Re: Botnets, spies, and spammers
bob:
If you think the Chinese Government is Communist, I'll bet you believe the US is a democracy.
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It used to be "I'm from the government, I'm here to help". Now its "We're from the Fortune 500, how can you help us help you?"
These things suck in a huge way. It's a drain on the local infrastructure budget to build one of these operations, and the fortune 500 are basically saying - "if you want the employment, you need to make the future employees pay for their jobs". Because you know darned well that those 'tax breaks' get applied as upward adjustments on the rest of the local taxpayers.
Actually, with that photo, you'd expect a Harry Potter article.
Now I'm stuck between someone weasling out of a life sentence, and selling his uncles overstock online and well its friday and time for a nice dark porter to go with the roast that's on the BBQ.
if you apologise to the useless machine you are Canadian
If the machines are behaving in such a way, I'm inclined to "Sorry you were programmed by such an incompetent asswipe"
However, all this ranting about self checkouts and automated passport scanners, is irrelevant to me. I'm the SA that (literally) has had not one but two different managers claim that the mechanical systems in our control must be utterly terrified of me, as they would magically spring to life and recover from whatever error/bug/hiccup they were experiencing as soon as I walked in the room, logged on to the console or other such approach.
"This makes no sense. Someone will eventually get angry enough to involve ACLU and it will most likely go all the way to the Supreme Court, where, God willing, it will get CBP smacked down, hard. They will be told their "rights" to search within 100 miles of the border do not apply to citizens, and that they must have reasonable suspicion and articulate that suspicion to the person being searched the local courts, in order to obtain the same thing all other enforcement agencies require, a legal and valid search warrant."
FTFY
Nope. Not at all.
Personally, I'm thinking that if we ever *do* get below 4M down I'm guessing there's a combination of permafrost like layer and the stew that collects on the layer of sand underneath the topsoil in my back yard every spring after the thaw. It emits a rather distinct odour that tells me "Spring is here, just be ready for more snow anyway"
(and, yes, actually, I am working on reviving that layer. I've a friend who was shocked when she found that the brand new development she lived in had only 6" of topsoil, and that the developer had replaced the next 5 feet down with sand)
aMfM:
Of course, it does somewhat depend on *what type* of cat you populate the houses with. Pretty Kittens and Cute Cats with caffe latte seem to sell well just about anywhere.
Lions and Tigers and Meercats, not so much.
What with a full time job, three kids, a wife, a dog, three cats and a bird, full time hobbies and the drama lamas that live in my neighbourhood. I need no augmentation of my reality.
So, Korean Kool Kriminal glasses with headphones and a notification sync. Nope, not for me thanks. (and I wear eyegoggles for reading after 30+ years of staring at tiny fonts on my screen anyway)
@aMfM:
Yes, but is that board a carpenters dream or something just a bit wider, longer and better polished. It seems to me that the *chair* is the subject that needs more coverage.
And yes, they could be in formation process as much as destruction process. You know darned well it sells better if they are disintegrating.
If Roscosmos were to get a bit more funding, its possible they could step out from simply being the 'bus company', but we all know that the oligarchy is far more about putting cash in their own pockets before doing things that make sense to the rest of the country.
@AC
"I'd run, I really would. But working for DXC has trapped me by destroying my mental health "
Do not stay. There are more than a few of us who have experienced the mental trap of depression (and trust me, that is what it is) as a result of horrible environments. Find the time to talk to a doctor and get some assistance to put yourself back on track. Then get out. I know of someone who went from another global 'puppy mill' it provisioner to flipping bugers for 5 months to clear her head. Then got back on the bus and is now doing spot contract work all over the place and having a ball. Get out. Get out as soon as you possibly can. Once you're out and find yourself healing, then you won't need the assistance and can walk that down. DO IT.
I think someone involved in this case is full of gas.
Too much sugar and not enough fibre there. Although, depending on the fibre involved, that could be reversed.
One of my earlier colleagues was branded as a terrible cube mate due to his excessive gas. Horrible things were said about him by several members of the team. That was until he had to take several weeks off after having a large stretch of his colon removed due to illietis.
Wait... I don't think I've *ever* heard of someone bullying a co-worker by 'farting in their general direction'. Are Aussies really really weird that way or is this something someone .... burped out their ass?
Are we all missing something here?
Is there something horribly wrong with society as a whole?
