Posts by Oninoshiko

MiniDuke miscreants whip out old-school tricks to spy on world+dog

Nice

It's good to the Vxers getting back to writing effecent code.

Back in the day, it was some of the tightest code out there. (also video demos)

US insurer punts 'bestiality' to wide-eyed kiddies, gasp 'mums'

Third Eagle of the Apocalypse and Co-prophet of the End Times.

WOW! That's awesome! I want a title like that!

How come only the crazy nutters can come up with the good titles. The best I can seem to get is "Eunuchs Admin" (or something homophonically similar).

Microsoft latest to 'fess up to Java-based Mac attack

Except that you COULDN'T patch it if you where on a Mac, because Apple (who what the only one who could) did not release the patch in a timely fashion. So hitting a fully up-to-date system WAS a Mac specific attack.

Over 100,000 sign White House petition for handset unlocking

It gets better

those contracts have a termination penalty. the reason offered for the termination penalty is TO PAY FOR THE SUBSIDIZED PHONE. Everyone I know who isn't provided a phone from work is going to non-traditional carriers, because the scam is out of hand. I'm waiting for them to try to outlaw any but the big 3 wireless providers.

Nvidia plans new 'reptile HQ' to match its IT aggressiveness

I, for one, welcome

our alien lizard overlords....

John Sweeney: Why Church of Scientology's gravest threat is the 'net

Re: CoS

A teeny .png?

I'm sure the CoS is quaking in fear!

Apple FINALLY fills gaping Java hole that pwned its own devs

Oracle's problem

No, it's not. Oracle released a patch for all oracle versions of java. APPLE RELEASED A CUSTOM VERSION OF JAVA 6, THEN DIDN'T BOTHER TO RELEASE A PATCH. The blame for that is squarely at the feet of Apple.

Agile development may be taught in Australian High Schools

If they are going to teach SQL

PLEASE teach it right.

They need to understand normalization, what it is, why we do it. They need to understand SQL's features for input validation, and why we use them. What ACID is, why we like it.

The last thing I want is more people making up DB layouts which are completely unmaintainable.

John Lennon's lesson for public-domain innovation

Re: PD

Japan has certain unrelinquishable moral rights, which are considered to conflict with the western concept of the public domain.

OTOH, Japan also only recognizes copyrights of Japanese citizens, Japanese corporations, and where required by treaty. Which implies (to me, at least) that if an unemployed foreigner put their work in the public domain, Japan shouldn't recognize a copyright.

"Article 6. The following shall be granted protection under this Law:

(i) works of Japanese nationals ("Japanese nationals" includes legal persons established under the Japanese law and those who have their principal offices in this country; the same shall apply hereinafter);

(ii) works first published in this country, including those first published outside this country and published in this country within thirty days of that first publication;

(iii) works not falling within those mentioned in the preceding two items, to which Japan has the obligation to grant protection under an international treaty."

http://www.cric.or.jp/cric_e/clj/cl1.html

Re: "my ability to make money"

Admittedly, I don't follow Red Hat much, but you're going to have to enlighten me as to what software they have released into the Public Domain. Last time I checked, they have not released any software into the public domain.

Re: it places the copyright with the project maintainers, or the FSF in some cases.

You could not be more wrong. The GPL does not transfer a copyright. Some groups (such as the FSF) require a copyright assignment, because it gives the group standing. This must be dealt with separately from the GPL.

Copyright transfers require it to be specified, in writing (if it where ME I'd want it signed and notarized, FSF seems fine with just a signature). This was one of the things that got SCO in trouble. Novell had promised to transfer copyrights, but never actually did, therefore they did not have the right to sue for copyright violations, even if there where any!

Other groups take the policy that it's too dangerous to have all the copyrights held by one group, and so want a number of copyright holders. This approch has the upside that you don't have to trust the organization.

Re: PD is not the the next logical step on from FLOSS

The GPL doesn't reverse ANYTHING. If you receive a copy of a piece of code I released under the GPL, under a non-compatible license, what are you going to do about it?

FUCK ALL. You have no standing to do anything. The only thing you can do about it, is contact me. IF I think it's worth my time, I can pursue legal action. Realistically, it probably isn't. I'm not going to see much from most GPL violations, so it's just a money sink. The only reason to pursue is principle, and I'm not wealthy enough to be principled.

Your rights aren't protected, the developer's are.

Pirate Bay reports pirating anti-piracy group to police

I think the pirate bay needs to go for the jugular with this

The CSS was sent every machine that visited their site. Each one was a copyright violation. The first thing I would do is to ask the court for the logs. I have the sneaking suspicion it would show a pattern of willful, systemic, criminal copyright violation.

I'm thinking, as was done in cases of just linking to violating material, jail time may be in order.

