Posts by Dadmin 342 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2015
When I do a big chicken, or other poultry crime, I toss out the burner phone, I was using to confuse the chicken restaurant owner with some fancy Tetris moves, into a trash truck and let the FBI follow it to the dump. Then it's winner, winner, chicken dinner time. Am I right, folks!?
This is great news for people who suck at maths! So, let me get my maths in order... 1.5 millions users plus 3 million users is about 8 millions users and that's about 1% of the 80,000,000,000(that's 14 kagillion to you and me!) current users here in the colonies!
HAHA! It's fun to make bad maths, but my point is that it's really only about 1% of total available users/customers. That's one fucking slim "swath."
Because it's YOU that got it wrong. The "cloud" is a remote bunch of compute that must be accessible to more than one entity at a time, or a single task at a time. There's where you go off track and fail to grok this simple accept; IBM has put up a single-use system, on the regular Internet, remotely accessible, but lacking any other cloudy finery; it's not distributed, so only one developer at a time is getting to touch it. That's not a fucking cloud, that's a remotely connected, single host. It's a far from being a cloud as you can get before you just unplug it and call it a DESKTOP. Savvy? Probably not.
Get back to fixing that Exchange Server, I smell it backing up with loads of peoples personal pr0n files... off you go.
but mosty UK and Canada.
It will be President HRC, not President Tramp. There are far too many silent, and not so silent, people fully opposed to this fucking retard Tramp and his ill-favored look. Women, Hispanics, Blacks, LGBT community, etc. will be out in FORCE come October, just verifying what I already know. Yes, this is thing I know and will come to pass. That indeed our choice in HRC is not super great, but considering the alternative, we will have a very high voter turnout just to stop this tramp once and for all in November. I'll go out on a limb and say we might get up to 40% turnout. That's my only guess in this post.
The facts are these:
1. It doesn't matter who's the President. The congress, house and other factions produce the changes to our daily life in the USA, not the residing President. The President is almost a useless figurehead and merely helps their own party in some of the power struggles, but overall the message is clear; Whoever becomes the President of the USA will NOT have any real, immediate effect on our daily lives. NONE WHATSOEVER. The voices crying for "Making America <this/that> Again" are outright retarded. America is a very nice country to live in. Not as nice and fair as AUS, in my opinion, but right up there, disregarding those cunts at the NSA/CIA/FBI. I have almost zero after HS education, I think you chaps in the UK call them O-levels, and as far as A-levels go I have none. Get this though; I'm now at a top company doing fantastic work and gained a relatively new title of Devops guy. Telling me this country isn't great is like telling me my ice cream isn't as good as having a rock in a sugar cone. How can a country that "has yet to be great" allow someone like me to succeed, and succeed very well? 100% of those idiots crying about poor conditions did that to themselves. 100%. When you don't read any other book than the bible, expect to have shit jobs and no future in your waste of a life. Period.
B. I've not seen Donald Tramp's Birth Certificate! WHERE OH WHERE IS THIS GUY FROM?! I am wondering this. Let's see some papers, Donny?! Sound familiar? It will when it starts to become a daily talking point on the campaign trail. Again, mark my words, fellow nerds and geeks. I hear his family immigrated here from the fine country of Scotland, but the people of Scotland hate this prick more than I do. Wish we had that "wall" when this fucking prick's family thought it wise to leave Scotland. How did that golf course turn out for Don? No sale? Good. Again, the world already knows this asshole's track record. And that speaks for itself.
3. The Silent Majority. The people you see on TV, doing interviews and "speaking their mind" are all assholes who are out of work and have tons of time on their hands to polish their guns, read some bible quotes, then hit the protest or convention circuit. Personally, why can't these pricks take their guns onto the GOP Convention floor? Let them all shoot each other and solve many problems all at once? To reiterate; the Silent Majority has real work to do, we have jobs, real money to make, and we're not at all concerned one way or the other about who end's up as President of the USA because by all accounts it will be the person who is least evil. Not good, just less evil. Sort of like Google, but less effective in their own business.
4. Donny Tramp isn't a tory. He isn't a republican in the strict sense. He's a part-time republican who claims association when there is some power or money to grab. I've seen this idiot trying to make a name for himself for many, many years. Did you know he wrote an awful book that sold fairly well, but expressed zero new ideas or any relevant info other than to be a vanity book? Did you know he had a custom version of Monopoly built for him? And don't forget that fucking awful reality TV show he was the host of. Never watched 1 second of it, but I'll tell you it sucked to high heaven. This is a fact. ;) And his fucking stupid Tweets, and his insistence on seeing Obama's birth certificate just to cause trouble. Not ever caring for the outcome, just to cause some shit. He was a frequent guest on the very popular Howard Stern radio show from New York. Frequent guest! This isn't a tame show for your football moms, tory dads, and kids to listen to, it's a highly ribald show and as guest Trampy was all in for all sorts of wackiness, not any of which would be considered by a true uptight, conservative, grandpa. Like 99% of the GOP is. This guy is completely abortion friendly and by all accounts he does NOT have a $10B estate, probably not even near $5B. And lest we forget his "table of Tramp Products"; Tramp Water is just a label, Tramp Wine was not even his own brand (their website disavows any relation to him, they just have the same name), Tramp Steaks, purported to be sold from high-end and now out-of-business gadget seller The Sharper Image reported that they sold "almost no Tramp Steaks". Where does the "man" begin and the bullshit end? I can't see "him" from here.
