Posts by Adam 52

Re: Do your own - it's safer

Really? You have your own cable laid? And your own connection at LINX? And your own power station? Duplicated in case of fault. And your own oil refinery for that power station? Wow!

Re: Cough

"armed police were dispatched before the first 999 call came in because of CCTV monitoring"

Might be true, but can't find anyone from the Met saying that. It would explain the very quick response.

"IIUC the guy was brought down by a minister's bodyguard before"

Again, can't find any evidence of this. PC Charlie Guenigault was an off-duty unarmed response officer - what most of you would consider a normal policeman - and something of a hero.

"standing police presence was enough to ensure that 999 was redundant"

This is definitely wrong. Granted Police presence is much higher than you'd find most other places in the UK but there is no standing presence on Borough High St or Borough Market. Nor indeed was there any at the time of these attacks.

Re: Where's the substance?

See your point there, thanks.

Still not entirely sure why Mr Putin from Moscow buying ads is more sensitive than Mr Redneck from Texas if both are declared. And acknowledged that they weren't declared this time. Does US law require everyone to declare their influence? If it does Facebook look to be in trouble.

Wanting to nail Kushner on a technicality I can understand.

Re: How often?

Lots of lawyer fodder in May. Which I guess is why they're changing.

But it's not just aptitude, Windows Update and Play Store do the same. Heck Play Store forces an update everything on a new Android version. Technically that's all​ illegal at the moment but nobody cares. The publicity around GDPR and the closing loopholes will make it much easier for the sueballs. And I consider that a good thing.

Depends. Some people do. We do, or at least try to. It's tricky because it's almost impossible to get a reliable control group or even a reliable sample but you can produce long term trends.

We know, for example, what the optimum rate of ads is before they start to be a turn off. We also know how long it takes you to forget and forgive. Both are averages and will vary by person, so we tend to model by clusters.

And then there's whether your annoyance affects your purchasing behaviour.

Re: Google's arrogance exceeds its common sense

She's a little older than the women Schmidt usually like to "influence", but I suppose it's possible.

Re: Developer bad habits?

In the old days you could put all sorts of rubbish on your box safe in the knowledge that it wasn't routable from the Internet.

Nowadays everything is port 80 or 443, even file access (e.g. s3) and microservices mean every little thing has a REST over http endpoint visible from the Internet regardless if the inefficiency that creates.

Putting everything on http is the equivalent of not having a firewall.

Re: One more sep

"c) the pilot(s) are unstressed, more situationally aware and more likely to make the correct decision"

Doesn't seem to be true -

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/01/us-drone-whistleblowers-brussels-european-parliament

Re: Wasn't Ocean scrapped to save money?

I don't really understand Navy ship types, but it strikes me that the reason for Ocean's purchase - supporting small, fast overseas troop deployments - haven't really gone away.

Re: Data Slurp

"Yep completely agree. There are so many ways an ill-disposed IT worker with admin rights could get bulk data access "

My bet would be IT too. Not sure why you're all so keen to assume it's the Indians, could just as easily be anyone anywhere in the world.

Personally I'd just have a trigger in the CRM pushing records to SNS, but that's a bit easy to stop and trace. Fits the real-time profile though.

It might not be BT's leak - they could just be playing the probabilities with data scraped elsewhere we haven't heard from everyone who didn't fit the profile.

Re: Which is exactly why it is higher on May priority list

"'that being in prison is a violation of their right to a family life'

Which has no relevance to the ECHR. This example is worthy of the Daily Mail."

Exactly. Every other country is subject to the ECHR and nobody else has this problem and no other country's press and politician's whip up this sort of hysteria. It's almost as if the gutter press is concerned about being unable to invade privacy whenever they want. If fault lies anywhere it's with the English judiciary for it's occasionally bizarre rulings.

" I think El Reg has misinterpreted this ruling."

The Reg article is awful. But it does link to the ruling, which is an excellent piece. Reg's article is, thankfully, better than the Reuters piece most new outlets copied.

Re: Plus...

"there can be large savings by going on premises or co-location"

I've never seen a properly costed plan that shows this. They all tend to ignore staff costs, opportunity cost, decommissioning cost or all three.

Re: Did you all forget your coffee today?

I suppose that depends on what you consider to be a browser.

Re: " ... in line with its policy of adhering to local laws."

Not sure who you are having a dig at, Apple or the Chinese government, but:

Chinese Law limits the length of the working week to 5 days at 8 hours a day with a maximum 36 hours per month overtime. That's substantially better than the EU working time directive (48 hours/week over 17 weeks and which the UK allows employers to opt people out of by default).

