* Posts by Destroy All Monsters

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Pre-Trump FCC – get a grip on mobe data caps, racist Stingray spying, urge Dem senators

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"Changes before January"

Eight years of Obamashit (including finding Hitler and "red lines" in faraway lines that have nothing to do with Amuricca) and now we are in a hurry all of a sudden.

I have the burning sense of HATE, just HATE in the spirit of "I have no mouth but I must scream". I actually get the post-Weimar-Republic spirit all of a sudden.

Also: Commander-In-Chief Donald Trump Will Have Terrifying Powers. Thanks, Obama.

Veeam kicks Symantec's ass over unpatentable patents

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Alien

Patents for retards by retards granted by more retards.

It's also Symantec, one of the prime reasons why Aliens politely decline to contact Earth people.

International Space Station celebrates 18th birthday in true style – by setting trash on fire

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Re: velocity and space

The main criterium is "same orbital plane", because changing that takes lots of propellant.

I don't know the mechanics but I imagine that getting "some orbital plane" may well mean the ISS is wherever at launch time.

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our greatest fear and unknown is still fire?

The fact that one is living inside an environment containing a fierce oxydizer in gaseous form is not often appreciated!

Hackers electrocute selves in quest to turn secure doors inside out

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Re: Bah!

You can put it down to UFOs.

Arista cats escape US quarantine, for now: Customs says it's OK to import networking gear

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"Ripped off the command line"

So... design patents? Rounded corners and everything?

Put down the org chart, snowflake: Why largile's for management crybabies

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Re: Heretic Alert.

Hadoop is not a DBMS.

Neither is MongoDB for that matter.

Linux 4.9 has 'issues that just shouldn't be issues'. Or might not

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Obligatory

In a superposition of worried and not worried? So this release will be "Schrödinger's Penguin".

NASA trying to rein in next-generation super-heavy lifter costs

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LETTER TO TRUMP

1) Dismantle NATO

2) No more boot-licking by trough-friendly Europeans eager to follow the US lead on "confronting Russia", "protecting Lybian women from rape", "Assad must go'" and "securing Afghanistan for the Taliban" and maybe soon "keeping Georgia free" and "making the free Republic of Molodova safe for pipelines"

3) Reallocate money to productive uses

4) Maybe it will work

Hacker dishes advanced phishing kit to hook clever staff in 10 mins

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I don't understand

...how this toolkit is going to improve security in any way?

Is KiwiCon now Blackhat Con?

Why I just bought a MacBook Air instead of the new Pro

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Re: Apple n' Scientology

Whatever, but it needs to go to shit pretty quickly so that we can have acceptable machines back.

OTOH, the last acceptable machine from Apple that I eyed was a NeXT Cube.

Hyperloop One settles hangman lawsuit

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Dodged a bullet.

"Grogan Bam! Grogan"

Good that wasn't considered.

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Maybe "just enough rope"

Customer data security is our highest priori- ha ha ha whatever, suckers

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Re: Company law

It is the duty of the Directors to maximise returns for the shareholders

No it is not, any anyone who thinks so has no idea how companies operate.

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Re: The seventies version of the future was so much cooler ...

> check this out

Rodenberry must have watched this.

The rampant germanization of the universe by personnel previously manning Panzers, but now a bit more corpulent and starting to resemble bureaucrats sure has its charms! But why are they all the time talking in Combat Language?

Go Perry Rhodan etc.

Antivirus tools are a useless box-ticking exercise says Google security chap

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Re: This has been said many times before...

So personal computing is like doing tightrope walking?

IT SHOULDN'T BE AND YOU SHOULD DEMAND THAT IT NOT BE!

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Re: Until the world all has a working OS and well designed software...

Self-managing teams of skilled people FTW!

So different from downtrodden, report-filling office drones that can't even get the resources or time they need for the task.

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Re: Whitelists?

ENOUGH!

You know how to get to Portland for a protest meetup with the other liberal arts students and state dripfeed survivors.

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Re: About time

And I haven't seen (other people's) AV catch a single genuine threat the whole time.

