Posts by cybersaur

Alleged Vault 7 leaker trial finale: Want to know the CIA's password for its top-secret hacking tools? 123ABCdef

Re: Cell phones in prison

Prison is a business in America. Adequate security would cut into profits.

Firefox now defaults to DNS-over-HTTPS for US netizens and some are dischuffed about this

Re: Thank goodness we can turn it off...

You shouldn't be using .local anymore anyway. Best practice these days is to use a domain name you have purchased exclusively for your internal network (without using it for anything hosted on the Internet).

You won't get Huawei with this, America! Chinese giant sues US government over 'unconstitutional' ban

Re: I don't think that will happen

You're 100% wrong about the Constitution only applying to American citizens. It applies to everyone within its jurisdiction.

What a cheep shot: Bird sorry after legal eagles fire DMCA takedown at scooter unlock blog

Re: If Bird were depending on buying impounded scooters . .

All of the scooters littering city streets are already essentially pwned. Physical access to hardware is tough to defend against. Nothing some mylar or aluminum foil and time can't take care of if any enterprising people want some scooters. Faraday cages are their worst enemy.

Hubble 'scope camera breaks down amid US govt shutdown, forcing boffins to fix it for free

Re: Can't fix stupid

Trump's ceiling of popular support is 41%. He has only become less liked since occupying the White House.

He's a criminal that may not even be on the ballot in 2020 much less win.

Re: Shutdown

American here. The only time I've ever been on a train is at an amusement park.

We don't have passengers trains to ride in the vast majority of the country. I can't even think of how far I'd have to fly to even find a passenger train. It isn't an option.

President Trump broke US Constitution with Twitter bans – judge

Re: Twitter a public forum

The First Amendment prevents government from censoring speech. It does not prevent private entities from doing the same. Twitter can still ban accounts for breaking T&Cs because they are not a government entity.

What the @#$%&!? Microsoft bans nudity, swearing in Skype, emails, Office 365 docs

Cortana

If Cortana would permanently uninstall itself after being told to fuck off, that would be a really good feature!

Hold on to your aaSes: Yup, Windows 10 'as a service' is incoming

Gaming on Linux

Steam has over 4000 titles available on Linux.

Voyager 1 fires thrusters last used in 1980 – and they worked!

Re: it's already doing 17.46 km/hour

Clocks on GPS sats run faster than their Earth bound counterparts because they are higher up out of Earth's gravity well. That speeds those clocks up much more than the velocity of the GPS sats slows the clocks down (which is negligible).

Re: it's already doing 17.46 km/hour

17.46 km/s is not close enough to light speed for significant time dilation, but the fact that Voyager is so much further out of the Sun's gravity well, the on board clocks of Voyager would certainly be ticking faster than clocks on Earth. Gravitational time dilation even has to be accounted for on GPS satellites and they're much closer to Earth (and the Sun).

CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers

god didn't write NoScript

Thank Giorgio Maone for NoScript.

Web devs griping about iPhone X notch: You're rendering it wrong

ew, no

Why would anyone spend $1000.00 on an ugly ass phone with a crotch in the middle of the screen that can't even render web pages correctly? How 'bout web designers just tell Apple to get stuffed?

Airplane bomb fears spark America's laptop, tablet carry-on ban

Persecution

This is persecution. The Trump regime is targeting Muslim airports for persecution. They want to inconvenience flyers in order to dissuade them from coming to the U.S. There is no threat at all. And if you still believe Donald Trump at this point then you're a lunatic.

Ad-slinger Turn caught with its hand in Verizon's 'supercookie' jar

Turn is why I feel zero guilt in blocking all ads

Reading that the headers are injected into upstream traffic, so there seems to be little that can be done by the end user to protect their privacy. It would be nice if the FTC could level crippling fines on Turn and Verizon. Ideally, Turn should be fined out of business and Verizon should be fined to the point of being unable to turn a profit for several years.

Facebook Fake News won it for Trump? That's a Zombie theory

This is fake news

American journalists do NOT take a vow of objectivity. Most of them have no idea what that even means.

Windows 10 Anniversary Update is borking boxen everywhere

Re: @a_yank_lurker

Windows 10 is FYaaS!

No means no: Windows 10 nagware's red X will stop update – Microsoft

Windows 10 lawsuits

Microsoft invited lawsuits when their software started acting like malware.

Ad-blockers are a Mafia-style 'protection racket' – UK's Minister of Fun

Ad servers spew malware

Ad servers have a rich history of infecting hapless site visitors with malware. Using ad blocking software has become a basic security measure. The advertisers have only themselves to blame for that.

Comcast celebrates Presidents Day with Gerald Ford impression

That's Comcastic!

The string between the cans must have broken.

15 MILLION T-Mobile US customer records swiped by hackers

There oughtta be a law!

It should be illegal to sell or give away customer information. I'm sick of being the product.

Opting out from every company that wants to sell our personal data is completely unreasonable. It just needs to be illegal with criminal penalties for the management that implements such policies.

BOFH: My diary is MINE and mine alone, you petty HR gimps

Re: reminds me of the time...

Once had a secretary just outside my office that liked to stream country music a bit too loud for my tastes (read: audible at all). I put three buttons on my taskbar: volume up, down and mute that used PSExec on her PC to control her volume.

China spending $182 BEEELLION on net construction by end of 2017

Spending on Internet infrastructure?

Let's hope the austerity embracing capitalist countries can keep up!