Health and Safety precautions and policies are mandatory, just as they are in the UK. And they have occasionally executed people for breaking them.

There do seem to be some employers that allegedly flout the rules. You may be suggesting that Apple picks and chooses which laws to respect.

It's easy, just try googling for "site:s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com" and start digging.

Re: MS-as-usual

'Might be the "most consistent APIs ever created" by Microsoft...'

Go on then, name a better one!

"the lists are already readily available so it not as if the really bad guys could not get their hands on them on a lazy Saturday afternoon"

I dispute this. First off this rainbow table didn't exist until these people created it, some might have had it but not everyone. Secondly the lists might have been available in theory but in practice it's a bit tricky. Tricky enough to stop your casual script kiddie finding them. What Troy's done is make them available to everyone. A bit like the difference between my mother's maiden name in theory being available to anyone who cares to look at the records office and being available to anyone to download easily on a Saturday afternoon.

So whilst there may have been a hundred or so potential users of these leaked lists there are now millions.

It's not good to rely on obscurity but having it helps, as anyone who does more than parrot back mantras knows.

Re: Alternatives?

The authors suggest that other VoIP software is likely vulnerable too.

Of course you could use a sensible protocol for voice and not try to coax it over (cheap) IP, but that ship has long sailed.

Re: It's all well and good... but...

SDHC is 4GB to 32GB and uses FAT32.

SDXC is 64GB to 2TB and uses exFAT.

So a device specified in the 64GB+ range will likely work with big cards, a device quoting 32GB and below is less likely to work.

A certain amount of baby and bathwater going on there. You'll be blocking me (not that I expect you to care about that.)

Re: Fitbit claims four days...

Yes, but your Garmin will break every time your phone gets updated or your watch gets updated and every so often Garmin Connect will kill your phone's battery for no good reason.

I will grant you that it's the best of the smartwatches. The "just look on the watch for a grid reference" trick never stops being amazing. Needed it Monday when the main Garmin satnav decided to crash miles from the nearest road.

Re: Nothing wrong with being "wrongfully" arrested

"But here in the US Detained means stopped then let go Arrested usually means"

Similar here. Although grounds for arrest are much weaker in the UK than the US. Since Theresa May clamped down on detention the requirements for both are pretty much the same (reasonable grounds to suspect), so new constables tend to arrest or turn a blind eye. Arrest carries with it broader powers than detention so is safer, legally, for the officer. Obviously it's more intrusive for the person being arrested, but that just shows you Theresa May's thought process - she wanted the ability to say she's done something rather than actually doing something useful. It also means almost nobody is detained for a search for knives any more, which is why knife crime is rising.

An arrest warrant is cast-iron grounds to arrest (technically speaking not arresting is contempt of court but I don't think it's enforced).

Re: Article doesn't clear much up but muddies it further.

Agreed, this article is a very bad guide to the regulation.

I would recommend the guide on the Information Commissioner's website, it's easy to read and understand and from a source that should know what they're talking about.

Re: Still not happening

Our old fashioned thermostat is integrated with our irregular schedule. When we get cold we push the "on" button.

Re: Sea Shepherd submarine @ Hans 1

The majority of Japanese hold anti-Korean views. It would be considered more offensive than generic sewage.

Re: To get justice in the US...

Not just the US. Can't, at the moment, think of any jurisdiction that offers a fair trial to the poor or middle incomes. Certainly not England.

Re: Grasping at straws

" I doubt it will be long before brexit is blamed for the weather."

No, that's gay marriage. Don't you remember the UKIP campaign?

Re: Hmmmm

You need to understand the difference between reporting an incident and reporting a recordable crime.

You can report anything you want, but it will only get recorded as a crime under very defined circumstances. That's important because response targets (those targets that Theresa May says don't exist) are based on crimes not incidents.

In the case of fraud your local Police standard procedure will be to ignore it and wait for the victim to report it. Act on Fraud might deal, because they are the national body designed to investigate systematic fraud. Those are the rules. If you don't like it, don't blame the messenger lobby your MP or Police Commissioner. Perhaps using these statistics. But bear in mind the six officers on your local shift will be run off their feet sorting out everything else from parking disputes to lost children to murders and won't have the time to do any sort of serious investigation.

Think about data protection law. It's still a crime, you can report it to the Police, but the national body to investigate is the Information Commissioner so the Police won't do anything.

Re: Although it's a bit crap....@CraPo

Google Drive is £80/month for that amount of storage.