Posts by asdf

Ahmed's clock wasn't a bomb, but it blew up the 'net and Zuckerberg, Obama want to meet him

Re: Nerd radar

>So, if they are to be labeled as morons by you, these people would insist that they be called "white" morons?

No I am sure she would love to be addressed as Grand Wizard if she could pick her title. Hyperbole aside the one thing that doesn't discriminate is ignorance and she and her police department have plenty of it and sadly some racism as well (funny how they go hand in hand). To be fair I sure this does not apply to a sizeable portion of the town obviously (though they did elect her and from what I understand she is actually popular). Just another Texas bastion of bat shit crazy in the powers that be. Good for the rest of the developed world to snicker at and say wow maybe my mayor isn't so bad after all (edit: wow that city is much poorer than I expected, you can't even say well at least her town is prospering) .

Re: Nerd radar

>this white mayor believes that Islam is a danger to the West

No she believed that Sharia courts had been set up her lovely redder than red town (the town she happens to be mayor of) and were desecrating the home of Them Cowboys all due to a chain letter rumour that was quickly dispelled. Quite the difference.

Re: Nerd radar

>"white moron" racism

They are not morons because they are white. They are morons because they are paranoid clueless racists. The only reason white matters at all in this conversation because it obviously does to them. And please don't try to tell me Texas doesn't have a history with racism considering how active even today the KKK is in the state. Much of the state isn't (Austin is more progressive than most of the rest of the US) but there are some hardcore pockets left and this city is one.

Re: @Bota I hope..

>You don't get third generation immigrants who can't speak English in the U.K. either

Yes in that regard I was talking more about specifically Turkish immigrants in Germany and North Africans in France. The UK does really well with those they have already taken in but is now much more extreme than even the US about not allowing anyone else in (outside of EU anyway).

Re: Nerd radar

> "What a bunch of white bred Texas morons."

>>@asdf, you really are a straight up troll, aren't you?

I am an amateur compared to the mayor of Irving Texas (I don't tell the worldwide media those scary muslims are trying to set up Sharia law in hillybilly Arlen Texas). And unlike her I don't make policy decisions. A community gets the leaders it deserves at least in the west.

Re: Nerd radar

Wow they actually took him to a juvenile detention center too instead of just holding him until they decided to charge him or his parents came. I guess that's what they always do with kids they don't charge (at least if they are brown). What a bunch of white bred Texas morons.

What a load of horseshit

>we feel it's important to protect the student's right to privacy and we will abide by FERPA,

Bullshit FERPA now exists mostly to allow schools to hide how much they have covered up rape and other investigations. Student privacy sure doesn't apply when they go to see counsellors or doctors employed by the school at least in court cases against the schools. FERPA is how football players like Aaron Hernandez make it out of college.

Re: Nerd radar

>Are you suggesting that the cops should PROFILE this kid and see how harmless he is?

By profile do you mean talk to him for five minutes and take one glance at the device? Its one thing the school overreacted (regrettable but somewhat predictable) but the cops cuffing the kid, arresting and parading him as they took him away are what made this an international news story. The cops are actually paid for their ability to be able to accurately gauge public risk and correctly appraise a situation and boy did they fail their jobs miserably. Outside of racist Texas enclaves they actually do this much better than most people realize.

Re: My friend did take a bomb to (primary) school.

>The teacher calmly looked it, put it on the table and said that, as it was a sunny day, we'd have our lesson in the playground.

Keep calm and carry on. Much better story than that of the the only direct combat WW2 civilian causalities on the American mainland (lower 48) which were caused by a hot air balloon rigged with bombs sent over by the Japanese. It failed it's main mission of bombing autonomously miserably but landed intact and presented quite the curiosity to some slackjaw yocal adult who sadly was also in charge of some children. It ended badly.

Re: Idaho

>We better warn Idaho they are fixing to be wiped off the map

No worries in Napoleon Dynamite's homeland. They are well aware of the grave threat posed by brown muslim people and organized themselves into quite a few white only militias. Much like sister state Utah they are quite friendly towards fringe religious cults so they have the rapture well covered also.

Re: From the original article:

The only way out of this mess is for the Irving Police Department is blame it all on the liberal media and remain tone deaf until it all blows over. FIFY.

Re: @Bota I hope..

>No, because I can distinguish between America as a country politically / socially etc but still be friends with Americans based on personal merit

Actually the US outside some redneck communities like this one tends to integrate muslims and immigrants much better into its culture than virtually any country in Europe including the UK. You don't get 3rd generation immigrants in the US who can't speak English.

>America is a moral cesspool - judging by the shit their media

Your other big mistake is judging the US based on what you see on TV. I can almost guarantee we have something even you would find breathtakingly beautiful. The crazy people you hear about or see on TV I can also guarantee won't be the ones you meet over here unless you go looking for them.

