Posts by Adam White

McCain would've bought an A380

I'm just sayin' is all...

RE: Lesson learned

I hear the Chinese are quite good at this cyber-security stuff, maybe we should let them have a go?

A bridge too far?

The 787 is an ambitious project. Not just in terms of the final product (most fuel effecient airliner ever, a whole new class or plane designed to be used in a way that has never been practical before, featuring key technologies that have never been off the testbench) but the many brave predictions Boeing made about its development - I believe it is the shortest project ramp-up, the most complex risk-sharing arrangement, the shortest test program and the fastest (projected) production rate increase they have ever attempted.

The whole thing seems predicated on the idea that "Nothing can possibly go wrong". So far they literally can't even get the nuts and bolts right. The boys in Seattle and Chicago seem to have forgotten that Murphy was an aerospace engineer.

Onus

Now listen, I hate the Daily Mail as much as the next man but I think Cluley is correct - it is the responsibility of ad providers to ensure they are not serving malware to their clients. And, as he pointed out, it is the responsibility of the of webmasters not to do business with ad suppliers who can't manage this. This has nothing to do with the Daily Mail and their competence or otherwise in the IT field, it's a universal aspect of Internet security.

A blind eye juices profits

Can we nominate this line for some kind of award?

RE: But I want it my way!

The enshired right of first sale means that once you've bought something you own it and it's yours to do with whatever you want. Stick it up your nose, set it on fire, install it on a PC, whatever.

In the specific case of software it's a bit trickier because software is "licensed for use" via a contract agreement, not sold. However the legality of unsigned, shrinkwrapped buy-before-read EULAs is still something of a grey area by my understanding - it hasn't been proven decisively proven in court yet whether these have the same weight as a traditional contract or not.

There was a case a few years ago where Microsoft tried to sue someone for selling unwanted "OEM" copies of Windows on eBay, but I think they ended up dropping it due to bad publicity.

RE: Why??? / Wait a sec....

Not all Windows exploits rely on Internet access. An unpatched Windows box can be a security risk even if it has no network connectivity at all. And in this case the box obviously had some kind of networking setup so the users could access it via thin clients.

The real WTF here is why they weren't using WSUS or any one of the other available patch management products to keep this machine up to date, rather than the much riskier method of allowing access to the Internet from an inmate-used system purely for Windows Update. Hell, they could have used sneakernet to patch it in a pinch.

The 'Base

I've occassionally wondered what software Osama bin Laden's "Qaeda" is actually hosted on. Probably a Microsoft Access MDB file, either '97 or maybe even v2.0

Irrelevant ads on el Reg

Wife Makes Big Money

My Business Retired My Husband From His Job Within 3 Months

Have you ever retired a human by mistake Mr Deckard?

Destroy and/or Defeat

OK I'll bite, how does one destroy and/or defeat an enemy using Cyberwarfare? Assuming the enemy isn't a web server.

About the best I can think of is a large-scale psyop to send fake orders through the enemy's C3 network telling everyone they lost and need to surrender. But that's not particularly likely to strike a decisive blow.

It's spelled "lulz"

"Lulz" is spelled "lulz", in this case the word is "lolz". It's a subtle disctinction that is often lost on stupid people..

Infringer's user name?

So where'd they get that from then? The ISP? The torrent tracker? What is it supposed to represent?

SDK?

They've lost their SDK license? Does that mean the application itself has ceased to exist? Last I heard the problem was that Apple wouldn't agree to sell the comic through their web portal.

And yes this stinks of a) hypocrisy and b) prudishness. But mostly (a)

RE: for the Lintards and Mactards

Security through Obscurity eh Bruce?

http://www.answers.com/topic/security-through-obscurity

If you're looking for a secure OS you could probably do worse than OpenBSD, the antithesis of the Security-Through-Obscurity approach

http://www.openbsd.org/

Will these guys be the first to go?

http://english.cpb.or.kr/user/bbs/code02_detail.php?av_jbno=2006071800002

If so it would be a pity, although they haven't updated in a while.

Definitely not Medieval

It was common practice for everyone to carry knives in Ye Olde Days

Hold tight to that Monopoly term!

It doesn't matter how many competitors you have, what defines a monopoly is how much market power you have. It doesn't matter how good your products are or how things came to be that way, 90% market share is a monopoly, pure and simple.

RE Silverlight 2 beta 2 - Go Live if you dare

"...Important controls like the DataGrid are not part of the core set, but bundled into your application, which means that users will typically end up with multiple copies..."

It's like deja vu all over again!

What, no e-SATA?

Why set a top limit at all on memory at all? Let the chipset and RAM guys worry about how much memory you can cram into two DIMM slots.