Apple and world HACKED by Facebook plunderers

So did that nice looking young man in the commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Z386vXrt4

Baby-boulder bowling burglar breaks Boulder Apple Store's $100k glass door

Magic glass

There is a local plastic fabricator who won't say his windows are unbreakable, but is willing give anyone a shot at it with a sledge hammer.

He is not willing to pay for any hospital costs from said hammer bouncing off the window and hitting you.

Bill Gates: Windows Phone strategy was 'a mistake'

Re: Gates quote

Considering his next sentence is: "Windows 8 is key to the future ... the Surface computer ... Bing, people have seen is a better search product ... the Xbox," I would venture to speculate that might be what he is talking about. I wouldn't say that *I* think any of those other then the Xbox are successful, but obviously Mr. Gates believes that they they will be.

"Predictions are hard, especially when they are about the future." --(attributed to) Yogi Berra (amongst others)

Facebook turns billion-dollar profit into tax refund

Re: Corollary

While this seems to be a common concept from the commantards, I don't think I have seen much of an editorial policy around it. I have only seen that put into print ONCE in an article.

One piece is hardly editorial policy to repeat.

(I miss the elReg gravestone. I used to love to use it ironically when defending our favorite rag)

I can't fault Farcebook for following the rules

but maybe we need to amend the book a little?

Top Firefox OS bloke flames Opera for WebKit surrender

Re: AC@15:18

You must restart it a lot then. It does leak memory like a sieve.

The big reason I have up on them, is they want me to restart the damn thing too often. It's disruptive.

Google to open flagship retail stores by end of 2013

Since I'm there product

do I have to go sit on their shelves?

Official: America now a nation of broadband whingers

Re: cavities searches

Hey, whatever gets you off, buddy.

Firm moves to trademark 'Python' name out from under the language

Re: This is vaguely familiar

Linus, his name is Linus. It is not Linux, that is his creation.

Traceroute reveals Star Wars Episode IV 'crawl' text

Re: Obi Wan...

The darkside is vi.

:wq

Intel's new TV box to point creepy spy camera at YOUR FACE

Re: gaffer tape over the shutter.

The fine article said there is a shutter.

More importantly, you still have Winston Smith's problem... how do you block the audio?

I see lots of 1984 references, with these kind of articles, but noone even sees the problems the book saw. How many people actually read it?

Public told to go to hell, name Pluto's two new moons

Re: Hrm?

FTR: I'm the one who thumb-upped you, mostly because I didn't think you deserved to be thumb-downed.

I liked your post, while mine was 1/2 in jest, it was only half. Your post was informative. I didn't know the official definition of "moon" was so vague.

Hrm?

are things orbiting non-planets still considered moons?

Tesla vs Media again as Model S craps out on journo - on the highway

@Michael B.

The voice may not have said that the car ran out of power, but that is what any reasonable person would assume from the video accompanying it. What other reason would they have to be pushing the thing other then a failure?

Put another way:

If I pop a picture of you up on the screen when talking about pedophiles, I think you might (rightly) consider that slander. I wouldn't be CALLING you a pedophile, but any reasonable person would assume that's the message I was intending to convey.

Rogue Squadron: Unit of X-wings Kickstarts in response to Death Star

Re: Chicken wire over the exhaust port

Ahh, but us rebels have found the weakness...

we call it the double-tap.

Mines the rebel alliance flight jacket.

Linux Foundation ships UEFI Secure Boot workaround

Re: sign your own software

strange...

The latest machine I got seems to have the ability to install new keys... like a key I generate myself... and I use to sign a bootloader...

Not that I had to use that feature to boot linux on the thing (just disabled SecureBoot). I'll admit I haven't played with that feature yet, but if it works as described, I'll consider it a win.

Illicit phone rings in Sri Lankan inmate's back crack

Re: I found this...

Well the angle of the IT is going to be rather vertical. As to the IT's orientation, I'm not sure.

'Depression-era grandma' Apple responds to bolshy investor

Re: ""Apple haz the money and I wants it""

"What I object to is that he's is high profile and gets to blast out his version of reality."

Free speech is a bitch like that.

Huge rock-hard marble erection shocks Japanese kiddies

Re: It's just a penis.

I thought it was pretty obvious why the NEETs where there, that's where the container ship dropped them off.

Tennessee bloke quits job over satanic wage slip

Re: FFS

I had made the note around here, that someone had decided to skip hosts 0013 and 0666. I added in such hosts, they now sit on my desk (makes it easy to remember, too).

'You get burned out on Facebook after a while'

Re: ...850 quadrillion-dollar monstrosity.

I'm pretty sure that "wooshing" noise you here is the joke you're missing...

Hard drive sales to see double-digit dive this year

Re: Death of optical

I can see them being removed from built in, being relegated to a USB. Around here it's already there, for the most part.

Netbooks were a GOOD thing and we threw them under a bus

Re: Nostalgia overload

I think I just figured out why everything is supposed to be full screen now... that makes the acronym ART, which is what there commercials make me think of... all form, no function, and a purpose made up on the spot.

