Posts by Oengus 1113 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jun 2012
to deliver decent broadband as soon as possible
Giving an entity a clause such as this is an open invitation for them to never deliver the product.
For Telstra, 1Mbps ADSL over crap copper in the next century would be considered a definition of "Decent" and "as soon as possible".
I get headaches whenever someone's on the phone near me!
Usually this is caused by the volume the person is talking at and the crap they are spewing out rather than the fact that they are on a mobile... but that won't stop the numpties from making a co-relation.
Sixty US congressman have sent a letter ... to Tom Wheeler
Good to see the politicians are starting to earn their campaign contribution money. Isn't this the main reason that companies provide political campain funds?
I wonder what we would find if we looked into the declared contributions...
What if you aren't in range of a signal?
What, you mean there are places where we might not be able to track you in real time? That doesn't fit our business model so it can't happen. </sarcasm>
In this day and age everyone assumes that you will have connectivity 24/7 so nobody considers what happens when you are "out of range" or when the service is down.
I tried to login to a yahoo account I haven't used in a while, with the valid password, and they want me to verify myself. The only option they provided to verify my identity is to send an e-mail to one of two accounts that don't exist anymore. What is the point of the "security" questions they insist on asking when setting up these accounts if they aren't going to use them to identify people.
If I can't get in to the account the hackers are welcome to try and get in for me.
The merkans inflicting their ideas on the world.
What happens when the FBI (or another of the merkan TLAs) break into a computer in another country and get caught? Can they be prosecuted under the "victims" country's laws on computer misuse? I am sure that their merkan warrant won't have much standing outside of the USA.
I work on the top floor of a high-rise building and often see plastic bags flying past. You can watch them climb for ages. I can quite understand how they could easily get to these heights.
Why is it that people are almost always ready to jump to the "populist" conclusion. If there are stories of people behaving badly with drones the immediate conclusion is that an unidentified close call with an aeroplane must be a drone.
A drone that could reach the reported heights would be an expensive piece of kit that the owner would be most interested in keeping safe.
The hard part then comes in figuring out how to make money.
Easy - sell the chips.
Leave the data alone. Let the buyer decide how to collect the data and what to do with it. That way the buyer comes up with a business case for the chips/devices containing them. Don't factor in the data to the business case of creating and selling the chips.
If the customer wants you to gather and process the data from the chips, charge that as a separate service (this way you might even be able to make money from other manufacturer's chips).
It isn't just IT that have the "Good enough isn't good enough" mantra.
Look at the other industries
Fashion: it was the latest and greatest last week. This week it isn't good enough.
Cars: Last years model was good enough for you last year. You need the latest one now.
Phones: I suppose they could fit under the IT umbrella (unless in my case where it is a phone not a smart phone)
Cameras: 24 megapixel isn't good enough we have a 26 megapixel model now...
Every industry is producing "Good enough for now". If they came up with perfect we would never need to buy another one and they would go out of business...
Create a peril sensitive device like the peril sensitive glasses from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy... The Screen blanks and an ear shattering siren plays through the earphones when it senses danger so the user can't see or hear the approaching danger (works particularly well with VR glasses).
I recentlty enrolled in a TAFE course. I completed the enrolment application and was advised, by e-mail, that I would be contacted within 3 working days to confirm. No contact was forthcoming. Fortunately, I had a direct contact for the teacher of my course and checked with him after 2 weeks. He advised that I had been accepted and was enrolled and apologised for the system problems.
Official channels have yet to advise me of the progress of my application (I am now 2 weeks into the course...)
"hey, what if I tried this ?"
I'll bet that is how a lot of expliots are discovered - people trying things that the original designer never dreamed of.
It might not take a huge amount of knowledge of the inner workings to discvover but to actually build, test and confirm a successful exploit is interesting. I have stumbled across a couple of things by accident (typing or selecting the wrong file name) that have turned out to be useful (no real exploits though).
Yes, if we're able to go to a federal judge and make a showing of probable cause that you are a foreign terrorist, a spy or someone engaged in serious criminal activity and you're using that device to do that.
So if we can't are too lazy to convince a federal judge to give us a warrant we'll just phone our mates in the NSA and get them to provide as much data as we want (related to the case or not) and our other mates in the FISC will ensure that no one can complain.
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