RE: Re: so virtual desktops, encrypted hard drives still just too damm difficult to explain to PHB's
Others are right until senior managers start doing prison time are taken out and shot, this will not change.
FTFY
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Nicked unencrypted PC with 6,000 bank details lands council fat fine
Friday 7th June 2013 19:27 GMT
More blame shifting bullsh-t!!!!
A Glasgow City Council spokesman told the BBC: "This data loss should not have happened and we took immediate steps to ensure it does not happen again. Like WHAT!!!!! Piss and moan???
The ICO acknowledges there is no evidence that any bank accounts have been targeted, that the council immediately informed it of the theft and that we carried out significant remedial action." Really, how long into the future will YOU be able to make that guarantee. WRT "remedial action", was the fool responsible fired? demoted? Most likely not.
The taxpayers ought to round up those responsible and display them in a pillory in the town square. Perhaps local produce vendors can be persuaded to provide plenty of spoiled or rotten product for taxpayer 'stress relief'.
Al Gore: Stop using the atmosphere as 'an open sewer
Raspberry Pi DUMBS DOWN to target world+dog
Smart TVs riddled with DUMB security holes
Copyright troll Prenda Law accused of seeding own torrents
Thursday 6th June 2013 15:52 GMT
Re: The Prenda defence should be interesting.
That would be a cross examination I would actually pay to watch. Let me break it down.
The ass clown on the stand,
trying at the same time, to reconcile his firm's strategy of
----> nailing pirates by associating the pirate with an IP address;
against accusations that
-----> it wasn't ME who seeded those torrents even though my IP address was associated with those torrents.
How he will manage to wrangle himself out of that one will be interesting.
Schneider moves on ancient SCADA vuln
BOFH: Go on, beancounter, type DROP TABLE asset;
Monday 3rd June 2013 21:15 GMT
Re: Off-site backups?
No, they would be the tapes that sat next to the old CRT for more than 3 years, and may have been slowly erased by the magnetic field it generated.
I once had a QIC (quarter inch cartridge) tape drive band snap during a high speed rewind; the resulting mess INSIDE the cartridge was a sight to behold.
'Extremely sophisticated' Apple settles watery iDevice lawsuit
Belarus becomes world's top country ... for SPAM
Thursday 30th May 2013 21:33 GMT
Re: I'm all for full recourse
Almost as good would be a nasty that triggers the SECURE_ERASE command built into most current hard drives.
I have often wondered if there was a way to access the internal LBA layout table1, and wipe it out, or better yet, scramble it.
1 Most people are aware that the "old" cylinder/head/sector nonsense that one once HAD to use in partitioning a hard drive is no longer necessary; there is STILL some internal table that maps a specific LBA to the physical sector containing the data. If one could only fuck up THAT table!!!
Kettle 'which looks like HITLER' brews up sturm in a teacup
Thursday 30th May 2013 21:14 GMT
Re: I didn't know the max current in a US supply was 20A.
It is for general lighting and cord connected equipment, but receptacles are available in 15, 20, 30 and 50 amp capacities in both 120 or 240 volt types.
30 amp 120/240 volt receptacles are used for clothes dryers, while 50 amp 120/240 volt receptacles are used for electric ranges. And, YES, there ARE 30 and 50 amp 120 volt receptacles.
Specialized 60 amp receptacles are also available.
Standard US circuit breaker sizes are 15, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 amps for residential load centers (aka 'breaker boxes'). "Oddball" sizes such as 25, 35, 45 and 55 are made, but not always stocked, except at electrical distributors (as opposed to 'home centers').
Presumably they use ring mains though. NO, that is a UK invention not used here. Typically when conductors are paralleled, it is to serve a high amperage1 load, with one end of each run connected to the supply, and the other end of each run connected to the load. And our electrical code requires the cables that make up such a parallel run be of the same size and length so they carry their proportionate share of the load.
1 Typically MORE than 400 amps.
For the curious:
NEMA plug chart: http://www.generatorjoe.net/html/web/outlet/quailplug.html
Iran fingered for attacks on US power firms
Wednesday 29th May 2013 17:43 GMT
Re: Please stop using that "manglement" word ...
Most commentators will use the term manglement or its cousin damagement in the correct context: ID10Ts at the helm who are completely clueless about the ramifications of their decision making; except that it will increase shareholder value, or contribute to larger year end bonuses for the executives that mismanage a company.
