Posts by pacman7de 142 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jan 2014
@MrMur: "Microsoft finally distributing the Linux Kernel, and obliged to abide by all that GPL goodness. That's got to hurt"
Now that Microsoft is distributing Android, it would be a good time for Google to sue them for violating the Android terms of service, as in Microsoft is extorting revenue out of the other Android phone makers, under threats of litigation ..
TPP isn't about trade and it isn't an agreement. What it is, is a mechanism for pushing onerous and one-sided copyright, patent, and trademark provisions onto developing economies, the main beneficiaries being the major US corporations. It's the self same corporations who helped write the legislation, the rest of us won't see it until it is signed.
"An Adaptation From ‘Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt’ by Michael Lewis"
.. "Nokia has said that it will pay a compensation package of $25 million dollars to CEO Stephen Elop .. in the wake of Microsoft's plans to buy Nokia's phone business for 7.2 billion dollars, including a portfolio of patents and services" ..
"When Elop came in as Nokia CEO, Nokia was Number 1 in smartphones sales .. It had the MeeGo OS .. This was the device Elop abandoned and threw out!"
@Lusty: "As I recall, Windows didn't need patching every week back then either .. This has literally nothing to do with code quality ..
That a novel explanation for the virus/malware contagion currently infesting the Internet. If a Windows server is alone in the forest and throws an error, does that mean it doesn't have any bugs in the code.
@Primus Secundus Tertius: "As I recall it, that story was about a DEC VAX/VMS machine."
`After Snowden went public with his identity, the Feds came knocking on Levison's door, demanding the encryption keys to his servers under US "pen register" and "trap and trace" statutes'.
The solution being to keep the keys on the client computers. Something like Hushmail used to do, but inexplicably took back in-house, else how could they have handed over cleartext copies of private emails? If the email provider can read your emails, then it ain't private ...
@Matt 21: "Well nuclear powered subs exist, as do nuclear powered air craft carriers".......
@PushF12: "Trusty is the first Ubuntu LTS release where Canonical gave up on the desktop and the home user. For example"...
Ukraine is a non-issue regardless of what President O'Reilly would have to say about it. Besides it doesn't take political conflict to distract governments from online security. They can't be bothered or it would be too expensive to implement.
Make me wonder if these kind of bugs could even be exploited if the MMU could trap such errors. Just how difficult is it to design a MMU that don't allow a process to access memory that don't belong it.
Now that it's become the norm for getting people fired for holding opposing views to yerself, how about organising a boycott of the following individuals: Chloe Valerlidi, Chris McAvoy, Christie Koehler, Jessica Klein, Jess Klein, John Bevan, Sydney Moyer (ref) or failing that having them locked in a room and made listen to Alex Jones for ever.
'Woodford had raised concerns, rightly as it turned out, about $687m (£450m) paid out in “fees”`
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"Woodford, 51, recounted how he had just returned from Hong Kong, having fled Tokyo after a board meeting in which Olympus Chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa had fired him. The cause for dismissal, according to Woodford: his insistence that Olympus officials come clean about a series of questionable purchases dating to 2006, totaling $1.6 billion, none of which had been adequately reported in the company’s consolidated financial statements. The deals had been approved by Kikukawa and the Olympus board, yet in several cases the parties receiving the sums were not even clearly identified in Olympus’s books. (At least one Japanese magazine had strongly hinted that the Yakuza were beneficiaries of some of these shady deals.)" ..
"On a sweltering day in Hamburg last July, Woodford .. opened his laptop to find a half dozen e-mails forwarding a translated story from an obscure Japanese business magazine, Facta, that detailed questionable fees paid by Olympus in the Gyrus acquisition as well as the almost $800 million paid for three companies, including the mail-order face cream and the microwave cookery businesses. The story pointed out that two of the businesses had combined sales of less than $2 million; within a year of the purchases, their equity had been almost entirely written off as a loss."
"The Gyrus deal was described as equally suspicious. Not only was the $2 billion price exorbitantly high, but there was also an additional $687 million in Gyrus preferred stock purchased by Olympus from an undisclosed third party. That $687 million would later be described as an advisory fee paid to a shadowy Cayman Islands company, making it the largest advisory fee in history." ref
"All over the world, systems administrators are scrambling to fix the OpenSSL “Heartbleed” bug."
07-Apr-2014: "OpenSSL 1.0.1g is now available, including bug and security fixes"
"Dr Simon Rice .. explained that IT products reaching end of life is a regular occurrence. So the end of days for Win XP is just the same issue played out on a much grander scale."
You would think that after ten years, all the security bugs would have been ironed out by now. As in old software is good software, as it doesn't have any more unexpected behaviour modes, unless the basic Windows security model is defective.
