MoHaG - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Flash only sites (Score 1) 657

by MoHaG on Saturday September 04 2010, @08:56AM (#33474356) Attached to: Flash On Android Is 'Shockingly Bad'

They will soon change it if they're losing custom. I also imagine that there was nothing on their site that couldn't be done with html, especially a reservation form...

This is why flash is a horrible technology. It wastes bandwidth and creates inconsistent user-experiences. Video is actually an acceptable use of flash, but several sites, especially ones consisting of product pages, still think that "nice animations" that doesn't work properly on a PC older than a year or sounds that annoys everyone around the user (and probably the user as well) is a good idea...

I like the current situation... Apple makes sure that everyone knows that flash annoys lots of users and my Android device will soon (as soon as Motorola wake up and release FroYo for it...) support it... The result is that I can still use the sites if needed and the amount of sites that needs it gets less..

Comment: Re:dB attenuation? (Score 1) 253

by MoHaG on Saturday July 03 2010, @04:55PM (#32788038) Attached to: Android vs. iPhone 4 Signal Strength Bars Comparison

If you use the SNR it is not that bad.... It is always positive and higher numbers are better...

New Tool Reveals Internet Passwords 140

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 01 2010, @09:18AM
from the change-early-change-often dept.

wiredmikey writes "A new password cracking tool released today instantly reveals cached passwords to websites in Microsoft Internet Explorer, and mailbox and identity passwords in all versions of Microsoft Outlook Express, Outlook, Windows Mail, and Windows Live Mail."

Comment: Re:still dont see (Score 1) 134

by MoHaG on Tuesday June 22 2010, @06:07AM (#32650938) Attached to: States Launch Joint Probe of Google Wi-Fi Snooping

Cracking WEP can be seen as like this... You indicate that you want someone not to read it, even if you use something that is trivial to bypass.

Hell, they even call it "public" or "open" WiFi.

Google seem to not even have read it, only collected it... Similarly to any potentially "private" things to see on the street that was also collected by the same vehicle...

If you are discussing private information in a public place you can't complain if it gets recorded / overheard...

Comment: Re:Inadvertent Or Not ... (Score 1) 267

by MoHaG on Saturday June 19 2010, @03:09PM (#32626944) Attached to: Why Google's Wi-Fi Payload Collection Was Inadvertent

If I accidentally run over someone with my car because I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing, it doesn't absolve me of the liability - even if that old lady had it coming, er, was jaywalking.

Accidentally overhearing / recording classified information (say, while dictating) on the street is a better analogy...

Comment: Re:So? (Score 2, Interesting) 267

by MoHaG on Saturday June 19 2010, @03:07PM (#32626930) Attached to: Why Google's Wi-Fi Payload Collection Was Inadvertent

They accidentally recorded parts of publicly broadcasted data....

It is not much different from a phone recording a conversation in a busy enviroment and being blameed for accidentally recoring parts of other people's conversations that you walked past...

Comment: Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 497

by MoHaG on Wednesday June 16 2010, @05:14AM (#32588510) Attached to: Miscreants Exploit Google-Outed Windows XP Zero-Day

Not if the new car is slower, uses more fuel, is harder to drive and uses more fuel, mostly because of added safety features... (Most of it features protecting drunk pedestrians that walking front of you (DRM))

Comment: Re:I like the idea (Score 1) 126

by MoHaG on Tuesday June 08 2010, @04:53PM (#32501946) Attached to: Restaurant Tells Diners To Eat Everything On Their Plate

Eating too much is worse than leaving it over... The food was wasted when it was served, irrespective if it end up being wasted / stored as fat by your body or if it is thrown away. Leaving extra food gives the restaurant a chance to dispose of it in a less wasteful way.

Cloth Successfully Separates Oil From Gulf Water 327

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 08 2010, @02:25PM
from the now-to-try-it-on-cats-and-dogs dept.

Chinobi writes "Di Gao, an assistant professor at the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, has developed a method of separating oil from water within just seconds using a cotton cloth coated in a chemical polymer that makes it both hydrophilic (it bonds with the hydrogen atoms in water) and oleophobic (oil-repelling), making it absolutely perfect for blocking oil and letting water pass through. Gao tested his filter successfully on Gulf Oil water and oil and has an impressive video to demonstrate the results." This is a laboratory demonstration; the technology hasn't been tested at scale.

Comment: None is a fair comparison... (Score 1) 203

by MoHaG on Saturday June 05 2010, @06:35AM (#32467852) Attached to: Clashing Scores In the HTML5 Compatibility Test Wars

I' running a version of Chrome 6 and Firefox 3.6. A pre-release of IE should be compared to the latest beta/alapha of the other browsers...

All the HTML5 tests I've seen to date runs well on one / two browsers and fail on others.... (Apple's works perfectly on safari, with video / VR / audio failing on Chrome, Opera doing horribly in the typography / image-effect tests and Firefox ion general doing just as bad as Opera, mostly failing in different areas...)

A set of tests / demoes trying to test each of the features of the standard would help a lot to properly asses browser's progress....