P-ATA seems like a waste of money too - if you've only got two drive bays you might as well fit them both with SATA devices. P-ATA may be an option for optical drives but it's seriously old hat.

I for one think Micro-ITX is a great form factor, but it almost seems as if VIA doesn't take it as seriously as the "big rigs" like ATX.

My submission:

Minibooks

Could the ATV itself be reusable?

Once you've successfully landed the thing without burning up, could it be cost-effective to turn it around for another jaunt? Zooming into orbit scattering discarded boosters doesn't sound that different from how the US shuttle currently operates anyway..

RE: So if it was guns and not cannabis

Better criminalize cars then AC, since they're involved in 100% of fatal car crashes. And horse riding too, because that's involved in 100% of fatal horse riding accidents.

Better criminalize electricity because it's involved in 100% of electrocutions.

Better criminalize immersion in water because it's involved in 100% of drownings.

With all due respect, you're a loony.

I don't get it

IF he's on my network AND he knows my password THEN he can mess with my DNS

Or have I miised the point somehow?

Who's doing the baying?

So it's not a book about sniffer dogs so much as a book about Amber Marks's interest in sniffer dogs. Yikes.

Still an interesting subject, so it might be worth reading I suppose.

Iron Dome...

...is sure to be cost-effective!

@trackSuit

"Lasers on towers, at a border? Would that seem like an advertisement of a lack of goodwill towards a neighbour, officially?"

Maintaining goodwill towards their neighbours has never been an Israeli objective.

RE: I heard

So it works even if there's no firewire device driver on the target? Interesting.

What's the difference between Microsoft and...

...Yahoo!, Google and Amazon?

Microsoft is a software company.

OOXML standard

I'd like to see a transcript from THAT meeting!

OK, I give up...

What does "We have become the terrorist, haven't we sir?" mean in context please?

Thanks

Police Truck

Well tonight's the nice that we've got the truck

Gonna go downtown gonna beat up drunks

We'll ride oh how we'll ride

RE: Hmmm maybe just maybe?

Yes, you're right. Office 97 compatibility has been a thorn in Microsoft's side for a long time now.

Education pogrom

"I take it this was tongue-in-cheek? 29,000 units in use - somehow I don't think we're too afraid of sex. :)"

Depends if by "we" you mean "me and my mates" or "the government".

This line is my favourite:

"Education for parents and teachers as well as children is a priority."

The Government now needs to spend money educating adults as to why ISP-level censorship is good for them.

RE: Leonard Nimoy and Winona Ryder?

I expect Ms Ryder will play Amanda to Zachary Quinto's Spock.

Pfft only 1.2 Billion?

I'm not sure who the real idiots are, stock market analysts or the executives who try to appease them.

RE: Actually... I think I agree with this...

Whether the site hosted ads or high grade original content or kiddie porn should be totally irrelevant to a domain name registration dispute IMHO.

16 x 1 Gb DIMMs

How much difference would it have made if they'd used 2 x 8 Gb DIMMs like any sane person?

Needs a namin' Stil

So we can say to the NIST "X is the new black!"

RE: Why politicians need Quangos

So what's the difference between (3) and (4) exactly?

RE: Not Edison...

Tesla?

Martial arts spectaculars

ONG BAK was very good. Most other chop socky movies of the last 15 years have underwhelmed.

I'm not expecting much from this one, but if they can pull it off, I would be happy.

Oh you only have a Apple?

Thus sayeht Steve Jobs: "I never heard anyone say 'Oh, you only have a Commodore.' I never heard that once in my life,"

I personally heard people saying exactly the opposite all the time back in the day :P

Broken prototype

If only Microsoft had to submit all their v1.0 products for government certification before they were allowed to sell them...

RE: Can we not turn off updates ??

Yes you can. And yes, presumably you will need to approve these updates in WSUS as well.

I reckon when XP SP2 was released there was a moderate-sized kerfuffle because it turned out some places don't actually use WSUS (or equivalent) and set all their PCs to individually download (and automatically install) all updates from windowsupdate.microsoft.com. This is Microsoft's way of pandering to those freaks.

Also if you have a single WSUS realm I guess you could use this tool to selectively deploy the Service Packs after they have been approved.

RE: Think about it

Hi Wade, I'm confused by your last statement, can you clarify it please?

Are you describing the Warner execs who haven't made plans to put these titles out in both formats as "fanboys"? Or are you saying that the logic behind not to putting these titles out in both formats (assuming they are leaning towards Blu-ray) is not apparent to the public?

Thanks

- Adam

If nothing else...

All this bioterror fear makes a convenient excuse to continue manufacturing your own biological weapons (for research and defense) regardless of what certain treaties might say.