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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 11, 2014, 06:48 AM »

Doesn't seem to have any meaning to make a statement that "...And we have done it.", knowing that it cannot be substantiated in any event. A marketing puff.

-IainB (August 11, 2014, 12:46 AM)

They can't put it on a billboard, true. But as the saying goes "People Talk". And historically word of mouth has been a reliable form of advertising. So I'd file it under pay attention to the mummer on the street and see which way the rumors go.

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Living Room / Re: EFF's "Stupid Patent of the Month" raises awareness, shames patent trolls

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 11, 2014, 06:42 AM »

Here's one classic patent:

https://encrypted.go...om/patents/US6360693

A stick. For a dog.

-Renegade (August 11, 2014, 02:49 AM)

Found this is the patent:

. The animal toy of claim 1 wherein said main section includes a wood.

How is "making" a wooden stick out of a piece of wood considered a creation?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: SharewareOnSale newsletter

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 10, 2014, 01:01 PM »

Okay, ^that was funny.

Interesting site, I'll have to keep an eye on it.

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Living Room / Re: Wikimedia refuses to remove animal selfie because monkey ‘owns’ the photo

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 10, 2014, 12:52 PM »

It's almost like that same short-sighted venture capital goal of an early "cash-out" has come to the art and creative world. That mindset has hurt business. Because there's no longer a long-term goal to actually build sustainable business. Just to get them to where they can be sold. Then, take the money and move on.

-40hz (August 10, 2014, 11:48 AM)

This!

To my mind, our biggest problem with IP is that, in order to have a fair and workable copyright law, we need to apply common sense. And laws and the legal system generally aren't about common sense. They're about complex definitions and tortuous semantic arguments. And an entire professional industry and branch of the government has been built upon it. And they employ tens of thousands of clever well-heeled individuals whose very livelihood is dependent upon things remaining the way they are.

-40hz (August 10, 2014, 11:48 AM)

And This IMO is why the now archaic practice of trying to make a truly quality product has been replaced with the inane quest to rush to market with something "Good Enough".

Good enough to me is a road side repair in the middle of nowhere at midnight. It's just a Band-Aid to limp home on. A quality product OTOH is when you are willing without hesitation to toss the product of your work into a hairpin corner at 100+MPH and bet your life on the outcome.

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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 10, 2014, 12:33 PM »

"If we find anyone -- doesn't matter if it's hackers or governments -- involved in any of our customer environments anywhere in the world, we tell our customers, period," Chambers said[/b]. "And we do that in the U.S., in Europe and China and India. And we have done it."

-Stoic Joker (August 08, 2014, 02:31 PM)

Yeah, right. Sounds great. So what? Proof to substantiate that statement? None so far, it seems. But wait...where did I put that proof...?
(Sound of crickets chirping.)

-IainB (August 10, 2014, 06:22 AM)

It's in the same place as that proof of WMDs...

-wraith808 (August 10, 2014, 12:06 PM)

No. The proof that the NSA et al are only gathering information on real terrorist threats is in the same place as the proof of WMDs. Especially when the DoHS has free time to get involved in a local BS drug bust. Now how do you recon they found out about that action... Hm...

Cisco is just doing damage control after a badly placed photo took a chunk out of their bottom line. Corporate whores tend to react badly when cash flow is impeded ... So I think it's a front worth watching. But expecting Cisco to just rattle off a list of clients that have been breached in some way, kind, sort, form, or fashion is a bit silly...as that would be even more bad exposure for all parties involved.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 10, 2014, 09:16 AM »

I wonder what logic caused them to draw the line at IE v3.0 ... Was that even a Windows program, or did DOS have a browser??

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any Ideas whats causing the Kernelbase.dll error?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 08, 2014, 03:59 PM »

1,087 / 1024 = 1.0615234375

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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 08, 2014, 02:31 PM »

While only tangentially related, I didn't want to start another thread for this.

"We are going to make [Cisco] equipment very difficult to tamper with," Chambers said in a recent interview with CRN. "We are going to ship it with a lot of information on it, and we are going to say 'How do we do this better than anyone else?'"

