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Roscosmos: An assembly error doomed our Soyuz, but we promise it won't happen again

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Re: A glitch in a Soyuz

It may have been identified, but it has not been corrected. For a start, it has already happened and is therefore beyond correction.

I obviously mean the manufacturing fault has been identified and procedures adhjusted, meaning any newly built soyuz will NOT have this manufacturing fault.

Soyuz capsules don't have "escape pods".

True, they landed in the crew capsule. Sorry!

As to Roscosmos security track record, read this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents

Not saying accidents will not happen, just that their death toll is incredibly low, especially considering all the humans they put into orbit ...

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A glitch in a Soyuz

Just to get this story straight: The fault that caused a soyuz to misbehave and crew to climb to the escape pod has been identified and corrected. No BS with people blaming others or withholding information (Challenger, anybody ?), or escape routes too long and pods too far away for the nauts to gets out.

Whatever you say, the Russians have a track record nowhere near anybody else when it comes to space missions, like, 4 deaths in almost 70 years ? [have not checked] Their kit is rudimentary, but it usually does the job nicely - shit sometimes happens AND gets fixed ...

I do not like the Russian President or his Administration, but Roscosmos definitely know what they are doing!

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Love Microsoft Teams? Love Linux? Then you won't love this

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Using Teams through a browser on Linux is a limiting experience. even on windows it is better, imho, ymmv.

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The omission is an odd one. Microsoft has a Skype client for Linux, so a similar client for Teams should not be beyond the imagination of the Windows giant

Hm, since when is Skype a nodejs app like Teams? Nobody likes teams, it is imposed garbage.

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RIP Paul Allen: Microsoft cofounder billionaire dies at 65 after facing third bout with cancer

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@El Reg

Gates had tried to buy Allen's shares at a low price in 1983.

Source for this ? Paraphrasing Allen: I came into the office one afternoon unexpectedly as I was undergoing cancer treatment and overheard Steve and Bill discuss diluting my shares. I burst in ... That was very unpleasant, possibly the worst day in my life.

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Microsoft Surface Pro 4 owners: So, about that other broken update…

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Paris Hilton

Re: Come on...

It's not like there are a zillion different hardware configurations...

Go, tell the penguinistas!

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Re: Mine is fine

@Sil @AC

Don't worry, you were left out due to a bug in the last update, next update will "upgrade" your models as well to the new experience!

You guyz are techies, I assume, do you seriously run Windows Update on those ? Better be sure your box is immune b4 you install ... you check model numbers or something ? Hat's off to your bravery!

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Oh no, Xi didn't! Chinese spymaster cuffed in Belgium, yoinked to US on aerospace snoop rap

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Re: Jurisdiction??

Friendly territory to NSA/FBI means vassal state ... USian "low enforcement" have been abducting poor sods and killing them on military airports in Poland as well ...

The US low enforcement has more power abroad than that home, because, after all, us foreigners are Untermenschen ... according to them ...

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Re: Expect more

How about Arial font ? To name but one ... This story is as if Al Capone were to grab a thief in the streets because he stole an orange ... double standards, not even funny anymore ... as for my UK fellow countrymen ... GHCQ is spying on Airbus as I type ;-) ... they all do it ... US is one of very few that gets away with trials, though ...

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Microsoft has signed up to the Open Invention Network. We repeat. Microsoft has signed up to the OIN

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Re: Android?

The "software" patents were obvious things, which had already been implemented years/decades earlier, just a bunch of "on a mobile device" patents ...

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Apache OpenOffice, the Schrodinger's app: No one knows if it's dead or alive, no one really wants to look inside

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Headmaster

Re: Aw look a $ sign instead of the S

Like it's 2002.

Like it's 1985

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Re: Counting is not so easy.

Then there are derivatives and rebranding, such as NeoOffice, which can also make difficult to get accurate user base figures for either LibreOffice or Apache OO.

NeoOffice is not a rebrand! NeoOffice has a different ui implementation and is much better integrated into OS X. Read https://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/faq.php They were the first to port OpenOffice to OS X' Aqua ui.