Like I said, I've got better things to do that pay attention to the silly fucking campaign for becoming a leader in the category of Useless Figurehead of the middle of the Continent of America. Anyone who claims that Useless Figurehead is not a suitable description of the real world aspects of this low-paying, high-power job are fucked in the fucking head. Go get some help, if that is your case.
We can bitch about how governments the world over are interested in making their secret zero-day hoarding a "respectable method" for them to spy on everyone and everything, but when it comes down to brass tacks, a government built and supplied the Internet. Along with some help from the connectable universities of the day, but nonetheless a government built your Internet. Funny, I always wonder what they did to combat these so-call threat actors BEFORE there was a fucking Internet, but I digress. No, the problem is squarely on an unwritten requirement that everything be hooked up and online, people, coffee machines, dildos, you name it. And the problem with inviting everyone is that assholes also show up to take their share, or do the equivalent of throwing bricks though a store window, what the media refers to as computer hacking. Yet, somehow secure communications becomes the scapegoat instead of where the problem really lies; companies are more interested in shipping a product quickly, rather than making one that is truly secure, because of one thing; it costs more to do it properly and they can point to their government and claim they must do this willingly. Please fuck off now if you think like that.
Anyway, blame a government for providing an Internet, or a programer for making it useful, or fruity weirdos making it even more useful and available in your pocket, or the hackers throwing their electronic bricks through the web-store windows, or a "thoughtful government" merely wanting to "protect(spy on) their citizens" in the name of Terrorism™ and "Crime Prevention". Again, how they caught anyone doing a crime before 1992 is a mystery to them. Ultimately, you get what you pay for, and if your lame government wants to forego your privacy in the name of protection from some helpful group of religious idiots, no different than the idiots who inhabit the many tax-free churches in your citizen zone, it's a problem that will eventually fix itself when their bad ideas fail to come to fruition and you cast them out and replace them with similar, yet different assholes. I mean, good meaning, public-minded individuals who fight over the low-pay, high-bribe lifestyle of your "connected government" jobs. So, this is just China coming out in the open about their spying in the name of getting all those nasty Terrorists™ around every corner. And if they catch some crims, well, so much the better for their position. Nothing to see here, move along and fix the government you're stuck with, we already knew what China was up to when they came online.
Some people will want to build a nice thing, some other people can't, so they will tear down nice things, as that is their thing. It's a stupid thing, but there are lots of stupid people, so don't look surprised. Build a nice thing that is stupid people proof, and then we'll all be better off. In other words, fuck governments just encrypt and dump data everywhere and pray a proper group of sensible programmers reaches the consoles of the nearest quantum compute system, before your thoughtful government, or the clever people who can't seem to build anything valuable on their own, just break into someone else's.
Precisely! Plus, as a Linux/Unix/Solaris professional, I saw that article yesterday and yawned a great yawn, and took a nap while my servers ran without issue. Give me the "must have physical access, must be at the keyboard alone", Grub vuln rather than the thousands of available exploits on sad, GUI Windows hosts and I'm a happy admin! OS X is unix, but it's a desktop heavy user Unix, not a "data center, we're behind quite a few firewalls and in separate functional subnets, good luck getting in here!" Linux/Unix, so it seems to be attackable mostly via human engineering. The problem with Windows is that some idiots think it belongs in the data center, and also running web front ends, as if they are securable from remote exploit in any sense of the word. Windows and OS X are best kept on the desktop. There are already many more capable, securable Linux/Unix variants for data center use. Truth be told, when I see an organization that is Windows heavy in the data center and on their front-facing machines, I head the other way. There is nothing but easily fooled management that took the blue pill and repeats their mantra; no one ever got fired for purchasing Windows. no one ever got fired for purchasing Windows...
Windows on the front end, or anywhere in the data center, is bad enough, but then stack the ever popular "we don't have any dedicated computer security staff" on top and you have a breach waiting to happen. These companies always think they are too small, or don't present an interesting target to hackers. It most cases I'd say it's already too late for them, they are probably already hacked and won't find out for many months, or ever. Sounds like a good way to save using the "pay me now, or pay me later" terms, at least in the upfront cost of hiring a dedicated computer security staff member of some sort.
They don't make proper cloud software, merely a virtual machine OS that lives in other people's bigger ideas.
Super funny to see you chaps all discount this technology, merely because the buzz word it too new for you. When you settle down, and read some big boy books, you may get a job other than low-rung network or desktop admin types. When you become a real admin, a server admin, and develop some chops in software as well, you'll have already built clouds of sorts in your career. Look back on your work, did you ever work on more than 100 physical hosts, and cobble them together in some interoperable fashion, and plop some control systems, or perhaps a fancy dashboard display and monitoring to view the lot? Perhaps some script or the like to quickly bring up new systems without fuss? You're already a Cloud Engineer then. Stop chatting about here, and fix your fucking resume, guy!
