* Posts by chivo243

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Tor Project: US government paid university $1m bounty to hack our networks

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time to go old school?

You know, pigeons, crossword puzzles, personal ads, pig latin. Anybody remember the US TV show from the 70's called Zoom? hibi, fribends... Ibe ambe herbe tobe telbe yoube toobe runbe forbe thebe hilbes...

US Congress grants leftpondians the right to own asteroid booty

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"SPACE Act of 2015"

reading between the lines? Get off my planet you greedy kids, go muck up some other neighborhood, I think there are some vacant houses down the road.

Apple to add 1000 jobs to Cork payroll

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Happy

1000 warm bodies eh

I'd live in Cork for a very good job...

TalkTalk boss: 'Customers think we're doing right thing after attack'

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you mean its not Michael J. Fox's twin brother?

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Customers?

Both of them?

Feeble Phobos flaking as it falls to Mars

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@ Jimmy, Tony and Brewster

Thanks for the intelligent replies, I strive to learn something new everyday, job done. Up votes all around!

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Call me ignorant...

Not an astroboffin, but don't you have to have tides( water/liquid) to have tidal influences?

Get an Apple Watch or die warns Tim Cook

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Re: So?

have an up vote, seems you received the same two down votes as I did ;-}

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Re: We live, We die

@Dave 126

My incident didn't involve electricity, but a rack, a 65kg up and my watch being ripped off my arm and the watchband broken... I still have all my fingers ;-}

I'm sure my heart rate went up too!

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We live, We die

we love, and we mostly hate apple? Sorry, but in my line of work a watch is a hazard no matter who over charges for it. I haven't worn one since the UPS incident of '04. Every computer, phone, etc has a clock of sorts.

Won't someone think of the IT'ers

How Twitter can see the financial future – and change it

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So he manipulated prices?

did he profit from the manipulations? Can it really be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that his "tweets" caused the losses?

Royal Mail mulls drones for rural deliveries

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Headmaster

Driverless truck

And what happens when there is nobody at home to receive the delivery? Or if it's gramps in a wheelchair and hasn't crossed the front door threshold since his last heart attack?

I want one of these high paying jobs where you can spout diarrhea out of your mouth and the people below you that want to keep their job eat it up and ask for more!

TalkTalk: Data was 'secure', erm, we beat rivals on price. Um, scratch that...

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Time to Rebrand

Balk Balk, as any perspective customers will...

DC judge rips into the NSA over mass surveillance

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Devil

It seems

That there are powers at work greater than the government here. Politicians are sock puppets, decisions are made elsewhere...

Judge bins Apple Store end-of-shift shakedown lawsuit

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Trollface

Judges are cool

Just wait until security searches his briefcase.... and someone says if you don't like it, don't bring one?? How long do you think the search of the Judge's briefcase(s) will continue??

Just remember - It's good to be the King!

Ericsson and Cisco ink deal for networks of the future

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Wouldn't that be

borg and borg?

Goodfella's attack smacks Slack chap for whack crack? It's a fact, Jack

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Slack?

"make oversized gents clothing??"

Ahhh, that clears it up. Butterball is Homer Simpson's tailor ;-}

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Can't by me Love

Looks like money doesn't buy class either...

Tip to Butterball, get to know people before you tell jokes like you're his best friend. How to win friends and influence people must be under the short leg of the couch?

Drones are dropping drugs into prisons and the US govt just doesn't know what to do

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Re: Move the prisions

I didn't say anything about building and maintaining prisons. Or sending supplies....

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Move the prisions

You know, Alcatraz, Devils Island type of thing... find a remote island and drop the lot of violent offenders there. Who needs guards when you have a thousand or so miles of water. Check back in 25 years to see how many are still alive.

Swedbank smacked by DDoS attack

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I was thinking the same thing... Did Proton move to this banks Datacenter?

