Posts by Ole Juul

Re: Esc

'attacked with Vim"

and vigour

Re: " I live in an old building with seven outside doors"

lol it's actually an historical old west general store. Crazy and different, but not the castle that some might imagine. (here) Ya, I'm not normal, but I can still remember to lock my doors when I go out.

Re: 2fa choices

"I don't really understand this - there are very few people left who don't have a mobile phone already (the only one I can think of out of everyone I know/meet is my mother-in-law) so why would you need to buy another?"

I was not entirely truthful, but rather using a literary shortcut. I do actually have several cell phones in my parts pile. The problem is that, like a surprising number of places outside of cities, there is no coverage here. The point is that a 2fa implementation needs to be available to everybody and not just people who live in cities. As we see from the responses above, there are ways to accomplish this and it is just a matter of services adopting them.

Re: One good thing

I'm expecting to see more used drones on Ebay now. Particularly ones without a controller or the original box.

Re: or, they could really encourage 2FA everywhere

And lots of people don't even have a cellphone, let along get a signal. Seriously, if a site or service cannot come up with something that works for everybody without having to purchase additional equipment and services they should be questioning their ability to develop security solutions for themselves.

tyrants

Nice post lukewarmdog.

"What happens when you add ethics is that the car decides your lifestyle is impure."

This is what is happening now. People's choices are being taken over by overzealous and misinformed corporate marketers - from my perspective, evil. It is imperative that people take control and ownership of the technology they use and that it not dictate their choices. I am reminded of this quote by Napoleon Bonaparte: "Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."

Re: National regulation won't do a damned thing.

Problem is these "nice things" are interfering with normal things. Perhaps some day we'll evolve to where bling is not considered cool.

Re: Redundant DNS providers

The problem in this case is that DYN is the host for these domains which are spread over many servers. It is not like one domain name and one IP. Unless you have relevant information in cache, a lookup isn't going to work.

Re: Maybe..

A class action law suit by users of these devices would cover older models just fine. My non-lawyer thinking suggests that being put at risk without any warning labels would make a case. I want to see these socially irresponsible companies put out of business. I'm sure there are others willing and able to take their place.

Re: Walled Gardens?

"I would rather buy a device that uses open protocols"

I'm with you there. And I would like to see IoT labelled in that regard. If it isn't open source it should say:

WARNING, this device contains CLOSED software and will need future repairs from the manufacturer.

Re: "It's finally happened"

Don't know about "custom router". Sounds like you're doing the hardware too. I'm sure that can have advantages, especially with the low power consumption computers like Raspberry Pi and such. However, lots of off-the-shelf routers support Linux. I've never had to run the proprietary software on my home routers, choosing instead to install Tomato immediately upon getting the device. My main router is currently an older Asus RT N-16. Has lots of memory for extra stuff too.

Re: Any DuckDuckGo users out there concerned about partnership with Yahoo???

I'd buy it for a buck, just for the lols. Anybody here get a SCO share certificate before the collector's price went up?

Re: Newer refrigerators use pentane

Propane is a direct drop-in for R12 and you can use it safely in your car. See here. Lots of people are doing it. A licensed person probably can't do it, but you can do it yourself or use an intermediate refrigerant to circumvent the law - this will depend on country.

There is a lot of FUD on this topic. I suspect that it is both political and emotional. I note that the ones crying fire/danger are not generally experts and in fact refrigerative engineers think propane (sold as R290) is just fine. Here is an article from actual experts: Propane as R22-Replacement in Commercial Appliances

What the FUDsters (fudtards?) don't seem to know is the basics. Propane has a very narrow flammability limit. In fact 2.15 and 9.6% of the total propane/air mixture must be propane in order for it to be combustible. If you are outside of this range, it won't burn. It is an exceptionally safe gas. Appliance engineers calculate the amount of propane in a refrigerator and look at what mixture you would get in a small kitchen if all the propane got out at once. This would be an extremely rare event but even then you could not have a fire or explosion because there is not enough propane to make a flammable mixture.

I'm thinking that there might be some economic and control issues somewhere in the supply chain regarding traditional refrigerants. Bringing up the fear of fire and explosion is an effective way to stop people considering this gas - even though the scientific facts show them to be lying.

Re: Wow!

"You mean they finally realised that no matter how hard and long you flog a dead horse, it's never pulling your wagon?

I doubt that lot will ever learn that. More likely the head council realised it was a dead end for him.

Re: Preview email in plain text only

"Mobile email has always made me despair. You cannot usually view the headers"

So targeting mobile users has advantages.

Re: £100 a week for a year with Tesco's delivery service comes in at about £26,000 cheaper

No Marmite. No deal.

Re: The Kit Is Fast Becoming Just Tools

"Because, 'new, shiny' isn't enough to sell a new computer these days."

Shiny is especially unimportant when it goes under you desk.

"Police/secret squirrels aren't going to pay commercial rates."

Then they can do without, just like with any other commodity they buy.

I'm hoping we'll be seeing Verison!

(not sure if formal punctuation demands a period after the ! in that sentence)

Re: The feds would have to ask correctly

Not a bad plan, but that wouldn't get them the contents of emails, which I believe is the issue here.

Re: Bit of FUD really

It seems to be popular to assume that Tor users are unaware of basic security practice. I guess that makes a more popular story.

Re: Loonies

@Kurt Meyer I think you didn't catch the gist. Of course there are loonies everywhere and I completely understand your message. However, you may not have noticed, like I have, the number of posts on DNS forums and IRC looking for alternatives to ICANN because they are afraid that the UN will censor sites talking about guns. Do you really think this is not remarkable? My comment was not a generalised one but targeted directly at DNS interests which is the topic of this article.

what does better mean?

Yes, Firefox's pdf viewer works just fine already, and it would be better if they just stopped supporting flash altogether. Here's hoping things don't get worse.

some serious porridge time?

You mean send them to Scotland?

Re: Good news

"Agreed, but the bad news is that there's more than enough kit out there to cause havoc and little if any means to get it cleaned up."

Cleaning up what's there may indeed take a long time. But surely there are a few key manufacturers of this kit who could be sued and prevented from continuing the situation. If not a class action suit, then publicly shaming of the these charlatans is at least a possibility. Other consumer devices are required to meet certain basic safety standards. I see no reason why the same principles wouldn't apply here.

fail

"It cost them money to create that "professional capacity" wifi system."

But as it turns out it wasn't actually professional capacity.