* Posts by Oninoshiko

1937 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2008

iPad 3 out in March/April say part maker moles

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Is it bad that

I now have a scene from the movie "Brazil" in my head?

Chinese strike hits Hitachi GST ahead of WD buy

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That's about what I thought too. "compliance with local labor laws" is not what they are worried about, compliance with their existing contracts is the issue.

Netflix set to make your video history public

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Stop

I read ToSes

Just because you can't be bothered isn't anyone's fault but your own.

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Stop

please Read The Fine Article

all this bill does is permit them to ask you if you want what you are watching to be shared, and IF you say yes the can. There is nothing wrong with this, provided they only share the records of those who agree to it.

Concerns over plan to boost pharma by releasing NHS data

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WTF?

Why

is this opt out? Opt-in, fine, opt-out fuck no.

This type of thing is exactly why so many left-pondiens are so resistant to government involvement in funding healthcare.

Apple stores getting close to overload

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Food for thought,

They still have your money.

Four Romanians charged with hacking 150 Subway shops

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FAIL

They do,

It's called PCI.

Just because there are rules, doesn't mean people always follow them.

2011's Best... Premium Tablets

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Re Alot more to do

Examples please.

I have one of the iPad2s, and so far it only gets used for Pandora, some technical PDFs, and TED talks.

None of that is vary often.

Download.com sorry for bundling Nmap with crapware

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FAIL

counter-fail

It's a "special case" because they are distributing it without meeting the terms of the OSS license under which the software is distributed. In this case the developer actually prohibits this type of activity. So, this isn't a special case, it's a copyright violation. They might as well be offering copies of windows or some current video game.

http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2011/5

Microsoft welcomes OSI open source to Win8 store

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Pint

Not MS's fault

I like bashing on MS as much as the next, but the GPL is the least friendly to other licenses. The reality is that MS, as the operator of the store, could be considered the distributor. As such, they are unwilling to put themselves under the requirements the GPL creates for redistribution. Given the same position, I would make the same choice.

I'll raise a glass to them for properly making sure they can distribute under the license before they do.

SSDs choked by crummy disk interfaces

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Boffin

I never stopped useing it.

In the home user world it hasn't been populr for some time, but those of us in the professional world have been using SCSI in the intervening years, sometimes on a parallel bus, sometimes over a Fibre Channel bus, sometimes we use the protocols of Fiber Channel on top of a Ethernet transport, but mostly now we use Serial Attached SCSI.

This is just another in a long line of SCSI transports we have used contentiously over the years, albit a nice one. (SCSI has always been a much better engineered protocol then ATA, and it much better suited to the unique properties that SSDs can bring to the table)

Alec Baldwin kicked off plane for playing with his phone

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Bah, even French changes.

Sola lingua bona est lingua mortua.

Headmaster freezes schoolkids for Gaia

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You must be new

It's playmobile here!

Assange: 'iPhone, BlackBerry, Gmail users - you're all screwed'

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WTF?

@kellerr13

Did you just suggest that you would actually die without a cell phone?

Not like metaphorically, but actually be dead? Not breathing, no heartbeat dead? Pushin up daisies?

Android glitch allows hackers to bug phone calls

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Big Brother

Why bother?

Write you malware, have it ask.

MOST USERS WILL LET IT DO WHATEVER IT WANTS ANYWAY.

Seriously, people are stupid. Time and time again, we see people clicking to let apps do whatever they want on there computer. They don't read the message, they just click.

College sticks cloud into geothermal igloo data centre

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It's poorly worded,

but they meant to say that access control and CCTV would be local. I reach this conclusion because they start with examples of things that they are moving, then talk about what they are not.

It really is a bad sentence though... makes you wonder how well they teach, does it not?

NetApp loses ground again in IDC's Storage Tracker

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Headmaster

am I the only one to find the graphs counter-intuitive?

normally I would expect:

Q1, Q2, Q3

but instead it was:

Q3, Q2, Q1

In a language which reads from left to right, asking us to read the graph right to left is confusing.

OpRobinHood more likely to stiff punters than bankers

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WTF?

Anyone else find this offensive?

"However what TeaMp0isoN may find is that because real fraudsters"

TeaMp0isoN ARE real fraudsters.

You use someone else's credit-card to make a transaction without permission you are a real fraudster. NO EXCEPTIONS.

NASA busts booster booster

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worth 200,000USD, but what did it SELL for (at auction)?

Judge orders search giants: Delist Chanel rip-off merchants

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Thumb Up

+1

Banning the word is the best response. NOONE would sue them over this silliness again.

Anonymous: 'We hacked cybercop's email'

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not all bad...

they get free room and board...

Climategate: A symptom of driving science off a cliff

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Passive stupidity

on the contrary, I would prefer stupidity be passive. it's the active stupidity that is the REAL issue

Chinese £200 iPhone killer unwraps for Xmas

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Zune

Actually, those I know who actually BOUGHT a zune (it's a not statistically significant number), quite liked it.

