* Posts by Nolveys

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Yahoo! couldn't! detect! hackers! in! its! network! but! can! spot! NSFW! smut! in! your! office?

Nolveys

That's right, Yahoo shareholders, this is where your money is going.

At least I won't have to look at those horrible pictures of crying, naked children running down Vietnamese streets anymore.

Badda-Bing, badda-doom: Microsoft search guru heads up giant's new AI boffinry unit

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Re: 41

After processing for seven and one half million years the great BingAI spoke. It said:

"It looks like you're writing a letter."

Our Windows windows will be resizable, soooon, vows Microsoft

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Re: Erm ..

And meanwhile, the OS has Long File Path support, but File Explorer does not !

It's dismal winapi that doesn't support long paths. File exploder (and everything else) is based on winapi.

Luckily there's the subst command, great for accessing long-pathed files that somehow come to be as well as making crudely-named and undeletable files on cow-orkers desktops.

UK copyright troll weeps, starts 20-week stretch in the cooler for beating up Uber driver

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Mushroom

I hope his employees run off with his business.

I hope the business crashes and burns so spectacularly that they have to encase what remains of the building in a lead sarcophagus and declare the surrounding area an exclusion zone.

High rear end winds cause F-35A ground engine fire

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Flame

I'm not an aeronautical engineer, but wouldn't it be less flammable if they hadn't made it out of money?

Australian border cops say they've cracked 'dark net' drug sales

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Re: Spliffing good news

They locked up the thug

And the price of street drugs

Increased by a penny on the dollar.

The taxpayer did pay

To put him away

Their wallet 76 large per year smaller

The other drug sites

Took quite a fright

Upping their security

The drug war raged on

And on and on and on

In perpetuity

SpaceX: Breach in liquid oxygen tank caused Falcon 9 fireball ... probably

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Flame

Re: "...one tenth of a second..."

Plus, it was a Facebook satellite where exploding is possibly not the worst of two outcomes for that flight :).

I was expecting they would find that the cause of the explosion was methane related.

Half! a! billion! Yahoo! email! accounts! raided! by! 'state! hackers!'

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Re: It is what it sounds like

"Yahoo!" Is properly pronounced thusly.

Here's how to see Tim Cook or SatNad strut their starkers stuff

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Gimp

Wha...that's the real Bill Gates, I'm sure of it...and that's Steve Ballmer. What are they doing with that...

"DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!!!"

Oh my God.

Latest F-35 bang seat* mods will stop them breaking pilots' necks, beams US

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What I had hoped to find out in the article was: How did they find out this was a problem?

Some of the lighter test sheep didn't make it.

Lack of Hurd mentality at Oracle OpenWorld: Co-CEO's cloud claims fall flat live on stage

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Re: Doh!

I suspect CEOs who put all their eggs in one basket will probably take the company down with them.

"Since you took over as CEO this company has lost 87% of its value, the DOJ has brought no less than thirty six charges against us, employee suicide rates have gone up by 862% and there has been a mob of over 1700 people outside our headquarters that have been protesting against you specifically for over three months! You're fired! Take your $207 million in severance and get out!"

Two Sundays wrecked by boss who couldn't use a calendar

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Re: Powering up in the right order

You would also need to make sure that the management server had no dependencies on other systems...

The dependencies for the management server could easily be brought up in the necessary order by using another management server. I swear, I have to think of everything.

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Re: Powering up in the right order

The convoluted jenga stack that passes for 'modern' servers, not so much.

A lunatic sketch-lord I used to work for had two server racks. One day the server at the very bottom of one of the racks failed. There were three 4u servers on top of the failed server, a bunch of UPSes on top of that and some networking hardware on top of those. Did I mention that none of this stuff was actually attached to the rack? It was all just a big pile of schlarf.

Due to the rats nest of cabling in the back it would have been impossible to lower the pile down while removing the bottom server. I disconnected the bottom server and, bit-by-bit, pulled it out whilst shoving random office shit in place of where it had been.

Once the server was fixed I just tossed it on top of the whole horror show and reconnected it. Over time the foundation of office shit progressively and non uniformly compressed causing the pile to skew noticeably.

Ah memories.

Did you know iOS 10, macOS Sierra has a problem with crappy VPNs? You do now

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Re: Im glad PPTP has had

I've had good experiences with OpenVPN as well. The only issues I've had with it revolved around its reliance on OpenSSL (key generation is a bit of a PITA and it was hit by Heartbleed).

IPSec is convoluted and weird, setting it up is always a battle.

Dear sysadmin: This is how you stay relevant

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Boss: "Hey, why is the server room full of thick, black smoke?"

