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No he is not kidding. Are you?
Yesterday was my first time too hearing about Popcorn Time:
https://xkcd.com/1053/

Hasn't Bruce Schneier ever seen this xkcd cartoon on security? Ok, so it doesn't have to be done by force, but couldn't it be done by some sort of social engineering?

Our code doesn't even work with valgrind. It (again, no tomatoes!) uses shmat to seize a particular address space (clobbering whatever was there in the process) because it uses pointer addresses that are hard coded into the program rather than being allocated dynamically by the operating system.

I wish I was kidding. It's kind of like this.

http://xkcd.com/386/

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1321/

Thanks for showing everyone that you are nothing but a religious nutter, as you simply cannot do anything but throw insults because the facts are against you because if your OS can't even update itself? Then its not an OS, its a joke. Oh and allow me to LMFAO at how you try to cop an elitist attitude when I created iron clad proof that your OS can't even perform the most basic of functions, you might as well say "It sucks nuts but that is good...because....Linux party!" /waves little penguin flag impotently while everyone laughs at you/ ROFL!

Get ready for some FACTS Sparky....FACT your OS driver model DOES NOT WORK, as even drivers controlled by the devs? Shit all over themselves, in fact the entire "let the devs handle it" argument has been pointed out repeatedly to be a classic mythical man month scenario but the devs are too vain and guys like you too busy guzzling the koolaid to understand it...FACT, The last Windows version Linux could compete against?" Windows ME...how long ago was that? 2000? Because Windows 2K actually PASSES the challenge, in fact it can go from RTM to EOL without shitting itself (which is about 8 years longer than any Linux "user friendly" distro can do), XP can go RTM to EOL which is FOURTEEN YEARS, twelve years longer than Linux, and Vista through 8.1 can go from RTM to current.

So you keep right on living in crazy land, where having a flatline for 22 years is considered a "success", where guys like you are so foolish to think Android is FOSS while they quietly released bog standard laptops that are so locked down they can't even run an OS without a bootloader hack or even run dual boot, meanwhile I'll keep printing the challenge to show people your emperor not only has no clothes but has shat down both legs and is playing with it like a chimp. And guys like you wonder why your kind have become the Butt of jokes?

https://xkcd.com/303/

Although... the bastards keep giving me faster computers.

Oblig XKCD

XKCD on hand sanitizer.

You can't fight reality. Randal has, in the past, said some pretty absurd stuff in his comics

Einstein said some pretty absurd stuff in real life - much of which is still widely quoted. Like that "God doesn't play dice" thing.

This was explained in the journal xkcd.

https://xkcd.com/882/

Ok, it's not peer-reviewed. But it has a very high impact factor.

https://xkcd.com/1553/

It's a print collection of his What If? pages, which are basically him overthinking silly questions, and also hilarious most of the time...

You can't fight reality. Randal has, in the past, said some pretty absurd stuff in his comics. Misleading the pubic about how science works is deeply harmful, regardless of your motivations. He deserves derision, not praise, for empowering the under-educated science-cheerleaders with dangerous nonsense.

TFS points to the one he did of a rocket. http://xkcd.com/1133/

And announced on https://www.xkcd.com/ long ago

obl. xkcd: https://xkcd.com/722/

(well, I guess that includes the tablet bits.)

Obligatory xkcd.

If you're going to go around policing EVERY comment on the internet that in your own opinion "Doesn't contribute to the conversation", you my friend have quite the task ahead of you. I can understand the fact that people have the need to reply when "Someone is wrong on the internet" ( https://xkcd.com/386/ ) But to extend that to "Someone is not adding anything to the conversation", bravo. I for one think ones time can be put to better efforts.

Because https://xkcd.com/927/

OMG, I can't believe I actually was the first to post this one!

It's my understanding of current case law (IANAL) that a combination to a safe is considered "testimony," and thus protected under the 5th amendment. A safe key, on the other hand is not (this is why I specifically chose a combination). Of course, nothing prevents the police from going to the manufacturer for help in opening the safe, though nothing obligates the safe manufacturer to help.

On a related note, if your passphrase is "I totally killed those 3 guys on October 26, 2006", that's probably testimony that would (SHOULD) be protected under the 5th amendment.

Besides, nobody can FORCE anything from your mind ( https://xkcd.com/538/ notwithstanding). The worst they can do is throw you in jail until you comply (or they get bored). Worst case, they convict you for "obstruction of justice" or some similar nonsense. If you're facing a surefire Murder 1 conviction if you do reveal your key, there's simply not much incentive to help out; you'd have to weigh the value of the unencrypted data with the consequences of not revealing your key.

For historical examples, see the origins of "pressing for an answer": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... If you entered a plea, the trial could continue, and if convicted, they killed you AND took all your property (leaving your family destitute). If you never entered a plea, you simply died under the weights, but your family got to keep your estate. So, standing mute was a rational decision if you knew there was enough evidence to convict because the punishment for not entering a plea (death) was better than being convicted (death AND bankruptcy).

