Bah!
All your ripped movie are belong to lightbulb.
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'I am admin' bug turns WD's My Cloud boxes into Everyone's Cloud
A spot of Python in your Azure automation? Step right this way, sir
National Museum of Computing to hold live Enigma code-breaking demo with a Bombe
The Reg chats with Voyager Imaging Team member Dr Garry E Hunt
First Boeing 777 (aged 24) makes its last flight – to a museum
Tuesday 18th September 2018 16:24 GMT
Bah!
"Good god! What on earth's that Tomkinson?"
"Model of a Boeing 777 sir. Good isn't it? It's got two Pratt and Whiney engines and ..."
"It's a bit big for a model isn't it? What scale is it?"
"Full scale sir. It's got a fully functional avionics suite and ..."
"If it's full scale it isn't a model 777, it's a 777. There'll be hell to pay on speech day if anyone sees this!"
"But sir ..."
"Get it down to no more than a 12 inch wingspan and we'll say no more about it. You're a very stupid boy building 777s."
"But sir, there's over 350 tons of metal in there!"
"Do you want to be sent to the Headmaster?"
Microsoft: Like the Borg, we want to absorb all the world's biz computers
Sysadmin misses out on paycheck after student test runs amok
Russia: The hole in the ISS Soyuz lifeboat – was it the crew wot dunnit?
US govt concedes that you can indeed f**k Nazis online: Domain-name swear ban lifted
Python joins movement to dump 'offensive' master, slave terms
Raspberry Pi supremo Eben Upton talks to The Reg about Pi PoE woes
Y'know what? VoIP can also be free from pesky regulation – US judges
A boss pinching pennies may have cost his firm many, many pounds
make all relocate... Linux kernel dev summit shifts to Scotland – to fit Torvald's holiday plans
Using Python in Visual Studio Code? Microsoft has new toys for you
No, no, you're all wrong. That's not a Kremlin agent. It's someone with 'inauthentic behavior'
Thursday 6th September 2018 15:38 GMT
Inauthenticityness
I hope I'm not called to task for my inauthentic Google searches.
I often search for things like "nuns", "rocket launchers", "corset" and so forth just to see how bizarre and diverting the sidebar ads can get in El Reg.
I may not be able to turn off internet tracking, but I can damn well drown the trackers' data warehouses in worthless noise.
Trainer regrets giving straight answer to staffer's odd question
Wednesday 5th September 2018 19:21 GMT
Re: Austin America: 4 jelabarre59
The Austin America appears to be a rebranded 1100! Learn summat every day.
I have an 1100 story you might enjoy on my "celebration of incompetence" blog.
We've found another problem with IPv6: It's sparked a punch-up between top networks
Russian volcanoes fingered for Earth's largest mass extinction
Wednesday 29th August 2018 16:32 GMT
Re: Trumpet
"These eruptions were yuge, bigly yuge. Some say they lasted a million years, some say ten million. I dunno. Beats me. But a yuge eruption lasting ten million years seems to me proof that Crooked Hillary hid her emails in the earth's crust. Why isn't Jeff Sessions demanding we investigate that? I spoke to the Russian Premier, a great man, great man, and he has no problem with our teams investigating all we want when it comes to Siberian rocks and Hillarycanoes."
Don't let Google dox me on Lumen Database, nameless man begs
Tuesday 28th August 2018 17:07 GMT
Re: Bah!
"Unless the court, in the round, understands all the circumstances of the case as to the background, as to any risk that actually, of undermining the order, obviously that will defeat the object"
Sorry, downvoters. I re-read this and attempted to diagram it, but it might as well be Furbish.
It's still palpable, ungrammatical blither, brought on by a desire to use twenty words when six will do.
Experimental 'insult bot' gets out of hand during unsupervised weekend
Monday 27th August 2018 12:47 GMT
Bah!
The Unisys OS2200 OS has a built-in line editor. For a long while it was the only editor Unisys offered for that line, and despite Clever Young Things trying unsuccessfully to excise it, it is still there today. It is packed with juicy features.
One feature is an internal messaging facility that allows people to send each other "mail". It works by provisioning a specially-named file that the editor looks for on loading, displays the contents if found and deletes.
