* Posts by I3N

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Y'know... Publishing tech specs may be fair use, says appeals court

I3N
Happy

Strong-Ties will turn any sysadmin into a construction expert

Love the stuff ... then I saw that I needed spec adhesive and bolt to fasten the 4X4 base in to the patio cement.

BTW, I'm neither.

Scumbag confesses in court: LuminosityLink creepware was my baby

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Pint

"It slices!! It dices!! Also makes ...

... julienne fries!!"

Who fancies a six-core, 128GB RAM, 8TB NVMe … laptop?

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Boffin

Re: What does it run?

So what you are saying is that you never had to use the forward hatch of a Los Angles class to set up ...

Gawd almighty, loved them there 17" Nanao's with the Trinitron tubes.

Thanks for the happy memories, Micron – now beat it, says China: Court bans chip sales

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Pint

oxymoron

People's Court

Relive your misspent, 8-bit youth on the BBC's reopened Micro archive

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Angel

Remember ASCII, hell ...

Sent some ASCII to a radio station on a floppy that contained a list of songs for if stranded on desert isle ...

Don't remember the songs ... but remember there was a bit of animation ... of course, once played the file 'sort of' deleted itself.

Scored two tickets, row 30, center at an outdoor amphitheater, to see Elvis Costello!!!

Script kiddie goes from 'Bitcoin Baron' to 'Lockup Lodger' after DDoSing 911 systems

I3N
Devil

This should be easy

Pls

Down vote if you can honestly say you've ever been to Chandler or Mesa.

Up vote if you'd ever want to go back!

Are your IoT gizmos, music boxes, smart home kit vulnerable to DNS rebinding attacks? Here's how to check

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Coat

Do we have ...

... the same family?

What can you do when the pup of programming becomes the black dog of burnout? Dude, leave

I3N
Happy

Re: Woof - Bork!

Bork bork bork bork. Bork bork.

Bork.

Unbreakable smart lock devastated to discover screwdrivers exist

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Angel

Personally prefer the aesthetics of button head socket cap screws ...

Something like a 1/4 or M6 or larger in SS ...

Just shreds and jams those hex bits - cheap or expensive - after the first couple of screws.

Which isn't that the purpose of security - to slow down the opposition

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Pint

Re: tamper-proof screws aren't

Chinesium - aka chrome plated pot metal

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Coat

Re: Where did you get that $20 padlock?

Invest in a S100 and the world was yours ...

or a L001 and mine is yours.

Youth crime falls as kids stay inside to play Grand Theft Auto instead of going out to steal cars

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Big Brother

Gotta be true ...

Yeah caught an 'old guy' on video breaking our windows at 6PM, daylight here ...

Searched and searched the feed looking for some nighttime punk ...

Kind enough to fix the screen back, but turned and appeared to be cursing the building ...

US regains supercomputer crown from Chinese, for now

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Boffin

China has a consistent record ...

of boasting of achieving some great milestone that ends up as some version of a technology tourist trap.

Was it T-1 or T-2 that was reported to have no programmers for at least for 10 years due to a lack of talent.

Any wagers on reports of the current status of T-1.

USA! USA! We're No.1! And we want to keep it that way – in spaaaace

I3N
Boffin

Launching TRL-3/4's into space ...

should solve all the problems.

Generally referred to as PhD welfare programs ... ;]

Calm your conspiracy theories, latest glimpse reveals Planet Nine may just be a pipe dream

I3N
Coat

Re: Planet 10 1803.

The # 1803 now haunts my vivid dreams!

In the form of a 3 times b*strd of the prime 601.

Always with a 'welcome back' to 1709.

I3N
Angel

If that is your intent ...

... support naming that dwarf planet Laika!

[aka PUP for those Space Dandy fans]

You blithering Ajit! Huawei burns Pai for FCC sh*tlist proposal

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Pint

DATELINE: May 35 - ZTE still in business? ...

Oh there it is, fourth post down, working on 'large' scale integration ...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/05/imposter-official-account-of-the-week-comyouthleague/

Half of all Windows 10 users thought: BSOD it, let's get the latest build

I3N
Trollface

Ha, flying pig ...

You must be referring to the J-20.

Sort your spending habits out, UK Ministry of Defence told over £20bn black hole

I3N
Coat

Re: Outsourcing

These guys have the best. https://twitter.com/vincent_wong666/status/995134760509886465

Is your gadget using secondhand memory? Predictable senility allows boffins to spot recycled NAND chips

I3N
Coat

Re: "There is very few works"

And printed with no [sic] ....

so say the 'suthors' in 'Bama.

