Posts by dssf

Apple pays up for stealing design from Swiss Railways

Re: Precision?! Precision with a

Margin of error of 1.46784936274869699785635375868746354 seconds, hahaha

But, has Apple argued that the registration expired?

If not, then apple cannot take any "moral high groung" simply because there could be not accidental use of the trademart or registered mark or copyright. With all the clearances and checking a company the size of apple or any smaller one, SOMEbody should have asked the artists or art department to declare the source or inspiration, and tondeclare at risk of termination that the work is original.

If apple did not use image matching software nor in advance consul over this, the Swiss should hold the secred aplke swiss bank account ransome, the lower its interest earnings, and threaten to leak the particulars if apple ever again so callously and brazenly hijacks the art of ANY other entity, not just a Swiss entity. Now, THAT would be "taking a moral high ground" if i can say so.

Swiss photographer sues Apple for pilfering her eyeball

Swiss Cheese Time?

Maybe Apple will get an EARfull for that EYEpull?

All Aplle had to do was just put on a new layer various strokes, some rouge, new eyelashes, and a generic, uncopyrighted face. What? Is Apple too poor to just do it legit?

Ironic, that an artsy firm lifts well-known or violations-discoverable works of a represented and known Artist.

Google readying on-device malware scanner for Android

ABOUT TIME!!!

And, while you're at it, throw in some cream such as an intrusion detection suite, a form of firestarter, a form of etherape, and a clearing house reporting too. Oh, and some surgical formware on a chip that stores the baseline and known-good versions of every app the user has space to back up, so the user can surgically inspect, report, refer forensically to CERT or law enforcement, and then nuke.

Oh, wire in some noscript, adblock plus, and...

Oh, wait, i am expecring wayyyyyy too much...

Yale finds second diamond planet

DeBeers and....

Weyland Industries/Weyland-Yutani, hahahahaha

Google updates Street View with 250,000 miles of footage

Still, no

http://busanhaps.com/article/national-maritime-museum-open-july-9th

http://www.nmm.go.kr/

http://www.nmm.go.kr/english/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maritime_Museum,_South_Korea

In google maps, "busan maritime museum" brings up four flags for unrelated things, such as hotels....

I mentioned this about a month ago when the amaps issues was discussed here...

Galaxy Nexus cleared for sale by US court

See, Karma can be a

Well, we know it seems to be in this case.

Serenading mice can sing along if you hum a few bars

I heard mice sing...

Out "squeeeee squeeee squeee squee squ..." after dropping them down a trash chute once they were stuck on sticky tape traps. I hated killing them. I think they made a lifetime "note" of it 4 stories down.

(Wasn't as catchy as ABC's "16-Storey Halo", mind you....)

Skype worm chats up victims - then holds PCs to ransom

g+ is vulnerable, too

In Shanghai, in Sept, my gplus session suddenly in two different nigts had strange urls suddenly appear during conversation with a friend in Korea. Really unnerving. I am not given to murder, but with power and no adverse personal consequences to myself, i would globally malevolently expunge every person who ransomed, stole, or destroyed data or work of any civilian and those who authorized, schemed, enabled, obscured, and funded it. I probably would leave alone the state-state and mil-mil levels of the dirty and dangerous game. But, anyone fucking with ordinary civilians or business people would be fair game, gov payroll or not.

(Maybe i should not have said this....)

BBC unveils UltraViolet DVDs, BDs

UV

Whoaa... For a sec, I thought I saw "UltraVioleNt"....

Canada: We'll boot 'security risk' firms from gov network bid race

LOL!!!!!

In other words:

"I'm not going to say I'm going to comment before i say: "I’m not going to comment on any one company in particular. I’ll leave it to you if you think Huawei should be a part of the Canadian government security system."""

Heheheehe....

Is lightspeed really a limit?

Re: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Are you Cavil, or the

Hybrid? Can you show me how to download?

