Posts by Amentheist

Add passwords to list of stuff CafePress made hash of storing, says infoseccer. 11m+ who used Facebook 'n' pals to sign in were lucky

Re: jus sayin

He is wrong in the sense that hashing is fast and intended to be used to generate a digest so it's also fast to bruteforce while stuff like bcrypt are geared towards password storage and 'slower' to calculate

Thunderbolts and lightning very, very frightening as loo shatters, embedding porcelain shards in wall

What kind of PPE do I need when risking exposure to UPPE?

It's Black Hat and DEF CON in Vegas this week. And yup, you know what that means. Hotel room searches for guns

Re: Responsive Piety

Actually not reporting the name of perps in the media is one of the steps adised by sociologists for tackling the issue.

Rise of the Machines hair-raiser: The day IBM's Dot Matrix turned

Re: Re Dresscode

I suspect the new HR people figured out that that (a skirt) was going to happen sooner rather than later seeing that the 'old guard' in the office can hold their own (as we kicked back on some other manglement changes at the time quite effectively)

Re Dresscode

HR here banned shorts at one point, we gave her (it was a one lady team at the time - dead nice person, don't get me wrong, just with bone to pick for shorts wearing techies for some reason) so much whinging in response one of the company founding directors started coming to work wearing shorts in support/protest. A few months later when she left the new HR people jokingly said the only requirements now is that you come to work wearing clothes - been on shorts and trainers since! (I never knew trainers can be so comfy!)

It's Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Tech industry speaks its brains on Brexit-monger's victory

Re: Disaster

Same way they did in the 20th centrury with Gordon Brown?

(just playing devil's advocate)

Google's Go team decides not to give it a try

Re: xkcd.com/927/

use strict;

use warnings;

use Try::Tiny;

^ that's my non-Go crutch, the rest is ofc voodoo. But in a way it does make sense to keep the core clean

Queen Elizabeth has a soggy bottom: No, the £3.1bn aircraft carrier, what the hell did you think we meant?

Re: There it is...!

unlike say a stealth jet

Is it though, practically might be but in reality if you're fighting some inferior army with old tech that can't catch a stealth jet you got that advantage AND if you are (you probably wont won't be as that would mean open warfare with the russians or something then we're all screwed) it's just all just an arms race which I imagine is "good for business" so in a way it's a win-win (for someone other than tax payers or civilians..or anyone who rebells against the $govenrnment_in_power). What joyous world we live in!

The Eldritch Horror of Date Formatting is visited upon Tesco

Re: Dates? Don't talk to me about dates...

Pipe? Go all the way and do \ (but as a final character).

Actually looking through that db wherever there are notes they're enclosed in {} so you basically have to xkdc-it.

Re: Dates? Don't talk to me about dates...

Certain UK address db comes like that (unquoted and pipe delimited) but in fairness no address will ever contain a pipe character so it does save a lot of space when in text form.

Stop using that MacBook Pro RIGHT NOW, says Uncle Sam: Loyalists suffer burns, smoke inhalation and worse – those crappy keyboards

Re: Customer service?

@Flocke Imagine if the opposite becomes the norm with modern hybrids and we end up in the same situation though..

(disclaimer: I've only driven one car and it burns refined fossilised dinosours)

Boffins' neural network can work out from your speech whether you'll develop psychosis

Language?

English language, and what if the person is of such background where they'd naturally have a smaller vocabulary for example.

Heathrow Airport drops £50m on CT scanners to help smooth passage through security checks

Already the case at Schiphol?

Virtually no queues (but they have the sec checks closer to each gate rather than centralised like I think most UK airports)

They then have the spinny thing you stand in like a mupped that even detected I had an old train ticket in my jeans pocket in me so $diety knows what EM field they blast you with.

Not that any of this matters they watch you and can make the thing beep red if they want I know for a fact they did that in one airport cos I walked to the bog before security while I had no electronics or anything on my person that would trigger the scanner. (Or other cases where I've fiddled with my backpack in the concourse or anything that might look suspicious, possibly even being hungover which admittedly is most times I fly *cough*)

BT to axe 90% of its UK real estate, retain circa 30 sites

"CEO Philip Jansen said"

The one with the barf bag in the pocket

WikiLeaks boss Assange acted as a foreign spy, Uncle Sam exclaims in fresh rap sheet

Re: I think he got an Ecuador passport

To Ecuador? Assange in any south american country will be disappeared by the CIA.

Giga-hurts radio: Terrorists build Wi-Fi bombs to dodge cops' cellphone jammers

Re: WiFi Routers can be anywhere; cell towers are generally in fixed locations

So what if the trigger is in constant contact or is polling the controllers and missing a few polls detonates the bomb?

Wine? No, posh noshery in high spirits despite giving away £4,500 bottle of Bordeaux

Re: A relevant study

What's the point of a blind study when a lot of the whole experience comes from buying it / status / being at a posh restaurant.

PS didn't read the study, just wrote a comment, we're on the internet afterall.

Eeeer

It's grim up noorf?

