Posts by Wzrd1

Re: So, of course...

"Our pissy little game needs access to your e-mail, your location, your contacts list, your photographs, your fingerprints, your blood group..."

You missed the iris pattern and DNA sample.

Re: Considering...

What is really funny is, how many here consider it a quality control issue.

It could as easily be one of the same type of glitches that everyone else gets in their space missions.

The last thing they want to ever do is reboot, it's a case of "What if the damned thing doesn't boot up again?".

Of course, it could also be that the mechanical hand got stuck while trying to give a three finger salute.

Re: No shit, sherlock!

"...and Bears poo in the woods..."

Well, there are numerous studies on that one, complete with an analysis of what the bear ate and what the residue was like.

Now, there's a study on idiots wandering about not watching where they're walking.

Test me, you'll see normal walking. When walking or driving about, it's a hearty "screw whoever it is" while I moving about.

They can damned well wait for me to get where I'm going.

Re: How sublime . . .

No magnetic field on either planet, so the hydrogen would be lost to space by the solar wind.

Re: ATM Limit

Beats me, the usual max I've seen in the US has been $600 daily maximum, anything over requires special dispensation of the money pope.

$10k is totally out. However, transfers have a different limit, with some institutions having no limitation for some accounts. But, one isn't transferring funds into an account that is not one's own at an ATM.

Re: So the problem is

Yeah, because scientists agree that pumping shitloads of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere isn't a problem at all, nuclear reactors is.

I guess some scientists want us to move back into caves.

Re: How commentards do science: word analysis on a writeup by El Reg

I love how El Reg switches state like a nice flip flop. One story about how climate change isn't happening, another how it is.

Oh well, gotta keep the advertisers happy, I guess.

Rather like the US political leadership, the best government that money can buy.

Re: They need 3DES hacked?

NSA hacked DES ages ago.

External parties have won prizes breaking DES, the fastest being in a day in 2007.

All, of course, with dedicated hardware.

Now, 3DES is a bit more complicated. Which keying option is being used? What mode is being used? More than one block?

There is more than one moving part, making someone who hasn't a clue, which is obvious considering the call for help, isn't going to get in anytime soon.

But, they may well get help soon.

Help into a jail cell.

Re: No real advantage over a standard RepRap

True. I'd kill for a 12x12 work area and sell my immediate family to get a 24x24 work area, with high precision and multiple heads (as well as a larger variety of workstock).

Well, like any other industry, baby steps, then giant leaps.

But, for a really, really basic unit, it would be nice to have around the house. Print out replacements for the various odds and ends that break, such as the brake on my father's rolling walker.

Now, something to *really* shake the market would be a scanner that scans an object into the computer and it spits out the design for the printer to print.

Re: Undocumented test interface ? WTF!

Let's use some critical thinking here.

So, is the NSA interested in millions of small businesses around the world?

That is what product line is impacted, small business networking products for mom and pop shops, small insurance agencies and similar small businesses.

Really, now, do you honestly think that the NSA gives a tinker's damn about them over, perhaps, Fortune 100 companies or even better, Fortune 500? Or even better, every broadband provider, where they can slurp down all traffic to their heart's content?

Even better, try Hanlon's Razor.

Erm, the POS systems belong to the store, not the credit card company.

Now, how did the POS systems, aka cash registers, manage to have a path out, which is required for that information to leave the system and land in someone outside's computer?

POS systems should not be able to route traffic to each other, especially not offsite in another store. They should also not have the ability to route traffic to the internet at all. To and from the transaction servers only.

Re: Hit the Target

I'm betting that a CIO position opens up quickly, probably some network manager positions as well.

Re: Optimistic

Truth be told, I'm a battery hater, a fuel cell lover, etc.

That said, I do love rhubarb and sugar.

A strange thing from a Yank that was born and bred of non-UK linage.

Strawberry-rhubarb pie is exceptional!

Now, turn a nice treat into fuel, *beyond cool!*, if it actually works in a real world environmental condition.

Or can add to such a condition.

Re: Well done those peeps

Ah, but with a 10km mirror in a planetary orbit, they *could* see such things!

Of course, new austerity measures barely permit earth based observatories to operate.

