Posts by Steve Bush

bb will just place its servers in uae

then the uae spooks can spy on the small guys (aka potential terrorists) but not the big guys who are supposedly less

next law ... porn MUST be on .xxx

youve been warned

Insight

Not at all the intelligent person I expected to be in charge of MI6. Just a dundering tool.

EAW is a vile instrument and can easily be used to summon anybody anywhere for almost anything

The EAW is truly a vile instrument.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8220297/Police-hit-with-thousands-of-arrest-warrants-from-Poland.html

simplest winery ever

I once saw a group of women crushing grapes with their feet on the flat roof of their village house in the mountains of Cyprus. The juice simply ran down the normal rainwater drainpipe and into a bucket which was frequently emptied into a vast circular stone pot, about 1.5m across at the belly, half embedded in the floor of one of the inner rooms. The process was simply then to wait a year until the wine was ready to drink. Absolutely nothing was done to it apparently. I had some from other house nearby - too sweet for my taste but the simplicity of the process was unforgettable.

Is she saying that the police should decide?

"police are best placed to decide whether it would be helpful in this instance" ... so the police decide it would be helpful then it is alright to DNA test quarter of a million men then? Nice.

Idealism

Assange will be remembered for what he has done long after everybody has forgotten his personal peccadillos.

"the Appeal Court found no evidence of any such fraud"

Put like that it sounds like they wanted proof that he was innocent. Is that really the case nowadays?

inventions in which the NPL have had a hand include ... the actual internet.

Sounds provocative.

ipv6

Wait till IP6 comes along ... they will know which ear to prosecute.

Times value is (WAS) in its readers comments

It is OUT OF THE QUESTION that the times online is worth 110 pounds a year! It is valued for its READERS COMMENTS which will largely disappear now.

No way to evade detection as honeypot finally

All the botnet has to do is judge the target by results. ie itself receive some of the spam generated and if none received then judge the target to be defective/honeypot

Cowardly Shiites

We brits are a cowardly bunch of shiites and deserve to go under.

Insurance companies

Cloud providers could convince insurance companies that they are a good bet/pay them reasonable premiums and offer their clients (the cloud consumers) compensation if and when things go wrong. To keep things simple, the compensation can be for a given amount instead of being unlimited and related to consequential losses.

Monty to get back free what he sold to Sun?

Clever. Of course open source serfs will be less likely to trust the sell out artist this time.

Cut them back savagely I suggest

Just like roses and vines, most institutions age and rot if not cut back. Have no fear, they will grow back healthier than ever.

Nice knowing you Kaspersky.

Presumably sold out to someone or something or just possibly gone insane. Satisfied with dough instead of glory.

@Annihilator

I dont think a toolbar like Ask is a problem any more than google's or yahoo's etc and Comodo seems to has too much reputable business, like digital certificates, to be on a simple scam.

Comodo

Since AVG sold out and became fat and efficient I though Comodo's very fine free av+malware+firewall should take over in fame but it doesnt seem to have - perhaps because it has a lot of tech features that confuse the average sod. Nevertheless we use it everywhere now - FOC of course.

@Constantin/Teamviewer

Your assurances are unsupported by any proof and are therefore worthless. Fools will take them at face value. Shrewd people will question them. Cynics will suspect the worst. "We dont spy" ... haha .. "Scouts honor"?

long term c# is another distraction, like java

C++ is on a roll these days with a truly usable free cross platform IDE from Nokia/Qt creator. Java is a fat pig, lost its thrust a while ago is just coasting up in a parabola now soon to start its downward decline just like cobol did in the days of yore. C is the unchangable rock and C++ looking like its unshakable coating that makes it usable by ordinary mortals. The idea of teaching C++ programmers to stay away from the C bits makes C++ a usable language. If something doesnt have multiple implementations then it will NOT stand the test of time. Invest your time in C++. It will be around for 50 years.

utf8/32

Oracle seems to have gone for UTF8 whereas SAP has gone for UTF32.

relative?

Or was it the iss passed the object at 20k mps?

run gpedit.msc, admin templates, system, turn autoplay off, enable, all drives

our instructions for all new systems

* Login as Administrator

* Open the Run dialog box ( [Windows] - [R] ), then type gpedit.msc, hit [Enter].

* On the left pane, click "Administrative Templates", then "System".

* On the right pane, locate "Turn Off Autoplay" and double-click on it.

* Set it to "Enable" and choose All Drives

Seperately?! Separately!

or do I have to get used to new sensible spelling?

Next steps in the police state?

Vigilantes are the "useful idiots" of today - look it up. However, looking ahead I wonder if one will ever have to declare usage of vpns/encrypted channels. There could be random inspections and penalties for failing to declare to ensure general compliance. Then slowly the screws could be turned to reestablish state purview over all communication. vpns must stand out like beacons in the night at the moment. Steganography perhaps will come in vogue - inside video streams perhaps.

Driving Ban

Somewhat reduces the impact when you learn that the council chief was banned from driving for three months for speeding. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035514/Revealed-Driving-ban-council-chief-wants-scrap-speed-cameras.html

Mein Kampf misquotation

Re: "The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation." - Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf"

Only the first sentence is from Mein Kampf. The second seems to be by a Rabbi. http://www.aapsonline.org/brochures/lapin.htm

German law actionable in UK

Since an Australian was arrested by British (hmm) police in Heathrow on a German "EU Warrant" for something which is totally not an offence in UK (along the lines of "publishing deliberately untrue historical information") these German attitudes are going to affect us all although I assume if it was a Brit being hauled off to a German court people would have something to say about it.

hamachi is wide open to us government

The idea of using hamachi for vpn security versus somebody like the US gov is absurd since it is closed source and uses hamachi's central server for control - and relay in many circumstances.

Total Joke or Con

I think the beer is the hint. Ancient, DNA fragments only, go up to .8 million years last I heard. If he is trying to be serious then probably just contaminated with modern yeast.

@Mad Hacker

Stob is the other sex

Fear is desired by our government as much as the terrorists

It is a naive notion that it is only terrorists who desire populations in fear. WMD anybody?

Aristotle circa 350BC

"For an educated man should be able to form a fair off-hand judgement as to the goodness or badness of the method used by a professor in his exposition. To be educated is in fact to be able to do this; and even the man of universal education we deem to be such in virtue of his having this ability."