Posts by Coen Dijkgraaf

Re: I looked for help...

Yes, it can sometimes happen that moving a computer will cause the power supply to blow.. For one company I worked for they wanted an audit of all PC's. And these in those days tended to be tower PC's under desks, and the Serial Number was at the back, so I went around multiple sites, and had to slightly move over 100 computers to read the serial number. One of them also stopped working, and it was also the power supply that had blown.

Re: COULD ALLOW SMALL PARTICLES OF RICE TO DAMAGE YOUR IPHONE

If you think a pizza restaurant was greasy, try a bus engineering workshop. When I opened up a malfunctioning 386-era kit from there, it had a very thick greasy layer that also had metal particles through it. I was surprised that it was still at least partially functional.

Re: Timezone?

They probably don't want to disclose how they do that, otherwise the attackers will alter it.

Re: Enshittification

Yes, in particular https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/30/tech_monopoly_doctorow/ where there is a video where he discusses enshittification

Re: Distance

> It's in there – Voyager 1 is about 20 light hours away, so it takes about 20 hours to get a signal.

So double that to get a response to a command.

Re: At Coastal Cutie...

Except those doing withdrawals from the ATM and overseas transfers my be unsuspecting money mules who would have been recruited and paid a small amount of money for the job. So even if they get arrested, the perpetrators that carried out the heist won't be caught.

Re: "frankly, Google and pals would rather users opted for a dedicated transfer app"

"The big question is, has anyone actually seen FTPS in the wild?"

Yes, if you work in the B2B integration space, it gets used quite often.

Re: Go agile, go!

> It's not a bug, it's a feature!

It is only a feature once it has been documented

Re: And of course people are bloody minded ...

> Yes, computers are a force multiplier.

“To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer.” —Paul Ehrlich , American scientist (1926- ).

Re: 10%?

It used to be that Google would only return results with all the words, but they changed that to be a lot more lose.

It does provide links under the results of "Must include x" and if you click on it, it will put that word with quotes around it. You can also manually add quotes around either words or phrases, and then it will search for exact matches.

Re: touch data.txt -please

See https://twitter.com/kathyra_/status/1160812366293901314?lang=en

Then it becomes

please touch data.txt

Re: So, instead of applying a bit of Group Theory ...

Using lots of monkeys for Protein folding? They already do it via lots of real monkeys (well apes really) via the foldit game https://fold.it/portal/

Re: Can of worms or Pandora's box is about to be opened...

They already have. No lobbying or bribing needed.

Oracle https://gtldresult.icann.org/applicationstatus/applicationdetails/361

Microsoft https://gtldresult.icann.org/applicationstatus/applicationdetails/1367

Re: Complications

>> Marketing should be the servant, not the master. All too often companies think it is the other way round.

So true, I've even been on a IT project where marketing had come up with an idea (stolen from overseas) and had booked the television advertising even before they scoped the size of the project. So we had a unmovable deadline before the project even got of the ground.

Re: "Upgrading users should be able to ignore the viewer as before."

@Tim Bergel

The article doesn't mention .chm files at all, so either the edited to remove that, or Alan jumped to an incorrect conclusion.

Re: Why? Just why?

One of the reasons the URL shorterners came because of character limitations of some messaging systems, e.g. Text messages & Twitter.

Re: Richard Pearse

The phase they use on Wikipedia for Richard Pearse is "Wright brothers, who achieved sustained controlled flight.". The key words being sustained and controlled, although Richard Pearse might have gotten into the air earlier, his flights "achieved no more than brief hops".

Re: Truecaller

Possibly a fake version the app?

As described in this thread.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/truecaller-is-scam-app.2042478/

Aknowledgement of the issue from Google.

@Phil Kingston

UPDATE: The Register understands that Google has admitted to the flaw, said it impacts a "small number" of users, and committed to providing a fix in short order.

Re: Once More, With Eeling

> And Darwin

No, he is only eligible for that if he manages to take himself out of the gene-pool, so he either needs to be killed or be rendered sterile by his experiments.

He could get an Honorable Mention though, like this guy though

7200 Volts And A Dim Bulb

http://www.darwinawards.com/stupid/stupid2017-02.html

Re: Just one problem with that.

> You mean your bunker isn't already enclosed in a signal blocking mesh?

I didn't say I was or wasn't, but I'm sure we all know some people who aren't yet.

Re: I don't believe that 1/4 succeed.

That's probably because most of the IoT projects that do succeed aren't for the domestic market but rather are used in a commercial setting.

I'm aware of sever IoT project the company I worked for was involved with,

1) Sensor in milk vats to measure temperature and other data to be transmitted via the internet, and the results analysed in the cloud to ensure milk quality.

2) Electronic tags for cows and sensors to track stock movement, breeding/production results.

Q: "And what tiny percentage of the population have chronic conditions?"

A: http://www.aihw.gov.au/media-release-detail/?id=60129552034

:About half of all Australians have a chronic disease, and around 20% have at least two, according to new data released online today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)."

Close to 50% is a rather large minority.

Re: Aphid?!?

Or did they mean Apoidea-friendly? But that includes wasps in addition to bees.

RSA4096 wasn't difficult to crack?

The article at Kaspersky actually says "Fortunately, CryptXXX turned out to be not that difficult to crack".

However it seems to depend on you being able to give it a copy of one of the encrypted files before it was encrypted and the bigger the file the better. "The bigger file you’ve feed to the utility — the more files would be decrypted." So it sounds like they must have used a small key that could be brute forced.

Re: CSS breaches

@Donn Bly

In the security context CSS usually means Cross Site Scripting, not Cascading Style Sheet

Re: This might be on the rise.

"stuff my trousers full of banknotes, and flown back"

Make sure you declare if you are carrying more than NZ$10,000 or more in cash, or foreign equivalent, otherwise they will catch you with the money sniffing dogs

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11348609