OpenOffice only released a native OS X version in 2008 (version 3.0), NeoOffice had a working one, with a few bugs in 2003 ...

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Re: Reminder for macos users

Sounds like a tiny handful of extensions piggy-backing on a massive piece of FOSS development that some arsehole thinks they can charge money for. Perhaps you have missed out 30 dollars' worth of other improvements.

It does, I totally agree, BUT, in this case, it is different.

IMPORTANT SIDE NOTE: This is GPL'd software, you buy once, share will all your mates ;-) https://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/faq.php

History

NeoOffice was created back in the day when there simply was no OpenOffice version for OS X... well, there was, but it ran in an X server, thus had weird behaviour on Mac.

These NeoOffice guys basically rewrote the ui and integrated the package well with MacOS X !

So, in the old days, they brought you something you could not get elsewhere, a Mac version of OpenOffice. I gave them $50 roughly 15 years ago ... iirc

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High Court of England and Wales blocks iPhone Safari privacy suit against Google

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Holmes

What a relief!

One moment, Google illegally scooped up localisation data from people over a period of six months and get away with it .... crime pays off nicely, then, and all is fine ... and google harassing you with ads of a disliked competitor of the local DIY store or clothes store you visited over the course of those 6 months is fine, right ?

"We at Google take the privacy of our users^H^H^H^H^Hproducts very seriously and would never do anything with the data we collected. We at Google do not even know why it was collected, we suspect it must have been a bug and we are very sorry."

Google laughing all the way to some Cayman Islands bank ...

PS: You can replace Google with Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Twatter, Instagram, Amazon, you name it ...

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Remember that lost memory stick from Heathrow Airport? The terrorist's wet dream? So does the ICO

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Holmes

I am not into security patrols at all and also thought that was a rather dumb strategy. Even Brinks know that, come on!!!!! Ok, they learned it the hard way ...

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Re: a national newspaper, which recorded the data

probably more of a risk than, say, having some confidential information in a disk sector that had been part of the page file.

Paging onto a USB flash drive ?????

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Re: a national newspaper, which recorded the data

I might be wrong, but it seems some storage devices will accept firmware updates and presumably you need to avoid those.

No, device makers need to get their act together and enforce encrypted and/or signed firmware images. You need to be able to update the firmware when flaws are found, right ?

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On the seventh anniversary of Steve Jobs' death, we give you 7 times he served humanity and acted as an example to others

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Re: Interesting to speculate...

will probably be judged more kindly.

He is already, considered a saint of the sacrosaint up there with the great Juju up the mountain!

Nobody mentions he with Ballmer tried to pull the shares off his high-school-buddy co-founder, who was undergoing cancer treatment ... what a nice bunch, those two!

Everybody has forgotten he has repeatedly lied under oath in US courts

He has fired people just like Steve, like ... the real nice TOTAL CUNT way.

Worse, philanthropist ? You owe me a keyboard, sir! A serial liar vows to give away his cash, then increases his wealth by 50%. Says his foundation is doing good stuff ... fuck that, spreading licensing in agriculture ... use these seeds, you'll have to buy them each year at cut throat prices, no you cannot re-use your produce, you really have to buy them each year, if you don't you get a hefty fine and will have to pay the license for them anyway ... and Yes, I am Saint Gates of the great Juju up the mountain ...we have businesses to run in the states, you see ...

I call TOTAL piss-take BS!

I do hope you will do something similar when this other sociopath kicks a bucket ...

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Re: He's not the messiah...

Model 3 can almost tow a WWII tank and reach 60 mph before you, with your Zoe towing nothing ... has 4 times your autonomy or something crazy like that ? Now, not a big Tesla fan, but a Zoe ? A Zoe is a toy, should be allowed for drivers without a license ...

