Bah!
"social justice"?
Since when does the internet provide social justice? The Internet is nothing if not a digital school playground. Anonymous bullying it serves up by the shovelful, but social justice is a bit thin on the ground.
Posts by Stevie
7282 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2008
Page:
- ← Prev
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 31
- 32
- 33
- 34
- 35
- 36
- 37
- 38
- 39
- 40
- 41
- 42
- 43
- 44
- 45
- 46
- 47
- 48
- 49
- 50
- 51
- 52
- 53
- 54
- 55
- 56
- 57
- 58
- 59
- 60
- 61
- 62
- 63
- 64
- 65
- 66
- 67
- 68
- 69
- 70
- 71
- 72
- 73
- 74
- 75
- 76
- 77
- 78
- 79
- 80
- 81
- 82
- 83
- 84
- 85
- 86
- 87
- 88
- 89
- 90
- 91
- 92
- 93
- 94
- 95
- 96
- 97
- 98
- 99
- 100
- 101
- 102
- 103
- 104
- 105
- 106
- 107
- 108
- 109
- 110
- 111
- 112
- 113
- 114
- 115
- 116
- 117
- 118
- 119
- 120
- 121
- 122
- 123
- 124
- 125
- 126
- 127
- 128
- 129
- 130
- 131
- 132
- 133
- 134
- 135
- 136
- 137
- 138
- 139
- 140
- 141
- 142
- 143
- 144
- 145
- 146
- Next →
Top boffins detail how to save the open internet from breaking itself
Apple's 'lappable' iPad Pro concept is far from laughable
Filet-O-Phish: Insecure NFC tag relics hidden under Maccas tables
Ransomware scum build weapon from JavaScript
Monday 20th June 2016 12:29 GMT
Bah!
Ah, javascriptkiddies, feel the Cobol professional programmers' outrage.
What, "Y2K=Cobol's Fault" is a completely different case?
8op
Nice one, El Reg. Easy target over facts every time for a lively batch of posts. With this and the CIA Encryption story you should get lots of traffic today.
Non-US encryption is 'theoretical,' claims CIA chief in backdoor debate
You Acer holes! PC maker leaks payment cards in e-store hack
Friday 17th June 2016 21:29 GMT
Bah!
I hope visa and co hound these stupid, stupid people for all the costs incurred.
How could anyone be so shit thick as to store the three digit security code when they've been told in as many words not to do so, and how could these stupid, stupid morons store any credit card information in an unencypted form?
Who in god's name is doing their IT?
It is beyond stupid. Radio waves take three hours to get from stupid to where these morons do business.
Acer deserve to have their accreditation with whatever merchanting system is handling their transactions rescinded so they'll be forced to use a third party that understands the importance of protecting people's personal financial instruments to transact any sales.
Good Christ Almighty on a crutch.
TAFE's troubled tech terminated
Dad of student slain in Paris terror massacre sues Google, Twitter, Facebook for their 'material support' of ISIS
Friday 17th June 2016 21:48 GMT
Bah!
Obviously lost in a cloud of grief and needing to lash out.
Can't do anything to the gunmen. Can't do anything to whatever deity he believes in (a signal property of any deity is that they are beyond range of a good and well-deserved kicking 100% of the time).
Can't go after the police. They did what they could.
Thirty years ago he'd be going after the phone company.
If you haven't raised a child you aren't in a position to judge the poor sod. I doubt he's fully sane right now. You could all more usefully pour your scorn on the ambulance chacing "legal advisors" who no doubt paid him a call as soon as humanly possible. That's where mine is going.
Should we teach our kids how to program humanity out of existence?
Friday 17th June 2016 12:43 GMT
Bah!
Bullseye again Dabbs.
A colleague asked how I got my start in DP seeing as how I have a degree in chemistry, so I explained how the economy in the UK in the late 70s and the flood of STEM graduates into it produced the need to broaden horizons if one were to continue eating. Only took me 18 months of interviewing all over England before I accepted that, by the way. It didn't help that my mad IR spectroscopy skills were being stolen by the new microprocessor tech Perkin Elmer were putting in their machines as I was collecting my diploma. Good times.