You shouldn't be able to access the kernel merely by opening a corrupt text file. You would also think someone would have spotted this thirteen year old bug. Is it possible to design an OS that don't get owned by clicking on a web-link or opening an email attachment?
"Windows XP is a thirteen year old operating system that lacks the security features of the latest Windows platforms"
"As of December 2005, the following Microsoft Windows platform products have achieved Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4 + Augmented with ALC_FLR.3 certification: .. Microsoft Windows XP Professional with SP2 .. Microsoft Windows XP Embedded with SP2" ref
"An obscure state in a third world country where labour to look after high mantenance software is cheap picks the no money up front high maintenance solution - who would have thought it?! it must be the year of Linux on the desktop"....
'Tamil Nadu possesses the second-largest economy (2011–12) among states in India after Maharashtra.`
"Europe is the last region to face the axe, with 7,100 layoffs planned for this fiscal .. HP .. would prefer to continue to focus on a mass recruitment campaign which has already seen a large number of university graduates and Modern Apprentices being recruited at sites as as Cobalt"
Why is HP firing 7,100 and having a "mass recruitment campaign" at the same time?
"UK regulators are to conduct a review later this year on how banks and building societies are managing the risk of IT outages affecting their business"
Has any of the regulators ever actually worked in IT, on the shop floor, at the coal face, so to speak. Will this review consist of tonnes of paper reports?
I said basically the same thing in a previous post ..
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"TV sales are falling everywhere. It’s kind of official, but people are still prepared to argue about it. The number of LCD screens are being forecast to recover but no one is giving a reason why"
'Because no one under thirty is watching television .. or listening to the electric wireless` ...
10 thumbs up & 7 thumbs down .. ref
"It's not escaped our attention that, rather than get caught up in messy public courtroom feuds, Microsoft has of late leaned on companies until they sign licensing agreements well away from the courts".
That's an interesting point, the licensing deal has never been tested in a court of law. If a future Google were to win in court, all previous Microsoft Android generated revenue would be transfered to Google. See here regarding Microsoft's investment in Dell.
Paw Bokenfohr: "People aren't allowed to be prejudiced against one group of people but then expect to be able to claim prejudice when that group takes action against them."
I've found IT people to be one of the least prejudiced groups of people to work with, as compared to some other sectors. In a free society, people are precisely allowed to be prejudiced against one-another. Nowhere in the linked to Eich blog entry does he claim special exemption from prejudice for himself. What he does say is he would prefer to keep such discussions away from Mozilla else anyone can have a one-on-one discussion with him on the matter. Personally I have no opinion one way or another. It's got nothing to do with writing code and no one else's business except Brendan Eich.
“This issue occurs because a driver or firmware dependency is added to Windows 8.1"
Seem a little light on details. I wonder is it anything to do with the installer identifying itself as Windows [NT] 6.3 ?
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'ApplicabilityInfo="Windows 8.1 ..
Applies to="Windows 6.3"
Product Name="Windows 6.3" Support Link`
"Palo Alto Networks has announced that it's buying .. TRAPS (Targeted Remote Attack Prevention System), an endpoint protection system for Windows machines"
Technically speaking, how exactly does this remote attack prevention system work? Of course to be really effective, any such attack mitigation techniques need to be build right into the core OS and at the hardware level.
"TV sales are falling everywhere. It’s kind of official, but people are still prepared to argue about it. The number of LCD screens are being forecast to recover but no one is giving a reason why"
Because no one under thirty is watching television .. or listening to the electric wireless ...
"The relationship between police in the Republic of Ireland and the body that investigates complaints against officers has rarely been good.
Now a row over possible bugging of the police watchdog has made it positively toxic.
The row began when the Sunday Times reported that a hi-tech surveillance operation had been uncovered last year at the offices of the Garda Síochána (Irish police) Ombudsman Commission.
The three-person commission, it revealed, had called in a British security consultancy to check its offices for bugs." link
"The top court decided [PDF] that Uncle Sam's prosecutors are not required to disclose the evidence they'll use to attempt to secure Dotcom's extradition from New Zealand to the US at a hearing in July."
It's not as if New Zealand was a real country anyway ..
'following a tipoff from a source: it's claimed the firm looked through its servers and uncovered evidence that Kibkalo had emailed the blogger's Microsoft-hosted Hotmail account to leak "proprietary and confidential trade secrets."`
That's not what the blogger said, he states that he contacted Microsoft and asked them to confirm the legitimacy of the files, Microsoft then rifled through *his* Hotmail account, surely a violation of privacy.
"If you're wondering how exactly the accused got caught, it's because the blogger contacted Microsoft in September 2012 to verify the Windows 8 code Kibkalo sent." link
"What we found was a wonderful facility with enormous potential to help locals, but it was struggling with a slow internet connection and in urgent need of an upgrade from Windows XP."
I would take a Linux distro on a DVD ..
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