Posts by NoneSuch

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is worth 154 median minions

Can we start FundMe pages for them? 14 and 25 mil respectively does not go far these days. Must be hard to make ends meet.

Yes, Assange, we'll still nick you for skipping bail, rules court

Re: @Sparty ... "arguably wrong"

"The court should have both taken judicial notice of the EU's resolution demanding his release without prejudice and the fact that the original Swedish warrant that commenced the whole problem was withdrawn."

If you receive a speeding ticket, then kick the officer's posterior in frustration and later have the ticket thrown out. You're still on the hook for the butt kicking. Failure to appear is a UK crime, not Swedish.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/488503/Arrest_warrants_version_2.0__EXT__clean.pdf

PC makers: Intel CPU shortages are here to stay ... for six months

"If it's not one DRAM thing, it's another"

Kudos on that chuckle fest. Well done Reg. Thumb up.

Google Cloud boss promises 'security built into every layer of the system' at UK shindig

Blah...

And every layer of security will have a back door that will search, index and file your content.

Uncle Sam gives itself the right to shoot down any drone, anywhere, any time, any how

The United States of Gunfire

"It's coming right for us!" BLAM BLAM BLAM

Canadian security boss ain't afraid of no Huawei, sees no reason for ban

Re: I know why they're so confident...

"which uses Huawei-funded "white labs" where products are tested for interception backdoors or "kill switches"

So Huawei is funding the testing of their own gear.

Nope, can't think of any flaws there.

2-bit punks' weak 40-bit crypto didn't help Tesla keyless fobs one bit

Re: Problem-solution dichotomy

The German WW2 Enigma codes were 88 bit and were broken in a shed with machine based technology. Eighty years later, Tesla locks your car with 40 bit encryption.

(Best Doctor Evil voice) Riiiiiiight...

Trend Micro tools tossed from Apple's Mac App Store after spewing fans' browser histories

I'm sure Apple made copies of all URL traffic for their own records.

How to nab a HTTPS cert for a stranger's website: Step one, shatter those DNS queries...

Paranoid AF

Strong independant crypto is a necessity to stop invaisive governments and corperations from raping our data at will.

Almost eighty years ago, boffins in Bletchley Park cracked (up to) 88 bit Enigma by mechanical means. Today we have 256 bit AES protecting bank accounts, medical info and other private info. How secure do you really think we are today?

Avoid any US government approved encryption method, use the strongest possible keys and above all educate yourself.

Be paranoid, they are after you, journalists, whistleblowers and anyone who opposes our "public servants."

FBI fingers the Norks it wants to pinch for Sony hack, WannaCry attacks

They'll be wanted for a while. I doubt these lads will be sucessfully extradited or taking a holiday in San Francisco soon.

Cover up your privates: Linux distro Tails drops a new version

I'm on a List?

"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!"

Courtesy of Patrick McGoohan.

Fourth 'Fappening' celeb nude snap thief treated to 8 months in the clink

The Wrong Quote

"The whole unsavoury incident underlines the importance of multi-factor authentication in protecting sensitive accounts."

Should be:

"The whole unsavoury incident underlines the importance of not taking photos of your junk and expecting it to never be seen."

Google keeps tracking you even when you specifically tell it not to: Maps, Search won't take no for an answer

Stuff Like This Should Be Illegal

This is why the US is doomed.

Their Corporations Lie.

Their Congress Lies.

Their President Lies.

The FBI Lies.

The NSA Lies, to Congress

Prosecutors Lie.

And no one is held accountable.

I give them twenty years max at this rate.

Ecuador's Prez talking to UK about Assange's six-year London Embassy stay – reports

My Two Pence.

Oh Homer,

Wikileaks could have been a responsible arbiter keeping governments honest by just taking basic steps to parse the info they were given. Instead, they blanket released reams of documentation without review literally putting peoples lives at risk.

The gunship footage of US Apaches gunning down unarmed journalists needed to be made public and was an epic first step that made people aware of Wikileaks. Then they shot themselves in the foot repeatedly by releasing anything and everything that came their way, in full.

Assange (Tm) has more in common with a petulant diva than a journalist and he needs to step up and take responsibility for his idiotic actions. Any good he did has been long overshadowed by the need to feed his gluttonous ego.

The need for whistleblowers in the face of corruption or demagoguery is absolutely needed in today's world, but Saint Julian had his chance to fill that role and muffed it repeatedly.

This is the contract you've been looking for: Pentagon releases JEDI bids

Re: S3 Bucket

Naw, first will come publicly posted AWS keys for the drone stroke program.

Gotta think BIG man. Pub o'clock.

Some of you really don't want Windows 10's April 2018 update on your rigs

Re: Stop breaking stuff

"However, in the meantime, the rate at which Microsoft has been able to shovel code onto PCs remains undeniably impressive"

<sarcasm> Yes, I love the XBox and Zune updates on my Enterprise licensed W10 Workstations. 2+ GB of space on every PC dedicated to absolute BS that has no purpose anywhere near a business. </sarcasm>

How to (slowly) steal secrets over the network from chip security holes: NetSpectre summoned

Yup

No nation state would ever take advantage of a flaw that took days. Ultra slow speed to lose the tiny packets in the mass of other traffic. Makes no sense at all.

Tesla fingers former Gigafactory hand as alleged blueprint-leaking sabotage mastermind

Note that Tesla wants direct access to search his various items and not a Police agency.

Let's hope that motion gets squashed.

JURI's out, Euro copyright votes in: Whoa, did the EU just 'break the internet'?

Hand Off My Internet

Get all government regulations off the Internet.

It is not theirs to regulate, it is ours. Freedom of access, freedom of speech and no restrictions/monitoring/manipulation to its use is acceptable, EVER.

