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Kittehs

Cute ones there and not named...

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How did I miss this?

You might also ask why I read the Daily Mail too... whole other subject (I'm easily amused after serious crap all day)

Anyway, they quoted El Reg:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2480900/China-spying-KETTLE-Bugs-scan-wi-fi-devices-imported-kitchen-gadgets.html

Yep - just about what I saw last night

Updating an HP Elitebook 8440P from 12:05am to 1:45am this morning. Downloaded 3.47GB for Win 8.1 with Media Center over my satellite (thus the middle of night/no download limits from 12-5am).

Went pretty much the same, although no HP tools to deal with - HP doesn't make 'em for older Elitebooks - Firefox crashed this morning while coming back from sleep, nothing amazing to report.

Totally misleading

I thought there was going to be a study of the *reality* show 'Jersey Shore' - which would explain quite a few things, I hoped.

Not the case unfortunately, I'll have to wait to see where the snooki originated from the History Channel or some such.

Miss Information

Could be that the NSA has Tor pwned and just wants to steer folks that way, too. Secure comms are going to require something new and entirely different, say 20 people that you want to talk to, with frequency jammers, inside a Faraday cage, inside a Dyson Sphere, while actively being sucked into a black hole... IDK, if it comes out of a Fed's mouth, you have to check current definitions of common words, determine context, fact check, and then just assume it's a damn lie. Sucks.

The thing about being paranoid is, are you paranoid enough?

o.O

Shiver me timbers

Aye, the scurvy is hell on me crew if ye infernal navigatin' rumware kills me men three-an-nought percent faster..

Damn ye eyes! A pox ona all ye houses!

I miss Dejanews - Google destroyed what was once a great thing..

alt.tech-support.recovery

-waves dead chicken..........

HA!

I called it yesterday!

Re: Windows Update: http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2013/08/14/microsoft_cloud_problems/

Do I get a cookie?

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Windows Update

Now wouldn't that be funny? Remember the NT4 Service pack 3a? Betcha nobody that currently works for Microsoft remembers. Bummer

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Great time for a morality(?) question, Mr Pott.

Like you, I've taken the managed services provider route, started my business in 2005. I saw the writing on the wall when I, a senior systems administrator at an ISP in Arizona, was laid off. Surprised the hell out of me, life had been great up to that point. Then there were no jobs. Pure survival led to the creation of my company.

I have always had a personal issue with ripping off clients so I put a policy in place from the beginning that my company would not provide equipment because I consider it a direct conflict of interest. We would determine the requirements, shop for the best price, set up the purchase for the client, and never make any money on it. This way the client has direct control of warranty issues if they occur - this is a black hole with 3rd party purchasing, ever tried to track down a company that somehow fell into the abyss for warranties? I make my money installing and managing networks, not upselling a hardware store with a server cluster. Lost a bid with an Amazon fulfillment center by a $1000.99 because the winner used copper-clad aluminum CAT5 instead of solid copper, I know because I subcontracted the install from the SOB lol.

Anyway I recently lost an initial contract (not fully out, I provide the best service in the area) with a company that insisted I profit/steal from them - wanted me to purchase equipment and slap ten percent on each piece. I actually felt uncomfortable about it and made me kinda sad, but there it is, couldn't do it and explained the why and how my company could help them by keeping costs down. No effect. Looked at me like I was crazy.

My question to you is: Am I crazy?

Cheers!

Damn

Rush is on the drugs again...

Surely this is one of the reasons why the Old Guard GOP needs to retire/go away - they have no idea wtf is happening out there.

3 inch= 'low end'

Amazing if you think about it, when those Nokia(s) I owned back in the late 90's had maybe a 1" screen? With 4 lines of text.... 3" low end. lol

I'm not *that* old but I feel like it sometimes.

Two Points

1. The folks who sag ALWAYS get caught by the cops - pants fall down as they as running. (Watch 'Cops', it's a riot -no pun intended)

2. Cured that with my boys by pantsing them in public - shame is underrated. Always told my kids they can do whatever they want, once they were out of the house and I wasn't paying the bills. Very fair, I think.

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