I call rank bullshit!!!

AV may not be the solution to everything and there sure are threats slipping through, but given the current paltry state of the "industry" (more like a bunch of idiot people that should be Godwin'd by fast track to terminal reeducation camps and that really should have decided to start a career in creative fantasy writing or "modern" painting instead of going into IT) they take on the role of necessary seat belts. Won't protect from a car mugging or an encounter with a trucvk, but protects against the usual vagaries (and I get warning about these in my mailbox every week as someone has again decided to CLICK ON SOMETHING!!)

Surveillance camera compromised in 98 seconds

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Re: Yay for the apocalypse!

Toasters taking over?

There must be something by Philip K. Dick on this.

Experts to Congress: You must act on IoT security. Congress: Encourage industry to develop best practices, you say?

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Re: Lame Duck Congress

The first amendment currently only applies to Christian fundamentalists. Everyone else is a third class citizen.

Stop reading left-wing fanzines, you!

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Re: Lame Duck Congress

For all we know, they'll end up banning everything on the internet except for the Jesus sites and the sites that have well-heeled lobbyists.

I really want to know at what place this kind of bullshit is being injected into the memosphere.

Maybe the explanation lies in the fact that journalists are writing hysterical pandering stuff. Here's Jared Taylor of "American Renaissance" (of all things!) on this: Trump: The Media’s Frankenstein Monster

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Re: Well, if these fine legislators have their way --

But now you can harvest 100K people from the safety of your office.

"Slack Hacks", innit?

Just re-reading Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age". Luckily, we will have to survive to "consumer IoT" age before stepping into the nanotech age. Or so we hope.

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Re: You see, these IT security experts approached this testimony in the wrong way...

John Hinckley Jr.'s attempted assassination of Reagan did nothing for gun control...

Well, there is "gun control" at various levels in the various states (and this was more about a nutcase doing his nutty stuff), but apart from that:

Panicky law reaction for cheap virtue signalling in response to child-killer-maim-rapist-horror-show: BAD

Panicky law reaction for cheap virtue signalling in response to attempted Reagan assassination: GOOD

You can't have it both ways,

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Re: "I don't think I want my refrigerator talking to some food police."

Actually, it will probably come.

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No farting in church!

AI gives porn peddlers a helping hand

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Re: And in other news

I dunno the pr0nz are always well-stocked on beautiful ladies?

Hackers' modular worm builder hoses popular team web chat apps

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Re: "former college Matt Bryant,"

and former colleague Matt Bryant

Any relationship to esteemed fellow commentard and professional Solaris-hater Matt Bryant?

Helping autonomous vehicles and humans share the road

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Ancient cant by people with difficulties distinguishing levels of abstraction

(Under "people with difficulties distinguishing levels of abstraction" we find anyone who whips out something that he misunderstood being said by Gödel to make a point about what computers can or cannot do for example. Quite a few critics of AI are in this category...)

Computers like rules – solid, hard-and-fast instructions to follow. How should we program them to handle difficult situations?

Computer like nothing. They just execute stuff, in fact anything that is considered "computable".

HUMANS like rules - solid, hard-and-fast instructions to be followed by a computer - because they have major difficulty conceptualizing, designing and debugging anything that is fluid, context-dependent and works with tons of heuristics to attack a problem in restricted, hard timeframes.

KCL staff offered emotional support, clergy chat to help get over data loss

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Re: Unless, of course...there's...

Like suicide interdiction devices?

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Jesus saves!

Unfortunately he hides the tapes.

PoisonTap fools your PC into thinking the whole internet lives in an rPi

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Re: Whole Internet in a small box.

"Bigger on the Inside"

The Box of Leaves.

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Re: This is exactly how things are designed to work

I really fail to understand how this is news: this is how things are designed to work

Yeah, well maybe they should stop working that way, mon.

"We have always been falling downstairs around here, what's to change?"

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Re: Physical Access...

your attack timeframe would be the time you can leave the device attached to the machine without being noticed. I'd say a couple MONTHS at best.

FTFY

If you put an official-looking sticker on it saying "do not remove because BLAH", maybe a couple of years.

