Bar opens at 8

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Wed Aug 15, 2018 11:07 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i7HMPpxB-Y -- Where's Waldo, THERE'S Waldo!

Very interesting video!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/1 ... boot_fail/ -- IKEA yesterday, today chip n pin... hmmm....

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/1 ... er_outage/ -- more TSB fallout... helluva floorshow to watch, though!

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Mon Aug 20, 2018 9:56 pm

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... -irish-sea -- from 2015, but that is one HECKUVA "one that
got away!" story to tell at the pub!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/17/on-call/ -- WOW! Just... WOW! Yeah, not paying your bills will do that. Good that the boss apologized for his screwup.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/20/gatwick_fail/
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/2 ... ase_issue/
-- more major IT outages that are causing headache and heartache... ohhh, to be a fly on the wall to hear what's going on...

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 5:35 am

https://gizmodo.com/museum-visitor-fall ... 1828462859 -- :gawks: :gawks: Looney Toons indeed!

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23 ... r-pictures -- no asking price for THIS sucker, but as the old
saying goes, "If you have to ask, you can't afford it!"

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23 ... nt-in-kiev -- SAM launcher successfully intercepts a storefront in Kiev,
Ukraine. LOL!!

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Fri Aug 24, 2018 8:32 pm

https://gizmodo.com/ouch-these-stories- ... 1828481348
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/2 ... _exchange/
-- call me a a Luddite, but I think I'll stick to Warren Buffet's advice of "don't invest in something you don't understand."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/2 ... microsoft/ -- kudos to this girl, and best of luck to her! Tho I do wish watching
her code a bunch of stuff would be a more worthwhile display in the talent show.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/2 ... _problems/ -- "page load times of 10minutes or timeouts, MUST be a network problem!"
Right? RIGHT?! [cue PTSD reaction] Oh, to be a fly on the wall in the NOC / OPS center of this outfit!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/2 ... er_patrol/ -- still trying to wrap my mind around this one. If I'm following right :

1. Muslim-American woman w/ American passport is pulled into 2ndary
2. her phone is demanded, containing both legal docs and "personal photos of her in various stages of undress."
3. she's not charged with anything, but her phone is held for a couple months
4. her phone is released and she wants a promise whatever they got from her phone is good and nuked...

Caught the Teen Titans Go To The Movies movie, and Christopher Robin movie... BRILLIANT!! LOVED 'EM!!

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Sun Aug 26, 2018 7:24 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/2 ... partments/ -- on one hand, seems simplistic to say "this fire dept bought smaller than what they needed," on the other
I wonder if they even know how much data they need in an "emergency" situation. And this has part of me wondering about the whole shift of emergency services from older tech to this
"connectivity on the go." YES it's convenient over 4G, etc. but for situations like this...

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23 ... o-air-show -- some s(l)ick shots there! LOVE the vapour trails!

Got an SMS this AM from 1 807 790 2703 (Ontario, Canada) that went like this (exact quote)

Dear User
This is a message from JASON
Click here and give me your fudgie banking info now!
hxxp://interac-login.info/interac1

Safe to say JASON isn't getting my "fudgie banking info" ever!

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue Aug 28, 2018 12:41 am

https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/even- ... 1828590823 -- HAHAHAHAHAH! Ooooops!!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/27/who-me/ -- "We had just run one CPU flat out for a weekend." And billed by CPU time...
"Okay gentlemen, no paychecks for the next 6 weeks. And you can forget about your annual bonus."

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Mon Sep 03, 2018 5:09 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/03/who-me/ -- deliberately breaking stuff to get an upgrade. Story as old as time...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/0 ... sup_again/ -- wow, TSB just can't catch a break can they? Or are their
systems so fragile they break the minute you breathe on them? I just have to think back to my NOC days where there were
clients exactly like that...

https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this- ... 1828726533 -- Wow... just, WOW!!

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23 ... washington
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23 ... -detonated
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23 ... decade-ago
-- unknown drifting mine found near US naval base and detonated. I LOVE the comment about how "the next time you don't
feel appreciated / underpaid, think of the EOD guys who had to lug this thing around!" Turns out was something the USN
deliberately threw into the water themselves... was safe, but "better safe than sorry!"

