Posts by Suburban Inmate 543 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Dec 2007
"I only work a couple of days a week, its entirely up to me, I make enough to live nicely and it's very safe here. I also get tested every week and I can refuse to serve a guy if I want."
Not anon because this was in Amsterdam, where it's legal. Which must mean that the rampant evil of the oldest profession will surely tear their social fabric to shreds. Any day now, for sure, just watch. Just like if we legalised Cannabis.
I can understand the possibility of human heads being affected: the brain and its electrochemical functions are inherently delicate.
But I can't help feeling that most, if not all, of these complainers are jumping on the bandwagon, while convincing themselves that they are "intelligent" cos they have worked out the secrets of life, the universe, and everything. And therefore are right about life, the universe, and everything.
Most people are unaffected. For the rest, there's tin foil.
They do not realise that music videos (on the muzak channels) are now like chewing gum.
Yeah nice I (OK the fans) suppose, but nothing to actually make an effort to see. Certainly nothing to pay for.
Maybe, just maybe, muzak (commercial shite) and Hollywood (the A/V equivalent) are simply not worth the previous (pre-internets) values. I long for a tip-jar system. Then I could pay The Cooper Temple Clause for their efforts.
I run XP Pro. I've used Vista, and it was shite. Well I say "used"... The machine in question only had a mere half gigabyte of RAM.
Remind me again why security and stability cannot be achieved in slender quick-running code? 'Cos I met this bunch of Penguin fanciers that said otherwise.
Oh and I have games to actually use my GPU.
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/US_Special_Forces_counter-insurgency_manual_FM_31-20-3
This government is carrying out and intensifying counter-insurgency (read: anti-democracy) operations. Seems the psyops are working wonderfully. When was the last proper riot we had?
A total surveillance system is only one brick in the gulag wall.
Sad face, because that's all the dissent we're allowed.
It's not the price that booze is sold at, but WHERE it's sold that influences people's drinking habits.
In this case a corrupt, over-taxed, socially rotten, totalitarian, culturally backward, neo-stalinist post-industrial piss pit.
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Stupidness is the way of things, it's only ballsups like this that shake a little sense into people. Until the next time.
I just grabbed a couple of HP boxes (P4 and Celeron D, one with Sony SCSI tape drive) with hundreds of people's CVs, VPN settings, logins, emails, assorted other company data, and XP Pro keys. From the bushes by the car park of my block of flats.
Should be a tidy couple of hundred, once erased + formatted of course.
I'm no server admin but wouldn't it be some defence to have a text based capcha before the user/pass prompt? Something like:
Fill in the missing word:
I r teh ******
1) luser
2) n00bage
3) r0xx0r
4) h4xx0r
I realise that would bugger automated logins, but there's other ways to sort them out, e.g. a challenge/response table unique to each registered host.
3D pr0n will drive the takeup, as with VHS vs Betamax.
On a technical note, what exactly is required for a TV to handle a 3D signal? If it's just a stereoscopic broadcast, then surely a a normal 2D TV will just play one of the streams as normal, and a 3D TV will just play two of them, linked by some little tag in the channel guide?
And as the early adopters go out to buy their new fangled 3D idiot boxes, perhaps someone will put two 2D TVs side by side, each showing one of the 2 3D streams, and cross their eyes a bit?
I forsee a future where the rich kids with the branded Lego mock the poor kids and their knockoff Chinese "Rego" (pronounced with slitty eyes), while all concerned are sneered at by the smug clever kids (i.e. future Reg readers) and their proper metal nuts-and-bolts Mechano.
Then again... How cheap could China make Rego? A Rego house would probably insulate quite well. Easy to adapt, extend, personalise, etc.
Hmmm I think I've hit on something there. Who says drinking at lunchtime is a bad idea?
My first caffienated brain-burp of the day:
1. Set up VPN VOIP Proxy in a free country. (Sweden?)
2. Produce clients that allow a person's wifi phone (or even bluetooth if you can get the range) to access said proxy for a small fee, via their wifi access point.
3. Allow owners of said access points to share their connection (i.e. just to the proxy) with the members of said proxy, for a cut of the proxy access fee.
4. Profit! :-)
I'm not suggesting this would work everywhere, but it could start with airports, train stations, city centres, petrol stations, supermarkets. Anywhere people would stay within one WiFi network while chatting.
"In addition to the Atom CPU, the N10 comes with 2GB of DDR 2 memory and full-scale GPU, an Nvidia GeForce 9300M GS with 256MB of dedicated video Ram. It also has a 160GB hard drive.
All these are essential, becuase this boy runs Windows Vista."
(El Reg readers in chorus:) "Heh. Not for long..."
