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  1. Re:Android too! on Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iPhone Source Code (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Let us know when the Actual "Android" that runs (including Google Play Services) is available.

    Anything else looks like grandstanding by a Google employee.

    Which it is.

  2. PHP, the "Speak 'n Spell" of programming languages.... More marketing fluff.

  3. It does not affect Mac OS X.

    WPAD is used to lookup the server that then supplies the proxy auto config file (proxy.pac).

    On Mac OS X, under System Preferences, Network, Advanced, Auto Proxy Configuration.
    You would have to type in the location manually, rather than the system using WPAD to attempt to locate it by itself.

    So, Mac OS X is not vulnerable to this.

  4. Re:updates may need the account / password on Kid Racks Up $5,900 Bill Playing Jurassic World On Dad's iPad (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Really, they don't.

    Works for me with my kids. Updates are applied perfectly fine without needing a password.

  5. Re:I hope... on Apple Releases CUPS 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Just curious, what would be your favorite (laser) printer?

  6. With PCI you'd still need a host firewall. Daft but thats just how the "tickbox auditing" happens.

    We have a DB host connected via FICON to the mainframe, and the DB box only has a FICON adaptor and the cable goes from mainframe => DB, not even via a switch.

    We still needed a host firewall to comply with PCI and it wasn't worth arguing over that it was pointless, we did it anyhow. Admitted we are a large financial services company, but the rules apply across the board.

  7. Re:Apple has 'done nothing'??? on Google To Stop Describing Games With In-App Purchases As 'Free' · · Score: 1

    No.

    The "Purchase app" within 15 minutes without re-prompting for a password (which is configurable) is a separate 15 minute timer to the "In-App purchase" one.

    And you can easily set "ask for password for each purchase" in the settings, along with "disable in-app purchases"

  8. Re:Duh... on IT Pro Gets Prison Time For Sabotaging Ex-Employer's System · · Score: 1

    To be honest, if my son was kidnapped, I'd do everything I possibly could to find him.

    Anyone that says "You call your lawyer first", cannot possibly have children, or if they do, really need their priority sorting out!

    Only thing that matters is finding your kid as fast as physically possible. If that means the police/FBI/whoever want to strip-search me to prove I had nothing to do with it, or search my house or whatever, I wouldn't care. Do whatever and however it takes to find my kid!

    And I'm so, so sorry you and your family had to go through that. Holy cow, I cannot even begin to think how hard that must be.

  9. Re:We need to fix the root cause on You've Got Male: Amazon's Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene · · Score: 1

    Totally agree, one of my younger sisters was /all/ about pink, princesses and fluffy girly things all the way when growing up.

    She very recently graduated with her Masters degree as a Civil Engineer.

  10. Re:Translation on Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says · · Score: 1

    Thats weird, because I work for a FTSE 100 financial services company and we had a few little issues when nearly 72,000 members of the public attempted to use our online services at the same time, when our usual concurrent volume is around 4,500.

    We planned for a "worse-case" of 50,000 concurrent trades, but our system DDOS-ed itself at around 71,000 (gotta love fast-switch cluster failover, and back, and over, and back... Oracle FTW!!!)

    Anyhow, before we could even think to phone Oracle and shout that our newest 1.2 million pound server wasn't handling particularly well, the head of Oracle UK phoned /us/ and offered us a team of their best engineers to help get us fixed.

    I'd have thought we'd be smaller than a US gov agency, but hey ho, Oracle (plus Cisco, Juniper and EMC) parachuted people straight in, nothing too much to help.

    Admittedly now we have bought a lot more kit, but they weren't to know that we'd do that considering the failure.

  11. Heartbleed not fixed in 5.5 by default on OpenBSD 5.5 Released · · Score: 0

    Just an FYI, heartbleed is not fixed in 5.5 without extra (source) patches.

    See http://www.openbsd.org/errata5...

      002: SECURITY FIX: April 8, 2014 All architectures
    Missing bounds checking in OpenSSL's implementation of the TLS/DTLS heartbeat extension (RFC6520) which can result in a leak of memory contents.
    A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.

  12. Re:IE6 on Microsoft Issues Advisory For Internet Explorer Vulnerability · · Score: 0

    Yes, technically under Windows 2003 (Server) IE6 is "supported". Still sucks as a browser though.

  13. Please change the name! on Not Just a Cleanup Any More: LibreSSL Project Announced · · Score: 3, Informative

    LibreSSL.... Please for the love of code, change the name!