...The problem with your theory is that it's been proven more and more unlikely since we've looked, several times and not found nothing, rather we've found pretty much everything in our solar system and nothing matches your fantasy....

Obligatory

Oblig XKCD- https://xkcd.com/678/

You mean we don't have something like this in place already?

This is why you use duckduckgo for personal searches and google for work. Or, you know, just screw it.

Oblig: https://xkcd.com/1223/

I'll just get this out of the way...

How about this particular XKCD comic, available as a signed print from the author? https://xkcd.com/1416/

My dice rolls are pretty random... https://xkcd.com/221/

>WAKE UP SHEEPLE!

https://xkcd.com/1013/

I'm pretty sure the *ELITES* have convinced you that the Ds and the Rs are different.

Whatever.

Black Hat Guy has the answer. [At least I assume it's Black Hat Guy; in most of his appearances in that comic he's in bed and it would be silly to wear his hat in bed. Unless his girlfriend likes that kind of thing.] Since his noisy neighbor moved away, it's been sitting in his closet; given his personality, I think he'd be happy to modify it for use as an anti-drone weapon.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/224/

Oblig xkcd https://xkcd.com/927/

the carbon in plants doesn't come from fertilizers.
it comes largely out of the air.
the plant matter then, when ingested by a cow, ferments in its gut, reconverting the carbon back into Methane and CO2.
Methane is shorter lived, but the thing is it when decomposes it turns into CO2. so its not like it goes away and you get to ignore it.
why switch to any meat? the best way to reduce the emissions from livestock (14% of all human activity) is to reduce the amount of livestock.
yes humans eat meat, but does it have to as much as we do?
theres little health benefits and quite a few drawbacks to the large amounts of it we do eat
you essentially turned your post into an anti-vegetarian and anti-progressive screed...for some reason.
even though vegetarians come from all sides.

you picked an apt topic name. only its not so much an accusation, as a description of the content of your post.

oblig XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1338/

obligatory xkcd

Why cows matter: https://xkcd.com/1338/

Relevant?

Oblig xkcd https://xkcd.com/951/

Oops, guess this content isn't for me then. I uninstalled Flash years ago.

Instead, I'll just share my thoughts on beer.

It is Qi so most will work it's pretty much the winner.

Care to back that claim up with some stats?

I've never seen any wireless charging technology in the wild, so I've literally no idea which one of the standards is likely to be the one that wins. From wiki-ing, I get that there are at least Qi,

Open Dots, a competing wireless power standard promoted by the Open Dots Alliance
PMA / Powermat, a competing wireless power standard promoted by the Power Matters Alliance
Rezence, a competing wireless power standard promoted by the Alliance for Wireless Power
WiPower

All of which leads me to the inevitable XKCD.

I've chosen VL-bus over PCI ; SCSI over IDE ; parallel port over USB (1.0), I dodged the HD-DVD versus Blu-Ray question by realising that neither offered any real (to me) use case. I see no reason at all to dive into another standards war until all bar one of the competing standards are dead on the field of battle.

Just checking if my current phone has a wireless charge capability - it's that invisible a technology ... well, that's a surprise - my phone (Samsung, by coincidence) actually does have an official Qi-charging alternative back cover (or flip case). That's vaguely interesting. Since I'm travelling over the next few days for business, I'll see if I can actually spot the charging places. See if they're common enough to actually be a useful discriminator (i.e. let's coffee there not here, because there has Qi pads available and here doesn't.

Get yourself educated!

It's possible to have capslock functionality without giving it its own key. What about Alt-Numlock for that tiny subset of situations where it's necessary?

Also https://xkcd.com/1172/

(Yay I posted an XKCD at last! That means I automatically get +6 Insightful!)

https://xkcd.com/463/

obligatory http://xkcd.com/875/

Someone needs a visit from Zombie Feynman!

I mean really, it's in the name of science right?

A password BOOK doesn't even need to be cracked, so it's not a solution to that problem - it's got the same problems as before PLUS it's not secured at all.

A password book can't be remotely accessed. That's a considerable security feature. You'll always have a local vunerability.

During your rant, I couldn't help but think, 'But they DO have a standardized app for accessing all the websites', and it's called the browser!

More specifically, there are web apps! This gives the look-and-feel of an app, including an icon on the homescreen and offline access. All you need to do is add a few extra files to your existing website. Users won't have to go through the app store, and updates happen automatically.

This was the only kind of app on the original iPhone.

Also: obligatory xkcd

That, and they never go away unless you just get the app and never visit their site without it.

https://xkcd.com/1174/

Don't like the licensing terms? Don't use H.265...

Better: Work together with like-minded companies to create a competing standard that is designed specifically to avoid patents, and license it royalty-free.

Obligatory xkcd.