Posts by FuzzyTheBear

Meteor swarm spawns new and dangerous branch

Sounds just like Donald :) Now can someone in the USA tell him he's fired ? :D

Republicans want IT bloke to take fall for Clinton email brouhaha

Re: I'm ignorant! But I'm commenting anyway!

Trump and Hillary .. there's 300 million Americans and the best they could find were these two boyos ?

Really ? America is really THAT pathetic ? Guess so ..

Astro-boffinry breakthrough: Loads of ingredients for life found on Saturn's Enceladus

Any way we look at Cassini

It's been one of the most fantastic adventures of mankind yet. The science , the imagery , Huygens landing , this has been a stellar bright mission and accomplishment. Congratulations to the engineering team that gave us such a great ship. Ill be sad to see it plunge , but then again , it's time to say bye bye and thanks for all it did for us. Mission accomplished. o7

'Tech troll' sues EFF to silence 'Stupid Patent of the Month' blog. Now the EFF sues back

The valuable bits ?

From the patent :

" ... this invention uses a combination of Flash VOS VTOC and ACPI to perform “Cold Swaps” or “Context Switching”, which remove one active OS temporarily from all or part of memory and replace it with another active OS in all or part of memory.

Looks to me like that is the part they think has value

Re: "organizes files and operating systems into "virtual cabinets.""

Keep reading

".. this invention uses a combination of Flash VOS VTOC and ACPI to perform “Cold Swaps” or “Context Switching”, which remove one active OS temporarily from all or part of memory and replace it with another active OS in all or part of memory."

I believe that's the part they think has value.

Put down your coffee and admire the sheer amount of data Windows 10 Creators Update will slurp from your PC

Come on ..

At some point there's going to have to be something else than having to suffer the digital rape that's windows 10. I know little about WHY on earth anyone would do this to themselves. I got on Mint , Steam , PlayOnLinux and never looked back. All the stuff i need to do can be done with a trustable OS .

I dont get it. Maintenance on this PC is zero. Why on earth is anyone still suffering at the hands of the likes of Microsoft ?

Why do you like to suffer ? What's keeping you , holding you back from the transition ?

I dont get it. Really .. after 16 fucking years of Linux i finally see no reason to use windows at all.

Consider the alternatives and adapt is my saying. Anyways " We are the Linux geeks , resistance is futile , you will be assimilated along with your technology " LOL

Teenagers think Doritos are cooler than Apple

What's cool ?

Yeah Doritos man .. btw , at the moment they got ketchup Doritos for a short while , awesome d00d ..

And no , they haven't got databases with all your life in it. So 2 reasons right there to like Doritos more than Google. Pathetic ? you bet :) As for Apple ..there's billions of things on earth cooler than them , they're called girls :)

Dishwasher has directory traversal bug

Whirlpool Hobart been in the house since 1978 . Never failed once yet ... Norge fridge dated 1949 also still on the job. They made em to last a lifetime indeed and agreed Miele is doing great quality ,imho , professional stuff , the network plug is one too many.

That 'Trump lawyers threaten teen over kitten website' yarn is Fakey Fakey McFake Fakeface

Really ..

He should have more sense than have people threaten kids in his name.. but he don't ..

One thing he is though is totally lacking any of the skillset required for a head of state.

An incompetent liar that will be remembered as the " most unqualified for the position " president ever AD

How the hell did the USA sink so low ?

Fire brigade called to free man's bits from titanium ring's grip

Re: Unusual

i can just hear the laughter of the firemen in the backrooms and corridors on that one :)

Facebook, Instagram: No, you can't auto-slurp our profiles (cough, cough, border officials)

Best

move is not to play. Assume that the moment you upload data to the net it's fully public. Do like most people in high places do .. don't use that crap if you want to keep stuff private. Really .. when you think about it well you will have the same conclusion ..don't. In many ways we led better lives , experienced more freedom and were way more secure than before it's proliferation to the masses. This is something that on retrospective should never have proliferated to the public. The idea was nice , but the governments made it into an inferno Dante would have been proud of. Orwell himself would have flipped his lid. Networks and machines are nice , we do fantastic stuff .. it's just what we have done with it , what the Governments have done with it that's the fuck up. Don't blame the machines , blame the humans 18 inches from the screen. lol

Force employees to take DNA tests for bosses? We've got a new law to make that happen, beam House Republicans

Re: Unicornpiss @GATTACA

US health system is the worst in the dang universe.No money you die.( i saw it while living in the USA ) Look at civilised countries , we ALL offer healthcare to everyone .There's no company that needs to provide anything , teeth work in some places but we don't need to disclose anything to anyone.

