As an added feature Google's new service will come with a "free" webcam so they can provide a "better customer experience" (e.g. so they can track your every utterance/move and serve you more and more "targetted ads")
Coming soon "GoogleWipe" (tm), the softer, kinder, gentler, more eco-friendly bathroom paper with added nano cameras which "cleanse, freshen and delight whilst aiding our customers to assess their rectal health".
Once again we see an individual attempting to do something which attracts criminal charges... unless they're in the right club. Do I see any bankers getting charged for any of the criminal dealings that led to all the bank collapses ? No. Unless it's Iceland who seem to a) have balls and b) still actually govern themselves.
And once again we see that the UK is no longer a sovereign country but is simply a fiefdom of the corporate USA oligarchies.
If a UK citizen has committed a crime on UK soil they should be tried in a UK court by a UK judge.
Fuck the American "justice" system where the men with the money make the rules.
How utterly barbaric is the USA ? One of the most technologically advanced societies on the planet yet you can die because you have no money and are unfortunate enough to need medical treatment..
And all you stupid brainwashed Yanks claim your health care is better than the rest of the world ? Really ? You must love the taste of that Kool aid.
Oh sorry I forgot socialism (or all joining in to do something together) = bad in your tiny minds.
Thank fuck I live in England where we have the utterly civilized NHS. Thankfully I've been lucky enough (so far) to only pay into the system without needing much myself but I know people who've needed treatment, sometimes quite expensive treatment, and I'm proud to say that my taxes helped pay for them. I will be happy to spend my whole life paying into the NHS without ever needing it myself.
Your American medical "system" is a fucking joke. It's like something out of the middle ages.
I got my own domain name back in about 1996. Since then I've moved ISPs several times and initially I simply redirected my email address to go through whichever pop/smtp servers were required. Once I worked out how to do it I now set things up so my mail gets redirected to my own mail server which runs happily on a really low powered mini-itx box (along with other stuff such as WWW services etc.)
Admittedly this is not something that your average "non computer geek" user can probably do so it's about time it was made much easier for any semi computer literate individual to set up. That way the local computer geeks can help the local community to stand on their own two feet and get off the corporate tit.
I can't for the life of me understand why anyone who is remotely computer literate would trust their email to be handled by a corporate mail provider ? All they do is fish through your emails to better spam you with crapvertisements, allow any old Tom, Dick & Harry to rummage through your email without a warrant, try to lock you in to their services and generally hold you, the customer (i.e. the product), in total disdain.
On which note if law enforcement have a valid reason to go through my emails then fine. As long as this has been sanctioned by a court of law then I've no problem with that. I've got absolutely nothing to hide but you're not looking at it without judicial oversight.
It's about time people got their heads out of their arses and simply stopped using corporate "cloud" and "mail" services. The bastards who run them are a bunch of abusive trolls who have zero respect for their "customers". I won't trust so much as a single zero bit that I've generated to the likes of Google, Microsoft, Yahooo etc. etc. Neither should you.
The whole point of the web is supposed to be a collection of ad hoc individuals being able to communicate with each other as equals. Accept nothing less !
Fuck corporate service providers. Fuck the "cloud".
Oh well, rant over. I trust this is one of the last nails that needs hammering into the coffin of Yahoo.
From what I've seen all IOT (more like IOSS "Internet Of Shit Security") devices are insecure.
So if you detect an IOT device it's pretty much guaranteed to be "rogue".
It's a compelte joke how piss poor the security is on these devices. It's 2016 and we've had decades of devices beign hacked over the internet. Adn the complete morons making this crap are *STILL* shipping them with default username and passwords, back doors, etc.
Personally I think the best way to get some focus on this shiot fest will be for a few huge class action lawsuits to head the way of the worst offenders who have helped create huge botnets of IOSS devices. The current situation is truly pathetic and gives the internet, coders and technology itself a 9well deserved bad name).
personally I've got zero IOSS devices in my house and will not be adding any until the security is made a key focus of the manufacturing process. Maybe an ISO standard also needs to be introduced and any devices that don;t pass it simply aren't legal for sale - with a suitable punishment for connecting one to the public internet (law varying by countries - a fine in Europe, America, the death penalty in Singapore:))
My brian is definitely not working today (managed to reply anonymously when trying to undo an inadvertent mod) This damned laptop has got to go as you seem to be able to touch any part of the front and trigger something....
Alternative storyline. 1) Earth probe lands on alien world and native life forms watch it land. 2) native life forms eagerly eat the "stuff" that comes out of it. 3) Native lifeforms get slight upset stomach and produce a few piles of slightly runny droppings. 4) Microbes in droppings merge with local microbes and evolve into some new micro organisms that find a nice niche within alien eco system. 5) Same as it ever was...
