Re: There’s no official word from Tesco on the weight of the Hudl 2
>Don't you have the Scales app on your iPhone 6
Cool. Didn't know about that trick. Awesome. Off to weigh my Bagger 288.
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Son of Hudl: Tesco flogs new Atom-powered 8.3-inch Android tablet
Android's Cyanogenmod open to MitM attacks
Monday 13th October 2014 21:47 GMT
Re: Single biggest bug source
Then how would you refactor your methods? It isn't like IDEs have built in features where you can extract code to new method. Clearly you have to copy the method, add your new loop and if statement and give it some obscure name.
Also, wouldn't it be great if build servers were able to reject check-ins if duplicate code was detected? Ah, pipe dreams.
Monday 13th October 2014 09:00 GMT
>He said the fix was fairly simple and said the exposure served as an academic exercise in the perils of code reuse
I would venture to suggest that code reuse is not the problem. No, I will go further than that. If you roll your own security code there is a better than average chance that what you come up with is much worse.
The problem here is that the developer used the code without understanding how it worked and failed to write test cases that included validation against an invalid certificate.
Heistmeisters crack cost of safecrackers with $150 widget
Monday 13th October 2014 09:29 GMT
True, but probably not as quietly and most likely leaving it in a way that makes it obvious that something is amiss. It would allow the sort of attack where the safe is broken at a time when it is empty and so under minimal supervision. The safe can then be opened in seconds when it is of more interest.
Red Bull does NOT give you wings, $13.5m lawsuit says so
SPLITTERS! Symantec cleft in twain
Right, suits off: Windows 10 preview Internet Explorer is here
Revealed: Malware that forces weak ATMs to spit out 'ALL THE CASH'
Aussie builds contactless card cloner app, shops at Woolies with fake card
Adobe spies on reading habits over unencrypted web because your 'privacy is important'
Dear Reg readers. I want Metro tiles to replace all icons in Windows. Is this a good idea?
Monday 6th October 2014 05:22 GMT
Re: Statistical Observation
> was the script that deleted all his posts, in fact, run on a windows machine
From http://www.theregister.co.uk/about/company/website/
The site is built using a custom content management system which is written in Perl and filters its input through HTML Tidy. The pages are generated using the GNOME libxslt library. We make substantial use of the excellent DBIx-Class ORM.
The webservers are running Apache, with MySQL for the back-end database and the search engine. Our web applications (search, forums, Reg Whitepapers, Reg Events, etc) are all built on mod_perl. All the software runs on Debian GNU/Linux, chosen for its stability, reliability, flexibility, and especially for its superlative support of remote package management and upgrades.
So my guess is no.
Marriott fined $600k for deliberate JAMMING of guests' Wi-Fi hotspots
Sunday 5th October 2014 04:58 GMT
Re: True Intentions?
If you are talking about the physics involved, then yes, the 2.4 and 5GHz channels over which WiFi operates is a limited resource. Just like a road network, if everyone tries to drive at the same time then no-one will get anywhere quickly, but there are a couple of points that I take issue with:
1. Is it reasonable to expect that the density of WiFi communication is any higher in a hotel environment such as this than it is in a residential building in the CBD?
2. If there is a specific need for a specific set of rooms to be rf pure, then the solution is to build some sort of faraday cage around the room itself.
3. If such active DoS measures are unavoidable (which would be an absolute legal minefield if it reached off premise btw), then the hotel should be providing a ***free*** alternative (guest APs or wired connections), or a lack of availability of WiFi channels should be very clearly stipulated at the time of booking.
Top 10 SSDs: Price, performance and capacity
Google ordered to tear down search results from its global dotcom by French court
SURPRISE: Telstra STILL wants all its promised NBN booty
UK reforms on private copying and parody come into force
Friday 3rd October 2014 03:52 GMT
Re: £58m lost revenues
They need to decide if they sell a product or a licence. If a product then you should be free to do as you like with it once purchased. If a licence, then as a licence holder you should be able to purchase a replacement media or exchange format at (or reasonably close to) cost price.
In simple terms, if you want to force someone to purchase another copy for a format shift, then you are starting that they have purchased something physical rather than a licence.
DRAM! Speedy software upstart PernixData's caching up fast
Friday 3rd October 2014 03:39 GMT
Re: Um...
