* Posts by kain preacher

3832 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Apr 2007

Security hole in AMD CPUs' hidden secure processor code revealed ahead of patches

kain preacher

Re: BIOS updates? What BIOS updates?

Um intel created the efi for the itanium cpu and then thought it would be a good idea for all of their CPU. It was a almost 3 years before AMD used efi

Proposed Brit law to ban b**tards brandishing bots to bulk-buy tickets

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Re: Handling charges

I have a feeling their blood sucking sharks would eat my lawyer as a snack

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monty75

These folks really can get blood from a stone. these folks can embarrassed

a loan shark.

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Re: Handling charges

What about charging to print your own damn tickets ?

Last time I printed my own ticket there was a $2 handling fee and a $5 ticket printing fee.

If you won't use your brain our machine will use it for you, Nissan tells drivers

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What if the car decides to take over ?

Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

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Re: @ lsatenstein

do you read ? an AM4 cpu goes in an AM4 MB Am3 CPU in an AM3 board. it's really simple.

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The issue was making PPC laptop chip that was faster that would not cook your nads and kill you patter. That's why they were stuck at G4 when the desktop was at g5. then there was price and scale. Apple was going to get price on intel chips since they made way more then what IBM made.

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Re: I finally switch from AMD to Intel, and this is what happens.

Watching video rending test shows that that it's more like 5% difference. and I mean test with people doing encoding actual not simulated test.

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Re: Crap indeed

nope its hybrid kernel same as windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS

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Re: Haven't done a full read through so don't if this has been raised...

In my case yes. seriously My room was consistently 10 degrees warmer then the rest of the house. Toss in a descent video card and I had to use monster after market cpu cooler or the damn CPU would over heat and shut down.

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Re: How convenient

Well in all fairness if your hardware is compromised before the OS even loads it would matter what OS you use. This does affect linux too.

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Re: Where is the recall

"Stuff eaches the errata years later."

You left out signing a NDA to read the real and or full errata

Just imagine having to sign an NDA to read about a 5 year bug.

We translated Intel's crap attempt to spin its way out of CPU security bug PR nightmare

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Re: More deconstructions of PR flim-flam, please

I understood it fine. He meant with all the other stuff going on on the tech world why is el reg making a big deal of this one story. Then again I'm able to read most of a man from Mars 1 posts.

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Re: Daily Telegraph hackette on the BBC World Service this morning @Archtech

Have I been on el reg to long? I've understood the last two post be a man from Mars 1. And this last post made sense.

Last week: Microsoft accused of covering up rape claim. This week: Microsoft backs anti-cover-up law ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re: It's a start

Really because it was easy for my my cousin to get one against his ex GF. You have personal experience with this ? What makes it so hard to get one in California ?

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Re: It's a start

"So you're talking about the procedure to obtain a DVRO (Domestic Violence Restraining Order) which can only happen during court hours.

If you need to do this when the court is closed, you need to obtain an EPO (Emergency Protective Order) which you do at a police station and typically lasts only long enough for you to get in front of a sitting judge."

No that's not what he said

"No, in California it's not trivial, you have to have sufficient evidence for the police to convince a judge to grant one, you then have to present your case in front of a judge in order for it to continue to be in effect."

What he said is it's the police that have to convince the judge. Even how you phrased you are going to the judge your self. The way he phrased it the cops are the gate keeper. He never said any thing about emergency.

Oh In California even in California an Emergency Protective Order still needs to go before the court to be valid. Oh and you have to properly serve the person. The kicker is there already hast to be a case against the person This makes getting and EPO silly for two reason. One if there is a already a domestic violence case that the person has filed you might as well file for a regular protection order. Two it takes the same about of time to serve some with and EPO as it does with a regular protective order. The only difference is an EPO can be filled at any hours but like I said it still needs to be heard by the court for it to be valid .

