Posts by Martin 50 12 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009
"Inside the helicopter for the flight was the RASCAL systems operator, along with developer" - I find people in my office manage to coincide their leave for project go-lives...I'm surprised this developer didn't think of that!
This is the first time somebody has explained the patent system to me in these terms, I can now see why it's a mess but also why it's not fixable. And I think a point above about getting the Patent Office to make a ruling before a high court judge uses it to base a multi-billion dollar case on, sounds sensible.
So I'm picturing a patent, in a box, being neither a valid patent nor an invalid patent, until said box is opened... Wasn't Einstein a Patent clerk?...
Can someone explain for interested armchair spectators: what exactly is used as the key? (e.g. what different filenames is it trying, everything in a particular folder perhaps, everything longer than a certain length), and how does the program know it has succeeded? (I assume it doesn't continually attempt to execute gibberish, is it testing for a short string?).
I'm surprised Vesselin (that name rings a dim bell for me too) wrote off a website check; i mean, I bet plenty of people looked at the javascript generated message on Securelist's page that told them they weren't infected; if the extra check for the payload conditions could be included in the javascript then that sounds like a better option than waiting for a nation state or botnet owner to take interest.
PS Installing a new font is strange, any theorys?
I was forced to install this Uplay thing to play my new steam game "from dust". I wasn't told what I was installing - I didn't realise it was a whole environment - I thought it was just going to be a registration for them to grab my email address and spam me with email - something I've finally got grudgingly used to. And I was most surprised when Firefox reported it was disabling a 'Uplay plugin' due to a security risk. That's a plugin that won't be getting turned back on (unless it turns out my game doesn't play without it...in which case I'll have to decide if my face needs my nose or not). Thanks for this article, it filled in the gaps.
Well Skype (just IMs) used to work perfectly fine on my HTC Wildfire, and now it doesn't. It must have been an update that caused it. I'll give it a week and then clear it off and find something else. Why can't they just leave working alone - they can't hope to test new versions on all the old models out there.
Strikes me that all the first stat shows is what poor timing the updates choose to appear.
I laughed when halfway through the Securelist article it said:
However, the system does face [two] major obstacles:
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2. When developing the kad.dll module for maintaining communication with the Kad network, code with a GPL license was used — this means that the authors are in violation of a licensing agreement.
They are malware authors/distributors, FFS; adding a charge of annoying some open-sourcers seems to be like adding a littering charge to a burglary prosecution! Plus 'major obstacle' to what exactly - selling it in PC World??
(Paris, as she also has two major obstacles to face.)
My guess is HP ran out of ink during the manufacturing process and couldn't afford a new cartridge. If only they hadn't installed that micro-chip in the print head...
Or maybe an employee was given the objective to drive down email customer complaints for new builds.
PS Where's the I, T, <, etc ? Oh, I see.
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