Posts by Tchou

Java won't curl up and die like Cobol, insists Oracle

You accidentally put "Java" and "powerful" in the same sentence.

French get unlimited mobile for €20

Unlimited calls for 20€.

Basic offer of 2 hours + 60 sms for 2€ (two €).

Data transfer capped at 3Go/month, it's pretty cool for a smartphone, and beyond 3 Go it's just slowed down, not blocked.

Pretty decent.

Once again, "La Révolution" starts in France.

Apple, RIM deny claims of data backdoor for Indian government

Patriotism is for the mass. It win some votes.

Liberal economy, unregulated finances, cross-continental companies; how could it bother with patriotism?

Sony website defacer pwned by second hacker

woah... tiresome. These stories makes me want to take a nap.

US 'space warplane' may be spying on Chinese spacelab

On an unrelated note, a Chinese deep space ship is spying on the American spying shuttle.

In a recent meeting, the ministries of defense of both countries were congratulating each others, and said "more stuff to come", at the great pleasure of representatives of the armament industry. Soon after, second hand ministries like education, health, ect... were announcing severe budget cuts, and a bank financial crisis du to corruption and bad management was subtly turned into a State payment fault into some never-heard-of countries across Europe, wich resulted in massive cash backs for banks disguised in "ok-let's-erase-a-100-billions-aren't-we-nice?" operation; wich in turn heavily finance the armament industry.

Or maybe it's just me.

Dammit Ramnit! Worm slurps 45,000 Facebook passwords

The worm might rely on Windows, it does not mean it's a Windows security issue.

A malicious program like a worm can be done on every OS.

PayPal dispute ends in 'violin destruction'

"If banks would only start cooperating... "

We and them don't have the same interests. They make money from our money and bill us for using our money through services that only exists thanks to our money.

Or something near that.

Anonymous hunts neo-Nazis with WikiLeaks-style site

You try to jump from legal ground to moral ground.

As your example show, there is no absolute moral. It is therefore useless to argue on the subject.

And as a matter of fact, i've never heard of denunciation lists of young girls clients at that time.

Pretty much like you didn't heard of sexual misconduct of Pharao in ancient Egypt, still he was having sex with his mother and sisters.

Point taken.

Still.... etc....

I totally agree.

Still, a group of individuals like Anon acting like Super Men is unacceptable.

YOU are full of bull shit.

I have no sympathy for Nazis, i talk about LEGAL political parties and DEMOCRATIC issues, none of wich are defended by the Anon actions you try to jutify

Massive fail Anon!

If this party is legal, YOUR action IS against democracy.

Or you self proclaimed "misters do-right" know better what's good for mankind? What others must think and where their money should go?

I hope they will LEGALLY whipp your asses.

Samsung Ultrabook specced up by retailer

Good job Samsung...

... the chick is nice.

Stratfor so very, very sorry in wake of mega-hack

"...Stratfor clients include the US military...."

"...Hacktivists boasted that they planned to use the purloined credit card data to make donations to various charities,..."

Apple fined $1.2m for flouting Italian warranty law

And 900k€ is supposed to make a difference for a country like Italy?

Their GDP is $1828 billions for nearly 60 million Italians. They are the 8th largest economy in the world.

Did you miss that Apple actually broke the law?

Apple’s Siri gets sweary with British child

A brand new kind of joke(mal)ware is born.

Will TWO next-gen iPads be unveiled at January's iWorld?

"Apple is reaching more people in more ways than ever before..."

Well, if that refer to the average for the last decade it could hardly be worse!

Apple to appeal Italian warranty fine

Apple...

... just pay the bill, say that you are sorry, and give 5 more millions to children wellfare in Italy.

It's christmas, it's new year, it's PR.

Microsoft announces ASP.NET zero-day vuln

@ac 09:23

Just out of curiosity, what would you expect from a change from IIS to Apache?

IIS and Apache are the worst performing web servers available.

Sure one is open source but frankly did you even *tried* to look at the actual code? If yes, did you understood it all? If no, do you even remotly know someone who did?

Here are two links (for impartiality) to performing web servers:

http://gwan.com/

http://www.lighttpd.net/

Cheers

Isn't asp.net a denial of service per se?

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Intel gets Atoms out ahead of CES

@Armando123

I do software dev on a netbook, decompile dlls with IDA, write and compile code (C with VS2008), check hex files with PSPad and it works perfectly fine. I enjoy 6 to 8 hour of *work* on the go.

I paid my dual core 270 euros.

It has an integrated SD card reader and 250Go HDD.

I'll give you credit that i didn't drop it on the floor so i won't argue on sturdiness. For the rest...

Arcade emulator MAME slips under Apple radar

Blablabla.

