Posts by Dabbb

I'm a crime-fighter, says FamilyTreeDNA boss after being caught giving folks' DNA data to FBI

Re: Shocked

What Google has to do with it ?

Is there any proof that Apple can't access TouchID except their own words ?

Yes or no.

Pick one.

Re: Shocked

There's zero proof that Apple does not have access to TouchID or can't gain that access if or when it is required. It's their firmware after all and it can be modified at any time.

Shocked

What next, Apple and it's database of fingerprints ?

Oh cool, the Bluetooth 5.1 specification is out. Nice. *control-F* master-slave... 2,000 results

Yes. I can't connect to my neighbor's soundbar via USB (you know, those things that do not work in between, I think they're called walls ?) so Bluetooth is the only way their dog can enjoy my extensive collection of aggrotech.

Oof, are you sure? Facing $9bn damages, Google asks Supreme Court to hear Java spat

Re: @Jamie Jones... Wash, rinse, and repeat.

I think someone need to have some reading about SQL, it's not even remotely similar to this case.

Re: @Doug S ... Better if they refuse cert

That's a quality FUD out there.

To put it into real world example you seem like so much equivalent of this lawsuit would be as if someone created exact copy of patented PCB but claimed it's a totally different product because they used capacitors from a different manufacturer.

It's amazing

How commentards' attitude towards Google changed over these 9 years.

The BMC in OpenBMC stands for 'Burglarize My Computer' – thanks to irritating security flaw

Re: WT actual living F?

Always on by design because it's a server that can be installed somewhere on the other side of the planet and in most cases BMC is the only way to power/configure/install/troubleshoot OS on that server.

If that in your mind was done out of convenience or profit, I'd like to hear your solution for remote management of hardware without or with broken OS.

Re: Could we do without the trumpets, please?

BMC can have access to network ports and pretty much control everything on the server. Root or not the fact that Aspeed is a Chinese company now should be enough to start worrying.

Big Red's big pay gap: $13,000 gulf between male and female Oracle staffers – reports

What it does not mention is whether it was same job and duties.

HR drone can be on same career level, have same performance review score and even be in same office location as an engineer but would never be on a same pay because there's abundance of HR drones and shortage of engineers.

LEARN TO THINK.

Re: All else being equal...

"rule that it would only be at a 10-20% increase over your current salary, no matter what that salary was."

And how would they know unless you tell them that yourself ? Genuine question, here in Oz you might get asked this question but you can say anything you want and I've yet to hear anyone being asked to prove it.

So all men who are doing same job as me but paid less must be women. The less they paid the more women they are. Noted.

Core blimey... When is an AMD CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide

Re: I was under the impression...

Not really. Right now I'm looking at 26 core Intel CPU on which under Linux I see 52 cpus. Intel never marketed it as 52 core CPU.

Re: Another frivolous lawsuit

Not so fast. How Intel marketed their dual-threaded CPUs at the same time, by total number of separate physical cores or number of threads ? It it's former then AMD deliberately chose to mislead customers by going against established practice and expectations.

"There could be hundreds of thousands of people potentially impacted, and so any damages would stretch into millions of dollars."

Sorry, but you got it wrong, it's not damages, it's lawyer's fees. Plaintiffs will be lucky to get a dollar.

Dear humans, We thought it was time we looked through YOUR source code. We found a mystery ancestor. Signed, the computers

Re: Many mysteries

"Both "species" and "race" look increasingly dubious as genetic understanding improves, "

Only for those with word studies in their degrees.

"Still, at least I have another item for my "spot the racist" list."

Good for you.

Re: So, have I got this straight?

Not sure inbred is better than interbred.

Re: Many mysteries

"But currently we're one race (i.e. we can completely interbreed and there are no reliable genetic clusters that really point to long term population isolation.)"

You've completely mixed up races and species.

Or rather not mixed up but deliberately used sociological definition of race which has absolutely nothing to do with ability to interbreed.

Re: Many mysteries

Are you claiming there's no distinctive differences between people evolved in different regions/climates of this planet? That's the races for you. You can of course ignore reality but don't be obset when reality ignores you in return.

p.s. And true definition of racism does not include "power" either.

