Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon 5769 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2007
A spaceship sim could be expected to have a few more button requirements though - although if the OR is all it's cracked up to be when it comes out I will be building a rig especially for Star Citizen including a dedicated button/switch console that maps to keys for the in-game controls.
Not sure I'll go as far as a full-on cockpit, but I can see a comfy chair and well-placed controls in my future :)
" because you cannot see the keyboard while playing"
They could always develop a keyboard where there are sensors around the edges so that a tracking unit on the OR can place it, then all they need to do is render it on-screen for you :) Job done.
Quite how CoD would look with a keyboard off to one side though is another matter :)
I wonder what the NSA would have done had Lavabit provided Snowdens key in clear (digitally I mean - not the paper trick :) ) and included all the others but redacted them?
What's good for the goose etc.
NSA, you are a bunch of <redacted> <redacted>.
or perhaps that would read better as..
NSA, <redacted> <redacted> <redacted> <redacted> <redacted> fucking cunts.
In order to tap UK comms wholesale, you only have to look for the wholesale provider of comms in the UK.
Do GCHQ have the right to demand access from a private company in the UK? And if so, what kind of legal position does that leave BT in?*
*Based on previous reports of abuse of this type, any complaints to the paid security force Police will just get buried. *cough*phorm*cough*
Who's that rifling through my coat pockets? --->
From the /. post (response from GCHQ) contained the following phrase..
"and that there is rigorous oversight, including from the Secretary of State"
I was under the impression that here in the UK, a Secretary of State is basically a member of the cabinet (i.e. head of a department) as such there is no the.
However, in the USA there is a single entity holding that position, so could correctly be referred to as the.
I will leave the conclusion as an exercise for the reader.
I'm still pissed off at the lead-in on DVD's saying that downloading pirated movies is STEALING. It actually makes me want to steal and car with a handbag on the seat containing a movie.
Actually, since that is a lie, and it's an advert - will complaining to the ASA get me anywhere? Anyone know if it's already been tried?
"his left hand clamped firmly"
Shenanigans!
He quite clearly is using the 'door handle' as an arm rest (it actually looks like it was designed well and supports the arm at a comfy angle) and was doing so in a relaxed manner from the moment he put on his seatbelt.
Sensationalist bullshit El Reg - shame on you.
And then I remembered the red top :/
1. If I tell someone I'm authorised to enter their house and they give me the key to get in - that isn't breaking and entering.
2. Theft is where you deprive the owner of something. He's perhaps stolen the jam out of their fucking doughnut, but he didn't steal the data - he made an un-authorised copy.
Perhaps they will accuse of copyright infringment next, although there are about 6 billion people who would make a counter claim I expect.
I think I've come up with another argument against those that trot out that bollocks about having nothing to hide:
I tell them that if they allow the government to build and perpetuate an all-spying apparatus, then I will do my best to get into a position of power over that apparatus.
I then ask them how they would feel about me having that degree of power over them.
Their faces paint a picture - try it :)
Oh my, that screenshot of the startrek game sent a shiver down my spine - I haven't seen that since we played it on the Commodore PET our primary school got back in 1980 (I much preferred the PET to the ZX80 that came along).
It's true that only the interested managed to get to grips with the thing - I used to sneak in at lunch-times to use it when no-one else was around (It was a blacked out room so you can imagine how exiting that was for a 10 year old boy :) )
By the time we were taking Computer classes at secondary school we were into the teachers strike phase and O'Level/16+/CSE fiasco. Our computer teacher left for industry, the next person to take the class over was the Maths teacher - he made a pretty decent job of it until he too buggered off into industry.
We were then left with the History teacher - who had trouble just reading stuff from the book. It fell to me and a friend to get the rest of our class through their O'levels, thus setting my working pattern for my career. We were very proud when most of the class actually passed their O level. However the whole situation put me off going into teaching and just stick to on-the-job stuff these days.
