* Posts by Field Commander A9

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Vid game's easiest level makes players white, hardest level makes them black

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I'm suprised they haven't got bombed yet. Maybe they just know who to NOT pissoff.

Fruit flies' brains at work: Decision-making? They use their eyes

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Re: "scalpel-fodder" ?

Lasers are what we use for scalpels these days.

NYPD head of IT doubles down on Windows smartphone idiocy

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Re: Hold on, if I read this right

Free with a 2 year contract, just like your normal phone purches.

Airbus issues patch to prevent A350 airliner fuel tanks exploding

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Hmm, so this patch cannot be applied over-the-air?

El Reg gets schooled on why SSDs will NOT kill off the trusty hard drive

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Re: I just replaced the HDD in my laptop with...

So like what? An external USB HDD casing never occurred to you?

Any sane tinker in your shoes would have bought an SSD together with a USB HDD casing. Put the SSD in as the boot drive and put your old HDD into the USB casing for extra data space.

NVMe fabrics could shuffle traditional arrays off to the graveyard

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So...Where does this leave HCI?

US cops point at cell towers and say: Give us every phone number that's touched that mast

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Re: It doesn't explain why the carrier would store some of the data

The cops required for the carriers to keep this data(At least that's case here in China).

Official: Windows for Workstations returns in Fall Creators Update

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Re: But as a Play Station...

Better yet: It runs Crysis 3 ... NATIVELY!

ALIS in Blunderland: Lockheed says F-35 Block 3F software to be done by year's end

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Re: "Block 4 is said to be already in development"

Does the pilot gets to choose whether his/her plane should be on the Fast Ring or the Slow Ring, or even stays with an LTS version?

Las Vegas locks down ahead of DEF CON hacking conference

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Re: Temporary Security Measures

This is actually happening everywhere in China esp. the gov hosted ones.

Adobe will kill Flash by 2020: No more updates, support, tears, pain...

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Flash will live on in China

well past 2040 with tons of domestic browsers' support.

Why can't you install Windows 10 Creators Update on your old Atom netbook? Because Intel stopped loving you

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Good luck getting reliable support runing Linux on those obsolete silicons

And, no, a bunch of "volunteers" living on the other side of earth is not considered a "reliable support".

Blunder down under: self-driving Aussie cars still being thwarted by kangaroos

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"We did introduce predators. They are called trucks."

Those are bullshit at the job.

What you need is a few ships of Cantonese people. In a few years they will move all your overflowing wildlife forms into the Near- Exctnict catagory.

US Copyright Office suggests 'right to repair' laws a good idea

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Re: and recovering kit that's obsolete, that is, unsupported by the manufacturer anyhow

"can be finally fixed for the user's benefit"

By who?

I don't trust a random bunch of hippies scattered all over the planet to "fix" my OS.

Researchers blind autonomous cars by tricking LIDAR

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The lasers will be coded, just like in military laser designators.

'OK, everyone. Stop typing, this software is DONE,' said no one ever

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Coat

UNSC doctrines dictate that..

Pelicans should be parked in a hangar, not left in a reserve.

It's 2017, and UPnP is helping black-hats run banking malware

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Re: Who uses UPnP?

Meanwhile for the rest of the world, p2p protocols are still the main method of obtaining large chunks of data.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Microsoft's 'Ms Pac-Man beating AI' is more Automatic Idiot

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I don't see problem with hard-coded knowldge

Even human babies(more so in animal babies) come with a large collection of knowledge hard-coded in their DNAs, what's wrong with that?

Ever wonder why those Apple iPhone updates take so damn long?

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"But I don't care!"

Says every Apple fan boy.

It's 2017 and Microsoft is still patching Windows XP+ – to plug holes exploited by trio of leaked NSA weapons

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Re: MS still cleaning up after Windows XP

Except it's not their dog anymore, at least legally.

It came from space! Two-headed flatworm stuns scientists

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Are you going to call it Kalvin?

Retirement age must move as life expectancy grows, says WEF

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Re: Earth to the WEF ...

That's the price you pay for not actually buying your house when you can afford it rather than spending those bills on booze.

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Re: Fair Enough

The I guess it's a good thing that firefighters in my country are pulled from army reserve and serve only 2 years before they're replaced with fresh meat.

Why Microsoft's Windows game plan makes us WannaCry

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And then spend trillions in rewriting applications and retraining users? Puff, Capitalism.

Android O-mg. Google won't kill screen hijack nasties on Android 6, 7 until the summer

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Re: Most users...

"just tell them how to enable it in your app if you want to use that feature"

There're about just slightly more than a million Android "Distros" out there each with a ever slightly different UI logic&design&layout, so good luck getting your user to find that option they needed,

Windows 10 S: Good, bad, and how this could get ugly for PC makers

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Big Brother

Re: Blanket Laptops.....

