Re: Don't worry. All of your income tax returns are totally safe with your city or school district.
If it will make you feel any better, the IRS regularly outsources processing to India.
Sleep tight.
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El Paso city bungs $3.2m to email crooks pretending to be bosses
Living with the Pixel XL – Google's attempt at a high-end phone
Sunday 6th November 2016 02:58 GMT 
Re: Wanna buy a Pixel?
Pretty much all mobile phones use the IMEI as the unit, user and phone number master identifier. This usually resides on the SIM.
And yes, reassigning an IMEI number is a real pain in the arse. I know, I used to do this at the enterprise IT level for the phone system repair tech's phones that they use and I had direct access. It wasn't easy even with that much authority and yes, the system recognition of the new equipment assignment is still measured in days. If they were lucky.
Twitter trolls are destroying democracy, warn eggheads
Mirai IoT botnet blamed for 'smashing Liberia off the internet'
World-leading heart hospital 'very, very lucky' to dodge ransomware hit
We're great, you don't understand competition law, Google tells Europe
Friday 4th November 2016 20:27 GMT
Re: Google results are trash
Trash.
I often have to go to page 2 and 3 to find the results I'm looking for and just as often, results I had from 5 years ago are no longer to be found at all. Things like scientific articles, charts, graphs, tables, etc. from media that are still in business.
Yet no problem finding "1902 buggy whip parts" that lead to a page dynamically created to game the search engines and no such parts offered.
The other problem is they have mixed news in with general results, so if there is a popular news article on say, strawberry scented bollocks, there is no way to get any result other than the current news article for pages and pages. The results are saturated like a rum cake. News used to be separate search just for this reason.
They need to overhaul their search engine in a big way. Breaking out searches by general categories would help, like news or money or real estate or science or medicine. Squashing pages without relevant content would also help. I call them "hollow pages" (you heard it hear first)
Is password security at just $1/month too expensive for most?
Computer forensics defuses FBI's Clinton email 'bombshell'
Friday 4th November 2016 19:19 GMT
Re: It's incredible how this has become a "scandal"
The super stupid bit is her opponent is currently facing RICO charges, a child rape court case, hasn't disclosed his taxes, has conducted illegal business in Cuba and covered it up, has been accused of sexual assault by various women, is parroting Russian policy and nobody in his camp seems to find this even faintly worrying.
This plus the rest of your post nails it. Not enough upvotes for you.
Your weekends may be safe, admins – IT giants tout 'zero outage' tech
Adblock overlord to Zuckerberg: Lay down your weapons and surrender
Thursday 3rd November 2016 16:58 GMT
...but for the sort of one-to-many communication that a brand-promoter needs, FB, etc. is very very valuable.
This is just sad. I remember quite clearly the early days of FB and the strict rules of no businesses allowed.
If FB really does have this kind of influence, then people really fucking hopelessly stupid.
Five-a-day energy drink habit turned chap's eyes yellow, urine dark, caused anorexia
Universal hijack hole turns DIY Wix blogs into botnets
Thursday 3rd November 2016 21:50 GMT
What did Scotty say?
"The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."
Is HTML really THAT hard to master?
Oh, wait, HTML is sooo last century. /sarcasm
^^THIS IS A MUST READ.
Arch Linux: In a world of polish, DIY never felt so good
Thursday 3rd November 2016 16:48 GMT
Re: How odd
I first bought a PC in 1985 with no serious previous exposure to IT. MSDOS was a challenge -- installing a printer was nerd-central -- but I guess I enjoyed the novelty.
These days installing an OS should not involve learning command-line stuff. Though I wouldn't deny the utility of being able to tinker under the hood, it should be an option -- not an obstacle to getting started.
Same here. Early 80s PC exposure, late 80s home PC builder and I do NOT miss those days. The learning experience was priceless, but the pain was just as memorable.
That said, I had no idea that there was a shortage of DIY, bare bones Linux images. No snark intended. This is good in that there are still choices for those who are ready to get down and dirty.
Ubuntu Core Snaps door shut on Linux's new Dirty COWs
HTML 5.1 signed off
LaCie flings out super-glam desktop Bolter drive
F-35 'sovereign data gateway' will stop US reading pilots' personal data? Yeah right
Cloudflare ordered by judge to help unmask two website owners
Tuesday 1st November 2016 03:50 GMT
Cloudflare?
I was checking my ports and connections the other day and who do I see hogging them the most? Cloudflare, even after I had closed my browser.
I fixed that.
As for the WhoIs, if it shows the WhoIs Privacy Corp domiciled in the Bahamas is the website owner, than that's who they need to go after.
Cheap, lousy tablets are killing the whole market says IDC
KCL out(r)age continues: Two weeks TITSUP, two weeks to go
Three-commas Thiel expresses love for himself, Trump and downtrodden millionaires
Uber drivers entitled to UK minimum wage, London tribunal rules
Geohot gone geocold on georides: Comma.ai self-driving car kit cancelled
Researchers expose Mirai vuln that could be used to hack back against botnet
Florida man ran $1.35m hack-and-spam racket with 50m-plus addresses
Soylent fart powder sales halt
So long Vine, your six seconds of internet fame are over
Friday 28th October 2016 19:42 GMT
Re: Goatse forever.
It's like they saw the South Park episode "underpants" episode and did not realize the Matt and Trey were poking fun at Cartman's stupidity, not suggesting you follow it.
This is pretty common these days. Far too many people do not realize the message is "this is stupid, don't do this thing."
Far too many.
Search engine results increasingly poisoned with malicious links
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