Posts by kain preacher

Americans resort to padlocking their dumb meters

Re: Brilliant

diabetes means that your pancreas does not make enough insulin and or cells do not respond to insulin normally. It can be controlled.

US broadcasters put the squeeze on small-town cable TV

Re: America would be a better place if...

You do know PBS is a must carry right ? Oops no you didn't.

Re: Just Say No

They can't. There is a list of mandatory must carry channels. Cable companies have always complained about must carry channels. You can wind up having to carry the Cantonese Chanel in West Va. In case NBC,ABC,CBS and FOX got to gather and said hmm since they must carry us lets charge them.

Microsoft takes down ZeuS botnets

Re: I'd buy them a drink.

Wait so if I download some thing, intentionally install it, my OS should stop me ? Explain how that works.

Facebook: Your boss asks for your password, we'll sue him! Maybe

Re: But but but...

Interference of contract, interfering with business.

Re: I still think this is a stupidity/trustworthiness test

You are absolutely right., They are looking people to dumb/to desperate to assert their rights. Bob we are going need you complete those reports by 9am Monday or you are fired.They tell you at 5pm Friday Oh by the way you worked 2 hours of over time this week. Would be cool if we just erase those 2 hours so I don't have to write you up. That would be swell Bob.

End in sight for IT jobs outsourcing massacre

Re: Henry Ford

But I keep on hearing it was the unions that caused the down fall of the automotive industry. Them being a greedy lot . What's that yo say ? i was not the unions but pis poor management that did not listen to the customers ?

The Facebook job test: Now interviewers want your logins

Here is some thing else to think about. Lets say your current employer is nuts and demands that you hand over the password to all websites you go to that has forums. Lets say your only site that fits that criteria is a model rail road model RR site. Rather harmless right ? Nut you are an admin on that site. Now your employer can see deleted post or things that was never meant to be seen by the public. What if your employee deiced by all of the deleted post that you must have some whack jobs on that board. Worse yet your employer has access to the email list. Your employer does a search on the email address and finds out that a lot of them visit sites dedicate to people drinking animal blood doing pagan rituals and then having a giant shag party afterwards. I know it might sound far fetched but and ridiculous but then so is employers asking for FB log ins. I been five years ago if you said that employers were going to ask for this stuff I would of called you a paranoid loon.

Sorry I didn't like from el reg. But thanks for the link. But that just goes to show the mentality of some folks. So asking for FB password does not surprise me one bit.

Until last year, the city of Bozeman, Mont., had a long-standing policy of asking job applicants for passwords to their email addresses, social-networking websites and other online accounts.

Re: Not Facebook, at the time, but now maybe...

The thing is in the US they will ask for a credit check for every one. The assumption is bad credit means you will steal.

Microsoft fires Bing execs after biz probe

Re: I wonder..

HP has jobs for them.

Tourists follow GPS, drive into sea

Re: Pile of water?

Well the driver in this story must of thought it was like that. Hmm driving through this mud must be like driving through a pile of leaves.

How the hell do you not see a big freaking pile of water? Didn't you notice you were running out of road ?

Charge of the Metro brigade: Did Microsoft execs plan to take a hit?

Re: Metro

Try having some that is blind as a bat so they set the resolution to 800x600 on a 24 inch monitor. Yes sir can you click on the button on the lower right hand of the screen.

Customer god damn it it;s not here, it was not here yesterday and it wont be here tomorrow.

iPhone/PS3 hacker Hotz arrested in pot bust

In California if you get caught with less than an oz it's a ticket. For a 1/4 I'm not sure they would even do the paper work.

Re: $800?!!

If think they are singling him out the are not. Rest assure they would rail road me and you just the same.

Why

Why did he enter Texas with weed on him ? This is the same state that use to give life for a joint . $200 for an ounce maybe but $800 . Hell no.

Megaupload boss: Site popular among US government users

Re: Missing the point - and the real danger.

Mad Mike what makes you think he is an American as oppose to some who is not in the US and does not understand US law ? As long as the money had been legally earned and declared it's not money laundry. Now what they can do and I think is evil, is take all of his assets and make him prove it was earned legally .

Re: Not in the least surprised

Only certain vendors on big projects. Other wise they pay you what they think is fair. Then there is the 90-270 payment schedule. Small contractors have gone under waiting to be paid.

Re: otto korreks

You are correct. Verizon updated my Android and certain settings were reset.

I was reading up on it. The reason why they claimed they went after mega load is this . Copyright holders would complain about infringement . Mega upload would only remove the unique url but not the infringing material . The person that put it there was free to generate a new URL and keep on sharing it .

if year > 2013 then PC != Personal Computer

Re: Half full or half empty?

Hmm I'm interested . Dose this service come with a 24 sided dice ?

What happens if the cloud rains and your data goes by by? What if are working on some thing that has stay in country , how do you know which country it is in. What if you live in the UK and you upload some thing pro Nazis? Then it gets hosted on a German cloud server. Remember the Aussie that hosted a pro Nazis web site in Oz ? He land in the UK and Germany wanted him.

A sysadmin in telco hell

Re: Welcome to my hell

There are tools out there that will tell you which telco is the parent company. But that does you no good because you can't or are not suppose to talk to that company. The rules are you are suppose to talk to the company that is porting the numbers. The only time you are allowed to talk to the losing telco is if they pull the number early. When that happens the losing telco will often lie and said we released it so the company should be able to just pick it up . That is of course wrong . The process is automated. When orders fall out like this is not easy to just flip a switch. Just because they released the number does not mean they put the route in yet to forward the number to the new telco. The new route may not have a chance to propagate in the losing telco and or the new telco switches yet . When that happens the number can randomly fail.

