Posts by Oninoshiko

Re: Baidu hasn't been hacked.

"Sure they have. The hack might not be happening on their servers, but it is their data stream. I'd expect any agency NOT controlled by a government assisting the hackers to take actions to mitigate it even the problem is happening on someone else's routers. With dog + world switching to https, that seems like the logical first step for them to take."

That may not work. If it's the Chinese government, they have enough clout to have keys made for Baidu and still run a MITM attack.

But here's the reality, the management of Baidu are members of the communist party of china. If the Chinese government is running the attack, it's with the blessing of the party (the one thing I can say about a single party system, is I always know who to blame). So I can only conclude Baidu's upper management is complacent in it.

Re: Some people

I'll admit, I didn't see this one coming, although it's the first problem with the whole mess that I found at all novel.

Re: So what have ITER done or not done ?!

I would think not having done anything would be a serious waste of funds... I'll be happy to not do anything for half the price!

Re: @Gordon 10

Lord knows, he's better then Jobs was. (Not that it's that hard.)

Re: Node.js is still en vogue?

Shh... his mind is made up, don't confuse him with facts.

Definition of "unpatched"

A vulnerability is "unpatched" for ANY length of time it is known. Once a patch has been released for it, it then becomes "patched." The maximum allowable time is "none:" as soon as it's known, it's an unpatched flaw.

This isn't about making developers feel worm and fuzzy, it's about assessing risk.

Re: Religion

Sigh - not that old canard again.

Religion has been used as an excuse to justify wars over territory and supremacy time and time again. You'd have to be supremely naive to think they wouldn't have happened without religion as a cover.

Re: The Cloud....

That's kinda what it always meant.

revoked cert

so alls well... at least if you are checking certificate revocation lists. You ARE checking certificate revocation lists, right?

"Cosmetic damage that looks to be caused by the end user! Why the fuck should Apple (or anyone else for that matter) be liable for that?"

1) because there is nothing cosmetic about blocking the functional area of the screen, so "cosmetic" is a lie.

2) Because they might like a repeat customer.

Re: And yet

quite a bit of the things on that link (a list of APTs) appear to be Russian in origin. That level of attack, is almost always assumed to be government sponsored, so it appears he IS talking about Russian state-sponsored spyware (even if he's limiting his statements to "Russian speaking authors").

Re: Why can't we just purchase ......

it's called a self signed cert.

they are free.

not that a lower-end key is that expensive.

Re: Welcome to software written in C

"All other languages" may be an ocean too far. After seeing some of Chuck Moore's work, I'd say he makes a compelling argument that Forth can have better performance.

Re: Connected Cars

@wdmot

I would have expected the fine article in our beloved journal to have conveyed a quote of that... value.

my apologies for not looking farther.

Re: This is a trivial 'software requirements' problem

except that they can't prove that there IS another password. Truecrypt does exactly this.

Re: Disappointed...

personally, I was thinking medical imiging would get involved...

Re: I've had these calls

I have to agree, I would much prefer scams where I get a real person, you can't have much fun with a robot.

besides "threatened to rape me" would be interesting to get to type into Mr. Number.

Re: Fair or Unfair They Still Lock Him Away

Not completely true, it's still a jury trial, and the jury can nullify.

That said, jury nullificaion is a long shot (to put it nicely). I wouldn't bet on it.

Re: Quel suprise.

You, my good sir, have a perchance for understatement.

"Conceptually whats the difference between looking at pictures, watching videos, or indulging in virtual reality? All - in this content - are "artistic" (for want of a better world) representations of illegal practices and should be regarded as such. Society has already had its discussion and made its decision. Any attempt to re-engineer that simply panders to the aims of the perverted. Is that your intention?"

The difference should be at the question of "who does this depiction harm?" When that person is a minor, it should be illegal. Possession of it should be illegal. When that person is of age (at the time the depiction was created) it should be legal, without regard to how old the person APPEARS. When there is not a real person, it's not harming anyone, regardless of age (Books, comics, animation, or VR, someone who doesn't exist can't be harmed).

Just because something makes you uncomfortable, is not grounds for making it illegal. If you don't like it, just avoid it.

Re: I'm an American

BBC's programming in the UK is like PBS in the US, it does not have commercials. (except for the "here is what we show today" thing between shows)

The difference is, rather then a fundraser, it's paid for with a tax^w license-fee on everyone who owns a TV.

Re: The more entertaining one would be if it is 2015, not 2024

Treaty prohibit appropriating other's space-kit, even if it's not in use. This is one of the major problems with any of the space-littler cleanup ideas, too.

Re: At least a good design can make a product attractive and desirable.

intended message: "It's good for your pussy"

too bad we don't have a Mrs. Slocombe icon...

Re: herd immunity

wow, AC, that site is a crock. The only "reference" in that "well researched" article is a link back to the same site!

You know why it's not to a peer-reviewed journal? Because the assertions don't hold up to scrutiny. The doctor (and I use the term with as much irony as I can muster) referenced here is a completely quack.

His assertions are not even constant (in any way other then being food to tin-foil-hatters). In one breath he complains about medicine being to reactive rather then proactive, in the next he damning vaccination (which is COMPLETELY proactive (and unlike his "approaches," actually effective)).

http://www.skepdic.com/blaylock.html

Honestly, because it tracks everyone in an area, there shouldn't be a way to get a warrant for this thing. It's usage is ALWAYS too broad because of how it works.

What happened to the good ol' fashion stakeout?

Re: don't break compatibility since forever

Solaris went through two major versions without breaking ABI compatibility. I know this because I took a 3rd party driver built for 8, and used it on Opensolaris/Indiana. I don't know if Oracle changed things though.

Solaris is a modular monolithic kernel, the same as Linux.

"Photoshopped" is (rightfully!) getting the same connotations as "airbrushed," AFAICT.

Anyone else think the "before" looks far better?