Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon 5769 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2007
There really is no need for this to happen.
All the ISP's need to do assign your home router a bogon or rdc1918 address, then prepend this to an IPv6 TLA at their end before sending it on to the rest of the world.
The ISP's need to start building their IPv6 networks out to the consumers and not just as a bolt-on for net savvy companies.
ISP's have been using ipv4 to ipv6 conversion at their end for some time. A bit like using rfc1918 space on the end of your ssl vpn's - no-one else would see them once everything switched to ipv6 - your ipv4 address would be appended to the ISP's top level aggregator (tla).
Only once the backbone was switched to ipv6 though of course.
"you have to wonder at the logic"
You read the article and how it said she had a *panic* attack right?
If you've never had one, consider yourself lucky. You stop thinking logically and behave in a very basic fight/flight manner - the fact that the door wouldn't open, or if it did it you would die wouldn't get past first brain cell.
However, having said that there is a case here for this woman not to be on a flight without some form of medication having *been* taken. i.e. if you don't have your meds - you don't fly kind of thing. The other passengers and crew do have a right not to be suddenly decompressed and shot out of a tiny hole in the side of a large metal cylinder at 30000ft after all.
I reckon that, lacking specific data center knowledge, companies are engaging consultancies and then using their proposal as a framework from which they can skew it to their own preferences - rather than just guessing.
Otherwise if they're just not taking advice they have paid for, why would they pay for the advice in the first place? They must be getting *some* value from it somewhere.
Mind you, they could just be skimping on cooling and ramping up the number of racks.
I would expect the black steel to radiate quite a bit of IR of it's own accord, which would be occluded by the white lettering, enough for software to enhance and read your plate.
On the other hand, a plain, transparent sheet which had tiny inverted hemispheres, placed over the top of your plate should do the trick quite nicely.
If all the other releases got the same treatment, why are they worried? Or did it affect the sales figures of the first games somehow by having them release early to the pirate crowd.
Why is it that these massive corporations seem to think that because pirates are people, that people are pirates.
I did my fair share in my youth, just haven't bothered since I could afford them, same with a lot of people I expect.
Note to M$ - NOT EVERYONE IS A PIRATE - EVEN IF GIVEN THE CHANCE OF A FREE COPY.
If they have turned it off and since the case has been so widely publicised, does this mean if someone gets caught doing it in future it *will* be illegal?
I know the law is an ass*, but this seems a little like cherry picking.
"Oh, I suppose I'll let you off, as I found no evidence of you jerking off to these pictures - but WOE BETIDE anyone doing this in the future - for I will KNOW you are being naughty!"
Yep, the law is an ass* :)
*Translated to 'merican as it is obviously a 'merican posting - it should of course, be ARSE. :)
@Highlander
Whilst you're probably right about the most prevalent use of this tech would be, you seem to have completely failed to recognise that there has been a long tradition of hacking devices to make them do something cleverer than what the original maker envisaged.
Perhaps you could step down off your (very high) puritanical horse and at least acknowledge that some people do not have base motivations. If you don't you reveal yourself to be a complete Mary (Whitehouse).
I saw this on a machine in my last contract about 8 months ago!
I reported it to HSBC at the time and they just told me to install anti-virus software.
It's frustrating because I work in the banking industry to help secure some of these systems. Some banks are shocking in their approach. Most of the time they are more worried about PCI compliance because of the size of the fines - so they paste over the cracks to get compliant - they don't give a hoot about what being PCI compliant actually means. Cheapskates the lot of them.
Arrested for "Wreckless endangerment"
Spokeman said "At no time was the security or safety of our customers or crewmembers at risk"
Hmm, can you say "not guilty m'lud"
Can anyone explain what 'criminal mischief' is?
This storys' legendary status hinges on the grabbing of the beers before departing down the chute :D
As for "I can't believe a woman wrote that", well let me tell you that it was my wife* that introduced me to the term many years ago.
She nearly shat herself laughing when she saw what they were getting in a tizz about. Mind like s sewer my wife :)
*Yes, I'm married, even though I'm techie enough to post on El Reg. Go figure.
Hold your horses there Willy, I think you may be doing the Afghan's a bit of a dis-service there.
They are caught between a highly technological army and a guerilla army that lives in the cow-shed. they just want to make a living and raise children like most people and have to do what is necessary to survive. Don't forget they had 20 years of the Russians before the Yanks and the UK waded in on their white chargers.
If a bunch of gun-toting lunatics took control of your neighbourhood and threated your family if you didn't supply them with food/shelter when they demanded it, could you really refuse?
<joke> I expect the Taliban are just as bad </joke>
As much as human beings are capable of both good and bad things to their fellow man, I would have thought that survival was common to everyone.
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