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Microsoft yanks the document-destroying Windows 10 October 2018 Update

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Microsoft QA Procedure

"Did it install ? I do not care if it bricks the device, all I wanna know is did it install in the end! Yes ? then we ship it!" (Microsoft should register that)

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Boffin

Re: "The guy who wrote the update"

Depends where you work ... we have experienced consultants who now have grown tired of travelling and have taken over Q/A. They have a whole wack of different systems with different settings, and each time they find a showstopper, they get a cold lager (so to speak)! Our customers rely on our software for some business critical stuff, you cannot just go easy-peasy, sir ... Quality costs money!

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The only way is up, baby: IBM UK sales down, profit down, headcount down

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Re: Do a contract for TSB...

...allow everyone to see their systems still go down. "IBM must be shit then? Not the same as they were in the 80s".

And that is down to: "Those highly knowledgeable veterans are expensive, let's hire the interns and make the veterans redundant, no, too expensive, let's make them ask for retirement, have them resign or resign them against their will."

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Holmes

IBM know exactly who makes them money, and I believe are happily surrendering low margin customers when their deal comes up for renewal.

Look at their cash-flow and their profits, I doubt this is the case!

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UK space comes to an 'understanding' with Australia as Brexit looms

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Re: RE: Mooseman

UK doesnt want a border

So UK wants to remain ? You cannot be both inside and outside of the common market. Ireland is in the common market, Northern Ireland wants to stay, so does Scotland, but the rest of the UK wants out. Brexit means hard border in Northern Ireland, so, there are really only three options:

Northern Ireland joins the republic of Ireland.

UK stays in the common market

UK dumps the Good Friday agreement.

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Re: RE: Mooseman

just our furniture.

Well, then, do you have it somewhere, your furniture ? You financed projects, yes, bailing out now, tough! No, you will not get your money back, now f off! (Apologies to Monty Python)

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Re: Tigra 07

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40860657

That does not include all the business you get from EU-land .... like e.g. Nissan in Sunderland selling 55% of the production to EU-land - which will grind to a halt on April 1st if nothing is done for all the parts that need to come in daily from EU-land, just in time, for production (long waits + 5% tariff) and the cars that need to go to EU-land. Carlos is very concerned and thinks about down-sizing despite the state aid (40m, iirc) and laughter he got back in 2016 when May tried to convince him to export to 3rd world countries instead of EU ... he had to remind May that there are Nissan factories across the globe and that transporting vehicles by sea is not economically realistic ... especially ones built in the UK with UK labour costs, compare to Indian labour costs ... she does not have an 'ff'ing clue.

I try, each time I reply here to give other examples ... Airbus, LCH, etc etc etc ?

I am at a point where I just think the deluded Brexiteers have ruined the country and we might as well leave them create havoc, I guess they will be the first to suffer, lets make them the only ones ... any remainers in the UK should move to Ireland or elsewhere, NOW, it is f-UK-ed, Jim!

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Day two – and Windows 10 October 2018 Update trips over Intel audio

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Re: Edge?

You're kidding. I sideloaded Firefox from a USB stick.

I use Invoke-WebRequest from Powershell .... used to use ftp.exe before that ... I sometimes have Edge start, though, when silly me forgets that Outlook does not honor Windows settings and uses Edge to open links .... then again, I do not click many links in emails ... and it never gets time to load the page in question, so I am safe ... I think ...

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UK ruling party's conference app editable by world+dog, blabs members' digits

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FAIL

17.8 : "An act done in relation to a computer is unauthorised if the person doing the act (or causing it to be done)—

(a)is not himself a person who has responsibility for the computer and is entitled to determine whether the act may be done; and

(b)does not have consent to the act from any such person.""

By that definition, using the Internet is illegal, unless you request permission from each and every site you wish to visit ...

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Figuring out that an SQL server is listening on an open port and sending SQL queries to it is NOT OK.

Bullshit!

1. Port scanning is not a crime if the port is open to the world! Shit, reminds me of my youth, sk8 is not a crime! Now, if no password is required, you're good to go - i.e. webserver. Trying to force your way through is a crime, though.