Once we get sophisticated enough probes etc. we'll probably soon find that life is literally everywhere in the universe. From what's been found already on earth it's clear that microbes can live almost everywhere. And when you get things like tardigrades and the shrimp who live in hydrothermal vents etc. it's clear that multicellular life seems to find a niche almost everywhere.
Personally I think the whole multiverse is teeming with life. It just seems to be a natural part of things There are probably beetles everywhere !
Intelligence on the other hand is severely lacking:)
All very interesting. But the USA and the UK are doing exactly the same sort of thing all over the world too so there's no high horse to get on. So the Russians are doing what "we" do. Big deal. News at 11.
Countries are all run by crooks. Who use their position to try to further enrich themselves at the public's expense. It's not a left/right thing. It's not a national thing. It's just crooks being crooks.
There's a quote that is often attributed to Albert Einstein (not sure if this is correct or not) but it's entirely relevant to the article:
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."
The idiots responsible for this disaster want their arses kicking. Hard.
A more likely scenario is that there are an uncountable number of very old, very intelligent, alien races out there and we haven't got the intelligence/means to even start detecting them. As for them contacting us or making them selves known to us we're probably not remotely interesting to them.
One or more of races probably came by at some point in our history and decided that either the trilobites, the dinosaurs or, if they came by more recently, the almost intelligent, selfish, greedy warlike "ape things" have got a l-o-n-g way to go before they've evolved to the point they are worth a closer look.
I'll have cycled past at least one nest of ants this morning (probably 100s). If I stopped to have a look at one I'd find it interesting to see what they were doing (I like ants) but I doubt that they would have noticed me and I certainly don't think they would comprehend me or my bicycle.
The idea that humans are either unique, the only sentient life in the universe or important (in universal terms) is simply delusional arrogance by minds too small to even begin to comprehend the sheer vastness of it all.
Intelligent life is everywhere in the universe - apart from where politicians gather !
There is no way in hell I'm having biometric identification for anything. I'm not about to have my fingers cut off or eyeball pulled out so some some crook can make off with my stuff.
Damn fool idea and probably being pushed more for the use of such data to build a huge database by ye olde 3 letter agencies than for any "security" reasons..
> but didn't have the time to explore the trial versions before the timer ran out of them
Try Reaper. You can be on day 8,512 of your 30 day trial and it will still work. I know some real cheapskates who do this (they're both on the dole and intend to buy a copy when they can). Personally I used it for a while and then bought it because it's well worth the small amount of cash it costs (actually it's probably *THE* best value for money product I've ever bought).
Another vote for Reaper. I've been making music for a long time on computers including quite a number of commercial ventures. I started off with C-Lab creator on the Atari, moved onto Logic Audio on the PC (and latterly on a cheap Mac G5 I got for £ 50 off fleabay) but am now mainly on Reaper.
Over the years I've worked with Cubase, Logic (PC & MAC versions), Fruity Loops, Acid, Pro Tools, Ableton Live etc. etc. In fact I've got some experience with most DAW/Sequencing software including most of the Linux based offerings (Rosegarden, Muse, LMMS, Ardour etc.)
All I can say is that Reaper is my number one choice by a long stretch. It's inexpensive, fully featured, flexible, the file formats are simple to parse, it copes with almost any audio file format you care to throw at it, it comes with a great set of plugins "out of the box" and it simply just works. Coming from other DAWs (i.e. mainly Logic) I have to say it was a complete pain to learn how it works as it's a totally different workflow to most other DAWs but I'm constantly amazed by how flexible the audio/MIDI routing is and how quickly I can get things done.
And I'm sorry to say it but Linux DAW software is simply leagues behind. I had great hopes when Ubuntu studio came out but it simply didn't "cut the mustard". The main problem being a lack of support for VSTs a, if you don't offer support for VST technology, I'm afraid you're basically out of the game. There are a ridiculous number of wonderful free VST instruments out there (not to mention the commercial powerhouses such as Kontakt etc.) and not being able to make use of them is like playing a guitar with only one arm and one string. yes you can get a tune out of it but you're very, very limited.
Sorry peeps. But I have zero interest in connecting anything in my house to the internet other than my computers as I at least stand a chance of having reasonable security on them (I configure them)
It's plainly obvious to me that most manufacturers are utterly clueless. Hard coded piss weak default passwords, internet facing administrative backdoors which are open by default, open ports, a design philosophy of "everything open to anyone by default", no thought that someone might try to attack the device by using it in an unintended manner etc. etc. It's like they're getting newborn children who've never seen the internet to design the security of all this "IOT" crap.
