* Posts by asdf

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Boffins exploit Intel CPU weakness to run rings around code defenses

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Especially since even CPUs are largely becoming a commodity. The layoffs don't lie.

Dirty COW explained: Get a moooo-ve on and patch Linux root hole

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Re: Utterly inexcusable...

>Your risk comes from your own staff which should be a much lower risk

NSA might disagree with you on that. Honestly good enterprise security is well aware its biggest risk is usually insiders. They might be much rarer than outsider attackers but the havoc they can wreck can be many times greater.

Britain's fight to get its F-35 aircraft carriers operational turns legal

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Re: Would we have won WW-II ?

>Believe it or not, the MOD back then was about the same as it is now.

Except back then they could actually force the competent people to work for them. Over here across the pond have a feeling someone with skills like the ultimate PM at least in modern history General Groves wouldn't be big on a public sector job these days.

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Re: It's like the blind leading the blind.

International law has always been a charlie foxtrot. When nations of the world get together to do good they do things like give Haiti cholera or Africa pedophile peace keepers who just watch or run away from atrocities (just what both needed).

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Re: Would we have won WW-II ?

Not just the MOD as a yank I am not even sure we could go to the Moon again for any price. Too many heads in the trough and too many bureaucrats these days to get much of anything done (see F-35 itself for a prime example).

Third of Donald Trump's debate deplorables are mindless automatons

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Well look on the bright side (haha!) at least automation is probably eventually going to get almost all the drunk idiots off the road. Personally I would take ignoring thousands of pro Trump or whoever tweets over losing the lottery of drunken fools on the road.

Fujitsu Voice is no more: Employee works council shuttered as job cuts loom

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Re: Where is this European works council based?

All too often the choice is import the worker or export the job.

Will Microsoft's nerd goggles soar like an Eagle, or flop like a turkey?

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Re: Looked Inevitable?

Pretty sure again Tim Cook could simply say scoreboard (financials) b*tch. Microsoft hardware have a very mixed track record.

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Re: Looked Inevitable?

>Did apple lose?

Last I looked making about 2 to 3x the profits a quarter Microsoft is.

Euro politicians are hyping the terror threat to steal your privacy

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wow really?

Isn't that headline about 15 years too late? Sure is for us Yanks and our wonderful politicians anyway.

SAP fixes gaping authentication bypass flaw after 3 YEARS

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wow

SAP is now basically mission critical to our way of life (ok not you country boy can survive in your bunker). The next big war won't just be on CNN (if you can even get it what with our decrepit power infrastructure and security as an afterthought SCADA begging to be taken out) with the homeland safe.

Just minding your own business, doing HCI. Suddenly you're inside ... a magic quadrant

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good ole Gartner

Funny how your companies position in their magic quadrants are directly correlated with how much money you send Gartner's way. At least El Reg would never be lazy enough to just publish what Gartner's PR flacks tell them too.

Snoop! stooge! Yahoo! handed! all! your! email! to! Uncle! Sam! – and! any! passing! hacker!

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who are going to cash out just in time (those at the top anyway, isn't that always the case)

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Re: FBI contacted me one time

>But I did find it funny that even the FBI investigator could not figure out how to get in touch with someone at the company,

It is pretty amazing how much better the press has been with the Panama papers than all the law enforcement that look the other way when they are dealing with rich folks.

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LOL@Verizon

Marissa Mayer is nothing but a used car salesman peddling mostly lemons. Have fun with your new white elephant Verizon. Looking forward to your massive goodwill write down in the next 12 months. Plus it will be the gift that keeps on taking quarter after quarter. I wonder how many other bodies are to be found in the Yahoo crawl space. Some HP style due diligence right there (seriously are they doing it for tax reasons?). Couldn't happen to a nicer megacorp.

Microsoft disbands Band band – and there'll be no version 3

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can do attitude

>“Devices come and go,” mused Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella this March

An attitude you definitely need to have if your company is responsible for foisting the Kin on the world. Helps being able to piss away billions as well.

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Re: Don't forget Skype hardware dropped

>They certainly do still make phones. Microsoft recently confirmed new models are coming soon:

Guess that means they are still comfortable pissing money away. The sad thing is due to once again monkey Ballmer having zero vision they actually gave the original smartphone market away a decade ago with little regard.

Firefox to doctor Pepper so it can run Chrome's PDF, Flash plugins

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Re: unsafe at any sandbox

>break Flash to break Chrome to attack the hypervisor

Zero days on hypervisors are extremely valuable and unless you are doing IT support for upper management in a large corp probably not a worry. They also tend to get patched very quickly when found. Needless to say if you don't keep everything patched daily then yeah it not near as secure.

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try pale moon

Pale Moon perhaps? It was forked around FF 25 or so (and is lightning fast for FF, not midori fast though). Only two drawbacks are its usually not in your distros repo but you can use their installer easy enough and some of the latest versions of FF addons don't work with it (Noscript does and browser comes with an XSS filter by default).

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Re: So Mozilla, why should I use Firefox?

>Mozilla, why should I use Firefox?

One word. Noscript. It should be your go to browser (or a derivative like Pale Moon that I like) for logging into sensitive sites. With that use case in mind you should probably avoid for random browsing and avoid installing any plugins at all with it and use the ESR version.

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Re: unsafe at any sandbox

Forgot to mention the obvious that whatever user you run chrome under should have the least privileges (regular user, no sudo access at minimum) possible.

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Re: unsafe at any sandbox

>What about all those industrial control interfaces for critical, expensive, irreplaceable machines that can't run on anything BUT Flash?

Oh yeah the homeland will be so secure next war :(. Again ideally flash should run on Chrome in *nix in a VM. Get three rings of protection that way and four if the *nix has proper RBAC or jails. Short of malware itself it really is one of the most insecure pieces of software possible on your machine along with Java. Security and ogres are like an onion.