Re: wow that graph... Peter Maxx

Peter Max and those 1970's bed linens come to mind, hahaha. And, a live action cartoon show of the 70's does, too.

http://www.petermax.com/

Face-recognising spy drone tech tapped up by... Quantum

Re: Not to be a pedant, but...

Optional, until a lawyer or a case clerk bungles a case. Or, a company weasels out of a contract because two options are deemed mandatory, or because two must-have triggers are declared optional. Making the comma use an option in lists and clauses can prove to be and probably has been dangerous on occasion.

Segue/anectode ("seguedote", to coin a phrase): It is almost as annoying as actors and actresses who have a verbal run-on speaking style. Granted, it sounds "natural", but it has a distraction/distracting quality in that it sometimes seems the actor or actress wants to be pretentious, or that the dialog writer is cramming as much speech per minute as possible, leading to a dizzying experience for some viewers. ST Voyager's Captain Janeway gave me that impression. But, I liked Kate Mulgrew as an actress, and, I was happy to see Trek finally air a regular, multi-season female ship driver in the multi-years series.

Anyway, cheers!

Not to be a pedant, but...

Should not there be a comma after items in a series (total greater than two items that clearly are not composing a pair or group best served without a comma, or when words chosen clearly are to be separated for effective distinction) preceding 'and'?

I suspect that the company in the story supplied the lists and buzzwords....

"Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance"

should read as:

”Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance” the way I was taught in the 80's. Today, even journos commit this flagrant error, and numerous of them have for decades. Just as bad, teachers of English as a second language also commit this offense.

Before anyone downmods me, note that I readily state that my posts have typos and will in the future. But, I am not a journalist, news reporter, or any other authoritative source.

I just have a pet peeve with lists lacking proper comma delimiting. (I suspect that i will regret having posted this...)

EU green-lights 'copyright land grab' law on orphan work

Re: @Kevin Johnston

imagine whatnthis would do TODAY to facebook's value. In Korea and oter places, ones mobile allows scrawling on and obscuring faces. Writing or stamping copyright info was easy on my Vodafone Sharp V402SH in 2004. Today, it seems it is a conspiracy that ordinary people (responsible one at least) cannot easily, freely (as in money free) tag and watermark their photos prior to uploading. That would probably, however, gut much of the implied or imputed, unspoken value of most social sites and book publishing sites that might still angle to get a right in work they did not fund, produce, represent, or otherwise other than acting as a repository or hosting site.

Is Oracle squeezing the MySQL lemon too hard?

Re: All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.. jump!

" The excited state decays by vibrational relaxation into the first excited singlet state. Yes, yes and merrily we go. Reduce atmospheric nitrogen by 0.03%. It is not much consolation that society will pick up the bits, leaving us at eight modern where punishment, rather than interdiction, is paramount. Please, cut the fuse. They will not harm their own. End of line. Limiting diffusions to two dimensions increases the number of evolutionary jumps within the species. Rise and measure the temple of the five. Transformation is the goal. They will not harm their own. Data-font synchronization complete.

Seized by God, they cry for succour in the dark of the light. Mists of dreams dribble on the nascent echo and love no more. Jump. Counting down. All functions nominal. All functions optimal. Counting down. The center holds. The falcon hears the falconer. Infrastructure, check. Wetware, check. Everyone hang on to the life bar, please.

Apotheosis was the beginning before the beginning. Devices on alert. Observe the procedures of a general alert. The base and the pinnacle. The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal and that which passes."

JUMP!!!!

Sorry... Could ... Not... Resist

LASER STRIKES against US planes on the rise

Recall Soviet aircraft using laser dazzlers against F-14 and other pilots

I the late 80's, iirc, the then-Soviets were using lasers far more powerful than gag or prankster laser pointers. It was so severe a threat (the fear that Soviets would sorty enough aircraft to dazzle-blind a nuc bomber mission or other ops) that the US military began coating the cockpit canopies, modifying optics, helmet eyewear, and possibly the instrument panels readouts, at great fortune to the public. But, it had to be done.