This whole idea should be called the "Internet Of Piss Poor Security" (IOPPS)
Here we go again with the tiresome "but sites need ads to survive" crap.
If your website is based on being funded by advertising you have a failed business model. Users don't want to see them and will not tolerate them.
Like most internet users I pay for my bandwidth and I'm not paying to download your crapulent ads for rubbish I have zero interest in. Plus being somewhat wise I don't allow ads or javascript by default as this is a great start on keeping malware off your machine.
All you "but we need ads" people need to stop behaving like King Canute. The users have spoken. We do not want your ads.
You therefore need to find a better business model. End of discussion.
I'd love to see audio VST plugins fully supported on Linux. Given that Reaper will run under Wine being able to use my collection of VST plugins would give me the opportunity to finally move off my XP audio machine. There's no way in hell I'm going to ever use Windows 8 or 10 as I will simply not be spied upon. And Windows 7 is neither use nor ornament as it doesn't have drivers for my audio/MIDI interfaces (which run fine under Linux).
Following the recent obnoxious spying behaviour of Microsoft Windows is now a completely dead platform to me. However I'm running a standalone Windows XP machine (which isn't connected to any networks) purely because it runs the audio software I need to do my work.
The real question is why is the default behaviour of the operating system not to save state whilst rebooting ? (with an alternative "reboot without saving state" command being available)
A simple solution will be for everbody in the UK to change their name by deed poll to Luther Blisset. Then whenever you sign up for something just pick any old address. We're all Luther Blisset !
The political class in the UIK really are a bunch of evil, selfish, greedy bastards.
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As an added feature Google's new service will come with a "free" webcam so they can provide a "better customer experience" (e.g. so they can track your every utterance/move and serve you more and more "targetted ads")
Coming soon "GoogleWipe" (tm), the softer, kinder, gentler, more eco-friendly bathroom paper with added nano cameras which "cleanse, freshen and delight whilst aiding our customers to assess their rectal health".
Once again we see an individual attempting to do something which attracts criminal charges... unless they're in the right club. Do I see any bankers getting charged for any of the criminal dealings that led to all the bank collapses ? No. Unless it's Iceland who seem to a) have balls and b) still actually govern themselves.
And once again we see that the UK is no longer a sovereign country but is simply a fiefdom of the corporate USA oligarchies.
If a UK citizen has committed a crime on UK soil they should be tried in a UK court by a UK judge.
Fuck the American "justice" system where the men with the money make the rules.
How utterly barbaric is the USA ? One of the most technologically advanced societies on the planet yet you can die because you have no money and are unfortunate enough to need medical treatment..
And all you stupid brainwashed Yanks claim your health care is better than the rest of the world ? Really ? You must love the taste of that Kool aid.
Oh sorry I forgot socialism (or all joining in to do something together) = bad in your tiny minds.
Thank fuck I live in England where we have the utterly civilized NHS. Thankfully I've been lucky enough (so far) to only pay into the system without needing much myself but I know people who've needed treatment, sometimes quite expensive treatment, and I'm proud to say that my taxes helped pay for them. I will be happy to spend my whole life paying into the NHS without ever needing it myself.
Your American medical "system" is a fucking joke. It's like something out of the middle ages.
I got my own domain name back in about 1996. Since then I've moved ISPs several times and initially I simply redirected my email address to go through whichever pop/smtp servers were required. Once I worked out how to do it I now set things up so my mail gets redirected to my own mail server which runs happily on a really low powered mini-itx box (along with other stuff such as WWW services etc.)
Admittedly this is not something that your average "non computer geek" user can probably do so it's about time it was made much easier for any semi computer literate individual to set up. That way the local computer geeks can help the local community to stand on their own two feet and get off the corporate tit.
I can't for the life of me understand why anyone who is remotely computer literate would trust their email to be handled by a corporate mail provider ? All they do is fish through your emails to better spam you with crapvertisements, allow any old Tom, Dick & Harry to rummage through your email without a warrant, try to lock you in to their services and generally hold you, the customer (i.e. the product), in total disdain.
On which note if law enforcement have a valid reason to go through my emails then fine. As long as this has been sanctioned by a court of law then I've no problem with that. I've got absolutely nothing to hide but you're not looking at it without judicial oversight.
It's about time people got their heads out of their arses and simply stopped using corporate "cloud" and "mail" services. The bastards who run them are a bunch of abusive trolls who have zero respect for their "customers". I won't trust so much as a single zero bit that I've generated to the likes of Google, Microsoft, Yahooo etc. etc. Neither should you.
