Posts by Blue Shirt Guy 36 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Aug 2024
This. I'm reading El Reg because I either can't (no headphones) or don't want to listen to audio. If posting this as a text story then it needs to be summarised in text to avoid wasting our time. Otherwise just put it on a Youtube or similar channel, or at the very least away from the written stories in a completely separate part of the site.
I'm not sure how many times it needs to be said but NAT is not a firewall, it just breaks a lot of things. If you don't have a firewall for IPv6 then you don't have one for IPv4. Worse, with IPv4 you may think you have something you don't, while having to impliment bodges that make things even less secure. IPv6 generally makes it simpler to be secure as there's no hidden port translation.
It's working well enough at present that that one "big" operator (EE) only currently has less than 1/3 of the total customers in the UK. Removing one of their competitors and making another bigger isn't going to help anyone other than the shareholders as there's even less reason to compete, while everyone else gets to pay more for the same!
As for O2, they're not even using the spectrum they have in many places and EE have mast sharing with 3.
I've seen it used recently as a desktop OS for some old but critical legacy Windows software. It seems "server" to Microsoft just means "not actually designed to reboot at random times" unlike their otherwise pretty much idential "desktop" versions.
Indeed. VHS hifi stereo sound was so good we used the machines in the recording industry as loggers and for sending out audio demos for people to play at home. It was as close to CD sound as any analogue consumer format ever got and I doubt many people could tell the difference. It was also reliable, with domestic machines recording and playing 24/7 for months without issues.
The picture was far from perfect compared to broadcast TV but fine on TVs of the time. The early linear audio recorders (mono and stereo) did have bad sound but that was fixed in the 80s when they added the hifi stereo track. SVHS also vastly improved the picture for camcorders, though Hi8 was better.
Tell me you don't understand end to end connectivity without telling me?
The problem is you can't do that, as NAT only works with a middle man. Even with every consumer device behind NAT and no ability for end users to host anything themselves, that still does not leave enough IPs as GCNAT at scale still requires an IP per 100-1000 users to avoid running out of ports.
You then also need more servers to move traffic between those users, which then use more real IPs, create more latency and higher bandwidth costs.
I wonder where those CDNs will get their IP addresses, or is he suggesting no new competition?Does he even know what an A or AAAA record is?
Googling he seems to have had a respected history, is he the internet's Roger Waters or John Cleese?
It appears so. The example above is particularly jarring as the comma implies there's a section of the quote that's been omitted after the comma, but I googled and it seems that was the end of his sentence! I'd have thought even in American that would mean a full stop rather than a comma. As written it's read as "I think it'd be impossible not to conclude that, ..." and leaves the reader hanging wondering what conclusion was omitted.
I guess it's too much to hope that what is (or I guess was if it's been taken over) a British site writing about a British story and quoting someone in the UK could actual use the appropriate gamma. Can anyone recommend a site like The Register that's written in English? :-)
"I think it'd be impossible not to conclude that," Read said.
I know this is a minor thing but WTF is going on with commas and proof reading at El Reg? They seem to appear in the strangest of places, then go missing when needed. It's incredibly distracting to try and read articles full of grammatical errors.
I can't help but feel the title is of this article is a bit click baity to get people thinking it's about Microsoft Teams and not something totally unrelated.
Anyway when it comes to tabs and spaces all I care about is that whatever language I'm using doesn't do something batshit insane and try to make them part of the syntax. I'm looking at you Python.*
*From the distance of a very very long barge pole.
"delivered, and, furthermore, due to the inability to monitor budgets, "
"academics, consultants, and activists"
"management, and customer"
What the hell is going on with El Reg these days? This is not Daley Thompson's Decathlon, you don't have to randomly keep hitting the comma key for no reason just to keep the website running.
Did they at any time stop to think that they had mis-framed the original question?
If people are forging ID documents to buy phones, then the solution is not more ID documents, it's removing the need for ID documents.
The UK is not perfect but as an example, I can walk into a shop and buy an Iphone on contract without any ID because they can ask me questions that only I know and pay with a card that the bank have already verified that on it's own proves my identity. Yes there's a very small amount of fraud, but adding new forms of ID cards to the mix just makes it even more likely that someone will think a fake ID is real as it only adds to the confusion. Then having to verify that with an app will lead to fake apps and you've created a war of attrition that only benefits the fraudsters.
Adding an ID card adds nothing to this but opens up more opportunities for fraud. Needing an app to verifiy the ID card then just proves the point.
https://xkcd.com/927/
The issue with not having Carplay or Android Auto is it actually creates danger. The UK driving test covers using a satnav now, so would you rather drivers had a standard interface they knew across multiple vehicles, or had to prod and poke unnecessarily at the screen of some random and probably out of date interface (or at their phone in a holder, which is legal but even worse) to find the option to re-route past roadworks or whatever, rather than use one of the two industry standard interfaces via buttons on the steering wheel or whatever.
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