darec1's comments

darec1 | 13 years ago | on: Days since last known Java 0-day exploit

I wonder if these are new vulnerabilities or if the maybe existed all along? Would an adapted exploit work against Java 5?

Maybe java security research just had a breakthrough and they found some new attack vector/methodology which uncovers all these vulnerabilites?

darec1 | 13 years ago | on: Google under fire for sending users' information to developers

I heard the microsoft mobile store works the same way? Like ebay? And what about Amazon, is their app store in any ways like their "seller central"?

darec1 | 13 years ago | on: In Defense of Copy and Paste

I don't remember where I read it, but it's good advice:

Copy the first time, only start refactoring if you need the code a third time.

darec1 | 13 years ago | on: Why Did the Justice System Target Aaron Swartz?

I'm all for fighting the system and stuff. But in which country of the world, doesn't the system fight back?

darec1 | 13 years ago | on: Self-examination is the Secret Ingredient for Success

Omg, I knew there was a secret ingredient!

darec1 | 13 years ago | on: The year GNOMES, Ubuntu sufferers forked off to Mint Linux

Oh yes The Register, please tell us about the enormous number of people who went to Mint? Hmmmm, not a single number in the whole article?

darec1 | 13 years ago | on: Bye Bye Ubuntu, a sad Christmas

So. Your updating your parents to a now obsolete operating system? Why not Windows 8?

darec1 | 13 years ago | on: Native Steam under openSUSE, Gentoo, Fedora, Arch

The linked Wiki article is about 4 years old. The section about (inofficial) native clients, on distributions other than Ubuntu, was added.

darec1 | 13 years ago | on: No one-click unsubscribe? It's spam.

Ah, if you can unsubscribe with one click, maybe even without logging in. What stops evil Bert over there from unsubscribing you? Sure, there might be some (session) token involved, but that could have been sniffed or brute-forced.

Actually mailing lists do it right, have the subscriber confirm his action by clicking a link in a confirmation mail or such. I think that's called double confirmation.

darec1 | 13 years ago | on: The Mathematical Hacker

Pointless rant by some math student, or some programmer who feels he is missing out on math. Unclear on demands, probably wants to teach more math to kids.

darec1 | 13 years ago | on: Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu “spyware” because it tracks searches

I understand Canonicals intentions: with everything going "cloud" and "online" it makes total sense to offer just one search box instead of two. It's easy, it's convenient.

However it sends your input to a third party or maybe parties in the future. You no longer control your data. Is it even encrypted? Who can see what you are searching? Your family, your provider, everybody on your wifi?

It's not about ads in the first place, it's about data protection, trust and user interfaces.

However this isn't Ubunut, this is just Canonical Unity. I'd just install gnome-shell/kde/xfce/... and be done with it.