Posts by asdf

Instagram BOWS to pressure, revises T&Cs – a little

Re: "My photos are on my own site..."

>LOL. What's the URL? Is your own site on the Interweb?

Having access to and being allowed to make money on pictures are too very different things. Thus why we have copyright laws.

best way to say it

With free web services please keep in mind you are not the customer. You are the product they sell to advertisers (their real customers). With that in mind the motivations of this T&C makes more sense.

North Korea releases first computer game

hmm

At work so don't want to chance videos but do we finally have a contender for the worst game of all time? Here is the undisputed champion (no offense to superman 64 or ET but talking pound for pound).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f3HDsgLV68

Euro Commission abandons ACTA court request

Re: Unified, world wide anti-piracy legislation needs to be adopted

>geting a lot of scum off the streets and in prison where they belong.

Hope this is sarcasm and a joke. Personally I have much less of a problem with the civil courts garnishing wages and assets than as a hard working tax payer having to pay to incarcerate some idiot caught downloading Gangnam tyvm. Stacking up a large % of the population in private prisons where slave labor is allowed may be great for some well connected people but is one aspect here in the US we don't need to encourage any more of.

Re: Unified, world wide anti-piracy legislation needs to be adopted

Wow sounds like AO but he never hides his identity when he is ranting against the dreaded freetards.

Samsung spaffs $3.9bn on chip factory in TEXAS

Re: You all seem to forget

Nobody who has ever spent time in the semiconductor industry forgets that though TI is more Dallas based than Austin. Don't forget AMD got their start with lots of fabs in Austin as well though that is probably long gone by now as well as Motorola which is Freescale now.

yep

It still snows there occasionally though. Last time anybody had to shovel snow where I live Roosevelt was president.

Samsung grabs 'World's biggest handset-maker' title off Nokia

Re: Samsung and Nokia

@asdf, I find that EXTREMELY unlikely. I see Apple buyers say that a lot, generally there's at least a dozen similar machines on the market.

With the wayback machine or some other archive you can look at what Dell and others were offering dual socket dual core Intel Core 2 workstation wise in September of 2006 and you will find Apple was actually the best deal and remained so until the first quad cores came out early the next year.

Re: Apple is a bridge...

In very rare cases buying Apple actually makes sense. When I bought my Mac Pro desktop there was no other dual core dual socket workstation that could match it on features at that price point. Also when the ipad 2 first came out the Android competition was total shit comparatively (obviously not true any more). But in the phone space yes there is some truth to your words.

Re: The Microsoft effect

I am an Android fan myself and admit some of the Microsoft hate is due to never wanting to see any company but especially that one, ever largely control computing again. Its a bit irrational considering how Microsoft has done in the phone space for the last decade (fail) but you never know. As bad as Google can be as long as they keep releasing source its a good thing Android is winning. Still all and all choice is a good thing and Microsoft will never be able to dictate computing again anyway so there is always room for another player even if they are proprietary.

Re: The Microsoft effect

Have no fear the market will speak soon enough and Microsoft has proved even they are unable to hide the truth more than a few quarters with channel stuffing and license shenanigans (see Vista). Regardless we won't know its a failure quickly like with the Kin but it will limp on for years losing money but slowly gaining ground and yet still a minority market share ala Bing and Windows Mobile.

@Steve Knox

Wow perfectly said.

ICANN'T believe it's not Apple: Vatican wins domain-handout lottery

clueless alert

Wow way to miss the joke. Perhaps the fact the poster used the 20+ year meme might have helped give that away. But I guess he might really be the Russian hacker that cleaned out your bank account that caused you to get so butt hurt about the topic.

Web devs gasp: HTML5 takes big step toward standardization

Re: woot!!

According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5. Please note that was over a year ago. Pretty certain its probably at least double that now.

Re: woot!!

Of course HTML5 is not yet set completely in stone but the other browser makers sure have implemented a lot more of the soon to be final standard than Microsoft. Greenhopper is a fairly common AGILE tool and its pretty embarrassing that Microsoft's latest non beta browser doesn't support enough HTML5 for the web app to work properly.

woot!!

I can't wait until 2017 or so when my company will finally upgrade to an IE version that actually properly supports HTML 5 (IE9 sure doesn't as shown by Greenhopper's HTML 5 being a total fail on IE9). Yes I do use alternative browsers but I feel sorry for anybody that doesn't/can't.