The whole point of the web is supposed to be a collection of ad hoc individuals being able to communicate with each other as equals. Accept nothing less !
Fuck corporate service providers. Fuck the "cloud".
Oh well, rant over. I trust this is one of the last nails that needs hammering into the coffin of Yahoo.
From what I've seen all IOT (more like IOSS "Internet Of Shit Security") devices are insecure.
So if you detect an IOT device it's pretty much guaranteed to be "rogue".
It's a compelte joke how piss poor the security is on these devices. It's 2016 and we've had decades of devices beign hacked over the internet. Adn the complete morons making this crap are *STILL* shipping them with default username and passwords, back doors, etc.
Personally I think the best way to get some focus on this shiot fest will be for a few huge class action lawsuits to head the way of the worst offenders who have helped create huge botnets of IOSS devices. The current situation is truly pathetic and gives the internet, coders and technology itself a 9well deserved bad name).
personally I've got zero IOSS devices in my house and will not be adding any until the security is made a key focus of the manufacturing process. Maybe an ISO standard also needs to be introduced and any devices that don;t pass it simply aren't legal for sale - with a suitable punishment for connecting one to the public internet (law varying by countries - a fine in Europe, America, the death penalty in Singapore :))
My brian is definitely not working today (managed to reply anonymously when trying to undo an inadvertent mod) This damned laptop has got to go as you seem to be able to touch any part of the front and trigger something....
Alternative storyline. 1) Earth probe lands on alien world and native life forms watch it land. 2) native life forms eagerly eat the "stuff" that comes out of it. 3) Native lifeforms get slight upset stomach and produce a few piles of slightly runny droppings. 4) Microbes in droppings merge with local microbes and evolve into some new micro organisms that find a nice niche within alien eco system. 5) Same as it ever was...
Once we get sophisticated enough probes etc. we'll probably soon find that life is literally everywhere in the universe. From what's been found already on earth it's clear that microbes can live almost everywhere. And when you get things like tardigrades and the shrimp who live in hydrothermal vents etc. it's clear that multicellular life seems to find a niche almost everywhere.
Personally I think the whole multiverse is teeming with life. It just seems to be a natural part of things There are probably beetles everywhere !
Intelligence on the other hand is severely lacking :)
Never mind the Bonobos and Hyeanas. I dare anyone to try and explain it to TurboNegro !
Nay sire, 'tis only a flash wound !
All very interesting. But the USA and the UK are doing exactly the same sort of thing all over the world too so there's no high horse to get on. So the Russians are doing what "we" do. Big deal. News at 11.
Countries are all run by crooks. Who use their position to try to further enrich themselves at the public's expense. It's not a left/right thing. It's not a national thing. It's just crooks being crooks.
Same as it ever was...
There's a quote that is often attributed to Albert Einstein (not sure if this is correct or not) but it's entirely relevant to the article:
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."
The idiots responsible for this disaster want their arses kicking. Hard.
A more likely scenario is that there are an uncountable number of very old, very intelligent, alien races out there and we haven't got the intelligence/means to even start detecting them. As for them contacting us or making them selves known to us we're probably not remotely interesting to them.
One or more of races probably came by at some point in our history and decided that either the trilobites, the dinosaurs or, if they came by more recently, the almost intelligent, selfish, greedy warlike "ape things" have got a l-o-n-g way to go before they've evolved to the point they are worth a closer look.
I'll have cycled past at least one nest of ants this morning (probably 100s). If I stopped to have a look at one I'd find it interesting to see what they were doing (I like ants) but I doubt that they would have noticed me and I certainly don't think they would comprehend me or my bicycle.
The idea that humans are either unique, the only sentient life in the universe or important (in universal terms) is simply delusional arrogance by minds too small to even begin to comprehend the sheer vastness of it all.
Intelligent life is everywhere in the universe - apart from where politicians gather !
> what they are doing with the telemetry data that Windows 10 is collecting ?
They're spying on you with no way to turn it off. That *IS* what they're doing. Windows 10 *IS* spyware. let's go through the questions... again...
1 Downloads itself to your machine without you specifically asking for it ? YES
2 Aggressively attempts to install itself taking over your computer in the process ? YES
3 Sends unknown and/or encrypted data to unknown third parties ? YES
4 Sends personally identifying information to unknown third parties ? YES
5 Easy to remove ? NO
Hmmm... Looks like spyware, smells like spyware, walks like spyware and talks like spyware. Windows 10 *IS* spyware.
Anyone willingly using it is a moron. Microsoft shills go f**** yourself.