Spektr-R goes quiet, Dragon splashes down and SpaceX lays off

Re: isnt making

It's quite interesting that after all billions of injections from NASA in form of money, engineers, factories, technologies, patents, access to launch pads and air force bases SpaceX is still widely regarded to be a private independent enterprise and not what it really is - covert privatization of NASA.

Two out of five Silicon Valley techies complain Trump's H-1B crackdown has hit 'em hard

Re: Can still get into the US if you want to.

They do but, not the San Francisco team.

Re: Great news

Duh

Great news

So employees will have to pay more to get talent that is already in USA.

Great news.

Influx of anti-Trumpers explaining that higher salaries for US professionals is bad for economy because <reasons> in 1...2...3..

The D in SystemD stands for Dammmit... Security holes found in much-adored Linux toolkit

Re: To all professional sysadmins here

The metric of my success at work is a hefty amount of money deposited into my account every month, and large chunk of it is directly related to systemd woes.

To all professional sysadmins here

Like you SystemD or not it most certainly keeps you employed.

Hubble 'scope camera breaks down amid US govt shutdown, forcing boffins to fix it for free

Re: the Eagle Nebula dubbed the Pillars of Creation

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-hubble-images-are-manipulted-2015-3

You're welcome

So it can wait then, it's not going anywhere anytime soon.

Clickbait it is.

Re: The very next sentence of TFA had your answer

Are you sure that NASA engineers are not in fact at work and that last sentence was not a product of journalistic exaggeration ?

Re: the Eagle Nebula dubbed the Pillars of Creation

It quite possible is, could not care any less.

Does not change the fact that it's not a real Hubble photos and proof is just one Google search away.

Re: Easily solved

If the current state of democratic derangement continues for another two years Mexicans will happily build wall themselves to protect their own country.

"Unfortunately, mankind no longer has a spacecraft capable of reaching Hubble and carrying out repairs, so if the main camera problems are serious then the telescope could be permanently crippled."

So nothing to do with Trump Derangement Syndrome then, just a clickbait ?

Re: the Eagle Nebula dubbed the Pillars of Creation

Except it's not a real Hubble photo but an artist's rendition.

Um, I'm not that Gary, American man tells Ryanair after being sent other Gary's flight itinerary

Re: Cool story

This is simply not possible.

Cool story

However this part

Gary shot back: "Then I got some bad news for you: he didn't provide the wrong email, your system is leaking." Norbert admitted that Ryanair's system "sends to the provided email, which is very similar, but not the same".

makes it a little bit too implausible, computers don't understand when one email is similar to another, they just send it to whatever ASCII string is in database. Overall story would work for some 65yo housewife in Buttsex, England, but not attempting to figure out how it can possibly happen is an embarrassment for supposedly technical publication.

Oz cops investigating screams of 'why don't you die?' find bloke in battle with spider

The worst mistake you can do trying to kill a huntsman

assuming it was a huntsman, as redback encounters usually result in a loud thump with a slipper and not much of a screaming, is to spray it with spider insecticide.

It will die.

But not before about 5 minutes of agony during which it'll run towards anything that is warm and moves.

You.

Could you speak up a bit? I didn't catch your password

How airport face id works

Not sure about UK airports but in Australian ones there's a counter right past smart gates where a dedicated customs officer compares whether picture taken by camera matches picture in passport and presses a button to let you through.

Mark Zuckerberg did everything in his power to avoid Facebook becoming the next MySpace – but forgot one crucial detail…

Re: Facebook's shadow profile.

"It could be that any bank loan or insurance applications you might make are affected by friended parties and their likes/dislikes."

Citation needed. AFAIR there's no requirement to disclose your social media names on credit application forms and without it all John Smiths of this world will be doomed.

Re: Facebook's shadow profile.

Your issue is likely related to domain graph.facebook.com where apps send metrics, and it's stopped by Blokada. Actually you would not believe how much stuff being sent to various tracking addresses from a dormant phone. My count is about 1000 tracking events per day for a phone just laying on a table whole day.

Re: Facebook's shadow profile.