Fancy flying to Mars? NASA's hiring

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Re: And if the in-flight menu includes a good curry?

@Ugotta B. Kiddingme

Or an extreme ventilation problem?!

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Re: No sireee

@ A B

Surely you mean O'Zorgnax's Pub....

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This would be interesting

but I'm too old, too tired and under qualified. Plus I never had the urge to get a pilot license.

Oh well -

I can't help about the shape I'm in

I can't sing, I ain't pretty and my legs are thin

Colorado unshackles cities, lifts ban on govt-owned muni broadband

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Good news everyone?

I hope so, a relative works for one of the giants, *cough* comcrap** Maybe they can work for their local ISP, and get a bit more respect at the professional level, seems it's lacking elswhere.

MacBooks are so hot right now. And so is Mac OS X malware

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@Mondo

Reading between the lines I see... Nicely done, but it is only an observation. I know from experience that I need all of those browsers on OS X. Not every site works in Safari, or Chrome nor Fireferet on OS X, we especially like the sites that say please use Internet Destroyer... Then Safari's delevop menu is great for impersonating IE as other browsers. It doesn't always work, but always worth a try.

Disclaimer: On this often shared home computer, I use Chrome, only installed extensions are adblock and two googly docs for work. The missus uses Safari. No issues here so far.

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Holmes

Just an observation

I don't remember "malware" being so widespread on OS X until Chrome came along... Maybe this is coincidental? I know there are many dodgy extensions for Chrome, I assist users with browser problems daily on OS X, and more often than not it's Chrome causing issues. There is one EBay extension in particular that really changes the UI of Chrome... buttons hidden, homepage hijacked, search engine can't be changed etc.

As far as I know, the <user> has to install malware on OS X. If this is not true, do let me know, I have some fanboi's that need some schooling...

No C&C server needed: Russia menaced by offline ransomware

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... a glass of tea and a chat."

Let me finish that for you, ....and a pillowcase of doorknobs, a carpet and a bag of lime... and the trunk/boot on their Lada open. Also two look out guys at each end of the street. Not that I've seen this kind of thing...

TalkTalk offers customer £30.20 'final settlement' after crims nick £3,500

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Re: 6 or 12 months

"arrested a handful of 15/16 y.o's.?? WTF?"

And we hear nothing about their actions and connections. How did the plods connect these kids actions? Seems like a blind man shooting in the dark...

It feels like these teenagers are the low hanging fruit, and probably only participated in the DDoS, and not the data slurp.

You kids light the bag of shit on fire at the front door.... I'll wait at the back door ;-}

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That Dido photo

I just want to pull that little hair out of the right side of her chin... Does anyone else see that?

'I posted winning race ticket in Facebook selfie ... and someone stole it!'

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Re: With friends like these

@allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

"who needs enemas?"

Or a catheter, nothing like taking the piss out eh?

Music lovers move to block Phil Collins' rebirth

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Does it matter anymore

I liked Genesis, didn't know who they were, liked the music. I got a bit older, a family member took me to see Phil and his Hot Tub Club. It was a great show!

As I learned about the industry, I learned that Phil was also a big behind the scenes guy. If his new music is a good listen, who cares. As I age I think we all put too much emphasis on the artists, and not their body of work as a musician. I am surprised at the number of songs I hated then, and like now.

Call me an ex music snob ??

Ransomware scammers: Won’t pay? We'll put your data on the internet

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Re: interesting new twist

@Prst. V.Jeltz

My exact thoughts, beat me to the post ;-} And if you have nothing special to hide, who would want your data except you?

Glad my data doesn't live in Winbox.

Spanish town trumpets 'Clitoris Festival' thanks to Google snafu

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Some Mexican restaurants

at Easter time have a sandwich of sorts called a "panocha" my Mexican friends told me it means pussy... I used to live above a Mexican restaurant, and the sign was below my window. Oh, how the Mexican guys would laugh...

