Posts by Ru

Re: Thus spake the Master Programmer

You sir, are fucking awesome.

Works just as well if

you remove the 'privatising' part of the question.

Or indeed the 'initiative' bit.

Closed source is not intrinsically bad, or even relevant here

The underlying issue here is that the manufacturer simply does not care. They have no interest in securing their systems, and their customers (in the form of private healthcare companies or national heath services or whatever) have no interest in demanding security from them.

This whole issue is rather independent of software philosophies, and even software at all.

These guys were caught out, publically named and shamed and they still don't care. Open or closed source firmware is irrelevant to that attitude.

"Fragmentation abounds as far as the eyes can see"

I know, isn't it terrible? There should be One World, One Vision, One Operating System!

Everyone's needs are the same, and everyone's desires are irrelevant. The interests of the coders who develop this stuff for free need to be crushed and they must be forced to work instead on the One True Desktop Environment, or whatever.

There's even more than one web browser! Did you know there is *more than one command line shell*? Worse yet, there is more than one programming language even within the same language family! These things can be compiled for machines with totally different architectures. I ask you! Where will the madness end? THIS SORT OF DISUNITY SHOULD NOT AND WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

Easy.

Giants are a lot smaller than Dwarfs.

Re: erm

Japan.

But thanks for taking an interest.

those who don't read articles are doomed to what?

Pastorianus is a hybrid. Some of its genes are known to come from cerevisiae, some from an unknown parent. Eubayanus is an exceedingly close match with those genes of unknown source.

Patagonian natives used the galls containing eubayanus to make a kind of beer.

Eubayanus already seems to enjoy a widespread and will established niche in the patagonian ecosystem.

It has been carefully studied by people who actually know about yeasts and genetics. Admittedly, they aren't Omnicapable Internet Forum Dwellers, but you know, I think they might know their stuff.

None of these things point to it being a recent invasive species.

Insufficient.

The traditional approach to security includes a step whereby anyone who worked on the system and the designer of the system was put to death. Security by obscurity may be somewhat discredited these days, but as part of a defense in depth it has its merits.

Anyway, we are all very pleased with your work, and will be throwing a party in honour of your tremendous success. Please lie on your stomach with your arms at your sides. A party associate will arrive shortly to collect you for your party

Re: Damned right seriously

If I cut off your feet, they won't grow back. The same cannot be said for cancer.

Cancerous cells are not the same as normal cells. Therefore eliminating all cancerous cells from the body will cure cancer. Example: malignant cancerous cells replicate indefinitely, unlike all other cells in the body. Eliminate all 'immortalised' cells, eliminate the cancer.

Don't confuse any sort of pre-cancerous mutation with cancer. Don't assume cancers are an inevitable of being alive. Don't assume everyone somehow magically has an inactive cancer. You are wrong.

Its worse than that

There are an awful lot of sites out there talking about the distributed numbercrunching BOINC, and they rank very highly in search engine indexes. Musicboinc simply won't appear on anyone's radar.

Surely this is entry-level marketing knowledge nowadays. They're fortunate that the name is shared by a respectable academic project rather than, say, some sort of awful web 2.0 porn or dating site.

tl;dr. lrn2precis

The interesting stuff is in the 'openness' of the backend storage system and formats.

The usual suspects for UK government IT, such as Capita, have a delightful habit of using deliberately obfuscated and crazy database schemata, for example, leaving you pretty much locked in to their godawful 'solution' for ever and ever, or at least until the whole sorry mess is ditched.

I have no objection about my hard earned tax pennies being used for proprietary software, but I do object to funding a cheap lockin solution that will become more and more expensive at reliance upon it increases. But I don't see how we're ever going to find out what will be done for years and years, if ever.

RISC vs CISC? Really?

It isn't the nineties anymore. Get with the times, granddad. Whilst you're there, learn about the difference between a DSP and a general purpose microprocessor. Compare and contrast with the sort of highly parallel simple processing units used in modern graphics cards. The semiconductor world is not a simple place, especially when it comes to mobile device SOC cores such as those designed by ARM.

When you're done, I invite you to take a look at the 'crippled' processors of today, and have a quick think about how monstrously powerful they are. A new non-backwards compatible instruction set would make everything sweetness and light, you say? Hello x64! You're not suggesting anything new, or even useful.

Are they closer together then your eyes?

Can you see in 3d?

It is very important to know

whether you got 4As, 4A*s, or 4A**s, as this can seriously affect your choice of university.

So.

Their rules say you must go by the legal name you use in your country.

He tries to use his legal name to set up an account.

This fails, but it is his fault for not following the rules?

This isn't about google

As the article stated, they release kernel updates for android. This is about everyone else, the sorts of people who *cannot afford to maintain their own kernels* because that's a particularly hard task and one that is not necessarily rewarding or financially viable compared to buying a commercial OS with guaranteed product lifetimes.

This is about promoting linux in consumer electronics land. Personally, I feel that anything shorter than 5 years probably isn't going to fly, but I've had relatively little experience in consumer electronics. Maybe mobile phones are ephemeral enough that 2 years is considered their working lifespan; certainly plenty of smartphone manufacturers and mobile phone companies feel that way.

Bus motion

Won't help you, I suspect. The movement of the bus will generate completely different waveforms from a keypress; generally much higher amplitude and longer wavelength. Possibly the vibration from a low-revving diesel might drown out the keypresses, but a held phone is probably quite well isolate from that sort of thing by its holder.

Worst case (for the application) I imagine that an offline postprocess would be able to filter out a wide range of environmental noise given a bit of human guidance.

You seem to be confusing games and reality

I trust you also support campaigning against murder simulators, megalomaniac trainers and other undesirable works of fictional entertainment?

The robot staff in our exclusive nuclear bunkers

represent NO THREAT AT ALL to the delicate meatbags who will be residing there in the event of cometary apocalypse. Any rumours that our potential customers may have heard regarding unreliable aggression inhibitors and downgrading of the Asimov laws to mere voluntary guidelines are TOTALLY FALSE.

There's a grand tradition of such things

An acquantaince of mine made a 'happy kitty' java app for a nokia many, many years ago. The happier the cat was, the more it 'purred', thanks to the new pager motor API. Made quite a few sales of that one.

I do recall there have been some entertaining issues regarding the duty cycle on the motor drives and pager motors in some android devices. Sustained high power use can result in overheating and permanent damage. To the phone, one presumes.

Alas

The lawyers have not left their land and ladyfolk (or indeed menfolk) behind.

Its a big team

He didn't write the whole of CM himself, and he didn't personally port it to each and every device supported.

Maybe its time to brush up on your C and start reading about bootloaders.

"rioters", implies there was a principle at stake

The whole mess didn't kick off because people felt they needed a new TV. You did know that, right? The fact that everyone else and their dog took advantage of the chaos for some good old fashioned pillaging and burning rather detracts from the problems that sparked all this in the first place.

The fact they haven't told you about it is irrelevant

Not all schedules are public, chief.

Microsoft are the worst

Oh, absolutely. And Google, they're the worst too. And Apple? They're also the worst, as it happens.

Personally, what you suspect a company is doing is utterly irrelevant. I suspect you might be hoarding illegal donkey porn and hope the police search your computer soon; of all the evil denizens of the internet, ones called 'Mike Judge' are the worst, and what you claim to have on your computer and what is actually there are two very different things.

Moogorola?

Gotoroogle?

You people and your narrow minded noun-combining.