Posts by FrankAlphaXII

Re: Bad Source

Since its also acceptable to use The Guardian, which they also occasionally do, I suppose its only fair. It could be worse I guess, they could be sourcing articles from the Sun.

You'll probably find the coverage north of KSC/CCAFS is pretty poor too and not just on Merritt Island side of the "river". The whole Turtle Mound area on South Atlantic Ave south of New Smyrna Beach has coverage (partially) from AT&T and that's it.

The Green Swamp between Kissimmee, Poinciana, and basically Sebring also really sucks for coverage from any provider except near the Turnpike, same thing with the Econolockhatchee forest (which really shouldn't be as terrible as the swamp is), and last time I was east of the Prison near 528 but west of the 520 interchange there was no coverage either except on the 528 and 520 themselves. So yes there are coverage issues in Central Florida, but you have to kind of work to find them. They're also usually in areas people consider backcountry for some stupid reason (even though they usually really aren't).

Geneva, Chuluota, Lake Harney and Lake Jesup used to be really astoundingly terrible, especially insane considering that the Sanford airport is on the other side of the Lake. Haven't been in that area in years though so it may have improved.

Re: Surprise!

Its called a joke, son.

I'm sure if AC didn't want to compromise themselves by being something other than AC (its performance art, he/she/it does this on nearly every security related story here that isn't a Snowdenspaff™) they'd use their actual username put a joke alert icon in.

Explaining why a joke is funny kind of sucks, if you don't get it, then you just don't get it I guess.

It wasn't too long ago that if you dared venture into the comments on any security article on El Reg you would find a chorus of reworded versions of the same comment that AC is saying over and over with a few actually helpful and insightful comments along the way from people who knew what they were talking about, some mandatory Linux user smugness, and every now and then a Mac user.

Re: Excuse me, but

I dont know why someone downvoted you, but the Police in the US and Canada anyway use Farcebook all the time, especially in regard to a majority of idiots who have no idea what privacy settings are or why you don't add people you don't know.

It doesn't really matter honestly if they don't, aside from pissing off enterprises that have upgraded to Windows 7 from Windows XP. They make no warranty about the software. Just like with the GPL's "no warranty/as-is" clause (Paragraph 15 or 16 IIRC), and the BSD license's as-is clause at the end of it, the Windows EULA has very much the same thing.

Re: Reassurance

Id say it was a bargain if we got rid of McConnell, Reid, Boxer, Rand Paul (have to distinguish from his father, though they're both insane), Durbin, Cruz, Franken and Rubio for this guy. As you can probably tell, I don't care for either of the two major parties.

Yes it does.

It also sounds like the As-Is clause in just about every software license. As someone indicated above the GPL, CDDL, BSD, MIT, X11, MPL, NPL, and probably just about every other obscure software licensing scheme that you can think of always disclaim that the developer isn't responsible if the software screws something up.

Imagine being able to sue someone for creating a software package with a chain of dependencies that breaks another package, or in the older eras of the Microsoft world being able to sue someone for creating a .dll hell situation on your machine.

Re: Is Google following in Apple's footsteps?

Where have you been? Google's got a huge walled garden that only the truly foolish think is open. Its easier to work with than Apple's so people don't complain as often or as loudly about it, but it is most certainly there.

Re: @CBMVic20

Same sort of story here, but with a Lenovo laptop. First getting into BIOS or UEFI or whatever requires turning the computer off and pressing a separate power button than the main one, and they don't tell you this in any documentation, I also never managed to get it to boot from USB, in theory it can (I think), but I couldn't figure it out. At least you can launch the Windows 7 installer from the USB drive while Windows 8 is running.

Second, the way the Windows 8 partition table was set up was very, very strange. Four partitions, two with data, One with Windows and the other with the Drivers, which was handy when I upgraded to Windows 7 from Windows 8, good thing I didn't erase that partition, it saved me about an hour.

The weird part was that there were also what seemed to be two partitions that existed on the disk which were seemingly empty but still existed for some stupid or nefarious reason. I have no idea if this is par for the course with them, but I don't seem to recall my old IBM Thinkpad doing that and my Vaio aside from its weirdness (you had to use the Sony drivers, even for commodity parts like the GPU, or else all kinds of weird shit would happen) sure as hell didn't.

Given the hassle to get my computer working the way I want it to, I'm going to think long and hard about buying from them again.

Hey look on the bright side, with Oracle on the legal warpath against Google and SAP still I'm sure it'll provide tens and maybe even hundreds of jobs to hardworking lawyers around the country producing tons of USDA Prime grade Bullshit.

While I agree, it would be nice to have a can opener on-demand. I could live without anything ridiculous like invulnerability, weapons, or unlimited ammo, but having a can opener in the first four hours or so would be nice. I haven't played the standalone client so maybe they fixed that, but in the mod it was a real pain in the ass to find one.

Re: Nothing that innovative coming, then

They neither invented nor popularized the first PCs. That would be Olivetti, HP, Xerox PARC, and IBM. Quit drinking Apple's kool-aid. They make good equipment, but they really didn't do much aside from making devices to steal telephone calls until long after there were already what we'd call PCs now that were on the market.

Re: WTF???

