* Posts by Fatman

2400 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Apr 2008

Republicans turn up heat on FCC over net neutrality push

Fatman

Re: Tipping Point

Don,

You have succinctly nailed what is wrong with the GOP.

Unfortunately, the Republican sheeple sit there and eat up the shit shoveled by the likes of Limbaugh and Beck.

The GOP of today stands for screwing the working man as fast as they can.

Now, before anyone thinks I am a rabid union member democrat, understand, I don't like what unions have become in the same timespan.

At one time, unions used to stand for something - better working conditions. Now, I really don't know what who they stand for.

Russia to suspend US GPS stations in tit-for-tat spat

Fatman

Re: Where have you been Murphy?!

Dear AC,

You must have been absent during the time mid 20 Century History was being taught.

While I (as an American) can appreciate the sacrifices made by your family members; you seem to forget one important thing.

Form Sept 1, 1939, until Dec 11, 1941; officially the USA sat on its hands and let the people of Europe deal with Hitler and Mussolini. Many died during that period. To ignore those deaths, well I will just quote you:

Forgetting their sacrifice borders on criminal behavior.

From another Yank, enjoy a large serving of crow.

Linux distros fix kernel terminal root-hole bug

Fatman
FAIL

Re: Never mind the facts!

Let's fill this page with MS hate then we can all pretend this Linux vulnerability never happened.

Which I am sorry to say, is a bad attitude.

Someone fucked up.

Period.

Fix the goddammed bug.

There only three things that matter to me:

1) When did this get introduced (so we have some idea of how long we have been vulnerable)

2) When was it reported

3) When was the fix released.

Sometimes the Linux community needs to 'take its medicine', just like those who worship at the altar of Redmond.

Sony bosses will return bonuses as firm preps for BILLIONS in losses

Fatman

Re: Todokōru

Or do you prefer high oxygen copper cables for the dynamism they add to the music?

No, he one of those who buy the $500 Denon cat 5e audio cable.

Fatman

Re: Seriously?

Not too awful long ago there would have been several new executive positions open at Sony where the new person could move in as soon as they got the blood off the floor and/or replaced the window with the Asian Executive shaped hole in it.

I wish I had swallowed the coffee before I read that!!!!!

Fatman

Re: Seriously?

I think that demonstrates integrity far beyond any I've ever seen from corporate management in the west.

I have to ask: "Might these be the same executives that decided to infect consumer CD's with a rootkit?"

If, so, then they deserve it.

Seppuku is too good for them.

Botched SAP billing system helps Npower reach No 1 on gripes list

Fatman

RE: Don't blame SAP, blame npower and particularly IBM Global Services.

There used to be a saying that 'no one ever got fired for hiring IBM'. Lately, that alone should be grounds for termination summary execution.

FTFY!!!

Fatman

Re: SAP somehow always spells doom...

SAP is literally defined as Slow And Painful..

Perhaps, but I have heard these alternative explanations:

Stupid Ass Program

Shut up And Pay

King's stocks are candy-crushed as its top toy suffers splurge slump

Fatman

RE: Coming soon Stock Bubble Burst Saga...

I can see it now, when you are playing, all of a sudden this bubble appears, bursts, and the words:

You Lose Sucker appear on the screen.

Immediately hit the in-app purchase button for a reload to try again.

I hate to tell you, but it is a suckers' bet.

Disks with Ethernet ports? Throw in some flash and you've got yourself a HGST p-a-r-t-y

Fatman

Re: How long...

before one of these drives gets infected by a virus and starts sending spam

or encrypting the entire contents of the disk and ask for a ransom in BitCoin ?

A sobering thought.

I wonder what kind of security is going to be baked in?

FCC MUST protect net neutrality to preserve AMERICA, say Google et al

Fatman

Re: 'Net Neutrality - Step 1: Define "net"

Your first paragraph nailed the issue squarely on the head.

Transport (or as I prefer to call it - Internet ACCESS) should be separated from content crap delivery.

Transport should be regulated as a common carrier, content crap delivery doesn't need such regulation.

End of story.

RBS Group hopes £750m IT shakeup splurge will prevent next bank mainframe meltdown

Fatman

Re: Deja Vu

The single point of failure remains where it always was, the board of directors.

100% DEAD ON TARGET!!!!!!

Fatman
FAIL

Re: Whats the bet

The only answer is to return control to the UK and start treating staff as valuable resources instead of disposable costs.

"But then I can't get my bonus!" cried the bank's CEO.

Fatman
Unhappy

Re: Would have been a lot cheaper

This is the same company that has just slashed contractor rates by 10%

So that's HOW they expect to pay for it, and here, I thought it was coming out of executive bonuses!

Silly me!

Target topples CEO in latest data breach domino

Fatman

Re: Too many idiots with no common sense in this world!!!!!!!

As far as sacrificing the CEO because of stupidity, the ENTIRE IT department should be LONG GONE before you even look at the CEO.

Sorry, but I must strenuously disagree with you!!!

The casualties must be in the executive ranks only

<rant>

Those are the assholes who instituted policies and procedures that allowed the breach in the first place.

