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  1. Re:Fucking Lawyers on SCOTUS Denies Google's Request To Appeal Oracle API Case · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Call me a pedant, but

    > copied shit exactly

    Android Inc didn't copy/paste shit; that would be exactly. They built their own VM that runs the same bytecode compile-able from the same source that's freely available all over this mess of the internet. See OpenJDK.

  2. Words.

  3. Re:The punchline on Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression · · Score: 1

    *bing* *bing* *bing* It's not newsworthy!

  4. The punchline on Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression · · Score: 1

    A californian, theoretical physicist, and London PR agent walk into a science museum. The californian asks the theoretical physicist a vague philosophical question and the PR agent publishes it. "Win your own trip to London my friends and this too could be you!"

    The punchline? Slashdotters think stephen should stfu. Imagine winning a trip to London, getting to meet stephen hawking, and you decide to have some camp-fire-bullshit talk while touring a museum and all he does is say, "sorry, I'm just a theoretical physicist and am thoroughly incapable of making small talk", or worse, starring you down with no response.

  5. Re:For those interested... on Five Years of the Go Programming Language · · Score: 1

    The OP mentioned Arduino. The front page provides an arduino sample and further down demonstrates uploading the firmware. This works with the beefier platforms. See also http://embd.kidoman.io/

    But if you're talking about something running with 256kb of ram, then Go's current runtime isn't suitable. I've seen new runtime implementations for working with such systems though I don't recall the name of the project or links but there's nothing inherently preventative of Go for use on such systems given an appropriate runtime.

  6. Re:So no one has used it yet? on Five Years of the Go Programming Language · · Score: 1
    There's so many

    and the list goes on and on with startups (http://blog.iron.io/2013/03/how-we-went-from-30-servers-to-2-go.html) and big names (https://github.com/dropbox/godropbox https://github.com/facebookgo) alike. Just google for more or explore github.

  7. looks more like a skewed protruded hexagon.

  8. the last line of the summary on 2600 Profiled: "A Print Magazine For Hackers" · · Score: 1

    paints such an interesting, far-from-the-truth picture of reality. Hackers being some personable people that point out flaws in current solutions to complex technological problems along with possible solutions instead of the OCD code warriors they likely tend to be for the sake of coding itself. People actively seek out flaws for the sake of flaws themselves, not some happenstance that they exist except in the most trivial issues.

  9. > Believing that constituent voices will override telecom campaign donations and lobbyists is adorable isn't it? I must get my adorable feelings from my 3 year old.

  10. oh right, can't mod when i've commented, bleh. I'd Mod AC up anyway if i could.

  11. you got voted -1 (which im adjusting now) but this is a valid point people! government should be the last refuge of the people when shit goes wrong, and in so many areas, this shit is wrong.

  12. if i voted on 20 More Cities Want To Join the Fight Against Big Telecom's Broadband Monopolies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    this would be one of those times id actually go and vote if moving forward required consensus of the locals.

  13. Could be helpful on "Police Detector" Monitors Emergency Radio Transmissions · · Score: 1

    Many might think "hey i can avoid those pigs and break the law!" but if I could know how many and the concentration in an area, that might tell me there's something serious going down somewhere I'm heading that I should avoid.

  14. Re:So.... on Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence "Demon" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    .. b/c no one ever said "whoops, maybe I should've .. uuuh .. fuck" in human history.

  15. Re:Mo-tiv-a-tion on Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence "Demon" · · Score: 1

    I think you hit the core issue but missed the point. Motivation, ambition, those are things you can work with. You may perhaps pay off the ambitious man, but the AI in question may want nothing at all. A cold killer and nothing more.

    I don't think musk is far off, but the problem sure is and he's aware of that at some level with his out-there analogy.

  16. Re:Ambiguity, or change one word on British Army Looking For Gamers For Their Smart-Tanks · · Score: 1

    British Army Looking For Gamers With Their Smart-Tanks

    Now that's a headline.

    Indeed it is, smart-tanks roaming the UK streets looking for gamers would certainly headline most anywhere.

  17. Requested Invite but my email is a mess! on Google Announces Inbox, a New Take On Email Organization · · Score: 2

    How can I make sure I don't miss their important response?!

  18. In other news, config files in linux still text .. on The Classic Control Panel In Windows May Be Gone · · Score: 1

    until systemd folks figure out how to force all to binary config format requiring an additional program to edit.

  19. Re:PPA on Delivering Malicious Android Apps Hidden In Image Files · · Score: 1

    it would be interesting if the market app actually worked like this and was decoupled from other google services.

  20. Re:PPA on Delivering Malicious Android Apps Hidden In Image Files · · Score: 1

    your point? 3rd party checkbox in this scenario would be like a flag that determines whether your /etc/apt/sources.list file is read or discarded when determining software to install (given the standard ubuntu repos will always be an apt source).

  21. Re:Still have to install on Delivering Malicious Android Apps Hidden In Image Files · · Score: 1

    that reads more like a statement rather than a question. Regardless of location source, whether google sanctioned or not, and if one has decided to install things from places other than google (arguably the 3rd party check box is the type of thing that makes android a google project versus pure OSS, or in the same respects is what differentiates chrome from chromium), etc, etc, when you install an application, you will be prompted. This prompt shares similarity with, for example, running a downloaded executable on windows and being prompted before actually running.

    Having 3rd party sources disabled is not a safety net for avoiding issues, that's simply what makes android a google product.

  22. Re:Cute but useless on Delivering Malicious Android Apps Hidden In Image Files · · Score: 3, Interesting
    You don't have to give it permission, that's just part of what they made available. to quote TFA

    In their testing, Android did show a permission request when the legitimate wrapper file tried to install the malicious APK, but the researchers say that this can be prevented by using DexClassLoader.

    Doing that isn't much of a stretch. Many popular apps already use DexClassLoader just to get around limits during packaging.

  23. Re:Encrytped App can't be checked? No shit. on Delivering Malicious Android Apps Hidden In Image Files · · Score: 2

    > And seriously, hiding a payload inside something else isn't new, that's been around for decades at least.

    *cough* trojans *cough*

    decades you say?

  24. Re:Still have to install on Delivering Malicious Android Apps Hidden In Image Files · · Score: 5, Informative
    I stand corrected after RTFA

    In their testing, Android did show a permission request when the legitimate wrapper file tried to install the malicious APK, but the researchers say that this can be prevented by using DexClassLoader.

    Now that sounds plausible and like a real concern (that is being addressed).

  25. Re:Still have to install on Delivering Malicious Android Apps Hidden In Image Files · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You white listed amazon app store when you reviewed the permissions and clicked install. Enabling 3rd party app installation is an all or nothing affair b/c its, well, 3rd parties.