Posts by Hans 1

Re: I'm not surprised

>When I first ordered pizza online from Dominos a few years ago

Did you eat that? Seriously ? Yuck!

>It's a shame Linux doesn't have sensible and modular architecture that can control authentication centrally and not allow an application to compromise something so basic as account lockouts!

Ever heard of PAM ? thought not. shut up!

Re: Notice the ruse?

>There seems to be an assumption that hydrogen is always split from water using renewable energy. It's a nice concept, but it's simply not true. Not yet. Not even close.

An Italian team has developed a water-based battery, not for cars because of the weight.

I upvoted because "software defending itself" sounded funny, but a rootkit lies in kernel space, not bios, afaik.

It could well be an 0wned BIOS, though my bets are on bugs.

To the BOFH, did you hold the USB stick correctly before you inserted it ? Did you ask the computer before inserting it ? You would not want to be charged with rape in Texas, would you ?

@sequester

Are you a spammer ? Please be more verbose about your rant ... if you want to avoid a lot of spam, a receiving system must be able to test if the sender really exists.

SPAM accounts for over 97% of email our company receives, yes we manage to filter out the whole lot of it, no, we do not use gmail, but I guess that for gmail, it is more like 99.99997% (note that that was just a wild guess, it might be much worse), checking the sender is legitimate.

Re: Price rises from Microsoft?...

>I assume the local competition has gone titsup.

That is what they think ... ;-) Google Australia just filed for chapter 11, or was that just Nadella's dream ?

They are feeling the pain, Windows is making no money anymore ... so they hike up the price of office^H^H^H^H^H^Hazure ...

Re: In addition

>The US could drastically cut it's carbon emissions (and electricity prices) if it weren't more difficult to build a nuke plant than it is to put a man on the moon. Actually, I guess they are about the same - we haven't done either since the 70's.

Well, nuke power is not it ... how much does it cost to decommission a nuke reactor ? How much does it cost to build a new one ? When will you need to decommission the bulk of your plants in the US? I am unsure, in France, it is estimated to be 3bn/reactor, they have 50 to decommission, 30 to build @10bn a piece - now, that is close to 450bn to be found over the next 20 years, knowing that no provisions have been made in France for decommissioning the plants. The sector already has its woes without even considering decommissioning the old plants ... so, how is it in the US ?

I do not believe what Gates is saying, as usual, BS to promote his personal profit ... where exactly are those 98% of 52bn you were supposed to give to charity, Mr Gates ? Still in your pocket? I thought so ...

Re: Accountability or lack thereof...

Would you dismiss your mate from a position because he wasted billions of tax payers money, yet, still managed to redirect millions into your personal Singapour or Isle of Man account ? Thought not ...

Why do they not disclose precise amounts of the various deals in question ? We are paying after all ...

Re: Old rant...

>Ok, tell me one. Libreoffice and Openoffice DO NOT count.. I use them, and donate to the projects, but have to resort to the "real" thing for complex documents.

Seriously, use inkscape to create some jaw-dropping SVG graphics, put them into OpenOffice, save as PDF and show the result to anybody, whatever they use, like InDesign, you name it ... their jaws will drop ... especially when you compare file sizes. Don't come with MS Word, you will be laughed out of the building ....

Define "complex documents" ? Are you holding it right ? ;-)

Re: It'll be delayed again

@imanidiot

There, done!

Re: The MS Patents

The majority are abstract ideas, which are non-patentable (according to US patent law). Then you have the, in my opnion, most ridiculous patent granted which for once, is for something very specific. They managed to patent Java class files used by a JVM. Since a JVM ships with class files and they did not invent the JVM, there has to be prior art invalidating said patent.

>I'm not trolling but I can't remember seeing a Nokia here in Germany this year.

I have, exactly, precisely, 1, in the wild, in France, mind. I see them daily in ads everywhere, but in people's hands ? Nada ...

And Android really sucks.

Re: MS privacy policy website hacked...?

Apparently, since the site contained keywords for gambling, I assume that gamblers ended up on there and noticed....

Re: WTF?

@Badvok

>If these rather special 'Linux Devs' really can't abide using something for which they don't have absolutely all the source code down to the lowest level (microcode included?) why don't they just avoid those manufacturers who don't provide it - last I looked it was still a pretty free market.

We all benefit from their work and I am NOT going the route of having to check if the chipset X is FreeSoftwareCompliant before buying it, I get the best my money can buy and hope FreeBSD/GNU/Linux will cope with it. I, for one, am inconvenienced by nvidia's stupid ways - to say the least. The same can be said about broadcom, BTW.

Re: frame the issue

You can also have the phone download a zip file with an appropriate hosts file, no need to root ... all you need is a DNS server on your wifi network and a web server....

Re: I wonder how quickly..

Have you ever worked in development ? Heard of version control software ?

Written any code and merged patches to it into separate branches ... because, well, when you merge patches, you are very often doing the equivalent of a copy & paste.

I luv the irony: "M$ programmers just cut & paste the same code every time"

Cut & Paste ? Surely you mean copy & paste !

<joke>Why does Edge no longer support HSTS ? Because an MS employee cut & paste'd it over to IE 11 in the backport.</joke> (Yes, I know ... you would not commit both changed files, but still ...)

Re: Economy of France

So, one moment ...

>>like Concorde

>Crashed and burned

27 years after GA, yes, because some American tin lost a few bits on the runway. Concorde was an incredible achievement at the time, cher ami, and still is pretty amazing, because nobody can make anything as good, even with today's tech - sad that Rolls Royce and hence the oil crises killed it off! The Russians, who had each and every plan of the beast, failed!

>>an incredible maze of high quality highways even up to an altitude of 1100m

>Built by private companies who get 30-year leases from the government to collect the tolls.

Originally state-owned and state-operated, now, mostly operated by private firms because a pres thought it was a good idea to sell "the goose that lays golden eggs" to private companies (they actually bought the right to lease them - the fun thing is that the politicians in charge of the commission that decided this are unable today to say how much these private companies paid at the time) - private companies are better at ransoming the poor bastards we are over here!

>> TGV

> Massively subsidised by the taxpayer.

Yes, however, think about all the economic growth it is bringing!

>You missed the 10% and rising unemployment, bankrupt heatlh service, unsustainable state pension scheme, and the least popular President in history.

High unemployment is not the state's fault, it is the French mentality ... HR think of a workforce like a puzzle, if the candidate does not fit in perfectly they prefer to wait two years until they find the perfect candidate (with EXACTLY the right education! if candidate has a diploma too many, speaks a language that is not needed, has a strange name, looks weird [ a scar on your face is enough], you're out of luck), too bad if they lose business in the meantime.

Health care is not really bankrupt, the problem is, it does not get the appropriate funding because funds are diverted from healthcare to other posts. The pension scheme is in quite a state, indeed, I give you that.

As for presidents, the last two have had the moniker "least popular president in history" - mainly due to the financial crisis and the fact that the last one, costing more than the Queen of England and selling off all the "win-makers" of the state to private companies.

Socialism works, go and look at the Nordic countries in Europe. It does not work when you have officials spending public funds on luxury-ware or selling off all profitable state-owned assets ... all without anybody complaining ... was it in Sweden that an official got the sack for purchasing a chocolate bar at an airport with public funds ? In France, an unlucky official got a "warning" after spending 10 000 euro on boxes of cigars ... note that he only got the warning because it was leaked to the press and caused an uproar ... buying "haute couture" garments with public funds is encouraged, if not tolerated.

As for the current president, although his party bares the name "Socialist Party", it is as socialist as the UMP, for my comrades on the other side of the sleeve, the conservatives or labour in the UK.