Posts by Jamie Jones 4301 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jun 2007
systemd'oh! DNS lib underscore bug bites everyone's favorite init tool, blanks Netflix
As someone considering a move to BSD away from Arch, can you elaborate on what you don't like about the BSD userland stuff?
I guess it's what you're used to. I much prefer the cleanness and coherence of the BSD userland. Hierarchical structure is much cleaner, and the command options are far more coherent and structured.
Anyway, if you want, most of the GNU main commands are easily installable, so I see no downside.
DNS is meant to be a distributed system, and your local resolver should be as close as possible.
You also don't want to use a server you can't trust to not intentionally send bogus results.
So, why all these dumb solutions? If you don't want to use a forwarding DNS to your local ISPs server, just roll your own recursive dns. it's virtually configuration free
Canada is welcome to all the travelers from countries that cannot properly vet its citizens (per Obama's standards). If the tourist dollars are worth the risk to their citizens, OK. Perhaps they will take a more careful approach if they get a building or crowd bombed.
A tip: Don't say things like this aloud. It just shows you are:
1) A scared little snowflake (to use your right wing terms)... Funny how the Trumpets come up with insulting words for others that actually apply more to them. It's of course a classic case of Psychological Projection.. Trumpets could have written the book on that subject (if the could read)
2) Someone who believes Fox 'news'. They make out that terrorists are running amoc in Europe, Sharia law is taking over, and silly misguided fools believe it.
3) ISIS supporter. - ISIS is all about unjustified restrictions on people, and therefore loves unjustified restrictions 'the land of the free' puts on innocent people - not only is it good old ISIS thinking, but the whole point of their terrorism attacks is to frighten people unproportionally to the actual threat. You are a classic case of one of their pawns. They want the West to demonise innocent Muslims. It helps their cause. You are one of their star foot-soldiers.
4) An American traitor. Related to the above points, you show why countries have been losing respect for America. True American patriots are friendly, tolerant, helpful. fair, and very intelligent and innovative. It's what actually made America great. I feel sorry for the many decent Americans now surrounded by a bunch of insular, paranoid, scared, racist bigots who seem to wear stupidity as a badge of honour.
As for tourist dollars, you want to keep people out to keep you safe, but ironically there are 2 major things affecting peoples desire to holiday in America - the aforementioned border restrictions, and your out of control gun crime.
Now, to save you from falling into the trap, I'll help you out. - Your reply would probably be about how the gun violence problem is exagerated, and people are naturally scared of something the press hypes up if they don't actually live there and know the real situation.
Well, I agree - (to an extent - there may be some hype to it, but the right wings response is positively delusional)
But guess what - DING-DING-DING - That's exactly what you are doing with terrorism threats, and then some.
So, please tell me why terrorism is driving you potty when:
More Americans are killed by toddlers with guns than terrorists
Finally, for your reading pleasure: The Psychology of why Americans are more scared of terrorism than gun, even though guns are 3,210 times likelier to kill them.
Have a nice day!
If choosing how to spend their own money attracts such opprobrium, perhaps we could have your list of Jamie Jones Approved Spending For the Mega Rich?
Oh fuck off you humourless piece of sanctimonious anonymous shit. Do your "rich people white-knighting' where someone gives a crap.
But the users are not google etc. they are the residential customers.
If a customer buys a service that allows XX bandwidth, then it makes no difference to the ISP where the customer uses that allocation.
If the ISP offers unmetered access, then the same principle applies, and if the ISP has a problem with that it's their fault for over-selling.
Trying to charge netflix more because a paying customer *requests* data from netflix is double-dipping
The issue seems to be whether a monkey can own the copyright..
I don't think it should be that way - it should be more related to the circumstances. It was the guys equipment and setup, he should own the copyright.
Similarly, if instead of a monkey, it was a 2 year old kid, the guy with the equipment should win.
However, I don't think this should generally mean monkeys can't own a copyright - that would be unfair for those occasions when monkeys do indeed purchase the equipment and set up the shot.
HTH - IANAL
Our thanks for the tipoff go to Reg reader Jamie (among others), who "thought some other saddos reading may be interested!" There's nothing sad about studying Unix timestamps, Jamie.
W00T My name is El Reg lights!
Maybe you're correct, but I'm definitely a saddo for this comment!
Is that a subtle reference to celibacy - or his widely quoted comments to reporters on the plane back from his Philippines trip?
Neither. There was no hidden meaning. I was under the impression that condoms had been sanctioned....
