Posts by Mark 85

Re: Oh no!

How big will the icon have to be to get a Kar****ian arse in?

This is stuff nightmares are made of.

Re: Default passwords? In this day and age?

A pint of piss for the lazy implementers.

It's not lazy, it's about cost and corporate profit. A few cents here, a few cents there, and pretty soon, the shareholder value takes a hit. Public agencies don't answer to corporate bosses but taxpayers and no taxpayer wants taxes raised to "fix" IT stuff since they don't understand it. <sigh> There's the right thing to do and the corporate/public agency thing to do. One would hope that the corporations and public agencies would for once do the right thing.

No just the bad guys and victims, but anyone including CongressCritters, administration officials...might as well get the goods on those who control the purse strings of their budget.

Gotta' love their belief that a backdoor isn't crackable by miscreants. Or maybe the know that and just don't care?

typically these sharks

I think the real sharks in the ocean would take offence call the corporate slime balls "sharks". More like dung beetles.

Re: The mind boggles

As do other body parts. Oh wait, you said "boggles"....

Re: time to fling poop

Mostly spot on but there's a problem. Voters of all ages seem to be only able to look at a single issue and sometimes it's not the issues, it's only about the party. All a hopeful candidate has to do is find that "magic" issue and side with the majority and he can shout bollocks about everything else and still get elected. And that "magic" issue doesn't even have to be valid from past elections where one's linage, marital status/fidelity, etc. are concerned. Start a smear campaign and there's no need to even take a stand on any issue. Politics is poop.

Re: Apple'sHack

The young lad may have got their attention but the wrong kind of attention. They probably won't touch him with a 10 foot (or 3.048 meters) pole. OTOH, I'm sure there's someone out there that would hire him, maybe even a white hat or at least a gray one.

Re: Extraordinary claims—

Only during the day. The Bedouin can have them after dark.

Or they could be hired to go around get the sand dust off the solar cells.

Depends on the poet and the genre. In this case it's not classical but more "modern". According to some sites like the one below, there's something like 50-100 types of poetry.

http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/list-of-50-poetic-forms-for-poets (Google "poetry types list" )for more lists and confusion.

Re: So....

It's about grant money. While the findings and testing fall into the "no s*** that's obvious" department, they did get paid and possibly some academic accolades.

Re: The Holy Trinity

Well, we could guarantee to "protect" everyone by locking everyone up in solitary confinement from birth - some compromises are required in a free society.

Good solution but there's a small problem: who watches the turnkeys and then who watches the watchers?

That doesn't seem right. Then again, this is Assange we're speaking of and maybe this is just part of his "self-promotion" persona.

Re: W.A.S.P.

oh... for a moment there I thought you were going to comment on White, Angelo-Saxon, Protestants.

Re: what about the right to face your accuser?

The isn't accusing anyone nor convicting them. All it's doing is providing the judge/court with sentencing guidelines after a conviction. I won't comment on the validity of said software as others have pretty much covered that ground.

Re: The one thing I wholeheartedly agree with Jobs on ...

If you need them, you've failed.

Actually, no! My wife bought this model because of the stylus. She has several physical issues that the stylus and the screen size solved. Other than every thing seeming to "update" (looking at your apps Google), she's pretty happy with it.

Re: @JimmyPage - disinformation

All very well. The problem is that people who don't know about Islam prefer getting their facts from the UKIP-EDL "scholars" interpretation of it.

Apparently, certain groups (Al Quida comes to mind along with ISIS) seem to interpret things in the Quran:differently. Christians have the same problem with some churches/sects preaching the exact opposite of what the Bible says. So even devoted followers get mislead.

Re: how about

They have their own problems, as Al Gore will attest after losing to George W Bush due to hanging chads.

Actually, no. The old mechanicals that the OP mentions had no paper at all. Some models did have a paper roll inside for a backup tally but they were rare. So no chads, just a very satisfying "clunk - clunk" as you pulled the lever to register your votes.

Re: Another affluenza victim, shirley.

Trump can't do anything for him in Nevada though,

Not at this point anyway. But if he's convicted, a pardon could be arranged.....

Re: get out quick

People in the same room as the incident were wandering around dazed for minutes, like zombies.

I'm surprised that there's no mention of flash burns. They got lucky. I saw an electrician drop a large screwdriver into an power box in factory once. People 10 feet away got flash burns. The electrician didn't die but he was badly burned and off work for year.

Re: I don't understand why they need it

Seems that the current military/civilian leadership ( such that it is ) lost sight of the basics in Vietham and haven't regained it. The basic rule is: "take the ground and hold it". If you don't do that, you'll never win a war but just spend money and lives and go home broke and in defeat.

Re: Maybe, just maybe

Exactly. We're not pessimists. We're realists. While this study has value to the researchers, in our jobs it's pure BS and almost a job requirement. We, in the trenches of IT, deal daily with the Murphy Law: "if anything can go wrong, it will".

Re: We all know the US doesn't need cyber-security...

And if this were a Clinton administration, your comment might be relevant. As t is, it's just whataboutism to distract from the issue at hand.

Actually, I find it very relevant. Seems that too many in power seem to believe that they are above everything and everyone else and thus, don't need cybersecurity as no one would dare hack them.

Re: So the FCC gets to make the decision.

Point: free market works. gummint needs to get out of the way.

In an open market where there is competition, yes, it works very well. In a monopoly market, not so well to the point of not at all.

Re: Interesting that Oracle worries about "lock-in"

So what did Oracle do, price themselves out of the running? OTOH, I'm surprised they didn't argue that the contract should go to the highest bidder.

So chances are they got your account number? Then there will the idiots in the crowd who will go on FB to ask the bank a question and give their account number.

I'm assuming of course that FB isn't asking for every customer's details... err... crap... now that think about it, they probably are.

Re: While we're on the subject ...

Wish I could upvote that more than once. Amen, the Stones are rock and roll...