* Posts by LaeMing

2410 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Dec 2009

Lenovo to customers: We only just found out about this Superfish vuln – remove it NOW

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Re: Another list to add to

Yes, brand loyalty is a two-sided coin: "There is no wrath like that of a zealot betrayed."

(Not accusing you of zealotry, that is just the way the saying is traditionally worded.)

- A former indi-dev on Apple's platforms (don't get me started!)

Australian government may take leave of its census

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Online census

Sort of assumes the entire population has access to online. ProTip: they don't. Not by a long shot yet.

'Net neutrality will turn the internet communist – and make Iran's day'

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Re: Netizens of the world unite!!

"or at least be forever consigned to have Comcast as their ISP"

I don't think cruel and unusual punishments should apply in our new world order.

A cookie with a 7,984-year lifespan. Blimey, Roy Batty only got 4!

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Few things I note:

My user account has moved from cpu-to-cpu and storage-device-to-storage-device for over a decade now (and I don't even use cloud - this is just my /home partition moving about as I upgrade stuff), so assuming that the age of a physical device has anything to do with it is naff.

I don't accept 3rd-party cookies. It is a fairly accessible setting in any modern browser.

The sort of cookies I do like to accept (page viewing preferences) I would prefer to outlive me.

I intend to live forever. Or die trying*.

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* Vila Restal, Blakes 7, BBC

Free Windows 10 could mean the END for Microsoft and the PC biz

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Supported life of the device

Simply lasts as long as the Software Supplier (MS in this case) wishes to support the device. Once they decide to not support the device, its supported life is over. QED.

Sony's super-frumpy SmartEyeglass goggles are $840 Google Glasses

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Re: For those who don't click through the Sony link:

4. Any attempt to arrest a senior SONY employee results in shutdown.

BLAME ENGINEERS: Workstation sales soar by 8.9 per cent a year

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Creators gotta create.

Otherwise there is nothing for the masses to do with their shiny low-end kit.

Find My Phone does just one thing but Samsung's messed it up

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But it costs 15 quid do download.

Boy, 16, cuffed after posting selfie with body of kid he allegedly killed

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Re: Inadmissable...

I imagine the 'hole' is not in their software, but part of the screen-shot ability inherent in most OSes since there where screens to screen-shoot.

(Icon for snapchat users, not poster I am responding to).

Official: Single people need to LOWER their EXPECTATIONS

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I tried lowering the bar...

...but the magma kept flooding the hole.

Boffin the boffin and his boffinry pals in double dwarf super-prang alert

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Re: 700 million years!

Needn't worry. Plenty of time to prep the popcorn.

German minister photo fingerprint 'theft' seemed far too EASY, wail securobods

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This is why...

...all the government officials, their bag-men and the like wear gloves in Dystopian-Future SciFi!

BURIED: Oz gov won't reveal telcos' guess at data retention costs

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If only that headline stopped after the third word!

China and Russia start again with this UN internet takeover bull****

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No. We can't have nice things.

Oz spooks hack, try to fry Middle East servers – report

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Re: I Bet...

@Fluffy Bunny. You obviously don't pay taxes. The last tax return notices came with a nice pie chart showing how little of my tax dollar actually gets spent in human services.

Trans-Pacific trade treaty close to signoff says USA

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Re: Any government that signs the TPP is comitting treason against its nation and its people

Beat me to it.

I wonder if the TPP can be twisted so the Austraian People can sue their own government.

Facebook kills pic of Mohammed weeks after Zuck's Je suis Charlie!

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FAIL

As healthy as hating on facebook generally is,

If a country's laws are crap, it is up to that country's citizens to get them changed, not some big multinational corporation. Or would people like to set a precedent for unelected company CEOs setting national policies where and how they see fit*

* I mean without at least pretending to go through a government sock-pupet!

ICANN orders re-evaluation of dot-gay

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Personally,

I am not really concerned what my dots do in their own time.

... < ooh! it's a threesome!

Passing asteroid MOONS the HUMAN RACE

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So what you are saying...

...is the little bugger mooned us on the way past!

Drone in NEAR-MISS with passenger jet at Heathrow airport

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And this...

...is why we will never get our flying cars!

What gets the internet REALLY excited? Kittens? No. EXPLODING Kittens

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Or in this case, a fake beard!

Come and Twiddle Tek Gear's one handed keyboard

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Pluck to type. Strum to spam.

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Re: Left Handed?

I use an Infogrip BAT chorded keyboard quite a bit (typing this on my work one right now!). I purchased left-handed ones because I like my dominant hand free for the trackball. And the style of trackball I preferr (thumb-on-ball) only comes in right-handed anyway.

Cubans defy government's home internet ban with secret home-made network

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Unfortunately,

My mum (no Internet access) is just out of line-of-sight to my sister (ADSL2) for a cantenna.

Cuba? Nah, regional-urban Australia here!

Landlines: The tech that just won't die

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I went naked for a while (fnar fnar)

Then my ISP switched me back to bundled as their wholesaler was offering that cheaper.

