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  1. How do you equate "profitable" with "hackintosh user"?

  2. Don't try to reason with bigots. It can be fun, but it's essentially pointless.

  3. Re:If they're just bugs on Security Problems Are Primarily Just Bugs, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    You're a bug. Here's to hoping someone squashes you.

  4. Re:Then go ahead and disable ASLR on Security Problems Are Primarily Just Bugs, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    While the kernel may perform ASLR on itself, it's primarily to protect applications. Also, if you weren't an illiterate shitbag, you'd know that Linus is talking about patches that cause programs to be killed if they trigger bugs in the kernel. All Linus wants is for warnings to be generated instead, so those bugs can be fixed. ASLR doesn't crash programs. On purpose, anyway.

  5. Re:kernel Security problems are NOT just bugs on Security Problems Are Primarily Just Bugs, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    Nobody said it was "tough", the GP wrote that it requires permissions. If you have root, loading a module is not really the most pressing of your security concerns.

  6. Re:Security problems are NOT just bugs on Security Problems Are Primarily Just Bugs, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    If you are commenting on Linus's writing based on a slashdot summary, you're already a hopelessly naive idiot, and there's no point bothering with you. There's a link to the damn email right there.

  7. Re:Security problems are NOT just bugs on Security Problems Are Primarily Just Bugs, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    Linus's point is that a bug which leads to a security issue is still just a bug. It doesn't matter whether you are looking at the kernel as a whole, or just the parts that this patch series is trying to change. Linus also did not write that all security issues are bugs, only most.

    And once you go off into microkernel land, we know you're a nut.

  8. Re:Security problems are NOT just bugs on Security Problems Are Primarily Just Bugs, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand the difference between a monolithic and a micro kernel. The latter in no way prevents a driver or device from masquerading as something it is not. The very idea doesn't even make sense.

  9. Re:Ya right... on Deep Learning Is Eating Software (petewarden.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Essentially, ML can replace (parts of) systems that rely on heuristics. Anything with fixed rules, no matter how complicated the rule set, will not benefit. Why train a ML system when you can get 100% deterministic answers?

  10. Re:Security problems are NOT just bugs on Security Problems Are Primarily Just Bugs, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Linus's context is entirely in terms of the kernel. If you ignore that, you write comments that are complete non-sequiturs.

  11. Re:Walled garden for bootloaders? on Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020, Report Says (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I run unsigned apps on my mac, literally every day.

  12. Re:This makes no sense on Bitcoin Prices Surge 26% in November, Pass $8000 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Longer than doesn't mean forever. So you're redundant. And so was your comment.

  13. Re:Queue the bitter "Bitcoin is a bubble/scam" pos on Bitcoin Prices Surge 26% in November, Pass $8000 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have financial advice for you. Instead, I advise that you shove a rusty spike up your nose.

  14. Re:And this is why I want a fingerprint scanner .. on 10-Year-Old Boy Cracks the Face ID On Both Parents' IPhone X (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Because tapping your unlock code was even more work? Or is Android so fucked-up that you had one option or the other, but not both?

  15. Re:The highs and lows on First Ever Anti-Aging Gene Discovered In a Secluded Amish Community (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words, you have no plan, and you're a lying piece of shit.

  16. Re:The highs and lows on First Ever Anti-Aging Gene Discovered In a Secluded Amish Community (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Evolution doesn't select for anything, you ignorant and stupid deadweight. You've already passed your prime and you're too stupid and/or hypocritical to admit it.

  17. Re:The highs and lows on First Ever Anti-Aging Gene Discovered In a Secluded Amish Community (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Objectively speaking, what's better than keeping ones parents alive? Just because you're an anti-social shit who raised his children to hate old people doesn't mean that rest of us are.

  18. Re:The highs and lows on First Ever Anti-Aging Gene Discovered In a Secluded Amish Community (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Who gives a shit if far future descendants even exist, much less have a better life? It's completely illogical to worry about those who have not even been conceived.

  19. Unless your plan is a bullet to the brain, your plan will leave as a burden to someone. Now, if only you realized that you stopped being productive 2 or 3 decades ago.

  20. Re:I hope this gets tossed out on Apple Is Served A Search Warrant To Unlock Texas Church Gunman's iPhone (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    What if your face was ripped off and shredded?

  21. There's also basic idea in law that what is legal in the US may be illegal in Israel and vice versa.

  22. Re:Sure. We'll give it a try on Apple Is Served A Search Warrant To Unlock Texas Church Gunman's iPhone (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    That assumes the lock isn't in the secure enclave. If it is, reflashing the storage won't help.

  23. Re:If there is a warrant on Apple Is Served A Search Warrant To Unlock Texas Church Gunman's iPhone (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    That's only true if you can't afford more lawyers than the Justice Department.

  24. Re: If there is a warrant on Apple Is Served A Search Warrant To Unlock Texas Church Gunman's iPhone (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the way slashdot renders modern (as in 20+ years old) written communication.

  25. Re:the judge can lock you up with contempt of cour on Apple Is Served A Search Warrant To Unlock Texas Church Gunman's iPhone (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    For it to be contempt of court, you'd have to appear in court. Apple execs have nothing to do with the case, so their lawyers would tell them not to show.