Re: Another reason to root your phone
Surely you know /etc/hosts.deny, right ? No need to redirect ... just sayin'
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EXPOSED: Massive mobile malware network used by cops globally
Wednesday 25th June 2014 11:45 GMT
Re: Prosecute the cops
>If a device is found to contain this malware and no court order or warrant exists, then the police should be prosecuted to the fullest extent possible for unauthorized access and illegal wiretapping, just as any malicious hacker would be.
I totally agree, fsck, really ... now, just remind me, where do you go to report this ? You really think you'll get away with it ? Good luck ...
Firefighters deliver trapped student from GIANT GERMAN LADYPARTS
'Heartbleed-based BYOD hack' pwns insurance giant Aviva's iPhones
Monday 23rd June 2014 16:00 GMT
"It is important to note that foundational components of the MobileIron Infrastructure are not vulnerable to the attack including our VSP (management console), Sentry (Secure Mobile Gateway), ConnectedCloud, Anyware, and the MobileIron client. None of these product components are vulnerable. We also conducted a recent webinar reviewing this for our customers."
If I were MobileIron^H^H^H^HGlass, I would check again.
Imagine they had managed to get credentials, that would mean they were probably accessing other systems as well - however, since it is limited to MobileGlass, I guess their server was not patched OR MobileGlass is still vulnerable ....
'Most sophisticated DDoS' ever strikes Hong Kong democracy poll
Want a cheap iMac? TOO BAD. But you can have a slow one for $1,099
Saturday 21st June 2014 07:59 GMT
Your mac rumors thread discusses iMacs and X3100 based MacBooks, NOT Intel GMA950-based macbooks like yours, so I still call crap on that. Please see http://support.apple.com/kb/sp23 for specs of your kit. You can install mavericks on it, hacking it together, but since there is no 64-bit graphics driver for your GPU, graphics is buggy.
In fact, the resale value reflects the perceived value of Mac OS X. I always think when I have to part with money, what does it really cost and macs are much cheaper, once you include the resale value of the kit. It is the same with Audi/Volkswagen/Seat cars, although Renault, Peugeot and Opel sell cars at similar price points, when comes the time to sell the car, you will notice it will be both much easier to part with your car and you even get more for it if you choose Volkswagen group.
Friday 20th June 2014 12:46 GMT
I call crap on that, the white macbook from 2006 has intel graphics and IS NOT compatible with Mavericks. You might want to double/trebble the price as well ... and here you have the one benefit of a Mac ... I already said on here .. I bought a macbook in 2008 (iirc) at a discount (shop display model) and sold it some 1.5 years later for the same exact price I bought it, on ebay. That, sir, you cannot do with Dell, Sony, HP, Lenovo whatever ... 6 months after purchase they lose 50% of their value, one year and they lose 80%.
Azure turns on disaster recovery service
Tor is '90 per cent of the net' claims City of London Police Commish – and he's dead wrong
'Cortana-gate' ruins Satya Nadella's Microsoft honeymoon
Kids hack Canadian ATM during LUNCH HOUR
Tuesday 17th June 2014 16:00 GMT
Re: OK, my jaw dropped here
No ... actually, kids learn early that to reset the parental controls on the bluray player they have to read the user manual .... to access hidden options in an ATM, follow the instructions you found online.
Adults don't usually care about manuals, they just try three times, then give up ...
Tuesday 17th June 2014 13:42 GMT
Re: Well know
You must have one of those special cards which is not linked to your account, then, right ? Do you really think you can get away with that ???
ATM operator: We have 2000 quid missing, lets see, who withdrew large sums of money in small bills ... Shit, this guy has been withdrawing 500 quid in 10 quid notes, there lets get him ...
What you wanna do is copy cards or hack the system to spit out money, neither of which you can do by entering the operator menu.
British boffin tells Obama's science advisor: You're wrong on climate change
Tuesday 17th June 2014 10:29 GMT
Re: Logic Fail
@Squander Two
> Your eyes measure temperature? Are you a cyborg?
Shit, what do you use to read a thermometer then, care to share ?
Anecdotal, maybe, summer 2003 in France, very hot (hottest ever registered), Dec 1999 storms in France, Dec, Jan, Feb 2014 "massive" flooding ... whole cities with 1 to 2m water for a period of 2 months ... yes, 2m of water in house and garden for 2 MONTHS. Arguably, the latter might not be climate change, it might simply be due to the sand we drag out of seabeds for construction ... go check how much sand we use a year for construction, where it comes from and the effect it has on French and south Florida beaches (the other side of the pond), for example.
When you have anecdotal evidence all around the planet it sort stops being "anecdotal" I guess ... ;-)
Tuesday 17th June 2014 08:02 GMT
Re: Global Warming? @ Dr. Ellen
You again ... so you think climate science has not improved since the 1960's ? We do have super computers now.
We call it climate change as some parts of the globe are warming, while others will be cooling. Boffins across the globe claim it is changing faster than ever before. I do not know if it is man-made since climate scientists do not agree.
