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Submission + - Honey pot for nasty html requests? 1

Anne Thwacks writes: My logs show large numbers of requests which are clearly attempts to hack a Wordpress site or MySql (my sites do not use Wordpress or MySql). What time wasting files could I serve to requests for phpMyAdmin/scripts/setup.php and the like?

Comment Re:Patents SHOULD get harder to make (Score 2) 71

They do ... It is like bitcoins. The first few are big fat juicy coins, then later ones come along. They are tiny fragments of the original, but the old and the new are all worth more because of the total amount of digging for coins.

All the new patents are for insignificant mods to already trivial inventions. However, they are worth huge amounts of money because [lawyers]. Or the books are cooked by accountants.

Or I have drunk too much brandy. Not sure which, but I will know in the morning.

Comment Re:And where are the parents? (Score 1) 187

My "Research" shows that 52% of 12-13 year olds don't actually understand the words "porn" and "addicted" and 86% of teenagers lie when answering questions about sex or violence.

I have not conducted any research over whether politicians are stupider than they look. It appeared relatively pointless.

A previous research project of mine showed 100% of heroin addicts ate cornflakes at lest once as children.

Comment Re:its not the apps, its the os I worry about (Score 1) 91

Go back to your bedroom. Loads of people think five years is still a child. I am writing this on a ten year old laptop, and regularly use a 10 year old Nokia phone (I have a new Samsung, but quite often I need to be away from the mains for more time than 3 spare batteries allow.

Electronics does not rot or rust, and in the absence of a hard disk or CDrom drive, should last 30 years.

I see no reason why Google should have to maintain old devices. However, I do think that if a manufacturer EOLs a device, which might pose a security threat to others (by hosting malware) they should be required by law to release all the technical details that could possibly be required by third parties to support the device They cannot have it both ways.

Comment Re:Uh, Why... (Score 1) 158

Perhaps you or someone upstream is using some sort of NAT.

You mean everyone else in the same Security Guard training school? Surely there is a good chance of that being the case!

why do they care what browser you're using simply to logon?

If they actually cared there probably would not actually be a problem.

Submission + - Internet Explorer website wont work with Windows (homeoffice.gov.uk) 3

Anne Thwacks writes: The British Government web site for applying for for a licence to be a security guard requires a plugin providing Internet Explorer emulation on Firefox to login and apply for a licence. It wont work with Firefox without the add-on, but it also wont work with Internet Explorer! (I tried Win XP and Win7 Professional). The error message says "you have more than one browser window open on the same internet connection". I didn't. and "to avoid this problem, close your browser and reopen it". I did. No change. I tried three different computers, with three different OSes.
Still no change.
I contacted their tech support and they said "Yes ... a lot of users complain about this. We have known about it since September, and are working on a fix! Meanwhile, we have instructions on how to use the "Fire IE" plugin to get round the problem". Eventually, I got this to work on Win7pro. (The plugin will not work on Linux). The instructions require a very old version of the plugin, and a bit of trial and error is needed to get it to work with the current one.

How can a government department concerned with security not get this sort of thing right?

Besides a massive amount of bribery and corruption, what could explain how the designers of the web site can't fix a chronic useability problem after 6 months?

Comment Re:servers run on battery? (Score 1) 50

am I missing something?

Yes. This is in Africa. Any AC supply they do have will be 240V.

And will probably only work for 3 hours a day - most likely the 3 hours you least need it, and quite definitely the 3 hours you least expect it. However, you still have to pay for it for the other 21 hours you did not get it.

This is a combined effect of the afterglow of the colonial era when all forms of organisation were the work of the occupying enemy, and to be resisted at all costs, and modern Islamic teaching that education is a Satanic American plot.

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