Cisco will alert customers at any sign of their Cisco equipment having been compromised, Chambers added.

"If we find anyone -- doesn't matter if it's hackers or governments -- involved in any of our customer environments anywhere in the world, we tell our customers, period," Chambers said. "And we do that in the U.S., in Europe and China and India. And we have done it."

Full Article

Perhaps only posturing, but it makes a nice line in the sand for the moment.

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Living Room / Re: Wikimedia refuses to remove animal selfie because monkey ‘owns’ the photo

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 08, 2014, 01:57 PM »

@Edward - I was typing my post when yours came in (so hadn't seen it), but it looks like we went to the same place with this.

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Living Room / Re: Wikimedia refuses to remove animal selfie because monkey ‘owns’ the photo

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 08, 2014, 01:54 PM »

Or what if in 3-5 years, one of the subjects became a famous celebrity? Or the photographer did?

-app103 (August 08, 2014, 12:40 PM)

So what, It doesn't retroactively make everything they ever touched gold. And trying to have a legal strategy in place for every possible outcome, of every possible situation is just foolish. People should just work things out on their own instead of constantly running crying to (the legal system) mommy to sort out their messes.

There are frequent stories of lottery winners that have gone back and given the clerk that sold them the winning ticket a nice pile of cash...because they felt it was the right thing to do. Others - probably most - didn't. But trying to get a "tip" requirement enforced by the legal system would be foolish. Just as foolish as the fighting over the rights to a picture snapped for a stranger.

What if someone's camera was stolen, and the thief took some incredible photos that were worth a fortune before getting busted. Then cops return the camera - yeah I know far fetched...but just work with me - to the rightful owner. Does the thief then deserve a piece of the action??

As a rule...I would say no. Because there is no reason the court should be wasting its time on that sort of crap. However as an individual...depending on the circumstances...there is a possibility I may be inclined to toss them a piece of the action.

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Living Room / Re: Russian hackers steal 1.2B passwords

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 08, 2014, 01:24 PM »

In total, more than 420,000 web and FTP sites were robbed.

Robbed?

We really have to come up with a better word to describe digital "theft" that leaves the original unharmed and intact. If someone stole my refrigerator by making an exact copy of it and leaving me with my own copy... would I really care? Would I consider it theft?

-Deozaan (August 08, 2014, 01:07 PM)

We should do a wanted poster for it: It could be an old western cowboy silhouette on a Matrix style background. Have you seen the 3D printed pistol waving binary bandit 10011001? Dial 1-800-NarkBoy to report sightings.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: ProjectSend

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 08, 2014, 11:57 AM »

Okay, now that looks incredibly interesting. If I have time this weekend I'll find out how well it runs on IIS ... Because I do have a use for something like this.

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Living Room / Re: New "censorship" technique on Youtube

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 08, 2014, 07:24 AM »

Now that is an interesting method of equitable hair splitting.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dual Boot questions

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 08, 2014, 07:10 AM »

Dual boot was fun to play with back in the day, but it eventually ends up being a real hassle when you need to get something from the old OS...when you're already in the middle of something on the new OS.

Few months back when I made the jump to Win8, I just virtualized my old Win7 install so I could keep it handy incase something I forgot to move was needed. Sysinternals Disk2vhd makes doing this as close to idiot proof as anything I've ever seen. I've used it to virtualize dozens of production systems and haven't lost one yet.

Also if you're really paranoid, you can always pull and save the old drive.

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Living Room / Re: Malwarebytes self-start problem

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 07, 2014, 03:44 PM »

They're both free........... woin't hoit to try!

-Cuffy (August 07, 2014, 03:20 PM)

He's got a point there..

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Living Room / Re: Wikimedia refuses to remove animal selfie because monkey ‘owns’ the photo

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 07, 2014, 12:00 PM »

And yeah, this stuff is utter nonsense and really needs to be fixed. I've already seen a few new sysadmin hires who wanted to talk about arranging licensing for the entry-level shell script they just wrote - for the client who is paying their wages  - because ad hoc administrative scripting wasn't specifically mentioned in their job description.

