Posts by Tchou

New EXPLICIT pics support notion of moist, welcoming past for Mars

They carefully avoided the word "water", at least as El Reg reports the new.

All they say is that "a sustained flow" rounded stones corners.

Could have been another solvent; every river is not water in our Universe.

'Nothing will convince a kid that's never worn glasses to wear them'

Re: Why Kidz?

Don't you have the slightest concern about privacy?

NASA: Trip to Mars would exceed 'fatal cancer' radiation risk

Re: Trip to Mars == Suicide, maybe just getting there.

No no no it will happen like this :

a big ship assembled on Earth orbit, and an *instant* travel to the Red planet; using quantum motor the Nasa is working on. No worries about radiations as it moves in old fashioned 3D space. The weird part is that the travel would be virtually non existent for the ship and its crew while still be perceived as a few month long from Earth's perspective.

Could happen in no more than a 100 year.

Now where's the tin foil icon when you need it? Ho well "Windows User" will do just fine.

Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Microsoft no longer dominates PC biz

Re: Hmmm...closing a bug they didn't fix...and shouldn't have closed either...

It's probably very interesting, but hey... frankly your comment is way too long.

Planetary Resources turns to crowdfunding to help with satellite costs

10 000$ to private interests with no guaranties... what if they bankrupt or if the project is canceled?

Google cyber-knight lances Microsoft for bug-hunter 'hostilities'

Re: The SYSTEMATIC Fix

And your memory safe languages are build on what?

This just delegate security to a third party, which you know nothing about (code quality, practices, competence, etc...).

C and C++ are perfectly safe if used sanely.

MS "treating security bug hunters with “great hostility”.

Of course they do, for at least four reasons :

- Plenty of these bugs are really features requested and paid for by "security" agencies (NSA,...)

- MS don't give a fuck about end user's system security, but rather their generous sponsors (NSA...) interests

- Developing fixes cost money and reduce the functionalities requested by generous sponsors

- Publicly revealing these bugs make them exploitable by competing sponsors whose interest may diverge from those of the 51th state of America (by order of creation, but 1st by importance)

Now beaming live from Pyongyang: NORKSCASTS!

Re: Here's an idea..

While your comment is fun,

I can't help but notice that it promotes the idea that western capitalism is the only way to let technology flourish.

Google to double encryption key lengths for SSL certs by year's end

Re: In Other News...

US government? Ha yes : Honeywell, Boeing, Microsoft, .... tons of others.... and their secretary M. President.

SAP in search of autistic software engineers who 'think different'

Re: Patch

Following your logic, then it is all okay IF the plane is made by an autistic neophyte?

And if it was not what you meant (of it is not...) then how your intervention relate to what I wrote and the subject of the article?

Re: Patch

They don't care, I assure you. =D

Thanks anyway.

Re: Enjoying Being exploited

"I mean, if everyone was paid exactly what they were worth to the business, how would it ever turn a profit?"

It would because the (Top) Management would be paid (much) less than the production line.

And when you see where the profit is going after investment, one wonder if it's really a good thing *making profit*.... or to rephrase it *who* makes profits

Patch

Shouldn't they look for "software engineers who 'think different', autistic or not"?

That is, if the idea didn't came through the marketing department.

China's exposed crack cyberspy crew dumps 'most' of its kit

"The Comment Crew earned its nickname from its habit of embedding hidden code or comments in web pages." .... like 80% of developers who don't code for their own company... = D

Thinktank: 'Lab-smashing' Stuxnet helped Iran's nuke effort

Looks like...

...computer-killing "crazy ants" could be put to some effective use...

Who is the mystery sixth member of LulzSec?

Re: Just goes to show

The best hackers are the one with outstanding coding skills, the one who are game changers. They don't go for the lulz, but aim at being the bests. If they go down it is because they disrupt existing markets, established leaders.

Rare resource they are.

Mac malware found with valid developer ID at freedom conference

How to secure a computer against intrusions

Use two computers.

One that access the internet & networks,

One that does not (remove that wifi card, you never know...).

Not very convenient, alas.

British LulzSec hackers hear jail doors slam shut for years

What would be more....

... interesting would be an analysis of the various architectures & technologies attacked and how it coped with it.

Real data from real life situation, not security marketing lies.

My god, what's that STENCH belching from your iPhone?

How in hell...

... did they found willing investors for that?

Most brain science papers are neurotrash: Official

...and you can do statistics on anything without any proof.

British LulzSec member pleads guilty

In the 80's they would have cracked games, coded demos in Assembler, and would have been heroes.

Hey, The Replicants, you're not forgotten.

Apple kicked out of China smartphone top 5 by, er, Yulong and pals

Re: @ Tchou (@Ted Treen)

To say the truth im not anti-apple at all, they do great products altought a bit pricey for my taste.

What amaze me however is this claim of being/thinking "different/differently".

Please don't be picky with my english im not a native speaker.

Cheers!

@Ted Treen

"...anyone with the temerity to think differently..."

Hey come on this is Apple's punch line... How exactly are you thinking at all?

Zuckerberg loses $8bn in Facebook IPO fiasco

I wouldn't mind bringing to market a product that meet such a "miserable" end.