It's 2019 and a WhatsApp call can hack a phone: Zero-day exploit infects mobes with spyware

Oh noo

And the NSA /just/ announced they're mass surveillance programme..

Hi! It looks like you're working on a marketing strategy for a product nowhere near release! Would you like help?

Not leaked but just a week after agreeing on what I should be doing for the nextgood 4 months they come to me and say "we need this brand new functionality" I tell them fine, will probably take 6 months. But they already promised it to the customer "or we would've lost their business" :|

Home Office cops an earful for emergency network feck-ups - £3bn overbudget and 3 years late

I totally appreciate that but I'm still surprised that the estimates mare were so far out. Perhaps Someone along the line was pressured to cut corners so that they can "close the contract" or "meet a deadline" and 'hope' that it 'might work out ok' in the end..

How the hell do you mis-estimate a project that it goes 3 billion over budget?! HOW? I can't even imagine that figure in practical terms! 200mil savings a year? How much is the current system burning a year?

Are they incompetent or corrupt or what??

Apple stock hits bottom ... as AirPod exits man's backside and still works after colonic travels

Re: "Recover the once-white earbud"

That's not an acceptable way to refer to fanbois.

Blockchain is a lot like teen sex: Everybody talks about it, no one has a clue how to do it

"interoperable foundation for global, decentralised identity management"

Well if that's not utterly terrifying I don't know what is.

Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private keys on Github

Well judging by the names of those repos I can already gleam they have some terrible naming conventions let alone the rest of their practices..

Out-of-office email ping-pong fills server after server over festive break

Re: Sexing up the good old CV

Same thing with a friend who wants/needs to move to IT from doing manual labour jobs because of a medical condition which may or may not prevent him from doing any manual labour in the future (as he's still young and can use his legs) but has to penetrate the market with only passed certifications and no experience nearing his 30s. And you can't exactly pull the disabled card as well unless at an interview I suppose.

Razer – perfectly happy to sell you a laptop for over $2,000, but when it comes to fixing security holes... tough sh*t

Re: I need to get out more?

Yep, I made the mistake of buying a keyboard of theirs and 4-5 years later some of the switches stopped working (this is a £100+ keyboard!!).. how?! How bad do you make it to have keys stop working.. It's the board as well it's not down to the switches.

Anything "gaming" is just cheap plastic with extra marketing on top

HP crashed Autonomy because US tech titan's top brass 'lost their nerve', says lawyer for ex-CEO Mike Lynch

Re: Truth squad ?

The trademark UK & US culture when it comes to business.

Croydon school rolling in toilet roll after Brexit gift deemed unfit for the Queen's Anus Horribilis

Didn't know people wipe their behinds with swans' necks.

Uber driver drove sleeping woman miles away from home to 'up the fare'. Now he's facing years in the clink for kidnapping, fraud

Re: Welcome to Uber

The point is that said tracked 'confirmed registration' app's business entity repeatedly falls short of assisting authorities and end customers.....

On the eve of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft confirms Windows 10 can automatically remove borked updates

I bet it keeps rebooting

Until you're back on Windows 7

'It's like painting with atoms'... Watch how boffins form armies of simple micron-sized bots from a silicon wafer

I admire your positive outlook. First thing I thought was that if "It takes a few weeks to fashion a million of them" that might still be pretty good if one is enough to kill you The Strain vampire worm style

Packet switching pickle prompts potential pecuniary problems

I feel your pain, and I thought I had it bad nuking my international data (isnt)roaming allowance in a few seconds by opening a streaming application.

When the bits hit the FAN: US military accused of knackering Russian trolls, news org's IT gear amid midterm elections

IRA

Maybe FAN said they have nothing to do with the IRA because they really have nothing to do with the Irish Republican Army, they /are/ trolls after all

Fun fact: GPS uses 10 bits to store the week. That means it runs out... oh heck – April 6, 2019

Re: Yay landfill!

Sir, I'm surprised you can still switch on a nexus 5 without the battery dying! I recall GPS on some batches was really bad indeed, which made playing Ingress all the more fun/rage inducing.

Just checked the fairly ancient network NTP servers and thankfully are both patched and the manufacturer still exists/supports them - frankly I am staggered.

Defaulting to legacy Internet Explorer just to keep that one, weird app working? Knock it off

Deaf ears

Who is this advice reaching? Techies that already know this..

The number of times I've seen someone just browsing my internal apps on IE because some file at some point was opened by IE and the user simply takes no notice, yet keeps complaining that some webpage is broken.

Or "oh I don't know my login" when I open it in <modern browser> on their machine, after which they go and open IE which has a million passwords saved. Essentially I've lost hope.

Chrome devs attempt to slip muzzle on resource-guzzling browser beast with 'Never-Slow Mode'

Re: Easy solution!

Actually even though Google chrome and Brave both use chromium, even without extensions Brave is much faster. I think we've moved past the "poorly written js" slowing us down phase of the Web to the "collection of metrics metrics" phase.. Btw Brave's version from the other day has sync in beta, completely independent from Google, I know we discussed alternatives here before and sync was a sticking point