Posts by Oninoshiko

I am wary of them, myself.

It depends on what kind of contract he had. There may not have been any clauses for him to that effect because he was id's founder.

Re: re: "Right now, when a consumer puts Do Not Track in the header, we don't know what they mean"

Be that as it may, you still have to trust the site to not track you. That's the flaw with DNT, it doesn't actually do anything.

Re: Reading into that

Microsoft did not invent the internet....... In fact their amazing leader predicted its demise and like with most of their products of the last decade ended up playing catchup with the market because they realised to late that they were wrong.

Allow me to introduce you to a concept called "satire."

sat·ire: n. the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

It's pretty clear DAM was making fun of the previous post.

Re: At least it seems we're finally watching the MS empire slide down

In fairness, people STILL say that about Vista.

Re: It was the battery life wot won it

You may like to think it was the games, but OP is right.

Battery life was a BIG deal. That's why when everyone wanted a colour gameboy, the first round they just made the case out of coloured plastic (ha ha), they knew they couldn't keep the power low enough with a colour screen, and they also knew there competitors would try to beat them on the other specs, sacrificing battery life.

Lo, for the days when Nintendo was freaking brilliant.

but we all already know, the advertisement is already there. Sammy didn't even say they prez likes their products, they said a baseball player who met him did, which is true (I assume, If Ortiz wanted a different phone, he makes enough to get one).

This is not out of line, what's out of line is the prez's opinion on metadata collection and spying.

Re: Peasants and pheasants

Until I got to the footnote, I was thinking of A Modest Proposal.

Re: Correction:

Let's see, there is no 'leccy cost (to the attacker), there is no hardware cost (to the attacker).

Even if the trickle is infinitesimal, it's not like it cost them anything. It's like saying "I'll offer you 1 quid every 100 years if you look at me funny." Who isn't going to make a funny face?

Re: Who knew the poor Disney take on "The Lorax" would become true . . .

As others have mentioned, I think Mel Brooks has Disney beat on this.

Re: BONG!

not really, it was amusing and coherent.

Those search results were banned on government order, not because Baidu felt like it.

Even if that wasn't the case, Baidu and Renren are so closely linked to the Chinese secret service that they can both be considered state actors.

The Chinese government is not subject to US law, so by that argument the court lacks jurisdiction.

Re: Apple=evil, MS=incompetent

I do wonder why Apple's is intentional while MS's is unintentional.

I think the guys at iFixit maybe have a little bit of bias... maybe.

Re: Mixed signals...

This point kinda bothered me, too. If these are taken in rush hour on the 405 in LA (I'm told)... they weren't moving anyway.

Re: Greedy

Can't see any reasonable argument that one mark on a credit report could have cost him £250,000.

The fine article stated that it affected his ability to secure financing for a house. Even if it only affected a few percentage points, I can see that adding up over the period of the loan.

Re: So

Is Valve (Steam) still working on something? I thought they fired that whole department (that's where the Jerri Ellisworth and Rick Johnson who started CastAR came from). CastAR does have a VR option, but I'm not sure how it's going to compare to a dedicated device.

Frankly, I'm kinda in shock still about this. I can kinda see it from the Occulus perspective, and it alleves my fears they will never produce a consumer product a little, but I can not see it at all from the Facebook perspective. I don't think full VR really works for Facebook, AR maybe, but not really VR.

@Dr. Mouse

This is a good point, and I would like to know how much is actually attributable to legal services that makes access as or more convenient then the illegal services.

What happened in areas that didn't implement blocks?

Re: Wouldn't fund an alternative

Why does he need an alternative? It sounds like the proposition here is to build "Gitmo 2.0." How is that any better?

Re: Crystal cove

It looks to me like they maybe refined it from crystal cove a little bit. (I don't see the dot pattern on the display that CC had)

They certainly got the res up there, but I'm kinda getting worried about these guys constant talk of making it perfect. How soon is a consumer product? I really do love these guys, but the CastAR (a bit different, and not likely not as good for VR, even with the clip-ons) are going to have their consumer product out in September. Sony has a working prototype of a unit too, no release date, but I'd bet they are closer then they are letting on.

I wonder if they are going to be a demonstration of the old proverb "Dit que le mieux est l'ennemi du bien," " the best is the enemy of the good."

