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Re: RSS apologies

Kirit S — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:32:54 -0000

Odd. I only saw this because the feed WAS working (and has been for ages). I'm using RSSOwl in case that helps.

I'm also sitting in Bangkok. Maybe the UK government has banned you for taking the micky out of them?

Re: RSS apologies

Kirit S — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:42:30 -0000

I think the only explanation must be the government nobbling the UK ISPs.

Mine picked up the last two posts by Ruthie good as gold. Has she got the two of us confused?

Re: RSS apologies

Kirit S — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:14:49 -0000

Nope, seems fine to me. Just checked both feeds and they're ok for me.

I hope there's no insinuation about ladyboys... :-)

Re: So why is Geeklawyer anonymous?

Kirit S — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:42:06 -0000

It's pretty trivial to find your name though... Mail me and I'll point out at least one place where it is.

Re: Points scoring

Kirit S — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:38:14 -0000

Why indeed stop there. Although one would at least hope that they would stop at where the research shows that the costs outweight the benefits, but then again... They don't seem to worry about that elsewhere.

Here in Thailand they have another interesting approach. If I have an accident it's clearly and obviously my fault. I'm in their country and if I wasn't here then the accident wouldn't have happened. QED. At least I know where I stand.

k

Re: Site visuals

Kirit S — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:17:42 -0000

Your feeds have been broken for quite some time now. If the URIs have changed you should drop in a 301 re-direct to the new ones.

Re: Site visuals

Kirit S — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:27:23 -0000

The URLs I'm subscribed to are these:

http://geeklawyer.org/blog/comments/feed/

http://geeklawyer.org/blog/wp-rss2.php

The comment feed just went live again (I think RSSOwl does update it's URL in response to a 301 as it should), but the main feed is still dead.

It'd be lovely to have the form re-presented when you forget to type in the anti-spam sum too, but that's a little thing.

Re: Site visuals

Kirit S — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:31:25 -0000

Just posted the feed links but they've not shown up. I guess that they're held in moderation due to the URLs?

Re: The French

Kirit S — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:29:53 -0000

I noticed this too. Makes them hard to read. Didn't have time to go and look at the RSS itself.

It looks like it isn't using the content:encoding tag properly. The spec is here: http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/

It's meant to have the HTML in it, but it's stripping it and use just plain text and presuming it's whitespace preserving, which of course it isn't.

Re: Embryonic disaster

Kirit S — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:33:31 -0000

"Sadly as society becomes more and more selfish, children seem to be incresingly [sic] neglected"

These sorts of argument always sound great, but are they true? Is neglect worse now than it was a hundred years ago? Two hundred? A thousand? Or are we only talking about the last five years? A period which is surely too short for any sort of meaningful trend to become apparent.

Maybe it the cohort now having children really are worse than the one before? But even so we should expect to see some numbers. And what evidence do we have that a cohort who neglects their children doesn't give rise to a cohort that does the opposite due to their childhood? And the cycle continues with their children then thinking neglect is OK again because they didn't suffer it.

I suspect what it really is is a wish to paint ourselves worse than we really are and our forbears better than they were.

Here in Thailand child labour still occurs, children are often neglected and often mistreated. I'm sure that I wouldn't find many who have holidayed here that wouldn't envy Thai family life over British though. Not for what it actually is, but for what they presume it is.

Re: Embryonic disaster

Kirit S — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:44:09 -0000

"thank you for pointing out my spelling mistake" - just sticking up for the geek :mrgreen: Not that I do any better... "Maybe it the cohort" - idiot :oops:

Re: Open wireless access

Kirit S — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:47:46 -0000

As a geek even more geeky than the man himself (he's only talking about writing blog software, I've done it) there are a few points about the access on to a wifi network.

Most of the security on wifi access points is essentially worthless for keeping out any other than casual intruders.

What this means in practice is that if somebody wants to use your internet connection then they will be able to get in. Without a lot of arcane knowledge and ability the only way to stop somebody from piggy backing on your connection is to keep it turned off.

I don't know anything about legal reasoning here, but if a self-confessed geek like Geeklawyer had his security broken it may be quite hard for him to convince a court that it was an outside intruder as there would be no evidence to show that it had in fact been broken - there would be no broken lock, to use a physical analogy. He may be better off leaving it open to allow some form of plausible denial.

Here is a link about eavesdropping (hard to stop): http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/w...

And another about how quickly the FBI can break into a protected network (lots of technical details for the geeky): http://www.informationweek.com/management/compl...

Re: Open wireless access

Kirit S — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:38:41 -0000

I'm not sure that is the right analogy. Image if you have some land and the police find bomb making equipment there.

If you had put a big fence around the land with guards it will be hard to convince anybody that the equipment isn't yours.

If you leave the land open and unguarded then it is hard for anybody to prove that whatever they found was actually yours.

I don't really know how this should be interpreted, I'm just saying it could be interpreted either way. Who's up for a test case? Or was there one already?

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