Also windows since vista. There are basically two reasons to write to disk.
1. A requirement to not lose the data when shutdown or other system crash (including the VM host).
2. Overflow storage where there is insufficient RAM to work in memory (very large datasets).
This solution doesn't solve 1 and if you are using it for 2 then why not just give it that RAM as RAM?
RAM backed SSD can make sense to boost longevity by avoiding overwriting the same block (discussed here) but this use case smells weird to me.
Windows 10: One for the suits, right Microsoft? Or so one THOUGHT
Wednesday 1st October 2014 22:11 GMT
@patient1
Deskman is/was always a *Microsoft* powertoy. It is not third party any more than the .net runtime could be considered third party.
Desktops was made by sysinternals but Microsoft bought them out a few years back (one of their more sensible acquisitions) so that is third party in the same sense that Skype or Nokia are third party.
Wednesday 1st October 2014 11:00 GMT
> What else is new... virtual desktops
Yes. Definitely new. Not available on Windows XP, that is for sure. There are also no options for Vista, 7 or 8 so glad this is finally coming.
Atlas snubbed! Ad blocker says it can kill Facebook's stalker tech
Ingredient found in TASTY BEER is GOOD for your BRAIN
Thursday 2nd October 2014 12:47 GMT
Australian universities climb Times world rankings
I think we all know why...
Apple blacklists tech journo following explicit BENDY iPhone vid
DARPA joins math-secured microkernel race
US Attorney Gen latest to roast Apple, Google mobe encryption
Supercomputers: The Next Generation – Cray puts burst buffer tech, Intel Haswell inside
Turn OFF your phone or WE'LL ALL DI... live? Europe OKs mobes, tabs non-stop on flights
Monday 29th September 2014 05:02 GMT
Re: Don't get too upset
> "guess where I'm calling you from" for hours on end at 30k feet.
I'm on the plane. Hello? Yeah, the plane. Did you hear me? OK what did you hear up to? I'M … ON … THE … PLANE. No, plane. Yes. Anyway, nearly out of credit. I will call you later.
/yeah, that would definitely get old quickly.
BENDY iPhone 6, you say? Pah, warp claims are bent out of shape: Consumer Reports
Telstra, Vodafone at odds over data retention
Microsoft on the Threshold of a new name for Windows next week
That glass of water you just drank? It was OLDER than the SUN
How the FLAC do I tell MP3s from lossless audio?
Sunday 28th September 2014 02:30 GMT
Re: Listen to the same song on FLAC and MP3 - there's your answer
Um, you can't make such a statement without clarifying what you mean by mp3 and what is being played. A 96kbps CBR sounds very different to a 320kbps VBR. Most people could pick the 96. Almost no one could pick the 320 in a statistically significant way in a double blind test.
Saturday 27th September 2014 06:47 GMT
Re: Self inflicted
>Suddenly, all of those 128 kbps MP3 audio files you grabbed from Napster in the 1990s are garbage to your ears.
I think 128kbps is low enough that most people could pick which is which for some types of music. If you double it to 256 and add some VBR, the difference is physically inaudible to most the population. At 320, you would have a lot of trouble in a double blind test to pick one from the other.
That is not to say that it doesn't sound better to you. We know for example that the placebo effect is real. Someone who is told that a particular medication will help their breathing performs better at altitude tests than control even if the medication is just a sugar pill. I am in no doubt that someone who knows they are listening to a lossless encoding will experience in their brain a better quality of sound.
Nonetheless, your point about 1990s tracks sounding like garbage is correct* but that has little to do with how the music is encoded ;)
* especially only happy when it rains.
Saturday 27th September 2014 06:22 GMT
Re: Good source material and very good speakers or good headphones needed
>(Most headphones under £50 and most speaker systems under £500 cause far more alteration to the music than a high rate MP3 produced by a reasonable encoder.
Some headphones over £50 are pretty terrible in this regard; not to mention any specific brands that may have been pictured in the article.
Hackers thrash Bash Shellshock bug: World races to cover hole
Friday 26th September 2014 05:14 GMT
Re: FUD whack-a-mole
>Still no word of JUST ONE commercial site (or device!) being pwned by this one
How do you propose to validate that this bug was the source of the mentioned pwnage? It would bypass the logging. Your server could be pwned without you even knowing. And Apache cgi-bins are just one vector we know of.
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