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  1. Re:Why TFA states BIOS? on Intel Skylake Bug Causes PCs To Freeze During Complex Workloads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Linux applies microcode updates at runtime...

  2. Lightbulb more important than recorded music??? NO WAY~!

  3. Re:Force Leap isn't a thing on Quantifying How Much the Force Is Used In Star Wars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    telekinesis involved moving things other than yourself without physical contact. Long-range physical influence. Leap and push are both using the opposing force of your weight/pressure. Force Leap/Push use the force to increase acceleration, and thus provide more force. So nya.

  4. Re:The first sentence doesn't even make sense on Enterprise Datacenter Hardware Assumptions May Be In For a Shakeup (acm.org) · · Score: 1

    Is a drill "more performant" than a hammer?

    Obviously you missed the boat. Both the hammer and the drill have OBSOLETE! Introducing, the Hammer Drill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  5. Re:What's an election cycle? on Seismic Data From North Korea Suggest a Repeat of 2013 Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    I think he meant Red Mercury.

  6. Re:Management on The Sad Graph of Software Death (tinyletter.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd rather have meetings and given the chance to voice reality versus sales/owner illusions, than to just be given impossible tasks constantly and be seen as a failure because they don't understand why it wasn't already implemented that way.

    The real issue is what leads to having constant meetings in the first place: the lack of understanding of development by the people driving the product. In an ideal world, you'd be presented with some requirements, 1 month, 3 month, 12 month goals of the project, you'd spend some time organizing what is dooable and what is not, and then have long streams of actually achieving it. This sounds... familiar... maybe I dreamt it one day.

  7. Re: If you say your Christian, you are Christian.. on When Hacking Vigilantism Infringes On Free Speech (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Christianity is made up of all the people believing there is something special about this 'Jesus Christ' guy. They do not have to be organized in any way (although many are, with priests & bishops & membership churces.) The SBC does not leave christianity by refusing to cooperate through ecumenical processes. They could only ever leave christianity by refusing Jesus/God.

    So Islamic people are Christians because they believe Jesus was a special dude?

  8. Re:This message brought to you by.. on Overcoming Intuition In Programming (amasad.me) · · Score: 1

    Besides the docs?

    blksize_t st_blksize; /* blocksize for file system I/O */ blkcnt_t st_blocks; /* number of 512B blocks allocated */

    Or in the structure itself? Did you want them to name it st_blksize_this_is_blocksize_ for_filesystem_io_not_number_of_underlying_blocks_allocated; or do you prefer camel case? :)

  9. Re:No, but it doesn't matter on The Humans Crashing Into Driverless Cars are Exposing a Key Flaw (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, from http://www.rockvillemd.gov/ind...

    Notice of New Speed Monitoring System In a continuing effort to reduce the number of speeding vehicles in City of Rockville neighborhoods the Rockville City Police Department will begin deployment of a speed monitoring system in the 500 block of N. Horners Lane. Both portable cameras and mobile vans will be used. They will begin monitoring the new location on or about July 10, 2015 While the system will be fully functional, citations will not be issued during July. Beginning Aug 3, citations will be issued for vehicles exceeding the posted speed limit by 12 mph or more.

    And these are on the 30mph roads. More than just guidance to police, that's codified.

  10. Re:No, but it doesn't matter on The Humans Crashing Into Driverless Cars are Exposing a Key Flaw (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Around here (not California), if you're in 40+ you're given up to 12mph leeway before you get pulled over. Under that you get 8. That's just general guidance though, as anything under would be dropped or PBJ in court anyway, and all vehicles/monitoring tools are not equal (try looking at the speed given by your spedometer vs a gps unit -- often varies 4-6 mph for me.)

  11. Re:Breakin' the law, breakin' the law on Drone Ban Extends 30 Miles Around DC, Per FAA (wusa9.com) · · Score: 1

    I live within 30 miles of DC. It's mostly farms. I'm sure they're going to dedicate billions for roving patrols and low-altitude radar to track down people having fun with toy aircraft (btw, I had a remote control aircraft 15 years ago before they were cool and called "Drones"). I can't wait to see little SAM sites show up at parks known for repeat offenders of fun.