However, what I do know is that we are producing gigatons of waste all over the planet when we have alternatives that are environmentally friendly and not necessarily more expensive. We can blend in with nature and will have to, because it is our only hope, eventually. We cannot go on wasting energy (which means waste money, too) at current levels because it does not scale well - an additional 2 billion (China, India) humans will pretty soon wanna live just like we do.
We need to find and use clean energy sources, the sun and moon provide quite "a bit" of energy to this planet and it is free fuel, once we have the systems in place. In the long-term it is waaaaay cheaper. I am convinced that we will be able to produce much more energy for far less in a distributed system, which will mean that you will be able to leave the PC on overnight, if you so wish,
but you should not as long as it is produced using fossil fuel or heavy metals.
Graphene is overhyped, but this stuff will improve batteries and energy transportation.
As to buying stuff ... are you not tired of filling waste dumps ? You needa watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM
As Henry Ford once said, “Those who say it cannot be done should get out of the way of those who are doing it.”
Tesla, Nissan, BMW mull all-for-plug, plug-for-all electrocar charger plan
Yet another reason to skip commercials: Microsoft ad TURNS ON your Xbox One
Chrome OS leaks data to Google before switching on a VPN, says GCHQ
Wednesday 11th June 2014 13:16 GMT
Re: Unless I misread it...
Secure by design - I use my BB10 device for work only ... No searching interwebs to find out how to disable syncing sensitive data to a cloud (iOS, Android). I can locate/wipe/brick my device remotely without paying a yearly fee. I know it is futile to brick an Android or iPhone, not so sure about bb10, though ... No, I have not tested and will not "test" it ... ;-)
Edit: removed WP from self-syncing OS' as it is opt-in, afaik.
Evernote taken out by DDoS attack
Alienware says it WILL ship a Steam Machine in 2014 – running Windows
Wednesday 11th June 2014 07:54 GMT
>There are more than 3,200 games available on Steam right now, but only around 500 of them currently run on Linux.
500 ? Not that bad, actually. Will need to have a look. You must consider that they have the issue of the window cleaner brigade writing game engines that use proprietary Directx crap instead of the widely adopted and supported OpenGL. Result: the Mac/Linux/FreeBSD versions, if they exist, rely on cider or some other Chardonnay emulator and there are no native versions.
One day, the game houses that are not "sponsored" by Redmond will use the one and true OpenGL and that day will be a great day for the gaming community at large. Even Android, iOS etc have an OpenGL implementation.
Stephen Fry MADNESS: 'New domain names GENERATE NEW IP NUMBERS'
Redmond is patching Windows 8 but NOT Windows 7, say security bods
Friday 6th June 2014 15:17 GMT 
The next step is then finding who calls that specific function in win8 and you have candidates galore.
Maybe they are late with the fix for w7, however, they should have delivered the patches the same day ... now they are helping crackers find the holes in the sieve.
Paris coz she knows: the more the merrier !
Office, IE and Windows in line for critical fixes from Redmond
Friday 6th June 2014 11:27 GMT
Re: I fired up my copy of Fedora yesterday.
Hm, trolling? Did you sed 's/Windows/Fedora/g' ? Was it bleeding edge or stable ?
Why did it want to reboot twice and why did it not get all the packages in one go ? Something is fishy, there ... not seen anything like that, ever, in 15 years, on Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu, or Suse, but then again, YMMV. Note that I have even used bleeding edge versions on my production workstation but I tend to prefer stable ones now; too old for eye candy or new^H^H^Hbroken desktop environments.
DISCLAIMER: I have never used Fedora
Friday 6th June 2014 07:36 GMT 
How many reboots are required ? I am bloody sure even if you just install the ie or office patch you will need to reboot. How does the monthly windows patch deployment affect your server uptime ?
Then again, window cleaners, aka microsoft certifiied sufarce experts, do not really have a choice, do they ...
Marc Andreessen: Edward Snowden is a 'textbook traitor'
Myspace: Where are you going? We still have all your HUMILIATING PICS
Tuesday 3rd June 2014 09:53 GMT
What is the problem with a photo of some stoned/drunk teen throwing up on a beach ... if you have not personally experienced that then you have not lived iow you wasted your teen years. If the guy on the pic was older than that it only means he knows how to party, so should have good team-building skills.
Not Anon because I love downvotes from puritans, posh-wannabees, and hypocrites ;-)
Android is a BURNING 'hellstew' of malware, cackles Apple's Cook
Tuesday 3rd June 2014 09:11 GMT
Re: Idiot misses the point... on purpose?
LOL
You should upgrade to the latest OS, always, because you need the latest security fixes. Obviously, you upgraded from iOS5 to iOS6 easily, this is not possible on Android. You need to get the phone manufacturer to release a new version of Android for your phone, which he has no inclination to do coz he wants you to get the new shiny one. Sony Android phones, for example, are cr*p for that ... they ship with heavily outdated Android versions with not one update in the pipeline - riding the freetardOS wave. NoName Android devices have the same issue. Admittedly, Blackberry 10 devices have similar issues if you buy them subsidized, since the carrier will release the update later.
