* Posts by Oninoshiko

1937 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2008

Snoopy Fujitsu tech KNOWS you'll click that link – before YOU do

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s/warning/pink slip/g

Seagate's spinning rust most likely to crash, claims backup biz

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Re: Seagate 3TB Consummer Drive Failures

you should always be running in a RAID, and have backups if your data and uptime is of any importance.

From what I have seen the Barracuda line does have a much higher failure rate then the Constellations.

The batch of WDs we got failed, then the replacements failed.

YMMV

Beam me up, Scotty, And VAPORIZE me in the process

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Re: I give up

The only useful case is where there are internal functional features, a destructive scan might be useful.

At that point you could just save it to a file though.

Lies, damn lies and Wikipedia: Murder suspect NOT a Plaxo founder – ex-staffer

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Re: The Daily Mail got their facts wrong?

Wikipedia got their facts wrong?

FTFY

This is not a serious source of information, and shouldn't be considered for anything more important then a drunken bar bet.

Facebook is MORE IMPORTANT to humanity than PORTUGAL

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Joke

Re: It would be more amusing

Not hard really, I don't think Jesus was a particularly big fellow.

Just WHY is the FBI so sure North Korea hacked Sony? NSA: *BLUSH*

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Big Brother

Re: whatever the NSA says is the opposite of the truth.

You can't depend on that, if you do they'll start telling the truth, because you'll think it's a lie.

EU copyright law: Is the Pirate Party's MEP in FAVOUR of it?

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Re: Double edged sword

'So everyone should sell at the lowest possible price and then we can all live on $1.50 a day like the people in the rest of the world. Sounds fair enough of course it will put paid to the products that are developed in rich countries as they cannot to recruit people at $1.50 per day for some reason.'

That assumes perfectly efficient markets, which we don't have. In a perfectly efficient market (in theory, not even the stock markets where nothing physical changes hands is perfectly efficient), there would be no arbitrage. There would be no need, therefor no money to be made in it, and therefor no one doing it. There is a certain amount of inefficiency that the market will support, but in a free market it's counter-balanced by arbitrage. That's what keeps markets from getting TOO inefficient.

"There will always be an imbalance between the cost of goods in under developed economies and those in developed economies, not least because of the exchange fluctuations that exist between economies, £1 in the UK is equal to Euro 1.3 today but maybe only Euro 1 tomorrow."

If allowed to work, arbitrage would keep the cost of the goods fairly close (how close depends on market efficiency for the market in question)

"Economic control also drives up the price. The luxury good markets love China and other countries where the use of money is controlled by fixed exchange rates and limitations on peoples ability to travel. They are the countries where luxury goods sell for the full price whereas in the developed economies they sell below that price because people can go elsewhere to find it cheaper."

That's because controlled markets are artificially inefficient. Also, I wouldn't say "sell for the full price," as that implies the price is set in renminbi (CNY) and lowered to get euros, pounds, and dollars.

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Re: Double edged sword

I don't think you understand what a free market is.

In a free market, if I don't like the price locally, I can go to where the price is cheaper and buy it, maybe even buy a lot of it and sell it in the more expensive market. This is an arbitrage transaction, and is part of every free market.

Elon Musk: Wanna see a multimillion-dollar rocket EXPLODE? WATCH THIS

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John P is correct, the barge is uncrewed during landing.

Apple wants your fingerprints in the cloud

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Hash vs. Actual prints

This actually doesn't help. All they have to do is use the same algorithm to generate a hash and run the comparison against the hashes apple has.

While this means someone at Apple can't reconstruct your fingerprint from the hash, the FBI/CIA/NSA/GCHQ/WTF Ever can use it to verify your fingerprint.

New York side-eyes California's hack attack laws: I'll have what she's having

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Re: 3rd party audit to make sure the passwords were safe?

actually, most sites which take passwords but do not do anything PCI related do not have security questions. they just mail you a link to change your password when required.

CIA exonerates CIA of all wrongdoing in Senate hacking probe

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Re: "It was a mistake to do it, but we did nothing wrong."

It was more, "It was a mistake to do, but it wasn't intentional."

I still don't believe it.

Top EU court: Ryanair data barrel must be left unscraped

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"I wonder if this would not be the way for newspapers to prevent Google News from scraping (and Huffpost, for that matter)"

Irrelevant. Newspapers don't want to stop google news. In every case they where given the opportunity to, publishers have showed an opposition to actually using the rights.

Kim Jong-Un shoot-em-up Glorious Leader! yanked

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Facepalm

Re: Sums it up really

While it's horrifying, it's not something I haven't seen. It's completely believable that they don't have backups.

