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  1. Re:The obvious question. on Meet Linux's Little Brother Zephyr, a Tiny Open Source IoT RTOS (linuxgizmos.com) · · Score: 1

    If the size of the kernel becomes small enough, you could develop the binary by genetic algorithm and just evaluating it with tests + benchmarks :)

  2. Re:IoT on Meet Linux's Little Brother Zephyr, a Tiny Open Source IoT RTOS (linuxgizmos.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    I guess the definition for IoT devices is something that is "a device not primarily used for computation that can be controlled/accessed through the Internet". For example a washing machine, a watch, a fridge, heat controllers, windows (the physical ones that you can open), smart meters.
    IoT then also refers to a time where these would become extremely commonplace, in the sense that many types of devices are connected to the internet in everyones home/work/public areas.

  3. Re:No, you don't on SnO: First Stable P-Type 2D Semiconductor Discovered (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Isn't it obvious that what was meant here was

    allow the movement of N-type, or negative [charges], electrons.

  4. Re:WTF? End-to-end encryption not even mentioned!? on What Gmail's New TLS Icon Really Means: Email Encryption Is Still Broken · · Score: 1

    Use S/MIME, PGP, etc...
    All the transport level stuff isn't going to protect your email or ensure it's not modified in transit (or at the destination or origin).

    Gmail's help on their new icon:

    If you see the red padlock while composing a message
    Don’t send confidential material, like tax forms or contracts, to that email address.

    Fuck that... if you're sending confidential email without encrypting the content, you're already screwed.

    S/MIME & PGP do not hide the sender, receiver or the subject of the email (nor where you sent it from). That information is in the header, and only TLS or STARTTLS will hide it.

    By the way, the TLS-SMTP problems are related to STARTTLS and stupid client software, but not TLS (but cert verification requires DNSSEC for either).

  5. Re:JVM challenger OR Java challenger on the JVM? on Kotlin 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    It's neither. It is 100% Java compatible says their page, so ... just another language for the JVM I guess.

  6. Re:So on Kotlin 1.0 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    So of course I had not read the link. It is not a VM as TFS claims, but just a language within the Java VM, therefore an alternative to Groovy, JRuby, Scala. In particular it is different because it is statically typed but more compressed/expressive.

  7. So on Kotlin 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    does it run Java?
    The Java VM can run a couple dozen languages, including Javascript, Ruby, Python ... Why not either invent a language or a VM?

    Inventing a language is stupid if you don't take advantage of existing libraries -- in particular for Java.

  8. Re:Current version of Firefox is not vulnerable on Vulnerability In Font Processing Library Affects Linux, OpenOffice, Firefox (softpedia.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    in the meantime, you can set gfx.font_rendering.graphite.enabled to False

  9. Another buffer overflow on Vulnerability In Font Processing Library Affects Linux, OpenOffice, Firefox (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    If only systems and programming languages had been developed that eradicated an entire class of software bugs.

    Can I haz SELinux + grsecurity in all major distributions by default plz.

  10. Re:Hoax? on iPhones Bricked By Setting Date To Jan 1, 1970 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, what is the hoax here? Did TFS mean "bug"?

  11. To date, everything they've ever tested says that the theory of relativity, as far as we've been able to investigate, hasn't shown any cracks.

    That's not quite right.

    - GR breaks down when you go to quantum levels
    - GR does not fully describe black holes (particularly their horizon and the singularity)
    - GR is incomplete with regards to explaining the expansion of the universe (the discrepancy is called Dark Energy)

  12. No global deletion on Google Expands 'Right To Be Forgotten' To All Global Search Results (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    [Google] will soon start polishing search results across all its websites when someone conducts a search from the country where the removal request originated, a person close to the company said.

    So it will remove for all users requesting from France (or whichever country the request was made for). Requests from other countries remain unaffected. TFS spreads FUD about right-to-be-forgotten policies.

  13. Re:Same thing that facebook tries to do... on Twitter's Timeline Option Puts Important Tweets Up Top (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Facebook knows what is best for you. Stop trying to break out of that bubble.

  14. I have a datafile on Identity Thieves Obtain 100,000 Electronic Filing PINs From IRS System (csoonline.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    with ten-thousand 4-digit PINs. Interested?

  15. Re:And? on Putin's Internet Czar Wants To Ban Windows On Government PCs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly. With the privacy blunder Microsoft committed with Windows 10, plus its NSA collaboration, it is not unreasonable for other countries to ban Windows for government work and spend the money on alternatives.

  16. >> provide 1.1 million people in Morocco with power and cut carbon emissions by 760,000 tons a year

    The carbon emission of Marocco is 1.600,000 tons, btw, so this is half!

    >As long as you keep population constant?

    You just need to increase the number of solar panels at a similar rate.

  17. Re:Can we please have OpenBSD support now? on Raspberry Pi's Raspbian OS Finally Ships With Open-Source OpenGL Support (phoronix.com) · · Score: 0

    NetBSD just added Raspberry Pi 2 support
    https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/...
    https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/...

    Why do you want OpenBSD? Their video support is crap. If you want a router, there are better devices which do run OpenBSD.

  18. Re:Cheaper and Faster???? on Windmill Blade Molds 3D Printed By National Labs (energy.gov) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because you don't need a plug. Says TFA. Presumably that is a positive shape that has to be produced first out of which the mold is made. With 3d printing you can make the mold directly.

    I guess with CNC (subtractive manufacturing) you can only make a blade shape, but not its negative while with 3d printing (additive manufacturing) you can make either.

  19. Re:Barrier? on Skylake Breaks 7GHz In Intel Overclocking World Record (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.comsol.com/blogs/h...

    Essentially the answer is transistor noise, then transistor count, and heat. (Not the Speed of Light).

    Because power increases with (clock speed)^3, but executing speed only increases by (clock speed)^1, people go for parallel processors.

  20. It does sound like the same bug -- if that is the case all installers on Windows systems are affected, and this is not a JRE-specific bug, but a MS Windows design flaw (or security trade-off, if you prefer).

  21. Do these programs compile on Winner of the 2015 Underhanded C Contest Announced (underhanded-c.org) · · Score: 1

    with -Wall -Werror ?

  22. Re:I avoid knockoffs on Chromodo Browser Disables Key Web Security (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I advise people stick to the big ones (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS, Arch, Gentoo, SUSE, Tails) since they're thoroughly audited by security professionals

    Haha, no! Perhaps a few core libraries are, if you are lucky.

    whereas those tiny little forks that do nothing but alter the UI probably aren't.

    Most distros are repackaging from the larger distros (Debian, Red Hat, Arch, Gentoo, SUSE), and security-related changes go upstream and downstream (well, sooner or later). So you there is no major difference in security between UI-altering ones such as Mint and Debian.

  23. Re:Yeah, automated tweeting to PR mouthpiece... on How the Raspberry Pi Can Automatically Tweet Complaints About Your Slow Internet (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    For a simple speed test the Raspberry Pi might well suffice. I'd be interested in this Internet monitor if it could perform a few more checks. We offer WiFi in a few of our rental properties, and it's frustrating when the tenants complain about intermittent connectivity issues or slowness: by the time I get to the property, the problems have of course magically disappeared. Besides I don't want to get up at all hours to go and check the equipment. Would be great to have a Raspberry Pi monitoring the WiFi and wired connections and performance, logging the results.

    I think you could make nagios do that.

  24. Gentoo is a bleeding edge, rolling release distribution. They do not keep old versions of any package around.

  25. Re:Modern arithmetic not up to Babylonian standard on Ancient Babylonians Figured Out Forerunner of Calculus (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1