Slashdot Mirror


User: tokul

tokul's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,270
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,270

  1. Re:Interested to know... on iOS Update May Tackle iPhone 4's Antenna Problems · · Score: 1

    It's all speculation at this point.

    "Hold your phone different way". It is not software. youtube is full of videos reproducing it. Thumb on left side, signal goes down.

  2. 2:15 "no more music" on iPhone 3G vs. Solar Death Ray · · Score: 1

    It took 2 minutes to melt LCD and damage speakers or main board.

  3. Re:Duh on 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid · · Score: 1

    If you aren't doing actual ecommerce, then there is no reason to buy a certificate

    If I don't want to trigger unsigned certificate warnings in user browsers or email programs, I have a reason for buying a certificate. Asking users to install my CA certs is not an option. I know how I will react if somebody asks to import their CA.

  4. Re:Two reasons for SSL on 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid · · Score: 1

    It's a money making scheme

    You are free to create own CA and pass all certification requirements for inclusion in browser's ca bundle. Or ask cacert.org why they are not in Mozilla's bundle.

  5. Re:What competition do they have? on Google Bringing HTML5 To Gmail · · Score: 1

    However, I know that at this point there _must_ be competition for it out there, open source or otherwise. Does anyone know other email services that offer a comparably usable interface?

    How many webmail developers have total control over the platform? Google controls both hardware and software and can drop loads of cash and human resources on it. How many OSS developers have such advantage?

    Plus they are talking about extending specifications in order to get features that they want. What are the chances that whose extensions will work on Chrome first?

    "I have high hopes for IE9." dude's from TFA words. WTF? I would like to get that stuff he is smoking. Or he is not web developer and he is not from Google.

  6. 1400 lines on VP8 Codec Coming To FFmpeg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is there a limit on line length?

  7. Re:Of course, there's always... on ICANN Approves .xxx Suffix For Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    There's always a way around domain name filters.

    You can't use IP address, if website is name based virtual host.

  8. FBI in Brasil on FBI Failed To Break Encryption of Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Banker is from Brazil and evidence was seized there. Why FBI was involved? It is not their jurisdiction and they are not encryption experts. Maybe those journalists should learn something about NSA before writing "article" about failed decryption.

  9. Re:Is there a way to block Pakistan? on Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    If you're running a website, is there a way to detect visitors who are (probably) in Pakistan

    http://www.countryipblocks.net/
    took less than 5 minutes in some search engine.

  10. Re:Reality check: Microsoft is quite profitable. on Bill Gates Doesn't Work At Microsoft Anymore · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ConEd - natural monopoly. selling service to big market with low infrastructure upkeep costs (compared to costs of creating alternative infrastructure)
    GE - diversified company
    Google - not diversified company
    Microsoft - desperately trying to diversify its products, but most of alternative products are subsidized by main company's products and suffering from competition whos pricing is very hard to compete with.

  11. Re:Viruses? on Apple Quietly Goes After Mac Trojan With Update · · Score: 1

    OK Conficker, the fix for which was available to all, even pirates for months and required the user to have admin privs.

    Conficker uses remote exploit. My point was that WinXP SP2 is remote exploitable just like SP1 was.

    Considering the fact that Microsoft pushed new software and spyware in Windows Update (and still does), admins could disable Windows Update.

  12. Re:Viruses? on Apple Quietly Goes After Mac Trojan With Update · · Score: 1

    but since XP SP2

    Hello, Conficker.

  13. Re:Doesn't matter if users opt-in on Spamhaus Fine Reduced From $11.7M To $27K · · Score: 1
    People proactively buy the newspaper too. Doesn't mean the newspaper publisher can't be held liable for libel and slander. Spamhaus publishes a news report in DNS about which IP addresses are trustworthy.

    SpamHaus has three different blocklists. Known spammer addresses, spambots (xbl or cbl) and policy blacklist. Which list you are complaining about?

    They are not making up what they are saying like publishers sometimes do. Known spammer addresses is database of people, who are known to send unsolicited emails. xbl system is automatic. Clean your stuff and you will be removed automatically in 7 days or something close. policy blacklist uses data provided by ISPs.

