Posts by kain preacher

Voting machine maker claims vote machine hack-fests a 'green light' for foreign hackers

Re: Er...

"Plus it is probably considered a "trade secret" and can't be open sourced."

That's exactly what Diebold claimed and then promptly sued the state of New Jersey to stop them from looking.

Re: Er...

To the person that down voted me, you think Open source is good if you can't see the source code that is being run. How do you know what back doors are in it ? Open or closed source makes no diff if people can not see what's running under the hood.

Re: Er...

Open source is worthless if you don't let people see the code.

Well, can't get hacked if your PC doesn't work... McAfee yanks BSoDing Endpoint Security patch

Re: McAfee for Linux

Every thing I saw says McAfee for linux is an enterprise solution. Don't worry Norton has you covered.

https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH105812.html

Intel rips up microcode security fix license that banned benchmarking

Re: Kudos to Debian but...

Are you sure intel put Microsoft under the same restrictions ? I mean if MS deiced to properly support arm or lets say sparc. imagine what would happen to intel.

Yeah AMD had no choice as software was just no written they way they had hoped for bulldozer. Even windows did not support them like AMD wanted . So when AMD bulldozer said it had 8 cores windows treated it like a quad core with HT

"FPU shared between two 'cores' (AMD) or 'virtual cores'" Eypc fixed that

Texas ISP slams music biz for trying to turn it into a 'copyright cop'

Re: illegal

"As in taking something and depriving the owner of it" no just taking it no need to prove intent to permanently deprive the owner . If take a car with just the intent to joy ride it's theft. Even if you bring it back.

Re: illegal

John G Imrie

In America theft is merely taking some thing that does not belong to you . Even if you intended to give it back.

A third of London boroughs 'fess to running unsupported server software

Re: Probably good...

Or Netware. Gets my coat. It's the one that has the Windows for Workgroups 3.11 disks in it.

Re: Server 2005???

THat's cause it was for the mac only . Like Office 2004

Fire chief says Verizon throttled department's data in the middle of massive Cali wildfires

One of the reason why I picked T-mobile is because they only throttle you if you are over a 50 gigss of data AND the cell tower is congested . If you move to a non congested tower you go back to full speed.

Sorry Verzion that you place is on fire but I can't hear you now .

Verzion refuse to unthrottle them till they paid doubled

Apple web design violates law, claims blind person

Re: To put it mildly.

"I've been told that the Apple screen reader can read their site just fine"

Provided you use safari to browser the site

Prenda lawyer pleads guilty to moneyshot honeypot scheme

Re: One of the 98% that give the 2% a bad name

In the US you need court approval to dismiss court fines in bankruptcy court.

Boss regrets pointing finger at chilled out techie who finished upgrade early

Re: @ psychonaut

"That sounds wierd to me. My personal experience in card renewal is that my MMORPG subscription is cut every time my VISA card gets renewed."

Visa and mastercard have program that allows vendors to charge on expired and dead cards. Of course they charge for this

EU wants one phone plug to rule them all. But we've got a better idea.

Re: NT4 and USB support

Blinks NT4.0 has support up to Direct X3 and you can find a beta for direct x 5. Now if you are brave or stupid, maybe both there are third party drives to give NT 4.0 limited USB.

Florida Man laundered money for Reveton ransomware. Then Microsoft hired him

Re: Lost it

Should of went into politics or became a lobbyist.

America's top maker of cop body cameras says facial-recog AI isn't safe

I know but I wished liability was attached . It's just a pipe dream

Cops want this tech cool give it to them but. When it fucks up the cops have strict liability. The police and their superior are finally liable . This can not be discharged. Cops can by charged with false arrest

Phased out: IT architect plugs hole in clean-freak admin's wiring design

Re: Huh?

"Disclaimer: I have zero experience with three-phase UPS...

But wouldn't there be a circuit breaker for each phase output? I know that there is one on every one of the small single-phase UPSes I use."

In the US each phase is suppose to have it's on panel

Top Euro court: No, you can't steal images from other websites (too bad a school had to be sued to confirm this little fact)

Re: Prepare for...

"This all really depends on how one defines the acting stealing.

For me, there are two core acts involved: the first is the act of taking something in the knowledge that you may not take it and the second is the act of depriving somebody of something without their consent."

Definitions some times can be hard to nail down. In My country America, Theft is simple taking some thing that does not belong to you , hence copy right can be seen as theft but is prosecuted as counterfeiting if you deiced to make a commercial enterprise out of it .

Batten down the ports: Linux networking bug SegmentSmack could remotely crash systems

See if the were running windo....., Hey wait put down the clubs and bats. I thought El reg was peaceful techies .

Dear alt-right morons and other miscreants: Disrupt DEF CON, and the goons will 'ave you

Re: What?

I was thinking the same thing. These are people that hack countries for fun and are hired by intelligence agencies to hack or tell them how not to be hacked . Talk about poking a bee hive.

Re: What's in it for them?

