Obviously...
The NSA/FBI are from Goonswarm/Imperium - kinda figures they would be goons - since Dreddit and TEST are on the Good Guys side, they're making good on their threats after getting their asses handed to them in-game.
Bastards...
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Reddit's warrant canary shuffles off this mortal coil
BlackBerry's still losing millions – but hit its revenue target, finally
Friday 1st April 2016 19:54 GMT
Why all the carrier hate?
Verizon is trying to sell the Blackberry Priv for $299 *plus* a two year contract. Few years ago I bought the Samsung Note 3 in a buy one get one free scenario just after the 3's were introduced (and before the Ellen Degenerous did the selfie thing). There's been no advertising and even though I had a BB Priv arrival notification in with my local 'Verizon Business Representative', not a word has been said by this Verizon busybody about it, yet calls up every other week trying to dump last year's POS tablet flavor of the month on me. I know the BB Priv is in stock, yet Verizon has decided to be dicks about it for some reason.
Fuck. I don't like companies like Verizon, AT&T, Facebook, Google, etc becoming all-powerful, where just a word or policy can make or break another company. Between the governments and the corps... us line animals are fucked.
Android's unpatched dead device jungle is good for security
That one phone the FBI wanted unlocked? Here are 63 more, says ACLU
Amazon WorkSpaces two years on: Are we ready for cloud-hosted Windows desktops?
Let’s re-invent small phones! Small screens! And rubber buttons!
Microsoft did Nazi that coming: Teen girl chatbot turns into Hitler-loving sex troll in hours
Don't – don't – install iOS 9.3 on your iPad 2: Upgrade bricks slabs
Hands on with the BBC's Micro:Bit computer. You know, for kids
Tuesday 22nd March 2016 13:12 GMT
Re: They are generally pretty good
All I ever wanted at 12 was this: http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2023689_2023681_2023598,00.html
A Mattel Electronics Football game... but then I discovered the radio in 1977 and built them instead.
Funny, I still want the Football game...
iOS flaw exploited to decrypt iMessages, access iThing photos
Microsoft's equality and diversity: Skimpy schoolgirls dancing for nerds at an Xbox party
German lodges todger in 13 steel rings
Good thing this dev quit. I'd have fired him. Out of a cannon. Into the sun
Wednesday 17th February 2016 17:03 GMT
I hate code...
... I hate the people writing it, I hate having to fix it... which I do all_the_fucking_time.
I liked doing programming at one time - until that fateful day the main programmer moved on. This programmer was responsible for porting Netsol's Unix registrar code to our ISP's Windows 2000 AD network, a biggish deal since everything has to be perfect. This guy made performance bonus's and a fucking big payoff when the software was 'finished', then he quit and moved on across the country. Week later the big launch comes and it_failed_horribly. Enter me, the senior admin who just recently upgraded the ISP's network from NT 4.01 to Win2k AD with Solaris x86 DNS servers, and I'm the guy they're pointing fingers at. I didn't know shit about what the 'programmer' was doing, I'm not sales or head of the programmer/webdesign department, How_the_fuck_am_I_responsible? I caught so much shit... and the motherfucker didn't document shit. Ended up coding that POS essentially by gunpoint, no bonus, from scratch. I giggled when that registrar (and the ISP) folded a few years later...
I have hated programmers since that point in my life. I'll admit they are useful at times, but overall they did shit code.
When asked 'What's a .CNT file?' there's a polite way to answer
Saturday 13th February 2016 14:00 GMT 
I call bullshit on the entire story
'In the magical days of dialup internet' the majority of the time Internet Explorer wasn't even installed or had Internet Explorer 2. - as an ISP we had to provide CD's for Trumpet Winsock and *the* Netscape browser just for a Windows machine to connect to any service.
If you remember, it wasn't until Win98 SE that you could connect (mostly) right out of the box.
