Posts by Silviu C.

Remember Opera bork edition?

Not the first time MS pulled some BS move.

https://www.cnet.com/news/opera-says-bork-to-msn-standards/

And by the way, despite it being reported as fixed, it was not for me. Onedrive became significantly faster just now after spoofing my UA to look like MS Edge on Windows.

The key is "hidden reset procedure". This should be in the fine manual, not hidden so that LG can charge you for "repairing" your TV.

LG relented and gave the instructions away for free but only after being named and shamed on Twitter. This alone should make a lot of people put them on the shit-list of openly consumer hostile companies (though I fear it won't).

It seems that these days, if you want to buy some known brand TV you just can't avoid getting a "smart" one.

Today, worldwide productivity increases 100%.

Are you kidding me?!

"The US patent system is significantly cheaper and more efficient. Just let that sink in."

The USPTO is a rubber stamping machine. They use the well known "award the patent and let the courts sort them out" approach.

Looks like Hurd found Ellison's stash of "the good stuff".

People lie yo!

Here's the obvious problem with this research:

"The researchers **asked** the respondents their height, weight and the number of sexual partners they'd had, among other things."

People fucking lie! All the time!

In this case weight and height could be verified. But number of sex partners... NOPE

They're also killing off iconic shitty service. Good for them.

So what they're saying is basically "your data protection legislation is preventing us from making money".

Good then, go bankrupt a-holes.

I don't get it. Doesn't the US economy still need the Chinese cash infusions in order to survive? Or is this their way of saying "You know all that money we owe you? We're not going to pay it back. FU and here's some sanctions"

Also "hacking and spying"?! Isn't that what Snowden exposed that the 'muricans were doing to the entire world?

"I'm so bad at Flappy Bird"

Do the exact opposite of what GSMA wants and we'll be fine.

Is there any way to get rid of the corporate shill?

"Last month the treatment of independent musicians by the company came under the spotlight again when cellist Zoë Keating alleged that Google had attempted to get to her to agree to unfavourable new YouTube terms."

So, when Apple decided to stick it to the entire music industry (including indies) all weenies cheered and life was good. Music became cheap.

When Google does the same thing, weenies boo and hiss because "oh noes, poor artists are starving".

Good show, nerds.

Aren't they in danger when hiding in bushes with the radar gun? :) NSA, stop putting your employees lives in danger. Take them off the streets!

More like the "portable involution" :/

They actually advocate for SystemV init. Wow! This makes their "manifesto" look more like parody or a laughable trolling attempt.

Good luck with forking it and finding someone to sponsor you with (at least) infrastructure. I highly doubt they even have the required man power to run a forked project.

Btw, if they are Debian developers why don't they say who they actually are. Why lurk in the shadows?

If the OS is so secure that simply peeking behind the green curtain is enough to break the security model then it wasn't that secure in the first place, was it? But I digress, some corporate shill says something => becomes news story.

We've certainly never seen that before.

"Er, what about latency, bro?"

There is no latency bro. Do your homework.

it's not enough

They need to be able to prove that the software they're running was compiled from the source code they're auditing,

prior art

I'm pretty sure that there is plenty of prior art on shitty headphones and speakers that produce crappy sound. What am I missing? :)

I did not know why this article was causing me brain bleeding, then I read who wrote it and it all made sense.

"Google releases Android source code, and claims this makes the system "open". But this is true only up to a point. For a device to access Google's own services – such as Play and Maps – it must integrate a stack called GMS (Google Mobile Services) and pass strict compatibility tests devised by Google."

This again?! What is so hard to get? You can get the Android source for free and you can modify it however you want. If you want to use Google's services you abide by their rules. Why? Because it's not your damn right to use their service, it's a prvilege granted to you. They *own* the service and get to decide what's what.

Pfft logic

"Unless they have a business reason to hold this data, internet and phone companies will start deleting [comms data] which has serious consequences for investigations – investigations which can take many months and which rely on retrospectively accessing data for evidential purposes."

If the EU directive that allowed for a law to gather that data has been shot down, then how can they say that they will be able to use said data as evidence? Shooting down that directive means that such evidence is illegal, thus not usable.

Good riddance!

This also means that the TTIP negotations between the US and EU have advanced. Not good...

Bollocks

Dude who used to work for Ubisoft says it's all BS:

http://l.gamespot.com/1pLY8qS

Moral of the story is that if you're someone with deep pockets and a "big" client of theirs, MS will try to challenge the NSLs.

Let us know when you do the same thing for the "unwashed" Microsoft.

But yeah, it's probably good news for the companies... so it's not all bad, I guess.

And all it took for them to fix the stupid bug was a lawsuit... douchebags!

Antivirus is not a fix journos

I love the introductory part:

"Symantec,..., looks to be getting out of that business and into fixing hacking problems rather than stopping them."

Since when the hell was an anitvirus going to stop "hacking"!? This is almost as hilarious as those security officers that were not worried about Heartbleed because they "had firewalls" :D

Instead of having me read through all the stupid why not say "greedy lawyers with no grasp over what they are talking about drool over the potential payments from Google but most likely from people that will pay to be represented in the trial"

And that dude used to be a software architect at MS!? Wow, MS really does hire anybody these days. From the summary it looks like they both got caught because they were dumb.

Oh look, another of these articles again. The growth is for *all* sites, but look at the *active* sites graph

Apache - 1.81

Nginx +1.49

Microsoft 0.18 (yes, barely registered a blip)

Seems that MS' server product is the best thing to keep your *parked* domains on :D

This article is a bad joke, hope you did not pay the guy money for it.

"Google does not demand that smartphone manufacturers make Google the default search engine as a condition of using the Android operating system"

"The MADA requires the licensee to preload all Google apps, and even specifies where they should appear on the Android phone's home screen."

These statements do not contradict each other. Maybe people should make the difference between restricting the use of an OS vs. restricting the use and terms of use of services. Google does the latter.

If you want the Playstore and other Google services, you get your device certified by Google. If you just want to use Android, you don't have to give a fig about what Google wants.

Eldelman either does not understand the English language or MS paid more than Google. He's an academic, I highly doubt the first hypothesis.

No, no, no you silly man! That's not fungus. Those are Pikmin.

http://www.smashbros.com/images/og/pikmin.jpg

So what?

Now that they mentioned it, it kinda does look like one but, I don't get what the problem is anyway. There are plenty of guys and gals that like vaginas. I bet the detractors are mad that they can't make a stadium look like a prick, in which case this "problem" does make *them* look like pricks.

Meh

Wait! Did they see a cat and then another cat just like it? Shit! They changed something! *Panic*

Can you hear the screams? Hell has frozen over.

Other than that you can see their reluctance in being forced into it from their press release which basically says we adopt this open standard but EAS is better. What they forgot to say is that EAS is a closed protocol that only MS controls.

Wtf? Who wrote this?

"For better or worse, though, it sounds like you’ll have to use the Ubuntu SDK instead of cross-platform widget toolkits such as GTK or QT – hard luck for those of you who love your GIMP."

The Ubuntu SDK uses Qt Designer and QML. Sure they build their own stuff, like UI elements but they are all built upon the mentioned tech and open-source. But hey, don't take my word for it, just google for "Ubuntu SDK"

Next time

Let the highest bidder get the bug... "Oh but, but people, innocent people might suffer". Yeah, F them and F facebook too.

The sooner something nasty happens on facebook the sooner people will learn not to post their private stuff online.