AMD plugs firmware holes that allowed command injection

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Re: A Little More Than 90 Days

yep, no exploit code and the vuln is not fixed in the wild.

Seems to vindicate the policy that without publishing deadlines it doesn't get fixed.

Adults-only Chrome add-on grabs you by the Googlies

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That's not google's fault. The ability was always there, they are just pointing it out.

Remember administration (or security) through obscurity is not administration at all.

Dot-word domains 'a shakedown, designed to get money out of people'

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Joke

Re: So you're saying...

They could have held it in Chicag... oh

Google v Oracle: US Supreme Court turns to Obama in Java copyright war

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Re: IBM never released a product based upon it.

"even assuming SQL was under patent, this is 17+ years under US law. Expired!"

We aren't talking about patents, we are talking about copyrights. Copyrights are automatic and (for all practical purposes) have no expiration.

'American soldiers, we are coming...' US CENTCOM military in Twitter hijack shame

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In other news

Twitter announces they got hacked, as the Obama administration has requested companies do.

Latest NORKS Linux and Android distros leak

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Re: The Norks just messed with the wrong dead IT Saint

I think you'll find they have not properly filed for and obtained a "patent" in DPRK.

So: Will we get net neutrality? El Reg decodes FCC boss Tom Wheeler

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I've still not heard a compelling argument

,,,that Wheeler can selectively apply parts of Title 2. If he tries to, we're going to be back here again.

I acknowledge he can declare something covered or not, but it's either completely covered or not at all. Anything else is outside his remit, as it is the purview of congress.

Broadband isn't broadband unless it's 25Mbps, mulls FCC boss

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Re: Remove the monopoly first

The US needs to <del>remove the monopoly the phone companies have</del> keep the streets ripped up conenuously.

FTFY

Seriously, phones are a natural monopoly because of the cost and inconvenience of building networks. what they should do is split services and network maintenance into two companies, and allow anyone who wants to offer different services to use the network at the same price.

Hell, I'm willing to say nationalize the network and allow different companies to use it to deliver different services, and I'm normally a free-market nutter.

Sphere 3D: Our pop-out 2TB disk product? Of COURSE it's rugged

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Re: Proof I'm Old

Jazz drives are the first think I though of too.

God, 2G seemed like so much then.

CES 2015: The good, the mad and the POINTLESS

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Joke

@I ain't Spartacus

You mean you don't want to show the world exactly what it might be like to kiss your arse?

Lollipop licked: KitKat still king in Android land

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Re: Manufacturers are to blame me thinks.

Can I propose an amendment that all updates also must require a simple way to roll back?

-- Wishes phone was still on Kitkat.

Meru Networks ready to DECIMATE its workforce

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Re: Decimate

so, even tithe refers to (traditionally) 1/10th.

For the record, I have yet to not drink at a symposium, and who doesn't look at those lefties with suspicion?

No cellphones in cells, you slag! UK.gov moots prison mobe zap law

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Re: And I thought prisons were somewhat secure...

a gun is little more then a small pipe with a cartage and a nail to strike the pin...

I can think of a couple of pipe-shaped cavities.

Elite:Dangerous goes TITSUP

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I thought you guys payed the writers for copy, or do you keep them locked up in the dungeon?

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Re: What they need is....

Yeah, "Voyager Direct" is an awful name. I can't believe no one noticed that abbreviation before it went to users...

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Re: Did this also affect...

I have a list of games a long as my arm, those are not among them. Titanfall looked interesting, but it's a bit overpriced for a game which only offers MOBA play. Destiny, by all accounts (even the supportive ones) is grindy. I've never liked GTA or Battlefield. Frankly, racing games are a dime a dozen. All of these have one thing going for them that ED didn't, they where honest and TOLD the buyer that being online would be a requirement.

David Braben said ED wouldn't be, but David lied. It puts real perspective on Ian Bell's comment that the one thing he would do differently is not trust David.

Hey look! Microsoft's workforce isn't all white men

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Re: @oninochinko

Prarents start with the "boys things" vs. "girls things" before a child is old enough to show a preference. From the mobiles above the pram to to pram itself. Is there some influence of genetics? Sure, but I've known enough "geek girls" to conclude that a Y chromosome does not make you a maths hating princess.

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@h4rm0ny

None of it makes any sense at all. US or EU version. We're all human, the race and gender divides people insist on creating are just bullshit.

As to the gender disparity, it starts long before school. It starts in the home, with the parents who get their sons lego and their daughters barbie.

