* Posts by Destroy All Monsters

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Hollywood vs hackers: Vulture cracks Tinseltown keyboard cornballs

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Pint

Pair ncissing!

Also: "INTRUSION DETECTED - FIREWALL BREACHED".

At least you get a porn flick at the far end.

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Angel

Re: You just wait for the remake.....

DAT DISCUSSION on Stackexchange: "How does David Lightman in WarGames manage to hack a computer by dialing a number?"

"There was an internet, and you connected to it. You didn't have the World Wide Web."

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Re: Awwww... come on....

Ouch. FOILED AGAIN!

OTOH, Trinity accurately hacks via SSH in the Matrix #3 I think. I can just barely remember.

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Re: "it's a Unix system, I know this"

"it's a Unix system, I know this"

Just as ADORABLE as back then!

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Angel

Re: Cough Cough!! Independence day

Apple computers can interface directory to Aliens

When Steave Jobs has seen a Turing Machine, he has seen them all.

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Pint

Re: It's not a movie but...

There is a XIII series?

The original comic didn't feature skeleton keys, just an onion layers of conspiracies, gunplay and dead people. Pretty gud!

Luckily for all concerned the hero of Blackhat is Chris “Thor” Hemsworth, who is as familiar with the gym as the server room.

In the real world, you will meet IT people like this, sadly in the other direction.

Scary code of the week: Valve Steam CLEANS Linux PCs (if you're not careful)

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Scumbag Steve Meme goes here

1) Writing "# Scary!" in the code

2) Not performing any checks anyway

...probably because "no risk, no fun!"

Venture Capital investment in Silicon Valley hits dot-com boom levels

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Headmaster

Get me that permafailure Krugman on the horn!

"THIS TIME IT'S ALL DIFFERENT!!"

No, I don't think so.

Afterwards:

"NO-ONE COULD HAVE PREDICTED" etc. etc.

Elon Musk: Wanna see a multimillion-dollar rocket EXPLODE? WATCH THIS

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Trollface

Re: Quite a few incorrect posts above and bad facts in article

this was a successful TEST

But clearly that bar is still in the red?

junit_frog.jpg

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Pint

CAP'TAIN, WE NEED 50% MORE PRESSURE!!

Scotty, come out of that Jeffreys Tube!

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Fokken owsome

I suppose killing the barge that way would still be hard to do no matter what.

LIFELESS BEAGLE on MARS: A British TRIUMPH!

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Re: Re. Beagle 2

A LIKELY story.

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Holmes

Leiningen and the ants

still doesn't beat arriving on a aircraft carrier with a mission accomplished banner 7 years before the war actually ends

Correction, mylord!

"...before the war actually ants."

It ants into ISIS.

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Re: The UK can and will go back to Mars

The sandy expanses may indeed be attractive to our southern neighbors, but if there is oil underneath, they will still not be spared the bombing.

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Re: the probe landed roughly where it was expected

Patriot Missiles: A cautionary tale of getting your floating point act together!

Yes, that's for YOU, young whippersnappers!

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THIS HAS BEEN A SUCCESSFUL FAILURE!

“The UK can and will go back to Mars.”

The Outward Urge with a stiff upper lip, now!

Go Canada: Now ILLEGAL to auto-update software without 'consent'

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Re: La Geist

So can take a glorious trip to Europe? Preferably carrying an AK to unseat our heads of state?

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Re: No, you can't

This morning TheGOOG downloaded something new to Chrome

tl;dr

Why are you even consorting with Google. Are into succubi or something?

tired_bugs_bunny.gif

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Devil

Re: Excellent news

> Were this prison, you'd be our bitch.

Riiiiight.

Meanwhile, with Harper in charge, you know EXACTLY who is the one biting cushions.

Prez Obama snubs UK PM's tough anti-encryption crusade at White House meet

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Mushroom

I can't explain....

