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HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Wed Oct 11, 2017 5:42 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/0 ... _language/ -- Wow, I've heard of Brainf**k, I've heard of ArnoldC, now there's
Fetlang, which is "designed to read like poorly written erotica" LOL! Who says computer types don't have a sense of humor?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/0 ... aming_ads/ -- can't walk anywhere without running into advertising, even in the virtual world *sighs*

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/1 ... ever_work/ -- tl;dr "We’re leaking location data everywhere, and it's time to fix it by design."

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 7:47 pm

https://sploid.gizmodo.com/cops-in-duba ... 1819488951 -- wow, so we're alittle closer to the scenes in SW VI in
the Endor forest, or with Star Trek (2009)?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/1 ... ron_stars/ -- 130M light years to a REALLY rich gold mine... SWEET!!

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Thu Oct 19, 2017 8:02 pm

https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/ ... _salaries/ -- "The NYAG's complaint
recounts how New York's Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision contacted Flatiron in May 2013, but got no response. The BPSS did so again in
May 2014." 1 YEAR to follow up with a non-compliant school?! Who the fsck is behind the wheel here?! I really should get out of IT as
if I'm not on the phone ever 5minutes, I'm somehow in breech of SLA...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 05991.html -- you're doing it WRONG!! ROTFLOL!!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/1 ... e_attacks/ -- from the (MS) pile of "it's old, insecure, but it works!" pile, but we knew that, right?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/1 ... vercharge/ -- siiiiiiiiighs

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/1 ... cles_bill/ -- Don't install patches? No Insurance For You!

https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/ ... ity-online
-- If groups like these believe an IP address is on the level of a government issued piece of ID like a driver's licence, I got a bridge on Mars to sell them...

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Sat Oct 21, 2017 12:11 am

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/1 ... aboratory/ -- "Toronuh, huh?" (makes more sense for those of us north of the 49th)

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/20/on_call/ -- I've heard of some weird shenanigans in the datacenter before, but THIS is a new chapter altogether!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/2 ... _and_tron/ -- great guy, great work!

https://www.eltima.com/blog/2017/10/elm ... lized.html -- TL;DR servers for a piece of OSX software -- Elmedia Player and Folx -- got hacked to deliver malware. Check your systems ASAP, and if you are,
nuke and pave the system, apparently because the malware is rather persistent and difficult to remove.

...so what Apple fanbois want to say their computers don't get crap like WinTel machines do? Anyone? Anyone?

Post by **Taurec** » Sun Oct 22, 2017 11:44 am

LOL .. well I do store cider bottles in our DC because the temperature is perfectly controlled.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue Oct 24, 2017 4:24 am

...aaaaaand no one's taken any so far? Not even to sample?

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue Oct 24, 2017 6:47 pm

http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/man-given-14 ... -1.3643520 -- it's criminal to sing too loud in Montreal? Dafuq?!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/2 ... the_movie/ -- they want to make a movie out of her and the gongshow that is Uber, huh? Original story here :
https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/ ... ar-at-uber . Yeah, one VERY strange year.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/2 ... _compiler/ -- so what does a "hello world" program for a quantum computer look like?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/2 ... col_study/ -- I like the description of "sorta like Google's satnav software Waze but for the internet in that it flags up unusual traffic patterns that affect certain network protocols." Just watch out, it has an expired HTTPS cert, and the UI is, shall we be charitable, like the "million monkeys on a million typewriters" fashion.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Wed Oct 25, 2017 10:35 pm

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/otta ... -1.4362256 -- you'll want to make sure you don't eat before, during or after seeing THIS dump (literally).
Sounds like a case of "Too many (conflicting) interests. Not enough accountability."

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:20 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/27/on_call/ -- So, about storing your cider in the datacenter, what about cake?

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue Oct 31, 2017 11:07 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/2 ... ropulsion/ -- to quote Connery, "Engage the silent drive!"

