Anyone who has ever been a teenager (well, has ever been a teenaged boy) will know that--frequently--the thing does what it wants, whether or not you're actually thinking of anything sexy.
Posts by Bucky 2
637 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
Naked cyclists take a hard line on 'aroused' protest participant
Hacker uses Starbucks INFINITE MONEY for free CHICKEN SANDWICH
Re: No excuse to hack
As much as I like to picture corporations like Starbucks as faceless organizations, ultimately the reaction to the hack is going to come from an actual human being acting in an actual human way.
That human is going to react like this: He walks into his house and finds a stranger sitting in his living room. The stranger says, "look, I've taken nothing, this is how I did it, and now you can make your home safer." The human is going to to have hysterics, threaten the guy with the police and then eat a half gallon if ice cream in one sitting once the guy leaves.
Yeah, maybe the cracker did a Good Thing in the abstract, but geez....
Adult FriendFinder hack EXPOSES MEELLIONS of MEMBERS
Factory reset memory wipe FAILS in 500 MEELLION Android mobes
What are cellphone networks blabbing about you to the Feds? A US senator wants to know
Get off the phone!! Seven out of ten US drivers put theirs and your lives at risk
Mobiles at school could be MAKING YOUR KID MORE DUMBER
Huawei announces tiny 10 KB IoT kernel
AI pioneer reckons China's where the Rise of the Machines will start
Re: He's not wrong
I remember calling a plumber and finding that it was not standard practice for him to bring his own tools.
As I chat with people who still live in China, I understand that this continues to be true to the present day.
My perception is that the innovation that comes out of China is along the lines of the WWII innovation that was called "Jerry rigging." It is certainly true that the engineers in China enjoy a similar lack of availability of resources.
As for Baidu, well, it's impossible to talk about a "search" engine in China without addressing the increasingly terrifying effect of Chinese censorship. I'm sure that it is indeed very streamlined once you eliminate all concepts which are not approved ahead of time.
Californians get first chance to be run over by a Google robot
I look forward to it
I live in a resort community. Many folks on the road are from out of town. They don't know where they are, don't know where they're going, and believe this is just cause for ignoring traffic laws entirely (right turns from left lanes, going half the posted speed limit in the passing lane, and so on).
I don't suppose such self-absorbed folks would ever use a driverless car simply because it's easy (cabs have already been invented, after all), but I would love to see them prosecuted to the full extent of the law with the aid of the electronic logs from robot cars.
Massive police 'heavy equipment' robot drags out suspect who hid inside television
Re: It is better to send robots
I had a "yeah but" moment, so I had to do the math.
4-5 times per year per 53 million people
vs
461 times per year per 319 million people
or 0.08 ppm vs 1.4 ppm
So the UK really shoots at people at a gigantic 5% of the US rate, rather than the totally exaggerated 1% that was implied.
ICANN wants total control of DNS while breaking its own bylaws to block .africa probe
Avengers: Age of Ultron – blisteringly big banter, brawls and brio
Google sticks anti-SQL injection vaccine into MySQL MariaDB fork
Some Clarification Would Be Nice
I'm betting the anti-injection stuff and the at-rest crypto stuff are related somehow (perhaps the same encryption algorithms are used in each case), but of course, one does not imply the other, and we are all puzzled by the anti-injection claim.
I wonder if the original article was longer, and the editing process managed to obfuscate the main topic somehow.
Some clarification about why this encryption method will succeed while others fail would be a good addition to the article.
Are you sure there are servers in this cold, dark basement?
Encryption is the REAL threat – Head Europlod
Re: That Dutch MEP nailed it pretty much
@xeroks:
When only bad guys and weirdos use encryption, detecting bad guys is easy: just pay attention to the encrypted communication - who sent it, who received it, and when it happened. Presumably it's easier, when required, to crack a small number of emails.
Alas, the prerequisite to detecting encrypted communication in this scenario is to intercept ALL communication, and then analyse all of it to identify the encryption.
This kind of widespread wiretapping is supposed to be legally unavailable to a government.
