Posts by Randy Hudson

Uber's disturbing fatal self-driving car crash, a new common sense challenge for AI, and Facebook's evil algorithms

Headlights?

Looks like the headlights were not properly adjusted. You couldn't see the bike until it was less than 40 feet away

Intel: Our next chips won't have data leak flaws we told you totally not to worry about

Can anyone explain how JavaScript, which runs on a virtual machine and can't access memory that hasn't been initialized by that VM, could read data from another process?

Fermi famously asked: 'Where is everybody?' Probably dead, says renewed Drake equation

Re: Not useful

You seem to assume that EM emissions can only be unintentionally leaked into space.

Java EE renamed 'Jakarta EE' after Big Red brand spat

How is Jakarta any different than Java?

Apple to devs: Code for the iPhone X or nothing from April onwards

Can apps built using the 11 SDK still run on iOS 10? If not, there's going to be a lot of phone that can't run new apps.

Who wants dynamic dancing animations and code in their emails? Everyone! says Google

Re: Yet ANOTHER reason!

I think "minimal HTML viewer" meant one that only views content inline in the message. So inline CSS would be OK. Inline images would be OK. But I'm pretty sure the OP meant one that doesn't make any kind of outbound HTTP call when viewing the message.

Due to Oracle being Oracle, Eclipse holds poll to rename Java EE (No, it won't be Java McJava Face)

How about "black hole"?

PSA: If your security starts and ends with bug bounties, you're gonna have a bad time

What does Jimmy Fallon know about security?

Nvidia: Using cheap GeForce, Titan GPUs in servers? Haha, nope!

Can car manufacturers start doing this? (You use just as much software to drive your car)

One per cent of all websites probably p0wned each year, say boffins

Thumbs for the optative subjunctive.

Get ready for laptop-tab-smartphone threesomes from Microsoft, Lenovo, HP, Asus, Qualcomm

Re: "binge watch TV shows for 12 hours straight"

> I prefer a non-battery dependent paper based entertainment delivery

Why is that medium so superior to video/audio? When Gutenberg made books a reality for common folk, I wonder if there were oral storytelling zealots who were just as annoying.

Voyager 1 fires thrusters last used in 1980 – and they worked!

What are the chances of a civilization seeing and retrieving either craft before it crashes into some other planet or sun?

Guilty: NSA bloke who took home exploits at the heart of Kaspersky antivirus slurp row

Am I the only one

...concerned that AV software needs to upload random content from my computer to the cloud? AV software should only need to download the latest signatures.

Squeezing in little Quake between builds? Not any more: Facebook Bucks up Java compile tool

I've been a java developer for 19 years and I don't remember ever waiting more than 2 seconds for a recompile due to my own code changes, or batches of changes I've accepted from source control.

Boffins: We can identify you by your typing, and we're gonna sell the tech to biz, govt – yay!

"Having recently got over..." wow

Facebook's send-us-your-nudes service is coming to UK, America

I want to be protected. I'm going to go take some nude pics and upload them to FB asap.

Scroll, scroll, scroll your note gently down the screen. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, FB's code's a dream

Seems like a solution looking for a problem. If you need to render a list and your first thought is to find a framework to help you do so...

WPA2 KRACK attack smacks Wi-Fi security: Fundamental crypto crapto

Why does anyone care about wifi security?

My router is wide open to all comers. Who cares? Those with the foil hats on, do you never use Starbuck's or any other public wifi?

Rejecting Sonos' private data slurp basically bricks bloke's boombox

Re: "Fall Creators Update"

"Sonos software will also pester you with update reminders when you're trying to use your device until you finally give in."

So, just like iOS.

BYOD might be a hipster honeypot but it's rarely worth the extra hassle

S9E1: Foisted!

Compsci degrees aren't returning on investment for coders – research

Re: Peak Code Monkey

Developers who are working without a degree are often the rare, self-taught individual who can acquire similar knowledge elsewhere. If the study factored in the income of those looking to work as a developer, but have neither skills nor a degree, I think we'd see a bigger difference.

Western Digital has cloudified the NAS and shoved it in a trendy box

RAID 1? If the DUO has double capacity, it sounds more like RAID 0 to me. Do they even make a 20TB drive?

WannaCry-killer Marcus Hutchins denies Feds' malware claims

Re: So where will DEF CON move to?

Wrong. Most flights to Europe would follow great circles, taking them close to the North Pole, not over the US

The Linux cloud swap that spells trouble for Microsoft and VMware

Only run Linux containers on Linux?

I'm confused. Straight from their FAQ:

The Docker Engine client runs natively on Linux, macOS, and Windows. By default, these clients connect to a local Docker daemon running in a virtual environment managed by Docker, which provides the required features to run Linux-based containers within OS X or Windows

Intel gives the world a Core i9 desktop CPU to play with

Not for gamers

pitching the range at … gamers

99% of games see no benefits beyond 4 cores. Once you have 4 cores, you want to increase sustainable clock speed, not core count.

