Proportional response?
Oh, I know - have the NSA hack the Russian Democratic National Committee!
No, wait ... what?
Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
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US govt mulls DNC hack
Hungarian bug-hunters spot 130,000 vulnerable Avtech vid systems on Shodan
Sckipio touts fibre-like symmetrical G.fast kit
'Facebook and eBay need to be subject to greater scrutiny' - Margaret Hodge
Nuke plant has been hacked, says Atomic Energy Agency director
Tuesday 11th October 2016 16:55 GMT
Re: Not a surprise
"As a fully paid up member of the Bavarian Illuminati..."
Nice try... but I have it on good authority that the world is run by The Authorised. You've all seen the signs saying 'authorised personnel only' and the like, haven't you? I think I even know where their secret headquarter is.
But seriously, book tip: Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum
Astronauts on long-haul space flights risk getting 'space brains'
Yahoo! spymasters! patent! biometric! online! ad! tracking! IRL!
Samsung halts production of Galaxy Note 7
Adventures in (re) naming your business: Fire up the 4-syllable random name generator
Facebook pays, er, nope, gets £11m credit from UK taxman HMRC...
Hubble telescope spies massive 'cannonballs' of fire from dying star
UK will build new nuclear bomb subs, says Defence Secretary
Friday 7th October 2016 06:34 GMT
Re: Kim Jong Un would rather not die
Yup. It's crazy in itself, straining the limits of ethics and morals - but nuclear deterrent actually works. Maybe because it's mainly directed at, well, crazy people. Because guys like Stalin, the Kims, etc don't want do die. They want to live forever. And if you can assure them that you will get them personally, they won't push you over the edge.
In a sick way, nukes are somehow democratic weapons - there is no " safe behind lines" anymore.
Friday 7th October 2016 05:16 GMT
Re: Cost-effective
Mmh. Doubtful. Unless your potential adversary is nice enough to let you set up your ABMs conveniently close to his ICBM launch sites, you'll need a lot of ABMs to even have a slim chance to take down a few ICBMs. MIRVs, SSBNs, SSBNs launching IMBMs with MIRVs - the acronyms alone are problematic.
Invasion of the virus-addled lightbulbs (and other banana stories)
Friday 7th October 2016 15:17 GMT
Re: Third time (un)lucky?
We are interrupting this thread for an important message from The Toast Marketing Board.
Have you had your toast today?
Y'know that ridiculously expensive Oculus Rift? Yeah, it just got worse
Friday 7th October 2016 10:03 GMT
Re: This articule is pure speculative opinion = meaningless
"For the record, the Nazis didn't build walls to keep people out, ...
Yes, they did. Westwall, Ostwall, Siegfriedlinie, ... didn't work, though.
"... but the Soviets built them to keep people in."
Well, if you mean the Berlin Wall, the official reason was to keep people out ("Antifschistischer Schutzwall"), but yes, the idea behind it was to keep people in. Didn't really work, though.
The original big-wall-to-keep-people-out, the Great Wall of China, didn't work either. Because thry didn't pay the guards guarding the gates properly.
Reseller offered $$$ for old tech gear – then stiffed thousands with suddenly lower quotes
Never explain, never apologize: Microsoft silent on Outlook.com email server grief
Verizon! 'wants! a! discount!'
Friday 7th October 2016 09:02 GMT
I've posted this already in another thread, but why doesn't the NSA simply buy Yahoo! and run it itself? They could even expand it to offer cloud services.
They have the money, they have the technical expertise - actually, they would probably actually improve Yahoo!'s services and performance.
Apparently the average computer user doesn't give a fuck about beeing snooped, slurped and data mined to the hilt anyway, so why not be straightforward about it.
Internet of pills plan calls for drugs to tell you when to take them
Killer Hurricane Matthew threatens to wreck Kennedy Space Center
'My REPLACEMENT Samsung Galaxy Note 7 blew up on plane'
Friday 7th October 2016 04:54 GMT
"I'll be standing in a body scanner watching my elecronics getting put back into my carryon wonderig where we all went wrong."
Well, some are of the opinion that we've all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some say that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
Boy, 12, gets €100k bill from Google after confusing Adwords with Adsense
Thursday 6th October 2016 14:00 GMT
Re: Twelve =/= teen
Correct. According to the Oxford Dictionary, a teenager is a person aged between 13 and 19 years. Which does puzzle me. Why 13? You'd think it'd be any age that is expressed as a two-digit number starting with "1" because it's derived from "ten" in some way or other.
"Etymology - the discipline that conclusively proves that your intuitive explanation is thorougly wrong." -- Harry Rowohlt
Brainier Salesforce CRM might find customers to be slow learners
Today's fruitless cash-chuck
Thursday 6th October 2016 13:36 GMT
1 - "UK organisations doubled their information security budgets last year..." (From the linked pwc page.) Yes, but what exactly was the money spent on?
2 - Fruitless? Not for the purveyors of "security".
3 - Hypothetically, what were my chances of sucess if I make a sleek, shiny box with a couple of antennas and lots of blinkenlights and sell it as a device that projects an invisible, undetectable force field that shields data centres against cybercrime?
Mac malware lies in wait for YOU to start a vid sesh...
Citizens don't trust UK.GOV with their data
Early indications show UK favouring 'hard Brexit', says expert
Thursday 6th October 2016 11:07 GMT
Re: "how we label our food"
"Any change in labelling law to accommodate de-metrification will probably be Monsanto-friendly."
Not to worry. Monsanto is being bought by Bayer right now.
If someone can translate Salesforce's $700m cool Krux plan into English, we'd be really grateful
Microsoft disbands Band band – and there'll be no version 3
Google's home tat falls flat as a soufflé – but look out Android makers
Thursday 6th October 2016 09:47 GMT
So? You can easily spend a hundred times £120 (and more) on "a watch which doesn't know how many days are in a month", so what's your point?
British trio win Nobel prize for physics
True man-in-the-middle: Transmitting logins through the human body
Amazon to hire 20,000 seasonal workers in UK
Google un-clogs Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery downloads
Samsung gobbles Siri maker
Chap cuffed after treating commuters to giant-screen smut
Thursday 6th October 2016 07:50 GMT
Apparently the porn fridge was discovered by John McAfee:
Pornhub on a refrigerator in Home Depot
Honi soit qui mal y pense ...
Whales permitting, Hawaiki sub cable to hit Sydney in August 2017
NIST: People have given up on cybersecurity – it's too much hassle
Thursday 6th October 2016 07:34 GMT
"The interview participants revealed an unexpected level of fatalism and resignation."
I actually expect that semi-religious cults* will form soon, based on people's desire for something, anything, that will give them some illusion of safety. They will pray for deliverance from malware like peasants in ancient times pleading with their gods to spare them from thunderstorms.
* Come on, a sizable proportion of the fanbois are halfway there already.
Amazon supremo Bezos' Blue Origin blows its top over Texas desert
Is Apple's software getting worse or what?
OK Google, Alexa, why can't I choose my own safe, er, wake word?
Windows 10 market share fell in September
Thursday 6th October 2016 06:32 GMT 
Time for some decisive action, Redmond ...
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