Posts by NozeDive

What's a Millennial...

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/17/where-millennials-end-and-generation-z-begins/

Millennials are aged 23-38, so perhaps the article was referring to the staff/faculty at the school.

Generation Z is aged 7-22

The cyber cyber will cyber the cyber cyber cyber cyber cyber cyber until cyber cyber is cyber.

Furthermore, cyber cyber cyber cyber cyber.

Cyber cyber cyber cyber cyber cyber cyber.

I'm posting this blindly without reading all of the other comments first, but...

I'm posting this blindly without reading all of the other comments first, but...

...just so no one else makes the same confusing mistake I did when reading this, please note that there is a difference between cert.org and us-cert.gov.

Two different groups using the Computer Emergency Response Team moniker. One is a part of the federal government, and the other is a part of a university (that I believe receives federal funding, so... tomato/tomato).

What if Universal is leaking intellectual properties on purpose, and through some screw up, or series of screwups, 127.0.0.1 ended up on this list?

Root

How do I get my hands on one of these? Not for the intended purpose, but to replace the OS with my own? A toaster that's also a webserver and DOESN'T mine bit coins will surely impress the ladies.

Here we go

"Ready to go for a jog?"

"Yeah, but hold on. Let me turn on my shoes, first."

"Oh crap! My shoes are almost out of battery!"

"Wait up guys, I just have to reboot my shoes first. I'll catch up to you later."

"UGH! My shoes can't get a signal in here!"

"Oh, no, sorry, I can't come with you right now. I just plugged my shoes in. They're still charging. I... have to... charge my shoes before I can go outside."

Sounds fun

I wish I could fly to London for this!

"HA! You're WRONG"

\__ I read that part in Richard Ayoade's voice.

Photo

GOOD GOD THAT'S A GREAT PHOTO!

My set up

I've had two break ins, my wife has had three (one before we met)

We live in what's described as an "okay" neighborhood - obviously not okay enough!

I have to re-do my surveillance system thanks to a server crash, but before that I had a little Debian Linux server running the "motion" daemon that handled the three wireless, infrared, IP cameras ($25 each) that I have in my house. Each new frame from the cameras is passed on to my web server (on the same box) which is protected by SSL, so I can logon remotely for live views. The web server also has buttons in the WebGUI to take snapshots.

I also have motion detection turned on so that on motion events (set to ignore the house-cats), video and stills are archived on my 2TB external drive. The server also sends an email to my (and my wife's) cellphone on motion - but sends it as a text. This is so that we can use our texting apps to assign a unique ringtone - that way we'll know that even if we're in a meeting, not to ignore the texts with the "Red Alart" ringtone because it's not some obnoxious tweet or friend or something, it's some one breaking in.

This is all behind my router running DD-WRT - admittedly, I need to upgrade my firewall to something more robust.

So that's what he was on about!

I knew I should have paid more attention when I saw a an astronaut tweeting (or was he being tweeted at?) about not wearing a red shirt in space.

"shutdown"

How, exactly, does one extract data - via the internet (and not an extracted disk) - from a server that was "shutdown"?

I'm assuming the word "shutdown" means "powered off".

If I wasn't posting from my mobile phone, I'd throw in the Paris image for obvious reasons.

Linux Torvalds?

It's Linus, not Linux. :-)

Have they already delivered pizzas to

Putin? GhostShell hasn't impressed me yet.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE

MOVE ALONG PEOPLE

Car hacking?

What we need to focus on is how to make the computers LIE and report no faults and emissions within tolerance. Where's Kevin Mitnick when you need him?

hypothetically speaking

Lets say this is legit - that some one bought a fully working 720 SDK box - would that give the homebrew / modding community any real advantage if this box (or its secrets) fell into their hands? I'd like to think this is some sort of finding the Holy Grail eureka moment, but I bet there are enough tricks up Micro$oft's sleeves to negate whatever they may learn.

