of bigotry that have arisen for questioning Stack Exchange's planned rule change.

The real way to apologize is to reinstate Cellio. But then the damage is already done, so it may already be too late to recover.

abandon domain because EU says all of its citizens are unwanted

If I were in the EU, I would just abandon the domain right now by use of http redirects and forwarding all email. This would give the search engines the time it needs for SEO as it can take a few months to update. Clearly the EU is throwing a tantrum and the government officals are the donkeys that will lose in this battle. I did a dotcom because I am not interested is being tied to a specific area. All my other domains are redirecting/forwarding as of 2006.

easy or hard

The problem is if you make it easy for a customer to shutdown their email, it is also easy for a hacker. If you make it hard for a hacker to shutdown an email, it becomes hard for the customer.

The ideal method would be to make it easy for a customer and hard for a hacker, but that is only a theory and never works in practice. (At least this is my experience with customer service.)

Nonetheless, DoH is billed as helping stop third parties (ISPs, government agencies, police forces, any of the random handful of British state organs allowed by law to help themselves to your browsing history, etc) from viewing what you’re viewing – or, in the case of criminals looking to defraud you, hijacking your DNS requests.

Except, there is at least one third party involved in DoH and that will be whomever owns the IP that firefox points their first lookup to. Somebody other than the webhoster will need provide the ability to tie a name to an IP. This function is currently provided by ICANN and others via what is called root name servers.

So, the real quesiton should be, do we trust firefox or google as the "third party" that will track and sell our web browsing history?

Comcast’s actions, that no one should ever believe a single thing the corporation says.

Or believe anything that a salesman says. They like to talk big and Comcast and other companies are refusing to honor what their salesmen say.

Judging by the picture, I would say about 107 years old. The picture probably was not taken right at death, but maybe a few years earlier.but then I have seen some 50 year olds that looks like they are 80+.

Outsourcing adds the cost of the other business' overhead to the employee's cost. Therefore, outsourcing will be more expensive that inhouse. The only way to bring that cost down is to outsource to an area that has a lower cost of living.