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  1. Apple QuickTime events on Bad Reviews For Super Mario Run Are Sending Nintendo's Stock Tumbling (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The entire game is a quick-time-event.

    More than that: It's exclusive to iOS, which is from Apple, the company that invented QuickTime.

  2. Re:I don't get it on Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Someone running Clojure or Scala code in a JVM with the premium features enabled without a license for said premium features would be liable.

  3. Re:I really hate to defend ORACLE on this on Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    A former client actually had this policy specifically related to Oracle products. [...] no Oracle database products at all

    Was this interpreted broadly enough to cover MySQL? Or MariaDB, which is a fork of MySQL?

  4. Re:JavaScript on Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Javas is not a proprietary language.

    That will be decided when Oracle v. Google is appealed.

  5. Re:bittorrent design flaw allowed legal liability on Rogue Lawyers Made $6 Million Shaking Down Porn Pirates, Feds Say (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Each frame? I'm surprised. I thought a storyboard consisting of one representative frame from each shot would be enough to establish authorship of a motion picture. Plus you can sell copies of that as a "graphic novelization".

  6. Re:introduces fee? why not 'fine' on Tesla Introduces Fee For Owners Who Leave Their Cars At Supercharger Stations (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    My first benefit-of-the-doubt guess is that governments have reserved the use of the word "fine" for their own user fees, and Tesla could get fined for referring to its fees as "fines".

  7. Re:There should be an app for that on Tesla Introduces Fee For Owners Who Leave Their Cars At Supercharger Stations (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe every Tesla car can already communicate with your smart phone using a cellular network

    Unless the owner's phone is both out of cellular data for the month and out of range of open Wi-Fi.

  8. Re: Super safe Linux on Zero-Days Hitting Fedora and Ubuntu Open Desktops To a World of Hurt (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    the only thing that really needs a reboot is the kernel

    Or any libraries linked into very-long-running services, such as the copy of libc used by your desktop environment or inter-process communication daemon (such as D-Bus or IBus). Restarting those would bring so much down that it'd be as much of an interruption to desktop use as a reboot.

  9. Re: HTML5 is nice and all on Flash Will Soon Be 'Click-To-Run' in Microsoft Edge (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    So why are the m3s $300 for the CPU alone? I used to be able to buy a whole netbook, including the screen, keyboard, RAM, case, HDD, and what have you, for less than that.

  10. Re:HTML5 is nice and all on Flash Will Soon Be 'Click-To-Run' in Microsoft Edge (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought Mobile Celeron N3350/N3450 "Apollo Lake" was the successor of Atom in tablets.

  11. ISPs could start by intercepting outbound traffic on port 53.

    You might suggest DNSSEC. But as I understand it, DNSSEC failed for two reasons: the root key is only 1024-bit RSA, which is dangerously close to breakable, and domain registrars who bundle DNS service with a registration tried to upcharge their registrants for signing a zone.

  12. Re:What about public domain torrents? on The Pirate Bay, BitTorrent Websites To Be Blocked In Australia, Federal Court Rules (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    What about things that people create that they WANT to be distributed over torrents?

    That depends on the answer to the following: How can such an author be sure that he didn't accidentally copy a substantial portion of someone else's work?

  13. copy-written content

    Do you even know the difference between copyright and copywriting? Hint: the latter refers to creating the text of an advertisement. Unless...

    Offering access to copy-written content is illegal

    That sounds like you're obligating ISPs to install an ad blocker.

  14. Re:I don't get it on Flash Will Soon Be 'Click-To-Run' in Microsoft Edge (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    And what happens if you transpile your ActionScript game to JavaScript?

  15. Re:HTML5 is nice and all on Flash Will Soon Be 'Click-To-Run' in Microsoft Edge (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Which 10 inch "modern Atom" laptops are any good, for someone seeking to replace a 2008-2010 single core Atom laptop with something newer but not larger?

  16. Re:Can't accurately predict time left... on Apple Removes the 'Time Remaining' Battery Indicator In New macOS Update (loopinsight.com) · · Score: 1

    The power sent to the battery is often limited for safety reasons. If the power supply is enough to run the computer at near-peak performance plus charge the battery at maximum rate, then it won't take any longer than if I were to put the thing in suspend while charging.

  17. Re:They can't dynamically figure this out? on Apple Removes the 'Time Remaining' Battery Indicator In New macOS Update (loopinsight.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the same reason web browsers warn for self-signed certificates but pass legacy cleartext (the http: scheme) without a warning. The general principle is that a false sense of security is worse than a true sense of insecurity.

  18. Re:License is a fair question on PwC Sends Legal Threats To Researchers Who Found Critical Security Flaw (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The owner of a lawfully made copy of a computer program has the right to load it into RAM as an essential step of using it. (17 USC 117(a)(1))

  19. It stands for penetration testing, like what the Big Bad Wolf was hired to do in the short story "The Three Little Pigs".

  20. Re:Hol. ly. Sheeeeeit. on Microsoft Wants To Enable Cellular PCs, But Will Carriers Bite? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    BIOS has nothing to do with this. It's an expansion card.

    You'd be surprised. Lenovo has a habit of using BIOS to restrict expansion cards.

    Why not? People buy desktop expansion cards to add new functionality.

    What desktop owners do doesn't necessarily predict what laptop owners do.

  21. Re:Trump is not an "anointed heir" on Why Did Japan Just Ratify The TPP? (businesstimes.com.sg) · · Score: 1

    Mr. Trump is the presumptive President-elect. He isn't officially the President-elect until December 19. If Secretary Clinton can strike a deal with 12 percent of Mr. Trump's electors to switch to John Kasich, we won't even have #1TermDonald.

  22. Re:Powerful, But Are They In Charge of Gundam? on Why Did Japan Just Ratify The TPP? (businesstimes.com.sg) · · Score: 1

    Sunrise has always been in charge of Gundam.

  23. So what would you do if you discover that this ransomware has been slowly infecting your backups for the past several weeks?

  24. Because there's probably no positive or negative result entry in Wine AppDB.

  25. Re:oooooh I am scared... on New Ransomware Offers The Decryption Keys If You Infect Your Friends (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    What? Windows only?

    I don't know. Currently I don't have a spare physical machine on which I'm willing to test it in Wine.