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  1. Still have to install on Delivering Malicious Android Apps Hidden In Image Files · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is just a really fancy way of clicking on an apk. So you install Foosball 2020 and click the app launcher icon and then your phone says "sorry, you need to enable installing 3rd party apps, bye!" and you say "damn you android! I want to play foosball with robots!" so you go through system settings and enable 3rd party installations and get a big warning. Then you open the app launcher icon again and instead of a game, you see a whole new installation screen for another app and the permissions it requires ...

    I think from a technical standpoint, this is really neat research, but there are much simpler ways to lead the cattle to the salt lick.

  2. Re:I am not alone when I say.... on HBO To Offer Online Streaming Without TV Subscription · · Score: 2

    > 2) Of quality at least as good as cable feeds

    I do not subscribe to cable, but wouldn't that be based on where you subscribe and your provider? Going with cable provider terms, one might offer the show in high-def while another may not.

    > 3) In a usable non-DRM container which doesn't require a web browser

    At this point, who gives a shit if it's DRM if it's easily playable via whatever mechanism you use. Currently, I use LocalCast app on android to play content via DLNA to my TV, or I use the built in chrome-cast functionality of apps (such as netflix) to play to my tv, but I honestly don't give a shit about content as long as it can get to my tv without too much fuss. If I can launch an HBO Go app on a device and have it play on my device, I'm fucking happy. End-of-story. If I can login to a website and play an episode, even if I'm in linux, I'm fucking happy, End-of-story. Ideological shit aside, I want to see the content however I'm wanting to see it, and if it's possible, I'm fucking happy.

    DRM has in the past been an issue, but it doesn't have to be.

    > 4) Charge no more than $5 per episode (even that is steep).

    who the fuck would pay that much per episode? If the audience were 5000 people, then ok, but looking at the most pirated show ever (game of thrones), that's not the case.

  3. finally on HBO To Offer Online Streaming Without TV Subscription · · Score: 5, Insightful

    obligatory theoatmeal, http://theoatmeal.com/comics/g...

    A large portion of what I watch actually happens to come from HBO, but regardless I end up downloading the content like anything else. Classic example, I purchase a season of the Vikings from google play store in advance b/c I do not own cable but would like to watch the show legally (even a day late from when it aired). I get a notification that a new episode is available. I click play "Last week on Vik...." stream breaks. Hit replay, "Last wee...." stream breaks. Hit replay, "Last week on ..."stream breaks. Download episode via bittorrent in 3 1/2 minutes and enjoy.

    I'm happy to pay for content, but make that shit work.

  4. Re:special software client on The Site That Teaches You To Code Well Enough To Get a Job · · Score: 1

    look fucktard, I said you could download the source and compile the source. I said nothing more. Just because you caught on to the context of the OP I replied to doesn't mean I did as well. Jump out of your imagination and actually read what was written. I have, and have corrected myself.

    You want to rail me for something, it'd be missing the context switch as I was considering the OP that started this thread causing a misreading of the OP in question. You'd actually have a valid point.

    Unlike you I'm sure, I was actually looking at the source at the time and noted there were a number of extra testing dependencies that required a bit more leg work to install for development purposes and brashly thought the OP in question mistook this as necessary to produce a binary.

    Instead of seeing what I wrote and how I've clarified what I meant and intended, you continue propping me up as some evangelist that's proclaiming something I never said, but you only inferred due to a context I responded to incorrectly. Take your inferences and fuck off.

    The OP of the OP in question said you could download the source, who da thunk it? I can't for the life of me imagine why someone would infer that means you can verify the binary. It means you can download the source, review it, compile it, run it, and not a damn thing more.

    And a project that provides prebuilt binaries? who do thunk it?

    But please, do cherry pick my words and continue your bullshit and sick fantasy so you can declare yourself a winner today of the internetz of things.

  5. Re:special software client on The Site That Teaches You To Code Well Enough To Get a Job · · Score: 1

    I hadn't noticed you weren't the OP I responded to. Nothing I said suggested downloading and compiling source would produce truly identical binaries. At best, what I wrote could be interpreted as a big *whoosh* at not realizing the OP I responded to devolved the conversation to such a generic issue in computing that it felt out-of-context to the OP that started this entire thread.

