Hmm...
How badly does sulphur poison the cells in this thing?
Posts by gollux
413 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Sep 2007
Silicon Valley hypegasm for miracle shoebox powerplants
US must redesign killer hot dogs
Wednesday 24th February 2010 10:34 GMT
Yes, we are that damn stupid...
over here. You hear the latest "Oh think of the children" drumbeat.
And then start asking questions.
And then find out the devestatingly high number.
And compare it against the number of children in the rest of the world dying of dehydration, malnutrition and endemic disease.
And immediately want to swat the reporter and concerned others in the head with a drill hammer for being so selfishly self-involved about such an insignificant impact their cause-d'joure really has on the global arena.
YouTube's IE6 support dies on March 13
The myth of Britain's manufacturing decline
Monday 22nd February 2010 17:07 GMT 
Same thing in the USA...
We manufacture a lot of stuff, but automation and technical skill means there's no need for unskilled labor and less need for labor. Mostly what you usually hear is complaints from people who think that a high school education should be all that is necessary to get on.
For an instance, a lumber mill that used to require 50 people and would start out high school graduates at $10.50 an hour and give them a top wage of $16 an hour now requires 8 people who need training to run advanced equipment and make significantly higher wages.
Echelon computers can't cope with bad lines
US plans crewless automated ghost-frigates
Wednesday 3rd February 2010 01:09 GMT
The Wipeoff...
Works for tailing vehicles, would work pretty well for a DumbBoat. Find maritime activity on the surface, loiter under the sea lanes until the thing becomes a nuisance. If you could get a real time traffic feed, you could test out their avoidance for blindspots. Bumper Pool, but with boats.
iPhone vulnerable to remote attack on SSL
Windows 7 upgrades Vista laptops to lower battery life
IE Windows vuln coughs up local files
Adultery website boosted by Christian publicity campaign
Aurora-style attacks swiped oil find data from energy giants
Tuesday 26th January 2010 16:33 GMT 
WooHoo!
Sign up today for the new Microsoft Internet Espionage Server(tm), available in every copy of Windows since 2000, but with increased data handling capacity for extracting those business secrets from everyone! Share and share alike, for economic equity you need to get on the bandwagon today!
Jumbo-jet laser cannon tested against missile
New music file aims to sink piracy using blogs and Twitter
Monday 25th January 2010 16:34 GMT 
Secret tracks...
and bum content. This has all been tried before. Do you buy the DVD to watch the movie, or for the sometimes snide development chatter, goober game and cut with reason alternate takes?
All I need is for the stupid thing to open a browser and shoving twitter feeds at me just because I'm playing a song. I play the stuff for the audio experience.
Sennheiser RS 160 wireless headphones
Sunday 24th January 2010 21:16 GMT
What's the range...
Love my current set of Sennheiser wireless headphones (S130? used them so much the number is worn off and on the second set of rechargeables), but they don't quite get the promised coverage I'd like. The house isn't that big, but I'd like to walk to either end and not have dropouts.
MS knew of Aurora exploit four months before Google attacks
MS spins IE security disaster into Windows 7 upgrade opportunity
Wednesday 20th January 2010 00:10 GMT
And simple to take care of...
Click the icon in the bar, enter your password when prompted and only worry about reboots if there's a kernel update.
Slightly less unobtrusive than Windows Update on the XP machines on my network, which usually require a reboot whenever I manually tell them to update, but that ceased being a problem with the newer WSUS client that now installs patches on shutdown.
And the list you pulled up for an example? That would be like running Exchange, Windows XP, Server 2003, Vista, Office, SharePoint, MSSQL, IIS, etc with the updaters for 3rd party Adobe, Firefox, etc thrown in. If you actually compared the same spread on Microsoft systems, you come pretty close. I know, I run our company's network with Mac, Microsoft, and a couple Linux systems and have to keep up on this stuff.
Try finding out what constitutes a Mac OS-X update listing, its probably more comparable.
And, yes the patches for all OS's is endless, not just your example. And every time you turn around, you've got a Flash bomb or an Adobe Reader shoal just waiting to take you out.
All you have to do to sabotage your operation is to not do your job. Amazing what a quicksand foundation we've built our modern business upon...
Tuesday 19th January 2010 17:02 GMT
Why they're recommending this...
