Posts by jubtastic1

Did you miss this bit:

"To defend against these and related threats, we build an OS X kernel extension, iSightDefender, which prohibits the modification of the iSight’s firmware from user space."

Whoa, you can reprogram the iSight firmware from userspace, that's a bit mad, I assume the next security update from Apple will plug that.

Re: ..."a whopping 80 per cent of crashes ... involved male drivers"

When a car leaves the road and smashes up a load of stuff everybody knows about it, police, insurers, the poor bloke whose house you just parked in etc.

When someone bumps a car or post in a car park, odds are no one else saw it, if it ends up on stats at all it's going to be because they made a claim for getting a scratch fixed, and men don't generally claim for small stuff, and when they do it's going to be "car damaged while parked' rather than 'i bumped it while parking'.

I really don't understand why people argue women are more dangerous drivers than men, they're crappier drivers sure, but you'd have to be deluded to say they were more dangerous.

Re: It's not about patents

It kind of is, in the sense that they're arguing that secrets need better protection because SMB's can't afford patents, or to be clearer, can't afford to protect patents.

Of course, that's all a load of bollocks, nobody gives two shits about SMB's, massive red flag right there.

I would suggest it's really about enabling the wildly lucrative patent trolling business to expand into trade secrets litigation.

This really isn't going to end well at all.

There'll be a relaxing 5% field strength during the transition

Only for 250 years, give or take, nothing to worry about folks, you may have heard all sorts of wild rumours about the solar wind, but let me tell you, It's absolutely fine for you.

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Because mama needs a new car that's why, what are you, some sort of hippy?

Mobile

I have to disagree, mobile has a lot going for it, a massive user base, relatively short hardware refresh cycle, users have very little sunk costs in existing platforms, and new hardware only needs mostly open standards except where the standard is Microsoft's own (eg: exchange).

Mobile is an area where the two dominant players both had zero marketshare six years ago, it's the category thats rapidly consigning the desktop market to a niche role, If MS ignore mobile computing they're dead.

Re: Before this case is settled hardware within the form will be upgradeable

You're 100% wrong on this, we're moving away from upgradable hardware at breakneck pace.

General purpose computing is entering the appliance stage, just as every technical object before them has from washing machines to cars to making fire.

Those lego block phone concepts are a gimmick, I seriously doubt they'll ever leave prototyping but even if Moto pushes them out the reality is going to be so fucking far from what you were expecting, you'll wonder why they even bothered.

Re: Just a thought.

Ah, you're thinking of european prisons, where the focus is on rehabilitation, the prisoners have rights and the system costs money, whereas the US prison system focuses on punishment, removal of rights and is so profitable a whole percent of their adullt population is in jail, where prisoners are paid 25c an hour if they work, or they can go to solitary. A workhouse.

"But Jubs, I'm not an american, and we don't have those prisons here"

You also don't have eternal copyright and monsanto doesn't own the rights to your dog, at least not until the paperwork is signed off eh?

As an aside, this whole thread has blown my mind, this clearly isn't the world I thought it was and certainly not the world I want my children to inhabit.

Re: Always preferred resistive

Yes, it was only the lack of multitouch that was holding resistive tech back, well that and the fact it was a total crapshoot that wandered out of calibration like an Irishman on St Patricks day, although to be fair, it had exactly the same level of precision frustration when you were wearing gloves.

The problem with your argument

Is that it requires completely incorruptible security services and government, forever.

We find ourselves in a situation where our security services and by extension our elected leaders have access to information about us that we might not even be aware of ourselves. In the wrong hands unimaginable levels of pressure could be applied to opposition politicians, judges, policemen, businessmen, journalists, or anyone else that wandered into the firing line.

Put another way, If your goal was to swiftly switch your country from a western democracy into something more like China or Russia, this dragnet would be your absolute best course of action.

Re: source

I'm assuming a missing n't after does.

The reason your mod doesn't come with google's closed source stuff is because they're not allowed to include it, as clearly stated in the cyanogen wiki.

Did you install any btw? or is your solution to not having available source to forgo functionality?

Finally, maybe you (Bill the sys admin), took the time and had the skills to carefully check through your cyanogen source before installing, but unless you're a cyanogen dev I really doubt that,

I suggest that like just about everyone else who visits cyanogen, you installed it because either it was an easier update route than going through your phone's manufacturer, or because it removed all the crap that your manufacturer decided you'd positively, absolutely love to have on your phone, that you won't or (way way more likely), can't determine it's shenanigan free yourself, and that since installing it you've added odds and sods of closed source anyway because you needed the functionality.

Re: Beginning of the end?

Check out the 'making of' video for the new Mac Pro, that's made in the USA, mostly by robots. I'd imagine most of those jobs will involve dumping raw materials into hoppers and loading boxes of packaged devices into trucks.

The thing about Gates

Is that love him or hate him, no matter how you cut it he's Robin Bloody Hood.

Set up a monopoly that screwed pretty much everyone in the first world, and gave (is giving) the proceeds to the third world.

Robbed your local school for thousands of dollars? why that's raised your taxes, that's probably a cheap burger he's stolen from your belly, and the fucker just pissed it all away vaccinating orphans what a cunt.

Re: cosmic background radiation

That's not what I mean, imagine you're the most distant bit of matter from the center of the universe, you take your blaster and fire it directly away from the rest of the universe, into the void, there's nothing for that blast to hit, nothing to slow it down, it's not going to exit screen left and reenter screen right like pac man (I hope), so what happens to it? is the energy lost forever or could it loop back after an unimaginable length of time?

Because It appears to me that the Universe has been blasting a shitload of energy out into the void ever since it got going, if it's lost forever then that doesn't sound sustainable*, whereas if 'space' turns out to be round then there's an awful big wave coming back at some point.

* sustainable over iterations of universes, assuming the current universe is just the latest in a series of endless 'bounce' cycles, rather than just another ripple on the surface of a pond during a thunderstorm, I suppose all of the above is a possibility as well, a ripple in the ocean of a waterworld. This was so much easier when it was just turtles all the way down, maybe that's sort of true.