"This piece represents the intrinsic fatality of modern consumerism. The round top makes reminds us of the reuse that the chaff of our society could be taking and..."

"dude, it's a trash can"

Hacker faces 105 years inside after FBI 'sexploitation' arrest

that may be true, but you are not comparing apples to apples. he did this 350 times. so lets say he was a serial killer who killed 350 people:

350*25= 8750 years.

also let's do the opposite and see how much time he gets for each woman he victimized:

150/350=0.43 years

So that means for each person he blackmailed, he gets less then 1/2 a year. That doesn't sound that outlandish to me, quite the opposite, it sounds lenient.

What's in a name?

Karen? Is this a common guy's name somewhere?

(What does it mean that the is the most surprising thing in this story?)

PayPal plugs SQL injection hole, tosses $3k to bug-hunter

Re: PayPal is ...

PP isn't a bank. It's a shame too, they use this fact to prevent proper regulation.

You thought watching cat videos was harmless fun? Think AGAIN

Re: train them to target vermin?

You get a thumbs up for bringing a chuckle to my desk with Tom Lehrer.

Google donates 15,000 Raspberry Pis to UK schools

The number of posts COMPLAINING about this

Makes me worry for the future of humanity.

Microsoft tries to sell home Office users on subscription pricing

You know, as a home user, I think this would make me look for alternatives. It's worth noting that home users are generally not as demanding as business users (when was the last time you saw home user with a marginally complex Excel doc?).

100 USD a year is just too much for what they are offering, which is to say a suite of tools which only gets used 5 times a year or so (for the average home user). If they want users to move to a subscription model (which they DESPERATELY need, as they are starting to have difficulties coming up with new improvements), then they need to get this into the cheap enough to not even be worth thinking about it range. I'd put that at 20 USD a year.

(YMMV)

Apple loses 'Most Valuable Company' honor to ExxonMobil

Re: Rockefeller

Are you implying that the Rotschilds could suddenly "buy Linux"?

Just asking.

Anons hack Asteroids into US DoJ website in Swartz death protest

Re: a game where the only winning move was not to play.

As a point of fact, the only one of those acoustic couplers I've ever actually seen, was 300 baud. Wackypedia claims the practical limit was 1200 baud, achieved in the early 80s, they certainly did not run at even 5400 baud.

Wargames (1983) actually got a number of things surprisingly right, and it is probably one of the most technically accurate fictional accounts of hacking. In fact, the term "Wardialing" (from which the modern "wardriving" comes) originated from this movie (the actual practice existed before, but, by all accounts, this term did not enter the lexicon until 1983).

I'm horrified to report, that in checking my recollections for this post there was a "Wargames 2" released in 2008. I'm going to go cry myself to sleep now.

Tech firms face massive tax bill if Dutch vote to end loopholes

Alternate headline

Dutch thinks to much money comes into their country. Looks to get companies to move their PO Boxes.

Liferay's not dead yet - but what's keeping it alive?

Re: Forgive my ignorance but

I came to this article not knowing what liferay was, at least I know no less then I knew before.

Kim Dotcom's locker may be full, but the cupboard is bare

Re: I don't get it

That's because Mega is creating a scarcity and then charging you for it. In effect, it's creating virtual property.

Some lockers do this, but many don't.

So what you are suggesting is that they use their infinite bandwidth and infinite storage space to give the service for free?

Your assertion that "Mega is creating a scarcity and then charging you for it," only makes sense if they have unlimited free resources, otherwise the scarcity already exists and they need to charge you for it to make sure they have the resources to provide the service and make a profit.

You then move on to "... it's creating virtual property." I'm rather surprised to see you complain about that. I presume you make your living writing. This article is nothing more then virtual property (for when I received it, it was only a stream of bits), which you seem to be of the opinion should not be charged for. So can we presume that you will not be accepting payment for any more articles you write?

Student claims code flaw spotting got him expelled from college

I feel for the kid

His information was on this server. He was making sure they where taking proper precautions to protect his information. Personally, I think he should file suit for them putting him (and the rest of the student body) at risk for identity theft.

Time Warner Cable to Netflix: We want your 3D films, not your network

TWC, sir, your proctologist called, they found your head

The reality is TWC is looking for a way to argue that their cable service is somehow worth paying for rather then just paying them for transit and on-demanding from NFLX.

NFLX is being unbelievably nice here. "OK, ISPs, we know you are oversubscribed, and we know we totally break your model, so we are going to offer you free peering to us. Our customers get better service, you can contenue to make money hand over fist by not paying for enough bandwidth for what your selling, and your customers think you actually give a shit about their service."

"Well, one minor problem for us at TWC, we make fat stacks of cash by offering video service, so we really don't like that arrangement."

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

Re: The trouble with programming languages

I would put some credence in this, except that google and THIS MAN have done the most to advance ECMA of anyone in the last decade.