Re: Sticky Octopi*
> "sell worthless stuff to millionaires."
> "hoi polloi"
Hoi Polloi means the common people, not the millionaires
Posts by H.Winter
39 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Nov 2011
Yo, Imma let you finish, but for the 6,000 people still using that app on a daily basis ... we have a question: why?
Escape From Tarkov: Hardest of the hardcore looter-shooter is spellbinding despite the punishing learning curve
This week, we give thanks to Fortinet for reminding us what awful crypto with hardcoded keys looks like
Calling all the Visual Basic snitches: Keep quiet about it and so will he...
Y2K, Windows NT4 Server and Notes. It's a 1990s Who, Me? special
Hacking these medical pumps is as easy as copying a booby-trapped file over the network
Friday 14th June 2019 07:12 GMT
Re: I already fear upgrading my motherboard firmware
Not sure how prevalent it is but my motherboard has "dual BIOS" . When you update, it only installs over one of the BIOS, keeping the other untouched as a backup. If the installation fails/results in a corrupted installation, it falls back to the second BIOS so you can still successfully boot and try again.
Oh dear! Amazon's facial recognition is racist and sexist – and there's a JLaw deep fake that will make you want to tear out your eyes
Boffins build bugged bees bearing backpacks
Microsoft wants serious, non-gaming developers to make more money
Thursday 12th July 2018 04:46 GMT
Re: has anybody else actually bought any 3rd party app from them?
I didn't buy from the windows store on pc, rather through my xbox one. Got State of Decay 2 as I would any other game, but it is cross platform. The one purchase lets me install it on Xbox One and on PC (Windows 10 only, apparently). I'm not sure if the revenue share is different when purchased via xbox or pc but if there are other games that are cross platform that I want to get then I might just purchase them through the store. Never had a need for anything else on it though.
Pirate Bay digs itself a new hole: Mining alt-coin in slurper browsers
Wednesday 20th September 2017 23:28 GMT
Re: Sigh:
What is this rarbg.com? Never heard of it and when I try to visit it I just get this message
"
Content Denied
Access to this website has been disabled by an order of the Federal Court of Australia because it infringes or facilitates the infringement of copyright.
1800 086 346 for information.
"
Phisherfolk dangle bait at dot-fish domain
Dishwasher has directory traversal bug
Source code unleashed for junk-blasting Internet of Things botnet
Tuesday 4th October 2016 22:03 GMT
Default Passwords
Reading through the list of passwords the scanner uses I got a laugh at the last entry.
add_auth_entry("\x4F\x4D\x56\x4A\x47\x50", "\x44\x57\x41\x49\x47\x50", 1); // mother fucker
Silently clicking on porn ads you can't even see – this could be you...
Monday 18th July 2016 03:58 GMT
"more than 21 app stores"
I've never used an iPhone but as far as I know they only have the one official app store right? And for Android there is the Google Play store. That's 2 stores. What are the other 19 stores?; I assume they are more than likely shady sources of APKs of questionable legitimacy.
Microsoft steps up Windows 10 nagging
Thursday 17th December 2015 03:19 GMT
I can't even upgrade to 8.1
I would be more than keen to accept the upgrade to Win 10 except for the fact that whenever I tried the 8.1 upgrade (currently still on 8) it would fail hard and I'd end up having to completely reinstall 8. If I can't upgrade from 8 to 8.1 I don't know how well I'd fare going from 8 to 10.
Accountant robbed of 1600 records in Xero tax fraud raid: report
Exetel becomes Exit-tel, shows customers the door without explanation
Tuesday 16th June 2015 03:48 GMT
Re: Exetel user for over 15 years.
"I am paying $60 for 500GB peak & 500Gb off-peak now Exetel it charging $89 for 1000Gb "any-time" (from Exetel site)."
I don't see the plan you say are on (500gb on/off), only the 1000gb anytime, which is $58 month, not $89 as you say. I am currently on the Unlimited data allowance which is only $59.
Your chance to win the world's only handheld ZX Spectrum
Thanks a lot, Google, for snatching .dev for yourself. It's not like the rest of us wanted it
Botched NBN installs leave folks with no internet, or recourse
ACCC slaps iiNet over prices in ads
Tuesday 3rd March 2015 03:37 GMT 
Wtf
I quite like iiNet and was worried this article was about them doing some dodgy advertising but...
"The ads correctly showed the $69.95 monthly price of the plan, along with the total price, but the ACCC says not enough prominence was given to the total cost."
So they were honest about the costs and they're being fined because some people are too dumb to do simple math? CostPerMonth*NumberOfMonthsInContract . It's two fucking numbers, multiplied.
For pity's sake, you fool! DON'T UPGRADE it will make it worse
Third patch brings more admin Shellshock for the battered and Bashed
New 'Cosmos' browser surfs the net by TXT alone
Hawking: Higgs boson in a BIG particle punisher could DESTROY UNIVERSE
Beer in SPAAAACE: Photographic PROOF
Twitter: La la la, we haven't heard of NUDE JLaw, Upton SELFIES
This'll end well: US govt says car-to-car jibber-jabber will SAVE lives
Doctor Who season eight scripts leak online
SLOW DOWN: Insecure-by-design software on road
Facebook lets Russian search czar Yandex suck on its public 'firehose'
Hear that? It's the sound of BadBIOS wannabe chatting over air gaps
Thursday 5th December 2013 21:29 GMT
Re: Acoustic malware
"It would also be impossible for the malignant sound to be controlled so precisely that the resulting digitized data would form a working program."
Ha, reminds me of a tv show where the criminal had etched markings into some bones, then when the bones were photographed and loaded onto the computer, they got a virus.
Aha, found it: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e27_1327440153
MoJ fined £140K for EMAILING privates of 1,000 inmates
Wednesday 23rd October 2013 05:09 GMT
"Each recipient confirmed in writing that the email message had not been disseminated further and that it had been fully deleted. For two of the recipients, access was allowed to their email accounts for confirmation of their actions. The other recipient had already double-deleted the message and attachment. "
What Double-deleted?
Brace for MORE ZOMBIE ATTACK ALERT pranks, warns security bod
ICO fines council £120,000 for crypto email fail
Monday 29th October 2012 08:33 GMT
Re: Email Encryption would have helped (if your using one that can revoke a message)
"How do you set up a system that allows you to access my Exchange Server and revoke an unopened message that is sitting in my Inbox..."
http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/outlook-help/how-message-recall-works-HA001091760.aspx
"without my co-operation?"
As above, just depends what options you have set.
Mozilla updates to Firefox 8, disables add-ons
Wednesday 9th November 2011 09:54 GMT 
title eh
Posting hre because I'm too lazyto sign up for engadget comments, but this is a much better report than what i read there. When i first read it all it mentioned was twitter support, and 'a new way to manage addons' - not the fact that it blocks third party add-ons, etc.
And the Twitter support is only via the search box, which I have disabled/hidden anyway. At first I thought it was going to be some big ugly Twitter logo somewhere, but no, it's in a feature I never use, plus the actual decent updates, I am going t oupdate right now. Fuck all ya'll haters that don't look into iot further and just post comments along the lines of 'twitter in my firefox? ghey'
Typos = beer.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
