Posts by IceC0ld

Tor pedos torpedoed again, this time Feds torpedo four Tor pedos – and keep how they unmasked dark-web scumbags under wraps

disgusting site, disgusting users, well played to the feds for getting them shut down and away

and well played to El Reg copy writers for the

Feds torpedo four Tor pedos

Cyberlaw wonks squint at NotPetya insurance smackdown: Should 'war exclusion' clauses apply to network hacks?

Re: Consider the flip side of the argument. . . .

so doesn't anyone here recall the Jerusalem virus then

it was before my time [1987 IIRC] but it was a classic, and could still, I imagine, give some systems a kicking if it ever gets an 'upgrade'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_(computer_virus)

Re: It doesn't matter if it's war

The contract means what it says.

the contract means what the insurer says it means .............. FTFY

Re: Consider the flip side of the argument. . . .

And was Jerusalem builded here

Among those dark satanic mills?

City-obliterating asteroid screamed past Earth the other night – and boffins only clocked it just 26 hours beforehand

The New Nightmare

the Nork's, [enter your nuke owning terror of choice here ] 'test' fire a missile, and an unseen meteorite slams into ConUSA

WWIII is a go :o(

It's so hot, UK needs to start naming heatwaves like we do when it's a bit windy – climate boffins

Re: She's a bit of a scorcher.,,,

moist Mavis does it for me

Boris Johnson's promise of full fibre in the UK by 2025 is pie in the sky

Re: What is a BloJob promise worth?

so a political type lies again, colour me surprised ................

Tesla’s Autopilot losing track of devs crashing out of 'leccy car maker

Re: Autonomous driving is months, years, or decades away

hahahahahahahhahahahah

thaks for that, my first genuine LOL moment for quite a while

for me, the FAD bit is never really going to materialise while we 'allow' people to also be on the same roads as the computer driven units, and what about motor cycles, fast as a car, small as a slower push bike, but still carries a very important load, in my case ME :o)

do like the look of the vehicles they are pushing out at moment too, but douby if I will ever be in the market for any car at those prices :o(

Guy is booted out of IT amid outsourcing, wipes databases, deletes emails... goes straight to jail for two-plus years

is it just me, or does it read that the Co had a single point of failure built into their IT set up ?

who, in this day and age has a single enterprise / domain admin

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and who in their right minds has all data so easily accessible it can all be cleared in a single visit

as for the recovery rates ..............

The company says it spent about 10 hours restoring as much data as possible, at a cost of about $50,000.

does anyone else suspect a litlle bit of enhancment for 'insurance purposes' ffs

Boffins ready to go live with system that will track creatures great and small from space

Icarus (International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space)

someone REALLY wanted it to be called ICARUS

human tracker COULD be TITSUP :o)

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38 billion reasons to say goodbye: Ex-Mrs Bezos splits from Jeff with 4% of Amazon shares in tow

to 'see' a billion

to envision a billion, we need to think of seconds not $$$

so, a MILLION seconds is about 3 months

a BILLION seconds is around 30 years

and a TRILLION seconds is around 30 000 years

so to SPEND a BILLION at $1 a second would take about 30 years, and if people start to say that isn't very much, it IS OVER $85 000 a DAY every day for those thirty odd years ........................

BOFH: What's Near Field Implementation? Oh, you'll see. Turn left here

Re: " wine has no affect on "

not just the WINE, daughter, in need of Photoshop, for some school project, we can't afford that, so told her to search for GIMP ..........................

in hindsight, I SHOULD have told her to search under G.I.M.P

but since then she is very quiet around me, and just stares quite nasty daggers TBH

Re: " wine has no affect on "

It says that too much wine gives you cancer, not enough wine gives you cancer, wine is a cure for cancer, wine has no affect on cancer and that too much wine around this time of year will result in your baby's star sign being cancer.

that paragraph is an absolute classic, and if I could, I would memorise it and use it a LOT to the moaning swine who hate IT wheneverTHEY fuck up

IBM wafts stat minimum redundo terms under noses of Global Tech Services staff

IBM has misfired since 2012 when revenues peaked at $106.9bn. In calendar 2018 the company reported turnover of $79.6bn.

now, it MAY just be me, BUT, if I was owner of a Co that was kicking up 79 BILLION of - I will assume this to be profit - then maybe I would consider it to be doing just rather damn fine, and maybe I would leave it alone ?

staff morale may not be something you can find on the bottom line, but I imagine it will have an impact on things going forward, if you were to keep trimming away ?

as I said, it may just be me though :o)

Drone fliers are either 'clueless, careless or criminal' says air traffic gros fromage

Re: Let's ask the BOFH...

I thought BoFH classified [L]users as - Living or Left , and those who left can be sub-divided into liing and dead I suppose, although the PFY may get excited at the thought of sub-dividing anyonee:o)

Chinese bogeyman gets Huawei with featuring in EE's 5G network launch thanks to bumbling BBC

Re: Bit steep

and isn't 5G capable of D/Ling a movie in seconds .................... so your £50 will last how many seconds ? ....................