I did not "get" the logical thinking bit you speak of until an Old School Cobol couse made everyone slow the creative process down to - and I am not making this up - the single instruction per box on the flowchart.
And there it was. The magic oofle dust of understanding. The insight that computers aren't clever, just very fast at doing one dumb thing at a time. From that came good design, (because I look at things ver diffently now, when I used to try and understand "holistically") and the clawing of a decent career sans CS degree by doing the job better than anyone else who wanted it.
Judging by the recent crop of consultants we have in my shop, the CS degree is a hindrance, implanting daft ideas based on hardware/software politics rather than understanding.
YouTube sharecroppers start world’s most useless trade union
Friday 17th June 2016 12:29 GMT
Bah!
I assume that "Internetainerpreneur" is hipsterspeek for "twat".
It seems to me that all these complaints of minimal earnings would have more merit if the platform that enables the work in every way, shape and form were not free. That's not to suggest that the work has no merit or intrinsic worth of course. But it costs the interupperouterwosit nothing to host and deliver his content to the audience, who pay nothing to watch it.
Welcome to Generation I, who can discuss the pros and cons ov IPv6 intelligently but expect everything to be free.
Except their own labour of course.
Fly to Africa. Survive helicopter death flight to oil rig. Do no work for three weeks. Repeat
Chinese loan sharks seek salacious selfies as collateral
Austrians are most likely to bare all on beaches
Crims set up fake companies to hoard and sell IPv4 addresses
Patent trolls, innovation and Brexit: What the FT won't tell you
Lester Haines: RIP
Boffins decipher manual for 2,000-year-old Ancient Greek computer
Astroboffins' discovery gives search for early life a left hand. Or right
In obesity fight, UK’s heavy-handed soda tax beats US' watered-down warning
Monday 13th June 2016 15:46 GMT
Bah!
Wouldn't it be even more effective to start legislating controls on the soda formulation itself to reduce sugar content?
As for using tax monies, I recall great things were going to be done to shore-up the health services using ciggy tax money. Don't see much of that, probably because once tax money is collected it rarely goes where it is supposed to go.
Bridge tolls that are not used to keep bridges in good repair until one falls in the Hudson River, cars'n'all, 911-infracstructure tax levied on cell phone usage that actually buys boots for State Troopers and my personal favorite, retirement funds that are underfunded until they squeak, then whomever is currently in charge of lying and cheating loudly protesting that the situation is caused by those enrolled being "too greedy" in expecting a contractually agreed payout after 10, 20 or 30 years manning the oars.
You want people to stop drinking sugary soda, indoctrinate them when they are young not to drink the stuff. That's how you get people to do anything you want them to do do "voluntarily".
From my own childhood:
Dip, Don't Dazzle.
Remember to use the Green Cross Code.
Wear Something White At Night.
Decimal Five.
Think Once, Think Twice, Think Bike.
Hackers targeting SWIFT banks also targeted US moneymen: Hedge funds at risk
Tuesday 14th June 2016 15:47 GMT
Re: Bah!
I assume no such thing. The establishment of retirement funds of my own SHOULD say so loud and clear. I can't understand how you could read my rant and come away with that understanding.
But I DO expect those in power who are desperate to get everyone to follow my example - so that the social security that has been strip-mined for decades and now is "underfunded" as a result can be quietly retired without anyone important noticing - talk to those who don't know how the world works so they don't crash the markets and disincentivise private investment.
I want the politicians of "the business party" to start proving they can run the country instead of talking about doing so, and stop pissing in the pool.
Note: I don't care who actually runs the place. I don't mind paying taxes to support services I don't need (yet). I just want those who want the power to understand how the machine works before they dismantle it, rebuild it and find themselves with a bunch of cogs and wires left over.
Monday 13th June 2016 15:29 GMT
Bah!
Between Donald Trump's mouth, Hedge Fund market manipulation and this bunch of hacktards, my retirement funds are taking a lot of kicking of late.