Now, as with statistics and stalling on pre-911 cockpit break-ins, fliers in the civilian community seem bent on not being proactive. The risk is small, the price is high, and proactivity, no matter the cost, is priceless. Makes me wonder how many crashed planes at the runway edge were victims of dazzling.

I predict an increase of $2-10 tacked on to airfares in affected countries, but then for compatibility, all countries that fransfer or ferry passengers from the participating countries.

Dazzling cockpits is a reprehensible, vile act. But, there is no way in hell the airliners and private fliers should be allowed to fly until the demonstrate they have countermeasures or autolanders that will assist or take over at the push of a button. At some point, complacency won't be compatible with insurance policies.

It also might help if airports had an ability to sweep the laser spectrum to locate vantage points so those can be monitored or encircled within a minute of a laser sighting. May not prevent, but may dissuade most who might consider this dangerous behavior.

Unfortunately, if this gets out of hand, certain manufacturers will become beneficiaries.

Astroboffins to search for mega-massive alien power plants

Maybe Dyson WAS an “Otherworlder“

Here to observe, but stuck around for the exspheriance and smoked a few and the chemical interaction bried his frain, inducing him to surt specrets in incoferent hashion. Some enterstrising apronomer hicked up on the pints and and ran with a few clopped drues.

I wonder how big a Dyson Bong would be...

(Clisdaimer: i am not poking smot, and i don't drue dugs)

Re: I question the leap of logic for Dyson Spheres or cosmic PBR?

What about keeping the population near the harvested energy? Sounds a littlr like "V" to me, sans "Blue Energy".... But, if the population deemed travel elegible numbers beyond a few hundreds of thousands, you are talking about one cosmic ragtag fugitive fleet, a caravan of refugees that may eventually be seen as space vermin.... Roaming space and stripping planets of energy could become tiring for some who might just decide to stay behind.

Hey, space refugees tired of packing up and just wanting mortality coul be an alternate explanation of our own lineage, not that it is a novel idea....

PBR = Pebble Bed Reactor, for those wondering...

Pilfering sysadmin gets four years and $2.3m fine for kit theft

So, the breast implant upgrades rollout went...

tits-up, aye?

This will teach a lot of companies to match purchases and RMA activity and assets to ROLES and PERSONS, and conduct inbound/outbound audits far more frequently. Cross reference EVERYthing right down to the PO, site, counterpart part or assembly, and people involved. If any one memnber is in on a scam, others involved might be sussed out, too.

Top admen beg Microsoft to switch off 'Do Not Track' in IE 10

Re: It's a good default the just rewards in that case...

ad block pro or plus

Vpn and black holers

Cookie poisoners

Ifnpeoplenwant to buy shit, theynwill pay attention tonthe ads. But,nthere is more to tracking than cookies. These invasive fuckers use browser and system fingerprinting techniques, as well as timing and characterizing our typing and clicking habits.

It will be popcorn time when privacy groups teach people how to use vpns, proxies, as blockers, white lists, and just plain furning off javascriot and flash, and learning how to live on a leaner diet of blitzing eye candy.

Admen: you have a rigt to advertise, not monitor and slurp.

Ten external battery packs

Re: Crummy selection here is one at 20,000mAh...

http://www.laptopbatteryinc.com/external-laptop-battery.htm

But, look at all the accessories, and the price. Still, it looks like a wort contender by dimensions and flatness to replace my nearly one inch thick Stiger 74Wh monster.

Re: amprere hours..... 74Wh...

http://www.made-in-china.com/showroom/netbookpowers/product-detailJenxOqsEguVb/China-Universal-Battery.html

Shows a battery i bought in 2009 or 2010, but mine has a red LED, not blue.

The thing is a heavy beast, maybe 2 pounds. It takes about 5 hours to fully recharge from depletion, using a provided adapter, which i do not take unless i will travel or be somewhere where i have time to rechareg the battery.

