Posts by Anonymous South African Coward 3211 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jan 2010
If some black hat would write a bot to replace code on all Y-Cam cameras so as to give you the actual option of using local storage instead of cloudy storage....
Forewarned is forearmed, should I need surveillance, I will also look at storage options. If there is no local storage, or I cannot store locally, then I will not purchase that specific product.
USB makes it possible to have two physical keyboards on one PC - one wired, one wireless.
Great fun can be had by "bumping" the wireless keyboard/mouse on a random basis. Bonus points if the "bump" goes unnoticed and some lewd swear word is induced into the document the user is working on...
Regarding monitors - had a small POS monitor once, if you turned its brightness up above a certain value, it trips the power. Just used it as a Novell Netware monitor afterwards.
Only time will tell if this direction will be successful., but I will welcome it as it will be beneficial to get security updates no matter who your carrier may be.
Having said that, I now wonder if they will only support newer phones, or will they be providing upgrades for older phones so that you can upgrade your phone in order to take advantage of the newer system. But I don't think it will ever happen, they will only focus on newer devices, and older devices can go die in a landfill somewhere.
Yay for M$.
NOT.
Perhaps you've posted this on the wrong thread? Still quite entertaining, and forewarned is forearmed since my company have a couple of users with laptops and dual-screens.
Now I am going to dread going to work on the morrow... :)
The only secure printer is one that connects via an oldstyle LPT (Centronics) cable... or nothing at all (glorious typewriter). :)
Wonder what vuls exists on other printers (Kyocera, Fujitsuu, Minolta etc).
I dislike it immensely giving a printer Internet access - what does it need from the 'net anyway?
And talking of which, how secure is this HP internet printing doohicky?
So, what with Intel chippery leaking secrets and Win8+10 not being genuwynely secure, shall we start the downgrade to Win7 on the desktop and OS/2 Warp LAN server (on Intel Pentium 2's) on the server side then?
At least the networks will be nippy and fast enough until somebody finds a backdoor in routerland...
As usual nothing will be done until two or three planes get pwned successfully.
Now.
The usual run-of-the-mill hacker will most probably not crash the plane as he/she will most probably value his/her life as well.
Unfortunately, on the other side of the coin, certain types of people would love to gain control of an aeroplane and make it meet Terra Firma most spectacularly. Bonus points if any military installations/bases/buildings/whatever is also included in the place where the plane is going to crash.
Just give it two or three planes going down in the second manner, then people will have a rude awakening.
I have said it somewhere else, and will repeat it here.
An in-house team gives you the ability to select the people you want to work with, and if you treat them well, they will be instantly available to attend to your IT snafu. It may cost you a bit more in the long run.
An outsourced team, well... you don't have a say in who you want on that team, and when you have a meltdown, the outsourced team may take a while to respond to your problem. Over the weekend will be more problematic. Even more problematic will be if the outsourced team is already responding to somebody else's brown trouser incident. Remember, outsourced = shared.
In-house IT do fail from time to time, due to unforeseen circumstances and Mr Murphy. The key is how fast you will be able to respond to downtime, and fix the problem before your customers will start cussing at you.
Poor Chipzilla is in for a very interesting time now... what with Intel chippery getting pwned any way you like...
It will not be surprising if Intel chipset sales fall while other chipset sales start to rise.
What is the turnover rate like for production on stacked SLP boards?
Must be something interesting regarding quality control as they need to control the manufacturing process tightly, as contaminants will destroy a large number of boards...
In contrast the 48k Speccy seems to be very, very simple...
Drawback with SLP and higher-density electronics is that a minuscule drop of moisture can damage more electronics...
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