* Posts by DJ Smiley

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Hell desk thought PC fire report was a first-day-on-the-job prank

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Can I turn it on? It's under 6 inches of water....

Working for a hell-desk for a medium sized pharmacy firm (street facing shops) and I have a call from a concerned pharmacist. Their store had flooded overnight and was still about 6 inches deep in water but they were some how operating by hand anyway.

So they asked if they could turn on the pharmacy computer, as some of the electrics had survived. I pondered this for a moment, then asked 'well is the computer wet?'. The answer, from someone who had done a number of years at university and was qualified to give me enough drugs to kill answered honestly 'well, it's on the floor so it's in the 6 inches of water, but I thought it might just work anyway?'

Needless to say I told them not ot turn it on under any circumstances, and let us know once all the pluming was sorted so we could look at getting a tech out for the computers...

GlobalSign screw-up cancels top websites' HTTPS certificates

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Joke

Re: Wikipedia affected

I was SO expecting a 'Close Safari.... Use a real browser' type response.

TV5Monde was saved from airtime-KO hack by unplugging infected box

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Re: Technicians

I find it amusing that something like this doesn't have 24/7 on site support.

One-way Martian ticket: Pick passengers for Musk's first Mars pioneer squad

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Re: No idea why...

I'm wondering if we ignore the moon bceause the dust is so dangerous? You'd basically never be able to take anything from outside inside, due to all the cancer causing stuff.

I'm presuming Mars' dust is actually safer.

DDoS attacks: For the hell of it or targeted – how do you see them off?

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Re: Cloud-based DDoS defences introduce delays

Because the two largest ever seen DDoS's were windows boxes right.

Yeah, exactly. I'm a linux user, but stupid comments like this help no one.

Google rushes in where Akamai fears to tread, shields Krebs after world's-worst DDoS

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Does it matter if it's obvious?

These guys were making money from doing the DDoS's, from a business pretending to be a testing service.

I'd find it hard to believe anyone thought these guys were legit.

DJ Smiley

Re: The Only Way...

I'm thinking about a car analogy for this.

The Tesla ships with autodrive, it's great, it generally works, but it might kill you (or someone else).

Your responsibility as a driver, is to remain in control of the device you are using. Tesla's is to try and make sure you do.

Obviously, with IoT devices that you can't configure then ISP's need to outright block this traffic. This is something that's actually discussed in the original article (or one of the many I've read about this attack since). I'm starting to think we need a dual layered internet where the vast majority of users only have access to websites (and maybe force them to use https?) and anything more than this is an extra you opt into. Of course as soon as we did this then ISP's would jump on the chance to charge you for all the extras you need, vpn? charge for that, you host a server? charge for that... etc

I don't know what the fix is :(

If we can't fix this printer tonight, the bank's core app will stop working

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Re: Late night pointless calls..

In my new gig our ticket system actually shows the local time *of the person who raised it* in the main ticket interface

I don't know why I've never seen this before (granted, I've never supported anything US based before, only europe and then most of the timezones are pretty close to 'local' local time.

Wanna quote tweets without manual faff? HAVE AT IT, sez Twitter

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Terminator

Is this new?

I've had this for a number of weeks, maybe even months.... I do recall a time without it, and wishing for it but it appeared long enough ago that I don't recall when i was...

Sony tells hacked gamer to pay for crooks' abuse of PlayStation account

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and yet only one person had fraudulant activity and they knew about it fast enough to block it....

so they got the email from sony to tell them they'd just brought something....

so the 'hackers' didn't change the email address prior to the 'buying spee' of one item?

Suddenly things aren't so simple anymore.

DJ Smiley

You need more upvotes.

There was no 'hacking' here, just someone stupid with no idea how to secure their own cash.

Behold our SPINNING DATA GRAVE: WD carts out 6.3TB cold storage drive

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Re: Short warranty for Archive drive?

.... you've just agreed with the OP. Anyway 5yr used to be the standard for warranty I'd look for, for at least a desktop system that's getting harder and harder.

I'm starting to wonder if we will see warranties which depend on time drive has been running rather than clock time. Warranty for 500,000 hrs run time would be far more trusted than it can sit in a box for 3 years and be fine!.