Sex and drugs and auto-tune: What motivates a millennial perp?

without human contact

He reckons some of us will be having "great sex" without human contact within the next six years

six YEARS ................

I've been donning a glove so I can pretend it's someone else doing the dirty for at least 30 years ffs :o)

How do you like dem Windows, Apple? July opening for Microsoft's first store in Blighty

Re: Ooooh Oxford Circus! Classy!

The company no doubt justifies the stores as much on the basis of their PR impact as on profitability.

due to location, their 'profitability' will be severely impaired by the rates bill for that particular area ............

Re: Say what?

that would be the OS then ?

runs and hides :o)

Senator: US govt staff may be sending their smartphone web traffic 'wrapped in a bow' to Russia, China via VPNs

Re: It's not really surprising.

looking for the face palm icon :o(

Ex-student, 52, suing university for AU$3m after PhD rejection destroyed 'sex drive'

more of a "in summer, cum loudly" ........................

Egg on North Face: Wikipedia furious after glamp-wear giant swaps article pics for sneaky ad shots – and even brags about it in a video

"Effective immediately, we have ended the campaign and moving forward, we’ll strive to do better and commit to ensuring that our teams and vendors are better trained on Wikipedia’s site policies."

translation :-

BUSTED, ah well, there's always next time :o)

Infosec bloke claims: Pornhub owner shafted me after I exposed gaping holes in its cartoon smut platform

give it time, I can feel the force building ................. :o)

Re: It "takes the security of its users very seriously."

Mindgeek, owners of Nutaku and Pornhub, as well as the future operators of a large chunk of Britain's upcoming porn ID card scheme, told El Reg it "takes the security of its users very seriously.

it doesn't however, wish to actually touch anything belonging to said punters ..............

Silence of the vans: Uber adds 'Plz STFU, driver' button to app for posh passengers using Black

as in the old joke

bloke walks into the barbers, barber starts saying, "hello, and what a beautiful day, and how would sir like his hair cut today ?"

"in complete silence" is the reply :o)

Put a stop to these damn robocalls! Dozens of US state attorneys general fire rocket up FCC's ass

Re: My 3 steps to avoiding robocalls.

all good ideas, but again, it is putting the onus on the users to do it all, and this IS in the hands of the operators to stop this, the tech does exist, but sadly, whilst the operators get paid for the completed calls, it isn't going to happen, maybe make a charge to anyone making the call, payable in advance, a bit like the good old ? days of the public phone box, and putting in coins before you dialled, might make the whole enterprise uneconomic ?

What are we more likely to see? A smooth Windows 10 May release... or a xenon-124 decay? Oh dear, bad news, IT folks

Re: “the rarest thing ever recorded.”

It's the longest, slowest process that has ever been directly observed .............

and will remain so until the elusive fully functioning from the get go MS Windows update release arrives :o)

Europe's home PC buyers reach for their collective smartphone, sigh: We don't need a new desktop. This is a computer, right?

That's only one half of it. The other would be that Microsoft would need to make Windows and all who sail in it run more slowly so as to need the extra speed.

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I believe that THAT particular option is already registered to Apple :o)

Leaky Martin will be livin' la vida lockdown: Ex-NSA bod cops to taking home 'up to 50TB' of hush-hush dossiers

OR maybe it's a case of

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Easy-to-hack combat systems, years-old flaws and a massive bill – yup, that's America's F-35

Easy to hack ...................

hopefully, we will have a fully developed software suite for when the F35 takes to the skies as a fully formed defender of the free ......................

apparently it will be delivered to said airframe whilst airborne, by herds of flying pigs :oP

got to admit, I hadn't thought about the inherent hackability of all things nowadays in relation to the armed forces, was kind of hopeful that as the beastie carries rather a large amount of ordinance at tremendous cost, that someone would have put in the hours to make it both servicable AND secure

maybe we need to start genetically altering a few pigs ready for the future upgrades ...........................................

Here's a race condition we can get behind: Neural net learns to keep up with 'skilled' amateur track driver in robo-ride safety experiment

is it REALLY going to be worth it ?

WHAT is the point of it all ?

simple question, serious response needed

if it is JUST to get the human out of the loop, then is it going to be a supplement to a person doing the actual driving ?

is it going to do ALL the driving, and all of the neural training is to allow this to [eventually] occur

is there a REALISTIC date set down yet, when there will be real unmanned vehicles on the roads at all ?

if so, are we looking at seperate roads for manned v unmanned at all ?

is ANY data looking towards motorcycles at all, NOT to ride them, but to be aware and acknowledge them ?