Or are there 1.5 Million truly f0cked up humans out there who just plain don't understand how f0cked up they are?
It staggers my imagination NOT that FB was unable to stem the tide, but that we have that many people who think that posting that video on FaceBook of all places MAKES SENSE!!!
/mutters ger orf me lawn and considers quitting the human race.
My mother (now in her mid 80's) was the one that bought me minix when I was a teen. She built the TI-99/4 kit.
Has run DOS, Win3.x, Windows 98 and on. She's still working at her profession (Medical Dicta Transcription) part time, runs linux, and has 2 vms on there, one her work windows env, the other her personsal win7 instance. She recently had to call out the tech support fellow for her employer as being an idiot (the whole company is, but he's firmly convinced that her ISP is blocking a specific port *INSIDE* a vpn tunnel). She gets these calls sometimes. I've set her up with a separate gentoo instance in a vm for those guys to play with. (there's a nifty KDE theme that looks almost precisely like XP). Her record so far was 93 minutes. Its fun watching that recording. He could not for the life of himself figure out why regedit kept popping bash: regedit: command not found at the c:\ prompt.
"just go rent space on their cloud like they want"
Windows next iteration will be MS365. Your ipx boot will point at a URI and will require that your hardware be registered with MS, and will only cost you $320/year. MS everything, everywhere. Cloud storage, cloud browser history, cloud based phone book and email contacts list. And of course, a sync client for your phone - with it's always on GPS of course. Oh. Say, whats that noise at my front door?
@spartacus:
You're talking to an echo chamber resident at a guess. Shortly that echo chamber will start talking about the billions of dollars SpaceX has cost the US citizens, and why Boeing is cheaper and needs more funding. I've yet to comprehend just *how* both logic and reasoning have fallen so far out of reach of such a *large* proportion of the population.
Considering they are solely there to make a smartphone app to show red hat wearing people where to find watering-holes where red hats are welcome, this goes without saying.
Some of us red hat wearing folks are neither American nor particularly interested in overpriced chinese baseball caps attributed to the current PotUS (Pumpkin?). Far more interested in getting our opensource out and avoiding the blues. *cough*
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Planet 9, missing from survey.
I'm hoping we find this object, as it will make some theoretical atronomy concepts much more valid. I also wonder if the concept of mythology can't be used to find hints. While the first poster is likely an alias for our resident scientific dissenter with his own utterly unscientific website, IF there is a 9th planet of superearth size, in a seriously exotic orbit, could it not explain some mythological weirdness we have in our various verbal histories?
I have a script out there in my past. It was still active when I left. There is an edge case that should never happen. I say *should*.
The error message is "The database has shit the bed royally this time."
I was young. Foolish. And somewhat pissed at the DB vendor that week.
For about two years in my earlier days I had a phone number that could bridge between two area codes. I ran BW transfers between 6 BBS'es on a three day cycle. (There were frequently fairly large transfers).
Oddly, rather a large portion of my associates these days are the ex sysops (and one still currently active) of those BBSes. Something about geeks sticking together.....
---> interestingly enough it was the BBS crew that pulled together my career, my wife, and my current home. All are tied together...
But then, my names not Galt.
Publicly traded corporations do NOT by definition serve their customers. Their customers are wallets. Such corporations must serve their stockholders. And in cases like the fortune 1000 most of those stockholders are either other corporations or they are banks or they are investment firms. These entities are interested only in cash coming into their pockets, so they can pay *their* shareholders. Which are mostly corporate entities.... Taxes, they just get in the way. Thus spending a small crapton of money to own the politicians that write the tax laws to make the corporations more money is a good ROI.
I am in suburbia in Canuckistan.
I can sign up with any one of 9 DSL providers (I'm on DSL with an off brand provider) - I have a $4.80 surcharge on my DSL bill for LLU.
I *could* sign up with any one of 5 Cable internet providers. 3 of those insist you have to buy cable and would like to sell you VOIP home phone too. With these there is a one time transfer fee to change the owner of the cable loop. (This does *not* apply universally, it seems to be local to this area)
I'm getting 25MB/11MB *officially* but I'm quite often seeing far better numbers than that. I am however getting pissed with the modem, after the last firmware update it *appears* to be capping individual xfers at 4MB. This is NOT a puma6, but is a BSD based modem. Eventually I'll have the spare system to set it up in passthrough mode. (PS total bill, unlimited volume 25/11 *with* surcharge CA$69.50/mo)