Posts by stiine

Fish mentality: If The Rock told you to eat flies, would you buy my NFT?

Re: Fish reluctant to go on the scales

We're not all Semetic

Re: Lab-on-a-fish

Fishbit...

French court pulls SpaceX's Starlink license

RF

So, is Starlink not going to be transmitting while over France, or were the farmiers only complaining about the RF from the ground systems?

Boeing spreads bets with AWS, Google, Microsoft trio

really....

Three times the attack surface? Really?

GParted 1.4: New version of live partition-manipulation tool

Probably for operations that require active support contracts for insurance purposes.

Viasat spills on the Russian attack, warns of continued risks

where did they get spares....

with all of the supply chain issues recently, and orders of computer and network equipment with lead times already in double-digit months?

10x prices, year-long delays... Life as an electronics engineer in global chip shortage

Re: One would think that the counterfeiters

Licensing the designs would cut into their profits.

Hackers remotely start, unlock Honda Civics with $300 tech

Re: RE: only accept that uniquely shaped token

An excellent idea. You did leave out the words 'lack of' before the word security, though.

Microsoft Azure developers targeted by 200-plus data-stealing npm packages

50 downloads each?

I expect that's the 80 AV companies downloading new npm packages looking for malware.

C: Everyone's favourite programming language isn't a programming language

Re: Nothing new, kinda pathetic really

And Google will continue that for 3 years and then cancel the project?

Re: Nothing new, kinda pathetic really

The flip side of that coin is systemd where, even thought it was incomplete, its releases continue to absorb more and more systems, while still remaining incomplete.

Re: Nothing new, kinda pathetic really

You're telling me that Rust and Swift can't interface to a 50 year old API? That says more about these languages than anything else.

Re: Nothing new, kinda pathetic really

"...Linux depended for years on specific quirks of gcc, which isn't ideal: you'd like to get the behaviour you want by design rather than by accident."

I think you'll find, in most cases, that the behavior was defined by the limitations and/or vagaries of the hardware itself.

Re: A Grotesque Simulacra of C

Ah, yes, but C is subtly plural...therefore...

The IBM System/360 Model 40 told you to WHAT now?

Re: When you really need an error.

Lovely!

Re: Read canaries ... How I became Director of the Secret Police

One of my college friends, while at a previous and different college, had a writing class. Papers were due on test day, so while they were taking their tests, the professor was grading their papers, or so he said. What the class saw was him flipping through their papers one page after the next. He decided that the prof wasn't actually reading them, so in the middle of his next 8 page paper, he inserted the words 'peanut butter' into the middle of the sentence in the middle of the page. The next due date arrives and as he's taking his test, the professor is flipping through their papers. At the end of class he gets his paper back with "A-, peanut butter?" written on the top of the first page. It turns out the professor had an eidetic memory and could read a page at a glance.

ITC judge recommends banning toner imports that infringe Canon's IP

Re: Epic names

I went to college with a guy from Indonesia who only had one name. However, to get a visa for the U.S. to study, he had to supply a 2nd name, so he picked the ltter 'M' as it was in the middle of the english alphabet.

How experimental was Microsoft's 'experimental banner' in File Explorer?

Re: Usual answer

As far as I can tell, and I've only been using computers since 1975, all of those 'free udpates' I get from Microsoft on a monthly basis are only due to bugs in their code. They're so good at producing bugs that some of the 'free updates' are actually better bugs than they were attempting to fix.

Re: New monitor?

My office isn't big enough for one of those.

Re: "experimental"

They get more exercise that way, a lot more.

Client demo in 30 minutes. Just what could go wrong?

Re: Sometimes it can be dhcp

probably not true, but the vendor hasn't told you what additional option values need to be returned to the clients...probably Mitel If I had to guess.

Unable to write 'Amusing Weekly Column'. Abort, Retry, Fail?

Re: Turbo Pascal - Missing Semi-Colon at line 454

No, you learned to debug code.

All of your life should be a learing experience, hopefully a pleasant learning experience...

Re: My favourite error message

My most memorable error message was on CP-6 and was followed by a system crash:

"You can't get here."

When we called support, the support engineer didn't believe us. Fortunately, upstairs in the director's conference room were several Honeywell-Bull development staff, onsite for a demo of their newfangled RDBMS. My boss, the head system administrator, took the elevator to the 3rd floor and returned with JJ and put him on the phone to confirm the error message to the credulous support engineer.

Between the two of them, they were able to determine that it was caused by a hardware problem but I can no longer recall any specifics beyond it being a DMA error on an IO channel.

Dabbsy you missed the worst one

That being "Network Error." This error gave me fits because a stand-alone pc should never experience a Network Error. I've dreamed of killing Bill Gates since the 1980's.

Openness of Oracle licensing and audit tools questioned

my suggestion is...

My suggestion, take it or leave it, is that the Glas team be engaged during initial contract negotiations. This would mean that the customer would have access to the tool(s) from day one. Additionally, running the tool(s) in a non-Oracle shop should report zero licenses required*.

