Posts by kain preacher

Re: Er...

"Plus it is probably considered a "trade secret" and can't be open sourced."

That's exactly what Diebold claimed and then promptly sued the state of New Jersey to stop them from looking.

Re: McAfee for Linux

Every thing I saw says McAfee for linux is an enterprise solution. Don't worry Norton has you covered.

https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH105812.html

Re: Kudos to Debian but...

Are you sure intel put Microsoft under the same restrictions ? I mean if MS deiced to properly support arm or lets say sparc. imagine what would happen to intel.

Re: illegal

"As in taking something and depriving the owner of it" no just taking it no need to prove intent to permanently deprive the owner . If take a car with just the intent to joy ride it's theft. Even if you bring it back.

Re: To put it mildly.

"I've been told that the Apple screen reader can read their site just fine"

Provided you use safari to browser the site

Re: One of the 98% that give the 2% a bad name

In the US you need court approval to dismiss court fines in bankruptcy court.

Re: @ psychonaut

"That sounds wierd to me. My personal experience in card renewal is that my MMORPG subscription is cut every time my VISA card gets renewed."

Visa and mastercard have program that allows vendors to charge on expired and dead cards. Of course they charge for this

Re: NT4 and USB support

Blinks NT4.0 has support up to Direct X3 and you can find a beta for direct x 5. Now if you are brave or stupid, maybe both there are third party drives to give NT 4.0 limited USB.

Re: Lost it

Should of went into politics or became a lobbyist.

I know but I wished liability was attached . It's just a pipe dream

Re: Huh?

"Disclaimer: I have zero experience with three-phase UPS...

But wouldn't there be a circuit breaker for each phase output? I know that there is one on every one of the small single-phase UPSes I use."

In the US each phase is suppose to have it's on panel

Re: Prepare for...

"This all really depends on how one defines the acting stealing.

For me, there are two core acts involved: the first is the act of taking something in the knowledge that you may not take it and the second is the act of depriving somebody of something without their consent."

Definitions some times can be hard to nail down. In My country America, Theft is simple taking some thing that does not belong to you , hence copy right can be seen as theft but is prosecuted as counterfeiting if you deiced to make a commercial enterprise out of it .

See if the were running windo....., Hey wait put down the clubs and bats. I thought El reg was peaceful techies .

Re: What?

I was thinking the same thing. These are people that hack countries for fun and are hired by intelligence agencies to hack or tell them how not to be hacked . Talk about poking a bee hive.

Re: Moron!

Facebook is NOT a source for information!

It is when you don't trust the media or your source is people like Alex Jones .

Information doesn't work like that. Pizza and beer don't become health foods just because your normal diet consists of Cool Ranch Doritos by the pound,

But try and convince those people that it's not. THat's why I mentioned Alex jones . Any sane person would dismiss him as a loon People see face book as a way to share the truth.Their truth The truth that the regular media is to scared to report . IE they already have a position and just looking for some thing to back them up. Facebook is not what I would considered a primary source on info . Any thing I read on face book I fact check. The more it agrees with my position the more I fact check it before I repost.

Re: Stop 5G

There are dead zones in Sacramento,CA. For T-mobile and ATT.

Re: Man on the sun

Actually you can't get near the sun with today tech.

Re: Congress

Ok mildy bemused non convicted/ not in the system yet .

Re: i've been waiting for this since the first experimental Dimm loaded scsi SSDs

If it's a windows system you have to use clippy.

Octothorpe was coined by AT&T who invented the symbol so I wouldn't be surprised if they use it sometimes. Why leftpondians call it a pound sign is just an indication of their strangeness

It is believed that the symbol traces its origins to the symbol ℔, an abbreviation of the Roman term libra pondo, which translates as "pound weight"

Coined yes, invented um no # was around for some time

Re: University

Make sure to include one special char and 2 Cyrillic numerals

Re: Security through obscurity?

"In what sort of crap design is disclosure of the source code a security problem? What century _is_ this?"

The state of California had the same reaction when die bold pitched a fit at having Standford and UC Berkley exam the code .

Re: Smart Meters are a tempting target

"SMETS1 meters cannot change supplier, so if I had one of those it'd be useless the next year."

Yes you can, it just turns into a dumb meter .

https://www.engerati.com/article/uk-energy-suppliers-smets1-smart-meters

Wait I missed that is decade ago. Wouldn't statues of limitations kick in ?

Re: Backups and redundancy, FFS

The reason why they don't use paper slips any more is cause the baster CC companies started processing them as a credit card not present . If find a processor that does not charge them as credit card not present you get hit with higher fees. Then you have less protection from charge back. Oh wants it gets processed and the card gets decline you most likely will not get paid . So most places rather lose a customer/sale then risk getting burned like that .

"perhaps even signing off on them as passing the tests."

Wouldn't that be evil unauthorized(rogue) management ?