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Comment Taking self permaban to a whole new level (Score 1) 165

by mdouglas on Sunday November 14, 2021 @06:49AM (#61986423) Attached to: Something Awful Founder Richard 'Lowtax' Kyanka Dies At 45

It's difficult to overstate just how much of an influence Lowtax & Something Awful have had on internet culture.

While I may not have spent much time on SA over the past decade, or kept up with the behavioral death spiral of Lowtax; the sheer volume of laughter I've gotten out of SA over the years has been invaluable.

All your base, Cliff Yablonski hates you, Big Peeler threads, Mangosteen, fecal lasagne, swap.avi, Mr. Water, everything related to Radium, ceiling cat, do you have stairs in your house, it's fucking endless.

So, four golden manbabies for Lowtax; one is being deducted for being a degenerate reprobate.

Comment Re:Just as well (Score 5, Informative) 368

by mdouglas on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @03:50PM (#52324327) Attached to: Intel x86s Hide Another CPU That Can Take Over Your Machine -- You Can't Audit it

AMD is the one that came up with x86-64 which Intel subsequently copied. Has anyone ever used an Itanium?

Submission + - Manning aquitted of aiding the enemy charges (nytimes.com)

Submitted by crashcy on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @01:30PM

crashcy writes: From the NY Times, While he was found guilty of multiple counts of espionage, PFC Bradley Manning was found not guilty of aiding the enemy in his trial for leaking the Wikileaks files. This was the first time that such a charge had been attached in a leak case and could have set a worrisome precedent.

Submission + - Tiger Team: Penetration Testing TV Series Dec 25 (courttv.com)

Submitted by ChazeFroy on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @01:06PM

ChazeFroy writes: CourtTV (TruTV) has a new series starting Dec 25 at 11 pm called Tiger Team. It follows a group of elite penetration testers hired to test organizations' security using social engineering, wired/wireless penetration testing, and physically defeating security mechanisms (lock picking, dumpster diving, going through air vents/windows). They do all of this while avoiding the organizations' various security defenses as well as law enforcement. The stars of the show also did a radio spot this morning in Denver, and its MP3 is here.

Submission + - 1300 Unopened Fry's Rebate Forms Found In Dumpster (consumerist.com) 2

Submitted by

blackmonday

on Thursday September 06, 2007 @01:23PM

blackmonday writes: "The Consumerist is reporting a find of 1,300 unopened rebate submissions in a dumpster belonging to Vastech, a rebate processor hired by Fry's Electronics. Vastech's management blames it on a bad employee."

Submission + - Human origins theory tested by recent findings. (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by annamadrigal on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @03:00PM

annamadrigal writes: The BBC new is reporting on findings presented in nature which suggest that Homo Errectus and H. Habilis were in fact sister species which co-existed.

This challenges the view that the upright humans evolved from the tool users.

Submission + - Man sues Gateway because he can't read EULA

Submitted by Scoopy on Thursday June 07, 2007 @12:02PM

Scoopy writes: California resident Dennis Sheehan took Gateway to small claims court after he reportedly received a defective computer and little technical support from the PC manufacturer. Gateway responded with their own lawyer and a 2-inch thick stack of legal docs, and claimed that Sheehan violated the EULA, which requires that users give up their right to sue and settle these cases in private arbitration. Sheehan responded that he never read the EULA, which pops up when the user first starts the computer, because the graphics were scrambled — precisely the problem he had complained to tech support in the first place. A judge sided with Sheehan on May 24 and the case will proceed to small claims court.

A lawyer is quoted as saying that Sheehan, a high school dropout who is arguing his own case, is in for a world of hurt: 'This poor guy now faces daunting reality of having to litigate this on appeal against Gateway...By winning, he's lost.'

Submission + - Bill Cheswick on Internet security

Submitted by

Franki3

on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @09:32AM

Franki3 writes: "Many people have seen Internet maps on walls and in various publications over the years. Securityfocus interviewed Bill Cheswick, who started the Internet Mapping Project that grew into software to map corporate and government networks. They discussed firewalling, logging, NIDS and IPS, how to fight DDoS, and the future of BGP and DNS. It's interesting. You can take the Internet down, but probably not for very long..."

Submission + - Bizarre IT setups.

Submitted by MicklePickle on Wednesday January 03, 2007 @06:04PM

MicklePickle writes: I was talking to a co-worker the other day about the history of our company, (which shall remain nameless), and he started reminiscing about some of the IT hacks that our company did. Like running 10BaseT down a storm water drain to connect two buildings, using a dripping tap to keep the sewerage U-bend full of water in a computer room, (huh?). And some not so strange ones like running SCSI out to 100m, and running a major financial system on a long forgotten computer in a cupboard.
I know that there must be a plethora of IT hacks around. What are some you've seen?

Submission + - Liquid Lakes Found on Saturn's Moon Titan

Submitted by

sighted

on Wednesday January 03, 2007 @04:28PM

sighted writes: "For decades, scientists have wondered if the thick orange haze that shrouds Saturn's giant moon Titan hid lakes of liquid methane on the surface, but there was no way to confirm it, until now. Check out the striking images."

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