If you have a "smartphone" or use the Internet, you are already using data in the "schmoud" as well as paying to access it and other services. I see what you're saying though; keep your personal data on your own hardware because it's a more solid option than trusting a company, that may or may not be here in 5 years, with that data.
Also, it was Xerox who invited the Steves and their crew to see Star Office, and eventually Xerox employees migrated to Apple to work with a company going somewhere, rather than trying to con business people into paying US$50K for a desktop publishing system that was not well received. Even now that seems a ridiculous price for nothing more than an electronic typewriter. Thanks for mentioning them as being a "tech leader" but they are an example of why most all of those dinosaurs you mention are gone today. They failed to chart their course, or look where the world was going.
This reminds me of the chaps who claim they never used Unix. I would happily ask them if they ever used the phone and that was that. Every telephone exchange at the time was a AT&T 5ESS, or some such switch, and they all run Unix. Don't rewrite history around here, some of us lived it.
You only need one pair of trousers, if you coat them with this hydrophobic paint system! Imagine dozens of pub crawl attendees, ladies too, standing in the nearby alley, pissing all over each others pants, the wall, parked cars, dumpsters, the cat, trash cans, sleeping homeless guy, another cat, etc.
Also, how much for a pair of those and a ticket to good old London town?
Unfortunately, the NRA is not that smart. Encryption might as well be classic greek architecture as far as that lot of bible-reading morons is concerned. And I do remember the limits on encryption being consider as "dangerous products in the wrong hands*" and I believe that was an abomination helped perpetrated by Bill Clinton and his great thinkers. I'm mostly a democrab, but even this latest administration has failed the US citizens by continued, unwarranted data spying, and other secret shit we won't find out for decades. How do we change this shit-thinking brought to us wholesale by the continued corporatization of this country? Both the crabs and the pubes are not equipped to rid themselves of the bullshit practice of bribery, referred to as lobbying, and all the backroom money it brings in. Not to mention the cushy high-paid jobs in the corporations paying for influence after their stint in office is done, and they have "played ball" with the criminals dressed in nice suits. Will my vote have more meaning when it arrives with US$6000 as a "lobbying offer" to my nearest creep, er I mean government representative? Why else would these bunch of crooks and assholes be fighting tooth and nail for low-paying government jobs unless there wasn't legalized bribery and offers for jobs that are not paying minimum wage? And that's where we come full circle to the hoards of poor, uneducated, minimum-wage dickheads who vote in these worthless millionaires like they'll somehow get a better job or some sweet tax break. It never happens, yet there's still plenty of idiots who eat up the rehtoric like any of it matters.
Let's be clear; whoever becomes the leader of your country, they will not have the immediate impact to your daily life that most noisy assholes claim. PM or President, they are figureheads working for an organization that SHOULD be a beneficial part of life for it's citizens, yet more often these days they are just the incumbents of a system geared to keep a couple of general classes of people in their place making products and spending money, and not questioning the spying.
*any non-US user
Then there's only microwave and satellites left! Totally cut off? I don't think so. So, let's say you can stop the undersea cables, satellite and microwave ground comms. What about dark fiber, what about bands of citizens making a mesh-net out of their consumer routing hardware? The cat's out of the bag. That cat is called TCP/IP and it's EVERYWHERE you want to be and where you don't want it to be. Nothing short of a Brute Squad FCC Enforcement Team on every corner will stop mesh-net and sneaker net.
Yes, but the real beauty is that Trump is a candidate that will fail and fail big. There's going to be a few people in the democrab party that are scared that this giant bag of farts with a squirrel on his head could win an election. The reality is that he is the PERFECT candidate for a democrab win in 2016. He is helping the continual self-destruction of the repubic party, and nothing will stop him from completely disrupting and eventually losing the office to his rivals. This is a funny sitcom that has come to life! All he needs to do now is make that idiot Ted Nugent his running mate and the deal is done! I can't stand most of what goes on in the two big parties, but the one waving the flag and claiming they are for less government while spying on all citizens and restricting already won freedoms sound like shitheads to me. Trump is their king. Of what I do not know. Aren't repubic-ians supposed to be money-makin' job-creators? Trump's holdings are mostly air, he tried every get-rich-quick trick to get some attention on his failing properties(reality show host, wrote a shitty book, some crappy board game), and any jobs he creates are in the hotel services industry making at or near minimum wage. What a "great" fucking leader he'll be! HA! If poor people who like to vote for rich people stop smoking crack for two minutes, this could all end in a bad way, but for sure this assmunch is going to cost the election for his party of Terrorists™ With Flags.