Fed-up sysadmins beg Microsoft to improve pisspoor Windows 10 update notes

Re: Feeling antsy

Notice I didn't include Mac OS X also. They love selling their UNIX roots but honestly it pretty obvious over time the non core UNIX stuff is just placeholder filler for them they are slowly replacing. That said they are obviously quite viable on the desktop and may actually be the best choice for pure GUI non power users wanting to avoid windows. I actually do recommend Apple hardware if you can afford it (what I have on desktop) because that way you can multi boot into virtually any OS you want. Be aware though that all the extra OS's you install will support your mac long after Apple stops letting you upgrade to their yearly service pack pretending to be a new OS (lol even Windows).

Re: Feeling antsy

Depends on your skill level. In the UNIX world if you are not comfortable with the command line (and basic unix commands) and are on a laptop you are probably best sticking with Linux (looks like the windows crowd has discovered Linux Mint which is what I would recommend for them as well) as you are its target market now (and probably won't care about POSIX anyway). Otherwise for desktop users coming from other *nix I suggest PC-BSD (I use Lumina as my main DE because I just can't take KDE's bloat). FreeBSD is fine too for the desktop (PC-BSD basically just a flavor of it). OpenBSD is the ultimate in POSIX love, stability and security but the base system comes with very minimal windows managers which I actually prefer for many things like banking. Definitely more for power users and has less software available for it. Haven't played much with NetBSD or Dragonfly but they seem to be pretty solid for many purposes as well. Finally if you want to go full nerd you can looking at running something like illumos or one of the proprietary UNIX at home but neck beards who do that won't be asking for suggestions.

Re: Feeling antsy

Figures you and many others in the windows crowd finally find *nix just as POSIX is dying. Don't worry Red Hat will make sure you never have to know what that means pretty much regardless of what distro you use. Linux the new Windows hairball lite.

Re: Software As a Service

To some extent that happens with most big organizations to a slight bit but in a case that extreme you might want to thing about a new employer. Who do you think they are going to blame when the inevitable happens and both A and B take a shit? Probably don't want to be facing personal lawsuits or at least having that taint attached to your working reputation.

Re: Hint: They don't want you to understand

Yep but at least here stateside you can cross out the illegal part since the founding fathers thought the right to privacy was so inherent they only implied to it in the constitution (fourth amendment which the SCOTUS has been weakening for at least the last 50 years) much to our modern disadvantage.

don't think many caught your sarcasm.

Re: The problem isn't coherence...

>At this point, if you (or anyone elee) trusts any corporation to do the right thing..

Depends on what you consider the right thing. To many people sadly, enriching speculator share holders in the short term at the expense of everything (including often the long term health of the company) is the right thing (thank Jack Welch for getting the clueless masses to believe the law requires executives to put shareholder gain first). And many corporations you can trust to do so.

Re: Devuan for Init Freedom!

Yep and in two years tops like BSD they won't be able to run Gnome (no big loss) but the list will grow sadly. You will be able to technically run without systemd on some stuff but it will be an edge case with all kinds of weird bugs nobody has tested as is already happening. Most maintainers just say screw it and make a hard dependency.

Re: EULAs vs the law

>but HP-UX is horrible crap too.

Relative term but I disagree. As long as a UNIX doesn't include the hairball bash by default it doesn't count as horrible. True there are some better ones.

>Tru64 was much much better

Better yes much stretching it. Both though are a metric shit ton better than Linux.

Re: Red Hat's push for SystemD

Yep and thanks to freedesktop.borg the main difference tends to be the artwork and branding.

Re: EULAs vs the law

>Now the reality: in a comparison between (e.g.) Windows Genuine disAdvantage and the opinions of the law courts, which one is most likely to be able to control (enable or block) your use of a PC?

For me the courts because the only time I ever use Windows on a PC is when I am paid too and in that case its up to my employer to worry about conforming with Microsoft's garbage. In fact as much as we are moving to Linux in the server space(instead of HP-UX, talk about a downgrade in all but price) I think in the not too distant future on the desktop it might be a possibility as well. On my own time though *BSD all the way. So happy *BSD is here to save us from the raging dumpster fire that is Windows 10 and increasingly serious tire fire that is Red Hat turning Linux into Windows. So Microsoft can go get f__ked (doing a good job of it themselves) as far as I am concerned with them having a say on how I use MY hardware.

Shedload of security bugs squashed in iOS 9 – what the hell went wrong with iOS 8?

Re: One big fix that iOS 9 fixes

Though that play is in their playbook supposedly some other poster said they for once didn't cut off devices this time. Probably due to some new feature they want to bank on. Kind of like the one software Apple continues to update long after the others is iTunes.

Re: How is this any different than anyone else's OS?

>How is this any different than anyone else's OS?

https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-16/dc16-presentations/defcon-16-oberg-nyberg-tusini.pdf

Check out the graph on page 14. Granted its only a snapshot of cve data but in general with general purposes OSes out of the box there is OpenBSD and OpenVMS and everything else security wise. You said OS not mobile OS only btw.

Hey, remember Zune? Zune's dead, baby. Zune's dead

friggin DRM

>Note Content that was purchased with DRM may not play if the license can’t be renewed.

