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Rash of in-the-wild attacks permanently destroys poorly secured IoT devices | Ars Technica[^]
As the image above shows, in addition to corrupting the storage device, BrickerBot.2 wipes all stored files, removes the default Internet gateway, disables TCP timestamps, and limits the maximum number of kernel threads to just one. That all but ensures that most damaged devices won't be restored without a major undertaking.
Looking at the list of commands being run by the bot, it's attempting to wipe all storage devices by using both dd and cat to overwrite them with random data. A question I've got is, isn't that redundant? Is there a reason why doing two passes with different tools actually makes sense, or are the pwndthing duhvelopers spending time that would be better spent removing default password telnet connections from their products instead spending them removing various bits of the *nix shell instead?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: spending time that would be better spent removing default password telnet connections from their products
IMO, the time would be better spent attacking the hackers and malicious-botnet distributors.
Attacking potential victims of a crime makes them victims of your crime, so I hope these "misguided chaps"* are taught a very strong lesson about what they are and are not allowed to do, under law.
* Read "arrogant c***s"
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I was making a suggestion for the people who wrote the internet of pwnd things duhvices, not our molotov cocktail tossing vigilanties.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Agreed that they're idiots, and agreed that they have to not be so stupid, but no-one has the right to brick anyone else's property, so the "heroes" (as they probably describe themselves) are worse than stupid; they're criminals.
How about if someone decides that winio is bad enough that they should do the same to it (which it is, by some definitions)? Or any other cr@ppy product (by any personal definition of the word "cr@ppy").
That kind of behaviour has to be nipped in the bud very quickly, and very harshly.
The browser wars were just rants. Imagine if people had gone that extra mile.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This is an instruction booklet that shows you how to build a text editor in C. If you've ever wanted to build your own text editor, here's a perfect excuse to start.
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But what will you use to enter the code? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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copy con >myfile.c 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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A very fine chisel, a hard disk and a lot of patience 
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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I did write my own. In C# / WinForms. A TextBox handles all the basic editing functions and I added higher-level functions.
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Six years after making Unity the default user interface on Ubuntu desktops, Canonical is giving up on the project and will switch the default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME next year. Ubuntu phones and tablets also dead, but the desktop, server, and cloud live on.
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To translate; to UI that feels more like Win95 is preferred over the 'modern' UI.
Sean Ewington wrote: Ubuntu phones and tablets also dead, but the desktop, server, and cloud live on.
This is the year of Linux! 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I tried Ubuntu Unity. It was terrible.
"I heard there's a thing called a GUI."
"Cool, let's try some out and see what works."
"Nah, let's just make one"
(Not that Gnome is any better. I prefer Fedora with LXDE--a simple GUI that doesn't pretend to be at all sophisticated.)
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Four years ago, Google started to see the real potential for deploying neural networks to support a large number of new services. Google released an exhaustive comparison of the TPU’s performance and efficiencies compared with Haswell CPUs and Nvidia Tesla K80 GPUs
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Love the "Not to Scale" comment on the architecture diagram[^] (in title case, even).
No doubt added by someone of the mentality to also use "This page intentionally left blank" statements.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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According to a new study involving more than 120,000 job offers transacted on Hired, a jobs marketplace for tech workers, the average female candidate is still making less than her male peers for the same work, and sometimes far less. According to the American Association of University Women, it might take another 136 years for the pay gap to disappear entirely.
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According to my own intensive and back-breaking research, the problem is not as big as media wants you to think it is. Equal Pay[^]
Sean Ewington wrote: it might take another 136 years for the pay gap
I think someone forgot to carry the 3 when figuring that out. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Not where I work. I do 4x the work for less pay and I don't get any FMLA or disability time either.
If I were a female or minority I'd be an executive with diplomatic immunity.
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If there truly were a gender pay gap, why not simply hire women if they're doing the same work for less?
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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While the current administration focuses on bringing jobs back to the United States from China and Mexico, the real threat to job loss already resides within our borders. Until they automate bad jokes, I'm gonna be allllllll right.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Until they automate bad jokes, I'm gonna be allllllll right.
Wait, that's what you get paid for?! And to think that I do it for free. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Maybe we can come to some kind of ... arrangement ...
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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You shouldn't pay him -- he already gets loads of wu-maoses from ms, and doesn't give CP a cut.
Besides, his jokes are cr@p.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'd always assumed from the quality of jokes on here that Sean Ewington was already a bot.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Scuttlebutt was created by Dominic Tarr, a Node.js developer with more than 600 modules published on npm, who lives on a self-steering sailboat in New Zealand. "If you like this story, please share it to your on-grid social networks."
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Wow, it's really off-grid -- it's not even visible in webkit!
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