Posts by IceC0ld

Well that's just spliffing: UK Amazon merchants peddling Mary Jane

Re: "El Reg yesterday made Amazon aware of the weed being sold via its website."

El Reg yesterday made Amazon aware of the weed being sold via its website.

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could have given as all here a two day heads up ffs :oP

Big data at sea: How the Royal Navy charts the world's oceans

Re: I knew that

But then I've also never understood the point of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

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there's something in their constitution that doesn't allow the use of the full military on US soil, so in case of disasters, they can use these engineers and the national guard

That's odd. I thought the whole point of a nuclear sub was that it could stay submerged for weeks / months on end (basically as long as food/drink supplies last). Does it REALLY take a year to do maintenance on a sub

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the maintenance i just ONE thing, once the ship has been away from sea for any length of time the crew need to come back up to speed and require training in ALL aspects of their duties before they are deemed fit to return, hence if you have four, one at sea, one heading back, one in maintenance, one in training is how it all runs

Britain may not be able to fend off a determined cyber-attack, MPs warn

Re: It gets worse.

T otal

I nability

T o

S top

U nwanted

P robing

I KNOW I said the last one was the last one, but come on :o) and I have formatted it differently too

Using a free VPN? Why not skip the middleman and just send your data to President Xi?

Re: Just use Tor.

but the more people who use Tor, the more accommodating they will become.

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Err, I THINK you will find that the more people that use TOR that the whole edifice will start to crumble as stupidity arrives in spades, just because a user has found TOR is NO indication they have any idea of WTF they are actually doing, and so they will whinge and whine, and eventually it will all be as easy as it is now outside TOR ffs :o( and not in a good way

Microsoft slips ads into Windows 10 Mail client – then U-turns so hard, it warps fabric of reality

Re: Why would anyone tolerate this?

until it is TOO LATE and they're cooked.

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bit of a typo there matey :o)

Where to implant my employee microchip? I have the ideal location

The BLOODY RFID

Do you use an RFID card to unlock security doors or release gates at your workplace? Do they work every time? Of course they bloody don't. Half the time, you're standing in front of the door flourishing your card impotently across the sensor from different directions again and again, watching the red light flash repeatedly with an accompanying ugly audio bleat, as you duly recite the workplace mantra: "Fucking open the fuck up you fucking fucked fucker".

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ROFLMAO

tonight actually, and TBH, there were a LOT more F's in MY mantra

RIP Bill Godbout: Cali wildfire claims the life of master maverick of microcomputers

Re: RIP

I just asked my Amazon Alexa who Bill Godbout was. She had no idea but had told me earlier in response to a morning greeting that it was Mickey Mouse's birthday.

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and THIS tells us more about the standing of IT in peoples lives than anything we shall read today, this along with Joe Publics breathtaking lack of knowledge on IT Sec makes me want to weep

RIP to one of the first to 'get it / IT' as it were

Russia: We did not hack the US Democrats. But if we did, we're immune from prosecution... lmao

In Russia

and once more

TITSUP

The Idiots That Seriously Underestimated Putin

Between you, me and that dodgy-looking USB: A little bit of paranoia never hurt anyone

Re: It'll only get worse

one more, and I'll stop - PROMISE :o)

TITSUP

This Is The Safe USB Present .................................

YouTube supremo says vid-streaming-slash-piracy giant can't afford EU's copyright overhaul

IMHO

You Tube is believed to pull down between 10 and 15 BILLION $ per year ........................

it's been raking in this cash for over a decade, but now, when asked to ensure that the ones creating the product, are catered for / paid for or product removed .................

NOW it's all too much like hard work ........................

you have NO idea how hard I would be prepared to function to ensure that the goose kept on laying those golden returns ffs

Two fool for school: Headmaster, vice principal busted for mining crypto-coins in dorms, classrooms

On a related note, did the crowd-compute schemes for protein folding ever produce anything worthwhile, relative to the energy used?

