Posts by Stingray

BlackBerry not afraid to throw its mobe biz under a bus, says CEO Chen

I really like my Playbook, but it doesn't support Audible.com audio books (Big Finish Audio is Fantastic, but don't carry everything audio (http://www.bigfinish.com)) - so cashed in some loyalty points and got an iPad Mini - which does support Audible.com audio books.

When Blackberry came out with their new phone, I was going to purchase one - until I found that the new O/S does not support Audible.com audio books - so I didn't buy one.

For me, audible compatibility is the killer app - Blackberry doesn't have it - so I'm not buying it.

I really wish Audible and Blackberry could be friends and support each others customers. Then I wouldn't need an "i" product to hear my "a" products.

Sucks to be me ;-(

Not just websites hit by OpenSSL's Heartbleed – PCs, phones and more under threat

Who Still Uses Malloc?

I stopped using it when I found the calloc() (clear and allocate) library back in the early MS-DOS days. For those who don't know - the calloc() instruction clears the memory by writing "0" to each byte as it is being allocated.

It's just plane "Open Source" lazyness - IMHO ;-) to keep using alloc() when calloc() will ensure that no latent data is passed from the heap to the calling function.

Who cares if the buffer is too big if all that is in the buffer is a long (64k) string of "0"?

Free advice - worth every penny you didn't pay for it.

Angry Birds developers downplay fresh data leak claims

Time for a Privacy Guarentee

It is time governments and privacy watchdogs started pushing for a "Privacy Guarantee" instead of a "Privacy Policy" Companies should be required to warrant the quality of their privacy claims as the do the quality of their manufacturing and product claims.

Yes, it should be taken that seriously and it should be as actionable in court as a quality assurance or product warranty is actionable. This would make customer's privacy a line item in the profit/loss statement and would force executives to PAY ATTENTION.

My 2 cents :-)

Cheers.