Report: US telcos cashing in on data caps and poor competition

hmm

I guess as an investor it is your own self interest to not have a problem with your current investments buying politicians in order to help put up even more barriers to entry by competitors. Please excuse the general public for not necessarily sharing your self interest. In addition there are knock on effects and costs to everyone including shareholders by limiting market forces artificially with laws and regulations. Funny how business types always complain about laws and regulations unless it is being used to prop up their obsolete or broken business models.

how to tell Verizon to f__k off

Page Plus Cellular piggy backs on Verizon's voice and 3G data network (which at least in my area is the best by a long shot) but charges far far less. You can even continue to use your existing Verizon phone with their service if you send it in for a flash. The only two drawbacks is its 3G only and their highest data plan currently is capped at 2 gig. As a pretty light user myself I am able to get away with the $12 monthly plan (250 min, 250 txt, 10 meg data) no problem and best of all no contract and can change plan at any time. It only takes a few months to save what it costs to break your Verizon contract if you are a light user like me (if you own a smartphone Verizon's lightest plan is still like over $90 a month).

http://www.pagepluscellular.com/

Football club catches, then punts, Kaspersky name

Re: The 15- game

13, 15 hell even 7s are all worlds better than the flop grab your shin and whine game of Soccer.

Search engines we have known ... before Google crushed them

Re: AltaVista.digital.com

>And typos were dangerous back then. Anyone else remember webcralwer.com?

All roads led to goatse. [Shiver]

VCDX: The elite certification just 105 people hold

Re: Nice advert...

Yep lots of publicity and all they have to do is throw out a few pieces of paper to the Porsche driving type A everyone look at me douche bag crowd.

North Korea's satellite a dud, say US astroboffins

Re: Meanwhile Britain

I Am Spartacus! (too bad %90 of people on here far too young to catch the reference)

Re: Yeh North Korea - you stupid stupid.. place..

Kim is that you? Keep thinking its the US sanctions and not the Stalinist/Mao central economic planning and corruption that is causing their poverty. Google the Great Leap Forward to see what ideological economic planning can do to a nation. That had nothing to do with US sanctions either.

Re: Meanwhile Britain

After tranche 3 though it will be refrigerator sized and BAE will be billions over budget.

funny that

They don't need nukes to screw over SK and the world economy as well. With Seoul being so close to the DMZ from what I understand with conventional weapons they could pretty much suicide and cause 10x more havoc than 9/11. The nuclear is a phallic thing and a bargaining chip.

Re: Yeh North Korea - you stupid stupid.. place..

Its all relative. When its worth it to risk life and limb to go as an economic refugee to China they are in their own league of misery. Having all the bark stripped off trees in public parks due starving people looking for any sustenance is something we in the West have no idea about. In the US we probably throw away more food each day than North Korea consumes.

Apotheker: HP board was just as culpable for Autonomy buy

Re: Now Apotheker is chiming in....

>He cooked up this disasterous deal that is costing a lot of HP workers their jobs.

Can't you say that about virtually every ex CEO for the last 15 years at HP? HP is the king of the yearly 10,000 person layoff which occurs strangely always a few months after they hire their latest short term CEO (what a bold new move).

UN telecoms talks FOUNDER as US, UK, Canada and Aussies quit

Re: big bad US

>US, closely followed by the UK and the majority of Western powers

Ok misspoke in that only majority of western countries but my argument still stands.

big bad US

Once again as per the tone of the article the US gets blamed for unilateralism (notice how much less there truly is since the village idiot and his neocon jesters left office?) when the article clearly states no Western country signed the treaty. If other governments don't have the courage to stand up for their own interests then their body politic is picking the wrong leaders.

The 30-year-old prank that became the first computer virus

Re: OK now this isn't fair (again)

Look into SELinux or App Armor in the unix world to accomplish this. Its a shedload of work and honestly more often than not it ends up taking a long time to both lock down the system properly (unless you just use common packages on most distros that include the configs already) and allow all software to work correctly but if you are willing to put in the effort its out there. The other advantage is it allows denying improper access to a lot more than just the file system which is what is needed for true security.