2. You need to authenticate for SQL server to process your queries!

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Pain spotting: Russia's Aeroflot Docker server lands internal source code, config files on public internet

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Meh

I am at a loss, here ... does this mean that OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux kernel, tar, nc, and many other pieces of software are a risk ? I mean, ok, here, somebody can run a copycat website on, say www.aerofloat.ru and potentially trick ppl into given away their hard earned cash ... but anything can siphon the website looks ... I fail to grasp ... of course, they might find sqlinjection points and with a database flavor it is easier to mount an attack ... but still ... meh

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Microsoft gets ready to kill Skype Classic once again: 'This time we mean it'

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I would really like outdated versions of skype NOT to cry "invalid password" when all that is needed is an upgrade. Yes, I have skype lying around for when I have to contact the old fart, once ever 6 months .... and each time it claims my password is incorrect, this only tricked me the first time it happened several years ago ... it is Skype-speak for "a newer version is out and you MUST install that one."

Why they cannot figure out a way to do what other software has been doing for the last two decades, including Skype (before it was purchased by MS), I dunno ... I guess they thought that that feature is not really required because ... this is the ultimate version of Skype and it is perfect & bugfree, there will be no other, ever!

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Apple's dark-horse macOS Mojave is out (and it's already pwned)

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Re: they peaked at snow leopard

They peaked at Mountain Lion, obviously ...

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Brexit campaigner AggregateIQ challenges UK's first GDPR notice

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Happy

Yeah, their denial does not quite work out for them ... they should have claimed they deleted the data before GDPR came into effect and doctored the logs and denied holding said data.

Maybe the first to cough up ...

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UKIP flogs latex love gloves: Because Brexit means Brexit

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Re: Non-binding it may be, but we're still doomed.

You could not even muster enough people to pick strawberries this season and you are blocking the Poles from coming in as of March, who is gonna come and work on the farm, now, you or your idle kids ?

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Fallover Friday: NatWest, RBS and Ulster Bank go TITSUP*

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We’re aware of some issues on our Anytime [...] Banking services

Well then, why do they not call it Sometimes banking services ?

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Brits pay £490m extra for mobes they already own – Citizens Advice

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Windows

Have them ask for a refund ?

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Watt the heck is this? A 32-core 3.3GHz Arm server CPU shipping? Yes, says Ampere

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Thumb Up

So this is targetted at the Xeon Platinum 8180 (https://ark.intel.com/products/120496)

$800 vs $10 000 ?

125W vs 200W ?

32 cores vs 28 ?

1TB vs 768 GB (RAM) ?

Can it run Crysis ?

$800 ? Wow, nice and cheap ... I want one - a nice toy for Xmas!

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Microsoft reveals train of mistakes that killed Azure in the South Central US 'incident'

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Re: lmao...

Schadenfreude ? I see what you feel!

I also loved the "metadata" BS, just, what is this metadata and why is it stored in other regions ? Maybe for the NSA to decide which data, belonging to the metadata, it would like to have to help its mates over at Boeing etc ... Besides, I thought the data was encrypted by the customer, that MS could not read the data, how come MS have metadata for said data ? Hmmm ...

Who still trusts MS ?

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UK.gov isn't ready for no-deal Brexit – and 'secrecy' means businesses won't be either

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Re: Hmm

And if it was multiple choice (A) Soft (B) Hard, or (C) Remain

No

(A) WTO (B) customs union (C) single market (D) Remain

If A+B+C > 1.5 D -> then the highest of ABC wins

With the following help:

A means bankruptcy, keeps Johnny foreigner out

B means killing financial sector, keeps Johnny foreigner out

C means no say in policies, allows Johnny foreigner in

D means we have a say in policies, allows Johnny foreigner in

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I think you mean ANY UK Government of the last 2^H40 years....

TFTFY

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Top Euro court: UK's former snooping regime breached human rights

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However, the court said the sharing of information with foreign government was not in breach of the rules.

WTF ? Not ok to collect data because appropriate handling processes were lacking. Sounds fair enough!