  12. Re:tl;dr on 0-Day GRUB2 Authentication Bypass Hits Linux (hmarco.org) · · Score: 1

    You forgot "Get prompted for login credentials AGAIN when the OS boots."

  13. Re:This is not security on 0-Day GRUB2 Authentication Bypass Hits Linux (hmarco.org) · · Score: 1

    Not even. The password on boot is usually used to prevent editing or commandline.

    It CAN be used to password-protect a specific device, but that's hardly a secure approach. The device is still there.

    Any device that has strict security requirements where they restrict usage would have it on the OS level, where you can have tons of security libraries and best-practices at play.

    .

    There are some scenarios where restricting boot can make sense outside of "steal your data." Think about a computer at an office that's shared between a day-person and a night-person. You could potentially have two hard drives, and you turn on computer, pick your name out of grub, and boot into your system. Sure, there's long-term physical access and if someone wanted to get by it they could, but they would be stopped again at the OS level hopefully. What it does change though, is accountability. Boot into a system you're not supposed to access with no password? Could have been an accident. Boot into a system you're not supposed to access that had a password you weren't supposed to know? Your motives are clear and your termination/charges will be swift.

    it does (but is hardly secure) allow you to restrict booting into a specific device but if someone really wants to get in, it's not that hard. If you're actually required to be secure, WHAT IT BOOTS will not be usable without the right passwords (unless it should be, depends on the system may be open access) and it will have the libraries and whatnot to be able to secure it well.

  14. Re:News for nerds? on 0-Day GRUB2 Authentication Bypass Hits Linux (hmarco.org) · · Score: 1

    wowza. Redmond run out of coffee?

  15. Re:I've wondered the same thing about hard drives on Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    All the ones that I got back (IBM DeadStar/Seagate) were completely filled with random data. Dumped samples from all over the disk and displayed them as an image for a quick check and looked pretty much as random noise without any discernable pattern. So must assume that were fully overwritten when they repaired the faulty platters with the factory low level format.

    You can find the patterns in gzip'd PNGs?

  16. Not true at all. See: "Historic" tag.

  17. Re:Chemo on "Happy Birthday To You" Set To Finally Reach the Public Domain · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes! Down with copyright! Musicians and writers should never be paid!

  18. Re:AMD settled on The Ups and Downs of AMD (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I liked the atom. 12 hour battery life on a netbook? Haven't seen before or since.

  19. Re:Heh, "OS" on Elementary OS 0.3.2 "Freya" Released · · Score: 1

    The OS is the kernel. This is not a new kernel, it came from kernel.org like all the others. move along.

  20. Re:Just another scam on Chubb To Offer UK 'Troll Insurance' Policy (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, so pass a law that claims go through government, and you must pay it off in so-many-years with low interest, whilst the government fronts the bill. Then, everyone is "covered", and no insurance company leeches make money.

  21. Re:Isn't this the responsibility of the OS? on AVG, McAfee, Kaspersky Antiviruses All Had a Common Bug (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Complete fail of virtual memory. 0x800000 should be something different in process A and B, and an OOM when two processes would otherwise have to intersect their memory locations. Virtual memory can map to anywhere, so why is this even an issue?

  22. Re:What's DevOps? on Signs You're Doing Devops Wrong (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Powershell is not a decent scripting language. But you have cygwin which supports bash on windows. That's a nice batch language. Or you can run python on windows, that's a nice scripting language.

  23. Re:The problem with prototypes on Signs You're Doing Devops Wrong (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about char**? It's a pointer to a bunch of pointers. You malloc the first with the number of strings you want, you malloc each string with the length of that individual string, and copy in the data. This is all handled by libc anyway, unless you use a custom malloc, and has zero to do with the compiler.

  24. If it's a criminal act to encrypt, then only the criminals have encryption. That's good, because at least when they're selling all your stolen data and credit card info, THEIR transactions will be secure.

  25. Re:But conspiracy theory on Apollo 16 Booster Impact Site Found (asu.edu) · · Score: 1

    No, just photoshop. Obviously. I mean, have YOU PERSONALLY ever seen these moon craters with your own eyes? Or only from The Man's "pictures of the moon?" Know your source.