* Posts by Oninoshiko

1937 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2008

Mozilla to cram a full web-dev IDE inside Firefox browser

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Re: Circle of time

Yes they did come from netscape.

They went to Firefox because netscape communicator had become a bloated pile of excrement. Now they are doing the same thing netscape did to communicator to FF, and everyone is just accepting google's spying and moving to crome.

Good job Mozilla.

VMware seeks patent for IM chats between servers and sysadmins

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Novel

I think (what they are claiming) makes this novel, is the user can IM back commands...

That sets off my every "OMGSecurity" bone in my body, but that's the idea.

Bored yet? Now there's ANOTHER OpenSSL fork – it's from Google

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The problem is, the management of the OpenSSL project have been accused of not properly releasing information for risk assessment to affected parties. This creates a situation where meaningful collaboration cannot continue.

Combine with the facts that both projects remove element that OpenSSL maintains (API compatibility for BoringSSL, and OS support and FIPS140-2 support for LibreSSL). Overall I think these will be likely be more secure due to decreases in complexity that are things the OpenSSL project will not accept.

20 years on: eWorld, Apple's spectacular online 'portal' failure

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"We Apple-ites have our own version of history."

never a truer word was committed to media.

Want a cheap iMac? TOO BAD. But you can have a slow one for $1,099

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Re: You're right for the wrong reasons...

Are you seriously comparing an ARM dual core to an Intel Dual core?

He did go on to compare it to a dell (alienware) at the same price-point, which got you twice the CPU, and better GPU for the same price... plus it has a battery.

Irish court peels off gloves, hands Facebook PROBE request to ECJ

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Re: Looking promising

Not to mention a totally awesome name. He sounds like a James Bond villain... I wish I had a name like that!

US Supremes UPHOLD troll-busting Alice v CLS Bank decision

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Joke

I haven't heard anything so great from the supremes

since You Can't Hurry Love!

I'll be here all week.

Hate phone games that make you buy in-app gumble? Congrats, you're a niche player

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Re: Expansion Packs

Even expansion packs (lets call them DLC, as seems to be the custom) fit into an "it depends" category. If the game you paid for was incomplete, then it's scummy, If it's an additional story after the first completes, it's all good. We've actually had these types of expansions for quite some time as I remember seeing the same thing with the Wing Commander mission packs.

The problem is, there is always some debate over which is which.

(purely cosmetic items are good too)

Microsoft eggheads publish JavaScript crypto code for devs

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In fairness, some of the best code I've ever written I did while drunk.

DANGER MOUSE is back ... and he isn't half a GLASSHOLE

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Joke

"Why get rid of the eye patch ?

Is having a partially blind hero a bad thing ?

or did the marketing dept speak to a focus group or something"

You see, in the land of the blind, the one eye'd anthropomorphic mouse is king, and Mr Magoo was feeling intimidated.

People will happily run malware if paid ONE CENT – new study

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Re: Double-edged sword this is

In fairness to PT Barnum, there where a few less humans making babies when he said that.

Supermodel Lily Cole: 'I got a little bit upset by that Register article'

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Re: I got a little bit upset by that Register article

Oh poor her... I'll take all the sniping elReg can toss as me with a laugh to scam the public dole like this.

Déjà spew: US would accept higher bills for less CO2 by two-to-one

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Re: Bad poll?

It's quite logical. Even if the entire CO2 output of the US where stopped tomorrow, do you really think that would stop global warming? There is a problem with your logic the size of China... namely China. At the rate they are building (the dirtiest design they can come up with) coal fired power-plants, it will offset anything the Americans do anyway.

Of course, it's not JUST China, there are a number of nations which where not well developed enough to consider part of the Kyoto Accords, but even if we ignore everthing behind that curtain, we can't build hydro (save the sea(river?)kittens!), we can't build nuclear (OMG! it's gonna melt down!), solar and wind have an inability to provide load constantly. The reality is, this path isn't changing. So, no, I'm not interested in taking a rate hike to STILL have the entire world go to hell around me.

Oninoshiko

Re: Bad poll?

It's not just that the poll is bad, the vary IDEA of a poll is bad. It's easy to say you will do what you think is accepted as the "right thing," it's quite another to look at two different bills, pickup the one that's 10% higher and say "I want this one."

Car titans WON'T STEAL our tech, says Musk: DAMNIT, I'll GIVE IT to 'em

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Re: This is nice but

"Isn't patent law made in such a manner, that if you do not uphold your patent you forfeit it (or am I thinking of TM?)"

You are thinking of TMs. TMs can be lost for not using them, not defending them, or no longer being distinctive to the brand (becoming generic).

Patents can only be lost by overturning them in court (which in theory should never happen, sadly though...) or expiring.

EU probe into Apple's taxes: It's NOT to do with double-Dutch-Irish anything sandwiches

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Re: It is not that <insert company> is not paying enough tax

TLDNR: Damn you Apple for following the law I don't agree with!

