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Comment Re:I designed ... (Score 1) 162

by Olipro (#34667876) Attached to: UK Banks Attempt To Censor Academic Publication
I wrote a Windows software version of the CAP/DPA card readers; entering the PIN does make a difference; the ARQC generated by the smartcard differs if the PIN hasn't been submitted, the same will apply in a DDA transaction carried out at a terminal; the PIN bypass is only truly going to work if the terminal or card only supports SDA, otherwise, the bank's back end can check whether the PIN was issued or not.

Comment Re:Good. (Score 1) 162

by Olipro (#34667846) Attached to: UK Banks Attempt To Censor Academic Publication
Actually that's only true for SDA (Static Data Authentication) smartcards (or terminals incapable of performing DDA) - if the auth process uses DDA then the ARQC generated by the EMV card will be different and the bank will thus know that the card was not issued a PIN. I doubt any of the UK banks are still issuing SDA cards, however, whether a merchant's terminal supports DDA is another issue. In any case, it's a heck of a lot of effort and risk to go to when fraudsters by-and-large can have a much easier time engaging in CNP transactions.

Comment Re:Oh wonderful (Score 1) 145

by Olipro (#33462070) Attached to: Facebook To Add Remote Logout
depends if the spammer wants control of the account over the long term or simply wants to do a hard and fast smash 'n' grab on the account. In any case, this could easily be mitigated with a captcha or similar.

Comment Re:Technically correct (Score 1) 547

by Olipro (#33285524) Attached to: ISPs Lie About Broadband "Up To" Speeds
This is a terrible analogy; they're advertising a rate of download which you will probably not get, nonetheless, whilst whatever you want to download might well take longer than expected, you'll still get your download. So here's an analogy that works; the advertised weight of the chips/burger/whatever is exactly the same, what you're being told is that you can expect to spend 10 minutes consuming it when in reality the only people who are going to spend that long on it are small children; either way you still got your bag of chips, you're just polishing them off faster than you'd expect.

Comment Re:Curse you, System Idle Process! (Score 1) 382

by Olipro (#32612882) Attached to: How many processes are running on your desktop box?

You, too, can be a PCMac.com columnist.

Here are a few of my gripes - most of them a result of excessive patching. IDLE-TIME PROCESS. Once in a while the system will go into an idle mode, requiring from five minutes to half an hour to unwind. It's weird, and I almost always have to reboot. When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing? Once in a while, after you've clicked all over the screen trying to get the system to do something other than idle, all your clicks suddenly ignite and the screen goes crazy with activity. This is not right.

—John C. Dvorak, 9/29/2003

Yeah, the problem he's describing is completely unrelated to the CPU. It occurs when you've got a very large IO operation going on with your system HDD from a single process, the longer the operation goes on the more likely it becomes for your system to start shitting up because the other processes would quite like to access the disk too thank-you-very-much.

Comment Re:Title (Score 1) 275

by Olipro (#29546681) Attached to: Ballmer Admits, "We Screwed Up Windows Mobile"
the leaked builds you refer to are coming out almost daily my friend, it's like a live action stream of ROMs, the majority of which are, for the most part, usable. The thing is, the ones that see the light of day to the average punter are all cooked ROMs of course, adulterated with additional shit and the cook's branding thrown in, I hate the bloody things, and I say that as the person jointly responsible for the patched SPL that allows you to flash them.

Comment Re:Title (Score 1) 275

by Olipro (#29546667) Attached to: Ballmer Admits, "We Screwed Up Windows Mobile"
HTC's "Manila" interface is a today item that overlays and essentially replaces the whole kaboodle - it also has its hooks in the gwes EXE (GUI) in order to modify the device's interface, the fancy 3D shit is a capability of the hardware. The way that's achieved is simple enough - get yourself a copy of Platform Builder, read the source... you can in fact download the CE version freely, which is (usually) close enough to WM that you can make something.

Comment Re:Do no evil? (Score 1) 336

by Olipro (#29546651) Attached to: Google Serves a Cease and Desist On Android Modder
Actually, you appear to be confusing "open platform" with "open phone" The HTC manufactured Android devices aren't open in any way shape or form, all ROM updates are RSA signed, and the only way to "free" the device from these restrictions is by either exploiting something or alternatively, flashing to an old ROM that can be exploited.
Programming

Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? 1127

Posted by samzenpus from the 150-of-us-in-a-shoebox-in-the-middle-of-the-road dept.
sausaw writes "I recently had to write code in a hot dusty room for 20 days with temperatures near 107F (~41C); having nothing to sit on; a 64 Kbps inconsistent internet connection; warm water for drinking and a lot of distractions and interruptions. I am sure many people have been in similar situations and would like to know your experiences."
Supercomputing

Supercomputer As a Service 78

Posted by samzenpus from the do-your-own-base-pair-matching dept.
gubm writes "Nearly one and a half years after making a stunning entry into the global supercomputer list with Eka, ranked as the fourth-fastest supercomputer in the world, Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a Tata Sons' subsidiary, has succeeded in creating a new market for supercomputers — that of offering supercomputing power on rent to enterprises in India. For now, for want of a better word, let us call it 'Supercomputer as a Service.'"

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