IT would not have flagrantly violated an order from the CIO to isolate the POS network from the rest of the company if one existed!

Thus it would be fair to assume such a directive never made its way out of the mouth of the senior executives.

This is quite likely because

1) it never occurred to them, or

2) because they were out on another cost cutting mission

to fund higher executive bonuses.

</rant>

Danger, Will Robinson! Beware the hidden perils of BYOD

Fatman

Re: This is why DRM is inevitable

These interests are so divergent now, the state is one of the bad guys we need protection from.

Especially in the Land of the Free Spied Upon.

You'll hate Google's experimental Chrome UI, but so will phishers

Fatman

Re: pointless

It's difficult to overestimate how clueless STUPID the average user is.

FTFY!!!!

Oh Sony. Have we learned NOTHING from SuperAIT?

Fatman

Re: Sony's Dilemma Is Simple: It's Being Run By Marketing

Sony's Dilemma Is Simple: It's Being Run By Marketing

You forgot a word in that statement, so allow me to repeat it with the missing word included:

Sony's Dilemma Is Simple: It's Being Run By Marketing ASSHOLES

See!!!!

Much better

Fatman

Re: You forgot to mention...

No, Sony, we have NOT forgotten.

You are not alone in making that statement.

I would not be surprised if the dammed deck requires a constant internet connection just to insure that its DRM scheme works.

</sarcasm>

The verdict is in: Samsung to pay Apple $120m chump change, but gets tiny rebate

Fatman

Re: "Beloved products like the iPhone..."

The other side read "I need the money hate my boss".

FTFY

Now, before this comes back to bite me in the ass, I really like my boss.

She is a Princess!!

Script fools n00b hackers into hacking themselves

Fatman

Re: Give these people an award!

@brewster's angle grinder,

More likely a self inflicted gunshot wound (metaphorically speaking).

Microsoft: You know we said NO MORE XP PATCHES? Well ...

Fatman

@brewster's angle grinder

But developers have discovered that the crowds, in their wisdom, manglement exuding its sheer stupidity want cheap software with lots of new features, as opposed to software that is free of bugs.

There!!!

FTFY

Manglement: The bane if IT existence worldwide.

Fatman

Re: Luckily unaffected

The number of systems that i have had to "fix" due to that piece of dog egg of shit silicon is not funny...

FTFY!!!

Fatman

Re: Well ...

That's exactly what I've got. I removed IE from the system and replaced Windows entirely.

Me too, back in 2007 with Ubuntu.

You've heard of the internet, right? Well this here might just be the INTERCLOUD

Fatman

OK??

Doesn't this sound like a cloud to cloud IXC????

Or, do I have it wrong?

Systems meltdown plunges US immigration courts into pen-and-paper stone age

Fatman

Re: Five servers down at the same time ?

It has to be a terrist strike.

Nah!!!

It was just the NSA targeting the wrong IP address!!!!!

</snark>

AOL Mail locks down email servers to deal with spam tsunami

Fatman

Re: America On Line does not track you

Would you be interested in buying a bridge?

or swampland in Florida???

Fixing OpenSSL's Heartbleed flaw will take MONTHS, warns Secunia

Fatman

Re: Solutionism

Unsurprisingly, this is really popular with the tech invest lobby get rich quick crowd.

FTFY!

US Supreme Court supremo rakes Aereo lawman in oral arguments

Fatman

We shall soon see....

If Money Talks and Bullshit Walks???

Won't we!

I suspect tht if the decision would go against the old broadcast media companies threatened with extinction dinosaurs, we will see legislation introduced by some Congressman media stooge to amend the copyright laws (like Sonny Bono did for Disney).

Hey El Reg, this edit timer thingy really sucks when you run out of time during an edit!!!!!!

How about fixing that dammed thing???

Fatman
WTF?

We shall soon see ...

If Money Talks and Bullshit Walks???

Won't we!

VMware reveals 27-patch Heartbleed fix plan

Fatman

Re: running workarounds

There are too many underskilled/ overworked /alienated (by manglement's insistence to do more with less to the point of not caring) sysadmins out there to ensure that this issue will not be fixed quickly.

A slight semantic difference, but, still,

FTFY!!!

Helpdesk/Service Desk Recommendations

Fatman

Re: Zendesk

Allow me to fill in a couple of blanks.

We also use the Gooddata option to get some detailed performance reporting out of it, which revealed amusing stats about common issues, and well... certain individuals (IDIOT manglers) who monopolise IT's time more than they should, and the reasons they do the monopolising (sheer stupidity and gross incompetence).

FTFY!!!

Sticky Tahr-fy pudding: Ubuntu 14.04 slickest Linux desktop ever

Fatman
FAIL

Re: Head to head

And then there is the massive re-training all your users will need, and you'll have to explain command line to them - you can't avoid that with Linux.

Is that you, Loverock Davidson???

Candy Crush King sees IPO go sour as stock price heads south

Fatman

RE: King's IPO

Don't you fools understand,

IPO stands for

Initial

Profit is

OURS!!!!!

Sheeple!!!