How one of the poorest districts in the US pipes Wi-Fi to families – using school buses
CSI: Let's get out of the lab, interview the suspect, then do a warrantless search
Wednesday 10th February 2016 14:20 GMT
Re: To summarise
No, he's going with the Brave Monkey Approach or BMA - Brave Monkeys aren't creative, they just fix the broke shit and go no further. You know them, just good enough to keep kit going but not imaginative enough to be proactive in their IT approach, so the author proposes another IT position (additional CTO or Dreams Manager).
It sounds like area specialization as IT is becoming more of a commodity.
Irish kids get first-person view of 1916 uprising... via Minecraft
Remember Netbooks? Windows 10 makes them good again!
Monday 8th February 2016 16:51 GMT
Re: I've got a bit of a soft spot..
Aspire One 532h here - was inspired to see if my old CF-53 4GB stick I had laying around would fit. Didn't but I did find out why she's been reluctant to use it lately - she killed the Windows 7 installation messing around trying to get her games installed... Debating whether to linux her out of spite...
Monday 8th February 2016 14:23 GMT
Re: Netbooks had one good use
They are still good for education. I picked up a later model Aspire One* with Win7 starter, 2GB ram, 250GB HD, from Craigslist for homeschooling my 12/yr old daughter for $40. Gave it a new battery, reconnected the wireless antenna lead (guy thought he had a sucker, he didn't), and it runs great. Perfect for doing her homework, hates it because it's not powerful enough to play her games when she decides to fuck off instead of doing work.
Evil, mean, DAAAaaaad! +1
*replaced cheap $199 Staples Gateway Win8 laptop that she stepped on somehow, some way.
FTC: Duo bought rights to Android game – then turned it into ad-slinging junkware in an update
Sunday 7th February 2016 15:48 GMT
Re: Ok FTC. Turn your guns on MS
'HINT: Well-known OS, begins with "L".'
Actually there was a program called 'Oil Change' introduced at COMDEX in 1995/96, that would scan your computer and fetch drivers, updates, etc from your OS, to programs, to Soundblaster drivers. Revolutionary at the time. I sat on one of the booth bimbos for hours until I got a couple of copies.
Who wants a quad-core 4.2GHz, 64GB, 5TB SSD RAID 10 … laptop?
Why a detachable cabin probably won’t save your life in a plane crash
Sunday 31st January 2016 17:56 GMT 
Two items...
1. A homicidal pilot who has a Top Gun flashback moment and hits the pass eject button.
And
2. I don't suppose running down to Petco and grabbing a bunch of parakeets to huck into a jet engine for bird ingestion tests would fly.... Could use pigeons in NYC if you had a net, but they would run into consistency issues. Is there a medical supply company with scientifically identical pigeons for testing?
Research: By 2017, a third of home Wi-Fi routers will power passers-by
Friday 29th January 2016 03:11 GMT
Re: Non-starter, at least here in the US
Does_Not_Matter - Comcast has been rolling out xfinity routers all over East Tennessee - dual purpose for drive-by wireless, all you have to do is log in. Amusingly, I've been reliably informed that not paying your bill doesn't kill the xfinity side of the router.
;)
What a bunch of bastards.
US rapper slams Earth is Round conspiracy in Twitter marathon
Holy sh*t week forces Twitter top brass to go on ‘retreat’
Tuesday 26th January 2016 22:49 GMT
Re: Ads
While I see your point, in all honesty why would anyone sub Twitter*? Place is just an echo chamber with occasional name & shame to vent your displeasure at company/politician.
*Stupid question, of course they would get subs - the US has a surplus of surface dwelling idjits... but not enough to support the company indefinitely.
Uber driver 'pulls handgun' on passenger
Kentucky to build 3,400-mile state-owned broadband network – and a fight is brewing
Five technologies you shouldn't bother looking out for in 2016
Someone please rid me of this turbulent Windows 10 Store
Eighteen year old server trumped by functional 486 fleet!