Message from A. W. Ebuser:
While we, the userbase, tentatively welcome Google's innovation to accomodate the evolution of websites and their -interactive- content, we must issue some words of caution regarding needless reliance on scripts, applets and suchlike where simpler and more secure static pages will convey the content just as clearly. You must not allow yourselves to slip into the habit of using "pretty things" for their own sake.
For instance: It has come to my attention that some of your number are using JavaScript links where a tried and trusted <a href=...> would suffice. Furthermore, some are you are even coding pages of simple static content (specifically "content" not "content plus pretty widgets that we the users just ignore") that refuse to load (even a scriptless alternative) without JS enabled. For an prime example of this ridiculous nincompoopery from those who should certainly know better, see the Google Chrome comic strip. These practices are of great annoyance and inconvenience to those users, myself included, that are sensible enough to surf with the NoScript Mozilla plugin enabled.
Please refrain from this idiocy, as we are currently considering having repeat offenders shot on sight (of needless JS).
That is all.
They got all the terrorists and corporate swindlers and kiddy fiddlers and crack dealers and we can all go skipping through the streets to welcome the coming of the blissful utopia we have long been promised.
The one with the ticket to rural Portugal in it. (Yup, i'm not just whingeing, I can see whats coming (come?) and I've made arrangements)
Now listen up folks, right here right now...
If you use loads of throughput, you get throttled more as you use it, with dropped packets etc, whatever. So the occasional burst of HTTP isn't affected. The occasional (>5GB) torrent isn't affected. A massive 62GB ST:TNG bulk torrent quickly hits the "bandwidth dampers", at, say, 10GB on that particular day and that user's CONNECTION (not just the torrent) gets throttled. The ISP makes all this CLEAR at signup, and stops using bullshit like "unlimited".
No DPI bollocks. No FUP bollocks. The heaviest users are naturally limited by a fair algorithm.
Basically each KB of data (regardless of what it is, data is data, see "Steal This Film pt 2" for a fairly close representation of my copyright views) decreases a counter in some sort of connection monitoring box. Once the counter reaches a certain low threshold, packets start to be dropped. The amount each KB decreases said counter is multiplied by a value that is some function of "current network load" plus "how cheap-arse their connection package is".
Yes, I've cracked it, I am commonsenseGOD, who wants to touch me?
They'll be sitting there for a fortnight at least:
[img: bored lackey, head in hand, elbow on desk, clicking the emails into the appropriate folders]
Trash.... trash... trash... suspected terrorist... trash... trash... trash... trash.... complement/sarcasm... trash... trash... suspected terrorist.... trash... trash............
Is a modest smartphone type thingy with WiFi, Linux, Skype and Aircrack installed :)
We've all walked round town or our local streets with Airodump going, just out of sheer curiosity, haven't we? WEP/Open signals are somewhat more common that a working phone box around here....
Do a before/after comparison of the dictionary file?
And how come the system doesn't need a reboot every time I add a custom word? OK it's likely because the custom words dictionary is a separate file.
Why not add something like an updates.dic file that does something similar? 56MB for the sake of a few words...
http://www.utorrent.com - for the remaining idiots. Seriously, if that or another *reputable* BitTorrent client isn't a resident of your "Digital Home" (PC) then why the fuck are you reading El Reg? I've gone without _superb games_ to avoid them smearing their copy-protection SHITE all over the walls of my internet abode.... Bioshock, I'm looking at you! Yup, you lost SALES because I and others aint gonna have you fuck with my system (ring 0 drivers) without my express permission. Hey I wonder if piratebay has a copy that won't... Same with you Sony/BMG, though luckily I never fell victim (r00t k!t), I'm not buying any more products of yours. Ever. Oh and the sony mobile phone I bought was a piece of shit too!
Encryption and a tier-based filesharing protocol, with tiers of "trust" for peers and proxy services for those that are new, will step in. Sadly the paedos will most likely adapt this for their own ends, so some sort of distributed undesirable file hash table could help. Perhaps even involve users to rate random files to earn credibility. The Man will never eliminate filesharing, just make it take a little more effort.
BT will send out these BS letters to people who ARE actually infringing "copyright". You do the time, you might possibly do the time. Can't argue with that under the current legal framework. Unless you're a "Rich Cocksucker" as defined by the late great George Carlin, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KReZyAZLI0 seriously, take a few seconds to listen to that and THINK about it.
The ISPs will put off disconnection until proved by a court of law. Too much effort for most filesharers. With the ubiquity of wireless internet some bright spark will develop a prog to share directly via wifi. I wont obther posting a synopsis of my idea here.
All that has happened is an agreement to harass users onto encrypted networks or, as a last resort, sneakernet. WTF? The "Sweex MO250" network I was borrowing is down? Oh well, hello "NETGEAR"! :-D Utter, utter fucktards of the highest caliber.
Oh and by the way COPYRIGHT IS DEAD!!! http:/www.stealthisfilm.com please EVERYONE watch that film.