China hasn't been Communist since Deng Xiaoping took control in the late 70's. They're "Socialist with Chinese Characteristics"

Re: The fixation with 'serarch' for everything

I'm pretty sure the author meant PC, it makes sense, much more sense than "a new P". You can send corrections you know, and they do appreciate it when you do.

Re: Can't afford Windows 7

You can't afford 69 dollars? A Windows 7 Pro x86_64 (or 32 bit if you so choose, I don't recommend a 32 bit OS for gaming, that 4 GB memory wall is really rather annoying. With bigger games like Skyrim and Dark Souls you wind up crashing to desktop an awful lot) OEM key is around 69 bucks, and you can download the media for free and slap it on your own DVD or USB drive.

Its ten dollars more than Titanfall is dude, look at it that way. You can afford to get off a dead OS.

Re: They should stop telling people...

Well I went through the first 25 years of my life pronouncing it as "new", as I thought the G was silent. A CompSci geek when I was in College pointed out that I was wrong one day in a database class when I was talking about the Army discussing setting up an Open Source lab inside its Commercial/Off The Shelf acquisitions center under MATCOM.

Its not too terribly original but I have a new recursive acronym for GNU: Gnome's Not Useful!

Re: Fascinating

Moment Magnitude's more scientifically accurate, but someone needs to bring that to congress. Because at the moment you'll find nearly all of the emergency preparedness and response documentation on the subject to refer to the Richter scale for clarity of communication with the public, with even USGS using it on public documents. Its kind of annoying really.

Re: Does not add up!

Thing is, I'm pretty sure that the British were encouraging burning things at that point and anti-smoking legislation was not on the cards.

Re: I agree with Carl Icahn

One post, just to defend Carl Icahn.

I wonder if he pays more than the Chinese do for comments.

Re: He was only following the rules

>>In the US, everything is potentially permitted, even if everything is potentially prohibited by law. No one is quite sure.

Not even the courts, the legislature or the Executive departments are sure. They tend to have vague ideas. And just because one of them finds it legal or illegal, doesn't mean the next will have the same opinion, though they always might. If this sounds complex and ridiculous, it is because it is, but if you work for the United States Government it will make perfect sense to you.

Gotta give the lawyers work.

Re: L0pht homage

I seem to recall that many of the L0pht crew were also cDc members and/or alums as well. For those that don't know, cult of the Dead cow were famous for another Windows "tool" that some of you may have used to "remotely administer" a Windows NT or Windows 2000 box.

Re: Clear objective unbiased reporting...

>>a) It's Jasper writing

I remember when people used to say the same about Anna. Like as recently as last year.

What's a turd? Debian? Or Ubuntu?

I don't think either distro is a turd, Debian sure as hell is no turd, it may not be your bottle of beer but its undeniably important. Ubuntu's still important as well. However, Canonical's behavior over the past two years leaves quite a bit to be desired. I don't trust their actions, even when they spin it positive, like the Linux Mint licensing agreement, it sounds suspect. Like if I were trying to hide something or build a wall around Ubuntu, I would embark on the same courses of actions as Canonical and claim it was for the phone and other projects, like the TV.

Re: @ShelLuser

No No, OpenIndiana is best!

Re: In the 70's

It was in the Cray-1 as well IIRC. I'd imagine it was included for the same customer(s).

Re: For the future.

Except NSA/CSS wont hire them because they got caught. Unless they come fully clean about it in the polygraph they might stand a small chance, and even then I doubt it. If they hadn't been caught, its a different story.

Re: Yes but.........

Probably not. Convoys don't usually get much direct air in and of themselves, they may get a Kiowa running RSTA if there's somewhere that someone feels like seeing up close as to how they local rabble respond to being poked at by the route clearance company initially and then the convoy and its security later on. But there's no gunships following along with a convoy, its a waste of a gunship to do that. At least I've never seen a gunship providing overwatch for one without doing something else at the same time.

Generally they attempt to pick routes for convoys in places that we're either directly holding at the time or can secure pretty quickly, but no Army can be at all places at all times and when you're fighting insurgents, so they can generally appear, attack, retreat and disappear pretty fairly freely so its a guessing game if they're any good.

They always have a security team along with the convoy on the ground with them though. And the engineers usually go through first to make sure the road's passable and try to open it if it isnt.

Re: woo hoo...

Well since its x86_64 based you can pretty easily install another OS on it, without having to hack open a locked bootloader, as is par for the course with a high percentage of ARM based devices.

We use toughbooks in the Army and a number of them at my unit are dual boot with Windows and a Linux, if you know US Government/Military IT procurement than you can probably guess which distro. While they're not truly "Soldier proof", they are pretty difficult to destroy. I wish I could tell you how the field destruction guidelines go for them (in case the shit hits the fan and we have to start burning documents and smashing hard drives), because they're a bit different than destroying the garden variety Dell or HP obviously.

Re: Obscure and underexposed....

>>You see, it was a bit like putting "Conservative, Green, conformist, tech rag, The Register..."

Don't forget that that the Indy seem to think we're a lesbian rag too.

Seriously.

Huh?

What does a UEFI feature have to do with a processor architecture? IIRC that kind of thing is up to the motherboard manufacturer, and I seriously doubt that many of them are still going to produce BIOS based motherboards for much longer, which is bad news for a number of Linux distributions and potentially BSDs if they don't follow Red Hat's example and get signing keys.