It's also true that attitude is worth more than intelligence.
Indeed. I once tried to convince my IT director (of a small firm) that it would be cheaper to purchase an identical Cisco off the gray market for the HSRP pair and have it configured as a hot standby if one of the main ones broke rather than pay the extortionate cisco support contract.
Needless to say they ended up spending a small fortune on support contracts that were never needed.
You can lead people to water, but you can't make them think.
A valid response to being denied for not having your entire life printed on government approved and stamped documentation when at a supermarket checkout is to say
"That's fine. I'll come back later when you've come to your senses" and leave your full trolley for them to put all the stuff back on the shelves.
Rinse and repeat.
I worked with a Romanian net-sec guy last year who dressed like an 80's yuppie stockbroker, whippet-like physique, bald, yet had all the airs of a highly efficient machine. Sat ram-rod straight in his chair, was 100% organised and I never heard him at a loss for an answer except when being asked something 'soft*'.
I can't explain how weird it was.
After hours however, he had a great sense of humour and irony - they grow strange people in Eastern Europe :)
*soft - if he was in work mode it was like his emotion chip was switched off.
The Liar's Paradox indicates that truth is a process, not an absolute - and that the worthiness of the 'truth' can be determined by the usefulness of the process.
For example, the sentence 'This is not true' is of itself, absurd. However, if you were to use the iterative process it implies to come up with a solution to some other problem, or a new way of understanding etc. - it could be thought of to be 'True' in the sense that it has proven itself to be a useful process.
However, if the process simply results in an endlessly fruitless loop of introspection it could be thought of to be 'False' in the sense that it's a useless process (unless your intention is to drive a computer to destruct itself that is - in which case it's true again :) )
Why Paris? Haven't seen her for a while, that's all.
Well M$ fucked me off with their bullshit, and I was on the verge of going back on my 'never buy Sony' vow that I made when the rootkit fiasco kicked off.
Now I won't be buying PS4 either.
Time to start building my dream PC again - fully watercooled, whisper quiet, overclocked to buggery (just for fun) - I may even start building my personalised cockpit chair ready for the OR & Starcitizen.
The Steam effort may save the day for consoles in the end - especially if it drives games developers to code for Linux based systems from the off. That way we can have a streamlined system that isn't bogged down with unnecessary windows stuff. If I want something on my PC - I install it - don't bundle it and run a million services in the background.
This locked down bullshit will come back to bite them on the arse majorly.
"but the metadata is not protectable with any confidence."
Nor should it be, it should just not be available to the NSA by performing a network tap.
As long as they get a court order to get the metadata for an *individual* (i.e. and not everyone like they did with Lavabit) then it should be possible and permissable - after all they *do* actually have a job to do.
The problem seems to have arisen because without enough checks and balances access to all that data has gone to their heads and they have taken it upon themselves to write a new job description that no-one has fully authorised*.
*Officially
Not being SMTP based, well yes and no. The header encryption and initial mail handling - agreed. From there on out though it is.
Key exchange can be dealt with. Dark Mail will have public web servers where their public key (with checksum) will be available, and you can be sure that it is verified frequently - not that hard to do these days with some of the load-balancing proxies around - if they detect a change from their stored script then they automatically restore it to the previous version - nothing to stop you having two or three running concurrently to make it VERY hard to hack and change all at once with no-one noticing.
All you need to do then is provide your public key to DM encrypted with their public key and Robert is your mothers brother as they say.
Simple solution,
the Dark Mail application will encrypt the payload with your recipients public key, and at the same time encrypt the header information with the Dark Mail public key.
Upon receipt, the Dark Mail server decrypts the header, sends the email to the intended recipient with the payload still encrypted.
So, intended recipient receives an email from 'Dark Mail' and doesn't know who it's from until they decrypt it with their private key.
No Metadata exposed except that you sent an email to Dark Mail, or received one from Dark Mail.
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