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You've got to laugh...

Archive quality....

Long storage....

3 year warranty..... :(

'You're BEAUTIFUL when you're angry' 'You SEXIST PIG!' Xbox One's fresh brouhaha

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So how many of those games allow split screen?

Oh. :(

Facebook unwraps SHARING IS CARING photo album function

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Still playing catch up with google then...

Meanwhile on google plus, you can do this plus have automatic "Event" mode, in which anyone who is coming to the event can enable this, and all photos taken between the two times (of the start and end of the event) will automatically be added to the album....

So that'll be coming to a facebook soon then?

Selfridges dreaming of a snot-themed Christmas

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Headmaster

Re: Copyright?

Theres the idiot in a rush question.

Would an idiot in a rush confuse the two? I'd argue no, because it's bright green...... however it is clearly a bright green batman with a yellow cloak wielding a blue sword.

:/

PHWOAR! Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, Prime Minister

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Paris Hilton

O2 might turn this on by default for contracts, but all operators don't.

The number of parents who buy their kid's contract phones, and never inform the operator that a under 18 is operating the phone means we have many "WHY DID YOU LET LITTLE JOHNNY CALL THOSE LINES!" customer complaints, after little johnny has made it very clear he is pretending to be 18.

DJ Smiley

Well the comment about O2 on 3G is incorrect.

All mobile operators supply a way to block adult content simply by letting them know, you can also block other services such as premium rate phone lines etc.

How do I know? Well I have a work phone on O2, and in some cases I need to check access to things and this may end up being of an adult nature. :D There is nothing blocked other than the default list which blocks cp.

How do you drive a supercomputer round a Formula 1 track?

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Pffft, can anything on google maps these days :D

http://goo.gl/maps/LSTF2

see? :)

Battery-boosting breakthrough grows on trees – literally

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Facepalm

Re: we are still stuck with the same old battery tech

So you expect to change how energy transfer works within physics? Yup, that would be quite some breakthrough!

Patriot hacker 'The Jester' attacks nations offering Snowden help

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Holmes

Re: Meh.

Who says they aren't?

They had the anon guy for 9 months before revealing their hand.

Fitbit Flex wristband: What to wear out when wearing yourself out

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Facepalm

Re: Why?

So buy a pedometer.

This is a product for someone who wants to understand what they are intaking and outputting all in one simple package.

You want to check your heart rate? It's quite simple, here is your wrist, here are some fingers. Now count.

Business is slow. Here's a good idea, let's compete with customers

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Devil

Or maybe a Computer Producer taking over the entire worlds music retailing....

Drone to deliver beer-as-a-service

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Facepalm

1.Send text message to get beer

2. Get charged via return text message...

3. return text message contains code to open "fridge" on the 'copter....

4. Beer ends up in right hands \o/

(Disclaimer, I work for a company who sell text messaging solutions so many my views are blurred by this, but haven't I just solved the problem?)

'Charge memory' boffins: Hungover Li-Ion batts tell fat whoppers

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Holmes

Re: The widespread belief that lithium-ion batteries don't suffer from “charge memory”

That's bad battery design.

The batteries physically expand as they charge. If they expand so much they become compressed they can be damaged. If their casing is so small they can't charge to full size? BAD DESIGN.

Then again it's Sony.... so I'm not too surprised.

Watch the skies: SPACE HEDGEHOG plunges to Earth in Oxfordshire

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They are ping pong balls. I guess they are following that "fit an experiement in a ping pong ball and you can send it into space" thing that seems to be popular currently.

We shall CRUSH you, puny ROBOT... with CHESS

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Facepalm

Limited number of tries might help

I just tried it out. It let me retry as many times as I needed to hit the right combination.

For people who think themselves intelligent, they've utterly failed in understanding how spam bots work.

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Facepalm

The real use...

The technology is often used to frustrate humans signing up to web mail accounts and similar services.

Google sends Street View car into Fukushima dead zone

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Re: Unsecured WiFi

You know, while this is a joke, it'd be a really REALLY good idea.

They could map out how much radiation they are seeing at various points to give some kind of "spread" map.