...the burning white heat of hate whenever I see those nominal "heads of state" pushing forth their narcissistic agenda informed by the special interests whispering into their ears. What did they succeed in doing. Anything? Anything AT ALL? No. All their "achievements" are lies, flimflammery and massaging of statistics, and at best kicking the can down the street.

Begone! Begone forever.

Lazy FTSE 350 firms think lawyers can fight off cyber-security worries

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Trollface

The guys wrecking the EURO issue edicts on "cyber-risks"

such as edicts from the European Central Bank

MUAH!!

Amazon's tax deal in Luxembourg BROKE the LAW, says EU

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Holmes

Re: When I worked in Belgium some time ago...

... the Friday evening trains to Luxembourg were widely reported to be packed with people taking their week's cash-in-hand earnings to their Luxembourg banks

Never seen those over there. The people go from Luxembourg TO Belgium at the end of the day because Luxembourg is one of the rare places in Europoorland that are still economically active.

As to "evasion", frankly, if you worked in Belgium, you WOULD do that.

40% and more (probably more around 60% if VAT is counted, amirite?) for a non-existent, corrupt and dysfunctional government mainly known for building bridges to nowhere. The rest will will be taken upon your death.

The dictatorship of the proletariat was not meant to be like this.

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Holmes

Burnt-out socialistic Euro weatherwane

The issue is also embarrassing for Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, as he was prime minister of the micro-state when the deal was done.

Also now talking tough about crackdowns on "tax avoiders".

Fertiliser doom warning! Pesky humans set to wipe selves out AGAIN

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Re: Who's Big Al?

He's like Marcellus Wallace, but contrrolling your fridge via the IoT

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Holmes

More interesting than "The Big AI fear", but....

Everything important to civilisation," he contends, took place prior to 1914: he specifically mentions "the development of agriculture, the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and the Industrial Revolution".

A dubious claim. Antibiotics, Computers, Advanced Mathematics, Internal Combustion Engine are forgotten? I guess that would be "some kind of civilization" then. I also don't see how the Roman Empire comes into this. Europoor-centric, moi?

In the prof's view it's extremely urgent for the human race to cut down on fertiliser over-use, as this could knacker the eco-system to such an extent that it could no longer support civilisation and surviving humans would have to return to life as hunter-gatherers.

This point urgently needs further explanations. It seems to compress a few books into a pithy phrase.

I have heard that Phosphorus is hard and harder to find in appreciable quantities though. Let's have some market pricing....

David Cameron: I'm off to the US to get my bro Barack to ban crypto – report

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Re: A request

Naomi Klein is not exactly well-known for her ability to research or present something she didn't explicitly decide to prove before writing the damn book.

Unfortunately, this.

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Big Brother

The Project for a New Oceanian Century

Does anyone have the totally unwarrented feeling that he had a big folder in his desk and was just waiting and hoping for someone's cat to fall downstairs?

Totally unwarranted, I am sure.

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Paris Hilton

Re: Whatever.

Thank you for your interesting slice-of-life posting.

Your point being?

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Re: Terrorist are naughty

> whose entire agenda revolves around hiding the fucking obvious

Facesitting is forbidden in the UK!

Mr President, is this a war on hackers – or a war on people stopping hackers?

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Big Brother

Obama's presidence is really the fail train without brakes.

Totally fits into the accelerating medievalization of society at the request of special interests that has been pushed for the last 30 years.

Don't talk, don't work, don't copy, don't hide, don't save, don't transact, don't read, don't think, don't research, don't hope, don't change unless the government gives you explicit approval.

Or a SWAT team will pull up.

Big Blue's biggest mainframe yet is the size of a fridge

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Re: Pics.....

I support this statement. JE SUIS EL REG!

> You are not The Metro!!

More like TIFKAM. Pretty pictures, blaring into your eyes.

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Re: After the election comment

It's too late for mindbleach. It was ALWAYS too late for mindbleach.

