Posts by Ole Juul

What's in the box

I can see trouble when selling a device that may not in itself even have a copyright, but every chip inside carries separate, and multiple, copyrights. Sell one box and you could be charged with multiple infractions.

Re: Surely...

These simulations are necessary in order for someone to get the credit for coming up with the idea.

The tests are flawed, the best DoS attack is going to involve someone inside helping, or as the first two posters point out, power tools in the data center.

I don't think they want to get too realistic in case they uncover any weaknesses. That would cause too much trouble and possibly endanger the the job security of the person who came up with the idea.

Re: WTF

if you want to get anal about it) and shit

Interesting response, but I think there's a better approach.

Re: Sorry, but at the moment...

I've run into the same problem with paper.

Re: My theory

I think you're getting close. I was thinking more along the line that the person was fooling around with a Linux install and then when confronted, decided it was better to call it "an accident" rather than being branded a commie.

Re: Element 119 and beyond?

What have they got against 115?

Probably nothing. They've just been watching Firefox's success with version numbers.

flailing

You'll find much better as torrents.

Right. Torrents it is then. (sigh) It would appear that the Business Software Alliance and it's ilk just like causing as much disturbance as possible in the hopes that it will work out well for them. What a crazy way to do business. The world will eventually move past them and they will have wasted the time they should have been using to keep up.

Re: Norton...

I'm still waiting for the Linux version to come out. My machine has been running a bit fast lately.

Re: The new service looks interesting

This whole thing is quite spicy. With his new service coming out at the same time as we have a very publicity generating incident, there is lots going on.

Dotcom: "We are building a massive global network. All non-US hosters will be able to connect servers & bandwidth."

Non-US hosters? Hmm, this could have an interesting international flavour. With "filesharing" turning into the new radio, this could also be game-changing. I don't know what we will see exactly, but I feel we are close to a critical point regarding this new internet medium.

It'll probably work

On the other hand, I can't help but think that there will now be employees clicking on what is obviously malware in the hopes of getting two hours off work.

Re: Yawn...sorry.

She certainly shouldn't worry about people stealing it.

I noticed quite a few people on the TorrentFreak forum who said they planned to download and seed the torrent, but didn't intend to read the book. This could end up on the top of the download charts, as well as winning top place for the least read.

Re: User Security Enhancement Link Extension Safety System

Indeed, I like those Windows security prompts that occasionally pop up on some sites - especially when you're running Linux.

Re: " ...allowing users to display videos and images in chronological order."

I've heard that the Gregorian calendar is based on Facebook technology.

Re: These articles make a flawed assumption

Then there is the little matter of line speeds. if my cloud is in the UK then I guess i'd get about 100kbits/sec access. This is hardly usable now is it. I wish the people who put forward this rubbish actually got out into the real world once in a while.

I too get about 100kbits/second transfer rate here. This is roughly in the range of what I expect from a floppy drive. SATA 2.0 is 3 Gbit/s. It would appear likely that the writer of this article does not have a hard drive.

Re: Fast discharge as well?

Maybe something in between a battery and a supercapacitor? That would indeed give possibilities as a "secondary battery" either in full electric or hybrid systems. This may turn out the be really interesting.

One might call it a "buffer" battery, to put it in IT terms. I like the idea of being able to have power bursts available while the main battery can be designed with other desirable qualities in mind.

Zuckerberg is no Bill Gates.

640 million users ought to be enough for anybody.

Indeed

We're not in Kansas any more.

Re: Bad data

What knowledge? I'm simply basing my comment on what I see regular people using. What you are referring to is no doubt correct in most work environments. Just because you and I use computers all day, doesn't mean that most people do. My point is that many more people have computers at home than at work, and all those computers in people's homes are not updated frequently and from what I can see are quite old by IT standards. A large (probably the largest) proportion of people don't work in an office or otherwise use computers at work. I suggest that MS is only "measuring" office or business computers.

Re: Australia figures misleading

People want it, they just can't get it.

The same here in Canada, although perhaps for other reasons. In any case it is wrong to assume that people don't want to buy something just because it isn't offered. That isn't statistics. It's not even bad statistics.

History

Actually, it's dangerously close to Halloween.

I am young enough to remember when computers had everything they needed right there under the keyboard, like the Acorn Electron, BBC Master, Amiga etc.

That old stuff is back in fashion. I just got a 5155 which was IBM's first AIO. It works like new, but that 8088 does have its limitations.

Re: Not so anonymous or ethical

Indeed, regardless of the "cause", one must wonder about people who enjoy hurting others.

Re: its a load

Its nice to see Judges starting to wise up to all this crap and seeing an IP address doesn't identify a person directly, on DHCP which most connections are for home users, an IP could be used by 1 person at one time an hour later its being used by another . . .

It's worse than that. In rural settings like where I live the IP doesn't change (despite DHCP) and there are literally hundreds of people are on the same IP because of NAT being used for these rural wireless networks. Whoever came up with the notion that an IP related to even a specific house was obviously a huge fan of computer fiction.

Re: Good riddance

Was the "Copyright is Theft" subline really needed?

Freudian slip.

Re: Alternative option

. . . if Twitter behaved as users expected . . .

I think that's a key point. I understand the Judge's statement regarding little expectation of privacy for a tweet which is world readable, but I do feel that Twitter is being deceptive when "delete" doesn't mean what it normally means.

Your garage is not a search engine.

Surely the garage weren't being anti competitive

They don't have Google's market dominance. Besides, I doubt they claim to be unbiased.

The problem is that Google is in a dominant position and have two separate businesses going at the same time.