I mean, you'd think that The Republicans, the so-called Business Party, would make sure its public facing morons at least have an understanding of world finance and the USA's economic engine so that they wouldn't destabilize money markets just by talking about them.
Why is it that when it comes to my retirement funds, I can't make money when there is a Republican at the wheel (or threatening to take the wheel)?
GWB (Wouldn't be prudent, no new taxes) - IRA and 401K hemorrhaging money. King George the Second: money actually safer if I'd have shoved it under a mattress then set fire to the mattress. Big Ron: Economy growth at height was running several percent lower than it was at height of The Great Depression. Funds established under his reign are now almost at initial investment levels (thanks to Clinton-era boom, then KGII bust).
Don't get me started on the financial damage I took every time a freshly elected-to-congress f*cking tea partier opened his or her know-nothing pie-hole about defaulting on our debt (without realizing that that is what they were doing when they spoke "knowledgeably" on the subject of raising the debt ceiling, of course).
And now: Le Hacktard Menace on top of A Nidiot on the Republican ticket. Magic.
See you on the bread line.
Welcome to the jumbo: Axl Rose tries to take a bite out of 'Fat Axl' internet meme
Wednesday 8th June 2016 13:14 GMT
Bah!
I only came here to see how long it would take for somone to talk about slimming down.
Third post.
I wish I could be there when that bloke hits late middle age and suddenly his eating habits take on a whole new dimension, exercise can become problematical and he'll have supposedly educated people claiming it's all his own fault.
Discussion point: would that comment have gotten so many upvotes if Axl Rose was a woman?
Forget Game of Thrones as Android ransomware infects TVs
FFS, Twitter. It's not that hard
Monday 13th June 2016 12:45 GMT
Bah!
The "block" is, I imagine, the defense against the shouty boor.
The model being "you have the right to speak. Everyone else reserves the right to not listen."
Of course, the law gets in the way of this philosophy occasionally, but it isn't a bad way of dealing with a problem until the blocked idiot tools up in the real world.
What you do about that I don't know.
It's not us, it's you: Boffins ditch supercomputers in lust for new materials
Bloke flogs $40 B&W printer on Craigslist, gets $12,000 legal bill
Tuesday 7th June 2016 15:02 GMT
Bah!
Could I just say that with regard to WWII you have to be in it to win it.
I seriously doubt any of the loudmouthed posturing done in these hallowed halls is being done by anyone who saw active service in WWII. I'll go further and state that the number who were alive during rationing who post here is likely to be measured in integers safely storable on a commodore pet.
So. Belt up the lorrayer as My grandmother used to say before the bad health brought about by a poor diet due mostly to wartime food shortages killed her. My Graddad had gone earlier, having survived the trenches of WWI and a landing at Anzio.
FBI tries again to get warrantless access to your browser history
Thursday 9th June 2016 02:20 GMT
Bah!
An enterprising webmaster could supply a service that would load content like "hamster dancing" or "two girls etc" with a meta reload such that one could load one's browser history with stomach-turning yet legal content while one slept (and hence had no need to view said content oneself) so that the FBI agent would have to rinse out their eyeballs with bleach, forgo meals for some time and spend days shaking off the earworms.
The downside is that the sidebars on google and amazon, and the ads in El Reg would become things of horror that would need adblocking.
Hobbits really did exist – and endured erectus shrinkage, say boffins
Dyfed-Powys Police fined for publicising pervs' particulars
French B&Q equivalent 'hacked' to offer visitors vulgar DIY tools
Sophos U-turns on lack of .bat file blocking after El Reg intervenes
Thursday 9th June 2016 12:51 GMT
Re: "An executable file type"
Also: if you set the executable bit on a unix script file it executes just like a command from the POV of the typist.
Which is how you can suborn unix servers by replacing binary stuff in /bin and /sbin with malicious kiddie scripts.
Came across a real world example in a discussion of hacker use cases some years ago. Hard to do if the SAs know even half their job, but who routinely checks the stuff in /bin to see if the content has changed against some baseline?