Atari and Square Enix cough to exposing users' privates

Seeing again ATARI in a tech news is good enought for me. No matter what.

Samsung hauls Apple into court over emoticon patent :-(

Well after all, heavy lawsuits are a way to redistribute money in the system....

Blast at Apple gear factory hurts 61

Maybe Apple buy all the production?

Or maybe Apple is tied to the incident because they boasted for their social responsibility?

In any cases, defending by covering others with shit is always a loser move.

Fanbois locked out of iTunes store, iCloud in Apple outage

Don't you think the problem is more on the concept part ("clouding" data) than on the service provider part?

NASA detects 'heartbeat' of pint-sized star-sucker

3 solar masses in 10km...

Way to go 7-zip!

You mean you can't see the relation between Apple and black holes?

Her Majesty's £444m court IT system can't even add up fines

Thank god

iam a French tax-payer!

Ho wait...

Dell flees netbook market, dumps Minis

I just decide myself to buy a netbook a month ago after long hesitation.

I feared it to be too small to use it and too slow to run the programs i need.

I finally got one with 1.6Ghz dual Atom and 1Go RAM.

I run mostly VS2008, IDA-pro and PSPad, all altogether. So basically, write code, compile, disassemble.

It run like a charms and the screen is really not a problem. I got used to it pretty quick, even using a 23" monitor at my desktop.

The most unpleasent thing so far is browsing the net. Looks like today browsers need huge amount of RAM and CPU cycles.

So all in all, i don't feel like owning a netbook, but a very handy small yet powerful computer (ultrabook?) to work on the go (and comes with unbeatable battery life: 6 to 8 hours *working*, depending mainly on screen luminosity).

Well spent money really.

US spy drone hijacked with GPS spoof hack, report says

I upvoted you because i assumed irony and a forgotten Joke icon.

Or maybe US don't scare them and they want to show it.

/Thinking out loud

I wish our politicians in Europe have the balls to do the same.

/Thinking out loud

I can't wait to see your comment when a chinese spy plane will be captured above US home land airspace.

That would be a nice way to prevent any error correction as well.

Wrong.

What you miss is that the bible is an ancient book and the stories in it are long gone. We are far far after the end of the book. It is time to move to a new life. Bible is over. Finish. Finito. Exit(0).

I, for one, welcome our muti-polar world where power is to be balanced, and points of views are to cohexist.

Kudos for Iranian engineers!

Nvidia ditches homegrown C/C++ compiler for LLVM

wow.

"Nobody wants to read the manual," says Gupta with a laugh. And so this expert system has a redesigned visual code profiler that shows bottlenecks in the code, offers hints on how to fix them, and automagically finds the right portions of the CUDA manual to fix the problem.

York CompSci student pleads guilty to Facebook hack

Frankly, if you give FB and likes your private information you already hacked yourself.

Further damage is only what you deserve.

Seriously, what kind of secret industrial process a company like Facebook could hide???

WE...

are spying on our users! How dare you spy on us??

iPhone users get iJustHadAShag bedpost-notch boast app

Was this app made by Samsung to make iPhone users look worse?

Or was Samsung right in the first place with their adds?

( Hard time to decide between "Joke" or "Troll" icon d:^° )

Chrome is the most secured browser - new study

My bad. You're right.

"...started with the premise that buffer overflow bugs and other security vulnerabilities were inevitable..."

In this complaisance to mediocre code lies all the tragedy.

It is absolutely false.

Win8 beta to surface in Feb 2012 - Microsoft exec

WTF?

Maybe it would make more sense to let it come to life first?

Original Steve...

I mostly agree with you but I am quite sure Microsoft can't afford to let native code die.

MS marketing put strong emphasis on C# and .NET of course, but we all certainly remember that Microsoft have a long tradition in making languages and let them die for something new (hey they sell solutions, so it is to be expected).

A lot of software developement is done in native code for its independant technology, power, and availabillity.

Letting native code die would be like blowing off one and half of Microsoft two legs.

Iran displays video footage of captured US spy drone

You might

suffer a bad case of mixing US tv movies and actual technology.

New account of Flight 447 disaster published

miknik..

The pilot made the error in combination with other factors.

The certification is not in cause.

If you were to rely only on companies that NEVER had crashes, you'll sure not fly often.

And certainly not on American ones.

China pad peddler wins iPad name from Apple

Bwahahahhahahhahuhuhuhuuhuhuuuuuuuuhahhaaaaaaa!!!!

sorry.

Secrets of the asteroid belt: Vesta actually more like a planet

It always

amaze me to be among the firsts humans to see see other worlds.

Microsoft seeks to woo developers with Windows 8 store

Just...

... because a huge user base value touchy stuffs, cool wall-papers, voice control and what is sold as "technology" by today techno-marketing giants.