Posts by Chairo

I suppose each single one of these 20 PC's will be secured with the North Korean version of a firewall - a Nork soldier, armed with a flame-thrower.

This would be a good moment

to invest in some bitcoins. First open an account at MtGox and then -

Oh, wait...

"The Angry Bird Seasons" app, sold currently in the Amazon appstore requires the following permissions:

- Your location

- Full Network access

- Storage (SD card access)

- phone status and identity

- monitor network communication

- development tools (test access to protected storage)

- access to accounts

I have no idea, if the game play is good or not. No way I would give a game such permissions without a good reason.

Oh, and did I mention that is the "ad-free" version!

I suppose their company slogan is something like "We make money, so why should we care"...

Good news

After the rather disappointing hardware that Firefox OS came with up to now, this should give it quite a boost. Let's hope they put in some decent hardware!

A good lesson...

...how to destroy your market with too much greed and a bad strategy.

Both, Microsoft and Intel had this market cornered with the netbooks. Microsoft didn't like the low margin for the netbook flavour of Win7 and Intel wanted to push ultrabooks, so they both killed the netbook market with their imposed limitations. (800x600 screen resolution, 2GB memory limit, 32bit only CPU, ...).

Now someone else filled the gap and they lost their market share. Too bad, isn't it?

Ironically these cheapo tablets manage to deliver acceptable performance with similar or even worse hardware, than the netbooks had.

Financial crisis coming?

... can convert human waste into fuel

I wonder how they are going to tax the resulting fuel... Pay per shit?

Analogies

Energy, matter, and innovation are never lost, just reassembled.

Sometime they get sucked in a black hole, though. A good analogy of a patent troll, IMHO.

They have to do something

so they decided to study the problem a bit longer.

Or with other words: let's win some time until winter is over or the weather changes. (Whatever comes first).

And no, it has nothing to do with the long, long delays in introduction of stronger emission standards. (cough, cough)

Sounds interesting

I hope El Reg will get one of those for review.

“self-healing” bottom

Why would a Korean phone need a “self-healing” bottom? Too much spicy food?

OK, OK, I'm outa here...

I wonder

if part of their teaching is to report their parents to the RIAA, should they download anything.

Now that would be progress...

US company sells out customer data for cash

wow - what surprise!

Looks like

The battery took most of the bullet's energy. Lucky it didn't short circuit, otherwise the clerk would have gotten a nasty burn. Still better than a bullet in the lung, of course.

Don't shoot the sysadmin, shoot the programmer!

re-using an obsolete message flag for a new purpose is simply lousy programming.

I've already seen (and been bitten by) this, as well.

Programmers of this world - bits are not so rare, that you have to re-use them for new purposes. If you need to send new information, please use a new bit / flag /message, whatever. Oh, and make sure that you use the latest interface description and also update your changes to it. You DO make interface descriptions, do you?

Reusing obsolete messages for new stuff just leads to a big mess and to conflicts that no compiler, linker or run-time check can ever find. Even a peer review will probably not safe you (or more precisely your customer), as they tend to review only the module and not the interface. It's just asking for trouble.

IMHO it's the programmer who wrote this should be crucified, not the poor sysadmin who stumbled over the mess others left for him.

Of course the programmer is probably sitting somewhere outside of US legislation (India / Vietnam / China, wherever) and is a bit difficult to use as scapegoat.

And of course people are used to pay for shitty software that disclaims any liability, sold by the usual big name software vendors, so they take it for granted, that bad programming cannot be counted as the reason for such a disaster.

In more civilised times

the perpetrator was pilloried on the market place and after a few days it was over.

Nowadays your life is destroyed by a single thoughtless action, put on the internet by another thoughtless person.

Doesn't matter, if the victim of internet revenge is male or female. A victim he/she is nonetheless.

I wonder how many careers and lifes will be destroyed by this "artist".

The art of victimising. Quite some form of expression, isn't it?

It’s also notoriously difficult to quantify the financial impact of cyber attacks

Just ask the RIAA. They are experts in breaking down vague claims into exact dollars and cents.

bloat and waste

Checking the allocated memory of my machine, It seems that Firefox allocates over 170 MB, just to render this one single page. This is without counting the memory, used up by plug-ins.

So much for modern browsers. Quite a progress, isn't it?

digital woman?

If I read this, I somehow see an image of a girl, jumping out of a TV set...

Coat - the one with the rental video in the pocket!