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Fri Sep 07, 2018 11:45 pm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/id ... t_carriers -- interesting read about the UK's newest aircraft carriers

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/0 ... er_leaves/ -- the bank's cutsomer-facing systems shat the bed for
a week+, they're still picking up the pieces, but the CEO gets to deploy his £1.7Meg golden parachute... what's wrong with
this picture?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/0 ... han_light/ -- Oh, to have a front row seat to THIS dustup!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/0 ... ited_at_5/ -- nice little history piece between Microsoft and
Nokia.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/0 ... ire_fraud/ -- there's bullshitters, and there's BULLSHITTERS! Thankfully
this guy wasn't either...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/0 ... tion_memo/ -- British Airways suffered a databreach, and
just before was thinking of outsourcing to IBM. Hmmm...

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Thu Sep 13, 2018 10:14 pm

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23 ... ppointment

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23 ... sit-to-u-s

https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/insid ... 1828730033 -- little interesting read on the subject matter

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/10/who-me/ -- cheap, fast, perfect, AAAAAAAAND ready by yesterday. Yup, Been There, Done That, Achievement Unlocked(TM).

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/1 ... y_vetting/ -- no words for this, none at all...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/1 ... lm_rights/ -- "actually you didn't buy this, you got a licence to use it" per the terms buried in a
s**ttonne of legalees written by our monkey lawyers." Quelle Suprise...

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue Sep 18, 2018 11:53 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/1 ... shut_down/ -- sounds alittle like the opening of the movie "Contact" to me.
"Your having sent this announcement all over the world may well constitute a breach of national security."

https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/ ... 4/on-call/ -- "make do and mend." Riiiiiiight! Talk about a dumpster fire!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/17/who-me/ -- took up so much CPU payroll couldn't be processed... WOW!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/1 ... hnl_n7771/ -- 24years for the 777... how time flies!

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Mon Sep 24, 2018 11:24 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/2 ... e_lawsuit/ -- Apple killed Facetime for iOS6 because it was costing them money...
Well, probably not quite MS levels of screwage, but that's Apple for you...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/2 ... n_and_out/ -- more bank IT outages... the speculation
of a failed firewall change is fascinating and interesting, and makes me wonder about their test/backout plan

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/2 ... _meltdown/ -- yeah, with all those IT meltdowns, what the flip
IS going on here?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/2 ... ain_snafu/ -- "yeah, just outsource it, no problems with critical stuff like your DOMAIN, right?"

http://www.fmylife.com/article/today-i- ... 81244.html

http://www.fmylife.com/article/today-i- ... l#comments -- WOOOOOW... budding porn career for his ex and new wife?

http://www.fmylife.com/article/today-we ... l#comments -- kids say the darndest things!

http://www.fmylife.com/article/today-i- ... l#comments -- dunno who called it, the mom or the birthday girl, but SERIOUSLY?

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Fri Sep 28, 2018 11:37 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/2 ... irs_crash/ -- didn't patch because code wasn't considered stable enough, which lead to the
whole thing melting down. What's that again about "for want of a nail...?"

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/2 ... own_again/ -- jeeze these guys just can't catch a break, can they?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/2 ... e_physics/ -- "I'm from Gainax. Can you demonstrate your bounce factor, please?"

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Fri Nov 23, 2018 5:25 am

Caught Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and Wreckit Ralph 2. Fantastic Beasts was enjoyable enough, though
probably should have rewatched #1 going into it.

Wreckit Ralph 2 was enjoyable for the deeper Vanellope/Ralph friendship, and the infamous Disney Princess meetup.
Quite a few places had to laugh out loud at the antics.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Fri Nov 23, 2018 4:22 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/2 ... _says_nao/ -- Reads like every other "Piss poorly scoped, Get it done NOW!" project
I've ever had the pleasure of dealing with.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/2 ... _failures/ -- Ahh, the dramady of the banking TITSUP fiasco in the UK. Wonder
if this could ever happen on this side of the pond.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Thu Nov 29, 2018 3:44 am

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/2 ... d_trainee/ -- sounds like the (l)user / ticket from hell. "My computer is acting up, it MUST be hacked!"

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/2 ... _for_meth/ -- 3MONTHS to figure out it's sugar candy and not meth... never mind
her stay in jail was "extended" extra time beyond this discovery...