Posts by david 12

Re: "he just exploited them better"

Soviet communism was a menace, but he tried to fight it like Beria and Stalin would have By killing people? By sending them to concentration camps in Siberia?. Please moderate your hysteria.

Re: How will this work with a printer?

This change -- designed to force legacy customers off of competition software and on to a system that ties all their activities to a single account, for advertising and identification -- only really affects downloads. Sending mail, as your printer does when it scans to email, is not affected.

Re: I understand where the dev is coming from but ....

Companies leeching off his code have already forked their own commercial versions. That was the impetus for the licence change.

Re: About the same time that ...

The story was made up by a French author, Eugenie Foa. It is quoted in an American book by an American author. In the book where it is quoted, it is quoted as a separate story by a different author. ( Back in the day, American ideas about attribution and copyright were different)

I'd suggest that people stick to posting where they have some idea what they are talking about, but hey, this the talk pages of The Register. Nobody here knows what they are talking about.

Re: BSD Stacks?

But it's not a 'network stack' problem. It's a routing problem.

Re: Lies, damned lies, and statistics that don't lie.

According to the most recent figures, half of the IPV4 address values are not in use. Not attached to anything. Not responding to ping or in DNS because they aren't associated with anything.

Some of these IPV4 values could be 'easily' recovered. That is, for values of 'easily' which are much more difficult that implementing IPV6. As demonstrated by the fact that people who actually have to put money into it are adopting IPV6.

Competing with C and C++ for speed isn't a high bar. C and C++ get reasonable speed only on the back of decades of compiler optimisation: C wasn't intrinsically designed to be a fast language (quite the reverse).

Remember that when CS students used to tell you that C was 'fast' and 'close to the machine' they were comparing it to Lisp.

Re: Not only the Irish

It was only on the organised walk around

At the new hospital here it was only on the organised walk around for the medical staff that it was discovered that the oxygen and anaesthetic gas lines were mixed up.

It's not a small mistake. That stuff is inside the walls.

Re: Oh no

[ As a complete noob on this kind of thing. Can a little server/laptop/solution be setup for email to print? Then just email the account, and it prints the document?

Yes, absolutely. A server can be set up to handle printing.

Most of the world is moving away from having on-site email servers.

And many if not most email-enabled printers can't handle the authentication now required for 'secure' email using gmail, so that's also not going to work for a lot of the users.

Re: One way

To quote from one report "Too many trusted Windows 10 peripheral drivers, ... are riddled with exploitable security vulnerabilities"

Peripheral drivers. Intel network cards, wireless, Bluetooth etc. Not just the motherboard, and perhaps not the processor chipset at all.

Still pwned dude.

Re: Legality

Doesn't matter if it legal or not: eating in front of people without sharing is just rude.

An impact printer of some sort. A drum printer, band-printer or chain printer --- daisy wheels were late innovations for low-volume printers, and dot-matrix printers came even later. Early dot-matrix printers were very loud ---- by earlier chain printers were much louder!

Re: Dear AC

I do wonder why they chose to use English measures

Imperial measures.

Or actually, since the Imperial measures were re-negotiated during and after WWII, International Measures.

Re: "no requirement of 'registration' for deactivated firearms"

don't see what practical purpose this serves?

None. It's an EU requirement linked to an entirely different regulatory environment.

It has been suggested that one solution to this kind of meaningless requirement is for Britain to leave the EU. I put that suggestion to you for consideration.

Re: Surely

But it's the absolute angle measurement between the two eyes that's used for Binocular Triangulation?

Not the angular resolution of a single eye?

I've heard both claims from different sources. Are there any one-eyed vultures here to report personal experience?

Re: "Science" ?

The probability of multiple persons experiencing the same pschosomatic symptons at the same time in the same place are essentially none.

Unfortunately, you are wrong. Humans are social/tribal/pack creatures, and the phenomena of mass psychosomatic symptoms is well known and frequently documented.