Brit comic-book-guy-vs-gangsters film goes straight to Xbox Live

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Facepalm

Re: Missing the obvious:

And gotten lots of nice free publicity.

Strange how that worked out so well eh?

Vint Cerf: 'The internet of things needs to be locked down'

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Re: WTF?

Ah so your one of these homeless bods who never leaves his house right?

Boffin shows pics of germs grown on SPOTTY STUDENTS' MOBES

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Facepalm

Re: Disinfection!

Shame that its the 0.01% of bacteria that make us Ill, eh?

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Trollface

Re: So...

Sadly all you've proven is we should either start eating poop or bow down to our poop eating overlords.

Build your own 180TB NAS for $US1,942.59 (plus disk)

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Not really.... thats the entire point of their design.

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Re: (plus disk)

Theres no reason you can't build a raid on it...

Oklahoma cops rake ashes of 'spontaneous combustion' victim

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Facepalm

Because its incredibly rare?

Why it's on the register is a little more questionable... (but I presume its in bootnotes or odds and sods.)

Clarkson: 'I WILL find and KILL the spammers who hacked me'

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Facepalm

Re: Stupid little boy

With your lack of grammar it appears maybe you also should go back to school.

Spotted: Android 4.2.2 update for Google Nexus devices

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Re: A few days ago

There seems to be a semi-widespread reboot buy in 4.1.2.

Random reboots a go go :(

Life after Cisco: I've got 99 problems but a switch ain't one

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Re: Tests?

I've always had the most excellent support from dell, even without providing any other information than the ID of the box having issues.

I really can't fault them at all, which is surprising as at a consumer level I hear they are no longer so good as they used to be.

How much for Opera's app store in my TV? A tenor, perhaps?

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How about you give me that $10 and I'll tell you how to not connect it to your wifi network?

Twitter clients stay signed in with pre-breach passwords

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FAIL

Re: There is a very clear risk

Sorry, you believe they noticed the hack the exact moment it happened?

There was no gap between hackers getting the username/password (why wasn't it encrypted - was it?) and twitter locking the accounts?

Of course there was a gap!. In that time you request a oauth login. Your now authenicated for life. Happy times.

Anons hack Asteroids into US DoJ website in Swartz death protest

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Black Helicopters

Oh lord its that Dan Brown story - Angels and .... something I can't remember

Basically a fake encrypted file which no one can crack, the NSA goes bonkers trying to crack it while all along there is no secret to find.

China may axe 13-year console ban, games OK for kids after all

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Alert

Re: Puzzling

Aren't all those stories about (South) Korea.... and PC gamers?

Greenland ice did not melt in baking +8°C era 120k years ago

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Facepalm

Did you miss the bit where the ice is actually growing then?

Dotcom's Mega smacks back: Our crypto's not crap

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Windows

Re: Could it genuinely not be for file sharing?

You have sharing keys - keys which decrypt just whatever you've shared with whomever you give the key to.

However it doesn't seem to specify anywhere if you can give the same key out multiple times (print it on a website) or if it's on a per user basis (so someone writes a script to do it for you).

Lloyds TSB, Halifax tech stumbles into the cold, goes titsup for hours

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Facepalm

Nothing to fix here.... yet we are working on a fix.

Hmmm, banks really need to work on their technical speak. Claiming there is nothing to fix, yet they are actively working on a fix is really inspiring confidence :)

"The company would not be pinned down on the root cause of the problem, which it would only describe as "something from the weekend". A spokeswoman told The Reg: "There hasn't been a failure it was just something from the weekend that we are aware of and working to fix.""

The Spherical Cow lands, spits out Anaconda

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Re: Debian user here...

Try gentoo :)

NRA: Video games kill people, not guns. And here's our video game

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Facepalm

Re: What irks me about their argument

Indeed.

Israel. No mass shootings of children by raging teens for over 10 years!

Disney World slaps pay-by-bonk stalker cuffs on grown-ups

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Re: I like it

Because it isn't easy already?.

Does it make me easier to rob? Not really.

Does it reduce the lack of security they must go through to identify themselves as me? No.

Does it directly give them all my cash? No.

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