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  1. Re:What about FAT32 on German Court Invalidates Microsoft FAT Patent · · Score: 2

    No MS will not refuse it. It will include this in the patent license needed for a android phone.

    It is suspected that MS receives 10 dollar/euro (not sure) for every sold android phone, in patent licenses.

    However as part of the license it is sealed exactly what is licensed. So you cannot work arround this. And nobody is usre about this. And since fighting of a pantent is a long and expensive proces, most suppliers just pay, because is has the least risk, and most economic outcome. The FAT patent is needed to read SD card (maybe...) .

    Apple decided to fight android. MS decided to earn a lot of money on it.

  2. Language wars. on The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability · · Score: 1

    Oh no...
    xxxx is better than yyyy because..

    Langugages (and really the platform / libraries are more important) ech have their own strength.

    What you don't want to do is to solve a problem, add a prgramming language, because then suddenly tou have 3 problems instead of one:
    -being to able to write in 2 langugages. (the subset of emplyess able to do that is much much smaller than those having good skills in one languges
    -interface between them (rarely done, so few people understand the details.
    -maintaining for a long time mulple languages.

    If you run a JAVA enterpise. Fine. If you run perl/php, Fine. If you run C? ueh....cobol? Keep it!

  3. Re:Learn your place on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Convince Management To Hire More IT Staff? · · Score: 1

    And in the end: do not let it give you stress. You are not running your company. Just make sure that the risk of their current decisions are communicated, don't assume they know.

    Otherwise ask for a longvacation in 6 months. If you come back and things still are running, you worried too much. Also the fact that the lead IT mananger is a programmer is a bit worriesome. ..

  4. Re: Sword has two edges on San Quentin Inmates Learn Technology From Silicon Valley Pros · · Score: 1

    That really is case 2. not a case 3.

    The problem is that a lot of people think the nr 1 poeple should dbe rehabilitated. As long it is not in their backyard......

  5. Re:Illegal on Many UAVs Vulnerable To Directed-Energy Weapons · · Score: 1

    You will get intelligent drones that can fly standalone, without any remote control. From there is is a very small step to automate the "kill human"decision as well

    Termintor drones are not as far away as you might think.

    The other solution is not to make them more resistant to such attacks, but to make them so cheap you do not have to worry to loose a drone. You just pcik up a new one, use like one uses other munition/rockets.

  6. Re:Speedtest on FCC App Lets Android Users Measure Mobile Broadband Speed · · Score: 1

    According to the speedtest app, our wifi network @home is the limitiation, and on android the phone is limited more.
    -cabled pc show full network speed.
    -modern laptop show almost full speed of wifi network
    -android shows less accurate full speed of wifinetwork with higer ping.

    Cheapest internet i can get here is the fiber :)

  7. Re:They should upgrade the warning ... on Man In Tesla Model S Fire Explains What Happened · · Score: 0

    Like the prius... wait, there are no prius fires in the media. Maybe that has to do with battery placement?

  8. Re:They should upgrade the warning ... on Man In Tesla Model S Fire Explains What Happened · · Score: 1

    So instead of blowing up your car, it will blow up/burn out the next car. Beside that, if the battery is damaged that much the carr will be a total loss anyway for most cases. Rememeber that the battery makes a considerable part of the cars price.

    Replaceable batteries are a field that is investigated because replacing a battery would get rid of the load cycle.

  9. Re:Sounds like an MMO launch on "War Room" Notes Describe IT Chaos At Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    Which makes me wonder. Why do managers insist on big bang launches. Why not some phasing in , so the problems can be handled, and when the big rush is coming, the bleeding edge problems are solved.

    There are always problems in the release of a BIG system. take some time to solve them before letting it loose on the user.

    In the MMO some of the best releases have a long public beta time, where in the last phase the beta is open, to get some decent load.

  10. reward over punishhment. on Pen Testers Break Into Gov't Agency With Fake Social Media ID · · Score: 2

    Instead of castration you should have an inhouse department that mainly has women so the lonely tech staff does not have to look at the outside. Think of an art/marketing department integrated in the technical department.

  11. Re:Why are they rethinking nuclear? on Stung By Scandal, South Korea Weighs Up Cost of Curbing Nuclear Power · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because ....

    "Politicians at a congressional hearing on Monday estimated the recent nuclear scandals have cost operator KHNP nearly 3 trillion won ($2.8 billion) in cable replacement, loss of power sales and payment to KEPCO to replace nuclear power with electricity from other fuels. "

    In other words: the fuel may be cheap, the total costs of nuclear might be much higher. And you cannot simply solve corruption. If that is possible with a reasonable cost, it would be solved now.