Want to repel a headache having to do all this administrative bullshit in company ? .. National Universal Health Care Works for countless countries and billion + individuals.

At leasy we don't let people die because of lack of coverage. Which you do everyday by the hundreds.

We dont take the uninsured mental patients in an ambulance dropping them at a park to get rid of them.

One thing Americans must start to understand is compassion and that each of them have a responsibility to another. That last one , they will never understand.

FBI boss: 'Memories are not absolutely private in America'

Re: Trust your government?

if only they would explode every now and then ..

Get this: Tech industry thinks journos are too mean. TOO MEAN?!

Ok for me , not ok for you ..

... even if doing so generates more revenue. " So tech companies who do everything and anything for a buck is telling the tech press they shouldn't ? hmm .. kettle ,pan,black ? On top of that , telling the press what to do is kind of " who the hell do they think they are ? " If the technology sucks , that's the press it deserves. If the tech's good , they get the words too. IMHO they should have just shut up.

Oracle refuses to let Java copyright battle die – another appeal filed in war against Google

Simplify man

If you don't understand what's happenin' d00d it's simple .. the writers of SCO vs IBM have written a sequel .. it's Google vs Oracle :) Just as idiotic and pointless as the first volume.

Want to come to the US? Be prepared to hand over your passwords if you're on Trump's hit list

The USA

has become the arch enemy of freedom and liberty ... in a way , they make Russia look good

Coming to the big screen: Sci-fi epic Dune – no wait, wait, wait, this one might be good

Re: And all this time, I thought ...

According to my data , the bible would be it ..

Flight simulator sets fire to airport

Realism ?

This is a great simulator .. real flames .. man .. what will they think of next ?

Spotty battery life costs Apple's MacBook Pro its gold-star rating

ifs

If they had nothing to hide they would have nothing to fear responding to this publication's requests for comments MU HA HA HA HA

Merry Christmas

Kentucky pried chicken: Fried grease chain's loyalty club hacked

An alternate

Since publishing the original reciepe ( Chicago Tribune ) a lot of folks like me have took the opportunity to refine the technique and actually do a better ,healthier fried chicken than what they do.

IMHO There is no need to go there at all since we got the reciepe and what it yields is a better product.

Turn your kitchen in a lab for a few days , experiment with the formulas ,changing oil temps , fine tuning the herbs and spices to your liking and for you too it will be adios KFC . Free your mind ... and at the same time .. free your stomach of their absolutely toxic chicken.

Loyalty card? Really? Why data-slurping store cards need a reboot

Just say no..

It's simple .. they track you , keep files on you , the government does too , facebook is the instrument of the US Government to keep tabs on everyone .. we wont get into Win 10 .. now the British government want to be able to lie in court .. ain't it just time to give up the net , get back into a cabin near a lake and go back to our roots ? The world they want is not the world i want to be a part of.

Wannabe Cali governor gives up against beach-blocking billionaire VC

Send in the clowns

The guy breaks the law ? send in the state troopers to force open the access , force their way to the beach and be done with this idiot .. did i say clowns ? i meant gentlemen of the law .. of course .. :)

Drops the mic... Hang on, hackers could be listening through my headphones?

Re: Odd

Note that this is as old as the world, speakers have been used as mics in intercom systems as long as i can remember. The way they exploit with the realtek ( of which i have one ) is kind of funny .. let em listen to the input noise of my power amp ,see if i care :)

Trump hires very best, greatest net neut haters to head FCC transition

Bandwidth

On net neutrality. Does anyone believe for one minute Google or any other large outlet don't pay for their access ? Carriers , carry. That's their job ,they lay down the infrastructure and charge customers for their use of their pipes. Whatever is carried is none of their business. They got pipes and rent pipes. Whatever the pipe carries is none of their business period. The claim that they carry stuff that is valuable to others is not a valid argument. They rent pipes and charge for their use. That's the job of a carrier.