An Emergency Protective Order may be issued on the request of California law enforcement officer anytime of the day or night in a domestic violence case if a law enforcement officer asserts reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be protected is "in immediate and present danger of domestic violence" based on the complainant's "allegation of a recent incident of abuse or threat of abuse by the person against whom the order is sought." (California Family Code Section 6250.) However, an Emergency Protective Order is valid only if it is issued by a judicial officer (judge or commissioner) pursuant to the specific request of a law enforcement officer after the judicial officer has made the findings required by Family Code Section 6251. (California Family Code Section 6250.3.)

kain preacher

Re: It's a start

You've never have seen he form to request a restraining order in California, The police have no part in it till the order is issued. You go to the court house, fill it out and return it to the court house. No police involvement what so ever.

There are even advocacy groups that helps women suffering from domestic violence fill out the forms, Yes they will help men to. I know this because I helped a family friend get a restraining order from his phyco gf.

Surveillance law slip-up in sight for staff stalking citizens on socials

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Re: Only yourself to blame.

you mean sarcastic

'Twas the night before Y2K and a grinch stole the IT department's overtime payout

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Firing the staff and telling them you are getting £50 is a dick move. See that's how systems get sabotage. Not saying it's right but if you are expecting to get £8,000 that's fucking with your emotions. As we know people tend to do stupid stuff when they get emotional.

Alleged Uber black ops lawyer would rather not have his Xmas holiday ruined by Waymo, ta

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What if the truth will send you to jail?

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Thing is this is highly unusual. Nine times out of ten corporate counsel would be immune from testifying. I'm mean you get sued and and your lawyer has to go and testify possible against you . The only way this happens is if the judge thinks the lawyer was in on it. In that case yes he would not want to testify as he could be liable and lose his license to practice law .

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Your honor I need the time to transfer funds and leave the country.

Beyond code PEBCAK lies KMACYOYO, PENCIL and PAFO

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Re: Classics

Just few things in control panel and add a few programs out and installed some emjois from a dodgy web site offering to speed up my web connection

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Re: At amanfromMars 1...

Well At amanfromMars 1.

At this rate this AI is learning he will be able to replace most media and politicians.

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SBEP was code I found often used. Stupid Boss Exaggerating Problems.

This is when the guy is to busy to call support so they poorly describe the problem to their assistant who then calls support. To make things worse some times the assistant is not even allowed to touch the malfunctioning device.

Once I had a unlucky assistant on the phone and her boss was shouting at her. I really wanted to say ma'am put the asshole on the phone. I mean this mug was yelling her for not telling me the right things.

kain preacher

Re: At amanfromMars 1...

amanfromMars 1 is just early AI struggling to make since of man kind. lucky he did not take one look at the net and deiced to wipe us all out.

Microsoft Surface Book 2: Electric Boogaloo. Bigger, badder, better

kain preacher

Re: The pen isn't included

have you every tried to upgrade Viao?If that OS was not offered on that model good luck

Weed wish you a merry Christmas: Pot-toting OAPs tell cops 30kg stash is for pressies

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Re: They won't see any jail time.

That much is federal time. Mandatory sentencing . Possession with intent to distribute . 1-20 at the state level drug trafficking 0-20 . At the federal level Drug trafficking can get you life . Possession with intent to distribute at the federal level is a minimum of 5 years.

Merry Christmas, UK prosecutors: Here's a special gift... a slap from the privacy watchdog

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Simple solution. Just stamp them all as classified and reject all quest .

IT giant CSC screwed its 1,000 sysadmins out of their overtime – jury

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Re: the three-year legal battle..

lawyers are except from over time pay :)

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In order to be exempt you must be in management and mange 2 or more people. You must be able to hire.fire/ demote/promote people. Or have your profession listed as exempt. Also if you have to college to learn a trade and then are required to get a license to practice your trade you are except to. For some reason accounts are exempt.