Even that sounds extreme! I'd protest that crap and get the dialogue going to get the law fixed, or at least updated for fair use and comedy purposes. I'm glad to live in a country where we can use at least some of our so-called free speech to entertaining effect. Hell, even that awful skeleton-criminal Rupert Murdoch has a whole "news" cable TV show running 24 hours to do nothing but tell us how bad those mean old democratic-anything are and how it's ruining our "culture" of guns and secret funding and not so secret bribery. It's a very funny show, if you get a chance to see it, it's called Fox News and even though the content originates in Australia, it's painted so red/white/blue that you'd think every day was the US Independence Day! Plus every single female on the show is a super-hot, sexy idiot! What's NOT to love!?
Speaking of having the shits, doesn't every dog in the world roll in every shit it finds on the ground? That's all I could think of when 'er vagisty was describing this mangy cur's pompous behaviour, royal or no. Still, this is no different than the new Terrorist™ laws that our cuntries [sic] are bandying about; "he spelled it 'crisis' so he must mean ISIS, that's Terry™ Talk© so lock up him up extra long until we get confessions and such, and also dump our NSA database, then delete the evidence you found and just give the Terrorist™ Flavoured summary. Job well done! Secret funding all around!"
You said the magic phrase; Gravy Train. This is precisely why I refuse to purchase antivirus software; if it really worked there would be no more malware because their product would actually secure my system throughout. Companies like Symantec badly need to have new malware being produced for their cycle of fear=profit to continue. Afraid of something? Buy our anti-somthing! Guarenteed to thwart Terrorists™, Polar Bears and Tiger attacks in the greater London area!
Same thing with the UK and US secret spy operations; if they actually worked then we'd know about it. It simple doesn't work, and can never work, but it generates billions upon billions of dollars for everyone involved in the scam, er I mean the "Finding and prosecuting of Terrorists™". Because Fear == Profit and or massive secret funding. And who wouldn't love to accept and abuse some nice massive secret funding? It makes me hard just thinking about massive secret funding! When you walk about, fearful of Terrorists™ around ever corner, that means money to people and organizations who can use your fear to make you purchase all sorts of unnecessary weaponry and camera systems for your house and person, but it get better. You get to have your sweet tax dollars and pounds go back into raping your privacy! Oh, now I'm almost finished. Just a bit more... Terrorists™!!1! Ahhhh. I need a smoke, guys...
Check the wikipedia link above, I was as clueless about this as anyone and I've heard most all forms of hacking. It has nothing to do with USB, or wifi, or bluetooth, rather the malware can use those for storage or for additional vectors. The cute thing about this new Air Gap covert communications channel is that it's relying on high frequency sounds emenating from the speaker for a return channel, and the open mic to provide the send channel to the hacked device. Apparently it can work up to 60' away. You just need some air for the sounds to travel in and another device capable of doing the dirty work nearby, and for the victim to not put a dummy plug into the mic-in or headphone ports. Unless this naughty santa app is using this uber sophisticated comm setup, me thinks our writer may be overusing this term. :)
I was thinking it had to with breaking into wifi-only devices for some reason, but this is much more interesting. It looks like these commhack boffins are also capable of using a standard computer's internal systems bus to generate cellphone-capable frequencies, again all without extra communications kit onboard.
Kind of reminds me of an older Casio(?) watch that had a light sensor in it and you could feed the watch data via flashing light coming out of the monitor. Also how the Nintendo Duck Hunt light gun worked via feedback from the monitor. Light and sound hacking, I love it! Hope my young user has not downloaded this naughty santa app! Good time of year for another talk about online safety.
Happy Holiday Hacking!
Precisely. Nor do you need an unguarded USB port. Any seemingly secure wifi access point, or even hardwired Ethernet can be breached with proximity access, the correct gear, and a determined foe. I'm assuming they are using Windows because they already have systems which talk to it and must consider them to be secure, at least in a physical access sense. And the network protocols must be a mix of TCP/IP, Windows specific, all further customized and then secured similar to SSL or another custom encryption method.
In my scenario; the threat actor lands a tiny robot, or has the nearest operative plant a device on or near the ship, avoid detection, and then penetrate the network. Just like that. Well, then you have to either siphon off your sweet payload, or do MITM or other such network trickery, but you get the idea.
You would need point to point, conduit enclosed, fiber optic cables for your ship network to be more secure, plus change the console password from password1 to something else. HAHA, but seriously, it's not out of the question that this kind of network can be successfully attacked in some way, with physical access of course.
That's exactly what happened; the USA was hot to beat the Russians into space, and ultimately the moon, so it was easy to get all the funding needed to perform this herculean feat. Once all the fuss was over, and the ticker tape swept up out of the streets, most everyone turned their attention back to our little planet and the goings on closer to ground. Look at what has happened with the Space Shuttle; many successes, but we lost two craft over the years and the funding dries up, and people lose sight of the many many great technologies and advances in material and life sciences it brings. If it's not a money generating or otherwise popular endeavor then it's hard to get clueless government people to send money to fund something worthwhile, yet not immediately profitable. Advanced medicines, metals, computer technology, and Tang are all worth it to me. Money better spent for the gain in knowledge, rather than on more spy technology to "catch" Terrorists™.