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the conspiracy types will tell you that everything that was found to be usefu lhas been stashed down the back of various couches until there is a decent reason [ read $$$$ ] for it to be 'discovered' :oP

Windows XP? Pfff! Parts of the Royal Navy are running Win ME

known as CIS, in the inevitable military acronym.

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and they do a decent job of solving the navies crimes too I hear :oP

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And how do you KEEP it that way? Especially against both clandestine bridging and PHBs who don't know better?

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because it's the military, and you do as you are told, even when it is not necessarily the right thing :o)

Web Foundation launches internet hippie manifesto: 'We've lost control of our data, it is being used against us'

The 'good' old days

when all we had to worry about was that pesky flaming from the IRC thingy that the damn kids had come up with, mind you, with access being in the 56kbps, we were LUCKY to have flames, I barely raised smoke :oP

just re read this, and am now sitting waiting for the got wood remarks ffs, sometimes I go moist for the days of IRC

30 spies dead after Iran cracked CIA comms network with, er, Google search – new claim

Needs an acronym here, maybe we could reuse TITSUP :o) seems to be popular to keep using well past the use by date :oP

Total Inability To Secure Unlevel Playing fields ....................

Roscosmos: An assembly error doomed our Soyuz, but we promise it won't happen again

My lexicon is constantly embiggened by reading El Reg

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and today mine has also been 'embiggened' :o)

Nikola Tesla's greatest challenge: He could measure electricity but not stupidity

Re: The name 'Tesla' has been hijacked

something I have got into the habit of, is adding a link to the following site / page for anything Mr Tesla associated :o) - he was a real genius, and should be remembered properly

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

Assange catgate hearing halted as Ecuador hunts around for someone who speaks Australian

Re: More a "Communication Breakdown"

not just Zeppelin, anyone else recall Mud ?

the cat crept in, CRAPPED, crept out again

Sorry friends, I'm afraid I just can't quite afford the Bitcoin to stop that vid from leaking everywhere

Re: I've seen a definite uptick in these

A day when I learn something is (at least mostly) is not wasted.

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unfortunately, for me, the learning has been all about the new ways to describe mans oldest addiction :o)

The best way to screw the competition? Do what they can't, in a fraction of the time

Re: Ethernet 10base2

It was always fun tracing which of the many connections in the pile of spaghetti behind the desks had fallen apart when half an office had suddenly gone off line.

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ah yes, the happy days of a [packet]storm in a teacup LOL

If you saw a Google ad recently, know that it helped pay off one of its 'sex pest' execs $90m

different rules

he pressured a woman he had worked with at Google, and had been romantically seeing, into performing oral sex on him in a hotel. He denied any wrongdoing

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just wow - SHE gets screwed and HE gets the pay off

from this moment forward to be known as - she got googled ........................

Should a robo-car run over a kid or a grandad? Healthy or ill person? Let's get millions of folks to decide for AI...

the Trolley problem

as always, let XKCD give you THE answer :o)

https://xkcd.com/1455/

It only took Oz govt transformation bods 6 months and $700k to report that blockchain ain't worth the effort

Lets get this right. A Government IT project was completed within 6 months, for less than seven figures and came up with a tangible result. I'll put that down as an unqualified success, especially when compared to the myriad multi-million multi-year failures.

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here's hoping they used a blockchain app in their process too

London flatmate (Julian Assange) sues landlord (government of Ecuador) in human rights spat

Disgusting, absolutely disgusting article. I am banning the "news" site theregister.co.uk from my company's allowed sites policy.

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bit of a god like admin gone nutz there, unless it IS irony ? but just comes across as crap

and a whole single post too, we are HONOURED Julian :oP

Yale Security Fail: 'Unexpected load' caused systems to crash, whacked our Smart Living Home app

Re: The "Smart Home" crashed?

Welcome to the 21st century - there's more to come...