TL:DR - I am seriously wondering WHY we are bothering as it appears to be a vanity project gone bad, that no one is able to stop

a car crash in the making as it were :o(

Cloudera's machine learning head honcho: Collaboration? Data scientists have heard of it

this is one of the many and varied rasons I love it here at El Reg, a good - IMHO - and balanced walkthrough of an issue that I had never even considered or heard of really, top marks, get the teams a beer :o)

Take a deep breath: AWS has just rolled out cheaper instances, glacier-slow storage, and AI container tools

Take a Deep Breath

Could have been SO much worse ..................

or better, depending on which side of the coin you look at :oP

could have got

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But we hired a consultant, cries UK pensions biz as it swallows £40k fine for 2 million spam emails

Re: Fines are pointless

OR, as was mooted a few years back, make a micro charge for EVERYONE per Email sent, creditied back if it is replied to ?

call it 1p per Email, for us standard users, a couple of ££ / $$ per year, that spam shot however, would have incurred a £20 000 bill just to send them ..................

From MySpace to MyFreeDiskSpace: 12 years of music – 50m songs – blackholed amid mystery server move

Re: MySpace

They've hired a Marie Kondo type to declutter all the unwanted stuff.

Result:- MySpace.

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Result :- MORE Space

FTFY :o)

Re: I wonder

What would be the cost of hosting 50 million old MP3s?

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call it 5MB per MP3 so around 250 TB's of storage [now] going spare ........................

I'm another that thinks they just CBA keeping the old stuff, and would also wonder how they 'lost' everything and only appear to have a single copy too, whatever happened to BACKUP, then BACKUP again, before doing ANYTHING D/B related

UK code breakers drop Bombe, Enigma and Typex simulators onto the web for all to try

Building upon previous Polish work .........................

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Shurely Shome Mishtake

I've seen that U-571 film, and I'm DAMN certain Hollywood woudnt' lie :o)

All good, leave it with you...? Chap is roped into tech support role for clueless customer

Re: What?

And, from the article "Do the words “just in case“ also fill you with foreboding?"

In my case, the words I dread most are "While you are here...".

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for ME, I had been on service desk for a while, and was sort of into the script thing, so on getting a field service contract, some things carried over, and on one job, at the conclusion, I uttered those immortal desk drone words, "and while I'm here, is there anything else I can help you with" ..............

NEVER again ffs :o)

Why are there never free power sockets when my Y-fronts need charging?

Re: Solar car.

If left under the scorching sun

They're probably not going to make a model for the UK market.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

breathes in

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites now for sale on dark web, seller boasts

Re: 617M real account details?

not just your good self, I have been a peruser of said interwebs for more years than you can shake an abacas at, and I have not heard of a single one of them either ......................

Re: hacked account indicator

or just sign up to https://haveibeenpwned.com/ ?

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now, it MAY just be me ........................ but I always suspected that should I ever have to use said site, that the response would always be ...........

you have NOW :oP

Sussex rap fan wants statue of Easy-E from NWA in his hometown because he's a 'legend'

Re: Newhaven?

I thought Newport was the spiritual home of rap in the UK...

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it's possibly the siritual home of something that SOUNDS like rap ................................. :oP

Bloke thrown in the cooler for eight years after 3D-printing gun to dodge weapon ban

Re: Undeterred

Build it, and they will come ..............

'they' being the man obs ...........................

Pokemon No! Good news: You can now ban the virtual pests, er, pets to stop nerds wandering around your property

Pokemon No :o)

The 12 plaintiffs? will each get $1,000 a piece.

The lawyers, of course, get the best deal of all: which amounts to $3,200 an hour

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proof, if any were needed, that the devil looks after his own ffs :o(

Roses are red, this is sublime: We fed OpenAI's latest chat bot a classic Reg headline

We fed OpenAI's latest chat bot a classic Reg headline

I can see that this sort of behaviour in the not too distant future will be classed as hate crimes against AI :o)

the poor bloody algorithm must have shit a new one when that one dropped in LOL

After Amazon's Bezos exposes Pecker, National Enquirer pushes back, promises to probe itself

Re: Dodging the accusation

The lesson to be learned here is that if you really want to work for shit-bags make damn sure you have quality dirt on them first.

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in other words, it's never realy been about WHAT you know, or even WHO you know, more a case of what you know, ABOUT who you know .............................

Cop films chap on body-worn cam because he 'complains about cops a lot'. Chap complains

Re: No doubt they passed that one by the Ethics department.

They do have an Ethics department, don't they...

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Oh HELL YEA

just past Suthics, close to Wethics

Pants-purveyor in plea for popularity: It's not just any pork push... it's an M&S 'love sausage'

Re: Will nobody think of the parents!

I read PEANUTS, specsaver moment again :o)

then I recalled thre were a certain brand of the delicious pub snack from Nobby's Nuts .......

did not see that coming :oP

Is this a wind-up? Planet Computers boss calls time on ZX Spectrum reboot firm

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