They want me to install CCTV to see what YOU did in the TOILET

Fatman

Re: Cameras for monitoring <s>attendance ...</s> PRIVATE employee activity

Just wait until BOFH gets his hands on those cameras!

No, silly, just wait until he (the BOFH) does The Right Thing(tm) and turn in his (now EX-) boss into the cops:

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/suspect-faces-123-video-voyeurism-counts-in-tampa-case/2171292

BOFH: On the PFY's Scottish estate, no one can hear you scream...

Fatman

What are YOU up to, Mr. BOFH???

"Absolutely. In fact I would insist upon it. You, me, possibly the Boss, a shovel, some lime - it would make a great day out!"

Planning some homicide??

You naughty boy.

Please insure that the Board also attends.

Microsoft alters Hotmail policy amid blogger inbox probe outcry

Fatman

Re: Scroogled ! Hotmailed ? Outlooked ? Microsofted ??

Scroogled ! Hotmailed ? Outlooked ? Microsofted SHAFTED ??

FTFY!!!

Fatman

Re: Which will cause MS more damage?

And so much for Microsoft's marketing campaign that highlights Google's data collection obsession

Which Google's PR team would be wise to exploit.

'Catastrophic' server disk-destroying glitch menaced Google cloud

Fatman

RE: Sometimes you pay a cheap price and you get what you pay for.

If you put data in the cloud without at least two local backup copies on reliable (and physically separate) media, you are an idiot and should be fired with cause taken out back, and shot.

FTFY

Target ignored hacker alarms as crooks took 40m credit cards – claim

Fatman

Traget, you have one on your back, and you seem to be oblivious to it.

"The supermarket employed a team of security specialists in Bangalore tasked with monitoring its computers around the clock."

First, beaten to the punch.

Second, that what you get for outsourcing....

Third, damagement strikes AGAIN!!!! Didn't these dumb fucks get the message from the RBS fuckup - "Don't outsource critical functions to third parties" But, bonuses all around for ...

It's a Good Thing I don't shop there!!!!

Backdoor snoops can access files on your Samsung phone via the cell network – claim

Fatman

RE: We've found a file spying backdoor in Samsung phones – Replicant devs

The pessimist: No way is this only in Samsung phones They just found another NSA backdoor!!!!

FTFY!!!

UK's CASH POINTS to MISS Windows XP withdrawal date

Fatman

Re: @ Joe User NCR

who wouldn't know remote management from his asshole/arsehole if you kicked him in rammed the ATM up it.

FTFY!!!

My work-from-home setup's better than the office. It's GLORIOUS

Fatman

Re: Great Article.

Can we have an icon that shows Corporate IT manglement being shot by their users the IT department.

FTFY!!!

How to shop wisely for the IT department of the future

Fatman

RE: If Nerds ran it,

If Nerds ran it, it would be bloody-well efficient, its non-nerd, know-nothing tw*t managers manglers that cause the inefficiencies.

FTFY!!!!

CIA snoops snooped on Senate to spy spy torture report – report

Fatman

Re: Tail wagging the dog. "These people need to be whipped"

You beat me to it!!

How a Facebook post by blabbermouth daughter cost her parents $80,000

Fatman
Joke

Re: ...and make it legally enforceable.

At what point did America get taken over by people who think the state can do whatever the hell it likes to whoever the hell it likes, and make it legally enforceable.

In the aftermath of 8/11.

MtGox to customers: Your call is important to us … NOT!

Fatman

Mt Gox going bust

Wasn't a surprise to me one bit. I knew it was going to happen

MtGox was noting more than a who gets stuck holding the bag when the shit hit the fan.

Seriously, anyone holding onto Bitcoins was a mark to be plundered. The 'smart ones' converted Bitcoin into real money and bailed, leaving others holding the bag.

Not too much unlike holding $Billions in Reichmarks at the end of WWII; they become worthless, and most likely so will Bitcoins. Add that to the laundry list of financial fleecings developed over the centuries. Perhaps this will get its own moniker, like the Ponzi scam.

Energy firms' security so POOR, insurers REFUSE to take their cash

Fatman

RE: Whatever has gone wrong ... commonsense amongst professional engineers?

The have been overruled by brain dead beancounters.

All on their knees kissing the ass of massive stockholder profits.

Fatman
FAIL

Re: Surprise!...People need to give themselves a shake and stop using MS products!

OH Please, give it a rest.

I hate Microsoft probably as much as you appear to; but save the criticism for when it is truly deserved.

Unless the SCADA system itself is using Windows as the operating system, or uses Windows to effect day to day control, then you are way off base.

So many of these systems were designed to connect via dedicated circuits, and the brain dead PHB's looked at costs, and ordered IT to find ways to cut those costs. Consequently shit never designed to be connected to the public net finds itself wired. Thank the fucking beancounters for that one.

Cable thieves hang up on BT, cause MAJOR outage

Fatman
Stop

RE: Keeping the numbers down.

It's just a shame more of them don't get HV included in the mix as well. Would help keep the numbers down.

My sentiments exactly.

Imagine if the fiber (or is it fibre?) were 'shielded' by a metal wrap that was connected to something like 12kV? That would hurt as the moron cut through the outer jacket.