FCC Republicans slam brakes on net neutrality, but this wagon ain't slowing

Re: @Kieren McCarthy

CNS "News" and the Washingtimes?!? No wonder you're so clueless. Both of those sites traffic in outright lies.

American bacon cured with AR-15 assault rifle

American Bacon is Delicious!

This article is heresy! American bacon is delicious! Sounds like the U.K. needs some freedom!

Comcast bosses: THAT pushy sales rep was only obeying orders

Re: re. recording calls

In the U.S. it depends entirely on the laws of the state one is in. It varies.

Facebook: Yes, we made you SAD on PURPOSE... for your own good

Provocative business strategery

Meddling with users' news feeds to manipulate their emotions is what Fox "News" does everyday!

Australia's anti-smut internet filter blueprint lasts LESS THAN A DAY

Re: Hell, not again!

Most Tor nodes are operated by the U.S. government.

Silent Circle shutters email service

The NSA eats SSL for breakfast.

New in Android 4.3: At last we get a grip on privacy-invading crApps

Re: close, but...

This is how the Cyanogenmod granular control works. It supplies dummy data to the apps.

Windows 8.1: So it's, er, half-speed ahead for Microsoft's Plan A

Re: Consumer choice

Win8 seems to have been primarily designed by Microsoft's marketing dept. Functionality for business desktops just didn't seem to be a consideration at all.

Re: LOL yet another big FU from MS

All Microsoft had to do was release the tablet UI as just another Windows application that ran at startup on tablets. Forcing Desktop users to use a touchscreen UI is just mindnumbingly stupid.

If you've bought DRM'd film files from Acetrax, here's the bad news

Re: Thank god I bought VHS

Many VHS tapes had Macrovision copy protection.

Android is a mess and needs sprucing up, admits chief

Re: Same article?

Agreed. The problem isn't Android per se, it's junkware installed on junk hardware that's the problem. I think the variety of good hardware and good software available to Android users makes it a superior platform!

Re: "Android today is like Microsoft's Windows 3.1"

Porn was made available on VHS.

Symantec: We 'stubbed our toe' on Backup Exec, but we'll be fine

Backup Exec

As a Backup Exec 11d user (actually happy with BE), What would be a good replacement to run on Windows Server 2008R2? I just need to backup Exchange 2010 and some file servers.

Microsoft: All RIGHT, you can have your Start button back

Linspire

I had such high hopes for Lindows. 'tis a shame it didn't succeed.

Not cool, Adobe: Give the Ninite guys a job, not the middle finger

Re: It's worse than you think.

You may be able to sue them under the American Disabilities act for non-compliance. Worth looking in to.

Google Apps goes TITSUP for millions - users REJOICE on Twitter

Re: problem here

I have IMAP access to Gmail set up with Thunderbird. Thunderbird would not connect to Gmail this morning. I was able to login via web, but it was noticeably sluggish.

US to hand out wads of green (cards) in bid to staff tech industry

Tired of the lies

In a country of over 300 million people with over 7.5% unemployment and STEM graduates that cannot find jobs, this constant drum beat by corporations demanding foreign labor because "there aren't enough qualified people to be found locally" is a damned LIE!

Foreign labor is brought in to work for cheap. Period.

The number of H1B visas granted annually should be drastically reduced to only a few thousand or eliminated enitrely.

AdBlock Plus BLOCKED from Google Play

Re: More adverts, everywhere.

GBL Initialiser, I supposed you've never muted the volume on your TV nor changed the channel when an ad appeared?

Trump, Beyonce and Sarah Palin in toxic doxing

Re: Not cool

I think you'll find the Secret Service to be professional and quite cordial.

Let us know how it goes!

Mars rover Curiosity gets ready to blast its first rock

Re: I hope JPL uploaded some more audio

No. Sound is dependent on the observer. Sound is nothing more than how air vibrations are modeled in the mind. Without an observer capable of modeling those vibrations, there is no "sound".

Met cops' CSI mobe-snoop tech sparks privacy fears

Phone encryption

Android haz itz: LUKs Manager

LUKS Manager provides on-the-fly encryption (AES by default) to virtual folders on Android devices.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nemesis2.luksmanager&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5uZW1lc2lzMi5sdWtzbWFuYWdlciJd

Java jury finds Google guilty of infringement: Now what?

Oracle = SCO

Hope Oracle meets the same fate.

Microsoft ejects DVD playback from Windows 8

Re: removing IE would also help

No, in the U.S. anti-trust case it was the fact that M$ started bundling IE for free and illegally used their effective monopoly to eliminate the market that Netscape was selling their Navigator product to.

McAfee founder raided in Belize by gang-busting police

Sounds like America

Where paramilitary raids and pet executions have become common.

And if the guy that founded the suckiest antivirus software evah doesn't involve himself in politics then he shouldn't bitch when politics involves itself in you! All that is necessary for Evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.

Biologists create synthetic DNA capable of EVOLUTION

Hot TNA Action!

I know that whenever I want to reverse-transcribe a genetic system, TNA is always at the top of the list!

Google swings new mobile unlock patent punch at Apple

Software patents

Software patents should be eliminated entirely. A patent on "slide to unlock" is absurd. We've been "sliding to unlock" things for centuries. That is is done with software now is in no way new and unique. All these patent wars do is raise the prices for consumers.

Microsoft unveils file-move changes in Windows 8

re: file locks

I've used Unlocker for years to, um, unlock files. It works great for most files (sometimes it will prompt you to let it unlock a file after a reboot).