Blokada. Must have app for every Android phone.

Re: Facebook's shadow profile.

Well, it was a red herring question.

In the sense that while everyone being outraged by facebook collecting and selling data noone was able to produce single evidence of how that affects users whose data being sold. And why is it important ? Because that's the only way to explain people who overshare on facebook that they should not be doing it. But without real examples the typical conversation about this goes like this:

- OMG, you know that facebook sells all your data!!!!!

- OK, and what do they do with it?

- But it's your data !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They show you ads!!!!!!! And might know where you live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- <shrug> So what?

"So what?" indeed.

But it's so good being outraged by something that has zero impact on your life, isn't it ?

p.s. and if you left your facebook account public, posted nazi memes and got fired for that it's not a facebook's problem, it's your psychiatrist's, don't blame the wall you chose to write your stuff on.

Re: Facebook's shadow profile.

"Have a look at "Weapons of Math Destruction" by Cathy O'Neil as a pretty good example how your data is used."

I wasted an hour watching her talk at Google and it's not remotely relevant to my question and half of it outright laughable and for someone who is supposed to know about data sciences her examples are based on anecdotal evidence if any evidence at all.

"Examples include targetted advertising for loans & cars, people in poorer communities will get adverts from more predatory companies. In most situations involving money you'll have been pre-judged with the data collected from your social media data"

So absolutely nothing that can even potentially affect me in a real life. Thanks for confirming.

Re: Facebook's shadow profile.

"Facebook is using all these techniques, a lot of AI and a whole lot more to know everything about you"

And what exactly they achieve ? They show me targeted ads ? I use adblock (as a generic term, not endorsing any product). They can sell my data to someone else to show me ads ? I use adblock. They think they can influence my decisions somehow ? They can't, see above adblock, and people who don't use it learn to completely ignore ads after about second week on the Internet.

They might know my location ? So do Mobile Network Providers and with way higher accuracy, and they're known to cooperate with local and international TLAs.

So the question is - with all that data what exactly do you think they can do or do already ? Real world examples please, spare nonsense about influencing US elections with facebook ads for members of US Congress.

Super Micro says audit found no trace of Chinese spy chips on its boards

Re: Again, why bother

"I would love to see an example of a spy break into a factory and inconspicuously add one of these to a few motherboards;"

Inconspicuously ? BMC Pilot is THE most widely used LOM chip for servers, it's literally everywhere. It's firmware is closed source, what inside silicon only Chinese know.

To make it clear - it controls everything and has access to everything on a server. There's no need to add anything else.

Again, why bother

The one below is more than enough to control everything

https://www.aspeedtech.com/products.php?fPath=20

Britain approved £2.5m of snooping kit exports to thoroughly snuggly regime in Saudi Arabia

Who was Jamal Khashoggi, anyway?

That's actually the main question here.

Canuck couple returns home after night on tiles to gaggle of randomers hanging out in their flat

Re: Police are investigating?

"Why weren't they called the moment the owners walked in and saw all the ne're-do-wells?"

Because they're canadians, the most polite and friendly nation on this planet.

A rumble in Amazon's jungle: AWS now rents out homegrown 64-bit Arm server processors

Re: You are kidding about Intel Atom aren't you?

Atom is exactly what Graviton should be compared to, from other article

"It does poorly benchmarking our website fully deployed on it: Nginx + PHP + MediaWiki, and everything else involved. This is your 'real world' test. All 16 cores can't match even 5 cores of our Xeon E5-2697 v4."

"The world needs competition to Intel for over 15 years now."

SPARC, MIPS, PowerPC are exactly the competition you're looking for for Intel server chips. And ?

"I have 10+ ARM powered devices in my house, and I don't even try to buy them."

Do you know the only few common thing among all of them ?

The are not compatible between each other, there's no drivers for SoC and you can't install other OS to them. Not an issue for any Intel x86/64 devices.

Putting aside your, frankly irrational and unwarranted, love for ARM architecture there's magnitude more reasons to use Intel servers than ARM, Intel Atom if your major concern is power. Do you see lots of them around ? Me neither. ARM destined to fill same niche, something no one asked for or needs.