With Apple, you download the update via iTunes, regardless of your provider. Now, I hate iTunes with a passion - bloated piece of crap that cannot even play flac or ogg. iTunes is also the reason why I do not like iPhones.
Android phones are crap because they sync everything to the cloud ... now you can disable some of those "features", but it remains a sieve. You are often stuck with an outdated OS and with multiple apps that have similar confusing names, some of which are malware/adware.
My BB10 phone I bought cash does the job, gets updated regularly (3 updates since October). I get to see what each app can do and I can disable this or that privilege (the feature associated with the priv will then be disabled), but the app still works as I expect it to. I can also sideload Android apps on it. The OS is pretty secure, nobody has yet managed to root it.
Windows phone ? I have not tested that platform recently, but the last version I tried was horrid.
Microsoft swats away FBI request for Office 365 subscriber data
Gone
BlackBerry opens devices to third-party management – including its new, sub-$200 Z3
Wednesday 14th May 2014 05:13 GMT
1st post
Yes and the band on the Titanic knew they would not get away and decided to play to the very last minute and I think it is just wrong to depict them the way you did.
BlackBerry touch devices beat anything at typing in multiple languages... in a league of its own.
Security and confidentiality seem to be secondary to most people.
Birmingham's Computer Bookshops Ltd goes titsup
Powershell terminal sucks. Is there a better choice?
Solaris deposed as US drone-ware, replaced by Linux administration
The verdict is in: Samsung to pay Apple $120m chump change, but gets tiny rebate
Boffins tag Android app privacy fails
SAP reshapes boards as innovation leader steps down
Monday 5th May 2014 09:02 GMT 
Decision made over a Sunday roast ?
Looks like SAP is pretty committed to SAP Hana, to me at least ... maybe they will build a SAP Hana system with underlying MS SQL Server database? As soon as MS implement the "like" operator into their in-memory solution, along with the other crucial operators and keywords that had been left out of the newly released alpha quality late try poor excuse for an Access daemon.
HP's Whitman rues 'biggest failure' at eBay Japan
Google's self-driving car breakthrough: Stop sign no longer a problem
Wednesday 30th April 2014 09:12 GMT
Re: Automation is killing human jobs
We have heard this for centuries! When automation first started, weavers found other jobs in factories. These guyz will find other jobs elsewhere.
It will be the electric car revolution which will be more challenging: no more brake pads or clutches to change, much less oil to be refined etc etc etc.
Workers will work in the renewable energy sector which in the US will eventually employ several 10's of millions. The sooner you shift the better as other countries will pay your expertise dearly, however, the clowns at the top don't get it, yet. Nature has billions of years of experience and we always find that nature is much better than we are, especially when you take the total costs in account.
I do automation in the IT sector and believe me, I have yet to witness a redundancy because of our solution. Less stress, because everything is repeatable at will, and more time to improve or optimize other parts of your workflows. Companies tend to try to be more productive with the expertise they have, not make forces redundant and let a competitor get the upper hand because innovation-wise or information-wise they stagnated.
Fear not, young padawan, the solutions are infinite.
The only reason we have unemployed is because the wealthy are greedier than ever before, and impatient, because they could earn even more if they thought for 5 seconds - more people in work => more potential customers; more potential customers => more sales, more sales => even higher wages.
Wednesday 30th April 2014 08:24 GMT
Re: Um, yes.
The guyz are dead and I hate having to write this ... the flight was stalled, not once did they push the joystick down to gain speed and lift ... they were pulling it like mad because they wanted to "go up, not fall" and that was a rookie mistake which killed too many. Apparently the pilots originally thought it was yet another computer error. The flight computer has since been equipped with yet another algorithm to handle idiots in control.
The problem is, computers make our lives easier and we rely on them to do the hard stuff, then, the critical moment we are asked to do it alone, we are useless.
The other day in a DIY store, the bloke could not calculate the number of boxes (!!!) and total price of tiles I needed ... I wanted 15m2, the boxes contained 1.4m2 of tiles. The m2 was 6 euro on special offer ... the bloke wanted me to pay 140 euro in total (over 9euro the m2, the original non-discounted price was 12/m2) and refused to believe me when I said more like 90 (!)... I insisted, along came the manager asking about his calculator - he had lent it to a mate in need, I ended up paying 80 iso 92.40 because he could not be asked to perform simple multiplication - had a couple of pints with the change ;-). Yes, sadly, pints are expensive round here.
Brit IT workers are so stressed that 'TWO-THIRDS' want to quit
Nokia, new CEO Rajeev Suri, and BEELLIONS of euros burning a hole in the bank
Friends don't let friends use Internet Explorer – advice from US, UK, EU
Wednesday 30th April 2014 06:46 GMT
Re: The upside...
The default settings in question being "you must add each and every site to some whitelist before it gets loaded", you know, the feature window cleaners turn off immediately.
I almost wet myself when I read that ... that, sir and with all due respect, was bad reporting. It would be greatly appreciated if those who are supposed to write up these articles took 5 minutes to think about what they're writing ....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
