Comment Re:Well I guess it's a good thing... (Score 1) 203
I'm hoping that advertising dies as a primary revenue stream purely so that sites like Buzzfeed can die.
The world would be a better place.
Comment Re:Competition is good (Score 1) 280
Phones are getting a bit more memory, somewhat faster CPUs, a bit better screens, and improved cameras but you would expect all of these things. In terms of new and interesting features, it seems like we're in a mature market where we've all decided upon what it means for a device to be a smartphone.
That's a problem phone makers are facing. Amazon's new fire phone, supposed to be revolutionary, is just some parallax graphics (and a bit of rotation magic).
When new ideas fail, you do what Apple did: re-skin it.
Comment Re:Old news and still needs pwned access (Score 1) 86
Secondly almost the first thing said in the video is that they had to install a driver on the target to force it to emit signals they could pull out of the noise.
At that point it's no longer 'bridging the air-gap' (which typically means exploiting across the air gap), it's communicating between two friendly entities through the air.
Which we've been doing for literally hundreds of millions of years.
Comment Re:And hey (Score 1) 7
Oh thanks for the tip.
Comment Re:not the point (Score 1) 375
And you are dishonest.
You're a jerk, and I hate you. Woohoo, insults, I can do them too.
If you had Windows in 1993, and you pushed ctrl-alt-delete and it brought up your login screen, then you were not normal, and the OS was not an OS many people had. THAT is the truth.
As an aside, in 1993, more people were running Unix than Windows NT.
Comment Re:What's more irritating? (Score 1) 252
You know, at least it got the context correct. You can't blame the advertiser.
Comment Re:Other stakeholders? (Score 1) 7
Good point, thanks.
Comment Re:1 in 5 uses of statistics are b***shit (Score 2) 252
Looks like it was a study by Gartner (can't be 100% sure, with the article behind a wall).
And we know why Gartner makes up statistics: because real research is hard and doesn't pay well.
And we know why Gartner makes up statistics: because real research is hard and doesn't pay well.
Comment Re:What's more irritating? (Score 1) 252
It's ok, it will be connected to the cloud. Otherwise how would you get your personalized ads?
Comment And hey (Score 1) 7
Seems there's no way to edit journals. So what you see is what you get! Even I make silly obvious mistakes.
Journal Journal: SystemD: The Beginning 7
DISCLAIMER: THIS CODE REVIEW IS A LONG WORK IN PROGRESS, I COULD BE COMPLETELY WRONG IN ANYTHING I SAY.
To do a proper code review, you need to understand the purpose of the code, what all the stakeholders want. From my own perspective, init scripts work fine, but since Unix companies keep trying to create new init systems, they must have different needs than I do.
Comment Re:Open source code is open for everyone (Score 1) 211
Most are language-independent.... no surprise to see CWE-89 (SQL injection) and CWE-78 (command line injection) in there, as well as the slough of crypto/authN/authZ-related stuff. But where are the language-dependent bugs coming from? If you drill down on the code examples for CWE-120, -131, -134, and -676, you'll see C and C++ are a re-occurring theme.
Good then we're agreed, buffer overflows are not the most common security vuln.
All we need now is for you to realize that, if someone thinks the language means they don't need to worry about security, then their code will be much more vulnerable, even if they write in Java. Once you realize that, then we will be completely agreed.
Comment Re:not the point (Score 1) 375
If you're talking about the x11 stipple functions, then they're not a reason to replace X11 either, just ignore them until no one uses them, then remove them. If people are using them, then there's a reason to not remove them.
Being old is not a reason to replace software. Being new does not make software better.
Although, if you'd like to tell me how the computing landscape has moved on significantly, I'm sure I'd be entertained to hear it.
Being old is not a reason to replace software. Being new does not make software better.
Although, if you'd like to tell me how the computing landscape has moved on significantly, I'm sure I'd be entertained to hear it.
Comment Re:Funny thing about this... (Score 1) 29
Now this book comes out explaining that a SOC is basically just a bunch of smart (expensive) people intelligently mining data?
The hard part is finding the capable (expensive) people, even if you are willing to pay a lot. Programmers and IT guys are not hard to find in America, but capable ones are.
Comment Re:No Kidding (Score 1) 220
As the thread suggests, one advantage to different coding styles is that you can generally tell who wrote what and, if there seems to be a bug, you can track them down and tell them to fix it in that ugly mess. In our office, we have the rule that if you go around changing code style, you now own that code and are responsible for it. About the only issue we've run into is that people's styles evolve over time. So the guy right out of school may have a certain style that changes as he is exposed to more styles.
git/cvs/svn/mercurial blame can tell you who wrote whatever code. Please tell me you are using some kind of source repository.......