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or not, dependant on if its crashed or not ..............

Insects with farts that smell like coriander assist in covering up Paris's aroma d'urine

Paris's aroma d'urine

the ever gross Toilette a la Turque

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first time coming across one was whilst working in Spain early 80's, was slightly [VERY] drunk, hobbled into toilet, seen what looked like a shower basin with a 6" plughole, and had to come out and shout to the barman that "someone's nicked ya bog matey" :o)

UK defence secretary ponders £50m hit to terminate Capita recruiting contract

Re: The Sun

The most telling interchange:

MP

"The contract has not been complied with. There is therefore a breach of contract, isn't there ?"

Permanent Secretary

"It is unlikely to be as simple as that."

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YES Minister ................................

Re: If I got this kind of shit from a supplier

Just cancel the contract. Then set up a list of non allowed bidders for future contracts, changing the rules to allow this.

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then when Crapita come back at you, you tell them to go do one, or else, when they say -

"You and whose Army" just give them the 1000 yard stare :o)

LuminosityLink spyware mastermind gets 30 months in the clink, forfeits $725k in Bitcoin

He's like a gun manufacturer, not the shooter. Why is this poor sap being victimised?

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because the gun makers have the NRA to back them up, this "poor sap" is on his own, IF, however, there IS a NMA - National Malware Association - then he would be quids in and still at liberty to bring down his mayhem on all concerned

Leaked memo: No internet until you clean your bathroom, Ecuador told Julian Assange

3rd world countries

It is disgusting that Assange is held, without trial in an effective jail for so long. Call ourselves civilised: 3rd world countries must be laughing at our hypocrisy.

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the only laughing the said 3rd world countries will be doing is at why TF we haven't had him topped yet ffs

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

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

the tag line made me laugh, so ICON for that

we had to 'upgrade' a bunch of dumb / thin clients to get them to 64MB each, there were around 150 units, the RAM was 'just' a pile of 32MB stickes to do a straight plug in, and due to the cost, the memory was delived by Securicor ..................................

and anyone else recall THOSE days when the Battle of Britain game was released, and the comics went into meltdown, because it NEEDED 128MB of RAM to play it .................... WHO is going to spend THAT sort of money just to play a game, was one such strapline IIRC :o)

Super Micro China super spy chip super scandal: US Homeland Security, UK spies back Amazon, Apple denials

Conspiracy theorists, start your engines !

and now under the cover of all the huffing and puffing from the various 3 letter agencies, and the ongoing he said to me, that she said to him, that you said to me ............................... shenaninigans from all the other 'interested' parties

Beijing will now most likely start THEIR engines and switch those little beasties ON :oP

California cracks down on Internet of Crap passwords with new law to stop the botnets

Re: Any device manufactured in California..

Any device manufactured in California..

Well, thats going to help a lot.

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it's a start, and bear in mind that California, on its OWN is the WORLDS 5th largest economy, it is quite a start too, but as El Reg has pointed out, they have gone for low lying fruit, and there were better options available :o(

Google is still chasing the self-driving engineer that jumped ship to Uber

Further to the - what can you take away from your last job :oP

http://dilbert.com/strip/2002-05-26

Screwed SAP salesman scores $660,000 jury award

Its argument? That the salesman only gets paid when the customer pays SAP and that he can only get commissions while still working at the company. So even though he did the work and closed the deals, the company didn't get paid until after it had fired him, so he didn't deserve any compensation.

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SO

reading that phrase over and over, all I need to do is be a bastard owner - sorry BofH :oP - get decent sales team, and sack them once they SELL, but before client PAYS, and I save an absolute fortune .............. ?

I may be reading it wrong, has been known, but seriously, what kind of Co would even THINK that et alone try and use it IN COURT to justify not paying ffs

Send up a satellite to zap space junk if you want Earth's orbit to be clean, say boffins

Re: It all seems a bit far fetched, to me

The contents of how many Olympic swimming pools would it take per satellite?