"Preeti Kumari, Bahar Talukder, Sadman Sakib, Biswajit Ray, and Tauhidur Rahman of the University's electrical and computer engineering school."

Pentagon in uproar: 'China's lasers' make US pilots shake in Djibouti

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Pint

Re: Not really - I'm thinking you have to be pretty accurate

up voted for 'Chinisium', touché

I3N
Mushroom

Friggin' Yahoos

Probably some of those South Sudan 'heros'

Grab your lamp, you've pulled: Brits punt life-saving gravity-powered light

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Pint

Dry sand flows better than water ...

One that would LAST in the desert ... blasted dust gets into everything ... gums up bearings and coats the insides of equipment everywhere ...such is boffin life in a mud building armed with air hose and vacuum cleaner ...

Expect the obligatory downvotes ...

Double double, soil and trouble, fire burn and heat shield bubble: NASA cracks rover, has dirty talk with ESA

I3N
Coat

Re: No news here ...

Good to see stuff fail!

the latest generation of 'snake oil' salespersons want to send stuff up with TRL's 4 or 5

and are the first to blame the 'software'

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Pint

Re: No news here ...

Tested with the belief was that it would fail.

Boss sent overpaid IT know-nothings home – until an ON switch proved elusive

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Pint

Re: Ah, the 3si and 4si...

sorely miss my 5si ... tricked out with memory and paper trays and JetDirect card...

worked all weekend for it by putting together 10 pc's when 'their' support said they didn't want to go to jail for procurement issues ...

[never was a problem, and do have an honorable mention in the GAO report to Congress over buying from a site that used a credit card billing company who had less than desirable customers ... bought a software package that calculated head pressure for water flow ... sponsor did an ship alt and now needed coverage to do it again]

delivered them on Sunday in the conference room ... oh the gripes when Monday morning's meeting had to move them ... also for not loading extra special drivers [my response: user if you want that, you have the disks]

printer went into local repair shop and never saw it again.

Planned European death ray may not need Brit boffinry brain-picking

I3N

Laser fluff ...

Wired has that market cornered.

But see that style has a home over at the BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/blogs-china-blog-43792655

I3N

Re: Ironic...

Yes, the perennial con.

Blue-green anyone?

Hold the phone: Mystery fake cell towers spotted slurping comms around Washington DC

I3N
Coat

DHS knows and said so

'the DHS would require funding for software, hardware, and personnel to do so.'

Who had Intel in the 'discrimination lawsuit' pool? Congratulations

I3N
FAIL

ElReg you did this to yourself

What, nary a decent stock photo of an Asian woman working in all your bits!

.... will type for down votes ...

It's baaack – WannaCry nasty soars through Boeing's computers

I3N
Pint

Still fondly remember the morning hearing all those cries of grief ...

working down the hallway when those who thought ILOVEYOU was some sort of greeting ...

Hackers pwn Baltimore's 911 system?! Quick, someone call 91– doh!

I3N
Headmaster

Wow ... get to use this icon ...

As The Voice of 9-1-1™, NENA is on the only professional organization solely focused on 9-1-1 policy, technology, operations, and education issues.

NENA Call Answering Standard/Model Recommendation

NENA 56-005.1, June 10, 2006, Revised 8/31/2017

3.3 Standard Answering Protocol – 9-1-1 lines. All 9-1-1 lines at a primary Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) shall be answered beginning with “9-1-1.”

Comment: The correct answering statement is “Nine-One-One”, never “Nine Eleven”. Additional information or questions may be added, as in: “9-1-1, what is the emergency?”, or “9-1-1 what is the address of the emergency?”.

Reg writer wins quite prestigious journalism prism

I3N
Thumb Up

Beer ...

... not optional ...

Fleeing Facebook app users realise what they agreed to in apps years ago – total slurpage

I3N
Flame

Cook said what ...

in China, no less.

Let me know when Cook offers Roy Jones a job.

Thought the purpose of killing the chicken was to scare the monkey ....

FBI raids home of spy sat techie over leak of secret comms source code on Facebook

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Coat

Theranos, mere child's play ...

That link, TOTAL BS ...

a better read - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/how-to-blow-6-billion-on-a-tech-project/2/

'Ding! Ding! Commander arriving' ended up deputy running the place at one point ...

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Angel

Re: "Weed is also accused of earlier nicking $340,000"

On the other hand, a properly signed Letter of Marque, kept on-person at all times, for any and all equipment ...

