Posts by Mark 85

What a hoot!!

The concept of E-bay and "trusted merchant".... I find that if a particular product comes up on E-bay and Alibaba, I don't want it. Too much grief dealing with a Chinese product as far as "copied goods" (copyright and patent violation), shoddy workmanship and quality control, customer sevice, and import duty and (here's a big rip-off) import broker fees. </rant>

NHS?

Were they even aware of the defacement prior to El Reg asking them about it? Governmental agency and all that....

Say what????

The first three on the surface seemed (for some value of 'seemed') like legitimate reasons... the fourth seemed to be a rant. But then again, I don't care who's on it. I just know a lot of folks justly or injustly are going to get burnt and without the various "helpful" sites like Trustify or the nearest spamming miscreant doing whatever shiite they might try.

Ok... sure.. Good Guys..

And one's name/e-mail addy is in the dump, besides ask you for money, what will they do about it? This is fear mongering at it's worst... the "you or someone you know checked to see if you were there" part. If they said, you're not there, then all is well. If they said "you're in the dump", what will they do about it beside want your CC number?

Curious minds and all that.....

Well.. there goes the 401k...

Crap.. so close to full retirement and yet so far away....

This is all well and good for "security bods"... but what those 101 million users who are vulnerable? Hell,.. most users apparently never get an OS patch. Given that it's 101 million users for these and 5 billion for Chrome, the bad guys will go for the Chrome first. The mobiles are really in deep s**t until the manufacturers and the Telco's decide they should and will do the right thing and push patches without a hit on the user's data limit.

Just Wow... is right.

This thing should be removed from servers and PC's. Even though it's "inside the firewall", does it phone home like a lot of other software? I'd say it was a good thing the CIO resigned otherwise firing would be appropriate. And unless there's strict guidelines and possibly monitoring of logs, this thing should never be allowed back.

I'm wondering what will happen when the department upgrades to Win10. I'd almost bet that will cause some real headaches when it phones home.

Spam started...

No surprise and it started trickling in on Friday. I have two friends who claim they never used it are getting spam on an email account used only for business purposes including one that's a "no-response" email used for letting customers know their order is being processed. He checks that address just in case some idiot does respond.

These appear to be just run of the mill spam with the miscreants blindly shipping out the garbage.

I'm suspecting some malware authors are picking up on this as one of the emails was an attachment claiming to show them in the database.

The other person got one saying they could remove them from the "stolen database" by contacting them for "payment arrangements". The foolish who believe this might as well find the Nigerian Queen offering them money in return.

And so another spam nightmare begins for IT....

It's a start...

Now if the rest of the world will follow suit. And this includes the "news" sites with all their videos requiring Flash.

What I see is that the good city fathers are probably caught in a PR nightmare.

If they don't make the offer (even a low-ball one) then they're not "thinking of the poor or working class".

If they get the land, then they get stuck with all the headaches and little profit.

If it sells at full price and a developer builds it up, they get the tax money on the value of the land and buildings.

The logic of taking "undeveloped land" and turning into something else is fine if the land is usable.. depends on the terrain. Also, this is California we're talking about. They seem to have their own rules of engagement with these things, like the way they pump much of their reservoir water into rivers because they must save the fish. There's probably some ecological (mandated by the greenies) reason for not developing said land also.

Unlimited potential....

for fillings. I guess one's creativity with fillings would depend on the amount of alcohol in one's system.