Comment Re: Remove Encryption? (Score 1) 89
RFS is dead. Like his wife.
Comment Remove Encryption? (Score -1, Redundant) 89
What could possibly go wrong?
Apple is becoming more MS every day.
Comment Re:I'm considering switching more (Score 1) 86
Ubuntu, however, is awful.
There are literally hundreds of Linux distros out there.
Comment Re:SCO and IBM (Score 1) 109
"Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time"
Comment Fingerprinting (Score 3, Interesting) 55
Its called fingerprinting, and it has been going on a very long time, using techniques that go back decades. This just makes it more persistent and spans attempts to obfuscate fingerprinting in easier ways.
If you want to avoid this, work from a non-persistent VM that is created and destroyed every online session, using no identifiable information (no-logins ever).
Security isn't convenient.
Comment Re:Lame, Lazy criticism - the only agenda is $$ (Score 2) 172
Also, a movie about a war veteran getting mistreated, and critical of the anti-war movement.
And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn't let us win! And I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting. Calling me baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me, huh? Who are they? Unless they've been me and been there and know what the hell they're yelling about!
Comment Just Like T-Mobile Stores (Score 1) 39
Learned it from T-Mobile, and their T-Life setup.
Stores are all but useless now.
Comment Re:Who is this for? (Score 1) 124
Not for you, but for them to track your kids.
Comment Re:A step in the right direction (Score 1) 124
It's absolute insanity that folks throw away $1k+ phones because we can't easily swap out a $25 battery.
Indeed, because even if it's not user-repleaceable, any phone repair shop can do it. (It's also crazy to buy a $1k+ phone in the first place, goddamn, there are fine options for much much less.)
It's absolute insanity they removed the headphone jack to force us to buy / replace battery powered headphones or an adapter.
It's annoying, but adapters are cheap. I'm not going to lose sleep over $5.
It's absolute insanity I have different chargers and cables for at least five generations of this crap laying about. Pick a damn standard already.
They did, the whole industry uses USB-C now.
Comment VM spun up to browse (Score 1) 51
Spin up a LIVE based VM, with one of the more secure browsers. Then when you're done, all the cookies are poof
This bypasses almost all forms of tracking/fingerprinting browsing systems.
Also, why can't hackers figure out how to poison cookies?
Comment Re:Not the first time (Score 1) 122
And there was "Project Star Trek": back in '92 they got System 7 running on a 486. It was shelved as Michael Spindler pushed for the PowerPC instead, but it existed.
Comment Again? (Score 1) 50
a full-blown remake of the original 1996 Tomb Raider game
But Tomb Raider: Anniversary is already that, and still looks perfectly good. And if you want it more strictly faithful to the original, there's the recent remaster. So this is absolutely unnecessary.
Comment Person Of Interest (TV Show) (Score 2) 26
We are living out the TV show. Everything in that show is coming true (if it wasn't already).
If you haven't seen it, it is very entertaining, and now almost seemingly prophetic.
Comment Re:Author seems unclear on music technology. (Score 1) 19
The Sega Genesis used a Z80 for FM synthesis.
Not exactly, it used the Z80 to control the actual sound chips: a Yamaha YM2612 (which does FM) and a Texas SN76489 (which is a simpler PSG). And this setup, in the right hands, could produce absolutely excellent music.
Comment Re:Corrections (Score 1) 19
The man really had no shame:
Brian Schmidt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Bobby Prince: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