Share data with third parties that have even worse procedures for handling the data ? That is ok?????

What are they smoking I need some for the mother-in-law!

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Chromebooks gain faff-free access to Windows file shares via Samba

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Happy

"Livin' in the 80's... you're livin' in the 80's" (with apologies to "The Killing Joke" :-).

Things have long since changed.

Seeing as Linux was cancer up until 2014, I guess one can safely say that MS have changed tactics only very recently. I would not trust them if I were you, but that is your business, not mine ... thanks for the great stuff you guyz have done! I remember with fun humiliating a bunch of MCSE's beating their multi-CPU server grade kit running Windows NT Server and later Windows 2000 Advanced Server at SMB with an outdated desktop class system running Debian headless in 2000-2001, ok, I had a good network card, but still. Sweet memories.

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Like tax? Love networks? UK taxmen have a job just for you

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CDS’ predecessor, CHIEF, is supplied by IBM, and concerns have swirled for a while that if CDS stutters, CHIEF may not be able to take up the slack, and time available to sort all this out getting shorter by the day. Something else to turn the head of networks grey.

As we reported back in June: “Full import functionality [of CDS] is now due in November and export in December, with migration of traders expected to be complete in January.”

I hope HMRC is good at bullshit dodging, this reads like The Matrix, with a humongous pile of excrement, floating through the air in sloooow motion, in direction of a humongous fan.

If we count on HMRC to have heard of PRINCE2, we're delusional. Some @IBM have, however, they have no incentive to plan ahead, they know that if CDS fails, which it obviously will, HMRC will renew the CHIEF contract plus big $$$bn to adapt it to the new functionality asap. The more HMRC will be in a hurry, the more $$$bn IBM will rake in ... patience pays off!

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World's oldest URL – fragments 73,000 years old – discovered in cave

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Re: Windows?

recording how to mount the W share

Nobody noticed that I forgot about the hostname ...

icon: self-inflicted

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Headmaster

Re: Hash FFS!

Dear Spazturtle,

Me thinks op was actually reading #N iso //W on that rock and #N is a hashtag with N being the tag ;-). In the actual image you can just about distinguish a hash in the first symbol followed by an N.

You are very welcome, sir!

Best Regards,

El'Reg's Voluntary Fire department

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Re: Pr0n

Human evolution is driven by porn.

Quite the opposite, sir.

Sex stimulates the reptilian brain ...

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Windows?

What were cave-dwelling people doing recording how to mount the W share of a Windows system from Linux ?

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Solid password practice on Capital One's site? Don't bank on it

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Re: Single figure entry

Also how do they store the combinations required?

British banks ? in clear text, in an MS Access database on an open-to-the-world AWS bucket in the states!

What did you expect ?

No, seriously, if they ask for n'th character, they have it in clear text!

If they have it in clear text, their techies are idiots.

And where do idiotic techies store sensitive shit ? in an open-to-the-world AWS bucket, somewhere ... I love argument from ignorance, but I think I am not too far off, here ...

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It's September 2018, and Windows VMs can pwn their host servers by launching an evil app

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Windows

Not again!

One of the more noteworthy of those bugs is CVE-2018-8475, a remote code flaw that can be triggered simply by viewing an image file in Windows.

FFS, it is 2018 and windows can be owned by viewing an image file ....

As Krebs warns:

According to security firm Ivanti, prior to today bad guys got advance notice about three vulnerabilities in Windows targeted by these patches. (emphasis mine)

And guess what ? This CVE-2018-8475 beauty is one of them ....

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Python joins movement to dump 'offensive' master, slave terms

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Re: I don't get it.

connotations of the terms.

I call BS ... to paraphrase Dawkins, the late Great Hitch, Fry, Harris, among many other ... how the fsck can you be offended by facts ? Slavery existed, involved masters and slaves.

We have masters and slaves, though arguably a slave can become master and vice-versa, blacklists and whitelists and we do not give a flying spaghetti monster about your "feelings", consider a cluebat for your Xmas wishlist.

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