* Posts by asdf

6570 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Apr 2007

Apple releases iOS 6.1, adds LTE carriers, tweaks security

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Re: ios 6 hmm

Oh yeah I forgot about Apple's forced obsolesce business model. You have to keep paying those fat margins every few years to be in the cool kids bling club. Oh well the kids only use it anyway as I prefer my Android pad a hell of a lot more so ios 5 for eternity it may well be.

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ios 6 hmm

Thinking I will skip ios 6 entirely and wait for ios7 with a jailbreak for my iPAD 2 before upgrading. Its a big ass hassle that it deletes cydia when you upgrade so could be some time before I go through that pain again.

HP launches security service for after the horse has bolted

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Re: I like it. HP? Security?

>If you mean Autonomy, then that's still under investigation. Having reported a criminal act there's not much they can do but wait on the wheels of justice, which grind slow and inconsistently.

No HP never did report the crime to any authorities, the DOJ started looking at it on its own. HP only reported it to the press to cover their worthless no due diligence C Suite retards but they don't really want it investigated throughly. It will only show the world more how incompetent HP's management truly is.

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Re: I like it.

Science and Engineering are largely obsolete in our new post information age economy as patent attorneys have already assured someone else will make money on anything discovered. What we really need is more mathematicians. Wall St badly needs better and better quants to come up with even more exotic ways to help companies hide money. That is what our new world order economy rewards. Creating physical stuff not so much but bring on the exotic financial instruments.

Samsung demands Apple's iOS 6 source code in patent case

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Re: Apple Advantage

>have every reason to believe Samsung use the infinite monkey approach to writing code.

Seems to be the case in most companies but especially in companies outside of western Europe and North American. First thing comp sci majors need to learn when going out in the real world is never reuse code off the internet from someone whose last name contains more than 15 consonants.

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>Give it 3-4 years and Samsung will be back making pretty average fridges and microwaves.

Better than making subpar ones and charging premium prices for them ala Sony's electronics these days.

Don't like your cell network? Legal unlocking ends TONIGHT in US

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Re: Automatic unlocking

>I'd object to locking a phone to a network much less

Largely with CDMA phones in the US (Verizon, Sprint, etc) the phone is locked to the network due to incompatibilities between networks as opposed to artificial operator restrictions. Not being legally allowed to root a device you own and run whatever software you have rights to run on it is beyond absurd. Obviously now its buyer beware for the geeks but its stupid you even have to worry about it.

Boeing 787 fleet grounded indefinitely as investigators stumped

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flame on

The root cause of this will be the same as most of the other giant cock ups that make the news world wide. Baby boomer management.

Apple 'dismayed' to find over 100 kids building its iDevices

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Re: Well

Yep really nice of them to finally start showing any concept of social justice after they have become the biggest company the world. They did it basically by manipulating people with more money than brains in the 1st world to buy things made by child/slave labor in the 3rd world. Apple is the super high end Walmart.

Samsung set for compensation talks over staff death claims

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Re: Rumour has it

Yep nobody creates Superfund sites like the US military. Its the reason they don't close even more of their bases. Many of them are too polluted for civilian use and their pesky EPA.

Pope: Catholics, go forth and multiply... your Twitter followers

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Anybody else notice that PIIGS club causing most of the economic problems in Europe seems to contain mostly Catholics (and Greek Orthodox, ie Catholic East) ? Guess there is something to that Protestant work ethic thing.

Greenland ice did not melt in baking +8°C era 120k years ago

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long live El Reg

Few other human climate change denial blogs have enough other non climate articles worth reading.

Crap security lands Sony £250k fine for PlayStation Network hack

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Re: why not let the victims decide compensation

> the fine should be on a per person impacted basis, with each case being worth a couple of thousand

Huge fines per incident are only for individuals and small fry companies. In the US people might believe corporations are people too my friend but they are so much more with a lot more rights and lot less responsibilities.

Asteroid mining and a post-scarcity economy

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hmm

Good to dream the impossible dream as every now and then, somebody makes it happen but I don't think I will be investing any of my retirement money thank you. Let the rich guys' vanity fund the dream.

Swartz suicide won't change computer crime policy, says prosecutor

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Obama administraton

Ortiz is another life long bureaucrat who played the affirmative action card to get where she is much like Holder himself who is simply the African America Alberto Gonzalez. I sure there are plenty of other very qualified minority candidates out there but they weren't Obama's Chicago buddy going back years or one of his early political supporters. Patronage at it worse. Another heckva job Brownie. Both parties suck.

Student claims code flaw spotting got him expelled from college

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Re: Doesn't surprise me

Especially if the kid unfortunately has a name that sounds not so Canadian eh?

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Yep

After a month of receiving no info the kid shouldn't have tested it he should have just posted the vulnerability on BugTraq. He would not have then signed a NDA and it would be legal. Best of all he would be helping to protect other's sensitive data who the software company didn't seem to think was important.