Guatemalan judge orders McAfee released from detention

Re: Strange dude

Amen brother we sure as hell don't want this crazy jagoff. People might think America always protects it own but the culture is actually a pretty vengeful and harsh to criminals and we place the value of law before most everything else. I hope we ship him back to Belize on his own dime.

Microsoft Surface to hit third-party stores on Wednesday

look on the bright side Stevie B.

At least Microsoft should be able to hire many of the ex RIM employees who have experience clearing out inventory of a failed tablet product on the cheap.

Re: So, it's official

Canada is America's hat. Duh. Free holiday gift idea for the redneck on your shopping list.

http://www.zazzle.co.uk/canada_americas_tuque_trucker_hat-148672137412867523

Re: So, it's official

If it makes you feel any better for some time now the US has been Israel's bottom bitch.

Is 'activestor' Icahn circling sickly HP?

Re: Icahn

Vulture capital unfortunately seems to be one of the few ways to keep corrupt management who appoint their buddies to the board on their toes. With all the rules imposed on and inherent dilution (own an S&P 500 fund, you are a (tiny) HP shareholder) of the middle classes mutual funds and pension funds its not like a large portion of the shareholders have a true say on what management does.

Re: I loved the HP quality...

>What I can't stand is their computers. Inexpensive, but poor quality.

What the Tim Burton like advertising font doesn't divert your attention away from laptop keyboards and displays failing within weeks of the warranty ending? (if your lucky and didn't have to send in several times before)

Microsoft licence cops kick in TWICE as many customers' doors as rivals

lol@win8

I guess with Windows 8 being the runaway "success" touted by Microsoft its just a coincidence they need to beef up revenues as much as they possible can this quarter.

Re: Install Linux and let 'em come

@NomNomNom wow with that kludge for a solution you probably still think you are a professional developer don't you? Fail. On the bright side its people like you why outside consultants/contractors can make a good living coming in and cleaning up legacy messes.

Last moon landing was 40 years ago today

sigh

Today not only is it not possible in a short time frame for the US to replicate the Apollo missions we can't even replicate the Mercury missions (just getting a man into orbit). How far NASA has fallen.

GhostShell hackers release 1.6 million NASA, FBI, ESA accounts

Re: US Government: The worlds biggest data sieve

The Chinese are stealing from the UK government too just with less gusto. The 1960/70's technology of the UK Armed Forces is already pretty much in the public domain.

Re: @AC

Lots of VMS systems and mainframes a lot older than 2005 running in production still. Upgrading an OS on a mission critical business system is a HUGE deal for most decent sized businesses. Walling off your business critical system as much from not just the internet but internal networks as much as you can is generally best practice. Of course the OS on a public facing web server is a whole different matter.

Group vows new webOS smartphone by 2016

Re: One word

Exactly. I booted my dual boot touchpad into WebOS for the first time in months the other day and was like wow I forgot how neat WebOS is and then being a Sunday immediately realized no Sunday Ticket (american) football app and promptly booted back into Android where I can actually find apps worth downloading.

RIM is really in trouble when even Windows Phone 8 looks great

Re: I believe RIM is toast

>When they have 0 users and $0 - then they will be toast!

Wow somebody sure has no idea how Chapter 7 and 11 bankruptcies work. They will certainly still have more than zero customers when they go into bankruptcy court and probably a lot less than $0 when they do.

Stallman: Ubuntu spyware makes it JUST AS BAD as Windows

Re: According to wikipedia...

was that before or after you edited it? Your title alone pretty much makes reading your post pointless.

Re: Btw..

Debian people have always come across as almost as big a douches as the BSD crowd. Still both have given us wonderful code so its the price you pay I guess.

Short and to the point. Long live MATE and may gnome die of a thousand cuts.

times are a changing

The newer generation has had a chance to grown up on Linux and not exclusively on Microsoft as some of us older people. Now that the kids don't have to get a linux cd off a book or magazine or have to compile in all the device drivers for their computer or worry about getting the timings right on their X Server to avoid fubaring their monitor or getting on the internet with the dreaded winmodem (rated up there with changing out a motor in a car for many) its an easier world to get into. Not everyone is some hack MCSE praying they can make it to retirement before they ever have to use the command line or linux.

FCC urges rethink of aircraft personal-electronics blackout

Re: Status > Landing

Please post one reference of any common consumer electronic device made in the last decade that has been shown to interfere with any device on the plane used by the crew.