As for USING the battery, on my 17inch HP pavillion with 2 hard drives, host PcPlinuxOS/guest Win 7, i can get about 3.5 hours out of it with the hp battery in, already topped off. My 15" gateway in a similar setup but only on hdd, but with 4 cores or cpus, and less maniacal fan activity, sees almost 4 hours befor the Stiger winks out. After that, the laptop batteries kick in, and run about 2 hours each, no games, mostly CAD and document editing.

It also comes with about 7 adaptor tips, but i only have needed 2 of the types. It did not come with special USB or any proprietary tips or connectors, so, no way yet to test it against my hand phone or Galaxy Tab. This monster autosenses the needed load, putting out at voltages of 12.6, 14, 15, 16, 18, 18.5, 19, 19.5, 20, 22, and 24. It takes an input of 16.5v DC. It has an output current of 7,000mA (max), and has a capacit of 74Wh.

It cost me about USD $85 at the time, iirc. At one point, the store had a holiday sale and i was tempted to but 2 more since they were down to 50 dollars each. But, at the weight, it would be murder on air travel, and, iirc, the tsa limits the number if spare batteries per laptop.

Paul Allen: Windows 8 'promising' yet 'puzzling'

Re: tweak to the bumper bar, grille and taillights

May be more like added velvet or felt to the steering wheel and added a trick wheel for steering. Imagine how hard it is for most people to safely use a trick wheel, thus the illegality of their use in vehicles.

An anecdote

Seems ms went too far, too fast trying to differentiate the UI, possibly to not let Mac OS and KDE/Compiz/Plasma outdo win. Just look at that fiasco with vista and 7 and Aero. Heck, ms and the graphics chip makers would have the consumer buy souped up hardware, such as 8 GB of RAM, maybe a 1 GHz CPU, and more, just to get Peek and a few other things. Meanwhile, way back in 2006, or earlier, tho Linux is not mainstream, Metisse, Compiz, and other enhancements i would show off would wow most (except nonplused or irritated devs who would slight or question the utulity or value it it). And, that was translucency, fire, snow, wobbles, animated shring and maximizes, and more -- in 64 MB of graphics RAM and 1 GB of system RAM, and a celery system of around 800 MHz.

From Russia with gov: PM Medvedev glad-hands Zuckerberg

And China cannot buy or heavily invest in...

USA windfsrms due to "nztional securit"? Hshshshs.... I am laughing in confusion...

US court lifts ban on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

Now, let this be a precursor to ending

patent madness and abuse, and a unwinding of other, issued patents based on undisclosed awareness of prior art.

Huawei: Inside the lair of the not-so-hidden dragon

a few thoughts

"I like my job....." came to mind as i thought of Simon van Gelder, hahaha

As for patents, they better recognize that it is not a novel idea to cool cabinets vs the entire roo. That idea and actuality can be seen in IT spaces back at least 5 years refined and 10 years in more primitive implementations. What will be novel or, rather, patent worthy will be SPECIFIC components in the arrangement. But, just look at car engines: cooling tubes and ducts can be found doing their tasks in various areas of the engine compartment because ambient airflow is either inefficient or virtually nonexistent.

Logan‘s Run.... Hahaha, i like that reference, as it was van Gelder i was thinking of just before seeing tge LR reference.

AMD, Oracle tag-team on GPU acceleration for Java apps

And i was hoping to read...

" ... But ultimately, the whole point is to make this a new operating system, transparent to users."

Firefox's birthday present to us: Teaching tech titans about DIY upstarts

wxWidgets... Julian and Harriet Smart

May the Lords of Kobol guard and guide them, for these two are among the enligtened few who DO let us have a choice of and one each of Linuc, Mac, and Windows versions of StoryLines/Writer's Café.

http://www.anthemion.co.uk/

I only stumbled upon them years ago not because i was looking for screenplay software or for a way to politically grind an axe, but because -- IIRC -- i was looking for ships related software, and wxWidgets was in tne search return, in, -- IIRC -- Opera or Firefox. Pursuing curiosity, i found Writer's Café. I have bought at least two versions, or one and updated at least or maybe twice.

