Wednesday, January 16
Daily News Stuff 16 January 2019
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- The game Red Dead Redemption 2, set in the Old West in the late 19th century, features a couple of characters who work for the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
Which is fine and all, because Pinkerton really existed and played a role in several real-life stories of the Old West.
Only problem is that Pinkerton still exists today and filed a C&D letter with Take 2 Interactive over trademark abuse. (TechDirt)
It's not clear, given the murky nature of trademark law, who is in the right here.
- The telescreen was behind the painting. (TechDirt)
Sorry, spoiler warning.
- Netflix is hiking prices for US subscribers, secure in the knowledge that they will return for such hit series as [insert name of hit series]. (Tech Crunch)
Don't look at me, I already cancelled. Netflix Australia is garbage.
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 comes bundled with several databases, including MySQL, MariaDB (a MySQL fork), PostgreSQL, not you MongoDB, and Redis.
Because MongoDB's new open source license isn't.
- Intel still doesn't have a CEO and it's starting to become obvious. (Network World)
Looking at you, Core i9 9990XE.
- The Ada 202x Draft Reference Manual.
It's no Algol 60, but it's not all bad either.
- A planned upgrade to the Ethereum network has been put on hold after security researchers found a bug in the behaviour of smart contracts that could have allowed malicuous contact owners to steal all your monies. (ZDNet)
Ethereum is fully programmable - you can actually write programs and run them on the blockchain. This makes it extremely powerful and also a giant fucking pain.
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Re: spying TVs. I've heard some people have blocked this at their routers. TV spyware is making me consider building a cheap pfSense or something box to replace my switch; laziness is mainly what's blocked me so far.
Ads on the home screen of my TV? I haven't seen this with my Samsung, but it would probably be the tipping point that would make me do it--and once I started I'd start blocking ads at that level instead of using browser extensions, which have some quirks & limitations of their own. ("hey, a network-wide MITM proxy that eats ETag headers", for example.)
Ads on the home screen of my TV? I haven't seen this with my Samsung, but it would probably be the tipping point that would make me do it--and once I started I'd start blocking ads at that level instead of using browser extensions, which have some quirks & limitations of their own. ("hey, a network-wide MITM proxy that eats ETag headers", for example.)
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, January 17 2019 06:49 AM (Q/JG2)
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"If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version
available to third parties as a service, you must make the Service
Source Code available via network download to everyone at no charge"
I would imagine "Well, making money was nice while it lasted" will be wafting out of the Mongo offices soon.
I would imagine "Well, making money was nice while it lasted" will be wafting out of the Mongo offices soon.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, January 17 2019 06:53 AM (Q/JG2)
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Programs on Etherium. My dad was there at the dawn of computer science (Well, 1950's computers) and they used to maintain strict segregation between Code and Data. Code you controlled, Data you could never be sure of. you never executed Data. Then some Wunderkind in the 90's thought it would be GREAT to allow anyone to send you code to execute on your computer over the internet. And here we are....
Posted by: Mauser at Thursday, January 17 2019 02:53 PM (Ix1l6)
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In the early 90s, just before the web took off, there was a language called TeleScript that was designed so that the client could send small programs to the server for execution.
It disappeared and no-one ever spoke of it again. Shame; it was kind of neat, despite the whole worm factory thing.
It disappeared and no-one ever spoke of it again. Shame; it was kind of neat, despite the whole worm factory thing.
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