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unsafe at any sandbox

Flash should never run on your computer in any form period (disable it in Chrome and always test your browsers for it and java just to be sure). That said if you absolutely have to use it then only run it with Chrome in a VM you reset after you are done. Raw dogging flash plugin on windows native is practically begging for malware.

Dirty diesel backups will make Hinkley Point C look like a bargain

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Re: Greens just don't understand numbers

>Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air" ... with nuclear

Nuclear isn't super long term sustainable though. Think I remember we have enough for several thousand years at our current power usage but much like the number of humans power usage is going to continue to climb (and well after population levels out). Guess that buys some time at least. Think I remember reading also we have at least 500 years of coal at our current power usage but that carbon ain't getting pulled out of the ground. Those days are gone.

Four US states demand restraining order to stop internet power handover to ICANN

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Well they do preach government is the problem so of course they have to prove it.

4K-ing-A! Roku bangs out broad range of new streaming boom boxes

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Re: Um. With my Oculus headset?

Nothing but good things to say about my Roku 1 and 3 I bought a few years back to the point the kids usually want to take them on vacation. Only feature missing really is voice search which newer kit has and its a very minor inconvenience. Most of the other solutions tend to have a vested interest in selling you only in their ecosystem. A must along with Leaf digital antennas for the cord cutter. Best part one time outlay no monthly bullshit.

Mozilla wants woeful WoSign certs off the list

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x.509 broken by design

How many fingers are in that dyke already?

Linux 4.8 gets rc8

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Re: Linux/Linux

GNU is not UNIX as any gray beard can tell you about the hairball bash. Still when HURD finally takes over the world people will quit saying Linux mwahahahaha sorry.

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Re: Huh?

>Linux (kernel) doesn't get released until its developers think it is ready.

Yeah and then three years later (more like 5 for RHEL lol) when they finally show up in Debian they are more than ready.

Unimpressed with Ubuntu 16.10? Yakkety Yak... don't talk back

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Re: Why even bother with Unity?

Mate is remarkably memory efficient last I looked. It wasn't much more heavy duty than LXDE. Still many times greater than JWM though lol. The holy grail of doing more with less.

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Re: /home is key

> ship of cow manure has sailed.

For Linux going forward (missed edit period). Whether the BSDs can still be a viable option in most roles remains to be answered. Sadly I fear more and more FOSS is going to be Linux only over time.

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Re: Ah, yes. Canonical.

>The Redmond/Cupertino of the FOSS world .

No that would Red Hat cashing in on everyone's work and catering to the laptop crowd. There's little money to be made in POSIX these days so the solution is Windows lite.

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/home is key

>we couldn't be bothered to convert their startup scripts as part of the upgrade".

Ubuntu upgrades have always been a crap shoot especially if you install 3rd party stuff. Its a big reason why semi/psuedo rolling (Debian testing, LMDE) to true rolling distros (Arch, Gentoo) are so popular. In either case it is always a good idea to keep your /home on a different drive or at least partition (with a backup solution) as honestly that will ensure if you do have to start over with a new install things will be a lot less painful (just be careful to not let installer format it). As for systemd well Red Hat showed the world quite clearly they could churn out a tangle of code dependencies on it faster than anyone could work around it so sadly that ship of cow manure has sailed.

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Re: Have you tried . . . ?

Jesus if you insist on just cloud computing even Chrome OS is better than Windows 10.

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plus kubuntu is great way to do constant ram testing while using it!

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Ubuntu meant for a VM these days

Granted I use LMDE bare metal at home but I do find Xubuntu (fsck Unity) in seamless mode in a VM to be very useful for a generic Linux development platform at work. Unlike say RHEL its trivial to get virtually any up to date development tool or library you need. There is almost always a PPA for that.

Uni student cuffed for 'hacking professor's PC to change his grades'

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Re: Really??

>Really? He's "a business major with a concentration in finance". He sounds like someone who'll go far in his chosen profession.

COTFW. gj lol.

Double KO! Capcom's Street Fighter V installs hidden rootkit on PCs

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Re: Why the double standard here?

>Why is it that this sort of behavior is 'criminal activity' when an some folks do it, but an 'honest mistake' when companies do?

One has shareholders to blow.

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All it would take is for a Fortune 100 CEO (looking at you Wells Fargo) to do a perp walk (forget convicting him even if you do the SCOTUS will overturn it). Which means yeah never.

Video service Binge On 'broke the internet' but 99pc of users love it

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love it or hate it

Wow didn't take much reading to figure out who the author of this was huh?

Forgive me, father, for I have used an ad-blocker on news websites...

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not big on browser based solutions except for privacy badger (for tracking)

Personal opinion is anything blocked by privoxy on the default settings deserves it.

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got a bone to pick

>Nobody needs so much malware flinging flash and javascript in their lives.

I would dare guess at least half the javascript on the internet is unnecessary and only there for either slightly (or not so slightly) nefarious purposes or because the web "developers" are inept. My recommendation would be for any web developer who is trying to reach the widest audience possible to at some point test their web site on the dillo web browser. Javascript honestly should enhance a site but not be a requirement for the majority of them. Rant over.

Cosmology is safe and the Universe is one giant version of the Barbican

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life in the matrix

> but in which solution space?

Well the BBC lately has really been harping on us all being part of some alien comp sci grad students simulation. If so he seemed to get his initial condition variables spot on this run at least for me lol.

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Re: Wait a sec

A possible void nearly 2 billion light years across (Wikipedia's listed estimate is wrong on this according to some other articles about its size) especially when the universe was 11 billion years old (well aware of comoving distance) is not as easily dismissed as it seems to be.