Me: "Uhhh...because...uhhh...that's the cloud! Yeah, that's the cloud. Everything's going according to plan."

Super Typhoon Meranti threatens Taiwan and China

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Time To Buy Hard Drives?

The last time Taiwan experienced excessive moisture HDD prices went through the roof. Any chance of this happening again?

Microsoft's Service Fabric for Linux hits public preview

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Re: Fabric?

I'm not sure what the fabric is, but I would hope it's machine washable. The whole Reliable Actor model thing could be an issue as it will introduce severe compatibility problems when running Charlie Sheen or Mel Gibson.

UK oversight body tipped to examine phone snooping tech in prisons

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I'll give you a fiver if you make the phone a Samsung Galaxy Note 7.

I'll up that to ten if it's a standard Bell rotary dial phone.

Action Fraud warns of fraudulent anti-fraud warnings posing as Action Fraud

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Action Fraud has been informed of fraudulent Action Fraud warnings of fraudulent anti-fraud warnings posing as Action Fraud. If you have received

fraudulent Action Fraud warnings of fraudulent anti-fraud warnings posing as Action Fraud then please contact Action Fraud at therealactionfraud@actionfraud.ru and provide your name, address, birth date, account number, pet names, the make of your first car and your grandmother's maiden name.

Thank you for helping us help you help us combat fraudulent warnings of fraudulent anti-fraud warnings posting fraudulently as anti-fraud organizations.

Microsoft leads group pelting 'heavy duty' robot maker with $10.5m

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"Sarcos' Robot-as-a-Service offering, using Microsoft Cognitive Services, Azure IoT Suite, and Windows 10 IoT, creates a unique opportunity to fundamentally transform the safety and efficiency of many industrial tasks around the world,"

Fundamentally transform them into what?

US Marine Corps to fly F-35s from HMS Queen Lizzie as UK won't have enough jets

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Re: They should save time...

at one point the deck was too short to land the Hawkeye AWACS aircraft they'd ordered from the US.

"Quick, tell the AWACS to maintain a holding pattern and summon the emergency lumber ship!"

Excel abuse hits new heights as dev uses VBA to code spreadsheet messaging app

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"Directories" are what actually exist in file systems, be they real or virtual. "Folders" are representations of directories that may or may not be based on reality.

Ten-year-old Windows Media Player hack is the new black, again

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Re: Improving Security

And repeat several times if the (l)user is in manglement.

In that case you would want a second device, aimed at the user's head and operating continuously.

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Improving Security

An academic study last month found 90 percent of users will ignore security warnings if they are slightly distracted, meaning developers should throw messages only when their application has the user's undivided attention.

A pneumatic piston with a boot attached to the end, mounted to the underside of the user's desk might solve this problem. Simply fire it at the user's groin prior to displaying security warnings.

US tech college ITT is not pining for the fjords. It is no more. It has gone and met its maker

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On The Job Experience

Being neck-deep in a shaky, slime-ball operated outfit that suddenly turns into a mushroom cloud actually sounds like pretty decent prep for employment in the IT world to me.

FCC goes over the top again to battle America's cable-box rip-off

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Re: This is going to solve itself eventually

"Back in the 90's I was in a very famous teeeeee-ve show..."

UK nuke warhead builders shift IT gear into public cloud

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"AWE has gone through a process to identify a range of trusted suppliers to support the business, as we continue to embrace the opportunities that modern IT can bring.

My confidence runneth over.

Newest Royal Navy warship weighs as much as 120 London buses

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Re: "River"-Class?

It looks..."excited"

It just woke up.

SpaceX's used flight-proven rocket to loft Euro satellite this year

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This is pretty cool stuff. Not only do I look forward to access to space becoming significantly cheaper, but reusing components will bring design and manufacturing defects to light that would not have been noticed otherwise.

Kudos SpaceX, you're a shimmering light in the black, dismal swamp that is modern civilization.

Windows Update borks PowerShell – Microsoft won't fix it for a week

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Unhappy

Re: Time for a career change

I had good luck with WSUS offline the first time I used it, but not last time. WSUS offline requires a CAB file that it downloads from Microsoft and each version of said file that I was able to get my hands on at the time was corrupt. I found a form on which people were talking about the issue and one of the posters had managed to get a functional copy of the CAB file by...downloading it 30 times. It seems that almost all, but not quite all, of MS's mirrors have a corrupt version of the file.

I find it really hard to escape the conclusion that MS is actively sabotaging Windows 7 update. If I ever get WSUS offline to run successfully again I'll definitely be saving its install directory (and backing it up).

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Re: Time for a career change

Might be time for me to get in on the computer repair business.

