Re: But *why* 320 km from a nuclear installation ?
<quote>In other words it was pulled out from the air someone's ass and is based on pure bovine excrement.</quote>
FTFY
Posts by Fatman
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Cork data centre will offer super-speedy US to Europe data times
DevOps is for all, says DevOps pundit-in-chief. He doesn't have it in for the BOFH, honest
TalkTalk says 8-month app outage lasting 'bit longer than we hoped'
Thursday 9th June 2016 15:25 GMT
Re: I always encourage...
<quote>I've known several folks that were stuck on 1.5Mbps Talk Talk connections when every other house in the street was on 6Mbps minimum.</quote>
An off the top of the head guess is that TT equipment at CO side of things dates back to the last century, thus the shitty performance.
When it comes down to spending money of improving the infrastructure, or funding the executive bonus pool, we know how that will sort out.
Microsoft has created its own FreeBSD image. Repeat. Microsoft has created its own FreeBSD image
Thursday 9th June 2016 15:02 GMT
Re: Hmm...What does /dev/slurp do?
It will be the equivalent of '/var/log' except that even root will not have ANY permissions. All data stored is sent directly to Microsoft's telemetry servers through a proprietary protocol which is not documented anywhere outside of Redmond's labs. Change one key in the pseudo-registry, and that data is mirrored to the NSA.
Why does an Android keyboard need to see your camera and log files – and why does it phone home to China?
Marauding monkey blacks out Kenya
Calgary uni pays ransomware criminals $20k for its files back
Wednesday 8th June 2016 16:00 GMT
RE: can't believe....
<quote>I can't believe people are still paying out these crypto-ransomware extortion deals. Get a good back/DA plan. Put it into place.</quote>
Really, I bet that they once had such a plan, only to have it gutted by manglement and the beancounters who felt the money spent on it was wasted.
FBI tries again to get warrantless access to your browser history
'We accidentally hit wrong button on Dell buyout – here's $194m for the cockup'
Wednesday 8th June 2016 15:42 GMT
RE: Calling complete BS on it.
I agree with you.
T Rowe Price should have VERIFIED how their votes were cast as soon as the results were announced; and waiting this long to raise a stink, well .....
The proper way to insure that this NEVER happens again is to insure that T Rowe Price's OWN shareholders do not take the hit. And the proper way to do exactly that is to deduct that payout from THE EXECUTIVE BONUS POOL. Recoup that loss from the incompetent executive damagers. If any of them don't like it, then they can seek employment elsewhere!!!
Cisco axes unloved M-Series modular servers two years after launch
Lights! Camera! Infraction! Filmmakers behind 117 million robocalls to shift DVDs
Oracle to sue cloud sales 'whistleblower' for 'malicious prosecution'
TeamViewer denies hack after PCs hijacked, PayPal accounts drained
CERT warns of hardcoded creds in medical app
Tuesday 31st May 2016 18:16 GMT
Hard coded access!
<quote>"An attacker with knowledge of the hardcoded credentials and the ability to communicate directly with the application database server may be able to obtain or modify patient information," </quote>
You would EXPECT the access to the db server to be locked down HARD!!!!
Jesus Fucking Christ - WHO is that fucking stupid to allow direct db access to such sensitive information.
I know,
MANGLEMENT!!!
Samsung: Don't install Windows 10. REALLY
Tuesday 31st May 2016 17:28 GMT
Re: @Michael Habel - What an absolute
<quote>Once you do that you're no longer afraid of anything that Linux might throw your way.
Except maybe systemd :)</quote>
Oh, yes, Poettering's vision of the Windows registry foisted upon Linux.
$DEITY help us all.
(As an aside, wasn't HE the one who 'created' PulseAudio??? Another clusterfuck!)
Comcast slapped with eight-figure tax bill after package fails to impress
As US court bans smart meter blueprints from public, sysadmin tells of fight for security info
Sunday 29th May 2016 17:29 GMT
RE: The Streisand Effect
<quote>Makes one wonder what they are trying to hide.</quote>
To the meter makers:
If YOU have done (are doing) nothing WRONG!!!! then WHAT do you have to HIDE?????
Somewhere there is the stench of corrupt/underhanded dealings going on.
And those IN ON IT, don't want the public to know exactly HOW they are getting FUCKED!