Thursday 21st January 2016 00:59 GMT
Boat Anchors
I've got this bigass Dell PowerEdge tower server under my desk that runs Server 2008(original) - sounds like a jet starting up/running and was purchased back in 2005 for just under $6k. Has four 73GB SCSI drives, Xeons, 4GB ECC mem, redundant PS'sss, etc. Good machine that ran a Win 2003 AD. SQL, engineering programs for many years.
Now I have it and don't know what to do with it... Fill the bays with eight NOS 500GB SCSI drives and make it a NAS? Prolly not, have a WD 4TB Cloudy thing for that, but damn it's serious iron.
Fears of fiber cable cuts, rogue drones menacing crowds at Super Bowl 50
Wednesday 20th January 2016 15:51 GMT
Re: well...
I learned everything I know about football from British tv:
'Hooray. He's kicked the ball. Now the ball's over there. That man has it now. That's an interesting development. Maybe he'll kick the ball. He has indeed and apparently that deserves a round of applause...'
See? I'm well rounded.
;)
Server retired after 18 years and ten months – beat that, readers!
Thursday 14th January 2016 16:59 GMT
Meh...
I'll raise you a Pentium 1 133mhz, 512MB ram, 20GB HD, Dictaphone server running NT 4.0 in a lawyer's office. It's_still_there.
Made blood shoot out of my eyes both times I had to work on it - first making the recording software work with XP and then later with Win7 Pro. Did you realize Dictaphone doesn't support it anymore? Not for any real reason other no one left in the company that remembers this particular version. Probably all dead and passed on. Thank God I'm no longer responsible for that office, it really made me hate life.
Probe launched after mischiefmaker invades US spyboss's Verizon broadband account
Intel admits Skylakes can ... ... ... freeze in the middle of work
Confirmed: How to stop Windows 10 forcing itself onto PCs – your essential guide
Monday 11th January 2016 15:18 GMT
You don't let *them* do it FFS - you use the GWX Control panel as a tool* to save *you* time rather than dicking around in the registry on every machine.
Then when the user asks 'How did you do that?', you can give them the 'Ancient Microsoft White Paper Incantation. If I told you...' spiel. How the hell are we going to get mythical priesthood class for IT if you inform the great unwashed of details of exorcisms we perform? Geez**....
* I try tools on my own kit before experimenting on clients, that's just professionalism.
** This is one of the few Mondays of the year where my hair isn't on fire, there is peace on my clients networks, and I'm relaxing by the fire with some warm cider ;)
American cable giants go bananas after FCC slams broadband rollout
Brit cuffed for Kyrgyz 'horse penis' sausage quip
Monday 4th January 2016 15:36 GMT
it IS a big deal...
The scene of the crime: My back yard.
Time: Memorial Day, 2006.
Report: I was cooking brats on the BBQ when my dear old dad stared making comments about penises on the grill, which offended my wife, who decided that day was the day to go off on said dad. Dad didn't take it well and began a family fight the extends to this day ten years later.
Attempted to patch things up in 2012, no deal. Haven't spoken to him or a huge majority of my family since. I really shouldn't be surprised, there are folks who are 40 years old today who still flip each other off when they see each other over a girl in high school they dated. Long memories over really stupid shit.
Sigh.
Five key findings from 15 years of the International Space Station
Thursday 31st December 2015 16:29 GMT
Providing you'll be using material from asteroids...
... delivery into the gravity well would be inexpensive as it is all downhill...
Hell of a business plan to use essentially free material, unlimited solar power to produce product, then chuck into the gravity well for delivery. Get there first and $profit$.
Then would come tourism and serious exploration as a result. Human $win$
Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock dead at 42
Thursday 31st December 2015 14:34 GMT
Re: RIP
I know exactly where he was going and I'll use the terminology: 'The creative class within the open source community in general is subject to societal pressures that make them less likely to deal with a non-linear problem in a non-destructive way.' There. Pure drivel. But it sounds good and sciency.
Suicide is private and very immediate, been there but have considered since that i would prefer an honor guard with my passing. Anyone notice an uptick in shootings lately? It's universal, we dun gone crazy.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