Why the hell will not many other developers do it? I believe they are beholden to ms and apple marketing dollars and fiendish servile mentality, and chasing that Almighty Dollar. IIUC, in the case of Korea, two factors keep ms ahead, aside from ms dollars: it is easier for government and banks to herd and reinforce supporting ms first, mac grudgingly, and linux almost nil. And, developer or developers' bosses' arrogance and pride refuse to more openly cater to Linux. Just try using Naver or banking, or a slew of other apps online in Korea and feel fury engulf you because you must have ie and active x or other ms layers on a machine the server can graft onto... Ummm, work with.

There are some database and accounting packages, too, written by enlightened people.

World's power-grid cyber breach traced to notorious Chinese crew

"They've locked on to my TRIcorder...

SpPHISHticated in their methods.... "

Cue the slow leadup and fight audio music of the episode "Arena", and keep repeating, "IF he has the TIME. If he has the TIME, Doctor."

Re: "smart grids" Now *all* your generating capacity *and* users belong to us.

In effect, the raiders are just relinking their remote nodes to the mothership.

US said to designate Assange 'enemy' of the state

Re: @ asdf "until the rest of the world quits lending us money" Eminent Domain

I wonder whether Chinese officials are reading this: SPRC could REVOKE Japan's purchase of the three remaining island Japan did not already own and add a kicker: declare eminent domain (or the PRC equivalent) a cite national security reasons.

See, not EVERYone holding a USA passport drinks the KoolAid...

I say this because it is interesting that the USA can revoke Chinese purchases of windfarms but China as yet seems slow to emulate that. Maybe thendifference is that somehow China lost effective control of the islands in question?

Re: @Bit Brain "Optional @John 104" Ah, but you see old chap as their......... "Decider"

"I'M THE DECIDER".... hahahaha

Thanks to various reasons, many STILL "misunderestimate" him, hehehehe

Tim Cook: 'So sorry for Apple's crap maps app - try Bing or Nokia'

Re: I often of late railed against Apple due to the lawsuit, but...

It looks like this:

http://english.busan.go.kr/07community/02_01.jsp?nSelected=&command=view&sn=1702&page=0&nowBlock=0

And, the nearby Busan Maritime University looks like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Maritime_University

And:

http://english.hhu.ac.kr/english/01/07.jsp

I often of late railed against Apple due to the lawsuit, but...

Lately, my Galaxy Tab 10.1 WiFi has seen google maps acting really dog slow, showing multiple overlay layer like presentation.

If you are in Busan and looking for the Busan Maritime Museum, you will not find it on google mas, even though it opened in July and is fully operational. I was there at least 3 times. As of 10 minutes ago, the international cruise terminal is still there, nut the Museum is a plot of vacant land. Even the nearby maritime academy has missing buildings.

One would imagine that all that tracking google does would would help google update genuinely public,operational, heavily-trafficked locations. Their algorithms should crawl official, open, public government web sites to corroborate the existence of and items around new sites.

Apple is not the only one having mapping problems.

Just, without searching, open google maps, pan over to South Korea, zoom in on the southeastern part at Busan, then further zoom in on Yeongdo Island and the International Cruise Terminal. Just southeast of that is visible an empty lot -- according to google maps. I do not use bing, and have not tried apple maps.

Mighty quake shook ENTIRE PLANET, broke tectonic plate

Re: Doomed! the thrust of if?

Is this is the slow thrust that is send the Earth's ass to a cracking, fitting/befitting end?

Fuming fanbois flood 'flimsy iPhone 5 Wi-Fi' forum

Re: What a fantastic user experience new iPhone users get

Does the expensive scratcher come with a free sniffer? (parfum, non-otc narcotics, or smelling salts, hahaha)

I wonder whether the scratches will start to put a dent in the sales of this model release. Surely this will be a poit release, the 5+M sales paying for the r&d for release 5s....

