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Comment: Re:Who's behind that back-door ? (Score 3, Insightful) 80

by Gaygirlie (#46473367) Attached to: Replicant Hackers Find and Close Samsung Galaxy Back-door



Comment: Re:Who's behind that back-door ? (Score 5, Interesting) 80

by Gaygirlie (#46472433) Attached to: Replicant Hackers Find and Close Samsung Galaxy Back-door


Comment: Re:Still open legally (Score 5, Informative) 194

by Gaygirlie (#46439783) Attached to: Google Blocking Asus's Android-Windows "Duet"?

It's still open in the sense that legally you can do whatever you want with it.
It's up to you if you want to make Google happy or not.

Google can deny you from adding Google's apps and services on it, though, and the moment you ship an Android-device without those you're removing a lot of the reason for why an Average Jane or Joe would want an Android-device in the first place.

Comment: Re:Vs compositing? (Score 3, Interesting) 46

I wonder, how does it relate to compositing engine? Ain't surfaces already drawn using GPU accelerated function when using GL-based compositing ?

The windows themselves should be drawn via the GPU on a modern compositing engine, sure, but the window - contents themselves have nothing to do with compositing managers; an app, depending on what UI-toolkit it uses, may be drawing its buttons and text-entries and scrollbars and whatnot via software, H/W-accelerated and somewhat outdated 2D-acceleration, or via the 3D-engine. Many drivers these days don't bother even trying to support the whole range of 2D-accelerated methods and some drivers don't bother supporting such at all, so the toolkits that still use these methods basically fall back to software-rendering.

Comment: Re:only 50Kg? (Score 2) 57

by Gaygirlie (#46406273) Attached to: Italian Researchers Demonstrate 'Powerloader' Suit

Considering their size, all the heavy-duty supports in them and the fact that they're mostly used in cargo-bays one could assume that they're designed to lift at least a weight of one ton. Remembering the movie they were also surprisingly fast and nimble, but with totally rigid feet -- I can't remember there being anything the sort of toe-like structures or bend in the feet -- so they'd suit poorly for any sort of outdoors/rescue/whatnot missions, but could support heavy loads. It's all just guess-work, though, about a fictional exoskeleton :)

Comment: Re:Yes (Score 1) 627

by Gaygirlie (#46327333) Attached to: Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer?

Yes, it does. It leads people to rely on building the application with the IDE instead of issuing standard Makefiles or using build systems like autotools or CMake.

Why do you assume that an IDE wouldn't be able to generate standard Makefiles? I don't know about Visual Studio, but all the IDEs I've tried have certainly been able to use autotools and standard Makefiles.

Comment: "Would you be better off programming with Notepad? (Score 1) 627

by Gaygirlie (#46327297) Attached to: Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer?

Eh, I don't think so. IDEs are great and all that and what tools you use doesn't matter in the end; what matters is that your code does what it's supposed to do reasonably-efficiently and without any "misfeatures." These tools usually also allow you to reach your goal faster than if you were to do everything manually, and in many cases time is money -- hobbyist coding being a separate issue. The language, the tools and so on really matter only in cases where you're developing for very limited systems, like e.g. embedded systems.

That said, I never found an IDE I felt at home with and I've always just typed everything away manually in Nano in a Linux-console...

Comment: Re:Well for once I agree with religious crazies (Score 2) 363

by Gaygirlie (#46310011) Attached to: UAE Clerics' Fatwa Forbids Muslims From Traveling To Mars

Well, they do have a point. Anyone going to Mars on current technology would be committing suicide.

With that logic you're committing a suicide no matter what you do. You *will* die whether you stay on Earth or move somewhere else, there is currently no way of avoiding that. Also, since almost anything that you do in life is harmful to you you are actively committing a suicide, albeit a slow one.

Comment: Re:Keepass (Score 1) 445

by Gaygirlie (#46308113) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Passwords?

That's what I was also going to suggest. I've got a Keepass-client on my desktop, laptop, tablet and phone and the database itself is synced through ownCloud, so it always stays in sync on all the devices. Plus, ownCloud automatically makes backups of the database so if it should get corrupted I can just revert to the previous version. I find that combination to be pretty much unbeatable.

Comment: Re:Open Source is better. (Score 1) 148

by Gaygirlie (#46274349) Attached to: Dear Asus Router User: All Your Cloud Are Belong To Us

I have the opposite experience. I've got a Buffalo WBMR-HP-G300H that shipped with a horribly, horribly broken firmware that never worked right in the first place, was unstable as fuck and, worst of all, its web-based management system only worked with Internet Explorer. Installing DD-WRT on it was the best decision I could've made; the thing is stable as a rock, fast, it provides heaps and bounds more features and functionality than the original firmware and it allows for fancy things like e.g. running a Mumble-server on the router itself, completely negating the need for a separate machine for that.

It sucks that your experience was lackluster, though :/ Have you checked if there's been newer releases of DD-WRT for your D-Link?

Comment: Re:Summary that misrepresents the Article... *shoc (Score 1) 373

by Gaygirlie (#46274141) Attached to: Report: Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) Scans Your DNS History

OTOH, if the entry does remain in the cache past the usual TTL (which is known), then that domain was queried at least once in that period.

Fixed that for you.

Re: IM and browser querying domains... you'll have to explain that to other people when someone tries to blackmail you like that.

Eh. I don't. Everyone knows I'm a creep.


by Gaygirlie (#46274083) Attached to: Report: Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) Scans Your DNS History

DNS-cache doesn't cache the times you access the domain, either, or how often. They only cache the fact that such a domain has been queried. It doesn't even say that it has been you who queried the domain -- it could be your IM-application when someone throws you a link to that domain, it could be your browser that just queries the domains for all the links on a site or something completely different.


by Gaygirlie (#46267127) Attached to: Report: Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) Scans Your DNS History

That doesn't negate the heinousness of them tracking the websites you visit *just* in case you might cheat.

They aren't tracking websites you visit. They are tracking your DNS-requests. They are not the same thing, DNS-requests only show what domain names your system has queried and doesn't even say if the queries have come from the browser, IM, games or anything else -- there is no way for Valve to deduce the websites you've been visiting from these if there's more than one site behind the domain, like e.g. many blogging platforms and such host thousands of blogs under a single domain-name.

Comment: Re:I'm confused (Score 1) 97

by Gaygirlie (#46242219) Attached to: Hyperlinking Is Not Copyright Infringement, EU Court Rules

To answer your question and to copypaste myself from above:

Well, it's not publicly-available material if it's behind a paywall or some other restrictions. You're changing the content's audience by introducing it to people that wouldn't have accessed it, and that's the part that constitutes copyright-infringement in this ruling, the changing the content's audience. On a similar note, there are plenty of sites with poorly-implemented paywalls that do grant access to the material even when it's supposed to be paywalled. The intent is important here; the court ignores implementation-specific failures, but recognizes intent.

And on the seventh day, He exited from append mode.