  14. Re:Low power, really? on SeaMicro Unveils 512 Atom-Based Server · · Score: 1

    In other words, it sounds a lot more like greenwashing than anything that's actually sensible.

    If it is basic web server or file server, bottleneck is in disk IO and not in CPU.

  15. Re:Much Ado About Nothing on Google Releases Wi-Fi Sniffing Audit · · Score: 1

    What do you do when you go up to an ATM? There's a security camera taking pictures of you.
    What about if you're walking past someone who is at the ATM and it takes a picture of you?

    ATM takes photos of everyone. I am not its target.

    I'm not saying that you should want your picture taken in public. But I am saying that it isn't illegal. I'm sure there are lots of celebrities who wish it was.

    It is illegal. I am not public person and others need my permission to photograph me.

  16. Re:Much Ado About Nothing on Google Releases Wi-Fi Sniffing Audit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's like people who don't want to be photographed in public.

    I don't care if people photograph street with me in it. I can turn away. I do care when they photograph me in the street. It depends on purpose of photographing.

  17. Re:Thanks god. on Google Introduces, Then Scraps, Bing-Style Background Images · · Score: 1

    If you use Gmail you'll need to allow JS from gmail.com.

    No, you don't. gmail can work without JS and Flash.

  18. Re:Probably signals to spies and whatnot on Mysterious Radio Station UVB-76 Goes Offline · · Score: 1

    Hello!!!! Christmas Eve!!! He was probably just notifying Boris, Roman, Olga, Mikhail, Anna, and Larisa

    :) Russian Christmas is in Jan 7.

  19. Re:11. on 10 Tips For Boosting Network Performance · · Score: 1

    Ban Quake during work hours

    So 90s. Youngsters play CS. You forgot torrents and other p2p stuff. GbE LAN won't boost your network performance, when you need faster "Internet" and have only 512/128Kbps ADSL.

    9. Monitor traffic with mrtg and ntop.

  20. Re:No support from Google on Where Do You Go When Google Locks You Out? · · Score: 1

    A few months ago I needed to contact Google UK over an unpaid fee for their use of a photograph. ... Google do not like talking to people.

    Then don't talk to google personally. Ask your lawyer to do that. If they use your photo without your permission, they are violating copyrights.

    Although if you are complaining about photo in images.google.com, do you understand that google has nothing to do with that photo. Somebody put that photo online and google only indexed and thumbnailed it.

  21. Re:Easy! on The Man At Microsoft Charged With Destroying IE6 · · Score: 1

    2. Make sure they drop support for XP in the next version of Office.

    Step 1b. ask somebody to pick you up at Office department.
    ...
    Step 3. Meet St.Peter after they burry you.

  22. Re:disabling scripts on unfocused tabs? on Tabnapping Scams Around the Corner? · · Score: 1

    Maybe it is time for the browsers to take matters more seriously and block any scripts from running in tabs that are not currently in focus.

    AJAX, automatic page reloads, download counters on file sharing sites

  23. Re:This is why we don't use GPL stuff on Do Build Environments Give Companies an End Run Around the GPL? · · Score: 1

    so we can avoid crap like this.

    And this thing was invented to protect users from people like you. You take lots of free stuff, contribute as little as possible and leverage with your closed source mods. You call GPL crap and GPL people will call you crappy capitalist leech. Don't call names on others, if you don't want to be insulted same way.

  24. Re:I didn't know Nero AG had time for this on Nero Files Antitrust Complaint Against MPEG-LA · · Score: 1

    You DO know that if all you want is the burner Nero will let you have it for free [nero.com], yes?

    Free for personal use. Does not suite for any corporate environment.

  25. Re:Hogwash. on HP Explains Why Printer Ink Is So Expensive · · Score: 1

    25mL of actual ink and costs $35.99 US. That comes to $1,439.60 per litre or $6535.78 per gallon.

    HP #15 is 25ml of black ink + printhead. Article is from HP PR department, but they charge a little bit less than 6 grands for gallon of ink.