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Holmes

Re: Rubbish - Old IT Grey suits out!

> As a young programmer

> The principles of IT are constant

"Wise before his age", huh?

Go back to Computer Science 101 and learn something.

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Re: So is it running z/OS or Linux or both? @boltar

Design space explorations!

Australia tries to ban crypto research – by ACCIDENT

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Science now run by wombats

> It's just a way for the government to buy votes

Most people are too arsetarded to even know what this is about and would like to watch TV unmolested, whose vote are they buying?

NSA: SO SORRY we backed that borked crypto even after you spotted the backdoor

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His excellency regrets.....

Wertheimer argued:

The case doesn't prove the NSA is actively trying to subvert crypto standards, merely that a mistake had been made and then rectified.

It's like I'm really at the OJ Simpson trial.

He pointed out that the NSA was keen to fund more mathematical research

Of course.

and – post September 11 – this work was vitally needed

Because the Saudi trolls used hard crypto to run their show. It was totally not due to the utter ineptitude of the infighting TLA salad of the Heimland. Also, Saddam gassed his own people.

Carry on.

TERROR in SPACE: ISS 'NAUTS FLEE 'gas leak' to Russian module

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Paris Hilton

Re: SpaceX

Coattails, shirley?

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Re: True for the whole world

You forget the ubiquitous taste of chicken.

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Trollface

Re: You can't get to there from here

The connecting tunnel between the Russian and US sector is called "The Ukraine", not sure why.

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Why not open the hatch and take a sniff?

The smell of ammonia is hard to ignore.

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Re: Big Three?

Moties. All classes.

Node.js fork io.js hits version 1.0 – but don't call it production-ready

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Nork.js, production ready, ever.

Can anyone recall me what the point of Node.js is? Except giving people somewhat of an excuse to not having to look beyond JavaScript when coding horribad stuff on the server side, far better solved with proper languages?

PlayStation-processor-powered plutonium probe prepares Pluto pics

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Re: Clyde W. Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto

The Plutonians may have something to say about that.

All of them are dwarfs and will not be taken seriously.

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Re: Routers... in Space!

Even though I'm a space buff too, given the choice of space missions or little to no plutonium on earth I'd take the latter any day.

WHY? I see no problem with Pu on Earth except the one in nukes and dumped into the environment, and the annoying filling of pants that antinuxers perform whenever the subject is even mentioned. Yes, it's a nasty element in daily bodily processes. Don't ingest it.

That being said, for probes you need the special kind of Pu that alpha-decays, generating lots of heat. The temperature difference thus created powers the RTGs on space probes. This Pu can only be made in special reactors from Neptunium.

The standard Pu is not particulary decay-happy and just sits there with low alpha activity, mainly waiting for neutron showers..

AMD plugs firmware holes that allowed command injection

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Holmes

You will say "notherboard" when you get the considerate response of the vendor to your request.

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Devil

Re: A Little More Than 90 Days

It's always good to troll the very discombobulated Microsoft for great justice.

Insert 'Skeleton Key', unlock Microsoft Active Directory. Simples – hackers

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Illogical. This IS the bigger issue.

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Paris Hilton

Sounds like a Stuxy TLA hit

If you already have the domain admin credentials why would you need this piece of temporary, only works until the next reboot malware?

I don't understand where the problem even is.

You want to have someone (who is not you) who has the domain admin credentials install this little baby on behalf of you. Maybe using an USB stick.

Whether it remains in memory due to inability to write on disk or to stay undetected I don't know. But are DCs rebooted often?

Windows 7 MARKED for DEATH by Microsoft as of NOW

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Re: A definative date

Linux developers will have figured out what users actually wanted on a desktop OS

Developers figuring out what users want

Users figuring out what they want

On a desktop OS to boot.

What next anon, P = NP?

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Re: WTF?

Win7 in banks? Anon's conclusion keener on shinyness than security

Just finish your studies before commenting.