Off to google... Ok, found this: Vatican Confirms Shift on Condom use
Reading the article, there are some caveats I didn't realise, but other than that, why the frig did my original post deserve 2 downvotes? Those 2 morons would be better served on youtube-comments.
(yeah, i know - mentioning downvotes on el reg just ensures you get more of them. Bring it on!)
That article you link to is clumsily written, and shows a total bias against the concept of net neutrality. It's also obviously written by a hard right wing conservative, even though there was no need to bring left-right politics into it.
It starts off by saying that his point is valid, because this argument isn't actually about net neutrality, and starts to explain how. This argument soon unravels until eventually giving up and attacking the merits of net neutrality directly. The "evil google/facebook" etc. argument could have worked, but was shown to be a smoke screen.
And who can pass by this golden nougat:
Fight for the Future looks like a groovy progressive internet civil rights group. They even have a transgender spokesperson!
Classy.
""Illegal copying" or "Illegal sharing" is a much better name, but then again, it doesn't make the perpetrators look like horrible criminals, does it?"
Indeed. And the US courts have confirmed that.
From: https://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-banned-from-using-piracy-and-theft-terms-in-hotfile-trial-131129/:
Leading up to the trial, Hotfile has scored several significant wins against the MPAA. The Florida federal court ruled on several motions this week, and many went in favor of the file-hosting service. Most prominently, Judge Kathleen Williams decided that the movie studios and its witnesses are not allowed to use “pejorative” terms including “piracy,” “theft” and “stealing” during the upcoming proceedings.
And add to that that in the US at least, violating a copyright isn't illegal, so it's not even really "illegal copying." It's a civil matter, not criminal, until the violator knowingly and intentionally tries to use the copied material "on a commercial scale."
Some may be surprised, but It's the same here in the UK:
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/h_to_k/intellectual_property_crime/
http://www.inbrief.co.uk/intellectual-property/criminal-liability-copyright/
Bob Is American.
From: https://hbr.org/2009/10/a-metric-of-americas-competiti:
Inevitably, students ask me why Americans continue to use the old system. Most are surprised to learn that even the English have largely given up on it. That’s when I walk us over to the classroom map and ask the group how many nations other than the U.S. still officially use ounces and inches. Guesses are usually in the neighborhood of 10 or 15. When I reveal that the answer is two, they immediately assume that Canada and Australia are the holdouts. The correct answers, though, are Liberia and Myanmar, which we then proceed to find on the map. Perplexed, students cock their heads and ask again, this time with concern, why in the world Americans continue to use the old system.
You need to read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuous_mode
LOL, no, it seems you do.
Hint: These are not ad-hoc networks.
Hint2: Each client has a unique encryption key to the AP.
Hint3: The only way a client can see data is if the AP specifically sends it to the client.
IIS / .Net scales better and is usually faster on the same hardware and has a far better security record over the last decade than a LAMP stack
LOL, How did you manage to write those 2 statements without a grin on your face?
Is C£ some lame nickname for C Sharp ? If so it's really not funny or witty.
He didn't write C£.
Maybe you don't know that the hash sign is also known as the "pound" sign.
You should know that it looks virtually the same as the "sharp" sign.
So, I reply condescendingly to your inappropriate condescending reply to Bob!
Again - there are lots of advantages versus say Java.
Strawman. Neither apache (these are not tomcat results) or nginx are written in Java.
My sentiments exactly. I used to love startcom, but I've been removing wosign and starcom certificates manually since this story originally broke out.
One thing - I'm sure I'm not the only one to ignore "this site is untrusted" messages on sites I don't deem important. They need another message for cases like this.
It's the difference between "untrusted" and "distrusted" - the former meaning no trust exists, the latter means trust explicitly revoked.
That's too subtle for a warning message, but something like "This is an evil fraudulent site and if you continue to view it, you'll probably crash the internet" ... or something!
FWIW, Poettering doesn't count lack of POSIX compliance as of any consequence.See: Cockwomble
https://lwn.net/Articles/430598/
His comments there reminded me of the browser wars fiasco.
Already, other systems are having to modify perfectly working standard code to be "linux compatible".
I'm sure it won't be long before we start seeing "This site best viewed in sysux"
Or error messages such as: "We see you are running xxx on a 96 core hypercluster. This server only supports systemd on an i486 or higher. Please upgrade to continue to use this site.
Baaah, I'm sure I'm not the only one who has at times been using top of the range hardware and software only for some site to obnoxiously tell me to "upgrade" to Internet Explorer 7. etc.