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hmm

Allowing semi public access to other peoples private information for over a month is the real outrage of this story. Thinking security by obscurity by muzzling this kid is the way to go is just horrible security practice. I hope Anonymous tears em a new one. And here I thought Canadians were a little less corporate and more tolerant and enlightened when it came to this stuff. Guess the fleas from the scalp have infested America's Hat as well.

Polish knights slay Virut, the brazen virus army that has its own EULA

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Re: wow

I thought any contract that violates the law is considered non binding. Sure would be a grey area depending on how EULA is written but pretty sure would be hard to collect on breaking the EULA was what was thinking.

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Re: wow

>Eh? Who said the perps lived in/within reach of the USA?

Its very possible but would be very stupid for script kiddie fraudsters in the US to want to get their hands on some pre made malware. Then again the baddies wouldn't need to sue on the EULA but just black mail on anonymously reporting the more serious crimes.

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Re: wow

Of course they don't. They live in a fairly lawless country I am sure that will forever stay in the developing category for it. Just saying not a lot of countries that would go to the effort to enforce a EULA but look other way on massive computer intrusion and fraud.

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>If these "innocent users" kept their PCs up to date

Half the problem is Chinese running pirated windows copies (little sympathy there except for the government they live under). The other is not everyone is technically gifted or leaves their computer on the internet constantly for updates (think grandma still on dialup). Much of the problem though is Eastern Europe not giving a crap about Western laws or laws in general except the ones that make the leadership rich.

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wow

EULA for the really stupid is more like it. I would like to see the baddies take a client to court over breaking the EULA.

>The licence forbids users from sharing the download with computer security organisations or anti-malware firms.

Yeah that would hold up in court. And even if it did the court would probably need to refer all the other obvious law breaking by the plaintiffs to law enforcement where the penalties would be much stricter than any EULA. You generally don't get pound you in the ass prison for breaking contracts.

Google's JavaScript assassin: Web languages are harder than VMs

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Re: Catch 22

>The thing with Google is that they have a bit of a lot of 'previous', when it comes to announcing "The Next Big Thing" only to abandon it again, a few months or years down the line.

You could interchange Microsoft with Google in this statement (see Silverlight, WPF, and soon to be TIFKAM)

VXers exploit users' confusion over Java to punt fake update

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SUN deserved to die

Solaris was a fairly rock solid product but SUN implementation of Java has been a POS from day one. Java may well have conquered the world even more if its steward hadn't had not only terrible strategy but a horrible implementation as well. And if anything one thinks Oracle will save the day ha.

Linksys vuln: Cisco responds

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Re: Better patch

Yes if it was a universal busybox flaw than it would get a lot more press as a hell of lot of devices besides LInksys run it including most custom Android roms.

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oldie but goodie

The fix was released years ago and its called tomato firmware. Tomato (and other custom firmware) was the main reason why people bought this router long after the hardware was obsolete.

Cash-ravenous Sony will flog Manhattan HQ for $1.1 BEELLION

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this news is great and all

But why the f__k has the PS Live network now been down for over 24 hours. All so they can upgrade their store app to try and be like Apple (does that really requiring killing all online gaming?). Sony still hasn't figured out that when you care alot more about taking money from customers than making them happy they go away and you lose billions for five years straight and are in danger of disappearing.

AMD lawsuit claims spying ring took secrets to Nvidia

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FAIL

Nice trolling. No most on here are just happy when AMD and NIVDIA release enough specs on their hardware so proper drivers can be written without relying on proprietary blobs.

NRA: Video games kill people, not guns. And here's our video game

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Re: Guns don't kill people, small pieces of supersonic lead do

not from this American, neat idea even if no way it ever gets implemented.

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Re: So long as Americans continue...

Here's the thing most people who haven't spent more than week in the USA don't get. I have lived in some of the reddest of the red states where gun ownership is near a majority and even then virtually the only time I ever see people armed are police officers. I have heard gun shots in an urban setting maybe single digit times in my life and I have lived in some very rough neighborhoods. Its not like Iraq over here. The media coverage just makes it seem so. We have 300 million+ people. You are bound to get a few retards blow up and do crazy shit. Hell it happens everywhere look at the central European and his incest sex dungeon. Gun laws might make some sense but the lack of mental health infrastructure is probably equally to blame. I just wish people commenting on the US actually come here before saying shit.

NASA snaps pics of China's 'Airpocalypse' pollution disaster

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what?

>Oakland has reappeared, and the entire nation is better for it.

WTF are you talking about? Oakland makes every seasoned travelers list of 5 biggest shit holes in the US. Oakland exists as an airport white people fly into and then drive out of the city as quickly as they can. Oh its also a dumping ground due to BART of every thug gangster in the area on days when the Raiders play.

Latest Java patch is not enough, warns US gov: Axe plugins NOW

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Re: The next governmental announcement

I know I am going to get the crap down voted for this comment but most of the sympathy I had for survivors who lost loved ones in 9/11 flew out the window when they pushed for the creation of the Ministry of Love (Department of Homeland Security who oversee TSA). Surprised they didn't push to bring back the Un-American Activities Committee in the House as well.