A number that would take up an area roughly the size of Wales.

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Couldn't we just launch Wales ? :oP

what ever strikes it isn't going to make that much impact, and may well improve the vista :o)

The ink's not dry on California'a new net neutrality law and the US govt is already suing

Republican Michael O'Rielly was dead set against: "California’s net neutrality effort reaffirms its leaders’ total lack of understanding of how technology or our economy actually works,

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this in regards to the state that ALONE is the WORLD'S 5th largest economy

America cooks up its flavor of GDPR – and Google's over the moon

reflecting the US' typical free-market approach

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does this equate to "if you don't like what you see, buy a better version" ....................................

How an over-zealous yank took down the trading floor of a US bank

Re: DevOps?

All we need is a buzzy name and we can get waterfall development back in fashion.

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TITSUP

Total Inability To Support Usual Processes ....................

well, why the heck not, it's a great acronym :oP

HMRC contractor scores IR35 payout after yet another taxman blunder

Re: Next:

"Next: HMRC admits to being hoist upon it's own petard."

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more chance of the Daleks climbing stairs .........................

Tesla's chief accounting officer drives off after just a month on the job

Re: Tough times

While Tesla was already on shaky ground, and the Boring company / Hyperloop will never get off the ground

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not to be TOO pedantic, but those company parts aren't supposed to get off the ground :o)

Fruit flies use the power of the sun to help them fly in straight lines

@MOH

Just use chopsticks, it' s much easier

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only for beginners :o)

C'mon, if you say your device is 'unhackable', you're just asking for it: Bitfi retracts edgy claim

SO, what can we take from this ?

basically, if you want FREE, TOTAL pen tested devices. with EVERY vuln listed, then claim it as hacker proof, and wait...............

not too long either :o)

and personally, getting DOOM to play on my new tech would be a nice addition, I would have packaged that bad boy up as a bonus feature LOL

DraftKings rides to court, asks to unmask 10 DDoS suspects

SHOULD they be allowed to ?

Should DraftKings be able to unmask the attackers, the company plans to sue each for violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

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so far as I can see, this appears to be the classic open and shut case, Co was DDOS'ed, they have IP's of those involved, so surely the ISP should just hand over details, and lets all head to court, but wasn't there an issue a wee while back where the bad guys 'spoofed **' the IP's ? so how are they SO certain that these addresses are THE addresses they are looking for?

** not sure of the correct term

Golden State passes gold-standard net neutrality bill by 58-17

Tell us all again, exactly what problem CA's NN law will solve.

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it will stop POTUS 45 from screwing the pooch for one

Do I hear two million dollars? Apple-1 fossil goes on the block, cassettes included

Re: On the bright side...

it won't be pre-installed with Win-10-nic

it won't slurp your private data

it won't flash advertisements in your face

[I'll stop now]

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then you connect to the interwebz, it updates, and BAM, you are now back in the rat race, the daily SPAM will be along shortly, albeit very slowly :o)

Everybody dance now: Watch this AI code fool friends into thinking you can cut a rug like a pro

is this the next iteration of the PRON sites deep fake software ?

Quit that job and earn $185k... cleaning up San Francisco's notoriously crappy sidewalks

in the UK we used to say

where there's muck there's brass

it appears they have REALLY taken that to heart in the Bay

'Oh sh..' – the moment an infosec bod realized he was tracking a cop car's movements by its leaky cellular gateway

Re: Default passwords? In this day and age?

Since then more than 13,500 warning notes have been sent out to people making and operating exposed equipment, we're told, with two replies were received

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13 500 out

TWO back

shows the level of interest people seem to have for infosec :o(

Now you can tell someone to literally go f--k themselves over the internet: Remote-control mock-cock patent dies

premature celebrations

hhahahhahhahahahahahahaha

deep breath

hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahha

sorry, peurile and childish, but it tickled me... oops