No this is more like trolling the opposing football fan club. Sure you can do it, sure it sounds like fun and that's the same thing that the opposing soccer fan club might say when then bash your face in with a proper pint glass.

Facebook deletes 17 accounts, dusts off hands, beams: We've saved the 2018 elections

Re: Moron!

Facebook is NOT a source for information!

It is when you don't trust the media or your source is people like Alex Jones .

Information doesn't work like that. Pizza and beer don't become health foods just because your normal diet consists of Cool Ranch Doritos by the pound,

But try and convince those people that it's not. THat's why I mentioned Alex jones . Any sane person would dismiss him as a loon People see face book as a way to share the truth.Their truth The truth that the regular media is to scared to report . IE they already have a position and just looking for some thing to back them up. Facebook is not what I would considered a primary source on info . Any thing I read on face book I fact check. The more it agrees with my position the more I fact check it before I repost.

Re: What about the rest?

The shares will return their version of 404 . An account is delete and every like share goes into the dust bin

Re: Moron!

Facebook is NOT a source for information!

It is when you don't trust the media or your source is people like Alex Jones .

Nokia scores a $3.5bn deal to inflict 5G on T-Mobile customers

Re: Stop 5G

There are dead zones in Sacramento,CA. For T-mobile and ATT.

FBI boss: We went to the Moon, so why can't we have crypto backdoors? – and more this week

Re: Man on the sun

Actually you can't get near the sun with today tech.

Politicians fume after Amazon's face-recog AI fingers dozens of them as suspected crooks

Re: Congress

Ok mildy bemused non convicted/ not in the system yet .

Do Optane's prospects look DIMM? Chip chap has questions for Intel

Re: i've been waiting for this since the first experimental Dimm loaded scsi SSDs

If it's a windows system you have to use clippy.

Re: i've been waiting for this since the first experimental Dimm loaded scsi SSDs

You left out you need to hold it right.

Spectre/Meltdown fixes in HPC: Want the bad news or the bad news? It's slower, say boffins

I want to know how non x86 cpu's are affected .

Sysadmin sank IBM mainframe by going one VM too deep

Octothorpe was coined by AT&T who invented the symbol so I wouldn't be surprised if they use it sometimes. Why leftpondians call it a pound sign is just an indication of their strangeness

It is believed that the symbol traces its origins to the symbol ℔, an abbreviation of the Roman term libra pondo, which translates as "pound weight"

Coined yes, invented um no # was around for some time

Either my name, my password or my soul is invalid – but which?

Re: University

Make sure to include one special char and 2 Cyrillic numerals

US voting systems (in Oregon) potentially could be hacked (11 years ago) by anybody (in tech support)

Re: Security through obscurity?

"In what sort of crap design is disclosure of the source code a security problem? What century _is_ this?"

The state of California had the same reaction when die bold pitched a fit at having Standford and UC Berkley exam the code .

No, seriously, why are you holding your phone like that?

Re: Smart Meters are a tempting target

"SMETS1 meters cannot change supplier, so if I had one of those it'd be useless the next year."

Yes you can, it just turns into a dumb meter .

https://www.engerati.com/article/uk-energy-suppliers-smets1-smart-meters

Re: Damn

??? If the new meter is bigger than the old, then the power company should pay all things related to it's installation .

Insurers hurl sueball at Trustwave over 2008 Heartland megabreach

Wait I missed that is decade ago. Wouldn't statues of limitations kick in ?

Re: @Kain Preacher ...

Ian that's why I was asking if they were in PCI compliance. If they were this case show be given summary dismissal .

Few things. Was Heartland PCI complaint at the time of the hack? If not how long were they out of compliance since they were last signed off ?

Mastercard goes TITSUP in US, UK: There are some things money can't buy – like uptime

Re: Backups and redundancy, FFS

The reason why they don't use paper slips any more is cause the baster CC companies started processing them as a credit card not present . If find a processor that does not charge them as credit card not present you get hit with higher fees. Then you have less protection from charge back. Oh wants it gets processed and the card gets decline you most likely will not get paid . So most places rather lose a customer/sale then risk getting burned like that .

US taxman wants AI to do the security checks it seemingly can't do itself

I can see it now IBM will get the contract. It will be behind schedule and over budget. Midway IBM will say we need to switch the data base to our proprietary data base. After a decade of being late and years of congressional hearings the contract will go to MS and housed on azure. At this point in time they few have way sane devs at MS will say we won't touch this kick it over to the windows 10 team. Sure it will be over budget and not do what the specs call for. But it will be a win as it will tie the IRS data base into the windows 10 spy server so the IRS can monitor your computer.

Re: AI and the IRS

You mean what could go right.

Nissan 'fesses up to fudging emissions data

"perhaps even signing off on them as passing the tests."

Wouldn't that be evil unauthorized(rogue) management ?

Darn dyslexia . But hmm rouge or rogue techs.

Re: So....

Zog just like it was only 2 engineers that were responsible for VW cheat code. Even though Bosch caught it and warned VW. Yep it was done with out their knowledge.