Posts by Anonymous South African Coward

Cue Dr Evil pinky meme and "We promised, but we did not say when"........

"Bother" said Pooh as he was evicted most forcefully.

breakout irl with the excess blocks?

Skylab Redux.

Just brick all unsecured devices.

And keep on bricking them until the owners buy IoT things with proper security baked in.

Reminds me of "Macbeth does Windows95" by the Usenet Oracle.

The start of Skynet?

eish

Just stick the PC into the highest-rated explosion-proof enclosure, and that should prevent any nasties from breeding inside.

OTOH cooling will be a real problem. The unlucky technician who'll be required to service this PC, well...

All righty then.

Now get the Great Unwashed to update their 2-year old (if not older) IoT tat, and see where that will get you.

Better to brick all those old IoT tat for good and get them to get new IoT stuff that can be updated on a regular basis.

But that ain't gonna happen, the old stuff will remain, spewing out junk until it dies and get replaced by another cheap knockoff.

y'all need to go read up on "Superiority" by a Mr C. Clarke.

Sad to hear.

RIP.

It seems as if it is the taste of things to come.

Especially with crypto-malware - you get infected with one variant that encrypts your stuff, then demand payment. Then another cryptolocker comes along, kicks the original crypto off, and encrypts everything again, and demand payment...

Backups will be key.

That, and eternal vigilance, a tenpack of Rennies and a fridge/cupboard full of [insert your fave energy drink/stay-awake drink here].

Nowadays the "hold-the-button-in" trick won't work, because of ACPI, especially on a modern PC.

Goodness gracious me...

Nah, I'll rather prefer to have two (or three) 1920z1080 monitors instead of one YUUUUGE monitor.

Neigh neigh neigh

I don't like this.

Guess I'll have to move all my stuff over somewhere else.

Bah and humbug.

If I was president of a country, I would use wooden props (viewable from spaaaaaaaace) and good CGI to let the world believe I have an army to content with, and pressure them to escalate their weaponry upwards, thus making them waste their money on weapons, soldiers and armoury things whilst building my economy up.

Then making all things money go pear-shaped, buying out their soldiers etc, taking control of their countries that way.

Muhuhahahaha.

Nice way to start off your day - gandcrab on the one hand gobblin' wobblin' at your data, and now this...

Being sysadmin is fun sometimes.

"Mine's bigger and better than yours"...

By the way, which one will perform better - His Muskness's Heavy launcher or Allen's aeroplane in lifting heavy stuff?

One of the reasons why I tend to shun cloudy storage solutions - especially if you don't have redundant links.

Or the company is stingy with the budget and tries to get by on an el-cheapo home link.

Xiaomi Redmi 4A does it for me.

Recently got upgraded to Android Nougat (7.1) and have a slew of whizzkid features which I'll not use. Can't they make Android modular, so if you want a split-screen function, you just download the appropriate package? Keeping things lean and mean (and less battery-chomping as well).

I still have my old Huawei Mediapad T1 phablet, going strong despite a cracked screen.

Xiaomi is being used as a general day-to-day comms unit (whatsapp/telegram/email etc) whilst the Huawei is used for banking only.

Handset manufacturers will most probably start to collude and design handsets that expire after two years' use, no matter whether they're being used heavily or seldom.

If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns.

ergo

If you outlaw researchers, only criminals will "research" systems for loopholes, attack vectors and the such.

Clever move by the beancountery types.

Offload your data to somebody else, and get rid of your data centres (and its associated headaches etc).

Let your competition handle the load for you, and charge your users a pretty penny for data storage etc.

Moar profits. And if somebody (FBI etc) want access to data, they got more hurdles to clear.

And in other news, the Librarian was on his way to get one of these yellow banananananana phones.

There is one problem with all this.

At one stage your traffic have to pass through your ISP, or if you're using a VPN, somebody else's server which may, or may not, log what you're doing, what smut you're ogling and what bomb recipes you've been eyeballing.

Somebody edited their bootconfig in windows notepad, and truncated the file?