Or then there is this laundry list of things you must meet to be classified mangment exempt.

interviewing, selecting, and training employees;

setting rates of pay and hours of work;

maintaining production or sales records (beyond the merely clerical);

appraising productivity; handling employee grievances or complaints, or disciplining employees;

determining work techniques;

planning the work;

apportioning work among employees;

determining the types of equipment to be used in performing work, or materials needed;

planning budgets for work;

monitoring work for legal or regulatory compliance;

providing for safety and security of the workplace.

Meet R2-DILDO: 'Star Wars' sex toys? This is where the fun begins

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what no links ? I want to see pics.

Ubuntu 17.10 pulled: Linux OS knackers laptop BIOSes, Intel kernel driver fingered

kain preacher

Re: The Intel Driver bug is possibly a bit more present than Intel lets on.

But Jim-234,

How many people just blamed windows as saying see they uses us as beta testers.

Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the data centre temp's delightful

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Re: Tonnage

Hun? This yank is use to BTU

Ex-Microsoft intern claimed one of her fellow temps raped her. Her bosses hired him

kain preacher

Re: So what did the police say?

The charges were dropped.

Hacks, bribes and bugs: Uber accused of illegal snooping on rivals

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Re: Now, that's efficiency!

Murder(yet)

Genocide.

'I knew the company was doomed after managers brawled in a biker bar'

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"*Yeah I know. The physics don't add up whilst the sharks live in salt water but if that is what you focussed on - you realise that you still WENT TOO FAR down this rabbit hole."

See you just had to bring reality into this.

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Lary will have sharks with freakin lazers.

A million UK homes still get crappy broadband speeds, groans Ofcom

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Really ? Cause were I live it was all fiber to the ADSL cabinet. They retrofitted the cabinet to do FTTP.

Engineer named Jason told to re-write the calendar

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Re: I call BS

When it came to repairs/trouble shooting I was told this. If it can be done , some were some how a customer has done it. Some times when doing help desk logic has to be tossed other wise your brain will fry on how some customers do what they do. I had a customer that decided that he was going to make no ecc memory fit in an ECC socket only by physically modifying it. you also have those folks that only learn by doing. Fire is hot you will hurt yourself. Well how do I know if I never touch it ?

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Re: @Prst. V.Jeltz

Screen grab are you joking ?I'd say 20% of the people I've dealt could not do a screen grab

Funnily enough, no, IT admins who trash biz machines can't claim they had permission

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Re: I've, umm... done most of that stuff

If that's in their job title and on a dev/ test server fine. But if management actually wants you to trash a production server you need to leave.

kain preacher

Re: I've, umm... done most of that stuff

Are you trying trash the sever ? if no then you are OK.

FCC douses America's net neutrality in gas, tosses over a lit match

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Re: One thing that I don't get...

and you would be wrong. As it sits now service like you tube and netflix houses their servers inside of ATT's private internet farms so the service gets to the end user faster. So as it sits if you are on a major ISP netflix and you tube will run faster as you never need to leave your ISP network to get to them.THis help latency.

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Re: Black arm bands for everyone

Why are you applying logic to BJ?

"It's fun because every time I ask a question and he doesn't answer it weakens his viewpoint"

No his belief system lets him ignore you as an idiot.

Kentucky lawmaker pushes smut filter law (update: maybe not)

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Update. The politician killed him self.

FBI tells Jo(e) Sixpack to become an expert in IoT security

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Sounds easy enough till manufactures crams this in to every thing. It's not easy to buy a 4k tell that is not a smart TV. Why does a fridge need wi fi? Want to buy a security cam? Why does my car need to come with a wi fi hot spot.

kain preacher

Re: Is the FBI advice Office Space 2.0? There comes a time...

But how is the aver joe going to know ? If this was a car with the issues the main stream media would be all over it? the fact that and industry is so shit that the FBI has to give advise should be all over the news.

But out side of places like el reg were do hear about the dangers of IoT ?

kain preacher

Re: 'Don't use a router provided by an ISP'

Not all ISP use passwords.