I'm an oldster, so Apollo 11 happened when I was five. My first "I love science" moment was when I saw the moon landing on TV, I ran out to the front yard to see if I could spot any of the astronauts on the moon. Never mind I had no telescope or binoculars, I HAD to go check! From then on I craved all the latest science and technologies, and it ultimately led me to the computer science field. You know the rest.
Three cheers for Tim Peake! Hip hip hooray!^3
Tell that to the DMV and see if they register your stupid monster truck next season? As with guns or monster trucks, or the bigger drones; they are NOT toys and stupid assholes should be tested before they are provided with the remote, or the keys, or the 69-round magazines for their jollies to begin. When your "freedom" starts landing in my fucking yard, or crashing though crowds of people because someone can't control their anger or stupidity, then you need to be registered and educated. End of story, idiot.
Personally, I say take all the guns away from the uneducated, civilian idiots and replace them with explosive drones and let them all fly them into each other and upgrade the gene pool. Besides, if you think you need a gun for protection and you're not at least military or police level trained, then I have a word for your type; pussy. End of another story. Go tell it to your parole officer, dickheads. I piss on gun-nut fucks.
Considering that the very citizens they spy on are the people who ultimately foot the bill on these projects, GCHQ should consider open sourcing all of their in-house built software, current or retired. The NSA helped build the SELinux core security systems, and I for one avoid it like the virus that it is. Still, that was software I helped pay for with my tax dollars and it makes sense to release it to the wild. Information must be set free, or at least made available to the people who helped fund it. Release it sooner, or let a Ed Snow [sic] release it later. Either way I'm fine with. Or let China "open source" whatever it is they steal from other governments and companies to boost their "tech skills". It only took them 40 years to steal enough data to make a moon landing possible. In another 40 years they'll invent the Internet again. Looking forward to that. Happy Christmas to all my pagan minions!
the best astronaut corpse possible!
Sadly, the median US salary is ~$27K?! Surely, you mean £27K UK pounds/quids/shillerings/BBC Doctor Who Gallifreian Space Credits? Wow, that's just awful.
Here's a tip if you're making this lowly sum; read a book other than the bible! HAHA! You poor dopes!
Pretty clever to replace the air in the drive with another gas. It reminds me of the availability of nitrogen for car tires, or tyres, if you prefer. The N eliminates water vapor, although don't ask me how, and reduces the fluctuation of pressure when the temperature changes. Although I could no longer pump them up at home, it was a reasonable tradeoff with less maintenance overall. I can imagine with He filled drives you get slightly faster internal parts movement, and probably other advantages, and the higher capacity on the spinning rust bits due to reduced/eliminated oxidation. Then again, this is just like 4K TVs; you can get them now, or wait until 8K or 16K or 32K comes out. Depends on your need and budget. Fascinating choice of gases though. Must check out more. Thanks, El Reg!
Vanilla ice cream outsells all other ice creams during the cold holiday season! The Vanilla Ice Cream Council said so, so it MUST be true!
If your silly business uses only MS products, then that's what you're going to get, because they can't support more than one awful OS at a time because their collective brain may start to hurt!
When your business grows up to be a big boy business, and can afford real admins, THEN you can get a Mac, or a PC, or a Linux desktop and any of those will be supported by real desktop admins, not some rubber-desktop johnny with a Bill Gates complex.
Gamer Ransomware?! HAHA! Did you guys just make this up? This sounds just really really stupid. Do I need to get "afraid really quick" that my non-networked Sega Dreamcast is going to get hacked and my progress in Ooga Booga will get encrypted? Wow, colour me unimpressed, but I'm not buying into the "ransomware" hype. Next?!
No offense to you, fellow commentatortot, but I just got finished doing a gig with this major anus who complained about his stupid PC the entire year, that and everyday at about 10:30am the network would hiccup and it got him EVERY SINGLE TIME. What a dumbass! He "had to have" three flat screens for his "work" but failed to produce on his big project, despite the enormous screen real estate. He was okay at producing some minor code and scripts, and generally didn't fuck up the majority of the time, but I just have to laugh at "IT professionals" who claim they can do work on a single Wyse terminal, but still couldn't get shit done with three fucking flat screen monitors! I gave him my monitor and had no trouble meeting my project deadlines on a single Macbook Pro with a measly 15" screen. Unless you're producing videos, or running the NOC dashboard, or do a whopping great amount of writing, then having more monitors is a waste of everybody's time and money. Stop asking for upgrades you don't need, just because the guy in the other cube is a raging anus who somehow can't get through the day without the most powerful laptop and the most screens and keyboards attached to same.