There are two solutions, one simple and one complex to this problem.

Simple: scrap corporate income tax all together, rely on sales tax (they are passing it on to you anyway)

Complex: get every nation in the world to give up a big chunk of their sovereignty and establish a world-wide corporate tax law. (yeah, right)

Move over, John Pilger, let us IT scandal-mongerers stick it to you

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Can I get some clarification here?

Are the mouth-foaming, hairy-palmed right-wingers inept losers or brilliant masters of PR?

I've always had problems telling the difference when identifying caricatured villains.

Greenpeace rejoices after getting huge renewable powerplant cancelled

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Re: Oh Lewis!

You could also point out the part he missed...

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Re: And who will not be happy

if someone has to look up "fascist," I'm guessing they would also have to look up "dictatorial"

FCC boss threatens to BRING WRATH DOWN on states that limit broadband competition

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Re: sounds good, or is it?

Most of the time, municipal roll-outs go quite well, from what I've seen. I'm sure there is some cronyism that happens, but mostly they start because the people on the board are pissed they can't get on. So the first time the mayor's cousin screws up access, he's gone.

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Re: Tom Wheeler, FCC Chairman and chief cable industry lobbyist

Even if that weren't the case (and I fully believe you are correct), a duopoly is not what I consider a healthy competition.

The reality is, broadband service is a natural monopoly, you can't just have everyone ripping of the roads every week installing fiber. The best solution is to have the municipalities install and maintain a fiber network, then let whoever wants to sell service over it do so (for a nominal fee, to offset the maintenance).

Women are too expensive to draw and code – Ubisoft

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I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work, there, Lou.

"No-one ever wanted a female mario or female sonic."

A VARY brief search of the internet proves this completely wrong. Just google "female mario" or "female sonic" with safe-search off. Go on, I dare you.

Women found just TWO out of every HUNDRED US tech startups

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You are assuming that our industry has an equal gender interest. There are woman interested in technology, and there are men interested in fashion. Neither is within the (good or bad, your call) stereotype.

FIGHT! Intel disputes ARM's claims of Android superiority

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Re: that fps test is worthless

Yes, but if the game runs fast enough, WHO THE HELL CARES?

Too many benchmarks miss the entire question that's interesting: "Does it do what I want?" For a moblie device that means "does it hit the locked framerate, and which one has the longest battery life while doing that."

Microsoft's 'CEO of no' on Xbox: NO SALE

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I came to point this out too, because it would really be news to Apple!

Come with me if you want a lid: Apple bags Terminator-esque LiquidMetal mobe patent

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redundent

Most of the things from Austin Powers movies already sound like something from a adult shop... some of them ARE things from adult shops.

Microsoft Cortana EULA contains the Greatest Disclaimer of ALL TIME

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Happy

How I learned to stop worrying and love software licenses.

Yep, other licenses that do the same thing: GPL, BSD, CDDL, MIT

Honestly, it's not even worth complaining about.

Autodesk CEO: '3D printing has been way overhyped'

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He's right and wrong

It's definitely over-hyped. The vast majority of people won't get and aren't interested in it (at least beyond the "oh, that's cool." stage)

But for those who are somewhat creative or engineering types; for those who have (and use) a well stocked shop, it is a vary useful tool. With them getting down to 200 USD* for a monophotolithography printer (http://www.peachyprinter.com/). It's in the realm of a tool I'd buy just to use it a few times. Stereophotolithography is still outside that range, I think, but would even be better. I think it's like VR/AR in a lot of ways... part of the excitement is the rapid drop in price.

*photosensitive resins do cost more then plastic for extrusion machines, but also tends to be much better resolution, and handles over-hangs better.

Google Fiber says it's happy to let Netflix onto its 'fast lane' for free

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there are neutral peering exchanges in N Amercia. the problem is, you have to have both parties willing to run a haul to it, and actually peer. Generally speaking, Comcast doesn't want to run fiber to 350E Cermak, even if it would lower the cost of transit, because doing so would mean a major upgrade to their networks and they would have to throttle netflix in order to keep their service crappy (right now, by just not updating and buying bandwidth from cogent they get that while having a credible counter-argument even IF net-neutrality passes).

Apple vows to squash iMessage SMS-KILLER

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Re: The wonders a lawsuit does

And everyone wonders why Americans sue, it gets things done.

(although it's sad that some companies are so anti-consumer-friendly they it takes those types of measures)

You know all those resources we're about to run out of? No, we aren't

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@Chemist

I would suggest you google sarcasm.

Malware-as-a-service picks Android apart

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Re: All those steps required?

In my sample of 1 Android phone, there is 0% piracy. I'm not stupid enough to use a sample of one and claim it as representative of the entire Android world, you would do well to apply similar logic.

If we take our phones together, we'll have 50% of phones are rooted, and still 0% of phones have pirated software!

