Re: Awww...
Wow. That old horse must have been massive.
Posts by Adam 1
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Horrific FLESH-EATING PLATYPUS once terrorised Australia
Adobe users' purloined passwords were pathetic
Have you reinstalled Windows yet? No, I just want to PRINT THIS DAMN PAGE
Google and Samsung bare teeth in battle for LANDFILL ANDROID™
Saturday 2nd November 2013 13:12 GMT
Re: Value vs Features vs Price
The author doesn't seem to recognise that low price and landfill are not necessarily synonymous. The landfill expression refers to phones where critical engineering compromises were made in order to hit a particular price point. We saw this especially with touch screens and insufficient internal storage and RAM.
Look at it this way. A galaxy s2 was in its day arguably the best smartphone. Today, a phone of equivalent specifications would easily be in the landfill price point yet as a phone it would work fine and would not blink at running words with friends or angry birds.
To paraphrase a famous quote. Phones should be as cheap as possible; but no cheaper.
Indestructible, badass rootkit BadBIOS: Is this tech world's Loch Ness Monster? VOTE NOW
Saturday 2nd November 2013 01:35 GMT
I could believe that a pre infected PC with dormant malware could receive instructions from the C&C using such a technique.
I could accept even that a specific BIOS had some sort of buffer overrun that allowed such a vulnerability, although that seems a very long bow. But to have an exploit of a nature that would work like this across multiple BIOSs sounds too big to fit in the available ROM so I think this is unlikely.
What I am willing to accept is some similar technique in the mobile space. E.g an overrun in Siri or Samsung's equivalent in Android. Such an exploit could spread to others on your bus or train.
Australian confirms Huawei ban
Friday 1st November 2013 02:37 GMT
Don't see any problem.
It is not like the said board members ever failed to notice untoward behaviour when they were foreign minister. Certainly no hundred million dollar kickbacks to Saddam for wheat contracts....
I am sure that makes them right on top of what China does in closed source modules in key infrastructure.
About the first sensible thing the new government has done re NBN
Pimp my office: 10 cubicle comforts
Windows 8.1: A bit square, sure, but WAIT! It has a Start button
Wait for it, waaiiit for it: We update an Atom tablet to Windows 8.1 Pro
Billionaire vows to turn 007's Lotus Esprit into actual submarine car
US red-tape will drain boffins' brains into China, says crypto-guru Shamir
Microsoft holds nose, shoves Windows into Android, iOS boxes
Windows 8.1: Read this BEFORE updating - especially you, IT admins
Friday 18th October 2013 03:25 GMT
Re: No ISO?
> 10.5GB, woo, yeah that's a lot in 2013. </sarcasm>
Way to miss the point there.
On a reasonably performing ADSL2 connection, that is 4 hours. Surely it would have been more efficient to torrent the whole ISO, even if all updates had to download a small app first to check some md5 hashes.
Australian politicians 'resisted' debate on new spook powers
Canadian operator EasyDNS stands firm against London cops
Monday 14th October 2013 02:42 GMT
Re: False economics
I am afraid that the field of copyright math is extraordinarily complicated. We really do need to leave it to the experts. A single iPod full of pirated music has been shown to cause northwards of 8 billion dollars damage to the economy.
So please don't come along with and use your primary school times tables to conclude you have made no damage.
Facebook RIPS away your veil of privacy, declares NO MORE HIDING
Microsoft wants to 'move beyond' the Cookie Monster
Down with Unicode! Why 16 bits per character is a right pain in the ASCII
Atomic clocks come to your wrist
Rare gold iPhone 5s goes up against 50 caliber high precision rifle
Fandroids at pranksters' mercy: Android remote password reset now live
How I hacked SIM cards with a single text - and the networks DON'T CARE
Tracking the history of magnetic tape: A game of noughts and crosses
Turnbull floats e-vote, compulsory ID
Sunday 15th September 2013 13:18 GMT
I wouldn't mind with two changes
I actually like mandatory polling booth attendance, which minimises the risk of cronies threatening people from attending polling booths, but there are two glaring ways in which the system is manipulated right now.
Firstly, with 110 candidates, how should I know where specifically to preference the bee keepers for higher buildings party. It is a surprisingly difficult and meaningless task to rank them. Above the line voting simplified it but parties figured out how to game the system by creating preference deals amongst themselves. In my view, scrap above the line, and allow the citizen to fill from 1 to 6 (for half senate) or 1 to 12 (for full senate).
Secondly, there is too much advantage of being first column on the page. A bunch of gun nutters won a huge portion of NSW because their name vaguely sounded like one of the main parties and they happened to draw first on the page. This is somewhere electronic voting could help (they could display the candidates in random order). Even with paper based voting it could be minimised by having different candidate orders (not at the same polling booths for practicality during counting, but it could be done for different booths to average out the donkey).
Borland's heir Embarcadero says one dev tool can rule them all
Saturday 14th September 2013 03:37 GMT
Re: That will work so well
Java is a VM which is quite a different approach. I haven't used Firemonkey (guess they have to call that FM these days) in any serious capacity (beyond some proof of concept work a few years back), but it is vector based and offloads to hardware acceleration so I don't see any big issue there. The IDE still supports platform specific functions (Win API being the most obvious), but you obviously can't target other platforms if you want to do that.
The problems this faces are no different to the problems you face writing any cross platform "application", be that Java or HTML5, c++ or whatever. UI conventions are different on different platforms. Do you attach your menus to the window or go for the OS X model? Do you have a single MDI window model or a bazillion independently draggable windows? Do you swipe to delete iOS style or touch and hold Android style? Where do you put your "back" button?
Snowden journo's boyfriend 'had crypto key for thumb-drive files written down' - cops
Saturday 31st August 2013 10:16 GMT
Re: Honestly? How hard is this?
From what I understand, UK has laws that give you a choice between jail and handing over the password. All of these fancy measures of not carrying the private key or sending the key and data with different reporters doesn't get around this.
The reporters may well not understand security, or maybe the revealed password was just the decoy volume of a hidden truecrypt operating system (see http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/hidden-volume). The mule need not even have known about this; one or two believable files in the outer volume that would explain the need for its encryption.
... and this way they get to post about the day their office got trashed.
Mine's the one with the mobile phone that definitely doesn't have a micro SD card inside it where these files could have been hidden had they not wanted this trouble.
Hey, Bill Gates! We've found 14 IT HOTSHOTS to be the next Steve Ballmer
Fanbois taught to use Apple's new killer app: Microsoft Windows
NSA gets burned by a sysadmin, decides to burn 90% of its sysadmins
'Look, give us Snowden' - this Friday's top US-Russia talks revealed
Microsoft adds Visual-Studio-like text editor to SkyDrive
Chromecast: We get our SWEATY PAWS on Google's tiny telly pipe
Oi, Google, you ate all our Wi-Fi keys - don't let the spooks gobble them too
Why data storage technology is pretty much PERFECT
Apple patents touch display that KNOWS YOU by your fingers
Thursday 18th July 2013 23:09 GMT
Biometrics the least interesting option here
A far more useful and practical usage of this sort of technology would be to allow the device to recognise the specific digit you are using to touch whichever region of the screen. That would open up all sorts of UI "multi-touch" options, like touching with thumb means one thing but index finger another.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