So, if YOU can't stand the "troops in the field" criticizing their <snark>leaders</snark>, then I suggest some other publications to read, like the Daily M Fail.
Experts: Network security deteriorating, privacy a lost cause
The BOFH is BACK: And it's cloudy with a 90% chance of beatings
Industry execs: Network admins an endangered species
Prenda lawyers miss sanctions deadline
A backdoor into Skype for the Feds? You're joking...
Biz bods: Tile-tastic Windows 8? NOOO. We lust after 'mature' Win 7
Monday 20th May 2013 20:15 GMT
Re: Is this so hard for Microsoft to understand?
You fail to understand the real issue:
How do you get people to spend more money on your "new product" when the "old product" performs those tasks already???
Change for changes sake!!!!
How else do you insure that the cash spigot does not run dry??
Hey, Teflon Ballmer. Look, isn't it time? You know, time to quit?
Hunt: I'll barcode sick Brits and rip up NHS's paper prescriptions
IT bloke publishes comprehensive maps of CALL CENTRE menu HELL
Trying to kill undead Pushdo zombies? Hard luck, Trojan is EVOLVING
Astronaut Chris Hadfield's Space Oddity ends in Kazakhstan
Penguins in spa-a-a-ce! ISS dumps Windows for Linux on laptops
More Wi-Fi in the sky: FCC to help keep US flyers tweeting
German govt DUMPS 170 NEW PCs riddled with Conficker
Bolshy investors launch yet another assault on Emulex board
Friday 10th May 2013 15:57 GMT
Re: Hmmmm...they can always sell their shares and fuck off!
I have to agree, but you fail to understand two important things.
1) We are speaking of a publicly held company, whose stockholders almost invariably have differing investment goals.
2) The loudmouth shareholders are hedge funds who do not own stock for "the long haul". Their business model consists of driving the price up as high as they can force it, and bail out before it crashes. Hedge funds do not want to be holding loser stocks that fucks up their business model. But, still, the BoD does have some explaining to do.
Coke? Windows 8 is Microsoft's 'Vista moment'. Again
Wednesday 8th May 2013 22:52 GMT 
Microsoft, will you ever learn?
Watch out for a change in the wind coming from Redmond as others talk about Windows 8 in terms of "challenges", "lesson learned", and "new opportunities".
should be interpreted as The SHIT has hit the fan, run for cover now!!!!!!!
Now, just how do they save that cluster fuck called WindblowZE 8???
Judge hands copyright troll an epic smack-down
Tuesday 7th May 2013 21:19 GMT
Re: .. settling down for a saga of epic proportions.
I read through a lot of that, and I am amused at the cheekiness of those swine!!!!
I really hope the IRS and the US Attorney's Office gets involved; and a few people do some serious hard time. In some commentary at a different site on that subject, was a suggestion that this saga might inspire a (pr0n) movie.
I suggest a potential title for it: Getting The Shaft, When What Goes Around Comes Back To Bite You In The Ass. I know, it's a bit tl;dr, but, what the hell!!!
Truly delicious karma would be judges in other parts of the country where Prenda Law cases are pending dismiss them with prejudice, and award attorneys fees to the defendants. Cumulatively, those awards could be staggering.
NORKS powers down whole towns to find pirates
App gap flap: New York's e-cabbies FOILED AGAIN
Friday 3rd May 2013 22:41 GMT
Re: De Ja Vu?
However, Uber most likely takes a cut first, then the medallion holder takes their cut; the driver has to pay for gas, etc, and may end up with shit after working all day.
If the cab operators really wanted embrace change, and keep more of the proceeds, they should have an app created that funnels calls directly into their dispatch centers, bypassing Uber and its competitors.
NASA boffins: Space 'scope JUST missed dead Cold War spy sat
Research explodes myth that older programmers are obsolete
Friday 3rd May 2013 20:54 GMT
Re: HR only sees stereotypes
Try turning up to an interview as a bald bearded 60-something and see how far it gets you.
Usually some bullshit about not being suitable1 for the job.
...
1 Not suitable in this case being that your salary expectations exceed what the manglement is willing to part with; because any excess compensation comes out of their bonus at the end of the year.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