I have no opinion one way or the other.

Man sues boss for 'condemning him to eternal damnation'

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WTF?

nutter or not

What kinda employer makes you wear a sticker saying how long the building was accident free? Sorry, but I'm kinda glad to be in our industry, where our dress codes are a little more reasonable.

Hell, that means they are buying enough stickers for all employees everyday, what a phenomenal waste of money. His management should be fired for misusing funds, when a board with flippy-numbers would be just fine!

PETA claims anti-Mario campaign was a joke

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Trollface

PETA

operators of all kill shelters.

Bethesda promises fix for Skyrim Xbox graphics glitch

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Gimp

Elder Scrolls

This would be the same series that Daggerfall was from, no?

wonderfully beautiful open-ended game play... FOR THE 10 MINUTES IT WOULD RUN.

This series has been like this from the beginning. Frankly, I don't know why gamers put up with it, and if what I've seen from a few other recent releases is any indicator, it's a systemic problem in the industry.

Army raygun to boost power with starlight de-twinkling tech

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Black Helicopters

Maybe not 23 years

Rumor has it, Tom Clancy has been brought in and questioned after the publishing of a number of his books. I don't recall if The Cardinal of the Kremlin was one of them.

Just because they are announcing it, doesn't mean it hasn't been available, and it's certainly taken time to develop.

Mystery radioisotopes in Czech air are not from Fukushima

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Headmaster

DAMN all those who threaten EXISTENTIALISM!

(no, misusing the word "existential" bothers me too)

New claim: iPhone 5 was a goer until Jobs bottled it

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Headmaster

you know, I really hate the term "stealing market share"

I propose we say "earning market share."

Stealing implies Apple is entitled to it.

Apple's iPad not so shiny once you get it home

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I have one of them, I won it. Its kinda neat, sometimes I use it to view PDFs, sometimes (technical) books, sometimes TED talks.

None of this vary often. It's easily worth what I paid for it. It's not worth the price they normally go for.

Freak lightning strike sends app, storage servers back in time

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Not hardly

Where VMWare workloads are concerned, if you don't have shared storage, you lose the ability to do about 1/2 of what makes VMWare interesting. There are more companies in the SAN and NAS sectors then ever, players like Nexenta, Open-e, Wasabi Systems. Even the guys over at Texas Memory System, who do make some of the NAND cards, have their high end units be SAN-devices. Then we round it out with the F/LOSS projects providing block-storage over various interconnects (COMSTAR, linux-iscsi, iSCSI Enterprise Target).

Commoditized, yes, dieing, I think not.

(full disclosure: I use OpenIndiana/COMSTAR/FC as the storage-backend for VMWare. Works nicely.)

Hackers can spring Death Row crims from cells

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FAIL

I think (s)he means

the jail is broken, as opposed to braking out of the jail.

This would, in fact, be a new meaning.

Elite DARPA cyber heroes will protect interwebs

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Boffin

FINALLY

"Over the last 20 years, information security software packages have grown from thousands of lines of code to nearly 10 million lines, while malicious software tends to be around 125 lines."

Someone points out the blatantly obvious. Information security packages are likely a rat's nest of buggy and ill-understood code, whereas malicious software is vary likely bug-free, just based on the average number of bugs per line. As our OSes, servers, security software, and now hypervisors become increasingly complex, both internally and in their interactions with each other we only increase the attack surface.

(UNIX (including OSX), Linux, and Windows are equally bad in this regard.)

KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid.

US.gov: We aren't hiding any space aliens

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Actually,

those 30% could be like me, and think the US DoD uses aliens as a cover for military test flights and covert operations.

Still a coverup relating to aliens, just not one that requires the aliens exist.

Kids! You get back in front of that Xbox right now

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Evedence

Care to back that up?

These people did a study, they tried different types of games including FPSes, and found out that is correlated with an increase in creativity.

Where as, you remain some random guy on the internet commenting with no evidence.

Shock movie upset - Daniel Craig still James Bond 007

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Daniel Craig

I think Daniel Craig did a vary good job with what he was given.

Quantum of Solace really can't be considered on it's own, as it is really the missing half of Casino Royale. Putting the films together would have been just too long, so it did have to be split. It's also worth noting that when Casino Royale starts, he's not even 007 yet, (he earns 00 status in the pre-credits opening).

He's not the veteran, detached agent who can sleep with someone one day and shoot them the next. This is the story of a raw newly recruited agent, who isn't completely ready to deal with lies, intrigue, and manipulations of his profession. Every hero has a the elements that formed them, made them who we know. That is what this is.

I think Daniel Craig pulled that off, and most of the complaints about him isn't him, as much as that he played a younger, more naive James Bond. That's not Daniel Craig's fault, that's just the role he's playing.

