Posts by KitD

Re: Fraud Detection

I had a call from my bank

"Are you in India?"

"Err, no. Deepest Surrey"

"Have you just used your debit card?"

"Nope. Been at home for hours" (it was about 10.30pm)

That was also fraud prevention.

Re: Correction

Firstly, no one mentioned timestamps. You don't need them. Only the last 14 days worth of encountered tokens.

Secondly, location & cell data is already happily donated free-of-charge to Google/Apple anyway. If the spooks were that minded, there are much easier ways of gathering it.

Re: Far too many facets

> They should remove it, but they didn't know it was coming.

What's wrong with content moderation? Post your videos/comments but it will only go live when we've checked it out.

Yes, it takes time & resources and cuts into FB's/Google's profits, but the world doesn't owe them an exorbitant revenue stream. They'll have to bloody well earn it by showing they're responsible hosters (which long-term may well be a good business model anyway.)

Re: Note to self ..

Even better, set up a certbot renew cron job

Re: Do a contract for TSB...

Erm, IBM didn't write the TSB systems. They were acquired by a Spanish bank that did it themselves.

IBM were called in to investigate the mess.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44562229

Re: No JWS - Oh Joy...

Have you looked at GetDown https://github.com/threerings/getdown ?

Mixed experiences a couple of years back, but I have heard it is greatly improved since.

Re: The problem is people.

Similar position, me.

Problem I have is that my chosen sport sub is overrun with US high schoolers with their 'coach was mean to me and dropped me' posts. *Sigh* Fortunately I have other sources.

I do think that the general level of discussion is very good in the more scientific subs, esp r/askscience which is a great read.

Overall Reddit is about the best you can get while allowing anyone to post anything anonymously.

Re: Wow...

2700 secs allocated for it.

http://www.buildingiot.london/sessions/privacy-challenges-with-iot-implementations/

Re: Die Java Die

You've been reading too much Reddit. Those criticising Java in 2016 tend to be the ones who left it behind at Java 6 and early JEE, or hate static typing in general.

Modern Java doesn't compare. The new closure syntax and streaming API is enough to satisfy 90% of use cases where FP is needed. There are a ton of Sinatra-like libraries for writing small lightweight microservices, and the ecosystem, which was already vast, has only got bigger since v6.

I've had to move to Node/JS. I'd move back to Java in a flash if I could.

Re: Great article

A capacitor driven by flowing water = a flux capacitor, right?

And 1.2 jiggawatts in 12 seconds? I assume that can only be achieved by at flow rate of EXACTLY 88 mph,no?

Re: Screen grabs

Whisper it quietly, but I quite enjoyed the film :)

@moiety

> I don't trust Microsoft.

To be fair, that is an emotional response like the one you highlighted in point 1.

Re: A shame for those staff affected

This works with apps like RunKeeper, Strava etc

http://www.amazon.co.uk/CooSpo-Bluetooth-Wireless-Monitor-Fitness/dp/B00UADFP16?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00

and only £20.

@DougS Re: Solution looking for a problem

> Whether each layer adds their approval into a blockchain, sends an email, signs a piece of paper or sends up smoke signals won't change that.

It will if the blockchain is of the "smart" variety proposed by IBM et al. Approvals like that become part of the transaction handling, with all communication between the parties and the blockchain, rather than each other.

Re: Every component of the application (should) be retested

"A shell script is bunch of interacting "micro services". This is just the latest attempt to spray fairy dust on the mundane and get the PHBs swooning."

Well, except that your shell script was (probably) only written by one person.