Boffins build Cyborg beetles, fly them by remote control
Storm in a K-Cup: My SHAME over the eco-monster I created, says coffee pod inventor
Salvage or Recycle?
We have a Keurig machine at work. In addition to those little disposable one-shot things, it also comes with a plastic filter thing that you can load with your own coffee, make a cup, and then rinse and repeat.
Under the circumstances, the choice to litter the environment or not seems like it's in the hands of the drinker every time he puts himself in front of the coffee maker and asks himself how he's going to make his next cup.
Apple: We could expose our WHOPPING 12 INCH iPad - but it's not real
Forget 1,000 lashes for Facebook posts, Saudis now want to behead blogger Raif Badawi
Photoshop daddy: 'I’m not happy with body image issues it creates for a lot of women'
Bloke in Belgium tries to trademark Je Suis Charlie slogan
Samsung, LG wash dirty laundry in two separate court cases
'Giving geo-engineering to this US govt is like giving a child a loaded gun'
Be Excellent to Each Other
Surveys of public opinion in recent times have shown solid majority support for the idea that human activity is a cause of climate change, but only a minority holding the opinion that climate change is caused entirely or mostly by human activity.
Such surveys always remind me of the beginning of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, where they're doing their History homework by sitting on the curb in front of Circle K and asking passers-by questions about historical figures.
Google boffins PROVE security warnings don't ... LOOK! A funny cat!
Re: I've seen and bypassed this message.
Self-signed certificates should be warned something like this...
I would agree that your message is clear and correct.
However, I don't think you've worked much in support. A message like this is too long.
*ring* *ring* "Hello, I got an error message."
"What did it say"
"I don't know. Party something."
Keylogger: Somebody STOP ME! Oh hang on, I just did
What was that book...?
It involved a protection racket that made business pay for fire insurance, or else they'd burn the place down.
Business owners proved even more corrupt, and burned their own places down, driving the racketeers to bankruptcy with insurance claims.
Don't know why this article made me think of racketeers, though.
Beam me up, Scotty, And VAPORIZE me in the process
The best use case I can come up with is that what we're talking about is a cheap scan of the source object, using a scanning technique that destroys that object as it removes each layer to discover the next. The source object would best be made of a very cheap material, of course, and part of its creation might be manual, rather than designed and rendered.
Once the object has been scanned in this destructive way, then it can be mass-produced using the 3-dimensional model now in computer memory--perhaps using much more expensive materials than the original.
The more copies you make, the more value this scanning method might have.
Defining the process as being fundamentally limited to a single copy seems unreasonable.
SO. Which IS more important to humanity: Facebook, or Portugal?
Firefox 35 stamps out critical bugs
Re: Firefox stability problems?
The receptionist told me it would be a long job as they had to take all the wheels off and check the brake assemblies to determine which one it was.
Since it's the brakes, it's probably not about a simple diagnosis, but more about liability.
In your case, the mechanic's probably just as happy to skip all the unnecessary steps, because you told him not to do them. Then if there's Something Else wrong, you can't sue him for not doing what you told him not to do.
Computers know you better than your friends
I don't think you're ready for this Jelly: Google pulls support for Android WebView
Browser != OS
Firefox and Chrome seem to work just fine as downloads, and update just fine independent of the Android version.
Saying that they won't patch old versions of this "Web View" monkey should be a non-issue. It should update independently, just like any other browser.
That they've bound it to the underlying operating system means they've done a silly thing, and they should undo that silly thing.
SpaceX: CATS with FRIKKIN' LASERS to blast off to space station
Internet Explorer 12 to shed legacy cruft in bid to BEAT Chrome
I thought people wanted consistency.
I use Firefox mostly out of habit--not because I've carefully evaluated all possibilities and chosen the one that's perfect for me. I've been with it since the Netscape Navigator days.
I install it on all my devices. Because I can. And because it gives me a consistent experience no matter what I'm using.
You just can't mix and match devices with IE (not since, I think, IE5).
For me, that's the only real barrier. It's easier to be as lazy as I want to be when I've got the same browser everywhere.
Google's Gmail staggers to feet in China as access partially restored
Buses? PAH. Begone with your filthy peasant-wagons
Re: The best urban transport
Alas, the problem with bicycles is similar to the problem with a religion.
