Posts by Microphage

What's in the Denialgate docs?

"The documents .. included .. a short memo summarising some proposed climate advocacy which Heartland intended to undertake", elREG

"We are concerned that schools are teaching climate change issues in a manner that is not consistent with sound science and that is designed to lead students to the erroneous belief that humans are causing a global warming crisis"

http://alturl.com/odvqi

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/14/425354/internal-documents-climate-denier-heartland-institute-plans-global-warming-curriculum-for-k-12-schools/?mobile=nc

"Global Warming Curriculum for K-12 Classrooms"

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/101614663

"An Open Letter to the Heartland Institute"

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2012/02/17/heartland.pdf

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Yea .. `warmist' ...

Principal Nick Stephany is shocked

I don't think so, the principal should be sanctioned for allowing his computer system to be so easily hacked ..

Is this Windows only?

I do know the hotfix won't install on Linux ..

"apply hotfix in TECH179526"

http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2012&suid=20120124_00

Who's going to pay for all the extra bandwidth?

Wasn't it recently that the telecoms were complaining that video streaming was taking too much bandwidth?

Minority Report

In the case of: U.S. v. Zhang, 12-mag-00108, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).

> A New York Fed spokesperson told Reuters and others that the bank had investigated the breach as soon as it was uncovered and promptly referred the case to the authorities ..

>> The New York Fed detected the breach through its established security procedures and referred it to law enforcement officials, Jack Gutt, a spokesman, said in an e- mailed statement ..

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-19/treasury-code-stolen-by-new-york-fed-programmer-u-s-says.html

Minority Report: Investigators discovered the breach after one of Zhang's colleagues told a supervisor Zang had been asking round the office about a missing harddrive. Zhang had previously told colleges that he was developing something "for private work", in the event that he would be dropped from his current perma-temp contractor employement. The complaint, stated that Zhang copied his own code onto the external drive.

New stealthy botnet Trojan holds Windows users hostage

http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-winxp

use the Robots.txt file

"Murdoch, who is currently under investigation in the UK over phone hacking by his newspapers, is a longtime critic of what he sees as Google's role in enabling piracy"

If he don't want to show up on Google, then why don't he just use the robots.txt file on his sites?

http://www.robotstxt.org/faq/prevent.html

streaming cloud Windows 7

> Tablet fondlers can finally get some work done thanks to streaming cloud supplier OnLive, which now pipes the full Windows 7 experience from its data centres to punters' palms ..

Which would rely on a decent Internet connection, something my "broadband" provider seems to be unable to provide ...

iDNS spoofing ..

> programme will also enable organisations to apply for gTLDs in non-Latin, non-ASCII scripts ..

What happens when a non-Latin URL shares similar looking characters with a Latin URL?

"The internationalized domain name (IDN) homograph attack is a way a malicious party may deceive computer users about what remote system they are communicating with, by exploiting the fact that many different characters look alike"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack

computing tutorial website

TiVo invented the digital video recorder?

> TiVo has .. proven that it holds valid patents which not only resulted in the invention of the digital video recorder, but which also have developed .. search and recommendation, video metadata usage and new formats for advertising, as well as the collection of audience viewing data.

If could be argured that TiVo were first to file patent on the DVR not that they originally invented the concept or that such should even be patented. But we are talking about the US patent system which is patently broken. Any revenue accuring to TiVo in the AT&T legal action will most probably be provided by Microsoft as they had to imdemnify AT&T in the case. This may also impact on Microsofts' downstream users of its 'technology`. Microsoft is also claiming patents on 'technology related to program schedules and selection`. These claims are so broad that anyone implimenting timed recording on any digital device would be in violation.

As far as I am concerned I don't see how adding a tuner card to a PC and then sticking the letters 'DVR` on the front constitutes inventing the digital video recorder. The same goes for program listings, timed recordings etc. If I can paraphrase Jim Royle .. patented 'technology` my arse ..

http://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/229100177/microsoft-challenges-tivo-dvr-technology-claiming-patent-infringement.htm;jsessionid=o1kmVD-NAnViym7GDJRVLQ**.ecappj02

Self-censorship or edicts from corporate masters?

No, it's edicts from corporate masters and self-censorship ...

Afghanistan weapons testing facility

How lucky for Afghanistan that their country has beeen chosen by the US miletary to test out their next generation weapons systems ..

re: "open APIs"

> If the last decade was all about open source, the next decade will be about open APIs

Only if you are Microsoft and are desperately tring to kill OPEN SOURCE. He who controls the open APIs controls the monoculture .. er .. ecosystem :)

What you can do to enforce endpoint security?

Put the authentication and security bits in a hardware dongle ..

ps: In that whole article the only system you managed to mention in relation to malware was Android .. :)

religious figure identified by initials A.Z

> Thursday's ruling .. dismissed criminal charges against William Lawrence Cassidy, who used multiple Twitter accounts to sharply criticize a religious figure identified only by the initials A.Z.

Would that be Buddhist leader Alyce Zeoli?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/technology/man-accused-of-stalking-via-twitter-claims-free-speech.html

Unnamed suspect

The unnamed suspect has been named ..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-16195863

How to negative spin this story

"the company has plonked just over 0.1 per cent of this cash on the philanthropic pile"

Yea, as well as that they've patented the concept and are licensing 'slavery` under Reasonable and nondiscriminatory (RAND) © terms.

The short version

One master image and feed it out to a number of local sub-servers and lots of RAM on the desktop and the apps designed to run with intermittent/slow network I/O ..

Software crash nearly caused car crash

Instead of designing the traction control and ABS in software how about doing it as a 'finite-state machine`

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state_machine#Software_applications

Benefits of the Virtual Desktop.

That was very well written, Barry, but it's meaning here may be lost as it's (mostly?) techies that hang round here. Any Virtual Desktop I've seen, if at all to be usable, required masses of bandwidth (as you say in your piece) and I was not that impressed ! Unlike the old-fashioned method of the app running locally and the data being accessed remotely. And there are currently various methods of the one copy of Windows and the one copy of the application to the desktop.

One method I've seen, having a local image server that reimaged a PC once the NIC cable was transferred to a special socket in the switch room and the machine rebooted. Apps were standard MSI packages wrapped up in some "unattended-installer-app" that delivered them to the PC on reboot. Hardly unattended remote backup, but it did the job.

So to conclude: The main benefit of Desktop Virtualization is it totally eliminates the need of a technician to visit the PC, reduces the number of on-the-site people required and saves money. Management always like to hear about ways to save money.

ps: You use too many acronyms in that piece ..