Because each phone company is responsible for maintaining there own caller ID data base . Lets say I'm small telco . My customers shows up wrong to Comacast customers . All I can do is update with a national data base and hope that Comacast will look there with in 90 days . Comcast insists it's my fault even though I can't touch their caller ID data base . Oh it shows up right to ATT customers

Beware of porting numbers out of Verizon . They have a habit of pulling the plug early . Usually with in 48 hours of the port date. Why 48 hours ? Because there is this regulation that says the losing telco can not have direct contact with the customer 48 prior to the port . So it makes the new phone company look bad. Oh any one want to discuss caller ID hell ?

Microsoft shuttering Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace

Yes there is

"It also allows direct sync to PC over USB - although I don't use it because (a) I don't suppose there's a Linux client, ."

If you get the android SDK you can push files and programs on to you android. You can even do it from the command line if you like .

Computer system designer jobs boom in the US

Re: ARE THEY

You work in the US you pay US taxes. If you are a US citizen and earn more than $100k in money over seas Uncle Sam wants his cut . Some how they same does not apply to corporations .

Feds shift DNSChanger cut-off deadline to July

When you pull the plug on these servers , these folks will only see that the net is not working . They will they will call there ISP a bunch of times and blame them for not helping them . What they want is a free fix . They often times can not understand that there ISP can not fix every problem preventing them from getting on the net .

Apple to Google Maps: ‘Get lost’

Re: Google is special

Well Google must just Sack off in the UK. Here California I've seen them update there maps before the new on/off ramps were finished .

EFF accuses Warner of spamming DMCA takedown notices

Re: I always wondered.

How does that even make sense ? Better tell those linux distros to stop using bittorent then.

Stolen iPad leads to 780lb crystal meth seizure

Re: High on their own supply when they invited the police in

Not in this case. The DA will argue Inevitable discovery in that if they had of said no the cops would of just waited to get a warrant .Inevitable discovery is a doctrine in United States criminal procedure that allows evidence of a defendant's guilt that would otherwise be considered inadmissible under the exclusionary rule to be admitted into evidence in a trial.

The doctrine was adopted first by the United States Supreme Court in Nix v. Williams in 1984. It holds that evidence obtained in violation of the defendant's constitutional rights is admissible in court if it can be established, by a preponderance of the evidence, that normal police investigation would have inevitably led to the discovery of the evidence. The rationale for the rule is that police misconduct is sufficiently deterred and the interests of society are better served by putting police in the same position that they would have been in without the rights violation, not a worse position.

I going to say that it was not there meth but just guarding. I could be wrong but if I'm not it would be more humane for the police to take them out back put one in there head . When the owner finds out he will not be so nice.

Never get high off your own supply.

FCC denies DISH a fast-track waiver for grounded network

More like we caught hell for Light Squared and we don't want to be caught with our pants around our ankles again.

Citrix drops Rush Limbaugh over 'slutgate' slurs

Re: The issue is a free lunch

What you are seeing is 100% grade A GOP bullshit . If that was the case hospitals would not be closing , instead we would see boom in hospital. Having all of those people paying full price would be a massive increase in profits . When is the last time you have seen an ad for medical tourism in the US ?

Re: The issue is a free lunch

Health insurance will pay for condoms and Viagra. So why not pay for women to have birth control. Show proof of this statement "Many people in socialist countries come to the U.S. for healthcare because the treatment in their country is so poor. "

Re: What's surprising me...

God no that would violate the one rule me and one rule for them clause .

Re: Moron

Really cause Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert are trying to get laughs . Rush is trying be serious . Oh and Stephen Colbert in comedic routine made congress look like clowns .

Can some of my fellow Americans tell me what is so bad about socialism . First off can you even define it ? God forbid we actuary do what the other civilized countries in the world do and help people with healthcare .

Re: What's surprising me...

Nope calling some a slut or a whore on national radio is no actionable the US. Now if he said she is a know hooker or has aids and sleep with men to get them infected. To when a liable,slander or defamation case you must prove that what was said to you was a lie,a 3rd person heard or read it and that it cost harm. Yes being called a slut on radio does not haply as courts have said in simlliar occasions opinions do not count. There is a difference between saying I think he is a pedophile and I know he is a pedophile .

Weeing Frenchman sues Google over Street View photo

Re: Trickle, trickle...

40 out 50 states have law that explicitly says breast feeding in public is not illegal. It's legal to do at the federal level. Last time I heard a cop trying to give a women a ticket for that he got reamed out .

I understand what you mean jaduncan but people on this site are found of quoting UK. law when the article are based in the US

Re: Trickle, trickle...

'It has unfortunate side effects of also-affecting nursing mothers " How since its legal to nurse in public .

Feds unlock suspect's encrypted drive, avoid Constitution meltdown

Wow some people must read very few articles on el reg .Are forgetting about the article were the courts ruled that you do not have to turn over your password. It did go to the SCOTUS and SCOTUS refused to hear the case.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/27/forced_decryption_ruling/

Wireless operators to become less, er, wireless

Re: Heterogenous nets?

Yeah try asking are you hetro or homo . No I meant what kind of network .

Hacking scandal: James Murdoch quits UK newspaper biz

Re: it couldn't possibly be.....?

As Yank I want t see him raked over the coals, I'll smile for a week if they get daddy too. Oh and if congress calls him in it won't be easy to hide .

Dotcom bail survives appeal, extradition hearing in August

I'm trying to figure out , does the US want him is just the NZ is trying to get rid of him ?

"the NZ government entered a crown appeal on behalf of the US government"

I thought it would have to be an official Representative of the US to make such an appeal. Like some from US embassy .

Child abuse suspect won't be forced to decrypt hard drive

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The British way of thinking

Warrants in the US have to specify what they are looking for . So unless it's in plain sight they have to specify what they want and just can't look for any possible crime.