Posts by cyrus

Our team mobilised immediately...

"...and managed to contain the attack"

I sense a massive amount of surprise in this statement.

Please!

Buy it. Take it into the alley. Shoot it in the head. PLEASE!!!!!

"Staffers of the real estate mogul-turned-US presidential candidate “bungled the settings on their Amazon S3 server”, which according to MacKeeper security researcher Chris Vickery, the security researcher who discovered the recently-resolved flaw."

Still looking for the rest of this sentence. And is calling the guy from MacKeeper a "Security Researcher" some sort of joke?

Again?

They did this with their USB keyboards and extenders back in the day. There was a divet in the physical interface that only allowed Apple products to be connected via an Apple extender. And we used to curse M$ for not following standards.

Google cars

Have never been in an accident. Causing them might be another story.

"Our people"

Sounds a bit possessive to me. Are we the government's people or is the government the people's. Some one needs to get that part right before going any farther.

Two tier

Looked like two beir for a sec and I thought it sounded like a good idea. Oh well the icon thought it sounded good too.

Any dolt

That thinks their mobile is safe gets what they deserve. I think we can all agree that it really does not matter what platform you use. iPhone or Android (or one of you 5 kids with Windows Phones) are all vulnerable. Never mind vulnerable to what. It is vulnerable to something and that's food for thought.

Mine's the one with tin foil body condom in the waist pocket.

This mass surveillance is not about protecting the people. It is about gaining power over them. I can only hope that the time is coming when those who have helped implement and support mass surveillance will be called out to answer for their crimes. I expect to see this one in the line up.

Ha!

Grapes don't have nuts, silly.

Uhmmm

duhhhh!

On Tumblr?

Because the Director of National Intelligence is demented and sad, but social?

Well

that f-ing sucks. Hate it when a hugely useful service is bought by doubious interests. Not too sure how I will replace that. Guess I will need to find a solution sooner rather than later. Fare thee well OpenDNS.

I hang my head in shame

that the take away from a horrible crime is to stomp on the least significant aspect of it. We Americans are fools.

Regardless of how people feel about the shooting, the Confederate flag is not the issue. What fault of law allowed this mental defective to have a gun? Any one have good answer for that? Did the Confederate flag give him the gun? I think this is more typical American denial of the real problems in our society.

I believe in our right to bear arms. But we have a problem here in the U.S. of allowing the criminally insane to take part in that great Right. Maybe that's what we should be discussing instead of doing stupid, ignorant and virtually useless things.

I cannot imagine that removing the Confederate flag from the face of the nation will stop this from happening again. Maybe next time, the perpetrator will have a picture taken of him with the American flag. How will the dumb people I have to call my countrymen deal with that?

Sometimes even Verizon gets screwed.

I can attest that the right of way for Verizon to install fiber was indeed blocked by landlords in NYC.

I know of one client of mine that was in a building on Lafayette St. in Soho that was eligible for FiOS, but it needed to be connected through a neighboring building that already had FiOS.

In the end, the neighboring building's landlord would not allow the work to proceed to connect my client's building.

In the end, cogent provided a miserable 10x10 business Ethernet connection for 1000 clams per month.

I don't like Verizon or the way they do business, but there is some validity to their "landlord" argument from my own experience. Could Verizon run an extra 100 yards of fiber around the block to connect the building? I really don't know. But I personally spoke with the landlord of the neighboring building, and I know they simply were not going to allow the right of way for Verizon to bring the connection over.

Time to

get the high powered green lasers out and shoot at The cockpit of any Cessna you can find.

Seems interesting...

That none of this applies to government agencies that do more damaging things to ones privacy than slinging an ad. Creepy double standard.

Yeah

I am a U.S. citizen and I think the perpetrators were identified too easily. Considering the White House was under attack for a couple of weeks before they were made aware of the intrusion by an "ally". Seems pretty quick for them to come to a solid conclusion on this.

Others have said and I agree. This is going to be used to further restrict U.S. citizens' free speech and increase monitoring of U.S. citizens here in the land of the *cough* free.

I have little faith in our government's ability to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that NK has any hand in this. But the USG does not like NK, so we will just say it was them.

But it is probably our government that perpetrated this crime. I think we have a habit of victimizing our own citizens to justify our actions against the ones we don't like.

The whole thing seems rather convenient.

If you use Twitter

... Or Facebook, or any such social media, you get what you deserve.

Odd OS X releases tend to suck

With the exception of perhaps 10.5 (which supported both PPC and Intel Macs), my experience is that the even versions are worth working with. The odd versions usually suck. Just my opinion.