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I dare say Javascript flaws are still responsible for more malware dumping than Java would be my guess but Java is catching up these days.

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Re: Java

>Write your malware once and run it anywhere

Only because its able to avoid the horrible pile of steaming shit that is Swing.

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Re: What is needed...

>You have it in a nutshell: don't rely on any single product to provide security. A layered approach is the way to go.

Yeah because nothing makes the games scream like having 5 different apps looking at every disk read and write. Granted you can have whitelists and such but what a damn bother. Good security especially on Windows is always a far amount of work and there is generally a trade off of security vs performance and usability. Still there is a reason I generally only access my banking accounts with *nix machines. Windows is for gaming and work but not really security.

Anger grows over the death of Aaron Swartz

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Re: Matt Bryant

>one day you should find yourself in need of the support of others

Based on what an unapologetic HP shill he is, that time might be coming sooner than he realizes.

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f__king baby boomers in charge

Go on cheer for your home team the Democrats, the Republicans, both sides pull the same shit only with a slight different bend. The common denominator is almost all of them are from America's worst generation the Baby Boomers. Still based on Paul Ryan being one of the first big names from the next generation things are going to get worse before they get better.

Why mergers LOSE money, but are GOOD for the economy

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Re: Oh how things change

>Stockholders seem to be treated with absolute contempt by management these days

Probably has a lot to do with much of the shareholder money being in middle class 401K, IRA's and pension funds which by law have severely restricted rights compared to the rich people's hedge funds. Lol middle class shareholders having a say hahaha good one.

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Re: Destructive takeovers

Bah you lie. According to the right wingers unfettered markets are the closest thing to God and any government regulation is evil. When you point out the extremes of the conditions in Somalia (zero government) or a dozen robber trust barons of the Industrial Revolution owning everything (government not intervening at all) they go back to talking about dirty socialist liberals instead.

Bad news: PC slump worse than feared. Good news: It's Friday

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Cue the desperate MCSEs poo pooing tablets in 3-2-1. Oh well Windows 8 may be a Vista style flop but it does sound like Server 2012 will hit it out of the park. Sadly I don't think that will generate the revenue to cover what the artist former known as Metro is going to cost Microsoft in the long run. At least now that WPF is finally dying the death it deserves Microsoft might revisit modernizing MFC at least.

Manning was 'illegally punished', will get 112 days lopped off any sentence

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Re: The army don't shoot people for capital offences ...

Stand your ground laws are a defense attorney's wet dream. My client felt threatened so he went to his car to get his gun. Case dismissed. Want a study showing its nothing but the NRA pushing laws that benefit their main supporters the gun industry here you go. And for the record I am against gun control but I am also for getting rid of any laws written by that right wing corporate evil organization that is ALEC like stand your ground that exist only to kill or harm people for greater profits. Like I said countries where everyone must have guns to be safe generally are not considered developed countries.

http://econweb.tamu.edu/mhoekstra/castle_doctrine.pdf

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Re: Rumsfeld's Genie

Due process is so quaint though. Why simply ignore the Constitution when you can go back even further and ignore the Magna Carta (you know the basis of western law) and make 11th century monarchs look democratic? We are at war with Eurasia(terrorists) we have always been at war with Eurasia.

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Re: The army don't shoot people for capital offences ...

>you just equip anybody with a gun and let them shoot who they feel like, don't you

Thats the NRA's and their main financial backers the gun maker industry wet dream and sadly Florida and other states already have this with the stand your ground laws. Funny another place also has this called Somalia and in general its not a real nice place.

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Amen brother. So lets see the US military is using money lent from China to keep evil 13th century f__ks from throwing acid in the face of little girls going to school in a country where they are not wanted all the while the homeland is running out of money and needing some national building itself. Whats so complicated lol?

Kill that Java plugin now! New 0-day exploit running wild online

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Re: Does it work on Linux?

>Except that as virtually no one uses Linux

Except for most of the webservers on the internet and many of the backend data stores that also run on linux but there is no value in hacking corporate backends eh? I guess its a bit higher risk than key logging Grandma's credit card and its certainly a hell of lot harder as well.

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Re: can't resist

I notice Oracle quietly dropped the marketing after they were the keynote exploit at hacker conferences several years in a row. I also notice people don't talk about how unbelievable Java's security is any more what with it being a malware portal on even *nix based machines the last several years. Granted when your main competition on the web at the time was ActiveX, claiming to be the secure choice really was low hanging fruit.

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can't resist

Wasn't java originally touted as the most secure run time and language available? Didn't Oracle sell its software as Unbreakable for years? What happens when they join forces? How many critical vulnerabilities in the last few years? Adobe has competition for worst security in the industry.

'Doomsday' asteroid Apophis more massive than first thought

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Re: Screw Bruce Willis

As out of place as Steve Buscemi at the top of a most beautiful people list. Or in his lame characters words God I always hate being right.