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  1. Re:fake news on FBI Arrests Trump Associate Roger Stone Over His Communications With WikiLeaks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The NY Times article isn't, this Slashdot one indeed is fake news.

    "FBI Arrests Trump Associate Roger Stone Over His Communications With WikiLeaks"

    Actual counts :
    COUNT ONE (Obstruction of Proceeding)
    COUNTS TWO THROUGH SIX (False Statements)
    COUNT SEVEN (Witness Tampering)

    He was arrested because he was too stupid to simply keep his mouth shut, not over his communications with Wikileaks.

  2. They obviously feel some billionaire suckers in the ME will pay them enough to make the development worth it.

    No western city is going to allow this.

  3. Non straw man Slahsdot user here :

    Market good, let market figure it out. All discrimination between private citizens should be 100% legal, because proof based on statistics and poorly founded assumptions of some fucking academics will never be anything but biased bullshit. The civil rights act was a gigantic mistake.

  4. Re:Express Logic Announces THREADX® MISRA Com on Firmware Vulnerability In Popular Wi-Fi Chipset Affects Laptops, Smartphones, Routers, Gaming Devices (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Stab resistant vests are lighter than bullet resistant ones.

  5. Re:Express Logic Announces THREADX® MISRA Com on Firmware Vulnerability In Popular Wi-Fi Chipset Affects Laptops, Smartphones, Routers, Gaming Devices (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Firmware relevant to your well-being will get coded by the equivalent of those highschoolers any way. You celebrate the continued use of C and giving those kids all the tools to harm you with. I think the necessity for replacing C in most fields should have been clear to the industry since before the current crop of highschoolers was born.

  6. Re:Express Logic Announces THREADX® MISRA Com on Firmware Vulnerability In Popular Wi-Fi Chipset Affects Laptops, Smartphones, Routers, Gaming Devices (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can interpret data in an incoming packet as code for a domain language in any programming language. There is no language feature which caused this and for which alternatives have been actively researched for decades but held back by curmudgeons.

    The same can not be said for buffer overflows.

  7. Re:Express Logic Announces THREADX® MISRA Com on Firmware Vulnerability In Popular Wi-Fi Chipset Affects Laptops, Smartphones, Routers, Gaming Devices (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, SQL has been nearly as destructive as C ... no argument there. The native use of it in web front ends makes certain types of disastrous errors very easy to make.

  8. Re:Express Logic Announces THREADX® MISRA Com on Firmware Vulnerability In Popular Wi-Fi Chipset Affects Laptops, Smartphones, Routers, Gaming Devices (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Type errors are unavoidable, buffer overflows are unavoidable in (MISRA) C.

  9. Express Logic Announces THREADX® MISRA Compli on Firmware Vulnerability In Popular Wi-Fi Chipset Affects Laptops, Smartphones, Routers, Gaming Devices (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    https://rtos.com/news/express-...

    Once again proving, the only way to safely use C is by only hiring 200 IQ coders who have been developing firmware for 30 years and have never created an exploitable bug in their entire life. Like all the developers who will argue me on this ... there's just not enough of you guys to go around though.

  10. Re:Titanium dioxide, really? on Key West Moves To Ban Sunscreens That Could Damage Reefs (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Was probably zinc oxide, but even if it wasn't it was made from big particles. They can make it transparent now by using nanoparticles, nice sharp rod shaped nanoparticles.

  11. Titanium dioxide, really? on Key West Moves To Ban Sunscreens That Could Damage Reefs (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets slather ourselves with non biodegradable nanoparticles which are known photo-catalysts, can penetrate cells and go sit in UV light ... what could possibly go wrong?

  12. Having been a fatso a priori eliminates you as someone suitable to give diet advice, dieting maybe ... but not diet.

    Leave healthy people alone and stick with your own, fatties.

  13. It doesn't have to be deliberate, it could just be bad science. It wasn't my intention to define the cause. I just has a sneaking suspicion his basic assumptions were unsupported and hey presto, they were. Not my fault, his fault.

    Why get so offended by me showing a clear contradiction between his assertions and earlier research which he completely failed to cite? Is it blasphemy?