Fact: upgraded kit does not make a good admin a wizard, it's what you do with almost nothing that makes you the wizard. Also not leaning on google search for each and every one of your lame "solutions" is a sign of a true wizard. Google is where IT shitheads look first
And so you should! That device belongs to you, not leashed [sic] from the manufacture with only their one OS implementation to feed you their own brand of crap and ads. Every device should have alternate OSes available for it. Why do you think the RPi is so popular? It's a general purpose kit with great specs and a tiny price and footprint and it runs dozens of useful OSes on it. End of story. There is no RaspberryPi Corporation hell-bent on driving their numbers up, UP, and UP! It's how old-timey business still work today; if we ain't growin', if we aren't boosting our numbers in a generally upwards direction and any cost, then we are dead in the water. It's a foolish way of doing things so you can equate bad customer service and high employee turnover into a "good thing" when viewed from the lemming's perch of your nearby scam-market, er, I mean stock market. What kind of company's products do you want, all products being equal? You want the "up the ladder fast as we can, get our growth up, fuck you Mr. Customer if you get in our way!" company, or the one that gives two shits about their customers and making a great product that people can do with whatever they please, even sticking them in a blender to chop up? The kind of company that allows freedom in their own hardware or products usage. I'm a long-time Apple user, but when I saw the "Apple Store" arrive, I knew the days of my mostly Mac home production systems were on the decline. And with a real computer costing anywhere from $5 to $45 for the main board, why do I want to lock myself down to a single company as my vendor for my home computing needs? I have the Intel boxen, and these tiny ARM boxen, I don't need some upity software house claiming permanent, non-revokable ownership of their crap software on a piece of hardware I own outright. Fuck a ELUA, reading them and abiding by them is for muggles. End of story.
Also, if you only use one type of OS, keep your fucking keyboard on standby, friends. I have used every kind of system, with every kind of OS and many on a daily basis. Have you used Motif on an SGI IRIX box lately? I have one in my kitchen. Do you have a MacOS 7 installer disk set lying around, or perhaps 4.5? Ever repurpose a pizza box Intel server into a desktop system running the very awful Windows 2000 as a gaming box? Ever boot a DEC PDP/11-34 from the front panel and a cold start? I've used OpenWindows, Motif, any Windows post W95, every MacOS ever (yes, I have 1.0, and 2.x and every flavor still runnable on old original hardware), real Unix (Solaris w/OpenWin and JDS, AIX, HP/UX, FreeBSD w/o desktop), so many different Linux distros that your head would spin, and I have this to say about it; THEY ALL SUCK IN SOME WAY, and it's up to you to make it work, or sit and bitch about it because you lack the skills to wade through the GUI. When you grow up you can do everything from the command line, and THEN, and only then can you chime in with your silly; "my OS can beat up your OS" comment. WAIT FOR IT! and go
They deserve all the ill-will this hack generates and then-some. They still try and play the "we'll give you a 5% discount for joining our next data breach" game at the checkout. Should have done the security up front, instead of out the ass-end. Poor show all 'round.
Dear Target,
Why don't you just give every fucking customer a 5% discount, and stop trying to make us a part of your next data breach? No. Well I have many other shopping options.
-An actual customer
But it gets even better, my friend. When you host a giant Internet pipe for a mass of users, what's to stop you from caching a shit-ton of data and double, triple, etc. billing on that same data being redelivered to your "customers", even though you did not have to fetch it from the real Internet again? Sounds like a good idea for a proxy and content cache, or a misuse of your services and fraudulent billing of cached data as fresh data?
I thought it was a concatenation of Dark and Node, Dark-Node. Like my butthole, it's dark, and node-like, and no one looking for illegal goods should be shopping in there, or anywhere near there, although some of my best scripts fall out of my ass, from time to time.
Salesman schmalesman, he helped knock down the house that Gates built. He added zero value to the company and overall was a loud figurehead that mainly talked a bunch and delivered nothing. This is the reason a more competent CEO is at the helm today, so Gates and his shares can rest easy, without the threat of failed acquisitions and shiny ideas for apps that never will be, and flying chairs.
Personally, as a longtime Unix/Linux only admin, I welcome this SatNad and his goal of turning Microsoft into a modern company that can co-exist with open sores and other primarily technical endeavors. And without having to strong-arm all the vendors and other companies, or resorting to an acquisition merely to thwart a better product from seeing the light of day, or tying their components so closely together that honest competition is thwarted. I think the xbox was the last thing that impressed me about this company, other than that it's merely some cheap tools to do a marginal job, which is what most enterprises deserve.
There is a place for Windows, no not on my desktop, but in little, safely run virtual machines to make the windev folks stop complaining and get whatever it is they do with their WindowsGUI in an enterprise delivered. As long as I don't have to do anything other than spit out WinVMs into my dirty cloud, then we'll all be better off. Use more Windows, it makes me more valuable when there a lot of windows admins crawling about and doing their "patching Tuesdays" and other nonsense. And when you grow up, you can be a real server admin, like your old dad here. HA! Just funning' you, me old son. Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for St. Hubbins Day!
The people of <insert any middle east country here>stan have to dress up their women in giant tarps so they can avoid being raped constantly. And this is in a wacked-out country which is only church+state. Religion, so full of pride and bullshit all at once.
Thanks to El Reg for hipping me to the squirrel-threat-actors!
For the NSA: The squirrels are coming for you. They're coming...
