Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Going after the guy who tells you you are an asshole feels like partying in the '90s ... but then!

Then Dailydot cites Shafer:

“Many IT guys in the dental industry know that the Patterson FTP site has been unsecured for many years. I actually remember them having a passworded FTP site back in 2006. To get the password you would call tech support at Eaglesoft\Patterson Dental and they would just give you the password to the FTP site if you wanted to download anything. It never changed. At some point they made the FTP site anonymous. I think around 2010.”

"RING RING! " "Hello?" "Dear Patterson ... CLASS ACTION SUIT!"

Under the California Act, any data subject whose covered confidential information or records data were negligently released may recover nominal damages of one thousand dollars ($1,000), whether or not the plaintiff suffered or was threatened with actual damages, in addition to any actual damages. If there was actual economic damage or personal injury resulting from the breach, punitive damages of $3,000 per individual are also available.

Hillary Clinton broke law with private email server

Bears seen shitting in woods, and not even in a quantum-mechanical way!

Also, Kremlin-on-Potomac watch:

Hillary Clinton’s Damning Emails by Ray McGovern, May 02, 2016

It is altogether likely that Gen. Keith Alexander, head of NSA from 2005 to 2014, neglected to tell the Secretary of State of NSA’s “collect it all” dragnet collection that included the emails and telephone calls of Americans – including Clinton’s. This need not have been simply the result of Alexander’s pique at her disdain for communications security requirements, but rather mostly a consequence of NSA’s modus operandi.

So, if there is something incriminating – or at least politically damaging – in Clinton’s emails, it’s a safe bet that at least the NSA and maybe the FBI, as well, knows. And that could make life difficult for a Clinton-45 presidency. Inside the Beltway, we don’t say the word “blackmail,” but the potential will be there. The whole thing needs to be cleaned up now before the choices for the next President are locked in.

“Do you want to work all night just to stay alive?” he asked. “Working harder is not the solution.”

No, a good fat bubble pop is the solution.

Granted, I will probably have to take up a new job as bi-cycle repair-man or invent a local delicacy like the fried mars bar, but why not!

Meanwhile, can user management in Atlassian Cloud finally be made fit-for-purpose and some long-awaited bugfixing be applied to JIRA?

Mistakes were made!

But show was run! !!

Not by clownlike politicians though. They are just there for the enabling.

Garnet estimates will be $24.5m

Garner reckons by 2019, it'll be the largest segment of the PC market

Who are these gentlemen and aren't we missing Mssr Gartor, Garrot, Garton and Garfield?

So, what's with the rumors of money disappearing down the drain for this?

...Not sure whether all planted by George Soros?

Excellent!

This hard-hitting piece of Ig-Nobel-worthy bleating edge research will be required reading for when the slackers get back into the office tomorrow morning! I'm off to the printer...

Bad ideas etc.

Still, it is not hard to see a practical application for the copyright-conscious printers in environments such as libraries or schools...

It's also not hard to see the practical application of vans with air-tight compartments at the back into which the exhaust pipe, rather incongruously, opens.

That doesn't mean that any of these are particularly good ideas.

(As an aside, said vans were apparently a Soviet invention, though history does not record whether they were patented, although it DOES record that the inventor, one Isay Berg, got purged by the purge he himself so enthusiastically supported)