Posts by asdf

Re: Not really sure it takes Sherlock Holmes.

Saudi sucks and may well have paid for it but Turkey is the big country who (not so) secretly has a man crush on ISIS and whose borders those trucks probably crossed at one point or another.

Re: Heavy on doom and sensation, light on detail

>"Wake up, Apple is a target and is being breached."

Still less than its only viable competitor which sucks all around. If only BB and Microsoft weren't hell bent on failing.

except

You are confusing Android with Google. They are technically separate (see Cyanogenmod for example). My spare handset is running Android (OmniROM) without a single Google (or closed source) thing installed including nothing under accounts (long live F-Droid). Granted that means rooting and voiding the warranty which is why its only on my secondary older Gnex handset.

Re: No comments an hour after posting.

> give out all your contacts and photos without even entering a PIN

Fixed already in 9.0.2 and rolled out probably to a larger portion of the user base (including me and I am hardly some bleeding edge beta tester type) than the much more serious stage fright bug which is only partial fixed and reported months ago to Google. Granted its an embarrassing security issue for Apple but not a wtfpwnd like Android's.

darn kids

Amazon prime has an exclusive on older Sponge Bob and several other Nick shows (of the streaming services). If you are a parent you understand how valuable that is. Otherwise pretty much they share +80% of the same crap with Netflix.

Re: Hurr durr

>Yes, Apple can be capricious and inscrutable and pull stuff for the most baffling of 'reasons', but this time round iFixit should have used some common sense.

Perhaps they did and decided this new product scoop (people go batshit crazy over new Apple crap as much as ever maybe even more than in the future who knows) was worth the clicks to risk the wrath of Apple (plus the free publicity). Worst case now they have to just buy everything on release day like anybody else. Its not like anyone else can scoop them now more than once anyway.

Re: Monopolies and duopollies

>CenturyLink (DSL) and Mediacom (cable) are SO overpriced

Century Link DSL in my area is actually pretty affordable. I only pay $35 a month (for internet only no bundling). Granted its for slow as shit service (20 down tops less than 1 up, but unlimited data) but its good enough for me to be able to get rid of cable and phone and still go internet only on both. Here's to being a cheap bastard.

Re: Olaf Lies!?

> a Volkswagen board member and the economy minister of Lower Saxony,

Isn't Lower Saxony one of VW's biggest investors? That some 3rd world conflict of interest on steroids shit right there Germany.

Re: F-35 which is going to cost more

>Don't all aircraft do that.

A weapons program cost over a trillion dollars? The Space Shuttles I don't think even cost that much over their lifetime (including mission costs) even adjusted for inflation. Also most of the time the aircraft built 25+ years after the ones they are replacing are generally better. But yes weapons programs tend to cost more than IT projects (though admittedly there is a huge amount of IT cost in modern weapon programs) because we always seem to be able to find the money to kill brown people.

Re: When's the tipping point?

>When's the tipping point?

For me it was a long time ago when I got tired of each tab eating up massive amounts of memory with ABP. Went to open source privoxy which is much leaner and where advertisers don't get to buy a free pass and haven't looked back (though I also run Privacy Badger because I run NoScript in global allow due to being a pain to white list all the stuff I need).

Re: "Our lives do depend on it after all" @Pascal

>Oh dear. Just wait for the petrol heads

Lot fewer of those today than even a decade ago at least in the US. A lot of millennials now don't even have drivers licenses and with self driving cars on the horizon I am afraid its only going to get worse. That era shown in The Hollywood Knights and American Graffiti is long gone.

Re: Baby Boomers@Lost all faith

In retrospect I should have posted this AC as I am ranting lol. The comparison is between different generations 1%ers as most Boomers are worse off than their kids will be come retirement time.

Re: This is the whole reason the judiciary is independent in the first place

>Our ancestors were wise when they decided to set the country up this way - it seems dangerous to assume they were wrong given all the things we have learnt in the last decade.

Yeah who knew due process was a good idea huh? Sure would have made closing Gitmo easier.

>The Disinformation Engine

Stolen from another El Reg postard (Jon) but love the paraphrase (quite prophetic as well) and hope its true.

To paraphrase Heinlein

It is your duty to buck the system at every turn - if you can't get away with paying less tax, pay a little more - it messes with their system, and causes headaches. Give false, or as little information to governments, corporations and other bodies. Make it as difficult to profile you, and in turn profile the world, as you can.

Re: Magical Thinking

>A million tonnes sounds BIIIIIG and must be horrifyingly BAAAAAD, right?

A million here and million there and pretty soon you are glad you don't live near the coast.

Re: Agism and fools

>and the company is privately owned by a single individual. If he's happy with his niche then there's no one else to tell him he's wrong, and that's a good thing in my opinion from a long term support point of view.

Unless he truly doesn't care about money I would hesitate to think a single individual owner is a good thing for long term support. What happens if say Oracle comes along and decides it needs his companies niche to grow its portfolio or even worse he retires or dies and his coke head son takes over?

Re: revenue up?

>Does that mean the boycott over systemd was unsuccessful?

RH knew up front that systemd would end up making them a lot of money which is why they pushed it. Killing POSIX and making as much FOSS as possible LInux only, means personal boycotts don't matter in the long run nor do they really in the short run as neck beards tend not to sign the checks.

Re: How is this possible with a modern OS?

But remember Java was built for security and its steward makes databases that are unbreakable. What's that the CVEs tell a different story than the marketing drones? Funny that. Also Android doesn't even enforce the sand boxing as apps have direct access to a lot of native platform functionality as well (for performance reasons). iOS has its issues but even Google has had to eat crow and admit security of their OS was never really a design goal and had to be bolted on later (poorly imo, ie security patching and lousy full disk encryption 2 easy examples).

Re: Sun for the day

Lot of effort simply to increase your downvote total. You think you are changing minds lol or are you just bored?

Re: Primaries, caucuses....

>Just don't expect the "big picture" to make much sense when you put all the pieces together. There is no big picture.

Yes there is. Its called Modern Democracy/Republic Alpha Version .01 . Sometimes going first is not an advantage.

Re: I had no problems

>The idea that someone would perform a major, irrevocable change to your device

And the crazy thing is you pay premium prices to allow them to do that to you.

Re: stupid FBI

>I believe he was particularly intrusive in your life if you were non Caucasian.

Or if you live in Irving Texas (and many other places) you can drop the past tense. Well the "good" news is perhaps the man will soon be Donald Trump lol and the turds can roll around in the fan. Still I was more talking like some 21 yo DEFCON kid instead of the middle age corporate whore I am.