Here in Flori-duh, the stench of political corruption was quite evident when the state legislature decided to allow DPuke Energy to fuck over its customers as a result of its manglement decision to perform D-I-Y repairs on the Crystal River nuke plant.
Read for yourself:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/energy/broken-crystal-river-nuclear-plant-is-duke-energys-problem-now/1239145 (on how Progress Energy bamboozled Duke WRT the condition of Crystal River)
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/energy/duke-energy-announces-closing-of-crystal-river-nuclear-power-plant/1273794 (The first 4 paragraphs puts it in a nutshell)
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/energy/duke-energy-florida-fpl-sued-to-end-higher-rates-forced-on-customers-for/2266427
The nuclear plant 'recovery option' was courtesy of the bought and paid for state legislature:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/senate-committee-rejects-plan-to-nix-nuclear-tax/1214270
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/legislature/legislators-clash-over-what-to-do-about-paying-for-nuclear-plants/1213935
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/florida-house-rejects-attempts-to-repeal-nuclear-fees/2118425
Judging by the fight put up by the meter vendors, those on the receiving end may be on to SOMETHING that someone wants to hide.
KEEP ON DIGGING!!!! Who knows what kind of shit you may unearth.
Pointless features add to browser bloat and insecurity
US Telecom beats up FCC over investment
Tuesday 24th May 2016 03:48 GMT
Re: Holland speaking double dutch?
Q: "If Holland, as a mouthpiece, is so in favour of investment in real, actual facilties, then why such severe opposition to any municipality that wishes to make real investment in real infrastructures?"
A: "Because BIG TELCO CAN'T OWN IT!!!!!"
BIG TELCO (to its customers and politicians): WE OWN your ass!!!!
G4S call centre staff made 'test' 999 calls to hit performance targets
Tuesday 24th May 2016 03:20 GMT
Fucking PHB's
From the article:
<quote>In October, however, the number rose to 139, and then to 236 in November, before reaching its highest at 349 in December. According to The Guardian: "The figures show that without the extra test calls the control room would have missed its target of answering 92% of calls within 10 seconds in November and December."
The 349 test calls of the 8,153 total that were received in December raised the office's 89 per cent target to 93 per cent. The five suspended officers are believed to include the control room manager.</quote>
PHB: "Did we make our performance targets?"
Beancounter: "Yes, we did!"
PHB: "Good, bonuses all around, excellent work!"
PHB's perfect at managing the numbers, not the problem.
The bigger question? "WHY aren't these assholes under investigation for fraud?" I bet some bureaucrat doesn't want to have to explain some less than honorable dealings.
Snowden: NBN leaker raids a 'misuse' of Australian Federal Police
Tuesday 24th May 2016 03:05 GMT
Re: Snowden isn't an academic by any means.
<quote>Now even the local paper does stories on how you can legally not talk to the cop that randomly stops you, what your (highly convoluted) rights are, and how it's in your best interest to get away as fast as possible.</quote>
Should be re-worded to read:
Now even the local paper does stories on how cops can use the flimsiest excuses to stop and harass you while you go about your life; and that you have little or no recourse when they blatantly attempt to coerce lawful citizens into 'submission'. Their unfettered and unchecked subversion of their police powers bring upon them nothing but contempt for both the uniform and the asshole that wears it. They demand respect from the citizens but fail to show any toward lawful citizens, THEY (i.e. the police) by their heavy handed tactics, encourage citizen contempt. And they deserve every bit of that citizen contempt they get.
Such hollow remarks to the likes of "If you have done nothing wrong, ...." are an embodiment of this cavalier attitude.
Republicans threaten to derail internet transition
Sunday 22nd May 2016 23:49 GMT
ICANN
On the surface, the actions of its board WRT the compensation provided executives and board members seem to resemble a sham charity (the charity being the financial well being of its members and executives); BUT, unlike most sham charities, ICANN IS in a position to fuck things up.
No doubt there has been some wrangling on the part of overly autocratic regimes to mold ICANN into their personal (or should that be worldwide governmental) censor. Most of us can figure out who the usual suspects are here.
The ability of people to freely access information anywhere worldwide depends on resisting the efforts of these usual suspects. And, while I hold a low opinion of the Republican political mentality, this is one area where I must agree with them.
