Posts by Mark 85

Re: Popping door access controlled doors is easier than you think ...

Exactly... why the hell a door system needs to be web-facing or even connected to a corporate LAN is beyond me. Same goes for such critters as HVAC.

If you are using a public free email service the Internet , I would automatically consider it compromised

FTFY

Re: Orwell would be happy

I think it means your last possibility.. no clue. Hardware definitely since it's in pieces... It's the "why" that's the hard part.

Rats... missed the irony. My apologies.

Re: and verify it

That's what we're discussing, I thought.. the database, etc for the domain registration. Nothing to do with cameras, or getting lost in the shuffle.

Re: April fool?

A quick Google and it appears it is indeed April Fool's. Nothing from MS, but this article is the oldest article indexed and it looks like others are picking up on it.

If this is the case, well done El Reg, have multiple cold ones ---------------->

Apparently, someone takes Google "very seriously" as rumor has it that a few Oompa Loompas lost their jobs over this. If it's true, I'd be willing to bet it wasn't anyone manglement.

There's two types of folks who seem to read El Reg and especially Dabbsy's articles.... those who are skeptical to the point of being paranoid, and those who are intensely curious. Try this rule of thumb for anything from any article you want to try: Do it on someone else's PC.

You probably could since that would be a different frequency than the command and control one used. Let the operator fly it and replace the drone feed with a porn flick should produce some interesting responses.

WhenI converted over to CFL's when they first came out, I kept what I had and bought some more. Then when I went to LED's I bought a case of them. I've sold all the incandescents on Craigslist at a profit in the last couple of months. I'm not sure why someone would want the incandescents but they did.

Re: "The star spins once every 1.2 seconds and the star it feasts on orbits it every 1.3 days."

Now if we just had some way off this rock that didn't take lifetimes to get anywhere near another star, let alone another galaxy.

Not to worry. We have our top men working on it. Top, Men.

Re: Miranda

Correct... the only "rights" in that are "lawyer up" and "shut up". Not in so many words, of course.

Re: A great article

When all is said and done, DevOps did one thing for me and it's best thing I've ever done... I retired. Completely, fully, never to set foot in that door again. And I did it in the middle of the DevOps kick off meeting at the half-way point in the BS.

I do pick up a bit of spot work/temp stuff, every now and then but it's work that I WANT to do and if it turns out to start sliding down the slope, I'm gone.

Not everyone can do this, I understand it full well, but a bit of luck, being of a certain age....

To quote Martin L. King: "Free at last, free at last!!! Oh Lord, I'm free at last.".

Re: Air gapped ?

If there's a gap between the submarine and the water, then something has gone very wrong I would have said...

If the Navy can have flying submarines then why can't we have flying cars?

Re: Will this be when there's a mandatory update for Windows 7?

I'd almost be willing to bet that on the last day of this shindig, they announce that "everyone is now updating to Windows10 via forced* update" with "no manual intervention required". It will be April 1st after all.

*Forced = no choice.. you're getting whether you want it or not.

Re: It makes perfect sense

Exactly. It smells like a trap. Be afraid Linux types. Be very afraid.

Since historically, MS has really paid little attention to what users want, for them to suddenly openly embrace Linux to appeal to sysadmins and Linux users is definitely troublesome. It would appear that they're trying to make Windows "more attractive" and allow more of us to say "sure.. install Windows 10".

And really... how many actually trust MS to play nice?

Follow the stories on ads and Windows10 for the future. It apparently throws ads when the screensaver comes on. So if you leave the computer running and go to bed, you being served ads... using your electric and your bandwidth.

Using Windows10 as the "state of the art" in ad serving, I'm surprised that the TV makers and cable companies haven't forced the TV to stay on 24 hours such that if you hit the "power off", it just goes into "ad mode" and shoves ads at the screen.

Re: "Former" - Exactly!

I would suspect that if given the F-35, they could fix it and make it work.

Re: Initial start condition error

taking more than a decade of gentle nurturing by responsible adults.

Oh.. there's the problem then... MS and "responsible adults"... somewhat of an oxymoron.

Re: Huh?

Pay phones? Like phone booths, phones on poles, etc.??? I haven't seen one of those here in the States in a long time.

Re: Yankee ingenuity at work.

But this is a really stupid need. The whole concept of "concealed carry" is that the gun is concealed.

Re: International Multisite Company - Keeping Documents away from Internet servers IMPOSSIBLE!

There's also dedicated lines from the telcos available to connect sites together. As long as marketing, sales, and certain other idiots in the hierarchy are allow net access but locked out from the design and development servers, it should be good.

Re: End of the War

Will it actually be a victory? Or just the realization that laws from the state will still be broken? Or the other way... privacy and security will be ensured by law but the agencies will just work around it?

It'll be a paper victory for either side at best.

Re: Bah!

I guess a bigger question of "liable to cause offence." is offensive to who? Lately, people take offense at the tiniest things. I can say with certainty that if you say "Good Morning" to 100 people, a fair percentage will take offense.

Well, that article did say "trusted seller" so he probably is a broker.

Re: It's to bad China isn't capable of make an Operating System of their own

Well, let's toss the OS challenge to China... The NORKS did it and you can't????