In principle, it SOUNDS great. But when you actually add the people, you run into problems. Often terrible problems. It becomes easy to equate the douchebaggery of one psychopathic group of practitioners (e.g.: ISIS, Critical Mass) with the entire group.
Blu-ray region locks popped by hardware hacker
Re: Region Locks @Vladimir
I see your point, but this is just how publishing rights have ever worked, be they for films, books magazines or music.
I'm not sure I take your point.
Region codes for movies are analogous to limiting where I can read a book. Like if I bought a paperback for a vacation, but it scrambled its pages if I took it to a beach outside my own country. We're not talking about import/export or reselling or anything commercial. We're just talking about my private enjoyment of something I thought I bought.
The gender imbalance in IT is real, ongoing and ridiculous
This is what I'm hearing
We take it as axiomatic that women WANT to do all the things that men do, in precisely the same numbers, for any given occupation.
Therefore any situation where there is other than a 50/50 split of men and women is the result of injustice.
This is caused by men being unfair in some way that does not imply any difference of ability or will, maintaining that dominance for generation upon generation, watching other empires meanwhile rising and falling.
Technology quiz reveals that nobody including quiz drafters knows anything about IT
Just a Facebook game
It's obviously not a serious study.
It's like that Facebook quiz that rates you an "Art History Major" because you can identify the Mona Lisa and the Creation of Adam.
My best guess is that the creators of the quiz were surprised by their results and published them, but as everyone here has observed, it was just a list of questions created for entertainment purposes--not a scientific inquiry.
No more lies, T-Mobile US: Download speed caps magically vanished on speed test websites
I guess I'm an apologist
I have a T-Mobile app that shows me a graphical representation of how much bandwidth I've used, and where my cap is. It came with my phone. If I said I didn't know I had reached my cap, I would be revealed as a fool.
Maybe it's just that not all phones come with this app?
HACKERS can DELETE SURVEILLANCE DVRS remotely – report
Anonymous hacks the Ku Klux Klan after Ferguson threats
ESA sends back PRE-LANDING COMET CLOSE-UPS
Evidence of Aliens
The second picture clearly shows the outline of a sea turtle.
This can only mean that the comet is a spacecraft returning to determine the disposition of their ancient Earth colony.
Because, what are the ODDS, MAN, the ODDS that the outline of a sea turtle would just show up BY CHANCE???
Microsoft: How to run Internet Explorer 11 on ANDROID, iOS, OS X
Silicon Valley scrooges paid staff $1.21 an hour in a 122-hour week
?? History of where ??
I went to US public school. I can tell you that in my particular case, the history curriculum was ONLY US history, from 1492 to 1787. Over and over. K-12.
I learned about the French Revolution and the Civil War on my own time.
I can't tell you if my experience was common or not. But I would guess it's not unique.
Ancient Brits 'set wealthy man's FANCY CHARIOT on FIRE' – boffins
Nicked iCloud snaps: Celebrities were 'dumb' – new EU digi boss
"Victim"? "shaming"?
If there were millions of people who wanted to see your junk, and you wanted to show them your junk without seeming to appear sleazy (and boost your popularity), you might cook up a scheme that looked remarkably similar to this.
You'd wring your hands at the same time you rang the cash register.
George Clooney, WikiLeaks' lawyer wife hand out burner phones to wedding guests
Japan develops robot CHEERLEADERS which RIDE on BALLS
Read IBM's note to staff announcing mandatory training and 10% pay cut
Education benefits?
Many large companies have education benefits.
The catch is, you often have to walk up to your boss and ask to be sent to class, or a workshop, or whatever. Sometimes you even have to write half a page justifying how the company would benefit from you having an improved skill.
This is called "initiative."
What I would guess is that there's a vast tonnage of people at IBM who are lacking in this thing. This is probably a remediation effort to make up for a presumption that having that word on a resume meant the employee had the attribute.
Those who have been keeping up-to-date feel screwed by shouldering the extra work, but I'd wager they've been being screwed by their skillless coworkers for some time now. It's now simply more obvious.