Apple was OK to fire man for private Facebook comments

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next step

make said farcebook entry public.

Add the phrase "As a FORMER crapple employee I can now say:" to the beginning.

Add the entire background of the sorted affair.

Image may matter, but how you treat your employees is part of that image. I can't image an unsympathetic public.

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 13.3in Core i5 notebook

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WTF?

80%?

How did this get an 80? The entire article was everything they did wrong, which from the sound of it is about everything.

Thinkpads have always been form following function. This abomination is a thinkpad in name only.

glossy screen: wrong

rearranged keyboard: wrong

embedded batt: wrong

price: wrong (worse then an apple air)

Assange loses High Court appeal against extradition to Sweden

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Black Helicopters

Occam's Razor

Wow, you conspiracy theorists are out in force today.

Which is more likely, the US wanted him extradited from the UK (with it's notoriously lax extradition treaty with the US), or Julian "Media Whore (tm)" Assage got called back by the Swedes about the matter and decided to inflate his ego by getting as much camera time as he could out of it?

Occam's Razor says....

Report: Popular CAPTCHAs easily defeated

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WTF?

I thought the standard restponce was

to put up a porn site, and require periodic filling in of these to get at the goods. Why pay Indians in peanuts, when I can get NEETs to do it for free?

Koreans get touchless gesture-controlled Android phone

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Devil

Wasn't this technology announced

by Adobe at it's last conference?

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/adobe-previews-incredible-photoshop-unblur-image-feature-20111011/

Eggheads use Twitter to work out if it's raining

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Boffin

interesting....

so they found a less accurate way to work out if it's raining then looking out the bloody window. Rube Goldburg would be proud.

Miley Cyrus hacker let off with probation

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Childcatcher

well

Producing and possession. Possibly 1 count of distributing, but generally these kinds of "you hurt yourself so lets destroy your life" laws are silly.

OTOH, This young man could still be charged on multiple counts of distribution, and of course possession.

Insulin pump hack delivers fatal dosage over the air

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Thumb Up

Wow, the skin sensors will be a huge improvement quality of life. I hope they test well.

The security vulns in this need fixed, and quickly.

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FAIL

as has been pointed out by others, this isn't like radiation exposure, where we all have a smiler limit. The limit for any individual is variable, dependent on their type and degree of diabetes.

Therapeutic for one person is fatal for another.

As iPhone 4S battery suckage spreads, fixes appear

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Holmes

No, in the sake of fairness you always give them the chance to respond. It lets you take the high ground.

Libel reform vows to slay anonymous trolls

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Stop

I dont think truth is a valid defense under UK law.

Actually, I thought truth was not a valid defense under UK law.

"On the trial of any indictment or information for a defamatory libel, the defendant having pleaded such plea as hereinafter mentioned, the truth of the matters charged may be inquired into, but shall not amount to a defence, unless it was for the public benefit that the said matters charged should be published; and to entitle the defendant to give evidence of the truth of such matters charged as a defence to such indictment or information it shall be necessary for the defendant, in pleading to the said indictment or information, to allege the truth of the said matters charged in the manner now required in pleading a justification to an action for defamation, and further to allege that it was for the public benefit that the said matters charged should be published, and the particular fact or facts by reason whereof it was for the public benefit that the said matters charged should be published, to which plea the prosecutor shall be at liberty to reply generally, denying the whole thereof; and if after such plea the defendant shall be convicted on such indictment or information it shall be competent to the court, in pronouncing sentence, to consider whether the guilt of the defendant is aggravated or mitigated by the said plea, and by the evidence given to prove or to disprove the same: Provided always, that the truth of the matters charged in the alleged libel complained of by such indictment or information shall in no case be inquired into without such plea of justification: Provided also, that in addition to such plea it shall be competent to the defendant to plead a plea of not guilty: Provided also, that nothing in this Act contained shall take away or prejudice any defence under the plea of not guilty which it is now competent to the defendant to make under such plea to any action or indictment or information for defamatory words or libel."

-- Libel Act 1843 (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/6-7/96)

So, not only must it be true, but it also has to be in the public benefit.

Nipples and teen lesbians sexy even when ironic, ASA rules

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FAIL

That's OK, the ASA is a UK organization.

But don't let little things like "facts" get in the way of your nationalistic prejudice.

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Devil

hrm

"An argument, which if extended, would suggest most male porn stars are actually post-modernist comedians."

I don't know... have you ever heard Ron Jeremy? He's a pretty funny guy.

Gartner predicts global double-dip recession

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How come every time i hear something from garner,

I can't shake the impression they are trying to sell me on something?

The first song to pop in my head, was a little ditty by ELP:

"There behind the glass, is a real blade of grass, be careful as you pass, move along, move along"