Office 365 turns Lotus eater

The feeding hand

Given the amount of efforts your spend defending Lotus Notes,

you appear like one of those Notes consultants : Irrational and impossible to technically speak with.

I know becauase I used to work with them.

The only peoples i've ever seen defending Notes weren't its users but its (interested) representatives.

Even Apples sometimes have worms in them, admits Cupertino

Mac are not PC's?

"...PC for Windows PC"

Then what do you call a computer that run Linux?

Is it not a PC?

And a Mac that run Linux and/or Windows?

French writers say OUI! to Google's book-slurp deal

Google...

... mes couilles sur ta tête.

Bought a new Mac Pro? 1-in-100 chance it'll destroy your data

2yo

You mean you pay thousands € for a system that need some hardware replacements a mere 2 years after purchase?

US okays release of bird flu research

Yeah right....

...and countries like Pakistan or North Corea could never build an atomic bomb because they don't have the methodology.

Unemployed offered money to watch grass grow

Re: Quite pants?

1700£ before or after tax?

I think in spain it makes a 30% diference.

Oracle v Google could clear way for copyright on languages, APIs

Exceptional move from Oracle

Java is loosing grounds for years.

Patenting it will just kill it sooner.

Kudos for Oracle, i never liked Java!

Euro climate probe Envisat silenced, boffins baffled

Withstood twice...

...the expected life-time.

It's good to know some stuffs are working great.

Naked gyrating iPad vid exposes truth behind Apple's billions

@AC 12 April 2012 15:05 Re: One of the best places to work?

You're dead wrong.

If it was a Samsung or Nokia spot, it would be propaganda too.

No one would then argue about a brand dislike. Only an Apple coerced mind could come with such a reversed logic.

Chinese military contractor hits back at hacktivist Hardcore Charlie

Re: OK, so lemme get this straight...

I don't know you but i already hate the logic behind your (eventual) code.

Commodore founder Jack Tramiel dies at 83

Re: Headed Commodore and Atari yet forgotten

GEM - Graphic Environment Manager

Copyright Digital Research - 1985

(For Atari ST systems)

At that time, Pc's were in text mode only and Apple II was sold with a similar graphic OS on a much cheaper hardware. Guess what, the Apple machine was the more expensive yet the most underpowered (arguably with Pc's).

'Thermal cloak' designed, could solve major chip, spacecraft issues

Typo

France National Center for Science Research is CNRS not CRNS (about line 7)

100 EARTH-LIKE PLANETS orbit stars WITHIN 30 LIGHT-YEARS!

Genocide

"...seeding them with suitably-adapted Earth life to create truly habitable worlds..."

So our first inter-stellar contact would result in a massive genocide to make the new planet suitable for Humans?

Evident?

We made it evident only for ourselves, and "intelligent" can be a sligthly different reality on another world...

Intel comfortably conquers chip market in 2011

Re: How do they make those numbers...

I guess i doesn't matter if you can by it or not.

I count as a sell for its maker. No Apple, no IBM.

That MYSTERY Duqu Trojan language: Plain old C

Re: "more efficient, smaller, faster, more flexible and re-useable"

Come on, didn't you caught my joke?

Surround yourself with try/catch mate, it could save you from saying stupidities....

Re: "more efficient, smaller, faster, more flexible and re-useable"

It is obviously about three times faster to type 'C' than 'C++'.

SourceForge pulls off fake, 'Trojan-wrapped' Anonymous OS tool

Re: Pwned

If one call himself a hacker in the original sense of the word, one would learn to programm his own versions of these tools.

New iPad: The only review roundup you'll ever need

Re: Mashable

I can't believe you were downvoted for that.

Apple assemble parts, they do not manufacture it and do not pay the R&D for it. They buy what's on the market, and the screen sold as Retina can be found (or will be) on other products under another name.

Cheers mate

SUPERCOMPUTER vs your computer in bang-for-buck battle

Re: Don't bad mouth the i7!

If you need computing power, you should consider going Xeon.

Re: The power of an 80's super computer....

I began using a computer with an Atari STF, 8Mhz, 1MB and i can tell you that "forever" was a lot longer than now.

MYSTERY programming language found in Duqu

Re: check for signs of

Are you allright?

Re: It's all a bit odd really

- Heuristic detection is not based on language pattern but on behavior.

- For any language, there's always a lot of ways to compile the code to native instructions. That's why there's different compilers out there and not just Microft Visual C++. They all produce different "signature" for a given code.

More likely than making their own language, they did their own compiler and coded the thing in C, using some libraries (they could have wrote them) that provided object orientation for C.

It make sense because using a close to hardware language gives you a closer representation of the native code you will get, thus allowing you to shape it at will, and make it harder to read.

You all think much too abstract.

Re: A layman writes

Excuse me but you accidentally mixed "white hats" and "a security firm" in the same sentence, as if they had anything in common.

Re: So AV firms forgot how to read x86 assembly?

Python is written in C.

It seems very unlikely that a skilled team of programmers relies on a high level programming language made by "average Joe" for a critical piece of code.