Now I'm off to chill and drink, one of our few remaining freedoms in disUnited Kingdom.
I think it's more to do with the fact that nobody (intelligent) believes in the terrorists as the Gov describes them. Even Blair fucked up once and admitted that Al Q'Aida is "an ideology, not an organisation" (IIRC, cant be arsed to google).
Some middle aged white bloke (i assume he is) is "clearly not a terrorist". But the peedo label sticks like shit when its flung at a man.
But.... To paraphrase an old saying:
1000 people walk past a Muslim/"oddball". 999 will walk straight past without batting an eyelid. 1 will piss his/her pants and call the government anti-Fre^HDemoc^HTerror hotline. Or perhaps 100/99. Probly not long before it's 10/9.
Chopper, cos people who call the old bill by dutifully obeying a poster as a replacement for actual brain function are the most delusional of all. At least conspiracy nuts know where to look for the *real* terrorist scum.
...Assuming things go as planned/stated. This is a writeup of a press release. No arguments.
"But the technology isn't actually available on the market yet. In fact the two enterprise suites announced last week won't land until later this year."
Has there been a tech demo? Of course not: not even a simulation. It's certainly a good idea, but for the time being nothing more, bar the unreleased dev code deep within Trend. Please don't talk it up as anything more.
Back when it was NTL. His job was to test and review the set top box code that the codemonkeys crapped out.
What was supposed to happen: He files report, tells them where it sucks and how badly it performs, especially on the older model STBs. Lather, rinse, repeat until code is of serviceable quality. Rollout carefully. Round of beers.
What actually happened: He files report, tells them where it sucks and how badly it performs, especially on the older model STBs. Rollout regardless. Customers with older hardware get to watch the STB creakily rendering the fancy new purple interface, where the old blue/yellow one did all the same great stuff like changing channels and showing a program guide. Instantly.
WTF were they paying him for?
Paris cos I was riding his wife.
<<< ... while section 82 of the criminal justice and police act gives rights the police to keep and use fingerprints and samples to prevent and detect crime, it does so with restrictions, that is among other things the prints or samples have to be taken in the course of an investigation to a crime for them to be legally kept. >>>
WRONG!!! Well, sorta, overall, at the end of the day, the money on the table is...
You can be arrested for your conduct, but not under tht particular piece of legislation. "Conduct"!!! Try to avoid conduct. To almost-quote Messrs Bird and Fortune (Mr and Mrs J. Foreigner please see: http://www.channel4.com/video/bremner-bird-and-fortune/ ) "Just you try avoiding "conduct"... I mean even sitting quietly with your eyes closed is still "conduct" isn't it!?!?"
And once you are nicked for your "conduct" they got your prints and DNA forever. Oh and they will likely hold you in a cell for at least 12 hours with no food and very little water. They will give you the odd "meal" but believe me I know for a fact (thanks to my choice of natural herbal insomnia treatment) that it ain't "food".
The End.
Don't support the music industry that bollockses about with my society (government, economy, law, and the soul-destroying messages children get from their lyrics and videos), releases crap noises and some decent tunes that arrive at the pressing plant as crappy noise thanks to over-loud volume levelling that muffles the bass and overdrives everything else.
Remember Keane? Brilliant. Checked out some mp3s, couldnt stand them. Listened to a kosher CD, just to make sure, still unlistenable. Two words: "Dynamic range". Furthermore, 44.1Khz 16 bit stereo does NOT pass muster in 2008. What ever happened to DVD Audio?
I'd stop buying music because of all the above, but I already did. 5 years ago. I'm proud to say that little if any of my money is funding the industry's behaviour.
Surely in this day and age, when crims have massive botnets at their disposal and even smartcards and WEP are found to be flawed, you wouldn't base SSL or any other encryption on a random seed that wasn't KNOWN to be truly physiclly random? e.g. LSBs from a recording of the microphone jack, or even a dedicated RNG PCI card?
Seriously, it's down to common bloody sense and covering your arse to the limits of your technical ability these days. No excuses.
Flame cos I know the excuses will flow thick and fast.
Sorry if I've had a bit much Stella, but I'm self employed and I've done my work for the day. Ah the luxury of a self-determined life!
Yeah anyway... Thank goodness they (MI*, ???, etc) aren't collating and mining all this data with the online No. 10 petitions system ("please Sir, may I have some more?"), ANPR driving records, bank accounts, communications data (call/location data), internet usage records from the "Black Boxes" (ACLU? RSF? NO2ID?), magazine subscriptions (Adbusters.org?), and whatnot to identify potential subversives (i.e. non-violent citizens, love their country, hate The Man and his mates screwing their country)
If they did/are doing all that (which they are already have the ability to do, and have a massive counter-democratic incentive to carry out) then anyone attempting democracy is fucked.