I once told a colleague about a contract I worked where someone figured out they could catalog a file of the right name and put a write key on it so the editor couldn't delete it making for an "eternal" message. I also informed him of the response, where the victim did the same but made the first character of the key underscore, which for arcane VT protocol reasons would mean the entite key would not display on the screen, hiding its existence from the viewer.
You guessed it. Next day I had a non-dying message with the secret give-away I had not confided (but didn't need, since it didn't take Sherlock Holmes to deduce who the genius hacker was, and How The Trick Was Done).
I grinned and got busy. The trick worked because the terminal treated the leading character of the key as unprintable because the character encoding of file details in the system were non-ASCII. I sent a print of those details to an ASCII file and read that, where the key was shown in all its glory.
Then I retaliated responded. I did the same basic trick to the joker, but lodged a batch request to run the file catalog each morning at 6am.
The boob got an anonymous message that he eventually figured out how to delete. Next day, same story. And the next.
He came in early and got messaged. He stayed late, watched me go home, came in early and got messaged. Finally he waved a white flag and I rescinded the batch request.
The best part is that this only worked because of my victim's mindset; he was fascinated by the tech side of our business but sneered at the operational side. Had he propery thought it through my method would have been obvious.
Don't mean to alarm you – but NASA is about to pummel the planet with huge frikkin' space laser
Abracadabra! Tales of unexpected sysadmagic and dabbling in dark arts
Friday 24th August 2018 13:16 GMT
Bah!
I noticed that in our new building lobby the fluorescent light panel above each elevator door would brighten slightly when that car was about to arrive.
I would use this to grandiosly command the elevator to appear (loud voice, arms spread, the Full Gandalf) and, when it had, step in, turn round, and say quietly to the nearest smiling person "Pray that I don't turn to the Dark Side and use my elevator-summoning piwers for the forces of evil".
One morning I began the performance but when I turned there was a Spanish lady standing there crossing herself at me.
Not sure whether that counts as a double win.
Winner, Winner, prison dinner: Five years in the clink for NSA leaker
Intel rips up microcode security fix license that banned benchmarking
IBM slaps patent on coffee-delivering drones that can read your MIND
One-in-two JavaScript project audits by NPM tools sniff out at least one vulnerability...
Heads up: Fujitsu tips its hand to reveal exascale Arm supercomputer processor – the A64FX
UK.gov agencies told to drop fancy tech or risk 'reinventing the wheel'
Et tu, Brute? Then fail, Caesars: When it's hotel staff, not the hackers, invading folks' privacy
Tuesday 21st August 2018 16:12 GMT
And then have the SO claim you "walked in unannounced" presumably, if this is for re-enactment purposes.
I guess the next phase of this line of reasoning will be that these "security experts" believe that if a defensive measure can be defeated, one should not deploy it at all.
I wonder what they used to protect themselves from bad actors while they were Facebooking their outrage? I mean, they couldn't have installed the FB app on their phones, right? FB in notoriously "leaky" according to Mr Snowden.
Tuesday 21st August 2018 16:04 GMT
Re: Bah!
American hotels all down the east coast of the continental USA and the Canadian ones I stayed in in Toronto and Grande Prairie, Alberta all have those twist-to-lock bolts, but *also* have a hinged metal device that replaces the old-fashioned chain. It is often difficult to engage because it has been installed with tight clearances but once snagged over the ball-ended spike on the door it will prevent the door opening more than an inch or so.
To break in past one of these you could either force the door to break the latch off, or you could cut through it with a cutting wheel or sawzall. A correctly proportioned pry-bar could also be used to deform the latch until it snapped I suppose.
None of these options would qualify as "just walking in unannounced" in my book.
Now I've never been to Las Vegas, so I don't know if their hotel room doors are fitted with what seems to this traveler to be a ubiquitous standard in the industry, but if they don't, why would anyone "hip" to security concerns stay there?
You are right that there is security theater here. I'm becoming more convinced by the minute that there were actors chewing the scenery on both sides of the check in desk.
Prenda lawyer pleads guilty to moneyshot honeypot scheme
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