Sony hackers dump more hunks of stolen data, promise another 'Christmas gift'

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@Charles 9

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hubris

Zuckerberg asks the public to tell him where to go in 2015

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Re: Hmmm.@ Lost all faith

Why should my privacy be at the whim of every asshole with a camera?

I'm NOT on facebook, but I'm sure there are photos of me there.

SCREW YOU, Russia! NASA lobs $6.8bn at Boeing AND SpaceX to run space station taxis

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Joke

Re: Indeed, and it gets worse (not really)

"Rocket engineers don't dig holes."

Don't be so sure. "Once the rocket go up who cares where they come down? That is not my department, says Warner von Braun."

(there is nothing metaphorical about a blast crater.)

Kim Dotcom vows to KILL SKYPE with encrypted MegaChat

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No, what they are saying is:

There are fundamental flaws with how people use things in the real world that this implementation treats naively. Going some other way forces the user to use it properly, and therefore in practice, is far more secure.

That's a completely reasonable claim, in fact I find it to be one of the things security researchers SHOULD be talking about, but often don't.

Good Job, security researchers!

Metrics house hails Apple DOMINANCE of X-Mas phone 'n' slab sales

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That's a good question. I THINK it means activating a cell plan, but am not certain.

I'm sure it does affect the apple family as well (I did the same thing with my iPad 2 this replaced), but is the ratio the same? How what is the ratios for unactivated tablets? I don't know, but without actually looking at this, these numbers are hard to trust.

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Boffin

As someone who bought a tablet (nVidia's, if you must know) and hasn't bothered to activate it, I wonder how many are like me? WiFi is so ubiquitous, even where I am, there's no reason to pay for a plan. Even where it isn't, I can just turn my phone into an access point.

I'm not sure that activations tell the whole story.

Buses? PAH. Begone with your filthy peasant-wagons

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This whole article sounds like a tailor-made argument for PRT.

Q*bert: The Escher-inspired platform puzzler from 1982

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Re: There was a lot of originality back then

I think much of the originality that seems to be gone now, comes from the constraints about what you couldn't do. Now things seem so limitless, you can do anything so (relatively) easily we don't have the limitations that help us define the game. I really thing a large part of creativity is those limitation, seeing what we can do within them, seeing what we can do to hide them.

Makers of Snowden movie Citizenfour sued by ex-oil exec

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Re: I'll eat my hat

I agree, I don't think he has standing either. Honestly, once they get it tossed out for lack of standing, and First Amendment grounds, they need to follow it up with a complaint to the bar at his attorneys.

Frustration with Elite:Dangerous boils over into 'Refund Quest'

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Re: Been Burned Before

Somebody DID pay for it. All those people who signed up for it after FD said they would be doing an offline version.

Split could force NetMundial Initiative back to the drawing board

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Joke

So

Couldn't decide on the colour of the paper coffee cups thing?

Space Commanders lock missiles on Elite's Frontier Devs

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Kickstarter requires a good-faith effort be made on the part of the project to fulfill their promises. Here's what DB had to say about what lead up to dropping offline:

"So we were looking into different ways of handling that and, to be honest, we pushed back development of the offline mode. We needed to replicate some of the work locally that was being done on the server. It was one of those things where we could do it, but the amount of work involved increased over time. The emptiness would be a real factor as well."

You tell me, does that sound like a good-faith effort to fulfill your promises or the second half of a bait-and-switch?

You have a 'simple question'? Well, the answer is NO

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Awww

I knew you where just a big softie, Alistair!

Google sues Mississippi Attorney General 'for doing MPAA's dirty work'

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Re: Mississippi voters are entitled to vote

Except that you didn't bother to read from that article HOW they where identifying those sites. They didn't say "this is a pirate site" they said "this has had priacy complaints, so we'll move the whole site down." That makes the MPAA (et. al.) judge, jury, and executioner. This is the same MPAA that has be caught, multiple times, sending take down requests for things they didn't own the copyrights on!

So, NO Google DIDN'T prove they can identify sites.

Super Cali's futuristic Tesla batt swap focus – even though car tech test is an expected bonus

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Thumb Up

Re: What a headline...

I want to cast my vote for headline of the year too!

Google Tax part 94: EU's H-dot wavers over copyright levy

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@ratfox

Yep, stick it to the little guy. How noble!

El Reg Redesign - leave your comment here.

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"we will not be making panicked or rush decisions."

You mean you're done doing that after making the worst possible changes you could?

Nork-ribbing flick The Interview AXED: Sony caves under hack terror 'menace'

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Joke

Re: Much capitulation, such disappointment

Look at the bright side, we now know if we don't like a film we just need to make threats against theaters to shut it down.

In unrelated news they are doing another bad Star Wars film.