Did previous iPods scratchi like this iPhone? Would Jobs have allowed the iP5 to ship in this state?

(posting this too unnecessafuckingsarily lomg because android has a mindless cursor response in my htc and gtab, where the cursor insert point goes a line up or a para back rather than WHERE my finger on a clean display lands. Very goddamned maddening!) Forces me to trial-and-error snag the bitch and drag it several times before he stays put. Pisses me OFFFFFFFFF!

Just press the reset button with a stylus or pen tip. Or, remove the

battery, wait 20 seconds, then turn on to remove residual power, then reinsert the battery, and power up.

Oh, wait, the battery is not removable....

Curiosity photographs evidence of ancient streams on Mars

Re: Is it just me, or... Hahaha, your comment reminds me of...

Capricorn One, hahahaha, which i liked as a movie...

Google spikes old MS file formats

Re: But MS Office isn't backwards compatible.

Migt still be possible to use an older and cheaper copy of Lotus SmartSuite, from around 2002....

Japanese boffins unfurl banner above newly-discovered Element 113

Re: Element 119 and beyond? Islands of stability ...

Well, as long as they do not do something incredibly or end-credibility-stupid with Astatine and drop two Ts and create massively deadly radiation along the way, then they won't create a dubious new element: ASININE????

sorry.... Could.. Not... Re... Cyst my elemental silliness, hahahaha

Sharp to slice 11,000 job in bid to slash losses

Has Sharp asked Apple to make a cutting incision?

It could really burn.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57504255-501465/sharps-apple-iphone-displays-behind-schedule-report-says/

But, it is also understandable from Apple's position that Apple doesn't want to own factories, or huge chunks of them...

Motorola, Samsung smash Apple's touchscreen patent claim

Re: Now if they made it two lawyers... but..

cockroaches would not survive blenders and steamrollers....... Chop-n-crush can deal with cockroaches, CEOs, and specific classes of lawyers....

Re: Apple to learn about MAD or, or...

SALT Treaty: Samsung-Apple Litigation Talks...

just in time for winter holiday hells bells

Mannheim Steamroller, cheerful music for Samsung, et ea, and tears of MAD sad angst for Apple...

Oh, and for the record:

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2012/09/22/dssf_Mannheim_Court_Finds_Samsung_Did_Not_Violate_an_Apple_Patent/

I wanted to throw in the Mannheim Steamroller barb days ago but figured the rabid would go nuclear all over me with a vengeance....

Unconsenting Facebookers exposed by Beacon denied payouts

"Substantial"

2 idiot judges outvote one sensible one? How the hell is $9,500,000 substantial punishment in the face of facebook's coffers?

Mannheim Court Finds Samsung Did Not Violate an Apple Patent

Mannheim Court Finds Samsung Did Not Violate an Apple Patent

http://view.koreaherald.com/kh/view.php?ud=20120921000776&cpv=0

"A German court on Friday found Apple Inc.’s patent infringement claim on Samsung Electronics Co. invalid, giving an upper hand to the South Korean company that suffered a crushing defeat in an earlier U.S. jury verdict.

The district court in Mannheim ruled Samsung didn’t infringe the iPhone maker’s patent on multi-touch flags. The patent is one of the six intellectual properties Apple addressed in its June 2011 claim against the South Korean tech titan."

Space shuttle to slip surly bonds of Earth one last time over California

Dangerous bits?

What, the thruster and engines fuel? A single example of any of most desktops and high-end laptos probably out compute all the combined computers aboard the Shuttles (not counting mission-specific computers that are not permanently wired into the Shuttles. IIRC, there was a point in time when some wrist watches were more powerful than certain Shuttles before they received upgrades...

Not picking sides. Just making an observation. So, please, no sphincter-ripping down-thumbing, thank you verry much :-)