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That's a sticky Siemens situation: Former coder blows his logic bomb guilty plea deal in court

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Another wannabe BOFH.

Simon'll be hiding somewhere with a fully-charged cattleprod.

Outta here because of the angry BOFH

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What the cell...? Telcos around the world were so severely pwned, they didn't notice the hackers setting up VPN points

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This reminds me of Masters of Deception by Michelle Slatalla

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/984598.Masters_of_Deception

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BGP super-blunder: How Verizon today sparked a 'cascading catastrophic failure' that knackered Cloudflare, Amazon, etc

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Ah, so my initial thoughts of a misconfigured BGP was both wrong and correct.

Wrong for thinking it was the [REDACTED] or [REDACTED] trying to slip in some [REDACTED, REDACTED and REDACTED] gear without anybody noticing.

Correct for misconfigured BGP.

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Cloudflare hits the deck, websites sink from sight after the internet springs yet another BGP leak

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snerk

seems Amazon also have issues.

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Comms room, comms room, comms room is on fire – we don't need no water, let the engineer burn

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Re: "the (suicidal?) bravery (stupidity?) of our colleague"

Also found this from NIST - one of the scenarios from my post above, but with sprinklers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT1EWVR1iP8

Whilst the fire is not 100% contained, it do give you time to get the hell out of there and leave the fire fighting over to the professionals.

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Re: "the (suicidal?) bravery (stupidity?) of our colleague"

Yep.

take a look at the following youtube clips : below 10 sec the fire is tame, but after that all bets are off.

(nongraphic - NIST testing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxiOXZ55hbc

(graphic, the real deal)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e_19dUezCQ

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Re: Hydrogen

A big, subterranean tank of hydrogen?

I'll just nope my way out of there super quick.

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Re: Leap Out And Let It Burn

I call BS on that statement. If it happened here, they'd drag the corpse into a meeting with HR and make it fill in Health & Safety forms.

Possible Monty Python skit?

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Re: Leap Out And Let It Burn

....and the Fire Brigade are a bit fed up with having to rescue people surrounded by 15 empty extinguishers rather than getting on with putting it out.

Had the same lecture when I went for my fire training. Don't act the hero. If the fire is small, give the alarm first, then give it a go (taking in mind the circumstances, environment and other possible risks) whilst somebody else call the fire brigade and others get the building to evacuate.

Never, ever try to do it on your own.

If you fail, get the hell out of there, do not try to be a bloody hero.

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You're Huawei off base on this, Rubio: Lawyers slam US senator's bid to ban Chinese giant from filing patent lawsuits

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Things sure will get interesting.

Popcorn, anyone?

If you deprive somebody of a certain product, they will go and produce their own - which may be cheaper and better than your product.

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Having bank problems? I feel bad for you son: I've got 25 million problems, but a bulk upload ain't one

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Re: "the bank's reputation would be left in 'tatters' "

Was wondering when TSB's about to be mentioned... :)

How's things going at TSB by the way?

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Hot desk hell: Staff spend two weeks a year looking for seats in open-plan offices

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Re: Anyway, it starts with an H

My company also tried Yammer. Was very busy the first day or two, but thereafter it quietened down and today it is just plain dead.

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Re: Cost analysis

Beancounters are the natural enemy of the BOFH

Remember the KNOBFACE serial number? :)

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Never, ever, hotdesk a BOFH.

Because >KZERRRRRRRRRRRRRRT< and an open job at Beancounter Central.

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Must watch: GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity

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The ultimate revenge - send a package containing a couple of GE smart bulbs over to a famdamily member anonymously.

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GIGO

off to the shops to buy all the old-fashioned incandescent and dumb lightbulbs.

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10 PRINT Memorial in New Hampshire marks the birthplace of BASIC

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old farts the whole lot of you :p

yes, I'm one too :p

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Anybody who was able to cheat with The Valley by getting more psi, stamina etc?

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Ahh, the days.of yore of typing in lines and lines of code from a magazine and then weeding out the typos and bugs....

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Re: get it right ...

Wot? No GOSUB's?

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Queue baa, Libra: People will buy what Facebook's selling. They shouldn't, but they will

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Re: As a Facebook refusenik I see a time when

That is a major reason I've moved over to MeWe in order to keep contact with other sysadmins all over the world without us getting Zucked.

Shalla's blacklist should have this Libra poofty nonsense listed pretty soon.

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Kids can be so crurl: Lead dev unchuffed with Google's plan to remake curl in its own image

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I don't trust this sort of thing.

Why would Google need a curl tool anyway? Dump tons of adverts on end-user devices surreptitiously, and have these play adverts even when offline?

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Imagine being charged to take a lunch break... even if you didn't. Welcome to the world of these electronics assembly line workers

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Re: Fear

Fear of being summarily dismissed.

This. So much this.

Which means your only way of saying "eff y00" is to look for other work, and once you got other work, you can then stiff your ex-employer (if you want to).

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As above, so below: El Reg haunts Scaleway's data centre catacombs 26 metres under Paris

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For extra authenticity, they should put a vagrant or two in there, along with some graffiti'd walls.

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And customers wanting just a little more privacy in the data dungeon can also specify their own personal cell.