  14. Re:There is always that *one* guy... on Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall · · Score: 1

    Then you'd be wrong.

    Ever seen a Juniper switch, router, firewall?
    How about a Citrix NetScaler?
    Or maybe a NetApp filer?

    BSD is inside a hell of a lot of kit, unless you work inside your mothers basement then chances are, you've seen BSD production systems.

  15. Re:This woudl be ok, but... on MasterCard Forcing PayPal To Pay Higher Fees · · Score: 1

    PayPal have already tried the credit card thing, not that popular it seems.

    That and they'd have to set up their own payment network to avoid MasterCard and VISA, or convince AMEX to carry them...

  16. Re:sales tax is always on the FULL PRICE on Amazon Charges Sales Tax On "Shipping and Handling" · · Score: 1

    Amazon certainly do get that "luxury" as its how they are currently screwing over people in the UK for VAT on ebooks.

    Amazon collect VAT from UK residents for ebooks, however as they are "based" in Luxembourg they remit a VAT rate of ZERO, so the VAT they collect is pure profit.

    http://uk.news.yahoo.com/amazon-exploits-vat-tax-loophole-090021516.html

  17. Re:Contempt of Court on Apple Posts Non-Apology To Samsung · · Score: 1

    Its not contempt of court when you do what the court ordered.

    And ordering Apple to say that Samsung didn't copy them when 2 other court cases (and anyone that has ever looked at their product) say different is a little rich.

  18. Re:This clearly goes against the ruling on Apple Posts Non-Apology To Samsung · · Score: 1

    If you are reducing this to getting your child to apologize, then the moment Samsung apologize for copying and free-riding from the work of Apple, /then/ you can start looking for Apple to back down.

  19. Re:The court didn't ask for an apology... on Apple Posts Non-Apology To Samsung · · Score: 2

    I'd suggest you re-read the Court's wording. It matches /exactly/ with Apple's notice.

    Then underneath the Court's mandated wording, Apple have repeated some facts. It says quite a bit about your bias that you seem to resent the facts they quoted...

  20. Re:The court didn't ask for an apology... on Apple Posts Non-Apology To Samsung · · Score: 1

    Why don't you repeat all the ways they didn't comply? I cannot see anything that they did not comply with.

    And whilst Apple may be hated by you, the rest of us grown-ups realize that all companies are good and bad and Apple are just reacting to Samsung copying a design that Apple popularized. That and Samsung trying to gouge other companies using FRAND patents.

  21. Re:The certificate is not the problem; IPv4 is on Poor SSL Implementations Leave Many Android Apps Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    Without SNI you can only have one certificate per IP address as the certificate is sent to the client before the client can send the Host: header to indicate which site he is trying to access.

    The only way around this (apart from using SNI) is either wildcard certs or SAN attributes.

    Once the server has sent the certificate the client will check to see if the certificate matches the DNS name it is attempting to access (either CN or SAN), however this is done by the client without the server knowing which DNS name the client is looking for. Hence the SNI requirements.

  22. Re:Sell the Addresses? Don't Give Them Ideas on UK Government Owns 16.9 Million Unused IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    You do realize that DWP were assigned the addresses by IANA before RIPE even existed!

    RIPE have no ability to take these IP addresses back as they have no contractual agreement with DWP.

  23. Re:Easy on Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd? · · Score: 1

    You have confused the solaris examples a little.

    The 5 is the version of SunOS and Solaris started at version 2 (The SVR 4 version of SunOS) with Solaris 1 retroactively meaning SunOS 4.

    So Solaris 2.4 is SunOS 5.4, then after 2.6 SUN dropped the 2.x bit to leave Solaris 7 (which is SunOS 5.7) and Solaris 8/9/10/11 being SunOS 5.8/5.9/5.10/5.11 etc.

  24. Re:I don't believe it on DOJ Says iPhone Is So Secure They Can't Crack It · · Score: 1

    It doesn't need to prompt before booting as it will only decrypt sensitive files once the passcode has been input. It is able to boot and connect to the cell towers without needing your passcode, however to get access to *your* data on the phone, it will need the passcode to get access to the decryption key and thus the files.

  25. Re:I don't believe it on DOJ Says iPhone Is So Secure They Can't Crack It · · Score: 1

    If you want encrypted backups then set the flag via the MDM server or profile to *force* encrypted backups...

    Or set the file to be non-backup and handle the encryption and backup yourself in your app. Its not hard, we do it with our Online Banking app. No data can leave the device unencrypted with our app.