Anything else is argumentative bullshit trying to steal value from other companies who's job is content and do well at it.

AI can now tell if you're a criminal or not

Politicians

I'd like that program to be run with a set of politician pictures.

Compare the results with known crooks liars and cheats that backstab the voters :)

Trump's torture support could mean the end of GCHQ-NSA relationship

Re: I despair

Wait ... can Canada join the EU ? :)

And yes .. patriotic Canadian beavers are already hard at work erecting a wall all along the US/Canada border and preparing to send the bill to Donald ..

And i thought electing Justin was bad :| Dang im proud of being THIS side of the border.

Wait ..

Do you REALLY believe that's all they're doing ? Splashing a cloth with water ?

Get real .. Behind the walls unseen .. in CIA's offshore prisons , for people they hand over to third parties this is not even the beginning of how they torture people. Intelligence is the dirtiest of all games , all countries have to play it. It's kept away from our eyes cause we would not be able to stand looking at how the game is really played . At how the people that are hired to do the job for us and our countries have to play the game . This is no fantasy , this is war .. no sides can afford to play any differently.

British mobile AI 'bot perfecter stalked by Silicon Valley – report

AI it's all about where ?

If the data and processing is done " in home " on a PC and that the data used is strictly kept in home ,away from vultures like Google and Facebook , good , full speed ahead .. but if it becomes only one more way to pry into private lives ,feed the intelligence agencies and sell advertisement i say let it die.

I can already picture ...

" The answer to your question is brought to you by the makers of Nausea .. "

See what i'm saying ?

Living with the Pixel XL – Google's attempt at a high-end phone

Missing ..

I often go down to basics and i'm generally getting shot for it .. but , with all the gadgetry around the basic phone questions are often overlooked , how well does it actually carry voice , voice quality , clarity , how easy is it to find the " sweet spot " to actually hear anything when answering ? How sensitive is the mic to background you don't necessarily want the other end to hear ? Seems reviews of phones are more about their gadgets than down to ground questions like : how well does it handle calls.

Finally, that tech fad's over: Smartwatch sales tank more than 50%

Make it ..

make a cell phone the size of a watch , just making phone calls , not a smart phone , just a phone and i'd get one.

for the rest .. there's <insert brand here>

Congress presents plan to tighten reins on FBI hacking

Listen ....

It will change nothing .. You really think that the FBI will abide and play by the rules of the law ?

ROFL

Mine's the one with the " i'm dying laughing call 911 " crest on the back

The exploding Note 7 is no surprise – leaked Samsung doc highlights toxic internal culture

I love this

" Punishment of Kim Young-tae and the mind control of our employees. "

Says all i needed to know in that slide . Samsung is crossed out my purchase supplier list.

I'm getting out of here..

Caring ?

If they don't give a ____ about their employees , you really think they will do differently about a tech news outlet ? I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for an answer.

My coat please ..

US govt straight up accuses Russia of hacking prez election

Rewrite phrase ...

" could have authorized these activities " in " could have requested these activities to take place in order to interfere with the internal politics of another sovereign nation. "

I therefore make the observation and propose that WE send them the ball back and hack their servers and publish emails, internal party notes , memos , papers and everything they use the internet for and put it on sites that can be accessed by their population. .. Restart the old shortwave stations , boost power by 100 and broadcast to their population programs where their memos are read live on the air .Give them a notice : stop hacking us or we chop in one foot pieces the cables that links them to the internet from their country and send the pieces back one by one in boxes marked " postage due " to the Kremlin.

Why play Mr Nice Guy ?

Snoop! stooge! Yahoo! handed! all! your! email! to! Uncle! Sam! – and! any! passing! hacker!

Mandatory disclosure ..

That is one case where the company should be forced to disclose to ALL it's email accounts holders that they done so and provide a link to delete their data and account in one click. Their mail service is to be avoided and as far as i am concerned , was deleted the moment Reuters broke the news.

I highly encourage those who haven't done so yet to do it.

Shame on America. They don't deserve neither our friendship ( what was left of it ) nor our business.

EFF dinks HP Inc finks in rinky-dink ink stink

err .. WAIT !

Did they say..." secure communications between printer and ink cartridge " ?