Gone in 70 seconds: Holding Enter key can smash through defense

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Black Helicopters

After vigorous "research" I have been able to trace this bug back to Thompson & Richie Unix.

WERE THEY SECRETLY WORKING FOR THE NSA ALL ALONG? WHAT DID RUBY ACTUALLY KNOW AND WHY IS OSWALD EVEN BEING MENTIONED IN THIS POST?

Shocking deathbed testimony from a hacker dying of a mysterious cancer he obtained from a fishy sushi in an unnamed London restaurant rips the veil off the long-running UNIX conspiracy!!

(After this message)

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Re: Gone in 10 seconds...

However in a kiosk situation, you might have to type the entire kernel in by hand at the keyboard :-)

HACKED BY SEYMOUR CRAY!

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Re: Now what if you don't use initramfs…

LUKS has nothing to do with it. It's only responsible for the layout/conventions of the crypto stuff on the drive.

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PS Vote thumbs down if you have a pony tail!

Dude! How are you bell bottom trousers? Got a boombox to go with it?

The last ponytail I saw was attached to a very aged guy re-entering computer science at uni and desperately trying to navigate the Macintosh 1. That was in 1990.

Obviously my category of "very aged" has changed since.

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Re: @Homer ... Missing item in the series?

"Clone the harddrive"... yes, by using the unexpected root shell that you've got to from this vulnerability.

Yeah, but, keeping with the "kiosk machine/library machine while not wearing a blue nylon jacket with 'FBI maintenance' printed on the back"...

1) Where do you plug in that additional drive?

2) Why would you want to clone the fricking harddrive in the first place?

Ok, so there should be screen that demands root password after you have not managed to type in the LUKS password correctly etc. etc.

But really.

I have a bigger issue with the screen lock on KDE Fedora 24 which shows the actual screen for about 1/10 of a second after a series of bad password entries...

Elon Musk wants to launch 4,000 satellites and smother globe with net connectivity

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Re: Musk tried to suggest that someone had fired a shot at the rocket to sabotage it

Amendments should be "put on fire"

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And the writer.

Like a WTC tower ... "Pull it!" (apparently overheard uttered by Giuliani or something)

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Re: Musk tried to suggest that someone had fired a shot at the rocket to sabotage it

And this

SpaceX has yet to achieve anything notable that hasn’t already been done by state-backed space agencies.

One really must be a journalist to write these things.

Hadoop experiencing growing pains in lamestream businesses

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Re: Translation please

Data > Information > Knowledge > Wisdom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_pyramid)

This is of course bullshit as this alignment-that-is-pleasing-to-the-eye-but-devoid-of-meaning relies on deformed and pared down interpretations of the words, and the illusion that there is some sort of progression from left to right. It should go back to the marketing sewer from where it came.

Here's a better kickoff point: Towards a Theory of Information - Information: Mystical Fluid or a Subject of Scientific Enquiry? (R.K. Stamper)

Also... Who the Feck actually needs Hadoop except startups trying to marketize it and HPC shops?

Security bods find Android phoning home. Home being China

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Not before January, and probably a bit later.

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Re: Explain!?

That problem seems insurmountable.

It's all about trust, really (and a bit of electronic signatures, but mainly trust).

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...and that is who?

Mac book, whoa! Apple unveils $300 design tome

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Re: FTFY

HOLY FERMIONS!

PRAISE BE!

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Re: They can't help themselves, can they?

THE BOOK OF THE MOVIE OF THE SOUNDTRACK OF THE EPIC OPERA OF CORPY APPLE AND THE HOLY GIMMICK

By Sir Johnny (Jony?) Ive (Yves?), designer famous for being designer at Corpy Apple.

Contains real ashes of Steve Jobs!

No longer uses medieval binding, now held together at the spine by special Apple Glue!

MongoDB's CEO: Expect aggressive investing as biz aims at Oracle et al

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Re: If one reads between the lines

Here you go: Why You Should Never Use MongoDB

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MongoDB

...because evewryone needs a JSON cache in front of their actual database.