Y Pennog Coch’s Comments

• Feb 16th, 2016 @ 10:58am

  re: Gamasutra is poison

  on How A Treasury Terror List Is Preventing Americans With 'Scary' Names From Using Online Services
  Ye Clipping Fogs, this is a most unusual car-crash of a thread. Doesn't fit any category of trolling I've ever seen before. You throw a cat on the table, and then you pick it up and throw it down again, and then you repeat until the poor thing is dead and everybody at the table gives in and talks about your wretched dead cat. I'm going to christen this the "Chopped Dead Cat and Ham" Strategy.
  
  Meanwhile, hundreds (thousands?) of innocent Americans _still_ can't access financial services and _still_ get extra attention at the airport. But oh no let's not talk about that.
  
  Anonymous Gamasutra-hater, if this is your ethics then I'm glad you're not in journalism.
• Dec 22nd, 2015 @ 9:03am

  Re: Money maker

  on Law Enforcement Wants To Be Able To Seize The Cars And Homes Of People Convicted On Child Porn Charges
  >>> Whoops forgot to delete illicit material from camera.
  It's worse than "forgot". Often you can't properly delete data from flash memory.
  
  And if you do find a device with correct support for secure erase in its firmware, what you get at retail won't necessarily be what was reviewed:
  
  "Instead of the original Silicon Motion controller, the new batch of PNY Optima drives had a different, SandForce-based controller known for its less-than-perfect implementation of garbage collection leaving data on the disk for a long time after it’s been deleted."
  http://articles.forensicfocus.com/2014/09/23/recovering-evidence-from-ssd-drives-in-2014-un derstanding-trim-garbage-collection-and-exclusions/
  
  About the only cure for this is going to be for someone overseas to purchase one of these tainted goods, and then publically gift it to one of the idiots who drafted this law, and add "oh by the way, STRICT LIABILITY".
• Aug 6th, 2015 @ 2:04pm

  Re: Blame Game

  on After The 'Maui Meltdown', TPP Has Missed A Key Deadline That Probably Means It's Doomed Whatever Is Now Agreed
  So if every town comes with an unfortunate headline, there will be
  
  nowhere to go to complete the TPP?
  
  CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
  
  Arsenal Altercation
  Batman Brouhaha
  Caracas Fracas
  Damascus Derailment
  Edinburgh Enmity
  Failsworth Flip-Flop
  Godalming Grief
  The Hague Howler
  Inulec Implosion
  Karachi Skid
  Lanark Calamity
  (Maui Meltdown)
  Nairobi Nightmare
  Owen Goal
  Penistone Disaster Zone
  Qaasuitsup Titsup
  Rangoon Wreck
  Scunthorpe Squabble
  Tokyo Rift
  Utrecht Uproar
  Verona Game-Over
  Weston Super-Mare
  Xiangyang Prang
  Yoxall Yips
  Zhengzhou Zinger
  
  Any more for any more?
• Apr 7th, 2015 @ 12:32pm

  Re: "crude age verification would not be too difficult"

  on Fighting Toddler 'Porn Addiction,' UK Lawmakers Demand Porn Sites Include Age Checks Or Face Closure
  >>> Soon all computers of any format sold in the last several years will have a built-in virtual camera.
  
  FTFY.
  
  And who will the camera see? David Cameron, David Cameron, and David Cameron.