I'm going to wait for the made-for-TV movie of the week on this one before I decide. I've seen plenty of dead wood trying to play the "I'm impossible to replace because of all the documentation I keep in my head" game and play it pretty well. And it is a game. If you're good at what you do, you can document it and share it with others because you're just going to learn more anyway. Let the newbies run your latest creation, move on to the next. If you suck and can barely come up with lucid ideas and concepts, hide it well and never try and write it down as no one cares, and really it would only be embarrassing. When you're good, you're valuable. No cheap replacements can ever threaten you, because you make the shit happen in the big boy data center. So, do fear Indian IT replacements, if you suck at IT. Perhaps being the CEO of a smoothie stand is more your cup of tea?
And take a look at your surroundings. Companies who favor IT staff have lots of need for IT staff and lots of projects and data centers to manage. Companies who sell soda, or make dolls, or run fun parks are not going to be places for real IT wizards to shine. This is a fact. You can claim their high-tech manufacturing, or their corp web pages as places for an IT person to excel at, but you'd be wrong. Any of those things are easily parceled out to remote, cheap third parties to build/maintain/support.
That is a marginal example. Consider that modern communication, financial transactions down to the level of you at an ATM or POS system, satellite comms, navigation systems for all sorts of craft doing business or just flying and sailing about, and a host of other systems all dependent on the time being accurate for normal operations, and more importantly, that other systems they communicate with or depend on using the exact same time as a reference. This is not the Y2K, my time is missing some extra most-signifcant bits, this is; we just did a transaction but you are showing a different time; abort, retry, ignore, help, what is this thing you hu-mans call kissing? Stock trading is a mildly useful, but nonetheless uninteresting example, as most stock trading is nothing more than what other lemmings do with their bits of value. How about the aircraft your taking your holiday in now has to be manually landed because the time of the ground-station is off or GPS time is not matching aircraft computer system time, as an example? Or, your xmas gifts are not being delivered because the credit card transactions were off in time and the system has to be shut down for a day during the busy holiday season for a software eval and the failover system uses the same time reference? Time is pretty important to everyday commerce, communications, and shipping, just to name a few.
A certification is a piece of paper, nothing more. Real knowledge comes from actually deploying the technology and working on it first hand in a big boy data center. You start in desktop or networking as a wireboy flunky, then move your ass up into servers and advanced tech, or programming, etc. Real knowledge that makes you actually valuable. Not a bit of tat cert from some bygone "authority" more interested in your $2500US and checking some boxes on your quiz. Any company that requires you to be certified is a place you do not want to work at, if you love technology and your sanity. It's a red flag that no one there has any idea what you are supposed to know, and they have no idea how to qualify applicants for their own IT position.
Getting proper senior level knowledge does not come from a book, unless that book is also part of your day to day experience working in a real data center, on real machines, or producing a similar environment in your own home lab. Having a cert with no real world experience means nothing, and having real world experience alone is enough to get to the senior levels. Fact.
It's like the assholes I meet in tech who run to google search every single solution they need, rather than craft it themselves using only man pages, the first party docs, and the software/hardware itself. If you can't get it running with those three things, no fucking piece of paper is going to save you. Ever. Give up your IT dream and get a hotdog cart or something else more your aptitude.
This is no different than any religion trying to bilk idiots, I mean believers, out of monies for an unknown solution to a problem they could solve on their own. In this case the FCC must be pretty pissed, because unlike the scam-failth-support, these scam-tech-support folks probably pay taxes on their brand of snake oil.
"As a tech journo I’ve seen more awful tech ads than any five people reading this"
And I thank you for enduring that! I hate these conferences, and do most other purely technical folks, but I find it very entertaining to hear about the goings on there. I guess I'm really interested in the whole of the computing world, and being able to choose from a variety of different skills and offerings from the open sores community and their corporate counterparts makes it fun to work in. I'm not even a windows admin by trade, though I recently had a go around with a funny little Server 2012Rsomthing VM and a 2008 one too, and remember why I chose the path of the command line and what are now referred to as cloudy dev ops, over a more desktop/gui/patching/praying role. So, thanks for going to that thing and telling us a good story! This new MS has me interested in what they are doing next, rather than hoping for a speedy death to their OS. I used to be a big MS detractor, but then I got the original xbox and found they can do some things cool, as can Apple do some things awkwardly; remember the Newton or the Apple III? It's hard to get a product to be useful, cool, desirable, etc. I guess they are trying to get that feeling back. Good luck!
It still has four USB slots in there for other crap both wired and wireless, as well as the aforementioned screen of touching. A tiny keyboard for that DEC VT100 look, and away you go! Just make the keys in the same shape as a blackberry and viola! You get sued!
I almost plopped down some change for one of those new super tiny Arduino boards at the local electronics shop, about one inch square with tiny headers to stack them up; processor/battery board + USB/something|other + holy breadboard + the smallest standoffs I've ever seen in my life, for about US$40. But then I thought, not yet, you've not finished your pi projects strewn about the kitchen table! We'll get the tinyduino next season. Looks like fun kit.
Also, I'm noticing that hot glue is semi-conductive. I seem it be getting some capacitance on my meter of voltaging on set glue, so fun times for the hot glue weirdos and electronics!