Has there ever been an exploit where a " rogue " ink cartridge actually infected computers ?

Sounds total bull to me .. but what do i know ..

R2D2 delivery robots to scurry through the streets of San Francisco

Re: The same goes for the Amazon Drones

The logical next step is to have the robots carry concealed firearms in their bellies to shoot any unauthorised person handling them . Think Rise of The Machines :)

Rise of the Machines at Sea: The British firm building robot boats

Re: Roboats?

Also coming in handy would be the " kick in the pants " icon

A few more i can think of , but they're unprintable in a classy ,family friendly ,publication like the Reg ..

Yeah .. more than time to call it quits for the week ..

Hello, Star Trek? 25th Century here: It's time to move on

Time ...

for the whole Star Trek franchise to imitate Picard and > baldly < > ha ha < go where no one has gone before .. in mothballs.

US tech college ITT is not pining for the fjords. It is no more. It has gone and met its maker

Special ed kids

I asked Frank's teacher why they weren't making a honest effort to teach him how to read and write ..

" We need people to pick the garbage up in the city ( Jacksonville Nathan A Forest High School ) .. that's what we're preparing him for "

Need i say more of the US Education system ?

Apple is making life terrible in its factories – labor rights warriors

Re: Apple Has No Factories. Talk to Foxconn et al. Instead.

They only care when public relations are a nightmare.

BBC detector vans are back to spy on your home Wi-Fi – if you can believe it

Re: Same old, same old from the Telegraph

Alternative is to stop the licensing nonsense and just fund the BBC with income taxes within the country's budget and say bye bye to the snooping.

Don't tell me you can't levy a bit more taxes from your multi billion dollar profit making banks and the richest of your country that keep you poor on purpose of making good slaves out of you :)

Reach into their pockets for once and publically fund the BBC like we do with the CBC

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Milk IN the teapot: Innovation or abomination?

Slow ?

Must be a hell of a slow day at the office to stir a storm about milk in a teapot.

Solve this by having several teapots

a) carries straight tea

b) tea and milk

c) tea milk and sugar etc etc ..

The End . J.C. i need a drink .. sunglasses on .. let's get the hell out of here

Have a good weekend

Bomb-disposal robot violently disposes of Dallas cop-killer gunman

Upped the ante.

When will we see suspects armed with drones bombing the shit of civilians from a remote location ?

That is my very real nightmare .

Israeli tech firms make their exits, stage rich

Re: Trust ?

LMAO

Cheers .. ill drink a pint to that one :)

You just made my day

Trust ?

We say we don't trust the Chinese for equipment cause of backdoors bla bla ..

Now , can the Israeils with their agencies be any more trusted than the Chinese ?

Can their " cyber security " be any more trustworthy than the chinese's ? I doubt it very much.

In fact .. when cyber security is concerned , no country , the US , England , Israel , China or Russia can be trusted to give us secure equipment or applications not backdoored to serve their masters.

Security is an illusion. It's just a matter of taking sides imho.

Lesser of two evils ?

iOS flaw exploited to decrypt iMessages, access iThing photos

Assuming ....

You assume that the FBI is being thuthfull when they say they can't , which of course is a serious mistake. Never trust the agencies to come out and tell the truth. NEVER .

Slack smackback: There's no IRC in team (software), say open-sourcers

Major error

With IRC you need to rely on a pastebin and file upload service to handle code and files.

That's false

Ex HexChat Just right click the user , send file simple .

Saying there's no way to send a file on IRC is totally false and has been for at least 10 years .

Check facts before publishing.

Brit spies can legally hack PCs and phones, say Brit spies' overseers

You are patient..

I wonder how long you guys will endure this Orwellian nightmare without revolting. It's insane. The Stasi would be raving jealous of what you have become.

Uber, Taskrabbit, other Silicon Valley darlings urge Europe not to screw their business

They can go take a hike.

Ex Taxi drivers .. they start the service , here in Montreal , don't pay taxes , screw up the real taxi drivers , their Uber drivers have no licence and pay no fees for their business , no permits nothing screwing the worker that feeds his family with his taxi, that is Uber drivershave no legal right ( the industry is ruled by law here ) to offer rides . Really

And they ask we let em do whatever the hell they want without following the laws and not paying taxes ? Yeah LIKE HELL