" I see it all the time with 5th graders."

What? Your schools give $999 computers to 5th graders? You damn capitalism pigs!

SpaceX spin-out plans to put virtual machines in orbit

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Cosmic rays

are going to fuck up your VMs.

Secure Boot booted from Debian 9 'Stretch'

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Most Linux distros are such flimsy OSes..

that almost nobody would use them if they weren't free.

('cept for RHEL and SLES, which are actually solid)

OpenStack: Pleeeeease stop panicking, Intel and Rackspace still love us

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Re: The Cloud...

With OpenStack's shorter-than-my-penis feature list, nobody in their right minds would use it as the primary driving engine for private or hybrid clouds.

vCenter's phone-home 'customer improvement' feature opened remote code execution hole

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Re: To Paraphrase Blackadder...

You have clearly never worked with anyone who's in the art/media/creativity front.

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Re: Why are vendors so keen on this?

How else are vendors supposed to get real world usage data? Listening to a few whinnies on web forums?

Searching for 'Fatty Kim the Third' banned on Chinese social media

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Try "金三胖"

This is correct.

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The Chinese character for fat (胖) is made from a character for moon(月) on the left and a character for half(半) on the right. So you see when you really want to give that F.A.T feel or trying to avoid censorship, you can separate the character 胖 in to 2 characters 月 半 (lit. "moon half")

Kaminario's Dani Golan reaches for the sky

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An Israel company with a Japenese name?

What's the take?

Want to spy on the boss? Try this phone-mast-in-an-HP printer

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Because people just can't get rid of antique GSM techs.

Windows 10 market share stalls after free upgrade offer ends

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users won't adopt it if they have to pay for it

That's the exact reason why Linux is still being used.

HTC 10: Flagship goes full Google – but the hardware's top notch

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Re: I have a question....

Cue yours truly Nokia 3310

Google puts a gun to the head of IT middlemen – the ops teams

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ALL YOUR DATA ARE BELONG TO GOOGLE

And Uncle Sam.

Hackers crack OS X, Windows, web browsers' security to net $460,000

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What you might not know:

There're only 5 teams in this year's event, 4 of them are from China(2 teams from Tencent and 2 teams from QiHoo 360). The other one is a one-man-team from Korean.

Microsoft will rest its jackboot on Windows 7, 8.1's throat on new Intel CPUs in 2018 – not 2017

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Re: "One solution is to boot a Linux USB stick ..."

This is the kind of person that works in a basement.

Look out, Windows Phone 8 users – yes, both of you – here's ... Windows 10 Mobile

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Re: Can people opt-out?

The upgrade is currently opt-in only. You have to install an app to enable the upgrade.

Java evangelist leaves Oracle to save Java

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Please just let Java die...Please!

Seems most people don't realize this thing is as messy as Adobe Flash.

Law enforcement's next privacy overreach will be the metadata of things

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The Chinese gov already ensured this right in the new anti-terrorism law.

It would be unfair for you westerners to be threated differently, right?

Linux lads lambast sorry state of Skype service

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Just hack your own version per the open source spirit

Wasn't 'reverse-engineering' the standard way of doing things on Linux? (That and WINE, for the lamer ones.)

Apple fans take iPhone unlock protest to FBI HQ

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Meanwhile in socialist China

Any public gathering like this must first be approved by the local government before they actually happen, otherwise they become "unlawful gatherings" and the police force will come crushing 'em down.

Linux Mint hacked: Malware-infected ISOs linked from official site

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What happened to the "Linux is malware-free" claim?

Feds look left and right for support – and see everyone backing Apple

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Meanwhile in socialist China

You want to hide something from motherland? You must be a terrorist! Because a decent comrade won't need to hide anything from motherland! So if your company is helping someone to hide something from motherland, then that someone must be a terrorist and your company would be helping terrorism! And motherland will never tolerant a company that facilitates terrorism!

Microsoft's malware mitigator refreshed, but even Redmond says it's no longer needed

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Re: Hang on MS...

Because forced DEP brakes a lot of legacy software, CounterStrike1.6 for example(a surprisingly lot of people are still playing this version here in the most populated country on earth). And forced SEHOP breaks even more.

Can't upgrade, won't upgrade: Windows Mobile's user problem

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Breaking News!

New OS Version With More Functionalities Requires MORE Hardware Capabilities!

Windows for Warships? Not on our new aircraft carriers, says MoD

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Re: Ah joke wallpaper ...

Didn't workout for me that well--

"Who rebooted my PC?"(it was during the days that PCs still had a RESET button on them)

"It BSODed, I saved you valuable time for having to reboot it yourself."

"It's just a...never mind"

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