Internet governance is too important of a concept to turn over to despots. Make damn sure ICANN is not able to give the world a good fucking over once it gets control of IANA.
Google Chrome deletes Backspace
SpaceX is go for US military GPS sat launch, smashes ULA monopoly
Friday 29th April 2016 16:49 GMT
Re: Taxpayer savings
<quote>Don't worry, any tax money saved will be quickly spent on something else. Probably something unneeded and overpriced...</quote>
What do you mean will be???
The USofA is already throwing $T into something called the Joint Strike Fighter (aka the 'F-35'1); and it, like much other defense spending is late and over budget. And it is on schedule to gobble up more tax dollars, so don't even expect any tax payer savings, it is gone in defense department pork.
It is simply the old Guns vs Butter dilemma2.
1a couple of links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/26/politics/f-35-delay-air-force/
2 A link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_versus_butter_model
If you do take the time to read the "Guns versus Butter" wikipedia article, please take note of Eisenhower's speech, The first paragraph says a lot:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
Note the date of this speech. Has anything changed since???
(Emphasis mine.)
Nearly two billion in the bank and yet this VC is slowly losing his beach-blocking battle
Friday 29th April 2016 16:19 GMT
RE: A--hole cuts off beach access.
This issue isn't limited to just California, it is also a serious problem here in Flori-duh also.
Developers who buy beachfront property to put up condos by the thousands think little of the rights of the public to access that part of the beach below the high tide line. To thwart this greediness, many cities have 'extended street right-of-ways' that would normally "dead end" at the beach road, out toward the water and thus making them "public access points"; much to the chagrin of the developers.
Once declared to be a 'right-of-way' there is nothing a developer can do to stop the public from accessing the beach.
Perhaps what the local government need do is to use its power of eminent domain and take a strip of land along the property line running at a 'right angle'1 to the ocean. That will fuck him.
1It may not necessarily be exactly 90 degrees, but it would involve the property lines that intersect the ocean (if extended out into the ocean); as opposed to those that run nearly parallel to the ocean.
30 years on, Chernobyl wildlife still feeling effects of nuke plant catastrophe
US tech CEOs demand Congress programs US kids to be tech workers
Germans stick traffic lights in pavements for addicts who can't take their eyes off phones
Wednesday 27th April 2016 14:11 GMT
Re: Darwin award??
<quote>I think there is a group of people that are literally too stupid to live.</quote>
If you were to look at their medical records, you would realize one very important fact: they have shit for brains.
This condition is known in medical literature as Terminal Stupidity.
Most manglers suffer from this disease.
A perfect marriage: YOU and Ubuntu 16.04
Monday 25th April 2016 13:17 GMT
Re: I'd love to upgrade
<quote>The Gnome devs have continued their insane and arrogant vision to build a unified touch interface, for a platform I'm not convinced has ANY touch screen users. Work-flows broken, mouse travel times vastly increased.</quote>
I have been working with the beta version of Ubuntu-Gnome, and I just shake my head in wonderment:
What are those devs SMOKING!!!
In the past, I have tried to use Linux Mint, but the devs choices seem to impair the usability (re Ubuntu 12.04 which is my day to day O/S). Fortunately, I left a spare partition on the hard drive, and over the weekend, installed MATE. I just like that a lot better, time to 'play' with it.
NASA saves Kepler space 'scope by turning it off and on again
Sunday 24th April 2016 12:34 GMT
Re: If cycling power doesn't work...
<quote>As opposed to the Acorn Atom where the rule was take the back off and push all the chips back in </quote>
That sounds like the EXACT same problem my TRS-80 Model I suffered from. RAM chips slowly rising from the sockets. (TBH, I had also seen that same quirk in some broadcast telemetry equipment. The mfgrs 'solution' was to ty-wrap the chip in place.) I ended up solving that problem at the same time that 64K DRAM chips became available, yank out the old sockets, and solder the new chips in. Good bye trouble prone sockets.
Will Comcast's set-box killer murder your data caps? The truth revealed
Ad-blocker blocking websites face legal peril at hands of privacy bods
Sunday 24th April 2016 12:18 GMT
RE to answer your question.
<quote>How did Windows Uninstaller get in here?</quote>
IF this were a court of law, then the other side would have to raise an objection on the grounds of Facts Not In Evidence.