    Simply reducing the problem to one point and declaring it will be solvable is armchair activism.

    Look at it this way: the worst case scenario should be insured. But no conglomerate of insurers will ever insure your nuclear plant, because the worst case scenario is far too expensive.

  12. Re:Who cares. on LinkedIn's New Mobile App Called 'a Dream For Attackers' · · Score: 1

    They only keep track of you if their computer needs to be fixed. They want your brains, not your penis.

  13. Re:Anonymous Proxy and Tor Detection on Online Retailers Cruising Tor To Hunt For Fraudsters · · Score: 1

    Tor has a service to detect exit points.

    Besides that, block everything, and no complaints will reach you as well. The sales will be lower because of this. fraudlabs deny any responisblity in their ToS... so it will become your problem again in the end.

  14. Re:QR codes on New Standard For Website Authentication Proposed: SQRL (Secure QR Login) · · Score: 1

    Beside that only machine readable QR code, you would need need some thrustworthy cute loggking squirrrel logo. (steve failed to provide one leaving that one to the implementor) .

    thinking about it :

    Using squirrel? Are you nuts?

  15. Re:What problem? on New Standard For Website Authentication Proposed: SQRL (Secure QR Login) · · Score: 1

    The only problem is that Things like OpenID, Google apps login facebook Login do not have a cool sounding login method using a mobile phone a 2 factor authorisation.

  16. Re:Not if they know history on Should Google Get Aggressive About Monetizing Android? · · Score: 1

    No, https does not become meaningless, you still have the same security as http... you only need to be aware that security is (almost) lowerd to http standards. Panicing is not useful. You are not hacked, you only need to be aware that the identiy of the other site is not trusted.

  17. Re:MITM in the wild on Should Google Get Aggressive About Monetizing Android? · · Score: 1

    If if there is a MITM in the wild, i only have to be aware of this, Not have a panic about this. I just have to be aware that my creadentials will leak, but watching a website over a comprimised https is no worse than over http.

    DO NOT PANIC

  18. Re:Obvious Answer is OBVIOUS ... apk on Should Google Get Aggressive About Monetizing Android? · · Score: 1

    ios does have hosts file. YOu "only" have to root (/jailbreak) it.

  19. Blocking ads on Should Google Get Aggressive About Monetizing Android? · · Score: 1

    It is true you can block adds, but rooting a phone to do so i highly recommended, if i ask arround in my colleges (business osftware development) most of them did not bother to root. Those who did only some botherd to block the advertisements.

    As long as this is only a very small percentage, google does not care about fighting ad blockers. They removed the ad-blockes form play and from there they decided not to care.

    Fighting your users is seldom a good strategy.

  20. Re:Steve Gibson is a... on New Standard For Website Authentication Proposed: SQRL (Secure QR Login) · · Score: 1

    4.. noob.

    Posting a picture to a xkcd joke without the alt text (nor proper link) is inexcusable.

  21. Flow != Flow. on Has Flow-Based Programming's Time Arrived? · · Score: 1

    The flow what you are describing is a business flow. That is something you must not use this model for. In a business flow you use all kind of side effects you store in a database. don't mix them up because the business process have a flow, that is different from a program flow.

    Using the wrong technique to transform a business flow into a program will get big drama. Because you have so many side effects, you get a lot of states/ global variables you have to test for in each of the sub-processes, soon all hell breaks loose over the number of possible states.

    Beside that, a business is 90% generic, only a small part of it unique. SO only customize that part of your software, the other part might be better of with generic building blocks. But that is a different discusssion after all.

  22. Re:Will this stupidity ever end? on D-Link Router Backdoor Vulnerability Allows Full Access To Settings · · Score: 1

    But now it looks like there are no laws to prevent this kind of thing. Faulty software: noone to blame only to be found by reverse engineering. If this was a serious offence, somebody could look into it and find the person /boss responsible. Handle it like some kind of car brake failure, where the producer has to do a callback.

  23. Re: What evidence do you have that you're being Do on Ask Slashdot: Mitigating DoS Attacks On Home Network? · · Score: 1

    What dows ack scan mean? An half open connection that is never connected? One very 20 seconds will not hurt your connection. Without details what "ack scan"means this log message is only wasting your time.

  24. Routine... on Xerox "Routine Backup Test" Leave 17 States Without Food Stamps · · Score: 1

    Routine means that is done more often, not that is is done correct or even approved....

  25. Re:Vivante only looks good on paper on Vivante Mobile GPU Architecture Gains Traction · · Score: 1

    Drivers are a thing that matter. Intel felt that hard whenit had to abandon larrabee, when it found out it could not quickly produce efficient drivers for it, and had to upgrade the existing GMA drivers.