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Comment: Re:Great (Score 0) 130

by jkrise (#43095877) Attached to: Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights To Office 2013

how obvious was it that there would be a huge negative reaction

With Chair-Man in charge of things, MicroSoft's arrogance knows no bounds. They are past caring any more; and seem intent on bringing down as many competitors on their way down to ir-relevance.

In the new markets such as smartphones and tablet devices Microsoft is not even 5% as relevant as in desktops. So now instead of competing on merit on desktops, they are trying to force desktop makers to ensure competing OSes are very difficult if not impossible to install.

Comment: Atleast it is better than an unfixed Windows bug (Score -1, Flamebait) 129

by jkrise (#42640281) Attached to: Decade Old KDE Bug Fixed

After Windows95, the operating system gets in my way, when I try to run application programs on it. Still not resolved - in fact it got progressively worse with Vista; reduced somewhat in Windows 7, and is back in full force in Windows 8. Instead of solving the bug, I think the developers have renamed it to 'feature'. Does that count?

Comment: Re:There is no compulsion on Rennard... (Score 1) 57

by jkrise (#42617423) Attached to: How Mobile Operators Are Caught In the Middle In the Middle East and Africa

Whose laws?
When a country has multiple groups claiming to be the government which set do you follow?

When there is ambiguity on who is in charge, do you think there would be respect for the laws, whomsoever made them?

What about when the government is obviously not legitimate?

Rennard is not a judge, to pass judgment or rule on legitimacy. If he feels threatened operating in a country, legitimate or not, he should pull out his employees. Their security is more important than his desire to make money operating in an obviously illegitimate domain.

Comment: Dell selling Android devices is like... (Score 1) 280

by jkrise (#42612353) Attached to: Meet "Ophelia," Dell's Plan To Reinvent Itself

Apple selling Android devices.

This is just an announcement at CES. Doesn't mean shit. Dell stopped shipping Linux tablets... why? Dell makes Linux laptops pricier and more difficult to get than Windows ones...why?

So Dell is planning to 'reinvent' itself on an Android based Rapberry-Pi kind of form factor device; which it hopes people will buy from Dell despite its name rhyming with Hell? Good. I'll believe it when I see it.

Comment: Re:Scapegoating doesn't achieve anything (Score 3, Interesting) 430

by jkrise (#42611921) Attached to: After Aaron Swartz's Death, the Focus Now Falls On the Prosecutors

First, it's not scapegoating. Scapegoating implies the victim is innocent, somebody else did the crime, and the scapegoat merely gets the label of a criminal.

So if the focus falls on 2 over-zealous prosecutors, and their motives proved to be wrong, and they are made an example of, it does not mean they were scapegoats. It means they fully deserved the focus brought to bear on them.
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"Making example of" is not a 'cheap trick'. Prosecutors do the same. Judges do the same. RIAA/MPAA do the same. They do not prosecute every allegedly guilty party. They make an example of a few, to make it a sufficient deterrent for the rest.

So if two players are indicted for gaming the system for their personal goals, caring little for justice, they should be made an example of. Countless other prosecutors would think 100 times before following the same path.

Comment: Re:But of course (Score 1) 457

by jkrise (#42601783) Attached to: Employee Outsourced Programming Job To China, Spent Days Websurfing

If a company misrepresents their product (e.g. made in USA when in fact it's made in China),

Two problems:

1. With so many Chinese living and working in the USA, but still not citizens.... with so many Americans living in China as well... do these "Made in the USA" tags have any significance?

2. If misrepresenting is such a big crime, I am sure Verizon is guilty of it several times in their "unlimited" data plans, bandwidth calculations, etc. etc. This incident is such small fry.

Comment: So these arguments are bullshit.... (Score 4, Insightful) 457

by jkrise (#42601735) Attached to: Employee Outsourced Programming Job To China, Spent Days Websurfing

1. Programmers in the US are worth the money corporations spend on them.
2. China and India are full of crappy programmers who can't understand specs, cannot correspond in English, let alone produce quality code.
3. The value of the US currency is a true measure of its worth in global markets.
4. US corporations are killing US jobs despite the fact outsourcing produces lesser quality goods and services.

I know the plural of anecdote is not data, but still...

Comment: Don't DEAL with problems, SOLVE them... (Score 1, Interesting) 136

by jkrise (#42600851) Attached to: Malware Infects US Power Facilities Through USB Drives

I can't help but laugh at the infantile levels of thinking and planning which goes into building secure infrastructure systems. Here's how I would do it:

1. First, insulate critical infrastructure systems from the rest of the World. Don't install 'secure' routers or 'secure' firewalls. Simply insulate them. End of.

2. Do not install any software (OS, database or application) that needs to be activated from the outside, or auto-updated from the outside.

3. Do not ALLOW any USB based access to any of the networked machines, ever. If at all, the USB drive needs to be connected to a Linux machine, that does not auto-mount or run any auto-magic stuff. Then, any files that need to be sent to the server need to be quarantined prior to updating.

4. Same goes for WiFi. Only allow mahcines with known, registered MAC addresses, after pre-auditing and authorising them.

Dealing with the aftermath of such insecure architecture, without Solving them once and for all, is a criminal offence by the IT admins and must be prosecuted as such. Irrespective of the outcome or lack of any infections despite insecure architecture.

Comment: Re:Why isn't there a whitelist-only mode? (Score 1) 320

you can install NoScript. I find that it works well.

Does NoScript protect from sites that use Javascript? Or sites that use Java?

If a tool protects from java applets, ideally it should be named Java-Block or NoJava. The tools that blocks Flash is called FlashBlock.

So please clarify: Does NoScript help against java applets at all? Or only Javascript?

Comment: Re:Java and Flash (Score 1) 243

by jkrise (#42578537) Attached to: Oracle Ships Java 7 Update 11 With Vulnerability Fixes

Java is a plug-in published by Oracle that plays applets written in Java,

Yes, I understood that bit, which is why I asked the final question: Is the Java plugin downloaded so often, to run on browsers? (alternately)

Is Java plug-in bundled with browsers without the need for separate downloading?

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