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Re: @phil dude (as: No MaaS)

Pick a platform that hasn't had plenty. The most solid is probably Blackberry's QNX-platform, but we haven't seen that in phones for long (or many phones, for that matter), just cars.

IANA starts handing out recovered IPv4 addresses

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Re: Sitting on the 9.0.0.0/8 here

A large number of the companies with /8s CAN'T be force-revoked, because noone has the authority to do it. Many of those allocations predate IANA's existence, so they lack they authority to do anything about it. Well, they can refuse new ranges to such orgs, but orgs with /8s generally have plenty, and don't care.

It would have to be a voluntary return. Let's just get off our collective asses and move to v6.

California gives green light to test self-driving cars on public roads

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Good

Hopefully this means we can start getting autonomous vehicles soon. It's the only upcoming feature that makes me really want to replace my current car.

Microsoft walks into a bar. China screams: 'Eww is that Windows 8? GET OUT OF HERE'

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Re: I installed Windows 8.1 on a Mac Mini under UEFI mode.

I'm still trying to figure out why anyone would buy one of the overpriced, under-powered POSes to begin with.

Space hackers prepare to reactivate antiquated spacecraft

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Re: Very nice

Noone from the even the right of Attila the Hun is going to complain about private funds going toward this.

No such luck: Apple, Samsung say peace talks are off – way off

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@DougS

It's actually more true for Sammy. Remember Sammy sells more phones that apple does on shear diversity of product lines.

Not to mention, I bet a borderline megacorp like Sammy just pays some type of flat rate for their lawyers.

Wacky 'baccy making a hash of FBI infosec recruitment efforts

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I vote for more dope in the FBI.

no seriously, a little paranoia and maybe they can actually be bothered to bring some charges against the who think recording every phone call is on the same planet as "acceptable"

ULA says to blame SpaceX for Russian rocket rebuff

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Re: If SpaceX can influence international politics to this scale...

Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That is not my department.

Activist investors try forcing Google to pay more taxes

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@Don Jefe

You are misinformed.

Any idiot can by voting shares of Google, if they know what to look for. The ticker symbol is GOOGL (as opposed to GOOG). GOOGL is Class A shares which have 1 vote per share, GOOG are Class C share with no voting rights. Google also has Class B shares which are not publicly traded, those have 10 votes per share.

So, you are not going to take over the company with your GOOGL shares, but you DO get the right to be an "odd nut case" and do "something stupid" with a share.

Honestly, 9/10s of the time, voting shares are a PITA. You get a proxy form, but you are almost always going to vote along-side what the board is doing, because if you didn't like them you wouldn't have bought/retained the stock in the first place. (A few "odd nut cases" exempted)

Survey: Patent litigation skyrocketing, trolls top 10 sueball chuckers

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Re: So

Guilt by accusation seems to be the prevailing consensus, most days.

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So

This means Apple steals more the Samsung?

Oracle vs Google redux: Appeals court says APIs CAN TOO be copyrighted

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WTF?

W. T. F.

"Google had also submitted expert testimony to the effect that copyright is the wrong legal standard by which to judge software code, and that software should be patentable but not copyrightable."

Not only is Google completely wrong on this, I would say even presenting the argument is evil. Copyright is and always has been the proper method of protection for code, and patents are the wrong standard.

Copyright minister: Those missing TWO copyright exceptions? We're still on track

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Re: So who gets the money?

"You go to the Big House for using a gun, but you get a Knighthood if you use a pan."

I'm pretty sure they stick you in the loony-bin for trying to rob someone with a pan.

Japanese cops arrest man with five 3D printed guns at home

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" A few years ago a Japanese police officer used his service weapon to kill himself and was posthumously charged and convicted with breaking gun regulations."

I told this to my coworker... he's now going nuts about "what do they do about it?"

Don't let hackers know Mandiant founder checks his email on an iPad. Oh.

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Re: Just wondering ...

Actually there is a regulation: it's called PCI DSS.

Violation of it can result in increased transaction fees or (more likely) a suspension of your merchant account. (https://www.pcicomplianceguide.org/pci-faqs-2/#11)

PCI DSS Does require that merchants not store the full CC number unencrypted. (https://www.pcicomplianceguide.org/pci-myths/#myth9)

That said, just because it's the rules, doesn't mean it's followed.

Scariest NSA revelation yet: Spooks are RUBBISH at CIPHERS

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Re: what it takes?

Low morals. Gentlemen don't read other people's mail.

I sometimes wonder if there are any left.

You'll hate Google's experimental Chrome UI, but so will phishers

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Re: R11

What I'm saying is, the browser should just highlight the text that is the part of the URL that is the FQDN. This is completely independent of what the certificate says it is valid for (assuming there is a cert at all. This should work without a cert)

EDIT: someone below pointed out they do this already (FQDN in black, rest in grey). Apparently though the contrast is not enough for my aging eyes :(

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Re: Stop this madness now

Just highlighting the domain in a different colour is what I thought the moment I saw this. It's really the perfect compromise, why didn't they realize that?