    There's nothing "insightful" about raising this issue anymore than if I pointed out the fallacy in trusting verified sources.

  6. Re:special software client on The Site That Teaches You To Code Well Enough To Get a Job · · Score: 1

    Ok, great, you're talking about ALL binary distributed software. You're original comment was ambiguous enough to imply the source for the CLI was somehow overly complicated to access and compile. Instead, you could just go around copying and pasting your comment anytime anyone releases a native executable making your point rather ... what's the word? ... bleh

  7. Re:special software client on The Site That Teaches You To Code Well Enough To Get a Job · · Score: 1

    Notoriously difficult? Hardly. If you have a Go environment setup for development, you can simply `go get github.com/exercism/cli` and you have the source and a compiled binary in `$GOPATH/bin` named `cli`. Rename `cli` to `exercism`. Review the code.

    I agree, it's a big WTF compared to just walking through something like project euler, but reviewing the source and compiling yourself is not difficult.

  8. Designing a Language and not a Compiler on Interviews: Ask Bjarne Stroustrup About Programming and C++ · · Score: 2

    With so many new languages writing a spec and then a standard compiler to conform to the spec, I'm curious how you feel about writing a spec and not a compiler.

    How do you think this compares to other efforts? Do you enjoy this aspect or do you occasionally get your hands dirty with a particular compiler source? etc.

  9. Re:contact a few likely users. Use forums on Ask Slashdot: Corporate Open Source Policy? · · Score: 1

    Good fucking god, who gives a shit where he works. How fucking long are you going to make an ass of yourself under this ray's posts. Guess what?! I don't use a hosts file! But why you ask?! Its fast! Its secure! Its reliable! Because I use my hosts file for other things unrelated to advertisement and don't need it littered with a bunch of bullshit. Some people do things different, now move along.

  10. Re:meh on Giant Greek Tomb Discovered · · Score: 1
  11. Re:*cough* BULLSHIT *cough* on Cornering the Market On Zero-Day Exploits · · Score: 1

    This is bullshit but I can't help but think "bug bounties" aren't proper capitalism since there's little competition. What if zero day exploits were part of an actual legit market? Google or Mozilla or Microsoft could go there and haggle and possibly drive initially high prices down, etc. Disclosure is considered a responsibility, and I'm all for that, but if there's going to be an underground market for it, then why not just legitimize and potentially mitigate risks instead of these pat-on-the-head-and-here-is-a-quarter bug bounties? Given a generation of this type of market, people with these kinds of interests could likely find better work and such a market could be a stepping stone for people interested in these types of things instead of being demonized and sucked down into the underground.

  12. Re:Oh right, Java is dying (again) on Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time · · Score: 1

    Well it may be fairer to say Twitter moved to Scala limiting the point to the JVM. Also programming on Android is best limited to Java6 to avoid potential issues with transpiling to dalvik and again limiting the point to older versions of Java and only making initial use of the compiler, not the runtime. Pure speculation but a dalvik compiler would make the point solely for the semantics of the language.

    Personally, I hate java, but I'm well versed in it and make a living off of it, and my points above aren't meant to counter and say java IS dying. In fact, I think clarification of those points brings out a renaissance of sorts taking place for what I overall consider a shit language, funnily enough meaning my opinion also means shit.

    Java isn't going anywhere. A simple example of this is how the latest version of Scala is beginning to target features on new versions of the JVM. Java is going to be called home for a long while by its derivatives.

  13. Re:Not the target audience... on The Doctor Will Skype You Now · · Score: 1

    Uh huh, and what if I want to get a referral for a neurospecialist and not drive all the way there to have some doc up-sell me on the latest drugs he's pushing for a kick back? Not everything is about broken limbs or missing kidneys.

  14. Re:What about the dud that came up with fire? on Wikipedia Mining Algorithm Reveals the Most Influential People In History · · Score: 1

    jesus was in the list, isn't that enough?