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/2 ... osa_fires/ -- How's that old song go, "You don't know what you got till it's gone?"
Yeah, sad day for (computer) history.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/3 ... rtnership/ -- I've a special (dark) place in my heart for Lotus Notes. Thought I could finally
stop using it circa 2010/2011, then I had to hop right back into it 2014. Siiiiiiighs!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/3 ... 67p_plume/ -- astronomy stuff like this always puts a smile on my face

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/3 ... deputy_ag/ -- TL;DR "Top [insert here] who doesn't know jack f**k all about what they're
talking about to tell us 'How The World Really Works.' News at 6pm."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/3 ... y_blunder/ -- there's just no words for this, none at all...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/3 ... ine_cable/ -- 60Tbps cable transpacific, huh? Can I hasors my
torrentz faster?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/3 ... app_monzo/ -- now THAT'S how to do a post-mortum, and keep your customer base happy and in the loop at the same time.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Fri Nov 03, 2017 8:43 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/0 ... bath_bomb/ -- "100 lucky Japanese winners the one-off opportunity to submerge themselves in the aroma of the Colonel's mix of 11 herbs and spices."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/0 ... p_account/ -- HAHAHAHAHAH!! Still waiting for a public on camera "[insert here]. You're Fired!" form this guy...

http://s3.amazonaws.com/CHINFO/USS+Fitz ... eports.pdf -- US Navy report on the collisions in the Pacific... Wow, just... Wow!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/0 ... d_network/ -- over here we get squirrels and other rodents
nibbling on fiber lines, over in Australia, they get...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/03/on_call/ -- What... The... F**k?!?!? And people wonder why IT bods can be so "unhelpful," especially with stories like this.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Mon Nov 06, 2017 9:05 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/0 ... ngle_malt/ -- The cost in PR a good / bad act of customer service can't be overstated...
For once, is the former case.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/0 ... n_a_field/ -- doing a fieldswap of hardware
when it's been immersed in oil. Yeaaaaaaaaah.....

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/0 ... ooling_ai/ -- "If it can be made by human hands, it can be broken by human hands." But WOW! Breaking
image recognition that badly!!

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Wed Nov 08, 2017 3:36 am

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/0 ... st_outage/ -- oh boy, fatfingering routing changes... NEVER
a fun thing. And with BGP, it's one of those things you don't necessarily notice right away... or not.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/0 ... _ethereum/ -- "As a result, wallets created
after July 20 are now locked down and inaccessible, quite possibly permanently, thus nuking $90m of Woods' own
savings." WHAAAAAAAT?!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/0 ... ch_gunman/ -- yeah, didn't I see this movie before? About
Big Gov demanding Big Tech to backdoor / hack / etc their own tech, because "we're from the government, and we're
here to help you."

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Mon Nov 13, 2017 9:37 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/0 ... next_year/ -- planned obscelecense, literally

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/0 ... es_to_die/ -- love astronomy stuffs like this. Wish could get up close and personal to see it

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/0 ... _dark_web/ -- ...not the sharpest tool in the shed, is he?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/0 ... font_plex/ -- forget about our falling profits and the "Do As I Say Not As I Do" incident with our CEO, here's a new font for IBM.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/0 ... al_flight/ -- sounds like a fun toy to play with

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/0 ... _congress/ -- The USA Liberty Act is anything but... surprise, surprise. Getting a sense of DS9's The Obsidian Order,
and how " a Cardassian citizen couldn't sit down to a meal without each dish being duly noted and recorded by the Order, down to its preparation and the exact measurement of each ingredient."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/0 ... apartment/ -- WOW! Just... WOW! New meaning to the phrase "my computer [did this to me]."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/1 ... ty_report/ -- "The Home Secretary believes artificial intelligence will soon be used to stop people posting on the internet pre-emptively
with a kind of Minority Report-style "precrime" unit." Yeaaaaaaaah, and I got a bridge on Mars to sell you...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/1 ... i_cluster/ -- a cluster of 750 Rpis, huh? And it "wasn't tinker toys and legos"

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/1 ... dows_2020/ -- Much as ppl b*tch, whine and moan about the Wintel Monopoly,
SOMEwhere SOMEhow we all end up back there after swearing it off.

Hope everyone had some time to reflect on Nov 11th. Noir and I hung out as usual and paid our respects

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:02 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/1 ... ts_or_not/ -- LOL, that's rich. "Are they "official government tweets" or
"tweets of a guy on twitter"? No one in the US government can tell...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/1 ... ts_forums/ -- Never used compuserve, but it's finally getting it's lifesupport plug pulled?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/1 ... e_nextend/ -- one of those "power corrupts and absolute power" situations, no?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/1 ... _monitors/ -- on one hand, suspect it'll be a case similar to running people in MMORPGS
and the brain handing out dopamine like candy... on the other, pretty interesting comment about the USGov using this as a chance to round up all hackers in one
felled swoop.