Posts by asdf

Re: Culture

>South Korea, on the other hand, stresses education and look how they are overly better in technology development than the Japanese. It's all from within, and starts with family valse (values?)

Education is important but too regimented and you actually can harm creativity. Check out who is making more off smartphones Apple or Samsung (granted both hire multinationally but culture matters as you say).

>You can probably remember how good Japanese products were in the past.

As said before Japan used to be the China of manufacturing and they climbed the ladder to making the best stuff to today more being a knowledge based economy and slightly less manufacturing. Korea is simply Japan 20 years behind.

Re: Hopefully more money will be forthcoming?

Just because its open source doesn't mean it can be fixed any time soon. Java is open source as well and its still a leaking sieve of CVEs. Still thank goodness for LibreSSL and OpenBSD as the OpenSSL devs instill zero confidence for me.

Re: Hysterical Hysteria

Hold a lot of Apple stock huh? Though I tend to agree when you are making billions in profit in each quarter slower growth at some point is inevitable.

Guess if you count taxpayer bailouts or unpaid loans some companies share prices before have effectively became quite negative indeed.

Re: Cruel and viscious.

As a Yank didn't even know who Mr. Fry was until El Reg readers tore into his pseudo science explanations of everyday tech that were so funny I still follow discussions about him though I still have never seen him. Seems he is as big an Apple fluffer as Mossberg here in the states though from what I gather.

Re: And the US is the world's leading tech nation?

The DoD is nothing but the world's most expensive jobs program. Don't judge our whole economy on them. They are a taker not a maker for the most part these days. I guess its a good thing they fund it with a lot of borrowed money or the proles might realize how hideously expensive it truly is.

also

SRWare Iron supposedly fixes many of the privacy issues of chromium and it looks like they finally offer source code like they should but the md5s or sigs don't seem to be posted along with it. Pale Moon being a fork of an older version fixes many of the privacy issues of FF (removes telemetry, etc) but he seems to not want to have anything to do with FF. Wonder if that includes SeaMonkey as well. Assuming it does.

Re: If nothing else ...

Privoxy does but yeah OS app ad blocking on cellular without root is not trivial especially on iOS. That said at least for my work flow I see virtually no ads anywhere when I am roaming around on cellular. The iOS base apps get criticized but they work for me and they don't serve me ads (ones I use anyway) and the other apps I use on cellular I generally paid for to avoid the free but malware ad swinging garbage (who much do you save).

Re: Einstein's dice

>I love the fact that generating true randomness is a very difficult problem to solve.

Maybe artificially but radioactive decay makes finding true randomness fairly trivial.

>randomness where we think we've found this, would be an emergent as opposed to an intrinsic property of the universe.

It is an intrinsic property of the universe see quantum tunneling (which we often use for looking at things at the atomic scale) which explains why it is impossible to have a true closed system in our universe. An outside particle can always tunnel in at any time randomly.

Re: It's their own fault

Don't forget spotty and or tardy support as far as updates (even critical security ones) are concerned in much of their product line.

Re: TI plant closure announcement

Sounds good on paper but said 3rd world country may end up stealing a lot of your IP as part of the deal. But then again with chip being commodities that is less important that it once was. 3rd world fabs are good for overcapacity but you still want a few bread and butter fabs in the developed world to guard against revolutions, flooding, nationalization and all the other lovely risks the 3rd world entails.

Re: @AC

Three cheers for silicon valley who made multi billion dollar companies with 50 employees possible. Making spying on the peons trivial is the cherry on the shit cupcake.

Re: Ahh... The ever connected fallacy

>VirtualBox for local virtualization tasks, the more those people will look for the same system in production systems also.

Granted I have only ever used the low end stuff as an end user but the impression I get is running Virtualbox in production for anything critical (not talking on your desktop) is probably a career limiting move. I have seen enough wackiness even on the desktop to not recommend that route.

Re: Risk?

Yep El Reg should only run articles on public sector IT projects that succeed in the UK. That more qualifies as news.

Re: The have computers?

For us Yanks it looks like Lincolnshire is the Kansas (minus Westboro Baptist Church and Sam Brokeback) of England.

Re: not disabled yet?

Hmm guess Apple hasn't mastered the privacy stealing ninja arts ala Google yet. Even Microsoft has a more advanced belt. The free (or not) stuff of the internet has never been more expensive.

Re: Oh no

Might have to wait a few days for them to polish their CV/resumes first.

Re: Corporate tax is paid for by overpaid employees and shareholders, only overpaid employees.

Well at least you point the finger at the right parties and don't blame the US. Due to us having one the higher corporate tax rates at least on paper we are about the last place multinationals end up storing their cash even though as a very large market they generate a lot of it here.

Re: New OPM

Actually the majority of the deficit is due to successive generations giving themselves entitlements like the Boomers who are spending 3 dollars for every 1 they put in during the lifetime through Medicare (pre Obama care). Their solution a decade ago was to vote themselves a prescription drug entitlement.

Re: It's only corruption if you get caught....

Or you can get caught up in the middle of two corruption scandals (FIFA and IAAF) and still call it business (cough Nike). The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is such a joke.

Re: friggin hypocrites

>Just straight-up capitalism.

With the government picking who gets monopolies?

Re: What went wrong?

Probably get downvoted but other than that flat web 3.0 look I actually found Win 10 to be decent. Of course I only boot into for a few steam games as an OS built from the ground up to be spyware is not fit for everyday use especially on the desktop where there is choice.