Posts by energystar

UK's education system blamed for IT jobs going to non-Brits

Today's Education more of a glutonny contest...

And less of a discovery endeavor.

Fat fibre taxes strangling us – UK broadband providers

Not enough for a Greek Island?

Or.. is this real?

Apple and Android wearables: What iceberg? It’s full steam ahead!

The Marshall McLuhan by the book.

"It's full steam ahead!"

Non-US encryption is 'theoretical,' claims CIA chief in backdoor debate

Encrypting gear, however - not so much.

This is a very, very short term situation.

Re: What is he actually saying

Not to forget that in ancient times NetCards used to generate 'additional' traffic...

"they'll be out of luck because non-American solutions are simply "theoretical.""

With all due respect, It ¡s PR spin. US Senate has educated men & women. Surely they would prefer an honest assessment. [Maybe that They're looking at the wrong side?].

Director John Brennan doesn't have a problem. [He is at another frame]. Maybe that's the reason of so short answer.

Software Industry could consider -among many other- applying strong 2-pass encryption & get hold of anything required by law to get hold of, even if up to now locally stored.

Hardware Industry has to get rid of [actual] dangerous back-doors, diligently walking toward a safer, stronger Global Village. [And to prevent Western Technology to be slowly and progressively by-sided. Which plausibly is the reason of the hearing].

London Mayor election day bug forced staff to query vote DB by hand

"The manual process was more transparent and allowed us to do more checking."

Here we have people saying that the King has no clothes. Too much time seeing the cards doesn't amount to having seen all the cards.

Energy companies aren't going to slurp your personal data. Honest

Re: You think Uber surge pricing is bad....

Or denying supply at the worst moment [They KNOW when is your home' worst moment].

Lester Haines: RIP

Didn't have the privilege to be here then.

Already knowing He is a hugely missed Man. Cheers, Lester! You'll be called to Service soon again! Enjoy the evening!

Google Research opens machine intelligence base in Zurich

Yea

If wanting the work to be well done, need to keep a close watch.

[I asked for FOUR entangled units!]

Safari 10 dumps Flash, Java, Silverlight, QuickTime in the trash

Lacking at BBC...

Is Seniority in decisions.

Sound like trashing 'dumb' plug-in interfaces...

The more the better.

Microsoft releases open source bug-bomb in the rambling house of C

Is some sort of 'GAMBLER' psychology involved?

After all they're THE ONES, -the winners, the survivors- making the long due addendum.

After that war, is GPU coding where the battle line is now, as least for 'last drop' of performance, gaming. So, can we proceed?

"compilers that met the standard and allowed safer coding lost out big time in the market"

"Compiler vendors that tried to sell compilers that met the standard and allowed safer coding lost out big time in the market."

Madness to no avail. In retrospective, what was that race to the last drop of performance at everything else cost? Is some sort of 'gamer' psychology involved? Were consumer 'wet dreams' and insane dismissals the ultimate goals?

"But to say the standard forbids making it a bit safer is 'reality challenged'". Does anyone remains, to be asked about this?

can do Crysis.

I'll do call you, then. But will be irrelevant, as better archs will be around.

"what do you expect?"

For the bad, lot of junior programmers are still assigned C production. Shield them a little, at least.

"the folks who gave us Outlook, IE,.."

and ISS.

if it doesn't make the deadline?

Dead line is what doctors have at a screen if critical software fails...

"thoroughly review their work, etc. "

...For various reasons that is never as exhaustive as it should be."

Well, SURELY most of those are not IT reasons... Is it right to just shut up and 'let it be'? Should We be surprised of people looking at Us wen problems arising?

"Thinking like that keeps security researchers employed."

and CPUs vigilant at another CPUs steps. Was this at the original script?

That should hurt, really...

"Ç is little more than high level assembler and deliberately..."

Re: Bounds checking for C and C++ Oops!

Didn't Know... Thanks, Walter.

Bombaa!

"then again, Micro-shaft designed C-pound and ".Not" for the INEXPERIENCED coder, so that senior people wouldn't be "senior" any more..."

By now EVEN MS knows that production code can't go out without throughly senior supervision.

Re: C is not an applications programming language

Agree. A tool like this still needed. Tool making tools still needing 'tooling', at [critical] times.

Barking at the License. But a great contribution to All computing world. Expecting a little good will from FOSS toward standardization.

Let it flow, finally [everybody knows...]

Not So Far Future is non x86 related. We're just trying to rescue programming Legacy, not the code.

Man-in-the-middle biz Blue Coat bought by Symantec: Infosec bods are worried

Well...

If they're not welcomed at the Bottom...

Admins in outcry as Microsoft fix borks Group Policy

Just to remember MS

That [Sub]Group Policy should be a [Properly Logged] Configuration File.

You can put that in the Registry, if You wish.

Sneaky brown dwarf gives us a bright flash and astroboffins are confused

"Sneaky brown dwarf gives us a bright flash"

Thought that was a Tokyo thing...

Mossack Fonseca IT bod detained

Fonseca IT

Yea, the minions...

Boffins decipher manual for 2,000-year-old Ancient Greek computer

"I want to believe".

Better do. They're here.

"i cant be arsed either"

Try base64 [or 69]

"Have you tried turning it off and on again"

"If dials blocked drop gently and pray your gods not to break it" [It's in the recently translated inscriptions]

"...and nurtured it through the centuries..."

"If the minds that created this ... had passed this knowledge on and nurtured it through the centuries, would we have had to wait so long for a Babbage to come along?"

As for me, not the minimal interest on 'nurturing' dusted patents about to go public domain. Not competitive anymore. So, what has changed?

...better than Windows 10,

but Navigator unable to handle beyond UEFI. Incompatibility raised.

Re: Prototype?

No, leaved on SysOps hands.

[Neither there were 'Clouds' on sight.]

Don't forget Asterix...

Never :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix

Re: Boffins decipher manual for 2,000-year-old Ancient Greek computer

Please translate.

The Microsoft-LinkedIn hookup will be the END of DAYS, I tell you

Really bad behavior...

"... Microsoft screwed effective use of Skype and Hotmail by Linux users..."

Gmail chokes broadband of daughter' Win7_32b, after attempting any light file upload. Forced reboot.

Re: Cortana?

Ubuntu will install by default ;D

Take a look at the mirror, on the right...

"No Skype, no Twitter, no Facebook, no CV on Monster, not even a LinkedIN profile."

You can [still] have classic stationery and postal stamps...

[No, really. We're just playing here] ;D

For f_(*s sale.

"[Playing] away with worst-case scenarios ". Welcome to everyday Vulture Party, John 104.

Re: Looking for a job!

Vultures prefer it a little undone!

No trust for the Poet...

Maybe Bluetooth. Build your own.

Your craft is so artistic!

"Or one of those pee-in-jars types that gets so into their work I can chain you to a desk and periodically throw Snickers bars over the roof?"

Some servile servants...

Some servile servants are asked not to talk. [More than needed]. Why stare at future?

"On the other hand,.. [oh, god]

"On the other hand, many HR departments hire entirely by certification, resulting in IT departments full of certified idiots who can't actually do anything in the real world."

Better said: idiots, by certification. Not to forget that first directive is never more than needed.

Cortana finally got your a$$, Trevor.

You'll have to start thinking [and performing] analogically. Welcome to the club. Aren't you?

Microsoft releases Windows Live Writer as open source

MS Money: Maybe encapsulating it.

Maybe leaving fin data at Azure [and monetizing Azure, Not the Software]. Cheez! Sounding myself PR!

Is MIT license enough...

to protect its Community for MS madness winds? Sounds good news to me.