  14. Re:Deja Propaganda narrative, yours. on Insect Collapse: 'We Are Destroying Our Life Support Systems' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I think lots of changes are necessary, I just don't see any way to become dictator of the world to accomplish them.

    So until then I nitpick obvious flaws in the assumptions of global warming theologians.

  15. Re:6th mass extinction event on Insect Collapse: 'We Are Destroying Our Life Support Systems' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the bigger problem is that we are ruining this planet for technological civilization until plate tectonics recycle the access to minerals. Nature can adapt faster than that.

  16. Re:Deja Propaganda narrative, yours. on Insect Collapse: 'We Are Destroying Our Life Support Systems' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I proved that the paper said :
    "Given its long-term protected status (59), significant human perturbations have been virtually nonexistent within the Luquillo forest since the 1930s, and thus are an unlikely source of invertebrate declines. "

    I proved that an USDA study said :
    "Water diverted from the forest ranges from 7 to 17 percent of average flow throughout the year, with up to 54 percent of flow diverted from individual watersheds (table 5). A much higher percentage of average flow is diverted when intakes outside of the forest are considered (table 6)."

  17. Deja Vu on Insect Collapse: 'We Are Destroying Our Life Support Systems' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    We had this dance already :
    https://it.slashdot.org/story/...

    As I said last time :
    "Water diverted from the forest ranges from 7 to 17 percent of average flow throughout the year, with up to 54 percent of flow diverted from individual watersheds (table 5). A much higher percentage of average flow is diverted when intakes outside of the forest are considered (table 6)."

    https://www.fs.fed.us/global/i...

    That forest isn't as pristine as the researchers pretend it to be.

  18. Re:Apparently over a markerboard gag on DerbyCon Will Hold Its Last InfoSec Conference in September This Year (derbycon.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That's hilarious.

    The real problem in my opinion though is that they're too afraid about taking a common sense stance. We've become a cowardly lot.

  19. Re:Religion is more important than money on Battlefield 5's Poor Sales Numbers Have Become a Disaster For Electronic Arts (seekingalpha.com) · · Score: 2

    Upper layer management are still sociopathic capitalists. They let the SJW run amock to keep the peace.

    If EA starts to perceive the costs of driving through a more traditional feel for the games to be less than the cost/churn of unhappy employees they'll do the former.

  20. I suspect you are right and I suspect many opponents of social justice warring in games actually agree with you ... but you can't expect such good ammunition to be let go to waste. So of course they'll shout it's because of SJW, if the game had been a success it would have been touted as proving the complete irrelevance of toxic male gamers.

    Truth is irrelevant to the matter.

  21. They were already being impounded and sold at auction, but they were buying them back.

    The article will cause people to bid up these things now to mod/scavenge them ... so it becomes far more costly for them.

  22. You can't fire someone for "credible" information on Shareholders Sue Alphabet's Board For Role In Allegedly Covering Up Sexual Misconduct By Senior Execs (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Even in civil matters you still need preponderance of evidence.

    We don't yet burn the witch on the say so of another.

  23. Re:C programming language strikes again on Linux systemd Affected by Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, No Patches Yet (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    It has benefited, but it can't prevent the same shit happening again and again.

    Static code analysis just tries to find ways we found in the past to fuck up with pointers, buffer overflows and use after frees (among other things). There's an infinite way to fuck up with them though and their pattern matching is no match for our creativity at fucking up.

  24. Re:C programming language strikes again on Linux systemd Affected by Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, No Patches Yet (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    A basic static code analyser spits out so many false positives on a codebase this size you'd have rewritten half of it by the time you convinced yourself they were all meaningless (and missed the few important ones in the sea of noise).

  25. Where is the responsible RTFA? on Linux systemd Affected by Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, No Patches Yet (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    https://www.qualys.com/2019/01... :

    2018-11-26: Advisory sent to Red Hat Product Security (as recommended by
    https://github.com/systemd/sys...).

    2018-12-26: Advisory and patches sent to linux-distros@openwall.

    2019-01-09: Coordinated Release Date (6:00 PM UTC).