There is no way in hell I'm having biometric identification for anything. I'm not about to have my fingers cut off or eyeball pulled out so some some crook can make off with my stuff.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
Damn fool idea and probably being pushed more for the use of such data to build a huge database by ye olde 3 letter agencies than for any "security" reasons..
> but didn't have the time to explore the trial versions before the timer ran out of them
Try Reaper. You can be on day 8,512 of your 30 day trial and it will still work. I know some real cheapskates who do this (they're both on the dole and intend to buy a copy when they can). Personally I used it for a while and then bought it because it's well worth the small amount of cash it costs (actually it's probably *THE* best value for money product I've ever bought).
Another vote for Reaper. I've been making music for a long time on computers including quite a number of commercial ventures. I started off with C-Lab creator on the Atari, moved onto Logic Audio on the PC (and latterly on a cheap Mac G5 I got for £ 50 off fleabay) but am now mainly on Reaper.
Over the years I've worked with Cubase, Logic (PC & MAC versions), Fruity Loops, Acid, Pro Tools, Ableton Live etc. etc. In fact I've got some experience with most DAW/Sequencing software including most of the Linux based offerings (Rosegarden, Muse, LMMS, Ardour etc.)
All I can say is that Reaper is my number one choice by a long stretch. It's inexpensive, fully featured, flexible, the file formats are simple to parse, it copes with almost any audio file format you care to throw at it, it comes with a great set of plugins "out of the box" and it simply just works. Coming from other DAWs (i.e. mainly Logic) I have to say it was a complete pain to learn how it works as it's a totally different workflow to most other DAWs but I'm constantly amazed by how flexible the audio/MIDI routing is and how quickly I can get things done.
And I'm sorry to say it but Linux DAW software is simply leagues behind. I had great hopes when Ubuntu studio came out but it simply didn't "cut the mustard". The main problem being a lack of support for VSTs a, if you don't offer support for VST technology, I'm afraid you're basically out of the game. There are a ridiculous number of wonderful free VST instruments out there (not to mention the commercial powerhouses such as Kontakt etc.) and not being able to make use of them is like playing a guitar with only one arm and one string. yes you can get a tune out of it but you're very, very limited.
"Maybe" ? Microsoft are busily creating the biggest spyware botnet in the history of the internet (Windows 10) and you say "Maybe".
Windows 7 and above are now classed as spyware in my house :)
Sorry peeps. But I have zero interest in connecting anything in my house to the internet other than my computers as I at least stand a chance of having reasonable security on them (I configure them)
It's plainly obvious to me that most manufacturers are utterly clueless. Hard coded piss weak default passwords, internet facing administrative backdoors which are open by default, open ports, a design philosophy of "everything open to anyone by default", no thought that someone might try to attack the device by using it in an unintended manner etc. etc. It's like they're getting newborn children who've never seen the internet to design the security of all this "IOT" crap.
This whole idea should be called the "Internet Of Piss Poor Security" (IOPPS)
Not interested at all.
And use Bourbon instead of milk, not to mention following your cereal with a cigarette, to give you that proper "ultimate power breakfast" feeling :)
Here we go again with the tiresome "but sites need ads to survive" crap.
If your website is based on being funded by advertising you have a failed business model. Users don't want to see them and will not tolerate them.
Like most internet users I pay for my bandwidth and I'm not paying to download your crapulent ads for rubbish I have zero interest in. Plus being somewhat wise I don't allow ads or javascript by default as this is a great start on keeping malware off your machine.
All you "but we need ads" people need to stop behaving like King Canute. The users have spoken. We do not want your ads.
You therefore need to find a better business model. End of discussion.
I'd love to see audio VST plugins fully supported on Linux. Given that Reaper will run under Wine being able to use my collection of VST plugins would give me the opportunity to finally move off my XP audio machine. There's no way in hell I'm going to ever use Windows 8 or 10 as I will simply not be spied upon. And Windows 7 is neither use nor ornament as it doesn't have drivers for my audio/MIDI interfaces (which run fine under Linux).
Following the recent obnoxious spying behaviour of Microsoft Windows is now a completely dead platform to me. However I'm running a standalone Windows XP machine (which isn't connected to any networks) purely because it runs the audio software I need to do my work.
VST support for the win !
Pale Moon for the win !!!!
I switched from Firefox about two months ago and I haven't looked back.
Take back the web with Pale Moon :)
The real question is why is the default behaviour of the operating system not to save state whilst rebooting ? (with an alternative "reboot without saving state" command being available)
A simple solution will be for everbody in the UK to change their name by deed poll to Luther Blisset. Then whenever you sign up for something just pick any old address. We're all Luther Blisset !
The political class in the UIK really are a bunch of evil, selfish, greedy bastards.