Get ready for Google's proprietary Android. It's coming – analyst
Oooooklahoma! Where the cops can stop and empty your bank cards – on just a hunch
Thursday 9th June 2016 02:13 GMT
Bah!
A national disgrace that should have been shut down years ago. Abused everywhere it is used.
An absolute disgrace.
And because it is used by State controlled police it will be almost impossible to eradicate even if the original laws are repealed. Some police officers are openly gleeful about the abuses they've put this law to. I saw one in print crowing that a traffic stop which resulted in no charge being filed netted his department enough to buy a top of the line automatic coffee making machine.
An absolute disgrace.
Calgary uni pays ransomware criminals $20k for its files back
Marauding monkey blacks out Kenya
Wednesday 8th June 2016 23:07 GMT
Re: Huh?
All it took was several tree branches, a staff so clueless they took down their only reactive power generatng station for maintenance during the month of peak reactive power demand, a staff so clueless that when told there were shorts being seen relied on (frozen) computreized instrumentation and said "eyewitnesses? Pshaw!", an IT staff so disconnected with the core business that they fluffed the attempt to bring the instrumentation back online until matters were well and truly out of claw and a staff so clueless they didn't factor their offlined power generation facility as a "level one failover" and so were "working the problem" from the wrong scenario in their playbook.
There is a wealth of detail in the official report. Failing to trim trees was just the first of many ways that that Ohio-based "power utility" failed to perform their duties with due dilligance.
But that's what happens when you fire all the old hands and grab yourself a new staff who haven't a clue.
Arguably, the monkey could have done the job better.
Our CompSci exam was full of 'typos', admits Scottish exam board
Mars One puts 100 Red Planet corpses colonists through fresh tests
Salesforce's data centre team 'fought' AWS cloud outsourcing
Winston Churchill glowers from Blighty's plastic fiver
Would YOU start a fire? TRAPPED in a new-build server farm
UCLA shooter: I killed my prof over code theft
Friday 3rd June 2016 19:34 GMT
Bah!
PhD students routinely have their work "stolen" in that if the work deserves publication as innovative in some way, the Professor's name is on the paper and the student who did the thinking and the lab work (I was a chemistry undergrad) is listed as an assistant.
That's the cost of the doctorate. It's somewhat like Network Marketing scams because the expectation is that you will in time become a professor and do it to some other bright young things, thereby being compensated for your "loss".
The scam comparison comes when the educational system is flooded with PhDs, industry (where the possibility of patents might soothe the seethe) doesn't need any more and the tips managed as a Barista don't come close to making up for not being known as the man (or woman) wot invented the BUI (Brainwave User Interface) or who is not in line for the Nobbly Prize for sorting out that whole World Peace thing on a napkin in the Uni coffee bar one rainy Thursday.
I wonder what the wife stole. His vital liquids? His self-esteem? The affections of the Kitten?
Page:
- ← Prev
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 31
- 32
- 33
- 34
- 35
- 36
- 37
- 38
- 39
- 40
- 41
- 42
- 43
- 44
- 45
- 46
- 47
- 48
- 49
- 50
- 51
- 52
- 53
- 54
- 55
- 56
- 57
- 58
- 59
- 60
- 61
- 62
- 63
- 64
- 65
- 66
- 67
- 68
- 69
- 70
- 71
- 72
- 73
- 74
- 75
- 76
- 77
- 78
- 79
- 80
- 81
- 82
- 83
- 84
- 85
- 86
- 87
- 88
- 89
- 90
- 91
- 92
- 93
- 94
- 95
- 96
- 97
- 98
- 99
- 100
- 101
- 102
- 103
- 104
- 105
- 106
- 107
- 108
- 109
- 110
- 111
- 112
- 113
- 114
- 115
- 116
- 117
- 118
- 119
- 120
- 121
- 122
- 123
- 124
- 125
- 126
- 127
- 128
- 129
- 130
- 131
- 132
- 133
- 134
- 135
- 136
- 137
- 138
- 139
- 140
- 141
- 142
- 143
- 144
- 145
- 146
- Next →
Biting the hand that feeds IT