Speaking of next Gen consoles, the rumor is the PS3 has two unused GPUs in it, and that they can be "activated" with a software update push, should $ony decide to implement it. What's the deal with that? will we see that happen before the PS4 arrives?

The IT Crowd

The picture of Jen on the index page reminded me that there was an El Reg sticker on the shelf behind Moss in season three.

Now I'm off to type Google into Google.

What about Captain Picard?

About 15 years ago, I received an issue of Discover magazine that made me wonder "Why is Patrick Stewert's head on the cover?" (This was before his knighthood, so I purposefuly ommited the 'sir')

The article told of some science guys taking a super old skull (these are technical terms) that predated Clovis, and handed it over to one of those guys who does forensic reconstruction of faces with clay. The result was a very anglican face that even the author of the article likened to Sir Patrick Stewert.

I didn't follow up on it at all, but unless it has been refuted, it lends some cred to those poop poker's ideas.

It's been done.

It's old tech.

I had a (cheap) electric toothbrush that used induction to recharge the battery, and that was back in the 1990's.

It had no cords or metal contacts at all — just a plastic body that fit inside a plastic charging cradle.

Still, though, I'd love for my phone to have that feature.

Trust me

Put a marshmellow in it!

The most shocking part of this video

Look at 2:13... hipsters in China!

Hollywood?

If this gets made into a movie, there's a very good chance I'd go and see it in theater.

I've been wondering what those blue squares were. I always thought they were from a book, like the other reCaptcha images.

It should be noted that those house number images, if that's what they are, have been showing up in reCapptchas since 2011. I guess it's news worthy if Google just made the announcement.

If you're not happy with identifying house numbers, you don't have to. Just correctly type the word used for identification (you'll be able to tell them apart after doing enough of them) and put gibberish of an appropriate length where the scanned image word (or house number) goes.

Queensland Police spell it “Hi” not “High”...

...Is that where the beverage name "Hi-C" came from?

You know those red thingies on the front of the starship Enterprise's engine nacelles? Bussard 'ram-scoops'.

'Murrikan, here.

Anyone remember when this thread was about the Kim Dotcom seizures being 'null and void'?

Hey guys, there's a place for this caliber of political discussion, and it's called 4chan.

Really?

@Bradly You imply that you have yet to have met a woman with implants for purely cosmetic reasons, yet you already decided that no woman who has ever done that is of so little worth that you would not be able to "take her seriously as a human being.".

Boy howdy ya sure do sound smart!

I've met two nurses and one doctor with boob jobs. They seemed pretty human to me.

PhotoShop

I recall reading an article (I believe it was on The Register) about a PhotoShop plugin that analyses a photo of a smartphone's screen to reveal hidden patterns in the smudges left on the screen — and supposedly this is impervious to wiping or cleaning the screen.

But I'm sure the federallies have already thought of that, though.

Georgio Tsukalos

Did somebody say... ancient aliens?

Skiddie wants to be known as The Laughing Man?

I agree with the Anon who's subject line was: Story: PBAS Lack of Security, but I see perhaps another scenario.

Say the script kiddie (or skiddie, as the kids are fond of saying) actually intended to get caught? Maybe he was just after the notoriety , and somehow came to the conclusion that his short lived infamy would be worth the jail time and black mark on his record.

That, or what Anon said.

Haters gonna hate...

I've not played the original. I don't have any intrest in playing an RTS. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with an RTS, I simply don't enjoy them.

That being said, I *am* a fan of the first person shooter. And before you ask, yes, I'm a typical gun-toting 'Murikan.

More than a fan of the FPS, I am a fan of cyberpunk. To me, this is the closest thing to a Ghost in The Shell game that's been released in recent times (excluing the latest *Deus Ex* installment, of course)

So for people who like sci-fi cyberpunk shoot-em-ups, it's a great game. If you dislike playing an FPS or dislike cyberpunk for whatever reason (and I'm sure you think it's a good reason) then obviously this is not the game for you.

What I find funny is how many are complaining that this is not a rehash of the original, because when Halo3 came out, every one complained that it was hardly any different than Halo2.