The principal benefit of microservices IME is that it fits naturally with Conway's Law [1] by design, which is generally A Good Thing. Not saying it is all sweetness and light, and yes, conceptually it is very similar to the long list of modularisation techniques that have gone before, but there are certain key technologies in the limelight now (eg Docker, REST, CD) that make it worth pursuing IMHO.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

Re: What about the CVSS score

Here we go. Top 20 based on weighted average CVSS score:

9.6 Air Sdk

9.6 Air Sdk & Compiler

9.5 AIR

9.4 Flash Player

9.4 Office

9.3 Internet Explorer

9.3 Acrobat

9.2 Acrobat Reader

8.3 Firefox Esr

8.1 Thunderbird

8.1 Windows Server 2003

8 Seamonkey

8 Windows Server 2008

8 Windows Vista

7.9 Windows Xp

7.9 Windows 7

7.9 Windows 2003 Server

7.9 Itunes

Edit: Full list at https://kitd.github.io/CVEAnalysis.html

Re: Not actually new, you know

@YAAC Surely they should all be banana-sized?

Re: Facts

> The cross-platform stuff was then, and still largely is, marketing. Sun was a single platform hardware company.

I disagree. When I moved from "cross-platform" C++ to Java in the late 1990s, all of a sudden the sun shone every day and the birds began to sing again.

You also forgot that the ecosystem was developed precisely to run on a variety on consumer devices.

Re: Don't Forget....

> 1) the GWR bridge over the thames at Maidenhead. Many respected engineers thought that it would fall down

AIUI, it still holds the world record for the lowest height/width ratio for a brick bridge. It also has a fantastic sounding echo underneath.

Re: Prints .... emails?

Put an image of the EURion constellation in the signature. That should "solve" any printing issues.

Re: Outstanding

With apologies to the RAF, "Per taberna ad astra" works better IMHO.

Re: oh dear

Also happy ex-OSF customer here. Only gave it up for a Moto G when I wanted a newer Android and my daughter wanted a cheap smartphone. Didn't take much persuading mind.

I'm also a rower. Unfortunately, any external substance that alters the hull/water boundary layer (eg denticles) is banned.

Hey ho. Just have to pull harder.

Re: Stop.

I realise going against the Reg hivemind is risky, but there's a whole world outside the home & kitchen.

Where I used to live, we had new streetlights installed that could be dimmed remotely and report back to base if it failed. That's what's really meant by the Internet of Things, not fridges and toasters which have constant human proximity.

Oil pipelines that actually tell their operators when they start leaking, river sluices that notify of changes in water levels, traffic lights that tell the road authorities when they have stopped working, animal feed troughs that need refilling. It's all the remote stuff that nobody can police 24/7. Management by exception, etc, etc needs the "Things" to be "Internetted".

HTH.

Re: Kwazi, Peso, Barnacles, Inkling, Dashi, Shellington, Tweak, Tunip!

You'll be glad to hear today's encounter with the Snot Sea Cucumber had my lot in stitches.

Not surprising since avoiding central financial control is one of Bitcoin's principal raisons d'etre. See the very first sentence in:

http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution"

Re: I'm on it!

"suitable for the most basic of home users"

Ie 95% of typical MS Office users.

@ShagBag

You've omitted any reference to immigrants and climate change. How can we take you seriously?

Scintilla

Yes, it's also in NotePad++ which, like Sublime, inherits it from Scintilla which underlies both of them.

Re: They should call the system Sherlock...

They've already had HOLMES (Home Office Large Major Enquiry System)

iOS maybe?

Re: Unfortunately,

> Technically you also have the right to shout 'fire' without any evidence of a conflagration being present

This neatly demonstrates the utter pointlessness of 'rights' without 'responsibilities'. To defend and demand the right to shout 'Fire' unnecessarily is to turn ones rights into such a weak and vapid abstraction that it is an insult to those who fight for the right to speak out against REAL oppression.

Really, why demand the right to offend for no other reason than 'because I can'?

Re: Agree with P_0 about PHP

Actually, PHP has its origins in Perl, being originally some Perl scripts to preprocess HTML before serving.

I think PHP is one of those technologies that is being asked to do far more than it was originally designed to do. It was the first server-side language to use HTML templates which IMHO deserves some credit, but the original language was designed to do not much more than that. Now people want to write full-blown enterprise apps in it :rollseyes: