Posts by jake

Slack login leak shame

The sad thing is ...

... those of us who have been using Slack for about 23 years are just shaking our heads at the the silliness of this fly-by-night product.

Kids these days.

There's more to life than Windows

Re: "Post proof, or retract."

"It's jake. He doesn't do retractions."

Yes, actually, I do.

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/search/?q=jake+%2B%22mea+culpa%22

Re: "Post proof, or retract."

"What is your proof it isn't secure?"

Constantly B0rken Redmond based systems? Don't you read the news?

"And with what more secure technology would you replace it?"

DYOFDW.

Re: It's late. I'm up with a whelping Greyhound. I shouldn't post ... but ...

"If you took that bet, you'd probably lose as all he says is the "chances are" - not that you "are." This means your experience of a different environment isnt enough to falsify his statement."

I took the bet. He was wrong. Ergo ...

::fades to black::

It's late. I'm up with a whelping Greyhound. I shouldn't post ... but ...

"When you run a corporate IT infrastructure, the chances are you run Active Directory underpinning a predominantly Windows-based array of servers, desktops and laptops."

I'll fade that bet ... Not a snowball's chance in hell, in fact.

"And that's fine: it probably serves 90 per cent of the kit you have"

Nope.

"and is a secure"

Post proof, or retract.

"easy-to-use way of authenticating user logins."

Easy is secure? Since when?

Linux greybeards release beta of systemd-free Debian fork

As a long-term (just under 23 years) Slackware user ...

... I am evaluating Devuan out of curiosity. So far, it looks like a good option :-)

Neo4j CEO: We're at 'a huge inflection point for graph databases'

Re: "Inflection"?

My point is that "inflection" can go in either direction ... or orthogonally.

"Inflection"?

That word ... I don't think it means what you think it means.

The Internet of Things edges toward a practical reality

@AndyS (was Re: "There are countless problems" ... Indeed.)

Nice AdHom.

Sad that you don't know the difference between code & software.

BSD code runs on all kinds of hardware without further editing.

When it is running, it's software.

It's not pedantry, it's reality. Learn it. Live it. Love it. Or leave it.

"There are countless problems" ... Indeed.

"There are countless problems with making the so-called "internet of things" (IoT) a pragmatic reality: hardware, software and standards to name the big three."

You can't count to three? Allow me to help:

[0] Security

[1] Hardware

[2] Code (Software is merely the current state of the hardware).

[3] Standards

GCC 6.1 hits, uses C++14

During the meanwhile ...

... GCC still compiles K&R C quite nicely.

It's kind of a mandatory thing for kernel developers ;-)

El Reg Quid-A-Day Nosh Posse spared chickpea ordeal

@ cornz 1 (was: Re: Roadkill)

"You would never torture a critter but will happily let whippets tear a rabbit to pieces??"

No. The dawgs snap their furry little necks, and that's it. No muss, no fuss.

"What sort of fucked up rationalisation is that???"

It's called "The Law Of The Wild". Food doesn't originate in the back rooms at Safeway/Tesco.

Re: Roadkill

"Rats are NOT good to eat!"

Worse than seagulls, almost as bad as possum, squirrels are almost tastier.

All will keep you alive in a pinch.

Re: Roadkill

I do harvest roadkill, occasionally.

I would never torture a critter with more than one shot, much less 20,000 ...

We had rabbit stew a few days ago ... the Whippets had a good hunt.

During the meanwhile ...

... we've been trying to keep it under a quid (2 bucks) a day per person for over a decade here on the ranch (8 adults). And I'm in California's Sonoma County, land of the entirely too wealthy.

Sometimes, it just makes sense to act locally ...

Anonymous whales on Denmark, Iceland with OpKillingBay DDoS

Re: Dolphins and Whales

"Smoked? How do you roll up a badger fag?"

If you don't understand food preservation, you are in the wrong thread.

"Can't say I've ever eaten badger, but if it tastes as bad as dolphin and whale do"

Haven't tasted dolphin. Whale is actually pretty good eats.

"much tougher and unpleasantly salty with it."

Actually, whale is quite tender, and not salty at all (unless the cook is an idiot).

"hacker collective Anonymous"

Read "unaffiliated skiddies attempting to be an entity".

Google discovers you assume clouds just work

For values of "you" ...

... that include the CluelessGreatUnwashed. Those of us with half a clue aren't going to buy into the nonsense. Sorry, google.

F-35's dodgy software in the spotlight again

How could ElReg POSSIBLY ...

... insult the ageless Tiger Moth? That's just rude!

Microsoft to hike certification exam prices

Ah, yes. MS certs.

Guaranteed trip to the shredder.

I hire folks who know how shit works, not folks who can pass a cert course.

Hackers so far ahead of defenders it's not even a game

"Cybercriminals are way ahead of the game against defenders"

Part of the problem is manglement thinking "cyber" means "something terrifying".

"without having to try anything new"

Part of the problem is manglement refusing to pay for anything newer than 1980.

"according to the latest edition of Verizon's benchmark survey of security breaches."

Ah, yes. Verizon. That benchmark of secure providers.

Amazon attempts rule fudge to take exclusive control of new dot-words

Re: Bass-ackward.

I don'tneed ".jake". I don't want ."jake". I see no reason for .jake ... but then I'm not exactly narcissistic.

server.domain.TLD makes sense. It's a hierarchy thing. Wanting your own .TLD is a complete waste of money when you already have a domain name.

Think about it.

Bass-ackward.

I already own jake.TLD[0] ... As a direct result, I own buy.jake.TLD, joy.jake.TLD, coupon.jake.TLD, got.jake.TLD, room.jake.TLD, talk.jake.TLD, pin.jake.TLD, smile.jake.TLD, read.jake.TLD, like.jake.TLD, call.jake.TLD, book.jake.TLD, author.jake.TLD, and others.jake.TLD ... I don't actually have any of those setup at the moment, but I might do "others" just for my own amusement.

One wonders if the children running Amazon (etc., insert multi-billion dollar internet advertising organization of your choice in place of Amazon here) don't actually understand how TehIntraWebTubes work, and ICANN are suckering them out of their money.

[0] Several.TLDs, in fact ... In the old days, the only one I didn't have was .mil ;-)

Security: Are you throwing good money after bad?

"How to make sure your money keeps you out of our headlines?"

Simple. All you have to do is realize that security is a meatware issue. Stop spending money on hardware & code, and start spending your money on cognizant humans. One good coder at ~USD200,000/year beats a ~USD15,000,000 room full of servers every day of the week.

"Matthews is a former Director of Cyberspace Operations for the US Air Force"

When interviewing for said "one good coder", if the candidate mentions the word "cyber", stand up,shake their hand & tell them you will get back to them. Then send their c.v/resume to the bit-bucket shredder.

"and says organisations currently spend about 70 per cent of their security cash on blocking threats. He'd rather you spend money on figuring out how to handle breaches."

I'd rather spend money on hiring coders to run secure systems, instead of fixing 'em after they break. It's worked quite nicely for me for well over a third of a century ...

But what do I know? I'm not a .gov bureaucracy.

Planning to throw capacity at an IT problem? Read this first

Throwing capacity at the problem ...

... only leads to code bloat.

Technology quiz reveals that nobody including quiz drafters knows anything about IT

@AC (Was: Re: USA! USA!)

C'mon, AC. You are letting down the side. That was a year and a half ago.

Seriously, rest-of-the-world, not all of us Yanks are fucking idiots.

SAP HANA enterprise cloud might even turn a profit in 2017

Out of curiosity ...

Can anyone point me at any REAL company that is using HANA?

::crickets::

That's what I thought.

Clinton's $1m troll fight

It always amuses me ...

... when articles like this bring out the vitriol spewing idiots. Hint, kiddies, if your drool is dribbling down your chin, you probably shouldn't post. Just saying.

THAT said, "A new task force called Barrier Breakers claims it will "help Clinton supporters push back on online harassment and thank super delegates."

It's just online text. It doesn't matter. It's not important. It never has been, it never will be. Anybody who thinks otherwise is either a fucking idiot, or a marketard targeting fucking idiots.

Flexi-Plexistor's software-defined memory roadmap

I'm fairly certain that ...

... my small cluster of vaxen (late 1970s to early 1980s vintage) contain MMUs that already perform this in hardware ... as do my small collection of early Sun kit. And it's a hell of a lot faster than any software variation.

Kids these days brought up on "personal computers" have no actual clue about computing.

Will Comcast's set-box killer murder your data caps? The truth revealed

But it's Comcastic!

(For those not in the know, "comcastic" is a very disparaging insult.)

Ad-blocker blocking websites face legal peril at hands of privacy bods

Ads online?

They still exist? Who knew!

Sysadmin given Licence To Perve shows why you always get it in writing

"What have you had to get in writing?"

Uh ... everything. Anyone who thinks otherwise is seriously foolish.

Lock-hackers crack restricted keys used to secure data centres

Physically picking locks is nothing new.

Seriously. I learned to pick physical locks in the mid 1960s.

Nothing has changed.

So-called "restricted locks" are just as vulnerable as your bicycle lock.

A bit of street sweeper bristle, a couple of files, and a bit of know-how ,and you are in. I won't even get into the concept of "bump keys".

See the MIT Locksmithing Guide.

