The UK government has chosen to stop handing subsidies to pensioners that can afford heating. FTFY

Just recently I happened to get a great tip - under both EU and UK legislation you are entitled to port out your number to another VoIP provider. Many do not charge a monthly fee

Neustar sold the registry business to GoDaddy in early 2020, although it remains a separately-run entity called GoDaddy Registry.

I think the DNS business (UltraDNS and UltraDNS Public - the latter being the subject of the article) stayed with Neustar.

The Top Level Domains (TLDs) in the story seem diverse at first sight: .us, .co (Colombia's national ccTLD) and .biz. But there is a link: all are administered by GoDaddy Registry.

It seems the criminals have identified a weakness in the brand protection and/or abuse prevention at that registry, and are busy exploiting it.

This is one of those statements that is so far into the mirror world it's hard to know where to start.

Most UK print press is owned by the super rich: Rupert Murdoch owns the Sun, Times and Sunday Times; Barclay brothers own the Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph; the oligarch Evgeny Lebedev and a Saudi billionaire own the "Independent".

Not on that list is The Guardian (and sister paper The Observer). The Guardian funds itself with small contributions (I pay £49 / $64 per year) from 655,000 regular monthly supporters. Hardly "super rich elite".

Their funding model is described here:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fme...

I have half a dozen Apple power adapters lying around. The cables however...

The Guardian is one of the few independent media outlets left to us. If you value quality investigative journalism, consider supporting it.

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"Ministry of Intelligence" sounds plausible, but it doesn't exist.

It's the UK parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee which has written a report into interference, but (infamously) Downing Street refused to release it before the recent general election.

It's quite possible that foreign interference has occurred, we just don't have firm evidence yet.

I like Draytek routers. They have decent security and get updates for years, at a price thatâ(TM)s not cheap but not crazy either. If cost is an issue, install OpenWRT on any old router.

Do share...

Ahem. "Our [Information Security] MSc programme was the first of its kind in the world, running for the first time in 1992." Source: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.royalholloway.ac.u...

Why is the phone doing ADC? Did you mean the DAC for the headphone jack?

GPGtools is great, but it was broken for four months when MacOS 10.12 (Sierra) Mail changed how it handled plugins.

Mostly, since the European Court of Justice ruling in Levi Strauss v Tesco back in 2001. It was ruled that Levi's could protect their brand by preventing grey imports of jeans in the EU.

Shitbaggery yes but nonetheless true

Matt Ridley, the failed bankster?

Yes, the author of those brilliant books is the same Matt Ridley who was chairman of Northern Rock in 2007 when it experienced the first run in modern times, nearly collapsed, and was eventually bailed out by the state to the tune of £27 billion.

More on George Monbiot's blog, here: http://www.monbiot.com/2010/06...