User: ole_timer

Re:Yeah, no, fuck them and that shit

On: Browser Firm That Required Users To Confirm Their Real Life Identity Shut Down After Its Employees Were Threatened (xconomy.com)

bye

Re:Force

On: The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)

sounds like a job offer to turn down

people that say switch to linux have no clue

On: Alaskan Town Finds Solace in Typewriters Following Last Week's BitPaymer Ransomware Infection (bleepingcomputer.com)

...what it's like for a typical it shop with a dumb user population...the issue is not windows per se, it's stupid users...

Re:Nice to see

On: Alaskan Town Finds Solace in Typewriters Following Last Week's BitPaymer Ransomware Infection (bleepingcomputer.com)

I got a free starbucks coffee because it the pos (in all it's meanings!) was re-booting and taking it's time...the waiter (excuse me - the barristaman) finally said it's free

Re:Maybe switch to Linux

On: Alaskan Town Finds Solace in Typewriters Following Last Week's BitPaymer Ransomware Infection (bleepingcomputer.com)

ransomware by dumb email behavior...Linux won't fix that

for what it's worth

On: Bacteria Becoming Resistant To Hospital Disinfectants, Warn Scientists (theguardian.com)

I had mrsa... and vancomycin via iv...it entered (the mrsa) and infected my blood, artificial stomach, skin, emergency trac site and lungs. four months later I managed to live after all the infection were gone. thank god for vancomycin!

Re:Fair warning

On: Bacteria Becoming Resistant To Hospital Disinfectants, Warn Scientists (theguardian.com)

...eats, shoots & leaves...

Re:Maybe switch to Linux

On: Alaskan Town Finds Solace in Typewriters Following Last Week's BitPaymer Ransomware Infection (bleepingcomputer.com)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Re:Russian spy?

On: Leaked Chats Show Alleged Russian Spy Seeking Hacking Tools (securityweek.com)

the zer0 day bugs were overwhelmingly introduced by the moronic s/w engineers who built the apps...

Re:Russian spy?

On: Leaked Chats Show Alleged Russian Spy Seeking Hacking Tools (securityweek.com)

you go right on believing that...why do think all the vendors have bug reward programs?

Re:Is anyone surprised?

On: Leaked Chats Show Alleged Russian Spy Seeking Hacking Tools (securityweek.com)

...exactly...1 + 1 does not equal 6...

Re:Russian spy?

On: Leaked Chats Show Alleged Russian Spy Seeking Hacking Tools (securityweek.com)

uh...since the researcher may have knowledge that the spy doesn't...especially about zer0 days...

Re:Nice to see

On: Alaskan Town Finds Solace in Typewriters Following Last Week's BitPaymer Ransomware Infection (bleepingcomputer.com)

...a long time ago I was in a submarine...we just fixed things...now there's no excuse for getting had, but if you are you just deal with it...

Re:Nice to see

On: Alaskan Town Finds Solace in Typewriters Following Last Week's BitPaymer Ransomware Infection (bleepingcomputer.com)

yep...good old Alaskan ingenuity

Re:Maybe switch to Linux

On: Alaskan Town Finds Solace in Typewriters Following Last Week's BitPaymer Ransomware Infection (bleepingcomputer.com)

;) (smile)

Re:Maybe switch to Linux

On: Alaskan Town Finds Solace in Typewriters Following Last Week's BitPaymer Ransomware Infection (bleepingcomputer.com)

...not really...https://linux-audit.com/linux-and-the-rise-of-ransomware/

...no payment made...

On: Alaskan Town Finds Solace in Typewriters Following Last Week's BitPaymer Ransomware Infection (bleepingcomputer.com)

...from what I understand no payment was made...backups were ok, even if a year old

Re:So, what of the scrolls?

On: Ancient Public Library Discovered In Germany (theguardian.com)

moronity is not limited to the Christians...there's equal moronity among the heretics, non-believers, etc.

Re:True

On: Chromebooks Don't Suffer From Bad User Experiences Found on Windows and Mac Computers, Google Says (aboutchromebooks.com)

...yep, if there's no experience you can't have a bad one...try calculating md5 hashes on 5 million files, indexing them using dtsearch, and then looking to see the matches on a deadbook...

...as though the goal is no bad user experiences?.

On: Chromebooks Don't Suffer From Bad User Experiences Found on Windows and Mac Computers, Google Says (aboutchromebooks.com)

...what dumb everything down until there's no bad experiences? how insane of them - the goal should be more lofty than that...

Re:Thank you, Captains Obvious.

On: More Than Half the Reviews For Certain Popular Products on Amazon Are Questionable, Outside Auditors Say. Amazon Disputes Those Estimates. (npr.org)

maybe recycled true stories are now better than fake news?

only half?

On: More Than Half the Reviews For Certain Popular Products on Amazon Are Questionable, Outside Auditors Say. Amazon Disputes Those Estimates. (npr.org)

...seems like it should be higher...

why not?

On: Several Small Countries and Territories Have Passed Laws, or Have Legislation in the Works, To Make Themselves More Welcoming To Cryptocurrency Companies (nytimes.com)

traditional banks are scrambling...

Re: Amateur

On: Teen Allegedly Broke Into a Couple's Home To Ask For Their WiFi Password, Police Say (washingtonpost.com)

fair enough!

Re: Amateur

On: Teen Allegedly Broke Into a Couple's Home To Ask For Their WiFi Password, Police Say (washingtonpost.com)

ah, that would explain all the strange cars in your block...