Re: 737 MAX

My Medical friend tells me that any medical selection panel hiring from India should include at least one person trained in India. To identify the applicants with shoddy qualifications or qualifications from shoddy institutions. India is a huge country, and there are some top-notch medical, engineering and CS graduates from top-notch schools. Also, the opposite.

Re: Bah!

If PayPal has anything in common with any other financial transaction company, they are required to send notifications to the last known address, even when they know that the last known address is invalid.

Re: It was the EU who compelled Ms to make Ms.Net an open standard....

>Try working at a large company with apps fighting over bugs due to differing VB runtimes.<

That problem was the VB3 and VB4 runtimes, which is to say Win9x/Win 3.x The later problem which people are more like to remember was the problem with conflicting C runtimes around the time of Win2K, which caused problems with objects written in C for use in other programs (including for use in VB programs).

It was the problem with conflicting C runtimes (as exposed by VB and other programs), along with the decreasing cost of memory and disk space, which caused MS to rethink their shared DLL approach.

Re: Fixing the symptom…

Yes. FP maths on all modern CPUs has to conform to the IEEE.754 standards.

Yes, and there are unavoidable 'implementation dependant' details in in the IEEE.754 standard.

Story alternatively attributed to a 'Japanese' politician, or to a businessman, or...

It's like an 'Irish' (Polish, Australian...) joke.

I'm just old enough to remember that spreadsheets predate spread sheet programs. They used to be big sheets of paper on which the numbers were pencilled in, then later inked in.

So when we first moved to Supercalc macros, one of the things we discovered was that the departmental spreadsheets didn't actually add up and agree with the global monthly reports, or the annual budget spreadsheet that had gone to Board of Directors.

Fortunately, the Board of Directors doesn't actually need to know the real numbers anyway....

Re: ??

Or, as suggested by his attitude towards the police, because he thinks that the police are assholes who are stitching him up anyway.

Re: I did not know that

You have always been able to a secondary processor alongside the ARM core.

So the 'prohibition' consisted of two parts: you couldn't modify the ARM core, and the ARM core provided no means of adding instructions.

Also, FWIW, the quotation in the article is that you can use RTL -- register transfer level -- to add your instructions to the new interface. That means you'll not necessarily have to use "logic gates" as the author has suggested.

Re: Built-in-obsolescence

We bought a HP A3 printer (which wasn't cheap) and never did get it or the replacement to work. It's not just the money, it's the hours of flappy around before you finally decide to just bin it and buy from some other company.

Re: the gang

Teach copycats, get teachers. Copy teaching meaning, get total waste of time.

Re: Bulk upload??

Because, in the USA, restricting comment to only the channel provided by the government, and only after registering your identity, would, at first glance, seem to be an extraordinary exercise of government over-reach.

Re: Misuse

The depth of knowledge on Stack Overflow is pathetic. I'm in the top 15%, and that's by virtue of randomly quoting from the obvious documentation as an occasional recreational activity.

Questions where I have an actual technical question are unanswered, and that's because the only people posting their are beginners, or, like me, lazy recreational users. And questions where the answer can't be answered with a restatement of a well-known resource are routinely closed, because a question that the administrators don't know the answer to must obviously be a bad question.

Re: Two questions

Or perhaps it's just a normal factual error. The GF stuck the tracker under a bus, and when the MTA discovered it, they traced it back to the boyfriend, who then admitted to placing it on the GF.

Re: How is it even possible to patch the binary unless you have root access?

If you were running Windoze, you wouldn't have a problem. Because Windoze provided TLS at the OS level. It's only the infection of cross-platform browsers (including more recent MS open-source cross-platform browsers) providing their own TLS that provided the platform for this exploit.

Yes, the killing between the communist and socialist and "post-socialist" organisations created by ex-socialists was just as bad as the killing of the Trotskyists by the Stalinists.

On the other hand, there are plenty of places like Germany and Australia that are already switching off the POTS telephone service, so there is plenty of experience with how the process goes.