Re: Mozillidiots

Yes, but they don't do that with trademark limitations, they use financial incentives (we won't sell to you wholesale if you don't do this). Trademarks can ALWAYS be used for nominative purposes. If I make a vending machine that has Coke, 7up, and Mt Dew in it, I can use the logos from ALL of them on the buttons, and none of them can do anything about it because it is for nominative purposes. Coke can refuse to sell to me wholesale, but that's an entirely different matter.

Re: Don't care.

Funny, I've never had a problem loading an unapproved app on a android phone.

Haven't had much need to, mind you, but it's pretty trivial to do if I want to. I suppose I only have the one phone as a point of reference, but if it varies from phone to phone, that probably means it's a manufacture or carrier thing.

Re: When I were a lad ...

The older I get, the more I agree with this. It seems the more we spend on tech in schools, the less the graduating class actually knows.

Re: Yawn

Are you kidding? Every line of code deleted is twice as productive as a line written!

Seriously though, this one doesn't make much sense to me either. If he could delete the code and there be nothing affected, it was dead code which shouldn't have been in the main repository at all. If it was some uncompleted feature, it should have only been in her repo, until she's ready to have a pull. If he restructured it we should probably be looking at how and why.

Either Github isn't using git, or she has no idea how to use it properly.

"I'm not involved in that any more"

He has said that he was referring to programming, not bitcoin.

He speaks English as a second language (far better then I can speak any language other then English, mind you, so my hat's off to the man), so I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt there.

Both he, and the holder(s) of the cert that signed the original posts have said he's not it. Not to mention, with all the trouble he went to to avoid being tracked, using part of his own name for the handle would be surprising.

Re: Burn in was easy to achieve

hell, it's still easy to achieve. I have a display that has CCTV cameras running on it. shut it off and the grid remains.

(there is no screen-saver on it, for obvious reasons)

Re: Apple just isn't world class in security, and never have been

What difference does it make? Apple's wonderful sandbox gives you enough to compromise the prng.

Can't say the same about Android.

Re: A few points

The concern is long-term. Tesla's prices are only going to go down, while inflation will also make them even less painful. I'd say by the time they fall to around 40kUSD, the costs of the rest of the market will have approached them. Then they are competing head-to-head, and with some emissions taxes and fuel costs/taxes, you'll see a sharp rise in the number of them.

That's what everyone is afraid of. All Tesla has to do is keep decreasing his production costs, increasing his economics of scale, and keep his company in the black (or at least keep the red low enough) and it may be a matter of time.

Actually, the backup system blows balls, particularly for an end user. The reason is that it silently fails to backup open files, Also, recent version of iPhoto require you to restore an entire library. There are numerous complaints about these behaviors, and it's unreasonable to expect the level of user Apple targets to understand these problems (hell, they make it hard enough for a technically literate person to find), all they know is their photo collection is gone.

Oh and there is no way to set a reasonable time-length to keep backups on an external storage media. Time machine wants to take the whole thing, for some reason.

Re: Accuracy like a blind knife thrower

I'm pretty sure the record for crowd-funding is 40M USD. (which is where Star Citizen is). On the 5th of July, SC had already broken 13M. The Edge's campaign, which started 17 days later, would never even hit this number. While it's disingenuous to call Shuttleworths's effort the worst crowdfunding campaign ever, it was a failure (in that it did not achieve it's goal on indigogo), and certainly not a record for crowdfunding income (even IF they had got to keep the 12.8-odd M).

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge

Re: Yes, over

Actually, if they standardize it, and can get it into a follow-on for my Rugby Pro, I would love this. I could keep all the benefits of a fully ruggedized phone, without having to fiddle with the dust and water covers on the charge port.

I also think I'd be less likely to forget to charge the thing.

Re: Daniel B.

Yes, I did read the full statement, It clearly says that Linux had remote management when Linus Tovalds was 2 years old. I may have known what you meant, but I did use the pedantic grammar nazi icon.

Linux got it since it was born due to being a UNIX derivative as well.

Wow, there is so much wrong with this statement.

1) Linux is not a UNIX derivative. It is an original work. This was settled in SCO v. IBM (et al.)

2) You can't have had something since before you existed. I didn't have brown eyes before I was conceived just because my parents did.