IOW, someone assumed that Windows was involved; and may not be aware of alternative O/Ses like Linux, OSX, etc.
Sunday 24th April 2016 12:13 GMT
Re: Publishers could simply
<quote>I accept ads. But TV ads don't flash across the screen while I'm watching the content.</quote>
Then consider yourself lucky.
Here on the other side of the pond, on many independent stations, popover ads are becoming the rage during the program.
Other stations will crop the credits to only a portion of the screen just in order to side load more ads.
Sysadmin given Licence To Perve shows why you always get it in writing
Pro who killed Apple's Power Mac found... masquerading as a coffee table
Friday 22nd April 2016 14:44 GMT
Re-use of old hard drives
Once, a long time ago, in a fit of anger brought on by the demonstrated incompetence of a PHB, I used a 5-1/4 inch full sized 140MB Micropolis hard drive as a PHB attitude adjustment tool.
That uncontrolled display of aggression cost me that job.
When the incompetence of the PHB in question could no longer be covered up, he lost his job also.
Their HR department decided that I 'just succumbed to the stress of the job', and in a vain attempt to forestall any legal action on my part, offered me my old job back. I had already accepted a position elsewhere where those higher up in the organization did not suffer from "Terminal Stupidity" (aka "Shit For Brains Syndrome"); so I blew off their offers. Served them right, the former employer went titsup in 18 months.
Bypass the Windows AppLocker bouncer with a tweet-size command
US government sued by activists looking for backdoor smoking gun
FBI's Tor pedo torpedoes torpedoed by United States judge
Thursday 21st April 2016 18:44 GMT
Re: Dear Ferals
a_yank_lurker
A question: "Do NOT federal (or as you seem to prefer feral) officials take an oath to protect, and defend the Constitution, and faithfully execute the laws of the United States??"
Because, if that is true, then aren't those federal officials who violate the Constitution be guilty of treason?? IIRC, since the USofA is at war somewhere then treason during times of war is a death penalty case. Try them for treason, and if found guilty, then give them the appropriate sentence.
Logging on to United's frequent flyer site might take longer than a flight
NASA spools up ultra-high def aurora movie
Big telco proxies go full crazy over cable box plan
Drive for Lyft or Uber in SF? Your wallet is about to get lighter
Monday 18th April 2016 12:16 GMT
Re: One thing that seems to be constantly overlooked...
I live in the "wonderful" state of Flori-DUH!!
As I have used licensed cabs quite a bit in recent years, and NOT either Uber or Lyft; it is due to the insurance issue. With a licensed cab, I KNOW whose insurance coverage will 'take the hit' if I get injured in an accident. AIUI, Uber and Lyft call for any claim to be filed against the driver's insurance company FIRST, and, then ONLY IF the driver's insurance company refuses to pay, will their policy even consider the claim.
One thing I recall from my private passenger insurance policy was a restriction on FOR HIRE coverage. And I would expect the insurance companies that insure the vehicles used by Uber and Lyft's drivers to have similar clauses.
ANY ONE for consumer protection??? I can't wait for the local shysters to include "being injured in an accident with a 'ride share' driver" to their spiels.
Hey, Atlantis Computing. What the heck is this in your EULA?
Thursday 14th April 2016 14:37 GMT
Re: Fighting back
<quote>How about making truthful statements which don't violate these EULAs, such as :
"We asked customers how the product performed but they were unable prohibited by the terms of their licensing agreement to give us any positive feedback about the performance of the product without explicit permission of the product manufacturer."</quote>
That would tell it all in a heartbeat.
Misco: We're moving to the cloud after yesterday's bit barn meltdown
Thursday 14th April 2016 14:26 GMT
Re: Datacentre - or Broom closet?
<quote>Off in the distance, in the middle of an otherwise bare floor, stands a single 42U rack, and as we get closer, we can see that it's partially populated. decades old, valve operated IBM mainframe in its rusting case.
Close up, we see a firewall, a switch, a few ethernet cables and a 2U server ancient green screen terminals, and old Bell 103 modems with "Web1" written across the lid in marker pen, under the dust. On the floor of the rack is a box of floppies punch cards, marked "backup".</quote>
Fucking bean counters hard at work increasing the executive bonus pool.
There!
FTFY
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