Torture equipment to be added as optional extra? Oh, the sound-proof door is also an optional extra, but a must-have.

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*Spits out coffee* £4m for a database of drone fliers, UK.gov? Defra did game shooters for £300k

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The DfT did not dispute the price or cost estimates put to it by The Register. The CAA consultation reckons that if 175,000 people freely volunteer to be put on a government database, the price per head will be £16.50 per year – an optimistic hope.

Fat chance of that happening. You'll be lucky to get 1000 "volunteers" and you'll need to "subscribe" more "volunteers" to make it pay.

E-toll is not the same, but the principle is "user pays" - and the entire e-toll shebang has been implemented without any prior consultation, and what happened? People refuse to pay. Lots of incentives etc have been passed, but the majority of drivers still refuse to pay.

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Smash GandCrab: Free tools released to decrypt files scrambled by notorious ransomware

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Re: What's the problem??

It broke the online Klingon to Standard translator.

Expect the Klingon Inquisition to arrive soon.

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Why GandCrab and not GrandCrab?

Blue Unction* should work on it.

*Spike Milligan fans will understand.

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Deepfake 3.0 (beta), the bad news: This AI can turn ONE photo of you into a talking head. Good news: There is none

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Minitrue going to work overtime soon.

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Brit hosting provider tsoHost takes needleful of 'unauthorized code' to the servers, suffers week of outages

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The Cloud, just a fancy word for another man's (troublesome) computer.

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You gotta be kitten me: Pakistan politicos feline silly after filter farce hits purrrfect conference

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Should make things more interesting, especially in South Africa.

Instead of c*t ears, we can now have elephant trunks and ears. Or kudu antlers.

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Atari finally launches its VCS console. Again.

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Remember the Vega+

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We asked readers what DXC should be known for... and of course you came up with the goods

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I like DiXie Chicks.

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Poll? What poll?

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When customers see red, sometimes the obvious solution will only fan the flames

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Had my share of userness here as well. And, yes, it included a wifi switch (for onboard wifi on a craptop) that was in the off position.

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Re: My fav

What would Simon and Stephen do?

[_] tour of the windows on the 13th floor

[_] tour of the basement

[_] tour of the canteen

[_] make a deepfake of said user saying Very Naughty Things about the CEO

[_] test a new remote control in said user's car

[_] see what the various flags and switches are for on homeland's security's database on said user

[_] visit the user at his desk with a ginormous stink bomb

[_] other (specify) : __________________________________________

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ALIS through the looking glass: F-35 fighter jet's slurpware nearly made buyers pull out – report

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Re: F-UP-35

"Superiority" by Arthur C Clarke.

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Looks like data slurping is here to stay, no matter what you may buy or use.

Sheep/chicken/llama/goat farming in the boondocks, on the other hand, is starting to look more and more attractive.

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Gonna be so cool when we finally get into space, float among the stars, work out every day, inject testosterone...

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"I'm going to inject you, Dave"

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Meet the new Dropbox: It's like the old Dropbox, but more expensive, and not everyone's thrilled

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I hate that fscking dropbox badge that pops up whenever any orfice app is opened.

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Google: We're not killing ad blockers. Translation: We made them too powerful, we'll cram this genie back in its bottle

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In not one but two blog posts, Devlin Cronin, of the Chrome Extensions team, and Simeon Vincent, developer advocate for Chrome Extensions, pushed back against press reports – which El Reg may have had something to do with – that Manifest v3 as initially proposed would significantly hamper content-blocking extensions among others.

Yay and kudos to El Reg.

'ere, 'ave one on us.

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Large Redmond Collider: CERN reveals plan to shift from Microsoft to open-source code after tenfold license fee hike

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Going to be interesting.

Here's hoping they'll develop Active Directory for Linux.

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Enemy of the Matebook: Huawei shuts up laptop shop. When is it back? Depends on America's Entity List

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Queen (the band) should do an 'Interesting Times' song to the tune of 'We will rock you'...

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Own goal: $280,000 GDPR fine for soccer app that snooped on fans' phone mics to snare pub telly pirates

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Big Brother is watching listening...

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IT pro screwed out of unused vacation pay, bonus by HPE after judge rules: The law is a mess but it's still the law

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And managers wonder why Company Loyalty is flagging.

Replace managers with manglers or damagers, and you'll get the drift...

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This is grim, Vim and Neovim: Opening this crafty file in your editor may pwn your box. Patch now if not already

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Joke

Or use EDLIN?

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Mystery GPS glitch grounds flights, leaves passengers in the bar

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Imagine this sort of thing happening with a virtual pilot in the cockpit.

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TSB appoints new tech transformation chief cuz last tech transformation went really, really well

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Going to be interesting to see what happens to This Slogging Bank.

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IBM raising axe for 'significant workforce balancing in Europe', says staffer rep council

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Will the last IBMer turn out the lights.

Can't be long to go now.

What about the mainframes? Forceful switch off, or graceful shutdown before switch off?

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Protip: No, the CIA will not call off a pedophilia probe into your life in exchange for Bitcoin

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You, sir, are to be commended for wasting the time of ne'er-do-wells :)

Keep it up, and keep us informed of your successes! :)

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