So much better than a CD huh?

US court kills FBI gag order slapped on ISP... 11 years later

Re: so much for separation of powers

Ah Mark Wahlberg, true American patriot and racist violent felon. But I guess Marky Mark is a changed man.

Bug forces Apple to halt watchOS 2 update – still emits iOS 9 on time

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lol sadly we are both probably going to get downvoted. oh well.

World finally ready for USB-bootable OS/2

Re: VirtualBox is a dumpster fire

Hmm being as you sound like more of a windows user make sure you at least use Linux Mint xfce, as it is noticeably leaner. Ideally you would use something even more minimal like puppy Linux or smaller to reduce the amount of memory (you have to allocate) and cpu cyles your vm will steal while you leaving it running. Of course that route is not as user friendly and requires more fuss.

Doctor Who returns to our screens next week – so, WHO is the worst Time Lord of them all?

Re: Having met two of them...

>Tom Baker is the best though.

Yep especially to us Yanks as mentioned above many don't even know any other doctor. And to the 30+ twits who voted for him as I write this, the question who was the worst not best, door knobs.

Japan 'charges MtGox baron Mark Karpeles with BTC embezzlement'

You mean insiders are getting around the stringent internal controls of these Bitcoin yahoos? Color me shocked.

Apple iPhone 6S: Same phone, another day, but TOTALLY DIFFERENT

Re: A novel lock-in.

>You can move to a low cost plan and keep your old iPhone!

Until Apple quit offering security updates for it (can keep even then if brave) which is imho is one of the few places Android beats iPhone is in the old phone as a secondary/spare space because you can continue to find new Android version custom roms for most older common phones longer.

Re: * improved LTE speeds*

Buying Blackberry at this point is just gambling you will get the last handset they ever made to flog on ebay.

Ich nicht bin Charlie: Facebook must crack down on racists, says Germany's Merkel

Re: re: Not being funny but why on earth would immigrants want to go to Germany?

>Train them, integrate them into EU units and then lead them into battle against ISIS.

>I guess the good thing about them fleeing, is less civilians in the way when finally NATO gets its arse into gear and attacks with ground troops

Wow are you 17 or something and too young to remember how swimmingly Iraq (and well before it Vietnam) went? Or do you honestly think if we just try again but this time with even more powers pulling strings on various sides it will turn out so much better? Militaries are unable to politically stabilize territory unless the people want it and are capable of it or unless you go the occupation route. As recent history is showing Assad and Sadam were basically occupying powers of fake nation states setup by colonial powers.

As McAfee runs for US President – we ask a crucial question: Will Reg readers back him?

Re: Fsck Yeah!

They are a sorry lot pretty much on both sides but if the decision is Trump, Hillary or leaving that box blank I am saving the ink.

Re: Can he get this fucking site to use TLS?

Some validity to your argument but the ranting is getting you the downvotes Eadon.

Re: Nah

McAfee (both) is a bit like herpes.

Re: American Politics

Cameron and Blair would fit right in.

Re: The rug and the wingnut

Trump/McAfee 2016 - because the damn rapture is taking its sweet time and needs a push.

BORN to HURL: Man's shoulders are head and shoulders above apes, gorillas, chimps etc

Re: Cricket vs. Baseball.

>which the feet are used about as much as in the two codes of rugby football.

Actually usually significantly less.

ICANN has $60m burning a hole in its pocket – and it needs your help blowing it all

one big exception

Except in Brewster Millions, Brewster unlike icann wasn't the villain.

Cash-bleeding Monitise waves goodbye to chief exec

Re: Bit of a non-article

Nothing screams bright future for a new platform like the CEO being tossed. IT company financials are very much a regular occurrence on El Reg and no shill they don't have anything personal against your company.

You're FIRE-D: Amazon quietly extinguishes its failed smartphone

Too lazy to look but I wonder who sold more and who lost more the Amazon phone or the Facebook phone? My guess is Amazon wins on both accords as selling at a loss seems to come natural to them. Still both probably sold more at launch than the Kin line did over its entire fruit fly like lifespan.

Hacker mag 2600 laughs off Getty Images inkspots copyright claim

Re: No. There is no requirement to chase copyright

and thus requires Disney lobbying of government to extend eternally.

FIFY. I am actually surprised copyright also doesn't require active defense because after all the law is about one thing, increasing billable hours.

Fruity Firefox: Mozilla caves to Apple, unveils iOS-friendly browser

Re: Only the one Apple way

> iOS is more polished

One big example for the mildly paranoid full disk encryption is garbage on Android.

Re: Finally!

Was refering more to the stock Android browser in prior versions as opposed to Chrome as well. Chrome is slick but then again Google's spyware often is.

Re: Only the one Apple way

Yep in general iOS is more polished and I would argue more secure (especially if you don't jailbreak it) but you do definitely feel that you are under the thumb of one often patronizing company. Pick your poison between the two or go with a dying platform.