We're waiting for one of you drooling systemd haters to hold Linus's spaghetti code to the same standards. I think we'll be waiting a long time
Ahhh, the Poetterers are now comparing systemd to the kernel itself!
How long before we get a complete fork? sysdux? Poetterux?
Although the way the code is going, Poerrerdows would be more appropriate!
Lennart Poettering, one of the lead maintainers of systemd, insisted the software is working as intended and declined to implement changes."I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here," he wrote. "I understand this is annoying, but still: The username is clearly not valid."
Before reading it, I knew this would be his response.
He reminds me of those White House spokespeople justifying Trump (I think we are on the third right now.. Presumably the first two are dribbling in the corner of a room somewhere). All we need now is for systemd to start sending ridiculous tweets, and then he'll really start to shine.
Every first world country on the planet other than the US manages to have one. And they all have better healthcare and pay less for it.
I've always found it odd that systems would enable dns reverse lookups for all sorts of things where it provides no value. I don't trust DNS to give me a valid name if all I have is an IP address.
That's why you also look up the name to see it matches the same IP address, otherwise there's no point, in fact it's worse than no lookup at all if the name is logged instead of the IP.
The whole thing of probing someone's network and have them look up your IP address where you then send TCP packets back to crash their name server or other application has been around since the early 1990s.
That's a daft thing to say. If someones name server can be crashed this way, then it is at fault, and needs to be fixed. Nothing to do with DNS lookups, apart from maybe reducing "security by obscurity", which of course is a non-reason.
Reg Standards Bureau In light of yesterday’s mega-bucks deal between the Tories and the Democratic Unionist Party, El Reg has added another unit of measurement to our Standards Bureau.Much to the disdain of the other devolved nations, the bribe agreement will see one BEEELLION pounds sent to Northern Ireland to be used for things like broadband, infrastructure and healthcare.
Here in NZ most street drains go straight to the nearest stream. It's illegal to wash your car in your drive in many areas, because the chemicals in the washing and the stuff you wash off go into waterways (washing on your lawn is OK though). It's also illegal to have stormwater runoff pipes (eg from your roof guttering) going into sewers.
Funnily enough, my main knowledge on the subject was from a New Zealand(*) fly-on-the-wall programme, where they followed environment agency staff. They called in on one company which was washing equipment outside their property, and the drain outlet was straight onto a beach just down the road.
It makes sense to have this sort of setup - I just assumed that as in most of the UK, there is no handy river or stream nearby, the sewage system was used... Thinking about it further, though, it would probably smell a bit!
(*) I *think* it was NZ, but it could have been AU.. Sorry!
OK, how about these:
Retro classic atari joystick with USB interface
You can even re-live having tangled wires to trip over!
You can get those already.
I don't own one myself, but I'm currently sitting on the sofa, typing this on a wireless keyboard to my android box connected to my 90" TV :-)
Nice find! I just commented on the video... Why so few views in so long a time? I thought a video up that long would have had more views from typos!
By the way, it will improve your analytics if you link it! :
Don't understand why the article link sends me to some proprietary nuisance page that needs more Javascript permissions than a nuclear bunker.This link on YouTube does just as well, with a full explanation (in French) for the first 2:30 minutes of the video.
Just want to see it bumble around ? Jump to 2:30 and enjoy.
Thank-you!
I was going to post "In this day and age, we still have crappy websites that write incompatible code".
I loaded the site - this browser normally plays html5 video with no problem. I have no special javascript-blocking/alerts, but as with quite a few sites, the video simply refused to load.
It's 2017, and we still have the cowboy web designer showcasing the website to the customer on a top of the range computer running the designers preferred browser and the designers preferred OS, without knowing or caring about or explaining the nuances of the web.
That, along with sites still browser-agent sniffing to force feed me a 'mobile version' of a site when I browse on my large tv..
I won't be surprised to soon see a "This site viewed best in Microsoft Edge at 1280x1024 resolution - please upgrade"
</grumpy-old-git>
Why all the downvotes? I just pulled apart a game that created a 24/7 background process that logged ever time you started ANY app (including unix shell commands [it logged my use of ssh], and a fair number of the IP addresses you connect to. This module was part of an ad company sdk. It also included a mechanism to ;ull in a bunch of blacklisted ip addresses, no clue what that was used for.
It's far from the first.
Going to this companies web site, you see their boasts how they provide app developers who use their system with all the apps installed, when they are used, and all web pages the user visits
They say 'with the users consent', but who would agree to that? It's probably buried deep in the terms and conditions.
They are just one of many to do this. I thought it was against googles policy for apps to run in the background without a persistent notification..
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