* - until they find JRE on 104% of of your computers

Devil-may-care Lapsus$ gang is not the aspirational brand infosec needs

What are AV companies going to do

What are AV companies going to do when one of these gangs names themselves FUCKYOU Inc and they can't actually name them. That's obscurity...

Microsoft slides ads into Windows Insiders' File Explorer

That's telling

"This was an experimental banner that was not intended to be published externally and was turned off."

Does this mean that they have to advertse Microsoft applications to their own employees?

OpenSSL patches crash-me bug triggered by rogue certs

oh joy

I guess I should change my systems from using 3fa (username/password/certficate/OTP) to using username/password/OTP+ip restriction...

Driver in Uber's self-driving car death goes on trial, says she feels 'betrayed'

Re: Who cares....

Then we've seen different screenshots. The shots I saw were of her holding her phone in her lap, below the steering wheel, not staring at the console (and no good driver would mount a phone on the console instead of the dash at eye height).

Re: Who cares....

You must not have see the video screen shots that were released. That date where she says that everyone went from supporting her to hating her was, in fact, the day the images were relesed showing her staring down at the phone in her lap. If she was only listening to The Voice its only because her phone was in split-screen mode and she was sending a text message.

Viasat, Rosneft hit by cyberattacks as Ukraine war spills online

Isn't "Shields Up" a service mark or trademark of GRC?

We have redundancy, we have batteries, what could possibly go wrong?

If it was the 40's, its possible that the Luftwaffe had something to do with the outgates.

Obvs, not helicopters but you get the idea.

'Quantum computer algorithms are linear algebra, probabilities. This is not something that we do a good job of teaching our kids'

Re: Wish you luck

But using metric doesn't teach you anything, except how to multiply by 10 (hint, add a zero).

Google buys threat intel giant Mandiant for $5.4bn

Re: Sales tax?

Why not?

Re: Boring Quibble

Damn, now I have to listen to that one again.

Cloudflare, Akamai: Why we're not pulling out of Russia

Why is everyone ignoring the telephone networks? Are they (cogent et al) suggesting we disconnect Russia from the telephone network, too?

Deere & Co won't give out software and data needed for repairs, watchdog told

ditto for McDonald's ice cream machines

The supplier (Taylor) makes much more money on maintenance services than they do on the machines, and the franchise agreement specified who can service the machines...i.e. Taylor.

IT blamed after HR forgets to install sockets in new office

Re: I worked in companies where HR actually run the business.

wong, that's what the legal department are there for.

Russia acknowledges sanctions could hurt its tech companies

Re: Oh yes, I'm used to living in basements...

Well, I'd guess Kasperski are going to become a sole-supplier.

US exempts South Korean smartphones from Russia export bans

Re: Making things easier

So, you're a Sprint customer. What phone are you planning to purchase? I'm in the same boat with a Galaxy S7 that has started to have SIM problems (no to mention that its networks are being decomm'd).

ARPANET pioneer Jack Haverty says the internet was never finished

Re: There is no such thing as a prototype

Yes, I can.

The zero-password future can't come soon enough

Re: Way, way, way too much hassle

re: bicycles, buses, fire hydrants, traffic lights, boats, and bridges.

It always takes me 8-16 tries to pass (fail...) captcha because I NEVER EVER click all of the correct images and ALWAYS click at least 2 incorrect images.

When it was just words (and i was younger) i used to stay up all night on friday and saturday just solving captchas because if was fun and challenging, and in my mind advanced the preservation of ancient books.

Re: hitch there is that only covers your browser, and only one browser

Pulse Secure used to be one of the sites that wouldn't let you paste your password. After I, and probably more important people, complained that typing a machine-generated password manager stored password was a pain in the ass, they changed their web UI to allow cut/paste.

Russia is the advanced persistent threat that just triggered. Ready?

Re: "if the data is safe from physical compromise then it's doubly so from virtual"

All in all, I'd consider that a defeat.

IBM cannot kill this age-discrimination lawsuit linked to CEO

Re: Guilty until proven guilty

Or discover that his/her inoperable late stage 4 cancer means that they can ignore the NDA signed along with the out-of-court settlment.

Re: Semantic alert

The vulture should ask for all of the words in that statment to be defined.

BOFH: All hail the job cuts consultant

Re: BOFH has excelled himself

But did he target the janitor?

A tale of two dishwashers: Buy one, buy it again, and again

Re: Broken glass, everywhere

I was going to ask if this was referring to Blondie, but them i read your subject and realized I was an idiot.

Re: Personalised Ads

On my tv, i just play a game on my tablet for 15-120 seconds and let the ads run because I want to cost those companies money. When the bastard 45m ad in the middle of the 6 minute video come on, i let them play for a minute and then skip them.

Re: Adverts

I can always tell what my GF has been watching on her tablet because my youtube ads start to show crap that I'd never buy, lease, rent or even steal.

FYI, Mr Dabbs, C&W isn't bad if you go back to pre-1970 albums.