Along with the appropriate DD Form 250's and 1149's for the non-returning stuff.

Ken a Welshman in the Royal Navy, told us that when the HMS Sheffield sank, the joke was about how much equipment was 'lost with proper paperwork' in that incident.

Uber breaks self-driving car record: First robo-ride to kill a pedestrian

I3N
Boffin

Re: Clear cut...

You've never been to AZ

1) generally flat terrain

2) economically driven, substantial pedestrian traffic

3) wearing of dark colours - the need to not stand out [economic and personal safety issue]

4) http://ktar.com/story/443238/tempe-police-step-up-efforts-to-enforce-pedestrian-laws/? [mistaken about definition of crosswalk, which most of AZ seems to be]

Saying this, have no idea of the circumstances.

Some folks in SoCal prefer the train.

Sister-in-law was a Jane Doe for about two weeks and prefer to think she was confused and wandered into traffic.

Do miss Uber testing in the neighborhood where dust storms and wet microbursts are common. Set up E-Band propagation range kitty-corner across intersection. Wanted to see them earn their 9's without mm-Waves.

Cyborg fined for riding train without valid ticket

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Pint

Where was the mention of tDCS ...

anybody?

Airbus CIO: We dumped Microsoft Office not over cost but because Google G Suite looks sweet

I3N
Boffin

Iridium ...

... so cool to see the flashes!

Surprise: Norks not actually behind Olympic Destroyer malware outbreak – Kaspersky

I3N
Angel

Re: Which country was banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics?

A more modern interpretation of the original "axe to grind" would be 'had a flash drive with files to plot!'

Sacked saleswoman told to pay Intel £45k after losing discrim case

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Coat

Re: Legal Costs

If you want to read a sad, poorly written story - "The Lady is Blind," Balais

I3N
Pint

Re: Legal Costs - there is actually a chart somewhere

That was referenced during damages phase ... $425/hour if liability proven ...

Otherwise my contract was about $200+/hour to take case

I3N
Angel

Think I earned the icon ...

Having won the point FOUR times and beat back their only appeal ... hiring an extremely respected EEO lawyer was well worth it [the more low-profile the better - called SF told to try this guy in Berkeley] ...

put a total of $300K on the line with odds of success 1/600 each time ... beat 5 federal lawyers and first judge lost his job ...

I'm pretty sure 3 divisions heads, two department heads, and one executive director felt victimized ...

Whether she had a case or not, that is what the process is about ... to watch my guy work in depositions and drop the hammer at hearing was great theater ...

News lobsters demand to be let back into the Facebook boiling pot

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Devil

'utterly clueless Speiser' drank the Kool-Aid ...

"The post is required, and must contain letters."

BOFH: Honourable misconduct

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Coat

Re: I think I even have a script for that.

Yeah, good luck ...

Ask for funds to support the local film commission tithe and city permits!

I3N
Pint

Re: I think I even have a script for that.

Oh don't ...

let a crew in for 'credits' and still haven't had the time to replace the load bearing wall that the set guy from LA said wasn't! [temp support only a year later when son pointed out the sag]

Producer/writer found out only so much good will out there when crowd-sourced financing maybe covered half of costs ....

Why did I expect that the cast/crew would be any better than government contractors ...

Damn sign painter stole my nice, big, golf umbrella to boot ... imagine her walking for the 'cause' under the Callaway logo ...

Is this why Facebook is such a toxic dump? HP, HPE sued for 'leaking chems' into office site

I3N
Happy

Re: A small irony

Thanks ... been to local University's auctions ... many old diffusion pumps ... adding PCBs to contamination watch list ...

Ohio coder accused of infecting Macs, PCs with webcam, browser spyware for 13 years

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Pint

Got one of those trade show camera blocking slider thingies for Xmas.

In my stocking ... says IEEE ... passed the tradition of trade show swag on to children

Been using a hole punch on painter's tape ... didn't google recently run an anniversary hole punch a-gif ...

1 in 5 STEM bros whinge they can't catch a break in tech world they run

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Pint

Read the EET - knew early that Tech was shit and being a lower-paid boffin was best

along with having a plumber look over my shoulder while I was doing homework and comment "Oh, transistor load lines".

China may stick to its own DRAM memory soon – researchers

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Pint

Re: Not going to happen

Remember this .... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-companies-lawsuits/chinese-state-entities-argue-they-have-sovereign-immunity-in-u-s-courts-idUSKCN0Y2131

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