DJI: Register your drones or no more cool flying vids for you

Yet another reason to turn off auto-update on any iOS device

Huawei P10 Plus: The bigger brother is the real contender

Ins and Outs

An infrared "blaster" and infrared sensor are two different things. Which is it?

Y'know CSS was to kill off HTML table layout? Well, second time's a charm: Meet CSS Grid

you still can't do basic things with this new spec:

- create a row of equal-width buttons (width determined by the largest label)

- a label next to a text field with their baselines vertically aligned.

Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death dead in latest Windows 10 preview

This should make it easier to super-impose Shia Leboeuf shouting, "Just reboot!"

Google and Facebook pledge to stop their ads reaching fake news websites

Correction, the election was decided by less than 0% of the votes. The winner received roughly NEGATIVE 1 percent more votes.

Apple to automatically cram macOS Sierra into Macs – 'cos that worked well for Windows 10

Re: anti-Microsoft rant more like...

@joed

You can disable iOS system updates by following these instructions:

https://writekay.github.io/Disable-OTA/

IBM punts devs to HCL

Is HCL an acronym?

What's up with companies that use initials as their name, but don't want to share with anyone what they mean?

Sony levels up PlayStation 4

So games will have half the frame rate in 4K?

Update your iPhones, iPads right now – govt spy tools exploit vulns

It's time for Apple to allow users to install 3rd party browsers that run as regular sandboxed apps, so that browsing the web doesn't end up installing a root kit

What's losing steam at Apple? Pretty much everything

Wrong turns

Apple continue to make poor design choices, like MacBook trackpads that no longer move, and keyboards that barely move.

I went to buy a new iPad last weekend, excited about the keyboard cover. After using it for a minute, I found it extremely annoying that it had a key for emoji, but no ESC key. WTF?!

The fork? Node.js: Code showdown re-opens Open Source wounds

Why did this break builds

If I had a project that needed pad-left 0.3, I would download a copy and that would be the end of it.

Please stop setting "zoom: 1"

Please stop setting "zoom: 1"

I've been doing web development for 10 years, but I have no idea why this site needs to add the styling "zoom: 1" to the <body> of every page. This breaks the Safari extension "ZoomBySite", which remembers the user's desired scaling for each site, reapplying it each time a site's page has loaded. It's a bit of a race between the two,but half of the time some misguided bit of JavaScript from this site comes along and overwrites the zoom level set by this extension.

It's pretty annoying. I haven't run into this problem on any other website.

PARIS paper plane lands in Spanish school textbook

Learn how to embed images

In a web page. It's not that hard.

Louisville says yes to Google Fiber. Funny story: AT&T, TWC didn't want that to happen

Re: Good.

Google fiber came to our neighborhood a few months ago. The installers did cut both the cable lines and AT&T fiber. Sidewalks were dug up for a month to repair.

Microsoft sinks to new depths with underwater data centre experiment

Here for mobile devices?

Has this site still not figured out how to embed an image in an article without distorting the aspect ratio?

RSA asks for plaintext Twitter passwords on conference reg page

Single sign-on?

"into a page that is obviously not using single sign-on"

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Google engineer names and shames dodgy USB Type-C cable makers

If I had a nickel

For every time someone skimped out on a pull-up resistor...

Flickering screens turn Microsoft Surface Books into Microsoft Surface paperweights

Discrete GPU

Just the kind of thing demanding enterprise customers need.

Hacker-friendly Chrysler hauled into court for class-action showdown

HTTP is not a security concern. Every new firmware has to be signed by FCA. A man in the middle would have no way to sign any malicious code.

Silicon Valley sides with Samsung in anti-Apple patent war

Just the facts

SAS Institute is located in Cary, NC, not Silicon Valley.

Apple CEO: Fandroids are BINNING Android in favour of IPHONES

In my case, I had an iPhone 5S with AT&T, but bought the contract-free T-Mobile phone to replace it (to keep my $25/mo. BYOD discount). I'm pretty sure my purchase was tallied under the wrong column

Apple's 16GB iPhones are a big fat lie, claims iOS 8 storage hog lawsuit

Apple uses standard plugs when they are not shit. For example, the headphone/microphone jack is standard 1/8th inch plug. Micro USB is crap!

BEHOLD Apple's BENEVOLENCE! iMessage txt BLACK HOLE finally fixed

A PROPER fix

…would be:

[If recipient is an active* iMessage user]

1) Sender's iPhone sends the message to Apple

2) Apple always dispatches the messages to the PHONE over SMS, but would still use TCP/IP to push messages to non-phone clients like OS X, iPad, etc.

AFAIK, it is trivial for Apple to spoof an SMS to a phone and make it look like it originated from the sender's phone. The receiving phone could still color the bubble blue based on the sender being an "active iMessage user".

*within some timeout period.

Apple's OS X Yosemite slurps UNSAVED docs into iCloud

Re: So how else did you...

Since both devices must have bluetooth on AND be on the same wifi network, there are certainly other avenues over which one might imagine the handoff to occur.

In addition, Apple's own instructions (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6337) only mention signing into the same iCloud account. They don't say anywhere that syncing "Documents & Data" must be enabled.