Apple’s TV platform just became a little more secure (well, the apps at least)

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Puleeaase

Apple TV is not a TV... never has been, never will be. Apple is just using the letters TV which used to mean television, as a means to hang the damn thing off your real television or other capable display...

At Microsoft 'unlimited cloud storage' really means one terabyte

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Re: I experience the same problem......

I never have enough table muscle for an all you can eat outing. We go Japanese, and after ordering 5 or 6 ( x 6 dishes per round) rounds of sushi ect... I'm full. Maybe next time I cut down on the big beers? Bah, what am I thinking?

Hi, um, hello, US tech giants. Mind, um, mind adding backdoors to that crypto? – UK govt

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Re: You can take my encryption out of my cold dead hands,

"That has been arranged" TFTFY...

da gubbermint...

KeePass looter: Password plunderer rinses pwned sysadmins

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Re: When spelling is important.

I think it's a typo, they start talking about Keefarce then forget to change kee back to key?

Google snaps Dutch woman completely taking the piss

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Re: Happens all the while in Norwich.

"public toilets and sanitation."

How about both!

https://kwahlgren.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/europe-summer-09-182.jpg

Outdoor toilets and canals in the same photo!

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Miss Wrong

Tramp stamp and fag in hand... Say it with me: Classsaay!

Windows 10 growth stalls during October

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Re: A pedant writes...

When an airplane stalls, it still makes some progress, until it stops, or un-stalls

yes, yes, my coat...

Post-pub nosh neckfiller special: The WHO bacon sarnie of death

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Real Men...

...skip the bread, especially white bread. I'd rather see this in a pita or tortilla or even a baguette.

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Re: +1 only for your name, Mr. Cupid Stunts.

Just throwing this one out...

cunning runts....

Yes, I would like my coat...

Think Fortran, assembly language programming is boring and useless? Tell that to the NASA Voyager team

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Same thing happened with my mom, she put in for early retirement, and her position still sits open 7 plus years later... She worked on HP mainframes something 3000 or 2000 I even used one them for one compsci course at the Uni where she worked, and that was 1984ish?

The only GOOD DRONE is a DEAD DRONE. Y'hear me, scumbags?!

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Re: Quick

"git orf ma grass" you forgot to add: you goddamned hippies!

Hacked TalkTalk CEO: Dead as a Dido? Nope, she refuses to quit

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isn't she connected?

I'm not from the UK, but I thought I heard she's married to the duke of candyland or something. I find it hard to believe the board can do much against the "connected" woman at this time. In time she will leave gracefully, citing a need for a new challenge or some such frippery.

Have a Plan A, and Plan B – just don't go down with the ship

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Re: Cheers

A colleague and I just went through a Risk Inventory Meeting. They asked about our DR Plan, and I batted the birdie to the budget guys...

Not my responsibility.... Yet?

Deutsche Bank to axe 'excessively complex' IT, slash 9,000 jobs

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Re: Respect

@Stoneshop

That's what my beer says on the label..

Second UK teen suspect arrested over TalkTalk hack

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@Evil Graham

"who took part in the DDoS attack"

And didn't know about the bigger target? I tend to think so...

I think it would be easy to recruit a few bored teenagers to DDoS a company, wind 'em up about how cool it is... you've got your DDoS'ers set. Point and shoot.

Dad who shot 'snooping vid drone' out of the sky is cleared of charges

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Re: Bullit County

@bobstay

Or what depth... 250m below the surface of the earth oil is found, is it yours?

Back to your question, I doubt you have the firepower to take down a 747. However, if it were close enough to hit with a shotgun, he's flying mighty low and I doubt the voyeurs on the plane are really thinking about copping a quick flick of nude sunbathers.

Also, I have to doubt the 747 is just hovering about here and there over your garden...

"What height are you going to draw the line?"

I would have to believe that line would be just above the range of your firepower... legal laws or no. Laws of physics still apply.