Also there is GPS navigation, so harder to jam that. Seriously, what would they do if you just launched a box of pills and hash cookies from a trebuchet into the prison yard? Or a homing pigeon loaded with contraband pr0n on microfiche? Holy crap, this sounds like a challenge to me!
The only real xyz-axis solution is that all prisoners shall be tied up with piano wire, then put into small, electric, cyclone-fence cages, while armies of fake drones drop decoy contraband upon the yard like leaves in autumn.
Two methods for identifying you by hardware ownership, behind a NAT, are: your hardware MAC address, and a profile of your cookies from your browsers, gathered in zero days and ISP bulk traffic slurping. And, of course, your Government Approved Spy Firmware updates you may not have known you requested yet, phoning home in the dead of night to tattle on you to the town fucking council about your secret habits. Citizen, use the convenience of the Internet at your own peril. You're being tracked in real time.
Nice!
I also use this storage strategy, and as far as I can tell the "company" that is currently keeping track of my personal data has not; gone out of business, sold my data to a "more-evil" vendor, lost it, got it stolen by Ukrainian script-kidniks, accidentally erased it, gave a copy to the government for "safe keeping", eaten it, eaten it then crapped it out then tried to put it back on a storage device, dropped it on the data center floor and had it get caught underneath a rack and the guy with the rack keys is at lunch and ... you see what I mean.
HAHA! Tell us your thoughts when you work at a company that has offices in more than one country, THEN you'll understand how fucking retarded your comment is. As for giving a shit, you apparently do, as you bothered to read the comments and crap out one of your own. Good work, Sir Hypocrite!
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They are all like that, SaltStack too. The software builds and releases are great, but the online documentation is an afterthought at best and a Swiss cheese party more than likely. As with many of the open sores projects the docs are best looked at via a man page. Just trying to get a working playtime chef env was a trial, and they corral you through their online recipe site, then hide parts of the demo software in there so you have to register. SaltStack is pretty fucking easy to get going, in my opinion. Chef, not so much, but I am learning it for a new job, so if I get that; Chef's going in my sack, if not; goodbyeeeeeeeee.
This is just the way of things. Crappy, highly-exspensivily-supported-enterprisy-call-in-for-steve-from-new-delhi type software is a middle-tier managers wet dream. No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft, but they should have been. Why think of a great solution, or bother to hire those awful expensive admins who always talk back because they know their shit, when you can let some other douche pay and handle it, and you can get back to your meetings, mochas, and minecraft? The path of least thinking is usually the way to go when you have someone else's funds to bargain with. This is the way of the big enterprise; pay-for-support for free software delivered by the cheapest admins money can buy. Security? What's that? Sounds more expensive, we aren't a target, so lets forgo that and get a virus scanner for my manager desktop and anything that begins with "cloud".
Typical vagaries designed to direct your attention away from what they can do. This "never look at your browsing history" is complete and utter bullshit. What they mean to say, and won't, is; "We won't break into your home computer, without probable cause anyway, to grab your browser/search history, when we can fully recreated it from other data we steal, I mean; gather with lawful need." THIS is what is cleverly missing from their narrative.
I thought it was meant to receive and render only, using an array/matrix of receiver/sensor/antennas, if you will. And not a system with both the source signal and the receiver matrix as one unit. Consider the hotspot as the source of the signal, much like a very bright lamp with no soft diffusion glass, just a bright signal. So you place a receiver matrix on the side of the building and collect the signals en mass of the transmitting router and then pick through the signals that are reflected or otherwise altered by objects blocking the source. My only question would be; what if you moved the router to the wall next to the "sensor wall"? Will the antenna matrix still be able to pick out the objects via reflection when the source is in-between, or does it blind it? And what about Rimmer? How does Hard Light Hologram tech work? Is the Light Bee just a display device and requires a connection to Holly/Hilly? And what about an Apple Watch face of Hilly? Why can't I get one of those? This future sucks.
True. I have AT&T now and can't wait to rid myself of them, but then I don't like Verizon either and the lower tier vendors reduce my coverage and other choices. I think getting rid of my Dish Network dish will be much easier than divorcing from AT&T. I already have a whopping great local disk of many many shows and movies, plus music and pics will be migrated there: Raspi OpenELEC/Kodi for display with a dedicated Raspi/NFS share. Very nice, and it's keeping me from emptying my DVR! So, good to go there. But I digress.
Where were we? Oh yes, sammy. Well, I did have a sammy break, but my service is with the carrier, and it had insurance, so after a little deductible I've got a refurbed S4 and no complaints. But, again with most sealed-battery devices; what's to service? You're battery dies, throw it away. When you start expecting "great service" on throw away devices, you're heading for misery.
These are steps in the correct direction! I'd say just cut off the US from your Internet and be done with our nonsense. What the hell does our Internet provide that you can't provide on your own Internet, from your own country, under your own rules? Facebook? Instagrandpa? Tweeters? Youporn? The US is not the Internet anymore. It ceased to be the Internet in 1992, but no one was paying attention, so let me clarify that: you don't need to get in bed with spies to have a nice web page. Stick to your principles and also stop spying on your own citizens in the same manner, GCHQ. Thanks. Pricks.
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