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Comment More like the "Internet Of Piss Poor Security" (Score 1) 26

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.

Comment Internet ads = failed business model (Score 1) 102

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.

Comment VST Plugin Support (Score 1) 889

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 !

Comment Let's all change our names. (Score 1) 282

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.

Comment And the technically literate... (Score 1) 191

And the technically literate are even more afraid of the internet because they know how shoddy a lot of the code running it is.

Not to mention the sheer crapulence of the average website (all javascript links, flash abominations, piss poor use of graphics, loading of javascript from multiple domains most of which is not even used etc. etc. etc.)

And let's not get started on how utterly dreadful the usability is on a lot of sites.

I've gone from being an early adopter to refusing to do a lot of things online (i.e. banking, paying bills etc.). It's not worth dealing with the complete suckage.

Comment Re:I won't upgrade. (Score 1) 681

> i can still run a DOS app on win 7

Yeah but you can't run XP drivers. Which breaks perfectly functional, excellent quality, EXPENSIVE, old hardware which quite a lot of us have.

One of the main reasons many of us had for using Windows was that you almost always used to be able to run your old stuff on the new stuff.

Now they just arbitarily break things on every release, introduce crap that everyone sane hates and release far too often.

My XP machines will be running until I die. In 2038 I'll reset them to 2000 and carry on (assuming I'm still alive). I've got spare motherboards, disks, graphics cards, etc. etc.stockpiled (One of the advantages of the sheeple upgrading when they're told is I get to buy perfectly functioning quality hardware for peanuts)

I run a PC to run the hardware and software I want to use. Not to "experience" the latest desktop metaphor thought up buy some 13 year old hipster who has no fucking clue about what an actual usable, productive interface looks like.

Personally I'd really like a 64 bit DOS based machine which would boot up to a truly minimal set up (kernel, access to hardware and filestore etc.) then just let me run the software I want.

Comment "Life" != Life (Score 2) 216

The phrase "life imprisonment" means nothing in the UK. Recently a man absconded from a prison who was said to be serving 3 life sentences. From reading the newspaper article reporting the case it transpired that his tariff was actually 13 years (sorry can't remember which paper or exact details).

So when being used by the UK justice system the term "life" would seem to refer to about an average dogs life. It's totally meaningless and quite frankly an insult to your intelligence.

This being the case "life" for computer related offences will probably mean you serve about 1/2 hour in an open prison - unless you take some money off someone powerful in which case you'll probably get a "life" sentence of about 10 years.

This doesn't take away fropm the fact that this is anoter pathetic, ill thought out, idea for legislation dreamt up by one of the useless cretins currently in parliament.

The UK justice system is a sad joke whose only purpose is to protect the rich and powerful (same as the world over really)

Comment Cloud is dead (Score 4, Insightful) 142

Dear America,

Following the Snowden revelations your NSA inspired dream of cloud computing and total social networking (i.e. full access too all the data in the world) is dead.

Nobody with a brain would even think of storing their data on an American computing resource.

Sincerely yours,

The rest of the world.

Comment And who decides what's available ? (Score 1) 339

So who controls what's available for streaming ? Corporations (again)

Ooh look, all those wonderful independent releases just dissapeared from the face of the earth because some uncultutred turd decided it was no longer commerically viable to store them.

Just look at the BBC and how most tapes of the early episodes of Derek and Clive got put into landfill so they could make space for tapes of Pan-o-bloody-rama (crapulent propoganda at it's finest) How many episodes of Dr Who have also been lost ? How many other culturally interesting things have been lost ?

If something's going to be streamed it'd better be in a format that I can make a local copy or I'm totally uninterested. I'm not paying per view and I'm not having what's available at any point controlled by some tasteless old white man in a suit whose only interest is rent seeking from other people's contributions to human culture.

So no thanks I like my local copies. I control them. Once I do get a spinning disc the first thing I do is remove the adverts and convert it to digital format so it only spins the one time I transcode it anyway.

Comment Re:I have your conversion right here... (Score 1) 860

I hear you. I'm stuck on Windows XP due to using Logic 5.5.1, 2 x Audiowerk8 cards and 2 Unitor interfaces.

The drivers for the hardware don't work post XP, not all the VSTs I use work post XP, not sure if Logic 5 will work post XP (some folks say it does but without the hardware working I've not even bothered to try it) so upgrading this machine simply isn't an option.

I've been using this setup for over a decade and I've got somewhere near a thousand songs/mixes etc. in Logic. This setup does what I need and I can whizz round it at great speed so I don't give a shit what Microsoft thinks about upgrading. I'll be running XP until either the hardware dies or I do (with me being more likely to go first).

Just recently stocked up on spare motherboard, hard drives, PSUs, processor & RAM just in case :)

New does not always mean better (hell, look at Windows 8 - it's absolute shite ;)

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