I wonder just what blog or irc channel they got that idea from?

And here I thought I was a BOFH...

-40hz (August 07, 2014, 10:11 AM)

Oh don't worry, we still are ... That bar isn't to be trifled with....ever. This new breed of self entitled sniveling millennials is just the type that gets sent down an elevator shaft riding a custom high output cattle prod.

I don't know what ring of hell produces people stupid enough to think that they can administer anything from GUI land ... But if they started whinging about doing a little script coding (and yes wanting a license qualifies) in the first 90 days... I'll happily kick them through the door myself.

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Living Room / Re: Wikimedia refuses to remove animal selfie because monkey ‘owns’ the photo

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 07, 2014, 06:33 AM »

Great, now the new poster child for IP law really is a monkey with a loaded weapon.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 06, 2014, 05:26 PM »

Man, do I ever know the pain of the last panel in that comic.

-Edvard (August 06, 2014, 01:00 AM)

+1 - I just had a poorly timed interruption cost me 2 hours of putting Humpty-Dumpty's ass back together last week.

-Stoic Joker (August 06, 2014, 11:46 AM)

Yup! Happens to me from time to time. Usually during a server configuration. 15 second interruption for something stupid. One hour plus getting the big picture back in your head. Then another 30 minutes getting fully back into the zone...

-40hz (August 06, 2014, 05:09 PM)

Oh it wasn't so much that the big picture went out of focus. It was more a case of applying it to the wrong target...

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Living Room / Re: Malwarebytes self-start problem

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 06, 2014, 01:54 PM »

Hmm, one way...just divide up the whole drive into multiple partitions, say 10 of them (10% per partition), then run speed tests on each partition until you find the fastest one.

-bit (August 06, 2014, 12:32 PM)

You can only create 4 partitions on a hard drive, unless you switch to (old school) logical drives, or (new school) dynamic disk. DD has performance issues (e.g. overhead) of its own...and I've just never trusted the logical drive thing.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR's launch history cleared on full shutdown (win8.1)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 06, 2014, 12:02 PM »

Using /t 0 implies the /f (force) switch for shutdown, that may probably be why it doesn't send the pre-shutdown event to all active applications?

-Ath (August 05, 2014, 03:27 PM)

That didn't sound right to me, so I did a shutdown /? and found this.

/t xxx     Set the time-out period before shutdown to xxx seconds.
           The valid range is 0-315360000 (10 years), with a default of 30.
           If the timeout period is greater than 0, the /f parameter is
           implied.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 06, 2014, 11:46 AM »

Man, do I ever know the pain of the last panel in that comic.

-Edvard (August 06, 2014, 01:00 AM)

+1 - I just had a poorly timed interruption cost me 2 hours of putting Humpty-Dumpty's ass back together last week.

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Living Room / Re: Russian hackers steal 1.2B passwords

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 06, 2014, 11:36 AM »

Hold Security warned in a blog post .... Hold Security is telling people not to panic and instead to strategize. It's recommending that users sign up for identity monitoring or identity protection services -- specifically touting its own service that is said to cost roughly $120 per month.

 

-rgdot (August 06, 2014, 08:38 AM)

Right! Because nobody can steal you money if you've already wasted it all buying dumb shit ... Like an insurance policy that purports to ensure that you are indeed the real you...just because they say so. Even though they've never actually seen your ass IRL.

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Living Room / Re: Cody Wilson Interview on Idea City (3D Printing & Defcad)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 06, 2014, 11:25 AM »

Just blame it on the Romulan Ale..

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Living Room / Re: Cody Wilson Interview on Idea City (3D Printing & Defcad)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 06, 2014, 07:00 AM »

^ Transporter console = Move existing object from point A to point B.

TNG Replicator = Makes new object.

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Living Room / Re: New guy on the forums

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 06, 2014, 06:43 AM »

I have Ideas for this one...

-superboyac (August 05, 2014, 09:52 AM)

Should I be worried?

-Masonjar13 (August 06, 2014, 01:26 AM)

Yes.

  Welcome to DC.