  15. objective list on Wikipedia Mining Algorithm Reveals the Most Influential People In History · · Score: 3, Insightful

    subjectively titled ...

  16. Re:No mention of Swift in topic nor summary on Apple WWDC 2014: Tim Cook Unveils Yosemite · · Score: 1

    Swift looks capable of replacing Objective C so that's all that matters. If Apple announced all developers need to learn Swift, everyone would be up in arms. A slow roll out that let's teams slowly try out swift is much more likely to catch on.

  17. Re:Off-topic Maybe on Apple WWDC 2014: Tim Cook Unveils Yosemite · · Score: 1

    kit kat distribution is 8.5% and those numbers are published by Google https://developer.android.com/... As an android developer, I can say that targetting 4.0.3 and higher isn't too big of a deal, regardless of how a user feels about the version they are on. Many new features developed are thrown into the support libraries that end up packaged with the app, and its a rarity to come across something needed from a higher api that's not backported. As an android user, my primary phone is stuck on 4.3 (galaxy nexus) and it really doesn't matter.

  18. Re:A new programming language on Apple WWDC 2014: Tim Cook Unveils Yosemite · · Score: 1

    Here's what I found to show language basics, but I too would like to see something more in depth that I can read for free online. https://developer.apple.com/sw... https://developer.apple.com/li...

  19. Re:Bitcoin hype over? on Bitcoin Thefts Surge, DDoS Hackers Take Millions · · Score: 1

    People have to use it?! Of course! and banks aren't part of the equation for decentralized currency. So see, you took a valid issue here, people need to use bitcoin, but left off the important part, "as intended".

    Bitcoin is a decentralized currency and people are going to have to learn what that really means and how to use it properly for bitcoin to succeed.

  20. no on Piracy Offers Heavy Metal a New Business Model · · Score: 0

    what a crockpot of gas. You mean there are people out there that identify with a brand (idolization) and want to give value to said brand over other "generics" that don't measure up? And this is found with, wait for it ... heavy metal fans.

    I'm just going to hamper a guess and say idolization and acting on that is prevalent in any brand of music, and surely other areas of life.

  21. Re:Why? on Corporate Hackathons: the Fine Line Between Engaging and Exploiting · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As it was put over on reddit, "Another way to look at this is that if you were to work 3 weeks for 40 hours a week on the app, and have a 1 in 30 chance of winning the $50,000 prize, then your expected value is $13/hour. And that doesn't include the time spent on the initial proposal."

  22. What games keep me from being productive? on Ask Slashdot: What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux? · · Score: 1

    WTF did you just ask me?

    Guess I'm not the target for the question but I use to be an avid gamer, sometimes 30-50+ hours a week only so many years ago. Even today, when I pickup a game, I just have to play it through like a long movie with ramen snacks during downtime.

    With that said, I've been primarily working from my laptop which is running linux, and I just don't play games anymore b/c it's inconvenient. I dont want to dual boot, I've messed with wine for over 10 years, and the only game I'm actually active in right now is EVE Online. I run the client in VMWare Workstation 8 on an intel video card of my laptop.

    Id like to see steam for linux b/c then I'd have a no nonsense way to see what's available for my platform and who knows, maybe I'd be playing again. If there's some crazy insane awesome sauce windows game that causes me to divorce my wife and disown my kids, I have an old desktop in the corner collecting dust I can play it on.

  23. Compton on OpenGL Becoming a Requirement For the Linux Desktop · · Score: 2

    An alternative "external compositor" can be found here. Was fairly trivial to prepare deb packages and it is on the wishlist in debian. Looking now, I see they just tagged the first version of it two days ago so maybe it's time to update the deb package and submit.

  24. hi debian on Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed · · Score: 2

    Wow, glad I just finished setting up Debian testing on my new x230 and migrated to Debian stable on a personal server I while back after the uefi bit. Ubuntu got me into Debian and away from slack and gen too from way back. Been good Ubuntu, bye.

  25. Re:I'd rather have a first post T-shirt. on Get Your 15 Years of Slashdot Shirt (For free, Depending) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd rather have a first post T-shirt.

    There's only one of those and someone already got it.