Oi! Verizon leaked my fiancée's nude pix to her ex-coworker, says bloke

Re: former coworker

I'm sure the cops will insist on a line-up.

Microsoft's System Center successor edges closer to Hawaii 1-0

"Microsoft's positioned Honolulu as a more modern face for Windows Server, a way of surfacing useful PowerShell functions without having to resort to the CLI "

That's called a GUI.

That terrifying 'unfixable' Microsoft Skype security flaw: THE TRUTH

It's NOT an accidental bug.

It's an intentional NSA backdoor. Please get your terminology right.

Web searching died the day they invented SEO

Ummmm...

"Surely the internet is big enough to contain all human intelligence."

It does, but it is dwarfed by human ignorance, arrogance and cute cat videos.

Are you taking the peacock? United Airlines deny flight to 'emotional support' bird

I'm sure her comfort animal would be welcome on a train. In the baggage compartment.

California Senate OKs net neutrality law, gives FCC cold hard long stare

If It's So Flipping Bad?

Why did they all vote for it..??? FFS

Samsung preps for Z-SSD smackdown on Intel Optane drives

But...

Can it play Crysis?

FYI: Processor bugs are everywhere – just ask Intel and AMD

An Added Dimension

"Thanks to growing chip complexity, compounded by hardware virtualization, and reduced design validation efforts, Luu argued, the incidence of hardware problems could be expected to increase."

Let's not forget people are actually actively looking for flaws now instead of blindly believing Intel marketing blurbs.

Google can't innovate anymore, exiting programmer laments

Re: Well...

"The Register asked Google if anyone there would care to respond. We've not heard back."

The gal responsible for that left.

Infamous Silicon Valley 'sex party' exactly as exciting as it sounds

But... But... But...

There's books that need selling...

FBI says it can't unlock 8,000 encrypted devices, demands backdoors for America's 'public safety'

911 x 8,000... Sorry. World Police reference.

That number should be 8,000,000,000

How are the shares, Bry? Intel chief cops to CPU fix slowdowns

What Annoys Me...

FOUR different hardware manufacturers have EXACTLY the same flaw in their hardware. Are we supposed to believe this occurred naturally? I'm really finding that hard to believe.

I sense NSA or US Gov fingerprints on this one boys and girls.

You GNOME it: Windows and Apple devs get a compelling reason to turn to Linux

Re: Unimpressed by Gnome

"This is why I switched to Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE) when they announced the switch."

I've been on Kubuntu for many years now. Gnome never grabbed my attention. It always seemed the blander choice.

Oi, force Microsoft to cough up emails on Irish servers to the Feds, US states urge Supremes

US law is in effect everywhere.

Your nations laws end at your countries border. Yet the Americans see nothing wrong with that arrangement.

FCC douses America's net neutrality in gas, tosses over a lit match

They can lose 99 votes, but only have to win one to get what they want.

They got it, now we're screwed. Democracy just slipped a little closer to oblivion.

Help desk declared code PEBCAK and therefore refused to help!

Re: Memory Issues

We like to use:

I. D. Ten T

Write it out as you say it.

US trade cops agree to investigate Apple's 'embrace and extend'

Re: Golden rule

$250 million settlement in court ten years from now, or buy the entire company for $50 million today?

Which do you think Apple will choose?

Irish priests told to stop bashing bishops

Careful now.

Down with this sort of thing.

Pixel-style display woes on your shiny new X? Perfectly normal, says Apple

Couldn't be over-priced crap hardware... Perish the thought.

Wheels are literally falling off the MoD thanks to lack of cash

Re: It's great to know the price of everything ...

Ditch the American F-35's and you'll have billions to play with.

Hey, big vendor: Oracle, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook blow even more cash on lobbying

And this is why net neutrality will eventually be lost. The corps can lose many times, but only have to win once.

It is now beer o'clock. Good night.

Big Blue's former CIO tried to join AWS, ends up at energy company

Re: Breaking News

IBM's cloud isn't that fluffy.

Judge says US govt has 'no right to rummage' through anti-Trump protest website logs

Re: Ministry of Truth

We have always been at war with Oceania.

FBI iPhone hack lost forever, White House mobe compromised, SSH – and plenty more

Myopia

Where governments only see what they want to see.

Russia, America dig into tug-of-war over Bitcoin laundering suspect

Life in prison in the US or a safe trip to Moscow followed by an accidental slip in the shower a week or so later to keep him quiet?

Which will he choose?

Angst in her pants: Alleged US govt leaker Reality Winner stashed docs in her pantyhose

The Obvious

"Winner sighed at one point, and agreed leaking the file would likely reveal the NSA's sources and techniques to its enemies."

It would also reveal illegal surveillance to the American people. A much larger crime in their eyes.

Alleged dark web drug baron cuffed – after he flew to US for World Beard Championships

Re: I believe the word we are all struggling to vocalise is ...

"If he was selling to France and the rest of Europe, why the hell did he supply anyone in the US?

"If he hadn't done that he wouldn't have committed a crime in the US"

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/94-166.pdf

The fun begins on p52.

Brit military wants a small-drone-killer system for £20m

Fire Bjork out of a cannon

Won't do a damned thing about drones, but you will see Bjork fired out of a cannon.

Win-win.

If you need to replace anything other than your iPhone 8's battery or display, good luck

It's not a problem.

This only affects people who buy iPhones and as such will not affect the vast majority.

DRM now a formal Web recommendation after protest vote fails

FFS

This is the beginning of the end.

Don't fret. The corporations will be happy.

Russia's answer to Buckminster Fuller has a buttload of CGI and he's not afraid to use it

Those beds...

There are certain positions people get into while in bed (SFW) where a metal roof slamming down might cause serious injury.