You had best have one beast of a liver.

Your wget is broken and should DIE, dev tells Microsoft

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Re: Nothing new

cygwin. scp works fine there. so does rsync.

There are actually some pretty weird-ass ACL issues in there. It's still the least painful of available alternatives though.

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Re: Nothing new

Invoke-Command -UseSSL -SessionOption MyServerName {get-content -encoding byte -readcount 0 "C:\windows\system32\notepad.exe" } -Credential $cred |Set-Content -Encoding byte c:\temp\foooooooo.exe

Wow, it's so simple!

Honor 8: Huawei targets millennials with high-spec cheapie. 3 words – Food pic mode

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My last phone was a katana. It had a very nice feature in that when dropped on the floor the back cover would pop off and the battery would fly out. It was a fast, easy and very satisfying way to deny incoming calls.

Microsoft's kinder, gentler collaboration war: Evernote, you're first

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I have a client that uses a single IMAP account for all of their business organization. The account got so fat and broadly used that their garbage DSL couldn't handle it. I ended up installing a mail server on site just for that one account.

The customer's always right, I guess.

Former RN flagship HMS Illustrious to be sold for scrap – report

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It must be the boat that's fast. If the jets were fast then they'd be there by now.

Sex ban IT man loses appeal – but judge labels order 'unpoliceable'

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Re: They might be painful to remember they exist

Only the Stallone one is a painful memory.

I AM DA WRAW!

Tech support scammers mess with hacker's mother, so he retaliated with ransomware

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When I have the time I keep them on the phone for as long as possible, my current record is 45 minutes...

My best is 3 hours. I had them trying to troubleshoot my non-existent fax machine, my then non-existent smart phone and my email client. They really wanted those financial details. I finally used an internet fax service to send them a Chase bank statement I found on Google images, pixilated to the point where it was barely not legible, followed by thirty pages of black.

When the guy on the line was livid when he figured out what was going on. I never get calls anymore. :(

LinkedIn sues 100 information scrapers after technical safeguard fail

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Re: If I wanted a job at any company

"You're just the cynical asshole we've been looking for. Welcome aboard!"

Microsoft to overhaul Windows 10 UI – with a 3D Holographic Shell

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Re: The glorious future

Those who complain of nausea will be entered into an obligatory intense ipecac-based training program.

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Re: The command line

That's been the one benefit for me to come out of Windows 8/8.1/10. I am *much* better at bringing up stuff through win_key+r.

'I found the intern curled up on the data centre floor moaning'

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Re: Number ranges

I got a fax on my dorm phone in uni at 7am every Saturday for several weeks. I eventually hooked up a fax modem and received some very confidential legal documents. I faxed them back, telling them that they had the wrong number but if they wished to continue to send me confidential information that I could leave the fax modem running.

I never heard back.

Italian MP threatens parents forcing veggie diets on kids with jail

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Re: Criminal offence to impose a diet lacking in essential elements ?

If I had a child, I'd be very inclined to want to give it a well balanced vegetarian organic diet.

I prefer to eat organic food too. The inorganic stuff really burns my throat.

Internet of Car...rikey what the hell just happened to my car?

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Re: The worth

Surely conventional wisdom is that you build security into the design, not try to add it on afterwards.

What planet are you from?

London's Met Police has missed the Windows XP escape deadline

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Re: Government investment in the Police

Government investment in the Police Is non-existent.

At least taxes and government debt in the UK are exceptionally low.

The developer died 14 years ago, here's a print out of his source code

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We acquired a competitor and responsibility for their products fell in our laps.

I've never seen it done like that before. It's always "We acquired a competitor and responsibility for their clients fell under the bus".

Classic Shell, Audacity downloads infected with retro MBR nuke nasty

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The problem with the popup window is that users have to click on such windows _all_ _the_ _time_ and that the message is completely non-specific. A message such as:

"This software wishes to:

- install itself for all users to use

- add itself as a service

- hook into explorer.exe

- hook into winlogin

- perform low-level disk modifications

Do you wish to continue?"

Would help immensely. Of course this would require some sort of capabilities-based privilege elevation and associated API.

Going! going! pwned? 200! million! Yahoo! logins! leaked! allegedly!

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Re: Simple passwords

[To create passwords for] the likes of Yahoo! is the Keyser Soze method. Look at the area, pick something in plain sight, use it.

"CashBonfireVisibleFromSpace"

What's ordered in Vegas, doesn't stay in Vegas? $6.7m of printer ink 'stolen by office worker'

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loss of faith in government

What is this "faith in government"? Individually the words make sense, but together it is just gibberish. It's like saying that one is going to milk a couch.

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