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HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Sun May 26, 2019 3:22 am

https://www.afp.gov.au/news-media/media ... stems-mine -- when they said "my tax dollars at work," I don't think that's what they meant...

https://navy-korabel.livejournal.com/203848.html
https://vpk-news.ru/articles/45818
-- interesting articles on the status of Russia's nuke subs... these classes were literally the best the Soviets had before the country collapsed and the Cold War ended... but they don't have the
funds for upkeep, much less deploy.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... riage.html -- always got to love a woman who looks good in a uniform...

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Mon Jun 03, 2019 2:39 am

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/3 ... echnology/ -- always love me a good IT outage story...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/3 ... a_centres/ -- The Vatican has a data center? Whodathunk it?

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-u ... 89dc10afc8
-- never thought much of Speed 2:Cruise Control as a movie... but talk about life imitating art!

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily ... -fighting/ -- always love (military) history

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Fri Jun 07, 2019 11:50 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/0 ... re_bridge/ -- wow, the balls on these guys...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/07/on-call/ -- oncall, onsite... AND ON FIRE!!

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/2 ... he-pacific
-- you think a fenderbender between two cars on the road is bad, this was (nearly) worse...

https://www.thedrive.com/news/28405/wom ... n-the-road -- ticketed for being
"too beautiful" .... the CREEP factor on this is strong!

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Mon Jun 10, 2019 11:56 pm

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/2 ... o-pieces-- honey, I'm going to need
another house and a bigger yard to try THIS stunt!!

https://www.iwf.org.uk/news/exposing-ch ... over-https -- TL;DR "DoH is bad, won't SOMEone think of the children?"[/cynical]

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/1 ... rk_curran/ -- due to the migration mess, TSB appointed a "director of Technology Transformation."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/1 ... a_telecom/ -- I try and stay out of the "Us V Them" debates, but this caught my eye today...

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Wed Jun 12, 2019 4:15 am

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/1 ... een_fault/ -- the screen brightness was too low...

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/2 ... ogle-earth -- Ooops!

https://www.thedrive.com/news/28474/wom ... -she-would -- when the box says
"ages 3+," I don't think that's what they meant LOL

Caught Godzilla:King of the Monsters... enjoyable enough, and I thought Charles Dance and Ken Watanabe were enjoyable enough. The occasional
oneliner cracked me up!

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Sat Jun 15, 2019 12:54 am

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/1 ... rediction/ -- in my cynical age, death of electronics
by CME, magnetar, or supermassive black hole can't come soon enough, sometimes...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/1 ... backdoors/ -- about the most logical "Huwei should
not be banned" bit I've come across in while...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/1 ... he_weekend_/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/1 ... ll_jailed/

https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/stat ... 5724146688 --

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue Jun 18, 2019 5:04 am

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/2 ... ips-bridge -- *DROOOOOOOOLS!!*

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... es/590653/ -- good overall summary of MH370...
thought personally I find some parts of it going into speculation...

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Sat Jun 22, 2019 2:15 am

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/1 ... ettlement/ -- think your workplace is bad for nickle
and diming you, check out Tyco... WOW! Just... WOW!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/1 ... atacentre/ -- a datacenter in an ex-bunker, underground. EEEEEnnnteresting!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/2 ... ulb_reset/ -- okay, this is just INSANE! Just HOW many people
does it take to reset a "smart" lightbulb?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-no ... d-48684400 -- want to buy a WWI battleship?

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Sat Jun 29, 2019 2:09 am

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/2 ... loudflare/
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/2 ... oute_leak/
-- now that a networking "Ooops!" or a networking "OH SH*T!" SMH

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/24/who-me/ -- One word, "YARG!"

https://jalopnik.com/boeing-has-so-many ... 1835811860
-- that even a legal place to park a 737? Other than that, I can only hope this gets fixed,
and fixed properly.

Caught a French flick called "The Wolf's Cry." VERY interesting and suspenseful first 23minutes. After that, rehashes
Crimson Tide. I didn't hate it, but it was entertaining enough.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Sun Jun 30, 2019 6:07 am

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/2 ... _injuries/ -- faulty batteries, and a 2-3week delay to "fix" the problem. Never mind
Apple "customer service" saying "our way or no way."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinmurna ... f4b4cd5e40 -- got spare time
on your hands? Model how many people will survive the zombie apocalypse

https://www.jqpublicblog.com/us-air-for ... IFujeePppI
-- USAF veteran (mechanic) ends up flying as a mercenary pilot. Shades of Area 88?

https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/20 ... se-sector/
-- interesting read...

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Sat Jul 06, 2019 7:00 pm

Happy belated 4th of July to my neighbors south of the 49th... spend Canada Day curled up inside gaming.

https://www.schneierfacts.com/ -- apparently Bruce Schneier parting ways with IBM. Did not know this site existed.
Great if you like Chuck Norris-type funnies about the guy.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/0 ... i_spreads/ -- create the code, let it out, goes beyond your
control...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/0 ... r_her_kid/
-- okay, just HOW far are you going to go for a bloody plushie like this?

https://news.usni.org/2019/05/31/fitzge ... ire-safety -- survived
a collision in the Pacific to almost burn down in the yard... wow.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/0 ... rs_guilty/ -- I've heard of trying to screw the government,
but THIS...!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/0 ... de_secret/ --
how green we are is a trade secret.... RIIIIIIIGHT!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/05/on_call/ -- HAHAHAH!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/0 ... e_lawsuit/ -- Umm, I don't think data recovery works that way
via a lawsuit...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/0 ... episode_5/

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Thu Jul 11, 2019 1:18 am

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... to-us-says -- not to get into politics, but I find this kind of telling...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW-HQ3Zz6oM -- yeaaaaaah, that'll buff right out...

https://kotaku.com/enormous-flight-simu ... 1836238095 -- something else to put on the Japan bucketlist

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/2 ... -radiation -- remember the Mike-class sub during the Cold War...

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/2 ... -territory --

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/0 ... nds_badly/ -- pretend to be a cop, till you try to pull a real cop over...

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Sat Jul 13, 2019 4:09 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/1 ... nsas_city/ -- wooooooow...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/1 ... ook_group/ -- SMH. No words for this at all...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4uJNjeQDOw -- some SERIOUS S**T there by the coast guard and the narco sub they boarded.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Sun Jul 21, 2019 2:19 am

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -tire.html
-- faith in humanity not entirely restored, but something to warm the heart...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/12/on_call/ -- bloody (l)users...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of- ... ly-2-2019/ -- had a cloud(flare)y thing die earlier
this month? Here's why...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/15/who-me/ -- HAHAHA... now THAT is the way to give someone the double digitus
impiducious without leaving your fingermarks all over it...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/1 ... eo_outage/ -- Europe's Galileo (GPS equivalent) goes TITSUP

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/1 ... _comittee/
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/1 ... _mps_warn/

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/2 ... d-to-qatar
-- just HOW does anyone get their hands on this, praytell?!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/1 ... s_pampers/ -- IoT Diapers... now I REALLY know the human race
is doomed.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/1 ... s_sharing/
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.06520.pdf
-- apaprently that incognito mode you're using to surf a porn site? It leaks your info like a sieve

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/1 ... methrower/ -- oh, where can the idea for a flamethrowing drone

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/1 ... njuries/go wrong?

Post by **Taurec** » Sun Jul 21, 2019 8:49 pm

How's life ...? *pours a whisky*