Re: I have looked

"On the upside, there *are* a lot of good programmers out there who have good habits and some are tackling some of the basic code. There is hope yet."

Yep! The NSA is loaded with good programmers.

Look at SELinux.

Hmmm...

Re: Also in the news...

Yeah, because he *really* sets NSA policy, right?

Re: Probability

"As to "without warning" you do need to remember you are talking to geologists, and they tend to think in slightly different time scales to the rest of us."

Not all. Remember, volcanologists think in both long and extremely short timescales.

If they see the earth bulging up tens of meters, they think in extremely short timescales. And rapidly depart the area.

Re: Infra-sound

Didn't miss it. The old Cold War nuke detonation detectors are still working.

Only, now scientists are allowed to also access them.

Re: More info

That's assuming it's a classical nova and not a variable accreting to its final end.

The "pinking" isn't very concerning, it's hydrogen getting excited. Something not really unusual after the outbursts involved with a red giant finally flashing.

So, we'll await a lot more results of observations to see what was there, what remains there and what the spectra shows, from radio to gamma.

The laugh is, it's most likely a ploy to get a better deal on subsequent contracts.

Meanwhile, the ignorant think that *only* the US is spying, not realizing that every nation on the plant with any level of technological capability *has long* been doing so.

It's only that the US never met a secret it could keep, much to the chagrin of the UK.

Re: Not likely

Annoying:

My router incessantly reboots, up to five times per day.

Second unit, which rebooted twice as often.

Compromised hardware? Not likely.

More likely, it's a POS design, whose engineering team should be horsewhipped over, but more likely got bonuses for saving money in their shitty design.

I say, shoot the lot of them! Right out of the biggest circus cannon one can find and straight into the composting pond of the nearest sewage treatment plant.

OK, not really. I'd suggest sacking them, but even money, they were long ago downsized and outsourced.

Re: "account running the ftp daemon"

Since the site is contracted out, what is the chance that FTP is running as root and the password is "1234"?

Re: Banned until money

"The "minnow" nations without the presence to mine there, or the military muscle to stop others, with bleat and bitch (e.g. the UK) but the other nations (USA, China etc) will go ahead."

Except that the USA and PRC both signed that pesky treaty that prohibits exploiting the mineral resources of Antarctica.

Now, that said, I do recall a loophole wherein resources can be exploited for humanity as a whole.

Hanged if I can figure out how diamonds could do that. The only use for those is for specialty uses, industrial grit, high temperature semiconductor research (of course, those are man made diamonds), diamond anvil units, etc.

And as I mentioned, we now can manufacture diamonds in quantity. There's even an outfit in the US that will turn a few ounces of human cremains into diamond jewelry.

Re: Missing the obvious...

"So, yes, now the media will holler and scream about TOR."

At least in the US, most of the media don't even know what TOR is.

I'd not be in the least bit surprised to hear it reported as toro.

A least until the lawnmower company complains.

"Maybe it's a good thing we don't have laws that would add jail time for being stupid."

Well, if we criminalized stupid, we could clear out a hell of a lot of lousy politicians, all over the world, in no time flat!

"Maybe one day you could clone people, just to fuck with them."

Clones would have different fingerprints. As many studies of identical twins have proved.

"You could make latex 'false fingers' and then murder hobos & hitchhikers and pin the deed on someone else."

Doesn't work well, leaves telltale signatures.

"You could use the finger prints and DNA in black magic rituals and mail little voodoo dolls with their DNA and fingerprints to their enemies and publicize it, just to be creepy and menacing."

That might work, just have to figure out how to collect *that much* DNA. Usual DNA swabs are quite small in the amount of DNA collected.

As to laws, impersonation of a public official, harassment, conspiracy, fraud, libel all come to mind for starters. The various nations then have other charges as well. Interestingly enough, harassing a public official tends to be a felony in every nation I'm aware of.

But, collecting the fingerprints and DNA tends to not be illegal in many jurisdictions. A discarded drink cup, a used tissue all tend to be fair game, as one is collecting discarded trash.

Next up: Prohibiting trash picking. It would take care of such collection methods and in the US, criminalize one more way that the homeless feed themselves.