Ex Machina – a smart, suspenseful satire of our technology gods

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March 5?!?

Aussies have to wait until March 5???!!!

Cooooommmme Onnnnnn! I can understand making the Yanks wait, but please:

Won't someone think of the Commonwealth!

Dotcom crypto keys not for the FBI: NZ High Court

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Re: So just how long will it take

Which is why Kim suspects they have already cracked his crypto. But without legitimately obtained keys, they can't use anything they may have found (or now use any of it anyway if it was ruled they should never have been given copies of the drives in the first place).

SCREW you, GLASSHOLES! Microsoft unveils HoloLens

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Re: A new term to describe them?

Holo-heads.

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Re: Hope they truly work

"their Hardware is miles better than their Software these days"

This has been the case since they first got into the HW business (which is when no-one would make a keyboard with a Windows key on it for them, I beleve).

MYSTERY RADIO SIGNAL picked up from BEYOND our GALAXY

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I find your observation...

...Spock-on!

0^0

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Bush-first NBN build was back to front says NBN Co CEO

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Yes, I think the point was to make sure the 'outback'* actually got some attention /before/ anyone had a chance to renig on the deal.

Ah well, best laid plans, etc.

* Anywhere that isn't a state capital.

Facebook is MORE IMPORTANT to humanity than PORTUGAL

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Re: How many of those 4.5 million jobs were within Deloittes?

Cats don't do the W-word.

India pushes ahead with slimmed-down fibre rollout

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You really expect a politician to even be aware of a major publication in their current portfolio area?!

...

Is India copying what Mal-wear Over-bill is doing or is it the other way around?

Australia tries to ban crypto research – by ACCIDENT

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Re: Good I say.

@Keef - we haven't finished bein stupid yet! QED.

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Re: Science now run by wombats

Yes, I doubt 'Kingmaker' Murdoch cares too much about academic exceptions. Quite the contrary, I would think!

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Re: ...everyone follows all the laws

Rather telling would be a box you could tick that was essentially "I only voted for this candidate because I had to vote for someone" which gets tallied and displayed along with the vote count.

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Re: The Australian fereral governments (plural - they are all indistinguishable)

From this day forth, they will be known as the Austrailian Feral Government.

If the boot fits....

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The Australian fereral governments (plural - they are all indistinguishable)

don't have much time for academia anyway. They'd love to shut the whole lot down (baring the private University of Mutual Backscratchers exclusively for the kids of the ruling elite) and shut up all the banging on about peer-reviewed this and demonstrated that that intefer with the party line of the week.

Dongle bingle makes two MEELLION cars open to exploit

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Re: Crash to stop insurance price hike

Might be time for CAN bus people to discover this revolutionary new technology called a 'firewall' (not the type that sits between the engine and your feet!)

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could result in loss of life

I hope their product liability insurance is up-to-date!

Prez Obama snubs UK PM's tough anti-encryption crusade at White House meet

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Cyber

Because the 'leadership' wants to do to us much the same as what the fictional Cybermen want to do to us?

Hollywood vs hackers: Vulture cracks Tinseltown keyboard cornballs

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Re: Cough Cough!! Independence day

To be fair on ID, that Mac could have been running an alien-CPU emulator plus OS and network protocols reverse-engineered from the alien ship they had in the hangar.

Warning: Using encrypted email in Spain? Do not pass go, go directly to jail

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Re: Get a grip...

"We can't read this hard drive partition on our Windows box".

"It's ext4"

"That sounds terrorist-ish. Bang him up."

...

Also, I have a legitimate reason to encrypt all my stuff: I don't trust the government any further than I could kick them up a chimney.

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I am apparently the 999999 person (sic) to visit this site and am entitled to a chance to win a JB Hi-Fi Gift Card worth $1000!

Woooot.

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No-one ever does!

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It's almost like some kind of...

Spanish Inquisition!

$500 TEDDY BEAR teaches tots to spit up personal data

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Pedobear

Always ready to violate a child's ... privacy.

...

(that final word doesn't make the sentence better at all!)

Alien Earths are out there: Our home is not 'unique'

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Re: What about the moon?

The moon's benefits don't really require a moon. Any nearby strong gravity well in (relative) motion would likely do just fine for driving tidal forces throughout the body. While earth-sized planets with large moons may be somewhat rare, titan-sized moons orbiting gas giants seem likely to be quite common. The Giants (presuming they have moons like all ours do) even show up often enough in 'green-belt' zones of stars.

Local panspermia would pretty much ensure all the moons of a green-belt gas giant would get life of some similar form (relative to the local atmosphere depending on local gravity &c) within a short while of life popping up on the first (probably most favourable) one. Would make a rather interesting local system to live in, especially since you might end up with another habitable world within 1970s-Earth technological reach.

^^ All speculation, of course!

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Re: Earth: it's actually kind of a shit place to live.

Especially since humanity showed up.

BATMAN LASER builds smaller, faster hard drives

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Instead of zeros and ones...

...they use NANAs and nanas.