<blockquote>While Windows XP does not offer ASLR protection, DEP/NX alone does make exploitation somewhat more challenging.</blockquote>
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/04/08/ie8-security-part-I_3A00_-dep-nx-memory-protection.aspx
So, enabling DEP for IE6 and IE7 is easy, YMMV for Windows XP.
"Somewhat more challenging" probably means "We'll have that running in 1-2 weeks" given the track record.
Tuesday 19th January 2010 16:59 GMT
I'm saving as hard as I can...
for a new system that will run Windows 7, but between pay cuts, time cuts, putting food on the table, keeping Goodwill clothes on my back, the rent paid and all, it will be 2012 before I can swing it.
The end of the world's coming then anyway, isn't it? <GRIN>
Thank goodness the car's paid off and should limp on reasonably well for another four years.
And my company's in the same straights, rollout will be somewhere along end of 2011 as we're mostly worried about basic survival at the moment.
Windows plagued by 17-year-old privilege escalation bug
IE6 exposed as Google China malware unpicked
Israelis develop Nazi-doodlebug sonic deathwave cannon
Ballmer: no China exit for Microsoft's Bing
Poisoned PDF pill used to attack US military contractors
Yahoo!'s Chinese affiliate disowns parent for siding with Google
British government ignores MS browser fears
Avatards rush to name sprogs Pandora
Exploit code for potent IE zero-day bug goes wild
Avatar renders this earthly life meaningless
Serious IE and Windows flaws left to fester
Santa Fe man demands half a mill for being near iPhone
Monday 11th January 2010 18:36 GMT
He's sniffed one too many alien probes...
And the woo woo fairies are stealing his sleep. Seriously needs some mental help, some Xanax to take care of his anxiety disorders, and a place out side the universe if he wants an EMF free zone. Between cosmic rays and background radiation, dieing is probably his only relief. Or maybe wrapping himself in about a 100 layers of tinfoil and a layer of lead connected to a 4 gauge copper wire connected to an eight foot ground rod.
Trouser-bomb clown attacks - how much should we laugh?
Saturday 9th January 2010 12:13 GMT
Soon to be available on Amazon.com...
"The Autoerotic Manual for Fapping with PETN, Sulpuric Acid and Fire"
by Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab
"How to Imitate Headless Poultry, While Shutting the Barn Door After the Equine Occupants Have Escaped", offical DHS PR manual on managing unknown attacks by preventing prior attacks.
Symantec Y2.01K bug still stymies customers
Adobe Reader vuln hit with unusually advanced attack
Iraqi insurgents hack US drones with $26 software
Friday 18th December 2009 10:29 GMT
Recommendation for upgrade...
I have a FEMA trailer full of damp toilet paper left over from the Hurricane Katrina rescue operation that I can offer for $500,000 to be deliveded by Haliburton that can be used to perform a ROT13 data encryption on the video feeds.
QUOTE: "The potential drone vulnerability lies in an unencrypted downlink between the unmanned craft and ground control. The U.S. government has known about the flaw since the U.S. campaign in Bosnia in the 1990s, current and former officials said. But the Pentagon assumed local adversaries wouldn't know how to exploit it, the officials said."
What ARROGANT TWADDLE... It doesn't take the NSA and a super computer to recover an unencrypted video feed. And all the PRO-IT-DOESN'T-MATTER FUD is yet another arrogant extension of the above. You don't leak intelligence, no matter how insignificant... some of the worst military disasters have hinged on insignificant details.
Philip K. Dick's kid howls over Googlephone handle
Wednesday 16th December 2009 05:52 GMT
Can't be selective on this one...
Nexus plus a number...
First of all, searches for Nexus-1 don't end up in Dick...
Searches for Nexus-10 means she needs to sue this company who has been using Nexus plus a number a lot longer... http://www.stens-biofeedback.com/products/nexus10.htm
She can only claim Nexus-6, and she can keep it.
El Reg uncovers Tiger Woods tech angle
Sunday 13th December 2009 17:16 GMT 
Wilt Chamberlin II
Living the ultimate pro sports star's dream. Go get'em Tiger!
You've got a ways to go to break that score. You're good in the rough, so that increases the pool you have to select from!
I want to report "The Register" for not using TSA approved redaction. Those black blocks must reveal something other than a string of hyphens, preferably useful information already known by the people you're trying to hide it from, and only surprising to apathetic "Joe Q. Public" who believes the line "I'm from (FEMA|Homeland Security|FBI|et al gov agencies) and I'm here to help you.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