Remember, most locks are only there to stop crimes of opportunity ... If a criminal chooses to bust into your home, a brick through the window next to your front door will work quite nicely, the lock isn't going to help any.

Badges for Commentards

Re: Upvotes only?

Or perhaps the entire concept of "thumbs/voting/whatever" is bloody useless?

Clucking hell! Farcical free-range egg standard pecked apart by app

"CluckAR is only possible in a country full of folks rich enough to afford smartphones and mobile broadband"

And outside of that country, guess what? People keep yard birds, mon.

So you’d sod off to China to escape the EU, Google? Really?

Whatever.

google has been furiously trying to Balkanize it's self for a couple years now.

Me, I just block 'em at the firewall. No trouble, no loss, no worries.

Sainsbury's hires devs

So much for Sainsbury’s ...

... nuff said.

Belgian boffins breed 'digital canaries' to test your random numbers

Uh ... harmonic discordance here ...

Adding more input for crackers is never a good idea, from a security point of view.

Chrome add-ons just became less scary, security-wise

That's nice.

I'll pass.

Have a nice day :-)

Job ad promises 'Meaningless Repetitive Work on the .NET Stack'

"You'll need 'numbness to the absence of excellence'"

Anybody working with .NET, ASP.NET, JavaScript, VBScript already does that. It's part of the job-description, and "designed" in, near as I can tell.

COBOL, on the other hand, is dead ... Long Live COBOL!

Seriously, there are more functional lines of COBOL and Fortran working in big business today than the average kid who never used a dial telephone could possibly imagine. I do not know of a single COBOL or Fortran programmer who is currently out of work. I can't say the same for Java(script), VisBas, C++, C#, and what-have-you. Not a month goes by when I don't get email from a former student, thanking me for suggesting COBOL or Fortran as another programming language to learn ... The two are pretty much ubiquitous in big business.

Drive for Lyft or Uber in SF? Your wallet is about to get lighter

@Voyna i Mor, Re: "Gun controlled garage door"

"The potential demand is huge in the more Southern states."

Do you really think the rednecks want to shoot up their own garages?

I kinda suspect your preconceived opinion doesn't match reality.

@ Preston Munchensonton

"Try taking their remote controls away to see how quickly the rioting would begin."

Now, THOSEpeople wouldn't riot ... they would drop to the floor, quivering.

@Malcolm Weir (was:Re: @Gray)

"The real reason is supply and demand"

Absolutely! There is zero supply chain (no room to make more space in SF's 49sq miles), thus allowing the owners and TheCity&County to demand as much as they can get away with from idiots who can't do math(s). Sales tax has absolutely zero to do with this conversation ...

"fees represent approximately 0.000001% of the reason why SF rents are higher than somewhere rather more than an hour away from the city."

One wonders where, exactly, you came up with that nonsensical percentage?

@Gray

Horse hockey.

I've put in my own such "system upgrades" for years here in Sonoma, not 35 miles north-north-east of San Francisco. No permits required. And in Palo Alto before that.

It's TheCity&County looking to fill the coffers, in such cases. This is most of the reason that your typical one-bed, one-bath flat in an aging decrepit converted Victorian four-plex costs more to rent per month than actually purchasing a home and paying the mortgage not 25 miles from San Francisco.

Yes, my insurance company inspects my new installs (I insist on it!). No issues to date.

Australia's Dick finally drops off

Never knew Dick Smith existed, back in the day ...

... but I certainly used Radio Shack parts in the 1960s and '70s.

Kids these days have absolutely zero idea how electronics work ... and that is a crying shame. Probably part of the reason why so-called "social media"is so popular. Kids have nothing better to do in their spare time, because they don't know anything different.

Apple assumes you'll toss the Watch after three years

Re: Folks I know who use Apple kit ...

"Hello fandroid."

If you are assuming I'm a google fan, you'd be wrong. Very wrong.

"What a fanatically ridiculous comment."

Just telling it like I see it, with my own eyes, on a daily basis.

"Considering you probably don't know anyone with Apple kit."

I live in the Northern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. Damn near all the yuppies up here are constantly flashing their latest bit o'Apple kit to be seen with. I just laugh and/or point & giggle at the mindless sheeple.

On the bright side, they pay me an arm and a leg to fix their B0rken BSDOSX systems when they get in over their neatly coifed heads.

Folks I know who use Apple kit ...

... typically replace it within 9-18 months.

Fad toys are fad toys, end of discussion.

Just sayin'

Microsoft explains which cloud security problems are your problem

Easier answer.

I roll it out for myself, and it's all my problem.

25 years+, no problems. Go figure :-)

This headline will, in part, cost pepper-spraying University of California, Davis $175k

Pepper spray?

That's good eats. I put it on my breakfast eggs :-)