But no... I'm sure it's just gross incompetence! As it always is for everything the gov have done to us, ever. Rather than a deliberate well-thought-out attack upon everyday democracy. So no need to rise up and blah blah blah...
Yup. The gov is just stupid. Nothing to see here. Go back to sleep everyone!
The train network, all of a sudden (it seems to me, anyway) has become, well, affordable! It's dropped below the price of petrol to get from Brum to London in a car (VW Golf GTi Mk2 1.8L 8v, cruising 85mph on an empty M6) even when I take a taxi to the station.
www.nationalrail.co.uk - check ticket prices for a range of dates and times. I could have booked a midday Tuesday train from Brum to London for £7.25, using a Young Person's railcard. I could go right now for £11.80. Even without the railcard you'd be hard pushed to drive it on that amount of fuel. Then factor in road tax and insurance and vehicle purchase/maintainance and the stress of those monumental cretins doing 70-odd in the overtaking lane and oblivious to the exodus of undertakers to the left of them. They make me want to kill!
Seriously, check the single fares for journeys you make. You can leave the car, save money, and read a book or bash away on your laptop. Oh and help save the planet, if you give a crap about all that. I don't, cos I don't and won't have kids.
I'm sick of hearing all this "If politicians were competent.... blah blah".
They ARE competent! Look at how quickly and efficiently the United Kingdom's infrastructure, economy, land, education, media, etc have been opened up to a massive corporate feeding frenzy. Incompetence just happens to be a very very good excuse. They have no reason to care about "us". It's not like we can choose how they spend our taxes.
OK back to corporations*, and specifically BT. If you don't like their product, go elsewhere. If you dislike America, don't buy their wine/cola/cars/films/news/etc. I don't. That's that sorted, right? Right. Buy ethical/sustainable products at twice the price, economically self-punish yourself, and more profit margin for the retailers!
And as for the Phorm guff, it's a private network, what right do people have to privacy of communication across it? Use encryption or put up and shut up. Seriously, if you don't like BT (and believe me I don't after just recieving a demand for about 80 quid for a line and number I cancelled in September!) move to a telephony provider that doesn't use LLU or resell BT ADSL, and therefore BT will not profit. Such as Virgin or.... errrr.... Virgin. If you're lukcy, and if they're any good for you. Maybe.
OK those that can't/won't move to Virgin set up a No. 10 petition, cos that's the way to make things happen: ASK for it! Because the ability to ask for something makes a democracy. Just like the orphanage that Oliver Twist was priveliged enough to attend.
Hmmmm... Maybe we are all rogered after all! Lucky I saw all this coming years ago and made plans, so I'm sorted no matter how bad things get! Now I've been a smug little shite and also suggested a way out of this quagmire for those caught up in it. Mission accomplished! Heh.
- S~I
* An extract from the film "The Corporation". Marc Barry, Author, Spooked: Espionage in Corporate America:
"In 1998 I was invited to Washington DC to attend this meeting that was being put together by the national security agency called the Critical Thinking Consortium. I remember standing there in this room and looking over on one side of the room and we had CIA, NSA, DIA, FBI, Customs, Secret Service, and on the other side of the room we had Coca Cola, Mobile Oil, GTE and Kodak. And I remember thinking, I am in the epicenter of the intelligence industry right now. I mean, the line is not just blurring, it’s just not there anymore. And to me it spoke volumes as to how industry and government were consulting with each other and working with each other."
I'm sorry Mr Corporation, but one drive failure is unfortunate, two is carelessness. IBM/Hitachi have lost my business. End of.
Incidentally so have all the major record labels, Microsoft, the UK Gov. (I don't pay tax, ha!), American Corporations where possible, and whoever else I can hurt by voting with my wallet.
As for hard drives, I'm either increadibly smart, increadibly dumb, or increadibly brave. I've been running 4 x Seagate Barracuda 250gb RAID0 for over 2 years now on an NForce5 mobo, with a 160 GB backup drive for the important stuff. Some years ago I had TWO DeathStar drives go titsup on me DAYS out of the warranty. Bastards.
The harder MS make it for the pirates, the more individuals will be forced to shell out for Windows. Corporate customers already have to anyway.
Except those people who cannot afford a legit copy of Windows. Like the single mum on a modest wage for whose kids I just sorted out a P600 box running a cracked VLK copy of XP. Microsoft built its market share on the total or near-total lack of anti-piracy measures in 3.x, NT, 9x, and other apps.
Make it enough of a pain in the arse and people like me, who no doubt install the vast majority of pirated software, will simply start installing a suitable Linux distro and pointing them in the direction of some tutorial sites.
Cue a load more people well versed in, or at least comfortable with Linux.
Cue them getting into management positions, IT jobs, and even running their own companies, ever mindful of the bottom line. Or just causing word-of-mouth.
Cue MS going mental and releasing windows on a license similar to a lot of apps: "free for home and non-commercial use".
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